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Children's Books Month Children's Eye Health and Safety Month Children's Good Manners Month Library Card Sign-Up Month National Childhood Injury Prevention Month National Honey Month National Little League Month National Pediculosis Prevention Month National Piano Month National Rice Month National School Success Month National Sewing Month National Sickle Cell Month National Youth Pastors Appreciation Month Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Self-Improvement Month Southern Gospel Music Month |
Chicken Boy's Birthday - Chicken Boy is the famous statue of a boy with a
chicken head featured in the Chicken Boy Catalog for a Better World .
Sponsor: Future Studio.
Emma M. Nut Day - In 1878, Emma M. Nutt became the first women telephone
operator.
Golden Gloves Boxing Day - Celebrate the birthday of heavyweight boxing
champion Rocky Marciano. Attend a prize fight. Sponsor: The Life of the
Party.
Saint Giles Feast Day - A hermit who took nourishment by suckling a hind,
Saint Giles is patron aint of breast feeding and nursing mothers. He is also
patron saint of the physically disabled, beggars, blacksmiths, woods and
forests, and Edinburgh, Scotland.
Born on this Day
1529: Mannerist Italian painter Taddeo Zuccari
1549: Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havr‚ and earl of
Fontenoy.
1608: Composer Giacomo Torelli
1653: Composer Johann Pachelbel
1689: Bavarian master builder Kilian I von Dientzenhofer
1711: Willem IV KH Friso, Dutch prince of Orange-Nassau
1712: Dutch book illustrator Simon Fokke
1724: Theologist and co-founder of Society of It General John
Nieuwenhuijzen
1732: Composer Johann Gottlieb Sollner
1733: Composer Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly
1768: Composer Carl Bernhard Wessely
1787: Classical composer John Bake
1791: US religious author Lydia Sigourney, (How to Be Happy)
1803: Dutch painter Jacobus T Abels
1854: German composer Engelbert Humperdinck
1875: "Tarzan" author Edgar Rice Burroughs
1900: Announcer Don Wilson (The Jack Benny Show)
1904: Actor Johnny Mack Brown ( Apache Uprising, Ghost Rider, The Masked
Rider, Oregon Trail, Rustlers of Red Dog, Texas Kid)
1907: Union leader Walter Reuther President of United Automobile Workers
[UAW] and Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO])
1920: Actor Richard Farnsworth ("The Grey Fox")
1922: Former Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird
1922: Actress Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton) (10 Commandments,
Munsters, McLintock!)
1922: Actor Vittorio Gassman
1928: Actor George Maharis (Route 66, The Most Deadly Game, Return to
Fantasy Island, Murder on Flight 502, Land Raiders, Exodus)
1923: Boxing champ Rocky Marciano
1931: Country singer Boxcar Willie
1933: Former Texas Governor Ann Richards
1933: Country music singer Conway Twitty (Hello Darlin')
1935: Symphony conductor Seiji Ozawa
1935: Conductor Seiji Ozawa
1937: Actor Ron O'Neal
1937: Actor Don Stroud
1939: Comedian-actress Lily Tomlin
1944: Orchestra leader Leonard Slatkin ( St. Louis Symphony Orchestra)
1944: Singer Archie Bell
1946: Singer Barry Gibb (BeeGees-Stayin' Alive, Night Fever, How Deep Is
Your Love)
1957: Singer Gloria Estefan (Miami Sound Machine-Conga, 1-2-3)
1961: Former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers
1961: Jazz musician Boney James
1970: Rap DJ Spigg Nice (Lost Boyz)
1975: Actor Scott Speedman ("Felicity")
0069: Traditional date of the destruction of Jerusalem
0256: North African bishops vote unanimously that
Christians who had lapsed under persecution must be rebaptized upon reentering the Church.
The vote led to a battle between Cyprian, one of the North African bishops, and Stephen,
bishop of Rome, who disagreed with the vote. That Cyprian yielded has been a longstanding
argument for the Roman bishop's supremacy in the early church.
0891: Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
1067: Boudouin VI becomes earl of Flanders
1159: Death of Pope Adrian IV, only English pope
1181: Election of Lucius III as Pope
1181: Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope
Lucius III
1267: Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish
community in Jerusalem
1271: Election of Gregory X as Pope
1315: Edmund the Butler given land as reward for putting
down English rebels
1422: Henry VI becomes King of England
1482: Krim-Tataren plunders Kiev
1511: Council to Pisa opens
1513: Balboa sets out from Darien
1557: Death of Jacques Cartier
1640: Quinnipiack becomes New Haven, Connecticut
1646: The Cambridge Synod of Congregational Churches
convened in Mass. It formulated the 'Cambridge Platform,' outlining the proper polity
(religious government) to be followed by the New England Congregational churches.
1661: 1st yacht race - England's King Charles vs. his
brother James
1785: Mozart wrote Haydn that "I send my six sons to
you, my most celebrated and dear friend." Mozart was referring to six string
quartets. Mozart was born late enough to have been Papa Haydn's grandson, but Haydn
outlived him.
1803: In Boston, the Massachusetts Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge (SPCK) was instituted. It was the first tract society established in
North America.
