November 9 - National Louisiana Day

Posted on November 9, 2020

Jazz! Cajun! Creole! Mardi Gras!

Louisiana - including its most famous city - New Orleans - has brought a lot of flavor to the United States, both literally and figuratively speaking!

From the Natchez and Choctaw and Chitimacha native peoples to French explorers and Acadian (French Canadian) transplants, from finally freed African Americans to folks with Caribbean and English and German and Spanish ancestries...

Wow, talk about a melting pot!

Enjoy this smattering of Louisiana's gifts to the rest of us:

Above, beignets, a yummy New Orleans treat.
Below, next four pictures:
Cajun and Creole cooking are popular tourist
attractions AND exports for Louisiana!

Below, a variety of Louisiana and New Orleans
attractions, from Mardi Gras and historic buildings
to voodoo shops and plantations.

Below, three genres of music that had beginnings
in Louisiana, the Mississippi River area, and/or New
Orleans:

Also on this date:

Independence Day in Cambodia  

World Freedom Day

Anniversary of the first use of limelight

Iqbal Day in Pakistan

Astronomer Carl Sagan's birthday

(a.k.a.Sagan Day)

Anniversary of the discovery of Darmstadtium

Anniversary of the Great Northeast Blackout

Astronomer Benjamin Banneker's birthday

Remembering Kristallnacht

State Flag Day in Azerbaijan

Birthday of doctor and med school professor Florence R. Sabin

Plan ahead:

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• November holidays
• November birthdays
• Historical anniversaries in November

And here are my Pinterest boards for:

• December holidays
• December birthdays
• Historical anniversaries in December