Today is: September 10

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Proverbs 27:1

September is:

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

Celebrations for September 10

International Make-Up Day - Make up with someone who did you wrong or someone you treated badly. Sponsor: All My Events.

Naval Sea Cadet Corps Birthday - The Corps was organized in 1962.

Swap Ideas Day - Exchange ideas for the betterment of humanity and to inspire creative imagination. Sponsor: Puns Corp.

National Alcoholism Awareness Day - The second Sunday in September honors those people who have conquered their addictions.

National Grandparents Day - Celebrated on the Sunday after Labor Day. This day is set aside to show appreciation for our grandparents. The day was founded in 1973. Take time this day to update the family photo album and family tree. Sponsor: National Grandparent Day Committee.

Born on this Day

• 1487: Pope Julius III Italian pope(1550-55) who promoted the Jesuits
  
  

• 1585: Composer Ercole Porta
  
  

• 1588: Composer Nicholas Lanier
  
  

• 1638: Marie Therese, Queen-Consort of France
  
  

• 1713: English scientist and clergyman John Needham
  
  

• 1736: Carter Braxton, US farmer and signer of the Declaration of Independence
  
  

• 1751: Italian violinist, composer and conductor Bartolomeo Campagnoli
  
  

• 1752: English architec tJohn Soane (Bank of England, Soane Museum)
  
  

• 1754: William Bligh, British naval officer who was the victim of two mutinies, the most famous on the HMS Bounty which was taken over by Fletcher Christian.
  
  

• 1819: Canadian hymnwriter Joseph Scriven. The accidental drowning of his bride-to-be the night before their wedding led to a life of depression; yet he also authored the hymn of comfort, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
  
  

• 1839: Publisher Isaac Funk (the Funk of Funk and Wagnalls)
  
  

• 1847: John Roy Lynch, first African-American to deliver the keynote address at a Republican National Convention
  
  

• 1885: Carl Van Doren, historian and critic who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography on Benjamin Franklin.
  
  

• 1886: American poet Hidla Doolittle (who published under the name H.D.) She lived most of her adult life as an expatriate in England and Switzerland.
  
  

• 1889: American political author Edmund O'Brien. He wrote The Last Hurrah (supposedly based on Boston mayor James J. "Honey" Fitzgerald, Rose Kennedy's father)
  
  

• 1892: Physicist Arthur Holly Compton
  
  

• 1903: English critic Cyril Connolly
  
  

• 1907: Actress Fay Wray. The Beauty that broke the heart of the Beast (King Kong), born in Alberta, Canada.
  
  

• 1914: Film director Robert Wise
  
  

• 1915: Actor Edmond O'Brien (Academy Award-winning actor: The Barefoot Contessa; Seven Days in May, Birdman of Alcatraz, Fantastic Voyage, Pete Kelly's Blues, The Long Hot Summer)
  
  

• 1928: Singer Yma Sumac (Zoila Imperatriz Charrari Sumac del Castillo) You're not a crossword puzzle fan if you've never heard of her. (singer w/4 octave range: LP: Legend of the Sun Virgin)
  
  

• 1929: Golfer Arnold Palmer. He won four Masters, two British Opens and one U.S. Open
  
  

• 1934: Baseball's Roger Maris (NY Yankees outfielder)
  
  

• 1934: Charles Kuralt, "On the road..." for CBS.
  
  

• 1937: Country singer Tommy Overstreet
  
  

• 1939: Actor Greg Mullavey
  
  

• 1940: Jazz vibraphonist Roy Ayers
  
  

• 1941: Christopher Hogwood. Hogwood's dedication to early music, and to the use of period instruments, helped to put a lot more Baroque music on CD.
  
  

• 1942: Singer Danny Hutton (Three Dog Night)
  
  

• 1945: Actor Tom Ligon ("Another World")
  
  

• 1945: Singer Jose Feliciano
  
  

• 1948: Actress Judy Geeson (To Sir with Love, Danger UXB)
  
  

• 1948: Margaret Trudeau (Sinclair) (author: Beyond Reason; Canada's 1st Lady - wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau [1968-1979])
  
  

• 1950: Rock musician Joe Perry (Aerosmith)
  
  

• 1953: Actress Amy Irving (Yentl, Crossing Delancy, The Competition, Benefit of the Doubt, Carrie, Honeysuckle Rose)
  
  

• 1957: Actress Kate Burton
  
  

