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Today, September 24, 2025

September 24: Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving: -- A day just like the regular Thanksgiving, and likewise a day to express gratitude, observed by about 3,000 people who are members of Schwenkfelder churches in the Pennsylvania Dutch (also known as Amish) counties where they live. The celebrations are marked by a service held at one of the Schwenkfelder churches, on the Sunday closest to September 24. It is followed by a religious and historical address, which is followed by a meal. The meal is typical of the same foods that were eaten at the first Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving. The Pennsylvania legislature recognizes Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving. In 1733, a small number of Schwenkfelder's followers arrived in Philadelphia. A second group came from Germany on September 22, 1734. They swore their allegiance to the British king and two days later, they expressed gratitude to God for allowing them to flee persecution, by holding a thanksgiving service. As there were no crops to harvest, the Thanksgiving meal consisted of water, bread, butter, and apple butter. The Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving event is the oldest continuously observed Thanksgiving in the United States. The traditional Thanksgiving was yet to be observed annually and uniformly across the nation. While the Pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving feast in 1621, the observance wasn't a popular practice among everyone. George Washington proclaimed the nation's first Thanksgiving in 1789. And while his successors followed suit and Thanksgiving was accepted, the celebrations were still not consistent. In fact, it wasn't until 1863 that Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving for the last Thursday in November. There was now some uniformity in the celebrations and the nation gave thanks on that day until 1939. In 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the observance to the fourth Thursday, and that's when it has been celebrated ever since. The Schwenkfelders are the descendants of a small Protestant sect that popped up in Germany during the time of the Reformation. They were the devotees of Caspar Schwenkfeld, a theologian. He and his followers separated from Protestant circles and formed the brotherhoods that are still around today as the Schwenkfelder Church. The Schwenkfelder population has shrunk over the years, but most now live in Pennsylvania Dutch country. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-amish-not-to-be-modern-dvd-1985-tv-documen1985.html

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Today, September 24, 2025

September 24, 787: Religion: The History Of Religion: Abrahamic Religions: Christianity: Nicene Religion: The Council Of Nicaea: The Second Council If Nicaea: -- The last of the first seven ecumenical councils of both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church assembles at the church of Hagia Sophia, at the location of the First Council Of Nicaea, an ecumenical council that was the first effort to attain consensus of belief throughout Christendom) in present-day Iznik in Turkey. The Second Council Of Nicaea numbered about 350 members; 308 bishops or their representatives signed. Tarasius, later known as Saint Tarasios or Saint Tarasius, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 784 to 806, presided over the council, and seven sessions were held in Nicaea. The Second Council decided to restore the practice of iconodulism (also known as Iconoduly, Iconodulia, Iconophilism, Iconophily or Iconophilia), the use and veneration of icons (holy images), a practice which had been suppressed by imperial edict inside the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Leo III (717-741), and which his son, Constantine V (741-775), had sought to make official by holding the Council Of Hieria in 754 AD. The Council of Hieria was overturned by the Second Council Of Nicaea only 33 years later, and has since also been rejected by all other Catholic and Orthodox churches, since none of the five major patriarchs were represented. The emperor's vigorous enforcement of the ban included persecution of those who venerated icons, and of monks in general. There were also political overtones to the persecution; images of emperors were still allowed by Constantine, which some opponents saw as an attempt to give wider authority to imperial power, rather than to the saints and bishops. Constantine's iconoclastic tendencies were shared by Constantine's son, Leo IV. After the latter's early death, his widow, Irene Of Athens, though her husband was an iconoclast, harbored iconophile sympathies, and during her rule as regent, she called the Second Council Of Nicaea in 787 to adjudicate the matter, which accordingly condemned iconoclasm as heretical. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/images-of-christ-pictorial-representation-of-jesus-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, September 24, 2025

September 24, 1583: #BOTD: #HBD! Albrecht Von Wallenstein, also Von Waldstein, Austrian generalissimo, admiral and politician (d. February 25, 1634) is #born Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius Von Wallenstein in Hermanice, Bohemia (modern Czech Republic), was a Bohemian military leader and Holy Roman Empire Count palatine, who offered his services, an army of 30,000 to 100,000 men, during the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), to emperor Ferdinand II. The Thirty Years' War was fought primarily in Central Europe, and was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in human history, as well as the deadliest European religious war in history, resulting in eight million fatalities. He became the supreme commander of the armies of the Habsburg Monarchy and was a major figure of the Thirty Years' War. An imperial generalissimo by land, and Admiral of the Baltic Sea from 21 April 1628, who had made himself ruler of the lands of the Duchy of Friedland in northern Bohemia, Wallenstein found himself released from service on August 13, 1630 after Ferdinand grew wary of his ambition. Several Protestant victories over Catholic armies induced Ferdinand to recall Wallenstein, who again turned the war in favor of the Imperial cause. Dissatisfied with the Emperor' treatment of him, Wallenstein considered allying with the Protestants. However, he was assassinated at Eger/Cheb in Bohemia by one of the army' officials, an Irish general, Walter Devereux, with the emperor' approval. He is buried at The Castle of Mnichovo Hradisti in Mnichovo Hradiste, Okres Mlada Boleslav, Central Bohemia, Czechia (modern Czech Republic). On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-western-tradition-dvd-set-all-52-shows-13-d5213.html

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Today, September 24, 2025

September 24, 1664: The Colonial History Of The United States: Dutch Colonization Of The Americas: New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw Nederland, Latin: Novum Belgium): The British Colonization Of The Americas: The History Of New York City: -- The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England. On August 27, 1664, while England and the Dutch Republic were at peace, four English Royal Navy frigates sailed into New Amsterdam's harbor and demanded New Netherland's surrender at cannon gunpoint, whereupon New Netherland was provisionally ceded by Director-General of the colony Peter Stuyvesant. On September 6, Stuyvesant sent lawyer Johannes De Decker and five other delegates to sign the official Articles of Capitulation. New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland. Fort Amsterdam was situated on the strategic southern tip of the island of Manhattan, which today is surrounded by Bowling Green, and was meant to defend the fur trade operations of the Dutch West India Company in the North River (Hudson River). Battery Park is a reference to its batteries, or cannons. Broadway was the main street that led out of town north towards Harlem. The town was surrounded to the north by a wall leading from the eastern to the western shore. The course of this city wall is today Wall Street. A canal led from the harbor inland and was filled in 1676, which today is Broad Street. The layout of the streets was winding, as in a European city. Only starting from Wall Street going toward uptown did the typical grid become enforced long after the town ceased to be Dutch. Most of the Financial District overlaps New Amsterdam and has retained the original street layout. New Amsterdam was renamed New York on September 8, 1664, in honor of the Duke of York (later James II of England), in whose name the English had captured it. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/new-york-city-history-videos-3-dvd-se3.html

