Wonder what F. S. Key and J. S. Smith would think of us today on the 211th anniversary of their familiar tune, published on Sept. 20, 1814?

Not a trick question; even doddering Baby Boomers ain’t that old.

Also, wonder how many American young’uns know about those collaborators and/or can name the song they collaborated?

Hmmm.

Looks like September 20 has been a positive date many times through the years; no telling what’ll happen today as we await Monday’s arrival of 2025’s autumnal equinox.

Says here, in 1859, George Simpson patented an electric range but might’ve starved to death waiting for T. Alva Edison to harness electricity and make it available to some of the masses in 1882.

Chester A. Arthur was inaugurated as the 21st U.S. President on this date in 1881. Twelve short years l

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