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21 Sept 2017


World Gratitude Day



Gratitude Day is celebrated annually on the 21st September. The celebration of Gratitude Day allows both individual citizens and organisations within wider society to celebrate the broad meaning of gratitude in a variety of ways.

Origins

The celebration started in 1965 in Hawaii when an international gathering decided that it would be a good idea to have one day per year to formally express gratitude and appreciation for the many wonderful things to be found in the world. Following the meeting in Hawaii, many attendees marked Gratitude Day on 21st September 1966 when back in their own countries. Ever since then, the number of people celebrating Gratitude Day across the world has grown and grown.




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International Day of Peace



The International Day of Peace, sometimes unofficially known as World Peace Day, is a holiday observed annually on 21 September. It is dedicated to world peace, and specifically the absence of war and violence, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone for humanitarian aid access. The day was first celebrated in 1982, and is kept by many nations, political groups, military groups, and people. In 2013 the day was dedicated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to peace education, the key preventive means to reduce war sustainably.

To inaugurate the day, the United Nations Peace Bell is rung at UN Headquarters (in New York City). The bell is cast from coins donated by children from all continents except Africa, and was a gift from the United Nations Association of Japan, as "a reminder of the human cost of war"; the inscription on its side reads, "Long live absolute world peace"

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September 21 Birthdays





Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor - (1954 - 2015) (61)




Stephen King - 70




Bill Murray - 67




Faith Hill - 50




Liam Gallagher - 45




Leonard Cohen - (1934 - 2016) (82)




Luke Wilson - 46




Don Felder - 70








September 21st


2009: Eddie Van Halen made a cameo appearance on the season premiere of the seventh season of Two and a Half Men. Van Halen was quoted saying “I typically shy away from these requests as I’m not an actor, but Charlie Sheen and I are friends & since it was a scene with him, I agreed.”

2001: The benefit concert America: A Tribute to Heroes was broadcast on 35 U.S. television stations with performers such as Bruce Springsteen, U2, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Sting, & Neil Young appearing, raising $30 million for the United Way’s September 11th telethon fund.

1991: Dire Straits entered the U.K. Album Chart at number one with their sixth and final album On Every Street which spent one week on top.

1985: Dire Straits reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for the first and only time with “Money for Nothing” which spent three weeks at number on top of the chart.

1984: Rush filmed their concert at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens which would later be released as Grace Under Pressure Tour 1984.

1980: Elton John left longtime label MCA to sign a six year contract with David Geffen’s new label Geffen Records. He returned to MCA after his contract expired.

1979: Cheap Trick released their fourth studio album Dream Police which went on to reach number six on the Billboard 200 Album Chart & sell one million copies in the U.S.

1968: The Jimi Hendrix Experience released their cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower”. It went on to peak at number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, making it Hendrix’s only top forty single in the U.S.

1968: Deep Purple’s debut single, a cover of Joe South’s “Hush” peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart which was their first top ten single in the U.S.



Birthdays:

Don Felder - Guitarist for The Eagles born in 1947

Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor - Drummer for Motorhead born in 1954

Liam Gallagher - Singer of the rock band Oasis