THIS WEEK IS

• Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week 
• International Housekeepers Week (Link)  
• National Assisted Living Week (Link)
• National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (Link)
• Line Dance Week (Link)
• Suicide Prevention Week (Link)

TODAY IS

• 37th Friday of 2019
• 84th day of summer--10 days until fall
• Friday the 13th (see quick trivia) 
• Blame Someone Else Day*
• National Programmers Day (Link)
• Kids Take Over The Kitchen Day* (Link)
• National Celiac Awareness Day* (Link)
• Roald Dahl Day* (Link) 
• National Peanut Day* (Link)
• Scooby-Doo Day* (Link) 
• Uncle Sam Day* (Link)  
• Hug Your Boss Day

ON THIS DATE...
1789: The United States Government took out its first loan. The money was borrowed from the Bank of North America at 6% interest. 
1814: Francis Scott Key was inspired to write what was to become, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” (See History Spotlight) 


1899: Henry M. Bliss became the first known automobile fatality. As Mr. Bliss stepped off a streetcar at Central Park West and 74th Street, he was hit by a car driven by Arthur Smith. Bliss was rushed to the hospital but died a short time later. Smith was arrested, but was not held (Link).

1934: the World Series broadcast rights were sold to the Ford Motor Company for 100-thousand dollars.  Before that, there was no charge for the rights. 
1939: Igor Sikorsky invented the first practical helicopter. 
1948: the School of Performing Arts opened in New York City.  It was the first public school to specialize in the performing arts. 
1948: Massachusetts Republican Margaret Chase Smith was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.  
1949: the Ladies Professional Golf Association of America (LPGA) formed with Patty Berg as its first president. 

1950: the "Dick Tracy" TV crime drama first aired on ABC (Link). 
1953: Marilyn Monroe made her first appearance on television on "The Jack Benny Show." 
1960: the Federal Communications Act was amended to ban the payment of cash or gifts in exchange for radio airplay.  The move was aimed at ending the famous "Payola" scandals (Link). 
1963: Mary Kay cosmetics was founded by nine people sitting around Mary Kay Ash's kitchen table. 
1965: The Beatles won their first Grammy Award for Best Group of 1964. 
1965: the "Today Show" was completely broadcast in color for the first time. 
1965: San Francisco's Willie Mays hit his 500th home run. 
1971: the World Hockey Association was formed. 
1974: "The Rockford Files" debuted on NBC.  The show starred James Garner as private investigator Jim Rockford. 
1983: the U.S. mint struck the first gold coin in 50 years -- the Olympic Eagle. 
1986: Miss Tennessee Kellye Cash was crowned Miss America.  It was the first year the contestant's measurements were not publicized. 
1992: the Buffalo Bills and the San Francisco 49ers set an NFL record when neither team punted the ball throughout the entire game.  The Q-B's Jim Kelly and Steve Young each threw for more than 400 yards.  The Bills won 34-31. 
1997: funeral services were held in Calcutta, India for Nobel Peace laureate Mother Teresa. 

2009: controversy erupted at the 2009 MTV VMA Awards when rapper Kanye West interrupted an acceptance speech by country-pop star Taylor Swift to declare a video by pop superstar Beyonce more deserving of the honor.  Beyonce later yielded her time in the spotlight to Taylor after winning Video of the Year for her "Single Ladies" clip, allowing the teen singer to return to the stage and continue her acceptance speech.  


HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

September 13, 1814, the young American lawyer Francis Scott Key was inspired by the successful American defense of Fort McHenry, Maryland, during the War of 1812. The poem he wrote about the battle, “Defense of Fort M’Henry,” was put to music and eventually became the national anthem of the United States, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” (Link) 



QUICK TRIVIA

Friday the 13th (Link)

There is a technical name for those who fear Friday the 13th. It's called, "paraskevidekatriaphobics". 

As many as 21 million people in the United States are fearful of Friday the 13th, according to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, N.C., which estimates that $800 million to $900 million is lost in business every Friday the 13th. 

No one really knows why we consider Friday the 13th to be unlucky. Some of the stigma surrounding Friday the 13th stems from October the 13th, 1307.  On that Friday, the Pope of the Catholic church in Rome and the King of France carried out a secret death warrant against the wealthy and powerful Order of the Knights Templar.  

One thought is that the number 12 has been considered to be "whole" or "good". For example, the 12 Tribes of Israel, 12 stones, 12 pillars, the Twelve Apostles, 12 stars, 12 gates, etc. 

Of course, there were 13 guests at The Last Supper. The 13th being Judas. Friday was also execution day in ancient Rome.  As you know, Jesus was crucified on a Friday. 

The number 13 has been associated with evil and "unlucky" events.  The ill-fated Apollo 13 space mission is a study in unlucky 13.  It was launched at 13-hundred hours, 13 minutes from pad 39, the third multiple of 13.  It was aborted on April 13th, 1970.

But there are also plenty of good things associated with 13.  The United States started out with 13 colonies.  A baker's dozen offers a bonus, 13th item.  In Judaism, age 13 is the time for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah.  Former Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino did well with the number 13 on his jersey. 


WORD FOR THE DAY

munificent [myoo-nif-uh-suhnt]
–adjective 
1. extremely liberal in giving; very generous. 
2. characterized by great generosity: a munificent bequest. 

"The munificent philanthropist generously donated to schools in Africa."



INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT 

Before his conversion, the apostle Paul was a Pharisee
"circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless. But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ."  (Phil 3:5-7)

THIS WEEK IS 

• Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week 
• International Housekeepers Week (Link)  
• National Assisted Living Week (Link)
• National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (Link)
• Line Dance Week (Link)
• Suicide Prevention Week (Link)

TODAY IS

• 37th Thursday of 2019
• 83rd day of summer--11 days until fall
• International Day for South-South Cooperation* (Link)
• National Day of Encouragement*
• National Police Woman's Day* (Link) 
• Video Games Day*
• National Chocolate Milkshake Day* (Link)

ON THIS DATE...
490: BC, a vastly outnumbered group of Athenians defeated Persian forces at the Battle of Marathon, Greece (Link).
1609: Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.

