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Posted on 9/22/25 at 4:35 am to OK Roughneck
Posted on 9/22/25 at 4:35 am to OK Roughneck
Morning all
Posted on 9/22/25 at 5:42 am to Rockbrc
Today in History: September 22
1711 The Tuscarora Indian War begins with a massacre of settlers in North Carolina, following white encroachment that included the enslaving of Indian children.
1776 American Captain Nathan Hale is hanged as a spy by the British in New York City; his last words are reputed to have been, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
1869 The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, arrive in San Francisco after a rollicking, barnstorming tour of the West.
1915 Xavier University, the first African-American Catholic college, opens in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1945 President Harry Truman accepts U.S. Secretary of War Stimson's recommendation to designate the war World War II.
1969 Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants becomes the first baseball player since Babe Ruth to hit 600 home runs.
1970 President Richard M. Nixon signs a bill giving the District of Columbia representation in the U.S. Congress.
1991 Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time.
2020 PM Boris Johnson announces that the UK has reached a 'perilous turning point' in the pandemic as he announces new restrictions
2021 WHO warns urgent action needed on air pollution, is on a par with smoking and a poor diet, causing seven million premature deaths a year
Born on September 22
1927 Tommy Lasorda, manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team from 1975 to 1996.
1958 Joan Jett, singer, songwriter, musician, producer, actress ("I Love Rock 'n' Roll)
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Posted on 9/23/25 at 10:04 am to OK Roughneck
It is so dark outside with the weather I'll take your word that it is morning here.
Posted on 9/23/25 at 4:33 pm to Arksulli
I got 4/10 of rain last night. It's dry here wish we received more.
Posted on 9/24/25 at 4:44 am to Rockbrc
.6 inches here
We are wet right now but have a lot of catching up to do
We are wet right now but have a lot of catching up to do
Posted on 9/24/25 at 5:58 pm to Rockbrc
I didn't get any rain today at home but drove through a lot of it as I traveled too and from Tulsa.. 
Posted on 9/24/25 at 6:10 pm to OK Roughneck
We got some rain yesterday and today. I think more is coming tomorrow, but we need all we can get
Posted on 9/24/25 at 6:49 pm to kywildcatfanone
Hope you and Rock get some. It was spotty showers and one good hard rain I was in today in eastern OK. Hope it east and builds into some solid rain and gives you all some relief. 
This post was edited on 9/24/25 at 6:51 pm
Posted on 9/24/25 at 11:20 pm to OK Roughneck
Got another shower an hour ago
Don’t see cracks in the ground anymore and beginning to get muddy but I still think more would be welcome
Don’t see cracks in the ground anymore and beginning to get muddy but I still think more would be welcome
Posted on 9/25/25 at 3:35 am to Rockbrc
Today in History: September 25
303 On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France
1396 The last great Christian crusade, led jointly by John the Fearless of Nevers and King Sigismund of Hungary, ends in disaster at the hands of Sultan Bayezid I's Ottoman army at Nicopolis.
1789 Congress proposes 12 new amendments to the Constitution.
1918 Brazil declares war on Austria.
1992 NASA launches Mars Observer probe; it fails 11 months later.
1996 Ireland's last Magdalene laundry closes; begun as asylums to rehabilitate "fallen women," they increasingly took on prison-like qualities.
2009 US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy jointly accuse Iran of building a secrecy nuclear enrichment facility.
2020 Magawa, an African Giant Pouched Rat, is the first rat to be awarded a prestigious PDSA hero award, for sniffing out landmines in Cambodia
2021 UK announces temporary visas to try and counteract shortage of lorry drivers for deliveries to the UK amid panic buying on fuel
2023 US President Joe Biden hosts a summit of leaders from the Pacific, in an effort to counter influence of China
Born on September 25
1897 William Faulkner, Nobel Prize-winning writer (The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!).
1944 Michael Douglas, actor, producer; his numerous awards include two Academy Awards (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Wall Street), four Golden Globes and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
1969 Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress (The Darling Buds of May British TV series) won Academy Award and BAFTA Award for her role in Chicago.
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