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Today, September 24, 2025

September 24, 1929: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Instrument Flight: -- Aviation Pioneer Lt. James H. Doolittle, better known as Jimmy Doolittle, aviation pioneer whose most important contribution to aeronautical technology were his early contributions to instrument flying, takes off from Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York and becomes the first pilot to take off, fly and land an airplane using instruments alone, without a window to see the view outside the cockpit, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing was possible. Having returned to duty at Mitchel Field that September, Lt. Doolittle assisted in the development of fog flying equipment. He then helped develop, and was then the first to test, the now universally used artificial horizon and directional gyroscope, that used together permitted for flying completely by instruments. He attracted wide newspaper attention with this feat of "blind" flying, and later received the Harmon Trophy for conducting the experiments. These accomplishments made all-weather airline operations practical. Doolittle was the first to recognize that true operational freedom in the air could not be achieved unless pilots developed the ability to control and navigate aircraft in flight from takeoff run to landing rollout, regardless of the range of vision from the cockpit. Doolittle was the first to envision that a pilot could be trained to use instruments to fly through fog, clouds, precipitation of all forms, darkness, or any other impediment to visibility; and in spite of the pilot's own possibly convoluted motion sense inputs. Even at this early stage, the ability to control aircraft was getting beyond the motion sense capability of the pilot. That is, as aircraft became faster and more maneuverable, pilots could become seriously disoriented without visual cues from outside the cockpit, because aircraft could move in ways that pilots' senses could not accurately decipher. Doolittle was also the first to recognize these psycho-physiological limitations of the human senses (particularly the motion sense inputs, i.e., up, down, left, right). He initiated the study of the relationships between the psychological effects of visual cues and motion senses. His research resulted in programs that trained pilots to read and understand navigational instruments. A pilot learned to "trust his instruments," not his senses, as visual cues and his motion sense inputs (what he sensed and "felt") could be incorrect or unreliable. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/frontiers-of-flight-aviation-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-download-us4.html

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Today, September 24, 2025

September 24, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD! Richard Bong, United States Army Air Forces major and Medal Of Honor recipient in World War II, one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and the country's top flying ace in the war, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter (d. August 6, 1945) is #born Richard Ira Bong in Superior, Wisconsin, the first of nine children born to Carl Bong, an immigrant from Sweden, and Dora Bryce, who was an American of Scotch-English descent. He died in North Hollywood, California aged 24 while testing a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter on the same day that the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. He is buried in Poplar Cemetery in Poplar, Wisconsin. Bong was posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1986 and has several commemorative monuments named in his honor around the world, including an airport, two bridges, a theater, a veterans historical center, a recreation area, a neighborhood terrace, and several avenues and streets, including the street leading to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/props-and-jets-fighter-aces-of-world-war-ii-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, September 24, 2025

September 24, 1930: #BOTD: #HBD! John W. Young, American captain, naval aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer and the world's longest serving astronaut, becoming the first person to make six space flights over the course of 42 years of active NASA service, and is the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle, the first person to orbit the Moon alone during Apollo 10, the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972, one of only three people to have flown to the Moon twice, commander of two Space Shuttle flights, including its first launch in 1981, Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1974-1987 (d. January 5, 2018) is #born John Watts Young at St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco, California. In 1965, Young flew on the first manned Gemini mission (Gemini 3), and commanded another Gemini mission the next year. He drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon's surface during Apollo 16. Young retired from NASA in 2004. Famous for mixing a severe demeanor with irreverent humor, he is the inspiration for the eccentric former astronaut character Garrett Breedlove portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the 1983 film "Terms Of Endearment". He had a number of UFO experiences in space, and was known to take them jocularly in stride; during his Gemini 10 space flight, their orbiting capsule was overtaken from behind by a UFO that placed itself in front of the capsule and blinked lights similar to earthbound aviation lights; and Young's comment about the craft, "propulsion system not made in Detriot", was recorded in the spacecraft's onboard cassette recorder used to record voice communications inside the craft. John W. Young died at his home in Houston, Texas of complications from pneumonia, at the age of 87. He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery on April 30, 2019. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/outer-space-films-5-apollo-moon-exploration-dv5.html

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Today, September 24, 2025

September 24, 1946: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: Containment: The American Relations With The Soviet Union Report (The Clifford-Elsey Report): -- Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret 81-page report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the Containment Policy, America's Cold War geopolitical strategic foreign policy to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. It was an elaboration on U.S. State Deparment official George F. Kennan's February 22, 1946 "Long Telegram" from Moscow, so-called because at a little over 5,000 words, it was the longest telegram sent in the history of the State Department, which was written in the aftermath of Joseph Stalin's February 9, 1946 speech at The Bolshoi Theatre the night before the 1946 Supreme Soviet election, a speech which Time magazine called "the most warlike pronouncement uttered by any top-rank statesman since V-J Day". The Long Telegram explained Soviet motivations by recounting the history of Russian rulers as well as the ideology of Marxism-Leninism. It argued that the Soviet leaders used the ideology to characterize the external world as hostile, allowing them to justify their continued hold on power despite a lack of popular support. Washington bureaucrats quickly read the confidential message and accepted it as the best explanation of Soviet behavior. Kennan's cable was hailed in the State Department as "the appreciation of the situation that had long been needed." Kennan himself attributed the enthusiastic reception to timing: "Six months earlier the message would probably have been received in the State Department with raised eyebrows and lips pursed in disapproval. Six months later, it would probably have sounded redundant." It was this Long Telegram that Clark Clifford and George Elsey elaborated on to produce a report proposing concrete policy recommendations based on its analysis. This top secret report, which recommended "restraining and confining" Soviet influence, was what was presented to Truman on September 24, 1946. A photocopy of this report has since been made available online by The Truman Library. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/secret-intelligence-us-espionage-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, September 24, 2025

September 24, 1957: Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Anti-Black Racism In The United States: School Segregation: School Segregation In The United States: The Little Rock Crisis (The Little Rock Nine): -- President Dwight Eisenhower ordered the National Guard and 101st Airborne Division to enforce racial integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. On September 4, Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, called out the National Guard to prevent African American students, known as the Little Rock Nine, from enrolling in Central High School. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, when on September 24, the President ordered the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army to Little Rock, without its black soldiers, who rejoined the division a month later, and federalized the entire 10,000-member Arkansas National Guard, taking it out of the hands of Faubus. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/school-segregation-little-rock-amp-boston-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

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Today, September 24, 2025

September 24, 1960: Naval History: The History Of The United States Navy: The New United States Navy (The New Navy, The United States Navy 1885-Present): Naval Launches: Aicraft Carriers (Carriers): The USS Enterprise (CVN-65): -- The USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched from Newport News Shipbuilding And Drydock Company's Shipway 11, sponsored by Mrs. W. B. Franke, wife of the former Secretary of the Navy. USS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA(N)-65, is a decommissioned United States Navy aircraft carrier. She was the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth United States naval vessel to bear the name. Like her predecessor of World War II fame, she is nicknamed "Big E". At 1,123 ft (342 m), she is the longest naval vessel ever built. Her 93,284-long-ton (94,781 tonnes) displacement ranked her as the 12th-heaviest supercarrier, after the 10 carriers of the Nimitz class and the USS Gerald R. Ford. Enterprise had a crew of some 4,600 service members. The only ship of her class, Enterprise was, at the time of inactivation, the third-oldest commissioned vessel in the United States Navy after the wooden-hulled USS Constitution and USS Pueblo. She was originally scheduled for decommissioning in 2014 or 2015, depending on the life of her reactors and completion of her replacement, USS Gerald R. Ford, but the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 slated the ship's retirement for 2013, when she would have served for 51 consecutive years, longer than any other U.S. aircraft carrier. She was decommissioned on February 3, 2017. On 1 December 2012, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that CVN-80 would be named USS Enterprise as part of the deactivation ceremony for the previous USS Enterprise (CVN-65). The future Enterprise (CVN-80) will be the ninth U.S. Navy ship to bear this name. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-enterprise-in-action-1965-dvd-vietnam-war-operat1965.html