1857: The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush (Link).
1866: The first burlesque show opened in New York City. The show was a four-act performance called The Black Crook. It ran for 475 performances and made about $1.3 million for its producer
1873: The first practical typewriter was sold to customers

1928: actress Katherine Hepburn made her New York stage debut in "Night Hostess." (Link)
1940: the 17-thousand-year-old Lascaux cave paintings were discovered (See History Spotlight). 
1948: the Presley family moved from Tupelo, Mississippi, to Memphis, Tennessee.  The future "King of Rock and Roll" Elvis Presley was 13-years-old at the time. 
1953: Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island. 


1954: "Lassie" debuted on CBS.  The show stayed on the air for 17 years (see intro). 


1959: "Bonanza," debuted on NBC (See intro and trivia below).
1963: "Leave It To Beaver" aired for the final time on ABC. 


1966: The Beatles received a gold record this day for Yellow Submarine.


1966: "The Monkees" debuted on NBC.  The show went on to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series of 1967. 
1980: the Chevrolet Chevette, the Ford Escort, and the Mercury Lynx became the first U.S. manufactured cars to record 30 miles-per-gallon of gas. 
1983: actor Arnold Schwarzenegger became a U.S. citizen. 

1992: Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first African-American woman in space when she served as a payload specialist aboard space shuttle Endeavour (Link)
1994: a stolen Cessna airplane crashed on the South Lawn of the White House, killing the pilot.  
2000: Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first First Lady to win an election as she claimed victory in the New York Democratic Senate primary. 
2003: the "Man In Black," country music legend Johnny Cash died of complications from diabetes.  He was 71.  Cash's death came just four months after the death of his wife June Carter Cash.  Recording more than 15 hundred songs in his lifetime, Cash's career spanned five decades and garnered almost every honor imaginable, including nine Grammy Awards and  inductions into both the Country and Rock 'n roll Hall of Fame.  He is considered one of the most influential performers in the history of American music. 
2011: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City opens to the public (Link)



HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

Art Discovery (Taken from Link) 

On Sept. 12, 1940, four teenagers accidentally discovered a collection of prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux cave system, near Montignac, France. The Lascaux cave paintings depict large game animals, many of which are now extinct—aurochs, horses, rhinos, Megaloceros (giant deer), and cave hyenas.


QUICK TRIVIA

The television western drama, "Bonanza," debuted on NBC on this date in 1959.  It was the first western to be broadcast in color. (Taken from Link) 

Prior to the premiere of Bonanza in 1959, color television was an expensive novelty.  The basic theory to produce color television had been around since the late 1920s, but it was not until the 1950s that the technology reached a level of functionality that enabled it to be commercially sold.  Even then, the American public still needed to be convinced that these newfangled expensive televisions were worth the money. 
Bonanza was truly the beginning of viewing color television as a household standard rather than a novelty.  NBC began to identify itself as “The Full Color Network” and added additional color programming.  The popularity of Bonanza’s vivid colors demonstrated to the networks that the American public was ready to embrace available color technology as a television standard.



WORD FOR THE DAY

Ambrosial    [am-BROH-zhuhl]

adjective
1. Exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant.

"The dinner made last night was quite ambrosial"



INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT 

The Apostle John saw the throne of God

"Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne. And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads. Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal; and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME." And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying, "Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created"  (Rev 4:2-11).

THIS WEEK IS 

• Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week 
• International Housekeepers Week (Link)  
• National Assisted Living Week (Link)
• National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (Link)
• Line Dance Week (Link)
• Suicide Prevention Week (Link)

TODAY IS

• 37th Wednesday of 2019
• 82nd day of summer--12 days until fall
• Patriot Day* (Link)
• National Hot Cross Bun Day* (Link)

ON THIS DATE...

1789: President George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton the first Secretary of the Treasury. 

1936: President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam.  

1941: President Franklin Roosevelt ordered an immediate attack on any German or Italian vessels operating in U.S. defensive waters. 
1952: Dr. Charles Hufnagel became the first to replace a diseased aorta with an artificial one made of plastic. 

1954: Lee Ann Meriwether won the first, televised, Miss America pageant.  The event was broadcast on ABC Television. 

1959: Congress passed a bill authorizing the creation of food stamps. 
1967: "The Carol Burnett Show" aired for the first time on CBS Television.  The popular program stayed on the air for eleven years. 



1970: "Get Smart" aired for the final time on CBS Television (see opening) 



1971: former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died at the age 77.  



1974: "Little House on the Prairie" premiered on NBC Television (see opening)



1999: tennis player Serena Williams won the U.S. Open women's title, beating top seeded Martina Hingis.  
2001: terror struck the United States.  In what has been called the worst attack on U.S. soil as terrorists hijacked four passenger jets and flew them into the World Trade Center's twin towers in the heart of New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania.  Shortly after the attacks, the twin towers crumbled to the ground, changing New York City's signature skyline and the hearts of Americans forever (Link). 

2005: Roger Federer downed seventh-seeded Andre Agassi in four sets to claim his second-straight U.S. Open title.   The 24-year-old Swiss tennis star also earned his sixth Grand Slam crown and became the first man in the modern era to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in back-to-back years. 
2006: memorials were held all around the country in observance of the fifth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.  At Ground Zero in New York City, there were two Moments of Silence marking the times when the hijacked airplanes hit the World Trade Center towers, followed by the reading of the victims names.  Similar ceremonies were held at the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.  About three thousand people died as a result of the events of 9-11. 

2009:  NBA legend Michael Jordan headlined the Class of 2009 inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Friday.  Fellow former players David Robinson and John Stockton, NBA coach Jerry Sloan and women's college coach C. Vivian Stringer were also enshrined in Springfield, Massachusetts.  Jordan is a six-time NBA champion and five-time league MVP.  
2012: Christopher Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya was among four Americans killed when gunmen set fire to the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.  Protestors outside the consulate voiced outrage to the amateur video "Innocence of Muslims," which mocked the Muslim prophet Mohammed. 



HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

Attack on America (Taken from Link)

At 8:45 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact left a gaping, burning hole near the 80th floor of the 110-story skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more in higher floors. As the evacuation of the tower and its twin got underway, television cameras broadcasted live images of what initially appeared to be a freak accident. Then, 18 minutes after the first plane hit, a second Boeing 767--United Airlines Flight 175--appeared out of the sky, turned sharply toward the World Trade Center, and sliced into the south tower at about the 60th floor. The collision caused a massive explosion that showered burning debris over surrounding buildings and the streets below. America was under attack.

