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Appreciation Month National AIDS Awareness Month National Breast Cancer Awareness Month National Car Care Month National Caramel Month National Communicate With Your Kid Month National Cookie Month National Crime Prevention Month |
Celebrate Today:
Leif Erikson Day - This Norse explorer discovered North America in the year 1000. This
day is celebrated by presidential proclamation.
Mail-Order Business Day - Aaron Montgomery started the first mail-order catalog business
in 1872.
World Post Day - Spotlights the work of the Universal Postal Union. Sponsor: United Postal
Union.
Born on this Day
1859: Alfred Dreyfus, French artillery officer who was falsely accused
of giving French military secrets to foreign powers
1899: Bruce Catton, U.S. historian and journalist, famous for his works
on the Civil War
1890: Aimee Semple McPherson founder of the Foursquare Gospel Church See Today's History Focus
1923: Actor Fyvush Finkel
1941: Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (Republican, Mississippi)
1944: Rock musician (The Who) John Entwistle
1949: Singer Jackson Browne
1951: Actor Robert Wuhl ("Arliss")
1954: Musician James Fearnley (The Pogues)
1955: Actor Scott Bakula
1958: Football player Mike Singletary
1959: Actor Michael Pare
1961: Rock singer-musician (The BoDeans) Kurt Neumann
1964: Country singer Gary Bennett (BR5-49)
1969: Singer P.J. Harvey
1975: Singer-musician Sean Ono Lennon
1978: Actor Randy Spelling ("Sunset Beach")
1981: Actor ("Home Improvement") Zachery Ty Bryan
0028 BC: The Temple of Apollo is dedicate on the Palatine
Hill in Rome.
0272: Death of St. Denis The French martyr who was
beheaded on a hill north of Paris (after that called Montmartre) and supposedly walked to
Notre Dame with his head in his hand.
1000: Leif Ericson lands in North America and discovers
"Vinland" (possibly New England)
1047: Death of Pope Clement II
1187: Saladin prays at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem
1192: Richard I, King of England, begins his return from
the 3rd Crusade
1290: Last of the 16,000 Jews expelled by King Edward I
leave England
1446: Hangul alphabet made official writing system of
Korea
1469: Death of Florentine artist Fra Filippo Lippi. The
teacher of Boticelli, he was known for his madonnas and religious murals.
1470: Henry VI of England restored to the throne.
1562: Death of Fallopius
1586: Agatha Weiss, Anna Dormar, and Christina Mayer
burned for witchcraft in Waldsee, Germany
1635: Religious dissident Roger Williams was banished from
the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1642: First Commencement held at Harvard University
1701: The Collegiate School of Connecticut -- later Yale
University -- was chartered in New Haven.
1760: Austrian and Russian troops enter Berlin and begin
burning structures and looting.
1776: A group of Spanish missionaries settled in
present-day San Francisco.
1779: The first Luddite riots occurred in Manchester.
Luddites opposed the use of machinery to spin thread, previously done by people. Luddite
has continued to be used to indicate those in opposition to technology.
1825: The first Norwegian immigrants to America arrive on
the sloop Restaurationen.
1855: The calliope was patented by Joshua Stoddard of
Worcester, Massachusetts.
1863: Confederate cavalry raiders return to Chattanooga
having attacked Union General William Rosecrans’ supply and communication lines all
around east Tennessee.
1872: The first mail order catalog was delivered this day.
It was
only one page but it worked. It was sent out by Mr. Aaron Montgomery of the famous
Montgomery Ward catalog and department stores.
1888: The public was first admitted to the Washington
Monument.
1891: First, a pan of Dvorak's Requiem. When performed in
an English city, it, quote, "bored Birmingham so desperately that it was unanimously
voted a work of extraordinary depth... which verdict I record with a hollow laugh and
allow the subject to drop by its own portenous weight."
1914: Germans take Antwerp, Belgium, after 12-day siege.
1930: Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across
the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field, New York, to
Glendale, California.
1934: King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated by a
Croatian terrorist during a state visit to France.
1936: The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam
began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests
congressional approval for arming U.S. merchant ships.
1946: The first electric blanket went on
sale. It was sold
in Petersburg, Virginia ($39.50).
1946: The Eugene O'Neill drama "The Iceman
Cometh" opened at the Martin Beck Theater in New York.
