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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 |
California Admission Day - California bacame
the 31st state on this day in 1850.
First Marathon Day - This day in 490 B.C. was the date of the first
Marathon. The story has it that Phidippides, a Greek soldier, ran 26 miles
to let the people of Athens know about the Greek victory against the
Persians at Marathon. He died as he gasped, "Rejoice, we are
victorious."
Hot Dog Day - It is said that the hot dog was invented on this day in 1884,
by Antoine Feuchtwanger.
Party Party Day - This is an excuse to have a party each month - on the day
when the day equals the month (9/9).
Saint Peter Claver Feast Day - Caretaker of over 300,000 black slaves in
Cartegena, Columbia, he is patron saint of slaves.
U. S. Name Day - On this day in 1776, the 2nd Continental Congress replaced
United Colonies with the United States.
Public Lands Day - This day is celebrated on the Saturday following Labor
Day. It is to encourage people to clean up public lands. It is also known as
Federal Lands Cleanup Day. Sponsor: Keep America Beautiful.
Born on this Day
0384: Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor in the East (395-423)
1583: Composer Girolamo Frescobaldi premier of France (1624-42)
1585: Composer Cardinal Richelieu
1618: Joan Cererol
1646: Flemish theologist Zeger B van Espen
1664: Composer Johann Christoph Pez
1754: Capt. William Bligh of the H.M.S. Bounty
1828: Russian author Leo Tolstoy
1887: Alf Landon, the Kansas Republican who lost the 1936 presidential
election to Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt
1890: Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Harlan Sanders
1923: Oddsmaker Jimmy 'The Greek' Snyder (Demetrios Synodinos)
1924: Actress Jane Greer
1925: Actor Cliff Robertson
1927: Jazz musician Elvin Jones
1932: Actress Sylvia Miles
1935: Actor Topol
1941: Singer/songwriter Otis Redding (Try a little Tenderness, Sittin'
on the Dock of the Bay)
1942: Rhythm-and-blues singer Luther Simmons (The Main Ingredient)
1942: Singer Inez Foxx (Mockingbird)
1945: Singer Dee Dee Sharp
1946: Singer-musician Billy Preston
1946: Rock singer-musician Doug Ingle (Iron Butterfly)
1947: Country singer Freddy Weller
1949: Football commentator Joe Theismann
1951: Actor-comedian Michael Keaton
1951: Actor Tom Wopat
1952: Actress Angela Cartwright (Lost in Space TV series)
1952: Musician-producer Dave Stewart (Eurythmics)
1960: Actor Hugh Grant
1966: Actor Adam Sandler
1966: Actor David Bennent
1968: Rock singer Paul Durham (Black Lab)
1970: Rapper Dray (Das EFX)
1971: Actor Henry Thomas (Legends of the Fall, E.T.: The
Extra-Terrestrial, Murder One, Psycho 4: The Beginning)
1980: Actress Michelle Williams ("Dawson's Creek")
490 B.C. - Phidippides, a greek soldier ran 26 miles to
let the people of Athens know about the Greek victory against the Persians at Marathon.
1079: Death of John, Archbishop of Rouen
1087: Death of William I, "the Conqueror," King
of England History Focus for Today
1224: Franciscan friars land in England
1492: Columbus resumes his voyage, from the Canary Islands
1502: The enemies of Caesar Borgia conclude a pact at
Mugione
1513: King James IV of Scotland defeated and killed by
English at Flodden.
1543: Coronation of Mary, queen of Scots.
1570: Cyprus surrenders to the Turks.
1583: English explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert drowns on his
return to England together with the entire crew of the frigate Squirrel, which sank off
the Azores.
1585: Pope Sixtus V deprives Henry of Navarre of his right
to the French Crown
1598: First church in New Mexico completed
1602: John Smith takes control of Virginia Colony
1776: The second Continental Congress officially changed
the new American nation's name from "United Colonies" to "United
States."
1846: Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing
machine in the U.S
1850: California, in the midst of a gold rush, enters the
Union as the 31st state.
1884: Antione Feuchtwanger invents the hot dog.
1893: Frances Cleveland, wife of President Cleveland, gave
birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House; it was the first time a president's child
was born in the executive mansion.
1901: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died following a paralytic
stroke brought on by syphilis and alcoholism. The artist was 36 years old.
1912: J. Vedrines first pilot to break 100 m.p.h. barrier.
1926: The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created
by the Radio Corporation of America.
1943: Allied forces landed at Salerno and Taranto during
World War Two.
1948: The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North
Korea) was created.
1956: Rock `n' roll singer Elvis Presley appeared on
national television for the first time, on "The Ed Sullivan Show." He would
appear on the Really Big Show two more times.
1957: President Eisenhower signed into law the first civil
rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.
