On that Tuesday morning, the sky over New York was crystal clear. No clouds. No haze. Just a brilliant blue. The kind of day you’d skip work for a picnic. In fact, meteorologists called it textbook flying weather. Not a single raindrop. That’s eerie, but also just a weird fact to file away.
Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., it was a mild 70°F. In Pennsylvania, it was sunny. The whole East Coast had a perfect late-summer day. If you’d asked anyone at 8:00 AM, they’d have said, “What a gorgeous Tuesday.”
Pop Culture Tuesdays
Let’s lighten up. The first episode of Friends aired on a Thursday, but the finale? A Thursday too. Tuesdays are for sitcoms, right? Actually, the most-watched TV event ever—the Super Bowl—is always a Sunday. Tuesdays are for nothing famous. Except, apparently, tragedy. But also: the first iPhone was announced on a Tuesday (January 9, 2007). So Tuesdays can be brilliant too.
And get this: the first episode of The Simpsons aired on a Sunday. But the most-watched episode of M.A.S.H.? February 28, 1983—a Monday. So Tuesdays are the underdog. Underdogs deserve love.
September 2001 Calendar
