On this day:
Monday, Sept. 1: Labor Day -- U.S. (Day 246; 121 days remaining)
* William Clark, explorer, dies in St. Louis in 1838 -- 29 years after completing the Lewis and Clark expedition:
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=477076
Born: Johann Pachelbel (1653); Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875); Walter Reuther (1907); Lily Tomlin (1939)
Tuesday, Sept. 2: Ramadan starts
* Travel tips during Ramadan:
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=291692
Born: Liliʻuokalani (1838); Albert Spalding (1850); Adolph Rupp (1901); Cleveland Amory (1917); Andrew Grove (1936)
Wednesday, Sept. 3:
* The Dow-Jones Industrial Average hits an all-time high of 381.17 on this day in 1929. Less than two months later comes Black Tuesday and the start of the Great Depression:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=296663
Born: Louis Sullivan (1856); Ferdinand Porsche (1875); Charlie Sheen (1965)
Thursday, Sept. 4:
* IBM introduces the first computer with a hard disk drive in 1956. It stored 4.4 megabytes. Now the typical home has gigabytes of hard disk storage:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=559258
Born: Daniel Burnham (1846); Richard Wright (1908); Paul Harvey (1918); Tom Watson (1949)
Friday, Sept. 5:
* Nap Lajoie, a Hall of Fame baseball player who would hit a record .426 in 1901, is born in 1874:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=564912
Born: Jesse James (1847); Jack Valenti (1921); Paul Volcker (1927); Michael Keaton (1951)
Saturday, Sept. 6:
* Pilgrims leave Plymouth, England in 1620 on the Mayflower:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=132397
Born: Marquis de Lafayette (1757); Jane Addams (1860); Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (1887); Claire Chennault (1893); Jane Curtin (1947); Jeff Foxworthy (1958)
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Sunday, Sept. 7:
* Google founded in 1998. This puts it in perspective with the 20th Century:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=249738
Born: Queen Elizabeth I (1533); Grandma Moses (1860); Michael DeBakey (1908); David Packard (1912); James Van Allen (1914); Buddy Holly (1946)
Monday, Sept. 8:
* Michelangelo's sculpture, David, is unveiled at Florence, Italy in 1504:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=536432
Born: Antonín Dvořák (1841); Robert A. Taft (1889); Peter Sellers (1925); Patsy Cline (1932); Neko Case (1970)
Tuesday, 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
Born: William Bligh (1754); Harland Sanders (1890); Joe Theismann (1949); Hugh Grant (1960)
Wednesday, Sept. 10:
* Jared Diamond, a biologist by training, and author of "Guns, Germs and Steel", born in 1937:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=515575
Born: Arnold Palmer (1929); Charles Kuralt (1937); Stephen Jay Gould (1941); Colin Firth (1960)
Thursday, Sept. 11:
* Moutain Meadows Massacre in Utah occurs in 1857:
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=360484
Born: Carl Zeiss (1816); O. Henry (1862); D.H. Lawrence (1885); Paul "Bear" Bryant (1913); Brian de Palma (1940)
Friday, Sept. 12:
* in 1940, four teenagers disccover the Lascaux, France cave which has paintings by Cro Magnon man:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=165921
Born: Henry Hudson (1575); Richard Gatling (1818); H.L. Mencken (1880); Alfred A. Knopf (1892); Maria Muldaur (1943)
Saturday, Sept. 13:
* The failure of the British to take Ft. McHenry (near Baltimore) in 1812 inspires Francis Scott Key to write the American national anthem to the tune of a drinking song:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=342399
Born: Samuel Wilson (1766); Walter Reed (1851); Milton S. Hershey (1857); John J. Pershing (1860); Bill Monroe (1911); Roald Dahl (1916); Jacqueline Bisset (1944)
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Sunday, Sept. 14:
* The British Empire (including its American colonies) adopt the Gregorian calendar in 1752, skipping 11 days of early September:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=566356
Born: Ivan Pavlov (1849); Margaret Sanger (1879); Jan Masaryk (1886); Hal B. Wallis (1899); Clayton Moore (1914); Larry Collins (1929); Amy Winehouse (1983)
Monday, 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
Born: William Howard Taft (1857); Ettore Bugatti (1881); Robert Benchley (1889); Agatha Christie (1890); Roy Acuff (1903); Murray Gell-Mann (1929); Oliver Stone (1946)
Tuesday, Sept. 16: Independence Day -- Mexico
* The first Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon is released by Warner Brothers in 1949. Acme Manufacturing finds "a solution for every problem" -- almost:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=325404
Born: Francis Parkman (1823); James C. Penney (1875); Karl Dönitz (1891); Allen Funt (1914); Lauren Bacall (1924); Charley Byrd, B.B. King (1925)
