September 11th is

Hug Your Hound Day *

Libraries Remember Day *

National Day of
Service and Remembrance *

Make Your Bed Day

No News is Good News Day

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Rastafarian and Coptic New Year’s Day

Afghanistan,  Bahrain, Dijibouti, Egypt, Kuwait, Libya , Saudi Arabia and  United Arab Emirates – Arafat Day

Eritrea – Keddus Johannes
(Geeze New Year)

Ethiopia  – Enkutatash (New Year)

Maldives – Hajj Day

Micronesia – Pohnpei Liberation Day

Pakistan – Quaid-e-Azam
(Jinnah’s Death)

Spain – Catalan:
National Day

Sudan – Cirban Bairam

United States – Patriot Day

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On This Day in HISTORY

1297 – William Wallace’s Scottish forces defeat the English at Battle of Stirling Bridge

1609 – Henry Hudson’s fourth expedition, sponsored by the Dutch East India Company,  lands at Manhattan Island, then explores the river which is now named for him

1786 – The Annapolis Convention to revise the U.S. Articles of Confederation opens

1789 – U.S. President George Washington appoints Alexander Hamilton as first Secretary of the Treasury

1847 – Steven F. Foster’s “Oh! Susannah” is first performed publically in Pittsburgh PA

1850 – Jenny Lind, the “Swedish Nightingale” giver her first U.S. concert in New York

1875 – “Professor Tidwissel’s Burglar Alarm” appears in the New York Daily Graphic,  the first newspaper comic strip

1883 – James Cutler patents a mail chute, first used in Elwood Building of Rochester NY

1897 – Coal workers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio end a ten-week strike, after winning an eight-hour workday, semi-monthly paydays, and an end to company store monopolies

1910 – First commercially successful electric bus line opens in Hollywood, CA

1936 – FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (now called Hoover Dam) in Nevada by turning on the dam’s first hydroelectric generator

1941 – Groundbreaking ceremony for the Pentagon building

1952 – Dr. Charles Hufnagel replaces a diseased aorta valve with an artificial valve

1959 – U.S. Congress passes measure authorizing Food Stamps program

1967 – The Carol Burnett Show premieres on CBS-TV, and “All You Need is Love” by The Beatles is certified as a million seller

1977 – The Atari 2600 home video game console, with 9 game cartridges, debuts

1985 – The NASA-ESA International Cometary Explorer spacecraft passes through Giacobini-Zinner comet’s tail,  first on-the-spot sampling of a comet

1996 – David Bowie’s single “Telling Lies” is released on the Internet, the first time a major artist’s new single is released exclusively on the Internet

1997 – Scotland votes to create its own Parliament, after 290 years under English parliamentary rule

2001 – Ami Moore, the “Dog Whisperer of Chicago” starts “Hug Your Hound Day” * to remind us to cherish our devoted friends, and make America even more dog-friendly

2002 – 9-11 families and support groups launch “National Day of Service and Remembrance” a charitable service day honoring those who were lost and the responders who saved lives. Some U.S. libraries start “Libraries Remember Day,” * a tradition of staying open extra hours on each September 11 in remembrance of the attack on the World Trade Center September 11, 2001
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Visuals

• 9-11 remembrance poster
• International flags
• William Wallace, artist uncredited
• Professor Tidwissel’s Burglar Alarm – opening section of first cartoon 
• FDR at 1936 Boulder Dam dedication
• Ami Moore with dogs

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