The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Evershed of St. Albans. The card was posted in Torquay using stamps to the value of 2½d. on the 4th. October 1961. It was sent to:
Rémy Green Esq.,
'Grey Walls',
Sutton Valence,
Near Maidstone,
Kent.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"4 Oct. '61.
Your letter has been
re-directed to me here.
I'm sorry I shall not be
able to come to Sutton
Park as I shall not be
travelling back until
that day.
However I hope you
will be well supported
by Rotarians, and that
the function will be
most successful.
Yours,
F. Rotherough."
Mass Arrests in Mississippi
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 4th. October 1961, police in McComb, Mississippi, United States, arrested and jailed 113 African-American high school and junior high school students.
They were arrested after walking out of Burgland High School and marching to City Hall. They were protesting the expulsion of two students who had participated in a sit-in earlier in the year.
The Alvin Show
Also on that day, the Alvin Show, the first TV series to feature Alvin and the Chipmunks, premiered on CBS in the United States.
Kazuki Takahashi
The 4th. October 1961 also marked the birth in Tokyo of the Japanese manga artist Kazuki Takahashi, who is best known as the author of Yu-Gi-Oh!
Manga is a style of Japanese comic books and graphic novels, typically aimed at adults as well as children. Takahashi was felt to represent the very best from the world of manga.
On the 6th. July 2022, Takahashi was found dead in the water 300 meters (980 ft) off the shore of Nago, Okinawa, by Japan Coast Guard officers following a civilian report from a passing boat.
He was found wearing snorkeling gear, and his cause of death was determined to be drowning. Takahashi was 60 years of age when he died.
It was subsequently reported, first in the American military newspaper Stars and Stripes on the 11th. October, that Takahashi had died on the afternoon of the 4th. July while assisting in the rescue of three others who were caught in a rip current.
