Today is: September 16

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Proverbs 27:1

September is:

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

Celebrate September 16

American Legion Day - The American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress in 1919. Sponsor: The American Legion.

Cherokee Strip Day - In 1893, the greatest land rush of all time was held on the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma. Sponsor: Oklahoma Tourism.

Mayflower Day - The Mayflower brought the first English colonists to the 'New World.' It sailed from Plymouth, England in 1620 with 102 passengers.

Mexican Independance Day - In 1810, Miguel Hidalgo Costilla, a Mexican priest from Delores declared the Independence of Mexico. Independence came in 1821. Celebrations begin just before midnight on the 15th of September and continue all day on the 16th.

Stay Away from Seattle Day - People should not move to Seattle, America's Best Place to Live. Sponsor: Wellness Permission League.

Wrinkled Raincoat Day - On the birthday of Peter Faulk, who played the rumpled detective Colombo, wear a wrinkled raincoat and do some investigating of your own. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.

Born on this Day

• 1386: Italian humanist and scientist Traversari Ambrosius
  
  

• 1387: Henry V, King of England
  
  

• 1518: Artist Tintoretto
  
  

• 1547: Persian-Dutch East Indies poet Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi
  
  

• 1557: Composer Jacques Mauduit
  
  

• 1574: Dutch physician and playwright Samuel Coster (Polyxena)
  
  

• 1638 Louis XIV, King of France (1643-1715)
  
  

• 1685: English poet John Gay (Beggar's Opera)
  
  

• 1736: Philosopher and mathematician Johann N Tetens
  
  

• 1800: Composer Jozef Nowakowski
  
  

• 1818: English surgeon and graphic artist Francis Seymour Haden
  
  

• 1822 Charles S. Crocker, of Southern Pacific fame.
  
  

• 1823: Francis Parkman (author: The Oregon Trail)
  
  

• 1638: France's King Louis the 14th
  
  

• 1823: Historian Francis Parkman
  
  

• 1838: Railroad magnate James Jerome "J.J." Hill
  
  

• 1875: Department store founder James Cash Penney
  
  

• 1885: Karen Horney, psychoanalyst who exposed the male bias in the Freudian analysis of women
  
  

• 1888: British car designer Walter Bentley
  
  

• 1891: Karl Doenitz, German Admiral who succeeded Hitler in governing Germany
  
  

• 1893: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, biochemist who isolated vitamin C
  
  

• 19??: Garry Jones (Gold City)
  
  

• 19??: Derik Toy (Dakota Motor Co.)
  
  

• 19??: Chris Eaton
  
  

• 1914: "Candid Camera" creator Allen Funt
  
  

• 1919: Marvin Middlemark (inventor: rabbit ears TV antenna)
  
  

• 1922:Actress Janis Paige (Donna Mae Tjaden) (The Pajama Game, Silk Stockings, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Hero)
  
  

• 1925: Musician Charlie Byrd (guitar: Meditation, Desafinado)
  
  

• 1924: Actress Lauren Bacall
  
  

• 1925: Blues singer B.B. King (Why I Sing the Blues and Stand By Me)
  
  

• 1925: Jazz musician Charlie Byrd
  
  

• 1926: Clergyman-author Reverend Robert Schuller
  
  

• 1927: Actor Peter Falk
  
  

• 1933: Actor George Chakiris
  
  

• 1942: Actress Linda Miller
  
  

• 1944: Actress Linda Henning ( Petticoat Junction)
  
  

• 1944: Rhythm-and-blues singer Betty Kelly (Martha & the Vandellas)
  
  

• 1948: Actress Susan Ruttan
  
  

• 1948: Musician Kenney Jones (Small Faces; Faces; The Who)
  
  

• 1949: Actor Ed Begley Junior
  
  

• 1950: Country singer David Bellamy (The Bellamy Brothers)
  
  

• 1953: Jazz musician Earl Klugh
  
  

• 1956: Actor Mickey Rourke
  
  

• 1956: Magician David Copperfield
  
  

• 1958: Baseball pitcher Orel Hershiser (Cy Young Award-winner 1988)
  
  

• 1958: Country singer-songwriter Terry McBride
  
  

• 1962: Actress Jayne Brook ("Chicago Hope")
  
  

• 1963: Singer Richard Marx
  
  

• 1964: Comedian Molly Shannon ("Saturday Night Live")
  
  

• 1982: Actress Madeline Zima ("The Nanny")
  
  

Events in History on this day
  

• 0258: Death of St. Cyprian
  
  

• 0655: Death of St. Martin, Pope
  
  

• 0681: Ending of the 6th Ecumenical Council of Constantinople
  
  

• 0921: Murder of St. Ludmilla
  
  

• 0984: Death of St. Edith of Wilton
  
  

• 1087: Death of St. Victor III, Pope
  
  

• 1226: Death of Pandulph, Papal Legate to England
  
  

• 1380: Death of Charles V "the Wise," King of France
  
  

• 1394: Death of Clement VII, Anti-Pope   History Focus for Today
  
  

• 1400: Owain Glyn Dwr revolts against English and is proclaimed Prince of all Wales
  
  

• 1485: Establishment of the Yeomen of the Guard. bodyguard of the English Crown, popularly known as "Beefeaters"
  
  

• 1498: Death of TomĘs de Torquemada, Inquisitor
  
  

• 1620: 102 passengers and crew set sail on the ocean blue from Plymouth, England.
  