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Today, September 24, 2025

September 24, 1960: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Finales: American Television Finales: -- Howdy Doody, an American children' television program with circus and Western frontier themes that was telecast on the NBC network since December 27, 1947, broadcasts its final episode, "Clarabell's Big Surprise". The hour-long episode was mostly a fond look back at all the highlights of the show's past. Meanwhile, in the midst of it all, Clarabell has what he calls a "big surprise." The rest of the cast attempts to find out the surprise throughout the entire show, with only Mayor Phineas T. Bluster succeeding, and promising to keep it a secret. ("But", he says upon leaving, "it's not gonna be easy to keep a secret like this!"). Finally, in the closing moments, the surprise was disclosed through pantomime to Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody; as it turned out, Clarabell the mute clown actually could talk. Amazed, Bob frantically told Clarabell to prove it, as this was his last chance. An ominous drum roll began as Clarabell faced the camera as it came in for an extreme closeup. His lips quivered as the drumroll continued. When it stopped, Clarabell simply said softly, "Goodbye, kids." A tear could be seen in his right eye as the picture faded to black, and some children in the Peanut Gallery could faintly be heard sobbing immediately before the credits music played. The show quietly ended with a roll of credits over an empty, darkened set as "Auld Lang Syne" was played on a celeste, followed by an announcement that The Shari Lewis Show would be seen in its place at that time next week, followed by a spot for the TV series National Velvet. Howdy Doody was a pioneer in children' television programming and set the pattern for many similar shows. One of the first television series produced at NBC in Rockefeller Center, in Studio 3A, it was also a pioneer in early color production as NBC, at the time owned by TV maker RCA, used the show in part to sell color television sets in the 1950s. It ran from December 27, 1947, until September 24, 1960. In 1970 and 1971, Smith embarked on a live tour of college campuses. The shows, organized by producer Burt DuBrow, mixed nostalgia with more contemporary humor, such as Buffalo Bob finding a package of Zig Zags (rolling paper) allegedly belonging to Clarabelle. One show, on April 4, 1971, was recorded and released as an LP, on the label "Project 3 Total Sound Stereo". It was titled, "Buffalo Bob Smith Live at Bill Graham' Fillmore East". In 1976, Smith reunited with longtime show producer Roger Muir and several of the original cast to produce a new daily syndicated Howdy Doody Show. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/lost-howdy-doody-shows-2-dual-layer-dvd-se2.html

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September 24, 1965: Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Affirmative Action: Affirmative Action In The United States: Executive Orders: Executive Order 11246: -- President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Executive Order 11246, requiring government contractors to "take affirmative action" toward prospective minority employees in all aspects of hiring and employment. Contractors must take specific measures to ensure equality in hiring and must document these efforts. The policy of Affirmative Action was legally instituted for the first time in American history with Executive Order 10925, signed by President John F. Kennedy on March 6, 1961, requiring government contractors, except in special circumstances, to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin". It further established the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (PCEEO), which was chaired by then Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the same man who as President signed 11246. Executive Order 11246 established requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part of U.S. government contractors. It "prohibits federal contractors and federally assisted construction contractors and subcontractors, who do over 10K USD in Government business in one year from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." It also requires contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin." On October 13, 1967 Executive Order 11375 amended Executive Order 11246 adding the category "sex" to the anti-discrimination provisions; on July 21, 2014, Executive Order 13672 amended Executive Order 11246 and Executive Order 11478 to change "sexual orientation" to "sexual orientation, gender identity". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/lbj-1991-tv-documentary-series-lyndon-johnson-dvd-download-usb-d1991.html

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September 24, 1969: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): The United States In The Vietnam War: Opposition To United States Involvement In The Vietnam War: The Chicago Seven (The Chicago Eight, The Conspiracy Eight, The Conspiracy Seven) -- The Trial Of The Chicago Eight begins as seven defendants - Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner - go on trial, with Judge Julius Hoffman presiding, charged by the United States federal government with conspiracy, crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot, and other charges related to anti-Vietnam War and countercultural protests in Chicago, Illinois during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. After the case against co-defendant Bobby Seale was declared a mistrial during the trial, The Chicago Eight became the Chicago Seven. All of the defendants were charged with and acquitted of conspiracy; Hoffman, Rubin, Dellinger, Hayden, and Davis were charged with and convicted of crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot; Froines and Weiner were charged with teaching demonstrators how to construct incendiary devices and acquitted of those charges. All of the convictions were later reversed on appeal. While the jury deliberated, Judge Julius Hoffman convicted the defendants and their attorneys for contempt of court and sentenced them to jail sentences ranging from less than three months to more than four years. These convictions were later reversed on appeal, and some were retried before a different judge. From the beginning of the trial, the defendants and their attorneys have been represented in a variety of art forms, including film, music, and theater. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/conspiracy-the-trial-of-the-chicago-8-dvd-1987-tv-docu81987.html

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Today, September 24, 2025

September 24, 1991: #DOTD: #RIP: Dr. Seuss (commonly pronounced "SOOS"; he pronounced it "SOYS"), nicknamed Ted, American children's book writer, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, screenwriter, and filmmaker, known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books, including many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death (b. March 2, 1904) #dies of cancer at his home in the La Jolla community of San Diego at the age of 87. His ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean. On December 1, 1995, four years after his death, University of California, San Diego's University Library Building was renamed Geisel Library in honor of Geisel and Audrey for the generous contributions that they made to the library and their devotion to improving literacy. Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Henrietta (nee Seuss) and Theodor Robert Geisel. Geisel adopted the name "Dr. Seuss" as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and as a graduate student at Lincoln College, Oxford. He left Oxford in 1927 to begin his career as an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life, and various other publications. He also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for FLIT and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM. He published his first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street in 1937. During World War II, he took a brief hiatus from children's literature to illustrate political cartoons. In 1943, he joined the Army as a Captain and was commander of the Animation Department of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces, where he wrote, produced or animated many film productions that included Your Job in Germany, a 1945 propaganda film about peace in Europe after World War II; Our Job in Japan; and the Private Snafu series of adult army training films. While in the Army, he was awarded the Legion of Merit. Our Job in Japan became the basis for the commercially released film Design for Death (1947), a study of Japanese culture that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950) was based on an original story by Seuss and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. After the war, Geisel returned to writing children's books, writing classics like If I Ran the Zoo (1950), Horton Hears a Who! (1955), If I Ran the Circus (1956), The Cat in the Hat (1957), How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957), and Green Eggs and Ham (1960). He published over 60 books during his career, which have spawned numerous adaptations, including 11 television specials, five feature films, a Broadway musical, and four television series. Geisel won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Geisel's birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-private-snafu-series-wwii-propaganda-cartoons-dvd.html

