🎒🐰💭’On 23 September 1909, the Phantom of the Opera, a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.’

🎒🐰💭’On 22 September 1888, the first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 21 September 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is published.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 20 September 1946, the first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 19 September 1982, Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons 🙂 and 🙁 on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 18 September 1984, Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 17 September 1976, the first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 16 September 1966, the Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s opera Antony and Cleopatra.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 15 September 1981, the John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 14 September 2015, the first observation of gravitational waves was made.‘