<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Cherry Popover Day'. . The are like an American variation of
Yorkshire pudding. The dough rises and pops over the rim of the baking tin.
- From Wikipedia (Popover):
'A popover is a light, hollow roll made from an egg batter similar to that
of Yorkshire pudding, typically baked in muffin tins or dedicated popover
pans, which have straight-walled sides rather than angled.
Popovers may be served either as a sweet—topped with fruit and whipped
cream or butter and jam for breakfast or with afternoon tea—or with meats
at lunch and dinner.
The name popover comes from the fact that the batter swells or pops over
the top of the muffin tin while baking. Another name for them is
Lapplander, a term for the Sami people.s
The popover is an American version of Yorkshire pudding and similar batter
puddings made in England since the 17th century, though it has evolved
considerably.
The oldest known reference to popovers is in a letter of E. E. Stuart's in
1850. The first cookbook to print a recipe for popovers was M. N.
Henderson, Practical Cooking, 1876. The first book other than a cookbook to
mention popovers was Jesuit's Ring by A. A. Hayes published in 1892.
In American Food (1974), author Evan Jones writes: Settlers from Maine who
founded Portland, Oregon, Americanized the pudding from Yorkshire by
cooking the batter in custard cups lubricated with drippings from the
roasting beef (or sometimes pork) another modification was the use of
garlic, and, frequently, herbs. The result is called Portland popover
pudding: individual balloons of crusty meat-flavored pastry.
Other American popover variations include replacing some of the flour with
pumpkin puree and adding spices such as allspice or nutmeg. Most American
popovers today, however, are not flavored with meat or herbs. Instead, they
have a buttery taste'.
[The Hankster says I po up and will pop over for popovers.
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<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Chicken Boy’s Day'.
Celebrates the 22 foot tall 'Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles',
California', which was erected at the Chicken Boy restaurant.
- From Wikipedia (Chicken Boy):
'Chicken Boy is a landmark statue on the historic U.S. Route 66 (North
Figueroa Street) in the Highland Park, California area of Los Angeles. The
colorful 22-foot tall fiberglass statue was recognized by California
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with the Governor's Historic Preservation
Award in 2010.
Chicken Boy was first perched atop a fried chicken restaurant in downtown
Los Angeles on Broadway (also Historic Route 66) between 4th and 5th
streets, near L.A.'s Grand Central Market in the 1960s. At that time,
International Fiberglass Company, in Venice, California, was manufacturing
the more familiar roadside Paul Bunyan and Muffler Man statues for use as
outdoor advertising. The Los Angeles chicken restaurant bought one and
hired an artist to customize it. A chicken head was fabricated to replace
the man's head. The arms were re-worked to face forward and hold a bucket,
rather than as the axe-wielding original. The iconic downtown statue
remained in place until 1984 when the restaurant owner died. The statue was
given to Amy Inouye, after many queries and requests, and it went into
storage until a suitable location could be found, as it turned out some 20
years later.
Amy Inouye, a Los Angeles art director, saved, then stored Chicken Boy and
in 2007 moved the statue to its current location at 5558 North Figueroa.
Inouye's design firm, Future Studio, had relocated to a commercial space
that had a reinforced roof strong enough to support the statue. The Chicken
Boy statue was recovered as a result of community effort and donated
funds'.
[The Hankster says] The bigger the better.
* 'National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day'.
Celebrating those words which do not rhyme with another, like else or month
(refractory rhymes).
[The Hankster sasy] Yes, all my rhymes are fro no reason. No reason at all.
* 'Emma M. Nutt Day'.
Celebrates the day in 1878 that Miss Nutt was chosen as the first telephone
operator in the U.S. See more in the history section for 1989.
* 'Calendar Adjustment Day'.
Remembers the day in 1752 when Great Britain (that included the Americas at
the time) switched to the Gregorian Calendar. So the next day the
population woke up, not to Sept. 2, but Sept 14.
- From Wikipedia (Calendar (New Style) Act 1750):
'The Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 (c.23) (also known as Chesterfield's Act
after Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield) was an Act of the
Parliament of Great Britain. It reformed the calendar of England and
British Dominions so that the new legal year began on 1 January rather than
25 March (Lady Day) and it adopted the Gregorian calendar, as already used
in most of western Europe.
