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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Mikhail Gorbachev Becomes Leader of the Soviet Union (1985)
In 1985, after the death of the third Soviet leader in two years, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, ushering in an era of political reform with his policies of glasnost and perestroika. He cultivated warmer relations with the US and others and even supported the democratically elected governments that replaced the communist regimes of eastern Europe. In 1991, he resigned the presidency of the USSR, which ceased to exist the same day.

Did you know that ranch dressing was invented by someone from Nebraska?

Today is National Ranch Day. What better time to hear the story of Steve Henson from Thayer, who not only invented ranch dressing, but was also the founder of Hidden Valley Ranch. Listen as his granddaughter Holly Mastelotto shares the story on the latest "Curious Nebraska." NebraskaPublicMedia.org/curious

1743 First American town meeting is held in Boston's Faneuil Hall

1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin, revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states

1888 Second largest snowfall in NYC history (21') sheez we get about one of those a winter Buffalo more

1900 Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity and genetics

1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation

1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched in San Francisco.By 1921, it was used as a breakwater in Cuba.
With the war in full swing, steel became a scarce resource, forcing engineers and shipbuilders to explore new possibilities. While concrete ships did not become the norm, they did find niche applications in specific sectors, such as the construction of barges and floating docks.

1923 US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes

1940 "The Road to Singapore" directed by Victor Schertzinger starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour, first of seven such films, premieres

1950 FBI starts a public list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

1954 Milwaukee Braves future home run king Hank Aaron homers in his debut exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox

1962 Red Wings' forward Gordie Howe becomes second player in NHL history to score 500 career goals in Detroit's 3-2 loss to NY Rangers. In1997 he would sign a AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch

1964 Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder

1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals, plagued by poor home attendance, announce they are moving franchise to Kansas City

1973 Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp

1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race. Hell I didn't even start handicapping then

2006 Mike Wallace retires from US news program "60 Minutes" after 37 years

2017 World's oldest golf club, Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for the first time in 273 years (I knew they'd come around)

2019 — The Senate voted for the second time on Sept. 25th to overturn President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southern border.

2024 A series of storms strike parts of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas, with tornadoes leaving at least 40 injured and three people dead

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Egypt's Fuad I Transitions from Sultan to King (1922)
Fuad I was the first king of modern Egypt. Educated in Europe, he returned to Egypt in 1880 and founded the University of Cairo in 1906. He succeeded his brother as sultan in 1917, but in 1922, when British control of Egypt ended, Fuad took the title of king. The following year, a new constitution was established. Fuad later abolished it and frequently threw the country into turmoil by dismissing parliament. Under great pressure, he restored the constitution in 1935.

My dad has a couple of these, I don't think he has any more working tapes, though. They have an unused back bedroom that's basically just a museum to old music/sound equipment.  That's where he had my old turntable and floor speakers.