  

• 1668: King John Casimer V of Poland abdicates the throne.
  
  

• 1747: The French capture Bergen-op-Zoom, consolidating their occupation of Austrian Flanders in the Netherlands.
  
  

• 1789: Jean-Paul Marat sets up a new newspaper in France, L'Ami du Peuple.
  
  

• 1672: Anne Bradstreet, American poet, dies at about 60
  
  

• 1782: Great Seal of the United States is used for 1st time.
  
  

• 1787: Haydn issued a quartet that included sounds which were so croaky that the whole quartet has been nicknamed, "The Frog."
  
  

• 1810: Mexicans began their revolt against Spanish rule.
  
  

• 1821: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras & Nicaragua all gain their independence.
  
  

• 1857: Patent is issued for the typesetting machine.
  
  

• 1889: Robert Younger, in Minnesota's Stillwater Penitentiary for life, dies of tuberculosis. Brothers Cole and Bob remain in that prison.
  
  

• 1893: More than 100,000 people rushed to the Cherokee Strip as a large area of the Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, was opened to homesteaders.
  
  

• 1908: General Motors was founded. The man responsible for the beginning of the huge auto manufacturing company was William Durant.
  
  

• 1919: The American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress.
  
  

• 1920: Enrico Caruso made his last recording for Victor Records.
  
  

• 1940: President Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in US history.
  
  

• 1940: Samuel T. Rayburn of Texas was elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
  
  

• 1965: The Dean Martin Show debuted on NBC-TV. It was a weekly variety show that continued on the network for nine years.
  
  

• 1966: The Metropolitan Opera opened its new opera house at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
  
  

• 1968: The Andy Griffith Show was seen for the final time this night on CBS-TV.
  
  

• 1972: "The Bob Newhart Show" premiered on CBS.
  
  

• 1974: President Ford offered conditional amnesty to Vietnam draft evaders. He said they could come home if they performed up to two years of public service.
  
  

• 1977: Maria Callas, the American-born prima donna famed for her lyric soprano and fiery temperament, died in Paris at age 53.
  
  

• 1981: Boxer 'Sugar' Ray Leonard, at age 25, knocked out Thomas 'The Hit Man' Hearns.
  
  

• 1982: The massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children by Lebanese Christian militiamen began in west Beirut's Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps.
  
  

• 1986: Fire and fumes in the Kinross mine killed 177 people in South Africa's worst gold mine disaster.
  
  

• 1986: Former Delaware Gov. Pete Du Pont became the first major candidate to announce publicly his bid for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.
  
  

• 1987: Two dozen countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to save the Earth's ozone layer by calling on nations to reduce emissions of harmful chemicals by the year 2000.
  
  

• 1988: Hurricane "Gilbert" slammed into the Mexico coast for the second time in three days, its center sweeping ashore north of La Pesca, 120 miles south of Brownsville, Texas.
  
  

• 1989: Debbye Turner of Missouri was crowned "Miss America" at the pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
  
  

• 1990: Iraqi television broadcast an eight-minute videotaped address by President Bush, who warned the Iraqi people that Saddam Hussein's brinksmanship could plunge them into war "against the world."
  
  

• 1991: A federal judge in Washington dismissed all Iran-Contra charges against Oliver North.
  
  

• 1991: Confirmation hearings began on the nomination of Robert Gates to head the Central Intelligence Agency.
  
  

• 1991: U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas concluded five days of testimony at his confirmation hearing.
  
  

• 1992: A proposed debate between President Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton was canceled after the Bush campaign's refusal to negotiate with a bipartisan commission.
  
  

• 1993: A judge in Berlin convicted three elderly former Communist leaders in the shooting deaths of East Germans who had tried to scale the Berlin Wall.
  
  

• 1994: Two astronauts from the space shuttle "Discovery" went on the first untethered spacewalk in ten years.
  
  

• 1994: A federal jury ordered Exxon Corporation to pay $5 billion in punitive damages to commercial fishermen, Alaska natives, property owners and others harmed in the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.
  
  

• 1995: President Clinton voiced support for a Senate welfare overhaul plan sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan.
  
  

• 1995: Shawntel Smith of Oklahoma was crowned Miss America at the pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
  
  

• 1996: President Clinton claimed the endorsement of the nation's largest police organization, the Fraternal Order of Police, in his bid for re-election.
  
  

• 1996: Space shuttle "Atlantis" blasted off more than six weeks late on a mission to pick up NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid from the Russian space station "Mir."
  
  

• 1996: Former national security adviser McGeorge Bundy died in Boston at age 77.
  
  

• 1997: Attorney General Janet Reno named Charles La Bella the Justice Department's new lead prosecutor in the campaign fund-raising investigation.
  
  

• 1998: In his first news conference since the release of Kenneth Starr's graphic report, President Clinton said he'd told "the essential truth" about his affair with Monica Lewinsky; as for whether he might resign, Clinton responded that Americans "want me to go on." [presumably to seek therapy.]
  
  

• 1998: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, responding to a report in an Internet publication, Salon Magazine, admitted to "indiscretions" with a woman in the 1960s at a time when both were married.
  

• 1999: : Hurricane Floyd hit the Carolinas and began making its way up the East Coast, damaging 12,000 homes and claiming more than 50 lives even after it weakened to a tropical storm.
  

• 1999: In southern Russia, an explosion described by authorities as the fourth massive terrorist attack in two weeks demolished an apartment building, killing at least 18 people.

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