Almanac for September 26th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for September 26th: https://ko-fi.com/post/September-26-County-Fair-Y8Y813NUVX

Artist Birthday: George Gershwin

The Gershwin Brothers' first big hit musical, from the January 12, 1926 San Antonio (TX) Light

French Republican Calendar day name (5 Vendémiaire): Horse

Beatles Trivia
September 26, 1969: The Beatles release Abbey Road.

Bummer September 26th

September 26, 1687: The Greek Parthenon is partially destroyed when munitions stored there by Turkish forces occupying Athens are ignited by a missile fired by Venetian troops.

September 26, 1937: Blues musician Bessie Smith dies of traumatic injuries she suffers in a car accident. She was the passenger in a car driven by her boyfriend Richard Morgan. Morgan, driving along U.S. Route 61 toward Clarksdale, Mississippi, misjudges the speed of a truck he’s coming up on and swerves at the last moment to avoid rear-ending the truck but sideswipes it instead. Since Smith is in the passenger seat and possibly has her hand and/or forearm sticking out of the passenger-side window, she sustains severe crush injuries to the right side of her body and a partially amputated arm. Surgeons at Clarksdale’s African-American hospital surgically amputate Smith’s arm. She never regains consciousness following surgery.

September 26, 1957: One day after being bitten by a boomslang snake at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt dies of the effects of the venom. Schmidt is offered medical treatment, but refuses because he wants to document the effects of the venom on the human body before he dies.

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Almanac for September 25

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for September 25th: 

https://ko-fi.com/post/September-25-Publick-Occurences-Both-Forreign-and-M4M513NU46

Today's Observance: St. Finbar's Feast Day

Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: One Hit Wonders
Artist Birthday: Shel Silverstein

Bummer September 25th

September 25, 1978: Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Flight 182 collides in mid-air with a private Cessna 172 over San Diego. The crash kills all 135 people on both planes and seven people on the ground. The jet shears the vertical stabilizer off the Cessna and the Cessna damages the right wing of the jet so badly that the jet banks uncontrollably, crashing nose-first into a North San Diego driveway.

September 25, 2016: Miami Marlins pitcher José Delfín Fernández Gómez dies at the age of 24 in a boating accident. Fernández is intoxicated with cocaine and alcohol when he pilots a boat at a high rate of speed into a jetty off Miami Beach, Florida, killing himself and two male passengers instantly. 

Almanac for September 24th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for September 24th: https://ko-fi.com/post/September-24th-F1F7Z4U1I

Artist Birthday: Horace Walpole

Beatles Trivia
September 24, 1941: Linda McCartney is born, as Linda Eastman, in Scarsdale, New York. Her Jewish family’s name is Epstein before her father Anglicizes it to Eastman, but she’s not related to Beatles manager Brian Epstein. It’s entirely coincidental that the eventual Sir Paul marries this beautiful, talented photographer who happens to be an Epstein. She was the first woman to shoot the cover photograph for Rolling Stone magazine. 

Bummer September 24th

September 24, 1919: Colgate University first-year student Frank McCullough drowns as part of a class hazing ritual, having been left on a island by second-year students. McCullough and the other first-years are told to swim back to shore.

September 24, 2007: Camera operator Conway Wickliffe is killed while filming stunts for the movie The Dark Knight. He is the passenger in a pickup truck driving parallel to a stunt car; the driver misses a turn and the truck crashes into a tree.

Almanac for September 23rd

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for September 23rd: https://ko-fi.com/post/September-23rd-L3L8Z4U3F

Artist Birthday: Bruce Springsteen

Bummer September 23rd

September 23, 965: Al-Mutanabbi, a courtly poet of the Abbasid Caliphate who wrote in Arabic, dies in what is now Iraq. His birth date is not known, but he was thought to be about 50 years old at the time of his death. He died in a fight with a group of assailants who were insulted by one of his poems.

September 23, 1939: Sigmund Freud dies of cancer of the jaw. He had been diagnosed with epithelioma of the mouth in 1923, and although the tumor had been surgically removed, the surgery was incomplete. By 1939, the cancer that had spread to his jawbone was so painful, and also inoperable, that Freud asked his personal physician to give him a life-ending dose of morphine. 

