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Be Late for Something Day - Fight the compulsion
to be on time. Sponsor: The Procastinators' Club of America.
National Shrink Day - Celebrate all psychiatrists and psychologists on the
birthday of TV shrink Bob Newhart. Bob was born in Chicago, Illonoise on this
day in 1929. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
Saint Cassian of Imola Feast Day - Patron saint of afflicted teachers because he
was stabbed by hisstudents when he refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods.
Born on this Day
1187: Louis VII [Coeur-de-Lion], King of France(1223-26)
1319: Pedro IV, king of Aragon
1568: Tommasso Campanella, Italian philosopher and poet, who wrote City
of the Sun.
1600: Composer Loreto Vittori
1638: Louis XIV, "The Sun King" of France who built the palace
at Versailles. (1643-1715)
1666: German theologist, historian and songwriter Gottfried Arnold.
1688: Dutch poet Lukas Fencer Fight of Kings & Mice)
1694: Composer Frantisek Antonin Mica
1734: Composer Jean-Benjamin de La Borde
1735: Johann Sebastian Bach's youngest son, Johann Christian, was born
in Leipzig. By the time he was 30, he was John Bach, the English Bach. Soon, John Bach was
more important to the British musical scene than either William Boyce or Thomas Arne.
1750: Scottish poet Robert Fergusson(Scots poems)
1767: German poet, translator and critic, August Wilhelm Schlegel
1847: Outlaw Jesse Woodson James Today's
History Focus
1897: Marketing research engineer A.C. Nielsen (founder of A.C. Nielsen
Co.: radio and TV audience surveys)
1902: Hollywood producer & motion picture executive Darryl F.
Zanuck.
1905: Arthur Koestler, Hungarian novelist and essayist who wrote about
communism in Darkness at Noon and The Ghost in the Machine.
1912: Inventive composer, writer, philosopher, and artist John Cage
1921: The president of the Motion Picture Association of America, Jack
Valenti.
1927: Former Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul A. Volcker
1929: Comedian-actor Bob Newhart
1939: Actor William Devane
1939: Singer John Stewart
1940: Actress Raquel Welch (some sources say 1942)
1945: Singer Al Stewart
1946: Singer Loudon Wainwright the Third
1946: Drummer Buddy Miles
1946: Actor-director Dennis Dugan
1950: "Cathy" cartoonist Cathy Guisewite
1951: Country musician Jamie Oldaker (The Tractors)
1966: Rhythm-and-blues singer Terry Ellis (En Vogue)
1968: Rock musician Brad Wilk (Rage Against The Machine)
1969: TV personality Dweezil Zappa
1974: Actress Rose McGowan ("Scream")
1986: Actor Andrew Ducote ("Dave's World")
1093: Anselm of Bec enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury
1093: Archbishop Anselm served with a writ to answer
charges by the King
1198: Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of
Roman Catholic Germany
1316: Coronation of Pope John XXII
1550: William Cecil appoints himself English minister of
foreign affairs
1596: Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken
hostage in Java
1569: Death of Peter Bruegel, painter
1622: A hurricane sinks the Spanish treasure ship
"Atocha"
1622: Richelieu becomes cardinal
1638: Queen Anne (of Austria) gives birth after 23 years
of marriage to the King of France, to an heir to the throne: Louis XIV, "the Sun
King"
1661: French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet
arrested
1664: After days of negotiation, the Dutch settlement of
New Amsterdam surrenders to the British, who will rename it New York.
1682: Last 3 women executed for witchcraft in England
1698: Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards.
1725: French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary
Lesczynski
1774: The first Continental Congress convened in secret in
Philadelphia.
1792: Robespierre is elected to the National Convention in
France.
1804: In a daring night raid, American sailors under
Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, board the captured USS Philadelphia and burn the ship to keep
it out of the hands of the Barbary pirates who captured her.
1816: Louis XVIII of France dissolves the chamber of
deputies, which has been challenging his authority.
1836: Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of
Texas.
1844: Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Mountains
1859: Harriot E. Wilson's "Our Nig," is
published, the first U.S. novel by an African American woman.
1867: The first shipment of cattle leaves Abilene, Kansas,
on a Union Pacific train headed to Chicago.
1877: The great Sioux warrior Crazy Horse is fatally
bayoneted at age 36 by a soldier at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
1878: Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Bill Tilghman and Clay
Allison, four of the West's most famous gunmen, meet in Dodge City, Kansas.
1882: 10,000 workers marched in the first Labor Day parade
in New York City.
1885: 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer
(Jake Gumper of Ft. Wayne, Indiana).
1905: The Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese
War, was signed in New Hampshire.
1910: Marie Curie demonstrates the transformation of
radium ore to metal at the Academy of Sciences in France.
1913: Serge Prokofiev was the soloist in the premiere of
his own Second Piano Concerto. A critic in the St. Petersburg Gazette complained, quote,
"My CAT can play like that!" Even today that's not one of Prokofiev's more
popular concertos.
1914: The First Battle of the Marne began during World War
One.
1939: The United States proclaimed its neutrality in World
War Two.
1944: Germany launches its first V-2 missile at Paris,
France.
