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Celebrate Today
Eyebrow Day - Celebrate the birthday of Groucho Marx. Perhaps you can trim your
eyebrows. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
Feast of the Guardian Angels - Guardian angels watch over the children and those who are
children of God.
Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday - This Indian National Holiday celebrates the birthday of the
man who liberated India. He was born in 1869.
Name Your Car Day - Have you picked out a name for your car? Sponsor: KSDK-TV, Saint
Louis, MO.
Snoopy's and Charlie Brown's Birthday - The "Peanuts" comic strip first appeared
on this day in 1950.
World Farm Animals Day - Fight against abuse and ill treatment of animals raised for food.
Sponsor: Farm Animal Reform Movement.
1452: England's King Richard III. The 12th of 13 children, he married
the wealthy widow of the Prince of Wales and then imprisoned his mother-in-law for life.
1800: Nat Turner, a black slave and leader of the only effective and
sustained U.S. slave revolt. See Today's History
Focus
1847: German statesman Paul von Hindenburg
1851: French World War I military commander Ferdinand Foch
1847: Paul von Hindenburg, German Field Marshall during World War I
whose brilliant victories on the Eastern Front promoted him to become the second president
of the Weimar Republic
1869: Political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi in Porbandar,
India.
1871: Cordell Hull, Secretary of State for President Franklin Roosevelt
who promoted cooperation with the Soviet Union against Adolf Hitler.
1879: American poet Wallace Stevens
1890: Comedian Groucho Marx in New York. He and his brothers Chico,
Harpo, and Zeppo, entertained millions through broadway shows and films. He later went on
to host the television quiz show "You Bet Your Life"
1895: Ruth Cheney Streeter, the first director of the U.S. Marine Corps
Women's Reserve, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
1898: Actor-comedian Bud Abbott. He and Lou Costello made many comedy
movies before splitting up in 1957. One of their funniest routines was "Who's on
First," from their first film "One Night in the Tropics."
19??: Greg Sparks (Greg & Rebecca Sparks)
19??: Claude V. McKnight (Take 6)
1904: Novelist Graham Greene
1927: Country singer-musician Leon Rausch (Bob Wills and the Texas
Playboys)
1928: Actor George "Spanky" McFarland
1929: Actor Moses Gunn ("Shaft" and "The Great White
Hope")
1932: Former Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills
1938: Movie critic Rex Reed
1945: Singer-songwriter Don McLean
1946: Cajun/country singer Jo-el Sonnier
1948: Actor Avery Brooks
1948: Country singer Chris LeDoux
1948: Designer Donna Karan
1950: Rock musician Mike Rutherford (Genesis, Mike & the Mechanics)
1951: Singer-actor Sting (Gordon Summer)
1955: Rock singer Phil Oakley (The Human League)
1958: Rhythm-and-blues singer Freddie Jackson
1967:Rock musician Bud Graugh (Sublime)
1970: Rhythm-and-blues singer Dion Allen (Az Yet)
1971: Singer Tiffany
1973: Rhythm-and-blues singer LaTocha Scott (Xscape)
0534: Death of Athalaric, King of the Ostrogothics
1187: Fall of Jerusalem to al-Malik en-Nasir Salah-ud-Din
Yusuf. The Christian crusaders had occupied Jerusalem for 88-years.
1263: At Largs, King Alexander III of Scotland repels an
amphibious invasion by King Haakon IV of Norway.
1326: Edward II, King of England, flees London, his wife
and Barons.
1491: Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of
Castile-Aragon, lay siege to the Moors of Granada, and found Santa Fe, Spain
1501: Catherine of Aragon arrives in Wales to marry
Arthur, Prince of Wales
1535: Having landed in Quebec a month ago, Jacques Cartier
reaches a town which he names Montreal.
1608: Hans Lippershey petitions the States General of the
Netherlands for a patent on his invention of the Telescope
1649: The Parliament of England names this a Thanksgiving
Day, in celebration of the Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland
1780: British spy Major John Andre was convicted in
connection with Benedict Arnold's treason and was hanged in Tappan, N.Y.
1835: The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place
as American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River.
1836: Charles Darwin returned from his voyage on the HMS
Beagle to the Pacific. It would be 23 years before he publishedOrigin of Species.
1849: 24-year-old Johann Strauss the Younger took over his
father's orchestra, just one week after his death. The musicians weren't too happy about
it, but Junior told them he needed to keep the band going to support his siblings.
1862: An Army under Union General Joseph Hooker arrives in
Bridgeport, Alabama to support the Union forces at Chattanooga.
1866: The tin can opened with a key was patented by J.
Ostyerhondt of New York City.
1870: The papal states vote in favor of union with Italy.
The Capital is moved from Florence to Rome.
1871: Morman leader Brigham Young, 70, is arrested for
polygamy. He was later convicted, but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction.
