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Born on this Day
1050: Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1296: Saint Gregory
Palamas - Orthodox monk, theologian, and
intellectual leader of Hesychasm, an ascetical method of mystical prayer that integrates
repetitive prayer formulas with bodily postures and controlled breathing.
1491: Martin Bucer Protestant Reformer,
mediator, and liturgical scholar known for his attempts to make peace between conflicting
reform groups.
1821: Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1885: Gen. George Patton
1872: Frederick Stock was born. Today he is
remembered mainly as an early leader of the Chicago Symphony, but Stock also composed
symphonies and a violin concerto.
1899: Actor Pat O'Brien
19??: Russ Taff
1904: Alger Hiss, who was accused of being a
communist spy in Washington in the late 1940's
1915: Former Senator William Proxmire
(Democrat, Wisconsin)
1918: Actor Stubby Kaye
1922: Author Kurt Vonnegut Junior
1927: Comedian Jonathan Winters
1927: Jazz singer-musician Mose Allison
1930: Jazz-country musician Hank Garland
1934: The most famous criminal in America in
the last third of the 20th century, Charles Manson, was born in Cincinnati
1935: Actress Bibi Andersson
1938: Country singer Narvel Felts
1940: Senator Barbara Boxer (Democrat,
California)
1944: Singer Jesse Colin Young
1945: Rock singer-musician Vince Martell
(Vanilla Fudge)
1951: Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller
1952: Pop singer-musician Paul Cowsill (The Cowsills)
1953: Rock singer-musician Andy Partridge (XTC)
1954: Singer Marshall Crenshaw
1955: Rock singer Dave Alvin
1956: Rock musician Ian Marsh (Human League;
Heaven 17)
1962: Actress Demi Moore
1964: Rock musician Scott Mercado
1964: Actress Calista Flockhart
1964: Actor Philip McKeon
1974: Actor Leonardo DiCaprio
0397: Death of St. Martin of
Tours
0619: Death of St. John the
Almsgiver
0826: Death of St. Theodore
the Studite
1100: Baldwin I crowned King
of Jerusalem (1st Crusade)
1215: The Fourth Lateran
Council was convened by Pope Innocent III. It was the council which first defined
"transubstantiation," the Catholic belief that the bread and wine of the
Eucharist change invisibly into the body and blood of Christ.
1404: Coronation of Pope
Innocent VII
1417: Great Schism of the
western church ends with election of Pope Martin V
1499: Pretender to the
throne Perkin Warbeck is executed.
1620: 41 Pilgrims aboard the
"Mayflower," anchored off Massachusetts: signed a compact calling for a
"body politick."
1647: Massachusetts passes
1st US compulsory school attendance law requiring settlements of over 50 households to
hire a teacher and those over 100 households to found a school suitable for college
preparation.
1706: Bach was reprimanded.
His employers in Arnstadt told him he wasn't rehearsing his singers enough.
1778: Indians, led by
William Butler, massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley, N.Y.
1831: Former slave Nat
Turner: who had led a violent insurrection: was executed in Jerusalem: Virginia.
Today's History Focus
1889: Washington was
admitted to the Union as the 42nd state.
1906: Nielsen's opera
"Maskarade" was premiered in Copenhagen.
1909: Construction begins on
the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
1918: Fighting in World War
One came to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany.
1921: President Harding
dedicated the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
1935: Dr. Robert Millikan at
the National Academy of Science meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, announced the discovery of
cosmic rays.
1939: Kate Smith first sang
Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio.
1950: The Boston Herald,
Randolph Elie said, "Forty-five years have passed since Schoenberg wrote his Chamber
Symphony, and it will certainly be another 45 before it is programmed by popular
demand."
1965: Rhodesia proclaimed
its independence from Britain.
1966: "Gemini 12"
blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, with astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin
"Buzz" Aldrin Junior.
1966: The Methodist Church
and the Evangelical United Brethren voted to merge into one denomination in the U.S.,
afterward to be called the United Methodist Church. (The "declaration of union"
took place officially on April 23, 1968.)
1972: The US Army turned
over its base at Long Bihn to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing the end of direct US
military involvement in the Vietnam War.
