International Coffee Day takes place on October 1 every year. Making the daily journey from tropical Africa to the breakfast mugs of households all over the world, coffee beans have been scattered all over the world for more than 600 years, and their preparation for consuming is a great example of metamorphosis. Humanity has been preparing coffee for many presentations: drinks, candies, medicine, and some ancient civilizations even used it as currency! No matter how you take it, coffee can energize you, warm you up, refresh you, keep you awake, and even catch you up with your loved ones.

• 1954 USS Nautilus commissioned
• 1776 Washington blames militia for problems
• 1955 James Dean dies in car accident
• 1864 Battle of Poplar Springs Church (Peeble’s Farm)
• 1949 Berlin Airlift ends
• 1994 A Texas college student kills his ex-girlfriend
• 1999 Radiation released at Japanese plant
• 1399 Henry IV proclaimed
• 1938 Munich Pact signed
• 1955 James Dean dies
• 1962 Riots over desegregation of Ole Miss
• 2005 Eisner resigns as Disney CEO
• 1868 First volume of Little Women is published
• 1928 Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and best-selling author, is born
• 1935 Johnny Mathis is born
• 1889 Wyoming legislators write the first state constitution to grant women the vote
• 1918 President Woodrow Wilson speaks in favor of female suffrage
• 1927 Babe Ruth hits 60th homer of 1927 season
• 1964 First large scale antiwar demonstration staged at Berkeley
• 1968 Humphrey announces that he would halt the bombing of North Vietnam
• 1918 Turks abandon Damascus as Allies approach
• 1938 Hitler appeased at Munich

On September 30, 1889, the Wyoming state convention approves a constitution that includes a provision granting women the right to vote. Formally admitted into the union the following year, Wyoming thus became the first state in the history of the nation to allow its female …read more

On September 30, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson gives a speech before Congress in support of guaranteeing women the right to vote. Although the House of Representatives had approved a 19th constitutional amendment giving women suffrage, the Senate had yet to vote on the measure.

Wilson had actually maintained a somewhat lukewarm attitude toward women’s suffrage throughout his first term (1913-1917). In 1917, he had been picketed by suffragists outside the White House who berated him for paying mere lip service to their cause. The protests reached a crescendo when several women were arrested, jailed and went on a hunger strike.