Oct 4, 2025
Before the electronic age, this is what went on behind the scenes to change the scoreboard. Yankee Stadium, October 4, 1939.
Photo: Everett Collection
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Before the electronic age, this is what went on behind the scenes to change the scoreboard. Yankee Stadium, October 4, 1939.
Photo: Everett Collection
Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy | Paris, France | 4 October 2009
World Animal Day
World Animal Day is an annual celebration observed on October 4th of each year. The commemoration of the day is to raise the status of animals and to improve their welfare standards from around the globe. It is an international day for the animal rights and welfare. World Animal Day remembers and pays tribute to all animals and the people who love, care and respect them.
“If we’re destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there’s got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.” – Ellen DeGeneres
History of World Animal Day
Heinrich Zimmermann first celebrated World Animal Day in the year 1931. The celebration of the day remembers the important role played by the animals in the world and the people who dedicate their lives solely to work for protecting and caring for those animals. The mission of the World Animal Day is to raise the status of animals. It also focuses on improving their welfare standards globally. The celebration the day make the world a better place for all animals by uniting the animal welfare movement and mobilizing it into a global force. Irrespective of nationality, religion, faith or political ideology, World Animal Day is celebrated in different ways in every country.
With the increased awareness and education we can create the world where animals will be accepted as sentient beings. They will be regarded and given welfare. The World Animal Day focuses on drawing attention to the protecting natural habitats, endangered species, and supporting the animal welfare. The history of the World Animal Day date back to 1925. Heinrich Zimmermann, the German writer, and publisher of the magazine Mensch und Hund/Man and Dog originated the day. On March 24, 1925, he had organized the first World Animal Day at the Sports Palace in Berlin, Germany.
The event was originally scheduled on 4th October. It was the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecology. But the venue was not available on that day and was held at Sports Palace. More than 5,000 people had attended this first event. For the first time in 1929, the event was moved to 4th October. Initially, Heinrich Zimmermann found a following only in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia. The tireless work of Zimmermann each year made the promotion of World Animal Day. Finally, his proposal to make 4th October as the World Animal Day universal was unanimously accepted. It was adopted as a resolution on May 1931 at a congress of the International Animal Protection Congress in Florence Italy.
How to Celebrate World Animal Day
Celebrating World Animal Day can be done in many unusual ways. Indulge yourself in protecting and saving the animals. Bring awareness to the people about how to protect animals. Eat vegetarian foods and don’t buy products made from animals and tested on animals.
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New Gaza fundraiser asks I've received (4 October)
Tareq Ayyad (@tareqayyad): Tareq and his family have been displaced. He wishes to evacuate all 13 family members, this includes himself, his wife Ayaa and their 2 children: Alaa (5) and Rose (3), his mother, his sister, his brothers and their families (including two children ages 5 and 2). (https://gofund.me/faa7606a) (Family #95 on PaliLiberation vetted list!)
Mohammed Iwais (@mohdiwais): Mohammed is 30 years old and have 9 brothers who are all married with children of their own.10 family members have been killed in this genocide. They wish to evacuate out of Gaza to rebuild their lives. (https://gofund.me/ff9fb283) (shared by 90-ghost)
Alhaw family and the Albittar family (@emanhoussin): Eman Al-haw is the mother of 3 kids: Toto (15), Taim (10) and Tia (4). Their house has been destroyed and they are displaced. Her sisters Sarah (21) and Banan(17) were supposed to graduate from college and high school this year, but couldn’t due to the war. This campaign raises funds to evacuate Eman’s family (her husband and 3 kids), as well as Eman’s parents, 2 sisters and her brother. (https://gofund.me/f7d33fb0) (vetted by el-shab-hussein and #12 on the vetted fundraiser list created by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi)
Rewaa Omari (@rakangaza): Rewaa have 4 children, including a baby she gave birth to during the war and has been sick since. Her four-year-old son also because seriously ill, but there is no medication available. (https://gofund.me/306843db) (vetted by @/gaza-evacuation-funds)
@maximumtravelerwizard: This is the campaign of Sahar (@a-ss-123, @soperfectionbasement, @strangekittengalaxy)'s brother Faisal, who is fundraising to provide basic necessities to the children and displaced people in Gaza. Sahar's brother Mohammed has a water truck and he needs the money to fill it with clean water so he can distribute it to the displaced people. They also wish to buy blankets and cover for people to shield them from the coming winter. Sahar is vetted by association (Sahar is a relative of Walaa's family (@burningnightgiver, @shadowyenthusiastdream), see post here and here for more details). (https://gofund.me/24cebf67)(£30 raised of £150,000 goal)
Click here for my Google Doc with my complete masterlist of all the Palestinian gfm asks I've received, updated daily (along with other verified ways to send aid to Gaza).
How are gfm campaigns vetted? See here, here, here and here.
See post here for other verified ways to send aid to Gaza.
Don't forget your Daily Clicks on Arab.org, it's free!!! and Every click made is registered in their system and generates donation from sponsors/advertisers.
See links below for my Masterlists of Vetted Fundraisers from the Palestinians who sent me asks for if you want to help more people! As well as resources for palestinian students if you are a palestinian student!
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4 October 2023
Lori Saunders is an American singer and a film & TV actress.
"Yes, but why didn't any of Aragon's ancestors try to claim the throne of Gondor while they were in exile?" I prompt.
Today my youngest sister calls me on FaceTime. She does this occasionally, to check in and hang out. She lives alone as well, so on such days, we tend to spend the whole evening together. Sometimes we just do our own thing in silence. Often though, we get bogged down into one topic or another.
Today it's the Lord of the Rings, and the genealogy of the kings of Gondor. It takes us down a few wiki pages and a fan-made genealogical tree of Aragorn's and Arwen's ancestry. Several hours, four browser windows, and about twenty browser tabs later, after reading up on the lives of every single Chieftain of the Dúnedain, including Aragorn's activities before the events of the trilogy, we conclude the events of the Great War of the Ring meant the people of Gondor were finally ready to welcome a king again.
"But," I still insist, "since all these pages claim the lives of Aragorn's ancestors were apparently largely uneventful, I really feel they could have found the time."
4 October 1966
Ringo and Maureen Starkey go to Spain and stay with Michael Crawford and his wife, in order to keep John Lennon company on location for How I Won the War.
Sorry, as a former Phantom of the Opera fan it just messes me up that the Beatles and the phantom were living together.