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 September is: |
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 |
Michaelmas (Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel) - Saint Michael is patron saint of grocers, supermarket workers, paratroopers, security forces, battle, police officers, radiologists, and radiotherapists. If you eat goose on Michaelmas, you will never want for money during the entire next year.
Regular Army Day - The War Department established a regular army on this day in 1789.
Born on this Day
1518: Tintoretto
1547: Spanish poet-novelist Miguel de Cervantes, author of "Don Quixote"
1758: English Admiral Horatio Nelson
1759: English author William Beckford, whose Orientalist tale Vathek was one of the most popular works of the Gothic school of writing.
1810: The English Victorian novelist Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell
1838: American architect Henry Hobson Richardson, a major figure in the 19th century Gothic revivial.
1864: The Spanish philosopher and author Miguel de Unamuno.
19??: Billy Goodwin (NewSong)
1901: Pioneer nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi
1903: Greer Garson. Irish-born actress represented an ideal of courage with her portrayal of a British wartime housewife in Mrs. Miniver (1942). She received an Academy Award for her performance and was nominated for an Oscar a total of seven times throughout her career.
1907: Former singing cowboy and baseball owner Gene Autry
1908: Actress Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver, Sunrise at Campobello, Pride
and Prejudice, Little Women, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Singing Nun)
1912: Movie director Michelangelo Antonioni ("Zabriskie
Point")
1913: Movie director Stanley Kramer ("Guess Who's Coming To
Dinner")
1916: Actor Trevor Howard (Superman: The Movie, Gandhi, Mutiny on the
Bounty, Ryan's Daughter, The Count of Monte Cristo)
1922: Actress Lizabeth Scott
1924: Actor Steve Forrest
1931: Actress Anita Ekberg
1931: James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, corecipient with
Val Logsdon Fitch of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physics for an experiment conducted in 1964
that implied that reversing the direction of time would not precisely reverse the course
of certain reactions of subatomic particles.
1935: Singer Jerry Lee Lewis (Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [1986] Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On, Great Balls of Fire, Breathless; cousin of singer, Mickey Gilley and evangelist, Jimmy Swaggart)
1939: Actor Larry Linville (Doctor Frank Burns in MASH)
1942: Actress Madeline Kahn
1942: Actor Ian McShane
1942: Jazz musician Jean-Luc Ponty
1942: Steve Tesich, U.S. screenwriter and playwright who won an Academy
Award for Breaking Away and also scripted such films as Eyewitness and The World According
to Garp .
1943: Lech Walesa (Nobel Peace prize-winner [1983]: founder of Polish
solidarity)
1944: Television-film composer Mike Post
1948: TV personality Bryant Gumbel
1948: Rock singer-musician Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad)
1948: Rock musician Mike Pinera (Iron Butterfly)
1950: Country singer Alvin Crow
1956: Sebastian Coe, British athlete who won four Olympic medals and set
eight world records in middle-distance running.
1956: Singer Suzzy Roche (The Roches)
1958: Actor-comedian Andrew Clay
1963: Singer-musician Les Claypool
1966: Actress Jill Whelan
1969: Rhythm-and-blues singer Devante Swing (Jodeci)
1970: Actress Emily Lloyd
1970: Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner
0440: Death of St. Cyriacus the Recluse
0855: Death of Lothair I, Holy Roman Emperor
0996: Pope Gregory V driven from the Throne by a revolt
1066: William of Normandy, "the Bastard,"
occupies Hastings
1197: Emperor Henry VI dies in Messina, Sicily.
1227: Excommunication of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor See Today's History Focus
1273: Election of Rudolph I as King of Germany
1322: "Sir John de Mandeville" flees England
1397: Thomas Mowbray created first Duke of Norfolk
1399: Richard II of England is deposed. His cousin, Henry
of Lancaster, declares himself king under the name Henry IV.
1493: Columbus leaves Cadiz, Spain on his second
expedition
1513: Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovers the
Pacific Ocean.
1560: Death of Gustavus I Eriksson, King of Sweden
1582: Death of St. Theresa
1789: The U.S. War Department organized America's first
standing army - 700 troops who would serve for three years.
1803: The first Roman Catholic Church in Boston was
formally dedicated. (Catholics had not been permitted any religious freedom within this
predominantly Puritan colony prior to the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.)
1829: The first regular police force in London was
started. They were called "bobbies" after Robert Peel, the Home Secretary who
began the force. London's reorganized police force became known as Scotland Yard.
1829: There was a meeting of the minds when Paganini met
Goethe.
1850: Mormon leader Brigham Young is named the first
governor of the Utah Territory.
1879: Dissatisfied Ute Indians kill Agent Nathan Meeker
and nine others in the "Meeker Massacre."
1902: Impresario David Belasco opened his first Broadway
theater.
1902: The French novelist and journalist Emile Zola died
in Paris. His novels are the major works of French naturalism.