1958: Race riots in London, England. Three nights of race
riots in Notting Hill with serious injuries and more than 150 arrests provoked by white
teens who beat up 5 blacks.
1963: President John F. Kennedy federalizes Alabama’s
National Guard to prevent Governor George C. Wallace from using guardsmen to stop
public-school desegregation.
1963: John Cage and nine other pianists played Erik
Satie's "Vexations," a brief piano piece that Satie directed to be played 840
times without variation or intermission. Cage and confreres cheated: it should have been
played by just one person. The performance took almost 19 hours.
1965: Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a
perfect game against the Chicago Cubs, winning 1-0.
1968: Arthur Ashe became the first black U.S. men's
singles champion of tennis.
1971: Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security
Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, beginning a siege that claimed 43
lives.
1976: Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung died in
Beijing at age 82.
1978: Eighteen-year-old Czech tennis player Martina
Navratilova defects to the West and asks the US for political asylum.
1982: A dream was realized when Gilbert Kaplan conducted
Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony. For years Kaplan, an investment publisher, had
wanted to do this. He took conducting lessons just to be able to conduct this one work.
1982: "Conestoga I", 1st private rocket, is
launched.
1983: The chief of the Soviet General Staff, Marshal
Nikolai B. Ogarkov, told a Moscow news conference the decision to shoot down a Korean
jetliner within Soviet airspace on Sept. 1 was made by a local commander, and was not an
accident or an error.""
1984: Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit
Canada as he began a 12-day tour.
1986: A jury in New York indicted Gennadiy Zakharov, a
Soviet United Nations employee, on espionage charges three days after the Soviet Union
formally charged a U.S. News and World Report correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying.
1986: Frank Reed, director of a private school in Lebanon,
was taken hostage; he was released 44 months later.
1987: Appearing before President Reagan's special
commission on AIDS, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop denounced doctors and other health
workers who refused to treat AIDS patients, calling them a "fearful and irrational
minority."
1988: The "Stars and Stripes," a catamaran
piloted by Dennis Conner, completed a two-nothing washout of a New Zealand monohull for
the America's Cup off San Diego. (Conner's victory was eventually upheld in court.)
1989: West German Steffi Graf won the women's title at the
U.S. Open in New York City, defeating second-ranked Martina Navratilova.
1990: President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev held a one-day summit in Helsinki, Finland, after which they joined in
condemning Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1990: Liberian President Samuel K. Doe was killed after
being captured by rebels.
1990: Pete Sampras defeated Andre Agassi to win the U.S.
Open men's title.
1990: The Ellis Island Museum of Immigration opened. More
than 12,000,000 people entered the U.S. through the immigration center at Ellis Island
when it was open.
1992: Russian President Boris Yeltsin called off a trip to
Japan in the face of growing pressure to resolve a dispute over four Kuril islands seized
by the former Soviet Union in 1945.
1993: PLO leaders and Israel agreed to recognize each
other, clearing the way for a peace accord.
1993: Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was
buried in his homeland, four years after his death in exile.
1993: About a hundred Somali gunmen and civilians were
killed when US and Pakistani peacekeepers fired on Somalis attacking other peacekeepers.
1994: The United States agreed to accept at least 20,000
Cuban immigrants a year in return for Cuba's promise to halt the flight of refugees.
1994: Prosecutors in Los Angeles said they would not seek
the death penalty against O.J. Simpson.
1994: The space shuttle Discovery blasted off on an 11-day
mission.
1995: Bosnian Serbs blamed U.N. forces for a shell that
killed 10 people at a Bosnian Serb hospital the day before.
1995: Amtrak's Broadway Limited service between New York
and Chicago made its final run.
1996: Promising safer skies, President Clinton issued
orders to tighten airport security and challenged Congress to support a $1.1 billion
anti-terrorism crackdown.
1996: Keeping her word not to cooperate with Whitewater
prosecutors, Susan McDougal was led away to jail for contempt of court, denying she was
trying to protect President Clinton with her silence.
1997: Sinn Fein, the IRA's political ally, formally
renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.
1997: Actor Burgess Meredith died in Malibu, California,
at age 89.
1998: Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to
Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of President Clinton.
1998: Four tourists who had paid $32,500 each were taken
in a tiny submarine to view the wreckage of the "Titanic" two and a-half miles
below the ocean surface off Newfoundland.
1999: Former Republican Senator John Danforth opened an
independent inquiry into the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.
1999: A massive explosion tore apart a Moscow apartment
building, killing about a hundred people.
1999: Israel released 199 Palestinian security prisoners
as part of a new peace deal.
1999: Baseball Hall-of-Fame pitcher Jim
"Catfish" Hunter died in Hertford, N.C., at age 53.
1999: Actress Ruth Roman died in Laguna Beach, Calif., at
age 75.
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