1st half In a message dated 9/1/2019 9:22:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, wflem72706@aol.com writes: In a message dated 9/1/2019 9:16:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, wflem72706@aol.com writes: American Chess Day -------------------------------National Cherry Popover Day( I'll eat to that)-----------------------------------------------------Pet Rock Day-------------------Pink Cadillac Day------------------------National No Rhyme or Reason Day-----------------------------------------World Letter Writing Day------------------------------------------Jacques Cartier French explorer dies today 1557---------------------------------------------------------- - 1774 – Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly: Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -   - 1864 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - 1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------