September 8, 2016 7:15 am
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses’ Day
Physical Therapy Day
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U.N. International Literacy Day
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Nativity of Mary Day for Catholics
Andorra – Meritxell (National Day)
French Polynesia – Internal Autonomy Day
Lithuania – Crowning of Vytautas the Great
Macedonia – Independence Day
Micronesia – Kosrae Liberation Day
Portugal – Valada:
Reverence Festival
Russia – Siege of Leningrad Day
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1565 – Spanish Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and his men establish the first permanent European settlement in North America, now St. Augustine, Florida
1664 – New Amsterdam re-named New York when the Dutch surrender it to the British
1810 – John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company sends a company aboard the Tonquin on a voyage to the Pacific Northwest. Six months later, at the Columbia River, they found Astoria, Oregon, as a fur-trading center
1841 – Antonín Dvořák born, Czech composer (New World Symphony, Requiem)
1893 – New Zealand’s Legislative Council passes the Electoral Act, then the governor consents on September 19, giving all New Zealand women the right to vote
1900 – The Great Galveston Hurricane, makes landfall, leaving at least 8,000 dead. With winds reaching up to 145 mph, it’s the deadliest hurricane in US history
1930 – 3M markets Scotch transparent tape
1935 – U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, “The Kingfish” of Louisiana politics, is shot and mortally wounded, dies two days later
1945 – In Washington DC, a bus equipped with a two-way radio is first put into service, and Miss New York, Bess Myerson, becomes first Jewish Miss America
1951 – Peace Treaty of San Francisco is signed by 48 nations with Japan
1952 – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast
1954 – Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) established
1966 – NBC televises the first episode of Star Trek
1971 – Washington DC’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens with the premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass
1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in its history by wildfires
2015 – British researchers announce discovery of 90 stones in a circle buried about 2 miles from Stonehenge, found by ground penetrating radar
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