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Children's Books Month Children's Eye Health and Safety Month National Childhood Injury Prevention Month National Honey 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 Southern Gospel Music Month |
Anthracite Coal Miners Day - Always held on
Labor Day. The Anthracite Coal MinersMemorial statue is located in
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Sponsor: Shenandoah Chamber of Commerce,
Pennsylvania.
Cook a Great Meal Day - This is celebrated on the birthday of, TV Cook and
cook book author, Craig Claiborne. He was born on this day in 1920 in
Sunflower, Mississippi. Take time today to cook a good meal. Sponsor: The
Life of the Party.
Day of the Edsel - This famous flop was introduced on this day in 1957.
Newspaper Carrier Day - In 1833, the New York Sun hired the first newsboy,
Barney Flaherty.
Peter Rabbit's Birthday - Beatrix Potter first told the story of Peter
Rabbit when she sent a get-well letter to 5 year old Noel Moore in 1893.
Los Angeles' Birthday - In 1871, El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los
Angeles was founded.
Born on this Day
1241: Alexander III, King of Scotland.
1249: Amadeus V de Great, count of Flanders and Savoy
1383: Amadeus VIII, duke of Savoye and the last antipope (Felix V
(1439-48))
1596: Constantijn Huygens, diplomat, musician, poet, scientist
(Delightful Folly)
1622: Composer Jacob Hintze
1736: Robert Raikes, Sunday school pioneer
1768: French novelist and politician Francois Rene de Chateaubriand
(French writer and chef who gave his name to a style of steak).
1802: Missionary Marcus Whitman
1803: Sarah Childress Polk, 1st lady (1845-1849)
1810: US naval architect Donald McKay. He built fastest clipper ships
1824: Anton Bruckner was born outside of the Austrian city of Linz. In
1865, Wagner let Bruckner conduct the Linz Choral Society in the first public performance
of the final scene from "Der Meistersinger." Today Bruckner's music is securely
in the repertory.
1824: American poet Phoebe Cary (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary)
1846: Architect Daniel Burnham architect and builder of skyscrapers
1851: Irish nationalist and British John Dillon, Lower house member
1853: Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer of Africa and governor of
East-Africa
1859: Composer Edoardo Mascheroni
1869: Frisian theologist and writer Geert A D Wumkes, (Frision Movement)
1892: Composer Darius Milhaud
1905: Mary Renault (Mary Challans), author who wrote about her wartime
experiences in The Last of the Wine and The King Must Di
1908: Novelist and essayist Richard Wright (wrote about the abuses of
blacks in white society, best known for Native Son).
1917: Henry Ford II (industrialist: head of Ford Motor Co.[1940s-80s])
1918: ABC Radio commentator Paul Harvey
1919: Actor-comedian Howard Morris
1920: Maggie Higgins, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1951)
for international reporting, for her work in Korean war zones.
1920: Cooking expert Craig Claiborne
1931: Actress Mitzi Gaynor
1942: Singer Merald "Bubba" Knight (Gladys Knight & The
Pips)
1944: Actress Jennifer Salt
1949: Golfer Tom Watson
1950: Rhythm-and-blues musician Ronald LaPread (The Commodores)
1951: Actress Judith Ivey
1952: Rock musician Martin Chambers (The Pretenders)
1960: Actor-comedian Damon Wayans
1960: Rock musician Kim Thayil (formerly of Soundgarden)
1971: Actress Ione Skye
1973: Hip-hop singer JeLana LaFleur (Quad City DJ's)
1978: Actor Wes Bentley
0422: Death of St. Boniface, Pope
0476: End of the Reign of Romulus Augustulus, last Roman
Emperor of the West
1024: Conrad II the Sailor chosen German king
1187: Ascalon falls to Saladin
1260: At the Battle of Montaperto, Tuscan Ghibellines
loyal to the emperor defeat the Florentine Guelfs who support papal power.
1479: After four years of war, Spain agrees to allow a
Portuguese monopoly of trade along Africa's west coast and Portugal acknowledges Spain's
rights in the Canary Islands.