In England and Wales, the legal year 1751 was a short year of 282 days,
running from 25 March to 31 December. 1752 began on 1 January. To align the
calendar in use in England to that on the continent, the Gregorian calendar
was adopted: and the calendar was advanced by 11 days: Wednesday 2
September 1752 was followed by Thursday 14 September 1752. The year 1752
was thus a short year (355 days) as well.
As well as adopting the Gregorian rule for leap years, Pope Gregory's rules
for the date of Easter were also adopted. However, with religious strife
still on their minds, the British could not bring themselves to adopt the
Catholic system explicitly: the Annexe to the Act established a computation
for the date of Easter that achieved the same result as Gregory's rules,
without actually referring to him. The algorithm, set out in the Book of
Common Prayer as required by the Act, includes calculation of the Golden
Number and the Sunday Letter, which (in the Easter section of the Book)
were presumed to be already known. The Annexe to the Act includes the
definition: Easter-day (on which the rest depend) is always the first
Sunday after the Full Moon, which happens upon, or next after the
Twenty-first Day of March. And if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday,
Easter-day is the Sunday after. The Annexe subsequently uses the terms
Paschal Full Moon and Ecclesiastical Full Moon, making it clear that they
only approximate to the real Full Moon
[The Hankster says] Eleven days gone! Each morning it takes me until noon to figure out what day it is. So, that is 11 days into the future and they didn't even have that fancy car to do it in.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Animal and Pet:
* 'International Day of Awareness for the Dolphins of Taiji'.
o Other:
* 'National Payroll Week'. First week of September.
* 'Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day'.
<> Historical events on September 1
* 'In 1878, Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator
when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone
Dispatch Company. . 'Emma Mills Nutt (1860–1915) became the world's first
female telephone operator on 1 September 1878 when she started working for
the Edwin Holmes Telephone Despatch Company (or the Boston Telephone
Dispatch Company) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
In January 1878 the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company had started hiring
boys as telephone operators, starting with George Willard Croy. Boys
(reportedly including Emma's husband) had been very successful as
telegraphy operators, but their attitude (lack of patience) and behaviour
(pranks and cursing) were unacceptable for live phone contact, so the
company began hiring women operators instead. Thus, on September 1, 1878
Emma was hired, starting a career that lasted between 33 and 37 years,
ending with her retirement sometime between 1911 and 1915. A few hours
after Emma started working, her sister, Stella Nutt, became the world's
second female telephone operator, also making the pair the first two sister
telephone operators in history. Unlike Emma, Stella only remained on the
job for a few years.
The customer response to her soothing, cultured voice and patience was
overwhelmingly positive, so boys were soon replaced by women. In 1879 these
included Bessie Snow Balance, Emma Landon, Carrie Boldt, and Minnie
Schumann, the first female operators in Michigan.
Emma was hired by Alexander Graham Bell, who is credited with inventing the
first practical telephone apparently she changed jobs from a local
telegraph office. She was paid a salary of $10 per month for a 54-hour
week. Reportedly, she could remember every number in the telephone
directory of the New England Telephone Company.
To be an operator, a woman had to be unmarried and between the ages of
seventeen and twenty-six. She had to look prim and proper, and have arms
long enough to reach the top of the tall telephone switchboard. Like many
other American businesses at the turn of the century, telephone companies
discriminated against people from certain ethnic groups and races. For
instance, African-American and Jewish women were not allowed to become
operators'.
* 'In 1897, The Boston subway opens as North America's first underground
rapid transit system. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Streetcar congestion in downtown Boston led to the
establishment of subways and elevated rail, the former in 1897 and the
latter in 1901. The Tremont Street Subway was the first rapid transit
tunnel in the United States. The grade-separated railways added
transportation capacity while avoiding delays caused by intersections with
cross streets. The first elevated railway and the first rapid transit line
in Boston were built three years before the first underground line of the
New York City Subway, but 34 years after the first London Underground lin
Various extensions and branches were added to the Boston subway at both
ends, bypassing more surface tracks. As grade-separated lines were
extended, street-running lines were cut back for faster downtown service.
The last elevated heavy rail or El segments in Boston were at the
extremities of the Orange Line: its northern end was relocated in 1975 from
Everett to Malden, MA, and its southern end was relocated into the
Southwest Corridor in 1987. However, the Green Line's Causeway Street
Elevated remained in service until 2004, when it was relocated into a
tunnel with an incline to reconnect to the Lechmere Viaduct. The Lechmere
Viaduct and a short section of steel-framed elevated at its northern end
remain in service, though the elevated section will be cut back slightly
and connected to a northwards viaduct extension in 2017 as part of the
Green Line Extension'.
