1964 : The first Buffalo Wings (deep fried chicken wings coated with vinegar based cayenne pepper hot sauce and margarine or butter) are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, hence the name.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/october3rd.html
1967 : Thurgood Marshall took the oath of office to become the first African American member of the US Supreme Court.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/october2nd.html
1954 : Dr J Robert Oppenheimer the controversial nuclear scientist has been re-elected as the director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University New Jersey.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/october1st.html
1955 : James Dean the well known young Movie Star who starred in Rebel Without A Cause dies at the age of 24 in a car crash in his Porsche in California.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september30th.html
2013 : The Olympic flame was lit ahead of the 2014 Winter Games to be held in Sochi, Russia (from February 7th to February 23rd, 2014). The flame would make its way around Russia and the world. Much of the publicity surrounding the games has been overshadowed by Russian politics and recent legislation that has been deemed anti-gay.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september29th.html
1918 : In the worlds worst flu epidemic in history (called Spanish Flu because the first major outbreak causing multiple deaths was in Spain), an estimated 30 million people died worldwide. Philadelphia was the hardest hit city in the United States. After the Liberty Loan parade on September 28, thousands of people became infected causing the death of 12,000 in the city.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september28th.html
September 27th, 1995 : The trial of OJ Simpson is now entering it's closing stage with opening statements to the jury beginning on January 24th over the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman on June 12th 1994. The prosecutor is now starting on her closing statements to the jury warning them to look beyond the defense smoke screen at the facts of the case.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september27th.html
Do NOT forget - Extra Credit for participating in Homecoming! If you dress up, and it relates you get 5 points EC.
Monday - Minion Day
Tuesday - Inside/Out Day - Emotions Day
Wednesday - Dress your Age Day (10th Graders are Elementary/Middle Schoolers)
Thursday - Dress Up Day
Friday - Outrageous Orange and Black Day
Below are some of my favorite pictures of HomeComing!
1932 : Mahatma Gandhi broke his death fast after 6 days and 5 hrs after the British Government had approved most of the compromise plan on the privileges of Indian Untouchables in legislative elections.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september26th.html
2003 : As the heat wave comes to an end in France the Health Ministry confirms that nearly 15,000 had died from the extreme temperatures (7 days with 40 °C / 104 °F or more recorded) in August with most of those being the elderly. Due to the extreme temperatures and the fact that most homes and retirement homes are not equipped with air conditioning. August is traditionally the month when many people, including government ministers and physicians, are on vacation and many of the elderly are left to fend for themselves in homes that were not suitable for that type of weather.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september25th.html
1908 : The first factory-built Ford Model T was completed which became affectionately known as the Tin Lizzie.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september24th.html
1957 : Nine black students "Little Rock Nine" who the police quietly slipped into Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas under the the U.S. Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education ruling which declared all laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional. After the white mob outside mostly parents of the white students learn of the black students inside the school they begin to riot, and because police are outnumbered by rioters the "Little Rock Nine" are removed from the school.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september23rd.html
1914 : For the first time in wartime the capabilities of Submarine warfare is seen when a German U-Boat submarine sinks three British cruisers, the Aboukir, the Hogue, and the Cressy, in just over one hour.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september22nd.html
1998 : Bill Clinton's testimony about his possible affair with Monica Lewinsky as shown on public television for the first time. The president was forced to defend previous statements about the exact nature of his affair and whether he had previously lied under oath.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september21st.html
1962 : Black student James Meredith is barred from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by the segregationist Governor Ross R. Barnett. Following the US Circuit Court of Appeals who ordered James Meredith admitted to the Univ. of Miss he became the first black student at the University of Mississippi On October 1, 1962, which led to rioting on campus, requiring federal troops and U.S. Marshals to take control of the riots which left two people dead and many more injured. The federal troops and U.S. marshals were sent by President John F. Kennedy.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september20th.html
1975 : Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst is arrested in a San Francisco apartment and arrested for armed robbery. She had been kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California on February 4, 1974 but in April she sent letters to the media saying she was joining the SLA of her own free will and later that month, a surveillance camera took a photo of her participating in an armed robbery of a San Francisco bank making her a wanted criminal by the FBI.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september18th.html
September 17th is is Constitution Day! 237 years ago the Constitution was signed! Here is a great quote from John Adams about the Declaration of Independence!
