A little reason to celebrate
Star Trek Day
Fun ยท September 8
Star Trek Day honors the science fiction franchise about starship crews, distant worlds and the people who keep watching and rewatching it.
National days on September 8, 2027
Also on September 8
On this day
- 1755: French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George. French and Indian War
- 1863: American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas. American Civil War
- 1921: Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America. Margaret Gorman
- 1975: Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, later upgraded to honorable. LGBTQ people and military service
- 2016: NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return mission. The probe visited 101955 Bennu and returned with samples in September 2023. OSIRIS-REx
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