1956: Johnny Cash hit the record charts running, with
"I Walk The Line". Cash's debut hit song climbed to number 17 on the pop music
charts.
1957: "On the Road," by "beat" author
Jack Kerouac, was first published.
1958: Martin Luther King is arrested in an Alabama protest
for loitering and fined $14 for refusing to obey police.
1960: Cassius Clay of Louisville, Kentucky, won the gold
medal in light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Clay would later
change his name to Muhammad Ali and become one of the great boxing champions in the world.
1960: Leopold Sedar Sengingor, poet and politician, is
elected president of Senegal, Africa.
1972: Terror struck the Munich Olympic games in West
Germany as Arab guerrillas attacked the Israeli delegation. Eleven Israelis, five
guerrillas and a police officer were killed in the siege.
1975: President Ford escaped an attempt on his life by
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a disciple of Charles Manson, in Sacramento,
California.
1977: West German industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer was
kidnapped in Cologne by members of the Baader-Meinhof gang. (Schleyer was later killed by
his captors.)
1977: The US launched the "Voyager One"
spacecraft two weeks after launching its twin, "Voyager Two."
1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Beginand President Carter began a Middle East peace conference at Camp
David in the Maryland mountains.
1979: An All-American from UCLA, Ann Meyers, became the
first female to sign a contract with the NBA. She was cut after one week at training camp.
She and baseball Hall-of-Famer Don Drysdale were later married.
1983: In a broadcast address, President Reagan denounced
the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 with 269 people aboard,
and demanded the Soviets pay reparations.
1984: The space shuttle Discovery completed its maiden
flight as it landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1985: Violence continued near Cape Town, South Africa,
where rioting against white-minority rule had spilled into white neighborhoods for the
first time.
1986: Twenty-one people were killed and dozens wounded
after four hijackers who had seized a Pan Am jumbo jet in Karachi, Pakistan, opened fire
when the lights inside the plane failed.
1987: After 30 years on television, "American
Bandstand," hosted by Dick Clark, was canceled.
1987: Some four dozen people were killed in an Israeli air
raid on targets near the southern Lebanese port town of Sidon.
1987: In his weekly radio address, President Reagan urged
American workers to shun protectionist legislation and "meet the competition
head-on."
1988: On the campaign trail, Republican George Bush
continued to link his opponent with "the liberal left," while Democrat Michael
Dukakis charged that under a GOP administration, "the rich have become richer, the
poor have gotten poorer."
1989: In his first nationally broadcast address from the
White House, President Bush outlined a plan to fight illicit drugs, which he called the
"quicksand of our entire society.""
1989: Tennis star Chris Evert retired from professional
tennis after a successful 19-year career. She stepped down after losing to Zina Garrison,
7-6, 6-2 in the U.S. Open.
1990: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urged Arabs to rise
up in a Holy War against the West and former allies who had turned against him.
1990: In Moscow, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met
with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz.
1991: Jury selection began in Miami in the drug and
racketeering trial of former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega.
1991: In Moscow, Soviet lawmakers approved the creation of
an interim government to usher in a new confederation.
1992: A strike that had idled nearly 43,000 General Motors
Corporation workers ended as members of a United Auto Workers local in Lordstown, Ohio,
approved a new agreement.
1993: Seven Nigerian soldiers were killed in a militia
ambush in Somalia as they went to the aid of other UN peacekeepers surrounded by a
stone-throwing mob.
1994: A U.N.-sponsored population conference opened in
Egypt, with Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland lashing out at the Vatican and
Muslim fundamentalists by defending abortion rights and sex education.
1995: France ended its three-year moratorium on nuclear
tests, setting off an underground blast on a South Pacific atoll.
1995: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, addressing the
United Nations-sponsored Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, declared it was
"time to break the silence" about the abuse of women.
1995: O.J. Simpson jurors heard testimony that police
detective Mark Fuhrman had uttered a racist slur, and advocated the killing of blacks.
1996: Russian President Boris Yeltsin acknowledged he had
serious health problems, and would undergo heart surgery.
1996: Hurricane "Fran" slammed into the
Carolinas.
1997: Mother Teresa died in Calcutta, India, at age 87.
1997: Britain's Queen Elizabeth the Second broke the royal
reticence over Princess Diana's death, calling her "a remarkable person" in a
televised address.
1997: Conductor Sir Georg Solti died in France at age 84.
1997: Eleven Israeli soldiers were killed during a
commando raid into Lebanon.
1998: Relatives of the 229 people who died in the crash of
Swissair Flight 111 sent wreaths into the sea off Nova Scotia.
1998: The Million Youth March in New York City ended with
a clash between police and the crowd.
1998: President Clinton appealed to the people of Ireland
never to allow "the enemies of peace to break your will" as he wrapped up a
three-day visit.
1999: Hundreds of Islamic insurgents launched a new
offensive in southern Russia, hours after a bomb smashed a building housing Russian
military families; the blast was the first of four apartment building explosions blamed by
Russian officials on Chechen rebels that killed a total of about 300 people.
1999: "Candid Camera" creator Allen Funt died in
Pebble Beach, Calif., at age 84.
1999: The Houston Comets won their third straight WNBA
championship, beating the New York Liberty, 59-47.
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