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National Welsh Rarebit Day-KALW Almanac-9/03/15

  • 246th Day of 2015 119 Remaining
  • Autumn Begins in 20 Days
  • Sunrise:6:42
  • Sunset:7:35
  • 12 Hours 53 Minutes
  • Moon Rise:11:11pm
  • Moon Set:12:20pm
  • Phase:68%
  • 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:3:09am/3:09pm
  • Low:8:48am/9:51pm
  • Holidays
  • Welsh Rarebit Day
  • National Skyscraper Day
  • National Bowling League Day
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  • National Flag Day-Australia
  • Independence Day-Qatar
  • On This Day
  • 1777 --- The American flag was flown in battle for the first time during a Revolutionary War skirmish at Cooch’s Bridge, Delaware. Patriot General William Maxwell ordered the “Stars and Stripes” banner raised as a detachment of his infantry and cavalry met an advance guard of British and Hessian troops. The rebels were defeated and forced to retreat to Brandywine Creek in Pennsylvania, where they joined General George Washington’s main force. Three months earlier, on June 14, the Continental Congress had adopted a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white” and that “the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.” The national flag, which became known as the Stars and Stripes, was based on the Grand Union flag, a banner carried by the Continental Army in 1776 that also consisted of 13 red and white stripes. According to legend, Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross designed the new canton, which consisted of a circle of 13 stars on a blue background, at the request of General George Washington. Historians have been unable to conclusively prove or disprove this legend.
  • 1783 --- The American Revolution officially comes to an end when representatives of the United States, Great Britain, Spain and France sign the Treaty of Paris. The signing signified America’s status as a free nation, as Britain formally recognized the independence of its 13 former American colonies, and the boundaries of the new republic were agreed upon: Florida north to the Great Lakes and the Atlantic coast west to the Mississippi River.
  • 1833 --- The first successful penny newspaper in the U.S., "The New York Sun," was launched by Benjamin H. Day. 
  • 1935 --- A new land-speed record is set by Britain’s famed speed demon, Sir Malcolm Campbell. On the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah, Campbell and his 2,500-hp motor car Bluebird made two runs over a one-mile course at speeds averaging 301.129 mph. In breaking the 300-mph barrier, he surpassed the world record of 276.82 mph that he had set earlier in the year.
  • 1939 --- British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.
  • 1960 --- Wilbur Hardee opened the first Hardee's restaurant in Greenville, North Carolina. It had no tables, and only a few items on the menu, but the drive-thru restaurant was an immediate success. The main attraction was a 15-cent fresh-ground, lean beef burger made to order on a custom-built charcoal broiler.
  • 1967 --- The TV game show "What's My Line?" broadcast its final episode. The show aired over 17 years on CBS. 
  • 1976 --- The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.
  • 1977 --- Sadaharu Oh of Japan’s Yomiuri Giants hits the 756th home run of his career, breaking Hank Aaron’s professional record for career home runs. Oh was the greatest Japanese player of his era, though not the most popular because of his half-Japanese, half-Chinese background. Nonetheless, his record-breaking homer was cause for celebration throughout Japan. Oh entered the game between the Giants and their cross-town rival Yakult Swallows hitting .321. In the first inning, he was walked by Swallows pitcher Yasumiro Suzuki; it was the 2,180th walk of Oh’s career, a professional record at the time. When he returned to the plate in the third inning, the crowd’s enthusiasm at Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo had reached a fever pitch. The Swallows decided to employ the “Oh shift,” (similar to the “Williams shift” that American League teams employed against Ted Williams) in which the team moves to the right of the left-handed batter, anticipating that he will “pull” the ball to right field. The shift was no match for Oh: The slugger sent a 3-2 breaking ball 328 feet into the right field stands. The lucky fan who caught it was given an autographed ball, bat and trip to a hot springs spa in exchange for the home run ball.
  • 1982 --- The temperature was over 110 degrees when the first band took the stage on the opening day of the Us Festival. The group was Gang of Four, a radically political and hugely influential British band followed on Day One by a lineup of punk, post-punk and New Wave heavies: The Ramones, The English Beat, Oingo Boingo, The B-52’s, Talking Heads and The Police. The torrid conditions persisted as a mainstream rock lineup including Santana, The Kinks, Pat Benatar and Tom Petty took to the stage on Day Two. Day Three brought 60s legends The Grateful Dead and a headlining performance by Fleetwood Mac. Relief from the heat over the course of that Labor Day weekend came in the form of giveaway spray bottles, a half-acre of free showers and roving tanker trucks mounted with water cannons. And for those still suffering under the sweltering conditions, there was relief in the form of the Us Festival Technology Exposition, housed in five tents behind the main stage and offering not just a glimpse into the future, but the only air conditioning on the concert site.
  • 1990 --- President George Bush prepares for his first summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The theme of the meeting was cooperation between the two superpowers in dealing with the Iraqi crisis in the Middle East.
  • 2004 --- A three-day hostage crisis at a Russian school comes to a violent conclusion after a gun battle erupts between the hostage-takers and Russian security forces. In the end, over 300 people died, many of them children, while hundreds more were injured. Russian authorities claimed there was a total of 32 terrorists, 31 of whom died during the siege. Some surviving hostages claimed there had been additional terrorists who managed to escape. Residents of Beslan blamed Russian authorities for badly mishandling the crisis, saying rescue operations were poorly planned and troops used excessive force.
  • 2012 --- The Black Bear Casino Resort in Carlton, Minnesota created a record breaking Bacon Cheeseburger weighing in at 2,014 pounds.  At 10 feet in diameter, the burger was topped with 60 lbs of bacon, 40 lbs of cheese, 50 lbs of sliced onions, 50 lbs of lettuce and 40 lbs of pickles.
  • Birthdays
  • Freddie King
  • Valerie Perrine
  • Mark Hopkins
  • Alan Ladd
  • Mort Walker
  • Irene Papas
  • Tompall Glaser
  • Al Jardine
  • Charlie Sheen
  • Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Ferdinand Porsche