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Celebrate Today:
Monarch Day - On this day, millions of monarch butterflies return to Natural Bridges State
each near Santa Cruz, California.
national lower case day - celebrate the birthday of e.e. cummings by reading some of his
poetry or that of other poets. he was born on this day in 1894. sponsor: the life of the
party.
National Occupational Therapy Day - Sponsor: American Occupational Therapy Association.
Be Bald and Be Free Day - The day for all bald people to go "shiny" and feel
good about it. Sponsor: Wellness Permission League.
Dwight David Eisenhower's Birthday - The 34th US president was born on this day in 1890.
Born on this Day
1633: James II, King of England the son of King Charles I and Queen
Henriette Marie. He was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and replaced by William
III and Mary II.
1644: William Penn, the English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania
1712: English politician George Grenville. His policy of taxing
the American colonies, initiated by his Revenue Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765,
started the train of events leading to the American Revolution.
1857: Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the first US autos
1882: Irish political leader Eamon de Valera
1888: English short-story master writer Katherine Mansfield
1890: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States
1893: U.S. actress Lillian Diana Gish, her dramatic and masterful
use of gestures and her expressive eyes earned her accolades as "the First Lady of
the Silent Screen."
1894: E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings, American poet and painter who
first attracted attention, in an age of literary experimentation, for his eccentric
punctuation and phrasing. See Today's History
Focus
19??: Michael Brown (Disciples of Christ)
1916: Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
1927: Actor Roger Moore
1937: Movie director Carroll Ballard ("Fly Away Home")
1938: Former White House counsel John W. Dean the Third
1938: Country singer Melba Montgomery
1939: Fashion designer Ralph Lauren
1940: Singer Cliff Richard
1944: Actor Udo Kier ("Armageddon")
1940: British pop singer Cliff Richard
1946: Singer-musician Justin Hayward (The Moody Blues)
1952: Actor Harry Anderson
1943: Actor Greg Evigan
1956: Golfer Beth Daniel
1958: Singer-musician Thomas Dolby
1965: Singer Karyn White
1970: Country musician Doug Virden (Sons of the Desert)
1974: Country singer Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks)
1975: Singer Shaznay Lewis (All Saints)
1978: Singer Usher
0222: Death of St. Callixtus I
1066: William, Duke of Normandy, led his invading army to
victory over England's King Harold at Hastings. Crowned King William, he is known to
history as William the Conqueror.
1307: William de Nogaret reads the Mandate of Maubuisson
againt the Templars to the leading members of the University of Paris
1495: A Statute is enacted in England regulating the
content of feather-bed stuffing
1536: Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet, dies
1549: The Duke of Somerset, the Lord-Protector of England
is sent to the Tower
1586: Mary, Queen of Scots goes on trial for conspiracy
against Elizabeth I of England
1600: Death of Luis de Molina, theologian
1619: The English poet and sonneteer Samuel Daniel died.
1651: Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding the poor
to adopt excessive styles of dress.
1656: The Massachusetts General Court makes it illegal to
harbour a Quaker
1773: Britain's East India Company tea ships' cargo is
burned at Annapolis, Md.
1774: 1st declaration of colonial rights in America.
1806: Napoleon Bonaparte crushes the Prussian army at
Jena, Germany.
1832: Blackfeet Indians attack American Fur Company
trappers near Montana’s Jefferson River, killing one.
1834: A patent for a corn planter was issued to Henry
Blair of Glenross, Maryland. He was the first African-American to receive a patent
1880: Apache leader Victorio is slain in Mexico.
1912: Former President Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for
a return to office, was shot in Milwaukee. He refused to have the wound treated until he
finished his speech.
1917: Mata Hari, a Paris dancer, is executed by the French
after being convicted of passing military secrets to the Germans. For more, see Amy
Elizabeth Thorpe, World War II Version of the Legendary Mata Hari
1924: Gabriel Faure wrote his wife that he intended to
make sure some of his work did not survive him. Faure, then 79 years old and not well,
told her he would give her sketches and rough drafts to put in the fireplace.
1924: Schoenberg's opera "Die Gluckishe Hand"
was premiered.
1933: Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the
League of Nations.
1933: "The Chalk Circle," by Schoenberg's in-law
Zemlinsky, was performed.
1944: German Field Marshal Rommel, suspected of complicity
in the July 20th plot against Hitler, is visited at home by two of Hitler's staff and
given the choice of public trial or suicide by poison. He chooses suicide and it is
announced that he died of wounds.
1944: British and Greek troops liberated Athens, ending
three years of World War II occupation by German troops.
1947: Air Force test pilot Charles E. ("Chuck")
Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell
X-One rocket plane over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1960: The idea of a Peace Corps was first suggested by
Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to an audience of students at the
University of Michigan.
1964: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior was
named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1977: Singer Bing Crosby died outside Madrid, Spain, at
age 73.
1986: Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie
Wiesel was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1989: Colombia extradited three suspected drug traffickers
to the United States as part of a war on the cocaine cartel.
1990: Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New
York at age 72.
1987: A real-life drama began in Midland, Texas, as
18-month-old Jessica McClure slid 22 feet down an abandoned well at a private day care
center. (Hundreds of rescuers worked 58 hours to free her.)
1988: The government reported that wholesale prices had
risen a moderate four-tenths of one percent in September.
1990: Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New
York at age 72.
1992: Russia's worst serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, was
convicted of mutilating and killing 52 women and children (he was executed in 1994).
1992: The Nobel Prize for chemistry went to American
Rudolph A. Marcus; the prize for physics went to George Charpak of France.
1993: US helicopter pilot Michael Durant and a Nigerian
peacekeeper were freed by Somali fighters loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid. In Haiti, gunmen
assassinated Justice Minister Guy Malary, a supporter of ousted President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide.
1994: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to PLO leader
Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres.
1994: Kidnapped Israeli soldier Nachshon Waxman was killed
when Israeli commandos raided the hideout of Islamic militants in Jerusalem.
1995: An armed gunman seized a bus carrying South Korean
tourists in Moscow's Red Square (commandos stormed the bus the next day, killing the
gunman and freeing four remaining hostages).
1995: The Atlanta Braves won the National League pennant
by beating the Cincinnati Reds, 6-0, to complete a four-game sweep.
1996: Madonna gave birth to a daughter, Lourdes Maria
Ciccone Leon.
1996: Archer Daniels Midland Company said it would plead
guilty to two charges and pay 100 million dollars to settle a federal price-fixing case.
1996: The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 6,000
for the first time, ending the day at 6,010.
1997: The Nobel Prize in economics went to Americans
Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes for their work on derivatives.
1997: Novelist Harold Robbins died in Palm Springs,
California, at age 81.
1997: The Florida Marlins won the National League
championship, defeating the Atlanta Braves 7-to-4 in game six.
1998: Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize in economics.
1998: "Polka king" Frankie Yankovic died in
Tampa, Florida, at age 83.
1998: Cleveland Amory, animal rights advocate and author,
died in New York at age 81.
1998: The San Diego Padres won the National League
pennant, beating the Atlanta Braves, 5-0, in Game 6 of their championship series.
1999: President Clinton accused Senate Republicans of
recklessness and irresponsibility for defeating the nuclear test ban treaty, and pledged
the United States would refrain from testing despite the treaty's rejection.
1999:Japan's Sumitomo Bank and Sakura Bank announced they
would merge.
1999: Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's first president, died in
a London hospital at age 77.
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