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Today is:
Boys Clubs of America Birthday - Organized in 1906. Sponsor: Boys and Girls Clubs of America. |
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Born on this Day
1611: Pope (Bl.) Innocent XI
1861: Helen Porter Mitchell was born in Australia. Later,
when she became an opera singer, she would take a new name, Nellie Melba. Nellie was a
nickname for Helen. Melba came from her hometown, Melbourne. Melba Toast and Peach Melba
were both named after her.
1890: Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh
19??: Jonathan Martin (Martins)
19??: Jay Patrack (Gold City)
1925: Black Muslim leader Malcolm X in Omaha, Nebraska. He
was assassinated as he spoke in a meeting at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
1930: Playwright Lorraine Hansberry ("A Raisin in the
Sun")
1934: PBS newscaster Jim Lehrer
1935: TV personality David Hartman
1939: Actor James Fox
1939: Actress Nancy Kwan
1940: Singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury
1941: Author-director Nora Ephron
1945: British rock guitarist Peter Townshend (The Who)
1946: Rock musician Phil Rudd (AC-DC)
1947: Concert pianist David Helfgott
1949: Rock singer-musician Dusty Hill (ZZ Top)
1952: Rock-star Grace Jones
1952: Singer-actress-model Grace Jones
1952: Rock singer Joey Ramone (The Ramones)
1954: Baseball catcher Rick Cerone
1956: Actor Steven Ford
1956: Rock musician Martyn Ware (The Human League)
1962: Rock musician Iain Harvie (Del Amitri)
1972: Rock singer Jenny Berggren (Ace of Base)
1986: Actor Eric Lloyd ("Jesse")
0715: Election of Gregory II as Pope
0988: Death of St. Dunstan
1214: London granted a Charter authorizing the election of
city officials
1218: Death of Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
1296: Death of St. Celestine V, Pope
1303: Death of St. Ives (Ivo) of Brittany
1342: Coronation of Pope Clement VI
1359: The Estates General of France order war to be made
on England
1364: Coronation of Charles V "the Wise," King
of France
1535: Jacques Cartier begins his second voyage to Canada
1536: Archbishop Cranmer issues a dispensation to King
Henry VIII of England to marry Jane Seymour
1536: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry
the Eighth, was beheaded after she was convicted of adultery and incest with her brother,
Lord Rochford. Even her father testified against her. The charges were false.
1568: Mary, Queen of Scots, takes refuge in England
1588: The Spanish Armada set sail for England; it was
soundly defeated by the English fleet the following August.
1606: Vasily Shuisky overthrows the "False
Dimitri" and becomes Czar of Russia
1607: Chartering of the University of Gressen, Germany
1608: The Evangelical Union of Lutherans and Calvinists
1635: France declares war on Spain
1643: New England Confederation formed by Connecticut, New
Haven, Plymouth & Massachusetts Bay colonies for purposes of defense.
1649: England declared a "Commonwealth" by the
"Rump" Parliament
1786: The blind Baroque composer John Stanley died at the
age of 73. Stanley's organ voluntaries survive to this day.
1796: The first U.S. game law was approved. The measure
called for penalties for hunting or destroying game within Indian territory.
1802: In France, Napoleon created the Legion d'Honneur, an
order of distinction for civil or military service.
1847: The first English-style railroad coach was placed in
service on the Fall River Line in Massachusetts.
1857: William F. Channing and Moses G. Farmer patented the
electric fire alarm system in Boston, Massachusetts; the first city to adopt the system.
1862: The Homestead Act becomes law.
1906: The Federated Boys' Clubs, forerunner of the Boys'
Clubs of America, were organized.
1911: The first American criminal conviction based on
fingerprint evidence happened in New York City when a small-time burglar named Crispey was
sent up for six months because he had touched a store window.
1921: Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which
established national quotas for immigrants.
1926: Thomas Edison spoke on the radio for the first time.
1935: T.E. Lawrence, known as "Lawrence of
Arabia," died in a motorcycle accident in England.
1943: In an address to the US Congress, British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country's full support in the war against Japan.
1954: The U.S. Supreme Court declared racially segregated
public schools were inherently unequal in its landmark Brown vs. the Board of Education.
1958: The United States and Canada formally established
the North American Air Defense Command.
1964: It was revealed that American diplomats had found at
least 40 secret microphones hidden in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
1967: The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United
States and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space.
