Fact Of The Day

Months that begin on Sundays always have a Friday the 13th.

 

The rock group Badfinger was originally known as The Iveys. The name Badfinger came from the working title of one of the Lennon-McCartney tunes.

 

September 19

• 1881
  President James Garfield died of a gunshot wound inflicted by a disappointed office seeker the previous July 2.
  
  
• 1934
  Bruno Hauptmann was arrested for the Lindbergh baby kidnap-murder.
  
  
• 1955
  President Juan Peron of Argentina was deposed and exiled after a military coup.
  
  
• 1957
  The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test in the Nevada desert.
  
  
• 1962
  Gov. Ross Barnett blocked James Meredith from enrolling in the University of Mississippi.
  
  
• 1985
  The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed thousands of lives. The second earthquake hit 36 hours later.
  
  
• 1994
  U.S. troops entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
  
  
• 2001
  The Pentagon ordered combat aircraft to the Persian Gulf following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
  

 

1. In 4 minutes it will be 9:19 9/19/19

2. If you average out the whole population, the average human has one mammary gland and one testicle.

 

1993 is the year that September never ended.

 

September 20

• 1870
  Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of modern Italy, seized the Papal States from the French.
  
  
• 1881
  Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated.
  
  
• 1973
  Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in a battle of the sexes tennis match.
  
  
• 1998
  Baltimore Oriole shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr., sat out a game, ending his consecutive game playing streak. Ripken played 2,632 consecutive games over 16 seasons.
  
  
• 2000
  Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation, saying there was insufficient evidence to charge President Clinton and his wife, Hillary.
  
  
• 2001
  President George W. Bush addressed the nation and a joint session of Congress about terrorism. He also named Tom Ridge as head of the new Office of Homeland Securit
  

 

'Splain?

 

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou

This is a fact - and I will leave it at that.

 

For those who would need to look this up, here ya go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

 

I figured enough people here who once did Usenet would get it!

For those who give a rat, the trail that led me to this board began at Usenet when I was in grad school. There were two groups on there, rec.gambling and alt.vacation.las-vegas. A number of folks, myself included, migrated from a.v.l-v to That Other Board for a while and eventually to here.

 

• 1792
  The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.
  
  
• 1897
  The New York Sun published its famous editorial, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."
  
  
• 1937
  The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein was first published.
  
  
• 1938
  A hurricane struck New York and New England with extensive damage and more than 600 deaths.
  
  
• 1949
  The People's Republic of China was proclaimed.
  
  
• 1964
  Malta gained its independence from Great Britain.
  
  
• 1981
  Belize gained its independence from Great Britain.
  
  
• 1996
  John F. Kennedy, Jr., married Carolyn Bessette.
  

 

85 percent of Alaska's mapped communities are not served by paved roads. Many Alaska communities are totally unreachable by roads connected to the North American highway system.

 

I've a friend who is an educator up there at a small school. He coaches middle school basketball and the teams often fly to away games. A few times they have gotten stranded due to storms. Sleeping a few nights in a gym with 12-14 year-old boys and girls is NOT for the faint of heart.

 

September 22

• 1776
  Nathan Hale was hanged by the British as a spy during the Revolutionary War.
  
  
• 1789
  Congress authorized the office of Postmaster-General.
  
  
• 1792
  The French Republic was proclaimed.
  
  
• 1862
  President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, proposing to free all slaves of rebel states as of Jan. 1, 1863.
  
  
• 1980
  The Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into full-scale war.
  
  
• 1989
  Songwriter Irving Berlin died in New York City at age 101.
  

 

The first "modern" toilet paper was made in 1391, when it was created for the Chinese Emperor's family. Each sheet of toilet paper was perfumed. The commercial manufacturing of common rolled toilet paper began in the late 1800s.

 

September 23

• 1779
  John Paul Jones declared "I have not yet begun to fight!" aboard the American warship Bonhomme Richard in the battle against the British man-of-war Serapis.
  
  
• 1806
  After a three-year journey to the Pacific Northwest, the Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis.
  
  
• 1846
  German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.
  
  
• 1939
  Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, died in London.
  
  
• 1952
  Vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon delivered his "Checkers speech" rebutting charges of improper campaign financing.
  
  
• 1973
  Former Argentine president Juan Perón returned to power.
  
  
• 2011
  Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas officially requests a bid for statehood at the UN Security Council.
  

 

The first wheelbarrows were created in China and have been used across the world for over 2000 years.

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-invention-of-the-wheelbarrow-195264

 

I collected TP from around the world. It started out as a joke when a student presented me with toilet paper form various bathrooms from her trip to Europe back in the early 1980s, then kids kept giving me TP from their travels and wanting me to display them… and it kind of rolled on from there. (Rim shot.)

My TP collection had me talking to over 100 radio and media outlets, including CNN, The Osgood File, and dozens of rock & roll stations that would invariably ask if my favorite tune was Wipe Out. There were articles in countless North American newspapers and one even ended up The Moscow Times. I remember standing in line at Sid's Super Marked in Long Beach, WA, and read about "The Titan of TP" in the tabloids, the source of this photo.

 

September 24

• 1789
  Congress passed the First Judiciary Act which provided for a U.S. attorney general and the Supreme Court.
  
  
• 1957
  The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field.
  
  
• 1960
  The Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.
  
  
• 1969
  The trial of the "Chicago Eight," radical antiwar and counterculture activists accused of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, began.
  
  
• 1991
  Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died at age 87.
  
  
• 1996
  The United States and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.