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Oct 01
Social media apps

Credo Social Media Posts for October

  • October 1, 2020
  • Laurie Katz
  • Credo, Featured, Librarians, Tools and Resources

At Credo we understand the need for libraries to write interesting social media content to engage your users and raise awareness of valuable resources and services. That’s why we’ve created this monthly blog post with social media posts featuring interesting observances, trivia, this-day-in-history, and humor that your library can copy/paste to your own feed with no attribution necessary.

P.S.: the images here are all in the public domain (mostly from Pixabay and Wikimedia Commons), so feel free to take advantage of them when you post!

1 October 

October is National Bullying Prevention Month. Knowledge is power; learn more about this important topic in Credo Reference: https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=bullying

National Bullying Month

1 October 

Did you know that today is World Vegetarian Day? https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=vegetarian

Avocados for World Vegetarian Day

2 October 

The International Day of Nonviolence honors the work and legacy of Mohandas Gandhi, who was born on this day in 1869. Read up on this inspiring Indian activist here:  https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?concept=Mahatma%20Gandhi&searchPhrase=Mohandas%20Gandhi 

Mahatma Gandhi, 1931

4 October

Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, was launched from the Soviet Baikonur Cosmodrome today in 1957. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=sputnik

Sputnik

5 October

President Harry Truman delivered the first televised speech from the White House on this day in 1947. Interested to learn more about the 33rd U.S. president?  https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=harry+truman

Harry Truman

6 October

Happy birthday, American Library Association! The oldest and largest library association in the world was founded on this day in 1876. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=american+library+association

Library bookshelves—"READ"

6 October

Thomas Edison showed the first motion picture on this day in 1889. Read more about the cinema here: https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=Motion+picture

Thomas Edison

8 October 

Today is World Sight Day, observed to raise awareness of blindness and vision impairment. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=blindness

Eye (for World Sight Day)

9 October

Today, Leif Erikson Day, honors the Norse explorer who was possibly the first European to reach North America. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=Leif+Erikson

Leif Erikson monument at Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL

11 October

Happy birthday, Eleanor Roosevelt, born on this day 1884! https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=Eleanor+Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt and Fala in Hyde Park, NY

13 October 

The first woman prime minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher, was born on this day in 1925. A bronze statue of her was unveiled in Parliament in 2007. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=Margaret+Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher, 1987

16 October

Who better to celebrate on Dictionary Day than lexicographer Noah Webster, known for The American Dictionary of the English Language, born this day in 1758.  https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=noah+webster

Noah Webster, pre-1843

16 October

Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded following the French Revolution on this day in 1793. Explore the significance and global consequences of this social and political revolution. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=French+revolution

Marie Antoinette, 1775

17 October

Today is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=poverty

Homeless man with sign "Once I was like you"

20 October

The Sydney Opera House, designed by Danish architect Jorn Utzon, opened on this day in 1973. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?concept=Sydney+Opera+House

Sydney Opera House

22 October

Happy National Nut Day! https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=almond

Mixed nuts

24 October

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=united+nations

United Nations flags

25 October

One of the most inventive and prolific talents in 20th-century art, Pablo Picasso, was born on this day in 1881 in Spain. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=picasso

Pablo Picasso

26 October

Happy birthday, Hillary Rodham Clinton, born on this day in 1947! https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=hillary+clinton

Hillary Clinton

26 October

The International Red Cross was organized in Geneva, Switzerland, today in 1863. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=red+cross

Red Cross nurses from the 1950s

27 October

“Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Happy birthday to Theodore Roosevelt, born on this day in 1858! https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=theodore+roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

28 October

Happy birthday wishes go to Bill Gates, born on this day 65 years ago!  https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=bill+gates

Bill Gates in 2014

28 October

On this day in 1919, Congress passed the Volstead Act, known as the National Prohibition Act. Credo Reference takes a look at prohibition: https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=prohibition

Barrels (prohibition)

30 October

Happy birthday to the second president of the U.S., John Adams, born on this day in 1735. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=John+Adams

John Adams c. 1792, official presidential portrait by John Trumbull

31 October

Do you know some of the many names for Halloween? Halloweve, Halleve, Hallowtide, Hollandtide, Hallowmas, November Eve, Holy Eve, Whistle Wassail Night, and Hallowe’en!
https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=halloween

Carved pumpkins (Halloween)

31 October

It was on this day in 1517 that Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of Wittenberg’s palace church. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=martin+luther

Martin Luther hammers his 95 theses to the door (by Ferdinand Pauwels)

31 October

Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts of the USA, was born on this day in 1860. https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=Girl+Scouts

Juliette Gordon Low, 1923

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