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Children's Books Month Children's Eye Health and Safety Month National Childhood Injury Prevention Month National School Success Month National Sickle Cell Month National Youth Pastors Appreciation Month Southern Gospel Music Month |
National Ask a Question Day - On this, the birthday of Barbara Wllters, ask any question you want. Barbara Walters, famous for her on-air interviews, was born in 1931 near Boston, Massachusetts. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
National One Hit Wonder Day - This day day honors all recording artists who had a single hit. Sponsor: One Shot Magazine.
New Horizons Day - In 1513, the Spanish explorer Balboa became the first European to look upon the Pacific Ocean.
Born on this Day
1644: Ole RÌmer, Danish astronomer who proved that speed of light is
finite
1657: Imre Thîkîly, Hungarian patriot
1725: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile.
1847: Vinnie Ream, who sculpted President Abraham Lincoln from life
shortly before he was slain.
1897: Novelist William Faulkner in New Albany, Mississippi. His books
were mostly set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. His works include The Sound and The
Fury and Intruder in the Dust
1905: Sports columnist Walter "Red" Smith
1905: American painter Mark Rothko
1906: Soviet composer Dimitri Shostakovich. He wrote 15 symphonies
1918: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Phil Rizzuto
1919: Alabama governor George Wallace.
1927: Conductor Sir Colin Davies
1931: ABC News correspondent Barbara Walters
1932: Glenn Gould, concert pianist best known for his Bach
interpretations
1933: Country singer Ian Tyson (Ian and Sylvia)
1934: Country singer Royce Kendall (The Kendalls)
1939: Rhythm-and-blues singer Jesse Russell (The Persuasions)
1943: Actor Robert Walden
1944: Actor-producer Michael Douglas
1947: Model Cheryl Tiegs
1949: Actor-director Anson Williams
1949: Actress Mimi Kennedy
1952: Actor Christopher Reeve
1952: Actor Mark Hamill
1952: Actor Colin Friels
1958: Actor Michael Madsen
1961: Actress Heather Locklear
1965: Basketball player Scottie Pippen
1968: Actor Will Smith
1969: Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones
1973: Actress Bridgette Wilson
0813: Death of al-Amin ibn Harun al-Rashid
1066: Saxon King Harold defeated the Norwegians at the
Battle of Stamford Bridge.
1267: England recognizes Llywelyn and his heirs as Kings
of Wales, and recognizes the borders of their territories
1392: Death of St. Sergius of Radonezh
1396: The last great Christian crusade, led jointly by
John the Fearless of Nevers and King Sigismund of Hungary, ends in disaster at the hands
of Sultan Bajazet I’s Ottoman army at Nicopolis. See Today's History Focus
1493: Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain,
with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1506: Death of Philip I "the Fair," King of
Spain
1513: Spanish explorer Vasco Balboa crossed the Isthmus of
Panama and became the first known European to see the Pacific Ocean.
1555: Peace of Augsburg: Lutheranisim recognized in
Germany
1598: In Sweden, King Sigismund is defeated at Stangebro
by his Uncle Charles.
1690: The first American newspaper, called "Public
Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestic," appeared in Boston. Issuing form the London
Coffee House, it was a four-fold sheet but with only three pages of print and no
advertisements. Harris promised more issues if there were a "glut of
occurrences." Harris' journalistic endeavors were brought to an end because his
publication made too many injudicious remarks against Massachusetts Governor Simon
Bradstreet.
1775: American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was
captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal.
1789: The first United States Congress adopted 12
amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the
amendments became the Bill of Rights.)
1804: On this election day in American voters cast
separate votes for presidential and vice-presidential candidates. Previously, the
runner-up in the presidential race was named vice-president.
1818: The first blood transfusion using human blood
(instead of animal blood) was done in London at Guy's Hospital.
1846: American General Zachary Taylor’s forces
capture Monterrey, Mexico.
1849: Johann Strauss the Elder died after catching scarlet
fever from the daughter of his live-in lover. She immediately moved out and fled,
apparently worried that she might be blamed for his death. Johann Strauss the Younger took
over the family dance band business.
1865: The National Bank of Concord, Massachusetts, was
robbed of $310,000, the first significant bank robbery in American history. Langdon W.
Moore was said to have perpetrated it.
1890: Congress establishes Yosemite National Park.
1890: Mormon president Wilford Woodruff issued a Manifesto
formally renouncing the practice of polygamy.
1890: Nadia von Meck wrote Tchaikovsky that she could no
longer afford to send him the checks that he was living on.
1909: The first National Aeronautic Show opens at Madison
Square Garden.
