<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Strawberry Cream Pie Day'. .
[The Hankster says] Cream in the middle and whipped cream on the top, yes.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Good Neighbor Day'.
Proclaimed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. Previously celebrated on the
forth Sunday of September, now always on the 28th.
[The Hankster says] Ain't it a shame that we must proclaim such a day. And if you will stay off my grass and stop that late night noise, it will be even better.
* 'Ask a Stupid Question Day'.
September 28 or last day of September if the 28th is on a weekend. Promotes
getting kids to not be afraid to ask questions.
[The Hankster says] With all the 'but why's' kids put to us, do we really need such a day? Yes, 'just because'. Hey, I think it is our answers we to concentrate on.
* 'Read a Child a Book you like Day'.
On the birthday in 1856 of children's author Kate Douglas Wiggin. An
example is 'Rebecca at Sunnybrook Farm'.
[The Hankster says] What a great way to answer asked or even yet unasked questions from those kids.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'World Rabies Day'. By the Global Alliance for Rabies Control.
- From Wikipedia (World Rabies Day):
'World Rabies Day is an international campaign coordinated by the Global
Alliance for Rabies Control, a non-profit organization with headquarters in
the United States and the United Kingdom. It is a United Nations Observance
and has been endorsed by international human and veterinary health
organizations such as the World Health Organization, the Pan American
Health Organization, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Veterinary
Association., and the American Veterinary Medical Association. World Rabies
Day takes place each year on September 28, the anniversary of the death of
Louis Pasteur who, with the collaboration of his colleagues, developed the
first efficacious rabies vaccine. World Rabies Day aims to raise awareness
about the impact of rabies on humans and animals, provide information and
advice on how to prevent the disease, and how individuals and organizations
can help eliminate the main global sources'.
* 'Freedom from Hunger Day'. Subce 2996 bt Freedom from Hunger.
- From Wikipedia (Freedom from Hunger Day):
'The first Freedom from Hunger Day was held on September 28, 2006 to
increase awareness about global hunger and promote Freedom from Hunger's
empowerment of women around the world. The event included walk-through
exhibits of regions where Freedom from Hunger operates - India, Latin
America, West Africa, and the Philippines - where visitors enjoyed native
food and entertainment. In addition, Freedom from Hunger provided children
with passports that included historical and cultural information from each
region that were stamped at each exhibit.
As a result of the event's success, Yolo County confirmed September 28 as
Freedom From Hunger Day, the State of California declared the date as an
official day of awareness and, in the Sacramento area, the event won a gold
public relations award'.
* 'Women’s Health and Fitness Day'. Last Wednesday in September.
* 'World School Milk Day'. Last Wednesday in September. World Milk day is
in June.
o Other:
* 'International Right to Know Day'. Awareness of the right to access of
governmental information.
<> Historical events on September 28
* 'In 1889, The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM)
defines the length of a meter. . It is the distance between two lines on
a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured
at the melting point of ice. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Timeline Closeup of National Prototype Metre Bar No. 27,
made in 1889 by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) and
given to the United States, which served as the standard for defining all
units of length in the US from 1893 to 1960
8 May 1790 – The French National Assembly decides that the length of
the new metre would be equal to the length of a pendulum with a half-period
of one second.
30 March 1791 – The French National Assembly accepts the
proposal by the French Academy of Sciences that the new definition for the
metre be equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant along the
Earth's meridian through Paris, that is the distance from the equator to
the north pole.
1795 – Provisional metre bar constructed of brass.
Based on Bessel's ellipsoid and legally equal to 443.44 lines on the toise
du Pérou (a standard French unit of length from 1747). 10 December 1799
– The French National Assembly specifies the platinum metre bar,
constructed on 23 June 1799 and deposited in the National Archives, as the
final standard. Legally equal to 443.296 lines on the toise du Pérou.
28 September 1889 – The 1st General Conference on Weights and Measures
(CGPM) defines the metre as the distance between two lines on a standard
bar of an alloy of platinum with 10% iridium, measured at the melting point
of ice.
