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Celebrate Today:
Modern Mythology Day - Explore modern myths in movies, television and books.
White House "Birthday - The cornerstone of the White House was laid this day in 1792.
International Moment of Frustration Day - Go outside and scream sometime today. Sponsor:
Wellness Permission League.
Born on this Day
1754: American Revolutionary War heroine Molly Pitcher
1769: Horace H. Hayden, cofounder of 1st dental college
1853: Stage star of the Victorian age, Lillie Langtry
19??: Derri Daugherty (The Choir)
1909: Editorial cartoonist herblock
1915: Actor Cornel Wilde A Song to Remember, Sharks' Treasure, Omar
Khayyam, The Greatest Show on Earth, Forever Amber)
1924: Actor - Comedian Nipsey Russell (Car 54, Where are You?, ABC's
Nightlife, Barefoot in the Park, The Dean Martin Show)
1925: Comedian Lenny Bruce (Dance Hall Racket, Dynamite Chicken)
1925: Actor-singer Yves Montand
1925: Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
1925: Playwright Frank D. Gilroy
1938: Gospel singer Shirley Caesar
1939: Actress Melinda Dillon
1941: Singer-musician Paul Simon
1942: Actress Pamela Tiffin
1944: Musician Robert Lamm (Chicago) .
1946: Actor Demond Wilson
1946: Country singer Lacy J. Dalton
1947: Singer-musician Sammy Hagar
1952: Actor John Lone
1952: Model Beverly Johnson
1957: Writer-producer Chris Carter ("The X-Files")
1959: Singer Marie Osmond
1962: Actress Kelly Preston
1962: Country singer John Wiggins
1969: Olympic silver-medal figure skater Nancy Kerrigan
1969: Country singer Rhett Akins
1970: Actress Tisha Campbell
1972: Rock musician Jan Van Sichem Junior (K's Choice)
0054: Roman emperor Claudius the First died, after being
poisoned by his wife, Agrippina. See Today's
History Focus
0909: Death of St. Gerard of Aurillac
1066: Death of St. Edward, "the Confessor," King
of England
1240: Death of Sultana Raziyya, the first female Moslem
ruler
1307: Philip IV "the Fair" orders the arrest of
the Templars
1399: Coronation of Henry IV as King of England
1605: Death of Theodore Beza, theologian
1700: The London Gazette published an ad which revealed
that the score of Henry Purcell's work "Fairy Queen" had been lost. A reward was
offered.
1775: The Continental Congress ordered construction of
America's first naval fleet.
1792: The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later
known as the White House, was laid during a Masonic ceremony in the District of Columbia,
led by President Washington.It would not be occupied until 1800.
1843: The Jewish organization B'nai B'rith was founded in
New York City.
1863: The remains of Beethoven and Schubert were dug up so
the Viennese could rebury their beloved composers in a better place.
1845: Texas ratified a state constitution. 1884: Greenwich
was accepted as the prime meridian for world time calculations.
1903: The Boston Red Sox beat the Pittsburgh Pirates to
win the first World Series, five games to three.
1904: Debussy's wife tried to commit suicide. Lily Debussy
was distraught over her husband leaving her for another woman. She survived a
self-inflicted gunshot wound. The whole affair became public and hurt Debussy's popularity
in Britain for a while.
1943: During World War Two, Italy declared war on Germany,
its one-time Axis partner.
1943: The poet Robert Lowell was sentenced to a year and a
day in jail for draft evasion
1944: American troops entered Aachen, Germany.
1944: British and Greek advance units landed at Piraeus
during World War Two.
1960: Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy participated in
the third televised debate of their presidential campaign, with Nixon in Hollywood and
Kennedy in New York.
1962: The four-character drama "Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?," by Edward Albee, opened on Broadway.
1972: More than 170 people were killed when a Soviet
airliner crashed near the Moscow airport.
1981: Voters in Egypt participated in a referendum to
elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of
Anwar Sadat.
1987: Costa Rican President Oscar Arias was named winner
of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on behalf of a Central American peace plan.
1988: Vice President Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis met
in their second presidential debate of the 1988 campaign.
1988: Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz was named recipient
of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1989: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 190 points,
triggering memories of the 1987 crash.
1990: At the start of a three-day conference in Jiddah,
Saudi Arabia, the crown prince of Kuwait promised greater democracy for the emirate if it
were freed from Iraqi occupation.
1990: In Lebanon, rebel Christian Gen. Michel Aoun ended
his mutiny against the government.
1990: Le Duc Tho, co-founder of the Vietnamese Communist
Party, died in Hanoi at age 79.
1992: Vice President Dan Quayle, Senator Al Gore and
retired admiral James B. Stockdale clashed in a freewheeling vice-presidential debate in
Atlanta.
1993: The UN Security Council voted to reimpose sanctions
on Haiti unless military leaders there stopped violating a UN-brokered accord.
1993: The Philadelphia Phillies won the National League
pennant, defeating the Atlanta Braves in game six.
1994: Pro-British Protestant paramilitaries in Northern
Ireland announced a cease-fire matching the Irish Republican Army's six-week-old truce.
1994: Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe won the Nobel Prize
in literature.
1995: British physicist Joseph Rotblat and the
anti-nuclear group he founded, the Pugwash Conference, were named winners of the 1995
Nobel Peace Prize.
1996: House Speaker Newt Gingrich, appearing on CBS'
"Face the Nation," called on Congress to investigate campaign contributions made
to President Clinton's re-election campaign by the Lippo Group, an Indonesian banking
conglomerate.
1996: The Yankees won the American League pennant,
defeating the Baltimore Orioles.
1997: A jet-powered car driven by British Royal Air Force
pilot Andy Green streaked across Nevada's Black Rock Desert at speeds topping 764 mph,
faster than the speed of sound. However, the car couldn't complete two runs within the 60
minutes required by record-keepers. (Green officially broke the record two days later.) In
Quebec, Canada,
1997: 43 senior citizens and a bus driver were killed when
the bus plunged into a ravine.
1998: White House and congressional budget bargainers
continued to seek agreement on issues snarling a $500 billion bill for the new fiscal
year.
1998: Five scientists in the United States won the Nobel
Prize in chemistry for developing ways to analyze molecules in chemical reactions and the
Nobel Prize in physics for discovering how electrons can change behavior.
1998: The NBA suspended the first two weeks of the 1998-99
pro basketball season after collective bargaining talks broke off.
1998: The New York Yankees won the American League pennant
with a 9-5 victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game 6 of their championship series.
1999: Robert A. Mundell of Columbia University won the
Nobel Prize for economic sciences.
1999: In Boulder, Colorado, the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury
was dismissed after 13 months of work with prosecutors saying there wasn't enough evidence
to charge anyone in the 6-year-old's strangulation.
1999: The Senate defeated the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty, 51-48.
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