1949: Harvard Law School begins admitting women.
1958: Pope Pius the 12th died, nineteen years after he was
elected to the papacy.
1967: Latin American guerrilla leader Ernesto
"Che" Grevara was assassinated while attempting to incite revolution in Bolivia.
His remains were identified in July 1997.
1967: Doc Severinsen replaced Skitch Henderson as the NBC
Tonight Show Orchestra musical director of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
1973: Priscilla Presley, was divorced from Elvis -- in
Santa Monica, CA. Ms. Presley got $1.5 million in cash, $4,200 per month in alimony, half
interest in a $750,000 home plus about 5% interest in two of Elvis' publishing companies.
1975: Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb,
became the first Soviet citizen to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
1975: Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco.
1983: James Watt, facing Senate condemnation for a
racially insensitive remark, resigned as President Reagan's interior secretary.
1984: One day after Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon
Duarte unexpectedly offered to hold peace talks with leftist rebels, a coalition of
guerrillas accepted the proposal.
1985: The hijackers of the "Achille Lauro"
cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.
1985: Yoko Ono dedicated "Strawberry Fields," a
2.5 acre garden memorial to John Lennon in New York City's Central Park.
1986: The U.S. Senate convicted U.S. District Judge Harry
E. Claiborne of "high crimes and misdemeanors," making him the fifth federal
official to be removed from office through impeachment.
1986: Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Phantom of the
Opera" opened in London.
1987: Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork, his rejection
by the Senate a virtual certainty, angrily told reporters he would not ask that his
nomination be withdrawn.
1987: Author, politician and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce
died in Washington at age 84.
1988: Yugoslav President Raif Dizdarevic warned citizens
in a national radio and television address that coitinued nationalist and economic unrest
could lead to a state of emergency.
1989: The official Soviet news agency Tass reported that
an unidentified flying object, complete with a trio of tall aliens, had visited a park in
the city of Voronezh.
1989: The San Francisco Giants won the National League
championship by defeating the Chicago Cubs.
1990: President Bush told a news conference he would be
willing to consider higher income tax rates for the wealthy, but later appeared to back
off that stand.
1991: President Bush declared "total confidence"
in his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, who was accused of sexual
harassment by former aide Anita Hill.
1992: The UN Security Council voted to ban all military
flights over Bosnia-Herzegovina. The 102nd Congress adjourned.
1993: Special US envoy Robert Oakley traveled to Somalia
in an attempt to revive a tentative peace agreement reached by Somali clan leaders.
1994: The United States sent troops and warships to the
Persian Gulf after Saddam Hussein sent tens of thousands of elite troops and hundreds of
tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.
1995: Americans Edward B. Lewis and Eric F. Wiechaus and
German Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard won the Nobel Prize for medicine for studies of how
genes control early embryo development.
1995: Saboteurs pulled 29 spikes from a stretch of
railroad track, causing an Amtrak train to derail in Arizona; one person was killed and
about 100 were injured.
1995: An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 shook the west coast of Mexico, killing 51 people.
1995: Americans Edward B. Lewis and Eric F. Wieschaus and
German Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard won the Nobel Prize for medicine for studies of how
genes control early embryo development.
1996: Vice President Al Gore and Jack Kemp debated in St.
Petersburg, Florida.
1996: Two Americans and a Briton shared the Nobel Prize in
chemistry while three Americans won the physics prize.
1996: In the opening game of the American League
Championship series, 12-year-old Jeffrey Maier turned a probable fly out into a game-tying
home run by reaching over the right-field wall at Yankee Stadium and sweeping the ball
into the stands with his baseball glove (the Yankees won, 5-to-4 in eleven innings).
1997: Hurricane "Pauline" struck Acapulco,
Mexico, killing 150 or more people.
1997: Dario Fo, the unabashed leftist playwright who was
prosecuted by Italy, denounced by Roman Catholic Church leaders and barred from the United
States, won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1998: Ariel Sharon returned to the center of power in
Israel as the country's new foreign minister.
1999: The United Auto Workers and Ford Motor Co. reached a
tentative agreement on a new contract, hours after a handful of workers walked off the job
when a strike deadline passed.
1999: In boxing's first sanctioned battle of the sexes,
Margaret MacGregor defeated Loi Chow by winning all four rounds on all three judges' cards
in a promotion held in Seattle.
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