 The first disaster relief provided by the American Red Cross benefited thousands of fire victims left destitute this day by the Great Fire of 1881.It had been a long hot summer in the ‘thumb-area’ of Michigan and small forest fires were burning. A southwest gale fanned the flames into an inferno. The fire raged for three days, scorching over a million acres… 282 people died in the blaze.
The American Association for the Relief of Misery on the Battlefields was a result of the International Red Cross and the forerunner of the American Association of the Red Cross. Clara Barton was instrumental in establishing the American chapter in 1881. Over one hundred nations now have Red Cross associations. Each national society carries on its own program; however, all are united in their aim to prevent misery in time of war or peace and serve all people, regardless of race, nationality or religion. The Red Cross flag (white background with a red cross) is the reverse of Switzerland’s flag where the first Red Cross was founded in 1863 … and that’s how the organization got its name. 440int.com |
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1781 – Los Angeles, CA, was founded by Spanish settlers. The original name was “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula,” which translates as “The Town of the Queen of Angels.”
The founding of Los Angeles,1781 mural by Milliard Sheets.Univ Of Southern California Libraries And California Historical Societies TIMES STAFF WRITER
The name of the game is historical accuracy. Everyone agrees on that.
What historians cannot agree on is the name given to Los Angeles when its Spanish founders formed it Sept. 4, 1781.
The early settlers meant to name the town after angels; that much is known. But for more than 75 years, local historians have been quarreling over its actual moniker.
Some contend it was El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de los Angeles.
Others assert it was El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reyna de los Angeles.
Or perhaps it was El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de los Angeles de la Porciuncula. Or El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reyna de los Angeles del Rio Porciuncula. Or maybe El Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles Sobre el Rio de Porciuncula. Or Pueblo del Rio de Nuestra Senora la Reyna de los Angeles de Porciuncula.
How about plain old Ciudad de los Angeles?
History books, scholarly papers, encyclopedia entries and bronze plaques scattered around the downtown Olvera Street plaza to commemorate the city’s birthplace use differing versions of the name.
And now the Historical Society of Southern California has produced a book in hopes of settling the dispute once and for all.
Fat chance. Or as the founding fathers might have put it: Ni cuando!
Instead, publication of “The Founding Documents of Los Angeles, A Bilingual Edition,” has only intensified the debate among historians about the city’s true first name — even pitting its editor against a longtime friend who thinks his thesis is wrong.
The book is a farewell project of longtime Los Angeles historian Doyce B. Nunis Jr. He retired this month after 43 years as editor of the historical society’s respected journal, the Southern California Quarterly.
for the complete article … latimes.com/archieves
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1789 – The U.S. Treasury Department was established.
History: On September 2, 1789, Congress established a “Department of Treasury” to manage the new federal government’s finances, and created the position of Secretary of the Treasury to run the new department.
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1884 – The Equal Rights Party was formed in San Francisco, CA.
Belva was not only a pioneer herself, but sponsored other trailblazers to the Court..
If a woman demonstrates that she is fitted to be president, she will someday occupy the White House. It will be entirely on her own merits, however. No movement will place her there simply because she is a woman. It will come if she proves herself fit for the position.
Equal Rights Party nomination. Dissatisfied with resistance by the men of the major parties to women’s suffrage, a small group of women announced the formation in 1884 of the Equal Rights Party . The Equal Rights Party held its national convention in San Francisco, California on September 20 ;nominating Belva Lockwood as its presidential candidate.
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