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Children's Books Month Children's Eye Health and Safety Month National Childhood Injury Prevention Month National School Success Month National Sickle Cell Month National Youth Pastors Appreciation Month Southern Gospel Music Month |
International Tool Time Day - Take time today to celebrate those who use tools and those who invented them. Use some tools, buy some new tools, refurbish your old tools. Sponsor: All My Events.
Saint Cosmas and Damian Feast Day - Patron saints of doctors, surgeons and pharmacists.
Shamu's Birthday - Born at Sea World in 1985, Shamu was the first killer whale to survive after being born in captivity. Sponsor: Sea World.
Born on this Day
1774: Frontier nurseryman Johnny Appleseed Chapman See Today's History Focus
1783: Jane Taylor, children's writer best known as the author of
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
1887: Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer who invented the
"Bouncing Bombs" used to destroy German dams during World War II
1888: My Favorite Poet T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land and Ash Wednesday)
1888: Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie
1898: George Gershwin. His parents were immigrants from St. Petersburg.
("I Got Rhythm" and "Rhapsody in Blue") Three of America's most famous
composers, Gershwin, Copland and Bernstein, were all the sons of Russian immigrants.
19??: Jody Davis (Newsboys)
19??: Elliot Chenault (Dakota Motor Co.)
1914: Fitness expert Jack LaLanne
1926: Actress Julie London
1930: Actor Philip Bosco
1934: Winnie Mandela, the former wife of South African president Nelson
Mandela
1941: Country singer David Frizzell
1942: Actor Kent McCord
1945: Singer Bryan Ferry
1947: Singer Lynn Anderson
1948: Singer Olivia Newton-John
1948: Actress Mary Beth Hurt
1954: Rock singer-musician Cesar Rosas (Los Lobos)
1955: Country singer Carlene Carter
1956: Actress Linda Hamilton
1960: Country singer Doug Supernaw
1960: Recording executive Andre Harrell
1962: Actress Melissa Sue Anderson
1962: Singer Tracey Thorn (Everything But The Girl)
1965: Rhythm-and-blues singer Cindy Herron (En Vogue)
1972: Singer Shawn Stockman (Boyz II Men)
1979: Actor Mark Famigliett
1981: Tennis player Serena Williams
0611: Death of St. Colman of Lann Elo
1004: Death of St. Nilus of Rossano
1087: Coronation of William II "Rufus," as King
of England
1143: Pope Celestine II took office
1414: The export of gunpowder from England is prohibited
1415: Henry V, King of England, challenges the Dauphin of
France to personal combat
1480: First Inquisitors appointed to serve in Spain
1575: Cervantes captured at sea, carried to Algiers for
ransom
1580: Sir Francis Drake returns to England with a shipload
of loot from the Spanish; 1st circumnavigation of the globe by an Englishman
1580: The Spanish satirical poet Francisco Gómez de
Quevedo was baptized.
1687: The Venetians heavily damaged the Athenian
Acropolis, which was being held by the Turks.
1760: French explorer and cleric Isaac Jogues was killed
by Mohawk Indians near the settlement of Auriesville, New York. He was canonized in 1930
by the Roman Catholic Church. He is credited with being the first European to see Lake
George in 1736.
1777: British troops occupied Philadelphia during the
American Revolution.
1786: France and Britain sign a trade agreement in London.
1789: Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first
secretary of state; John Jay the first chief justice of the United States; Samuel Osgood
the first postmaster-general; and Edmund Jennings Randolph the first attorney general.
1820: The legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone dies quietly
at the Defiance, Mo., home of his son Nathan, at age 85.
1826: The Persian cavalry is routed by the Russians at the
Battle of Ganja in the Russian Caucasus.
1829: Scotland Yard, the official British criminal
investigation organization, is formed.
1892: Antonin Dvorak arrived in America. He would spend
some time in New York and some time in a Czech community in Iowa before returning to
Europe with a symphony "From the New World" that proved to be his most popular
composition.
1892: John Philip Sousa and his newly formed band
performed publicly for the first time, at the Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, New
Jersey.
1901: Leon Czolgosz, who murdered President William
McKinley, is sentenced to death.
1913: The first boat is raised in the locks of the Panama
Canal.
1914; The Federal Trade Commission is established to
foster competition by preventing monopolies in business.
