WORLD Suicide Prevention Day
NATIONAL Sewing Machine Day
NATIONAL TV Dinner Day
NATIONAL Swap Ideas Day
NATIONAL Grandparents' Day [first Sunday after Labor Day]
NATIONAL Pet Memorial Day [second Sunday in September]
NATIONAL Hug Your Hound Day [second Sunday in September]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1623 Lumber and furs are the first cargo to leave New Plymouth in North America for England
1846 Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing machine in the United States
1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandated gasoline rationing in the US as part of the country’s wartime efforts
1997 The $250 million Mars Global Surveyor successfully went into orbit around Mars for its two year mapping mission
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