Charles M. Schultz’s “Peanuts” comic strip debuted in just seven
US newspapers. (It would eventually run in more than 2,600.)

The cartoonist almost named Charlie Brown’s dog Sniffy—
not Snoopy—but another comic dog had that name.

Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz
(November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)

On September 25, 1970, in the 8:30 p.m. time slot immediately
following "The Brady Bunch," ABC premiered a program that
would give television production company Screen Gems its
second TV-to-pop-chart smash: "The Partridge Family."

Unwilling to rest as a one-hit wonder when its first big hit,
"The Monkees," went off the air in 1968, Screen Gems was
wasting no time in trying to repeat its success.

The series follows the lives of a fictional pop music band
formed by the titular family, including Shirley (Shirley Jones),
Keith (David Cassidy), Laurie (Susan Dey), and Danny (Danny
Bonaduce), as well as their manager Reuben Kincaid (Dave
Madden).

The family was loosely based on the real-life musical family
the Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

On September 22, 1994, the television sitcom Friends, about
six young adults living in New York City, debuted on NBC.

It also propelled the cast—Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox,
Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David
Schwimmer to varying degrees of stardom and success
in Hollywood.

The first issue of the National Geographic Magazine, without
photos, was published on September 22, 1888, eight months
after the Society was founded.

In September 2022, the magazine laid off six of its top editors
and In June 2023 laid off all of its staff writers, shifting to an
entirely freelance-based writing model, and announced that
beginning in 2024 it would no longer offer newsstand issues.

Author Stephen Edwin King, .dubbed the "King of Horror," is
widely known for his horror novels and has also explored other
genres, among them suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy,
and mystery..

Though known primarily for his novels, he has written about
200 short stories, most of which have been published in
collections.

His debut page-turner, Carrie (1974), established him in
horror.