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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 |
Cabrillo Day - Spanish Explorer Juan Cabrillo entered San Diego Bay and discovered California. What a surprise that must have been to the Native Americans already living there. They didn't know they were not yet discovered. Sponsor: San Diego, California, Cabrillo National Monument.
Saint Wenceslas Feast Day - As the most notable saint of Bohemia, Saint Wenceslas is patron saint of brewers, beer, Bohemia, Moravia, and Czechoslovakia.
Teacher's Day - Celebrated on the traditional birthday of Confucius, or King Futzu.
Born on this Day
0106 BC: Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus)
0551 BC: Confucius (traditional Chinese date)
1573: Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Italian painter. He did many religious
paintings in a realistic style, which was a great influence on later painters such as
Rembrandt and Rubens.
1785: David Walker, Black American Abolitionist whose pamphlet Appeal .
. . to the Colored Citizens of the World . . . , urging slaves to fight for their freedom,
was one of the most radical documents of the antislavery movement.
1789: Richard Bright, British physician who was the first to describe
the clinical manifestations of the kidney disorder known as Bright's disease, or
nephritis.
1803: Prosper Mérimée, the French novelist whose novel
"Carmen" provided the story for Bizet's opera.
1820: German social philosopher Friedrich Engels
1839: American educator and feminist leader Frances E. Willard. She was
the first woman college president in America
1841: Georges Clemenceau, French prime minister during World War I
1885: George de Forest Brush, American painter noted for his penetrating
representations of family groups.
19??: Paul Roraback (Grammatrain)
1901: CBS Chairman William Paley
1902: TV variety show host Ed Sullivan
1905: German heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling
1909: Cartoonist Al Capp
1909: The modern British poet Stephen Spender
1916: English actor Peter Finch
1919: Tom Harmon, American football player, a Heisman Trophy winner, who
was one of the greatest tailbacks in collegiate football history.
1923: Actor William Windom
1924: Italian film director Marcello Mastroianni
1925: Actor Arnold Stang
1926: Comedian Jerry Clower
1928: Seymour R. Cray, American electronics engineer who was the
preeminent designer of the large, high-speed computers known as supercomputers.
1930: Country singer Tommy Collins
1934: Actress Brigitte Bardot
1935: Blues singer Koko Taylor
1938: Singer Ben E. King
1943: Actor J.T. Walsh
1946: Singer Helen Shapiro
1947: Actor Jeffrey Jones
1950: Movie writer-director-actor John Sayles
1952: Actress Sylvia Kristel
1964: Actress-comedian Janeane Garofalo
1967: TV personality Moon Zappa
1968: Rhythm-and-blues singer Sean Levert (Levert
1970: Actress Mira Sorvino
1975: Country singer Mandy Barnet
0048 BC On landing in Egypt, Pompey is murdered on the
orders of Ptolemy. See Today's History Focus
0490 B.C.: The Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon. A
Greek soldier ran 26 miles to tell Athenians of the victory and died after his
announcement. His feat provided the model for the modern marathon race.
0235: Pontian resigned as Pope
0780: Death of St. Lioba
0855: The Emperor Lothar dies in Gaul, and his kingdom is
divided between his three sons
0876: Death of Louis, founder of the German Kingdom
0929: Death of St. Weceslaus
1066 : William the Conqueror invades England. Valour in
the centuries since William the Conqueror built this now ruined royal fortress.
1106: King Henry of England defeats his brother Robert at
the Battle of Tinchebrai and reunites England and Normandy.
1193: Death of Robert de Sable, 11th Master of the
Templars
1197: Death of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
1238: King James I of Spain, "the Conqueror,"
defeats Moors
1542: The Portuguese explorer Juan Cabrillo, who was
exploring northwest shores of Mexico under the Spanish flag, sailed into San Diego Bay. It
was the first European sighting of California.
1607: Samuel de Champlain and his colonists return to
France from Port Royal Nova Scotia.
1704: A statute was enacted by the colony of Maryland,
giving ministers the right to impose divorce on "unholy couples."
1745: The British national anthem God Save the King was
sung for the first time. (Drury Theater in London)
1781: American forces in the Revolutionary War, backed by
a French fleet, began their siege of Yorktown Heights, Virginia. (last battle of the the
Revolutionary War)
1787: Congress voted to send the just-completed
Constitution of the United States to state legislatures for their approval.
1790: Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy died, leaving Haydn a
fairly large pension provided he kept the title of Esterhazy Kapellmeister. The new
prince, Anton, fired the Esterhazy orchestra, but in the process saved so much money that
he was able actually to add to Haydn's annuity.
1808: Andover Theological Seminary first opened in
Massachusetts, under sponsorship of the Congregational Church.
1850: Flogging was abolished as a form of punishment in
the US Navy.
1865: Elizabeth Anderson became the first licensed
physician in Britain.