1981: Stunt man Dan Goodwin scaled the outside
of the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago in nearly six hours.
1982: The space shuttle
Columbia blasted off on the first commercial space mission.
1982: Solidarity leader Lech
Walesa is let out of jail in Poland.
1983: President Reagan
became 1st US president to address Japan's legislature.
1985: On the last full day
of their visit to the Washington, D.C. area, Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana
stopped by a J.C. Penney department store in Springfield, Virginia, where a "Best of
Britain" promotion was on display.
1986: France formally
thanked Syria for its role in securing the release of hostages Marcel Coudari and Camille
Sontag in Lebanon.
1986: Sperry Rand and
Burroughs merged to form "Unisys," becoming the #2 computer company. Changeover
costs were estimated at $15 million.
1987: Following the failure
of two Supreme Court nominations, President Reagan announced his choice of Judge Anthony
M. Kennedy, who went on to win confirmation.
1986: Actor Roger C Carmel
dies at 54, (Mudd-Star Trek, Mothers-in-Law.)
1987: Following the failure
of two Supreme Court nominations, President Reagan announced his choice of Judge Anthony
M. Kennedy, who went on to win confirmation.
1988: Police in Sacramento,
California, found the first of seven bodies buried on the grounds of a boardinghouse.
Landlady Dorothea Puente was later charged in the deaths of nine people; she was convicted
of three murders and sentenced to life in prison.
1989 In a telephone
conversation with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, East German leader Egon Krenz ruled
out any possibility of East-West German re-unification.
1989: An NCAA rushing record
of 377 yards was set by Indiana University's Anthony Thompson in a crushing defeat of
Wisconsin.
1990: Stormie Jones, the
world's first heart-liver transplant recipient, died at a Pittsburgh hospital at age 13.
1991: The United States
stationed its first diplomat in Cambodia in 16 years to help the war-shocked nation
arrange democratic elections.
1992: Russian President
Boris Yeltsin told US senators in a letter that Americans had been held in prison camps
after World War Two and some were "summarily executed," but that others were
still living in his country voluntarily.
1992: The Church of England
voted to ordain women as priests.
1993: A bronze statue
honoring the more than eleven-thousand American women who'd served in the Vietnam War was
dedicated in Washington DC.
1993: Walt Disney Co.
announced plans to build a U.S. history theme park in a Virginia suburb of Washington; the
company later backed down in the face of local opposition.
1994: President Clinton set
out for an Asian trade conference, suggesting it could help bring prosperity to
dissatisfied Americans.
1994: A suicide bomber
detonated his explosives at an Israeli military checkpoint in Gaza, killing three
soldiers.
1995: With a partial
government shutdown looming, President Clinton and Republican congressional leaders
clashed over Medicare and bickered over who to include in compromise budget talks.
1996: The Army reported
getting nearly two-thousand calls to a hot line set up after revelations of a sex scandal
at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Meanwhile, a Pentagon official said the Army
was ready to take action in another case of alleged sexual misconduct at Fort Leonard
Wood, Missouri.
1997: Retired General Colin
Powell announced he would not seek the Republican presidential nomination or any other
office in 2000, saying he lacked "the passion" for political life.
1997: Photography giant
Eastman Kodak announced it was cutting ten-thousand jobs because of fierce competition
from Japan's Fuji Photo Film Company.
1998: Israel's Cabinet
narrowly ratified a land-for-peace agreement with the Palestinians.
1998: President Clinton
ordered warships, planes and troops to the Persian Gulf as he laid out his case for a
possible attack on Iraq. Iraq, meanwhile, showed no sign of backing down from its refusal
to deal with UN weapons inspectors.
1999: Argentine journalist Jacobo
Timerman died in Buenos Aires at age 76.
1999: A car bomb ripped through a Bogota
commercial district, killing at least eight people, but President Andres
Pastrana defiantly signed extradition orders for three suspected drug
traffickers.
1999: Sixty-seven people were killed when an apartment building
collapsed in Foggia, Italy; an investigation blamed the collapse on
cheap materials and slipshod construction.
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