6 October 1927 – The 7th CGPM redefines the metre as the
distance, at 0 °C (273 K), between the axes of the two central lines marked
on the prototype bar of platinum-iridium, this bar being subject to one
standard atmosphere of pressure and supported on two cylinders of at least
10 mm (1 cm) diameter, symmetrically placed in the same horizontal plane at
a distance of 571 mm (57.1 cm) from each other.
14 October 1960 – The
11th CGPM defines the metre as 1650763.73 wavelengths in a vacuum of the
radiation corresponding to the transition between the 2p10 and 5d5 quantum
levels of the krypton-86 atom.
21 October 1983 – The 17th CGPM defines
the metre as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a
time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
2002 – The International
Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) considers the metre to be a unit
of proper length and thus recommends this definition be restricted to
lengths l which are sufficiently short for the effects predicted by general
relativity to be negligible with respect to the uncertainties of
realisation'
* 'In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming discovers what later became known as
penicillin. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Penicillin (PCN or pen) is a group of antibiotics which
include penicillin G (intravenous use), penicillin V (oral use), procaine
penicillin, and benzathine penicillin (intramuscular use). Penicillin
antibiotics were among the first medications to be effective against many
bacterial infections caused by staphylococci and streptococci. Penicillins
are still widely used today, though many types of bacteria have developed
resistance following extensive use.
About 10% of people report that they are allergic to penicillin however, up
to 90% of this group may not actually be allergic. Serious allergies only
occur in about 0.03%. All penicillins are ß-lactam antibiotics.
Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming.
People began using it to treat infections in 1942. There are several
enhanced penicillin families which are effective against additional
bacteria these include the antistaphylococcal penicillins, aminopenicillins
and the antipseudomonal penicillins. They are derived from Penicillium
fungi.
Starting in the late 19th century there had been many accounts by
scientists and physicians on the antibacterial properties of the different
types of moulds including the mould penicillium but they were unable to
discern what process was causing the effect. The effects of penicillium
mould would finally be isolated in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander
Fleming, in work that seems to have been independent of those earlier
observations. Fleming recounted that the date of his discovery of
penicillin was on the morning of Friday 28 September 1928. The traditional
version of this story describes the discovery as a serendipitous accident:
in his laboratory in the basement of St Mary's Hospital in London (now part
of Imperial College), Fleming noticed a Petri dish containing
Staphylococcus that had been mistakenly left open was contaminated by
blue-green mould from an open window, which formed a visible growth. There
was a halo of inhibited bacterial growth around the mould. Fleming
concluded that the mould released a substance that repressed the growth and
caused lysing of the bacteria.
Once Fleming made his discovery he grew a pure culture and discovered it
was a Penicillium mould, now known to be Penicillium notatum. Fleming
coined the term penicillin to describe the filtrate of a broth culture of
the Penicillium mould. Fleming asked C. J. La Touche to help identify the
mould, which he incorrectly identified as Penicillium rubrum (later
corrected by Charles Thom). He expressed initial optimism that penicillin
would be a useful disinfectant, because of its high potency and minimal
toxicity in comparison to antiseptics of the day, and noted its laboratory
value in the isolation of Bacillus influenzae (now called Haemophilus
influenzae).
Fleming was a famously poor communicator and orator, which meant his
findings were not initially given much attention. He was unable to convince
a true chemist to help him extract and stabilize the antibacterial compound
found in the broth filtrate. Despite the lack of a true chemist, he
remained interested in the potential use of penicillin and presented a
paper entitled A Medium for the Isolation of Pfeiffer's Bacillus to the
Medical Research Club of London, which was met with little interest and
even less enthusiasm by his peers. Had Fleming been more successful at
making other scientists interested in his work, penicillin for medicinal
use would possibly have been developed years earlier.
Despite the lack of interest of his fellow scientists, he did conduct
several experiments on the antibiotic substance he discovered. The most
important result proved it was nontoxic in humans by first performing
toxicity tests in animals and then on humans. His following experiments on
penicillin's response to heat and pH allowed Fleming to increase the
stability of the compound. The one test that modern scientists would find
missing from his work was the test of penicillin on an infected animal, the
results of which would likely have sparked great interest in penicillin and
sped its development by almost a decade'.