1983: About 20,000 people marched in solemn silence to a
cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, to mourn a teen-ager (Grzegorz Przemyk) who died while in
police custody.
1984: The Edmonton Oilers won their first Stanley Cup,
defeating the four-time defending champion New York Islanders in five games.
1985: Residents of the Philadelphia neighborhood ravaged
by fire in a police confrontation with the radical group "MOVE" gathered for
Sunday services to seek solace.
1986: South Africa said its soldiers had attacked alleged
targets of the African National Congress in the capitals of three neighboring black-ruled
countries: Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
1986: In the first direct talks between China and Taiwan
in 37 years, Beijing agreed to return a cargo jet flown to the communist mainland by a
defecting Nationalist pilot.
1987: Two days after 37 American sailors were killed when
an Iraqi warplane attacked the US frigate "Stark," President Reagan defended
America's presence in the Persian Gulf.
1988: Carlos Lehder Rivas, co-founder of Colombia's
Medellin drug cartel, was convicted in Jacksonville, Florida, of smuggling more than three
tons of cocaine into the United States.
1989: The NCAA announced sanctions against the University
of Kentucky's basketball program for recruiting and academic violations.
1989: On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
passed the 2,500 mark, ending the day at 2,501.10.
1990: Secretary of State James A. Baker III concluded an
agreement with the Soviet Union to destroy chemical weapons and settle long-standing
disputes over limits on nuclear-tipped cruise missiles.
1990: Summer Squall won the Preakness Stakes.
1991: Martial-law courts in Kuwait began trying people
accused of collaborating with Iraqi occupation forces, sentencing one man to life in
prison for wearing a Saddam Hussein T-shirt.
1991: Willy T. Ribbs became the first black driver to
qualify for the Indianapolis 500.
1992: 224-pounder Dave Gauder of England, pulled a 196-ton
jumbo jet three inches across the runway at Heathrow Airport in London for the world
record for pulling a heavy object.
1992: The 27th Amendment to the Constitution, which
prohibits Congress from giving itself mid-term pay raises, went into effect. It actually
became part of the constitution on May 7, 1992, when Michigan became the 38th state to
ratify the amendment. It was written in 1789.
1992: Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the CBS sitcom
"Murphy Brown" for having its title character decide to bear a child out of
wedlock.
1992: Massapequa, New York, Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot
and seriously wounded by her husband Joey's teen-age lover, Amy Fisher.
1993: Boston Pops saluted "My Fair Lady,"
"Oklahoma," "South Pacific" and "Showboat" with some singing
help from Susan Powell.
1993: The White House set off a political storm by
abruptly firing the entire staff of its travel office; five of the seven staffers were
later reinstated and assigned to other duties.
1994: President Clinton held a news conference in which he
defended his foreign policy against suggestions he improvises it from crisis to crisis,
saying, "I continue to look for new solutions.""
1994: Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in
New York at age 64.
1995: The Senate voted, 99-to-0, to reject President
Clinton's spending blueprint.
1995: NASA's administrator unveiled plans to slash
thousands of aerospace jobs and to overhaul virtually every part of the agency.
1996: Space shuttle "Endeavour" and its crew
rocketed into orbit and quickly began preparing for the release of an inflatable antenna.
1997: NBC sportscaster Marv Albert was charged in an
indictment with biting a woman in an Arlington, Virginia, hotel room as many as 15 times
and forcing her to perform oral sex. (Albert denied the charges, but at trial, ended up
pleading guilty to assault and battery.)
1998: Millions of pagers nationwide stopped working when a
communications satellite, the Galaxy Four, suddenly lost track of Earth.
1998: Bandits stole three of Rome's most important
paintings, two by van Gogh and one by Cezanne, from the National Gallery of Modern Art.
1999: The much-anticipated movie prequel "Star Wars:
Episode One -- The Phantom Menace" opened.
1999: As NATO's Operation Allied Force entered its ninth
week, Russia's special envoy to the Balkans called on both NATO and Yugoslavia to suspend
hostilities.
1999: The Justice Department renewed its campaign to
revoke John Demjanjuk's citizenship, alleging he was a Nazi death camp guard known as
"Ivan the Terrible."
2000: China and the European Union reached a market-opening trade deal, clearing Beijing's largest remaining hurdle to joining the World Trade Organization.
2000: Masked gunmen launched a coup in Fiji that toppled Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, the country's first ethnic Indian premier.
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