A little reason to celebrate
National Grandparents Day
Family · The Sunday after the first Monday in September
National Grandparents Day honors grandparents and the stories, recipes and steady affection they bring to American families.
National days on September 12, 2027
Also on September 12
On this day
- 1814: Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812. Battle of North Point
- 1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. Leo Szilard
- 1966: Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions and Artemis II). Gemini 11
- 1984: Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record. Dwight Gooden
- 2013: NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space. NASA
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