On This Day September 14th

 OTD

September 14th is the two hundredth-ninth day of the year, and there are 109 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Event

1682 – Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.

1723 – Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.

1752 – The British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).

1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.

1901 – U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.

1917 – The Russian Republic formally replaces the Russian Empire.

1954 – In a top-secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40-kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.

1958 – The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.

1984 – Joe Kittinger is the first to fly a gas balloon across the Atlantic Ocean alone.

1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.

2001 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for the September 11 attacks victims. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever had in the nation's capital.

2015 – The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on February 11, 2016.

 

 Birthdays

938 – Sahib ibn Abbad, Persian scholar and statesman (d. 995)

1618 – Peter Lely, Dutch-English painter (d. 1680)

1713 – Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1781)

1816 – Mary Hall Barrett Adams, American book editor and letter writer (d. 1860)

1843 – Lola Rodríguez de Tió, Puerto Rican poet, abolitionist, and women's rights activist (d. 1924)

1879 – Margaret Sanger, American nurse and activist (d. 1966)

1898 – Ernest Nash, German-Italian photographer and scholar (d. 1974)

1902 – Alice Tully, American soprano and philanthropist (d. 1993)

1910 – Rasuna Said, Indonesian women's rights campaigner and national hero (d. 1965)

1921 – Paul Poberezny, American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (d. 2013)

1930 – Allan Bloom, American philosopher and academic (d. 1992)

1936 – Walter Koenig, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

1949 – Steve Gaines, American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Lynard Skynard (d. 1977)

1949 – Ed King, American guitarist and songwriter. Lynard Skynard  (d. 2018)

1983 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (d. 2011)

 

 Holiday Spotlight

Farmers' Consumer Awareness Day

In 1981, Paul Harvey recounted a story on the radio about a woman confronting a grocer over the high cost of food items. She was unaware of the hard work that farmers put in, having no knowledge of farming.

Quincy farmer Dennis Higashiyama heard the story and decided to take action. He realized that consumers were disconnected from the farmers and had little understanding of the effort involved in farming. He sought to bridge this gap by bringing farmers closer to the public, leading to the creation of Farmers' Consumer Awareness Day.

This holiday successfully brings people together to celebrate the importance of farmers. It also includes various enjoyable activities as part of the celebrations.

 

Holidays And Observance.

 Eat a Hoagie Day

Farmer's Consumer Awareness Day  

German Language Day  

Gobstopper Day

International Drive Your Studebaker Day  

Live Creative Day

National Coloring Day

National Cream Filled Donut Day

 National Iguana Awareness Day  )

National Lacemaking Day  

National Quiet Day (UK)

National Sober Day

Prairie Day

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

World First Aid Day