Sept 11 timeline:


***NOTE all times are Eastern.*** 

• 8:46 a.m. - American Airlines Flight 11 headed from Boston's Logan Airport to Los Angeles with 81 passengers and 11 crews crashes into One World Trade Center (North Tower). 
• 9:03 a.m. - United Airlines Flight 175 headed from Boston's Logan Airport to Los Angeles with 56 passengers and nine crew crashes into Two World Trade Center (South Tower). 
• 9:30 a.m. - Speaking to the nation from Sarasota, Florida, President Bush says that there had been a "national tragedy." 
• 9:40 a.m. - The Federal Aviation Administration halts all flight operations at U.S. airports. 
• 9:43 a.m. - American Airlines Flight 77 headed from Washington's Dulles International to Los Angeles with 58 passengers and six crew crashes into Pentagon. 
• 9:45 a.m. - White House is evacuated. 
• 10:05 a.m. - Two World Trade Center (South Tower) collapses, sending a massive cloud of dust and ash over southern Manhattan. 
• 10:10 a.m. - United Airlines Flight 93 headed from Newark to San Francisco with 38 passengers and seven crew crashes into field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 
• 10:10 a.m. - A section of the Pentagon collapses. 
• 10:28 a.m. - One World Trade Center (North Tower) collapses. 
• 10:45 a.m. - All federal office buildings in Washington, DC are evacuated. 
• 12:15 p.m. - U.S. checkpoints along the border with Mexico and Canada are placed on their highest state of alert. 
• 1:04 p.m. - Addressing the nation from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, President Bush said the U.S. would, quote, "hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts." 
• 1:27 p.m. - The city of Washington, DC declares a state of emergency. 
• 1:44 p.m. - The Pentagon sends the aircraft carriers USS George Washington and USS John F. Kennedy to the New York coast. 
• 2:30 p.m. - The FAA says there will be no commercial air traffic until at least noon on Wednesday (Sept. 12). 
• 4:25 p.m. - All major U.S. financial markets, including the New York Stock Exchange, announce they will be closed on Wednesday (Sept. 12). 
• 5:20 p.m. - A 47-story building in the World Trade Center complex damaged from the initial attack collapses. 
• 6:40 p.m. - Speaking at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the building is operational and it will be, quote, "in business tomorrow." 
• 6:54 p.m. - President Bush arrives back at the White House. 
• 8:30 p.m. - Addressing the nation, President Bush says, quote, "thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil."  He added, quote, "these acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve." 

QUICK TRIVIA

The Carol Burnett Show" aired for the first time on CBS on this date in 1967 (Taken from Link) 

Starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway, the show originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes. 
The series won 25 prime time Emmy Awards, was ranked No. 16 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time in 2002 and in 2007 was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All Time."



WORD FOR THE DAY

Verbose
[ver-bohs] adjective 

characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy

"The husband was in the wrong when he asked his wife to get to the point as he felt she was somewhat verbose"



INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT 

The book of Genesis and the book of John open up with the same 3 words. 

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). 

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). 

THIS WEEK IS 

• Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week 
• International Housekeepers Week (Link)  
• National Assisted Living Week (Link)
• National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (Link)
• Line Dance Week (Link)
• Suicide Prevention Week (Link)

TODAY IS

• 37th Tuesday of 2019
• 81st day of summer--13 days until fall
• Swap Ideas Day* (Link)
• (World) Suicide Prevention Day* (Link)
• Ants on a Log Day (Link)
• National TV Dinner Day* (Link)

ON THIS DATE...

1608: John Smith was elected council president of the Jamestown colony in what is now Virginia (read more). 


1813: United States naval officer Oliver Hazard Perry led a fleet of nine ships to victory over six British warships during the War of 1812.  It was the first defeat of a British naval squadron by the U.S. 

1913: the first paved coast-to-coast highway in America -- the Lincoln Highway -- opened. 




1935: "Popeye" was heard for the first time on NBC Radio (Read more). 


1940: Britain's Buckingham Palace was hit by a German bomb. 
1953: Swanson sold the first TV dinner. 

1955: "Gunsmoke" debuted on CBS Television.  The show starred James Arness as Marshall Matt Dillon (Show Opener). 

1955: Bert Parks began a 25-year career as host of the Miss America Pageant on NBC. The show became a TV tradition as Parks sang to the newly-crowned beauty queen, “There She is ... Miss America”. The song was composed by Bernie Wayne and was sung for the first time on this day (Song)
1961: New York Yankees great Mickey Mantle hit his 400th home run. 
1962: Rod Laver won the Grand Slam of tennis. 

1963: twenty-three African-American students entered public schools in Tuskegee, Mobile and Birmingham, Alabama.  One week earlier, Alabama Governor George Wallace surrounded the schools with state troopers in an attempt to block integration (read more). 

1965: "The Jack Benny Program" aired for the final time on NBC Television. 

1966: futuristic talk show host, cartoon character, Space Ghost appears for the first time in a series of eight-minute Hanna-Barbera cartoons. 


1970: the second run of "Dragnet" last aired on NBC. 
1972: Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers announced his retirement from the National Football League (Link). 
1974: St. Louis Cardinal Lou Brock tied and broke Maury Wills' single-season stolen base record with number 104 and 105.  Brock went on to a career total of 938 stolen bases. 

1975: "Starsky and Hutch" debuted on ABC Television (Show Open). 

1988: Guns N' Roses topped the pop music charts with "Sweet Child O'Mine" (Song). 

1990: "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" starring Will Smith debuted on NBC (See opening)

1991: the Senate Judiciary Committee opened their hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. 
1992: a federal jury in Minneapolis rejected pro football's limited free agency system. 
1993: "The X-Files" debuted on the Fox network. 
1993: "Late Night With David Letterman" last aired on NBC. 
1995: NBC's "ER" won eight Emmy Awards. 
1996: discount retail giant Wal-Mart made a decision not to sell Sheryl Crow's upcoming new album because one song included a reference about kids buying guns at the store.  A-and-M Records called the move "censorship." 

1998: "Seinfeld" made its final network showing on NBC (Link). 

