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September 1  Randy Travis (born 1959) is an American country and gospel music singer and songwriter. He has recorded more than 20 studio albums and charted more than 50 singles on Billboard's Hot Country Songs charts, including 16 that reached the number-one position. Travis's commercial success began in the mid-1980s with the release of his album Storms of Life, which was certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. His major songs include "On the Other Hand", "Forever and Ever, Amen", "I Told You So", "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart", and "Three Wooden Crosses". Travis is noted as a key figure in the neotraditional country movement, a return to more traditional sounds within the genre following the country pop crossovers of the early 1980s. Since surviving a near-fatal stroke in 2013, which severely limited his singing and speaking ability, he has released archival recordings and made few public appearances. (Full article...) |
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September 1: Labour Day in Canada and Labor Day in the United States (2025)  Title page of the soprano part book
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September 1 .jpg) Kim Wilkins The Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel is one of the Aurealis Awards presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, [and] horror writers". To qualify, a work must have been first published by an Australian citizen or permanent resident between 1 November of the prior year and 31 October of the corresponding year; the presentation ceremony is held the following year. Since 2005, honourable mentions and high commendations have been awarded intermittently. Kim Wilkins (pictured) has won the award three times, while three people have each won the award twice: Trent Jamieson, Kirstyn McDermott and Kaaron Warren. (Full list...) | |||
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Tomorrow (September 2)
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September 2  Joe Walton During its 1905–06 season, New Brompton F.C., an English football club, competed in the Southern League Division One. The team began the season on 2 September 1905 in poor form; they failed to score in six of their first eight league games and, by midseason, they were near the bottom of the league table. In the new year, the team won three of its first seven Southern League games, but failed to score in eight of the final nine league games. New Brompton finished the season in 17th place out of 18 teams in the division. They also competed in the FA Cup, reaching the second round. The team played a total of 37 league and cup matches, winning 8, drawing 9 and losing 20. Bill Marriott was the club's top goalscorer, with four goals in the Southern League and one in the FA Cup. Joe Walton (pictured) made the most appearances, playing in 36 of the team's 37 games. The highest attendance recorded at Priestfield Road was 5,500 for a game against Portsmouth on 27 January 1906. (Full article...)
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September 2: National Day in Vietnam (1945)  Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Instrument of Surrender
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September 3  William Arthur Ganfield (September 3, 1873 – October 18, 1940) was an American minister, educator, and academic administrator. He was ordained in 1901 and began his first preaching role in Green Bay, Wisconsin, later that year. In 1905, he became a professor at Carroll College (now Carroll University) and taught there until he was elected president of Centre College in 1915. During his six-year term, he helped Centre's enrollment recover from a lull and grew the school's endowment past $1 million for the first time, in part by reinstating ties between the college and the Presbyterian Church. He returned to Carroll as its president in 1921 and oversaw a strengthening of requirements for professors and the implementing tenure, pensions, and a fixed salary for faculty. Ganfield was a supporter of sports at both schools: Centre's football team won a major upset victory over Harvard in 1921, and Carroll's football and basketball teams each won multiple league championships during his term. (Full article...)
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In three days (September 4)
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September 4  Formica archboldi queen ant tended to by Polyergus lucidus workers A parasitic ant is a type of ant that exploits the social structure of another ant species for its own survival and reproduction. The most common types of parasitic ants infiltrate a colony of a closely related species by using pheromones identical to those of the colony's workers to avoid conflict and blend in. The parasite lays eggs alongside existing ones for the host colony's worker ants to raise and nurture as their own. Other parasitic ants transport the host colony's pupae and larvae back to the parasite's colony, where the brood will be raised as their own. The host brood that were transported are unable to differentiate between the parasites and their own colony, and serve as worker ants for the parasites. Some parasites can adapt their anatomy to reflect that of the hosts, allowing them to remain undetected for much of their lifespans. Parasites usually cause harmful effects to the target colony and can inhibit the colony's growth and development. (Full article...)
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September 5  Joseph Francis Shea (September 5, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was an aerospace engineer and NASA manager. After working for Bell Labs on the radio inertial guidance system of the Titan I intercontinental ballistic missile, he was hired by NASA in 1961. As Deputy Director of NASA's Office of Manned Space Flight, and later as head of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, Shea led NASA to decide in favor of lunar orbit rendezvous and supporting "all up" testing of the Saturn V rocket. Deeply involved in the investigation of the 1967 Apollo 1 fire, Shea suffered from stress. He was moved to an alternative position in Washington and left NASA shortly afterwards. From 1968 until 1990 he was a senior manager at Raytheon in Lexington, Massachusetts, then worked as an adjunct professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. While Shea served as a consultant for NASA on the redesign of the International Space Station in 1993, he was forced to resign from the position due to health issues. (Full article...)
