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Jay Thomas, who played the title character's boss

Katie Joplin is an American sitcom created by Tom Seeley and Norm Gunzenhauser that aired for one season on The WB Television Network from August to September 1999. Park Overall plays the title character, a single mother who tries to balance her job as a radio program host with parenting her teenage son Greg (Jesse Head). Supporting characters include her boss, played by Jay Thomas (pictured), her niece (Ana Reeder), and her co-workers (Jim Rash and Simon Rex). The series was optioned as a mid-season replacement for the 1998–1999 television season, but was delayed for a year after production issues. Katie Joplin received the lowest ratings for any original program The WB aired in its time slot. Of the seven episodes filmed, only five were aired. Critics recommended Katie Joplin prior to its premiere and discussed the delay in its airing. Retrospective reviews of the series were negative. (Full article...)

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Woodblock print by Suzuki Harunobu

... that the Noh play Haku Rakuten is parodied in a woodblock print (pictured)?
... that Mary V. R. Thayer was briefly arrested on suspicion of spying after abandoning a 1929 business trip in the Soviet Union to explore the Caucasus?
... that the fungal infection conidiobolomycosis mainly affects people living in tropical areas but was first reported in horses in Texas?
... that racing driver James Sofronas worked as a salesman for a technology company to buy the Nissan NX 2000 required for his first competitive race?
... that a track on Maxïmo Park's album Nature Always Wins is about Nick Alexander, the band's former merchandiser who was killed in the Bataclan concert hall attack?
... that Alfred Koerppen, who taught music theory and composition at the Musikhochschule Hannover, wrote the text and music of a 1951 opera after Virgil?
... that the Silver Deer of Bilge Khan, a 7th-century artifact, is recognized by the Mongolian government as being of "invaluable heritage"?
... that the Torreya Guardians are trying to save the critically endangered North American conifer Torreya taxifolia from extinction?

In the news

Alpha Condé

Guinean President Alpha Condé (pictured) is captured by armed forces during a coup d'état.
Hurricane Ida leaves at least 70 people dead and causes flooding in the Gulf Coast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, leading to widespread power outages.
Amid evacuations from Afghanistan, a suicide bombing kills at least 182 people at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.

On this day

September 6: Defence Day in Pakistan (1965); Labor Day in the United States (2021), Labour Day in Canada (2021)

Louisa Swain

1634 – A Swedish–German army was overwhelmingly defeated at the Battle of Nördlingen, one of the most important battles of the Thirty Years' War, effectively destroying Swedish power in Southern Germany.
1870 – Louisa Swain (pictured) became the first woman in the United States to vote in a general election.
1963 – The Kennedy administration sent Victor H. Krulak and Joseph Mendenhall on a mission to assess the progress of the Vietnam War.
1995 – Cal Ripken Jr. played his 2,131st consecutive Major League Baseball game, breaking the 56-year-old record set by Lou Gehrig.
2018 – The Supreme Court of India invalidated part of Section 377 of the Penal Code, thus legalising homosexuality in India.

Isabella Leonarda (b. 1620)
Frederick Abel (d. 1902)
Wendi Richter (b. 1961)

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Launch of a V-2 rocket from Peenemünde, Germany

Spaceflight as a practical endeavor began during World War II with the development of operational liquid-fueled rockets. Beginning life as a weapon, the V-2 (example pictured) was impressed into peaceful service after the war at the United States' White Sands Missile Range as well as the Soviet Union's Kapustin Yar. This led to a flourishing of missile designs setting the stage for the exploration of space. The small American WAC Corporal rocket was evolved into the Aerobee, a much more powerful sounding rocket. Exploration of space began in earnest in 1947 with the flight of the first Aerobee, 46 of which had flown by the end of 1950. These and other rockets, both Soviet and American, returned the first direct data on air density, temperature, charged particles and magnetic fields in the Earth's upper atmosphere. (Full list...)

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Marie-Gabrielle Capet (6 September 1761 – 1 November 1818) was a French Neoclassical painter. Until the French Revolution, the Royal Academy of Art in Paris was responsible for training artists and exhibiting artworks at the Salon, but limited the number of female students to four at a time. Unable to gain a place, she moved to Paris in 1781 to become a student of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, with whom she struck up a lifelong friendship. She specialised in painting portraits, her works including oil paintings, watercolours and miniatures. This oil-on-canvas self-portrait of Capet, dating from around 1783, is in the collection of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo.

Painting credit: Marie-Gabrielle Capet

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