Daily Calendar for Saturday, September 28, 2024
Question of the Day
Is there a natural way to lighten my hair without using those smelly hair dyes from the store?
You can use lemon juice, from either a bottle or real lemons. Comb it through your hair evenly, then let it dry in the sun. Do this once a day for about a week, and you’ll see results.
Advice of the Day
To avoid dying, don’t sing in bed.
Home Hint of the Day
Did you run out of brass polish? Substitute Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, or toothpaste.
Word of the Day
Sunrise/Sunset
The visible rising and setting of the Sun’s upper limb across the unobstructed horizon of an observer whose eyes are 15 feet above ground level.
Puzzle of the Day
Soon as I’m made, I’m sought with care, for one whole year consulted. That time elapsed, I’m thrown aside, neglected and insulted. (What is being described?)
An almanac
Born
- Caravaggio (painter) –
- Frances Willard (U.S. reformer) –
- Kate Wiggin (author & educator) –
- Avery Brundage (sports figure) –
- Ed Sullivan (TV host) –
- Al Capp (cartoonist) –
- Syd Howe (hockey player) –
- Alice Marble (tennis player) –
- Brigitte Bardot (actress) –
- Mira Sorvino (actress) –
- Naomi Watts (actress) –
- Hilary Duff (actress) –
Died
- Herman Melville (author) –
- Harpo Marx (comedian & actor) –
- Ferdinand Marcos (Philippine political leader) –
- Miles Davis (musician) –
- Pierre Trudeau (15th prime minister of Canada) –
- Patsy Takemoto Mink (Hawaiian congresswoman) –
- Elia Kazan (film director) –
- Althea Gibson (American tennis player and golfer) –
Events
- Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrived at what is now San Diego Bay–
- First photograph of a comet–
- Grand jury in Chicago indicted eight players of the Chicago White Sox for throwing” the 1919 World Series”–
- Hazel, based on The Saturday Evening Post’s cartoon by Ted Key, premiered on television–
- 150th flight of the X-15 aircraft–
- Little Joe, a 5-foot, 300-pound adolescent gorilla born in captivity, escaped from the Franklin Park Zoo in Massachusetts for a second time minutes before closing time. It also had escaped from its section of the Tropical Forest exhibit in August 2003–
- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0, near Parkfield, California, was felt from San Francisco to Los Angeles–
- The U.S. government released the new $50 bills into circulation. The redesigned bill had splashes of red, blue, and yellow–
- 437 people dressed as Superman set a world record in Calgary, Alberta–
Weather
- The first of three early snowstorms hit the Northeast, where Hamilton, New York, received four inches of snow and Ashby, Massachusetts got two inches–
- Astoria, Oregon, had a high temperature of 83 degrees F–
- Waterspout formed near Smithtown Bay, New York–
- Hurricane Ian hit the southwest coast of Florida as a category 4 hurricane. –