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Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1979: The Industrial Revolution: The Third Industrial Revolution (1947-Present) (The Information Age, The Computer Age, The Digital Age, The Digital Electronics Revolution, The Silicon Age, The New Media Age, The Media Age): The Computer: The History Of The Computer: Digital Computers: Telecommunications: Online Service Providers: Pre-World Wide Web Online Services: Compuserve: -- CompuServe launches its online services, becoming thereby one of the first three (along with Radio Shack and The Source) consumer internet services (all three of which were inaugurated in 1979, beginning with Radio Shack, who sourced their service to Compuserve, prompting the latter's separate service), a service which features the first public electronic mail service. CompuServe (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its initialism CIS) was an American online service provider, the first major commercial one in the world - described in 1994 as "the oldest of the Big Three information services (the others are Prodigy and America Online)." It dominated the field during the 1980s and remained a major influence through the mid-1990s. At its peak in the early 1990s, CIS was known for its online chat system, message forums covering a variety of topics, extensive software libraries for most computer platforms, and a series of popular online games, notably MegaWars III and Island of Kesmai. It also was known for its introduction of the GIF format for pictures and as a GIF exchange mechanism. In 1997, 17 years after H & R Block had acquired CIS, the parent announced its desire to sell the company. A complex deal was worked out with WorldCom acting as a broker, resulting in CIS being sold to AOL. In 2015, Verizon acquired AOL, including its CompuServe division. In 2017, after Verizon completed its acquisition of Yahoo!, CompuServe became part of Verizon's newly formed Oath Inc. subsidiary, which was then spun off as the new Yahoo! company in 2021. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-machine-that-changed-the-world-the-computer-dvd-mp4-downloa4.html

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Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1935: Sports: The History Of Sports: The History Of Sports In The United States: The History Of Boxing: The History Of Heavyweight Boxing: Joe Louis Vs Max Baer: -- World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis becomes the first Black boxer to headline a main event that draws 1M USD at the gate when he fights Max Baer at Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York City. Louis (198 lbs) beat Max Baer (210 lbs) in a knockout at 3:09 in Round 4 of 15. https://store.earthstation1.com/grde7padosem.html

