Ed Sullivan talks with Elvis Presley before the show.

(History Channel) – Elvis Presley, at age 21, broke television
records with his first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
on this day in history, Sept. 9, 1956.

Elvis — along with his famous "gyrations" — had been
banned previously by Ed Sullivan from appearing on his
show.

However, after several of his competitors saw massive ratings
when Presley appeared on their shows, Sullivan reconsidered
his ban.

Richard Bruce Cheney (82)   is an American politician and
businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the
United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W.
Bush. He is currently the oldest living former U.S. vice
president, following the death of Walter Mondale in 2021.

Congress passed the legislation proclaiming the first Sunday
after Labor Day as National Grandparents’ Day in the U.S.
and, on August 3, 1978, then-President Jimmy Carter (below) 
signed the proclamation.   

The flower of the U.S. National Grandparents Day
is the forget-me-not which blooms in the spring. 

The seasonal flowers are given in appreciation to
grandparents on this day.

In a controversial executive action, President Gerald Ford
pardoned his disgraced predecessor Richard M. Nixon for
any crimes he may have committed or participated in while
in office. Ford later defended this action before the House
Judiciary Committee, explaining that he wanted to end the
national divisions created by the Watergate scandal.

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)

Seattle, WA policemen wearing face masks during the
influenza epidemic.  

The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 was a quick burning,
destructive, and chaotic flu that wiped out a large swath
of the world’s population. People were told to wear masks
but in many instances some just straight up refused. It was
all due to the lack of accurate folks research into the illness. 

Historian John Barry explained that during the flu of 1918
there was an extreme amount of disinformation going
around: The press did not treat the 1918 flu seriously
during the outbreak, for reasons that are very different
than today.

Warehouses were converted to house the infected people quarantined.