* 'In 1939, The final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour, was heard on
radio. It began in 1929. In 1936 the name was changed to The Royal Gelatin
Hour. The host was singer Rudy Vallée. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour (also known as The Rudy
Vallée Show, The Fleischmann Yeast Hour, and The Fleischmann Hour) was a
pioneering musical variety radio program broadcast on NBC from 1929 to
1936, when it became The Royal Gelatin Hour, continuing until 1939. This
program was sponsored by Fleischmann’s Yeast, a popular brand of yeast.
The person responsible for this major step ahead in broadcasting was NBC
executive Bertha Brainard, who became head of programming for NBC in 1928.
She began pushing for singer-bandleader Rudy Vallée to host a variety
series by explaining that only a woman could understand the appeal of
Vallée's voice'.
* 'In 1951, The first color TVs became available for sale to the public by
CBS and within a month discontinued. The technology, price, limited number
of shows and the need for their electronic endeavors to be devoted to the
Korean War, were the causes. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Color television is a television transmission technology
that includes information on the color of the picture, so the video image
can be displayed in color on the television set. It is an improvement on
the earliest television technology, monochrome or black and white
television, in which the image is displayed in shades of grey (greyscale).
Television broadcasting stations and networks in most parts of the world
upgraded from black and white to color transmission in the 1960s and 1970s.
The invention of color television standards is an important part of the
history of television, and it is described in the technology of television
article.
In its most basic form, a color broadcast can be created by broadcasting
three monochrome images, one each in the three colors of red, green, and
blue (RGB). When displayed together or in rapid succession, these images
will blend together to produce a full color image as seen by the viewer.
One of the great technical challenges of introducing color broadcast
television was the desire to conserve bandwidth, potentially three times
that of the existing black-and-white standards, and not use an excessive
amoun t of radio spectrum. In the United States, after considerable
research, the National Television Systems Committee approved an
all-electronic system developed by RCA which encoded the color information
separately from the brightness information and greatly reduced the
resolution of the color information in order to conserve bandwidth. The
brightness image remained compatible with existing black-and-white
television sets at slightly reduced resolution, while color televisions
could decode the extra information in the signal and produce a
limited-resolution color display. The higher resolution black-and-white and
lower resolution color images combine in the eye to produce a seemingly
high-resolution color image. The NTSC standard represented a major
technical achievement.
Although all-electronic color was introduced in the U.S. in 1953, high
prices and the scarcity of color programming greatly slowed its acceptance
in the marketplace. The first national color broadcast (the 1954 Tournament
of Roses Parade) occurred on January 1, 1954, but during the next ten years
most network broadcasts, and nearly all local programming, continued to be
in black-and-white. CBS's The Patti Page Show was the first television show
broadcast in color for the entire 1957-1958 season its prod uction costs
were greater than most movies were at the time not only because of all the
stars featured on the hour-long extravaganza but the extreme high intensity
lighting and electronics required for the new RCA TK-41 cameras. It was not
until the mid-1960s that color sets started selling in large numbers, due
in part to the color transition of 1965 in which it was announced that over
half of all network prime-time programming would be broadcast in color that
autumn. The first all-color prime-time season came just five years later.
Early color sets were either floor-standing console models or tabletop
versions nearly as bulky and heavy, so in practice they remained firmly
anchored in one place. The introduction of GE's relatively compact and
lightweight Porta-Color set in the spring of 1966 made watching color
television a more flexible and convenient proposition. In 1972, sales of
color sets finally surpassed sales of black-and-white sets. Also in 1972,
the last holdout among daytime network programs converted to color,
resulting in the first completely all-color network season.
Color broadcasting in Europe was also standardized on the PAL format until
the 1960s.
By the mid-1970s, the only stations broadcasting in black-and-white were a
few high-numbered UHF stations in small markets, and a handful of low-power
repeater stations in even smaller markets such as vacation spots. By 1979,
even the last of these had converted to color and by the early 1980s B and
W sets had been pushed into niche markets, notably low-power uses, small
portable sets, or use as video monitor screens in lower-chen no program
material is available.