1916: On this day John D. Rockefeller's wealth made him
the first American billionaire.
1918: Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the
Hindenburg Line during World War One.
1923: Britain began to govern Palestine under a League of
Nations mandate.
1932: A five-day work week is established for General
Motors workers.
1936: In the presidential race between Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Alf Landon, both parties used radio for the first time.
1939: Germany and the Soviet Union reach an agreement on
the division of Poland.
1943: General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal
Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off Malta.
1943: Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf is published in the
United States.
1950 :General Douglas MacArthur officially returns Seoul,
South Korea, to President Syngman Rhee.
1955: The Arthur Miller play "A View From the
Bridge" opened at the Coronet Theatre in New York.
1957: The New York Giants played their last game at the
Polo Grounds, losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9-to-1. (The Giants moved to San
Francisco.)
1960: My Three Sons was welcomed into U.S. homes on
ABC-TV. Fred MacMurray, who was a movie actor, had a difficult time making the adjustment
to the small screen. But adjust he did, and My Three Sons endured so well that CBS bought
the successful hit for somewhere between seven and ten million dollars in 1965.
1963: The second session of Second Vatican Council opened
in Rome.
1970: The New American Bible was published by the St.
Anthony Guild Press. It represented the first English version Roman Catholic Bible to be
translated from the original Biblical Greek and Hebrew languages. (The Rheims-Douai
Version of 1610 had been based on Jerome's Latin Vulgate.)
1976: The 20th century British poet W.H. Auden died
Vienna. His Age of Anxiety was to the 1930s what Eliot's The Waste Land had been to the
1920s.
1978: Pope John Paul the First was found dead in his
Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church. He
had died before midnight durning the night.
1982: Seven people in the Chicago area died after
unwittingly taking Exgra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide.
1985: The Soviet Union released Nicholas Daniloff, an
American journalist confined in Moscow on spying charges.
1986: Designing Women debuted on CBS and ran until 1994.
1987: Henry Ford the Second, longtime chairman of Ford
Motor Company, died in Detroit at age 70.
1988: The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape
Canaveral, Florida, marking America's return to manned space flight following the
Challenger disaster.
1988: Florence Griffith Joyner and Jackie Joyner-Kersee of
the US won their second gold medals of the Seoul Olympics, in the 200-meter and the long
jump, respectively.
1990: In Washington, DC, the National Cathedral
(officially, the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul) was completed after 83 years
of construction. Begun in 1907, the Gothic edifice had been used in its incomplete form
since 1912.
1990: Top leaders of Congress and the Bush administration
began closed-door negotiations in an attempt to reach an eleventh-hour budget agreement.
1991: California Gov. Pete Wilson vetoed a bill outlawing
job discrimination against homosexuals, saying it could have led to unjustified lawsuits.
1992: Magic Johnson, infected with the AIDS virus,
announced he was returning to basketball (however, he scrapped his comeback attempt the
following November).
1992: Brazil's President Fernando Collor de Mello became
the first Latin American leader to be impeached as lawmakers in Brazil voted
overwhelmingly to impeach him.
1993: Bosnia's parliament spurned an international peace
plan, voting overwhelmingly to reject it unless Bosnian Serbs returned land taken by
force.
1993: Roger Bell was the soloist at New York's Avery
Fisher Hall in the world premiere of the first Violin Concerto of Nicholas Maw. Maw is the
British composer who lives in Washington DC and whose "Odyssey" is the longest
symphony ever recorded.
1993: "Grace Under Fire," starring Brett Butler
debuts on ABC-TV
1993: 27th Country Music Association Award: Vince Gill
wins
1995: California Govenor Pete Wilson abandoned his bid for
the 1996 Republican presidential nomination.
1995: The O.J. Simpson trial was sent to the jury.
1995: Three U.S. servicemen were indicted in the rape of a
12-year-old Okinawan girl and handed over to Japanese authorities.
1995: Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead
over 2nd-place
1995: US space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind
Sun
1996: Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3
months after Japan)
1996: The organization that supervised Bosnia's first
post-war elections officially certified the results -- with victories by nationalist
parties and the country's Muslim president, Alija Izetbegovic.
1997: Oklahoma City bombing defendant Terry Nichols went
on trial in the same courtroom in Denver where Timothy McVeigh was convicted and sentenced
to die. (Nichols was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy, but
acquitted of murder and weapons-related counts; he was sentenced to life in prison.)
1998: The Federal Reserve cut the federal funds rate a
quarter-point, to 5.25 percent.
1998: Former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley died at age
80.
1999: The Associated Press reported on the alleged mass
killing of civilians by U.S. soldiers in the early days of the Korean War, beneath a
bridge at a hamlet called No Gun Ri.
1999: Vice President Al Gore abruptly moved his
presidential campaign headquarters from Washington to Nashville to get "out of the
Beltway and into the heartland."
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