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Celebrate Today:
National Flower Day - In 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill making the rose the national flower of the U.S.
Born on this Day
1543: Hans Holbein
1573: William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury
1576: John Marston, English satirist, dramatist
1849: The Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley, who wrote "Li'l
Orphant Annie,"
1870: Grand Ole Opry star Uncle Dave Macon
1888: Henry Wallace, 33rd vice president of the United States and 1948
independent candidate for president
1885: Neils Bohr, Danish physicist who won the Nobel Prize for physics
and later worked on the first atom bomb
1900: Heinrich Himmler, chicken farmer who became the head of the German
Gestapo in Hitler's Germany
1905: Andy Devine (Jeremiah Schwartz) TV cowboy sidekick
1911: Singer Vaughn Monroe (Racing with the Moon, Riders in the Sky,
There I Go, Rum and Coca Cola, There! I've Said It Again, Let It Snow, Let It Snow! Let It
Snow!, Ballerina, They were Doing the Mambo; actor: Meet the People, Carnegie Hall,
Singing Guns)
1914: Actor Alfred Drake (Capurro) (Tony Award: Kismet [1954], Kiss Me
Kate, Oklahoma)
1917: Actress June Allyson (Best Foot Forward, The Glen Miller Story,
Little Women, Strategic Air Command; TV host: The Dupont Show with June Allyson; wife of
actor, Dick Powell)
1922: Singer, actress Martha Stewart (Haworth) (Those Two)
1927: Singer Al Martino
1927: Actress Diana Lynn (Loehr) (Bedtime for Bonzo, The Kentuckian, The
Annapolis Story, My Friend Irma, Miracle of Morgan's Creek)
1931: Desmond Tutu, South African Black archbishop who won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1984
1943: Former National Security Council aide Oliver North
1949: Country singer Kiernan Kane (The O'Kanes)
1951: Singer John Mellencamp
1953: Actress Christopher Norris
1953: Rock musician Tico Torres (Bon Jovi)
1955: Cellist Yo-Yo Ma
1957: Michael W. (Whitaker) Smith
1961: Actress Judy Landers
1968: Singer Toni Braxton
1968: Rock singer-musician Thom York (Radiohead)
1969: Rock musician Leeroy Thornhill (Prodigy)
0336: Death of St. Mark, Pope
0929: Death of Charles III "the Simple," King of
France
1346: David II, King of Scots made prisoner at Neville's
Cross
1542: Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers Catalina Island, off
California
1571: In the last great clash of galleys, the Ottoman navy
is defeated at Lepanto, Greece, by a Christian naval coalition under the overall command
of Spain's Don Juan de Austria. See Today's
History Focus
1765: Delegates from nine of the American colonies meet in
New York to discuss the Stamp Act Crisis and colonial response to it. This "Stamp Act
Congress" went on to draft resolutions condemning the Stamp and Sugar Acts, trial
without jury and taxation without representation as contrary to their rights as
Englishmen.
1777: The second Battle of Saratoga began during the
American Revolution. (The British forces, under General John Burgoyne, surrendered ten
days later.)
1849: Author Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore, Maryland,
at age 40. Never able to overcome his drinking habits, he was found in a delirious
condition outside a saloon uttering "Lord, help my poor soul." He had been on a
sustained drinking binge and had been drawn into a gang of derelicts who were being taken
from one polling place to another in Baltimore to cast ballots.
1868: Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, New
York.
1916: In the most lopsided football game on record,
Georgia Tech humbled Cumberland University, 222-0.
1940: Artie Shaw and his Orchestra recorded Hoagy
Carmichael's "Stardust" for RCA Victor.
1949: The Republic of East Germany was formed.
1949: Iva Toguri D'Aquino, better known as Tokyo Rose, is
sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason. She was paroled in 1956, pardoned in 1977.
1954: Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired
by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York.
1960: Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy
and Republican opponent Richard M. Nixon held the second of their broadcast debates.
1963: President Kennedy signed the documents of
ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1963: Bobby Baker resigned as Senate Democratic secretary
after being charged in a $300,000 civil suit for using his influence for personal monetary
gains.
