Hello.
We are glad you are here.
As we sink into September many of us welcome the return of a routine. Maybe it’s back-to-school structure, a different set of work hours, or simply shifting into the new season. Whatever your routine is, thank you for making us a part of it.
As the week can sometimes feel long, stressful, or overwhelming, we like to slow things down a bit to start your weekend with a look at things that happened on these days on the pages of history. It’s a “scroll down memory lane” before you head out to make new memories. So, grab your favorite sippin’ drink and let’s scroll!
Tomorrow is Sunday, September 10th, the 253rd day of the year.
On this day:
In 1608, John Smith was elected council president of the Jamestown colony in what is now Virginia.
In 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.
In 1953, Swanson sold the first TV dinner.
In 1955, “Gunsmoke” debuted on CBS Television. The show starred James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon.
In 1962, New York Yankees great Mickey Mantle hit his 400th home run.
In 1963, twenty 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.
In 1979, President Carter granted clemency to four Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representatives and for a 1950 attempt on the life of President Truman.
In 1990, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” starring Will Smith debuted on NBC.
In 1991, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened their hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In 1993, “The X-Files” debuted on the Fox network.
In 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.
In 2002, Switzerland joined the United Nations.
In 2013, a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter crash in the Arctic Ocean killed three people.
In 2017, Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida with winds of 115 miles per hour.
In 2018, California passed a law promising to use carbon-free electricity by 2045.
In 2018, South Carolina told more than one-million-people to evacuate in order to prepare for Hurricane Florence.
In 2018, singer John Legend becomes the first Black male EGOT winner after himself, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Tim Rice win an Emmy for “Jesus Christ Superstar – Live In Concert.”
In 2019, President Trump fired national security adviser John Bolton.
In 2020, the California August Complex wildfire became the largest recorded wildfire in the state’s history having hit 471-thousand acres.
And that brings us here to this day. So, whatever plans you have have this weekend here’s to moments along the way to record on the pages of your own personal history books.
Thanks for stopping by!
