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September 25 ~ On this day in 1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park. Interested in the geology of Yosemite ? Find it @ your library. Future Superman, Christopher Reeve , born this day in New York City in 1952. Discover the secrets of superheroes @ your library.

September 24 ~ The 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge is completed in 1958 in Urbandale, Iowa. More about bridge construction and design @ your library. The United States' first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise , is launched in 1960. More about aircraft carriers @ your library. On this day in 1890, Wilford Woodruff, Mormon Church President, issues a manifesto renouncing polygamy . Learn more @ your library.

September 23 ~ Lewis & Clark return to St Louis, completing the journey of the Corps of Discovery that lasted more than 2 years. Want to know more about the Lewis & Clark expedition ? Find it @ your library. Walter Pidgeon is born in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1897; in 1920 Mickey Rooney is born in Brooklyn, New York; and in 63 B.C. Ceasar Augustus was born in Rome. In 1846 Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune. Love astronomy ? Find more @ your library.

September 22 ~ In 1791 English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday discovers the principle of the electric motor. President Abraham Lincoln issues the first portion of the Emancipation Proclamation. Learn more about the Emancipation Proclamation @ your library. The USSR detonates its 1st atomic bomb on this date in 1949. Want to know more about Russia and the atomic bomb ? Find it @ your library.

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.