1998: President Bill Clinton met with members of his staff to apologize, ask for forgiveness and improve as a person in the wake of the scandal involving a former White House intern. 
1999: thirty years after the Supreme Court implemented busing as a means of achieving racial balance in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, a federal judge ruled to end the busing practice. 
2002: Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
2008: the Large Hadron Collider, nicknamed the “biggest science experiment in the world,” powered up in tunnels beneath Geneva, Switzerland (Link).


HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

First Drunk Driving Arrest (Taken from Link) 

On this day in 1897, a 25-year-old London taxi driver named George Smith becomes the first person ever arrested for drunk driving after slamming his cab into a building. Smith later pled guilty and was fined 25 shillings.

In the United States, the first laws against operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol went into effect in New York in 1910



QUICK TRIVIA

The TV Dinner (Taken from Link) 

In 1954, Swanson TV Dinners fulfilled two post-war trends: the lure of time-saving modern appliances and the fascination with a growing innovation, the television. More than 10 million TV dinners were sold during the first year of Swanson's national distribution. For $.98 per dinner, customers were able to choose among Salisbury steak, meatloaf, fried chicken, or turkey, served with potatoes and bright green peas; special desserts were added later.



WORD FOR THE DAY

Approbation
–noun ap-pro-ba-tion

1. approval; commendation. 
2. official approval or sanction. 

"She received the approbation from her husband to go shopping with his credit card"  :)




INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT 

For years, the Bible has been the world’s best-selling book. It is also the world’s most shoplifted book. (Link) 

THIS WEEK IS 

• Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week 
• International Housekeepers Week (Link)  
• National Assisted Living Week (Link)
• National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (Link)
• Line Dance Week (Link)
• Suicide Prevention Week (Link)

TODAY IS

• 36th Monday of 2019
• 80th day of summer--14 days until fall
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day* (Link)
• Wonderful Weirdoes Day*
• National Teddy Bear Day* (Link)
• Care Bears Share Your Care Day* (Link)
• National Boss/Employee Exchange Day 
• I Love Food Day* (Link)

ON THIS DATE...
1776: the Second Continental Congress authorized the use of the name "United States."  It replaced the name "United Colonies." (Link)
1836: Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law. 
1850: California joined the United States as the 31st state of the union. 

1890: Colonel Harland Sanders was born (Link)


1908: Orville Wright made the first one-hour airplane flight at Fort Myer, Virginia (Link).
1926: the National Broadcasting Company, NBC, was created by the Radio Corporation of America or RCA. 
1947: computer scientist Grace Hopper reported the world’s first computer bug—a moth trapped in her computer at Harvard University (Link) 
1956: Elvis Presley appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the first time.  The show attracted nearly 50-million viewers (see history spotlight below). 
1963: a federal injunction was issued to Alabama Governor George Wallace as he ordered police to keep African-American students from enrolling in white schools. 

1967: "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" debuted on NBC Television (Link)


1968: Arthur Ashe, became the first black male to win a major tennis tournament when he defeated Tom Okker of the Netherlands at the U.S. Open Tennis Championship.  
1971: prisoners at New York's Attica Correctional Facility took nine guards hostage during a riot at the prison.  Thirty-one prisoners and the nine guards were killed when 15-hundred law enforcement officials stormed the prison. 
1971: "Mr. Hockey" Gordie Howe retired from the National Hockey League. 


1975: "Welcome Back Kotter" debuted on ABC (Opening)



1976: Communist China leader Mao Tse-tung died at the age of 82. 



1977: the first T-R-S 80 computer sold at Radio Shack. 




1984: Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit Canada as he began a 12 day tour of the country. 
1986: the colorization of black-and-white films was presented by Ted Turner.  The first film was "Yankee Doodle Dandy," and showed on Turner's WTBS. 
1991: heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson was indicted on charges that he raped Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant contestant in Indiana. Tyson was later convicted. 

1994: "The Arsenio Hall Show" aired for the final time. 

1997: actor Burgess Meredith died at the age of 89.  He is best known for portraying The Penguin on the "Batman" television series and Mickey in the "Rocky" films. 

2003: Simon & Garfunkel announced plans for their "Old Friends" reunion tour, marking their first trek together in nearly ten years. 
2009: Fox announced that comedienne and Emmy winning talk show host Ellen DeGeneres would replace Paula Abdul as the fourth judge on its hit reality singing competition "American Idol." Abdul announced her departure from the show a month earlier after eight seasons. 
2015: Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
2016: The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. World leaders condemn the act, with South Korea calling it "maniacal recklessness".


HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

Elvis Presley appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the first time on this date in 1956 (taken from Link)

Elvis' performance on The Ed Sullivan Show is cemented in the annals of rock music history because of the censors' decision to shoot the volatile young singer only from the waist up.
However, contrary to popular belief, this decision was not made until his third appearance.
Elvis made his Sullivan debut on the show's season premiere, but on the big night neither Sullivan nor Elvis was in the New York studio. Elvis was in Hollywood, filming his first movie, and he sang from the CBS studio there. Sullivan was recovering from an August head-on car collision, and Charles Laughton, the star of Mutiny on the Bounty, filled in for the host, hailing his guest by saying, 'Away to Hollywood to meet Elvis Presley'.
Elvis, wearing a loud plaid jacket, greeted the audience from a set decorated with stylized guitar shapes. He announced that the show was 'probably the greatest honor I have ever had in my life', and then launched into 'Don't Be Cruel'. The camera stayed above his waist for now, sometimes closing in on his face, sometimes turning to show his backup singers, but something Elvis was doing out of lens range was causing unexplained screams from the audience. After the number was over, he acknowledged the vocal segment of the crowd, saying, 'Thank you, ladies'. To finish the first segment, he played the title song to his new movie, 'Love Me Tender', introducing it as 'completely different from anything we've ever done.' Nationwide, disk jockeys taped the performance and played the song, which had yet to be released, on their radio shows, increasing pre-release orders to almost a million and pushing forward the single's release date.



QUICK TRIVIA

The Teddy Bear was named after "Teddy" Roosevelt who, in 1902, refused to shoot a bear on a hunting expedition. 

Some famous bears...

Winnie the Pooh, Paddington Bear, Yogi Bear and Boo Boo, Care bears, Smokey the Bear, Fozzie Bear (from The Muppet Show), The three Bears (friends of Goldilocks), Gummi bears, Rupert, Corduroy, Little John (from Disney’s Robin Hood cartoon) and the Bernstein Bears (Taken from Link)



WORD FOR THE DAY

swivet  [swiv-it]   noun

a state of nervous excitement, haste, or anxiety; flutter: 

"It was her birthday and Julie was in such a swivet that as she anticipated her big party"



INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT 

In the Bible, oftentimes names have significant meaning. 

