Time Will Tell: Septemer 10th

Monday, September 10, 2012

Septemer 10th

Note to Stevil re: David Bennent 9/9/12 --- Take it up with Male Celebrity Snapshots ;-)

September 10 is the 254th day of the year. There are 112 days remaining until the end of the year.

1547 Battle of Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots

1608 John Smith – if that is his real name – is elected president of Jamestown colony council after one wild night with some of the locals. Was this Disney movie rated PG?

1846 Elias Howe gets a patent for the sewing machine.

1869 Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan. I'm Episcopalian, and I'd rather ride a nealshaw.

1945 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death. Moral of the story? Wring the chicken’s neck if you want dinner any time soon.

1953 Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner". There is no truth that Mike the Headless Chicken was the star.

1955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire and his name is Quint Asper, the blacksmith!

1963 20 black students enter public schools in Alabama and immediately raise the academic standing of the state

1984 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across U.S. (24 days) after unsuccessfully trying to run away from home without anyone noticing. After successfully changing his name and getting a tan, little Sean grows up to be President of the United States.

1992 Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents highlighting the need for national health care insurance to control escalating costs

2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva. Nothing interesting, like Switzerland vaporizing, happens.