* 'In 1902, 'A Trip to the Moon' (Le Voyage dans la Lune), considered one
of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
- From Wikipedia: 'A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la Lune) is a
1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by a wide
variety of sources, including Jules Verne's novels From the Earth to the
Moon and Around the Moon, the film follows a group of astronomers who
travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's
surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar inhabitants),
and return to Earth with a captive Selenite. It features an ensemble cast
of French theatrical performers, led by Méliès himself in the main role of
Professor Barbenfouillis, and is filmed in the overtly theatrical style for
which Méliès became famous.
The film was an internationally popular success on its release, and was
extensively pirated by other studios, especially in the United States. Its
unusual length, lavish production values, innovative special effects, and
emphasis on storytelling were markedly influential on other film-makers and
ultimately on the development of narrative film as a whole. Scholars have
commented upon the film's extensive use of pataphysical and
anti-imperialist satire, as well as on its wide influence on later
film-makers and its artistic significance within the French theatrical
féerie tradition. Though the film disappeared into obscurity after Méliès's
retirement from the film industry, it was rediscovered around 1930, when
Méliès's importance to the history of cinema was beginning to be recognized
by film devotees. An original hand-colored print was discovered in 1993 and
restored in 2011.
A Trip to the Moon was named one of the 100 greatest films of the 20th
century by The Village Voice, ranked 84th. The film remains the best-known
of the hundreds of films made by Méliès, and the moment in which the
capsule lands in the Moon's eye remains one of the most iconic and
frequently referenced images in the history of cinema. It is widely
regarded as the earliest example of the science fiction film genre and,
more generally, as one of the most influential films in cinema history'.
* 'In 1914, The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in
captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Martha (c. 1885 – September 1, 1914) was the last known
living passenger pigeon she was named Martha in honor of the first First
Lady Martha Washington.
The history of the Cincinnati Zoo's passenger pigeons has been described by
Arlie William Schorger in his monograph on the species as hopelessly
confused, and he also said that it is difficult to find a more garbled
history than that of Martha. The generally accepted version is that, by the
turn of the 20th century, the last known group of passenger pigeons was
kept by Professor Charles Otis Whitman at the University of Chicago.
Whitman originally acquired his passenger pigeons from David Whittaker of
Wisconsin, who sent him six birds, two of which later bred and hatched
Martha in about 1885. Martha was named in honor of Martha Washington.
Whitman kept these pigeons to study their behavior, along with rock doves
and Eurasian collared-doves. Whitman and the Cincinnati Zoo, recognizing
the decline of the wild populations, attempted to consistently breed the
surviving birds, including attempts at making a rock dove foster passenger
pigeon eggs. These attempts were unsuccessful, and Whitman sent Martha to
the Cincinnati Zoo in 1902.
However, other sources argue that Martha was instead the descendant of
three pairs of passenger pigeons purchased by the Cincinnati Zoo in 1877.
Another source claimed that when the Cincinnati Zoo opened in 1875, it
already had 22 birds in its collection. These sources claim that Martha was
hatched at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1885, and that the passenger pigeons were
originally kept not because of the rarity of the species, but to enable
guests to have a closer look at a native species'.
* 'In 1939, Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European
phase of World War II. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September
Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland (Polish: Kampania wrzesniowa
or Wojna obronna 1939 roku), and alternatively the Poland Campaign (German:
Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiss in Germany (Case White), was a joint invasion
of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Free City of Danzig, the Soviet Union, and a
small Slovak contingent, that marked the beginning of World War II in
Europe. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the
signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced
on 17 September following the Molotov-Togo agreement that terminated the
Russian and Japanese hostilities in the east on 16 September. The campaign
ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing
the whole of Poland under the terms of the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty.
German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west the morning
after the Gleiwitz incident. As the Wehrmacht advanced, Polish forces
withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish–German
border to more established lines of defence to the east. After the
mid-September Polish defeat in the Battle of the Bzura, the Germans gained
an undisputed advantage. Polish forces then withdrew to the southeast where
they prepared for a long defence of the Romanian Bridgehead and awaited
expected support and relief from France and the United Kingdom. While those
two countries had pacts with Poland and had declared war on Germany on 3
September, in the end their aid to Poland was very limited'.
