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Celebration on September 3
Saint Gregory the Great Feast Day - Saint Gregory is the patron saint of musicians and teachers. The gregorian chants are named after this pope.
Born on this Day
1568: Composer Adriano Banchieri
1596: Nicolo Amati, violin maker
1608: Flemish chairman of military Pieter Stockmans
1695: Italian violinist and composer Pietro Antonio Locatelli
1703: Johan-Theodoor van Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik and cardinal
1719: Composer Ferdinand Zellbell
1728: Matthew Boulton, English engineer who invented the steam engine
with James Watt.
1757: Charles X, Versailles France, Duke of Prussia
1778: Composer Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer
1789: Composer Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy
1803: Teacher Prudence Crandall, controversial for her efforts to
educate black girls founder of school for "young ladies of colour"
1811: John Humphrey Noyes, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists)
1849: Author Sarah Orne Jewett "Tales of New England"
1856: Architect Louis Sullivan, called the father of the skyscraper and
father of modern US architecture.
1860: Merchant Edward Albert Filene. He established US credit union
movement
1863: Norse author Hans Aanrud (Sílve Solfeng)
1864: Composer Hale Ascher Vander Cook
1865: German theologist and historian Wilhelm Bousset
1875: Auto designer Ferdinand Porsche
1894: American neo-orthodox theologian H. Richard Niebuhr, professor at
Yale University and author of Christ and Culture (1951)
1899: Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet, Austrialian virologist who was
recognised for his work on diseases such as influenza, polio, and cholera.
1913: Actor Alan Ladd
1918: Actress Helen Wagner ("As the World Turns")
1914: Actress Kitty Carlisle Hart (Catherine Holzman) panelist: To Tell
the Truth.
1923: "Beetle Bailey" cartoonist Mort Walker
1925: Country singer Hank Thompson
1926: Actress Anne Jackson
1926: Actress Irene Papas
1927: "Time" magazine contributing editor Hugh Sidey
1933: Country singer Tompall Glaser
1935: Actress Eileen Brennan (Emmy Award-winning actress: Private
Benjamin)
1940: Actress Pauline Collins
1942: Rock singer-musician Al Jardine (The Beach Boys)
1943: Actress Valerie Perrine
1948: Rock musician Donald Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad)
1955: Rock guitarist Steve Jones (The Sex Pistols)
1965: Actor Charlie Sheen
1965: Rock singer-musician Todd Lewis (The Toadies)
1965: Actor Costas Mandylor
1965: Actor Charlie Sheen
1973: Singer Jennifer Paige
0590: Gregory I ("the Great") is consecrated
pope. Regarded as the father of the medieval papacy and last of four Latin "Doctors
of the Church." He was the first pope to aspire to secular power, the man for whom
Gregorian Chant is named, and one of the main organizers of Roman liturgy and its music.
He was also one of the prime promoters of monasticism.
1189: England's King Richard the First (the Lion-Hearted)
was crowned in Westminster.
1190: Richard I and his army arrive at Messina, Sicily
1260: Mamelukes under Sultan Qutuz defeat Mongols and
Crusaders at Ain Jalut.
1346: Edward III, King of England, lays siege to Calais
1390: Geoffrey Chaucer robbed of 20 pounds belonging to
the King at the "foul oak" in Kent
1529: Suliman "The Lawgiver" occupies Buda,
Hungary
1592: Death of Robert Greene
1650: Parliament defeats Scots; issuance of first campaign
medals
1651: Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English
royalists
1654: First Protectorate Parliament meets
1658: Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England,
dies. Today's History Focus
1683: Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna
1697: King William's War in America ends with Treaty of
Ryswick
1752: This day never happened nor next 10 as England
adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the govt stole 11 days of their lives
1752: US adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Sept 14)
1783: The Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending
the seven-year American Revolutionary War and recognizing U.S. independence from Britain.
1833: The first successful one-cent, or penny, newspaper
was published. Benjamin H. Day issued the first copy of "The New York Sun." By
1826, the paper had the largest circulation in the
country - 30,000.
1838: Frederick Douglass escapes slavery disguised as a
sailor. He would later write The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, his memoirs about
slave life.
1939: England declares war on Germany.
1849: California State Constitutional Convention convenes
in Monterey
1850: A German musical journal published an article that
said that truly European music could never be composed by Jews because Jews, were a
migrating race who would forever be aliens in their adopted country. The real author was
none other than Richard Wagner.
1900: British annex Natal (South Africa).
1916: The Allies turned back the Germans in the World War
I Battle of Verdun.
1919: Women gain the right to vote in Italy.
1935: Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to
drive an automobile over 300 miles an hour. Campbell drove his Bluebird Special on the
Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah at a speed of 304.331 MPH
1939: Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days
after the Nazi invasion of Poland. Britain's Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain,
announced the declaration of war against Germany at 11:15 a.m. Britain was quickly joined
by France, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada.
1943: The British Eighth Army invaded Italy during World
War Two, the same day Italy signed a secret armistice with the allies.
