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Post by BillG on Sept 28, 2024 5:01:42 GMT -5
Who Knew??? September 28TH is "National Hunting and Fishing Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on Sept 28, 2024 8:40:33 GMT -5
September 28, 1066, A Norman duke bent on conquest lands in England. Duke William I of Normandy and his invasion force land at Pevensey on the Sussex coast to begin what will be nothing less than the conquest of England. By Christmas, 'William the Conqueror' is crowned king in London's Westminster Abbey as England's age of Anglo-Saxon rule ends.
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Post by johnmori on Sept 28, 2024 10:36:26 GMT -5
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September 28, 1941
Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Sept 28, 2024 10:57:49 GMT -5
Who Knew?? 28 September1542 Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, known as the “discoverer” of California, landed this day in 1542 near what is now San Diego and became the first European to set foot on the west coast of what would become the United States. 2008SpaceX successfully launched Falcon 1, becoming the first privately owned company to send a liquid-fueled rocket into orbit. Brigitte Bardot (born September 28, 1934, Paris, France) is a French film actress who became an international sex symbol in the 1950s and ’60s.  www.britannica.com/biography/Brigitte-Bardot |
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Post by MidnightSun on Sept 28, 2024 23:51:27 GMT -5
Whether or not you dream in black and white depends on whether you watched black-and-white television. If your dreams look more vintage than HD, there's a high chance you grew up watching black-and-white television. According to one 2008 study published in the journal Conscious Cognition, most people born after the year 1983 said they almost never dream in black and white, whereas people born in the year 1953 and earlier said they dream in black and white about a quarter of the time. Overall, 12 percent of people dream entirely in black and white, leading the researchers to suggest that "true greyscale dreams occur only in people with black and white media experience."
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Post by BillG on Sept 29, 2024 4:03:28 GMT -5
Who Knew??? September 29TH is "National Coffee Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on Sept 29, 2024 7:37:27 GMT -5
September 29, 1953 "Make Room for Daddy" starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV.
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Post by johnmori on Sept 29, 2024 9:32:20 GMT -5
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September 29, 1990
The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
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Post by sandipaws on Sept 29, 2024 19:52:19 GMT -5
Who Knew???On September 29, National VFW Day honors the men and women devoted to this valuable organization and those members who have served our nation. Members of the organization named Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) today hold a long-standing history of volunteerism in their communities.
Not only have they served their country, but they continue to serve their fellow veterans, families, and communities by sponsoring scholarships,
career fairs, mental wellness campaigns, and so many more excellent services.
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Post by MidnightSun on Sept 29, 2024 20:10:25 GMT -5
The word “unfriend” was first used in 1659. When you disconnect with someone on social media, you might say that you’ve “unfriended" them. The now-common word was even the New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year in 2009. But it turns out that “unfriend” is much older than you might expect. According to The Globe and Mail, the word “unbefriended” is cited several times in the Oxford English Dictionary beginning in 1629. But it wasn't until 1659 that Thomas Fuller used the word as we know it today. In his book The Appeal of Injured Innocence, Fuller wrote, “I hope, sir, that we are not mutually Unfriended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us.”
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Post by BillG on Sept 30, 2024 5:09:03 GMT -5
Who Knew??? September 30TH is "National Chewing Gum Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on Sept 30, 2024 7:52:47 GMT -5
September 30, 1960, 'Yabba Dabba Doo, 'The Flintstones' premieres on ABC.The first animated primetime sitcom debuts, introducing viewers to Fred Flintstone and his modern stone-age family. The show will run for six seasons, but spinoffs—and vitamins—will keep the franchise rolling for more than five decades.
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Post by johnmori on Sept 30, 2024 11:32:01 GMT -5
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September 30, 1947
The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Sept 30, 2024 17:09:16 GMT -5
Who Knew?? 30 September 1927: American baseball player Babe Ruth became the first player to hit 60 home runs in a single season; his record stood until Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961. 1949: The Berlin airlift officially ended after the Western Allied powers delivered 2,323,738 tons of food, fuel, machinery, and other supplies to West Berlin, which had been cut off from the West during the Soviet blockade of Berlin 1954: The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered vessel, was commissioned by the U.S. Navy.  1955: American actor James Dean, who became a symbol of the confused, restless, and idealistic youth of the 1950s, died in an automobile crash as he drove to a car rally in Salinas, California. 1791: The opera The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premiered in Vienna. www.britannica.com/on-this-day/September-30 |
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Post by MidnightSun on Sept 30, 2024 19:55:38 GMT -5
It's against the law to die in the town of Longyearbyen, Norway. According to IFL Science, “Even if you've lived [in Longyearbyen, Norway] all your life, if you are terminally ill, you will be flown off the island to live out the rest of your days. If you do happen to die suddenly in Longyearbyen, your body will be buried elsewhere.”
That's because, in 1950, it was discovered that bodies in the local cemetery in Longyearbyen were not decomposing as usual because there was so much permafrost in the area. That meant that viruses could survive in the human remains and eventually infect those living nearby when the ground thawed each year.
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