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Born on this Day
1800: Asa Mahan, American educator and
Congregational clergyman. President of Oberlin College in Ohio from 1835-1850, Mahan was
instrumental in establishing interracial college enrollment and in the granting of college
degrees to women.
1801: Inventor, Archaeologist, evaporated milk
inventor Gail Borden
1802: Newspaper publisher and abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy
1818: Russian prose writer Ivan Turgenev
1836: Birth of Christian business traveler
Samuel Hill. In 1899 Hill, John Nicholson and W.J. Knights co-founded the Gideons
1841: Edward VII, King of England.
1853: American architect Stanford White
designer of the Washington Monument
1868: Actress (Leila Koerber) Marie Dressler
(Min and Bill, Anna Christie, Dinner at Eight)
1886: Comedian Ed Wynn (Ed Wynn Show, Mary Poppins, Ziegfeld Follies, Marjorie
Morningstar, The Diary of Anne Frank, Cinderfella,
Babes in Toyland, The Absent-Minded Professor)
1889: Actor Claude Rains
(Casablanca, The Invisible Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lawrence of Arabia)
1891: Actor (Webb Hollenbeck) Clifton Webb
(Laura, Razor's Edge, Satan Never Sleeps, Titanic, Three Coins in the Fountain, Sitting
Pretty, Mr Belvedere Goes to College)
1903: Gregory Pincus inventor (birth control
pill)
1913: Austrian-born actress (Hedwig Kiessler)
Hedy Lamarr (Algiers, White Cargo, Samson and Delilah, Ziegfeld Girl)
1915: Sergeant Shriver, first director of the
Peace Corps
1918: Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon’s vice
president.
1922: Actress Dorothy Dandridge (Island in the
Sun, Carmen Jones)
1928: American poet Anne Sexton
1930: Sportscaster Charlie Jones
1931: Baseball executive Whitey Herzog
1934: Astronomer and author Carl Sagan
(Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Cosmos, Contact; astronomer: "Billions and billions
of stars...")
1935: Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Gibson
1941: Musician songwriter, singer Tom Fogerty
(Group: Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Moon Rising, Down on the Corner, Proud Mary,
Lookin' Out My Back Door, Up Around the Bend; solo: LP: Centerfield, Eye of the Zombie)
1942: Actor Lou Ferrigno
1942: Tom Weiskopf PGA golfer (British Open
1973)
1948: Movie director Bille August
1952: Actor Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk)
some sources list 1951.
1960: Rock musician Dee Plakas (L7)
1968: Rhythm-and-blues singer Ike Owensby
(Twice)
1968: Rhythm-and-blues singer Mike Owensby
(Twice)
1969: Rapper Pepa (Salt-N-Pepa)
1969: Rapper Scarface (Geto Boys)
1973: Rhythm-and-blues singer Nick Lachey (98
Degrees)
1978: Rhythm-and-blues singer Sisqo (Dru Hill)
1981: Marci Joy Bower - my daughter!
1225: Marriage of Frederick
II, Holy Roman Emperor, to Yolande, Princess of Jerusalem
1389: Coronation of Pope
Boniface IX
1494: Overthrow of the
Medici in Florence
1541: Henry VIII imprisons
Queen Katherine Howard on suspicion of immorality
1620: "Mayflower"
sights land, at Cape Cod, Mass.
1630: The first ferry route
in the colonies opens, from Boston to Charlestown on the Charles River
1760: Haydn became engaged
to Maria Anna Keller. Haydn was then 28. He really wanted to marry the woman's sister
Therese, but Therese entered a nunnery.
1799: Napoleon Bonaparte
participates in a coup and declares himself dictator of France.
1837: British philanthropist
Moses Montefiore, 52, became the first Jew to be knighted in England. Montefiore was a
banking executive who devoted his life to the political and civil emancipation of English
Jews.
1857: The "Atlantic
Monthly" appeared on the newstands for the first time. This premier issue featured
the first installment of Oliver Wendell Holmes' "The Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table."
1859: Flogging was abolished
in the British army
1872: Fire destroyed nearly
a thousand buildings in Boston.
1888: Jack the Ripper's
fifth and last known victim, Mary Jane Kelly, was found in her room in London's
Whitechapel.
1881: Brahms' own Second
Piano Concerto was premiered with the composer as soloist.
1906: President Theodore
Roosevelt leaves Washington D.C. for a 17 day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico, becoming the
first president to make an official visit outside of the U.S.
1911: The patent for the
electric neon sign was applied for by George Claude.
1918: Germany's Kaiser
Wilhelm the Second announced he would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands.
1933: President Roosevelt
set up the Civil Works Administration as an emergency depression agency to provide jobs
for the unemployed.
1935: Japanese troops invade
Shanghai, China. After WWII, Japanese military leaders faced trial for war crimes.
1935: United Mine Workers
president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial
Organization.
1938: Nazis looted and
burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what
became known as "Kristallnacht." Today's History Focus
1938: The kids' magazine,
"Jack and Jill" was published for the first time. 40,000 of the first edition
were printed. By the late 1950s, the popular magazine reached a circulation of 702,000.
1940: Copland's "Billy
the Kid" premiered as a concert suite.
1948: "This is Your
Life" debuted on NBC Radio. Ralph Edwards hosted the radio show for two years and for
nine more (1952 - 1961) on television.
1953: The Supreme Court
upheld a 1922 ruling that major league baseball did not come within the scope of federal
antitrust laws.