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Today, September 24, 2025
September 15-27, 1959: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1953-1962): Soviet Union-United States Relations: Soviet Union-United States Conferences: The State Visit Of Nikita Khrushchev To The United States (September 15-27, 1959): Day 10: September 24, 1959: Around Midnight -- Mayor Thomas Gallagher meets Khrushchev and his party at the Pittsburgh airfield and presents the Premier with a symbolic key to the city. Khrushchev thanks him for the gesture, saying, "I highly value your confidence expressed in the fact that you presented me with a symbolic key of your city. I thank you and assure you that I want to be your friend and will never abuse your trust, and with this key I will only open those doors which you allow me to open; I shall not make a single step without your permission." The state visit of Nikita Khrushchev to the United States was a 13-day visit from September 15-27, 1959. It marked the first state visit of a Soviet leader to the US. Khrushchev, then General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, was also the first ethnic Ukrainian leader to set foot in the Western Hemisphere. Being the first visit by a leader of his kind, the coverage of it resulted in an extended media circus. https://store.earthstation1.com/nikita-khrushchev-documentaries-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: NBC University Theater Of The Air Literature Radio Series MP3 DVD USB
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1896: #BOTD: #HBD! F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer (d. December 21, 1940) is #born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term which he coined. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories. Although he temporarily achieved popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald only received wide critical and popular acclaim after his death. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald was born into an upper-middle-class family in St. Paul, Minnesota, but was primarily raised in New York. He attended Princeton University, but due to a failed relationship and a preoccupation with writing, he dropped out in 1917 to join the army. While stationed in Alabama, he fell in love with rich socialite Zelda Sayre. Although she initially rejected him due to his financial situation, Zelda agreed to marry Fitzgerald after he had published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). In the 1920s, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he was influenced by the modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, particularly Ernest Hemingway. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him into the New York City elite. To maintain his lifestyle during this time, he also wrote several stories for magazines. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), was inspired by his rise to fame and relationship with Zelda. Although it received mixed reviews, The Great Gatsby is now widely praised, with some even labeling it the "Great American Novel". While Zelda was placed at a mental institute for her schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934). Faced with financial difficulties due to the declining popularity of his works, Fitzgerald turned to Hollywood, writing and revising screenplays. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he died in Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California of a heart attack, aged just 44 On the night of December 20, 1940, Fitzgerald and Graham attended the premiere of This Thing Called Love starring Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas. As the two were leaving the Pantages Theater, Fitzgerald experienced a dizzy spell and had trouble walking; upset, he said to Graham, "They think I am drunk, don't they?" The following day, as Fitzgerald ate a candy bar and made notes in his newly arrived Princeton Alumni Weekly, Graham saw him jump from his armchair, grab the mantelpiece, gasp, and fall to the floor. She ran to the manager of the building, Harry Culver. Upon entering the apartment to assist Fitzgerald, Culver stated, "I'm afraid he's dead." Among the attendees at a visitation held at a funeral home was Dorothy Parker, who reportedly cried and murmured "the poor son-of-a-bitch", a line from Jay Gatsby's funeral in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. His body was transported to Bethesda, Maryland, where his funeral was attended by only thirty people; among the attendees were his only child, Scottie Fitzgerald, and his editor, Maxwell Perkins. At the time of his death, the Roman Catholic Church denied the family's request that Fitzgerald, a non-practicing Catholic, be buried in the family plot in the Catholic Saint Mary's Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. Fitzgerald was instead buried at Rockville Union Cemetery. When Zelda Fitzgerald died in 1948, in a fire at the Highland Mental Hospital, she was originally buried next to him at Rockville Union. In 1975, Scottie successfully petitioned to have the earlier decision revisited, and her parents' remains were moved to the family plot in Saint Mary's. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), was completed by Edmund Wilson and published after Fitzgerald's death. https://store.earthstation1.com/nbc-university-theater-of-the-air-otr-mp3-dv3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Napoleon Bonaparte Documentaries Collection MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1812: #DOTD: #RIP: Prince Pyotr Bagration, nicknamed "God Of The Army" and "The Eagle", Russian general and prince of Georgian origin, prominent during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, of whom Napoleon said ""Russia has no good generals. The only exception is Bagration.", namesake of the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian Strategic Offensive Operation during The Great Patriotic War on The Eastern Front Of World War II (b. July 10, 1765) #dies aged 47 of a wound he had received during The Battle Of Borodino a couple weeks earlier when he commanded the left wing around what became known as the Bagration Fleches at Borodino. Originally buried at a local church, in 1839 he was reburied on The Battlefield Of Borodino, now part of The State Borodino War And History Museum And Reserve, in Borodino village, Mozhaysky District, Moscow Oblast. Prince Pyotr Bagration was born Peter Bagrationi in Kizlyar, Astrakhan Governorate, Russian Empire into The Bagrationi Dynasty, the royal dynasty which reigned in Georgia from the Middle Ages until the early 19th century, one of the oldest extant Christian ruling dynasties in the world. His father, Ivan (Ivane), served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, in which Bagration also enlisted in 1782. Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration began his military career serving in the Russo-Circassian War of 1763-1864 for a couple of years. Afterwards he participated in a war against the Ottomans and the capture of Ochakov in 1788. Later he helped suppress the Kosciuszko Uprising of 1794 in Poland and capture Warsaw. During Russia's Italian and Swiss campaigns of 1799 against the French, he served with distinction under Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov. In 1805 Russia joined the coalition against Napoleon. After the collapse of the Austrians at Ulm in October 1805, Bagration won praise for his successful defense in the Battle of Schongrabern (November 1805) that allowed Russian forces to withdraw and unite with the main Russian army of Mikhail Kutuzov. In December 1805 the combined Russo-Austrian army suffered defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz, where Bagration commanded the allied right wing against the French under Jean Lannes. Later he commanded Russian troops in the Finnish War (1808-1809) against Sweden and in another war against the Turks (1806-1812) on the Danube. During the French invasion of Russia in 1812, Bagration commanded one of two large Russian armies (Barclay de Tolly commanded the other) fighting a series of rear-guard actions. The Russians failed to stop the French advance at the Battle of Smolensk in August 1812. Barclay had proposed a scorched-earth retreat that the emperor Alexander I of Russia had approved, although Bagration preferred to confront the French in a major battle. Mikhail Kutuzov succeeded Barclay as commander-in-chief but continued his policy until the Battle of Borodino (September 7, 1812) near Moscow. https://store.earthstation1.com/napoleon-bonaparte-documentaries-collection-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi Documentaries DVD MP4 Download USB Drive
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1932: India: The History Of India: The British Raj (Crown Rule In India, Direct Rule In India, India, The Indian Empire): The Indian Independence Movement: The Poona Pact: -- Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" known as Dalits (Untouchables). The Poona Pact refers to an agreement made at Yerwada Central Jail in Poona, India. It was signed by Madan Mohan Malviya (popularly known as Mahamana), Ambedkar (popularly known as Babasaheb) and some other leaders as a means to end the fast that Gandhi was undertaking at the jail. He had been protesting the decision by British Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald to give separate electorates to Dalits for the election of members of provincial legislative assemblies in British India. They finally agreed upon 148 seats. https://store.earthstation1.com/mahatma-mohandas-gandhi-nonviolent-revolution-biography-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Commercials: The Cable Age Classics III DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1948: The Industrial Revolution: The Second Industrial Revolution (1870s-1914): The Automotive Industry: The History Of The Automobile: The History Of The Automotive Industry: Foundings: The Honda Motor Company: -- Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and industrialist, founds The Honda Motor Company, manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Soichiro Honda oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer. Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Japanese: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Gaisha, "Honda Institute Of Technology And Industry Company") is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate that has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a production of 400 million by the end of 2019. It is also the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year. Honda became the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer in 2001. In 2015, Honda was the eighth largest automobile manufacturer in the world. Honda was the first Japanese automobile manufacturer to release a dedicated luxury brand, Acura, in 1986. Aside from their core automobile and motorcycle businesses, Honda also manufactures garden equipment, marine engines, personal watercraft, power generators, and other products. Since 1986, Honda has been involved with artificial intelligence/robotics research and released their ASIMO robot in 2000. They have also ventured into aerospace with the establishment of GE Honda Aero Engines in 2004 and the Honda HA-420 HondaJet, which began production in 2012. Honda has two joint-ventures in China: Dongfeng Honda and GAC Honda. In 2013, Honda invested about 5.7% (6.8B USD) of its revenues into research and development. Also in 2013, Honda became the first Japanese automaker to be a net exporter from the United States, exporting 108,705 Honda and Acura models, while importing only 88,357. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-iii-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Ron Reagan Show: UFOs! 2 Part TV Special DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1939: #BOTD: #HBD! Jacques Vallee, French computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer is #born Jacques Fabrice Vallee in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France. Along with his mentor, astronomer J. Allen Hynek, Vallee studied the phenomenon of UFOs for many years and served as the real-life model for the character portrayed by Francois Truffaut in Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In mainstream science, Vallee co-developed the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA and worked at SRI International on the network information center for the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet. Vallee was first noted for a defense of the scientific legitimacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and later for promoting the interdimensional hypothesis. In May 1955, Vallee first sighted an unidentified flying object over his Pontoise home. Six years later in 1961, while working on the staff of the French Space Committee, Vallee claims to have witnessed the destruction of the tracking tapes of an unknown object orbiting the earth. The particular object was a retrograde satellite: that is, a satellite orbiting the earth in the opposite direction to the earth's rotation. At the time he observed this, there were no rockets powerful enough to launch such a satellite, so the team was quite excited as they assumed that the Earth's gravity had captured a natural satellite (asteroid). He claims that an unnamed superior came and erased the tape. These events contributed to Vallee's long-standing interest in the UFO phenomenon. