Daily Calendar for Friday, August 30, 2024

Where do carrot seeds come from?

Carrots are biennial plants. If you leave them in the ground, the tops will flower and produce seeds the second year.

Snapdragons bespeak presumption, sunflowers haughtiness.

To clean chrome, rub on a thin paste of baking soda and water. Let it dry, then buff the chrome with a clean, dry rag.

Altostratus cloud

Grayish or bluish layer of clouds that can obscure the Sun.

The Land of Enchantment.(Name the U.S. state!)

New Mexico

Mary Shelley (writer) – 1797
Ellen Arthur (wife of U.S. president Chester Arthur; died before he took office) – 1837
Ernest Rutherford (physicist) – 1871
Huey Long (politician) – 1893
Raymond Massey (actor) – 1896
Roy Wilkins (civil rights leader) – 1901
Ted Williams (baseball player) – 1918
Geoffrey Beene (fashion designer) – 1927
Jean-Claude Killy (Olympic gold medalist, skiing) – 1943
Tug McGraw (baseball player) – 1944
Cameron Diaz (actress) – 1972
Andy Roddick (tennis player) – 1982

Streetcar service ended in Montreal, Quebec– 1959
Hotline between the White House and the Kremlin installed– 1963
Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court– 1967
First night launch of a space shuttle (Challenger), Kennedy Space Center, Florida– 1983
Astronaut Guion Bluford became the first African-American to reach space– 1983
Vicki Keith became the first person to swim across all five Great Lakes– 1988
Hotel Queen Leona Helmsley convicted on tax evasion charges, later sentenced to four years in prison and fined $8.8 million– 1989
Houston Comets won WNBA championship in league’s first season – 1997
Tennis player Greg Rusedski served a ball at 141 mph at the U.S. Open in New York City– 1997
Curt Schilling of the Boston Red Sox became the 14th MLB pitcher to reach 3,000 career strikeouts– 2006

George Washington took advantage of foggy weather to evacuate Long Island after a defeat– 1776
Boston’s high temperature was 99 degrees F– 1973