- 262nd Day of the Year / 103 Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 3 Days
- Sunrise:6:55
- Sunset:7:10
- 12 Hours 15 Minutes
- Moon Rise:2:48am
- Moon Set:4:40pm
- Moon Phase:17%
- Full Moon September 8 @ 6:38pm
- Full Corn Moon
- Full Harvest Moon
This full moon’s name is attributed to Native Americans because it marked when corn was supposed to be harvested. Most often, the September full moon is actually the Harvest Moon, which is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox. In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October. At the peak of harvest, farmers can work late into the night by the light of this Moon. Usually the full Moon rises an average of 50 minutes later each night, but for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the Moon seems to rise at nearly the same time each night: just 25 to 30 minutes later across the U.S., and only 10 to 20 minutes later for much of Canada and Europe. Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild rice the chief Indian staples are now ready for gathering.
- Tides
- High Tide:9:18am/8:27pm
- Low Tide:2:31am/2:44pm
- Rainfall
- This Year:0.18
- Last Year:0.05
- YTD Avg:0.11
- Annual Avg:23.80
- Holidays
- International Talk Like A Pirate Day
- International Women’s E-Commerce Day
- Respect For the Aged Day-Japan
- Armed Forces Day-Chile
- Moscow Day-Russia
- National Woman Road Warrior Day
- National Butterscotch Pudding Day
- National Tradesman Day
- On This Day
- 1783 --- The Montgolfier brothers successfully sent up some live animals in a hot air balloon, including a sheep and a rooster.
- 1819 --- Poet John Keats inked one of the best-loved English poems, Ode to Autumn.
- 1881 --- President James A. Garfield, died of wounds inflicted by an assassin.
- 1893 --- With the signing of the Electoral Bill by Governor Lord Glasgow, New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant national voting rights to women.
- 1934 --- Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby.
- 1941 --- German bombers blast through Leningrad's antiaircraft defenses, and kill more than 1,000 Russians. Hitler's armies had been in Soviet territory since June. Hitler had wanted to decimate the city and hand it over to an ally, Finland, who was attacking Russia from the north. But Leningrad had created an antitank defense sufficient to keep the Germans at bay—and so a siege was mounted. German forces surrounded the city in an attempt to cut it off from the rest of Russia. (Finland eventually stopped short of an invasion of Leningrad, happy just to recapture territory it had lost to the Soviet invasion in 1939.)
- 1953 --- Gisele MacKenzie took over as host on NBC-TV’s Your Hit Parade.
- 1955 --- After a decade of rule, Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron is deposed in a military coup. His greatest political resource was his charismatic wife, Eva "Evita" Peron, but she died in 1952, signaling the collapse of the national coalition that had backed him. Having antagonized the church, students, and others, he was forced into exile by the military.
- 1955 --- Eva Marie Saint, Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman starred in the "Producer's Showcase" presentation of "Our Town" on NBC-TV.
- 1957 --- The United States detonates a 1.7 kiloton nuclear weapon in an underground tunnel at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), a 1,375 square mile research center located 65 miles north of Las Vegas.
- 1959 --- Nikita Khruschev, was a little upset. In fact, he got quite angry. And who could blame him. He wasn’t allowed to ride down the Matterhorn, see Tinkerbell or Mickey or anything else at Disneyland. Security - or lack thereof - prevented him from visiting the Southern California amusement park.
- 1960 --- Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, checked out of the Shelbourne Hotel angrily after a dispute with the management.
- 1968 --- Steppenwolf won its first gold record for "Born to be Wild."
- 1969 --- President Nixon announces the cancellation of the draft calls for November and December. He reduced the draft call by 50,000 (32,000 in November and 18,000 in December). This move was calculated to quell antiwar protests by students returning to college campuses after the summer.
- 1970 --- "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" debuted on CBS.
- 1970 --- "Get Yer Ya Ya's Out" was released by the Rolling Stones.
- 1981 --- For their first concert in years, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited for a free concert to benefit New York City parks. The concert attracted a crowd of 500,000 people in Central Park and was broadcast to a TV audience in the millions.
- 1985 --- Residents of Mexico City were jolted awake by an 8.1-magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest to ever hit the area. The effects of the quake were particularly devastating because of the type of ground upon which the city sits. Mexico City is on a plateau surrounded by mountains and volcanoes. The plateau region was covered by lakes in ancient times. As the aquifer under the city has slowly drained, it has been discovered that the city sits atop a combination of dirt and sand that is much less stable than bedrock and can be quite volatile during an earthquake. The quake on September 19 was centered 250 miles west of the city but, due to the relatively unstable ground underneath the city, serious shaking lasted for nearly 3 minutes. The prolonged ground movement caused several old hotels, including the Regis, Versailles and Romano, to crumble. A building at the National College of Professional Education fell, trapping hundreds of students who were attending early-morning classes. Many factories in the city, built with shoddy materials, also could not stand. Further, the tremors caused gas mains to break, causing fires and explosions throughout the city. When the damage was finally assessed, 3,000 buildings in Mexico City were demolished and another 100,000 suffered serious damage.
- 1985 --- The United States Senate opened public hearings intended to gather expert testimony on "the content of certain sound recordings and suggestions that recording packages be labeled to provide a warning to prospective purchasers of sexually explicit or other potentially offensive content." Widely known as "The PMRC Hearings" after the acronym of an independent group—the Parents Music Resource Council—advocating for the "voluntary" adoption of warning stickers on record albums whose lyrics it deemed to be offensive, the hearings did not, in fact, end up leading to any kind of legislative action. They did, however, lead to a spectacle in which a most unlikely trio of popular musicians—Dee Snider, Frank Zappa and John Denver—presented a unified front before the committee against what they perceived to be efforts to undermine freedom of speech and artistic expression in popular music.
- 1988 --- U.S. diver Greg Louganis struck and injured his head on the board in a preliminary round of springboard diving at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Days later, however, Louganis won the gold medal in springboard diving.
- 1991 --- Ötzi, the Iceman, was found by a German tourist, Helmut Simon, on the Similaun Glacier in theTirolean Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border. The body is that of a man aged 25 to 35 who had been about 5 feet 2 inches (1.6 meters) tall and had weighed about 50 kg (110 pounds), is the oldest mummified human body ever found intact -- some 5000 years old. And his few remaining scalp hairs provided the earliest archaeological evidence of haircutting. Ötzi was found to have a number of ‘points’ tattooed on his body, 80% of which are considered valid modern acupucture points and dates acupuncture back to at least 3300 B.C.
- 1994 --- U.S. troops entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
- 1995 --- The Washington Post publishes a 35,000-word manifesto written by the Unabomber, who since the late 1970s had eluded authorities while carrying out a series of bombings across the United States that killed 3 people and injured another 23.
- 2000 --- “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”, a novel by Michael Chabon about the glory years of the American comic book, is published on this day in 2000. The book went on to win the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
- 2010 --- In Baltimore, MD, a bronze bust of Frank Zappa was dedicated outside an east Baltimore library.
- Birthdays
- Mama Cass Elliot
- Lesley Hornsby “Twiggy”
- Frances Farmer
- Roger Angell
- Duke Snider
- James Lipton
- Adam West
- Brook Benton
- Sylvia Tyson
- Bill Medley
- Joe Morgan
- David Bromberg
- Freda Payne
- Joan Lunden
- Trisha Yearwood
- Soledad O’Brien
- Jimmy Fallon
- Sir William Golding (lord of the flies)
- George Cadbury
- Leon Jaworski
- Justice Lewis F Powell