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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 On This Date 1798 – The first bank robbery in the United States took place. Thieves Humor of the Day stole $162,821 from Carpenter’s “In one respect, at least, Hall in Pennsylvania, the equivalent the Martians are a happy of over two million dollars today. people—they have 1914 – Martha, the last surviving no lawyers.” passenger pigeon, died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo, marking the ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs extinction of the species. In the early 1800s, the pigeons could be seen in huge flocks, often a mile wide and 300 miles long, containing up to a Happy Birthday! billion birds. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) 1985 – The wreck of the Titanic was was a writer best seen for the first time since it sank in known for his Tarzan 1912. The expedition team was led and John Carter by American Robert Ballard. serial novels, both of which have been made into successful major motion pictures. Tarzan was an incredibly popular character, and Burroughs was one of the first authors to effectively commercialize a character Did You Know? from a book. With the success of Tarzan, Burroughs and his family moved to If you stand in front of a honeybee’s a ranch outside of Los Angeles, hive, the bees will bump you before California, which later became the they sting you to warn you to get suburb of Tarzana. His ashes are out of the way. buried under a tree in the town.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 On This Date 31 BC – The forces of Mark Antony Quote of the Day and Cleopatra were decisively defeated in the naval Battle of “My driving abilities from Actium by the Roman forces of Mexico have helped me Octavian. This marked the end of the get through Hollywood.” Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire. ~ Salma Hayek 1666 – The Great Fire of London began. The worst fire in the city’s history, the blaze destroyed most of Happy Birthday! the civic buildings, the old St. Paul’s Cathedral, 87 parish churches, and Salma Hayek, born in 1966, is a about 13,000 houses. Mexican American actress and filmmaker. Hayek started acting in 1945 – The Japanese government Mexican telenovelas. In the early formally surrendered at a ceremony 1990s, she moved to aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Hollywood, where, Tokyo Bay. The concession signified within a few years, the end of World War II. she made a name for herself in a rapid succession of hit Daily Trivia films, such as From Dusk Till Dawn, Desperado, and Wild The reason firehouses have circular Wild West. She produced and starred stairways is from the days when the in the 2002 biopic Frida, for which engines were pulled by horses. The she earned a Best Actress Academy horses were stabled on the ground Award nomination. Her more recent floor and figured out how to walk projects include Beatriz at Dinner up straight staircases. (2017) and Like a Boss (2020).

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 On This Date 1752 – September 3 did not happen in Britain, nor did the next 10 dates. Quote of the Day The Roman-era Julian calendar had become 11 days out of step from the “Form follows function.” solar cycle. In response, Britain and ~ Louis Sullivan its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar, which moved September 3 up to September 14. People rioted in the streets, thinking the government had stolen 11 days of their lives. Happy Birthday! 1935 – For the first time, a vehicle Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) was an reached a land speed of over 300 miles American architect who is credited per hour. The driver was Malcolm with creating some of the first Campbell, and the record was set at modern skyscrapers. His buildings, the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. which include office buildings, banks, 1976 – The unmanned U.S. spacecraft schools, and churches, Mars Viking 2 landed on Mars after can be found in cities nearly a year en route. across the East Coast and Midwest. Known Daily Trivia as the “father of The VW Beetle was not skyscrapers,” Sullivan mass-produced until was Frank Lloyd after World War II. Wright’s mentor and an important inspiration of Chicago’s famous Prairie School architects. Sullivan’s sleek, crisp, modern design was unique in that he also incorporated organic or geometric ornamental details to break up the otherwise sparse style.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 On This Date 1682 – Astronomer Edmond Halley Quote of the Day first observed the comet that was “What we do during our eventually named after him. Halley’s Comet is seen only about every working hours determines 75 years, so you would be lucky to what we have; what we see it twice in a lifetime. do in our leisure hours determines what we are.” 1888 – George Eastman received a patent for the first roll film camera and ~ George Eastman registered the name Kodak. Within a few years, “being Kodaked” came to mean “being photographed.” Happy Birthday! 