While the CBS color broadcasting schedule gradually expanded to twelve
hours per week (but never into prime time), and the color network expanded
to eleven affiliates as far west as Chicago, its commercial success was
doomed by the lack of color receivers necessary to watch the programs, the
refusal of television manufacturers to create adapter mechanisms for their
existing black-and-white sets, and the unwillingness of advertisers to
sponsor broadcasts seen by almost no one. CBS had bought a te levision
manufacturer in April, and in September 1951, production began on the only
CBS-Columbia color television model, with the first color sets reaching
retail stores on September 28. But it was too little, too late. Only 200
sets had been shipped, and only 100 sold, when CBS discontinued its color
television system on October 20, 1951, ostensibly by request of the
National Production Authority for the duration of the Korean War, and
bought back all the CBS color sets it could to prevent laws uits by
disappointed customers. RCA chairman David Sarnoff later charged that the
NPA's order had come out of a situation artificially created by one company
to solve its own perplexing problems because CBS had been unsuccessful in
its color venture'.
* 'In 1953, The TV crime drama show 'Racket Squad' is last aired on CBS. It
starred Reed Hadley. It ran for 3 seasons and 98 ep. from June 7, 1951 –
September 28, 1953.
- From Wikipedia: 'Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series that
aired from 1951 to 1953.
The format was a narrated anthology drama, as each individual episode
featured various ordinary citizens getting ensnared in a different
confidence scheme. Episodes were introduced and narrated by Reed Hadley as
Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for a police
department in a large, unnamed American city. Braddock served as the
series' host and narrator'.
* 'In 1953, The comedy TV show 'Bob and Ray Show' last aired on NBC. It
starred Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. It ran from November 26, 1951 to
September 28, 1961, after being brought from radio.
- From Wikipedia: 'Bob and Ray were an American comedy duo whose career
spanned five decades. Composed of comedians Bob Elliott (1923–2016) and Ray
Goulding (1922–1990), the duo's format was typically to satirize the medium
in which they were performing, such as conducting radio or television
interviews, with off-the-wall dialogue presented in a generally deadpan
style as though it was a serious broadcast.
In the early 1950s, the two had their own 15-minute television series,
entitled simply Bob and Ray. It began November 26, 1951 on NBC with Audrey
Meadows as a cast regular. During the second season, the title changed to
Club Embassy, and Cloris Leachman joined the cast as a regular, replacing
Audrey Meadows who left the series to join the cast of The Jackie Gleason
Show on CBS. In the soap opera parodies, the actresses took the roles of
Mary Backstayge and Linda Lovely. Expanding to a half-hour for the summer
of 1952 only, the series continued until September 28, 1953. When The
Higgins Boys and Gruber show began on The Comedy Channel in 1989, it
occasionally included full episodes of Bob and Ray's 1951-53 shows (along
with episodes of Clutch Cargo and Supercar)'.
* 'In 1957, The TV variety show, 'The Gisele MacKenzie Show' debuts on
NBC-TV. MacKenzie was previously a led singer on Your Hit Parade. It ran
for 1 season and 25 ep. from September 28, 1957 – March 29, 1958.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Gisele MacKenzie Show was an American variety show
hosted by Canadian singer Gisele MacKenzie. The series aired live on NBC
from September 28, 1957, to March 29, 1958. The Curfew Kids appeared on the
program as semi-regulars. MacKenzie had been a regular on the earlier NBC
musical series Your Hit Parade from 1953 to 1957. She had also worked in
radio with Bob Crosby and had toured with Jack Benny and guest starred on
The Jack Benny Program. Benny had recommended her to the producers of Your
Hit Parade'.
* 'In 1957, The song 'Honeycomb', by Jimmie Rodgers hits #1. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Honeycomb is a popular song written by Bob Merrill in
1954. The best-selling version was recorded by Jimmie Rodgers and charted
at number one on the Billboard Top 100 in 1957. Honeycomb also reached
number one on the and B/* * in Stores chart. It became a gold record. The
song is referenced in the McGuire Sisters hit song Sugartime, when the
soloist sings the line: Just be my Honeycomb which is echoed by the other
sisters and the male chorus. (Honeycomb, Honeycomb, Honeycomb).
