- 267th Day of 2015 98 Remaining
- Winter Begins in 89 Days
- Sunrise:6:59
- Sunset:7:03
- 12 Hours 4 Minutes
- Moon Rise:4:51pm
- Moon Set:2:57am
- Phase:84%
- Full Moon September 27 @ 7:52pm
- Full Harvest Moon / Full Corn 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 staples are now ready for gathering.
- Tides
- High:9:00am/8:24pm
- Low:2:10am/2:28pm
- Holidays
- National Cherries Jubilee Day
- Gallbladder Good Health Day
- National Punctuation Day
- World Maritime Day
- Constitutional Declaration Day-Cambodia
- Heritage Day-South Africa
- Manit Day-Marshall Islands
- Nationality Day-Guinea Bissau
- New Caledonia Day-Caledonia
- On This Day
- 1789 --- The Judiciary Act is passed by Congress and signed by President George Washington, establishing the Supreme Court of the United States as a tribunal made up of six justices who were to serve on the court until death or retirement. That day, President Washington nominated John Jay to preside as chief justice, and John Rutledge, William Cushing, John Blair, Robert Harrison, and James Wilson to be associate justices. On September 26, all six appointments were confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
- 1869 --- Thousands of businessmen were financially ruined after a panic on Wall Street. The panic was caused by an attempt to corner the gold market by Jay Gould and James Fisk.
- 1890 --- Faced with the eminent destruction of their church and way of life, Mormon leaders reluctantly issue the “Mormon Manifesto” in which they command all Latter-day Saints to uphold the anti-polygamy laws of the nation. The Mormon leaders had been given little choice: If they did not abandon polygamy they faced federal confiscation of their sacred temples and the revocation of basic civil rights for all Mormons.
- 1948 --- Motorcycle builder Soichiro Honda incorporates the Honda Motor Company in Hamamatsu, Japan. In the 1960s, the company achieved worldwide fame for its motorcycles (in particular, its C100 Super Cub, which became the world’s best-selling vehicle); in the 1970s, it achieved worldwide fame for its affordable, fuel-efficient cars.
- 1957 --- The last game is played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn as the Dodgers prepare to move to LA. The Dodgers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0. On February 23 of 1960, the stadium was torn down. Days that will live in infamy! I guess you can tell I was born in Brooklyn.
- 1960 --- The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Va.
- 1961 --- "The Bullwinkle Show" premiered in prime time on NBC-TV. The show was originally on ABC in the afternoon as "Rocky and His Friends."
- 1963 --- Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Gen. Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrive in Vietnam. At President John F. Kennedy’s request, they were to determine whether South Vietnam’s military situation had deteriorated as a result of the continuing clash between the Ngo Dinh Diem government and the Buddhists over Diem’s refusal to institute internal political reform. Earlier in the month, Kennedy had sent Marine Corps Gen. Victor Krulak and State Department official Joseph Mendenhall to Saigon on a fact-finding mission. They returned with a conflicting report that left Kennedy unsure of the actual situation in Saigon. Consequently, Kennedy dispatched McNamara and Taylor in an attempt to clarify the situation.
- 1964 --- “The Munsters” premiered on CBS television.
- 1964 --- President Lyndon B. Johnson receives a special commission’s report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which had occurred on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Seven days after the assassination, Johnson appointed the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy to investigate Kennedy’s death. The commission was led by Chief Justice Earl Warren and became known as the Warren Commission. The circumstances surrounding Kennedy’s death, however, have since given rise to several conspiracy theories involving such disparate characters as the Mafia, Cuban exiles, military leaders and even Lyndon Johnson. The Warren Commission’s conclusion that Oswald was a “lone gunman” failed to satisfy some who witnessed the attack and others whose research found conflicting details in the commission’s report.
- 1966 --- Hurricane Inez slams into the islands of the Caribbean, killing hundreds of people. The storm left death and destruction in its wake from Guadeloupe to Mexico over the course of its nearly three-week run. Inez was the most destructive hurricane of the 1966 storm season.
- 1966 --- The made-for-television Monkees knocked down the fourth wall decisively when their first single, “Last Train To Clarksville” entered the Billboard Top 40. “Last Train To Clarksville” was written by the team that was also responsible for the theme song of The Monkees, songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. Though Boyce and Hart had been working together in Los Angeles for several years before being asked to write and record the soundtrack for Schneider and Rafelson’s A Hard Day’s Night-inspired pilot, their biggest success to date had been in writing minor hits for Chubby Checker and Paul Revere and the Raiders and in being commissioned to write the theme song for Days Of Our Lives.
- 1968 --- "60 Minutes" premiered on CBS.
- 1968 --- "The Mod Squad" premiered on ABC-TV.
- 1969 --- The trial of the “Chicago Seven” begins before Judge Julius Hoffman. The defendants, including David Dellinger of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (MOBE); Rennie Davis and Tom Hayden of MOBE and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS);and Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman of the Youth International Party (Yippies), were accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- 1975 --- Three Days of the Condor, a political thriller directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, opens in New York City. In the film, Redford, one of the biggest movie stars of the 1970s, played a low-level C.I.A. employee being stalked by an assassin.
- 1976 --- Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery.
- 1988 --- James Brown was arrested in Georgia after a two state car chase.
- 1988 --- Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson runs the 100-meter dash in 9.79 seconds to win gold at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Johnson’s triumph, however, was temporary: He tested positive for steroids three days later and was stripped of the medal.
- 1996 --- Blockbusting bestselling author Stephen King releases two new novels at once. The first, Desperation, was released under King’s name, while the second, The Regulators, was published under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman.
- 2007 --- United Auto Workers walked off the job at GM plants in the first nationwide strike during auto contract negotiations since 1976.
- Birthdays
- Sheila MacRae
- Anthony Newley
- Linda McCartney
- Jim Henson
- Nia Vardalos
- F Scott Fitzgerald
- Severo Ochoa
- Svetlana Beriosova
National Cherries Jubilee Day-KALW Almanac-9/24/2015