1899 – Donald A. Smith funded the Mitzi Gaynor, born in 1931, is an Royal Victoria College for women American actress who reigned as at McGill University. Smith, a a top leading lady of Hollywood wealthy businessman, was a strong musicals in the 1950s. She trained believer in education for women. as a ballerina as a Daily Trivia child and began her career as a chorus While many believe that Hydrox girl. Gaynor sang, cookies are an Oreo cookie knockoff, acted, and danced Hydrox actually came first—in 1908, in various films, but four years before the Oreo. is best known for her starring roles in the filmsThere’s No Business Like Show Business (1954) and South Pacific (1958). From 2009 to 2014, she toured her acclaimed one-woman show, Razzle Dazzle! My Life Behind the Sequins.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2020 On This Date 1877 – Crazy Horse, an Oglala Sioux chief, was Quote of the Day killed. He was one of the Sioux leaders “All human beings are also who helped defeat dream beings. Dreaming George Armstrong ties all mankind together. Custer at the Battle ~ Jack Kerouac of Little Bighorn. 1914 – The First Battle of the Marne began. It was the first significant Allied victory of World War I, saving Paris and derailing Germany’s plan Happy Birthday! for a quick victory over France. At Frank Shuster (1916–2002) was best one point, 600 Paris taxicabs were known as a member used to drive French troops from the of the comedy duo capital to the battlefront. Wayne and Shuster. The two began 1957 – Jack Kerouac’s famous novel performing routines On the Road was published by Viking at their high school Press in New York. It is considered talent shows and a defining work of the postwar Beat later at the University of Toronto. and Counterculture generations. During World War II, they joined the Canadian Army as entertainers on the CBC Radio series The Army Did You Know? Show. The pair performed together for more than 60 years. They appeared Sweden is so efficient that only on The Ed Sullivan Show over one percent of its garbage ends 66 times. Shuster’s two children are up going to a landfill. both entertainers.

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2020 On This Date 1522 – Ferdinand Magellan’s ship, the Vittoria, arrived in Spain, Proverb of the Day thus completing the first world “When the axe came to circumnavigation. Natives of the Spice the forest, the trees said: Islands had killed Magellan about ‘The handle is one of us.’” halfway through the voyage. ~ Armenian proverb 1620 – The Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England, for the New World. They sighted present- day Cape Cod two months later. Happy Birthday! 1775 – George Washington issued his Address to the Inhabitants of Arsinée Khanjian, born in 1958, is Canada, asking Canadians to support an Armenian Canadian actress and the American War of Independence. film producer. She’s known for her work in independent films. Khanjian 1991 – With the collapse of the Soviet also regularly appears in movies Union, Leningrad, the northernmost made by her husband, director Atom large city in the world, changed its Egoyan, such as 2005’s Where name back to Saint Petersburg. the Truth Lies. Some of her most Daily Trivia prominent roles include The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Felicia’s Journey Infants are born with about 300 bones, (1999), and Ararat (2002), for but because some fuse together as which she won a Genie Award. She we grow, adults have only 206. remains active on the Canadian stage and television and lives in Toronto with her husband and their son, Arshile.

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Quote of the Day “When the subject is strong, On This Date simplicity is the only way to treat it.” 1672 – Louis de Buade, the Count of Frontenac, arrived in Quebec to serve ~ Jacob Lawrence as governor general of New France. 1936 – The last known Tasmanian tiger died in captivity. However, Happy Birthday! scientists recently completed gene Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) was sequencing, raising the possibility an artist, storyteller, and educator of cloning the species in the future. who specialized in painting scenes from the lives of African Americans. Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Lawrence studied at the Harlem Community Art Center and eventually became a professor at the University 2014 – The wreckage of Sir John of Washington in Seattle. Lawrence Franklin’s ship, HMS Erebus, was found fame with his 60-panel The discovered off the coast of King Migration Series, which chronicled William Island. the Great Migration, the early- Did You Know? 20th-century movement of African Americans from the The name for the country of India South to the cities of comes from the Indus River. The the North. His works earliest civilizations in India were are now shown in concentrated in the valleys numerous prominent around the Indus. art museums.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 On This Date 1504 – Michelangelo’s masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture, David, was Quote of the Day unveiled in Florence. “Each and every one of us is The marble statue born with a clean heart.” stands 17 feet tall, and its very large head ~ Ruby Bridges Hall was carved to look proportionate when viewed from below. 