Daily Calendar for Saturday, September 9, 2023
Question of the Day
Where does Ugli fruit come from?
βUgliβ fruit is a trademark for the tangelo, a tropical fruit that is a hybrid between a grapefruit and a tangerine or mandarin orange. Tangelos originated in Jamaica.
[The term βugly fruitβ may refer to other fruit, such as the osage orange (aka hedge apple), or generally to imperfect or blemished produce.]
Advice of the Day
When closing up a summer house, run a cycle of warm water and 1 cup vinegar through the washing machine and dishwasher before draining the pipes.
Home Hint of the Day
Buy narrow T-shaped hardware to cover the gap between your kitchen counter and stove. This will seal a gap up to 1/4 inch wide and prevent food from collecting there.
Word of the Day
Fathom
1 fathom=2 yards=6 feet
Puzzle of the Day
The Green Mountain State.(Name the U.S. state!)
Vermont
Died
- John Singleton Copley (artist) β
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (painter) β
- Bill Monroe (American musician) β
- Burgess Meredith (actor) β
Born
- Leo Tolstoy (author) β
- Harland Sanders (founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken) β
- Phyllis Whitney (writer) β
- Sylvia Miles (actress) β
- Otis Redding (singer & songwriter) β
- Tom Wopat (actor & singer) β
- Angela Cartwright (actress) β
- Hugh Grant (actor) β
- Adam Sandler (actor) β
- Eric Stonestreet (actor) β
- Michael BublΓ© (singer) β
- Michelle Williams (actress) β
Events
- Continental Congress declared βUnited States of Americaβ would be the name of the new nationβ
- John Herschel took the first glass plate photographβ
- California was admitted as the 31st stateβ
- Tom Fleming won the first national log rolling championshipβ
- Canadian swimmer, Marilyn Bell, became the first person to swim across Lake Ontarioβ
- Elvis Presley appeared for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show. The show was hosted by Charles Laughton because Sullivan was recovering from injuries received in a car accidentβ
- USS Long Beach, the first nuclear-powered surface warship, was commissionedβ
- Arthur Ashe won the U.S. Open tennis titleβ
- The comic strip For Better or For Worse debutedβ
- Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch in Britain’s historyβ
- Football game between Miami Dolphins and Tennessee Titans lasted about 7 hours 8 minutes due to 3 hours 59 minutes of weather (lightning) delays. This made it the longest game in NFL history since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger. Dolphins beat the Titans 27-20.β
Weather
- Thrall, Texas, had 38.2 inches of rain within 24 hoursβ