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September 2
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The Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame, also known as La Musa Awards, was established on October 18, 2012, by Desmond Child (pictured) and Rudy Pérez, and is located in Miami, Florida, United States. The hall of fame is dedicated to "educating, honoring and celebrating the lives and music of the world's greatest Latin songwriters and composers". Child conceived of the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame after realizing that he was only the third Latino to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Nominations for inductions are selected by its committee of music professionals, which consists of producers, composers, musicians, and performers, with the winners being voted by the general public. To be eligible for a nomination, the songwriter, composer, or lyricist is required to have their first published work released at least 20 years before the year of induction. The accolades are divided into three groups: inductees, posthumous inductees, and additional honorees. (Full list...)
September 4
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The French filmmaker and magician Georges Méliès is the subject of various written works, including biographies, essays, and monographs. The literature about him is abundant and spans many decades and languages, including English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German. Frank Kessler, a professor of media history, believes Méliès is arguably the most written about early filmmaker. French film historians wrote pioneering, if constrained, works about Méliès between the 1940s and 1960s. Later, descendants of his and Anglosphere film historians wrote authoritative monographs and specialist works began to appear about his writings, magic, theater, film studios, film colorization, editing, and international reception. Conferences about Méliès held at the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle suggest three phases in his scholarship. (Full list...)
September 7
There are 138 listed pubs in Greater Manchester, a metropolitan and ceremonial county in North West England. Pubs in Greater Manchester may be designated as listed buildings for their architectural and historic interest. The city of Manchester has 36 listed pubs, the greatest number of any metropolitan district in the county, while the borough of Tameside has the fewest listed pubs, with four. The buildings range from Ye Olde Boar's Head (pictured), a mid–16th‑century structure later adapted to licensed use, to interwar premises, and include former houses, inns, hotels, a school, a cinema, and purpose‑built Victorian pubs. Their official entries record features such as tiled façades, timber framing, and surviving interior elements, illustrating Greater Manchester's 19th‑ and early-20th‑century architectural character. (Full list...)
September 9
Crash Bandicoot is a series of video games created by Naughty Dog and owned and published by Activision. The mainline entries are 3D platformers following the anthropomorphic bandicoot Crash and his allies as they foil the schemes of Doctor Neo Cortex and his minions. The series began with the 1996 PlayStation game Crash Bandicoot, followed by the sequels Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (1997) and Crash Bandicoot: Warped (1998). Mainline titles released after Naughty Dog's departure include Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001) and Crash Twinsanity (2004) by Traveller's Tales, as well as Crash of the Titans (2007) and Crash: Mind over Mutant (2008) by Radical Entertainment. In 2020, Toys for Bob released Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, a sequel to the original trilogy; a planned follow-up was cancelled in 2024, partly due to that title's underperformance. Beyond platformers, the series includes kart racing games, party games, crossovers, and mobile spin-offs. (Full list...)
September 11
A quadruple century has been scored eleven times by nine different players in first-class cricket. The first player to achieve a quadruple century (an individual score of 400 runs or more) was Archie MacLaren in 1895, playing for Lancashire against Somerset, while the most recent was achieved by Sam Northeast. Brian Lara (pictured) is the only player to have scored a quadruple century in Test cricket. Lara holds the record for the highest score in first-class cricket, having made 501 not out in 1994. Bill Ponsford is the only other player to have scored two quadruple centuries, doing so in 1923 and 1927 for the Victoria cricket team. Don Bradman's score of 452 not out was made in the shortest time of all quadruple centuries; his innings lasted 415 minutes (6 hours and 55 minutes). Lara's Test quadruple was the longest, taking 778 minutes (12 hours and 58 minutes). (Full list...)
September 14
The 2025 Senate election in the Philippines occurred on May 12, 2025, to elect one-half (12 seats) of the Senate. The senators elected in 2025, together with those elected in 2022, comprise the Senate's delegation in the 20th Congress. There were 66 total candidates from 20 parties. Four coalitions were also established: Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas, DuterTen, KiBam, and Makabayan. 82.20% of the registered citizens voted in the elections, the largest turnout in Philippine midterm election history; Alyansa won six seats, DuterTen won four seats, and KiBam won two seats. The proclamation of the 12 winning senators was held on May 17 at the Manila Hotel. (Full list...)
September 16
The Canadian National Skating Championships are an annual figure skating competition organized by Skate Canada to crown the national champions of Canada. While unofficial championships had been held since 1905, the first official championships were held in 1914 in Ottawa. Competition has been interrupted twice: from 1915 to 1919 due to World War I, and in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Medals are awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, ice dance, and synchronized skating at the senior and junior levels. Patrick Chan holds the record for winning the most Canadian Championship titles in men's singles with ten, while Constance Wilson-Samuel holds the record in women's singles with nine. Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford (both pictured) hold the record in pair skating, with seven titles, while Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz hold the record in ice dance, with ten. (Full list...)
