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Celebrate Toady:
Columbus Day (Original) Celebrates the landing in 1492 of Christopher Columbus in
the 'New World.' The legal holiday is now celebrated as Discovery Day on the second Monday
of October.
Indigenous Peoples Day - Celebrate the history of the Native Americans.
International Moment of Frustration Scream Day - Greenwich Time frustrated people should
go outdoors to scream. Sponsor: Wellness Permission League.
Thanks I'm Not Hungry Day - Commemorates the fasts that political activist Dick Gregory
has undertaken to draw attention to important social issues. Gregory was born this day in
1932 in St. Louis, Missouri. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
Worker Empowerment Day - According to a Saturn television commercial, this was the day a
line worker pulled the cord and stopped the entire production line to fix a small problem.
Saturn gives its workers the power to make s uch decisions.
Born on this Day
1537: Edward VI, King of England, by Caesarian section (The only son of
Henry VIII by his third wife Jane Seymour)
1614: Henry More, English Neo-Platonist philosopher
1680: Arthur Collier, idealist philosopher and theologian remembered for
his concept of human knowledge.
1775: Lyman Beecher, U.S. Presbyterian clergyman in the revivalist
tradition.
1798: Pedro I, founder of the Brazilian empire and first emperor of
Brazil.
1815: William Joseph Hardee, Confederate general in the American Civil
War (1861-65) who wrote a popular infantry manual used by both the North and the South.
1858: Isaac Newton Lewis, U.S. Army officer and inventor best known for
the Lewis machine gun, widely used in World War I and later.
1860: Elmer Sperry, who devised practical uses for the gyroscope
1865: Sir Arthur Harden, English biochemist and corecipient, with Hans von Euler-Chelpin, of the
1929 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on the fermentation of sugar and
the enzyme action involved.
1872: English composer Ralph Vaughn Williams
1875: Alistair Crowley, a major figure in occultism.
1879: American poet Wallace Stevens.
1891: Edith Stein, Roman Catholic convert from Judaism, Carmelite nun,
philosopher, and spiritual writer who was executed by the Nazis because of her Jewish
ancestry. She is regarded as a modern martyr.
1912: Alice Childress, African-American playwright, novelist, and
actress, known for her realistic stories about the enduring optimism of black Americans.
19??: Michael Roe
1923: Founder of Weight Watchers Jean Nidetch
1925: Charles Gordone, U.S. playwright who became the first
African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize with the Broadway production of his gritty
barroom drama No Place to Be Somebody
1929: Blues singer Nappy Brown
1932: Comedian-activist Dick Gregory
1934: Richard (Alan) Meier, U.S. architect noted for his refinements of
and variations on classic Modernist principles
1935: Luciano Pavarotti
1935: Singer Sam Moore (formerly of Sam and Dave)
1935: Sportscaster Tony Kubek
1942: Melvin Franklin, U.S. bass singer with the Temptations.
1947: T-V reporter Chris Wallace
1949: Phillip Bower - I guess I'm really getting old -
1950: Actress-singer Susan Anton
1962: Rhythm-and-blues singer Claude McKnight (Take 6)
1968: Actor Adam Rich
1969: Rhythm-and-blues singer Garfield Bright (Shai)
1969: Country musician Martie Seidel (Dixie Chicks)
1970: Actor Kirk Cameron
0638: Death of Pope Honorius I
0678: Martyrdom of St. Leger
1303: Death of Pope Boniface VIII
1385: Geoffrey Chaucer receives the office of Justice of
the Peace
1492: Christopher Columbus arrived with his expedition in
the present-day Bahamas. Columbus believed he had reached India.
1518: Martin Luther, summoned before the Diet of Augsburg,
refuses to recant
1537: Death of Queen Jane (Seymour) of England
1576: Rudolf II, the king of Hungary and Bohemia, succeeds
his father, Maximillian II, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1722: Shah Sultan Husayn surrenders the Persian capital of
Isfahan to Afgan rebels after a seven month siege.
1773: The commonwealth of Virginia made provision for the
establishing the first hospital in America for persons with mental illnesses.
1809: Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition,
dies under mysterious circumstances in St. Louis.
1861: The Confederate ironclad "Manassas"
attacked the northern ship "Richmond" on the Mississippi River.
1870: General Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia,
at age 63.