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September 5 .jpg) Sigrid Norwegian singer-songwriter Sigrid has recorded songs for two studio albums and three extended plays (EP). She has also collaborated with other artists and covered songs by others. Sigrid wrote and released her first song, "Sun", in 2013. Island Records released her debut single, "Don't Kill My Vibe", in 2017. It was the lead single from her debut EP, Don't Kill My Vibe (2017). Sigrid's second EP, Raw (2018), included the single "High Five" and the self-written "Focus (Demo)". On her debut album, Sucker Punch (2019), Sigrid reunited with previous collaborators Martin Sjølie and Emily Warren, and worked with new songwriters like Noonie Bao and Oscar Holter. Sigrid wrote most of her second album, How to Let Go (2022), with Caroline Ailin and Sylvester Sivertsen. In 2022, Sigrid released singles in collaboration with Bring Me the Horizon and Griff, respectively. The Hype (2023), Sigrid's third EP, was supported by the single "The Hype". (Full list...) | |||
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In five days (September 6)
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September 6  Ophelia near North Carolina Hurricane Ophelia was a long-lived tropical cyclone, the fifteenth named storm and the eighth hurricane of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Classified as a tropical depression on September 6, it moved along a looping course, tending north. It reached hurricane status on September 8, though it repeatedly lost and regained it. The system reached hurricane strength for the fourth time on September 14, with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 km/h). Ophelia had completed a second loop and was moving northwest toward North Carolina. It mostly remained offshore though its eyewall scraped the coastline for two days. It degraded to tropical storm strength on September 16 as it began accelerating northeast. Ophelia traversed Atlantic Canada before dissipating on September 23 over the Norwegian Sea. With the storm occurring on the heels of Hurricane Katrina, governments were quick to prepare shelters. Three people died as the result of the storm, with another missing. (Full article...)
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September 6: Defence Day in Pakistan (1965), Ghost Festival in China (2025)  Cal Ripken Jr.
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September 7  HMS Queen Mary was the last battlecruiser built by the Royal Navy before the First World War. The sole member of her class, Queen Mary was completed in 1913 and participated in the Battle of Heligoland Bight as part of the Grand Fleet in 1914. She never left the North Sea during the war. Queen Mary unsuccessfully attempted to intercept a German force that bombarded the North Sea coast of England in December. She was refitting in early 1915 and missed the Battle of Dogger Bank in January. Queen Mary was sunk in the largest fleet action of the war, the Battle of Jutland in mid-1916. Twice hit by the German battlecruiser Derfflinger during the early part of the battle, her magazines exploded shortly afterwards. Her wreck was discovered in 1991 and rests in pieces on the floor of the North Sea. The wreck is designated as a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 as it is the grave of 1,266 men. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battlecruisers of the world.)
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In seven days (September 8)
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September 8  Peter Sellers (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian, known for his many film roles, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther. On stage from early childhood, he built his skills in Ralph Reader's wartime Gang Show troupe. After the war, Sellers made his radio debut in ShowTime, and became a regular on BBC Radio. During the early 1950s, Sellers took part in radio's The Goon Show. Although the bulk of his film work was comedic, he also performed in other genres, portraying a wide range of characters even within the same film. His films include I'm All Right Jack (1959), Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), What's New Pussycat? (1965), Casino Royale (1967), Being There (1979) and five films of the Pink Panther series. Sellers was nominated three times for an Academy Award, including twice for Best Actor, and won a number of other awards. Turner Classic Movies has called Sellers "one of the most accomplished comic actors of the late 20th century". (Full article...)
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September 8: Victory Day in Malta  PS Lady Elgin
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September 8  Almería is the province's capital and largest municipality by population. There are 103 municipalities in Almería, a province in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. As of the 2024[update] Spanish census, Almería is the 21st most populous of Spain's 50 provinces, with 760,964 inhabitants, and the 27th largest by land area, spanning 8,773.05 square kilometres (3,387.29 sq mi). Municipalities are the most basic local political division in Spain and can only belong to one province. The largest municipality by population in the province as of the 2024 Spanish census is Almería (pictured), its capital, with 201,946 residents, while the smallest is Benitagla, with 59 residents. The largest municipality by area is Níjar, which spans 599.76 square kilometres (231.57 sq mi), while Alicún is the smallest at 5.87 square kilometres (2.27 sq mi). (Full list...) | |||
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