Today is Dec 8, 2014. National Day for the Mentally Challenged. Girl Child Day. SAARC Day. ---------------------------------------------------------
* Dec 8: 9.30am-1pm: traditional German home bakery class, Agnel Ashram, Verna * Dec 8: Evening of Poetry. People Tree, 6 Curzino Villa, Assagao Ph 0832-2268228. Dr Kathryn Hummel, Australia. * TIATR TODAY: Joker (Menino Mario), Chicalim 7 pm. Girest Bhikari directed by Elvis Carmen, Moira 7.30 pm. Amkam Kednach Vissronaka (Anthony Sylvester) Cotigao 7.30 pm. * FILM TODAY: Nachom-ia Kumpasar, directed by Bardroy Barretto at Ravindra Bhavan, Margao 7.30 pm. * Dec 8: Book discussion at Literati, Calangute 8.15 pm * ONGOING: Sensorium 2014. Featuring photography Sunaparant, Altinho, Panjim, Till Feb 5, 2015. * Dec 9: Book release. Faces of Colonial India by Dr Fatima Gracias. Fundacao Oriente 6.30 pm. * Dec 9-13: Handicrafted in Goa, IMB. Creations by 13 Goan women. * Dec 9: Taught to Teach Music School concert at 5.30pm KA * Dec 10: Anand Seshadri, classical piano concert hosted by Alliance Francaise. Free entry coupons available at AF Altinho:2420049, Furtados. At Menezes Braganza Inst at 7pm. * Dec 11: Advent Retreat, 3 days at Banda, Sawantwadi. Bro Raju and Team. 0832-2420151 * Dec 12-14: 6th Lusofone FIlm Festival. Dec 12, 5.45 Another Man's Garden (Sol de Carvalho, Mozambique); Dec 13 (Virgin Margarida at 3.30; 5.10 Muvart; 6.10 Journey to Mozambique); Dec 14 (This Side of Resurrection, 3.30 pm; Jose Carlos Schwartz 5.35; The Great Kilapy 6.30) at Panjim (Maquinez Palace). Also on Dec 13-17 at Margao. All films have English subtitles. Consulado de Portugal em Goa * Dec 12: Friday Balcao, Mapusa. Objectives and solidarity needs of the Goa Domestic & Migrant Workers' Forum. 4-6 pm. Liberty Apts, Feira Alta. [email protected] * Dec 13: TA Study Groups, Porvorim. Roopa Bandekar 9766358343 * Dec 14: Xmas Dine n Dance. Indo-Port. Fship Society, 7.15 pm at Mi Casa Siridao. Details 2436875 * Dec 18: Santa's Fete Kidade Fun Fiesta. Cidade de Goa. 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm. Ph 832-2454545. * Dec 18: Lourdes Convent, Saligao, alumni visit school 10.30 am * Dec 21: Expats from Saligao visiting Goa meet up in the village. Today in History: December 8 ------------------------------------------------------------- 1660 The first Shakespearian actress to appear on an English stage (she is believed to be a Ms. Norris) makes her debut as Desdemona. 1861 CSS Sumter captures the whaler Eben Dodge in the Atlantic. The American Civil War is now affecting the Northern whaling industry. 1863 Union General William Averell's cavalry destroys railroads in the southwestern part of West Virginia. 1914 The German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, and Liepzig are sunk by a British force in the Battle of the Falkland Islands. 1920 President Woodrow Wilson declines to send a representative to the League of Nations in Geneva. 1932 Japan tells the League of Nations that it has no control over her designs in China. 1941 Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita begins his attack against the British army at Singapore. 1943 U.S. carrier-based planes sink two cruisers and down 72 planes in the Marshall Islands. 1944 The United States conducts the longest, most effective air raid on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. 1948 The United Nations approves the recognition of South Korea. 1967 In the biggest battle yet in the Mekong Delta, 365 Viet Cong are killed. 1968 South Vietnam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky arrives in Paris for peace talks. 1980 John Lennon is shot to death outside his Manhattan apartment building. 1982 The Washington, D.C., police shoot and kill a man threatening to blow up the Washington Monument. 1987 The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed. 1987 An Israeli army tank transporter kills 4 Palestinian refugees and injures 7 others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, leading to the First Intifada. 1991 The leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine sign an agreement that dissolves the Soviet Union and establishes the Commonwealth of Independent States. 2004 The Cuzco Declaration signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations. 2010 SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft. 2010 The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus. http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history -- P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter: @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha Latest from Goa,1556: http://goa1556.in/book/goa-in-sepia-tinted-postcards/
