September 8th is

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses’ Day

Physical Therapy Day

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U.N. International Literacy Day
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MORE! Michelangelo’s David, Rebranding New Amsterdam, Antonín Dvořák , and DC’s Kennedy Center, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

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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On This Day in HISTORY

1504 – Michelangelo’s David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence

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)

1862 – Millennium of Russia monument unveiled in Novgorod

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

1960 – President Eisenhower dedicates NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville AL

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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Visuals

• Literacy Day poster
• International Flags
• Close-up of the face of Michelangelo’s David
• Millennium of Russia monument unveiling in Novgorod, artist not credited
• Scotch cellulose tape in a 1930s tin
• Mercury capsule and escape system atop booster for test firing at Redstone Test Stand, Marshall Space Flight Center
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