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September 19, 1987 - Around 69,000 people flooded Memorial Stadium for Willie Nelson’s 1987 Farm Aid Concert, raising $1.7 million for farmers.

The concert lasted 10 hours and had 40 acts including Mellencamp, John Denver, Nelson and more.

Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne approved the concert with the promise that it wouldn’t interfere with Husker Football.


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I was there

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Ötzi the Iceman Is Discovered by German Tourists (1991)
In 1991, two hikers discovered a well-preserved corpse trapped in ice near the border between Austria and Italy. It proved to be that of a man who lived about 5,300 years ago—making it the oldest natural mummy ever found. He was nicknamed Ötzi, for the Ötztal Alps where he was found. Also recovered were clothes, shoes, tools, weapons, fire-starting materials, and medicine. Scientists have since determined that Ötzi ate about eight hours before his death.

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"Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus" Editorial Is Published (1897)
In 1897, eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon of New York City asked her father if Santa Claus was real. When he suggested that "if you see it in The Sun, it's so," she wrote to the newspaper and asked. Editor Francis Pharcellus Church's lengthy, touching reply became one of the most reprinted newspaper editorials in US history. "Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias," wrote Church.

September 22, 1920 - To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Pilgrims landing at the future site of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Ak-Sar-Ben Fall Festival was held for nine days in September 1920.

The festival featured a “Pilgrims Pageant” parade, automobile and horse races, an electrical parade and Coronation Ball for the Ak-Sar-Ben King and Queen.

The Pilgrims Pageant was the highlight of the festival.

Maybe weirder
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CLkqe8YZOU4?feature=share

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition Returns (1806)
In May 1804, about 40 men left St. Louis, Missouri, and headed west on an expedition initiated by US President Thomas Jefferson to search out an overland route to the Pacific Ocean, make contact with indigenous peoples, and survey the new Louisiana Purchase. More than two years later, the party returned to great acclaim. Their journey had an incalculable effect on the history of the American West.

1387 King Richard's Feast - one of the most extravagant medieval English feasts ever recorded is held for Richard II and John of Gaunt in London, including 14 salted oxen, 120 sheep, 1,200 pigeons, and 11,000 eggs(sounds like a hell of a tailgate)

1779 John Paul Jones aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard defeats the British frigate HMS Serepis and becomes the United States first well-known naval hero (I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight)

1875 Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time and jailed after receiving clothing stolen from a Chinese laundry but escapes two days later

1876 Ottawa Rough Riders play their first game

1912 First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie releases "Cohen Collects a Debt"

1926 "Upset of the Decade": Gene Tunney defeats defending champion Jack Dempsey by 10-round unanimous decision at Sesquicentennial Stadium (later known as JFK Stadium) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the world heavyweight boxing title

1949 MLB Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck holds a funeral service to bury the 1948 pennant(still got my fingers crossed for this year)

1957 "That'll Be the Day" single by Buddy Holly and The Crickets reaches #1 in the US

1962 ABC's first color TV series, "The Jetsons," created by Hanna-Barbera, premieres

1969 "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, premieres at the Roger Sherman Theater in New Haven, Connecticut

1977 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on the TV show "Charlie's Angels" (not a bad replacement)

1979 MLB St. Louis Cardinals legend Lou Brock steals his 938th and final base of his career

1980 Reggae legend Bob Marley's final concert at Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1983 MLB pitcher Gaylord Perry (45) announces his retirement after 22 seasons, with a career record of 314-265, a 3.11 ERA, and 3,534 strikeouts

1984 Detroit Tigers' Sparky Anderson becomes the first MLB manager to win 100 games in both leagues

1990 PBS begins an 11-hour miniseries on the Civil War

1994 "The Shawshank Redemption," directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is released

2019 Climate activist Greta Thunberg scolds world leaders with "How dare you" for not addressing climate change at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York (she wasn't living off the grid or chopping her own wood)