1915: An allied offensive is launched in France against
the German Army.
1918: Brazil declares war on Austria.
1919: President Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo,
Colorado, during a national speaking tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles.
1933: The public is shown the Shroud of Turin for the
first time in 400 years. See Today's History
Focus
1937: German Chancellor Adolf Hitler meets with Italian
Premier Benito Mussolini in Munich.
1938: President Franklin Roosevelt urges negotiations
between Hitler and Czech President Benes over the Sudetenland.
1942: The War Labor Board orders equal pay for women in
the United States.
1943: The Red Army retakes Smolensk from the Germans who
are retreating to the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union.
1954: François Duvalier ("Papa Doc") was
elected president of Haiti.
1954: Elvis Presley's second single, "Good Rockin'
Tonight," was released. That night, Presley made what would be his final appearance
on the Grand Ole Opry -- after which he was advised to go back to truck
driving.
1957: With 300 US Army troops standing guard, nine black
children forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of
unruly white crowds were escorted to class.
1959: President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev
begin Camp David talks.
1962: John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for
literature.
1962 Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson in the first
round to become the new world heavyweight champion
1965: Muhamnmad Ali defeated Sonny Liston one minute into
the rematch, but ther World Boxing Association did not recognizxe Ali as champion because
of his political views.
1974: Scientists warn that continued use of aerosol sprays
will cause ozone depletion, which will lead to increased risk of skin cancer and global
weather changes. This remains a widespred belief but it is still an unproved theory.
1978: 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest
Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collided over San Diego.
1979: The musical "Evita" opened on Broadway.
1980, Led Zeppelin drummer John "Bonzo" Bonham
died from an alcohol overdose. He was 33. His death precipitated the break-up of Led
Zeppelin.
1981: Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female
justice on the US Supreme Court.
1986: Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet
Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze met again in New York to discuss the cases of
Nicholas Daniloff and Gennadiy Zakharov, who were accused of spying in the Soviet Union
and the United States, respectively.
1987: The Senate unanimously approved the nomination of
Judge William S. Sessions to be the new director of the FBI.
1988: Republican George Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis
clashed over deficits, drugs and the Pledge of Allegiance in their first presidential
debate.
1988: Former "first brother" Billy Carter died
in Plains, Georgia, at age 51.
1988: Florence Griffith Joyner won the women's 100-meter
dash at the Seoul Olympics.
1990: The UN Security Council voted 14-1 to impose an air
embargo against Iraq. (Cuba cast the lone dissenting vote.)
1990: In a videotaped message to Americans, Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein warned that if President Bush launched a war against his country,
"it would not be up to him to end it."
1991: The U.N. Security Council unanimously ordered a
worldwide arms embargo against Yugoslavia and all its warring factions.
1991: Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie died in Lyon, France,
at age 77.
1991: A national commission faulted the government for a
lack of leadership in the fight against AIDS.
1992: A judge in Orlando, Florida, ruled in favor of
Gregory Kingsley, a 12-year-old boy seeking a "divorce" from his biological
parents.
1992: The Mars Observer blasted off on a $980 million
mission to the Red Planet (the probe disappeared just before entering Martian orbit in
August 1993).
1993: Three US soldiers in Somalia were killed when their
helicopter was downed by a rocket-propelled grenade.
1995: Ross Perot announced he would form a new
Independence Party that would field its own White House candidate and would try to be the
swing vote in congressional races.
1996: Stone-throwing protests by thousands of Palestinians
angered by Israel's decision to open an archaeological tunnel near Jerusalem's Al Aqsa
Mosque compound led to battles with Israeli troops in which seven people died.
1997: President Clinton pulled open the door of Central
High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as he welcomed nine blacks who'd faced hate-filled
mobs 40 years earlier.
1997: Sportscaster Marv Albert ended his trial in
Arlington, Virginia, by pleading guilty to assault and battery charges; within hours, NBC
fired him.
1997: The NBC prime-time drama "E-R" did its
season premiere live for the Eastern United States, then repeated the performance live for
the West Coast.
1997: The FBI released more of its secret files on John
Lennon's anti-war activities. The files had been sought by University of California
professor Jon Wiener.
1998: Hurricane "Georges" raked the Florida Keys
with sheets of rain and 105 mile-an-hour winds, but spared Florida the kind of devastation
seen across the Caribbean.
1998: Mark McGwire hit his 66th home run, just 45 minutes
after Sammy Sosa hit his 66th homer of the season.
1999: Vice President Al Gore and former Senator Bill
Bradley squared off in back-to-back speeches to the Democratic National Committee as each
sought support for his 2000 presidential campaign.
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