DAY IN HISTORY

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Today is the 266th day of 2021 and the second day of autumn.

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1806, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery returned to St. Louis from its exploration venture to the Pacific coast.

In 1845, the New York Knickerbockers baseball club was founded.

In 1846, astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.

In 1952, vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon gave his famous “Checkers” speech, denying allegations of improper campaign financing.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), journalist/ activist; Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), journalist/ philosopher; Mickey Rooney (1920-2014), actor; John Coltrane (1926-1967), saxophonist; Ray Charles (19302004), singer-songwriter; Julio Iglesias (1943- ), singer-songwriter; Bruce Springsteen (1949- ), singer-songwriter; Jason Alexander (1959- ), actor; Ani Difranco (1970- ), singer-songwriter; Anthony Mackie (1978- ), actor.

TODAY’S FACT: Nintendo, known today as a video game company, was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi in Kyoto, Japan, on this day in 1889. The company originally produced handmade playing cards.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1988, Jose Canseco of the Oakland A’s became the first member of Major League Baseball’s “40-40 club,” hitting 40 home by Andrews Mcmeel Almanac

runs and stealing 40 bases in a single season.

TODAY’S QUOTE:

“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.” — Walter Lippmann, “Liberty and the News”

TODAY’S NUMBER: 33 — surviving members in Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery. Only one member of the party died during the nearly 8,000mile expedition.

TODAY’S MOON: Between full moon (Sept. 20) and last quarter moon (Sept. 28).