1664 – New York was given its Happy Birthday! name. Previously controlled by the Ruby Bridges Hall, born in 1954, Netherlands and known as New was the first student to desegregate Amsterdam, the Dutch surrendered a formerly all-white New Orleans the settlement to an English naval school. She was just six years old squadron. It was renamed New York on November 14, 1960, when she in honor of the Duke of York, who was escorted up the school steps had organized the mission. by federal marshals. The moment 1977 – Twenty-year-old Toronto is captured in Norman Rockwell’s swimmer Cindy Nicholas became iconic painting The Problem We the first woman to swim the English All Live With. Many Channel both directions nonstop. white parents pulled their children out of school, and all but Daily Trivia one of the teachers refused to lead her Avocados don’t ripen on the tree, class. Bridges Hall is so farmers can use the trees as now a civil rights activist and chairs storage space and keep the fruit the Ruby Bridges Foundation, which fresh for up to seven months. promotes equality and tolerance.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 On This Date 1919 – A hydrofoil watercraft Quote of the Day designed by Alexander Graham Bell set a speed record of 114.04 km/hr. “You’ve got to concentrate The vessel was powered by twin on the business of entertaining aircraft engines. and writing songs. Always think different from the 1947 – The first documented caseof a computer bug was recorded when a next person. Don’t ever moth lodged in a relay of a computer do a song as you heard at Harvard University. somebody else do it.” 1954 – Marilyn Bell became the ~ Otis Redding first person to swim 51.5 km across Lake Ontario. The 16-year-old Bell did it in 20 hours and 59 minutes, battling lamprey eels and oil pollution. Happy Birthday! Otis Redding (1941–1967) was an 1979 – Lynn Johnston premiered American singer/songwriter known her For Better or For for his impact on soul Worse cartoon strip music and rhythm based on her own and blues. Redding’s family in Ontario. Two best-known songs are years later, she had “(Sittin’ On) The Dock 50 million readers. of the Bay” and “Try a Little Tenderness.” He married his Daily Trivia sweetheart, Zelma, and they had three The Star Wars children. Tragically, the star died at character Yoda 26 years old in a plane crash. Many was modeled after artists, including Janis Joplin, were Albert Einstein. influenced by his work.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2020 On This Date 1919 – Austria and the Allies signed Quote of the Day the Treaty of Saint-Germain, which recognized the independence of “In the U.S., with very few Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, exceptions, actresses older and Yugoslavia. than 35 are simply discarded.” 1953 – Swanson introduced the TV ~ Amy Irving dinner as a convenience food for busy housewives. The first dinner was a Thanksgiving meal of turkey, cornbread dressing, frozen peas, and Happy Birthday! sweet potatoes. Amy Irving, born in 1953, is an American actress who grew up in California before moving to New York City as a teen. Irving debuted on Broadway in The Country Wife when she was just 13. Her big 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider break in film came (known to non-scientists as an a decade later with atom smasher) was powered up in a role in the 1976 Geneva, Switzerland. The collider horror film Carrie, is considered the largest scientific closely followed by experiment in history. the 1978 thriller The Sports Trivia Fury. Some of her most prominent movies since then The Russians showed up 12 days include Yentl, Crossing Delancey, late to the 1908 Olympics because Traffic, and Deconstructing Harry. they were using the Julian calendar In 2018, she returned to horror in instead of the Gregorian calendar. Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 On This Date 1833 – The steamship Royal William, Humor of the Day built in Quebec, became one of the first ships to cross the Atlantic under “She plucked from my lapel steam all the way. One of the co-owners the invisible strand of lint was Samuel Cunard, who founded the (the universal act of woman Cunard Steamship Company. to proclaim ownership).” ~ O. Henry

Happy Birthday! Harry Connick Jr., born in 1967, is 1974 – Canada Night in London a charismatic singer and actor from saw Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, New Orleans. A musical wunderkind, the Band, and Joni Mitchell play a he was playing the keyboard at age five concert in Wembley Stadium to a and recording jazz by age 10. Connick crowd of about 72,000. now has 10 No. 1 jazz albums, the most of any jazz artist, and has sold 2001 – Terrorist attacks destroyed nearly 30 million albums worldwide. the World Trade Towers in New Connick has also starred in numerous York City and part of the Pentagon films, including Independence Day, in Washington, D.C., and downed a Basic, Hope Floats, passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. and Dolphin Tale. Daily Trivia Connick also played Grace’s husband on The cubicle did not get its name NBC’s Will & Grace from its shape, but from the (2002–2006). In real Latin cubiculum, meaning life, he is married to “bed chamber.” model Jill Goodacre.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2020 On This Date 1895 – Annie Londonderry completed the first round-the-world trip by a Humor of the Day woman on a bicycle. The trek took “Many a man has fallen her 15 months and she collected $10,000 in prize money. in love with a girl in a light so dim he would 1940 – Four French teenagers not have chosen a followed their dog into a cavern near suit by it.” Lascaux, France, and discovered cave paintings made by Stone Age ~ Maurice Chevalier artists. The paintings are around 16,000 years old.

