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Children's Books Month Children's Eye Health and Safety Month National Childhood Injury Prevention Month National Honey Month National Piano Month National Rice Month National School Success Month National Sewing Month National Sickle Cell Month National Youth Pastors Appreciation Month Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Southern Gospel Music Month |
Air Force Appreciation Day - Sponsor: Desert Mountain Visitor
Center, Mountain Home, ID.
Grandma Moses Day - Grandma Moses was born in 1860. She first picked up her
brush when she was 78. She lived to be 101.
Postal Workers Day - The New York Post Office Building opened on this day in
1914. It is on this building that the words "Neither Snow Nor Rain..."
are found.
Born on this Day
1471: Frederik I, king of Denmark and Norway (1523-33)
1533: England's Queen Elizabeth the First was born in Greenwich. She was
the daughter of English king Henry VIII & Anna Boleyn.
1548 :Catherine Parr, 6th and last wife of Henry VIII
1631: Composer Clemens Thieme
1635: Composer Pal Esterhazy
1703: Composer Jean Monnet, composer
1707: Writer on natural history George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon
1737: Italian anatomist and physicist Luigi Galvani
1756: Dutch poet and writer Willem Bilderdijk (Disease of Scientists)
1829: August Kekule von Stradonitz, discovered structure of benzene ring
1860: American primitive painter Grandma Moses
1867: Financier J. Pierpont Morgan Jr.
1900: Author Taylor Caldwell (Dear and Glorious Physician)
1908: Heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey
1908: Paul Brown, coach of Cleveland Browns (1946-62)
1909: Producer-director Elia Kazan
1913: Actor Sir Anthony Quayle (The Bourne Identity, The Eagle Has
Landed, MacKenna's Gold, The Guns of Navarone)
1914: James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts.
1921: Pianist Arthur Ferrante
1923: Actor Peter Lawford (Rosebud, Ocean's 11, Mrs. Miniver, The
Longest Day, Exodus, The Oscar, Harlow)
1928: Basketball Hall-of-Famer Al McGuire was born. He was the
winningest coach ever at Marquette University in Milwaukee with a 295-80 record.
1930: Jazz musician Sonny Rollins
1934: Blues singer Little Milton
1936: Rock legend Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in
Lubbock,Texas. His last name was misspelled on his first recording contract, and he left
it that way.
1937: Actor John Philip Law
1942: Actor Richard Roundtree (Christmas in Connecticut, Shaft, Young
Warriors, Earthquake, A Time to Die, Miami Cops)
1946: Singer Alfa Anderson (Chic)
1949: Singer Gloria Gaynor
1951: Rock singer Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
1951: Actress Julie Kavner
1954: Actor Corbin Bernsen
1954: Rock musician Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
1956: Pianist Michael Feinstein
1957: Singer Margot Chapman (formerly Starland Vocal Band)
1970: Rock musician Chad Sexton (311)
1978: Actor Devon Sawa
0069: Conquest of Jerusalem by Titus
1151: Death of Geoffrey Plantagenet
1159: Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope
1298: Marco Polo captured by Genoese, at Curzola
1303 :Pope Boniface VIII seized by agents of Phillip,
"the Fair," King of France
1312: Death of Ferdinand IV, King of Castile
1493: Death of Frederick IV, Holy Roman Emperor
1496 :Death of Ferdinand II, King of Naples
1497: Sailor Perkin Warbeck becomes English King Richard
IV
1502: Amerigo Vespucci returns to Lisbon, Portugal
1548: Death of Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII, King
of England
1574: Death of Pedro Menendez de Aviles, founder of St.
Augustine, Florida
1630: Boston, Massachusetts, founded and named
1644: Death of Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio
1664: The Dutch governor of New Netherlands--Peter
Stuyvesant--surrenders the colony to an English naval force under Colonel Richard Nicolls.
The English rename the colony New York.
1741: The London Daily Post reported erroneously that
Handel's star singer Francesca Cuzzoni was about to be sentenced to death by beheading for
poisoning her husband.
1778: Shawnee Indians attack and lay siege to
Boonesborough, Kentucky.
1813: The earliest known printed reference to the United
States by the nickname "Uncle Sam" occurs in the Troy Post.
1819: A cellist who inspired a famous musical witticism
died. Jean-Louis Duport and his big stringed instrument prompted Voltaire to say:
"You'll force me to believe in miracles when I see that you can turn an ox into a
nightingale."
1822: Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
1876: The James and Younger gang botches an attempt to rob
the First National Bank of Northfield, Minn.
1888: An incubator is used for the first time on a
premature infant. Edith Eleanor McLean became the first baby to be placed in an incubator.
She weighed 2 pounds, 7 ounces.
1892: James J. Corbett knocked out John L. Sullivan in the
21st round to win the world heavyweight crown in New Orleans in the first major prize
fight that called for the use of boxing gloves under the "Queensberry" rules.
