1974 Frank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in major league baseball.

1838 – Frederick Douglass boarded a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from being a slave.

1777 The Stars and Stripes flies

• 1930 Hurricane batters Dominican Republic
• 1783 Treaty of Paris signed
• 1939 Britain and France declare war on Germany
• 1861 Confederate forces enter Kentucky
• 1833 – The first successful penny newspaper in the U.S., “The New York Sun,” was launched by Benjamin H. Day.
• 2013 – Hunters in Mississippi caught a 727-pound alligator.
• 1989 – The U.S. began shipping military aircraft and weapons, worth $65 million, to Columbia in its fight against drug lords.under G.H W Bush

 

Skyscraper Day is held annually on September 3. Celebrate this unofficial holiday by climbing or taking the elevator/lift up a skyscraper and by acknowledging the architectural and engineering feats that make such buildings possible.

I went through old posts and found hints of an increase in data centers, at least in the early 2000s. One company tried to tell a story of why we need them and created a mural project; they also bought a 1960s power plant.

In 2010, Greenpeace posted a warning and petition re:

The Internet is how we connect, learn new things, and share what we love. But right now, much of our Internet is also dirty, no matter how we use it.

Data centers are where Internet companies store our photos, messages, and music, and many are powered by coal and dirty energy sources that pollute our environment and harm our climate.

What’s worse — the Internet’s demand for energy is only growing. If the Internet were a country, its electricity use would already rank sixth in the world.

Source: Greenpeace petition

I use the Internet daily for research and other purposes, like blogging or sharing information that might help someone. It’s truly embarrassing to realize that warnings about Data Centers were in the news years ago! Clearly, in the early 90s and 2000s, they were not given enough airtime or a proper platform to inform the public. Now, it is 2026; some parts of our country are suffering from droughts, while others have seen their land devastated not only by historic floods, but also by the fact that building data centers requires not only a lot of land but also an enormous amount of energy and water.

~ Nativegrly77

1189 – England’s King Richard I was crowned in Westminster.

1783 – The Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended with the Treaty of Paris. 

1833 – The first successful penny newspaper in the U.S., “The New York Sun,” was launched by Benjamin H. Day.

1838 – Frederick Douglass boarded a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from being a slave. 

1895 – The first professional football game was played in Latrobe, PA. The Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0.

1935 – Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 miles an hour. He reached 304.331 MPH on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

1939 – British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.

1943 – Italy was invaded by the Allied forces during World War II.

1967 – Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.

1967 – In Sweden, motorists stopped driving on the left side of the road and began driving on the right side.

1976 – The U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars. The unmanned spacecraft took the first close-up, color photos of the planet’s surface. 

1981 – Egypt arrested more than 1,500 opponents of the government.

1984 – Bruce Sutter (St. Louis Cardinals) set a National League record by earning his 38th save of the season.

1986 – Peat Marwick International and Klynveld Main Goerdeler of the Netherlands agreed to merge and form the world’s largest accounting firm.

1989 – The U.S. began shipping military aircraft and weapons, worth $65 million, to Columbia in its fight against drug lords.

1994 – Russia and China announced that they would no longer be targeting nuclear missiles or using force against each other.

1999 – Mario Lemieux’s ownership group officially took over the National Hockey League‘s Pittsburgh Penguins. Lemieux became the first player in the modern era of sports to buy the team he had once played for.

2013 – Hunters in Mississippi caught a 727-pound alligator.