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Born on this Day
0354: Birth of St. Augustine of Hippo,
greatest of the Early Latin Church Fathers.
1312: Edward III, King of England.
1486: German theologian Johann Eck, Martin
Luther's principal Roman Catholic opponent.
1572: Cyril Lucaris Patriarch of
Constantinople
1814: Union Civil War general Joseph Hooker
1831: Scottish physicist James Maxwell
1833: Actor Edwin Booth. A major force in
English and American theater until his last appearance as Hamlet in 1891. He was the older
brother of John Wilkes Booth.
1838: American religious leader Joseph F(ielding) Smith, sixth president (1901-18) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints
1850: Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyl and Mr.
Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses)
1856: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis
Brandeis
1893: Edward A. Doisy, Biochemist,
discoverer of vitamin K (Nobel 1943).
1913: Actor Alexander Scourby (The Big Heat,
Affair in Trinidad)
1916: Actor Jack Elam (Support Your Local
Sheriff, High Noon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Cannonball Run series, Pocketful of
Miracles, Rawhide, Temple Houston, The Texas Wheelers, The Dakotas)
19??: Venus (Fell Venus)
1916: Actor Jack Elam
1922: Actress Madeleine Sherwood (The Flying
Nun's Mother Superior, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Broken Vows, Sweet Bird of Youth).
1922: Actor (Josef Schliessmayer) Oskar
Werner (Ship of Fools, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Voyage of the Damned, Fahrenheit
451)
1924: Actress Linda Christian (The Devil's
Hand, Athena)
1932: Actor Richard Mulligan (Soap, Empty
Nest, S.O.B., The Hero, The Group, Little Big Man, Diana)
1934: Producer-director Garry Marshall (The
Odd Couple, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days; director: A League of Their Own, Pretty Woman,
Beaches; comedy writer: Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lucy Show)
1938: Actress Jean Seberg (Paint Your Wagon,
The Mouse that Roared, Airport, Joan of Arc, Bonjour Tristesse)
1941: Actor Dack (Norman) Rambo (Dallas, All
My Children, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Sword of Justice, The New Loretta Young Show)
1941: Mel Stottlemyre
1946: Country singer-songwriter Ray Wylie
Hubbard
1947: Actor/Cartoon Voicist, Joe Mantegna (Simpsons' Fat Tony).
1947: Actor Joe Mantegna
1953: Musician Andrew Rankin (The Pogues)
1953: Figure skater Charlie Tickner (Bronze medalist: Winter Olympics [1980]; U.S. Champion [1977, 1978, 1979, 1980])
1955: Actress-comedian (Caryn Johnson)
Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost, The Color Purple, Sister Act series, Made in America,
Jumpin' Jack
Flash, Comic Relief, The Whoopi Goldberg Show, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Bagdad
Cafe)
1957: Actor Chris Noth (Law & Order,
Burnzy's Last Call, Jakarta, Baby Boom)
1959: Actress Tracy Scoggins (Lois and Clark
- The New Adventures of Superman, Hawaiian Heat, Dynasty, The Colbys, Alien Intruder, Dead
On, The Gumshoe Kid)
1963: Heisman Trophy winner Vinny Testaverde
1964: Rock musician Walter Kibby (Fishbone)
1968: Actor Steve Zahn
0444: Death of St. Brice
0867: Death of St. Nicholas
I, Pope
1002: Ethelred the Redeless
massacres the Danes in England
1179: Death of St. Homobonus
1460: Death of Prince Henry
"the Navigator," of Portugal
1474: In the Swiss-Burgundian Wars, Swiss infantry shatters the army of Charles the Bold at Hericourt
near Belfort, countering his march to Lorraine.
1715: Battle of Sheriffmuir
in Scotland.
1775: During the American
Revolution, US forces captured Montreal.
1789: Benjamin Franklin
wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "this world nothing can be said to be
certain, except death and taxes."
1806: Pike's Peak is
discovered, but not climbed, by Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike during an expedition to
locate the source of the Mississippi.
1835: Texans officially
proclaim independence from Mexico, and calls itself the Lone Star Republic, after its
flag, until its admission to the Union in 1845. The Alamo's 13 days of glory.
1843: Mt Rainier in
Washington State erupts.
1843: Donizetti's final
opera "Dom Sebastian" was premiered, and someone asked the composer which of his
operas he liked most. "How can I say?" he replied. "A father always favors
his crippled child, and I have so many!"
1875: "Tchaikovsky's
First Piano Concerto, like the first pancake, is a flop." So wrote Nicolai Soloviev
in the "New Vremya" of St. Petersburg.
1878: New Mexico Governor
Lew Wallace offers amnesty to many participants of the Lincoln County War, but not to
gunfighter Billy the Kid.
1895: The first shipment of
canned pineapple from Hawaii.
1907: Paul Corno achieves
the first helicopter flight.
1914: The brassiere was
first patented. Today's History Focus
1916: The Battle of the
Somme, in which 60,000 lost their lives, ended.
1916: Australian composer
Septimus Kelly died, a battle fatality in France. He was 35.
1921: The Sheik, starring
Rudolph Valentino, was released.
1927: After seven years of
construction and over $48 million, the Holland Tunnel, was opened under the Hudson River,
linking New York City and New Jersey.
1929: Berlin critic Max Chop
hailed Darius Milhaud as "arch-amateurish."
1930: The first revolving
milk platform was used in Plainsboro, NJ. For the first time, 1,680 cows could be milked
in seven hours.
1933: The first recorded
"sit-down" strike in the United States was staged by workers at the Hormel
Packing Company in Austin, Minn.
1940: The Walt Disney
animated movie "Fantasia" had its world premiere in New York.
