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Celebrate Today:
Casimir Pulaski Memorial Day - Celebrated by presidential proclamation. This day honors
the Polish hero of the American Revolution. He was killed on this day in 1779, while
fighting in Savannah, Georgia.
Feast of the Motherhood of God - Because she was the mother of Jesus, Mary is given the
title of the Mother of God by the council of Ephesus in 431 A.D.
Kiss Your Car Day - On the birthday of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. Wash
and wax yor car, then you can kiss it. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
Born on this Day
1759: Clergyman Mason Locke Weems, who invented the story of George
Washington and the cherry tree. See Today's
History Focus
1821: Englishman George Williams, founder of the YMCA.
1844: Food industry pioneer Henry John Heinz.
1884: First lady and author Eleanor Roosevelt.
1910: American journalist Joseph Alsop
1918: Choreographer Jerome Robbins
1932: Singer Dottie (Dorothy) West (Marsh) (Here Comes My Baby, Country
Sunshine, Is this Me?, Would You Hold It Against Me, What are We Doin' in Love)
1937: Actor Ron Leibman.
1943: Country singer Gene Watson.
1948: Singer-musician Daryl Hall.
1950: Rhythm-and-blues musician Andrew Woolfolk (Earth, Wind and Fire)
1950: Director Catlin Adams
1953: Actor David Morse.
1953: Country singer Paulette Carlson
1961: Football player Steve Young
1962: Actress Joan Cusack.
1967: Actor Luke Perry
1968: Actress Jane Krakowski ("Ally McBeal")
1971: Rapper MC Lyte
1975: Singer NeeNa Lee
1985: Actress Michelle Trachtenberg
0961: Death of St. Bruno
1347: Death of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor
1424: Count Jan Zizka, Bohemian military hero, dies of
plague
1511: Pope Julius II forms the "Holy League"
1521: Pope Leo X names King Henry VIII of England
"Defender of the Faith"
1531: The Catholics defeat the Protestants at Kappel
during Switzerland’s second civil war.
1540: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, gives Milan to his
son Philip
1586: Trial of Mary, Queen of Scots
1649: Wexford, Ireland, sacked by Cromwell's troops
1727: George II of England crowned.
1776: The first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought
during the American Revolution. American forces led by General Benedict Arnold suffered
heavy losses, but managed to stall the British.
1779: Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski was killed while
fighting for American independence during the Revolutionary War Battle of Savannah,
Georgia.
1811: The first steam-powered ferryboat, the
"Juliana," was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey.
1830: Chopin's 1st Piano Concerto premiered. Warsaw
audiences heard it first. It was a hit from the first hearing, unlike its successor, which
struck critics as being diffuse and unmemorable.
1862: The Confederate Congress in Richmond passes a draft
law allowing anyone owning 20 or more slaves to be exempt from military service.
1868: Thomas Alva Edison filed papers for his first
invention: an electrical vote recorder to rapidly tabulate floor votes in Congress.
Members of Congress rejected it.
1877: Outlaw Wild Bill Longley, who killed at least a
dozen men, is hanged, but it took two tries; on the first try, the rope slipped and his
knees drug the ground.
1881: Roll film for cameras was patented by D.H. Houston
of Cambria, Wisconsin.
1890: The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded
in Washington DC.
1896: Classical composer Anton Bruckner died in Vienna. A
member of the Romantic school, Bruckner's chorales and symphonies were heavily influenced
by Wagner and Beethoven. He was employed as a cathedral organist at Linz and then from the
1860s he was also a professor at the Vienna Conservatory. Bruckner left his last symphony
unfinished.
1899: South African Boars, settler from the Netherlands,
declare war on Great Britain.
1906: San Francisco school board orders the segregation of
Oriental schoolchildren, inciting Japanese outrage.
1915: Despite international protests, Edith Cavell, an
English nurse in Belgium, is executed by Germans for aiding the escape of Allied
prisoners.
