VP Day, or VJ Day, is commemorated on 15 August, recognising the victory in the Pacific/over Japan at the end of WWII.
VJ Day and VE Day were observed in the USA for only a few years after the respective armistices, but interest waned,and Rhode Island is the only state in which VJ Day remains on the calendar.
In 1945: Hitler committed suicide on 30 April, VE Day was 08 May, and VJ Day was 02 September.
While many places celebrate Labour Day on 1 May, in NSW it is commemorated on the first Monday in October, known as Eight Hour Day.
The Hunt for Red October is Tom Clancy’s 1984 debut novel. The novel was originally published by the U.S. Naval Institute Press. It is one of the first fictional works it ever published, and still its most successful. President Ronald Reagan helped to fuel the success of The Hunt for Red October when he announced that he enjoyed the book at a televised press conference, calling it “unputdown-able” and a “perfect yarn.” After this, the book became a best seller.
Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849 in mysterious circumstances.
The NFL’s Baltimore Ravens are named after Poe’s famous poem. When the franchise was determining the team name, the final favored choices also included the Colts and the Bulldogs.
Poe was only 40 when he died on October 7, 1849 in Baltimore. The cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and election-related violence (October 3, when he was found wandering the streets, was a local election day, and street gangs at the time were known to beat up political opponents).
Among works named after the archangel Israfel are a poem by Edgar Allan Poe and Aleister Crowley’s Liber Israfil, which contains a magic invocation of Tahuti (Thoth).
In Judeo-Christian biblical literature, Raphael is the counterpart of Israfel.
Israfel possesses four wings, is so tall as to be able to reach from the earth to the pillars of Heaven, and sings praises to God in a thousand different languages. He will blow a trumpet from a holy rock in Jerusalem to announce the Day of Resurrection.
Four Wings and a Prayer is a 2007 documentary about the monarch butterfly’s migration from Canada to Mexico.
The automobile license plates of the Mexican state of Michoacan feature a strip illustrating a mass of Monarch butterflies.
Queen Elizabeth II is currently monarch of 16 Commonwealth realms.
^ The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is not one of them. Or Virginia.
Nor Massachusetts, nor Kentucky.
Nor The Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose alliance or confederation consisting of 10 of the 15 former Soviet Republics,
A referendum proposing that Australia become a republic was held on 6 November 1999. The referendum was defeated by 54.87% to 45.13%.
Voter turnout was 95.10%
(Cunctator, is voting still mandatory in Australia, with a penalty for failing to vote?)
Yes
Wisconsin State Statute 95.10 prohibits the feeding of garbage to swine.