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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 |
Co-ed College Day - In 1837, Oberlan College
became the first U.S. college to admit women.
Random Target Day - Instead of murdering a priest (his original target), Leon
Czolgosz shot Presiden William McKinley on this day in 1901.
Born on this Day
1577: Sculptor and architect Pietro Tacca, Italian (Aanbidding of the
Point)
1620: Composer Isabella Leonarda
1627: Composer Pierre Verdier
1633: Composer Sebastian Knupfer
1644: Composer Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles
1648: Composer Johann Schelle
1697: Amsterdam regent, banker and merchant Willem Gideon Deutz
1702: Composer Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber
1711: Heinrich Melchior Mohlenberg, founder of the US Lutheran church
1729: German englightened philosopher Mozes Mendelssohn(Haksalah)
1757: Marie Joseph du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette. French soldier
and statesman who aided George Washington during the American Revolution.
1766: English physicist John Dalton. He developed atomic theory of
matter.
1781: Austria publisher and composer Anton Diabelli
1788: German painter F. Wilhelm von Schadow
1811: James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington.
1800: Catherine Esther Beecher, educator who promoted higher education
for women
1805: Horatio Greenough, American neoclassical sculptor, writer.
1860: Jane Addams known for her work as a social reformer, pacifist, and
founder of Hull House in Chicago in 1889. In 1931 she became the first American woman to
receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
1888: Financier-diplomat-bootleger Joseph P. Kennedy
1899: Theatrical producer Billy Rose (Rosenberg) (songwriter of: Me and
My Shadow, That Old Gang of Mine, It's Only a Paper Moon, Does the Spearmint Lose Its
Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight, More than You Know, Barney Google)
1937: Comedian JoAnne Worley
1939: Country singer David Allen Coe
1942: Country singer Mel McDaniel
1944: Actress Swoosie Kurtz
1947: Comedian-actress Jane Curtin (SNL, Kate and Allie, and my favorite
3rd Rock.)
1948: Rhythm-and-blues musician Claydes Smith (Kool & The Gang)
1958: Actor-comedian Jeff Foxworthy
1960: Actor-comedian Michael Winslow ("Police Academy")
1960: Rock musician Perry Bamonte (The Cure)
1961: Pop musician Pal Waaktaar (a-ha)
1963: Country singer Mark Chesnutt
1964: Actress Rosie Perez
1969: Singer CeCe Peniston
1969: Rhythm-and-blues singer Darryl Anthony (Az Yet)
1971: Rock singer Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries)
1974: Actor Justin Whalen ("Lois and Clark").
1974: Rock singer Nina Persson (The Cardigans)
1979: Rapper Foxy Brown
0394: Theodosius becomes sole ruler of Italy after
defeating Eugenius at the Battle of the River Frigidus.
0972: Death of Pope John VIII
1298: Venice defeats Genoa; Marco Polo taken prisoner
1422: Sultan Murat II ends a siege of Constantinople
1522: Return of Magellan's fleet. One of the five ships
that set out in Ferdinand Magellan's trip around the world makes it back to Spain. Only 15
of the original 265 men that set out survived. Magellan was killed by natives in the
Philippines.
1565: Spanish land at St. Augustine, Florida
1566: Death of Suliman, "the Lawgiver," called
"the Magnificent" Selim II "the Sot" becomes Sultan of Turkey See Today's History Focus
1620: 149 Pilgrims set sail from England aboard the
Mayflower, bound for the New World.
1622: Spanish galleon "Atocha" sinks in
hurricane; treasure found in 1985
1628: Endecott & Puritans land at Salem: start of
Massachusetts Bay Colony
1688: Imperial troops defeat the Turks and take Belgrade,
Serbia.
1716: 1st lighthouse in US built, in Boston.
1791: A day after he finished it, Mozart's "La
Clemenza de Tito" was performed in Prague. The empress didn't like it. She hailed
Mozart's next-to-last opera as "German swinery."
1793: French General Jean Houchard and his 40,000 men
begin a three-day battle against an Anglo-Hanoveraian army at Hondschoote, southwest
Belgium, in the wars of the French Revolution.
1819: Thomas Blanchard of Middlebury, CT, patented a
machine called the lathe. Blanchard said it was invented for the manufacturing of gun
stocks. His lathe did the work of 13 operators.
1837: The Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio went
co-educational.
1861: Union General Ulysses S. Grant's forces capture
Paducah, Kentucky from Confederate forces.
1869: The 1st westbound train arrives in San Francisco.
1870: The last British troops to serve in Austria are
withdrawn.
1876: Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to San
Francisco completed.
1901: President Willliam Mckinley is shot while attending
a reception at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, by 28- year-old anarchist
Leon Czolgosz. Mckinley, who dies eight days later. He becomes the third American
president assassinated.
1907: Luxury liner Lusitania leaves London for New York on
her maiden voyage.
1909: Word was received that Adm. Robert Peary had
discovered the North Pole five months earlier, on April 6, 1909.
1910: One of the most magnificent works in the entire
classical repertory was premiered. Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Fantasia on a Theme by
Thomas Tallis," which features two string ensembles, one small and one large,
answering each other from two ends of a hall in huge.
1913: French pilot Adolphe Pegoud first to "loop the
loop."
1918: The German Army begins a general retreat across the
Aisne, with British troops in pursuit.
1920: Jack Dempsey knocked out Billy Miske in the third
round of a heavyweight title bout at Benton Harbor, Michigan.
1937: The Soviet Union accuses Italy of torpedoing two
Russian ships in the Mediterranean.
1939: South Africa declared war on Germany.
1941: Jews over the age of six in German-occupied areas
were ordered to wear yellow Stars of David.
