September 30
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 September is: |
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 |
National Yo-Yo Championships - Always held on the last Saturday in September. Sponsor: Bird in Hand.
Ask a Stupid Question Day - There is no such thing as a stupid question. Ask your questions freely.
Chewing Gum Day - Chew an entire pack of gum today to celebrate the birthday of William Wrigley, Jr., the man who brought us "pure chewing satisfaction." Sponsor: The Life of the Party.
Happy Fiscal New Year Festival - Celebrates the beginning of a new fiscal year for the federal government. Sponsor: International Association of Professional Bureaucrats.
Independent Publishers Day - This day is to honor small independent book publishers. It is celebrated on the birthday of COSMEP on this day in 1963. Sponsor: COSMEP.
Saint Jerome Feast Day - Patron saint of scholars, students, and librarians because of his 22 year effort to write the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible.
The Flintstones' Birthday - Premiered on ABC TV this day in 1960. The first cartoon show aimed at adults.
Born on this Day
1207: Rumi See Today's History
Focus
1227: Pope Nicholas IV original name GIROLAMO MASCI pope from 1288 to
1292, the first Franciscan pontiff.
1388: Thomas Plantagenet, duke of Clarence. The second son of Henry IV
of England and aide to his elder brother, Henry V.
1861: William Wrigley, Jr. American salesman and manufacturer whose
company became the largest producer and distributor of chewing gum in the world.
1863: Reinhard von Scheer, German admiral who commanded the German fleet
at the Battle of Jutland
1882: German physicist Hans Geiger, co-inventor of the Geiger counter
1895: Film director Lewis Milestone ("All Quiet on the Western
Front")
1906: J(ohn) I(nnes) M(ackintosh) Stewart, British novelist and literary
critic created the character of Inspector John Appleby, a British sleuth known for his
suave humour, "raised eyebrow," and literary finesse.
1915: Former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox
1921: Actress Deborah Kerr (Night of the Iguana)
1924: Novelist Truman Capote
1928: Elie Wiesel, byname of ELIEZER WIESEL Romanian-born American
novelist whose works provide a sober yet passionate testament of the destruction of
European Jewry during World War II. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986.
1931: Actress Angie Dickinson
1933: Singer Cissy Houston
1935: Singer Johnny Mathis (Misty and Wonderful Wonderful)
1939: Actor Len Cariou
1942: Rock singer-musician Dewey Martin (Buffalo Springfield)
1943: Johann Deisenhofer, German biochemist who, along with Hartmut
Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their
determination of the structure of certain proteins that are essential to photosynthesis.
1943: Singer Marilyn McCoo
1946: Pop singer Sylvia Peterson (The Chiffons)
1947: Actress Rula Lenska
1952: Rock musician John Lombardo (10,000 Maniacs)
1953: Singer Deborah Allen
1954: Actor Barry Williams
1954: Actor Calvin Levels ("Adventures in Babysitting")
1954: Singer Patrice Rushen
1956: Singer Basia
1957: Actress Fran Drescher (The Nanny, Saturday Night Fever).
1958: Country singer Marty Stuart
1961: Actor Eric Stoltz
1962: Rapper-producer Marley Marl
1963: Actress Crystal Bernard
1964: Rock musician Robby Takac (Goo Goo Dolls)
1971: Actress Jenna Elfman
1974: Actor Ashley Hamilton
1979: Actor Mike Damus
1980: Tennis player Martina Hingis
1981: Olympic gold medal gymnast Dominique Moceanu .
1982: Actress Lacey Chabert ("Party of Five")
0430: Death of Latin Father St. Jerome. He was converted
at 19 and spent the last half of his life rendering the Scriptures into the contemporary
("vulgar") Latin of his day -- hence the "Latin Vulgate" -- as well as
preparing commentaries on nearly every book of the Bible.
1184: Death of Arnold de Torroges, 9th Master of the
Templars
1399: Abdication of Richard II, King of England
1435: Death of Isabella, Queen to Charles VI, King of
France
1555: Latimer and Ridley brought to trial for heresy
1568: Eric XIV, king of Sweden, is deposed after showing
signs of madness.
1572: Death of St. Francis Borgia
1630: A Plymouth colony resident, John Billington, who had
signed the Mayflower Compact, was sentenced to die for having shot and killed John
Newcomin because of an old quarrel. It was the first execution in the British colonies.
1703: The French, at Hochstadt in the War of the Spanish
Succession, suffer only 1,000 casualties to the 11,000 of their opponents, the Austrians
of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I.
1770: English revivalist George Whitefield, 56, died in
Newburyport, Mass., while on his seventh visit to America.
1791: "The Magic Flute" premiered in Vienna.
Mozart was on hand, and reports of the day say he played tricks on the performers to try
to throw them off.
1846: Dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic
for the first time on a patient in his Boston office. It was used to to extract a tooth.
