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American Novel Day - This day celebrates the birthday of
America's first major novelist, James Fennimore Cooper. He was born this day in
1789 in Burlington, New Jersey. Sponsor: Book Marketing Update
National Chiropractic Day - Chiropractic was first discovered in 1895.
Sock it To Me Day - On this day in 1968, Republican presidential candidate
Richard Nixon first appeared on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In" to utter
those immortal words - SOCK IT TO ME.
Latin American Independence Day - In 1821, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, and Nicaragua gained their independence from Spain.
William Howard Taft's Birthday - Born on this day in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was the 27th U.S. president.
Born on this Day
0053: Trajan, 13th Roman Emperor (98-117)
1505: Maria, queen of Hungary and wife of Louis II
1572: Composer Erasmus Widmann
1584: German poet Georg R Weckerlin (Oden und Ges„nge)
1586:Composer Cristobal de Isla Diego
1613: Franáois, Duc de La Rochefoucald
1649: Titus Oates, Anglican priest who fabricated the "Popish
Plot" of 1678. History Focus for Today
1789: Novelist James Fenimore Cooper 1st major American novelist.
1857: William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United States
1876: Conductor Bruno Walter
1881: Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder
1890: Dame Mystery writer Agatha Christie
1901: Sir Howard Bailey, British engineer who gave his name to a
prefabricated bridge used extensively during World War II
1903: Country music star Roy Acuff
1921: Bluesman Snooky Pryor
1922: Actor-director Jackie Cooper
1924: Singer-pianist Bobby Short
1927: Comedian Norm Crosby
1933: Actor Henry Darrow
1938: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Gaylord Perry
1940: Football Hall-of-Famer Merlin Olsen
1945: Opera singer Jessye Norman
1945: Rock musician Lee Dorman (Iron Butterfly)
1946: Actor Tommy Lee Jones
1946: Movie director Oliver Stone
1960: Rock musician Mitch Dorge (Crash Test Dummies)
1961: Football quarterback Dan Marino
1968: Actor Danny Nucci
1969: Rap DJ Kay Gee (Naughty By Nature)
1971: Actor Josh Charle
1984: Britain's Prince Harry of Wales
0668: Constans II Pogonatus, Byzantine Emperor
assassinated, Sicily
0863: Iwashimizu Shrine holds it's first Festival
1128: Hugh de Payens, Master of the Templars, receives the
"Relief des St. Omer' from the father of Geoffrey de St. Omer
1159: Coronation of Alexander III as Pope
1588: The Spanish Armada, which attempted to invade
England, is destroyed by a British fleet.
1596: Cadiz, Spain plundered by the Earl of Essex
1597: Cervantes thrown into Seville jail, where he gets
idea for "Don Q"
1613: Sir Thomas Overbury, 32, dies of poison in the Tower
of London
1644: Death of Pope Urban VIII
1776: British forces occupied New York City during the
American Revolution.
1788: An alliance between Britain, Prussia and the
Netherlands is ratified at the Hague.
1789: The US Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the
Department of State.
1821: Independence was proclaimed for Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador.
1849: A Bosendorfer grand piano was willed to Bruckner by
a family friend, and Bruckner composed his Requiem in D minor in the friend's honor. The
work, Bruckner's first major composition, was performed.
1853: In her home state of New York, Antoinette L. Brown,
28, became pastor of the Congregational church in South Butler -- making her the first
woman to be formally ordained to the pastorate in the United States.
1858: The Butterfield Overland Mail Company begins
delivering mail from St. Louis to San Francisco. The company's motto is: "Remember,
boys, nothing on God's earth must stop the United States mail!"
1862: Confederates capture Harpers Ferry, securing the
rear of Robert E. Lee's forces in Maryland.
1891: The Dalton gang holds up a train and takes $2,500 at
Wagoner, Okla.
1894: The great conductor Bruno Walter made his debut. It
was his 18th birthday.
1914: President Woodrow Wilson orders the Punitive
Expedition out of Mexico. The Expedition, headed by General John Pershing, had been
searching for Pancho Villa, a Mexican revolutionary.
1917: Russia was proclaimed a republic by Alexander
Kerensky, the head of a provisional government.
1928: Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers,
by accident, that the mold penicillin has an antibiotic effect.
1935: The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their
citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
1937: Prime Minister of England Neville Chamberlain flies
to Germany to discuss the future of Czechoslovakia with Adolf Hitler.
1939: The Polish submarine Orzel arrives in Tallinn,
Estonia, after escaping the German invasion of Poland.
1940: During the Battle of Britain in World War Two, the
tide turned as the Luftwaffe sustained heavy losses inflicted by the Royal Air Force.
1942: Armies of Nazi Germany began their siege of the
Russian city of Stalingrad, now called Volgograd.
1945: An American soldier shot Anton Webern dead. There
was a curfew in Austria, and Webern, smoking a cigar after dinner, was violating it.