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-ron-reagan-show-ufos-dvd-complete-2-part-tv-specia2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: T.R.: The Life Of Theodore Roosevelt DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1906: National Monuments: National Monuments Of The United States: Devils Tower: -- U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower as the first National Monument, pursuant to the powers of the Antiquities Act of 1906 that he helped foster and signed into law. Devils Tower (also Bear Lodge Butte) is a laccolithic (sheet intrusion or crystallized magma injected into sedimentary rock) butte (isolated hill with near-vertical sides) composed of igneous (magma or lava) rock in the Bear Lodge Mountains (part of the Black Hills) near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (265 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,559 m) above sea level. The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha). A national monument in the United States is a protected area that is similar to a national park, but can be created from any land owned or controlled by the federal government by proclamation of the President of the United States. National monuments can be managed by one of several federal agencies: the National Park Service, United States Forest Service, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (in the case of marine national monuments). Historically, some national monuments were managed by the War Department. National monuments can be so designated through the power of the Antiquities Act of 1906. President Theodore Roosevelt used the act to declare Devils Tower in Wyoming as the first U.S. national monument. The Antiquities Act of 1906 is an act passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906. This law gives the President of the United States the authority to, by presidential proclamation, create national monuments from federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features. The Act has been used more than a hundred times since its passage. Of all Roosevelt's achievements, he was proudest of his work in conservation of natural resources, and extending federal protection to land and wildlife. Roosevelt worked closely with Interior Secretary James Rudolph Garfield and Chief of the United States Forest Service Gifford Pinchot to enact a series of conservation programs that often met with resistance from Western members of Congress such as Charles William Fulton. Nonetheless, Roosevelt established the United States Forest Service, signed into law the creation of five National Parks, and signed the 1906 Antiquities Act, under which he proclaimed 18 new U.S. National Monuments. He also established the first 51 bird reserves, four game preserves, and 150 National Forests, including Shoshone National Forest, the nation's first. The area of the United States that he placed under public protection totals approximately 230,000,000 acres (930,000 km2). https://store.earthstation1.com/tr-the-life-of-theodore-roosevelt-dvd-2-disc-se2.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The American Adventure: TV History Series 1607-1876 DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1846: The Mexican-American War (The Mexican War): The Battle Of Monterrey: -- General Zachary Taylor and his Army Of Occupation, a force of United States Regulars, Volunteers and Texas Rangers, captures Monterrey, the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, from General Pedro de Ampudia and the Mexican Army of the North. The hard-fought urban combat led to heavy casualties on both sides. The battle ended with both sides negotiating a two-month armistice and the Mexican forces being allowed to make an orderly evacuation in return for the surrender of the city. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-american-adventure-series-us-1st-century-4-dv14.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Hollywood (1980) Silent Movie History Series DVD, Video Download, USB
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1939: #DOTD: #RIP: Carl Laemmle, German-American film producer, co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures, regarded as one of the most important of the early film pioneers (b. January 17, 1867) #dies from cardiovascular disease in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 72. Laemmle is entombed in the Chapel Mausoleum at Home Of Peace Cemetery (Hebrew: Beit Kvarot Beit Shalom), a Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Carl Laemmle was born Karl Lammle to Julius Baruch Lammle and Rebekka Lammle, a Jewish couple in the Radstrasse, a street in the Jewish quarter of Laupheim, in the Kingdom of Wurttemberg (modern Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany). Carl Laemmle produced and/or worked on over 400 films. He immigrated to the United States in 1884 and worked in Chicago for 20 years before he began buying nickelodeons, eventually expanding into a film distribution service, the Laemmle Film Service, then into production as Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP), later renamed Universal Film Manufacturing Company, and later still renamed Universal Pictures Company. https://store.earthstation1.com/hollywood-1980-tv-documentary-series-13-shows-4-dual-lay1980134.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Shlemiel, The Shlemazl & The Doppess: Yiddish DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1967: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Foundings: Theatre Foundings: Theatre Foundings In Canada: -- The Saidye Bronfman Centre For the Arts, then and now the only permanent Yiddish theatre in North America, is inaugurated in Montreal, Canada. Now known as The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, it is located at 5170 chemin de la Cote-Sainte-Catherine, in the borough of Cote-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grace. The building houses the Segal Theatre, the Academy of Performing Arts, CinemaSpace, Studio, and the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre. The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre is now a branch of the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, was founded in Montreal in 1958 by Dora Wasserman (June 1919- December 2003), a Ukrainian actress, playwright, and theatre director. The first play was The Innkeeper. Wasserman directed over 70 plays over four decades. One review said that "The most successful of these was A Bintel Brief, based on immigrants' letters to the advice column of the Jewish Daily Forward", referring to the historic New York City Yiddish newspaper now known as The Forward. The Dora Wasserman is one of the few remaining Yiddish theaters in the world. The theatre group also tours Canada, US, Israel, and Europe. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-shlemiel-the-shlemazl-amp-the-doppess-yiddish-dvd-mp4-usbht4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Remember When: It'll Never Fly w/ Dick Cavett Inventions DVD, MP4, USB
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1870: #BOTD: Georges Claude, considered by some to be "The Edison Of France", French chemist, engineer and inventor noted for his early work on the industrial liquefaction of air, for the invention and commercialization of neon lighting, and for a large experiment on generating energy by pumping cold seawater up from the depths, active collaborator with the German occupiers of France during the Second World War, for which he was imprisoned in 1945 and stripped of his honors (d. May 23, 1960) is #born in Paris, France, during The Siege of Paris (1870-1871). On December 3, 1910, Georges Claude first demonstrated modern neon lighting at the 1910 Paris Motor Show. Claude had a near monopoly on the new technology, which became very popular for signage and displays in the period 1920-1940. Neon lighting was an important cultural phenomenon in the United States in that era; by 1940, the downtowns of nearly every city in the US were bright with neon signage, and Times Square in New York City was known worldwide for its neon extravagances. Following the Allied Liberation Of France in 1944, Claude was taken into custody on December 2, 1944 because of his collaboration with the Axis powers. He was removed from the French Academy of Sciences. In 1945 he was tried and convicted of propaganda work favoring collaboration, but was cleared of another charge that he helped design the V-1 flying bomb. He was condemned to life imprisonment. After serving time in prison for five years, in 1950 he was released, with acknowledgment of his research on ocean thermal energy conversion. He died of unspecified causes in Saint-Cloud, a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, aged 89. His remains were cremated; the disposition of his ashes are not known. https://store.earthstation1.com/remember-when-it39ll-never-fly-dvd-technology-history-dick-cave39.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The History Of Jazz A Video Retrospective DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1923: #BOTD: #HBD! Fats Navarro, Cuban Chinese African American jazz trumpet player and composer, pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s who had a strong stylistic influence on many other players, most notably Clifford Brown (d. July 7, 1950) is #born Theodore Navarro in Key West, Florida. Fats Navarro played in the Andy Kirk, Billy Eckstine, Benny Goodman, and Lionel Hampton big bands, and participated in small group recording sessions with Kenny Clarke, Tadd Dameron, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Howard McGhee, and Bud Powell. Navarro settled in New York City in 1946, where his career took off. He met and played with, among others, Charlie Parker, one of the greatest musical innovators of modern jazz improvisation. But Navarro was in a position to demand a high salary and did not join one of Parker's regular groups. He also developed a heroin addiction, tuberculosis, and a weight problem. These afflictions led to a slow decline in his health and death at the age of twenty-six. Navarro was hospitalized on July 1 and died in the evening of July 6, 1950. His last performance was with Charlie Parker on July 1, 1950 at Birdland. Fats Navarro died in the evening of tuberculosis, heroin addiction and weight-related complications in New York City, aged 26. He was buried in an unmarked grave, number 414, at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey, on U.S. Routes 1 & 9 North. In September 2002, friends and family members dedicated a headstone for Fats Navarro's grave. The event of dedication was sponsored by the Jazz Alliance International while the day of it was proclaimed as Fats Navarro Day by the mayor of Linden. During the ceremony, Linden High School Choir performed "Amazing Grace", while trumpeter Jon Faddis played Navarro's "Nostalgia". The night of the same day, 14 trumpeters joined a stellar rhythm section to honor the Navarro songbook at the Jazz Standard in Manhattan. Faddis, who assembled the section under musical direction from Don Sickler, was accompanied by drummer Billy Drummond, bassist Peter Washington, and pianist James Williams. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-history-of-jazz-by-billy-taylor-parts-i-amp-ii-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rhythm And Blues Revue (1955) DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1913: #BOTD: #HBD! Herb Jeffries, African American actor of film and television and popular music and jazz singer-songwriter, known of his baritone voice, Hollywood's first singing black cowboy (d. May 25, 2014) is #born Umberto Alexander Valentino in Detroit to a white Irish mother who ran a rooming house. His father, whom he never knew, was of mixed French Canadian, Italian and Moorish roots. In the 1940s and 1950s Jeffries recorded for a number of labels, including RCA Victor, Exclusive, Coral, Decca, Bethlehem, Columbia, Mercury and Trend. His album Jamaica, recorded by RKO, is a concept album of self-composed calypso songs. He starred in several low-budget "race" Western feature films aimed at black audiences, Harlem on the Prairie (1937), Two-Gun Man from Harlem (1938), Rhythm Rodeo (1938), The Bronze Buckaroo (1939) and Harlem Rides the Range (1939). He also acted in several other films and television shows. During his acting career he was usually billed as Herbert Jeffrey (sometimes "Herbert Jeffries" or "Herbert Jeffries, Sensational Singing Cowboy"). Herb Jeffries died aged 100 in West Hills, Los Angeles County, California. He is buried at the Hollywood Forever cemetery in Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California. https://store.earthstation1.com/rhythm-and-blues-revue-dvd-1955-apollo-theater-tv-1955.html

