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International Cross-Culture Day - Celebrate the various
cultures of the world. Sponsor: Window on the World.
Star Spangled Banner Day - This day commemorates the 1814 bombing of Fort
McHenry that inspired the writing of the National Anthem by Francis Scott Key.
Triumph of the Holy Cross - Celebrated on the day when the Basilica of the Holy
Sepulcher was dedicated.
Born on this Day
1486: German occultist and alchemist Agrippa von Nettesheim
1531: Philipp Apianus German cartographer
1722: Composer Joseph Paul Ziegler
1737: Micheal Haydn was born. He was popular and his compositions were
popular, too. At the time he was thought to be better than his brother at one kind of
music: - religious. Franz Josef Haydn shared that opinion. Mozart admired Michael
Haydn.(Die Sch"pfung)
1742: Judge James Wilson signer of the Declaration of Independence
1748: Composer Johann Paul Schulthesius
1761: Composer Pavel Lambert Masek
1768: Composer Georg Johann Schinn
1769: Baron Freidrich von Humbolt, German naturalist and explorer who
made the first isothermic and isobaric maps
1792: Italian marquis and premier of Toscane Gino Capponi
1817: Author and judge Theodor Storm (Imense China)
1849: Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov
1864: Lord Robert Cecil, one of the founders of the League of Nations
and its president from 1923 to 1945
1867: Artist and illustrator Charles Dana Gibson, "Gibson
Girl" creator
1883: Margaret Sanger, American pioneer leader in the birth control
movement
1899: Film director-producer Hal Wallis
19??: Chuck Day (Days)
19??: Steve Lacey (Gold City)
19??: Mike Payne
19??: Brandon Thompson (The Waiting)
1914: Clayton Moore, who played the Lone Ranger on television
1921: Constance Baker Motley, first African-American women to be
appointed a federal judge
1933: Actress Zoe Caldwell
1934: Feminist author Kate Millett
1936: Actor Walter Koenig
1938: Actor Nicol Williamson
1944: Singer-actress Joey Heatherton
1947: Actor Sam Neill
1947: Singer Jon "Bowzer" Bauman (Sha Na Na)
1954: Singer Barry Cowsill
1955: Rock musician Steve Berlin (Los Lobos)
1956: Actor Joe Penny ("Jake and the Fatman")
1959: Actress Mary Crosby
1959: Singer Morten Harket (a-ha)
1959: Country singer John Berry
1964: Actress Faith Ford
1968: Actor Dan Cortese
1970: Rock musician Craig Montoya (Everclear)
1971: Actress Kimberly Williams
1973: Rapper Nas
0258: Martryrdom of St. Cyprian
0407: Death of St. John Chrysostom
0891: Death of Pope Stephen VI
1131: Coronation of Fulk and Melissande as King and Queen
of Jerusalem
1146: Zangi of the Near East is murdered. The Sultan Nur
ad-Din, his son, pursues the conquest of Edessa.
1190: Philip II of France and Richard I of England join
forces at Messina, Sicily (3rd Crusade)
1321: Death of Dante Alighieri
1523: Death of Pope Adrian VI 1
1544: Henry VIII, King of England, takes Boulogne
1637: Pierre Vernier, inventor of vernier caliper, dies
1741: German composer George Frederick Handel, 56,
finished composing his oratorio, "The Messiah." He wrote the score,
start-to-finish, in only 24 days, subsisting primarily on coffee.
1791: Louis XVI solemnly swears his allegiance to the
French constitution.
1812: Napoleon I’s invasion of Russia reaches its
climax as his Grande Armee enters Moscow--only to find the enemy capital deserted and
burning, set afire by the few Russians who remained.
1814: Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled
Banner" after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland. Key was
on board the British frigate to negotiate the release of a captured friend.
1847: US forces under General Winfield Scott took control
of Mexico City.
1853: The Allies land at Eupatoria on the west coast of
Crimea.
1862: At the battles of South Mountain and Crampton's Gap,
Maryland Union troops smash into the Confederates as they close in on what will become the
Antietam battleground.
1886: The typewriter ribbon is patented.
1899: While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes 1st
automobile fatality
1901: President McKinley died in Buffalo, New York, of
gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.
1901: Vice President Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the
26th President of the United States upon the death of William McKinley.
1911: Russian Premier Piotr Stolypin mortally wounded in
assassination attempt at Kiev opera house.
1927: Bob Jones University opened in Greenville, South
Carolina, and eighty-eight students registered for the first fall term.
1927: Modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice,
France, when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of her sports car.
1936: A typewriter that could notate music was patented in
Germany. It didn't catch on. To this day most composers write in longhand, even with the
advent of computer programs for writing music.
