GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, September 09, the 253rd day of 2015

with 111 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 6:17 and sunset is

@ 7:06. The moon is waning. The morning stars are stars are Jupiter,

Mars, Uranus & Venus. The evening stars are, Mercury, Neptune &

Saturn.

ON THIS DAY IN: 490 B.C. – The Battle of Marathon took place between

the invading Persian army and the Athenian Army. The marathon race was

derived from the events that occurred surrounding this battle.

1776 – The second Continental Congress officially made the term

“United States”, replacing the previous term “United Colonies.”

1836 – Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law.

1850 – California became the 31st state to join the union.

1898 – In Omaha, NE, Tommy Fleming of Eau Claire, WI won the first

logrolling championship.

1893 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland’s wife, Frances Cleveland, gave

birth to a daughter, Esther. It was the first time a president’s child

was born in the White House.

1904 – Mounted police were used for the first time in the City of New York.

1911 – Italy declared war on the Ottoman Turks and annexed Libya,

Tripolitania, and Cyrenaica in North Africa.

1919 – The majority of Boston’s police force went on strike. The force

was made up of 1,500 men.

1919 – Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin’s HD-4, a hydrofoil

craft, set a world marine speed record.

1926 – The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the

Radio Corporation of America (RCA).

1942 – Japan dropped incendiaries over NE in an attempt to set fire to

the forests in Oregon and Washington. The forest did not ignite.

1943 – During World War II Allied forces landed at Taranto and Salerno.

1946 – Ben Alexander hosted “Heart’s Desire” for the first time on the

Mutual Broadcasting System.

1948 – North Korea became the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea.

1950 – Sal Maglie (New York Giants) pitched a fourth consecutive

shutout. Only four other pitchers in the National League had ever

accomplished this feat.

1957 – The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since

Reconstruction was signed into law by U.S. President Eisenhower.

1965 – French President Charles de Gaulle announced that France was

withdrawing from NATO to protest the domination of theU.S. in the

organization.

1965 – Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched the eighth

perfect game in major league baseball history.

1971 – Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National

Hockey League (NHL).

1979 – Tracy Austin, at 16, became the youngest player to win the U.S.

Open women’s tennis title.

1981 – Nicaragua declared a state of economic emergency and banned strikes.

1983 – The Soviet Union announced that the Korean jetliner the was

shot down on September 1, 1983 was not an accident or an error.

1984 – Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown’s combined

yardage record when he reached 15,517 yards.

1986 – Frank Reed was taken hostage in Lebanon by pro-Iranian

kidnappers. The director of a private school in Lebanon was released

44 months later.

1986 – Ted Turner presented the first of his colorized films on WTBS

in Atlanta, GA.

1986 – Gennadiy Zakharov was indicted by a New York jury on espionage

charges. Zakharov was a Soviet United Nations employee.

1987 – Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer aired for the last time on CBS.

1993 – Israeli and PLO leaders agreed to recognize each other.

1994 – The U.S. agreed to accept about 20,000 Cuban immigrants a year.

This was in return for Cuba’s promise to halt the flight of refugees.

1994 – The space shuttle Discovery blasted off on an 11-day mission.

1995 – Amtrak’s Broadway Limited service made its final run between

New York City, NY and Chicago, IL.

1997 – Sinn Fein, the IRA’s political ally, formally renounced

violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland’s future.

1998 – Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to the U.S.

Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation ofU.S.

President Clinton.

1998 – Four tourists who had paid $32,500 each were taken in submarine

to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The ship is 2 miles below the

Atlantic off Newfoundland.

1999 – The Sega Dreamcast game system went on sale. By 1:00pm all Toys

R Us locations in the U.S. had sold out.

2008 – The iTunes Music Store reached 100 million applications downloaded.

2009 – The iTunes Music Store reached 1.8 billion applications downloaded.

2014 – Apple unveiled the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, Apple Watch, Apple

Watch Sport and Apple Watch Edition.