1931: The keel was laid for the first aircraft carrier,
the USS Ranger, which was commissioned on June 4, 1934.
1934: The liner Queen Mary was launched at the Clydebank
shipyards in Scotland.
1945: The Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, one of the
major figures of 20th century music, died in New York, in poverty as an emigré from
war-torn Europe.
1950: United Nations troops recaptured the South Korean
capital of Seoul from the North Koreans.
1955: The New York Stock Exchange suffers $44 million
loss, the heaviest one-day loss in history.
1957: The musical "West Side Story" opened on
Broadway.
1960: The first televised debate between presidential
candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place in Chicago.
1961: Bob Dylan made his debut at Gerdie's Folk Place in
New York City.
1962: The Beverly Hillbillies began its 9-year run on TV.
The series debuted on the 27th birthday of Donna Douglas, who played Ellie May.
1967: Hanoi rejects a U.S. peace proposal. The infamous
Pentagon Papers give insights into the Johnson administration's thinking on the Vietnam
War
1969: The Beatles last album, Abbey Road, is released.
1972: Richard M. Nixon meets with Emperor Hirohito in
Anchorage, Alaska, the first-ever meeting of a U.S. President and a Japanese Monarch.
1977: Israel announces a cease-fire on Lebanese border.
1980: The Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbor,
ending the "freedom flotilla" of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.
1981: The twin-engine Boeing 767 made its maiden flight in
Everett, Washington.
1983: The yacht Australia II won the America's Cup from
the United States, ending the longest winning streak in sports - 132 years.
1984: China and Britain initialed an accord to return Hong
Kong to Chinese control when Britain's lease expires in 1997.
1986: William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief
justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as its 103rd
member.
1986: Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone apologized
for remarks he'd made about American minorities that were considered racist.
1987: In his Saturday radio address, President Reagan said
he was reluctantly signing legislation restoring the automatic deficit-reducing provisions
of the Gramm-Rudman Act.
1988: In a farewell speech to the UN General Assembly,
President Reagan said there was "a moment for hope" for peace in the world, and
said a new US-Soviet treaty to sharply reduce nuclear arms could be concluded the
following year.
1990: The Motion Picture Association of America announced
it had created a new rating, ''NC-17,'' designed to bar moviegoers under the age of 17
from certain films without the commercial stigma of the old ''X'' rating.
1991: Four men and four women began a two-year stay inside
a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Arizona, called "Biosphere Two."
1991: AIDS patient Kimberly Bergalis pleaded with Congress
to enact mandatory AIDS testing for health care workers.
1991: "Home Improvement" premiers on ABC TV.
1992: South African President F.W. de Klerk and African
National Congress leader Nelson Mandela held their first meeting in three months, during
which they agreed on the urgent need for an interim government. A Nigerian military
transport plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 163 people aboard.
1993: Eight people emerged from the glass dome of
"Biosphere Two" in the Arizona desert after being sealed inside for two years in
an experiment dogged by setbacks and controversy.
1995: Bosnia's warring factions agreed on guidelines for
elections and a future government.
1995: The prosecution began its closing argument in the
murder trial of O.J. Simpson.
1995: A bond trader at Japan's Daiwa Bank was charged with
doctoring records to hide $1.1 billion in losses.
1996: Astronaut Shannon Lucid returned to Earth in the
shuttle "Atlantis" after six months aboard the Russian "Mir" space
station.
1996: President Clinton signed a bill ensuring two-day
hospital stays for new mothers and their babies.
1996: ValuJet received federal permission to fly again
three months after it was grounded following a deadly crash.
1996: Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly
Klaas, was formally sentenced to death in San Jose, California.
1997: An Indonesian Airbus A-300 crashed while approaching
Medan Airport in north Sumatra, killing all 234 people aboard.
1998: The nation's first march on cancer took place on the
National Mall in Washington DC.
1998: Grammy-winning jazz singer Betty Carter died in New
York at age 69.
1999: America won its first Ryder Cup since 1993 after
trailing the European team 10-6 going into the final round. (To the anger of the
Europeans, U.S. players, along with caddies, officials and wives, stormed the green to
congratulate Justin Leonard for a 45-foot putt that all but won the tournament for the
Americans.)
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