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/*msg[1] = "<b>October 1, 1796:</b> Amos Stafford, a surveyor for the Connecticut  Land Company, creates the first map detailing Cleveland's original plan. ";*/

msg[1] = "<strong>September 1, 1995: </strong> The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens on the lakefront between Municipal Stadium and E. 9th St. of downtown Cleveland.  Designed by reknown architect I.M. Pei, the Rock Hall opened on Labor Day with a 7 1/2 hour rock concert held at Municipal Stadium.";

msg[2] = "<strong>September 2, 1795:</strong> The Connecticut Land Company purchases the Western Reserve from the State of Connecticut for $1,200,000.";

msg[3] = "<strong>September 3, 1976:</strong> Bishop William M. Cosgrove, the leading architect of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese's social action program for eight years, was named bishop of the Belleview, Ill., diocese by Pope Paul VI. He had been a priest in the Cleveland diocese for 33 years and auxiliary bishop for eight. Cosgrove died in 1992. A diocesan social service building on Superior Ave. is named in his honor. ";

msg[4] = "<strong>September 4, 1994:</strong> Cleveland Browns punter Tom Tupa scores the first two-point conversion in NFL history, running in a faked extra point attempt for the Browns in a game against the Cincinnati Bengals in the first week of the 1994 season. He scored a total of three such conversions that season, earning him the nickname &#8220;Two Point Tupa.&#8221;";

msg[5] = "<strong>September 5, 1997:</strong> The Cleveland Indians stage their first &#8220;I hate the Yankees Hanky Night&#8221; at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.";

msg[6] = "<strong>September 6, 1949:</strong> Captain Billy Odem crashes his plane in Berea, killing himself and two people on the ground and canceling the National Air Races in Cleveland. <a href=http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&amp;CISOFIELD1=subjec&amp;CISOROOT=all&amp;CISOBOX1=National+Air+Races>See images from past Air Races</a>.";

msg[7] = "<strong>September 7, 1986:</strong> The Cleveland Browns becomes the first team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31.";

msg[8] = "<strong>September 8, 1949:</strong>  <a href=http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/u?/women,28>Amelda C. Adams</a> teacher, author and lecturer, dies at the age of 84. She lost her sight at the age of 6 months, but overcame this disability to become one of the founders of the Cleveland Music School Settlement.";

msg[9] = "<strong>September 9, 1860:</strong> <a href=http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/u?/print,149>The Perry Monument</a>, honoring Oliver Hazard Perry's defeat of the British in the Battle of Lake Erie, is dedicated in Public Square.";

msg[10] = "<strong>September 10, 1953:</strong> A series of explosions believed to have been caused by sewer gases rip up a one mile stretch of West 117th St. from Lake Ave. south to Berea Rd. The explosions leave one women dead and over 60 others injured and destroys automobiles and property all along the eastern border of Lakewood. <a href=http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=all&amp;CISOBOX1=&amp;CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&amp;CISOOP2=exact&amp;CISOBOX2=West%20117th%20Street%20explosion%20&amp;CISOFIELD2=CISOSEARCHALL&amp;CISOOP3=any&amp;CISOBOX3=&amp;CISOFIELD3=CISOSEARCHALL&amp;CISOOP4=none&amp;CISOBOX4=&amp;CISOFIELD4=CISOSEARCHALL&amp;CISOROOT=all&amp;t=a>See photos</a>.";

msg[11] = "<strong>September 11, 2001:</strong> Responding to terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., government leaders throughout Greater Cleveland shut down city halls and courthouses at midday, hoping to protect people in case terrorists took aim at the region's public buildings. Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White evacuated City Hall, the Cleveland Convention Center, the Justice Center and other buildings. At his request, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the Great Lakes Science Center, Tower City Center, Key Tower and the Galleria closed. The sudden rush of workers driving home created gridlock downtown. ";

msg[12] = "<strong>September 12, 1999:</strong> The &#8220;new&#8221; Cleveland Browns face the Pittsburgh Steelers in their regular season opener at the <a href=http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/u?/postcards,3958>new Browns Stadium</a>.";

