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Celebrate Today:
Pablo Picasso's Birthday - Celebrate the day by painting a picture. Pablo was born on
this day in 1881 in Malaga, Spain.
Saint Crispin's Day - Saint Crispin and Crispiniansus are the twin saints of shoemakers.
Souerest Day - This is the day to hug a sourpuss. This day is to contrast with Sweetest
day, and to honor those people names Sauer. Sponsor: The Fifth Wheel Tavern.
Born on this Day
1564: German composer Hans Leo Hassler
1800: British historian Thomas Babbington Macaulay.
1825: Austrian composer Johann Strauss ('The
Waltz King': composer: On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Emperor Waltz, Tales from the Vienna
Woods, Wine, Women and Song; operettas: Die Fledermaus, A Night in Venice, The Gypsy
Baron).
1838: Georges Bizet (composer: Carmen, The
Pearl Fishers, The Young Girl of Perth) Today's History Focus
1881: Artist Pablo Picasso (artist: founder of
cubism: Guernica, Ma Jolie)
1888: Richard E. Byrd, U.S. aviator and
explorer who made the first flight over the North Pole
1892: Actor Leo G. Carroll (The Prize, The
Parent Trap, North by Northwest, Father of the Bride, Forever Amber, Bahama Passage,
Topper, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Going My Way)
1902: Henry Steele Commanger, American
historian who wrote the fifty-five volume Rise of the American Nation
1912: Comedian Minnie Pearl (Sarah Ophelia
Colley)."Howdee!"
1918: Jazz musician Chubby Jackson
1923: Former baseball player Bobby Thomson
1924: Actor Billy Barty (Circus Boy, Snow
White, Willow, Tough Guys, Rumpelstiltskin, Roustabout, The Amazing Dobermans, Day of the
Locust)
1924: Former American League president Dr.
Bobby Brown
1926: Musician Jimmy Heath (Marchin' On, Passin' Thru, Live at the Public Theatre, In Motion, Expressions of Life, Really Big, On
the Trail)
1927: Actress- singer Barbara Cook (The Music
Man, Flahooley, Oklahoma, Carousel, Plain and Fancy, Candide, The Gay Life, She Loves Me,
Any Wednesday, Funny Girl, The Gershwin Years)
1927: National Track & Field Hall of Famer
Bud (Franklin) Held, (First to throw javelin more than 260 feet)
1928: Actress Marion Ross
1928: Actor Tony Franciosa (Anthony Papaleo)
(A Hatful of Rain, Death Wish 2, The Drowning Pool, A Face in the Crowd, The Long Hot
Summer, Stagecoach, The Name of the Game, Matt Helm, Wheels, Valentine's Day, Search,
Finder of Lost Loves)
1934: Hockey player Earl Ingarfield
1936: Actress Marion Ross (Happy Days,
Brooklyn Bridge, Mr. Novak, Life with Father, The Gertrude Berg Show, Forever Female,
Grand Theft Auto) .
1937: Country singer Jeanne Black (He'll Have
to Stay)
1937: Basketball player Zelmo Beaty
1940: Basketball coach and Basketball Hall of
Famer Bobby Knight.
1941: Baltimore novelist Anne Tyler (The
Accidental Tourist, Searching for Caleb, Morgan's Passing, Dinner at the Homesick
Restaurant)
1941: Pop singer Helen Reddy (I Don't Know How
to Love Him, Delta Dawn, Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress), Peaceful, Keep on Singing, Angie
Baby, You & Me Against the World, I Am Woman) .
1944: Rock singer Jon Anderson (Yes)
1944: Singer Taffy Danoff (Starland Vocal
Band)
1948: Olympic Hall of Famer Dan Gable
(lightweight wrestling division gold medalist [1972])
1948: Basketball Hall of Famer Dan Issel
1949: Actor Brian Kerwin (Lobo, The Young and
the Restless, The Chisholms, The Blue and the Gray, Switched at Birth, Murphy's Romance, A
Real American Hero)
1955: Rock musician Matthias Jabs (The
Scorpions)
1958: Country singer Mark Miller. (Sawyer
Brown)
1962: Rock musician Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili
Peppers.)
1963: Actress Tracy Nelson (Father Dowling
Mysteries, Square Pegs, Glitter, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Yours, Mine & Ours)
1968: Singer Speech
1970: Rock musician Ed Robertson (Barenaked
Ladies)
1970: Country singer Chely Wright
1970: Actor Adam Goldberg ("Saving
Private Ryan")
1971: Violinist Midori
1973: Actor Lamont Bentley
("Moesha")
1981: Rhythm-and-blues singer Jerome Jones (Immature)
2137 B.C.: Ho and Hsi,
Chinese royal astronomers, were beheaded after failing to accurately predict an eclipse of
the sun, which caused panic in the streets of China.
0625: Death of Pope Boniface
V
0721: Death of St. John of
Beverly
1047: Death of Magnus, King
of Norway
1154: Death of Stephen, King
of England
1241: Election of Celestine
IV as Pope
1307: The University of
Paris hears the confessions of Jacques de Molay and four Templar knights
1314: Coronation of
Frederick III as King of Germany
1400: Author Geoffrey
Chaucer died in London.
