Today is Sunday Sept. 23, the 266th day of 2018 with 99 to follow.
The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include Greek playwright Euripides in 480 B.C.; Roman Emperor Augustus in 63 B.C.; Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan in 1215; feminist/presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull in 1838; actor Mickey Rooney in 1920; jazz saxophonist John Coltrane in 1926; soul singer/pianist Ray Charles in 1930; singer Julio Iglesias in 1943 (age 75); actor Paul Petersen in 1945 (age 73); actor Mary Kay Place in 1947 (age 71); guitarist Dan Toler (Allman Brothers Band) in 1948; musician Bruce Springsteen in 1949 (age 69); actor Jason Alexander in 1959 (age 59); actor Elizabeth Pena in 1959; singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco in 1970 (age 48); former White House press secretary Sean Spicer in 1971 (age 47); writer Ana Marie Cox in 1972 (age 46); rapper Jermaine Dupri in 1972 (age 46); singer Rachael Yamagata in 1977 (age 41); actor Anthony Mackie in 1978 (age 40); actor Skylar Astin in 1987 (age 31).
On this date in history:
In 1806, U.S. explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis on their historic journey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast and back.
In 1846, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune at the Berlin Observatory. Neptune generally is the eighth planet from the sun.
In 1909, Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera was published.
In 1950, the U.S. Congress adopted the Internal Security Act, which provided for the registration of communists. It was later ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
In 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the corn fields of Iowa to find out what made the American farmer tick and urged that the earth “be furrowed by plows, not rockets and tanks.”
In 1966, a Rolling Stones’ concert at England’s Royal Albert concert hall was halted temporarily when screaming girls attacked Mick Jagger onstage. The riotous enthusiasm of the fans resulted in a ban of pop concerts at the hall.
In 1973, Juan Peron was again elected president of Argentina after 18 years in exile. His second wife, Isabel, who became vice president, succeeded him after he died 10 months later.
In 1991, 44 U.N. inspectors were detained in Baghdad after attempting to remove secret Iraqi plans for building nuclear weapons. They were freed five days later.
In 2005, a fire killed 23 people on a bus carrying Texas nursing home evacuees from Hurricane Rita.
In 2008, a 22-year-old student killed 11 adult students and himself at a vocational college in Finland 205 miles north of Helsinki.
In 2010, the U.S. Congress enacted the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act, a multibillion-dollar package of tax breaks and government loans to aid small businesses. President Barack Obama signed the bill into law four days later.
In 2017, organizers of a free speech rally at the University of California, Berkeley, featuring controversial conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, canceled the event. Though they didn’t give a reason, Yiannopoulos blamed the school, which experienced violent protests the last time he spoke there.
A thought for the day: British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a 2013 speech on making the Internet safer for children, said, “I want to talk about the Internet, the impact it is having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the Internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children, and that must be stamped out.”
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