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Celebrate Today:
Dictionary Day - Celebrated on the birthday of Noah Webster. He was the creator of the
first American dictionary. Noah was born on this day in 1758 in West Hartford,
Connecticut.
It's Safe to Breathe in the Sky Day - Commemorates the banning of smoking on domestic
airlines in 1989. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
Learn a Word Day - On this the birthday of Noah Webster, take out your dictionary and
learn a new word. Sponsor: All My Events.
Let Them Eat Cake Day - In 1793, Queen Marie Antoinette of France was beheaded during the
French Revolution.
Maintenance Personnel Day - Honors all those who maintain the nation's hospitals and other
health care centers. Sponsor: Heartland Health Care Center, Temple, Texas.
National Train Your Brain Day - Exercise your brain, clean out the cobwebs, blast through
barriers, and click on the light bulbs. Sponsor: The Innovative Thinking Network.
World Food Day - The Food and Agricultural Organization was created on this date in 1945.
This day focuses attention on world hunger and malnutrition. Sponsor: National Committee
for World Food Day.
Born on this Day
1430: James II, King of Scotland
1620: Pierre Puget, Baroque sculptor,
painter, architect
1708: Albrecht von Haller, the father of
experimental physiology
1758: Lexicographer Noah Webster
1854: English author and dramatist Oscar
Wilde
1886: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion
1888: Playwright Eugene O'Neill (Nobel Prize
[1936] and Pulitzer prize-winning playwright: The Ice Man Cometh [1946]; Long Day's
Journey into Night)
1890: Photographer Paul Strand
19??: Jennifer Hendrix (Sierra)
1905: Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch
1921: Actress Linda Darnell
1923: Musician Bert Kaempfert (Wonderland by
Night, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Three O'Clock in the Morning)
1925: Actress Angela Lansbury
1926: German novelist Günter Grass(The Tin
Drum)
1931: Former presidential adviser Charles W.
Colson
1937: Actor Tony Anthony
1940: Actor Barry Corbin
1943: Rock musician C.F. Turner
(Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1946: Actress Suzanne Somers
1947: Rock singer-musician Bob Weir (The
Grateful Dead, Ratdog)
1947: Producer-director David Zucker
1958: Actor-director Tim Robbins
1960: Musician Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
1962: Rock musician Flea (Red Hot Chili
Peppers)
1969: Singer Wendy Wilson (Wilson Phillips)
1971: Rapper B-Rock (B-Rock and the Bizz)
1975: Actress Kellie Martin
1970: Actor Jeremy Jackson ("Baywatch")
0709: Dedication of the
Church of Mont St. Michael
0786: Death of St. Lull
1076: The German aristocracy
meets at Tribur, and takes the side of Pope Gegory VII against Emperor Henry IV
1080: Death of Rudolph, King
of Germany
1555: Anglican Bishops Hugh
Latimer and Nicholas Ridley were burned at the stake in Oxford for their nonconformity to
the Roman catholic Church during the reign of Queen Mary I. Their deaths were included in
Foxe's Book of Martrys and fired anti-Catholic sentiment for centuries.
1591: Death of Pope Gregory
XIV
1611: Death of Charles IX,
King of Sweden
1750: An acclaimed lute
player named Leopold Weiss died. He is remembered chiefly for an incident in which a rival
musician attempted unsuccessfully to bite off his thumb.
1793: During the French
Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
1814: Franz Schubert's first
Mass was sung in a Vienna church. The soprano role was sung by a woman sometimes described
as Schubert's first love, although contemporary accounts leave the impression that
Schubert's romantic inclinations were very much in a different direction.
1815: Napoleon was exiled to
St Helena.
1829: "The Tremont
Hotel opened in Boston. It was the first bona fide first-class hotel in America and the
first hotel to have indoor plumbing. For $2 a night the patrons received four meals, a
private key, a washbowl, and access to bathrooms in the basement.
1846: Ether was first
administered in public at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by Dr. William
Thomas Green Morton during an operation to remove a tumor from the jaw performed by Dr.
John Collins Warren.
1859: Abolitionist John
Brown led an abortive raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va. He was convicted
of treason and hanged.
1901: President Theodore
Roosevelt incites controversy by inviting black leader Booker T. Washington to the White
House.