• 1958: Director Chris Columbus ("Home Alone")
  
  

• 1960: Actor Colin Firth
  
  

• 1960: Rock singer-musician David Lowery (Cracker)
  
  

• 1966: Rock musician Robin Goodridge (Bush)
  
  

• 1967: Rock singer-musician Miles Zuniga (Fastball)
  
  

• 1968: Rapper Big Daddy Kane
  
  

• 1974: Actor Ryan Phillippe ("I Know What You Did Last Summer")
  
  

Events in History on this day
  

• 0422: Election of Celestine as Pope History Focus for Today
  
  

• 0453: Death of St. Pulcheria, Empress of Byzantium
  
  

• 1066: William I, the Norman duke who conquered England, died. (The Conqueror had become quite fat in his later years, and his decaying body leaked from the coffin.) He left the kingdom to his son William Rufus.
  
  

• 1067: Death of Godgifu, wife of the Earl Leofric of Mercia (we know her as Lady Godiva)
  
  

• 1224: The Franciscans (founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi) first arrived in England. They were originally called "Grey Friars" because of their gray habits. (The habit worn by modern Franciscans is brown.)
  
  

• 1305: Death of St. Nicholas of Tolentino
  
  

• 1419: John the Fearless is murdered at Montereau, France, by supporters of the daupin.
  
  

• 1533: Christening of Elizabeth I, Queen of England
  
  

• 1547: The Duke of Somerset leads the English to a resounding victory over the Scots at Pinkie Cleugh.
  
  

• 1588: Thomas Cavendish, third man to circumnavigate the globe, returns to England
  
  

• 1608: John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.
  
  

• 1623: Lumber and furs are the first cargo to leave New Plymouth in North America for England.
  
  

• 1628 Piet Heyn siezes 80 tons of Spanish silver in Cuba
  
  

• 1629: The Dutch West India Company institutes the "Patron" system in their New World colonies
  
  

• 1634: Prince Ferdinand's army starts for Brussels
  
  

• 1718: The Collegiate School at New Haven, CT, changed its name to Yale. (Congregationalists, unhappy with an increasing religious liberalism at Harvard, had founded Yale, the third oldest college in America, in 1701.)
  
  

• 1794: America's first non-denominational college, Blount College (later the University of Tennessee), was chartered.
  
  

• 1797: Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneer English feminist writer, died from complications following the birth of her daughter Mary Godwin. Mary would later marry the poet Shelley and write Frankenstein.
  
  

• 1813: Oliver H. Perry sent the message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours," after an American naval force defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. U.S. naval units under the command of Capt. Oliver Perry defeated a British squadron in the Battle of Lake Erie. This was the first defeat ever for a British naval squadron.
  
  

• 1823: Simon Bolivar, who led the wars for independence from Spain in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, was named president of Peru, with dictatorial powers.
  
  

• 1838: Hector Berlioz's opera "Benvenuto Cellini" premiered in Paris. It flopped.
  
  

• 1846: Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing machine in the U.S.
  
  

• 1850: In the midst of a gold rush, California enters the Union as the 31st state.
  
  

• 1855: Sevastopol, under siege for nearly a year, capitulates to the Allies.
  
  

• 1861: Confederates at Carnifex Ferry, Virginia, fall back after being attacked by Union troops. The action is instrumental in helping preserve western Virginia for the Union.
  
  

• 1912: J. Vedrines becomes the first pilot to break 100 m.p.h. barrier.
  
  

• 1913: Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway. It is old US 30 now.
  
  

• 1914: The six-day Battle of the Marne ends, halting the German advance into France.
  
  

• 1919: New York City welcomed home General John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who'd served in the US First Division during World War One.
  
  

• 1923: In response to a dispute with Yugoslavia, Mussolini mobilizes Italian troops on Serb front.
  
  

• 1939: Canada declared war on Germany.
  
  

• 1945: Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis.
  
  

• 1948: Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio broadcaster "Axis Sally," was indicted in Washington DC for treason.
  
  

• 1951: Florence Chadwick of San Diego, California, became the first American woman to swim the English Channel from both coasts.
  
  

• 1952: West Germany offers Israel $540 million in compensation for Nazi atrocities.
  
  

• 1953: Swanson sells it's first "TV Dinner".
  
