On this day in NYC, the first Labor Day was held, organized by the Central Labor Union. An honorable tradition in being a country where the work one does is a matter of pride. By 1884 many other cities were honoring working people, in 1894 it bcame a federal holiday. This had an enormous impact on the immegrants travelling to the USA for a better life and a chance to work with honor and dignity! Let’s celebrate our hard working family and friends!

In Manhattan, NY 400 electric lights came on in offices on Spruce, Wall, Nassau and Pearl streets in lower Manhattan on this day as Thomas Edison hooked up light bulbs to an underground cable carrying direct current power. Edison had introduced his first incandescent light bulb in 1879!

Today we celebrate the greatness of discovery, invention, the patent office and American creativity!

Dressed as a sailor and carrying identification papers borrowed from a retired merchant seaman, Frederick Douglass boarded a train at Baltimore, MD, a slave state, and rode to Wilmington, DE, where he caught a steamboat tothe free city of Philadelphia. He then transferred to a train headed for NYC, where he entered the protection of the Underground Railway network. Douglas later became a great orator and one of the leaders of the antislavery movement. Today we celebrate his strength and commitment!

Hindu Holiday

Birth anniversary of Lord Vishnu in his human incarnations as Krishna. Because there is no one universally accepted Hindu calendar, this holiday may celebrated on a different date in some parts of India , but it falls in August or September.

A month to celebrate the commitment it takes to have a canine companion with a series of events that include eductional and entertaining activities provided by the Amerian Kennel Club.

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In 1870 this brilliant Italian physician/educator was born! Founder of the Montessori method of teaching , and she died at Noordwijk, Holland on May 6, 1952. We are the lucky recipients of this brilliant womans visionary work in so many ways. Let’s remember her today by reading to our kids and instilling a love of knowledge.

A day to celebrate the growing interest in natural/holistic medicine and the animals that are happy to be treated holistically.

His career as a jazz saxophonist took him from jam sessions in Kansas City to New York, where met Dizzy Gillespie and others who were creating a style of music that would become known as bop or bebop. Due to his addiction to herion which haunted his life he died at Rochester, N.Y. in 1955 at age 34.

Born in Albania in 1910 Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, a Catholic nun founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, which cares for the destitute people of Calcutta, India, and other places. She is known for many quotes among them “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other”. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979; she died at Calcutta in 1997.
Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979