The September 2014 tour by the alternative rock band the Breeders included thirteen concerts in the central and western United States. The tour featured the lineup from their 1993 album Last Splash, with Josephine Wiggs, Jim Macpherson, Kim Deal, and Kelley Deal(pictured with Wiggs in 2009). Invited to open for Neutral Milk Hotel's September 18 concert at the Hollywood Bowl, they planned a tour to lead up to this show, using the opportunity to practice some recent compositions. They performed in eleven cities, including St. Louis, Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. The group then played at the Hollywood Bowl concert, and finished the tour on September 20 at the Goose Island 312 Urban Block Party event in Chicago. As well as their new songs, they performed numerous selections from Last Splash and Pod (1990). Music critics commented that the performances were rousing, and that the band was as good as—or better than—in its heyday. (Full article..)

• .. that a cholera outbreak was ultimately responsible for the development of Hamburg's Kontorhaus District(building pictured)?
• .. that Chinese entrepreneur Frank Tsao co-founded the national shipping lines of both Malaysia and Thailand, and was awarded the nobility title Tan Sri by the king of Malaysia?
• .. that the Lebanon women's national football team's first official qualification campaign took place eight years after their inception?
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• .. that the endorheic salt lake Sebkha el Melah in Algeria has two parts, the upper one pond-like and biodiverse and the lower one salt-encrusted and nearly devoid of vegetation?
• .. that British actress and scriptwriter Betty Paul wrote for the first rural soap opera, Weavers Green, in collaboration with her third husband?
• .. that the Mapuche-Huilliche of southern Chile defeated a slave-hunting Spanish army at the Battle of Río Bueno in 1654?
• .. that shortly after serving as President of Georgetown University, David H. Buel quit the Jesuits and secretly married?

• Hurricane Dorian(satellite image shown) makes landfall in the Bahamas as a Category 5 hurricane, killing at least five people.
• Brazil's National Institute for Space Research announces that it has detected more than 80,000 wildfires in the country since January, at least 40,000 of which have occurred in the Amazon rainforest.
• At least 80 people are killed and 160 others injured in a bombing at a wedding in Kabul, Afghanistan.
• All 233 people on board Ural Airlines Flight 178 survive a crash following bird strikes in both engines of an Airbus A321.

• 1651 – English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell won the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the English Civil War.
• 1878 – The passenger steamship SS Princess Alice sank in the River Thames after colliding (pictured) with a collier, killing more than 600 people.
• 1918 – The Bolshevik government of Russia published the first official announcement of the Red Terror, a period of repression against political opponents.
• 1950 – Winning the Italian Grand Prix, Giuseppe Farina became the first Formula One world champion.
• 2001 – The Troubles: On the first day of the school year, Protestant loyalistsresumed a picket outside a Catholic primary school for girls in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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