"Don’t call me Naomi (pleasant),” she told them. “Call me Mara (bitter), because the Almighty has made my life very bitter. I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi?" (Ruth 1:20-21).

THIS WEEK IS 

• National Payroll Week (Link)
• National Nutrition Week
• Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Week (Link)
• National Waffle Week
• National Payroll Week (Link)

TODAY IS

• 36th Friday of 2019
• 77th day of summer--17 days until fall
• National Coffee Ice Cream Day* (Link)
• National 401(k) Day (Link)
• National Read a Book Day (Link)
• Bring Your Manners to Work Day (Link)
• National Food Bank Day (Link)
• Stand up to Cancer Day (Link)

ON THIS DATE...

1522: one of Ferdinand Magellan's five ships returned to Spain, completing the first successful circumnavigation of the world. Only 15 of the original 265 sailors survived the journey (Link). 
1620: the Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in the New World. 
1837: Oberlin Collegiate Institute became the first college to grant equal status to men and women. 
1873: Cable car service in San Francisco was launched. 
1901: President William McKinley was shot while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (See History Spotlight) 
1920: The first prizefight broadcast on radio featured Jack Dempsey knocking out Billy Miske in the third round of a bout in Benton Harbor, MI. Radio station WWJ in Detroit was the station that fight fans were tuned to.
1926: the Harlem Globetrotters were established. (See Quick Trivia). 
1941: in German-occupied areas, Jews older than six were forced to wear yellow Stars of David with the word "Jew" inscribed on them. 
1947: a long-range rocket was launched from a ship for the first time. U.S. military officials launched the captured German V-Two rocket from the deck of the U-S-S Midway. 
1959: The first Barbie Doll was sold by Mattel Toy Corporation. The original Barbie, along with her pals, Ken and Skipper, are now collectors items, although new versions are continually being produced.

1972: the Munich Massacre, in which Israeli hostages were held at gunpoint at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, ended tragically with the deaths of all 11 athletes (Link).
1975: Glen Campbell hit #1 on the Billboard pop music chart with Rhinestone Cowboy
1983: the Soviet Union took responsibility for shooting down a Korean Air Lines commuter flight, saying the pilots did not know their target was a civilian flight. 
1986: the cartoon "Scooby-Doo" last aired on ABC, after being on TV since September 1969. 
1991: the name of Russia's second largest city was changed from Leningrad back to St. Petersberg. 
1995: Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination when he was called back to testify at the O-J Simpson trial.
1995: the Senate Ethics Committee voted unanimously to recommend that Oregon Senator Bob Packwood be expelled from his Senate position.  The Senator faced allegations of sexual misconduct.  He resigned two days later. 
1995: Baltimore Oriole shortstop Cal Ripken played in his two-thousand-131st consecutive game to break Lou Gehrig's record. 
1996: Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination after being called back to witness stand at the O-J Simpson criminal trial.   
1997: Princess Diana's funeral took place in London, England. The funeral was broadcast live around the world. Elton John performed a reworked version of his song "Candle in the Wind," which was originally released as a tribute to Marilyn Monroe. "Goodbye England's Rose" was used as a tribute to Princess Diana. 
2003: Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas resigned from power.  His resignation followed a bitter power struggle with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.  
2006: Bob Dylan's album "Modern Times" debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 Album chart, marking Dylan's first number one album in 30 years. 


2007: legendary opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti passed away at his home in Northern Italy after a battle with pancreatic cancer.  He was 71 years old (Link).  
2012: addressing delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, President Barack Obama accepted his party's nomination to lead the White House for another four years. 


HISTORY SPOTLIGHT 

September 6, 1901: President William McKinley shot 

President William McKinley was shaking hands at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York, when a 28-year-old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz approaches him and fires two shots into his chest. The president rose slightly on his toes before collapsing forward, saying “be careful how you tell my wife.” (Link)  Read more about McKinley (Link). 


QUICK TRIVIA

The Harlem Globetrotters

The Harlem Globetrotters surpass every other team in the history of sports for number of games played. They are best known for their wildly-entertaining comedic routines and ball-handling skills on the court, and of course that famous song, "Sweet Georgia Brown." 
Founded in 1926 in Chicago by a 24 year-old named Abe Saperstein, the original team was called the "Savoy Big Five," named after Chicago's famous Savoy Ballroom, where they played many of their early games (read more). 

WORD FOR THE DAY

Impetus 
[im-pi-tuhs] –noun
1. a moving force; impulse; stimulus
2. (broadly) the momentum of a moving body, esp. with reference to the cause of motion. 

"The impetus for Joey's desire to bake was his love for chocolate brownies" 


INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT 

The Bible includes bits of humor. 

Proverbs 26:17, "Like one who seizes a dog by the ears is a passer-by who meddles in a quarrel not his own." 

THIS WEEK IS

• National Payroll Week (Link)
• National Nutrition Week
• Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Week (Link)
• National Waffle Week
• National Payroll Week (Link)

TODAY IS

• 36th Thursday of 2019
• 76th day of summer--18 days until fall 
• Be Late For Something Day*
• International Day of Charity* (Link)
• Jury Rights Day* (Link)
• National Cheese Pizza Day (Link) 

ON THIS DATE...
3114 B.C.: From this day was reckoned the Mayan Long Count end-of-the-world date: December 21, 2012.

1774: First Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia. Delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances and elected Virginian Peyton Randolph as the first president of Congress.


1836: Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas.
1847: The infamous Jesse James was born (link)
1877: Sioux Indian Chief Crazy Horse died at the age of 27. 


1882: the first Labor Day holiday parade was held in New York City. 
1935: Gene Autry's first western Feature, "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," was released. 
1948: "The Music Man" opened in theaters across the U.S. 

1956: Johnny Cash's debut song, I Walk the Line," hit the music charts. (Live from San Quentin--Link)


1958: "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak, was published in the U.S.
1960: Cassius Clay of Louisville, KY won the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Clay would later change his name to Muhammad Ali and become one of the great boxing champions in the world. In 1996, at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA, Muhammad Ali was given the honor of lighting the Olympic flame.
1972: PLO terrorists entered the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany, and killed eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team. 
1973: White House aide John Ehrlichman and G. Gordon Liddy were indicted for stealing Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatric records. 
1975: Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" was first published on this date. 

