September
22 : Rose Day in India
Rose
Day, CPAA’s call to connect with cancer
in a non-medical way was launched on September
22, 1994. A relief moment, CPAA opened cancer
to mass compassion and goodwill. Seventeen
years running, Rose Day has evolved…touched,
moved, inspired Cancer Patients; if just
for a while, lifted them out of an abyss
to rekindle hope in their lives. It has
also raised funds towards CPAA’s long-term
goal of ‘Total Management of Cancer’.
The
concept of Rose Day came from Joan Shenoy
and her faith in the goodness and goodwill
of the common man and the ability to draw
them into a conversation about cancer in
a non-intimidating way. Rose Day has emerged
as that opportunity to channelize compassion
into a sustainable campaign against cancer.”
Nurtured and grown by CPAA's band of committed
volunteers and workers, 22nd September is
today observed as National Cancer Rose Day
in India.
“The
Rose, quintessential symbol of life &
love and all things beautiful became a symbolic
reminder…that life also has its thorns.
So while a rose can’t cure, it helps you
endure”, Joan Shenoy sums up contemplatively.
In
essence Rose Day's objectives are:
To give Cancer patients a relief moment
amidst their gruelling treatment regimen.
Get society to collectively focus on Cancer
as a human condition.
Bring all the stakeholders into a meaningful
interaction through the Rose Day initiative.
Find ways and means to bridge the gaps in
treatment & care.
Raise Funds towards CPAA's Total Management
programme.
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Events
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– Roman Emperor Nero creates the Legion
I Italica.
1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians
defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword
in the Battle of Saule.
1499 – Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes
an independent state.
1586 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory
over the English and Dutch.
1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills
an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft
in Britain's North American colonies.
1711 – The Tuscarora War begins in present-day
North Carolina.
1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
are crowned King and Queen, respectively,
of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying
during American Revolution.
1789 – The office of United States Postmaster
General is established.
1789 – Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander
Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military
commander after his allied army defeat superior
Ottoman Empire forces.
1792 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of
the French Republican Calendar as the French
First Republic comes into being.
1823 – Joseph Smith, Jr. states he found
the Golden plates on this date after being
directed by God through the Angel Moroni
to the place where they were buried.
1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes
and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of
Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
1862 – Slavery in the United States: a preliminary
version of the Emancipation Proclamation
is released.
1866 – Battle of Curupaity in the Paraguayan
War.
1869 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold
premieres in Munich.
1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech
in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
1888 – The first issue of National Geographic
Magazine is published.
1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather
King George III as the longest reigning
monarch in British history.
1908 – The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence
is proclaimed.
1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House
opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually
operating cinema in Britain.
1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by
the Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before
spreading across the United States.
1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long
Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
1934 – An explosion takes place at Gresford
Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths
of 266 miners and rescuers.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is
taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht
and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end
of the Invasion of Poland.
1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year
Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in
Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors
of the previous killings that took place
a few days earlier in which about 24,000
Jews were executed.
1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television
channel ITV goes live for the first time.
1957 – In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected
president.
1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed
Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from
the Mali Federation.
1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also
known as the Second Kashmir War) between
India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after
the UN calls for a cease-fire.
1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate
U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled
by Oliver Sipple.
1979 – The Vela Incident (also known as
the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near
Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons
test.
1980 – Iraq invades Iran.
1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available
to the public for the first time by the
Huntington Library.
1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge
near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest
train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers
are killed.
1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154
is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf
Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird
strikes to two of the four engines soon
after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
1995 – Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried
out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at
least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil
school children.
2011 – CERN scientists announce their discovery
of neutrinos breaking the speed of light
Holidays
and observances
American
Business Women's Day (United States)
Car-Free Day (Europe and Montreal, Canada)
Christian Feast Day:
Candidus
Digna and Emerita
Emmeram of Regensburg
Maurice (Western Church)
Phocas
Salaberga
Theban Legion
Thomas of Villanova
September 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest date for the autumnal equinox:
French Republican New Year, the first day
("Grape") in the Month of Vendémiaire.
(French Revolution)
Harvest Festival, celebrated on Harvest
Moon, the full moon nearest to the autumnal
equinox. (Britain)
Mabon in the northern hemisphere, Ostara
in the southern hemisphere. (Neopagan Wheel
of the Year)
The first day of Miķeļi (ancient Latvia)
Chuseok, the Korean harvest festival, celebrated
on the Harvest Moon. One of the major Korean
holidays. (South Korea)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Mali from France in 1960.
OneWebDay, an annual day of Internet celebration
and awareness, started in 2006.
Some Latter Day Saints recognise it as "Trumpet
Day," or the day that Joseph Smith
received the golden plates, which later
became the Book of Mormon, from the angel
Moroni.
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