msg[13] = "<strong>September 13, 1995:</strong> Opponents of the Indians' Chief Wahoo logo will be able to continue their protests through baseball's post-season play outside of Jacobs Field. The protesters, who want the baseball team to change its name and its logo because they find it racist and insulting, must give Gateway seven days' advance notice of planned demonstrations. The group can place 30 protesters on Gateway Plaza, between Jacobs Field and Gund Arena, and 40 in a grassy park area at Eagle Ave. and E. 9th St.";

msg[14] = "<strong>September 14, 1975:</strong>  A study financed by the Cleveland City Council concluded that inefficient management, a padded work force and poor equipment maintenance had contributed to the decline of the Municipal Light Plant (predecessor of Cleveland Public Power). The plant was producing less power than three years earlier and running a $6 million debt.";

msg[15] = "<strong>September 15, 1964:</strong> The Beatles, on their first tour of the United States, play to an enthusiastic crowd at Public Auditorium in Cleveland. ";

msg[16] = "<strong>September 16, 1975:</strong> After eight months of negotiations, the former Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel on Public Square was sold to Thomas Lloyd of Cambridge, Ohio, for $4 million. He planned to spend up to $7 million on renovations, but the hotel went into receivership the next year. Browns owner Art Modell led 14 investors in rescuing it in 1977. It is now the Stouffer Renaissance Cleveland Hotel. ";

msg[17] = "<strong>September 17, 1976:</strong> The board of trustees of the Cleveland Public Library designates six architects to draw designs for renovation of three branch libraries and construction of three new libraries. The projects are part of a five-year library building program financed by a levy passed the previous November.";

msg[18] = "<strong>September 18, 1954:</strong> Cleveland Indians clinch the American league pennant setting a record for most regular-season victories with 111. Unfortunately, they go on to lose the World Series to the New York Giants in a 4-game sweep";

msg[19] = "<strong>September 19, 2003:</strong> Professional women's Cleveland basketball team, the Rockers, is discontinued and disbanded due to declining home game attendance and financial losses.";

msg[20] = "<strong>September 20, 2000:</strong> The 25th anniversary season of the Cleveland San Jose Ballet is cancelled as the ballet's board of trustees decide to shut it down permanently and liquidate all assets in order to pay about $1 million that is owed to creditors, dancers and staff.";

msg[21] = "<strong>September 21, 1968:</strong>  The Sterling-Linder (earlier known as Sterling-Linder-Davis) Department Store on at Euclid Ave. and E. 13th St. closes its doors for the final time. It was famous for its  60-foot Christmas tree display during the holiday season. Find out more about <a href=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/stores/>Cleveland's Golden Age of Downtown Shopping</a>";

msg[22] = "<strong>September 22, 1936:</strong> With over 70,000 marchers and lasting 11 hours, the greatest parade in American Legion history at the time winds it way along Euclid Ave to East 22nd St., ending at Cleveland Stadium. ";

msg[23] = "<strong>September 23, 1925:</strong>  Two dismembered bodies were found together in the Kingsbury Run area. These would be the first two of  12 serial killings committed between Sept. 1935 and Aug. 1938 in or near the Kingsbury Run area. The murderer was never found. Find out more about the <a href=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/crime/>Kingsbury Run Torso Murders</a>.";

msg[24] = "<strong>September 24, 1907:</strong> Stella Godfrey White Bigham is born. A community activist and columnist for the <em>Cleveland Plain Dealer</em>, she was the first woman to serve on the board of the Cleveland Transit System (now RTA).";

msg[25] = "<strong>September 25, 1977:</strong> Legal costs connected with the Cleveland school desegregation case were reaching $1 million and were expected to reach three times that amount when all the bills were in.";

msg[26] = "<strong>September 26, 1975:</strong> The price of regular gasoline went down a penny a gallon at company-operated Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) service stations. Responding to what it termed competitive pressures, Sohio cut its price to 58.9 cents per gallon. The decrease applied only to the Cleveland area market and other metropolitan areas of Ohio. Sohio, later bought by BP America, was the state's leading gasoline company at the time. ";