* 'In 1952, 'The Old Man and the Sea', the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by
Ernest Hemingway, is first published. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the
American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Bimini, Bahamas, and published
in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was
published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the
story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant
marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.
In 1953, The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their
awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954'.
* 'In 1974, The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from
New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a
speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h). .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is a long-range, Mach 3+
strategic reconnaissance aircraft that was operated by the United States
Air Force. It was developed as a black project from the Lockheed A-12
reconnaissance aircraft in the 1960s by Lockheed and its Skunk Works
division. American aerospace engineer Clarence Kelly Johnson was
responsible for many of the design's innovative concepts. During aerial
reconnaissance missions, the SR-71 operated at high speeds and altitudes to
allow it to outrace threats. If a surface-to-air missile launch was
detected, the standard evasive action was simply to accelerate and outfly
the missile. The SR-71 was designed with a reduced radar cross-section.
The SR-71 served with the U.S. Air Force from 1964 to 1998. A total of 32
aircraft were built 12 were lost in accidents and none lost to enemy
action. The SR-71 has been given several nicknames, including Blackbird and
Habu. It has held the world record for the fastest air-breathing manned
aircraft since 1976 this record was previously held by the related Lockheed
YF-12.
The SR-71 was the world's fastest and highest-flying operational manned
aircraft throughout its career. On 28 July 1976, SR-71 serial number
61-7962, piloted by then Capt. Robert Holt, broke the world record: an
absolute altitude record of 85,069 feet (25,929 m). Several aircraft have
exceeded this altitude in zoom climbs, but not in sustained flight. That
same day SR-71 serial number 61-7958 set an absolute speed record of
1,905.81 knots (2,193.2 mph 3,529.6 km/h), approximately Mach 3.3. SR-71
pilot Brian Shul states in his book The Untouchables that he flew in excess
of Mach 3.5 on 15 April 1986 over Libya to evade a missile.
The SR-71 also holds the Speed Over a Recognized Course record for flying
from New York to London—distance 3,461.53 miles (5,570.79 km), 1,806.964
miles per hour (2,908.027 km/h), and an elapsed time of 1 hour 54 minutes
and 56.4 seconds—set on 1 September 1974 while flown by U.S. Air Force
pilot James V. Sullivan and Noel F. Widdifield, reconnaissance systems
officer (RSO). This equates to an average velocity of about Mach 2.72,
including deceleration for in-flight refueling. Peak speeds during this
flight were likely closer to the declassified top speed of Mach 3.2+. For
comparison, the best commercial Concorde flight time was 2 hours 52 minutes
and the Boeing 747 averages 6 hours 15 minutes.
On 26 April 1971, 61-7968, flown by Majors Thomas B. Estes and Dewain C.
Vick, flew over 15,000 miles (24,000 km) in 10 hrs. 30 min. This flight was
awarded the 1971 Mackay Trophy for the most meritorious flight of the year
and the 1972 Harmon Trophy for most outstanding international achievement
in the art/science of aeronautics'.
* 'In 1979, The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first
spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of
21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi). .
- From Wikipedia: 'Pioneer 11 (also known as Pioneer G) is a 259-kilogram
(571 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on April 6, 1973 to study the
asteroid belt, the environment around Jupiter and Saturn, solar wind,
cosmic rays, and eventually the far reaches of the Solar System and
heliosphere. It was the first probe to encounter Saturn and the second to
fly through the asteroid belt and by Jupiter. Due to power constraints and
the vast distance to the probe, last contact with the spacecraft was on
September 30, 1995.
Pioneer 11 passed by Saturn on September 1, 1979, at a distance of 21,000
km from Saturn's cloud tops.
By this time Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 had already passed Jupiter and were
also en route to Saturn, so it was decided to target Pioneer 11 to pass
through the Saturn ring plane at the same position that the soon-to-come
Voyager probes would use in order to test the route before the Voyagers
arrived. If there were faint ring particles that could damage a probe in
that area, mission planners felt it was better to learn about it via
Pioneer. Thus, Pioneer 11 was acting as a pioneer in a true sense of the
word if danger was detected, then the Voyager probes could be rerouted
further away from the rings, but missing the opportunity to visit Uranus
and Neptune in the process.