1975: President Gerald Ford escaped an assassination attempt carried out by Charles Manson disciple Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme. 

1978: the Camp David Summit peace conference began with President Jimmy Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. 
1983: "The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" became the first hour-long network news program.
1984: real estate magnate Mort Zuckerman purchased the magazine "U.S. News and World Report" for 163-million dollars. 
1987: "American Bandstand" aired for the final time on ABC Television (Link). 
1989: Deborah Norville joined NBC's "Today" show as a co-host. 
1990: legendary blues guitarist B-B King was given a star on Hollywood's Walk-of-Fame. 
1991: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was dissolved. 
1991: actor John Travolta married actress Kelly Preston. 
1995: the jury hearing the OJ Simpson trial heard tapes in which Police Detective Mark Fuhrman uttered racist slurs. 

1997: Nobel Peace Prize-winner Mother Teresa died in Calcutta, India, at the age of 87. Known as "The Saint of the Gutters," she founded the Missionaries of the Charity. 

1999: "Candid Camera" creator Allen Funt died in Pebble Beach, California.  He was 84. 
2001: Mexican President Vicente Fox arrived at the White House as the first state visitor of the Bush presidency. 
2004: punishing winds, storm surges and torrential rains rocked parts of Florida as Hurricane Frances blew through the region. 

2005: Jerry Rice, one of the best receivers in NFL history, announced his retirement.  The 42-year-old Rice played most of his 20 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, winning three Super Bowls.  At the time of his retirement he held almost every league record for wide receivers. 

2006: Rosie O'Donnell began her first day as co-host of the ABC chatfest "The View," joining Barbara Walters, Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselback.  O'Donnell was hired to replace Meredith Vieira who vacated the spot to co-anchor NBC's "Today" show. 

2006: former NBC "Today" show anchor Katie Couric anchored her first "CBS Evening News" broadcast, becoming the first female solo anchor of a major evening network television newscast.  Following a voiceover introduction from news legend Walter Cronkite, Couric made her debut at 6:30 Eastern Time introducing a list of stories on the newscast. 
2012: U.S. tennis star Andy Roddick ended his professional tennis career losing four sets to Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro in the fourth round of the U.S. Open.  Just days earlier, Roddick announced on his 30th birthday that he was retiring and that the U.S. Open would be his final tournament.  
2012: former U.S. President Bill Clinton delivered a speech on the second night of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, encouraging delegates to re-elect President Barack Obama.  The historic speech marked the first time that a former president from any party had nominated a candidate at a convention. 


HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

Samuel Houston (Taken from Link) 

Statesman Samuel Houston was a key political figure in the creation of the state of Texas. He was elected the first president of the Republic of Texas on this day in 1836.




QUICK TRIVIA

A recent survey found 15 to 20 percent of the U.S. population is "consistently late," especially when it comes to work (Taken from Link) 








WORD OF THE DAY

inculcate \in-KUHL-kayt; IN-kuhl-kayt\, 

transitive verb:

To teach and impress by frequent repetition or instruction.

"It is difficult to inculcate math to young children in the morning while they are still sleepy!"




INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT 

Jesus made a whip out of cords to drive the money changers out of the temple

"When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!" His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me" (John 2:13-17).

THIS WEEK IS

• National Payroll Week (Link)
• National Nutrition Week
• Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Week (Link)
• National Waffle Week
• National Payroll Week (Link)

TODAY IS

• 36th Wednesday of 2019
• 75th day of summer--19 days until fall
• Newspaper Carrier Day* (Link)
• National Wildlife Day* (Link)
• National Macadamia Nut Day* (Link)

ON THIS DATE...

476: Emperor Romulus Augustus (461 - 476 AD) who ruled over the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer, Germanic warlord (Link) 
1781: the city of Los Angeles was founded by 44 Spanish settlers. 


1807: Robert Fulton began operating his steamboat on the Hudson River. 

1833: ten-year-old Barney Flaherty of New York became the first paperboy.  He earned the job by answering an advertisement in the "New York Sun." 
1882: Thomas Edison displayed the first practical electrical lighting system with a demonstration on one square mile of New York City. 
1886: the last major war between the United States and the Indians ended when Apache Chief Geronimo surrendered at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona.

1888: the name Kodak was registered to George Eastman of Rochester, New York.  Eastman also earned a patent for his hand-held roll-film camera.

1914: Babe Ruth hit his first home run (Link).  
1945: the U.S. regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.  

1950: Mort Walker's comic strip "Beetle Bailey" first appeared in newspapers around the country (Link).  
1951: more than 14-million people saw President Harry S. Truman address the opening of the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco.  His speech became the first coast-to-coast television broadcast in history. 

1954: Elvis Presley made his debut at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. 

1959: In the wake of the stabbing deaths of two teenagers by another teen and similar acts of violence in New York City, WCBS banned all versions of the song "Mack The Knife."  
1962: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison began recording together as The Beatles for the first time. 
1964: "Gilligan's Island" debuted on CBS television.  
1965: The Beatles' song "Help!" hit the number one spot on the pop music charts (Video of the song).
1966: the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon aired for the first time. 

1966: "Perry Mason" aired for the final time on CBS television.  The show starred Raymond Burr.  

1967: the final episode of "Gilligan's Island" aired on CBS.  
1972: United States swimmer Mark Spitz captured his seventh Olympic gold medal.  He became the first American to do so. 

1993: actor Herve Villechaize died at the age of 50.  He is best known for playing the role of Tattoo on the television show "Fantasy Island." (Shown open 1978) 

1998: Google entered the corporate world (Link). 2008: Arizona Senator John McCain formally accepted the Republican presidential nomination on the final night of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. 
2011: for the first time in more than 45 years, the Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon aired without longtime host, comic legend Jerry Lewis.  The MDA announced a month earlier that Lewis would not host the annual fundraiser for a final time as had been announced earlier in the year.  The six-hour telecast raised more than 61-million-dollars for the association.  




HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

"Gilligan's Island" debuted on CBS television on this day in 1964 and went off the air on this day in 1967. 

