On This Day:
Sunday September 8, 2013 This is the 251st day of the year, with 114 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: eggs Eggs are among the most versatile ingredients used in cooking - a part of pasta, cookies, cakes, pastries, sauces, etc. - and can be cooked in a great variety of ways. They can be served plain or with an array of garnishing ingredients, sauces, or other accompaniments. The nutritive value of eggs ensured they would become part of the human diet all over the world from the earliest times; they are also associated with rites and traditions such as Lent and Easter. Egg sizes are Jumbo, Extra Large, Large, Medium, Small and Peewee. Several factors influence the size of an egg, the major factor being the age of the hen: as the hen ages, her eggs increase in size. The breed of hen from which the egg comes is a second factor, and weight of the bird is another. Pullets significantly underweight at sexual maturity will produce small eggs.
Holidays Malta: National Day (Our Lady of Victories).
United Nations International Literacy Day.
North Korea: National Day commemorating founding of state in 1948.
Bulgaria, Luxembourg: Liberation Day.
Events 1504 - Michelangelo's 13-foot marble statue of David was unveiled in Florence, Italy.
1565 - San Augustin (Florida) was founded by Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilés -- making it the oldest city in North America. It was built near the site where Ponce de Léon, the discoverer of Florida, landed in 1513.
1636 - Harvard College (originally Cambridge College) was founded, the first college in the U.S.
1760 - French surrendered the city of Montreal to the British.
1900 - Galveston, Texas, was devastated by a hurricane that kills over 6,000 people. It is considered to be the single worst natural disaster in U.S. history.
1906 - Robert Turner invented the automatic typewriter's return carriage.
1917 - Eugene Bullard became the first African-American combat aviator in a reconnaissance mission over France.
1920 - New York-to-San Francisco air mail service was started.
1921 - Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C. was named the first Miss America.
1930 - The "Blondie" comic strip was first printed.
1935 - Senator Huey P. Long was shot and mortally wounded in Louisiana's state capitol. He died two days later.
1941 - Nazi Germany began its siege of Leningrad, which lasted 900 days. When the siege finally ended in January of 1944, Leningrad's population had been reduced to 600,000 people from 2,500,000 million.
1944 - First German long-range rocket (V2) was launched from Holland and fell on London.
1955 - United States, Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Thailand signed the mutual defense treaty that established the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
1960 - NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was dedicated.
1966 - Television program "Star Trek" premiered.
1966 - Television program "Tarzan" premiered.
1971 - The Kennedy Center opened in Washington, D.C.
1974 - President Gerald Ford issued an unconditional pardon to former President Richard Nixon.
1986 - "The Oprah Winfrey Show" premiered.
1990 - Ellis Island Historical Site opened on Ellis Island, New York City.
1994 - A U.S. Air Boeing 737 crashed at the Pittsburgh International Airport, killing all 132 people on board.
1998 - St. Louis Cardinals baseball player Mark McGwire breaks Roger Maris' single-season home-run record of 61.
2001 - The World Conference against Racism ends in Durban, South Africa.
2003 - The Recording Industry Association of America filed 261 lawsuits against individuals for copyright infringement, accusing them of unauthorized sharing of files containing copyrighted material, including 12-year-old Brianna LaHara.
2004 - The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
Births 1157 - Richard I (Richard the Lion-Hearted), King of England.
1841 - Antonin Dvoráak, Czechoslovakian composer and violinist.
1900 - Claude Pepper, Democratic senator and congressman from Florida, champion of senior citizens' rights.
1922 - Sid Caesar, American comedian and television star.
1925 - Peter Sellers, English comic actor in the "Pink Panther" and other movies.
1932 - Patsy Cline, American country singer.
1947 - Ann Beattie, American writer.
1971 - David Arquette, American actor.
1979 - Pink (born Alecia Beth Moore), American singer.
1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas (born Jonathan Taylor Weiss), American actor.
Deaths 1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer.
1979 - Jean Seberg, American actress.
2006 - Peter Brock, Australian race car driver.
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