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September 21 Birthday greetings to suspense writer Stephen King , born in 1947; comedian Bill Murray , born in 1950; and Devereaux Library's Patty Andersen. J.R.R. Tolkien publishes his novel, “The Hobbit” in 1937. More by and about Tolkien @ your library

Summer - National Geographic Society co-sponsors Badlands fossil hunt, allowing field work in the Badlands for the first time since 1935. [Twenty-Sixth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1940, Fiscal Years 1938-39 and 1939-40, Transmitted to the Legislature at the Twenty-Seventh Biennial Session, 1941. pg. 432]

September 20 George Burns [Nathan Birnbaum], is born in New York City on this day in 1896. In 1519 Ferdinand Magellan begins the 1st successful circumnavigation of the globe. The U.S. Patent Office grants a patent for the electric range in 1859.

September 1 - President Warren Wilson resigns [Thirty-Third Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1954, Fiscal Years 1952-53 and 1953-54, Transmitted to the Legislature at the Thirty-Fifth Biennial Session, 1955, pg. 81] September 1 - Earl Dake named acting President [Thirty-Third Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1954, Fiscal Years 1952-53 and 1953-54, Transmitted to the Legislature at the Thirty-Fifth Biennial Session, 1955, pg. 84]

September 19 In 1911, future Nobel Prize winning novelist William Golding is born in England. More than two months after being shot, President James Garfield , succumbs to the assassin’s bullet in 1881. Underground nuclear testing begins near Las Vegas in 1957. Learn more about undergound nuclear testing # your library.

Maher Barakat of Kuwait and Mines football punter is drafted by the Denver Broncos, he is the first and, so far, only, Mines player ever drafted by pro football. [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 125]

September 18 In 1819 Leon Foucault , the physicist who proved that the earth rotates, was born in France. Academy Award winning actress, Claudette Colbert was born in Paris in 1905. Joe Kittinger lands his hot air balloon in Italy, completing the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.