1943: The United States asks the Chinese Nationals to join
with the Communists to present a common front to the Japanese.
1944: During World War Two, the British government relaxed
blackout restrictions and suspended compulsory training for the Home Guard.
1948: Queen Juliana of the Netherlands was crowned.
1952: Canadian television broadcasting began in Montreal.
1953: The last American and Korean prisoners are exchanged
in Operation Big Switch, the last official act of the Korean War.
1959: The first Barbie Doll was sold this day by Mattel
Toy Corporation. Today, the original Barbie, along with her pals, Ken and Skipper, are
collectors items, although new versions are continually being produced.
1965: Indian troops invade Lahore; Pakistan paratroopers
raid Punjab.
1966: South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was
stabbed to death by a deranged page during a parliamentary session in Cape Town.
1966: Star Trek appears on TV for the first time (on NBC)
1968: Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National
Day).
1970: Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three
jetliners which were later blown up on the ground in Jordan after the passengers and crews
were evacuated.
1972: The Summer Olympics resumed in Munich, West Germany,
a day after the deadly hostage crisis that claimed the lives of elevtn Israelis and five
Arab abductors.
1975: Glen Campbell hit #1 this day, when "Rhinestone
Cowboy" went to number one on the Billboard pop music chart. It had reached number
one on the country chart on August 23rd.
1975: Czechoslovakian tennis star Martina Navratilova, in
New York for the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament, requested political asylum.
1976: A Soviet pilot lands his MIG-25 in Tokyo and asks
for political asylum in the United States.
1978: James Wickwire of Seattle and Louis Reichardt of San
Francisco became the first Americans to reach the summit of Pakistan's K-2, the world's
second-highest mountain.
1982: Polish dissidents seized the Polish Embassy in Bern,
Switzerland, and demanded an end to martial law in Poland. They eventually surrendered.
1983: The Soviet Union admitted shooting down Korean Air
Lines flight 007 five days after it happened, saying the fighter pilots involved did not
know their target was a civilian aircraft.
1984: Country music star, Ernest Tubb, died at the age of
70. Tubb was from Crisp, Texas and was known as the Texas Troubadour. Tubb recorded
"I'm Walking the Floor Over You" and sold more than three million copies of this
tune. Tubb was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and was elected to the Country Music Hall of
Fame in 1965.
1984: The Soviet Union announced that Marshal Nikolai V.
Ogarkov had been removed as chief of the general staff and first deputy defense minister,
and had been replaced by Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev.
1985: All 31 people aboard a Midwest Express Airlines DC-9
were killed when the Atlanta-bound jetliner crashed just after takeoff from Milwaukee's
Mitchell Field.
1986: 22 worshipers were killed when two gunmen attacked a
synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey, with machine guns and grenades, then took their own lives.
1987: Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore
succeeded in separating seven-month-old Benjamin and Patrick Binder, twin brothers from
Ulm, West Germany, who were joined at the head, after 22 hours of surgery.
1988: A 25-hour drama began as technical problems kept a
two-man Soviet space crew from returning to Earth aboard a "Soyuz" space
capsule. (The problems were cleared up, and the crew landed safely the next day.)
1988: Lee Roy Young becomes the first African-American
Texas Ranger in the force's 165-year history.
1989: The National Party, the governing party of South
Africa, suffered its worst election setback in four decades in parliamentary elections,
losing nearly a quarter of its seats to far-right and anti-apartheid rivals.
1990: Iraq increased pressure on trapped Westerners,
warning that anyone trying to leave without permission could face life in prison.
1991: In the Soviet Union, the State Council, a new
executive body composed of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and republic leaders, recognized
the independence of the Baltic states.
1991: Russian legislators voted to restore the name St.
Petersburg to Russia's second largest city. The city, founded in 1703 by Peter the Great,
had its name changed to Petrograd in 1914 and to Leningrad in 1924.
1992: An unidentified 35-year-old man who was the
recipient of a transplanted baboon liver died at the University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center ten weeks after receiving the organ.
1993: President Clinton visited South Florida, where he
met with residents recovering from Hurricane "Andrew."
1993: Automakers Renault of France and Volvo of Sweden
announced they would merge; however, Volvo canceled the deal the following December.
1994: Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds and Gerry
Adams, the head of the IRA's political ally, Sinn Fein, made a joint commitment to peace
after their first face-to-face meeting.
1995: Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken broke Lou
Gehrig's record by playing his 2,131st consecutive game.
1995: Hurricane Luis moved away from the Caribbean after
lashing resort islands.
1995: Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invoked
his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination as he was called back to the witness
stand at the O.J. Simpson trial.
1995: The Senate Ethics Committee voted unanimously to
recommend expulsion of Sen. Bob Packwood, accused of sexual and official misconduct.
1996: The death toll from Hurricane "Fran" rose
to 17 in Virginia, West Virginia and the Carolinas.
1996: Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th
career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers, joining Hall of Famers Hank
Aaron and Willie Mays as the only players with at least 3000 hits and 500 homers.
1997: Britain bade farewell to Princess Diana with a
funeral service at Westminster Abbey.
1997: Weeping masses gathered in Calcutta, India, to pay
homage to Mother Teresa, who had died the day before at age 87.
1998: Divers working off Nova Scotia found the flight data
recorder from Swissair Flight 111, which had crashed, killing all 229 people on board
(however, it turned out the recorder had stopped working several minutes before the
crash).
1998: Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa died in Tokyo
at age 88.
1999: In Detroit, striking teachers and the school board
agreed on a tentative agreement aimed at ending a weeklong walkout. (The teachers ratified
the contract two days later.)
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