September 14 is:
National Live Creative Day
National Eat a Hoagie Day (A submarine sandwich, also known as a sub, hoagie, hero, or grinder)
National Cream-Filled Donut Day
In the U.S. alone, more than 10 billion donuts are made every year.
Anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri (September 14, 1321), Italian poet known throughout the world for his “Divine Comedy”
September 14, 1752: Great Britain switched from the Julian calendar (named for Julius Caesar) to the Gregorian calendar, (named for Pope Gregory) skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
The Julian calendar has two types of year: a normal year of 365 days and a leap year of 366 days. It followed a simple cycle of three normal years and one leap year, giving an average year that is 365.25 days long. That is more than the actual solar year value of 365.24219 days, which means the Julian calendar gains one day every 128 years.
The Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582. It changed the extra day in leap year by the following rule:
Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not leap years, but the years 1600 and 2000 are.
To deal with the drift, since the Julian calendar was fixed, the date was advanced 10 days; In Great Britain September 2 was followed by September 14, 1752.
The poem Defense of Fort McHenry was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
1849 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born. Pavlov’s work with dogs actually started as a study of digestion. He theorized that digestion was controlled in part by sensory inputs of sight, smell and taste – and as he discovered, sound. The concept for which Pavlov is famous is the “conditioned reflex”.
1901 – Death of William McKinley, twenty-fifth President of the United States. He was shot on September 6, 1901 by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist at the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
Following McKinley’s murder, the U.S. Congress passed legislation to officially charge the Secret Service with the responsibility for protecting the president.
Points of Interest about McKinley:
- He was supposedly the inspiration for the Wizard of Oz.
- He was 5 foot 7 inches tall
- He had a pet parrot named “Washington Post” who could whistle to the tune of Yankee Doodle.
- His portrait appeared on the U.S. $500 bill from 1928 to 1946
- McKinley’s wife, Ida, disliked the color yellow so much she had all things yellow removed from the White House, including the yellow flowers in the garden.
1963 –Andrew and Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, SD,became parents to America’s 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a boy – Mary Ann, Mary Catherine, Mary Magdalene, Mary Margaret and James Andrew. The Fischers already had five children. All five quints survived to adulthood, celebrating their 50th birthday in 2013.
September 14, 1982: Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, died after a car crash the previous day.
1994 – The Major League Baseball season was canceled because of a strike.
2001 – Historic National Prayer Service was held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service was held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation’s capital.