On This Day September 8th

 OTD

September 8th is the two hundredth-fifty-first day of the year, and there are 115 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Event

 1264 – The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews's safety and personal liberties and giving Battei din Jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Bolesław the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.

1504 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza Della Signoria in Florence.

1522 – Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation: Victoria arrives at Seville, technically completing the first circumnavigation.

1565 – St. Augustine, Florida, is founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.

1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England, kills 78 people, many of whom are children.

1781 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.

1810 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company employees on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River, and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.

1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a Gold Creek, Montana ceremony. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.

1916 – To prove that women could serve as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500-mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.

1935 – US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.

1962 – Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.

1966 – The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".

1974 – Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

 

 Birthdays

 1462 – Henry Medwall, first known English vernacular dramatist (d. 1501)

1588 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1648)

1698 – François Francoeur, French violinist and composer (d. 1787)

1750 – Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 4th Yokozuna (d. 1795)

1783 – N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish pastor, philosopher, and author (d. 1872)

1852 – Gojong of Korea (d. 1919)

1863 – W.W. Jacobs, English novelist and short story writer (d. 1943)

1897 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1933)

1914 – Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople (d. 1991)

1922 – Sid Caesar, American comic actor and writer (d. 2014)

1925 – Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (d. 1980)

1932 – Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1963)

1960 – Aimee Mann, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress

1981 – Jonathan Taylor Thomas, American actor

 

 Holiday Spotlight

 International Literacy Day

Though progress has been made in improving literacy rates, over 750 million adults globally cannot read, including an estimated 32 million American adults. Literacy, defined as the ability to read and write, is crucial for navigating modern life. International Literacy Day, established by UNESCO on September 8, aims to remind the global community of the importance of literacy and the need to eradicate illiteracy.

 

Holidays And Observance.

 Day of the Homeland  

International Literacy Day

National Actors Day

National Ampersand Day

National Date Nut Bread Day

National Grandparent's Day  

National Hug Your Hound Day  

National Pet Memorial Day  

Pardon Day

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Day

Racial Justice Sunday  

Star Trek Day

Sustainable House Day  

Virgin Mary Day

World Physical Therapy Day

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