National Hot Cross Bun Day-KALW Almanac-9/11/15

KALW | By Joe Burke

Published September 11, 2015 at 5:38 AM PDT

254^th Day of 2015 111 Remaining
Autumn Begins in 12 Days
Sunrise:6:48
Sunset:7:23
12 Hours 35 Minutes
Moon Rise:5:22am
Moon Set:6:36pm
Phase:6%
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:11:02am/10:33pm
Low:4:27am/4:37pm
Holidays
National Emergency Responders Day
“I Want To Start My Own Business” Day
Libraries Remember Day
National 401(k) Day
National Hot Cross Bun Day
National No News Is Good News Day
Women’s Baseball Day
Stand Up To Cancer Day
Patriot Day
Make Your Bed Day
Catalan National Day-Spain
Liberation Day-Micronesia
On This Day
1297 --- Scotsman William Wallace defeated the English forces of Sir Hugh de Cressingham at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
1776 --- A Peace Conference was held between British General Howe and three representatives of the Continental Congress (Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge). The conference failed and the American war for independence continued for seven years.
1777 --- American forces, under General George Washington, were forced to retreat at the Battle of Brandywine Creek by British forces under William Howe. The Stars and Stripes (American flag) were carried for the first time in the battle.
1814 --- During the Battle of Plattsburg on Lake Champlain, a newly built U.S. fleet under Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough destroys a British squadron, forcing the British to abandon their siege of the U.S. fort at Plattsburg and retreat to Canada on foot.
1851 --- In Christiana, Pennsylvania, a group of African Americans and white abolitionists skirmish with a Maryland posse intent on capturing four fugitive slaves hidden in the town. The violence came one year after the second fugitive slave law was passed by Congress, requiring the return of all escaped slaves to their owners in the South. One member of the posse, landowner Edward Gorsuch, was killed and two others wounded during the fight. In the aftermath of the so-called Christiana Riot, 37 African Americans and one white man were arrested and charged with treason under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law. Most were acquitted.
1875 --- "Professor Tidwissel's Burglar Alarm" was featured in the New York Daily Graphic and became the first comic strip to appear in a newspaper.
1921 --- Fatty Arbuckle, a silent-film era performer at the height of his fame, is arrested in San Francisco for the rape and murder of aspiring actress Virginia Rappe. Arbuckle was later acquitted by a jury, but the scandal essentially put an end to his career.
1962 --- George Martin had the Beatles return to EMI's Abbey Road to re-record their first single, "Love Me Do." They also recorded "P.S. I Love You" and an early version of "Please Please Me."
1967 --- The Carol Burnett Show premiered on CBS.
1973 --- Chile’s armed forces stage a coup d’état against the government of President Salvador Allende, the first democratically elected Marxist leader in Latin America. Allende retreated with his supporters to La Moneda, the fortress-like presidential palace in Santiago, which was surrounded by tanks and infantry and bombed by air force jets. Allende survived the aerial attack but then apparently shot himself to death as troops stormed the burning palace, reportedly using an automatic rifle given to him as a gift by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
1977 --- David Bowie and Bing Crosby recorded a duet version of "The Little Drummer Boy." The song appeared on Crosby's "Merrie Olde Christmas" LP.
1985 --- Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds recorded his 4,192nd hit, breaking Ty Cobb's career record.
2001 --- In the U.S., four airliners were hijacked and were intentionally crashed. Two airliners hit the World Trade Center, which collapsed shortly after, in New York City, NY. One airliner hit the Pentagon in Arlington, VA. Another airliner crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.
Birthdays
Jessica Milford
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter)
Bear Bryant
D H Lawrence
Ferdinand Marcos
Anne Seymour
Brian De Palma
Leo Kottke
Moby
Ludacris (Christopher Brian Bridges)