Today is Tomb Sweeping Day in Taiwan and other countries. Officially known as Qingming Jie, this festival is a traditional Chinese celebration set aside to honor departed family members. Also known as Ching Ming Festival or Tomb-Sweeping Day, Taiwanese families remember their ancestors by cleaning and offering sacrifices that may benefit the deceased. Qingming Jie is celebrated annually on April 5 in Taiwan.
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Today is the birthday, in 1942, of Alan Clarke, singer with British pop/rock group The Hollies who have scored over 30 top 40 hits, including ‘Just One Look’, ‘Bus Stop’, ‘Carrie Anne’, and later ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’ and ‘The Air That I Breathe’. Clarke retired from performing in 1999. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgA4-bLcoN8
Today is Peace Day, a public holiday in Angola. Día da Paz, the Day of Peace and Reconciliation commemorates the end of the Angolan Civil War on this day in 2002.
Independence from Portugal came to Angola in 1975. Two guerrilla groups had been instrumental in the armed struggle against the Portuguese colonization – the communist People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Almost immediately after independence, a power struggle between the two groups led to the Angolan Civil War. The MPLA seized power in the capital Luanda. With only a few interludes in the fighting, the war was to last 27 years. The conflict is estimated to have cost the lives of more than 500,000 civilians with over a million being displaced.
We don’t need no stinking math!
Bada Bing!
Too many birthdays can kill you.
Senior bumper sticker…I’m speeding because I have to get there before I forget where I’m going.
Tough day on Facebook. I still don’t know what you’re supposed to comment under a photo of a new baby, but I’ve learned it isn’t ‘Yikes!’.
I’m not lazy. I’m in my energy saving mode.
If everybody in the world held hands around the equator, most of them would drown.
Did you know that after all these years, the swimming pool on Titanic is still filled with water?
Everything on earth is either a potato or not a potato.
If you’re defusing a bomb, you’re either right, or it’s not your problem anymore
If I had a nickel for every time I didn’t know what was going on, I’d probably wonder where all the nickels came from.
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Lots of birthdays today including, in 1948, Pick Withers, drummer, with English rock group Dire Straits who played on their first four albums, which included hit singles ‘Sultans of Swing,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Private Investigations’. Withers also played drums on Bob Dylan’s 1979 album Slow Train Coming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ffIJ7ZO4U
Today is Second Republic Day, a public holiday in Guinea. This public holiday commemorates the 1984 bloodless coup that established the so-called Second Republic.
Following the collapse of the French Fourth Republic, Guinea proclaimed its independence in 1958. The country was ruled by Ahmed Sékou Touré, the leader of the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG). Touré’s regime was authoritarian: PDG was the only legal party in Guinea, and Touré was reelected unopposed to four consecutive presidential terms.
On March 26, 1984, Touré died after a heart surgery. Colonels Lansana Conté and Diarra Traoré seized the opportunity and staged a coup that took place on April 3, 1984. Conté became the new president, while Traoré assumed the role of prime minister.
adding a live smile to old paintings…
Today is the birthday, in 1943 of Richard Manuel, Canadian composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a pianist, lead singer, and occasional drummer of the Band. He joined Ronnie Hawkins’s backing group, the Hawks when he was 18. The Band had the 1969 US No.25 single ‘Up On Cripple Creek’, and the 1970 UK No.16 single ‘Rag Mama Rag’. Manuel committed suicide on March 1986 after a gig at the Cheek to Cheek Lounge in Winter Park, Florida. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKu0OTDvQ-w
Today is Transfer Day, a public holiday in the US Virgin Islands. The holiday commemorates this day in 1917 when Denmark ceded the islands to the United States. On March 31st 1917, the 133-square-mile island chain comprising the Danish West Indies was ceded to the United States by Denmark, becoming the U.S. Virgin Islands in exchange for $25 million in gold.
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Today is the birthday, in 1953, of Sean Hopper, keyboards with Huey Lewis and the News who had the 1985 UK No.11 & US No.1 single ‘The Power Of Love’. Their third, and best-selling, album was the 1983 Sports, and they contributed to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film Back to the Future. Note: the music in this video starts at around 2 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBl2QGAIx1s
Today is Boganda Day, a public holiday in the Central African Republic. This day honors Barthélemy Boganda, the nation’s first prime minister on the anniversary of his death on this day in 1959. Barthélemy Boganda was a leading nationalist politician and the driving force in the creation of the Central African Republic in 1958.
Before his political career, Boganda had become the first African Roman Catholic priest in Ubangi-Shari, a French colony that is now part of the CAR. He became involved in politics and in 1946 he was elected to the French National Assembly, becoming the first representative of the CAR in the French government.
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