1853: Robert Schumann who tended to be vehement in both
his criticism and his praise, with lines like "Hats off, gentlemen, a genius!"
poured it on when Johannes Brahms came to visit him.
1911: Italy declares war on Turkey over control of
Tripoli.
1927: Babe Ruth hit his 60th homer of the season to break
his own major-league record. He hits this homerun off Tom Zachary in Yankee Stadium, New
York City.
1935: "Porgy and Bess" premiered in Boston,
setting off an argument among newspaper critics about whether it was an opera or a
musical.
1938: British, French, German and Italian leaders decided
to appease Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1943: The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps becomes the Women's
Army Corps, a regular contingent of the U.S. Army with the same status as other army
service corps
1943: Pius XII issued the encyclical "Divino Afflante
Spiritu," which encouraged Catholic scholars to devote more attention to biblical
exegesis in their teachings and writings.
1946: The verdicts were handed down in the Nuremberg war
crimes trial. 12 Nazi leaders were sentenced to death by hanging.
1949: The Berlin Airlift came to an end after 277,264
flights.
1950: U.N. forces cross the 38th parallel separating North
and South Korea as they pursue the retreating North Korean Army
1951: Billy Graham's "Hour of Decision" first
aired over ABC television. Broadcast on Sunday nights 10:00-10:30, the program aired
through February 1954, before entering syndication.
1952: The motion picture process Cinerama -- which
employed three cameras, three projectors and a deeply curved viewing screen -- made its
debut with the premiere of "This Is Cinerama" at the Broadway Theatre in New
York.
1952: The complete Old and New Testament of the Revised
Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible was first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons. (The
RSV New Testament had first appeared in 1946.)
1954: The first atomic-powered vessel, the submarine
"Nautilus," was commissioned by the Navy.
1954: NATO nations agree to arm and admit West Germany.
1955: Actor James Dean was killed in a two-car collision
near Cholame, California.
1960: The Flintstones premier on TV, billed as the first
adult cartoon.
1962: Black student James Meredith succeeded on his fourth
try in registering for classes at the University of Mississippi.
1965: President Lyndon Johnson signs legislation that
establishes the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities.
1986: The US released accused Soviet spy Gennadiy
Zakharov, one day after the Soviets released Nicholas Daniloff.
1987: Two top campaign aides to Massachusetts Governor
Michaelgn manager John Sasso, admitted leaking an "attack" videotape that helped
bring down the presidential candidacy of Delaware Senator Joseph Biden. (Sasso returned to
the campaign a year later.)
1988: Mikhail S. Gorbachev retired President Andrei A.
Gromyko from the Politburo and fired other old-guard leaders in a Kremlin shake-up.
1988: LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don
Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings.
1989: Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but he gets
his 300th strikeout.
1990: President Bush and congressional leaders forged a
$500 billion five-year compromise package of tax increases and spending cuts.
1991: Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was
overthrown in a military coup.
1992: The Bush and Clinton campaigns opened negotiations
for a series of presidential debates.
1992: George Brett of the Kansas City Royals reached 3,000
career hits during a game against the California Angels.
1992: 26th Country Music Assn Award: Garth Brooks wins
1993: An estimated ten-thousand people were killed when an
earthquake measuring a magnitude of 6.4 struck southern India.
1993: Colin Powell stepped down as chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff in a retirement ceremony at Fort Myer, Virginia.
1993: MS Dos 6.2 released.
1994: NHL goes on strike.
1995: Cleveland Indian Albert Belle hit his 50th home run
of season.
1995: U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke, trying to negotiate a
Bosnian cease-fire, ended inconclusive talks with the Sarajevo government and headed for
Belgrade to try his luck with the Serbs.
1996: With just hours to spare before the start of the
fiscal year, the Senate passed and President Clinton signed a $389 billion spending bill.
1997: In an unprecedented act of repentance, France's
Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the systematic persecution and
deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.
1997: 3 consecutive homers in post season and theYanks
beat Indians 8-6
1997: Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
1998: The General Accounting Office reported that
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and his predecessor, Robert Fiske, had spent more than
$40 million on the investigation of President Clinton's Arkansas land deals that was
expanded to include the probe of the Monica Lewinsky affair.
1998: Both President Clinton and Republicans claimed
credit for news that the government would run a surplus of about $70 billion in the
current fiscal year.
1999: A major leak at a uranium-processing plant in
northeastern Japan exposed dozens of people to radiation.
1999: Defense Secretary William Cohen ordered a top-level
investigation of accounts of mass killings of Korean civilians by U.S. soldiers at No Gun
Ri in 1950.
1999: The San Francisco Giants played the Los Angeles
Dodgers in the last baseball game at Candlestick Park (3Com Park); the Dodgers won, 9-4.
1999: German novelist Guenter Grass won the Nobel Prize in
literature.
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