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Born on this Day
1483: Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, was born in
Eisleben,
Germany.
1668: Francois Couperin was born in Paris. He
was one of the greatest Baroque composers France produced, but in his day the French
thought nobody understood music except Italians.
1697: William Hogarth, English artist and
engraver
1728: Playwright Oliver Goldsmith (She Stoops
to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield)
1793: Physician and Naturalist Jared Kirtland
(found 1st Kirtland's Warbler [now, a rare bird])
1819: Cyrus West Field, financier known for
the success of the 1st transatlantic cable.
1882: Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet
member--Secretary of Labor.
1895: John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft
designer.
1907: Jane Froman (singer: I Only Have Eyes
for You, I'll Walk Alone, I Believe)
1912: Baseball player and manager Birdie
(George) Tebbetts
1916: Composer and Band director Billy May
(many of Sinatra's Capitol hits)
1919: George Fenneman announcer for radio and tv: You Bet Your Life - Groucho Marx
1925: Actor Richard (Jenkins) Burton (Camelot,
Hamlet, Anne of the Thousand Days, Becket, The Desert Rats, The Longest Day, Look Back in
Anger, The Night of the Iguana, The Robe, The Sandpiper, The Taming of the Shrew, Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
1932: Pianist and composer Paul Bley (Open to
Love, Fragments, My Standard; founding member: Jazz Composers Guild)
1935: Actor Roy Scheider (All that Jazz, Blue
Thunder, Marathon Man, The French Connection, Jaws series, 2010, 52 Pickup, seaQuest
DSV)
1937: Actor Albert Hall
1940: Native American rights activist Russell
Means
1944: Lyricist Tim Rice (Jesus Christ,
Superstar, Evita, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; film scores: Gumshoe,
Odessa File)
1946: Actress Alaina Reed-Hall
1947: Singer David Loggins (Please Come to
Boston)
1948: Rock singer-musician Greg Lake (Emerson,
Lake and Palmer)
1949: Actress-dancer Ann Reinking (Pippin, All
that Jazz, Annie, Mickey and Maude)
1949: Singer songwriter (Yvonne Vaughn) Donna
Fargo (The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A., Funny Face)
1950: Singer Ronnie Hammond (So in to You,
Imaginary Lover)
1951: Actor Jack Scalia (Pointman, The Devlin
Connection, Dallas, High Performance, Berrenger's, Hollywood Beat, Storybook, Shattered
Image, Wolf, Tequila & Bonetti)
1953: Football player Rusty Chambers
1955: Movie director Roland Emmerich
("Independence Day")
1956: Actor Actor Matt Craven ("LA
Doctors")
1956: Actor-comedian Sinbad
1959: Actress Mackenzie Phillips (One Day at a
Time, American Graffiti, Eleanor & Franklin)
1979: Rock musician Chris Jannou (Silverchair)
1982: Actress Heather Matarazzo
0461: Death of Pope Leo "the
Great"
0627: Death of St. Justus of Canterbury
1143: Death of Fulk of Anjou
1241: Death of Pope Celestine IV
1531: Thomas Bilney, English Reformation
leader, burned at the stake
1549: Death of Pope Paul III
1775: The United States Marine Corps was
formed by order of the Continental Congress.
1782: In the last battle of the American
Revolution, George Rodgers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at
Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory.
1801: Kentucky outlaws dueling.
1865: Captain
Henry Wirz, commandant of Andersonville (Georgia) Prison, hanged for
excessive cruelty.
1871: journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley
found missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa.
Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I
presume?" Livingstone replied: "Yes, and I feel thankful that
I am here to welcome you." Today's
History Focus
1885: The world's first motorcycle,
designed by Gottlieb Daimler, makes its debut.
1891: 1st Woman's Christian Temperance
Union meeting held (in Boston)
1900: The play, "Floradora"
opened in New York City and was received by cheering audiences.
1904: Busoni's Piano Concerto premiered in
Berlin. It may be the longest piano concerto ever written. It will fit
on CD.
1911:The Carnegie Corporation of New York
is established, the first of the great foundations for scholarly and
charitable works.
1911: President Taft ends a 15,000-mile,
57-day speaking tour.
1917: 41 women from 15 states were
arrested outside the White House for suffragette demonstrations.
American women won the right to vote three years later.
1919: The American Legion held its first
national convention, in Minneapolis.
1928: Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of
Japan.
1939: The first air-conditioned
automobiles were on display today at the Auto Show in Chicago.
1950: Monty Woolley starred as "The
Magnificent Montague", which debuted on NBC radio.
1951: Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone
service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey,
called his counterpart in Alameda, California.
1952: U.S. Supreme Court upholds the
decision barring segregation on interstate railways.
1954: The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated
in Arlington, Virginia.
1956: Billie Holiday returned to the New
York City stage at Carnegie Hall after a three-year absence. The concert
was called a high point in jazz history.
1964: Australia begins a draft to fulfill
its commitment in Vietnam.
