September 1^st is

Emma M Nutt Day *

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World Letter Writing Day *

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No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day
(celebrates words that don’t
rhyme, like orange)

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Australia – Birdsville, Queensland:
Birdsville Races

Canada – Peterborough, Ontario:
Purple Onion Festival

Eritrea – Bahti Meskerem
(Start of Armed Struggle Day)

India – Parkash Utsav Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji  (Sikh holiday) *

Libya – Day of Revolution

Mexico – Presidential Message Day

Slovakia – Constitution Day

United States –
Martha’s Vineyard MA:
Jazz & Blues Summerfest

Uzbekistan – Mustaqillik Kuni
(Independence Day)

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On This Day in History

717 – Byzantine navy defeats an 1,800-ship Muslim armada using Greek Fire

1449 – Ming dynasty Emperor Zhu Qizhen captured by Oirat Mongols, held captive

1604 – * First Parkash: Guru Granth Sahib bestowed title of eternal Sikh Guru

MORE! Johann Pachelbel, Aaron Burr and Lily Tomlin, click

1653 – Johann Pachelbel born, German composer and organist, remembered for his Canon in D Major

1715 – French King Louis XIV dies after 72 year reign, longest of any major European monarch

1772 – Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded by Father Junipero Serra

1804 – German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovers large asteroid in the Main Belt, and names it Juno

1807 – Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr acquitted of treason for plotting to found an independent country, because he committed no “overt act”

1810 – John H. Wood patents the first plow with interchangeable parts

1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of first English-speaking women to settle west of the Rockies, arrives in Walla Walla, Washington

1859 – Pullman Sleeping cars go into service

1873 – Cetshwayo becomes King of the Zulus upon the death of his father Mpande

1878 – Emma M. Nutt becomes first woman telephone operator for Boston’s Telephone Dispatch Company, then worked the job for 33 years. Emma M. Nutt Day *celebrates her achievement and honors telephone operators

1897 – Boston’s Tremont Street Subway, first North American underground rapid transit

1902 – Pioneering science fiction film, A Trip to the Moon, premieres in France

1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian federation

1906 – International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys established

1914 – St. Petersburg, Russia, renamed Petrograd by the Imperial government

1920 – The Fountain of Time opens in Chicago IL to commemorate 100 years of peace between the U.S. and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent

1923 – Kantō Earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, leaving 105,000 dead

1939 – General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army

1939 – Adolf Hitler signs order to systematically euthanize mentally ill and disabled people

1939 – Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan head of armed forces, and mobilizes them

1939 – Lily Tomlin born, major force in American comedy, “Laugh-In,” Broadway, film

1952 – Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea published, Pulitzer Prize winner

1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone overlapping the U.K. zone, starts the Cod Wars

1972 – American Bobby Fischer defeats Russian Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland, to become world chess champion

1977 – Generation X released their debut single “Your Generation”

1979 – Space probe Pioneer 11 passes Saturn at distance of 13,000 miles (21,000 km)

1985 – A joint U.S.-French expedition locates wreckage of RMS Titanic

1991 – Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union

2005 – Richard Simpkin wanted to photograph and interview people he considered Australian Legends, so he wrote dozens of letters asking to meet them. He was always elated when he got a reply. By 2005, he had interviewed and photographed 80 people. This project inspired him to found World Letter Writing Day * on September 1 (not to be confused with U.S. National Letter Writing Day on December 7)

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Visuals

• Oranges
• International Flags
• Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa – church interior
• Pullman sleeping car

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