1896: A.H. Whiting won the first automobile race ever held
on a racetrack this day. A crowd of 40,000 people watched Whiting tear around the track at
24 miles per hour in Cranston, RI.
1901: The Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in
China.
1912: French aviator Roland Garros sets altitude record of
13,200 feet.
1921: The first Miss America Pageant was held at Atlantic
City, New Jersey. The contest was a promotion to keep tourists in the resort town after
the Labor Day holiday. Miss Washington, D.C. won the contest and received a golden statue
of a mermaid as her prize! She was 16-year-old Margaret Gorman. Miss Gorman was 5'1 with
blonde hair, blue eyes, weighing 108 pounds and her vital stats were 30-25-32.
1922: The British composer Arthur Bliss conducted the
premiere of his own "Colour Symphony" with movements called purple, red, blue
and green.
1927: American television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth, 21,
succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using a device
called an "image dissector."
1940: Nazi Germany began its initial "blitz" on
London during World War Two.
1963: The National Professional Football Hall of Fame was
dedicated in Canton, Ohio. (I've always lived in or near Canton. I marched in the HOF
Parade several times - never yet been to the Hall of Fame.)
1966: The final episode of the original The Dick Van Dyke
Show was seen on CBS-TV
1969: Senate Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen died in
Washington DC.
1977: The Panama Canal treaties, calling for the US to
eventually turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington.
1977: Convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy was
released from prison after more than four years.
1979: The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
(ESPN) made its cable TV debut.
1985: President Reagan threatened to retaliate against
Japan and the European Common Market for unfair trading practices.
1985: Hana Mandlikova upset Martina Navratilova to win the
women's title of the U.S. Open.
1986: Desmond Tutu was installed as the Anglican
archbishop of Cape Town, becoming the first black titular head of South Africa's
fourth-largest Christian church.
1986: President Augusto Pinochet survived an attempt on
his life by leftist guerrillas.
1987: Erich Honecker became the first East German head of
state to visit West Germany as he arrived for a five-day visit.
1987: The Reverend Jesse Jackson declared his candidacy
for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1988: Vice President George Bush startled an American
Legion audience in Louisville, Kentucky, by referring to September seventh as "Pearl
Harbor Day," which is actually December seventh. (Realizing his mistake, Bush said,
"Did I say September seventh? Sorry about that.")
1989: The Senate approved, 76-8, legislation prohibiting
discrimination against the handicapped in employment, public accommodations,
transportation and communications.
1990: Kimberly Bergalis of Fort Pierce, Florida, publicly
identified herself as the AIDS patient who apparently had apparently been infected by her
late dentist. (She died the following year at age 23.)
1990: President Bush left for his one-day Finland summit
with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1991: The European Community opened a peace conference in
the Netherlands aimed at bringing peace to Yugoslavia.
1991: Monica Seles won the U.S. Open in New York,
defeating Martina Navratilova 7-6, 6-1.
1992: Troops in South Africa fired on African National
Congress supporters near the Transkei homeland, killing 28 and wounding 200.
1992: Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent resigned, four
days after a no-confidence vote by club owners.
1993: Two white laborers were convicted in West Palm
Beach, Florida, of burning a black tourist from New York; both were later sentenced to
life in prison.
1993: Dr. Joycelyn Elders was confirmed by the Senate to
be surgeon general.
1993: President Clinton put forth an ambitious plan to
"reinvent government" by reducing the federal bureaucracy.
1994: After a brief meeting, the United States and Cuba
temporarily suspended talks on stemming the Cuban refugee exodus.
1994: U.S. Marines assigned to a potential Haiti invasion
force began training on a Puerto Rican island amid talk in Washington of a U.S.-led
intervention.
1995: After 27 years in the Senate, Bob Packwood, R-Ore.,
announced he would resign, heading off a vote by colleagues to expel him for allegations
of sexual and official misconduct.
1995: The space shuttle Endeavour thundered into orbit
with five astronauts on a mission to release and recapture a pair of science satellites.
1996: Isabel Correa became the 40th person known to have
died in the presence of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, less than a day after police burst into a
Michigan motel room, interrupting a meeting between Kevorkian and Correa.
1996: Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and mortally wounded on
the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.
1997: Mobutu Sese Seko, the former dictator of Zaire, died
in exile in Morocco at age 66.
1998: Russian lawmakers rejected Boris Yeltsin's candidate
for prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, for a second time, throwing the country into even
deeper political turmoil
1998: St. Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire equaled Roger Maris'
single-season home run record as he hit number 61 during a game against the Chicago Cubs.
1999: An earthquake in Athens, Greece, claimed 143 lives.
1999: Indonesia imposed martial law in East Timor,
promising to crack down on rampaging pro-Indonesian militias after the territory's vote
for independence.
1999: t was announced that Viacom Inc. was buying CBS
Corp. for $36 billion — the richest media merger in history.
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