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Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1931: #BOTD: #HBD! Anthony Newley, English actor, singer and songwriter who achieved success as a performer in such diverse fields as rock and roll and stage and screen acting (d. April 14, 1999) is #born in Hackney, London, England. He was Jewish through his maternal grandmother. As a recording artist he enjoyed a dozen Top 40 entries on the UK Singles Chart between 1959 and 1962, including two number one hits. With songwriting partner Leslie Bricusse, Newley penned "Feeling Good", which was popularised by Nina Simone and covered by many other popular artists; as well as the title song of 1964 film Goldfinger (along with John Barry). Bricusse and Newley received an Academy Award nomination for the film score of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). Anthony Newley died in Jensen Beach, Florida from renal cancer at the age of 67. He was said to have died in the arms of his companion, Japanese-born British fashion designer Gina Fratini. He is buried at Forest Hills Memorial Park And Mausoleum in Palm City, Florida. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-pursuit-of-the-graf-spee-the-battle-of-the-river-plate-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: British Rock: The First Wave DVD, MP4 Video Download. USB Flash Drive
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Gerry Marsden, English singer, songwriter, guitarist and television personality, best known for being leader of the British Merseybeat band Gerry and the Pacemakers (d. January 3, 2021) is #born at 8 Menzies Street, Toxteth, Liverpool, Lancashire. Gerard Marsden MBE's interest in music began at an early age. He remembers standing on top of an air raid shelter singing "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" and getting a great reception from onlookers. Gerry and the Pacemakers was the second group signed by Brian Epstein and remained among his favourite artists. Their first single was "How Do You Do It," recommended by George Martin after it was initially given to the Beatles. This was the first number one hit for the Pacemakers. It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios and was released on EMI's Columbia label. Marsden said the recording took four or five takes. The group's second number one was "I Like It", followed by "You'll Never Walk Alone". Other singles included "It's Gonna Be Alright", "I'm the One", "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" and "Ferry Cross the Mersey". Gerry Marsden died of a blood infection in his heart at Arrowe Park Hospital in Merseyside, aged 78. His remains were cremated, and the ashes were given to his widow Pauline Behan. https://store.earthstation1.com/british-rock-the-first-wave-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The American Adventure: TV History Series 1607-1876 DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1869: Economics: The History Of Economics: Monetary Systems: Backed Currencies: Units Of Account: Banking: The History Of Banking: Banking In The United States: The Gold Standard: Economic Crises In The United States: Stock Market Crashes In The United States: Black Friday (1869): -- A gold panic breaks out in the United States when gold prices plummet after President Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold in response to a conspiracy between Jay Gould and James Fisk to corner the gold market and force up the price of the metal on the New York Gold Exchange, triggering a financial crisis. The panic, which became known as Black Friday, was the result of a conspiracy The Gold Ring, formed by two investors, Jay Gould, later joined by his partner James Fisk, and Abel Corbin, a small time speculator who had married Virginia (Jennie) Grant, the younger sister of President Ulysses S. Grant. The Secretary of the Treasury, George S. Boutwell, had a policy to sell Treasury gold at biweekly intervals for a sinking fund to pay off the national debt. Along with other, non-routine gold sales, this infusion of cash acted to stabilize the dollar. The economy had gone through tremendous upheaval during the Civil War 1861-1865 and was not yet fully restored. Gould, hoping to take advantage of Corbin's relationship with his brother-in-law, President Grant, persuaded Corbin to introduce him to Grant. Gould and Fisk hoped that befriending the President would get them privy information about the government's gold policy-and even prevent the sale of gold-and thereby manipulate the market. It did not work, being foiled by the government, yet resulted in a scandal that undermined both the credibility of Grant's presidency and the national economy. Gould and Fisk used their personal appearances with Grant to gain credibility on Wall Street in addition to using their insider information. During the first week of September, Grant's Secretary of the Treasury George S. Boutwell received a letter from Grant. It told him that gold sales would be harmful to Western farmers, a notion planted by Gould and Fisk. Boutwell countermanded his own order to sell a great deal of gold, suspending non-routine Treasury gold sales for the rest of the month. At the same time, Gould, now joined by Fisk, continued buying gold through New York City's Gold Room, raising the price of gold. After learning about the nature of their scheme, Grant first told Corbin to unload his gold holdings before ordering the release of $4 million in government gold on September 24. Grant's move immediately drove down the price of gold, crushing the Gold Ring's corner on the market. A panic on Wall Street ensued and the country went through months of economic turmoil, although a national depression was averted. Gould and Fisk hired the best defense available. Favored by Tweed Ring judges, the conspiratorial partners escaped prosecution. An 1870 government investigation, headed by fellow Republican James A. Garfield, exonerated Grant of any illicit involvement in the conspiracy. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-american-adventure-series-us-1st-century-4-dv14.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Complete Classic TV Kid Shows Series MegaSet DVD, MP4 Download, USB
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1919: #BOTD: #HBD! Dayton Allen, comedian and voice actor, best known as one of the "men in the street" on The Steve Allen Show, where his catchphrase was a drawn-out "Why not!", also famous for his children's television work on Winky Dink And You and Howdy Doody in the 1950s, in the 1960s he voiced such as Deputy Dawg and Heckle And Jeckle, and the 1970s live action chimpanzee show Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp (d. November 11, 2004) is #born Dayton Allen Bolke in New York City. Like Art Carney, Allen began his career in radio. In 1937-1938 WINS (AM) hired him as a disc jockey. His "Why Not?" gag began when he joined the cast of the NBC Sunday night variety show that Allen began hosting to compete against Ed Sullivan on CBS. It was a stalling ad-lib to an interview question; then it caught on. Allen used it for television commercials and saw novelty toys, a book and a record spin off from the "Why not?" phenomenon. In its day, fans were shouting "Why not?" as often as Mad Magazine's famous "What? Me Worry?" After his show business career ended, Allen became a wealthy real estate agent, operating out of an office in Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he refused offers to return to the entertainment industry. He died in Hendersonville, North Carolina aged 85 of complication from a stroke. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. https://store.earthstation1.com/4-disc-classic-tv-kid-shows-complete-dvd-se4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Television: A History Of Broadcast TV DVD MP4 Download USB Drive
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1921: #BOTD: #HBD! Jim McKay, American sportscaster and journalist (d. June 7, 2008) is #born James Kenneth McManus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in the Overbrook section of the city in an Irish American Catholic family. McKay was best known for hosting ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961-1998). His introduction for that program has passed into American pop culture, in which viewers were reminded of the show's mission ("Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports") and what lay ahead ("the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat"). He is also known for television coverage of 12 Olympic Games, and is universally respected for his memorable reporting on the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics. McKay covered a wide variety of special events, including horse races such as the Kentucky Derby, golf events such as the British Open, and the Indianapolis 500. McKay's son, Sean McManus, a protege of Roone Arledge, is the former chairman of CBS Sports. McKay died of natural causes in Monkton, Maryland, aged 86. He was survived by his wife Margaret, son Sean, daughter Mary Guba, and three grandchildren. He is buried at The McKay Family Farm Cemetery in Monkton. https://store.earthstation1.com/television-1988-tv-documentary-series-8-shows-4-dual-laye198884.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Good Old Time TV Theme Song MP3 CD, Audio Download, USB Drive