1967: Lieutenant General Ngyuen Van Thieu is elected
president of South Vietnam.
1967: Motorists in Sweden began driving on the right-hand
side of the road, instead of the left.
1967: The original version of the television game show
"What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly, broadcast its final episode
after more than 17 years on CBS. Panelists on the first show were: Dorothy Kilgallen,
Louis Untermeyer, Dr. Richard Hoffman and NJ Governor Harold Hoffman. Arlene Francis and
Bennett Cerf joined the show a short time later. Kilgallen, Cerf and Francis
were the continuing regulars for fifteen years. Fred Allen, Hal Block and Steve Allen
served as panelists for short stints at different times.
1970: Football coach Vince Lombardi died in Washington DC.
1976: The unmanned US spacecraft "Viking Two"
landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.
1978: Pope John Paul the First was installed as the 264th
pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1979: Hurricane "David" struck along the central
Florida coast, leaving several people dead and millions of dollars in damage.
1981: David Brinkley ended an illustrious 38-year career
with NBC News. He then moved to ABC News.
1985: The space shuttle Discovery landed at Edwards Air
Force Base in California, ending a seven-day mission that included the retrieval, repair
and redeployment of a malfunctioning satellite.
1985: President Reagan ranked as "best-mannered
person" in the country, in a list compiled by etiquette expert Marjabelle Stewart.
1985: Arson experts in Passaic, New Jersey, believed that
children may have started a trash bin fire that spread and destroyed dozens of houses and
factories, causing $400 million in damage.
1986: American officials said the United States had
approached the Soviet Union with a proposal to free American journalist Nicholas Daniloff
in exchange for granting pretrial release to accused Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov.
1987: A Soviet prosecutor accused West German pilot
Mathias Rust of seeking "cheap popularity" by landing a private plane in
Moscow's Red Square, and demanded that Rust be sentenced to eight years at hard labor.
(Rust was convicted, but freed the following August.)
1988: On the presidential campaign trail, Democrat Michael
Dukakis paid a visit to Ellis Island in New York, while Republican George Bush met
reporters at his official Washington residence.
1989: The United States began shipping a $65 million
package of military aircraft and weapons to help Columbia fight its war against drug
lords.
1989: A Cubana de Aviacion jetliner crashed after takeoff
in Havana, killing all 126 aboard and 26 people on the ground.
1990: Dr. David Acer, a Florida dentist, died of AIDS
after apparently infecting five of his patients with the HIV virus.
1990: President Bush returned to Washington from his Maine
vacation home to prepare for his summit in Finland with Soviet President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev.
1990: Jerry Lewis dedicated his 25th Labor Day telethon to
raise funds for the fight against muscular dystrophy to the late Sammy Davis.
1991: Twenty-five people were killed when fire broke out
at the Imperial Food Products chicken-processing plant in Hamlet, N.C.
1991: Academy Award-winning director Frank Capra, whose
films included ''It Happened One Night,'' ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' and ''It's a
Wonderful Life,'' died in La Quinta, Calif., at age 94.
1992: An Italian relief plane was shot down by
ground-to-air missiles outside of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1992: Baseball owners voted 18-to-9-to-one to ask
commissioner Fay Vincent to resign.
1992: Nobel laureate geneticist Barbara McClintock died at
90.
1993: Placido Domingo recorded, for Deutsche Grammophon,
with Cheryl Studer singing Desdemona and Sergei Leiferkus playing Iago. Myung-Whun Chung
conducted the orchestra of the Paris Opera-Bastille.
1993: The Labor Department reported the nation's
unemployment rate edged down to a two-year low of six-point-seven percent the previous
month.
1994: China and Russia proclaimed an end to any lingering
hostilities, pledging they would no longer target nuclear missiles or use force against
each other.
1994: An American Indian Tribal panel in Alaska exiled two
teenagers, who beat and robbed a pizza delivery man, to an uninhabited, offshore island
for a year.
1995: Testing Serb will, the United Nations reopened a
route to Sarajevo and threatened more air attacks if the rebel stranglehold of the Bosnian
capital didn't end.
1996: The United States launched 27 cruise missiles at
"selected air defense targets" in Iraq as punishment for Iraq's invasion of
Kurdish safe havens.
1997: Arizona Governor Fife Symington was convicted of
lying to get millions in loans to shore up his collapsing real estate empire. (Symington,
who resigned as governor, is appealing his convictions on six counts after one count was
later thrown out.)
1997: The US Senate voted to ban most federal financing
for abortions provided by the managed-care industry.
1998: President Clinton visited Omagh, Northern Ireland,
walking down the street where a car bomb had killed 29, and offered his condolences to the
families of the victims.
1999: NASA temporarily grounded its space shuttle fleet
after inspections had uncovered damaged wires that could endanger a mission.
1999: A French judge closed a two-year inquiry into the
car crash that killed Princess Diana, dismissing all charges against nine photographers
and a press motorcyclist, and concluding the accident was caused by an inebriated driver.
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