1874: Colonel Ronald Mackenzie raids a war camp of
Comanche and Kiowa at the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, slaughtering 2,000 of their
horses.
1886: The Belgian violin master Eugene Ysaye was married.
One of the wedding gifts he and his bride received was a piece of music; the haunting
Violin Sonata in A major by Cesar Franck.
1891: Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick, died in
virtual obscurity in New York City
1892: Mansfield University hosted the first night football
game at Smythe Park in Mansfield, Pennsylvania.
1895: At a convention in Atlanta, three Baptist groups
merged to form the National Baptist Convention. It is today the largest African-American
denomination in America and the world.
1904: A woman is placed under arrest for smoking a
cigarette on New York's Fifth Avenue.
1913: Race riots in Harriston, Mississippi, kill 10
people.
1920: In baseball's biggest scandal, a grand jury indicted
eight players of the Chicago White Sox for throwing the 1919 World Series with the
Cincinnati Reds.
1924: Two US Army planes landed in Seattle, Washington,
having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days. The flight was made in 57
hops, each one averaging 483 miles. The actual flying time was 351 hours.
1934: The first issue of "The Sword of the Lord"
was published. Founded by Baptist evangelist John R. Rice, 39, it became the largest
independent Christian weekly for years, and was recognized by liberals as the "voice
of fundamentalism."
1939: During World War Two, Germany and the Soviet Union
agreed on a plan to partition Poland.
1945: Robert Todd Duncan sang the role of Tonio in I
Pagliacci at the New York City Opera, the first black in America to sing in an opera with
an otherwise all-white cast.
1959: Explorer VI, the U.S. satellite, takes the first
video pictures of earth.
1967: Walter Washington took office as the first mayor of
the District of Columbia.
1972: Japan and Communist China agreed to re-establish
diplomatic relations.
1974: First lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy at
Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland, following discovery of a cancerous lump in her
breast.
1978: Albino Luciani, who was elected as Pope to succeed
Paul VI and who chose the name John Paul I, died after a Papacy of one short month. Rumors
persist about his having been poisoned. He was found dead the following morning.
1987: US Representative Patricia Schroeder (Democrat,
Colorado) announced in Denver that she would not run for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
1987: Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet
Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze met in New York to discuss, among other things, the
case of American journalist Nicholas Daniloff, accused by the Soviets of spying.
1988: President Reagan vetoed legislation designed to
toughen curbs in textile, apparel and shoe imports, arguing it would have "disastrous
effects" on the economy at a time when exports were growing.
1989: Deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos
died in exile in Hawaii at age 72.
1990: The exiled emir of Kuwait visited the White House,
where he told President Bush the Iraqis were destroying and looting his country.
1991: Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev praised
President Bush's pledge to drastically reduce the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and promised to
''reciprocate.''
1991: U.N. weapons inspectors ended a five-day standoff
with Iraq over documents relating to Iraq's nuclear weapons program.
1991: Jazz great Miles Davis died in Santa Monica, Calif.,
at age 65.
1992: Aides to President Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton
met in Dallas with supporters of Ross Perot, who hinted afterward he might re-enter the
presidential race.
1992: A Pakistani jetliner crashed in Nepal, killing all
167 people aboard.
1993: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton went to Capitol
Hill to begin selling the administration's health care plan to Congress.
1994: "Cats" 5,000th Broadway performance (joins
Chorus Line & Oh! Calcutta!)
1994: "Ed Wood" premieres
1994: Ferry boat Estonia capsize & sinks in East Sea,
909 killed
1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO
chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control
of its Arab residents.
1996: With the United States abstaining, the UN Security
Council passed a resolution indirectly calling on Israel to close an archaeological tunnel
in Jerusalem that had touched off fighting between Israelis and Palestinians.
1996: Landmark legislation to crack down on illegal
immigrants in the United States won House passage as part of a giant federal spending
bill.
1996: Asteroid 1991 CS passes closer than 5 million miles
to Earth
1996: Orioles' Roberto Alomar suspended 5 games for
spitting at ump
1997: Newscaster David Brinkley, 74, retires after 54
years in broadcasting
1997: Swiss voters overwhelmingly endorsed their
government's liberal drug policies, including the controversial state distribution of
heroin to hardened addicts.
1997: Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 58th
home run on the final day of the regular season as his team beat the Chicago Cubs, 2-to-1.
1998: Hurricane "Georges" plowed into the Gulf
Coast, weakening to a tropical storm but pouring rain at an inch-an-hour pace. President
Clinton declared an emergency late in the day.
1999: The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether a state
can give visitation rights to grandparents when, after a divorce or some other family
split, the children's parents say no. (In June, the court had ruled that Washington state
went too far in letting grandparents and others seek visitation, but it stopped short of
giving parents absolute veto power over who gets to visit their children.)
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