DAY IN HISTORY

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Today is the 258th day of 2021 and the 88th day of summer.

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were enacted in Germany, depriving German Jews of their citizenship, banning marriages between Jews and other Germans and imposing the swastika as a national symbol.

In 2001, President George W. Bush named

Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks and pledged a sustained fight against terrorism.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Agatha Christie (18901976), author; Roy Acuff (1903-1992), musician; Fay Wray (1907-2004), actress; Nipsey Russell (1918-2005), actor/comedian; Merlin Olsen (1940-2010), football player/actor; Tommy Lee Jones (1946- ), actor; Oliver Stone (1946- ), filmmaker; Dan Marino (1961- ), football player.

TODAY’S FACT: No president has sported facial hair since William Howard Taft in 1913.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 2004, National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman announced the decision to lock out players over contract disputes. The season was eventually canceled.

TODAY’S QUOTE:

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” — Agatha Christie

TODAY’S NUMBER: 2 — top speed (in miles per hour) of the Mark I, the first tank used in battle, deployed for the first time by the British during the Battle of the Somme on this day in 1916.

TODAY’S MOON: Between first quarter moon (Sept. 13) and full moon (Sept. 20).