Daily Calendar for Tuesday, September 3, 2024

When did we begin using meteorological maps?

Edmond Halley, an English astronomer, drew the first such map in 1686.

For a headache, soak your feet in hot water to drain the blood from your head.

Get grimy white cotton socks white again by boiling them in water with a slice of lemon.

Cirrus cloud

Thin feather-like crystal cloud.

The Buckeye State.(Name the U.S. state!)

Ohio

Treaty of Paris signed between the U.S. and Great Britain– 1783
New York Sun became the first daily penny press” newspaper”– 1833
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass escaped slavery– 1838
First classes at U.S. Naval War College began– 1885
First professional football game played– 1895
World record set by auto averaging 301.13 mph for 1 mile, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah– 1935
Search for Tomorrow first aired on television– 1951
Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars at Utopia Planitia– 1976
19-inning baseball game began at Fenway Park in Boston– 1981
47-lb. flathead catfish caught, Ohio River, Pennsylvania– 2006

According to the Royalists, the severe storm that struck the British Isles on this day in 1658 - also the day Oliver Cromwell died - was simple proof that the Devil had come for his soul.– 1658
A hurricane caused a 13-foot storm surge in New York City– 1821
Denver, Colorado, got 4.2 inches of snow– 1961
A hailstone measuring 17.5 inches in circumference and weighing 1.671 pounds was picked up and photographed in Coffeyville, Kansas– 1970
89 degrees F, Stampede Pass, Washington– 1988