Grandparents’ Day falls on the first Sunday of September
following Labor Day. Thus, the date changes from year to
year, but the informal holiday always falls in early to mid-
September.  

In the United States, Russell Capper (age 9 in 1969) sent
a letter to President Nixon suggesting a special day be
set aside as Grandparents’ Day.

Since the aforementioned letter, Marian McQuade, a West
Virginia housewife, was recognized nationally by the United
States Senate – in particular by Senators Jennings Randolph
and Robert Byrd – and by President Jimmy Carter, as the
founder of National Grandparents Day.

In 1973, then-Senator Jennings Randolph, D-WV, introduced
a  resolution to the senate to make Grandparents’ Day a
national holiday.

The flower of the U.S. National Grandparents Day is the
forget-me-not which blooms in the spring. As a result,
seasonal flowers are given in appreciation to grandparents
on this day.

"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds,
to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no
man has gone before," said actor William Shatner in the show’s
opening. 

The world first met Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock on this day in
history, Sept. 8, 1966, with the premiere of the television series
"Star Trek." 
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September 8 is now celebrated worldwide by "Trekkies" as
"Star Trek Day."

William Shatner (93)

Senator Huey Long was shot in the Louisiana state capitol
building. He died about 30 hours later. Called a demagogue
by critics, the populist leader was a larger-than-life figure
who boasted that he bought legislators “like sacks of
potatoes, shuffled them like a deck of cards.”

He gave himself the nickname “Kingfish,” saying “I’m a
small fish here in Washington. But I’m the Kingfish to the
folks down in Louisiana.”