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September 5

1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards
1836 - Sam Houston was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1877 - Sioux chief Crazy Horse was killed by the bayonet of a U.S. soldier. The chief allegedly resisted confinement to a jail cell.
1914 - Babe Ruth hit his first home run as a professional player
1997 - Mother Teresa died in Calcutta, India, at the age of 87.

Freddie Mercury (Queen) 1946

September 6

Monday

1620 - The Pilgrims left on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England to settle in the New World.
1899 - Carnation processed its first can of evaporated milk.
1901 - U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz, an American anarchist, was executed the following October.
1959 - The first Barbie Doll was sold by Mattel Toy Corporation.
1966 - In Cape Town, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death by a deranged page during a parliamentary session.

Today is Jeff Foxworthy's birthday
He said:
“You may be a redneck if . . . you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.”
and that,
“Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

September 7

Tuesday

1533 - Queen Elizabeth I, of England, was born in Greenwich
1860 - American painter Anna Mary (Grandma)Moses was born in New York.
1927 - Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using an image dissector.
1930 - The cartoon "Blondie" made its first appearance in the comic strips.
1940 - London received its initial rain of bombs from Nazi Germany during World War II.
1986 - Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins threw his 100th career touchdown pass, in only his 44th NFL game, which set a NFL record.



September 8

Wednesday

1565 - A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, FL.
1888 - In London, The body of Annie Champman was found. She was the second victim of "Jack The Ripper."
1900 - Galveston, TX, was hit by a hurricane that killed about 6,000 people.
1935 - U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded. He died two days later.



Patsy Cline was born on September 8, 1934


September 9

Thursday

1898 - In Omaha, NE, Tommy Fleming of Eau Claire, WI won the first logrolling championship.
1890 - Harland Sanders was born. He was the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
1919 - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin's HD-4, a hydrofoil craft, set a world marine speed record.
1942 - Japan dropped incendiaries over Oregon in an attempt to set fire to the forests in Oregon and Washington. The forest did not ignite.
1998 - Four tourists who had paid $32,500 each were taken in submarine to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The ship is 2 miles below the Atlantic off Newfoundland.

September 10

Friday

1924 - Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were found guilty of murdering 14 year old Bobby Franks. The case is known as the first "thrill kill."
Two wealthy young Jewish men kidnap and murder a neighbor boy:
Their plot was foiled when one of them dropped his eyeglasses...
a brief account

September 11

Saturday

1609 - Explorer Henry Hudson sailed into New York harbor and discovered Manhattan Island and the Hudson River.

R,I.P. Paul Conrad

Showing that Peter the Great's tax had apparently lapsed.

good one

Awoke this morning to the sounds of paramedics in our driveway. Looked out to see them treating an unmoving young man. They said he was unconscious and after preparing him took him in an ambulance.

Looked like drug overdose but we will never know.

I hope he got better. Protecting young men from themselves, and others from them, may be the main reason why drugs are illegal.
It's not that the drugs are bad, it's that young men aint got good sense.

Happy Labor Day to you employed Laborer types.

I've been there a few bazillion times!
I love St Augustine. Spent my Honeymoon there. The pier (Anastasia Island) has our initials on it.

Music is good today too, Greger. I love Freddie Mercury.

Phil, I hope he's ok.

I can't ever think about 9/11 without thinking of my first grandchild's birthday. He was born 2 days before and as we were waiting to be released from the hospital we watched on a silent monitor the second plane hit. We had no idea what was going on but suddenly Annapolis, Md (30 miles from DC) was in a state of emergency. It was unbelievable.
DC a few days later (leaving from the train station) was like a war zone.

I like St. Augustine too. Got trapped in the back of one of the narrow stores at Christmastime a few years ago... have claustrophobia... still gives me nightmares...

You know when you are old, when the last time you went to a college football game, you paid $5.75 for the ticket. This article discusses average college football game ticket prices...
Here's a reality check!.

Army - Notre Dame average ticket price is:

a: $37.00
b: $90.00
c: $156.00
d: $428.00
e: $583.00

Answer: Here

We watch the important College Games on TV... not because we're big football fans, but because we like the money we save.