National Banana Bread Day
Banana bread is baked and eaten today! Classified as a "quick bread" because it has baking powder but no yeast, it is
more similar to cake—specifically "tea cake"—than it is to bread because it usually contains a large amount of sugar. It likely was given the name "bread" because it is sliced and often buttered, unlike cake, which is
usually frosted. 1942: A Japanese submarine fired artillery shells at coastal targets near Santa Barbara, California.
1945: American Marines raised the American flag on the island of Iwo Jima.
1954: The first mass vaccination of children against polio began in Pittsburgh.
1991: President
George H.W. Bush announced the beginning of an allied ground offensive in
Iraq.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: W.E.B. Du Bois (18681963), sociologist/ activist; Victor Fleming (1889-1949), filmmaker; Tom Osborne (1937-), football coach; Peter Fonda (1940-2019), actor; Fred Biletnikoff (1943-), football player; Michael Dell (1965-), businessman; Kelly Macdonald (1976-), actress; Josh Gad (1981-), actor; Aziz Ansari (1983-), actor/comedian; Emily Blunt (1983-), actress; Skylar Grey (1986-), singer-songwriter; Dakota Fanning (1994-), actress.
TODAY’S FACT: Von Steuben Day is celebrated in midseptember with parades in many U.S. cities. Chicago’s Von Steuben Day parade was featured in the 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1968, Wilt Chamberlain became the first NBA player to score 25,000 career points.
TODAY’S QUOTE: “Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?” — W.E.B. Du Bois, “Black Reconstruction in America”
TODAY’S NUMBER: 6,825 — American soldiers who died taking Iwo Jima in 1945.