dailycalendar - September, 2007 -- 365 days of Google Answers

* Henry David Thoreau, American author and naturalist, leaves Walden Pond to move in with Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau's journals would eventually total two million words:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=240387

Friday, Sept. 7:

* Google founded in 1998. This puts it in perspective with the 20th Century:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=249738

Saturday, Sept. 8:

* First V2 rockets hit London in 1944. Eventually more than 500 of the 1,359 launched would land in Great Britain:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=71652

Sunday, Sept. 9:

* In 1947 on this day, a moth's death gives life to the term "computer bug". The term was popularized by Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper. Other Hopper quotes:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=139969

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Monday, Sept. 10:

* Biologist and author, the late Stephen Jay Gould was born on this day in 1941. His professional specialty was snails, which led to some curious discoveries about left-handed and right-handed spirals in their shells:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=552079

Tuesday, Sept. 11:

* What it took to clean up living space after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001:

http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=47594

Wednesday, Sept. 12: Ramadan begins (255)

* First integrated cricuit (IC) demonstrated by Jack St. Clair Kilby of Texas Instruments in 1958. Other notable tech dates:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=351791

Thursday, Sept. 13: Rosh Hashanah (256)

* Building of Hadrian's Wall in the north of Great Britain begun by Romans in 122 A.D. Much of it still exists:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=42433

Friday, Sept. 14:

* Construction begins on United Nations headquarters in New York City. Except that it is in international territory not legally part of the United States:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=137170

Saturday, Sept. 15:

* Charles Darwin reaches the Galapagos Islands in 1835 aboard the HMS Beagle. It would be another 24 years before he would publish 'The Origin of Species', outlining evolutionary theories. A timeline and his opponents in the 19th Century:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=374387

Sunday, Sept. 16:

* General Motors founded in 1908 in Flint, MI by William C. Durant. How cars are manufactured today:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=525477

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Monday, Sept. 17:

* Stock markets re-open for first time after 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, with Dow-Jone average down 685 points for largest single-day loss in history. Other bear markets since World War II:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=204154

Tuesday, Sept. 18:

* Cornerstone for Capitol Building laid in Washington, DC by George Washington (1793). It is promptly lost:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=730252

Wednesday, Sept. 19:

* Montgolfier brothers first test flight of a hot air balloon in 1783 with a sheep, a rooster and a duck aboard:

http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=201580

Thursday, Sept. 20:

* Cunard's RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at Clydebank, Scotland in 1967. On the naming of the ship:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=145010

Friday, Sept. 21:

* J.R.R. Tolkien's novel, 'The Hobbit', is published in 1937. Resources for learning the Elvish language:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=212673

Saturday, Sept. 22:

* "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country," Nathan Hale at age 21, Sept. 22, 1776:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=86228

Sunday, Sept. 23: Autumnal Equinox (266)

* First commercial chewing gum made by John Curtis of Bangor, ME in 1848 and marketed as 'The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum'. How to make your own:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=764800

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Monday, Sept. 24:

* First of the 'Star Trek' series launched in 1966, winning Emmy Awards its first two seasons but being cancelled in the third. Transported into the future, there's a large collectible market:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=777866

Tuesday, Sept. 25:

* Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism founded in 1912 thanks to an endowment by Joseph Pulitzer. Top 10 U.S. journalism schools:

http://www.answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=199160

Wednesday, Sept. 26:

* Concorde makes first tran-Atlantic flight in 1973, setting a record. But economics would eventually relegate the supersonic airccraft to museums:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=247628

Thursday, Sept. 27: Sukkot (270)

* Steve Allen premieres as host of "The Tonight Show", which he created in 1954 at NBC's New York studios. History of the show and other early TV talk shows:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=104944

Friday, Sept. 28:

* With the aid of the French fleet and French artillery, forces led by Gen. George Washington begin the battle that would win the Revolutionary War -- the seige of Yorktown in 1781.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=385042

Saturday, Sept. 29:

* Dr. John H. Gibbon, who conducted the first successful open-heart surgery (1953), born in 1903. Videos show how it is done:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=393245

Sunday, Sept. 30:

* Hoover Dam dedicated in 1935. How to rent a houseboat on the lake created behind the dam, Lake Mead:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=385192

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