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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 |
Checkers Day - Recognizes dogs' contributions to presidential
politics. In 1952, Richard Nixon saved his vice presidential nomination with his
Checkers Speech (about his daughter's dog).
National Multiple Wives Day - On the birthday of actor Mickey Rooney, famous for
the number of wives he had, celebrate the beauty of women. Rooney was born as
Joe Yule, Jr., on this day in 1920 in Brooklyn, New York.
The Jetsons' Birthday - The first ABC program to be broadcast in color, The
Jetsons, premiered on this day in 1962.
Victoria Woodhull's Birthday - The first female Presidential candidate was born
on this day in 1838.
National Hunting and Fishing Day - Since 1979, celebrated by presidential
proclamation on the fourth Saturday in September.
Born on this Day
0063 BC: Octavian (Augustus Caesar) first Roman Emperor, who introduced
Pax Romana, the era of peace.
1800: William Holmes McGuffey, educator famous for his book Eclectic
Readers
1819: Armand Hyppolyte - French physicist who first measured the speed
of light and proved that light speed was finite.
1838: Victoria Chaflin Woodhull See Today's History Focus.
1852: William Stewart Halsted, established 1st surgical school in US
1863: Mary Church Terrell, educator and civil rights advocate
1920: Actor Mickey Rooney
1926: Saxophonist, John Coltrane
1930: Singer Ray Charles (Hit the Road Jack, Georgia on My Mind)
1943: Singer Julio Iglesias
1945: Actor Paul Petersen ("The Donna Reed Show")
1947: Actress-singer Mary Kay Place
1949: Rock star Bruce Springsteen
1959: 1958: Actor Jason Alexander
1959: Singer Lita Ford
1961: Actress Elizabeth Pena
1962: Country musician Don Herron (BR5-49)
1970: Singer Ani DiFranco
1972: Recording executive Jermaine Dupri
1972: Rock singer Sarah Bettens (K's Choice)
0704: Death of St. Adamnan
0918: Death of Conrad I, King of Germany
1122: Diet of Worms
1307: William de Nogaret is made Chancellor of France
1553: The Sadians defeat the last of their enemies and
establish themselves as rulers of Morocco.
1561: Philip II of Spain gives orders to halt colonizing
efforts in Florida.
1577: William of Orange enters Brussels States-General
deposes Don John
1578: Sir Humphrey Gilbert sails in search of the
Northwest Passage
1595: Spain divides North America into Mission Provinces
1642: Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, held
its first commencement.
1666: Franáois Mansard, French architect, dies at about
68 See Today's History Focus
1667: Slaves in Virginia are banned from obtaining their
freedom by converting to Christianity.
1739: The Austrians sign the Treaty of Belgrade after
having lost the city to the Turks.
1788: Louis XVI of France declares the Parliament
restored.
1779: During the Revolutionary War, the American warship
"Bon Homme Richard" defeated the HMS "Serapis" after the American
commander, John Paul Jones, is said to have declared: "I have not yet begun to
fight!"
1780: British spy John Andre was captured along with
papers revealing Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point to the British.
1805: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike pays $2,000 to buy from the
Sioux a 9-square-mile tract at the mouth of the Minnesota River that will be used to
establish a military post, Fort Snelling.
1806: The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis
from the Pacific Northwest.
1835: Vincenzo Bellini died of dysentery, at the age of
33. Rossini wrote that "all Paris mourns."
1846: The planet Neptune was discovered by German
astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
1870: The siege of Paris begins during the Franco-Prussian
War.
1912: Mack Sennett's first Keystone short subject, a
"split-reel" of two comedies starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling, was
released.
1926: Gene Tunney scored a 10-round decision over Jack
Dempsey to win the world heavyweight boxing title in Philadelphia.
1939: Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, died
in London.
1940: The George Cross is instituted for civilian acts of
courage.
1950: Congress adopted the Internal Security Act, which
providing for registration of communists. It was ruled later unconstitutional by the U.S.
Supreme Court.
1952: Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M.
Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the "Checkers"
speech as he refuted allegations of improper campaign financing.
1953: The 20th-Century Fox production "The
Robe," the first movie filmed in the CinemaScope wide screen process, has its
Hollywood premiere, a week after opening in New York.
1954: East German police arrest 400 citizens as U.S.
spies.
1957: Nine black students who had entered Little Rock
Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.
1962: New York's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery
Fisher Hall) formally opened as the first unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts.
1962: "The Jetsons," an animated cartoon series
about a space-age family, premiered on ABC-TV; it was the first program to be carried by
the network in color.
1964: New York City sees the first performance of Fiddler
on the Roof staring Zero Mostel
1973: Juan Peron was again elected president of Argentina
after 18 years in exile. His second wife, Isabel, became vice president and succeeded him
when he died 10 months later.
1981: The Reagan administration announced plans for what
became known as "Radio Marti."
1986: A new opera house opened in Amsterdam under police
guard to keep nuclear protesters and environmentalists away.
1986: Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze told the
U.N. General Assembly a superpower summit was a ''realistic possibility.'' Controversy
erupted as Japanese newspapers quoted Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as saying
minorities lowered America's ''intelligence level.''
1987: Delaware Senator Joseph Biden withdrew from the
Democratic presidential race following questions about his use of borrowed quotations and
the portrayal of his academic record.
1987: Bob Fosse, American dancer and choreographer dies.
1988: Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze
concluded two days of talks in Washington with Secretary of State George P. Shultz on the
subjects of arms control and human rights.
1990: Iraq threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields
and attack Israel if other nations tried to force it from Kuwait.
1990: South African President F.W. de Klerk arrived in the
US for talks with President Bush.
1991: U.N. weapons inspectors in Baghdad discovered
documents detailing Iraq's secret nuclear weapons program, triggering a standoff with
Iraqi authorities.
1991: President Bush addressed the United Nations, urging
the world body to rescind its resolution equating Zionism with racism.
1992: Plans for a presidential debate fell apart, with
President Bush continuing to object to a single-moderator format proposed by a bipartisan
commission; it was the second such cancellation.
1993: The founder of Chicago Opera Theater, Alan Stone,
was named as the company's artistic director emeritus. In the new role, Stone will serve
as senior adviser and consultant.
1993: Sydney, Australia, was selected to host the 2000
Summer Olympics, beating out Beijing. The Israeli parliament ratified the Israel-PLO
accord.
1993: The South African parliament voted to allow blacks a
role in governing.
1995: In a wide-ranging interview aboard Air Force One,
President Clinton admitted he had tended in the past to get hung up on details, and
pledged to do a better job in providing reassuring leadership to Americans confused by
tumultuous times.
1996: Space shuttle "Atlantis" left Russia's
orbiting "Mir" station with astronaut Shannon Lucid, who ended her six-month
visit with tender goodbyes to her Russian colleagues.
1996: Ross Perot sued the bipartisan commission that voted
to keep him out of the presidential debates, arguing that excluding him would deepen
public cynicism and cause his campaign "incalculable damage."
1997: The Senate Finance Committee opened hearings into
reports of alleged abuses by the Internal Revenue Service.
1997: Armed men raided an Algerian village, killing at
least 200 people inaone of the worst massacres since Algeria's Islamic insurgency began.
1999: President Clinton vetoed the Republicans' $792
billion tax cut bill, calling it "too big, too bloated."
1999: The Mars Climate Observer apparently burned up as
it was about to go into orbit around the Red Planet.
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