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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 |
Ancestor Appreciation Day - This is the day to learn about your family tree and all of its branches. Sponsor: A.A.D. Association.
Saint Vincent de Paul Feast Day - Co-founder of the Sisters of Charity, the patron saint of charitable organizations and charitable giving.
Born on this Day
1601: Louis XIII, King of France
1722: Patriot Samuel Adams. He helped to organize the Boston Tea Party See Today's History Focus
1792: George Cruikshank, illustrator who did the drawings that
accompanied many of Charles Dickens' early works such as Oliver Twist and A Christmas
Carol.
1840: Political cartoonist Thomas Nast
1840: Alfred T. Mahan, navy admiral who wrote The Influence of Seapower
on History and other books that encouraged world leaders to build larger navies.
1862: Louis Botha, commander-in-chief of the Boar Army against the
British and first president of South Africa
1885: Composer Joseph McCarthy ("You Made Me Love You")
1898: Composer Vincent Youmans ("Tea for Two")
19??: Milinda Martin (Martins)
1917: American author Louis Auchincloss
1919: Former Illinois Senator Charles Percy
1920: Actress Jayne Meadows (Born in China, the daughter of missionary
parents.) (City Slickers, Murder by Numbers, Lady in the Lake, The Steve Allen Comedy
Hour, Medical Center) [Some sources say 1926]
1920: Actor William Conrad (Cannon, Jake and the Fatman, Sorry, Wrong
Number, Killers, Naked Jungle; TV narrator: The Bullwinkle Show; radio: Marshall Dillon in
Gunsmoke)
1922: Movie director Arthur Penn
1929: Actress Sada Thompson
1933: Actress Kathleen Nolan (The Real McCoys, Jamie, Broadside)
1934: Actor Wilford Brimley (Cocoon, The Natural, Tender Mercies, The
Firm, Absence of Malice, The China Syndrome, The Electric Horseman, Our House)
1934: Author Barbara Howar
1934: Actor Greg Morris (Mission: Impossible, Vegas, The Doomsday
Flight)
1934: Sportscaster Dick Schaap
1943: Singer-musician Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1947: Actress Liz Torres
1951: Singer Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday)
1958: Singer Shaun Cassidy
1970: Singer Mark Calderon (Color Me Badd)
1972: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow
1975: Nikki Hassman (Avalon)
1982: Rapper Lil' Wayne
1009: Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem destroyed
by Caliph al-Hakim
1066: William of Normandy, "the Bastard," set
sail from France
1130: Roger II appointed King of Sicily
1323: Death of St. Elezear
1529: The troops of Suleiman "The Lawgiver" lay
siege to Vienna
1540: The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) recognized by the
Pope
1669: The island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea falls
to the Ottoman Turks after a 21-year siege.
1674: Thomas Traherne, English mystical writer, poet, dies
1779: John Adams was named to negotiate the Revolutionary
War's peace terms with Britain.
1787: Constitution submitted to the states for
ratification.
1791: Jews in France are granted French citizenship.
1821: General Iturbide declared himself Emperor Augustín
of Mexico.
1825: In England, George Stephenson operated the first
locomotive to pull a passenger train.
1827: Franz Schubert, let a friend hear his latest three
sonatas. They were to be his last.
1854: The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean
liner occurred when the steamship "Arctic" sank with 300 people aboard.
1864: Confederate guerrilla Bloody Bill Anderson and his
henchmen, including a teenage Jesse James, massacre 20 unarmed Union soldiers at
Centralia, Mo.
1869: Wild Bill Hickok, sheriff of Hays City, Kan., shoots
down Samuel Strawhim, a drunken teamster causing trouble.
1892: Book matches were patentedby Joshua Pusey of Lima,
Pennsylvania.
1916: Constance of Greece declares war on Bulgaria.
1918: President Woodrow Wilson opens his fourth Liberty
Loan campaign to support men and machines for World War I.
1920: Eight Chicago White Sox players are charged with
fixing the 1919 World Series.
1921: "I have made a discovery that will ensure the
superiority of German music for the next 100 years." That's what Arnold Schoenberg
said when he developed his 12-tone method of composition. Schoenberg started his first
12-tone work, the Wind Serenade on this day.
