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Born on this Day
1157: English theologist and encyclopedist Alexander Neckum/de Sancto
Albano
1520: English premier William Cecil 1st baron Burghley
1551: Composer Pandolfo Zallamella
1583: Albrecht von Wallenstein
1594: Composer Francesco Manelli
1673: Composer Hercule Brehy
1682: Composer Theodor Christleib Reinhold
1751: Dutch painter and cartoonist Henry Kobell
1755: Oliver Evans, pioneered the high-pressure steam engine.
1851: U.S. Army bacteriologist Walter Reed (discovered a cure for yellow
fever)
1857: Milton S. Hershey, US chocolate manufacturer, philanthropist History Focus for Today
1860: Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing, He led the campaign
against Pancho Villa in Mexico and Commanded the American Expeditionary Force in France
during World War I
1863: Franz von Hipper, German naval commander at the Battle of Jutland
in World War I
1874: Arnold Schoenberg was born in Vienna. Schoenberg's father died
when he was a teenager, giving the future composer something in common with Beethoven.
1876: Author Sherwood Anderson
1886: Alain Locke, writer and first African-American Rhodes scholar
1894: English author J.B. Priestly
19??: Aaron Benward (Aaron+Jeoffrey)
19??: Gary Mullett (Geoff Moore & The Distance)
1905: Claudette Colbert, actress who won an Oscar for It Happened One
Night
1911: Bill Monroe, the "father of bluegrass" music
1917: The American composer Robert Ward was born in Cleveland. He
studied under Howard Hanson at the Eastman School of Music. His music is mainly tonal with
some jazz and military influences. But his Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra is
deliberately UN-jazzy.
1922: Blues singer Charles Brown
1925: Singer Mel Torme
1933: Actress Eileen Fulton ("As the World Turns")
1934: Actress Barbara Bain (Mission Impossible, Space: 1999)
1937: TV producer Fred Silverman
1939: Former White House spokesman Larry Speakes
1939: Actor Richard Kiel
1941: Rock singer David Clayton-Thomas (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1944: Actress Jacqueline Bisset
1944: Singer Peter Cetera (Chicago)
1948: Actress Nell Carter
1952: Singer Randy Jones (The Village People)
1959: Actress Jean Smart
1961: Rock singer-musician Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)
1967: Olympic gold medal runner Michael Johnson
1967: Rock musician Steve Perkins (Porno For Pyros; Jane's Addiction)
1971: Tennis player Goran Ivanisevic
1975: Actor Scott Vickaryous
1977: Singer Fiona Apple
1980: Actor Ben Savage ("Boy Meets World")
0533: Romans defeat Vandals near Carthage, Africa
0604: Election of Sabinian as Pope
0608: Death of St. Eulogius of Alexandria
1125: Coronation of Lothair II as King of Germany
1254: Hayton, King of Little Armenia, enters Mongolia
1309: A pair of French Inquisitors arrive in England to
prosecute the Templars. They are stopped by English Common Law
1321: Death of Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine
Comedy.
1409: Death of Isabella of France, Queen to Richard II of
England
1509: Death of Andrea Mantegna
1515: King Francis of France defeats the Swiss army under
Cardinal Matthias Schiner at Marignano, northern Italy.
1549: Pope Paul III closes the first session of the
Council of Bologna.
1564: On the verge of attacking Pedro Menendez's Spanish
settlement at San Agostin, Florida, Jean Ribault's French fleet is scattered by a
devastating storm.
1592: Death of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, philospher
1598: Death of Philip II, King of Spain
1635: The Massachusetts General Court banished Separatist
preacher Roger Williams, 32, for criticizing the Massachusetts Bay Company charter and for
perpetually advocating a separation of church and state.
1759: During the final French and Indian War, the British
defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City.
1774: Tugot, the new controller of finances, urges the
king of France to restore the free circulation of grain in the kingdom.
1782: The British fortress at Gibraltar comes under attack
by French and Spanish forces.
1788: The Congress of the Confederation authorized the
first national election, and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
1789: Guardsmen in Orleans, France, open fire on rioters
trying to loot bakeries, killing 90.
1803: Commodore John Barry, considered by many the father
of the American Navy, died in Philadelphia.
1814: During the British attack on Fort McHenry, Md.,
Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
1845: William Walford's hymn, "Sweet Hour of
Prayer," first appeared in print in the "New York Observer." Walford
(1772-1850), a blind lay preacher, had written the poem three years earlier in the village
of Coleshill, England.
1846: General Winfield Scott takes Chapultepec, removing
the last obstacle to U.S. troops moving on Mexico City.
