Hello. Welcome to your weekend.
Thank you for spending some time with us. Just like that we passed the half-way point of September. Wowsa! Time shows no signs of slowing down. Which is why we like to take some time to intentionally slow down on Saturday morning and start your day with a simpler “scroll down memory lane.”
It’s a way to take a peek back at events that happened on this day in history before we head out to make new history today. So, grab your favorite sippin’ drink and let’s scroll!
Today is Saturday, September 21st, the 265th day of the year.
On this day:
In 1837, Charles Tiffany founded a retail store of jewelry, china, and other fine accessories, now known as Tiffany’s.
In 1917, the first film in Technicolor, “The Gulf Between,” premiered in New York City.
In 1936, the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was published.
In 1954, the U.S. submarine, the “Nautilus,” was commissioned. It became the first nuclear submarine.
In 1961, inventor Earle Dickson died at the age of 68. He invented the “Band Aid.”
In 1966, musician Jimmy Hendrix changed the spelling of his first name to J-I-M-I during a transatlantic flight to London.
In 1970, “Monday Night Football” debuted on ABC. Howard Cosell, Don Meredith and Keith Jackson made up the show’s first broadcast team.
In 1974, Barry White topped the pop singles charts with “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe.”
In 1989, Hurricane Hugo hit Charleston, South Carolina, and caused an estimated eight-billion-dollars damage.
In 1989, the pop group The Bangles announced their break up.
In 1993, Steven Bochco’s crime drama “NYPD Blue” first aired on ABC.
In 1996, John F. Kennedy, Jr., married Carolyn Bessette on an island off Georgia.
In 1998, Olympic gold medalist Florence Griffith-Joyner died at the age of 38.
In 2003, Galileo space mission ends when the probe is crushed in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
In 2004, a federal judge in New York ordered Martha Stewart to surrender to prison on October 8th, 2004. The judge granted the request that was made a week earlier by the celebrity homemaker to begin serving her sentence for lying about a 2001 stock sale.
In 2005, residents along the Gulf of Mexico and Texas began evacuating their homes in anticipation of the Category Five Hurricane Rita. Packing winds of up to 175 miles an hour, the National Hurricane Center said Rita’s remarkably low central pressure made it the third most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic basin.
In 2007, actor George Clooney was injured in a motorcycle-car accident in New Jersey. Clooney suffered a rib fracture and road rash after a car made a turn in front of his motorcycle, triggering the accident.
In 2008, the New York Yankees played their last home game at historic Yankee Stadium.
In 2016, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledged billions of dollars to fight all diseases. The three-billion-dollar investment through their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative went toward a plan to “cure, prevent or manage all disease” by the end of the century. It included 600-million-dollars for an independent research center called the Biohub.
In 2019, “Queer Eye” star Jonathan Van Ness announced he has HIV.
In 2020, World Health Organization Director Tedros Ghebreyesus announces that countries representing two-thirds of the world’s population have joined its COVAX vaccine-distribution initiative to deliver two-billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine by the end of 2021.
In 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump, three of his children, and their company of large-scale business fraud. James alleged that the Trump Organization inflated the values of its properties when seeking loans and deflated them to pay less in taxes.
And that brings us here to this day. Whatever plans you have for your own 9.21.2024 here’s hoping there are moments along the way to record on the pages of your own personal history books!
Thanks for stopping by!
