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Almanac - Friday 9/27/19

(It's Save the Koala Day!)

Today is Friday, September 27, 2019, the 270rd day of the year, with 95 days remaining.  It’s the 5th day of autumn and only 403 days until the 2020 Presidential Election.    

  • Sunrise: 7:01am    
  • Sunset: 7:01pm ...giving us an even 12 hours of daylight.   

5% of the waning gibbous moon will be visible, rising at 6:51pm.  

Tides at the Golden Gate          

  • High: 11:36am/11:21pm   
  • Low: 4:44am/5:01pm

Special celebrations & commemorations today…

  • French Community Holiday - Belgium 
  • World Tourism Day
  • St. Vincent de Paul Day - Madagascar 
  • Ancestor Appreciation Day
  • Crush A Can Day
  • Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
  • Google's Birthday
  • Hug A Vegetarian Day
  • Love Note Day
  • National Brave Day
  • National Scarf Day
  • Native American Day
  • Save The Koala Day
  • Support Purple for Platelets Day
  • Vegan Baking Day
  • National Bakery Day 
  • National Chocolate Milk Day
  • National Corned Beef Hash Day

On this day in…

1779 -John Adams was elected to negotiate with the British over the American Revolutionary War peace terms.

1825 - George Stephenson operated the first locomotive that hauled a passenger train.

1894 - The Aqueduct Race Track opened in New York City,NY.

1928 - TheU.S. announced that it would recognize the Nationalist Chinese Government.

1938 - The League of Nations branded the Japanese as aggressors in China.

1939 - After 19 days of resistance, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered to the Germans after being invaded by the Nazis and the Soviet Union during World War II.

1940 - The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was set up. The military and economic pact was for 10 years between Germany, Italy and Japan.

1954 - The "Tonight!" show made its debut on NBC-TV with Steve Allen as host.

1962 - TheU.S. sold Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel.

1968 - The U.K.'s entry into the European Common Market was barred by France.

1970 - "The Original Amateur Hour" aired for the last time on CBS. It had been on television for 22 years.

1973 -U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew said he would not resign after he pled "no contest" to a charge of tax evasion. He did resign on October 10th.

1979 - The Department of Education became the 13th Cabinet inU.S. history after the final approval from Congress.

1982 - Italian and French soldiers entered the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Beirut. The move was made by the members of a multinational force due to hundreds of Palestinians being massacred by Christian militiamen.

1983 - Larry Bird signed a seven-year contract with the Boston Celtics worth $15 million. The contract made him the highest paid Celtic in history.

1986 - TheU.S. Senate approved federal tax code changes that were the most sweeping since World War II.

1989 - Columbia Pictures Entertainment agreed to buyout Sony Corporation for $3.4 billion.

1989 - Two men went over the 176-foot-high Niagara Falls in a barrel. Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi were the first to ever survive the Horshoe Falls.

1990 - The deposed emir of Kuwait addressed the U.N. General Assembly and denounced the "rape, destruction and terror" that Iraq had inflicted upon his country.

1991 -U.S. President George H.W. Bush eliminated all land-based tactical nuclear arms and removed all short-range nuclear arms from ships and submarines around the world. Bush then called on the Soviet Union to do the same.

1994 - More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the Contract with America. It was a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.

1995 - TheU.S. government unveiled the redesigned $100 bill. The bill featured a larger, off-center portrait of Benjamin Franklin.

1998 - In Germany, Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder was elected chancellor. The election ended 16 years of conservative rule.

1998 - Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) set a major league baseball record when he hit his 70th home run of the season.

2004 - North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon announced that North Korea had turned plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons. He also said that the weapons were to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent nuclear war in northeast Asia. The U.S. State Department noted that the U.S. has repeatedly said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea.

2015 - The space probe Dawn was launched by NASA. Dawn entered orbit around protoplanet Vesta on July 16, 2011 and entered orbit around Ceres on March 6, 2015. 

Today’s birthday celebrants include (or included)...

  • George Cruikshank 1792
  • Thomas Nast 1840 
  • Vincent Youmans 1898
  • Jayne Meadows 1919 
  • William Conrad 1920
  • Arthur Penn 1922
  • Sada Thompson 1929
  • Greg Morris 1934
  • Claude Jarman Jr. 1934
  • Wilford Brimley 1934 - Actor
  • Randy Bachman 1943 - Musician, singer (The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
  • Liz Torres 1947 - Actress
  • Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) 1947
  • Greg Ham (Men at Work) 1953
  • Dougie MacLean 1954 - Singer, soungwriter
  • Shaun Cassidy 1958
  • Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind) 1964
  • Patrick Muldoon 1968
  • Mark Calderon (Color Me Badd) 1970
  • Amanda Detmer 1971
  • Gwyneth Paltrow 1972 - Actress
  • Avril Lavigne 1984 - Singer 

David Latulippe is host of On the Arts, KALW's weekly radio magazine of the performing arts, as well as for Explorations in Music, and the Berkeley Symphony broadcasts. He has also hosted and produced the radio series From the Conservatory, Music from Mills, and Music at Menlo, and is principal guest host for Revolutions Per Minute.