Smithsonian Magazine's This Month-- September

I always find this magazine's look at events for the month of interest.

For September:

70 YEARS AGO, it was the Munich appeasement where British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made a pact with Adolph Hitler September 30, 1938. This allowed Germany to annex a portion of Czechoslovakia in exchange for peace. It didn't work.


120 YEARS AGO, you needed to say cheese. George Eastman patented his Kodak box camera September 4, 1888. His flexible film was much easier to use than the glass plates in use before it. The $25 camera brought photography to the masses, much like the Model T brought the automobile.


80 YEARS AGO, Scottish bacteriologist came home from a holiday September 3. 1928, and found mold growing on one of his staphylococci cultures, and none of that was near the mold. He named the "mould juice penicillin, for the penicillium mold that produces it. ten years later, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain isolate and purify it and it begins use as an antibiotic.

Two More Things to Come. Interesting Stuff. --Coot