Happy Birthday! Maurice Chevalier (1888–1972) was a Belgian French actor, singer, and 1959 – Toronto actor Lorne Greene entertainer. His trademark was a starred as Pa Cartwright in the new casual straw hat, which he always wore television western drama Bonanza, on stage with his tuxedo. Chevalier’s along with Michael Landon, Dan signature songs included “Louise,” Blocker, and Pernell Roberts. It was “Mimi,” and “Valentine.” Many people the first western TV show broadcast remember Chevalier from the movie in color. musical Gigi (1958), in which he Daily Trivia performed the song “Thank Heaven for The black pirate flag known as Little Girls.” In 1970, the “Jolly Roger” was originally a he sang the title song bright red French “surrender-or-die” for the classic Disney banner known as the Jolie Rouge. film The Aristocats.

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2020 On This Date 1935 – Howard Hughes broke the Quote of the Day world landplane speed record of “We all lose our looks 352 mph in the Hughes H-1 Racer, a plane he designed himself. eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.” ~ Jacqueline Bisset

1955 – Swiss inventor George de Mestral was granted a patent for Happy Birthday! the fastener that would eventually Jacqueline Bisset, born in 1944, is become known as Velcro. The idea an English actress who now lives came to him when he went for a hike part-time in the 17th-century cottage with his dog and noticed that the dog where she grew up returned with burrs firmly attached in Berkshire. After to its fur. It took De Mestral 10 years a few small parts, to perfect his hook-and-loop fasteners. Bisset found fame Daily Trivia with her role as Miss Goodthighs in Daniel Defoe based his book the 1967 James Robinson Crusoe on the true-life Bond spoof Casino story of castaway Alexander Royale. She then went on to bigger Selkirk. Defoe was inspired to parts, including those in The Cape write the book after meeting Town Affair, The Sweet Ride, Airport, Selkirk at a pub and hearing his and Murder on the Orient Express. story. Selkirk had been stranded Bisset has performed in dozens of for four years, as opposed to the films and television productions, 28 years of the fictional character. including the series Counterpart.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 On This Date 1741 – George Frederick Handel Humor of the Day completed his Messiah oratorio. It took the composer “No intelligent man wears a just 23 days to write moustache voluntarily.” the timeless musical ~ Sam Neill treasure, which is still very popular during the Christmas holiday season. Happy Birthday! 1905 – The oldest continuous car Sam Neill, born in 1947, is a Northern race was first held on the Isle of Irish and New Zealander actor, writer, Man for the Royal Automobile director, and winemaker. Some of Club Tourist Trophy. The race was Neill’s most prominent films include avidly followed by the public, and Dead Calm, The Piano, the Jurassic car manufacturers quickly learned Park series, The Zookeeper, and The that sales followed racing success. Daughter. He lives in Queenstown, New Zealand, where his winery, 1927 – Isadora Duncan, considered Two Paddocks, as by many to be the mother of modern well as his family dance, was strangled to death in farm, are located. Nice, France, when her trademark When not managing long scarf got caught in the rear his vineyards, he wheel of a moving sports car. continues to take on acting roles, such Daily Trivia as in the 2016 superhero film Thor: Ragnarok, as Mr. McGregor in 2018’s Pure gold is non-toxic and Peter Rabbit, and reprising his role is sometimes used as a of Dr. Alan Grant in the upcoming food decoration. Jurassic World 3.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 On This Date 1821 – Costa Rica, El Salvador, Quote of the Day Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua “Reading is important, because all declared their independence from if you can read, you can learn the Spanish Empire. anything about everything and 1835 – The HMS Beagle arrived everything about anything.” in the Galapagos Islands with Charles Darwin on board. Darwin’s ~ Tomie DePaola observations on the islands were key in the development of his theory of evolution. Happy Birthday! 1928 – Scottish bacteriologist Tomie dePaola (1934–2020) was an Alexander Fleming accidentally American children’s book illustrator discovered penicillin. Lack of interest and author who published over within the research 250 books. He was a community meant graduate of the Pratt that antibiotics were Institute in Brooklyn not widely used in and received a master the medical field until of fine arts from the the 1940s. California College of Arts and Crafts. He Daily Quiz created books about many topics, Q: What unusual animal helps including the seasons, art, witches, guard one of the largest U.S. holidays, and clouds. DePaola also stockpiles of nuclear weapons? wrote a number of religious stories including Angels, Angels Everywhere A: Dolphins. The dolphins are and Miracles of Jesus. He died in specially trained to help protect the March 2020 due to complications from naval base that stores the weapons. surgery after a fall.