09 September 1776: The Second Continental Congress changed the name of the nation to the United States of America, from the United Colonies.
09 September 1850: California became the 31st state.
09 September 1861: Sally Louisa Tompkins was commissioned a cavalry captain; she was the only woman to be commissioned in the Confederate army.
09 September 1893: President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Esther Cleveland, became the first president’s child to be born in the White House.
09 September 1919: The Boston Police Strike began after the city denied the police’s right to unionize.
09 September 1948: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Established
09 September 1956: Elvis Presley made his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
09 September 1976: Death of Marxist Revolutionary Mao Zedong
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
- Edwin Schlossberg
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
- Mel Brooks
If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
- Bill Lyon