* 'In 1959, The TV military comedy 'Hennesey' debuts on CBS-TV. It starred
Jackie Cooper and .Abby Dalton. It ran for 3 seasons for 95 ep. from
September 28, 1959 – September 17, 1962.
- From Wikipedia: 'Hennesey is an American military sitcom/drama television
series that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1962, starring Jackie Cooper.
Cooper played a United States Navy physician, Lt. Charles W. Chick
Hennesey, with Abby Dalton as Navy nurse Lt. Martha Hale. In the story
line, they are assigned to the hospital at the U.S. Naval Station in San
Diego, California'.
* 'In 1960, The song 'My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own' by Connie Francis
hits #1. .
- From Wikipedia: 'My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own is a song written by
Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller which was a #1 hit for Connie Francis in
1960.
Francis recorded My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own at Radio Recorders studio
in Hollywood CA over three different sessions on July 9, 25, and 31, 1960
with Jesse Kaye and Arnold Maxin acting as producers Gus Levene arranged
the orchestration and conducted. Jack Keller brought one of the LA tapes
back to New York for a Sax and Guitar overdub at Olmstead Studios. Artie
Kaplan and Al Gorgoni were brought in for the sax and guitar overdub.
My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own became Francis' second consecutive A-side to
top the Billboard Hot 100 reaching #1 on the chart dated 26 September 1960
and holding there the following week. The single also marked Francis' final
appearance of the R and B charts at #11.
In the UK My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own reached #3.
On 18 October 1960, Francis recorded a German-language version of My Heart
Has a Mind of Its Own entitled Mein Herz weiß genau, was es will which
would remain unreleased until 1988'.
* 'In 1961, The TV show 'Doctor Kildare' debuts. It starred Richard
Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, It ran for 5 seasons for 91 ep from
September 28, 1961 until August 30, 1966. The character has been in
magazines, MGM films, radio, TV and cartoons.
- From Wikipedia: 'Dr. Kildare is an NBC medical drama television series
which originally ran from September 28, 1961 until August 30, 1966, for a
total of 191 episodes over five seasons. Produced by MGM Television, it was
based on fictional doctor characters originally created by author Max Brand
in the 1930s and previously used by MGM in a popular film series and radio
drama. The TV series quickly achieved success and made a star of Richard
Chamberlain, who played the title role. Dr. Kildare (along with an ABC
medical drama, Ben Casey, which premiered at the same time) inspired or
influenced many later TV shows dealing with the medical field.
Dr. Kildare aired on NBC affiliate stations on Thursday nights at 8:30-9:30
PM from September 28, 1961 until September 1965, when the timeslot was
changed to Monday and Tuesday nights at 8:30-9:00 PM until the end of the
show's run on August 30, 1966.
Like the earlier MGM film series (1938-1942), the TV series initially told
the story of young intern Dr. James Kildare (Richard Chamberlain) working
at the fictional large metropolitan Blair General Hospital and trying to
learn his profession, deal with patients' problems, and win the respect of
the senior Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Raymond Massey). In the series' first
episode, Gillespie tells the earnest Kildare, Our job is to keep people
alive, not to tell them how to live. Kildare ignores the advice, which
provides the basis for stories over the next four seasons, many with a soap
opera touch. By the third season, Dr. Kildare was promoted to resident and
episodes began to focus less on him and his medical colleagues, and more on
the stories of individual patients and their families.
In order to create realistic scripts, the series' first writer, E. Jack
Neuman, spent several months working alongside interns in a large hospital.
Episodes frequently highlighted diseases or medical conditions that had not
been widely discussed on television, including drug addiction, sickle cell
anemia and epilepsy. Episodes about venereal disease (personally requested
by President Lyndon B. Johnson) and the birth control pill were written,
but never produced due to network objections. Technical advice was provided
by the American Medical Association, whose name appeared in the end credits
of each episode.
The series was initially formatted as self-contained one-hour episodes,
aired once per week. In later seasons, a trend towards serialization,
inspired by the success of the prime time soap opera Peyton Place, caused
the network to develop some Dr. Kildare storylines over multiple episodes
and, in the final season, to air two separate half-hour episodes each week
instead of a single one-hour episode'.