September 23, 1973: Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is in his fifth day of hospitalization. He calls his wife to let her know he isn’t feeling well and dies a few hours later, officially of heart failure. 

Some have speculated that Neruda may have been poisoned in the hours before his death. Chile’s coup d’etat that ended the term of democratically-elected socialist President Salvador Allende had happened on September 11th. Neruda had been Allende’s ambassador to France and his home had already been searched by the military forces of coup leader General Augusto Pinochet. Neruda famously told Pinochet’s troops that the only dangerous thing they would find was poetry.

September 23, 1994: Psycho writer Robert Bloch dies of cancer of the esophagus and kidneys at the age of 77.

Almanac for September 22nd

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for September 22nd: https://ko-fi.com/post/September-22nd-K3K6Z4U51

Today's Observance: First day of autumn (Northern Hemisphere)

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Bummer September 22nd

September 22, 1692: Eight people found guilty of witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony are executed by hanging.

September 22, 1776: American Revolutionary spy Nathan Hale is executed by hanging by the British after being caught in the act of spying on British troop movements on Long Island.

September 22, 1796: 31-year-old Mary Lamb, a seamstress, shouts at her apprentice (a child) and is reprimanded by her (Mary's) disabled mother Elizabeth. Mentally ill and suffering from the strain of being a full-time caregiver and also the family breadwinner, Mary stabs her mother in the chest with a kitchen knife, killing her. Mary will be confined to a hospital for mental health treatment until her health improves. Although she continues to experience relapses of her illness from time to time, Mary goes on to write, with her brother Charles, the popular book Tales From Shakespeare.

September 22, 1978: Stunt performer A.J. Bakunas dies from his injuries after a failed stunt fall from Lexington, Kentucky’s Kincaid Towers the previous day. Bakunas lands on the air bag as planned, which splits, allowing his body to hit the ground at approximately 115 miles per hour.

Read more about the incident here.

September 22, 2014: Clemson University student Tucker Hipps dies from a fall off a bridge into shallow water sustained while taking part in a Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity hazing ritual.

Almanac for September 21st

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for September 21st: https://ko-fi.com/post/September-21st-M4M4Z4U81

Artist Birthday: Stephen King

Bummer September 21st

September 21, 1921: Ammonium nitrate fertilizer stored in a building owned by the BASF company in Oppau, Germany (now part of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein), explodes, killing an estimated 500 to 600 people, destroying about 80% of Oppau, and leaving 6,500 people homeless. The blast was felt 19 miles/30 km away in Heidelberg, where it derailed a tram.

September 21, 1989: 19 junior high and high school students from Alton, Texas, drown when a Dr. Pepper bottling truck collides with their school bus. The bus goes off the road and into a rock quarry filled with rainwater. Two more students will die of injures related to being submerged in water by September 29th. The victims were all between 12 and 19 years old.

September 21, 1998: Gold medal-winning Olympic track and field champion Florence Griffith Joyner, age 38, dies in her sleep of a severe epileptic seizure caused, in part, by an undetected cavernous hemangioma, a malformation of a vein that makes a person susceptible to epilepsy.

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Almanac for September 20th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for September 20th: https://ko-fi.com/post/Sept-20-Cat-on-a-Hot-Tin-Roof-C0C2F5L5R

Today's Observation: Yom Kippur (begins at sundown)

Beatles Trivia
September 20, 1974: David Bowie and John Lennon meet for the first time at Dean Martin’s 21st birthday party for Martin’s son Ricci. Ringo Starr, Elton John, and Elizabeth Taylor are also there.

Artist Birthday: Jon Bernthal

Bummer September 20th

September 20, 1973: Musician Jim Croce and five others die when their aircraft crashes into a tree shortly after takeoff from Natchitoches, Louisiana. Croce is 30 years old.

September 20, 1989: The last fluent speaker of the Kamassian language, Klavdiya Zakharovna Plotnikova-Andzhighatova, an approximately 105-year-old woman, dies. Kamassian is one of the Samoyed languages of the Ural Mountains. In fact, it was the last of the Samoyed languages to go extinct.

September 20, 1997: Musician Nick Traina, the son of author Danielle Steel, passes away from an overdose of the prescription medication lithium. He is 19 years old.

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