1942: The minimum draft age
was lowered from 21 to 18.
1942: The three-day naval
battle for Guadalcanal begins. Marine Sergeant Al Schmid lost an eye while heroically
manning a machine gun in bloody fighting on Guadalcanal.
1943: Leonard Bernstein
replaced an indisposed Bruno Walter as conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Thus began a legendary career and worldwide appreciation for Bernstein's many compositions
with the orchestra.
1945: Charles de Gaulle is
elected president of France.
1946: The first artificial
snow was produced by Vincent J. Schaefer on Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts this day.
1948: The Archbishop of
Canterbury received the original manuscript of "Alice in Wonderland" from the
Library of Congress. An American outbid others trying to secure the document, but
donations allowed the English to buy it back for the British Museum.
1952: Harvard's Paul Zoll is
the first to use electric shock to treat cardiac arrest.
1955: NBC showed the first
live TV program from a foreign country (noncontiguous). Scenes from Havana, Cuba were seen
by viewers of Dave Garroway's "Wide Wide World" program.
1956: The Supreme Court
ruled in a case from Montgomery, Ala., that segregation on interstate buses is
unconstitutional.
1967: Carl Stokes is
inaugurated mayor of Cleveland, the first black mayor of a major city.
1969: Speaking in Des
Moines, Iowa, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network television news departments of
bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints.
1974: Karen Silkwood, a
technician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Crescent,
Oklahoma: was killed in a car crash.
1975: One of the great
lounge lizard songs of all time, "Feelings" by Morris Albert, went gold this
day.
1977: After 43 years as a
regular feature in hundreds of newspapers, Al Capp brought his comic strip, "Li'l
Abner" to a final conclusion.
1982: The Vietnam Veterans
Memorial was dedicated in Washington.
1985: Some 23,000 residents
of Armero, Colombia, died when a gigantic mudslide, triggered by the Nevado del Ruiz
volcano, buried the city.
1985: 21-year-old New York
Met Dwight Gooden became the youngest pitcher to win the Cy Young Award. In 1984, he was
"Rookie of the Year."
1986: President Ronald
Reagan publicly acknowledged that the United States had sent "defensive weapons and
spare parts" to Iran in an attempt to improve relations, but denied the shipments
were part of a deal to free hostages in Lebanon.
1987: Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega unveiled an eleven-point proposal in Washington for a cease-fire that called
for the Contra rebels to lay down their weapons and accept an amnesty.
1988: Former Czechoslovak
leader Alexander Dubcek received an honorary degree in Italy, the first time he was
allowed outside his country in 18 years.
1989: Polish labor leader
Lech Walesa received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush during a White House
ceremony.
1990: Secretary of State
James A. Baker III told reporters in Hamilton, Bermuda, the Persian Gulf crisis threatened
world recession and the loss of American jobs.
1990: Members of Congress
demanded a larger role in the Persian Gulf policy of the U.S. following President Bush's
decision to send more U.S. troops to the region.
1991: The U.S. House of
Representatives approved a Senate-passed bill guaranteeing many workers up to 12 weeks of
unpaid leave for family emergencies.
1991: The government
reported that wholesale prices had risen seven-tenths of one percent the previous month,
their biggest leap in a year.
1992: Riddick Bowe won the
undisputed heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas with a unanimous decision over Evander
Holyfield.
1993: President Clinton used
his weekly radio address to make yet another pitch for the North American Free Trade
Agreement, then flew to Memphis, Tennessee, where he delivered an anti-crime speech to
black ministers at the Temple Church of God in Christ.
1994: A heavily armed gunman
traded fire with San Francisco police, hitting two police officers, a paramedic and
another person before being killed.
1994: President Clinton,
visiting the Philippines, sought to assure world leaders that his party's severe losses in
midterm elections wouldn't undercut his foreign policy.
1994: Sweden voted to join
the European Union.
1995: Seven people,
including five Americans, were killed when a bomb exploded at a military training facility
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
1995: The government braced
for an imminent partial shutdown as President Clinton vetoed one budget bill and prepared
to veto another in a fiscal standoff with Republicans.
1996: A grand jury in St.
Petersburg, Florida, declined to indict police officer Jim Knight, who had shot black
motorist TyRon Lewis to death the previous month; the decision prompted angry mobs to
return to the streets.
1996: An all-white jury in
Pittsburgh acquitted a suburban police officer, John Vojtas, in the death of black
motorist Jonny Gammage in a verdict that angered black activists.
1996: Sergeant Loren B.
Taylor, a drill sergeant who'd had sex with three women recruits at Fort Leonard Wood,
Missouri, was given five months in prison and a bad-conduct discharge in the first
sentencing of the burgeoning Army sex scandal.
1997: The United Nations
decided to withdraw all weapons inspectors from Iraq after Saddam Hussein ordered
Americans on the UN team out.
1998: President Clinton
agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000 to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit — with no
apology or admission of guilt — ending the four-year legal battle that spurred the
impeachment proceedings against him.
1999: The Navy recovered the cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean
October 31 with the loss of all 217 people aboard.
1999: Lennox Lewis became the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, winning a unanimous decision over Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas.
1999: Donald Mills, last surviving member of the singing Mills Brothers, died in Los Angeles at age 84.
2001: Afghan opposition fighters rolled
into Kabul after Taliban troops slipped away under cover of darkness,
abandoning the capital without a fight. Eight foreign aid workers - two
Americans, two Australians and four Germans - held captive in
Afghanistan for three months were freed from a prison by anti-Taliban
fighters.
2001: President Bush and Russian
President Vladimir Putin met at the White House, where they pledged to
slash Cold War-era nuclear arsenals by two-thirds but remained at odds
over American plans to develop a missile defense shield.
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