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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 |
National Thank You Day - Oprah Winfrey established this day in
1994 to express thank yous to all those who had helped her out. She asked that
everyone in the U.S. do the same by thanking those who helped them out. Always
celebrated on the third Monday in September.
Chiropractic Assistants Day - In 1895, Daniel Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, gave
the first chiropractic treatment.
Isolation Day - On this the birtday of actress Greta Garbo, throw a party and
invite everyone over. Greta Garbo was born on this day in 1905. She was famous
for her line - "I want to be alone." Sponsor: The Life of the Party
Saint Joseph of Copertino Feast Day - Because of his many experiences with
levitation (more than 70 were recorded in 17 years), he is the patron saint of
pilots and astronauts
Born on this Day
1574: Italian lawyer and poet Claudio Achillini
1636: Composer Pietro Sanmartini
1684: Composer and Musicographer Johann Gottfried Walther
1709: English poet and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, writer of the first
English dictionary
1713: French theologist and natural philosopher Jean Allamand
1733: US judge George Read He was a signer of the Declaration of
Independence
1752: Mathematician Adrien-Marie Lagendre, he worked on elliptic
integrals
1752: Composer Johann Anton Sulzer
1765: Oliver Holden, early Puritan pastor and statesman. He composed the
hymn tune CORONATION ("All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name") in 1792 at the age of
27.
1779: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
1819: French physicist Jean Foucault, inventor of the gyroscope.
1827: John Towsend Trowbridge, poet and author of books for boys. He
wrote the Jack Hazzard and Toby Trafford series.
1895: John Diefenbacker (Canadian Prime Minister 1957-1963)
1905: Actress Greta Garbo
1905: Actor Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (Jack Benny Show, Birth
of the Blues, Gone with the Wind, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,Mad World)
1908: Satchel Leroy Paige (baseball's oldest player: pitcher for Kansas
City A's at age 59 and 80 days 1965)
1920: Actor Jack Warden
1933: Actor Robert Blake
1933: Singer Jimmie Rodgers
1939: Actor Fred Willard
1940: Singer Frankie Avalon
1949: Rock musician Kerry Livgen (Kansas)
1951: Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr., African-American neurosurgeon
1952: Rock musician Dee Dee Ramone
1959: Baseball player Ryne Sandberg
1962: Singer Joanne Catherall (Human League)
1964: Actress Holly Robinson Peete
1967: Rhythm-and-blues singer Ricky Bell (Bell Biv Devoe and New
Edition)
1971: Actress Jada Pinkett Smith
1973: Actor James Marsden
1993: Actors Brandon Porter and Taylor Porter ("Party of
Five")
0052: Marcus Ulpius Trajan, Emperor of Rome from AD
98-117.
0096: Domitian, Roman emperor, murdered by conspirators
(including his wife) History Focus for Today
1180: Death of Louis VII, King of France
1426: Death of Hubert van Eyck, Flemish painter
1465: Louis XI, King of France, signs an agreement with
the League of the Public Weal
1502: Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth voyage
1634: Anne Hutchinson, a founder of Rhode Island, 1st
arrives in Boston from England
1758: James Abercromby replaced as supreme commander of
British forces after his defeat by French commander the Marquis of Montcalm at Fort
Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War.
1759: Quebec surrenders to the British after a battle
which sees the deaths of both James Wolfe and Louis Montcalm, the British and French
commanders.
1793: President Washington laid the cornerstone of the US
Capitol.
1810: Chile declared its independence from Spain.
1830: A race was held between a horse and an iron horse.
The Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in The United States, was pitted against a real
horse in a nine-mile course between Riley's Tavern and Baltimore. Tom Thumb suffered
mechanical difficulties including a leaky boiler and lost by a considerable margin.
1837: Robert Schumann wrote his beloved Clara that he had
met with her father but failed to get his permission to marry her. In fact, dad told him
never to see Clara again. The letter says Clara's father was cold and malicious,
humiliating Schumann.
1850: Congress passes the second Fugitive Slave Bill into
law (the first was enacted in 1793), requiring the return of escaped slaves to their
owners.
1851: The first edition of "The New York Times"
was published (goes on sale, at 2 cents a copy).
1874: The Nebraska Relief and Aid Society is formed to
help farmers whose crops were destroyed by grasshoppers swarming throughout the American
West.
1891: Harriet Maxwell Converse (her Indian name was
Ga-is-wa-noh - The Watcher) became the first white woman to be named chief of an Indian
tribe. Converse became chief of the Six Nations Tribe at Tonawanda Reservation in New
York. She had been adopted by the Seneca tribe 7 years earlier because of her efforts on
behalf of the tribe.
1895: Daniel David Palmer gave the first chiropractic
adjustment to Harvey Lillard in Davenport, Iowa -- now the home of Palmer Chiropractic
College.
1911: Russian Premier Piotr Stolypin dies four days after
being shot at the Kiev opera house by socialist lawyer Dimitri Bogroff.
1914: The Irish Home Rule Bill becomes law, but is delayed
until after World War I.
1918: Serge Prokofiev, running from revolution in Russia,
arrived in the United States. Prokofiev's exile days in Paris and America would see him
produce his piano concertos which were premiered with the composer at the keyboard.