1932 : Mahatma Gandhi begins his hunger strike in opposition to Britain's new Caste Separation Laws.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september16th.html
1963 : Members of the Ku Klux Klan plant 19 sticks of dynamite with a delayed-time release outside the basement of the 16th St. Baptist Church which was a rallying point for civil-rights activities through the spring of 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. Four young black girls (Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Collins, and Cynthia Wesley) were killed in the bombing as they prepared their Sunday school lesson on "The love that forgives." The bombers identities were Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas Blanton, Herman Cash, and Robert "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss. The bombing, which was targeted at children attending church, provided the impetus for increased support for people working for civil rights. Due to public outrage it marked a turning point in the U.S. civil-rights movement of the mid-20th century and contributed to support for passage of civil rights legislation in 1964.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september15th.html
Homecoming is September 30th to October 4th. Below is the Theme and Spirit Days. I will give you 5 points Extra Credit for every day you dress up! I want you to get ready - you have 2 weeks. You dressing up has to be about the Theme or Spirit Day to count!!!
I will be at the Homecoming Dance. If you sign my paper at the dance - I will GIVE you 20 points Extra Credit!
Homecoming Week September 30th- October 4th
Theme- All Sting, No Howl Use the Theme for Door and Hall Decorations
9/30 Monday- Minion Monday Modified Activity Schedule- Students stay in 5th to work on door decorations. Start making your plans now. The winning 5th hour will win a Cupcake Party.
10/1 Tuesday- Inside Out (Emotions) Students stay after school to work on Hall Decorations. Check with your Class Sponsor to sign up for work days leading up to Hall Decorating.
10/2 Wednesday- Dress Your Age 9th grade- Toddlers & Preschoolers 10th grade- Elementary or MS Students 11th grade- Careers 12th grade- Senior Citizens 8:30 AM Judging of Halls and Doors
10/3 Thursday- Dress to Impress Coronations Assembly Schedule 1
0/4 Fri.- Outrageous Orange & Black Football Game 7:00 PM vs Shawnee Dance after the game: $5 BTW students only, must have an ID.
1901 : William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States died on this day. He was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz when he is shot at point blank range on September 6th, 1901, eight days before he died.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september14th.html
1993 : Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat sign a framework for peace on the South Lawn of the White House.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september13th.html
1940 : The Lascaux prehistoric cave paintings are discovered by accident by teenagers searching for their dog in France, the paintings are believed to date back over 15,000 years and are considered to be some of the best examples of well-known Upper Paleolithic paintings dating back 16,000 years ever discovered.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september12th.html
2001 : The 911 attacks carried out on September 11, 2001 were a series of terrorist attacks upon the United States of America. Four commercial passenger jet airliners were hijacked on that morning and two of the planes were crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower, causing the collapse of both towers within two hours. The third aircraft was crashed into the Pentagon. Passengers on the fourth hijacked aircraft attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers, which crashed into a field in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania killing all on board but in the process saving many other lives. Approximately 3,000 people died in these attacks. including a number of fire fighters and rescue workers.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september11th.html
1977 : The last person to be executed by guillotine is a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september10th.html
1971 : Prisoners riot at Attica Prison in New York and seize control taking 39 prison guards and staff hostage, they were protesting over overcrowding. The siege lasted until September 13th when authorities took back the prison, but with terrible consequences including 10 hostage deaths and 29 inmate deaths, plus nearly 100 others with serious injuries.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september9th.html
1974 : President Gerald Ford grants an unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed or participated in while in office.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september8th.html
1940 : Germany starts it's Blitz on London with 300 German bombers in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. The Blitz caused the deaths of over 40,000 men women and children and left a million homes destroyed in the city.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september7th.html
1901 : President McKinley is shot and fatally wounded in Buffalo, New York by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september6th.html
1997 : Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun who devoted her life to helping the poor, died at the age of 87.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september5th.html
1957 : The National Guard on the order of Governor Orval Faubus is used to prevent nine African American students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. The action was taken in violation of a federal order to integrate the school.
Taken from: https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september4th.html
