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Are You Somebody Day - Celebrates all of us who
are good but not yet "somebody." Celebrate you as you. Make a list of
what you do, what you have done, and what you want to do. Build your self
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Everything I Have I Owe to Spaghetti Day - Celebrate the birthday of Sofia
Scicoloni. She was born in Rome, Italy on this day in 1934 (or so). She is
better known as actress Sophia Loren. Eat a plate of spaghetti today. Sponsor:
The Life of the Party.
Born on this Day
0357 B. C. Alexander III the Great, King of Macedonia, Emperor
1593: Composer Gottfried Scheidt
1653: Composer Benedict Schultheiss
1663:Composer Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli
1665: Vicar Johannes van der Hagen, genealogist and chronologer
1706: Composer Franz Habermann
1744: Master builder Giacomo Quarenghi (Hermitage Theater)
1767: Composer Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia
1771: Scotish explorer Mungo Park (Africa)
1791: Russian writer Sergei T Aksakov (Semejnaja chronika)
1795: Physician and author Peter of Limburg Brouwer
1842: Physician Lord James Dewar, who invented the vacuum flask and
cordite.
1886: Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny, who pioneered the care of
polio victims
1878: Novelist Upton Sinclair, (The Jungle)
1885: Jazz piano player Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton
1883: Albrecht Alt, German Lutheran Old Testament scholar.
1899: Actor Elliott Nugent (Romance, The Unholy Three; director: Up in
Arms, Welcome Stranger)
1917: Boston Celtics President Red Auerbach (second winningest
basketball coach in history with 1,037 victories for the Boston Celtics)
1918: Actress Peg Phillips
1924: Singer Gogi Grant
1924: Fashion designer James Galanos
1927: Actress Rachel Roberts (The Tony Randall Show)
1928: Psychologist Joyce Brothers
1929: Actress-comedian Anne Meara: Stiller & Meara, Fame, All in the
Family, Rhoda, The Paul Lynde Show, The Corner Bar, Alf)
1934: Actress Sophia (Sofia Scicolone) Loren (some sources say 1931)
1947: Rock musician Chuck Panozzo (Styx)
1951: Former hockey player Guy LaFleur
1954: Jazz musician Peter White
1955: Actress Betsy Brantley
1957: Actor Gary Cole
1964: Actor Crispin Glover
1967: Actress Kristen Johnston ("3rd Rock From the Sun")
1967: Rock singers Matthew Nelson and Gunnar Nelson
1968: Rock musician Ben Shepherd (formerly with Soundgarden)
0480 BC: Themistocles and his Greek fleet win one of
history’s first decisive naval victories over Xerxes’ Persian force off Salamis.
0451: Romans victorious over Attila the Hun History Focus for Today
0622: Muhammad changes the name of Yathrib to Medina
0833: Caliph Mu'tasim enters Baghdad
1069: Occupation of York by rebels against King William I
1187: Saladin lays siege to Jerusalem
1258: Consecration of Salisbury Cathedral, England
1276: Coronation of Pope John XXI (there was no John XX)
1378: The election of Robert of Geneva as anti-pope by
discontented cardinals creates a great schism in the Catholic church. It was touched off
when Gregory XI died, shortly after returning the papal seat from Avignon, in France, to
Rome. Continuing for nearly 40 years (until 1417), the Schism at one point produced three
concurrent popes!
1384: Death of Louis I, King of Naples and Duke of Anjou
1414: The Emperor of China receives a giraffe in tribute
from Bengal, India
1440: Founding of Eton College
1519: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out from
Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. (Magellan
was killed enroute, but one of his ships eventually circumnavigated the world.)
1561: Queen Elizabeth of England signs a treaty at Hamptan
Court with French Huguenot leader Louis de Bourbon, the Prince of Conde.
1565: Pedro Menendez of Spain wipes out the French at Fort
Caroline, in Florida.
1604: After a two-year siege, the Spanish retake Ostend,
the Netherlands, from the Dutch.
1784: Packet and Daily, the first daily publication in
America, appears on the streets.
1797: US frigate "Constitution" (Old Ironsides)
launched in Boston.
1806: Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark pass
the French village of La Charette, the first white settlement they have seen in more than
two years.
1823: Daniel Steibelt who wrote the first choral piano
concerto died. A friend in St. Petersburg eulogized him as a kleptomaniac.
1830: The National Negro Convention convenes in
Philadelphia with the purpose of abolishing slavery.
1848: Brigham Young arrives at Salt Lake City with a wave
of Mormon followers.
1859: Patent granted on the electric range.
1870: Italian troops took control of the Papal States,
leading to the unification of Italy.
1873: Financial chaos forced the New York Stock Exchange
to close. It remained closed for 10 days.
1881: Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president
of the United States, succeeding James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated.
1884: The Equal Rights Party was formed during a
convention of suffragists in San Francisco. The convention nominated Belva Ann Bennett
Lockwood of Washington DC for president.
1921: On this day, KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
started one of the first daily radio newscasts in the country. The broadcast came from the
city desk of "The Pittsburgh Post".
1953: Jimmy Stewart debuted in "The Six Shooter"
on NBC.this He played Britt Ponset on the radio western.