Gilligan's Island Fun Facts! (Taken from Link) 

• Jayne Mansfield turned down the role of "Ginger"; Carroll O'Connor tested for the role of The Skipper; Dabney Coleman tested for the role of The Professor. 
• Raquel Welch auditioned for the role of Mary Anne. 
• Jerry Van Dyke turned down the role of Gilligan. 
• The first season had the cast using cups that were made from real coconuts. However, they found that the cups were porous and soaked through like they were sweating. Thus in the later seasons, the coconut cups were ceramic replicas. 
• Natalie Schafer's contract stipulated that there be no close-ups of her in the show. The reason was producers knew her real age, which was 13 years older than Jim Backus, who played her character's husband. It was not until years after the series ended that her co-stars found out her actual age. 
• In the very first shot of the opening credits, the American flag over the harbor can be seen flying at half-mast. Reason: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, shortly before the shot was filmed.  
• The character of the Professor was supposedly a graduate from SMU, TCU and UCLA, Thurston Howell III went to Harvard. Howell would call an inferior a "Yale Man". Back home, the Professor was a high school science teacher.
• The lagoon set was located at the CBS lot in Studio City, CA. If sequences there were filmed too early or too late in the day, microphones would record rush hour traffic noise from a nearby freeway. 

QUICK TRIVIA

In the mid-twentieth century 500,000 youngsters ran paper routes from Alaska to Florida, Maine to California and everywhere in between. Their numbers increased and by 1980 nearly one million youth delivered the latest news (Taken from Link).



WORD OF THE DAY

aplomb \uh-PLOM\, noun:
Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession; confidence; coolness.

"Mary was unexpectedly asked to fill in for the lead singer of the praise band; she sang several songs, handling herself with the aplomb of a professional."




INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT 

The church at Thessalonica had received some false information that they had missed the Day of the Lord (2 Thes 2:1-5)

"Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters,  not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God. Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things?" (2 Thess 2:1-5). 

THIS WEEK IS

• National Payroll Week (Link)
• National Nutrition Week
• Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Week (Link)
• National Waffle Week
• National Payroll Week (Link)

TODAY IS

• 36th Tuesday of 2019
• 74th day of summer--20 days until fall
• Another Look Unlimited Day
• National Skyscraper Day* (Link)
• Telephone Tuesday (always Tuesday after Labor Day) 
• Penny Press Day* (Link)
• National Welsh Rarebit Day* (Link)
• National Baby Back Ribs Day* (Link)

ON THIS DATE...

1189: Richard I (Richard the Lion-Heart) was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey (Link).


1609: Henry Hudson discovered the island of Manhattan.
1777: The flag Stars and Stripes was flown in battle for the first time at Cooch's Bridge, Maryland during the Revolutionary War.
1783: the Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by Great Britain and the United States (Link). 

1838: Frederick Douglass escaped slavery. He became an abolitionist, orator, writer, and diplomat (Link).


1895: The first professional football game was played -- in Latrobe, PA. The Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0. Since 1967, St. Vincent College in Latrobe has been the home of the Pittsburgh Steelers training camp.
1928: Detroit Tigers baseball legend Ty Cobb collected hit number four-thousand-191.  It turned out to be the final hit of his Hall-of-Fame career. 

1935: Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 miles an hour.  He reached a speed of more than 304 miles an hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah (Link). 

1939: Britain and France declared war on Germany.  The declaration came just two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland. 
1942: Frank Sinatra left the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra to begin his solo singing career. 
1951: the daytime serial "Search for Tomorrow" debuted on CBS Television.  
1954: "The Lone Ranger" aired for the final time on ABC Radio.  The program had been on the air for 21 years (Link). 

1967: "What's My Line" aired for the final time on CBS Television.  The show had been on the air for 17 years. 




1967: Sweden switched from driving on the left- to the right-hand side of the road (Link).
1970: legendary Green Bay Packers football coach Vince Lombardi died at age 57.  The Pro Football Hall-of-Famer led the Packers to five NFL Championships and two Super Bowl titles. 
1970: the largest hailstone landed in Kansas.  The object measured 17-and-a-half inches in diameter. 

1971: The Lawrence Welk Show was seen for the last time on ABC-TV. ABC felt the show attracted “too old an audience ... not good for attracting advertisers.” Syndication allowed the champagne music to continue until 1982 as a weekly favorite for millions of people. Welk charted a half-dozen tunes on the pop music charts between 1956 and 1961, including the number one song, Calcutta, in 1960 (Calcutta).

1973: the comic strip "Heathcliff" made its debut. 

1992: Prince became the highest paid rock star when he signed a 100-million-dollar deal with Warner Brothers Records at ten-million-dollars an album, surpassing Michael Jackson and Madonna. 
1999: a French judge closed a two-year inquiry into the car crash that killed Princess Diana, dismissing all charges against nine photographers and a press motorcyclist.  The judge concluded  the accident was caused by an inebriated driver.  



2006: playing with an injured back in his last pro tournament, retiring tennis star Andre Agassi was eliminated from the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, New York.  Agassi lost to Germany's Benjamin Becker in the third round of the tournament.  He held back tears as the crowd gave him a long standing ovation. 




2008: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin formally accepted the nomination for Republican vice presidential candidate on the third night of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.  In doing so, Palin became the Republican Party's first female vice presidential nominee.  
2009: a private funeral for Michael Jackson was held at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.  Elizabeth Taylor, Macaulay Culkin, Lisa Marie Presley, Barry Bonds and Berry Gordy were among the mourners who joined the Jackson family in saying a final farewell to the King of Pop.  Jackson was interred at the elaborate Renaissance-style Holly Terrace in the Great Mausoleum.  The funeral came more than two months after Jackson's sudden death on June 25th, 2009. 
2009: The 7.6 Mw  Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.
2016: Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.


HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

The flag is first displayed  (Taken from Link) 

The necessity of a national flag was felt, especially for the marine service, and the Continental Congress adopted the following resolution, June 14, 1777: "Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white, on a blue field, representing a new constellation." There was a delay in displaying this flag. The resolution was not officially promulgated over the signature of the secretary of the Congress until September 3, though it was previously printed in the newspapers. This was more than a year after the colonies had been declared free and independent. 