msg[27] = "<strong>September 27, 1975:</strong> RTA announces it will study ways to cooperate with Amtrak, possibly aiding the return of passenger trains to the Cleveland Union Terminal, the hub of rapid transit. Amtrak was soon to begin a Boston-Cleveland-Chicago route and was building a new lakefront station. Amtrak officials contended returning to the terminal would cost too much for only two daily trains and did not make the move.";

msg[28] = "<strong>September 28, 1969:</strong> Euclid Beach Park closes its doors forever. Incorporated back in 1894, all that remains of the park today is the carved archway entrance, a historic Cleveland landmark. <a href=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/euclidbeach/>See images of Euclid Beach Park</a>. ";

msg[29] = "<strong>September 29, 1977:</strong> Last-minute legislative efforts in Columbus fail to bail out Cleveland schools from a financial crunch, threatening to close the state's largest school district the following month. Three weeks later, U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti orders the schools to stay open even though the Board of Education says the system had run out of money.";

msg[30] = "<strong>September 30, 1999:</strong> Case Western Reserve Univerity closes the original Cleveland Freenet. Freenet was a free public community computer system, the first of its kind in the world. ";



/*msg[22] = "<strong>August 22, 1901:</strong> Vernon Stouffer is born in Cleveland. After graduating from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1923, he returned home to help manage his father's thriving lunch business in Cleveland's Arcade. This lunch business would eventually grow into Stouffer's Corp., whose operations include a nationwide chain of restaurants, motor inns, frozen prepared foods, and food-service management.";

msg[23] = "<strong>August 23, 1957:</strong>  Northfield Park opens as a venue for harness-racing. The opening night card that Friday offered nine races with the first race a class D trot won by Bunter's Boy in 2:12, driven by Bill Popfinger.";

msg[24] = "<strong>August 24, 1919:</strong> Cleveland Indians pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning in his debut with the team. He recovers to get the final out of the game, and defeats the Philadelphia Athletics 2-1.";

msg[25] = "<strong>August 25, 1936:</strong> Celebrations for Olympic gold medal winner and former East Tech High track star, Jesse Owens begin in Cleveland as he is paraded from the East Cleveland train station, where he arrived, to Public Hall, where he is greeted by more than 4,000 fans. <a href=http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/u?/afro,751>See the photo</a>.";


msg[26] = "<strong>August 26, 1954:</strong> The Indians raise their record to 90-35 as Early Wynn pitches a two-hitter for a 2-1 victory against the Washington Senators.";

msg[27] = "<strong>August 27, 1976:</strong>  An armed Vietnam war veteran surrenders to the police and frees nine hostages unharmed after holding them for nine hours in a suite of offices on the 36th floor of the Terminal Tower Building.";

msg[28] = "<strong>August 28, 1964:</strong> WEWS-TV Channel 5's rock and roll dance show, &#8220;The Big 5 Show&#8221; debuts with host <a href=http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/u?/press,424>Don Webster</a>. Webster, previously working in Canada, was brought in as host by independent television producer, Herman Spero. The show went into national syndication as &#8220;The Upbeat Show&#8221; in 1966, with appearances by such acts as Sonny and Cher, the Supremes, and Steppenwolf.";

msg[29] = "<strong>August 29, 1982:</strong> Thermometers fall to 38&deg; F, the lowest temperature ever recorded for Cleveland in August at the time.";

msg[30] = "<strong>August 30, 1976:</strong> A federal appeals court stopped the Strongsville school board from banning works from school libraries and as textbooks. Four years earlier, the board had purged two books by Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller's <cite>Catch-22.</cite> The court held that &#8220;A library is a mighty resource in a free marketplace of ideas.&#8221;";

msg[31] = "<strong>August 31, 1976:</strong> Federal Judge Frank Batisti rules in <a href=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/legallandmarks/reed/>Reed vs. Rhodes</a>, the Cleveland public school desegregation case, that the schools had practiced racial segregation.";*/


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