September 18
Various sound laws have been proposed by historical linguists to explain how modern Indo-European languages and their subfamilies diverged from their Proto-Indo-European ancestor. The Indo-European language family comprises a vast number of languages and dialects spoken throughout the world today; these languages are descended from a common ancestor known as Proto-Indo-European, which scholars estimate was spoken about six thousand years ago. While it is generally thought that the Anatolian languages broke off first, the internal relations of the other widely-accepted subfamilies – Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, Italic, and Tocharian – are unclear and the subject of scholarly debate. (Full list...)
September 21
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Humphrey Bogart's 36-year acting career began with live stage productions in New York in 1920. After the completion of his military service in the United States Navy, Bogart began working in theatrical productions. His debut as a theater actor was in the 1922 play Drifting. His body of stage work includes more than a dozen plays, and lasted a little over a decade. He began to pursue a career in film by 1928, first appearing in the short film The Dancing Town. Bogart appeared in 75 feature films, including The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, and Casablanca, the last of which earned Bogart his first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Bogart won the award on his second nomination, for his 1951 performance in The African Queen. In addition to his film work, Bogart guest-starred in numerous radio and television programs, primarily reprising his film roles. He died of cancer in 1957. (Full list...)
September 23
There are 117 constituencies of the Punjab Legislative Assembly, the unicameral legislature of Punjab, a state in North India. The seat of the Punjab Legislative Assembly is at Chandigarh, the state capital. It is housed within the Chandigarh Capitol Complex (building pictured), a World Heritage Site designed by Le Corbusier. The 117 members of the state legislative assembly are directly elected from single-seat constituencies and sit for a term of five years, unless it is dissolved early. Punjab is the nineteenth-largest state in India, and the fifteenth-most populous, with a population of 27.7 million in 2011. Thirty-four seats in the assembly are reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SC), which have been given reservation status since Indian independence, guaranteeing them political representation. (Full list...)
September 25
The discography of Kittie, a Canadian heavy-metal band, consists of seven studio albums, five extended plays, one compilation album, one demo album, four video albums, eighteen singles and twenty-one music videos. Kittie was formed in 1996 by guitarist and vocalist Morgan Lander, guitarist Fallon Bowman, and drummer Mercedes Lander. The band currently consists of Morgan, Mercedes, guitarist Tara McLeod, and bassist Ivy Vujic. Kittie are estimated to have sold more than one million albums worldwide, primarily in the United States. The band's debut album Spit was released in November 1999 through Ng Records, and reissued through Artemis Records in January 2000. It peaked at number 79 on the US Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. Kittie's second album, Oracle (2001), earned the band its highest charting positions worldwide, debuting at number 57 on the Billboard 200 with 33,000 copies sold. (Full list...)
September 28
There are sixty-four species of hornbill recognised by the International Ornithologists' Union, although the exact number is disputed due to taxonomic disagreements. Hornbills are birds in the families Bucerotidae (the arboreal hornbills) and Bucorvidae (the ground hornbills). They are found in Africa and Asia, and most live in tropical and sub-tropical forests, or savannahs. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists two species as critically endangered, six as endangered, seventeen as vulnerable, six as near threatened, and thirty-one as of least concern. The species with the smallest estimated population is the critically endangered Sulu hornbill, estimated to number fewer than fifty mature individuals. The species with the largest estimated population is the vulnerable Palawan hornbill (example pictured), which numbers up to fifty thousand mature individuals. Species of fossil hornbills are known from the Miocene onward, but the fossil record of the taxon is poor. (Full list...)
September 30
Ten sites in Kaikōura District have been listed as historic places on the New Zealand Heritage List / Rārangi Kōrero by Heritage New Zealand. Kaikōura District is a territorial authority of New Zealand located on the eastern coast of the South Island in northern Canterbury. The region was historically an important Māori settlement area from the earliest period of inhabitation. European inhabitation began in the 1840s with the establishment of whaling stations. The ten sites in Kaikōura District include Fyffe House (pictured), the only Category 1 Historic Place in the district, listed as a "place of special or outstanding historical or cultural significance"; one as a Historic Area for containing multiple related sites; and one wāhi tapu as a site of spiritual, traditional, or ritual importance to the Māori communities. Three more sites were formerly listed as historic places, but have since been destroyed. (Full list...)
