- French Republican Calendar - Raisin (Grape) Day, first day in the Month of Vendémiaire
- In ancient Greece, the ninth and final day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the initiates made offerings to the dead.
- Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year of 5767, begins at sunset.
Today's birthdays...
1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
1931 - Fay Weldon, British feminist
1940 - Anna Karina, Danish born actress
1943 - Toni Basil, American singer
1951 - David Coverdale, English singer
1957 - Nick Cave, Australian musician
1958 - Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
1958 - Joan Jett, American musician
1971 - Chesney Hawkes, British singer .... you can not be serious -- singer!!!
......... oh and yesterday was Leonard Cohen's 72nd birthday
Also yesterday ...
1866 - H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
1944 - Fannie Flagg, American actress and novelist