* 'In 1961, The TV show 'Hazel' debuts. It starred Shirley Booth, Don
DeFore (1961–1965), Whitney Blake (1961–1965), Bobby Buntrock, Ray Fulmer
(1965–1966), Lynn Borden (1965–1966), Julia Benjamin (1965–1966). It ran
for 5 seasons for 154 ep. from September 28, 1961 – April 11, 1966.
- From Wikipedia: 'Hazel is an American sitcom about a fictional live-in
maid named Hazel Burke (Shirley Booth) and her employers, the Baxters. The
five-season, 154-episode series aired in prime time from September 28,
1961, to April 11, 1966, and was produced by Screen Gems. The first four
seasons of Hazel aired on NBC, and the fifth (and final) season aired on
CBS. Season 1 was broadcast in black-and-white except for one episode which
was in color, and seasons 2–5 were all broadcast in color. The show was
based on the popular single-panel comic strip by cartoonist Ted Key, which
appeared in the Saturday Evening Post'.
* 'In 1963, The TV cartoon 'Tennessee Tuxedo' debuts on CBS-TV. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales is a semi-educational
animated cartoon TV series that originally aired on CBS from 1963 to 1966.
It was produced by Total Television, the same company that produced the
earlier King Leonardo and the later Underdog, and primarily sponsored by
General Mills. (Tennessee Tuxedo debuted on CBS on the same day that King
Leonardo last ran on NBC.) The title is a play on the “tuxedo” dinner
jacket worn as formal wear.
New short episodes were created for YouTube in 2014 by Chuck Gammage
Animation in Toronto, and Cartoon Lagoon Studios in New York. Sponsored by
Trix cereal, they reside on sillychannel.com. They feature the voice talent
of Chris Phillips, Robb Pruitt and Ashley Albert'.
* 'In 1968, Beatles' 'Hey Jude' single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Hey Jude is a song by the English rock band the Beatles,
written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The ballad
evolved from Hey Jules, a song McCartney wrote to comfort John Lennon's
son, Julian, during his parents' divorce. Hey Jude begins with a
verse-bridge structure incorporating McCartney's vocal performance and
piano accompaniment further instrumentation is added as the song
progresses. After the fourth verse, the song shifts to a fade-out coda that
lasts for more than four minutes.
Hey Jude was released in August 1968 as the first single from the Beatles'
record label Apple Records. More than seven minutes in length, it was at
the time the longest single ever to top the British charts. It also spent
nine weeks at number one in the United States, the longest for any Beatles
single. Hey Jude tied the all-time record, at the time, for the longest run
at the top of the US charts. The single has sold approximately eight
million copies and is frequently included on professional critics' lists of
the greatest songs of all time. In 2013, Billboard named it the 10th
biggest song of all time'.
* 'In 1980, Carl Sagan's 13 part 'Cosmos: A Personal Voyage' premieres on
PBS. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television
series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as
presenter. It was executive-produced by Adrian Malone, produced by David
Kennard, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, and Gregory Andorfer, and directed by the
producers, David Oyster, Richard Wells, Tom Weidlinger, and others. It
covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life
and a perspective of our place in the universe.
The series was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980,
and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public
television until The Civil War (1990). As of 2009, it was still the most
widely watched PBS series in the world. It won two Emmys and a Peabody
Award, and has since been broadcast in more than 60 countries and seen by
over 500 million people. A book was also published to accompany the series.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage has been considered highly significant since its
broadcast David Itzkoff of The New York Times described it as a watershed
moment for science-themed television programming'.
* 'In 1987, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation', debuts on syndicated TV. It
ran for 7 seasons for 176 ep. from September 28, 1987 – May 23, 1994. 'Star
Trek: The Next Generation (abbreviated as TNG and ST:TNG) is an American
science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that ran
between 1987 and 1994. Roddenberry, Maurice Hurley, Rick Berman, and
Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout
its production.