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The Lone Ranger (Taken from Link) 

The Lone Ranger is an American radio and television show created by George W. Trendle and developed by Fran Striker.
The title character is a masked Texas Ranger in the American Old West, who gallops about righting injustices with the aid of his clever, laconic Indian sidekick, Tonto. Departing on his white horse Silver, the Ranger would famously say "Hi-yo, Silver, away!" as the horse galloped toward the setting sun.
The first episodes of The Lone Ranger premiered on radio January 30, 1933 on WXYZ radio in Detroit, Michigan and later on the Mutual Broadcasting System radio network and then on NBC's Blue Network (which became ABC, which broadcast the show's last new episode on September 3, 1954). 




WORD OF THE DAY

pari passu  
[pah-ree pahs-soo; English pair-ahy pas-oo, pair-ee]  

Latin.
with equal pace or progress; side by side.
without partiality; equably; fairly

"Joey was not a runner like his father, so dad make sure that their pace was pari passu" 




INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT 

The Bible records the names of several lawyers. 

"Five days later the high priest Ananias went down to Caesarea with some of the elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, and they brought their charges against Paul before the governor"  (Acts 24:1).

"Do everything you can to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way and see that they have everything they need" (Titus 3:13).

THIS WEEK IS

• National Payroll Week (Link)
• National Nutrition Week
• Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Week (Link)
• National Waffle Week
• National Payroll Week (Link)

TODAY IS

• 35th Monday of 2019
• 73rd day of summer 21 days until fall
• Labor Day (Link)
• Bison-ten Yell Day*
• V-J Day* (Link)
• World Coconut Day*
• National Grits for Breakfast Day* (Link)

ON THIS DATE...

490 B.C: According to legend, Phidippides of Athens ran the legendary first marathon in running from Marathon to Athens, a distance of about 25 miles, to announce the defeat of the Persian army after the Battle of Marathon. In his honor, the 26-mile marathon became part of the Olympic Games in 1896 (read more).

1666: the Great Fire of London began.  The three-day blaze destroyed more than 13-thousand houses and killed six people. 
1789: the United States Treasury Department was organized by an act of Congress. 
1897: the first issue of "McCall's" magazine was published. 

1833: "New York Sun," the first "penny paper," was published.

1901: U.S. Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair. 
1912: The first Calgary Stampede began in Alberta, but it was called "The Last and Best Great West Frontier Days Celebration."
1922: inside Ford Motor Company factories warnings were posted, alerting employees that they will lose their jobs if their breath smells like beer, liquor or wine.  They were also warned that they could be fired if they were found in possession of booze on their persons or in their homes. 

1923: The movie classic "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," was released throughout the U.S.
1931: the radio show "15 Minutes with Bing Crosby" debuted on CBS Radio.  The show turned Crosby into a hot commodity in entertainment. 

1940: the Great Smoky Mountains National park was dedicated in North Carolina. They cover 522-thousand, 419 acres in Tennessee and North Carolina. Portions of the 1950s TV series "Davy Crockett" were shot there.

1944: United States Navy Pilot and future President George Bush was shot down by the Japanese following a bombing run on the Bonin Islands. His two crew members on the run were killed. Bush was rescued by a United States submarine. 
1944: Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz. 
1945: President Harry S. Truman proclaimed September second, Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day).  That's because the official ratification of the Japanese surrender to the Allies was made aboard the USS Missouri in Japan's Tokyo Bay.  The war lasted six years and one day. 
1952: actress Marilyn Monroe was the Grand Marshall of the Miss America Pageant. 

1963: Alabama Governor George Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by surrounding the building with state troopers (read more). 

1963: "The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" was expanded from 15 to 30 minutes making it network television's first half-hour nightly newscast.  He interviewed President John Kennedy.
1965: The Beatles received a gold record for their hit single "Help!" 
1966: "The Addams Family" and the cartoon, "The Flintstones," aired for the final time on ABC Television. 

1969: NBC aired the final episode of the original "Star Trek" series. 



1971: Chris Evert won her first U.S. Open singles tennis match.  She went on to record a 101 Open victories in her career. 
1976: Dana Dover, Gary Mandau, and Chris Lyons of Portland, Oregon, set a world record by completing a merry-go-round ride of 312 hours 43 minutes. (13 days).

1977: NBC Television aired the final episode of the sitcom "Sanford and Son"  (Show open)

1978: the final episode of "The Bionic Woman" aired on NBC. 
1986: Catherine Evelyn Smith was sentenced to three years for the death of comedian John Belushi. 
1988: "Eight Men Out" opened in theatres across the U.S..  The film chronicled the attempt to throw the 1919 World Series. 
1995: country singer Reba McEntire made history when her song "On My Own" became the first single shipped through cyberspace to country music radio stations. 
2002: A Chinese couple who walked around Hangzhou handcuffed together to show their love were arrested when mistaken for escaped convicts. The couple was released after promising never to misuse police gear again. 

2004: President Bush delivered his Republican nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City. 

2005: legendary blues singer Fats Domino resurfaced after he was reported missing in the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.  The singer and his family members were taken to a medical center in Baton Rouge and then taken in by JaMarcus Russell, the starting quarterback at Louisiana State University who helped Domino and his clan by running multiple errands for groceries and prescriptions. 
2005: during the star-studded NBC-hosted Concert for Hurricane Relief, rapper Kanye West sparked controversy for his criticism of President Bush and the media portrayal of black and white victims of Hurricane Katrina.



HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

ATM (Taken from Link) 

The first ATM was called a Docuteller. It was installed in a wall of the Chemical Bank in Rockville Centre, New York. It marked the first time reusable, magnetically coded cards were used to withdraw cash. A bank advertisement announcing the event touted, “On Sept. 2, our bank will open at 9:00 and never close again!”


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On this day in 1789, President Washington approved of Congress' proposal to create the Department of the Treasury. The Treasury Department is the second oldest department in the federal government. (Taken from Link). 




WORD FOR THE DAY

dearth \DURTH\, adjective:
An inadequate supply; scarcity; lack.

"I discovered a dearth of milk in the Geiger household this morning as I prepared breakfast."


INTRIGUING BIBLE FACT 

Some cities mentioned in the Bible had names formulated by only two letters: for example Ur, On, Ar, Ai, and Uz. 

"Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there" (Gen 11:31). 

"Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt" (Gen 41:45). 

"Then the Lord said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession” (Deut 2:9).

"Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth Aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the region.” So the men went up and spied out Ai" (Josh 7:2). 

"In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job" (Job 1:1).