- 239th Day of the Year / 126 Remaining
- Autumn Begins in 26 Days
- Sunrise:6:36
- Sunset:7:45
- 13 Hours 9 Minutes
- Moon Rise:8:34am
- Moon Set:8:45pm
- Moon’s Phase 4%
- Full Moon September 8 @ 6:38pm
- Full Corn Moon
- Full Harvest 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 Indian staples are now ready for gathering.
- Tides
- High Tide:12:05am/12:55pm
- Low Tide:6:26am/6:47pm
- Holidays
- Banana Lovers Day
- Petroleum Day-Texas
- “The Duchess” Who Wasn’t Day
- Just Because Day
- National Pots de Crème Day
- Burger Day
- Independence Day-Moldova
- Anniversary of the Women’s Revolt-Guinea
- 'La Tomatina' Tomato Fight-Bunol, Valencia, Spain. (30,000 people throw 240,000 pounds of tomatoes at each other)
- On This Day
- 1660 --- The books of John Milton were burned in London due to his attacks on King Charles II.
- 1776 --- British forces under General William Howe and his brother, Admiral Richard viscount Howe, defeat Patriot forces under General George Washington at the Battle of Brooklyn Heights in New York.
- 1789 --- The Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted by the French National Assembly.
- 1858 --- The first cabled news dispatch was sent and was published by "The New York Sun" newspaper. The story was about the peace demands of England and France being met by China.
- 1859 --- A shaft was being sunk deep in the ground and the drill had reached 69 feet, 6 inches. W.A. Smith, better known to the drillers and other folk in the small town in Western Pennsylvania as Uncle Billy, saw a dark film floating on the water. The water was below the
- 1883 --- The most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history occurs on Krakatau (also called Krakatoa), a small, uninhabited volcanic island located west of Sumatra in Indonesia, on this day in 1883. Heard 3,000 miles away, the explosions threw five cubic miles of earth 50 miles into the air, created 120-foot tsunamis and killed 36,000 people. Krakatau exhibited its first stirrings in more than 200 years on May 20, 1883. A German warship passing by reported a seven-mile high cloud of ash and dust over Krakatau. For the next two months, similar explosions would be witnessed by commercial
- 1889 --- Charles G. Conn of Elkhart, IN patented the metal clarinet. More than 100 years later the name, Conn, still represents one of
- 1912 --- Edgar Rice Burroughs' first Tarzan novel, 'Tarzan of The Apes' was first published in 'All Story' magazine (October issue, published August 27).
- 1921 --- J.E. Clair, who owned the Acme Packing Company, bought a pro football franchise for Green Bay, WI. Cheeseheads could have been their name, but he decided to pay
- 1938 --- At a poetry reading by Archibald MacLeish, another poet, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papersin order to disrupt the recital. That jealous poet, incidentally, was Robert Frost.
- 1940 --- Nestle registered the trademark 'Toll House' for chocolate chip cookies.
- 1953 --- “Roman Holiday”, featuring Audrey Hepburn in her first starring movie role, premieres in New York City. Hepburn’s performance in “Roman Holiday”, as a European princess who
- 1962 --- Mariner 2 was launched by the United States. In December of the same year the spacecraft flew past Venus. It was the first space probe to reach the vicinity of another planet.
- 1965 --- Elvis Presley played host to the Beatles at his home in Bel-Air, CA.
- 1967 --- Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was found dead of an accidental drug overdose in his Sussex, England, home. The following day, the headline in the London Daily Mirror read "EPSTEIN (The Beatle-Making Prince of Pop) DIES AT 32." Brian Epstein was, by all accounts, the man who truly got the Beatles off the ground, and in John Lennon's estimation, it was difficult to see how they'd manage to go on without the man who had managed every aspect of the Beatles' business affairs up until his unexpected
- 1971 --- Alice Waters' Chaz Panisse restaurant opened in Berkeley, California.
- 1981 --- Divers probing the wreckage of the luxury cruise ship Andrea Doria recovered two safes from the purser’s office. The Andrea Doria sank in a collision with the Swedish liner Stockholm (July 25, 1956). What was in the safes? Oh, only about a million dollars in cash and jewelry.
- 1982 --- Oakland Athletics outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 119th base of the year, breaking Hall of Famer Lou Brock's 1979 record for stolen bases in a season. In the third inning, Henderson walked on four pitches to reach first base. The Brewers knew he
- 1984 --- U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the first citizen to go into space would be a teacher. The teacher that was eventually chosen was Christa McAuliffe. She died in the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.
- 1990 --- Stevie Ray Vaughan and three members of Eric Clapton's band were killed in a helicopter crash in Wisconsin.
- 1992 --- John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "A Day In The Life" sold for $87,000 at an auction.
- 1999 --- The final crew of the Russian space station Mir departed the station to return to Earth. Russia was forced to abandon Mir for financial reasons.
- 2003 --- The world's largest battery was connected to provide emergency power in Fairbanks, Alaska. The $35 million rechargable battery weighs 1,300 tonnes and in the event of a blackout, it can
- 2007 --- Michael Vick, a star quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, formally pleads guilty before a Richmond, Virginia, judge to a federal
- 2008 --- Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
- Birthdays
- Lyndon Baines Johnson (36th President)
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hagel
- Sen Bob Kerry
- Chandra Wilson
- Hannibal Hamlin (VP 1861-65)
- Charles Dawes (VP 1925-29)
- Man Ray
- Carl Bosch
- Charles Rolls
- Martha Raye
- Ira Levin
- Daryl Dragon
- Tuesday Weld
- Barbara Bach
- Pee Wee Herman (Paul Rubens)