1953: Author-poet Dylan
Thomas died in New York at age 39.
1953: Maurice Richard set a
National Hockey League record by scoring his 325th career goal. Most guys would have kept
the record-breaking puck. Richard sent this one to Queen Elizabeth of England.
1955: Harry Belafonte
recorded "Jamaica Farewell" and "Come Back Liza" for RCA Victor. The
two tunes completed the "Calypso" album which led to Belafonte's nickname, 'The
Calypso King.'s
1961: The Metropolitan
Museum in New York obtained Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer for $2.3
million.
1963: Twin disasters struck
Japan as some 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion, and 160 people died in a
train crash.
1964: "Wizard Of
Id", Comic Strip debut.
1965: The great Northeast
blackout occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power
failures lasting up to 13 and a-half hours.
1967: A "Saturn
Five" rocket carrying an unmanned "Apollo" spacecraft blasted off from Cape
Kennedy on a successful test flight.
1967: The first issue of
"Rolling Stone" was published. The magazine said it was not simply a music
magazine but was also about "...the things and attitudes that music embraces."
John Lennon was on the cover of this first issue.
1970: Former French
president Charles De Gaulle died at age 79.
1972: Bones discovered by
the Leakeys, push human origins back a million years. (What a joke)
1976: The U.N. General
Assembly approved ten resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa, including one
characterizing the white-ruled government as "illegitimate."
1982: Sugar Ray Leonard
retired from boxing this day, five months after having retinal surgery on his left eye.
(In 1984, Leonard came out of retirement to fight one more time before becoming a fight
commentator for NBC.)
1983: Alfred Heineken, beer
brewer from Amsterdam, is kidnapped and held for a ransom of more than $10 million.
1983: President Reagan
arrived in Tokyo with his wife, Nancy, to begin a week-long visit to Japan and South Korea
for talks on economic and security issues.
1984: "Three
Servicemen", a sculpture by Frederick Hart, was unveiled on this day in Washington,
DC. It was the final addition to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The statue faces the wall
of names of more than 58,000 Americans who were either killed or reported missing in
action during the Vietnam War.
1985: Gary Kasparov, 22,
became the youngest world chess champion, ending the 10-year reign of Anatoly Karpov in
Moscow.
1985: MIAMI VICE THEME by
Jan Hammer peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart.
1986: Israel revealed it was
holding Mordechai Vanunu, a former nuclear technician who had vanished weeks earlier after
providing information to a British newspaper about Israel's nuclear weapons program.
1986: Bobby Rahal won his
first national driving title in auto racing. He had earned $300,000 for six victories,
including an Indy 500 win.
1988: Former Attorney
General John N. Mitchell, a major figure in the Watergate scandal, died in Washington at
age 75.
1989: East Germans on foot
and in cars began arriving in West Germany and West Berlin only hours after the East
German government threw open its border to the West.
1990: King Birendra of Nepal
proclaimed a new constitution that restored multi-party democracy to the Himalayan kingdom
and stripped him of his absolute power.
1990: Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a historic non-aggression treaty with Germany, winning praise
from German leaders for his role in the peaceful fall of the Berlin Wall.
1991: police in Hong Kong
forcibly repatriated 59 Vietnamese boat people, carrying them onto a transport plane.
1991: President Bush
returned from a four-day European trip that included a NATO summit.
1992: Russian President
Boris Yeltsin, visiting London, appealed for help in rescheduling his country's debt, and
urged British businesses to invest.
1993: Vice President Al Gore
and Ross Perot debated the North American Free Trade Agreement on CNN's "Larry King
Live."
1993: Edward J. Rollins, who
had managed New Jersey Governor-elect Christine Todd Whitman's campaign, set off a furor
by asserting New Jersey Republicans had paid money to curb black voter turnout, a claim
denied by Whitman and later retracted by Rollins.
1994: One day after
Republicans won majorities in both the House and Senate, President Clinton and the GOP
pledged cooperation, even as they started forming battle lines over their irreconcilable
differences.
1995: In a pair of telephone interviews,
O. J. Simpson told Associated Press reporter Linda Deutsch that people
have supported rather than shunned him since his acquittal, and that he
has learned that fame and wealth are illusions: "The only thing
that endures is character."
1996: President Clinton used
his weekly radio address to condemn the decision of the nation's distillers to end their
longstanding voluntary ban on airing hard-liquor ads, calling it "simply
irresponsible." Evander Holyfield upset Mike Tyson to win the WBA heavyweight title
in an eleven-round fight in Las Vegas.
1997: A Boeing 707 jetliner
carrying First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was forced to return to Andrews Air Force Base
outside Washington after a sensor indicated an engine fire, which turned out to be a false
alarm. (Mrs. Clinton left the following day for a tour of Central Asia.)
1998: The age of digital and
interactive TV opened with the airing of a PBS documentary special, "Chihuly Over
Venice."
1998: A federal judge in New
York approved the richest antitrust settlement in US history, a promise by leading
brokerage firms to pay $1.3 billion to investors who had sued over a price-rigging scheme
for stocks listed on the Nasdaq market.
1999: One year ago: With fireworks,
concerts and a huge party at the landmark Brandenburg Gate, Germany
celebrated the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
1999: The flight data recorder from
EgyptAir Flight 990 was recovered from the Atlantic Ocean and shipped to
a National Transportation Safety Board laboratory in Washington.
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