1942: The World War Two Battle of Cape Esperance began in
the Solomons, resulting in an American victory over the Japanese.
1945: Negotiations between Nationalist leader Chiang
Kai-shek and Communist leader Mao Tse-tung break down. Nationalist and Communist troops
are soon engaged in a civil war.
1950: The Federal Communications Commission authorizes the
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) to begin commercial color TV broadcasts.
1958: The lunar probe "Pioneer One" was
launched; it failed to go as far out as planned, fell back to Earth, and burned up in the
atmosphere.
1962: Pope John the 23rd convened the first session of the
Roman Catholic Church's 21st Ecumenical Council, also known as "Vatican Two."
This was the largest gathering of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in history.
1963: Jean Cocteau, who wrote the libretto to Stravinsky's
"Oedipus Rex," died. (French songbird Edith Piaf died the same day.)
1968: "Apollo Seven," the first manned Apollo
mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter
Cunningham aboard.
1975: Live from New York! It's Saturday Night! The
late-night comedy show, "Saturday Night Live", made it's debut this night.
George Carlin was the first guest host. Also in the cast, the wonderful ensemble of Chevy
Chase, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Gilda Radner,
Jane Curtin and the voice of Don Pardo.
1975: William Jefferson Clinton and Hilary Rodham were
married in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Bill was 29 and Hilary was just 27 years old.
1976: The so-called "Gang of Four," Chairman Mao
Tse-tung's widow and three associates are arrested in Peking, setting in motion an
extended period of turmoil in the Chinese Communist Party.
1984: space shuttle "Challenger" astronaut Kathy
Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.
1985: Arab-American activist Alex Odeh was killed by a
bomb blast in Santa Ana, California.
1986: President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Gorbachev opened two days of talks concerning arms control and human rights in Reykjavik,
Iceland.
1987: Thousands of homosexual rights activists marched
through Washington to demand protection from discrimination and more federal money for
AIDS research and treatment.
1988: Violence began to subside in Algeria, where mass
rioting by youths had broken out a week earlier, prompting the government to declare a
state of siege.
1989: The House narrowly approved an amendment to an
appropriations bill that would restore Medicaid for abortions in cases of rape or incest.
(President Bush vetoed the bill, and the veto was upheld.)
1990: Octavio Paz was named the winner of the Nobel Prize
for literature, the first Mexican writer so honored.
1990: About 60,000 people rallied in Prague,
Czechoslovakia, in support of a government proposal to seize all Communist Party property
without compensation.
1991: Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee,
law professor Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually
harassing her; Thomas then reappeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a
"high-tech lynching."
1991: Comedian Redd Foxx died in Los Angeles at age 68.
1992: President Bush, Democrat Bill Clinton and
independent candidate Ross Perot met for the first of three debates, this one held at
Washington University in St. Louis.
1993: In Haiti, army-backed toughs prevented American
troops from landing as part of a UN peace mission and drove away US diplomats waiting to
greet the soldiers.
1993: Yasser Arafat won endorsement for his peace accord
with Israel from the Palestine Central Council.
1994: U.S. troops in Haiti took over the National Palace.
1994: Iraqi troops began moving north, away from the
Kuwaiti border.
1994: The Colorado Supreme Court declared the state's
anti-gay rights measure unconstitutional.
1995: Ten Republican presidential candidates used their
first televised forum to politely compete for support in the New Hampshire primary.
1995: Americans Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland and
Dutch scientist Paul Crutzen won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their controversial work
warning that gases once used in spray cans and other items are destroying Earth's
protective ozone layer.
1996: Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and
Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor won the Nobel Peace Prize for their pro-democracy efforts
in troubled East Timor.
1997: Authorities reported no survivors from the overnight
crash of an Argentine jetliner in Uruguay which killed all 74 people on board.
1998: Pope John Paul II decreed the first Jewish-born
saint of the modern era: Edith Stein, a nun who died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
1999: Dr. Guenter Blobel of New York's Rockefeller
University won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering how proteins find their
rightful places in cells.
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