1924: A complete Bible translation of the Old and New
Testaments was published by American Bible scholar and historian James Moffatt, 54.
Moffatt's intention was to make available to the lay reader, in simple language, a current
scholarly understanding of the biblical text.
1927: The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later
CBS) made its debut with a basic network of 16 radio stations.
1928: A hurricane that lashed Florida and the West Indies
for five days left an estimated 4,000 people dead and $30 million in damage.
1929: Charles Lindbergh takes off on a 10,000 mile air
tour of South America.
1947: The National Security Act, which unified the Army,
Navy and newly formed Air Force into a National Military Establishment, went into effect.
1948: Margaret Chase Smith becomes the first woman elected
to the Senate without completing another senator's term when she defeats Democratic
opponent Adrian Scolten. Smith is also the only woman to be elected to and serve in both
houses of Congress.
1961: United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold
was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.
1963: "The Patty Duke Show" premiered on ABC-TV.
1965: Larry Hagman (Captain Tony Nelson) and Barbara Eden
(Jeannie) starred in the first episode of "I Dream of Jeannie", on NBC-TV. The
show mcontinued weekly until September 1, 1970.
1969: Tiny Tim announced his engagement to Miss Vicki
Budinger on the "Tonight Show." Johnny Carson, host of "The Tonight
Show" was so enthralled with the falsetto voiced singer, he invited the couple to get
married on the show. They did (on December 17, 1969) and TV history was made.
1970: Rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27.
Jimi Hendrix died of an overdose of sleeping pills.
1975: FBI agents in San Francisco captured heiress
Patricia Hearst and two of her Symbionese Liberation Army comrades, William and Emily
Harris.
1980: Cosmonaut Arnoldo Tamayo, a Cuban, becomes the first
black to be sent on a mission in space.
1981: A museum honoring former President Ford was
dedicated in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1984: The U.N. General Assembly opened its 39th session
with appeals for the United States and the Soviet Union to resume arms negotiations.
1985: President Reagan publicly confirmed the release of
the Rev. Benjamin Weir, an American held hostage in Lebanon for 14 months. U.S. officials
had kept Weir's release secret in hopes that other hostages would also be freed.
1986: In his first public comment on the arrest of
American journalist Nicholas Daniloff, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev described the
reporter as a spy who was caught in the act, and he accused Washington of exploiting the
case to damage superpower relations.
1987: President Reagan announced that he and Soviet leader
Mikhail S. Gorbachev would meet later in the year to sign a treaty banning medium- and
shorter-range nuclear missiles.
1988: The Soviet Union won the first gold medal of the
Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, in the women's air rifle event, while US divers
picked up silver and bronze medals in women's platform.
1989: Hurricane "Hugo" reached Puerto Rico,
causing extensive damage as it continued to barrel toward the US mainland.
1990: Former savings-and-loan chief executive Charles H.
Keating was jailed in Los Angeles in lieu of $5 million dollars bail after he was indicted
on criminal fraud charges.
1990: The city of Atlanta was named the site of the 1996
Summer Olympics.
1991: Saying he was ''pretty fed up,'' President Bush said
he would send warplanes to escort U.N. helicopters searching for hidden Iraqi weapons if
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein continued to impede weapons inspectors.
1991: The space shuttle Discovery landed in California,
ending a five-day mission.
1992: Ross Perot's name was submitted for the 50th state
ballot -- Arizona -- on the same day that Perot hinted on NBC's "Today" show
that he might throw his hat into the presidential ring, after all.
1993: Kimberlh Clarice Aiken of South Carolina was crowned
Miss America at the pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1994: Haiti's military leaders agreed to an Oct. 15
departure deadline, thereby averting a U.S.-led invasion to force them from power.
1994: Tennis star Vitas Gerulaitis, 40, was found dead in
the guest cottage of a friend's home in Southampton, New York, of accidental carbon
monoxide poisoning.
1995: President Clinton began a five-day re-election
campaign fund-raising tour that got off to a rocky start after a deal to convert the
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard to civilian use collapsed at the last minute.
1996: Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole fell off a
stage during a campaign rally in Chico, California, after a railing gave way; he was not
seriously hurt.
1996: The O.J. Simpson civil trial opened in Santa Monica,
California.
1996: The Food and Drug Administration declared the French
abortion pill RU-486 safe and effective, but withheld final approval until later.
1997: Two gunmen opened fire on a group of German tourists
in front of the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo, killing nine of the tourists and a bus
driver.
1997: Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse agreed to
merge to create the world's biggest accounting firm.
1997: Voters in Wales narrowly approved a British
government offer to set up a Welsh assembly.
1997: Media mogul Ted Turner pledged to spend one billion
dollars on United Nations causes.
1998: Mark McGwire hit his 64th home run of the season,
pulling out of a tie with Sammy Sosa
1998: Over Democratic objections, the House Judiciary
Committee voted to release President Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony as well as
28-hundred pages of sometimes steamy evidence compiled by Independent Counsel Kenneth
Starr.
1999: Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs became the first
player in major league baseball history to reach 60 homers twice.
1999: A multinational fleet sailed toward East Timor, the
vanguard of a U-N-approved force assigned to bring order to the bloodied Indonesian
province.
1999: Heather Renee French of Kentucky was crowned "Miss America" at the pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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