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Celebrate Today:
Party Party Day - Celebrated each month when the day equals the number of the month. An
excuse to have at least one celebration each month. Sponsor: Bonza Bottler Day.
Tuxedo Birthday - In 1886, the tuxedo made its American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo
Park, New York.
U.S. Naval Academy Day - The U.S. Naval Academy opened this day in 1845.
Born on this Day
1510: St. Francis Borgia
1684: French Rocco painter Antoine Watteau
1731: English chemist-physicist Henry Cavendish, discoverer of hydrogen
1738: Benjamin West, painter.
1813: This may have been Verdi's birthday. There are no records to prove
it, but this was the day Verdi celebrated it.
1900: Actress Helen Hayes
19??: Dean Roland (Collective Soul)
1915: Jazz musician Harry "Sweets" Edison
1915: Producer Owen Bradley
1920: Jazz great Thelonius Monk
1930: British playwright Harold Pinter
1942: Actor Peter Coyote
1946: Entertainer Ben Vereen
1946: Singer John Prine
1946: Actor Charles Dance
1948: Rock singer-musician Cyril Neville (The Neville Brothers)
1949: Actress Jessica Harper
1953: Singer-musician Midge Ure
1955: Singer David Lee Roth
1959: Country singer Tanya Tucker
1961: Musician Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
1963: Rock musician Jim Glennie (James)
1967: Rock musician Mike Malinin (Goo Goo Dolls)
1979: Singer Mya
0019: Germanicus, the best loved of Roman princes, dies of
poisoning. On his deathbed he accuses Piso, the governor of Syria, of poisoning him.
0644: Death of St. Paulinius of York
0680: Death of Husayn See Today's History Focus
0732: At Tours, France, Charles Martel kills Abd el-Rahman
and halts the Muslim invasion of Europe.
1227: Martyrdom of St. Daniel and his companions
1460: Richard of York claims English throne
1573: Death of St. Francis Borgia
1573: Spanish capture Tunis
1614: New Netherlands Company given a three year monopoly
on the fur trade in North America
1653: Issak Walton publishes "The Compleat
Angler"
1733: France declares war on Austria over the question of
Polish succession.
1789: In Versailles France, Joseph Guillotin says the most
humane way of carrying out a death sentence is decapitation by a single blow of a blade.
1845: The U.S. Naval Academy was formally opened at Fort
Severn, Annapolis, Maryland.
1853: Wagner met Liszt for the first time. The
introduction was performed by Liszt's 15-year-old daughter Cosima. Cosima would go on to
marry the conductor Hans von Bulow... then leave him to marry Wagner.
1877: Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer is buried at West
Point in New York.
1886: The tuxedo dinner jacket made its American debut at
the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park, New York.
1911: Revolution in China begins with a bomb explosion and
the discovery of revolutionary headquarters in Hankow. The revolutionary movement spread
rapidly through west and southern China, forcing the abdication of the last Ch'ing
emperor, six-year-old Henry Pu-Yi.
1911: The Panama Canal opens.
1933: At Rio de Janeiro, nations of the Western Hemisphere
sign a non-aggression and conciliation treaty.
1935: George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess"
opened on Broadway.
1938: Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's
Sudetenland. 1943: Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.
1947: Prokofiev's Sixth Symphony was premiered in St.
Petersburg, called Leningrad at the time. The Sixth has one of the most unusual beginnings
of any symphony; it sounds like a laugh.
1963: A dam burst in northern Italy, drowning an estimated
3,000 people.
1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to the
finance minister of Ghana (Komla Agbeli Gbdemah) after the official had been refused
service in a Dover, Delaware, restaurant.
1966: U.S. Forces launch Operation Robin, in Hoa Province
south of Saigon in South Vietnam, to provide road security between villages.
1968: Luciano Berio's Sinfonia was premiered with the New
York Philharmonic and the Swingle Singers. One movement mixed dissonant material with a
complete symphonic movement of Mahler.
1970: Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte was kidnapped
by the Quebec Liberation Front, a militant separatist group. (Laporte's body was found
about a week later.)
1970: Fiji became independent after nearly a century of
British rule.
1973: Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned under an
agreement with the Justice Department to plead no contest to income tax evasion charges.
He was fined $10,000 and placed on three years' probation.
1980: Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network
dedicated.
1985: Actor Yul Brynner died in New York at age 65.
1985: Actor-director Orson Welles died in Los Angeles at
age 70.
1987: The Reverend Jesse Jackson formally launched his bid
for the Democratic presidential nomination in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1987: Britain's Tom McClean finished rowing across the
Atlantic, setting a record for a west-to-east crossing in 54 days, 18 hours.
1988: Vice President Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis
prepared for their second debate of the 1988 campaign, scheduled to take place in three
days.
1989: South African President F.W. de Klerk announced that
eight prominent political prisoners, including African National Congress official Walter
Sisulu, would be unconditionally freed, but that Nelson Mandela would remain imprisoned.
1990: The space shuttle Discovery landed safely at Edwards
Air Force Base in California, ending a virtually flawless four-day mission.
1990: The Oakland A's swept to the American League pennant
and their third straight World Series by defeating the Boston Red Sox 3-1.
1991: The United States cut all aid to Haiti, including
$90 million funneled through the Agency for International Development.
1992: Iraq released US munitions expert Clinton Hall, two
days after he'd been taken priaoner in the demilitarized zone separating Iraq and Kuwait.
1992: All sides prepared on the eve of a three-way
presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri, between President Bush, Democrat Bill Clinton
and independent candidate Ross Perot.
1993: Thousands of Somalis demonstrated in the capital of
Mogadishu to support warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, an event that coincided with the
arrival of special US envoy Robert Oakley.
1993: In Greece, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, led
by Andreas Papandreou, won a solid majority of seats in parliamentary elections.
1994: Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras resigned as commander-in-chief
of Haiti's armed forces and pledged to leave the country.
1994: Iraq announced it was withdrawing its forces from
the Kuwaiti border; seeing no signs of a pullback, President Clinton dispatched 350
additional aircraft to the region.
1994: Americans Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell won
the Nobel Prize in medicine.
1995: University of Chicago professor Robert E. Lucas won
the Nobel Prize in economics for demonstrating how people's fears and expectations can
frustrate policy-makers' efforts to shape the economy.
1995: world chess champion Gary Kasparov won a month-long
championship match against Viswanathan Anand.
1996: President Clinton joined Vice President Gore in
Knoxville, Tennessee, where the president moved to broaden the sweep of the Internet at
100 universities, national labs and other federal institutions.
1996: Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole hosted a
rally in Cincinnati that featured his running mate, Jack Kemp, and retired General Colin
Powell.
1997: The International Campaign to Ban Landmines and its
coordinator, Jody Williams, were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1997: Defying the Republican Congress a second time,
President Clinton vetoed a ban on certain late-term abortion procedures.
1998: Former Defense Secretary and presidential adviser
Clark M. Clifford died at age 91.
1999: Portugal's governing Socialist Party was returned to
power by a comfortable margin in a general election.
1999: Six college students getting out of their cars or
walking along a highway on their way to a fraternity party at Texas A&M were struck
and killed by a pickup truck whose driver who had fallen asleep.
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