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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 |
Bullwinkle's Birthday - The Bullwinkle and Rocky Show premiered on this day in 1961.
Buy Nothing Day - This day provides a 24-hour moratorium on consumer spending and buyological urges.
Chapped Lips Day - The record for the world's longest kiss was set this day in 1984. The kiss lasted for 17 days and 10.5 hours. Sponsor: Open Horizons.
Miss Piggy Day - On the birthday of Jim Hensen, celebrate all his creations -- Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, and Gonzo. Jim Hensen was born this day in 1936 in Greenville, Mississippi. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
National Bluebird of Happiness Day - Sing out about the joys of life. Sponsor: Tom Danaher.
National Good Neighbor Day - Do something good for your neighbor today. Celebrated on the fourth Sunday in September. Sponsor: Good Neighbor Day Foundation.
Born on this Day
1717: Novelist Horace Walpole
1755: John Marshall, fourth chief justice of the United States and U.S.
secretary of state
1870: French chemist Georges Claude, inventor of the neon lamp
1894: E. Franklin Frazier, first African-American president of the
American Sociological Society
1896: Author F. Scott Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota. He wrote about
the "Jazz Age" between World War I and World War II, and is best known for The
Great Gatsby.
1911: Konstantin Chernenko, president of the Soviet Union 1984-1985
1921: ABC sportscaster Jim McKay
1924: Actress Sheila MacRae
1931: Actor-singer Anthony Newley
1936: Jim Hensen, puppeteer who created the "Muppets" in 1954
and television's "Sesame Street"
1940: Singer Barbara Allbut (The Angels)
1942: Singer Phyliss "Jiggs" Allbut (The Angels)
1942: Singer-musician Linda McCartney
1942: Singer Gerry Marsden (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
1948: Actor Phil Hartman
1948: Actor Gordon Clapp ("NYPD Blue")
1952: U-S Representative Joseph Kennedy the Second (Democrat,
Massachusetts)
1958: Actor Kevin Sorbo ("Hercules: Legendary Journeys")
1962: Rhythm-and-blues singer Cedric Dent (Take 6)
1971: Singer-musician Marty Cintron (No Mercy)
0366: Death of Pope Liberius 366
0768: Death of Pepin II "the Short," See Today's History Focus
0784: Second Council of Nice begins
1066: Vikings enter York, England
1143: Death of Pope Innocent II
1180: Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor, dies; Alexius
II Comnenus becomes Emperor of Byzantium See
Today's History Focus
1230: Ferdinand III, King of Castile, accepts Crown of
Leon
1332: Coronation of John Baliol as King of Scotland
1400: King Henry IV of England invades Wales against Glyn
Dwr
1493: Columbus leaves on his second voyage to the New
World
1541: Death of Theophrastus Paracelcus
1657: 1st American autopsy & coroner's jury verdict
recorded, Maryland
1788: After having been dissolved, the French Parliament
of Paris reassembles in triumph.:1789: Congress creates the Post Office.
1789: Congress passed the First Judiciary Act, which
provided for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court.
1862: President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of
habeas corpus against anyone suspected of being a Southern sympathizer.
1869: Thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall
Street panic after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold
market.
1904: Sixty-two die and 120 injured in head-on train
collision in Tennessee
1914: In the Alsace-Lorraine area between France and Germany, the German Army captures St.
Mihiel.
1915: Bulgaria mobilizes troops on the Serbian border.
1929: Lieutenant James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated
NY-2 Biplane over Mitchel Field in New York in the first all-instrument flight
(demonstrating the first "blind" takeoff and landing).
1947: The Congressional Committee on Un-American
Activities met to question the German-born Hanns Eisler. He said he had briefly been a
party member in 1926 but dropped out. That pretty much finished Eisler's career in America
and he went back to what by then was East Germany.
1947: The World Women's Party meets for the first time
since World War II.
1948: Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio
propagandist "Axis Sally," pleaded innocent in Washington DC to charges of
treason. (Gillars ended up serving 12 years in prison.)
1955: President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while
on vacation in Denver.
1956: First transatlantic telephone cable system begins
operation.
1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends federal troops
into Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine black students entering its newly integrated
high school.
1957: The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at
Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-to-0.
1960: The USS "Enterprise," the first
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Virginia.
1962: The University of Mississippi agrees to admit James
Meredith as the first black university student, sparking more rioting.
1970: The Soviet Luna 16 lands, completing the first
unmanned round trip to the moon.
1976: Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was sentenced to
seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. (She was released after 22
months after receiving clemency from President Carter.)
1986: Congress adopted the rose as the national flower.
1986: The U.S. House of Representatives approved a budget
package that even its supporters admitted relied on accounting gimmicks to help meet the
government's self-imposed deficit limit in fiscal 1987.
1987: President Reagan rebuffed congressional calls to
limit US forces in the Persian Gulf, and defended the recent US attack on an Iranian
mine-laying vessel.
1988: Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won the men's
100-meter dash at the Seoul Summer Olympics -- but he was disqualified three days later
for using anabolic steroids.
1988: Members of the eastern Massachusetts Episcopal
diocese elected Barbara C. Harris the first female bishop in the church's history.
1990: The Supreme Soviet voted to give preliminary
approval to a plan for switching the Soviet Union to a free-market economy.
1990: South African President F.W. de Klerk met at the
White House with President Bush.
1991: Kidnappers in Lebanon freed British hostage Jack
Mann after holding him captive for more than two years.
1991: Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known
as "Dr. Seuss," died in La Jolla, California, at age 87.
1992: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley announced he would not
run for another term.
1992: Acting Navy Secretary Sean O'Keefe stripped three
admirals of their jobs for failing to investigate aggressively the "Tailhook"
sex abuse scandal.
1992: Democrat Bill Clinton promised to press for a
national health-care system for all Americans; the Bush campaign countered that the plan
would be too expensive for average Americans.
1993: Raymond Leppard and Christopher Keene arrived to the
rescue in New York. The New York Philharmonic hired the two conductors to handle concerts
which were to have been conducted by Erich Leinsdorf.
1993: In an address at the United Nations, Nelson Mandela
asked the world community to lift economic sanctions against South Africa, saying huge
foreign investments were needed to prevent unrest and build a multiracial democracy.
1993: Sihanouk is reinstalled as king of Cambodia.
1995: Israel and the PLO agreed to sign a pact at the
White House ending nearly three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities.
1995: A 16-year-old boy in Cuers, France, killed 13 people
before turning a gun on himself.
1996: The United States, represented by President Clinton,
and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and
development of nuclear weapons.
1997: President Clinton urged the annual convention of the
AFL-CIO not to try to punish Democratic lawmakers who stood with him on his request for
stronger authority to negotiate new free-trade treaties.
1997: Garth Brooks ws named best entertainer by Country
Music Association.
1999: Oregon teen-ager Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents
and gunned down two classmates at school, abandoned an insanity defense and pleaded guilty
to murder. (He was later sentenced to 112 years without parole.)
1999: A jury acquitted former Italian Premier Giulio
Andreotti of the 1979 killing of a journalist.
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