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 On This Date 1901 – French painter Paul Gauguin Quote of the Day settled in the Marquesas Islands. “I got a chance to ride today He remained there on a very nice bus and until his death and from my window I can see painted some of his how beautiful this country most iconic works is and how nice it is to while living there. be alive and that to me 1939 – The first escorted ship convoy is like extra vitamins.” left Halifax for Britain in formation to protect against German U-Boat ~ B. B. King attacks. Canada had declared war on Germany the week before. 1974 – For the first time, an all-female Happy Birthday! troop of 32 recruits B. B. King (1925–2015), born in signed in at the RCMP Mississippi, was a legendary blues academy in Regina. Their singer and is considered one of the training ended 24 weeks greatest blues guitarists of all time. later, and the women He is probably the became constables. most recognizable name in the genre. Did You Know? Early in his career, he worked as a disc In Britain’s House of Commons, jockey in Memphis, two red lines separate the government where he gained the and opposition sides of the House. nickname “Beale Street Blues Boy,” The distance between the lines is later shortened to “B. B.” King’s two swords’ length. favorite singer was Frank Sinatra.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 On This Date 1916 – Red Baron, the World War I Quote of the Day flying ace, won his first aerial combat in Cambrai, France. He went on to “Slowing down reminds have more than 80 air combat wins you that the journey is during the war. supposed to be fun.” 1972 – The Cartier-Brébeuf National ~ Anne Bancroft Historic Park, located on the North shore of the Saint-Charles River, in the heart of Québec City, was opened to the public. The site commemorates Happy Birthday! where Jacques Cartier and his shipmates wintered in 1535–36. Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) was the actress, director, screenwriter, 1976 – NASA unveiled its first space and singer who won an Academy shuttle, the Enterprise. It was not built Award for her role as Helen Keller’s for space flight and was used only teacher, Annie Sullivan, in The for testing purposes. Regular flights Miracle Worker (1962). However, of the space she was best known (to her dismay) shuttle began as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate in 1981 with (1967). She was married to director the launching and producer Mel of Columbia. Brooks from 1964 Enterprise is now on display at the until her death in Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum 2005. They first met in New York City. in 1961 at a rehearsal Daily Trivia for Perry Como’s variety show. The Spiders recycle their webs by couple had one son, Max, who is a eating them. successful writer and actor.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 On This Date 1793 – George Washington laid Quote of the Day the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol Building. The construction took more “I wish I were supernaturally than a century to complete. strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.” 1812 – The Great Fire of Moscow finally burned out after five days. ~ Greta Garbo Russian soldiers set the blaze to keep the city from falling to Happy Birthday! Napoleon’s army. Greta Garbo (1905–1990) was a Swedish-born film actress who 1954 – A Gallup poll reported that a became one of Hollywood’s biggest Canadian family of four could live stars during the 1920s and 1930s. comfortably on $50 a week. Half of Garbo’s performance in the silent this amount was for food. movie Flesh and the Devil (1926) 1970 – Legendary rock guitarist Jimi catapulted her to international fame. Hendrix died of a drug overdose in Her first talking film, Anna Christie London. The flamboyant 28-year-old (1930), was promoted with the musician is widely regarded as catchphrase “Garbo Talks!” She one of the most influential electric retired in 1940, and although she had guitarists ever. many friends, she loathed publicity and made no public Did You Know? appearances after her retirement. She Greta Garbo was once designated collected art that was the most beautiful woman who valued at several ever lived by the Guinness million dollars in Book of World Records. her estate.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2020 On This Date 1648 – Jacques Boisdon opened Quote of the Day Quebec’s first licensed tavern. It was forbidden to operate while church “A sharp tongue is the only services were being held. edge tool that grows keener 1980 – Terry Fox was invested as a with constant use.” Companion of the Order of Canada. ~ Washington Irving in his Fox, who had one leg amputated story Rip Van Winkle due to cancer, raised millions of dollars for cancer research during his marathon run across Canada. 1982 – Computer scientist Scott Happy Birthday! Fahlman originated the first smiley Arthur Rackham (1867–1939) was :-) emoticon. It was designed to be an English illustrator known for read sideways and is often used in his exuberant pen e-mails to indicate that the writer and ink drawings is kidding. and watercolors. At Did You Know? 17, his family sent him to Australia to Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, when the whole world improve his fragile joins together to talk like a pirate! health. There he Sprinkle your conversations with flourished, working as a clerk and pirate talk, such as: Shiver me studying art. Rackham then became timbers!, Avast, me proud beauty!, a reporter and illustrator for the and Arrr, the sea be in me blood! Westminster Budget and began taking commissions as a book illustrator. His best-known works include Gulliver’s Travels, Rip Van Winkle, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2020 On This Date 1502 – The first use of the name “Newfoundland” appeared in the Quote of the Day Daybooks of King’s Payments. Newfoundland is Canada’s oldest “Everything you see I owe place name of European origin. to spaghetti.” 