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Quote:Mad Hatter Day
Inspired by the character of the Mad Hatter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
It falls on October 6 each year, due to illustrations where the Hatter's oversized hat is labelled "In this style 10/6".
1879
Actor Max Schreck (Nosferatu) born in Berlin.
1887
Swiss architect Le Corbusier
born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
1889
The Moulin Rouge opens to the public in Paris.
1909
Actress Carol Lombard (My Man Godfrey), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1917
The word “jazz” first used in print in the Literary Digest.
Described as music that caused people to, “shake, jump & writhe in ways to suggest a return to the medieval jumping mania.”
1927
Premiere of The Jazz Singer, the first full length talking movie.
1945
Tavern owner Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series.
Sianis places th Curse of the Billy Goat on the Chicago Cubs.
They have not won a national League Penant since.
1967
Haight-Ashbury hippies throw funeral to mark the end of Hippie, Loyal Son of Media, birth of free man.
1981
President of Egypt Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Islamic extremists.
