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National Teddy Bear Day-KALW Almanac-9/09/15

  • 252nd Day of 2015 113 Remaining
  • Autumn Begins in 14 Days
  • Sunrise:6:47
  • Sunset:7:26
  • 12 Hours 47 Minutes
  • Moon Rise:3:31am
  • Moon Set:5:27pm
  • Phase:18%
  • 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:9:53am/9:26pm
  • Low:3:10am/3:14pm
  • Holidays
  • National Teddy Bear Day
  • National Steak Au Poivre Day
  • National Weiner Schnitzel Day
  • Tester’s Day
  • Wonderful Weirdos Day
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  • International Soduku Day
  • Independence Day-North Korea
  • Independence Day-Tajikistan
  • On This Day
  • 490BC --- The Battle of Marathon took place between the invading Persian army and the Athenian Army. The marathon race was derived from the events that occurred surrounding this battle. 
  • 1850 --- California became the 31st state of the union.
  • 1893 --- President Grover Cleveland’s wife Frances becomes the first first lady to give birth in the White House when the couple’s daughter Esther is born. She remains the only child of a president to be born in the White House. After spending the first two years of his presidency as a bachelor, Cleveland was also the first president to be married in White House. 
  • 1910 --- Alice B. Toklas becomes the lifetime house mate of avant-garde writer Gertrude Stein. Stein, who shared a house with her brother Leo for many years, met Toklas in 1907. Toklas began staying with Stein and Leo in Paris in 1909, then moved in permanently in 1910. Stein’s brother Leo moved out in 1914. Toklas’ love and support of Stein was so important that when Stein wrote her autobiography in 1933, she titled it The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, adopting Toklas’ persona as the narrator of her own memoirs.
  • 1919 --- The infamous Boston Police Strike of 1919 begins, causing an uproar around the nation and confirming the growing influence of unions on American life. Using the situation to their advantage, criminals took the opportunity to loot the city.
  • 1939 --- Audiences at the Fox Theater in Riverside, California, get a surprise showing of “Gone with the Wind”, which the theater manager shows as a second feature. Producer David O. Selznick sat in the back and observed the audience reaction to his highly anticipated film. The movie was released a few months later.
  • 1942 --- A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on an Oregon state forest-the first and only air attack on the U.S. mainland in the war. Launching from the Japanese sub I-25, Nobuo Fujita piloted his light aircraft over the state of Oregon and firebombed Mount Emily, alighting a state forest–and ensuring his place in the history books as the only man to ever bomb the continental United States.
  • 1948 --- The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.
  • 1956 --- Elvis Presley made his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show "Toast of the Town." He was shot from just the waist up during the performance. Elvis would make a total of three appearances on the show. 
  • 1965 --- Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax pitches the eighth perfect game in major league history, leading the Dodgers to a 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles.
  • 1966 --- President Lyndon Johnson signs the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act into law. Immediately afterward, he signed the Highway Safety Act. The two bills made the federal government responsible for setting and enforcing safety standards for cars and roads.
  • 1969 --- Jimi Hendrix mad his U.S. television debut on "The Dick Cavett Show." 
  • 1969 --- Funeral services, attended by 250,000 mourners, are held for Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square. Among those in attendance were Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, Chinese Vice-Premier Li Hsien-Nien and Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. Ho had established the Indochinese Communist Party in 1929.
  • 1971 --- Prisoners riot and seize control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York. Later that day, state police retook most of the prison, but 1,281 convicts occupied an exercise field called D Yard, where they held 39 prison guards and employees hostage for four days. After negotiations stalled, state police and prison officers launched a disastrous raid on September 13, in which 10 hostages and 29 inmates were killed in an indiscriminate hail of gunfire. Eighty-nine others were seriously injured.
  • 1997 --- Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
  • 1998 --- Four tourists who had paid $32,500 each were taken in submarine to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The ship is 2 miles below the Atlantic off Newfoundland. 
  • 1998 --- An episode of "Judge Judy" aired in which Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten appeared as the defendant in a case involving a drummer who sued Rotten for allegedly head-butting him during a contract dispute. 
  • Birthdays
  • Otis Redding
  • William Bligh
  • Col Harland Sanders
  • Alfred Landon
  • Elvin Jones
  • Cliff Robertson
  • Topol
  • Sylvia Miles
  • Dee Dee Sharp
  • Billy Preston
  • Joe Theismann
  • Angela Cartwright
  • Dave Stewart (Eurythmics)
  • Hugh Grant