1973 – Billie Jean King beat Bobby ~ Sophia Loren Riggs in a tennis match that was billed as “The Battle of the Sexes.” King won $100,000 in prize money and the satisfaction of Happy Birthday! beating Riggs, who Sophia Loren, born in 1934, is insisted that women considered to be the most famous were inferior players Italian actress of all time. She became to men. an international film star due to a Daily Trivia five-picture contract with Paramount Pictures in the late 1950s. Her films The world record for skipping include Desire Under the Elms stones on water is 88 skips, set by with Anthony Perkins, based on the Kurt Steiner in 2013. Physicists Eugene O’Neill play; Houseboat, a have discovered that an angle of romantic comedy costarring Cary about 20° between the stone and Grant; and George Cukor’s Heller the water’s surface is optimal. in Pink Tights. She was married to film producer Carlo Ponti from 1957 until his death in 2007. Her primary residence is in Geneva, Switzerland.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 On This Date 1895 – The Duryea Motor Wagon Company became the first North Quote of the Day American automobile manufacturer to open for business. Politicians “When things get really bad, soon raised concerns about “the just raise your glass and stamp menace to our people of vehicles of your feet and do a little jig. this type hurtling through our streets That’s about all you can do.” and along our roads and poisoning the atmosphere.” ~ Leonard Cohen 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was first published. The fantasy book is set in “an ancient time between the age of Faerie and the dominion Happy Birthday! of men.” Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) was 2003 – The Galileo spacecraft a Canadian poet, novelist, singer, was directed to crash into Jupiter, and songwriter whose ending a highly successful 14-year work explored religion, mission that included observing politics, and personal Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9’s collision relationships. He is with Jupiter. known for his popular songs “Suzanne” and “Hallelujah,” which have been Daily Trivia recorded by many artists. His work won numerous awards, including The microwave oven was invented three Grammys. Cohen was inducted by mistake when an engineer testing into the Canadian Music Hall of a magnetron tube noticed that the Fame as well as the Rock and Roll radiation from it melted the chocolate Hall of Fame. His last album debuted bar he had in his pocket. three weeks before his death.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

It’s the First Day of Fall!

Quote of the Day “The important thing is to On This Date know how to take all 1914 – Three British cruisers were things quietly.” sunk by one German submarine in the ~ Michael Faraday North Sea. This event alerted the British to the effectiveness of the submarine. 1964 – Fiddler on the Roof premiered on Broadway for the first of 3,242 performances. The musical won nine Happy Birthday! Tony Awards. Michael Faraday (1791–1867) was Daily Quiz an influential English scientist whose research focused on Q: What is unique about the electromagnetism and migration of the monarch butterfly? electrochemistry. The primarily self-educated scientist is known for many revelations, including the Faraday A: Monarchs migrate up to paradox, the organic compound 3,000 miles from their summer benzene, and developing the concept home in the northern U.S. and of the electromagnetic field and the southern Canada to their winter laws of electrolysis. Albert Einstein home in central Mexico. Since they honored Faraday by having his hatch in the summer, monarchs picture (along with those of Isaac make the long trip as new butterflies, Newton and James Clerk Maxwell) never having done it before. in his study.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 On This Date 1787 – Sir John Johnson of the British Quote of the Day Indian Department purchased the site of Toronto from three Mississauga Indian “I have spent my life judging chiefs. The purchase cost the British the distance between Crown £1,700 in cash and goods. American reality and 1846 – German astronomer Johann the American dream.” Gottfried Galle discovered the ~ Bruce Springsteen planet Neptune. 1962 – The Jetsons, the first color TV series for ABC, aired its first episode. Happy Birthday! 1990 – The Public Broadcasting System debuted with an 11-hour Bruce Springsteen, born in 1949, documentary on the Civil War. Created is the beloved, socially conscious by Ken Burns, the show was awarded American rock star known by his fans more than 40 major honors. as “The Boss.” Many of Springsteen’s best songs herald the experiences of Astronomy Trivia blue-collar Americans. His iconic Neptune is the most distant major 1975 song “Born to Run” hit a cultural planet from the sun. The giant has chord, launching him to stardom. been visited only once, when the In addition to his solo recordings, Voyager 2 spacecraft conducted a Springsteen is also the front man of the close flyby on August 25, 1989. E Street Band. His critically acclaimed Born in the U.S.A. album (1984) went 15x platinum and has sold more than 30 million copies.