The series involves a starship named Enterprise and is set in the nearby
regions of the Milky Way galaxy. The first episode takes place in the year
2364, 100 years after the start of the five-year mission described in the
original series, which began in 2264. It features a new cast and a new
starship Enterprise, the sixth to bear the name within the franchise's
storyline. An introductory statement, performed by Patrick Stewart and
featured at the beginning of each episode's title sequence, stated the
starship's purpose in language similar to the opening statement of the
original series, but was updated to reflect an ongoing mission, and to be
gender-neutral:
TNG premiered the week of September 28, 1987, to 27 million viewers, with
the two-hour pilot Encounter at Farpoint In total, 176 episodes were made,
ending with the two-hour finale All Good Things... the week of May 23,
1994'.
* 'In 2008, The 'Falcon 1' is launched into orbit making it SpaceX's first
privately launched spacecraft. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Falcon 1 was an expendable launch system privately
developed and manufactured by SpaceX during 2006–2009. On 28 September
2008, Falcon 1 became the first privately-developed liquid-fuel launch
vehicle to go into orbit around the Earth.:203
The two-stage-to-orbit rocket used LOX/RP-1 for both stages, the first
powered by a single Merlin engine and the second powered by a single
Kestrel engine. It was designed by SpaceX from the ground up.
The vehicle was launched a total of five times. Falcon 1 achieved orbit on
its fourth attempt, in September 2008 with a mass simulator as a payload.
On 14 July 2009, Falcon 1 made its final flight and successfully delivered
the Malaysian RazakSAT satellite to orbit on SpaceX's first commercial
launch (fifth launch overall). Following its fifth launch, the Falcon 1 was
retired and succeeded by Falcon 9.
SpaceX had announced an enhanced variant, the Falcon 1e, but development
was stopped in favor of Falcon 9'.
* 'In 2011, The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is introduced in Japan as the most
fuel-efficient airliner. . From Wikipedia: 'The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is
an American long-range, mid-size widebody, twin-engine jet airliner by
Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Its variants seat 242 to 335 passengers in
typical three-class seating configurations. It is Boeing's most
fuel-efficient airliner and is a pioneering airliner with the use of
composite materials as the primary material in the construction of its
airframe. The 787 was designed to be 20% more fuel efficient than the
Boeing 767, which it was intended to replace. The 787 Dreamliner's
distinguishing features include mostly electrical flight systems, swept
wingtips, and noise-reducing chevrons on its engine nacelles. It shares a
common type rating with the larger Boeing 777 to allow qualified pilots to
operate both models.
The aircraft's initial designation was the 7E7, prior to its renaming in
January 2005. The first 787 was unveiled in a roll-out ceremony on July 8,
2007 at Boeing's Everett factory. Development and production of the 787 has
involved a large-scale collaboration with numerous suppliers worldwide.
Final assembly takes place at the Boeing Everett Factory in Everett,
Washington, and at the Boeing South Carolina factory in North Charleston,
South Carolina. Originally planned to enter service in May 2008, the
project experienced multiple delays. The airliner's maiden flight took
place on December 15, 2009, and completed flight testing in mid-2011.
Boeing has reportedly spent $32 billion on the 787 program.
Final US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Aviation Safety
Agency (EASA) type certification was received in August 2011 and the first
787-8 was delivered in September 2011. It entered commercial service on
October 26, 2011 with launch customer All Nippon Airways. The stretched
787-9 variant, which is 20 feet (6.1 m) longer and can fly 450 nautical
miles (830 km) farther than the -8, first flew in September 2013.
Deliveries of the 787-9 began in July 2014 it entered commercial service on
August 7, 2014 with All Nippon Airways, with 787-9 launch customer Air New
Zealand following two days later. As of August 2016, the 787 had orders for
1,161 aircraft from 64 customers, with All Nippon Airways having the
largest number on order.
The aircraft has suffered from several in-service problems, including fires
on board related to its lithium-ion batteries. These systems were reviewed
by both the FAA and the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau. The FAA issued a
directive in January 2013 that grounded all 787s in the US and other civil
aviation authorities followed suit. After Boeing completed tests on a
revised battery design, the FAA approved the revised design and lifted the
grounding in April 2013 the 787 returned to passenger service later that
month'.
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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
International Women's Friendship Month
Library Card Sign-up Month
National Coupon Month
National Home Furnishings Month
National Passport Awareness Month
National Sewing Month
National Translators Month
National Piano Month
National Wilderness Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Update Your Resume Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
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