1940: Congress passed the Selective Service Act, providing
for the first peacetime draft in US history.
1943: German troops abandon the Salerno front in Italy.
The Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team fought bravely in eight major
campaigns.
1950: On the heels of the landing at Inchon, the U.S.
Eight Army and South Korean allies break out of the Pusan Perimeter.
1959: The Soviet space probe "Luna Two" became
the first manmade object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
1960: Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia form OPEC.
Lessons learned in the savage 1972 Eastertide Offensive paid off at the Battle of Khafji
almost two decades later.
1963: The first surviving American quintuplets were born
in Aberdeen, South Dakota, to MaryAnn and Andrew Fischer.
1965: The situation comedy "My Mother The Car"
premiered on NBC TV.
1966: Operation Attleboro, designed as a training exercise
for American troops, becomes a month-long struggle against the Viet Cong.
1972: The family drama series "The Waltons"
premiered on CBS.
1975: Pope Paul the Sixth declared Mother Elizabeth Ann
Bayley Seton the first US-born saint in the Roman Catholic Church. History Focus for Today
1982: Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace
Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries from a car crash the day before.
1982: Lebanon's president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was
killed by a bomb.
1983: The U.S. House of Representatives voted, 416-0, in
favor of a resolution condemning the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean jetliner on
Sept. 1, calling it a "cold-blooded, barbarous attack."
1984: Israel's new coalition government came into being,
with Shimon Peres of the Labor Party as prime minister and Yitzhak Shamir of the Likud
bloc as foreign minister promising to exchange roles for the second half of their terms.
1984: 56-year-old balloonist Joe Kittinger became the
first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon. He left Caribou, Maine,
in a 10-story-tall helium-filled balloon named "Rosie O'Grady's Balloon of
Peace."
1985: Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon released the
Reverend Benjamin Weir, an American missionary, after holding him captive for 16 months.
1985: Susan Akin of Mississippi was crowned Miss America
at the pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1986: President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, appeared
together on radio and television to appeal for a ''national crusade'' against drug abuse.
1987: Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole resigned to
devote herself to the presidential campaign of her husband, Senate Minority Leader Bob
Dole.
1988: Hurricane "Gilbert" slammed into Mexico's
Yucatan Peninsula after forcing thousands of residents to flee.
1988: Bad weather forced Pope John Paul the Second to make
an unscheduled stop in Johannesburg during a tour of southern Africa.
1989: Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman on
disability for mental illness, shot and fatally wounded eight people and wounded 12 others
at a printing plant in Louisville, Kentucky, before taking his own life.
1990: During the Persian Gulf crisis, the Navy reported
that American troops had fired a warning shot at an Iraqi tanker, then boarded it briefly
before allowing it to proceed.
1991: The government of South Africa, the African National
Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party signed a national peace pact.
1991: Secretary of State James A. Baker III met with
leaders of the Baltic nations, which had declared independence from the Soviet Union.
1991: Carolyn Suzanne Sapp of Hawaii was crowned Miss
America.
1992: Germany cut key interest rates for the first time in
five years, an action the United States and European Community nations had been urging to
help spur a world economic recovery.
1993: Israel and Jordan signed a framework for
negotiations, a day after the signing of a PLO-Israeli peace accord.
1993: British tourist Gary Colley was shot and killed, his
female companion wounded, at a highway rest stop in Florida. (Two suspects later received
life sentences; two others received lesser sentences.)
1994: On the 34th day of a strike by players, Acting
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig announced the 1994 season was over. Twenty-six of the 28
owners voted to cancel the final days of the regular season.
1995: NATO called a temporary halt to its aerial pounding
of Serb rebels while a U.S. envoy tried to clinch an agreement on withdrawing the Serbs'
big guns from around Sarajevo.
1997: Overcoming fears of violence, Bosnians flooded
polling stations to vote in local elections. At the 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards,
"Law & Order" won best drama series while "Frasier" again won best
comedy series.
1998: President Clinton, struggling to regain his footing
from the Monica Lewinsky scandal, pledged during a speech in New York to work with
America's allies to deal with the "biggest financial challenge facing the world in a
half-century."
1998: Ten people were charged in what prosecutors said was
the largest Cuban spy ring ever uncovered in the US since Fidel Castro came to power.
(Five men later pleaded guilty to lesser charges; the trial of the other five has been
postponed until May 2000.)
1999: Hurricane Floyd clobbered the Bahamas, toppling
power lines, ripping roofs off homes and pushing a roiling sea into streets before heading
toward the southeastern United States.
1999: Indonesian soldiers looted the abandoned U.N. mission in East Timor, just hours after 110 UN personnel and 1,300 East Timorese were evacuated and flown to safety to end a 10-day siege.
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