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Since 1957, Chase’s is the go-to guide to special events, holidays, anniversaries, landmarks, phenomena & birthdays around the world. https://t.co/zbYiHcVQXG
Chicago, IL, & Washington, DC
Joined August 2010
Today! World Post Day (UN) Natl Depression Screening Day Natl Nanotechnology Day Leif Erikson Day (Iceland, US by proclamation)
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For some Nobel Prize winners this year, the news came with a knock at the door before dawn. For others, it was a long-awaited phone call. Here’s how some of this year’s winners found out.
bostonglobe.com
This year’s Nobel Prize science winners got the good news from early morning phone calls and door knocks.
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This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in literature László Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess.
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BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
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Today is World Cotton Day, sponsored by the United Nations to highlight the role cotton plays in economic development, international trade and poverty alleviation. https://t.co/9FXuaa4ULu
un.org
UN World Cotton Day website recognizes the historic importance of cotton as a global commodity grown in over 75 countries across five continents and to highlight its central role in job creation and...
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Register to watch the 76th National Book Awards at https://t.co/MrZj17THF4, and discover this year’s Winners on Wednesday, November 19, 2025. ✨📚🎉
nationalbook.org
76th National Book Awards
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Announcing the 2025 National Book Award Finalists for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature! Join us in congratulating all of the honored writers, translators, and publishing teams. | @nytimes
https://t.co/TqStg7poaF
nytimes.com
Novels by Karen Russell and Bryan Washington are among those vying for the award in fiction, while books about Gaza, foster care and women in Russia are up for the nonfiction prize.
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
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2/2 #OTD 1945, Cubs fan and tavern owner William Sianis, denied entry to Wrigley Field with his pet goat, cursed the Cubs unless they overturned their decision. The Cubs didn't win a World Series until 2016 . . .
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NLDS Game 2 tonight between Milwaukee Brewers vs. Chicago Cubs. It just happens to be the 80th anniversary of of the Billy Goat Curse during the 1945 World Series between the Cubs and the Detroit Tigers. 1/2
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Today, Oct 6! Sukkot begins at sundown. World Habitat Day (UN) Intl Geodiversity Day (UNESCO) World Day of Bullying Prevention Natl Badger Day (UK) Natl Noodle Day Natl German-American Day Child Health Day
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Full moon at 11:47 PM, EDT.
This year's October full moon, known as the Hunter's Moon, will also shine as a powerful supermoon. Here's everything to know:
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BREAKING: Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win the Nobel Prize in medicine for work on peripheral immune tolerance.
apnews.com
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries about peripheral immune tolerance.
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Actress Dame Patricia Routledge, star of BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 96 https://t.co/5zGpb5Sy5d
bbc.co.uk
She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played the BBC's amateur sleuth Hetty Wainthropp.
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Hello, my name is Bishop Sarah Mullally. I'm deeply honoured to have been called to serve as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. https://t.co/2FIJRUADZk
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Don't forget: the first Friday in October is World Smile Day. We are all asked to make at least one person smile.
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"Good Evening." It was 70 years ago today (Oct 2, 1955) that "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" debuted on CBS. The anthology series was hosted and often directed by the "Master of Suspense" himself, with top actors and actresses of the day: Robert Redford, Steve McQueen and more. #OTD
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Today marks the 75th anniversary of "Peanuts" -- the beloved comic strip by Charles Schulz (Oct 2, 1950). Snoopy appeared on Oct 4, 1950. #OTD
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Today: Yom Kippur Intl Day of Nonviolence (UN) World Day for Farmed Animals (observed on Gandhi's birthday) Natl Poetry Day (UK) Audiophile Day Guardian Angels Day Natl Custodial Workers Day
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