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Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani was born on this date in 1838. Upon the death of her brother in 1891, she became sovereign Queen of Hawaii. This was considered posing by the American colonials of Hawaii, who reminded her that monarchy was unconstitutional in the United States. She reminded them that Hawaii was not part of theContinue reading “Liliuokalani, Queen of the Hawaiian Islands”

September 2, 1666 –Thomas Farrinor forgot to put out his oven at the end of his shift, on this date. Unfortunately, the resulting fire cost him his job as official baker to King Charles II of England and started the Great Fire of London. (Quite surprisingly, only six people ‘officially‘ were declared dead because ofContinue reading “The Great Fire of London”

September 2, 2005 –If you ever need the definition of ‘deer in the headlights‘ moment, just watch Mike Meyers in this clip. On NBC’s Concert for Hurricane Relief, Kanye West stated that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”. The comment went out live on the US east coast, but was cut from a tapedContinue reading “Oh, that Wacky Kanye”

September 2, 1950 –And the gentleman wins the Rock of Gibraltar! And that’s not all. The gentleman also wins six hundred gallons of genuine Niagara Falls. … Here is one of my favorite non Bug Bunny Looney Tunes; the classic Daffy/ Porky outing, The Ducksters, was released on this date. On the game show PorkyContinue reading “The Ducksters premiered”

September 1, 1939 –Mary Jean Tomlin, Academy Award nominated, Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award winning actress, comedian, writer and producer was born on this date. One of her first “professional” gigs was as a waitress in Howard Johnson’s on Broadway near Times Square. Her comments to customers and staff heard over the eatery’s microphone attractedContinue reading “Lily Tomlin”

September 1, 1939 –Germany, itching to start their Second World War Tour (the Foreign Minister of Germany, Joachim von Ribbentrop was seen running around Europe in the Tour T-Shirt, months earlier,) kicked it off at 5:30 AM on this date. Hitler was so happy that day, he orders extermination of the mentally ill in GermanyContinue reading “World War II starts”

September 1, 1914 –The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, died in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo on this date. There are various reasons for the extinction of the passenger pigeon – the main one unfortunately was they tasted so damn good broasted. Her body was frozen into a block of ice and sentContinue reading “Goodbye Martha”

September 1, 1923 –The worst earthquake in Japan’s history hit the Kanto Plain between Tokyo and Yokohama with a magnitude of 7.9 on the Richter scale. The earthquake and subsequent fires killed nearly 140,000 people and destroyed most of both cities. The fires started because the earthquake occurred at noon, when charcoal cooking stoves wereContinue reading “A Major Earthquake occurred in Japan”

September 1, 1972 –David Bowie released John, I’m only Dancing in the U.K. on this date. This was the follow-up single to Bowie’s British breakthrough Starman. He’d previously charted with Space Oddity back in 1969, but had been unable to follow it up.

September is the ninth month of the year, which is why its name is derived from the Latin Septem, meaning seven. (We have previously addressed this problem last month; see August, the Sixth Month.) On the French Revolutionary calendar, September is known as Vendémiaire (vintage,) and in Dutch, September is “the begining of autumn“, Hertmaand.Continue reading “Keep calm and welcome September.”