1969: Twenty years after the first release
of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", Gene Autry received a
gold record for the single on this day.
1969: The classic, "Sesame
Street" debuted on 170 Public Broadcasting Stations and 20
commercial outlets. Created by the Children's Television Workshop, the
show starred endearing characters including Gordon, Susan, Bob, Bert,
Ernie, the Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and, of course, Big Bird!
1971: Two women are tarred and feathered
in Belfast for dating British soldiers, while in Londonderry, Northern
Ireland a Catholic girl is also tarred and feathered for her intention
of marrying a British soldier.
1972: Hijackers divert a jet to Detroit,
demanding $10 million and ten parachutes.
1975: The UN General Assembly approved a
resolution equating Zionism with racism (however: the world body
repealed the resolution in December 1991).
1975: The ore-hauling ship "Edmund
Fitzgerald" and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake
Superior.
1976: The Utah Supreme Court gave the
go-ahead for convicted murderer Gary Gilmore to be executed: according
to his wishes. (The sentence was carried out the following January.)
1980: Voyager I flies past Saturn.
1982: Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev
died at age 75 after 18 years in power.
1982: The newly finished Vietnam Veterans
Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington DC.
1985: Britain's Prince Charles and
Princess Diana, during their visit to Washington D.C., attended morning
services at the National Cathedral, toured the National Gallery of Art
and were hosts at a dinner party at the British Embassy.
1986: President Ronald Reagan refuses to
reveal details of the Iran arms sale.
1986: Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari,
two Frenchmen who had been held hostage in Lebanon, were released.
1987: President Reagan, seeking to shore
up the embattled US dollar, declared the currency had fallen far enough
and that his administration was "not doing anything to bring it
down."
1988: The Department of Energy announced
that Texas would be the home of a $4.4 billion atom-smashing super
collider. However, support for the project declined as cost estimates
soared, and Congress finally voted in October 1993 to kill it.
1989: Workers began punching a hole in the
Berlin Wall, a day after East Germany abolished its border restrictions.
1990: Secretary of State James A. Baker
III returned to Washington, claiming success in his week-long diplomatic
tour aimed at shoring up the anti-Iraq coalition.
1990: Chandra Shekhar was sworn in as
India's new prime minister.
1991: Publishing magnate Robert Maxwell
was buried in Israel, five days after his body was recovered off the
Canary Islands.
1991: "Silk Stalkings" TV Crime
Drama debut on USA.
1992: President Bush dismissed State
Department official Elizabeth Tamposi for her role in a pre-election
search for passport records of his rivals, Democrat Bill Clinton and
Ross Perot.
1993: A jury in Manassas, Virginia,
acquitted John Wayne Bobbitt of marital sexual assault against his wife,
Lorena, who'd sexually mutilated him. Mrs. Bobbitt was later acquitted
of malicious wounding.
1993: The U.S. House of Representatives
passed the so-called "Brady Bill," which called for a five-day
waiting period for handgun purchases.
1994: U.S. officials said the United
States planned to stop enforcing the arms embargo against the Bosnian
government the following week, despite opposition in the U.N. Security
Council to lifting the ban.
1994: Iraq, hoping to win an end to trade
sanctions, recognized Kuwait's borders.
1994: Prominent attorney Louis Nizer died
in New York at age 92.
1995: Defying international appeals for
clemency, Nigeria's military rulers hanged playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa
along with eight other anti-government activists.
1995: Searchers in Katmandu, Nepal,
rescued 549 hikers after a massive avalanche struck the Himalayan
foothills, killing 24 tourists and 32 Nepalese.
1996: David Brinkley hosted his last
"This Week With David Brinkley," the Sunday morning ABC news
show.
1996: A bomb ripped through a crowd of
mourners in a Moscow cemetery, killing 14 people and wounding nearly 50
(authorities later charged the head of an Afghan war veterans fund with
masterminding the bombing, saying the target was a rival veterans
group).
1996: The Bosnian Serbs' new military
commander (Major General Pero Colic) was sworn in, a day after General
Ratko Mladic, a war crimes suspect, was dismissed.
1997: A judge in Cambridge, Mass., reduced
Louise Woodward's murder conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the
English au pair to the 279 days she'd already served in the death of
8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
1997: A Jury in Fairfax, Virginia,
convicted Mir Aimal Kasi of one count of capital murder, one count of
first-degree murder and eight additional charges stemming from a
shooting attack outside CIA headquarters in January 1993.
1997: WordCom Inc. and MCI Communications
Corp. agreed to a $37 billion merger.
1998: The Pentagon stepped up the movement of warships to the Persian Gulf as the Clinton administration swept aside the idea of negotiations with Iraq over UN weapons inspections rejected by the Iraqis.
1999: President Clinton decided to delay and shorten a trip to Greece in reaction to growing security concerns and the prospect of violent anti-American demonstrations.
1999: Investigators said the flight data recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990 showed things were normal until the autopilot mysteriously disconnected and the Boeing 767 began what appeared to be a controlled descent.
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