Daily Calendar for Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Question of the Day
Where does Ugli fruit come from?
鈥淯gli鈥 fruit is a trademark for the tangelo, a tropical fruit that is a hybrid between a grapefruit and a tangerine or mandarin orange. Tangelos originated in Jamaica.
[The term 鈥渦gly fruit鈥 may refer to other fruit, such as the osage orange (aka hedge apple), or generally to imperfect or blemished produce.]
Advice of the Day
When closing up a summer house, run a cycle of warm water and 1 cup vinegar through the washing machine and dishwasher before draining the pipes.
Home Hint of the Day
Buy narrow T-shaped hardware to cover the gap between your kitchen counter and stove. This will seal a gap up to 1/4 inch wide and prevent food from collecting there.
Word of the Day
Hogshead
1 hogshead=63 gallons
Puzzle of the Day
The Volunteer State.(Name the U.S. state!)
Tennessee
Died
- John Singleton Copley (artist) 鈥
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (painter) 鈥
- Bill Monroe (American musician) 鈥
- Burgess Meredith (actor) 鈥
- James Earl Jones (actor) 鈥
Born
- Leo Tolstoy (author) 鈥
- Harland Sanders (founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken) 鈥
- Phyllis Whitney (writer) 鈥
- Sylvia Miles (actress) 鈥
- Otis Redding (singer & songwriter) 鈥
- Tom Wopat (actor & singer) 鈥
- Angela Cartwright (actress) 鈥
- Hugh Grant (actor) 鈥
- Adam Sandler (actor) 鈥
- Eric Stonestreet (actor) 鈥
- Michael Bubl茅 (singer) 鈥
- Michelle Williams (actress) 鈥
Events
- Continental Congress declared 鈥淯nited States of America鈥 would be the name of the new nation 鈥
- John Herschel took the first glass plate photograph 鈥
- California was admitted as the 31st state 鈥
- Tom Fleming won the first national log rolling championship 鈥
- Canadian swimmer, Marilyn Bell, became the first person to swim across Lake Ontario 鈥
- Elvis Presley appeared for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show. The show was hosted by Charles Laughton because Sullivan was recovering from injuries received in a car accident 鈥
- USS Long Beach, the first nuclear-powered surface warship, was commissioned 鈥
- Arthur Ashe won the U.S. Open tennis title 鈥
- The comic strip For Better or For Worse debuted 鈥
- Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch in Britain’s history 鈥
- Football game between Miami Dolphins and Tennessee Titans lasted about 7 hours 8 minutes due to 3 hours 59 minutes of weather (lightning) delays. This made it the longest game in NFL history since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger. Dolphins beat the Titans 27-20. 鈥
蜜桃恋人
- Thrall, Texas, had 38.2 inches of rain within 24 hours 鈥
