October 9 is:
Curious Events Day
National Pizza and Beer Day
Columbus Day: Celebrated on October 9 in 2023.
On October 12, 1492 – Christopher Columbus reached the Caribbean. It has been reported that from the monarch’s investment of $6000 in Columbus’ first voyage, Spain had a return of $1,750,000 in gold after only one century.
…from Asimov, Isaac. Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts. New York, Bell Publishing, 1981
Thanksgiving Day in Canada. Thanksgiving has its roots in the European Harvest Festivals where people celebrated an abundant harvest and shared their food within their community.
National Moldy Cheese Day
Did you know that there are over 2,000 varieties of cheeses?
The #1 cheese recipe in America is “Macaroni and Cheese”.
What appears to be the remains of cheese has been found in Egyptian tombs over 4,000 years old!
The terms “Big Wheel” and “Big Cheese” originally referred to those who were wealthy enough to purchase a whole wheel of cheese.
Chevre is French for goat and refers to cheese made from goat’s milk.
Feast day of Saint Denis, patron saint of Paris and of France. He was murdered in connection with the persecution of Christians about 250 AD. Legend has it that after his head was chopped off, he picked it up and walked for six miles, preaching a sermon the entire way.
Leif Ericson Day, a holiday celebrated in Iceland and Norway to honor the landing of Norsemen in Vinland, New England, or possibly at L’Anse aux Meadows, Canada, about 1000 AD becoming the first European to reach America.
1635 – Roger Williams , founder of Rhode Island, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land. He was a Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with Native Americans, and he was one of the first abolitionists.
Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania was completed in 1767.
The Washington Monument officially opened to the general public Oct 9,1888.
1940 Birthday of John Lennon, English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as the founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles.
On Oct. 9, 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution. He was a radical Marxist zealot.
In 1962, the official Cuban newspaper Revolución reported that Guevara said, “in times of excessive tension we cannot proceed weakly. At the Sierra Maestra, we executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.” He was directly responsible for at least 124 killings.
The regime that Che Guevara co-founded is the only one in modern history in the Western Hemisphere to have herded gays into forced labor camps,” Humberto Fontova, author of “Exposing the Real Che Guevara,” told Fox News.
In Che Guevara’s diary, he wrote of “the blacks” living in Caracas, Venezuela, calling them “those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing.”