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 On This Date 1493 – Columbus set out for his second expedition to the New Humor of the Day World. This time, he brought a fleet “Cut out all these exclamation of 17 ships instead of the three he points. An exclamation traveled with on his first voyage. point is like laughing The goal of the second trip was to establish a permanent colony. at your own joke.” 1948 – Motorcycle builder Soichiro ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald Honda incorporated the Honda Motor Company in Japan. Honda went on to become world famous in the 1960s for their motorcycles, and later for Happy Birthday! their affordable, fuel-efficient cars. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was 1952 – Fast food chain Kentucky a writer of novels and short stories Fried Chicken opened whose works embodied the “Jazz Age,” its first franchise a term he coined. The Great Gatsby, location in Salt Lake which is considered Fitzgerald’s City, Utah. KFC now masterpiece, was has more than 23,000 published in 1925. restaurants worldwide. During the 1920s, Fitzgerald and his flamboyant wife, Zelda, led lavish Daily Quiz lifestyles as New Q: What do bulletproof vests, fire York celebrities. Sadly, Zelda was escapes, windshield wipers, and diagnosed as schizophrenic in 1930, laser printers all have in common? and Fitzgerald suffered from health problems that, combined with his A: They were all invented by women. alcoholism, hindered his later writings.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 On This Date 1878 – British physician Dr. Charles Quote of the Day Drysdale warned against the use “There is no such thing as of tobacco in a letter to the Times newspaper. The message was one of was—only is.” the earliest notices on the dangers ~ William Faulkner of smoking. 1926 – Henry Ford announced that his employees would be switching Happy Birthday! to a 40-hour, five-day work week. William Faulkner (1897–1962) was 1953 – Liberace made an iconic American his debut at Carnegie writer who won Hall, performing before the Nobel Prize in a sellout audience. Literature in 1949. Faulkner set many – Nine black students entered 1957 of his stories and Central High School in Little novels in fictional Rock, Arkansas, under heavy armed Southern settings similar to his guard. It was the city’s first school hometown of Oxford, Mississippi. His to be integrated after the Supreme novels A Fable (1954) and The Reivers Court ruled that school segregation (1962) both won the Pulitzer Prize was unconstitutional. for Fiction. Several of his books, including The Sound and the Fury Did You Know? and As I Lay Dying, are routinely In 1953, Ripley’s Believe It or Not featured on lists of the best English declared Liberace “the fastest piano language novels of the 20th century. player in the world.” He played Faulkner died at 64 from a heart 6,000 notes in two minutes. attack following a serious fall from his horse.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 On This Date 1820 – Frontiersman Daniel Boone Quote of the Day died quietly in his sleep at his home in Missouri. “Do not worry at being Boone helped establish worried; but accept worry settlements farther west peacefully. Difficult but than had previously not impossible.” been thought possible. ~ Johnny Appleseed 1928 – The Galvin Manufacturing Corporation—now Motorola—began production of radio battery eliminators. Two years later, the company Happy Birthday! introduced the first mass-produced John Chapman (1774–1845), better car radios. known as “Johnny Appleseed,” was 1983 – Soviet military officer an American pioneer and nurseryman Stanislav Petrov averted a potential who introduced apple trees to large nuclear war by correctly identifying a parts of the American midwest. reported incoming nuclear missile as Chapman became a a computer error and not an American legend while he was first strike. Tensions were especially still alive thanks to his high at the time, as Soviet planes had generous spirit and shot down a South Korean airliner just tireless conservation three weeks earlier. efforts. Using seeds from Pennsylvania cider mills, Chapman planted apple orchards and handed out seedlings as Daily Trivia he traveled. He was also a member Iced tea and the edible ice cream cone of the New Church and helped spread were popularized in 1904 during the the gospel in the areas where he St. Louis World’s Fair. established apple nurseries.