1862: Union troops in Frederick, Maryland, discover
General Robert E. Lee's attack plans for the invasion of Maryland wrapped around a pack of
cigars. They give the plans to General George B. McClellan who does nothing with them for
the next 14 hours.
1905: U.S. warships head to Nicaragua on behalf of
American William Albers, who was accused of evading tobacco taxes.
1918: U.S. and French forces take St. Mihiel, France in
America's first action as a standing army.
1922: The temperature at El Azizia, Libya, reached 136
degrees F., generally accepted as the world's highest recorded atmospheric temperature.
1931: Having recently suffered a nervous breakdown,
Foursquare Gospel founder Aimee Semple McPherson, 40, entered an ill-fated marriage to
David Hutton. (They divorced four years later.)
1943: Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.
1945: Iran demands the withdrawal of Allied forces.
1948: Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected
to the US Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
1949: The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America
was formed in New York City, with Patty Berg as its first president.
1951: In Korea, U.S. Army troops begin their assault in
Heartbreak Ridge. The month-long struggle will cost 3,700 casualties.
1961: An unmanned Mercury capsule is orbited and recovered
by NASA in a test for the first manned flight.
1963: "The Outer Limits" premieres.
1969: "Suspicious Minds" became Elvis Presley's
first #1 single since "Good Luck Charm" in
1962. It turned out to be his last #1 hit.
1971: A four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica
Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison;
the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives.
1976: The United States announces it will veto Vietnam's
UN bid.
1977: Conductor Leopold Stokowski died in Hampshire,
England, at age 95.
1981: John McEnroe defeated Bjorn Borg to win the men's
singles title at the U.S. Open tennis championships.
1984: During his tour of Canada, Pope John Paul II told
young people at a rally in Nova Scotia it was up to them to "forge the bonds of
justice and peace."
1985: The Air Force successfully tested an anti-satellite
missile fired from a fighter planeby shooting down a satellite target in space.
1986: Miss Tennessee, Kellye Cash, was crowned Miss
America at the pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.
1987: Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze arrived
in Washington for talks aimed at a possible superpower summit; Shevardnadze carried with
him a letter from Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to President Reagan.
1988: As Hurricane "Gilbert" made its way toward
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, forecasters reported the barometric pressure of Gilbert's
center measured a low of 26.13 inches, making it the strongest hurricane ever recorded in
the Western Hemisphere.
1989: Fay Vincent was named commissioner of Major League
Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1989: In Chicago, Illinois, Jockey Pat Day rode 8 winners
on Arlington International Racecourse's 9-race program to set a North American record. His
total winning commissions were about $10,000 for the day.
1990: NBC's cop-courtroom drama "Law &
Order" premiered on NBC.
1990: The Senate Judiciary Committee opened its first day
of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee David H. Souter, who firmly refused to
discuss his views on abortion.
1991: The United States and Soviet Union declared they
would cease arms sales to Afghanistan.
1991: Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder declared his
candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1991: President Bush, who had suffered an irregular
heartbeat because of a thyroid condition, was pronounced in ''incredible physical
condition'' after a check-up by his doctors.
1992: Stefan Edberg defeated Pete Sampras to win the U-S
Open title in New York, a day after Monica Seles beat Arantxa Sanchez Vicario to win her
seventh Grand Slam title.
1993: Sony Classical reissued at lower price an acclaimed
cycle of the symphonies of Robert Schumann. Rafael Kubelik conducts the Bavarian Radio
Symphony.
1993: In a historic scene at the White House, Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an
accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
1994: President Clinton signed into law a $30 billion
crime bill.
1994: Some 180 nations adopted a 20-year blueprint for
slowing the world's population growth at a U.N.-sponsored conference in Cairo, Egypt.
1995: The FBI made at least a dozen arrests, capping a
nationwide two-year investigation of pedophiles and pornographers using the America Online
computer network.
1996: Rapper Tupac Shakur died at a Las Vegas hospital six
days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting; he was 25.
1997: Funeral services were held in Calcutta, India, for
Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa. 1997: Kate Shindle of Illinois was crowned Miss
America.
1998: Former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace died at
age 79.
1998: Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs hit his 61st and 62nd
home runs of the season to pass Roger Maris and pull into a tie with Mark McGwire.
1998: NBC's "Frasier" won a record fifth
consecutive award as best comedy series at the 50th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards; ABC's
"The Practice" was honored as best drama.
1998: Patrick Rafter won his second straight US Open
title, defeating fellow Australian Mark Philippoussis 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 6-0.
1999: Israelis and Palestinians opened talks on a final
peace accord.
1999: A suspected bomb devastated an eight-story apartment
building in Moscow, killing at least 118 people.
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