1957: Jan Sibelius died at his home on a little island on
the Finnish coast. Although he had produced seven symphonies and numerous other orchestral
works, Sibelius had composed virtually nothing for the last 33 years of his life.
1958: Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was
seriously wounded at a New York City department store when an apparently deranged black
woman stabbed him in the chest.
1962: Black student James Meredith was blocked from
enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett. (Meredith was
later admitted.)
1963: In a speech to the U-N General Assembly, President
Kennedy proposed a joint US-Soviet expedition to the moon.
1966: Britain's Queen Elizabeth launched the Cunard liner
QE II, now the only remaining ocean liner on the formerly thriving trans-Atlantic route.
1969: "Sugar, Sugar", by the the Archies, hit
number one in "Billboard." The Archies stayed at the top for four weeks.
1972: The comedy-drama series M*A*S*H premiered on CBS-TV.
1973: In their so-called "battle of the sexes,"
tennis star Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, at the
Houston Astrodome. Howard Cosell was the announcer.
1973: Singer, Jim Croce, his lead guitarist, Maury
Muehleisen and four others died when their plane crashed into a tree while taking off for
a concert in Sherman, Texas.
1976: NASA publicly unveiled the space shuttle
"Enterprise" at ceremonies in Palmdale, California.
1977: The first wave of Southeast Asian "boat
people" arrived in San Francisco under a new US resettlement program.
1979: Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the self-styled head of the
Central African Empire, was overthrown in a French-supported coup while on a visit to
Libya.
1980: Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza was
assassinated in Paraguay.
1982: President Ronald Reagan announced the United States,
France and Italy had agreed to send peacekeeping forces back to Beirut to help Lebanon
maintain order following the massacre of Palestinian refugees.
1983: After a week of negotiations, President Reagan and
congressional leaders reached a compromise authorizing the 1,200 U.S. Marines in Lebanon
to remain on their peacekeeping mission for 18 more months.
1984: Progressive Conservative leader Brian Mulroney took
office as Canada's 18th prime minister, succeeding John N. Turner of the Liberal Party.
1984: A suicide car bomber attacked the US Embassy annex
in north Beirut, killing twelve people.
1984: "The Cosby Show" premiered on NBC.
1986: Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet
Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze reported progress after talks in Washington on
preparations for a second summit between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev.
1987: Pope John Paul the Second concluded an eleven-day
visit to North America as he celebrated Mass for thousands of Indians at Fort Simpson in
Canada's Northwest Territories.
1988: U.S. swimmer Greg Louganis took the gold medal in
three-meter springboard diving at the Seoul Olympics. He'd hit his head on the springboard
during preliminary competition.
1988: The 43rd General Assembly opened at the United
Nations.
1989: Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev pulled off a
major shake-up of the Soviet Communist Party, dropping three Politburo members in a
dramatic consolidation of power.
1989: F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as president of South
Africa.
1990: Demanding equal time, Iraq asked US networks to
broadcast a message by President Saddam Hussein in response to President Bush's videotaped
address to the Iraqi people.
1991: U.N. weapons inspectors left Bahrain for Iraq to
renew their search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
1991: On Capitol Hill, Senate hearings on the nomination
of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court concluded.
1992: French voters narrowly approved the Maastricht
Treaty on European union.
1992: The space shuttle "Endeavour" landed at
the Kennedy Space Center.
1992: Leanza Cornett of Florida was crowned "Miss
America" in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1993: QVC Network Incorporated proposed a $9.5 billion
stock and cash merger with Paramount Communications Incorporated; however, Viacom
eventually won the battle to acquire Paramount.
1994: Space shuttle Discovery and its six astronauts
landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California after an 11-day mission.
1995: In a move that stunned Wall Street, AT&T Corp.
announced it was splitting into three companies.
1995: Bosnian Serb rebels pulled back enough heavy weapons
from around Sarajevo to keep NATO airstrikes at bay.
1995: The House voted to drop the national speed limit and
let states decide how fast people should drive.
1996: President Clinton announced his signing of a bill
outlawing homosexual marriages, but said it should not be used as an excuse for
discrimination, violence or intimidation against gays and lesbians. (The actual signing
came a little after midnight.)
1997: President Clinton's attorneys insisted no laws were
broken as it ws disclosed that Attorney General Janet Reno had taken a first step toward
seeking a special prosecutor to investigate the president's 1996 fund-raising activities.
1998: After two-thousand-632 consecutive games, Cal Ripken
of the Baltimore Orioles sat out a game against the New York Yankees, ending a 16-year
run.
1998: Muriel Humphrey Brown, widow of Vice President
Hubert Humphrey and his brief successor in the US Senate, died in Minneapolis at age 86.
1999: Lawrence Russell Brewer became the second white
supremacist to be convicted in the dragging death of James Byrd Junior in Jasper, Texas.
(Brewer was later sentenced to death.)
1999: Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the last Soviet leader,
Mikhail Gorbachev, died after a battle with leukemia; she was 67.
1999: Heavily armed international peacekeepers landed in East Timor, clearing the way for the rest of a UN-approved force charged with restoring order.
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