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1964: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Television Premieres: United States Television Premieres: -- The Munsters premieres on a Thursday night on CBS, ultimately running to May 12, 1966 with seventy episodes produced. The Munsters is an American sitcom depicting the home life of a family of benign monsters. The series starred Fred Gwynne as Frankenstein's monster and head-of-the-household Herman Munster; Yvonne De Carlo as his wife Lily; Al Lewis as Lily's father, Grandpa, the somewhat over-the-hill vampire Count Dracula who longs for the "good old days" in Transylvania; Beverley Owen (later replaced by Pat Priest) as their teenage niece Marilyn, who was attractive by conventional standards but the "ugly duckling" of the family; and Butch Patrick as their werewolfish son Eddie. Produced by the creators of Leave It to Beaver, the series was a satire of American suburban life, as well as both traditional monster movies and the wholesome family fare of the era. It achieved higher Nielsen ratings than the similarly macabre-themed The Addams Family, which aired concurrently on ABC. In 1965, The Munsters was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series but lost to The Rogues (starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of conmen that was cancelled after one season). In the 21st century it received several TV Land Award nominations, including one for Most Uninsurable Driver (Herman Munster). The series originally aired on Thursday at 7:30 pm on CBS from September 24, 1964. It was cancelled after ratings dropped to a series low due to competition from ABC's Batman. Butch Patrick said, "I think 'Batman' was to blame. 'Batman' just came along and took our ratings away." But The Munsters found a large audience in syndication. This popularity warranted a spin-off series, as well as several films, including one with a theatrical release, and several more recent attempts to reboot it. https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-theme-song-mp3-cd-classic-old-time-televisio3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Churchills 3 Part 1996 TV Miniseries MP4 Video Download 2 DVD Set
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24, 1982: #DOTD: #RIP: Sarah Churchill, English soldier, photo interpreter, actress, dancer and daughter of Winston Churchill (b. October 7, 1914) #dies in her sleep London, England, three months after she was stricken with an acute internal undisclosed illness that failed to respond to treatment, aged of 67. She is buried with her parents and three of her siblings (Marigold had previously been buried in a grave at Kensal Green Cemetery in London) at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. Sarah Millicent Hermione Touchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley, nee Spencer-Churchill, was born in London, England, the second daughter of Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill, later Baroness Spencer-Churchill; she was the third of the couple's five children and was named after Sir Winston's ancestor, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. She was educated at Notting Hill High School as a day girl and later at North Foreland Lodge as a boarder. Churchill married three times:Vic Oliver, born Victor Oliver von Samek, a popular comedian and musician (1936-1945) (divorced); Antony Beauchamp (1949-1957) (widowed); and Thomas Percy Henry Touchet-Jesson, 23rd Baron Audley (1913-1963) (widowed). It has been both stated and confirmed by multiple sources, including Sarah Churchill's sister, Lady Soames, that Winston and Clementine Churchill neither liked nor approved of Sarah's first two husbands. Only Sarah's third marriage to Lord Audley (the love of her life, it was said) was greeted with warm approval by both parents. American author Christopher Ogden's biography of Pamela Harriman and other sources indicate that during the war, towards the end of her marriage to Vic Oliver, Churchill had an affair with (married) US Ambassador John Gilbert Winant; it ended badly, and it is believed the failure of the relationship contributed to the depression that led to Winant's suicide in 1947. During the Second World War, Churchill joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). In her account of the work of photo reconnaissance "Evidence In Camera", the great photo analyst Constance Babington Smith records that she was with them and worked closely on the interpretation of photographs for the 1942 invasion of North Africa, Operation Torch. Known by the name Sarah Oliver, Babington Smith says she was "a quick and versatile interpreter." Aspects of Churchill's wartime service are also described in detail in "Women Of Intelligence: Winning The Second World War With Air Photos." Catherine Grace Katz's book, "The daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, And Harrimans: A Story Of Family, Love, And War" describes Sarah, Kathleen Harriman and Anna Roosevelt Halsted playing key roles in the Yalta Conference, in managing their temperamental fathers. After her husband Baron Audley's death, Churchill became romantically involved in 1964 with African-American emigrated jazz singer and painter, Lobo Nocho, and there were reports that the two might marry. Her father was also believed to have disapproved of this relationship. Churchill is best known for her role in the film Royal Wedding (1951) as Anne Ashmond, romantic interest of Fred Astaire as Tom Bowen. In the same year, she had her own television show. She also appeared in He Found a Star (1941), Spring Meeting (1941), All Over the Town (1949), Fabian of the Yard (1954) and Serious Charge (1959). On November 17, 1950, Churchill starred in "Witness For The Prosecution", an episode of the American TV program Danger. She appeared on both the Jack Benny radio and television programmes. On television, she appeared on the episode "How Jack Met Rochester". In 1960, she appeared as Lisa Grayson in the play "The Night Life of a Virile Potato" by Gloria Russell at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London. In 1961, she appeared as Rosalind in Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Pembroke-in-the-round Theatre in West Croydon. Her parents were noted as paying a surprise visit to watch her performance, which was almost entirely attended by Croydon schoolchildren. Her father, who sat in the front row of an in-the-round performance and so was highly visible throughout, fell asleep. In 1980, A Matter of Choice, an LP of Churchill reciting her poems, was released by Argo Records (UK). During the course of her life she created several lithographic prints. In the 1950s Churchill produced several prints featuring Malibu, California. Later in the 1970s, Churchill commercially published a collaborative series of portraits of her father, Sir Winston Churchill through Curtis Hooper, entitled "A Visual Philosophy of Sir Winston Churchill". The series was carefully constructed by Churchill to represent her father's great drive. In the series, (28 in total) most of the works were based on famous photographs chosen by Churchill, while one was based on Churchill's drawing of her father. Each work was given an embossed quotation by Sir Winston Churchill and was signed by both Sarah Churchill and artist Curtis Hooper in pencil and pressed with the artists seal. Artist proofs were made available for each work, with a run of no more than 150 artist proofs, per work, also signed by both Sarah Churchill and artist Curtis Hooper in pencil, below the portrait. All artist proofs bore the artist's embossed seal. Sarah Churchill appeared in a London revival of Shaw's Pygmalion in the 1950s, but drinking had become a problem. She was arrested for making a scene in the street on a number of occasions and even spent a short spell on remand in Holloway Prison. She wrote frankly about this in her 1981 autobiography Keep on Dancing. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-churchills-3-part-1996-tv-miniseries-mp4-video-download-2-3199642.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Emily Dickinson Documentary DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, September 24, 2025
September 24: National Punctuation Day: -- From the lowly comma to the flamboyant ampersand, punctuation makes our words legible and gets our point across. "Let's eat, Grandma!" or "Let's eat Grandma!" - it's clear that punctuation saves lives. Though you might not have consciously considered punctuation since elementary school, you likely use it every day. Minding your p's and q's, dotting your t's, crossing your i's, and knowing the difference between a colon and a semicolon was not always necessary to communicate. While today we take for granted the little dots, slashes, and spaces that turn a string of unintelligible letters into a compelling story, ancient cultures had to make do without. Since most early languages were purely verbal, punctuation was not necessary. The earliest-known document featuring punctuation is the Mesha Stele from 900 B.C. The next civilization to start to develop rudimentary punctuation was the Greeks, in 200 B.C. Though they had previously written in 'scriptura continua,' or unending strings of text unmarred by punctuation marks, people soon started to adopt the system of punctuation created by Aristophanes of Byzantium. This included a single punctuation mark positioned differently to indicate pauses in speeches. Though punctuation had already been adopted by the Greeks, it wasn't until the Bible began to be printed en masse that punctuation spread to other civilizations. Bible printing was widespread between 400 and 800 A.D., and punctuation was necessary so that those who read the text aloud knew where to pause and place emphasis. In the 1400s, a huge shift came with the printing press, which spurred the need for a more unified punctuation system. While punctuation as a single system hasn't changed too much since the old days, marks and symbols have gradually gained and lost meaning. One important shift occurred in the late 20th century with the life-changing arrival of computers. Suddenly, symbols like '#' and '@' took on whole new, tech-specific meanings! Additionally, texting and chatting online requires knowledge of a wholly different, somewhat colloquial body of punctuation rules. https://store.earthstation1.com/emily-dickinson-dvd-biography-poetry-documentary.html