History of All Kinds

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Sept 15, 1928

Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while sorting through petri dishes containing colonies of the bacteria Staphylococcus.

 

[NorthBrit]

16TH SEPTEMBER
1620 The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England, with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World

 

[RhB Michael]

They picked a bad time to leave.

 

[Jaz avalley]

Sept 15, 1928

Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while sorting through petri dishes containing colonies of the bacteria Staphylococcus.

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And idiots use it for keeping animals healthy, while we build up resistances to the family. There is potential that within a hundred years that penicillin will. Be useless to us. A actual wonder drug, not used to to cure ailments in animals, just used as a Health boost, sighs.

 

[Jaz avalley]

They picked a bad time to leave.

They would have been ok if someone new how to fish, they starved amongst an abundance of food.

 

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Sept 17, 1787

US Constitution is signed by delegates at the Philadelphia Convention.

 

[NorthBrit]

18TH SEPTEMBER
1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after five days, destroys 75% of the city and kills 12,000 people

 

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Sept 18, 1793

US President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

 

[trailrider]

Happy Birthday, U.S. Air Force, flyers, missileers and everyone!

 

[NorthBrit]

20TH SEPTEMBER
1906
The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania was launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne. At the time, she was the largest and fastest ship in the world. She captured the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1907 inaugural season and held the speed record for twenty-two years.


1911
White Star Line's RMS Olympic collided with British warship HMS Hawke. Olympic was the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners, that also consisted of the Titanic and Britannic. The fact that Olympic endured such a serious collision and stayed afloat, appeared to vindicate the design of the Olympic-class liners and reinforced their 'unsinkable' reputation

 

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Sept 20, 1904

Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II.

 

[NorthBrit]

21ST SEPTEMBER

1621 King James I of England gives Scottish courtier and poet William Alexander a royal charter to colonize Nova Scotia

1937 English writer J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, a coming-of-age fantasy that became a classic, was published.

 

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Sept 21, 1915

Cecil Chubb buys the prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600 and later donates it to the British nation.

 

[NorthBrit]

22ND SEPTEMBER

1784 Russian trappers establish a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska

 

[migalyto]

Sept 22, 1862

US President Abraham Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all enslaved people in the rebel Southern states if those states fail to rejoin the Union by January 1, 1863.

 

[NorthBrit]

23RD SEPTEMBER.
1641
The Merchant Royal, a 17th century English merchant ship was lost at sea off Land's End. On board were at least 100,000 pounds of gold (nearly one billion pounds in today's money), 400 bars of Mexican silver and nearly 500,000 pieces of eight and other coins, making it one of the most valuable wrecks of all times. The wreck remains undiscovered.

 

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Sept 23, 1779 ​

"I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight"​

John Paul Jones aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard defeats the British frigate HMS Serepis and becomes the United States first well-known naval hero.

 

[NorthBrit]

24TH SEPTEMBER
1493 Christopher Columbus embarks on his second expedition to the New World, setting sail with a fleet of 17 ships

1916
A local policeman rounded up and took into custody the crew of the German Zeppelin LZ-76 that had been forced down near Colchester, England

 

[migalyto]

Sept 24, 1952

American fast food restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah, after Colonel Harland Sanders franchises his recipe to friend Pete Harman.

 

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Sept 25, 1789

The First U.S. Congress proposes the Bill of Rights, a set of amendments to the constitution guaranteeing essential liberties including freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to peaceful assemble.