1968: The Motion Picture Association of America adopted
its film-rating system, ranging from "G" for "general" audiences to
"X" for adult patrons only.
1979: Pope John Paul II concluded his week-long tour of
the United States with a Mass on the Washington Mall.
1981: Egypt's parliament named Vice President Hosni
Mubarak to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat.
1982: The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical
"Cats," featuring the popular song "Memory," opened on Broadway.
1984: President Reagan and Democratic challenger Walter F.
Mondale clashed in a debate in Louisville, Ky., with each candidate denouncing the other's
proposals for dealing with the federal budget deficit.
1985: A mud slide in Ponce, Puerto Rico, killed an
estimated 500 people in the island's worst disaster this century.
1985: Palestinian gunmen hijacke the Italian cruise ship
"Achille Lauro" in the Mediterranean with more than 400 people aboard.
1986: President Reagan met at the White House with
recently freed Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov, and said afterward that a substantive
improvement in Soviet human rights was crucial for a superpower summit in the United
States.
1987: President Reagan's advisory commission on AIDS was
left seemingly in disarray as its chairman, Dr. W. Eugene Mayberry, and its vice-chairman,
Dr. Woodrow A. Myers Junior, resigned.
1988: The Labor Department reported the nation's
unemployment rate for September 1988 fell back to July's level of five-point-four percent,
after going up to five-point-six percent in August.
1989: Hungary's Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor
of democratic socialism during a party congress in Budapest.
1990: House and Senate Democrats put together a modified
budget proposal, following the failure of an earlier plan and the veto of stopgap spending
legislation by President Bush.
1990: Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship
Achilles Lauro in the Mediterranean with more than 400 people aboard. American hostage
Leon Klinghoffer was murdered by the hijackers.
1991: University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill
publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate
comments in her presence when she worked for him, and urged the U.S. Senate to investigate
her claims. Thomas denied Hill's allegations.
1992: Trade representatives of the United States, Canada
and Mexico initialed the North American Free Trade Agreement during a ceremony in San
Antonio, Texas.
1992: A secret military tribunal in Peru sentenced Abimael
Guzman, the mastermind and top leader of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, to life in
prison without parole.
1993: President Clinton ordered more troops, heavy armor
and naval firepower to Somalia, but also announced he would pull out all Americans by the
end of March 1994.
1993: Death claimed choreographer Agnes de Mille at age 88
1993: Actor Cyril Cusack dies at age 82
1994: President Clinton ordered Army troops on alert and
dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf after Iraqi troops were spotted moving
south toward Kuwait.
1994: President Clinton held a news conference in which he
expressed frustration over failures in his legislative agenda, blaming Republicans for
"trying to stop it, slow it, kill it or just talk it to death."
1995: New York's Central Park was transformed into a giant
open-air cathedral as Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass before a flock of 130,000.
1995: A magnitude-7 earthquake struck Indonesia, killing
more than 80 people.
1996: The effects of a Canadian Auto Workers strike
against General Motors spread across the border as 18-hundred-50 workers were laid off at
two US parts plants.
1996: The Irish Republican Army detonated two car bombs
inside the British army's headquarters in Northern Ireland, wounding 31 people.
1997: Senator Fred Thompson (Republican, Tennessee),
chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee investigating fund-raising abuses,
accused the White House of "a clear pattern of delay, foot-dragging,
concealing."
1997: Former White House deputy chief of staff Harold
Ickes defended using the White House to raise Democratic money, telling the committee,
"We played by the rules."
1998: Matthew Shepard, a gay college student at the
University of Wyoming, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of
Laramie; he died five days later. (Russell Henderson later pleaded guilty to murder and
kidnapping; a second suspect, Aaron McKinney, has yet to stand trial.)
1998: The Justice Department sued Visa and MasterCard, the
nation's largest credit card networks, on grounds they were restraining competition and
limiting consumer choice.
1999: American Home Products Corp. resolved one of the
biggest product liability cases ever by agreeing to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle
claims that the fen-phen diet drug combination caused dangerous heart valve problems.
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