Pioneer 11 imaged and nearly collided with one of Saturn's small moons,
passing at a distance of no more than 4,000 kilometers (2,500 mi). The
object was tentatively identified as Epimetheus, a moon discovered the
previous day from Pioneer's imaging, and suspected from earlier
observations by Earth-based telescopes. After the Voyager flybys, it became
known that there are two similarly-sized moons (Epimetheus and Janus) in
the same orbit, so there is some uncertainty about which one was the object
of Pioneer's near-miss. Pioneer 11 encountered Janus on September 1, 1979
at 14:52 UTC at a distance of 2500 km and Mimas at 16:20 UTC the same day
at 103000 km.
Besides Epimetheus, instruments located another previously undiscovered
small moon and an additional ring, charted Saturn's magnetosphere and
magnetic field and found its planet-size moon, Titan, to be too cold for
life. Hurtling underneath the ring plane, the probe sent back pictures of
Saturn's rings. The rings, which normally seem bright when observed from
Earth, appeared dark in the Pioneer pictures, and the dark gaps in the
rings seen from Earth appeared as bright rings'.
* 'In 1982, The U.S Air Force Space command is created. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) is a major command of
the United States Air Force, with its headquarters at Peterson Air Force
Base, Colorado. AFSPC supports U.S. military operations worldwide through
the use of many different types of satellite, launch and cyber operations.
Operationally, AFSPC is an Air Force component command subordinate to U.S.
Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), a unified combatant command.
More than 38,000 people perform AFSPC missions at 88 locations worldwide
and comprises Regular Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard
military personnel, Department of the Air Force Civilians (DAFC), and
civilian military contractors. Composition consist of approximately 22,000
military personnel and 9,000 civilian employees, although their missions
overlap.
AFSPC gained the cyber operations mission with the stand-up of 24th Air
Force under AFSPC in August 2009. On 1 December 2009, the strategic nuclear
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) mission that AFSPC inherited from
Air Combat Command (ACC) in 1993, and which ACC had inherited following the
inactivation of Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 1992, was transferred to the
newly established Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC)'.
* 'In 1985, The wreckage of the RMS Titanic is found by an American/ French
expedition. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The wreck of the RMS Titanic is located about 370 miles
(600 km) south-southeast off the coast of Newfoundland, lying at a depth of
about 12,500 feet (3,800 m). The liner sunk in 1912, when it hit an iceberg
during her maiden voyage.
The wreck lies in two main pieces about a third of a mile (600 m) apart.
The bow is still largely recognizable, in spite of its deterioration and
the damage it suffered hitting the sea floor, and has a great deal of
preserved interiors. The stern is completely ruined due to the damage it
suffered while sinking 12,000 feet (3,700 m) and hitting the ocean floor,
and is now just a heap of twisted metal, which may explain why it has
barely been explored during expeditions to the Titanic wreck. A substantial
section of the middle of the ship broke apart and is scattered in chunks
across the sea bed. A debris field covering about 5 by 3 miles (8.0 km ×
4.8 km) around the wreck contains hundreds of thousands of items spilled
from ship as she sank, ranging from passengers' personal effects to
machinery, furniture, utensils and coal, as well as fragments of the ship
herself. The bodies of the passengers and crew once also lay in the debris
field, but have since been entirely consumed by sea creatures, leaving only
their shoes lying together in the mud.
Until 1985, the location and condition of the wreck were unknown. Numerous
expeditions tried using sonar to map the sea bed in the hope of spotting
the wreck, but failed due to a combination of bad weather, technological
difficulties and poor strategy over a massive search area. The wreck was
finally located, 13.2 miles (21.2 km) from the inaccurate position
transmitted by Titanic's crew while the ship was sinking, by a joint
French-American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert
Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The key to its
discovery was an innovative remotely controlled deep-sea vehicle called
Argo, which could be towed above the sea bed while its cameras transmitted
pictures back to a mother ship.
Titanic's wreck has been the focus of intense interest since its discovery
and has been visited by numerous expeditions, including salvage operations
which have controversially recovered thousands of items which have been
conserved and put on public display. The wreckage is too fragile to be
raised because its condition has deteriorated in the century it has spent
on the seafloor, and the deterioration has increased since its discovery.
Many species of marine animals have made Titanic their home, such as
rattail fish, spider crabs and brittle starfishes. The Titanic also plays
host to great communities of metal-eating bacteria, which as they consume
the ship have created rusticles covering most of the hull. The bacteria are
slowly devouring Titanic and will gradually reduce her to a spot of rust on
the ocean floor with only the remaining scraps of her hull intermingled
with her more durable fittings, like the propellers, the Telemotor and the
Capstans, which can resist attack by microbes.
