365 days to go

One year to go. 365 days. On this date, Sept. 14, 1806 the Lewis & Clark expedition returning to St. Louis came across some fur trappers heading up the Missouri. The trappers offered the expedition it's first liquid libation in 435 days. According to one of the enlisted men's journal, "The captains received some wine and the men were offered whiskey."

That was a good day for the Corp of Discovery 199 years ago, but it was a bad day for President William McKinley 104 years ago today. In 1901, President McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.

It was a good morning for me today. I broke in my new New Balance 856 running shoes with a crisp 4-mile run and to top it off I found a folded $10 bill in the street!