1889: The first international Conference of American
States was convened in Washington, D.C., with representatives from most Latin America
countries present.
1909: Orville Wright sets an altitude record, flying at
1,600 feet. This exceeded Hubert Latham's previous record of 508 feet.
1913: Not one, but two compositions by Delius were
premiered in Leipzig "Summit Night on the River" and "On Hearing the First
Cuckoo in Spring."
1913: Two other British composers put new works before
their public at a festival in Leeds. George Butterworth's "A Shropshire Lad" was
performed, and Elgar conducted his own symphonic poem "Falstaff."
1919: President Wilson suffered a stroke that left him
partially paralyzed.
1937: Warner Bros. released "Love Is on the Air"
which featured the motion picture debut of then 26-year-old actor Ronald Reagan.
1940: The HMS Empress, carrying child refugees from
Britain to Canada, was sunk during World War II.
1941: German armies began Operation Typhoon - an all-out
drive against Moscow.
1944: Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw
Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people were killed.
1946: Scientists announce findings that smoking can cause
cancer.
1950: The "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M.
Schulz was published for the first time.
1955: Alfred Hitchcock's TV show began with its portly
profile of the famous director and the theme music of Gopunod's "Funeral March for a
Marionette." The show ran for 10 years.
Actor Rock Hudson died on this day in 1985.
1958: The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa
proclaimed its independence.
1959: "The Twilight Zone" made its debut on CBS
television. The program ran for 5 seasons for 154 installments, with a one-year hiatus
between the third and fourth seasons.
1964: Scientists announce findings that smoking can cause
cancer.
1967: Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American
Supreme Court justice, is sworn in. Marshall had previously been the solicitor general,
the head of the legal staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP), and a leading American civil rights lawyer.
1968: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas withdrew his
nomination as chief justice. Six months later, he resigned from the court, admitting he
had made a financial deal with the Louis Wolfson Foundation.
1974: China, in a statement at the United Nations,
declared they favored Arabs using oil as a weapon.
1975: President Ford welcomed Japan's Emperor Hirohito to
the United States.
1985: Actor Rock Hudson died at his home in Beverly Hills,
California, at age 59 after a battle with AIDS.
1985: The Senate joined the House in voting to override
President Reagan's veto of stiff economic sanctions against South Africa.
1986: The Senate joined the House in voting to override
President Reagan's veto of stiff economic sanctions against South Africa.
1987: On Capitol Hill, more Democratic senators lined up
against Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork as President Reagan continued to lobby
undecided lawmakers on behalf of his candidate for the high court.
1988: The Summer Olympic Games concluded in Seoul, South
Korea, with the Soviet Union coming in first in the medals count, East Germany second, and
the United States, third.
1988: Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered free elections.
1989: Nearly 10,000 people marched through Leipzig, East
Germany, demanding legalization of opposition groups and adoption of democratic reforms in
the country's largest protest since 1953.
1990: The Senate voted 90-to-nine to confirm the
nomination of Judge David H. Souter to the Supreme Court.
1990: President Bush, trying to muster acceptance for a
$500 billion package of tax increases and spending cuts, asked Americans in a televised
address to support the plan.
1991: Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
asked the Organization of American States in Washington to send a delegation to his
homeland to demand that the newly installed military junta surrender power immediately.
1992: The campaigns of President Bush and Democrat Bill
Clinton agreed to hold three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate.
1993: Hundreds of opponents of Russian President Boris
Yeltsin battled police in Moscow and set up burning barricades in the biggest clash of
Russia's 12-day-old political crisis.
1994: U.S. soldiers in Haiti detained several leaders of
the country's pro-army militias as part of an effort to dismantle armed opposition to
restoration of elected rule.
1995: O.J. Simpson's jurors stunned the courtroom and the
nation by reaching verdicts in the sensational eight-month murder trial in less than four
hours. (The decision was kept secret until the next day.)
1996: Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and
fined $200 after pleading no contest to perjury for denying at OJ Simpson's criminal trial
that he had used a certain racial slur in the past decade.
1996:An AeroPeru Boeing 757 crashed into the Pacific
Ocean, killing all 61 passengers and nine crew members on board.
1997: President Clinton proposed sending inspectors to
farms around the world to ensure that foreign-grown fruits and vegetables are safe for
American consumers. The president also said he would ask Congress to empower the Food and
Drug Administration to ban produce from countries whose safety precautions do not meet
American standards.
1998: Hollywood's original singing cowboy and former owner
of the Anaheim Angels, Gene Autry, died at age 91.
1998: The House released 4,600 pages of evidence that
meticulously detailed President Clinton's efforts to contain the Monica Lewinsky scandal
as it erupted.
1999: The Brooklyn Museum of Art opened its much-hyped
"Sensation" exhibit which had drawn controversy because of New York City Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani's move to cut off city funding to the museum. (Giuliani objected to some
of the artwork, which included a portrait of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant
dung.)
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