Hello.
Just like that we are sliding into the second half of September. Wowsa.
As we get ready to kick off the weekend we are glad you are here for our Saturday morning “scroll down memory lane.” It’s just a simple way to ease into the day but taking a look back at events that happened on these days in history before you head out to make new history today.
So, grab your favorite sippin’ drink and let’s scroll!
Tomorrow isSunday, September 21st, the 264th 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 1982, NFL players went on strike after the second week of the regular season. The strike lasted 57 days and the season was shortened from 16 games to just nine games.
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 2007, actress Alice Ghostley died at 84 of complications from colon cancer and a stroke. Ghostley guest starred on numerous TV shows and had recurring roles in “Bewitched” and “Designing Women.”
In 2007, televangelist Rex Humbard died at the age of 88.
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 2020, Jackie Stallone died at the age of 98. She was the mother of actor Sylvester Stallone.
In 2021, actor Al Harrington died of a stroke at the age of 85. He starred in both the original “Hawaii Five-O” during the 1970s and in the reboot 40 years later.
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.
In 2023, Rupert Murdoch announced his retirement from the Fox and News Corporation.
In 2024, former Miami Dolphins running back Mercury Morris died at the age of 77. Morris rushed for exactly one-thousand yards in 1972, making the Dolphins the first team in NFL history with two players to rush for at least a thousand yards in the same season. Miami went undefeated and won the Super Bowl that year. Morris was convicted on cocaine trafficking charges in 1982 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The Florida Supreme Court overturned the conviction in 1986 and Morris went onto become a motivational speaker.
In 2024, Google agreed to a 20-year deal to buy power from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. A major nuclear accident happened at the Pennsylvania power plant in 1979.
That brings us here to this day.
Whatever plans you have for your weekend, here’s hoping there are moments along the way to record on the pages of your own personal history books.
Thanks for stopping by!