1949: "The Lone Ranger" premiered on ABC
television with Clayton Moore as the masked hero and Jay Silverheels as Tonto.
1950: During the Korean conflict, United Nations forces
landed at Inchon in the south and began their drive toward Seoul.
1959: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in the US
to begin a 13-day visit.
1963: Four children were killed when a bomb went off
during Sunday services at a black Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. Two black teenage
boys were shot to death later that day as city-wide rioting broke out.
1965: The science-fiction series "Lost in Space"
(set in the year 1997) premiered on CBS.
1965: "Green Acres" premiered on CBS.
1966: The American Bible Society published the New
Testament of its "Today's English Version" (TEV), otherwise known as "Good
News for Modern Man." It marked the end of a two-year effort led by chief translator,
Robert G. Bratcher. (The complete Good News Bible was published in 1976.)
1969: Ed Sullivan released "The Sulli-Gulli,"
his first and only rock record.
1972: The Watergate indictments began with charges against
seven low-ranking perpetrators, including two former White House aides, G. Gordon Liddy
and E. Howard Hunt.
1978: Muhammad Ali defeated Leon Spinks in 15 rounds in
New Orleans to win an unprecedented 4th World Heavyweight Boxing title.
1982: The first issue of USA Today was published.
1982: Iran's former foreign minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh,
was executed after he was convicted of plotting against the government.
1983: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin submitted his
formal resignation to President Chaim Herzog.
1983: The U.S. Senate joined the House of Representatives
in condemning the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean jetliner with 269 aboard.
1985: Bishop James Malone, president of the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a statement saying new emphasis on the teaching of
sexual morality was "urgently needed" to fight off the impact of the sexual
revolution.
1986: Philippine President Corazon Aquino arrived in the
United States for a nine-day visit aimed at winning political and economic support.
1987: On the opening day of his confirmation hearing,
Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork told the Senate Judiciary Committee his philosophy was
"neither liberal nor conservative."
1988: Thousands of coastal residents from Mexico to
Louisiana were fleeing to higher ground, a day after Hurricane "Gilbert" pounded
the Yucatan Peninsula.
1989: The Exxon Corp. halted its billion-dollar oil spill
cleanup effort in Alaska's Prince William Sound as winter approached.
1989: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Penn Warren,
the first poet laureate of the United States, died in Stratton, Vermont, at age 84.
1990: France announced it would send 4,000 more soldiers
to the Persian Gulf and expel Traqi military attaches in Paris in response to Iraq's raids
on French, Belgian and Canadian diplomatic compounds in Kuwait.
1992: FBI Director William S. Sessions promised a new
national campaign to stem a recent wave of carjackings.
1992: Washington state Senator Patty Murray defeated
former Congressman Don Bonker to win the Democratic nomination for the US Senate seat
being vacated by Brock Adams.
1993: Former 60's radical Katherine Ann Power, who'd spent
23 years in hiding, surrendered to authorities to face charges stemming from a 1970 bank
robbery in which Boston police officer Walter Schroeder Senior was killed. (Power received
a five-year federal term, to run concurrently with an eight- to 12-year state sentence.)
1994: In a terse ultimatum from the Oval Office, President
Clinton told Haiti's military leaders in a prime-time address: "Your time is up.
Leave now or we will force you from power."
1995: Hurricane Marilyn, the third major storm to batter
the Caribbean in less than a month, hit the Virgin Islands with heavy rains and 100 mph
winds.
1995: The U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women, held in
Beijing, approved a wide-ranging platform on women's rights, including the promotion of
inheritance rights and the condemnation of wartime rape.
1996: Defense Secretary William Perry was making the
rounds among American allies in the Persian Gulf region, seeking additional support for
the US stance against Iraq. Bahrain agreed to play host to 26 American F-16 jet fighters.
1997: Two of the nation's most popular diet drugs --
dexfenfluramine and fenfluramine -- were pulled off the market because of new evidence
they could seriously damage patients' hearts.
1997: Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld gave up
his battle to be US ambassador to Mexico.
1997: The IRA-allied Sinn Fein party entered Northern
Ireland's peace talks for the first time.
1998: Nine states and the District of Columbia held
primaries. In New York, liberal congressman Charles Schumer won the Democratic nod to
challenge Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato. (Schumer won.) In Washington state,
conservative congresswoman Linda Smith won the right to challenge Democratic Senator Patty
Murray (Murray won re-election).
1998: Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 63rd
home run of the seasonl.
1999: One month after being charged in the United States
with laundering suspected drug payoffs, Mexico's former top drug prosecutor, Mario Ruiz
Massieu, was found dead in his New Jersey apartment, an apparent suicide.
1999: Gunman Larry Ashbrook opened fire in a Fort Worth, Texas, Baptist church, killing seven people and himself.
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