1561: Mary Stuart holds her first interview with John Knox
1567: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, grants a patent for
glass-making to two Flemish merchants in England.
1609: Navigator Henry Hudson discovered the island of
Manhattan.
1618: In Chiavenna, Italy "Rodi" avalanche
destroys Plurs Switzerland, 2,400 are killed.
1645: The first Lutheran church building erected in
America was dedicated at Easton (near Bethlehem), Pennsylvania.
1666: Great fire of London destroys St. Paul's Cathedral
1682: English astronomer Edmund Halley discovers his
namesake comet
1781: Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers (in the
Valley of Smokes as called by the Native Americans).
1787: Louis XVI of France recalls parliament.
1790: Jacques Necker is forced to resign as finance
minister in France.
1802: Marcus Whitman, American Presbyterian and pioneer
medical missionary. In 1836 his family became the first whites to reach the Pacific coast
by wagon train. Whitman and his wife Narcissa were murdered by the Cayuse Indians in
present-day Washington state in 1847.
1807: Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat
1813: "The Religious Remembrancer" (later
renamed "The Christian Observer") was first published in Philadelphia. It was
the first weekly religious newspaper in the U.S., and in the world.
1820: Czar Alexander declares that Russian influence in
North America extends as far south as Oregon and closes Alaskan waters to foreigners.
1847: Anglican clergyman Henry Francis Lyte, 54, suffering
from asthma and consumption, penned the words to his hymn, "Abide With Me,"
before preaching his last sermon in Devonshire, England. (Lyte died 2-1/2 months later.)
1862: Robert E. Lee's Confederate army invades Maryland,
starting the Antietam Campaign. This begins his invasion of the with 50,000 Confederate
troops.
1864: Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama.
1870: A republic is proclaimed in Paris and a government
of national defense is formed.
1881: The Edison electric lighting system goes into
operation as a generator serving 85 paying customers is switched on.
1886: Elusive Apache leader Geronimo surrenders to General
Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona.
1888: George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film
camera, and registered his trademark: "Kodak."
1894: Some 12,000 tailors in New York City went on strike
to protest the existence of sweatshops.
1906: Composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov completed his
autobiography.
1915: The U.S. military places Haiti under martial law to
quell a rebellion in Port-au-Prince.
1917: The American expeditionary force in France suffered
its first fatalities in World War One.
1941: William Grant Still's "Old California"
premiered on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
1941: German submarine U-652 fires at the U.S. destroyer
Greer off Iceland, beginning an undeclared shooting war.
1942: Soviet planes bomb Budapest in the war's first air
raid on the Hungarian capital.
1943: Allied troops capture Lae-Salamaua, in New Guinea.
When Fred Avey joined "Pappy" Boyington's flock, he found himself among a pack
of wolves in Black Sheep's clothing.
1944: British troops liberate Antwerp, Belgium.
1945: The American flag is raised on Wake Island after
surrender ceremonies there.
1948: Queen Wilhelmina abdicated the Dutch throne for
health reasons.
1951: In the first live, coast-to-coast television
broadcast, President Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference
in San Francisco. It is carried by 94 stations.
1954: The first passage of the fabled Northwest Passage
was completed by ice breakers from the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard.
1957: Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out the
National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little
Rock.
1957: Ford Motor Company began selling its ill-fated
Edsel, which proved so unpopular, it was taken off the market in 1959.
1964: The TV sitcom "Gilligan's Island"
premiered on CBS.
1965: Albert Schweitzer died in Lambarene. Today's History Focus
1967: Michigan Governor George Romney told a TV interview
he'd undergone a "brainwashing" by US officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam
-- a comment that apparantly damaged Romney's bid for the Republican presidential
nomination.
1971: An Alaska Airlines jet crashed near Juneau, killing
111 people.
1972: US swimmer Mark Spitz won a record seventh Olympic
gold medal, in the 400-meter relay at the Munich Summer Olympics.
