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September 9th

September 9th
Today's In short: Of all forms of caution, caution in honey is the most fatal.

1791
Washington, D.C., the capital of the Of like mind States, is named for President George Washington.

1914
In keeping with its catchword "First in everything", Calgary's Allen Theatre took eximious pride in announcing that it was the first theatre in the conurbation to present footage from the European front. The First Exultant War was the first to be documented on film that was shown to people in theatres thousands of miles from the battlefields. Within days of the first showing of the newsreels, see authorities were suggesting that the Allen be ordered to go the films from public viewing, since the descriptive depiction of the brutal realities of war stood in get something going contradiction to the optimistic propaganda of the regime.

1947
First case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Feature II computer at Harvard University.

1956
Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first every so often old-fashioned.
Sullivan signed Presley when the manager was having an intense Sunday-tenebrosity rivalry with Steve Allen. Allen had the songbird on July 1 and trounced Sullivan in the ratings. When asked to reaction, the CBS star said that he wouldn't ponder presenting Presley before a family audience. Less than two weeks later he changed his uncertain and signed a contract.

1965
As Ike rages on, it was on this day in 1965 that Gale Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 certain and $1.42 billion ($10-12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first tornado to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
A new write up says that natural disasters are becoming more costly because we are structure more things.

1996
NHL superstar Mario Lemieux signs a 12 month obligation with the Penguins worth $10 million.

1999
Sonic Feat is released in America on...

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