November 13 is National Kindness Day

OK, y'all stop giggling. There is or was a National Kindness Day, now seemingly subsumed within World Kindness Day. Its Objective (Ahem) is, in part:

World Kindness Day is to highlight good deeds in the community focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness for good which binds us. Kindness is a fundamental part of the human condition which bridges the divides of race, religion, politics, gender and location.

I said to stop giggling, dammit! This is serious business. Well, it could be, at any rate, probably should be. We do need at least an awareness day to distract us from the constant wars, empire building, and warmongering. "Peace, Bro", heh.

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On this day in history:

1887 – Bloody Sunday, the Army and police attacked protesters in London, who fought back

1918 – The Allies occupied Constantinople

1927 – The Holland Tunnel began carrying traffic

1940 – Fantasia was released 1

956 – The Supremes struck down Alabama's laws requiring segregated buses

1966 – Israel launched an attack on the village of As-Samu

1982 – Boom-Boom Mancini beat Duk Koo Kim who soon after died

1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C, was dedicated

2001 – GWB authorized military tribunals against foreigners suspected of links to terrorist acts or plans or thoughts

2002 – Iraq agreed to the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 1441 2015 – Paris terror attacks

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Some people who were born on this day:

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

~~ Louis Brandeis

1699 – Jan Zach, violinist, organist, and composer

1715 – Dorothea Erxleben, Germany's first female PhD and first female MD

1814 – Joseph Hooker, general famous for camp followers known as Hooker's Ladies, or, more simply, Hookers

1850 – Robert Louis Stevenson, author and poet

1856 – Louis Brandeis, jurist

1869 – Helene Stocker, feminist, pacifist, and gender activist

1893 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, biochemist

1894 – Bennie Moten, pianist and bandleader

1921 – Joonas Kokkonen, pianist & composer

1934 – Jimmy Fontana, singer, songwriter, and actor

1939 – Idris Muhammad, drummer and composer

1940 – Baby Washington, singer

1942 – John P. Hammond, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1944 – Timmy Thomas, singer, songwriter, and keyboard player

1945 – Bobby Manuel, guitarist and producer

1945 – Knut Riisnaes, saxophonist, flautist and composer

1947 – Toy Caldwell, guitarist and songwriter

1947 – Amory Lovins, physicist and environmentalist

1949 – Terry Reid, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1957 – Roger Ingram, trumpet player

1969 – Josh Mancell, drummer and composer

1973 – Ari Hoenig, drummer and composer

1978 – Nikolai Fraiture, bassist

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Some people who died on this day:

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

~~ Camille Pissaro

1460 – Prince Henry the Navigator, prince, navigator

1903 – Camille Pissarro, painter

1955 – Bernard DeVoto, historian

1974 – Karen Silkwood, activist

1996 – Bill Doggett, pianist and composer

2004 – John Balance, singer and songwriter

2016 – Leon Russell, musician, singer, songwriter, mad dog, wrecking crew

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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: World Kindness Day

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