Daily Calendar for Sunday, September 28, 2025
Question of the Day
Is there a natural way to lighten my hair without using those smelly hair dyes from the store?
You can use lemon juice, from either a bottle or real lemons. Comb it through your hair evenly, then let it dry in the sun. Do this once a day for about a week, and you’ll see results.
Advice of the Day
To avoid dying, don’t sing in bed.
Home Hint of the Day
Did you run out of brass polish? Substitute Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, or toothpaste.
Word of the Day
Plough Monday
The first Monday after Epiphany and Plough Sunday was so called because it was the day that men returned to their plough, or daily work, at the end of the Christmas holiday. It was customary for farm laborers to draw a plough through the village, soliciting money for a “plough-light,” which was kept burning in the parish church all year. In some areas, the custom of blessing the plough is maintained.
Puzzle of the Day
Often we are covered with wisdom and wit, and oft with a cloth where the dinner guests sit; In beauty around you and over your head, we are countless, though numbered when bound to be read. (What is being described?)
Leaves
Born
- Caravaggio (painter) –
- Frances Willard (U.S. reformer) –
- Kate Wiggin (author & educator) –
- Avery Brundage (sports figure) –
- Ed Sullivan (TV host) –
- Al Capp (cartoonist) –
- Syd Howe (hockey player) –
- Alice Marble (tennis player) –
- Brigitte Bardot (actress) –
- Mira Sorvino (actress) –
- Naomi Watts (actress) –
- Hilary Duff (actress) –
Died
- Herman Melville (author) –
- Harpo Marx (comedian & actor) –
- Ferdinand Marcos (Philippine political leader) –
- Miles Davis (musician) –
- Pierre Trudeau (15th prime minister of Canada) –
- Patsy Takemoto Mink (Hawaiian congresswoman) –
- Elia Kazan (film director) –
- Althea Gibson (American tennis player and golfer) –
- Kris Kristofferson (singer, songwriter, and actor) –
Events
- Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrived at what is now San Diego Bay –
- First photograph of a comet –
- Grand jury in Chicago indicted eight players of the Chicago White Sox for throwing” the 1919 World Series” –
- Hazel, based on The Saturday Evening Post’s cartoon by Ted Key, premiered on television –
- 150th flight of the X-15 aircraft –
- Little Joe, a 5-foot, 300-pound adolescent gorilla born in captivity, escaped from the Franklin Park Zoo in Massachusetts for a second time minutes before closing time. It also had escaped from its section of the Tropical Forest exhibit in August 2003 –
- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0, near Parkfield, California, was felt from San Francisco to Los Angeles –
- The U.S. government released the new $50 bills into circulation. The redesigned bill had splashes of red, blue, and yellow –
- 437 people dressed as Superman set a world record in Calgary, Alberta –
Weather
- The first of three early snowstorms hit the Northeast, where Hamilton, New York, received four inches of snow and Ashby, Massachusetts got two inches –
- Astoria, Oregon, had a high temperature of 83 degrees F –
- Waterspout formed near Smithtown Bay, New York –
- Hurricane Ian hit the southwest coast of Florida as a category 4 hurricane. –
