In a frightening bit of trivia, September 23 is the birthday of Ray Charles, Julio Iglesias, and Bruce Springsteen. Given Julio's urge to sing duets with everyone..................
"My beeells are all due an' the baaaaaby needs shoes and I'm baaaaahhhhsted"
"Buuutt teeeell then trrrrrrramps like uuuuuuus baaaaaby we were born to ruuuuuuuuuun"
September 24, 1960, the oldest active commissioned vessel in the US Navy and the world's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, CVN-65, was launched. The USS Constitution, a fine ship to visit if you run Boston, remains the oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat anywhere in the world.
September 25, 1900 is the birthday of Fritz Kolbe, an anti-Nazi German diplomat who supplied American intelligence with thousands of documents during World War II, considered the most important spy in America's efforts against Hitler's military. "My objective was to shorten the war and to help spare the unfortunate people in the concentration camps further suffering."
September 26, 1927 is the birthday of Dr. J. Robert Cade, native of San Antonio, US Navy veteran, professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Florida, and primary inventor of Gatorade.
September 28, 1968, was a day of one hour roller skating records, with Italy's Alberto Giolani setting a men's best of 23.133 miles and West Germany's Marisa Danisi setting a women's best of 21.995 miles
On September 30, 1982, after 29 days, 3 hours, 8 minutes, H. Ross Perot and Jay Colburn completed the first first trip around the world in a helicopter, the "Spirit of Texas."
October 3, 1906, "SOS" is adopted as the international distress signal at the 2nd international conference on wireless telegraphy, held in Berlin; who suggested it and if it had some particular significance were not recorded in conference proceedings.
October 4, 1675, Christian Huygens patents his pocket watch. Patent office staff laugh off his proposed wrist adaptor and his pocketed race short designs.
October 7, 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 space craft takes the first photos of the dark side of the moon. Marathon Tours has not yet scheduled an event there.