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2020 On This Date 1905 – Albert Einstein’s paper Quote of the Day “Does the Inertia of a “A diplomat is a man Body Depend Upon Its who always remembers Energy Content?” was a woman’s birthday, but published, introducing never remembers her age.” the famous equation E = mc². ~ Robert Frost 1972 – The sale of firecrackers was banned in Canada following public outcries that they were like miniature Happy Birthday! hand grenades for the preteen set. Randy Bachman, born in 1943, is a Canadian musician 1989 – The first two people to go best known as a over Niagara Falls lead guitarist and in a barrel together songwriter. He was and live to tell a founding member about it did so on of the rock band the this day. Jeffrey Guess Who in the Petkovich and Peter early 1960s and of Bachman–Turner DeBernardi went Overdrive in 1973. He is currently over the 167-foot-high Horseshoe Falls a radio personality on CBC Radio, on the Canadian side of the Falls. hosting the weekly music show Vinyl Daily Trivia Tap. Bachman studied the violin until age 12, which later influenced As a child, Einstein had a tendency his guitar solos. Bachman has seven to whisper words softly to himself children, 26 grandchildren, and one before saying them aloud. This led great-grandchild. He was inducted the family maid to nickname into the Musicians Hall of Fame and him “the dopey one.” Museum in 2016.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2020 On This Date 1542 – Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sailed into San Quote of the Day Diego Bay. This is the first recorded “Ten people who speak contact that Europeans had with make more noise than California, but despite his reports of the appealing coastline, a settlement ten thousand who was not founded until 1769. are silent.” 1781 – General Washington led ~ Napoleon Bonaparte 17,000 French and Continental troops into a siege near Yorktown, Virginia. Happy Birthday! The defeat of British General Cornwallis Brigitte Bardot, born in 1934, is a and his troops ended French actress and singer. One of the Revolutionary War and ensured the most iconic sex American independence. symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, Bardot 1785 – Napoleon Bonaparte graduated was widely referred from the Military Academy in Paris. to by her initials, He was 42nd in a class of only 51. B. B. She started her Daily Trivia acting career in 1952 The largest taxi fleet in the world and became world-famous with her is found in Mexico City. The city role in the controversial film And boasts more than 60,000 taxis. God Created Woman (1956). She has been an animal rights activist since her retirement from acting in 1973. In recent years, Bardot has generated controversy by criticizing immigration and Islam in France.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 On This Date 1829 – London’s reorganized police force was established on this day. Quote of the Day Policemen were called “bobbies” and “peelers” after Robert Peel, “He who loses wealth loses the Home Secretary who began the much; he who loses a friend force. The force became known as loses more; but he that loses Scotland Yard. his courage loses all.” 1948 – Hamlet, starring Laurence ~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Olivier, opened at Park Avenue Cinema in New York. The movie won the Best Picture Oscar. 1988 – The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Happy Birthday! Center, marking America’s return Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra to manned space flight following (1547–1616) was one of the world’s the Challenger disaster. Discovery foremost novelists. His masterpiece, delivered 31 satellites into orbit Don Quixote, has been before being retired in 2011. translated into more Animal Trivia languages than any other book besides The biggest frog is the appropriately the Bible. Unable to named Goliath frog (Conraua support himself with goliath) of Cameroon. It can grow his writing, Cervantes worked as a to be nearly a foot long, and it can purchasing agent for the Spanish weigh as much as seven pounds. Armada and as a tax collector. In his later years, he received a pension from a wealthy citizen, which allowed him to write full time. These later years were his most productive.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 On This Date 1585 – English explorer John Davis Quote of the Day returned from his first of three voyages to the Arctic in the service “The women here in Monaco of Queen Elizabeth I. don’t like me, and so I have to 1846 – Anesthetic ether was used watch everything I say and do for the first time by Boston dentist because they’re so critical.” Dr. William Morton, who used it ~ Grace Kelly while extracting a tooth. 1927 – Babe Ruth, also known as the “Sultan of Swat,” hit his 60th home run of Happy Birthday! the season. The record Princess Charlotte of Monaco, stood until Roger Maris Duchess of Valentinois (1898–1977) broke it in 1961. was the daughter of Louis II and heir 1946 – The Nuremberg Trials to the throne of Monaco from 1922 concluded after 22 German military to 1944. On her son Rainier’s 21st leaders were charged with war crimes. birthday, she renounced her claim and made him the heir. Later in life, Daily Trivia Princess Charlotte went to college Camels can travel up to 100 miles and earned a degree in social work, in the hot desert eventually turning a without water. family estate into a But contrary to rehabilitation home popular belief, for ex-convicts. She a camel’s hump was also known for is not filled with her eclectic love life, water. Instead, it is filled with up to including a love affair with the 80 pounds of fat that is metabolized jewel thief René Girier, which was for energy and water when needed. scandalous in her time.