1415: An English army under
Henry V defeats the French at Agincourt, France. The French had out numbered Henry’s
troops 60,000 to 12,000 but British longbows turned the tide of the battle.The battle led
to the English domination of most of France throughout most of the 15th century.
1529: Thomas More becomes
Lord Chancellor of England
1556: Abdication of Charles
V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, of the Thrones of the Netherlands and Naples
1760: Britain's King George
the Third succeeded his late grandfather, George the Second.
1812: The U.S. frigate
United States captured the British vessel Macedonian during the War of 1812.
1825: The Erie Canal,
America's first man-made waterway, was opened, linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic
Ocean.
1854: The "Charge of
the Light Brigade" took place during the Crimean War.(670 British cavalrymen fighting
in the Crimean War attacked a heavily fortified Russian position and were wiped out.)
1920: King Alexander of
Greece dies from blood poisoning shortly after being bitten by a pet monkey.
1923: The Teapot Dome
scandal comes to public attention as Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, subcommittee
chairman, reveals the findings of the past 18 months of investigation. His case will
result in the conviction of Harry F. Sinclair of Mammoth Oil, and later Secretary of the
Interior Albert B. Fall, the first cabinet member in American history to go to jail. The
scandal, named for the Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming, involved Fall secretly leasing
naval oil reserve lands to private companies.
1929: Former Interior
Secretary Albert B. Fall was convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe in connection with
the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve in California.
1939: The drama "The
Time of Your Life," by William Saroyan, opened in New York.
1951: Peace talks aimed at
ending the Korean Conflict resumed in Panmunjom after 63 days.
1951: In a general election,
England's Labour Party loses to Conservatives. Winston Churchill becomes prime minister,
and Anthony Eden becomes foreign secretary.
1954: President Eisenhower
conducts the first televised Cabinet meeting.
1957: Albert Anastasia,
gangster, killed (while getting a haircut).
1960: Martin Luther King,
Jr., is sentenced to four months in prison for a sit-in.
1962: US ambassador Adlai E.
Stevenson presented photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba to the UN
Security Council.
1962: American author John
Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
1971: The UN General
Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.
1982: "Newhart"
premiered on CBS.
1983: US Marines and
Rangers, assisted by soldiers from six Caribbean nations, invaded Grenada at the order of
President Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect US citizens there.
1987: The Minnesota Twins
won their first World Series championship, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 4-to-2 in game
seven.
1988: First lady Nancy
Reagan, addressing a UN committee, said the United States was responsible for its own drug
problem, and charged that every American drug user was "an accomplice to every
criminal act" committed by drug barons.
1989: Soviet leader Mikhail
S. Gorbachev began a three-day visit to Finland.
1989: Novelist and critic
Mary McCarthy died in New York at age 77.
1990: Evander Holyfield
knocked out Buster Douglas in the third round of their fight in Las Vegas to become the
undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
1990: Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said the Pentagon was laying plans to send as many as 100,000 more troops to Saudi Arabia.
1991: Israel named a
hard-line delegation to the Middle East peace conference.
1992: Independent
presidential candidate Ross Perot, explaining why he had abandoned his White House bid in
July, publicly accused the Republican Party of plotting to disrupt his business operations
and his daughter's wedding. (White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater called the charges
"loony" and "crazy.")
1992: Singer and songwriter
Roger Miller died in Los Angeles at age 56.
1993: Canadian voters ousted
the Progressive Conservative party of Prime Minister Kim Campbell and gave the Liberal
Party, led by Jean Chretien of Quebec, a firm majority in Parliament.
1993: Actor Vincent Price
died in Los Angeles at age 82.
1994: Susan Smith of Union,
South Carolina, claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons (Smith
later confessed to drowning the children in John D. Long Lake, and was convicted of
murder).
1994: Three defendants were
convicted in South Africa of murdering American exchange student Amy
Biehl.
1994: President Clinton
began a five-day trip to the Mideast.
1994: Susan Smith reported
to police in Union, South Carolina, that her two young boys had been taken in a
carjacking. Nine days later, she confessed she'd rolled the car into a lake, drowning the
children.
1995: John J. Sweeney was
elected AFL-CIO president.
1995: A commuter train slammed into a school bus in Fox River Grove,
Illinois, killing seven students.
1995: The Atlanta Braves defeated the Cleveland Indians 5-2, taking a 3-1 lead in the World Series.
1995: Tennis hustler Bobby Riggs died in
Leucadia, California, at age 77.
1996: Federal judge Richard
Matsch granted Oklahoma City bombing defendants Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols separate
trials rather than let one man drag the other down in the same trial.
1997: Hundreds of thousands
of black women joined the Million Woman March in Philadelphia.
1997: The Cleveland Indians
avoided elimination in the World Series by defeating the Florida Marlins, 4-to-1, in game
six.
1998: Vice President Al Gore
participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for a memorial dedicated to victims of the
Oklahoma City bombing.
1999: Golfer Payne Stewart and five others were killed when their Learjet flew uncontrolled for four hours before crashing in South Dakota.
1999: Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan
left the Republican Party to mount a bid for the Reform Party nomination.
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