1973: The Assemblies of God opened its first theological
graduate school in Springfield, MO, making it the second Pentecostal denomination to
establish its own school of theology. (The first such school was opened by Oral Roberts in
Tulsa.)
1982: Twenty-five people were killed when an arson fire
engulfed the 55-year-old Dorothy Mae Apartment-Hotel building on Sunset Blvd. in Los
Angeles.
1983: U.S. officials acknowledged an American
reconnaissance plane had been in the vicinity of a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 that was
shot down by the Soviet union, leading to speculation the Soviets had confused the two.
1984: Canada's Progressive Conservatives, led by Brian
Mulroney, won a landslide victory in general elections over the Liberal Party of Prime
Minister John N. Turner.
1986: Security forces in South Africa halted a mass
funeral for riot victims in Soweto, then swept through the streets, breaking up other
services and battling gatherings of youths.
1987: A Soviet court convicted West German pilot Mathias
Rust of charges stemming from his daring flight to Moscow's Red Square, and sentenced him
to four years in a labor camp. (Rust was released the following August.)
1988: Officials in Bangladesh reported that floods had
inundated three-quarters of their impoverished nation, claiming 882 or more lives.
1989: The Air Force launched its last Titan Three rocket,
which reportedly carried a reconnaissance satellite. Since 1964, the Titan Three had sent
more than 200 satellites into space.
1990: The air evacuation of Western women and children
stranded in Iraq and Kuwait resumed, with 25 Americans among the nearly 300 who made it to
Jordan.
1991: South African President F.W. de Klerk proposed a new
constitution that would allow blacks to vote and govern; the African National Congress
rejected the plan, charging it was designed to maintain white privileges.
1992: The government reported the nation's unemployment
rate had edged down to 7.6 percent in August 1992, but also said adult joblessness had
worsened slightly and the economy had lost thousands of crucial manufacturing jobs.
1993: The Fatah faction of the PLO endorsed a peace accord
with Israel.
1993: Pope John Paul the Second launched the first papal
visit to the former Soviet Union as he began a tour of the Baltic republics.
1993: Actor Herve Villechaize died in Los Angeles at age
50.
1993: Baseball pitcher Jim Abbott, born without a right
hand, pitched a no-hitter. The New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 4-0. This was
the first no-hitter for the Yankees in 10 years.
1994: On the eve of a U.N.-sponsored conference on
population in Cairo, Egypt, Vice President Al Gore told NBC the United States was seeking
a blueprint for world population growth that rejected abortion as a family planning tool
and an international right.
1995: The Fourth World Conference on Women opened in
Beijing with more than 4,750 delegates from 181 countries participating.
1995: Attorney William Kunstler, who spoke out for the
politically unpopular in a controversial career, died in New York at age 76.
1996: Anti-aircraft fire lit up the skies of Baghdad,
hours after the United States fired a new round of cruise missiles into southern Iraq and
destroyed an Iraqi radar site.
1996: Whitewater prosecutors had Susan McDougal held in
contempt for refusing to tell a grand jury whether President Clinton had lied at her
trial.
1997: A triple suicide bombing in the heart
of Jerusalem claimed the lives of eight people, including the three
assailants. The event was carried out against innocent civilians.
Palestinian Hamas claimed responsibility and identified all three suicide
bombers.
1997: A trio of Buddhist nuns acknowledged in Senate
testimony that their temple outside Los Angeles illegally reimbursed donors after a
fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore and later destroyed or altered records to
avoid embarrassment.
1998: During a visit to Ireland, President Clinton said
the words "I'm sorry" for the first time about his affair with Monica Lewinsky,
describing his behavior as indefensible. Never-the-less he lacked the courage to resign
his post.
1999: Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel and Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat signed a breakthrough land-for-security agreement during a ceremony
in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
1999: Anti-independence militias in East Timor went on a
rampage, hours after the United Nations announced that residents had overwhelmingly voted
for independence from Indonesia.
1999: Martin Frankel, a Connecticut money manager accused
of cheating insurance companies in five states out of more than $200 million dollars, was
arrested in Germany.
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