Today’s WOTD – 1 October 2012

vernal
[vur-nl]

adjective
1. of or pertaining to spring: vernal sunshine, vernal equinox.
2. appearing or occurring in spring: vernal migratory movements.
3. appropriate to or suggesting spring; springlike: vernal greenery.
4. belonging to or characteristic of youth: vernal longings.

Today’s aphorism

‘Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor’.

– Karl Marx, Das Kapital, Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 2, pg.49.

On this day

1 October – International Day of Older Persons.

1 October – World Vegetarian Day.

1 October 1867 – ‘Das Kapital‘ by Karl Marx first published.

1 October 1869 – The world’s first postcards are issued in Vienna, Austria.

1 October 1893 – birth of Yip Man, Wing Chun Kung Fu grand-master. Immortalised in the movie, Ip Man. Died 2 December 1972.

1 October 1908 – the Model T Ford rolls out.

1 October 1918 – Damascus captured by Arab forces under the direction of Lawrence of Arabia (T.E. Lawrence) in World War I.

1 October 1942 – Little Golden Books commences publishing.

1 October 1957 – United States commences printing ‘In God We Trust’ on its paper currency.

1 October 1958 – Britain transfer Christmas Island to Australia.