1922: Scientists at the Naval Aircraftt Radio Laboratory
near Washington, D.C., demonstrated that if a ship passed through a radio wave being
broadcast between two stations, that ship could be detected, the essentials of radar.
1928: The United States said it was recognizing the
Nationalist Chinese government.
1938: Queen Elizabth launched the first Queen Elizabeth
liner.
1939: After 19 days of heavy air raids and artillery
bombardment, the Polish defenders of Warsaw surrendered to the Germans.
1942: Glenn Miller and his Orchestra performed together
for the last time, at the Central Theater in Passaic, New Jersey, prior to Miller's entry
into the Army.
1942: Australian forces defeat the Japanese on New Guinea
in the South Pacific.
1944: Thousands of British troops are killed as German
forces rebuff their massive effort to capture the Arnhem Bridge across the Rhine River in
Holland.
1950: U.S. Army and Marine troops liberate Seoul, South
Korea.
1954: "Tonight!" hosted by Steve Allen, made its
debut on NBC TV.
1956 The U.S. Air Force Bell X-2, the world's fastest and
highest-flying plane, crashes, killing the test pilot.
1959: A typhoon battered the main Japanese island of
Honshu, killing nearly five-thousand people.
1964: The Warren Commission issued a report concluding
that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy.
1979: Congress gave final approval to forming the
Department of Education, the 13th Cabinet agency in US history.
1985: Hurricane "Gloria," having come ashore at
North Carolina with winds of 130 miles-an-hour, proceeded to head up the Atlantic Coast
toward New England.
1986: The Senate joined the House of Representatives in
approving the most sweeping changes in the federal tax code since World War II.
1987: Football fans suffered through their first Sunday
without football since players went on strike. (NFL owners then organized games with
replacement and non-striking players.)
1987: Mud slides in slum areas of Medellin, Colombia,
killed as many as 500 people.
1988: Three days after placing first in the men's
100-meter dash at the Seoul Summer Olympics, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson left for home
in disgrace, stripped of his gold medal by officials who said Johnson had used anabolic
steroids.
1990: The deposed emir of Kuwait delivered an emotional
address to the UN General Assembly in which he denounced the "rape, destruction and
terror" inflicted upon his country by Iraq.
1990: The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the Supreme
Court nomination of David H. Souter.
1991: The PLO legislature voted to back U.S. and
Soviet-sponsored Middle East peace efforts.
1991: President Bush announced in a nationally broadcast
address that he was eliminating all U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons, and called on the
Soviet Union to match the gesture.
1991: The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 7-to-7,
on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1992: Texas billionaire Ross Perot spoke with his
supporters in Dallas on the eve of a meeting with representatives of President Bush and
Democrat Bill Clinton, both of whom were hoping Perot would stay on the campaign
sidelines.
1993: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (Republican, Texas) was
indicted on charges that, as Texas state treasurer, she'd misused state facilities and
employees. (The indictment was dismissed for technical reasons; Hutchison was reindicted,
and later acquitted.)
1993: Retired General James H. Doolittle died in Pebble
Beach, California, at age 96.
1994: More than 350 Republican congressional candidates
signed the "Contract with America," a ten-point platform they pledged to enact
if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
1995: The government unveiled its redesigned $100 bill,
featuring a larger, off-center portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
1995: At the O.J. Simpson trial, the prosecution and
defense presented dueling summations.
1996: In Afghanistan, the Taliban, a band of former
seminary students, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul,
captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.
1997: The space shuttle "Atlantis" blasted off,
docking hours later with the problem-plagued Russian "Mir" station to drop off
American David Wolf and pick up Michael Foale.
1998: St. Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire's record-breaking
season ended with his 69th and 70th homers.
1998: Gerhard Schroeder and his Social Democrats won
national elections in Germany, following 16 years of conservative rule under Chancellor
Helmut Kohl.
1999: Arizona Sen. John McCain officially opened his
campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, the same day former Vice President
Dan Quayle dropped his White House bid.
1999: Tiger Stadium closed in grand fashion after 87 years
as the Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals, 8-2.
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