Hello.
Welcome to your weekend and thank you for starting your day with us! We are glad you are here.
With many families returning to the Back-to-School routine and shuffle of schedules we know the weeks can sometimes feel stressful or overwhelming.
That’s why we like to take a simpler approach to start your Saturday. It’s a “scroll down memory lane” as we peek back on the pages of history and events that happened on this day before we head out to record new moments today.
So, grab your favorite sippin’ drink and let’s scroll!
Today is Saturday, September 10th, the 253rd day of the year. There are 112 days until the end 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 1997, an electric chair, which was used in Alcatraz and once owned by Andy Warhol, sold for over four-thousand-dollars at an auction in Bristol. Warhol used to sit in the chair and watch horror movies.
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 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 2019, President Trump fired national security adviser John Bolton.
And that brings us here to this day.
So, whatever plans you have for your own 9.10.2022 here’s hoping there are moments along the way to record in your own personal history books.
Thanks for stopping by!