1872: Apache leader Cochise signs a peace treaty with
General O.O. Howard in Arizona Territory. At times cruel, Chiricahua Chief Cochise had
courage and was devoted to the truth.
1915: English nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the
Germans in occupied Belgium during World War One. See
Today's History Focus
1920: Construction began on the Holland Tunnel between New
York City and New Jersey.
1928: The artificial respirator, called usually an iron
lung, was first demonstrated in a Boston hospital.
1933: Bank robber John Dillinger escaped from a jail in
Allen County, Ohio, with the help of his gang, who killed the sheriff.
1933: Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially).
1942: During World War Two, Attorney General Francis
Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered
enemy aliens.
1945: President Truman awarded a medal of honor to Desmond
T. Doss for his valor as a medical corpsman on Okinawa. Doss was the first conscientious
objector so honored.
1949: Eugenie Anderson becomes the first woman U.S.
ambassador.
1960: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev removed one of his
shoes and pounded it on his desk during a speech before the United Nations.
1964: The Soviet Union launched a "Voskhod"
space capsule with a three-man crew on the first manned mission involving more than one
crew member.
1970: President Richard Nixon announces the pullout of
40,000 more American troops in Vietnam by Christmas.
1971: The rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar"
opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway.
1971: The House of Representatives passes the Equal Rights
Amendment 354-23.
1973: President Nixon nominated House Minority Leader
Gerald Ford for the vice presidency to replace Spiro Agnew, who had resigned in disgrace
two days earlier.
1981: Barbara Mandrell walked away with the Country Music
Association's Entertainer of the Year honor, for the second year in a row.
1983: Maytag was the last company to make hand-operated
washers. The last Maytag wringer-washer was made this day.
1986: The superpower meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, ended
in stalemate, with President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev unable to agree
on arms control or a date for a full-fledged summit in the United States.
1987: In Houston, Vice President George Bush formally
launched his quest for the Republican presidential nomination. Former Kansas Governor
Alfred ("Alf") M. Landon died at his Topeka home at age 100.
1988: Federal prosecutors announced that Sundstrand
Corporation had agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges and pay a $115 million settlement
for overbilling the Pentagon for airplane parts over five years.
1989: The House approved a statutory federal ban on
desecration of the American flag. (The Senate defeated the measure a week later.)
1990: The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to
condemn Israel's security forces for killing 17 Palestinian demonstrators on the Temple
Mount.
1990: The Cincinnati Reds won the National League pennant,
defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-1.
1991: Testifying for a second day on sexual harassment
charges leveled by law professor Anita Hill, Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas told
the Senate Judiciary Committee he'd "rather die than withdraw," and repeated his
denial of Hill's allegations.
1992: Several hundred people were killed when an
earthquake struck Cairo, Egypt.
1993: Hundreds of militant right-wingers in Haiti cheered
as an American warship retreated in a major setback for the United Nations mission to
restore democracy.
1993: The Toronto Blue Jays won their second straight
American League pennant, defeating the Chicago White Sox in six games.
1994: Panama granted political asylum to ousted Haitian
military leader Raoul Cedras. The Magellan space probe ended its four-year mapping mission
of Venus, plunging into the planet's atmosphere.
1995: After a 48-hour delay, the U.S.-brokered cease-fire
in Bosnia-Herzegovina went into effect.
1996: President Clinton signed into law the Water
Resources Development Act, which authorized federal water projects across the country.
1996: Thousands of Hispanic-Americans marched in
Washington to push for simplified citizenship procedures and a seven-dollar minimum wage.
1997: Singer John Denver was killed in the crash of his
privately built aircraft in Monterey Bay, California; he was 53.
1997: President Clinton opened his first trip to South
America as he arrived in Venezuela.
1998: Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of
Wyoming, died five days after he was beaten and lashed to a fence; two men were charged
with his murder. (Russell Henderson later pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping; a
second suspect, Aaron McKinney, has yet to stand trial.)
1998: Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in physiology or
medicine for blood vessel research.
1999: Pakistan's military overthrew the democratically
elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
1999: NBA Hall of Famer Wilt "The Stilt"
Chamberlain died at his Los Angeles home at age 63.
1999: Ahmed H. Zewail of the California Institute of
Technology won the Nobel Prize for chemistry; Dutch scientists Gerardus 't Hooft and
Martinus J.G. Veltman won the Nobel Prize for physics.
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