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Daily Almanac: September 14, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:26 a.m.
SET: 8:00 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 75 °F
LOW: 49 °F

Today is…:

• Eat a Hoagie Day
• Gobstopper Day
• National Coloring Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1985 The Golden Girls Make Their Television Debut. The popular American sitcom about 4 single and older women living together in a Miami, Florida house ran for 6 seasons on NBC. The main characters in the show were played by Beatrice Arthur, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White, each of whom won the Emmys for their acting in the show. The series also won 2 Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series and 3 Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series.
• 1959 First Man-Made Object Successfully Lands on the Moon. Soviet space probe Luna 2 was also the first man-made spacecraft to land on any celestial object. It was launched on September 12, 1959, and lost communications with Earth as it impacted the Moon’s surface east of Mare Serenitatis near the Aristides, Archimedes, and Autolycus craters.
• 1956 IBM 305 RAMAC is Released. The 350 RAMAC was the first computer with a disk drive and was primarily targeted towards business that did real-time transactions. RAMAC stood for Random Access Method of Accounting and Control. The RAMAC 350, which was one of the last vacuum tube computers manufactured by IBM, was replaced by the IBM 1401 in the early 1960s.

Births On This Day:

• 1983 Amy Winehouse

English singer-songwriter
• 1879 Margaret Sanger

American activist

Deaths On This Day:

• 1982 Grace Kelly

American actress
• 1901 William McKinley

American politician, 25th President of the United States