  

• 1955: "Gunsmoke" premiered on CBS television. It ran until 1975, becoming the longest-lasting TV Western. It had begin three years earlier on radio, with William Conrad as Matt Dillon. James Arness played this role on the TV series.
  
  

• 1961: Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile, during which he had been elected president of the Kenya National African Union.
  
  

• 1962: The Naval Sea Cadets was organized,
  
  

• 1963: Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Alabama, following a standoff between federal authorities and Governor George C. Wallace.
  
  

• 1976: A British Airways Trident collided with a Yougoslave charter DC-9 over Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176 people aboard the two planes. This was the world's worst mid-air collision.
  
  

• 1977: Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant, became the last person to date to be executed by the guillotine in France. (France abolished capital punishment in 1981.)
  
  

• 1979: Four Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representatives and a 1950 attempt on the life of President Truman were granted clemency by President Carter.
  
  

• 1983: Pope John Paul II began a four-day visit to Vienna, Austria.
  
  

• 1984: Democratic presidential nominee Walter F. Mondale unveiled a $177 billion deficit-reduction plan that called for $85 billion in higher taxes.
  
  

• 1985: In El Salvador, Ines Guadelupe Duarte Duran, the eldest daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte, was kidnapped by leftist rebels. She was freed the following month as part of a prisoner exchange.
  
  

• 1986: CBS Inc. announced that embattled chairman and chief executive Thomas H. Wyman was stepping down.
  
  

• 1987: One of the finest classical works of the current generation and one of the few Minimalist works to enjoy broad popularity was recorded for the first time: Shaker Loops by John Adams.
  
  

• 1987: Pope John Paul the Second arrived in Miami, where he was welcomed by President and Mrs. Reagan, to begin a ten-day tour of the United States.
  
  

• 1988: Steffi Graf of West Germany achieved tennis' first Grand Slam since Margaret Court in 1970 by winning the US Open women's final.
  
  

• 1988: Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson of Minnesota was crowned Miss America.
  
  

• 1989: Hungary gave permission for thousands of East German refugees and visitors to emigrate to West Germany.
  
  

• 1989: West German Boris Becker won the men's title at the U.S. Open, defeating top-seeded Ivan Lendl.
  
  

• 1990: Iran agreed to resume full diplomatic ties with one time enemy Iraq. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein offered free oil to developing nations in a bid to win their support.
  
  

• 1991: The Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
  
  

• 1992: Less than two months before Election Day, President Bush unveiled a repackaged economic manifesto which included a possible one-percentage-point across-the-board tax-rate cut.
  
  

• 1992: A federal jury in Minneapolis struck down professional football's limited free agency system.
  
  

• 1993: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed out at what she called "standpat, negative, nay-saying" opponents of health reform in an address to state legislators at George Washington University.
  
  

• 1993: The cult series "The X-Files" premiered on Fox Television.
  
  

• 1994: President Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and top national security advisers met at the White House to discuss Haiti, but made no final decisions.
  
  

• 1994: Arantxa Sanchez Vicario defeated Steffi Graf to win the U.S. Open women's championship.
  
  

• 1995: A plane carrying members of a skydivers club crashed in Shacklefords, Va., killing 10 parachutists, the plane's pilot and a man on the ground.
  
  

• 1995: NBC's ''ER'' won eight Emmy Awards, but lost best dramatic series to ABC's ''NYPD Blue;'' NBC's ''Frasier'' won five awards, including best comedy series.
  
  

• 1996: The Senate dealt a double defeat to gay-rights activists, voting to reject same-sex marriage in federal law and killing a separate bill that would have barred job discrimination against gays.
  
  

• 1996: Hurricane "Hortense" pounded Puerto Rico, causing at least 21 deaths and destroying thousands of homes.
  
  

• 1997: Former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy pleaded innocent to charges of accepting $35,000 in sports tickets, travel and lodging from companies regulated by the Agriculture Department.
  
  

• 1998: Northwest Airlines and its striking pilots announced an agreement to end a nearly two-week-old walkout.
  
  

• 1998: An unremorseful president Clinton met with members of his Cabinet to apologize, ask foregiveness and promise to improve as a person in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Another of his many unkept promises.
  

• 1999: The U.S. government began freeing 14 Puerto Rican nationalists granted clemency by President Clinton.
  

• 1999: A federal judge ordered an end to busing and other means of achieving racial balance in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the North Carolina school system that pioneered urban busing in the United States after a landmark Supreme Court ruling three decades earlier.
  

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