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Friday September 26, 2014

  • Lumberjack Day-
  • Hug A Vegetarian Day-
  • Love Note Day-
  • Family Day-
  • Save The Koala Day-
  • National Pancake Day-

  • World Maritime Day-
  • World Dream Day-
  • Revolution Day-Yemen-

  • On This Day
  • 1580 --- English seaman Francis Drake returns to Plymouth, England, in the Golden Hind, becoming the first British navigator to sail the earth.

  • 1777 --- Philadelphia was occupied by British troops during the American Revolutionary War. 

  • 1789 --- Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State. John Jay was appointed the first chief justice of the U.S. Samuel Osgood was appointed the first Postmaster-General. Edmund Jennings Randolph was appointed the first Attorney General. 

  • 1892 --- The ‘March King’ was introduced to the general public. John Philip Sousa and his band played the Liberty Bell March in Plainfield, New Jersey.

  • 1908 --- An ad for the Edison Phonograph appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. The phonograph offered buyers free records by both the Democratic and Republican U.S. presidential candidates!

  • 1914 --- The Federal Trade Commission was established.

  • 1957 --- West Side Story, composed by Leonard Bernstein, opens at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. For the groundbreaking musical, Bernstein provided a propulsive and rhapsodic score that many celebrate as his greatest achievement as a composer. However, even without the triumph of West Side Story, Bernstein's place in musical history was firmly established. In addition to his work as a composer, the "Renaissance man of music" excelled as a conductor, a concert pianist, and a teacher who brought classical music to the masses. West Side Story received a mixed critical 
    response. Debuting one day after the forced integration of Central High School in Little Rock, the musical's story of racial conflict was discomfiting to some. West Side Story won just two Tony Awards, for choreography and set design, but made an impressive maiden run of 732 performances. In 1961, a film version starring Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer was an enormous hit, and took home 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The stage version of West Side Story was soon revived, and the musical is still performed today.

  • 1960 --- For the first time in U.S. history, a debate between major party presidential candidates is shown on television. The presidential hopefuls, John F. Kennedy, a Democratic senator of 
    Massachusetts, and Richard M. Nixon, the vice president of the United States, met in a Chicago studio to discuss U.S. domestic matters.

  • 1961 --- Bob Dylan started as opening act for the Greenbriar Boys. He stayed two weeks.

  • 1962 --- “Come and listen to the story ’bout a man named Jed...” The Beverly Hillbillies aired on CBS-TV. U.S. audiences were enchanted with Jed, Ellie Mae, Granny, Jethro, Miss Jane and that 
    banker feller. Enchanted, as in a trance, in fact, for 216 shows. Bluegrass stars Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs had the honor of composing and recording the theme song and hit record, The Ballad of Jed Clampett.

  • 1964 --- Gilligan’s Island began its 98-show run on CBS. The TV show starred Bob Denver in the title role, Jim Backus as Mr. Howell, 
    Natalie Schafer as Lovey Howell, Alan Hale as the Skipper, Russell Johnson as the Professor and Dawn Wells and Tina Louise as Mary Ann and Ginger, respectively.

  • 1969 --- "Abbey Road" was released by the Beatles. It was their 13th album in the U.K. It was also their last album together as a group.

  • 1969 --- The Fillmore West opened. 

  • 1971 --- Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer wins his 20th game of the year, becoming the fourth Orioles pitcher to win 20 games in the 1971 season. This made the 1971 Orioles pitching staff the first since that of the 1920 Chicago White Sox to field four 20-game 
    winners.  Teammates Dave McNally went 21-5 with a 2.89, Mike Cuellar went 20-9 with a 3.08 and Pat Dobson finished 20-8 with a 2.90. After beating the A’s in the playoffs, the Orioles lost a heartbreaking seven-game World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates, led by superstar Roberto Clemente.

  • 1974 --- "Walls and Bridges" was released by John Lennon. He would not release any more new material for almost 6 years. 

  • 1983 --- The longest winning streak in sports -- 132 years -- was broken. It was the America’s Cup race and the United States team expected to maintain their title; one they were defending for the 25th time. Challenger Australia II won!

  • 1986 --- William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as an associate justice.

  • 1989 --- In one of the most heartening indications that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's promise of political openness in Russia was becoming a reality, committees in the Soviet legislature pass a bill allowing the publication of books, newspapers, and magazines without government approval. The law was a break with the Soviet past, in which government censorship of the press was a fact of life.

  • 1990 --- The Motion Picture Association of America announced that it had created a new rating. The new NC17 rating was to keep moviegoers under the age of 17 from seeing certain films. 

  • 1991 --- A group of scientists, four men and four women began a two-year stay inside Biosphere 2, a sealed 
    structure in Oracle, AZ. They had planned to have no contact with the outside world; to grow their own food and live peacefully together as future pioneers in a harsh and alien world. Unfortunately, the outside world had to intervene a few times; to get rid of an ant invasion, to pump in oxygen, to tend to a health 
    emergencies, to bring in forgotten necessities like makeup. The scientific team managed to last out the term, but they were half-crazy and half-starved when U.S. marshals led them out two years later.

  • 2000 --- Slobodan Milosevic conceded that his challenger, Vojislav Kostunica, had finished first in Yugoslavia's presidential election. Milosevic declared a runoff, a move that prompted mass protests leading to his ouster.

  • 2001 --- In Kabul, Afghanistan, the abandoned U.S. Embassy was stormed by protesters. It was the largest anti-Amercian protest since the terror attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, on September 11. 

  • 2005 --- International weapons inspectors announced the Irish Republican Army's full disarmament.

  • 2007 --- Music producer Phil Spector's trial for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson ends in a mistrial when the jury cannot come to a unanimous verdict. Shortly after Judge Fidler declared a mistrial in the case, the Los Angeles Country Distict Attorney's Office announced plans to seek a retrial. Spector was convicted of murder in 2009 and sentenced to 19 years to life in prison.

  • Birthdays
  • Ivan Pavlov
  • Cesar Rosas
  • Serena Williams
  • Craig Chaquico
  • Linda Hamilton
  • Carlene Carter
  • TS Eliot
  • Winnie Mandela
  • Johnny Appleseed (Chapman)
  • George Gershwin
  • Donna Douglas
  • Pope Paul VI
  • Albert Nastasia
  • Jack LaLanne
  • Jim Caviezel
  • Julie London
  • Gov Christine Todd Whitman

  • 269th Day of the Year / 96Remaining
  • Autumn Begins in 86 Days

  • Sunrise:7:01
  • Sunset:6:59
  • 11 Hours 58 Minutes

  • Moon Rise:9:19am
  • Moon Set:8:26pm
  • Moon Phase:6%
  • Full Moon October 8 @ 3:50am
  • Full Hunter’s Moon
  • Full Blood Moon
  • Full Sanguine Moon

This full Moon is often referred to as the Full Hunter’s Moon, Blood Moon, or Sanguine Moon. Many moons ago, Native Americans named this bright moon for obvious reasons. The leaves are falling from trees, the deer are fattened, and it’s time to begin storing up meat for the long winter ahead. Because the fields were traditionally reaped in late September or early October, hunters could easily see fox and other animals that come out to glean from the fallen grains. Probably because of the threat of winter looming close, the Hunter’s Moon is generally accorded with special honor, historically serving as an important feast day in both Western Europe and among many Native American tribes.

  • Tides
  • High Tide:12:40am/12:35pm
  • Low Tide:6:21am/6:58

  • Rainfall
  • This Year:0.66
  • Last Year:0.44
  • YTD Avg:0.18
  • Annual Avg:23.80