Wednesday, Sept. 17:
* Birthday of two U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justices: John Rutledge (1739) and Warren Burger (1907):
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=426131
Born: David Dunbar Buick (1854); William Carlos Williams (1883); Hank Williams (1923); Stirling Moss (1929); Ken Kesey (1935); Phil Jackson (1945); Baz Luhrmann (1962)
Thursday, 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
Born: Samuel Johnson (1709); Leon Foucault (1819); Greta Garbo (1905); Lance Armstrong (1971)
Friday, 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
Born: Leon Jaworski (1905); William Golding (1911); Roger Angell (1920); James Lipton (1926); David McCallum (1933); Bill Medley (1940); Jeremy Irons (1948)
Saturday, Sept. 20:
* First Cannes Film Festival held on this day in 1946 :
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=396645
Born: Upton Sinclair (1878); Jelly Roll Morton (1885); Red Auerbach (1915); Jay Ward (1920); Sophia Loren (1934); Dale Chihuly (1941); Guy Lafleur (1951)
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Sunday, Sept. 21:
* In 1897 the New York Sun publishes the letter, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus":
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=408871
Born: Louis Joliet (1645); John MacAdam (1756); H. G. Wells (1866); Chuck Jones (1912); Leonard Cohen (1934); Henry Gibson (1935); Stephen King (1947)
Monday, Sept. 22: Autumnal Equinox
* In 1959, air raid sirens go off at 10:30 p.m. citywide in Chicago, causing fear of a nuclear war. Done to celebrate the White Sox winning the AL pennant, there are better locations for a celebration locally:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=242116
Born: Michael Faraday (1791); Wilhelm Keitel (1882); Paul Muni (1895); John Houseman (1902); Joseph Valachi (1902); Tommy Lasorda (1927); Daniel Stern (1942); Joan Jett (1958)
Tuesday, Sept. 23:
* The first of Mack Sennett's "Keystone Cops" films released during the Silent Era in 1912:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=113179
Born: Kublai Khan (1215); Robert Bosch (1861); Walter Lippmann (1889); Mickey Rooney (1920); John Coltrane (1926); Ray Charles (1930); Bruce Springsteen (1949)
Wednesday, Sept. 24:
* John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, is born in 1755. He would write the decision that established the principal of judicial review:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=23604
Born: Arthur Guinness (1724); F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896); Jim Henson (1936); Lou Dobbs (1945); Phil Hartman (1948)
Thursday, Sept. 25:
* In 1789, the U.S. Congress passes 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, including the 10 in the "Bill of Rights":
http://www.answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=314750
Born: Fletcher Christian (1756); William Faulkner (1897); Mark Rothko (1903); Phil Rizzuto (1917); Barbara Walters (1929); Shel Silverstein (1930); Will Smith (1968)
Friday, Sept. 26:
* First televised presidential debate takes place at Chicago in 1960 between Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=70414
Born: "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman (1774); J. Frank Dobie, T.S. Eliot (1890); George Gershwin (1898)
Saturday, Sept. 27:
* First Ford Model T rolls off production line in Detroit, MI in 1908. It would contribute to dramatic growth in mobility -- which continues to this day:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=408470
Born: Samuel Adams (1722); Thomas Nast (1840); Meat Loaf (1947); Gwyneth Paltrow (1972)
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Sunday, Sept. 28:
* In 1941 Ted Williams starts the day hitting .3995 and ends it with a .406 average. But for rules changes, it would have been .411:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=37584
Born: Confucius (551 BC); Thomas Crapper (1836); George Clemenceau (1841); Avery Brundage (1887); William S. Paley (1901); Al Capp (1909); Seymour Cray (1925)
Monday, Sept. 29: Rosh Hashanah starts (sundown)
* Willliam the Conqueror begins his invasion of England in 1066, an event that would change the direct of the English language and wipe out Old English:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=214586
Born: Miguel de Cervantes (1547); Horatio Nelson (1758); Enrico Fermin (1901); Gene Autry (1907); Lech Walesa (1943); Bryant Gumbel (1948)
Tuesday, Sept. 30:
* Final score in 1971 for last game of the Washington Senators: Senators 7, Yankees 5. But Washington loses:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=499432
Born: William Wrigley, Jr. (1861); Hans Geiger (1882); Buddy Rich (1917); Truman Capote (1924); Monica Bellucci (1964); Martina Hingis (1980)
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