Good News in History September 22

23 years in the past as we speak, The West Wing debuted on NBC. Created by political popular culture specialist Aaron Sorkin, it ran for 154 episodes throughout 7 seasons. Set largely within the west wing of the White Home, the place the Oval Workplace and different government workplaces are, the fictional president Jedidiah Bartlet is performed by Martin Sheen, and has been described as an amalgamation of John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and Invoice Clinton. READ Extra… 

The West Wing has been ranked among the many finest tv exhibits of all time in publications resembling Time, TV Information, Empire, Rolling Stone, and the New York Each day Information.

It obtained a battle chest of accolades, together with two Peabody Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and 26 Primetime Emmy Awards, together with the award for Excellent Drama Sequence, which it received 4 consecutive instances from 2000 to 2003.

In 2011, The New York Instances even reported the then-fledgling authorities of Myanmar used DVDs of The West Wing episodes to check democracy, which was subsequently corroborated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the next yr.

MORE Good Information on this Day:

• The (first) French Republic was established following the revolution (1792)
• President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that each one slaves in insurgent states must be freed starting in January of the next yr (1862)
• Independence Day in Bulgaria (1908); and Mali (1960)
• Fiddler on the Roof, a play set in 1905 Russia, opened on Broadway and later grew to become the primary musical theater run in historical past to surpass 3,000 performances (1964)
• David Hempleman-Adams grew to become the primary particular person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket scorching air balloon (2003)
• Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Web page was made an honorary citizen of Rio de Janeiro for his work serving to Brazilian road kids by opening Casa Jimmy (Jimmy’s Home), which had supported greater than 300 youngsters since 1998 (2005)
• An e mail led to the creation of Airbnb when Joe instructed to Brian that they flip their place right into a mattress and breakfast for designers attending a 4-day convention (2007)

31 years in the past as we speak, a long-running, bitter dispute amongst biblical students over entry to the Lifeless Sea Scrolls ended as The Huntington Library in California released a complete set of photocopies of the priceless Hebrew manuscripts that date to the age of Jesus.

Also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, for the placement they have been discovered, 3,000 images of the artifacts on microfilm grew to become immediately out there on-line to universities.

Known as the best archaeological discover of the twentieth century, a few of the paperwork, which at the moment are within the Israel Museum, have been well-preserved, nearly intact manuscripts of parchment and papyrus within the Hebrew and Aramaic languages.

The texts have great historical, religious, and linguistic significance as a result of they embrace the second-oldest recognized surviving manuscripts of works later included within the Hebrew Bible, together with deuterocanonical and extra-biblical manuscripts which protect proof of the variety of spiritual thought in late Second Temple Judaism.

The preliminary discovery of the handwritten parchments, housed in jars inside 11 caves for safekeeping, was made in 1946 and 1947 by Bedouin shepherds who stumbled upon the primary of some caves. (1991)

21 years in the past as we speak, 35 American TV networks and cable channels concurrently aired  ‘A Tribute to Heroes’, a dwell commercial-free profit live performance and telethon organized to boost cash for victims and their households– particularly firefighters– following the 9/11 terrorist assaults on the Pentagon and World Commerce Heart.

Bruce Springsteen, Neil Younger, Tom Petty, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Stevie Marvel, Bon Jovi, U2, Sting, Céline Dion, and Willie Nelson have been a few of the performers. Actor George Clooney organized celebrities to carry out or employees the telephones to take pledges. Stars included Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks, Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, Will Smith, Cameron Diaz, and lots of extra. They raised over $200 million, together with funds from DVD and CD sales, for the September 11 Fund. (2001)

Additionally, Completely happy sixty fourth birthday to Joan Jett, who took her mom’s maiden identify and jetted to fame because the founding member and singer of The Runaways and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.

When she was 14, she give up guitar classes as a result of she didn’t need to study folks songs, and later made three albums licensed Platinum or Gold. The songwriter is understood for hits like “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll,” “Cherry Bomb,” and “Bad Reputation“—from her 1980 debut LP of the identical identify. Jett appeared with Michael J. Fox within the movie Light of Day, as they portrayed rockers in a bar band. The movie, The Runaways, chronicled the band’s profession, and starred Twilight’s Kristen Stewart enjoying Jett. (1958)

And, 53 years in the past as we speak, The Band launched their self-titled album, with songs like Up on Cripple Creek and The Evening They Drove Previous Dixie Down which grew to become critically acclaimed folk-rock classics.

They wished to supply a set of songs evoking an Americana previous, although the members of the group have been Canadian. Identified for being Bob Dylan’s band whereas he toured, The Band recorded this LP, their second, in a pool home on the grounds of a residence belonging to Sammy Davis, Jr.

The group’s chief songwriter and guitarist Robbie Robertson stated they selected the placement as a way to give the songs a sure basement-tapes feeling. It reached #9 on the Billboard chart and later was preserved into the Nationwide Recording Registry as an album that was “culturally, traditionally, or aesthetically necessary, and displays life in america.”

The opposite band members included Levon Helm on drums and vocals, singer-songwriter Rick Danko on bass, and multi-instrumentalists Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel. (1969)

And, 37 years in the past as we speak, the primary Farm Support profit live performance was held to boost cash for household farmers in america. The live performance was organized by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Younger, spurred on by Bob Dylan’s feedback at Stay Support earlier in that yr that he hoped a few of the cash would assist American farmers at risk of dropping their farms by means of mortgage debt. The present on the College of Illinois’ Memorial Stadium in Champaign raised $7 million, with a crowd of 80,000 individuals having fun with performances by Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, B.B. King, Roy Orbison, John Fogerty, Bonnie Raitt, and Tom Petty.

Willie and the opposite founders had initially thought that they might have one live performance and the issue can be solved, however they realized they wanted to do extra. Because of this, Farm Support remains to be elevating cash with its annual live performance and dealing to extend consciousness of the significance of household farms.

Singer-songwriters Norah Jones, Jack Johnson, and Boz Scaggs are becoming a member of the 2020 music pageant this Saturday, September 26, when Farm Support will mark its thirty fifth anniversary with a digital at-home pageant expertise streaming on FarmAid.org and their YouTube channel, AXS TV, and SiriusXM at 8pm EDT, in accordance with the board of administrators, which at the moment contains Nelson, Mellencamp, Younger, and Dave Matthews—who will even carry out. The funds raised are used to pay the farmer’s bills and supply meals, authorized and monetary assist.

The group additionally operates an emergency hotline that gives farmers assets and recommendation about challenges they’re experiencing. They lobbied Congress which subsequently handed the Agricultural Credit score Act of 1987 to avoid wasting farms from foreclosures. Farm Support additionally operates a catastrophe fund to assist farmers devastated by pure disasters, such because the victims of Hurricane Katrina. All this, and the truth that the motion additionally spurred the organic-local meals revolution. WATCH just a little story about the way it occurred… (1985)

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