Over the years after her sinking, many impractical, expensive and often
physically impossible schemes have been put forward to raise the wreck from
its resting place. They have included ideas such as filling the wreck with
ping-pong balls, injecting it with 180,000 tons of Vaseline, or using half
a million tons of liquid nitrogen to turn it into a giant iceberg that
would float back to the surface'.
* 'In 1995, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a hall of
fame and museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland,
Ohio, United States. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation was
established on April 20, 1983, by Atlantic Records founder and chairman
Ahmet Ertegun to recognize and archive the history of the best-known and
most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures,
who have each had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.
In 1986, Cleveland was chosen as the hall of fame's permanent home. Since
opening in September 1995, the Rock Hall – part of the city's redeveloped
North Coast Harbor – has hosted more than 10 million visitors and had a
cumulative economic impact estimated at more than $1.8 billion.
The museum dedicated on September 1, 1995, with the ribbon being cut by an
ensemble that included Yoko Ono and Little Richard, among others, before a
crowd of more than 10,000 people. The following night an all-star concert
was held at the stadium. It featured Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Al Green,
Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Iggy Pop, John
Fogerty, John Mellencamp, and many others.
During early discussions on where to build the Hall of Fame and Museum, the
Foundation's board considered the Cuyahoga River. Ultimately, the chosen
location was in downtown Cleveland by Lake Erie, just east of Cleveland
Browns Stadium and the Great Lakes Science Center.
At one point in the planning phase when a financing gap existed, planners
proposed locating the Rock Hall in the then-vacant May Company Building,
but finally decided to commission architect I. M. Pei to design a new
building. Initial CEO Dr. Larry R. Thompson facilitated I. M. Pei in
designs for the site. Pei came up with the idea of a tower with a glass
pyramid protruding from it. The museum tower was initially planned to stand
200 ft (61 m) high, but had to be cut down to 162 ft (49 m) due to its
proximity to Burke Lakefront Airport. The building's base is approximately
150,000 square feet (14,000 m2). The groundbreaking ceremony took place on
June 7, 1993. Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, Billy Joel, Sam Phillips, Ruth
Brown, Sam Moore of Sam and Dave, Carl Gardner of the Coasters and Dave
Pirner of Soul Asylum all appeared at the groundbreaking.
In addition to the Hall of Fame inductees, the museum documents the entire
history of rock and roll, regardless of induction status. Hall of Fame
inductees are honored in a special exhibit located in a wing that juts out
over Lake Erie'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in September
Food
All American Breakfast Month
Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month
Histiocytosis Awareness Month
Hunger Action Month
National Honey Month
National Mushroom Month
National Organic Harvest Month
National Prime Beef Month
kNational Rice Month
National Shake Month
Whole Grains Month
Wild Rice Month
Health
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month
888222707Baby Safety Month
Backpack Safety America Month
Blood Cancer Awareness Month
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Cholesterol Education Month
Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat Pizza Bake Month
Gynecology Cancer Awareness Month
ITP Awareness Month
World Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month
Mold Awareness Month
National Campus Safety Awareness Month
National Chicken Month
National Child Awareness Month
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
National DNA, Geonomics and Stem Cell Education Month
National Head Lice Prevention Month
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month
National ITP Awareness Month
National Osteopathic Medicine Month
National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
National Sickle Cell Month
National Pediculosis Prevention Month
National Skin Care Awareness Month
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
Pain Awareness Month
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
Self Improvement Month
September Is Healthy Aging Month
Sports and Home Eye Health and Safety Month
Superior Relationships Month
Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month
World Alzheimer's Month
Animal / Pets
AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month
Happy Cat Month
International/National Guide Dogs Month
National Pet Memorial Month
National Save A Tiger Month
National Service Dog Month
Save The Koala Month
World Animal Remembrance Month
Other
Be Kind To Editors and Writers Month
Childrens' Good Manners Month
College Savings Month
Fall Hat Month
International People Skills Month
International Self-Awareness Month
International Speak Out Month
International Strategic Thinking Month
International Square Dancing Month
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September is:
September origin (from Wikipedia): Originally September (Latin septem, "seven") was the seventh of ten months on the oldest known Roman calendar.
September in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of March in the Southern Hemisphere.
After the calendar reform that added January and February to the beginning of the year, September became the ninth month, but retained its name. It had 29 days until the Julian reform, which added a day.
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