1916: Margaret Sanger opened
the first birth control clinic, in New York City. See Today's History Focus
This is a very important History Focus - not to be missed!
1944: The novel, The Robe,
by Lloyd C. Douglas, was published Nine years later the book was made into a movie and
captured three Oscars.
1946: Ten Nazi war criminals
condemned during the Nuremberg trials were hanged.
1962: The Cuban missile
crisis began as President Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had
revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
1964: China detonated its
first atomic bomb.
1970: Anwar Sadat was
elected president of Egypt, succeeding the late Gamal Abdel Nasser.
1972: A light plane carrying
House Democratic leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana and three other men was reported missing
in Alaska. The plane was never found.
1978: The College of
Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to be the new pope; he
took the name John Paul the Second. (The first non-Italian pope since 1542)
1984: A baboon heart is
transplanted into 15-day-old Baby Fae--the first transplant of the kind--at Loma Linda
University Medical Center, California. Baby Fae lived until November 15.
1991: A deadly shooting
rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard crashed his pickup truck into a
Luby's Cafeteria and opened fire, killing 23 people before taking his own life.
1995: A vast throng of black
men gathered in Washington DC for the "Million Man March" led by Nation of Islam
leader Louis Farrakhan.
1987: A 58-and-a-half-hour
drama in Midland, Texas, ended happily as rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old
girl trapped in an abandoned well.
1987: In the Persian Gulf,
an Iranian missile hit a re-flagged Kuwaiti ship in the first direct attack on the tanker
fleet guarded by the US.
1988: The Los Angeles
Dodgers shut out the Oakland A's, 6-to-0, in game two of the World Series.
1988: Rescue workers near
Point Barrow, Alaska, continued their efforts to save three California gray whales trapped
in Arctic Ocean ice.
1989: President Bush signed an order cutting federal programs by $16.1 billion under the Gramm-Rudman budget-reduction law.
1990: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev submitted to the Soviet legislature a scaled-back plan to transform the Soviet economy to a free-market system.
1990: Comedian Steve Martin and his wife, actress Victoria Tennant, visited American GIs in Saudi Arabia.
1990: The Cincinnati Reds beat the Oakland A's 7-0 in game one of the World Series.
1991: A deadly shooting
rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard crashed his pickup truck into a
Luby's Cafeteria and opened fire, killing 23 people before taking his own life.
1992: The Nobel Peace prize
was awarded to Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan Indian who spoke on behalf of indigenous
people and victims of government repression.
1993: The UN Security
Council endorsed the deployment of US warships to block arms and oil shipments to Haiti,
in an attempt to increase pressure on Haiti's military leaders.
1993: The Toronto Blue Jays
defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 8-to-5, in game one of the World Series.
1994: Heavy rains began drenching southeast Texas, resulting in floods that left 20 dead and forced 14,000 from their homes in 35 counties.
1994: German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was elected to a fourth term.
1995: American industrialist
Armand Hammer returned home from the Soviet Union in his private jet, bringing with him
Jewish scientist David Goldfarb after securing permission for the ailing
''refusenik'' to
emigrate.
1995: A vast throng of black men gathered in Washington, D.C., for the "Million Man March" led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
1996: Republican Bob Dole
challenged President Clinton's ethics and honesty in their final debate.
1996: Soccer fans trying to
squeeze into Mateo Flores National Stadium in Guatemala City stampeded, killing 84 people.
1997: In the first known
case in the United States, a Georgia woman gave birth after being implanted with
previously frozen eggs.
1997: Author James Michener
died in Austin, Texas, at age 90.
1998: David Trimble and John Hume were named recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the Northern Ireland peace accord.
1998: After receiving a Spanish extradition warrant, British police arrested former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London for questioning about allegations that he had murdered Spanish citizens during his years in power.
1999: A 7.1-magnitude earthquake in the Mojave Desert shook three states and derailed an Amtrak train, but caused no serious damage or injuries.
1999: Hurricane Irene rumbled up the East Coast.
1999: A New York Air National Guard plane rescued Dr. Jerri Nielsen from a South Pole research center after she'd spent five months isolated by the Antarctic winter, which forced her to treat herself for a breast lump.
1999: Radio raconteur Jean Shepherd died in Sanibel,
Florida, at age 78.
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