September 13th is
Kids Take Over the Kitchen Day
National Peanut Day
Programmer’s Day *
Uncle Sam Day *
Roald Dahl Day *
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MORE! Clara Schumann, J. B. Priestly and Margaret Chase Smith, click
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS
Argentina – Librarian’s Day
Canada – Banff ALB: Fall Leaf Peep
Japan – Daisetsuzan Mountain, Hokkaido:
Autumn Color Viewing (ongoing)
Spain – Sant Rafel de sa Creu:
Amnesia Ibiza Festival
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On This Day in HISTORY
509 BC – Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome’s Capitoline Hill is dedicated
533 – Battle of Ad Decimum: Byzantine General Belisarius leads his troops to victory over the Vandals commanded by King Gelimer near Carthage in North Africa
1583 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer, is born
1584 – San Lorenzo del Escorial Palacio is completed near Madrid
El Escorial Biblioteca (library)
1739 – Grigory Potemkin born, Russian army office and statesman
1775 – Laura Secord born, Canadian heroine of the War of 1812, who walked 20-miles out of American-occupied territory to warn British troops of an impending attack
1788 – The Congress of the Confederation authorizes the first national election and declares New York City the temporary national capital
1789 – The U.S. Government takes out its first loan
1813 – Daniel Macmillan born, Scottish bookseller; co-founder Macmillan Publishing
1814 – Frances Scott Key is inspired to write his poem “Defense of Fort McHenry”
1819 – Clara Schumann born, German pianist and composer, gives first public performances of several works by Johannes Brahams
1830 – Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, notable Austrian late 19th century author, admired for her psychological insight; Božena, Das Gemeindekind
1844 – Ann Webb Young born, one of LDS President Brigham Young’s many wives, who filed for divorce on grounds of cruelty, neglect and abandonment; excommunicated from the LDS Church in 1874; her divorce is final in 1875. She went on the lecture circuit, advocating against polygamy and Mormonism; Webb testifies before Congress during debates before passage of the Poland (anti-polygamy enforcement) Act. Author of Wife No. 19, or The Story of a Life in Bondage
1844 – Anna Lea Merritt born, American painter; known for portraits, landscapes and religious scenes; she lived and worked primarily in England as a professional artist
Ophelia, by Anna Lea Merritt
1851 – Walter Reed born, American pathologist and bacteriologist; U.S. Army doctor who leads the team that confirms Yellow Fever is transmitted by mosquitoes
1857 – Milton Hershey born, American chocolate manufacturer
1858 – Catharinus Elling born, Norwegian composer
1860 – John (“Black Jack”) Pershing born, American General in command of the American Expeditionary Force in WWI
1865 – Maud Charlesworth born in England, known as Maud Ballington Booth, Salvation Army leader and co-founder of the Volunteers of America
1874 – Arnold Schoenberg born in Austria, American composer
1876 – Sherwood Anderson born, American author; Winesburg, Ohio
1894 – J.B Priestly born, English novelist and playwright; An Inspector Calls
1898 – Hannibal W. Goodwin patents celluloid film, used to make movies
1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the U.S. killed in an automobile accident
1914 – Leonard Feather born, British jazz pianist and composer
1916 – Bill Monroe born, American singer, songwriter and mandolin player
1916 – Roald Dahl born in Wales, author; James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1919 – Mary Midgley, British philosopher, advocate for science, ethics and animal rights, author of many books including her autobiography The Owl of Minerva
1922 – Highest shade temperature 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit recorded at El Azizia, Libya
1924 – Maurice Jarre born, French composer; nine Academy Award nominations with four wins for Best Original Film Score
1933 – Elizabeth McCombs is the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament
1935 – Howard Hughes sets new airspeed record, 352 mph, in his H-1 plane
1938 – Judith Martin is born, aka etiquette author ‘Miss Manners’
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) is elected U.S. Senator, first woman to serve in both houses of Congress, serving a combined total of 33 years, 1940-1973
1948 – The School of the Performing Arts, the first specialized public school for the arts, opens in New York
1956 – IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, first computer to use disk storage
1960 – The FCC bans payola (bribes for more airplay of a record company’s product)
1965 – The Beatles release “Yesterday”
1970 – First NYC Marathon
1971 – The four-day riot that claimed 43 lives at New York’s Attica Correctional Facility ends as police and guards storm the prison
1989 – Desmond Tutu leads largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa
1989 – George W. Bush proclaims Uncle Sam Day * in honor of the birth of Samuel Wilson, a N.Y. meatpacker whose “U.S.” stamp on shipments to the American army during the War of 1812 led to the nickname Uncle Sam
1990 – The TV series Law and Order premieres on NBC
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chair Yasser Arafat sign first major agreement, granting Palestine limited self-government in Gaza Strip and Jericho
2001 – U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell names Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 – limited U.S. commercial flights resume after being grounded for two days
2009 – Russia President Dmitry Medvedev signs decree Day of the Programmer * held annually on the 265th day of the year
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