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MCOR
PLANO
MULTICULTURAL
OUTREACH
ROUNDTABLE

 

MEETS MONTHLY
2nd TUESDAYS
AT 7:00 P.M.
IN CITY HALL
(usually)
 

COCHAIRMEN

 
Mary Alice Garza
  Jian Li
Christopher A. Parr

 

OFFICERS
 
SECRETARY
Jian Li
 
TREASURER
Andrey Vakulenko
CALENDAR
CONTACTS

JULY 2008   (Nat'l. Parks & Recreation Month)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

  1
Cananda Day
2
Palio di Siena (Italy)

3
Battle of Gettysburg ends (1863)

PLANO Community Band 7:15 Haggard Park

NEW MOON

4
Independence Day (USA)

PLANO Fireworks Show 9:30 Oak Point Park

5
Tynwald Day (Isle of Man)

6
Ludi Apollinares (Anc. Rome)

Dalai Lama's Birthday (Tibet)

7
Running of the Bulls (Spain)

8
MCOR at City Hall; 7 pm (in Council Chambers)
9
Martyrdom of the Bab (Bahà'i)
10
134 °F Highest T in USA (1913 Death Valley)

11
World Population Day (UN)

Nadaam Festival (Mongolia)

12
Manhattan-henge (NY)
13
O-Bon begins (Shintoism) PLANO North American Solar Challenge (8 am, Plano Centre)
14
Bastille Day (France) PLANO Community Band (7:15 pm Haggard Park)

15
Rembrandt born 1606

16
First Atomic Bomb Test (1945, NM)

17
Muñoz Rivera Day (Puerto Rico)

18
Nelson Mandela's Birthday (1918 South Africa)

Wassana (Buddhism)

FULL MOON

19
Edgar Degas born (1834 France)

20
First Man on the Moon (1969)

21
Racial Harmony Day (Singapore)
22
Feast of Mary Magdalene (Christianity)
23
National Hot Dog Day (USA)

24
Simon Bolivar Day (Venezuela)

25
Yalong Culture Festival
(Tibet)

26
Truman creates DoD, NSA & CIA (1947)
27
National Sleepy Head Day (Finland)
28
Plano Community Band (7:15 pm, Haggard Park)
29
Alexis de Tocqueville's birthday (1805 France) wrote Democracy in America

30
Father-in-Law Day (USA)

Oh-Harai-Taisai (Shintosim)

31
Plano Annual Book Sale (6 pm at Plano Centre)

 
 

 

MCOR
US holiday
Local Event
   

August 2008 (Women's Small Business Month)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

 

 

 

   

1
Lughnasadh (Celticism)

NEW MOON

2
Basil Fool for Christ Day (Russian Orthodox)

3
U.S.S. Nautilus at the North Pole (1958)

4
Coast Guard born 1790 (USA)

 

5
US-Soviet Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1953)
6
Feast of the Transfiguration (Christianity)
7
Tanabata (Japan)

8
Pres. Nixon resigns (1974)

Day of World's Indigenous People (UN)

9
Tisha B'Av at sundown (Judaism)

National Women's Day (South Africa)

Intern'l. Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (UN)

10
International Biodiesel Day
11
Independence Day (Chad)

12
MCOR at CITY HALL

Youth Day (UN)

13
Women's Day (Tunisia)

14
Independence Day
(Pakistan)

15
Assumption Day (Christianity) Independence Day (India)

16
Puyi, Last Emporer of China captured by Soviet Army (1945)

FULL MOON

17
Independence Day (Indonesia)

PLANO Gospel Music Festival (5:30 pm, Plano Centre)

18
International Lighthouse Day

19
Independence Day (Afghanistan)

20
Voyager 2 launched 1977, carries Earth's greetings into interstellar space.

21
Hawaii becomes 50th State (1959)

22
International Red Cross formed (1864)
23
International Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition (UN)
24
Janamashtami (Hinduism)
25
Independence Day
(Uruguay)
26
Women's Equality Day (USA)
27
1st Oil Well (Pennsylvania, 1859)
28
"I have a dream" Speech, MLK 1963
29
Collapse of Communist Party USSR, 1991

30
International Day of the Disappeared

NEW MOON

31
Ramadan starts at sunset (Islam)
 
MCOR
US holiday
Local Event
   

SEPTEMBER 2008   (Hispanic Heritage Month - begins 9/15)
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

1
Labor Day (USA)

1st African-American Poet published (1773)

2
National Day (Vietnam 1945)

Ramadan begins (Islam)

3
Ganesh Chaturthi (Hinduism)

F. Douglas escapes slavery (1838)

4
Immigrant's Day 1949 (Argentina)

5
Teachers' Day (India)

6
Stillbirth Remembrance Day (USA)

7
USA relinquishes Panama Canal (1977)

Independence Day 1822 (Brazil)

8
Literacy Day (Intern'l)

Birth of Mary (Christianity)

9
MCOR at City Hall; 7 pm

Kiku no Sekku Chrysanthemum Day (Japan)

10
National Day (Gibraltar)
11
Patriot Day (USA)
9/11

12
Onam Festival (India)

13
Arab-Israeli Accords (1993)
Sadat-Begin

Chocolate Day (Intern'l)

14
1st man-made object on Moon 1959 (USSR)

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (China)

15
Democracy Day (Intern'l)

FULL MOON

16
Ozone Day (Intern'l)

Independence Day 1810 (Mexico)

17
Citizenship Day Constitution Day (USA)

18
Independence Day (Chile)

19
PLANO Balloon Festival
Balloon Festival

20
PLANO Balloon Festival

21
PLANO Balloon Festival

Day of Peace (Intern'l)

22
One Web Day

Oktoberfest begins (Germany)

23
Shobun no Hi, Autumnal Equinox Day (Shintoism)

Unification of Saudi Arabia (1932)

24
Heritage Day (So. Africa)

25
US Troops escort black Little Rock students (1957)
N. Rockwell

26
Native American Day (CA)

Nixon-Kennedy Debate (1960)

27
World Tourism Day (UN)

28
St. Wenceslaus Day (Czech)
Wenceslaus

Lailat el Qadr (Islam)

29
Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown (Judaism)

Ramadan ends at sunrise (Islam)

NEW MOON

30
Translation Day (Intern'l)

 

 
 
 

 

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