1807: Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States
under Thomas Jefferson, was acquitted of treason charges growing out of an alleged plot to
set up an independent empire in the nation's south and west.
1810: The first plow with interchangeable parts was
patented by John J. Wood.
1836: A wagon train of Presbyterian missionaries, led by
pioneer missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman, reached the site of modern Walla Walla, WA.
Whitman's wife Narcissa became the first white woman to cross the North American
continent.
1849: California Constitutional Convention held in
Monterey.
1859: The Pullman sleeping car was placed into service.
The car was built by company namesake George Pullman and he was assisted by Ben Field.
1878: 1st woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt
in Boston). Today's History Focus
1887: Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention
of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone on this day. We know it better as the record
player. Emile got the patent, but Thomas Edison got the notoriety -- for making it work
and making music with his American invention.
1897: The first section of Boston's new subway system was
opened.
1914: The last known passenger pigeon died at the
Cincinnati Zoo.
1923: An earthquake struck Tokyo, followed by a disastrous
fire. An estimated 74,000 people died.
1932: New York City Mayor James J. "Gentleman
Jimmy" Walker resigned following charges of graft and corruption in his
administration.
1939: World War Two began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
1942: A federal judge in Sacramento, California, upheld
the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
1945: Americans received word of Japan's formal surrender
that ended World War Two. (Because of the time difference, it was September second in
Tokyo Bay, where the ceremony took place.)
1951: The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed
a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty.
1957: The horn player Dennis Brain died in an automobile
accident. His playing can be heard on the first recording of Hindemith's Horn Concerto and
Brain played a major role in the Hoffnung Music Festivals, which lampooned classical music
a generation before P.D.Q. Bach.
1972: American Bobby Fischer won the international chess
crown in Reykjavik , Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
1976: US Representative Wayne L. Hays (Democrat, Ohio)
resigned in the wake of a scandal in which he admitted having an affair with secretary
Elizabeth Ray.
1983: 269 people were killed when a Korean Air Lines
Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet
airspace.
1983: Henry "Scoop" Jackson, a 30-year Senate
veteran, died in Everett, Washington, at age 71.
1984: The astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery launched
their third commercial satellite in three days, sending Telstar Three into space.
1985: The crew of the space shuttle Discovery redeployed a
Leasat III satellite that they had retrieved from orbit and repaired in the spacecraft's
cargo bay.
1986: The Soviet Union announced that one of its passenger
ships, the Admiral Nakhimov, had collided with a merchant vessel in the Black Sea the
night before, sinking both ships, and killing up to 448 people.
1987: Peace demonstrator S. Brian Willson lost his legs
when he was hit by a train at the Concord Naval Weapons Station in California while
protesting weapons shipments to Central America.
1988: Shipyard workers at Gdansk, Poland, ended an
eleven-day strike, acting with some reluctance on the advice of Solidarity leader Lech
Walesa.
1989: Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti died of a
heart attack at his summer home in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, at age 51.
1990: President Bush announced that he and Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev would meet in Helsinki, Finland, for a
"free-flowing" one-day summit on the Persian Gulf crisis and other issues.
1991: Yugoslavia's presidency and the country's feuding
republics accepted a European Community plan designed to stop months of fierce fighting
among Croats, Serbs and the army.
1992: Defying a US government warning, Bobby Fischer
announced he would play his onetime rival, Boris Spassky, in a five million-dollar chess
match in Yugoslavia despite United Nations-imposed sanctions.
1993: The Pentagon unveiled a five-year defense plan to
further shrink the US military in favor of a lean, high-tech force.
1993: Louis Freeh was sworn in as director of the FBI.
1994: Chicago police found the body of 11-year-old Robert
"Yummy" Sandifer, a suspect in a gang-related killing who apparently became a
victim of gang violence.
1994: Morocco established low-level diplomatic relations
with Israel.
1995: A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
1995: Illinois Congressman Mel Reynolds, convicted of
having sex with an underage campaign volunteer, announced his resignation.
1996: A day after Iraqi forces moved into a Kurdish safe
haven, US officials were warning the Baghdad government that the incursion would not go
unpunished. That same day, Iraq ordered its troops to withdraw from Irbil.
1997: As Britain continued to mourn the untimely death of
Princess Diana, came word from a source in the Paris prosecutor's office that Diana's
driver, Henri Paul, was legally intoxicated at the time of the crash.
1997: Cindy Figg-Currier wins LPGA State Farm Rail Classic
1997: Jerry Lewis' 32nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises
$50,500,000
1997: The Cartoon Channel premieres in Japan
1997: Armed robbers posing as postal workers stole more
than $37 million from a Zurich, Switzerland, post office.
1998: During a Kremlin summit overshadowed by Russian
economic and political upheaval, President Clinton offered Boris Yeltsin a prescription
for tough reforms.
1998: Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th
and 57th home runs, breaking the one-season record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
1999: Ten American tourists and two Tanzanians were killed
when their small plane crashed as they were leaving Serengeti National Park.
1999: Twenty-two of baseball's 68 permanent umpires found
themselves jobless, the fallout from their union's failed attempt to force an early start
to negotiations for a new labor contract.
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