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Celebrate Today:
I Love Lucy Day - On this day in 1951, the first of many TV shows staring Lucille Ball
premiered on CBS - TV.
Mushroom Day
National Grouch Day - Recognizes people who are chronically irritable. It doesn't
necessarily accept these people or encourage them, and it certainly doesn't honor them. It
only recognizes that they exist. Celebrated on the birthday of the founder, Alan Miller.
Sponsor: Carter Middle School.
White Cane Safety Day - Celebrated on this day since 1964 by presidential proclamation.
World Poetry Day - Formerly sponsored by Richard Falk, who died in 1994.
Born on this Day
70 B.C.: Roman poet Virgil
1542: Akbar, Indian Moghul Emperor
1558: Louis Cappel French Huguenot
theologian and Hebrew scholar.
1608: Evangelista Torricelli, inventor of
the barometer
1820: Florence Nightingale, hospital
reformer.
1829: Asaph Hall, astronomer, discovered the
moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos
1830: Helen Hunt Jackson, writer and poet.
1844: German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche
1858: Boxing champion John L. Sullivan
1879: Actress Jane Darwell She played Ma
Joad in the 1940 John Ford film of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
1881: English writer and humorist P.G.
Wodehouse
19??: Jaci Velasquez
1905: C. P. Snow, British novelist and
scientist
1908: Economist John Kenneth Galbraith
1917: Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Junior
1917: Actress Jan Miner ("Madge the
Manicurist")
1920: Author Mario Puzo (The Godfather,
Fourth K)
1924: Former Chrysler chairman Lee (Lido)
Iacocca
1926: Actress Jean Peters
1934: Actor Peter Haskell (Robot Wars,
Child's Play, Christina, Bracken's World, The Law and Harry McGraw Rituals)
1937: Singer - songwriter Barry McGuire (The
New Christy Minstrels: Green, Green)
1937: Actress Linda Lavin
1942: Actress-director Penny Marshall
1942: Rock musician Don Stevenson (Moby
Grape)
1946: Musician Richard Carpenter
1946: Actor Victor Banerjee
1951: Tennis player Roscoe Tanner
1953: Singer Tito Jackson
1954: Actor Jere Burns
1955: Actress Tanya Roberts
1959: Britain's Duchess of York, Sarah
Ferguson
1962: Rock musician Mark Reznicek (Toadies)
1970: Singer Ginuwine
0614: Lothar, King of the
Franks, issues the Edict of Paris
1389: Death of Pope Urban VI
1417: Pope Gregory XII
resigns from office
1522: Cortes promoted to
Captain-General and Governor of New Spain
1529: The troops of Suliman
"The Lawgiver" abandon the siege of Vienna
1538: A Royal decree
exempted all but Spanish colonists from the Inquisition in America
1565: French Huguenot
settlers surrender to Spanish, are massacred in Florida
1582: Death of St. Theresa
of Avila
1582: The Gregorian calendar
was adopted in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal.
1590: Election of Pope Urban
VII
1783: Francois Pilatre de
Rozier makes the first manned flight in a hot air balloon. The balloon was a Montgolfiere
suspended on cables with a straw fire providing the hot air. The first flight was let out
to 82 feet, but over the next few days the altitude increased up to 6,500 feet.
1789: George Washington
began the first presidential tour, visiting the New England states.
1813: During the land defeat
of the British on the Thames River in Canada, the Indian chief Tecumseh, now a brigadier
general with the British Army (War of 1812), was killed.
1815: Schubert composed 18
songs. That was a prolific pace even for him. One of the songs he wrote that day was the
"Wiegenlied."
1844: Johann Strauss the
Younger found one of his waltzes so popular that his orchestra had to repeat it 19 times.
1860: Grace Bedell writes to
Lincoln, telling him to grow a beard.
1892: An attempt to rob two
banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, ends in disaster for the Dalton gang as four of the five
outlaws are killed and Emmet Dalton is seriously wounded.
1892: The U.S. government
convinced the Crow Indians to give up 1.8 million acres of their reservation for 50 cents
per acre.
1900: One of the finest
symphony halls in the world is the one used in Boston, Boston's Symphony Hall opened.
1914: The Clayton Antitrust
Act was passed.
1917: Mata Hari (Gertrude Zelle), a Dutch dancer who had spied for the Germans, was executed by a firing squad
outside Paris. See
Today's History Focus
1928: The German dirigible
"Graf Zeppelin" landed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, on its first commercial flight
across the Atlantic.
1937: The Ernest Hemingway
novel "To Have and Have Not" was first published.
1939: New York Municipal
Airport, later re-named LaGuardia Airport, was dedicated.
1945: The former premier of
Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed.
1946: Nazi war criminal
Hermann Goering poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.
1951: The situation comedy
"I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS.
1964: It was announced that
Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev had been removed from office. He was succeeded as
premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party secretary by Leonid I.
Brezhnev.
1964: Cole Porter, renowned
lyricist and composer, died at age 73.
1966: President Johnson
signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation.
1969: Peace demonstrators
staged activities across the country, including a candlelight march around the White
House, as part of a moratorium against the Vietnam War.
1976: In the first debate of
its kind between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob
Dole faced off in Houston.
1987: Frantic efforts
continued in Midland, Texas, to save 18-month-old Jessica McClure, who had fallen 22 feet
down an abandoned well the day before. (Jessica was freed the following evening.)
1988: The Los Angeles
Dodgers defeated the Oakland A's, 5-to-4, in the World Series opener that featured a
dramatic game-winning home run hit by Kirk Gibson.
1989: South African officials released eight prominent political prisoners, including Walter Sisulu, a leader of the African National Congress.
1989: The NHL's Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings surpassed Gordie Howe's scoring record of 1,850 points, in a game against the Edmonton Oilers.
1990: Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1990: South Africa's Separate Amenities Act, which barred blacks from public facilities for decades, was formally scrapped.
1991: Despite sexual
harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate narrowly confirmed the nomination of
Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, 52-to-48.
1992: The State Department
acknowledged that it had improperly handled requests for the passport file of Democratic
presidential nominee Bill Clinton.
1993: President Clinton sent
six warships to the waters off Haiti to enforce trade sanctions in the face of defiant
Haitian military rulers.
1993: Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end
apartheid.
1994: Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to his country, three years after being overthrown by army rulers.
1994: The U.N. Security Council welcomed Aristide's return by voting to lift stifling trade sanctions imposed against Haiti.
1995: Six Israel soldiers
were killed in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon in an ambush blamed on the Iranian-backed
group Hezbollah.
1996: C-S-X Corporation
announced plans to buy Conrail Incorporated for $8.4 billion to create the nation's
third-largest railroad.
1997: British Royal Air
Force pilot Andy Green twice drove a jet-powered car in the Nevada desert faster than the
speed of sound, officially shattering the world's land-speed record.
1997: NASA's
plutonium-powered "Cassini" spacecraft rocketed flawlessly toward Saturn.
1997: Six scientists, three
of them American, won Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics for cellular and atomic
research.
1997: The Cleveland Indians
won the American League championship, defeating the Baltimore Orioles 1-to-0 in game six.
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1998: The White House and congressional leaders struck agreement on a $500 billion spending package, ending a week of election-season budget brinkmanship.
1998: The Federal Reserve made surprise cuts in two key interest rates, igniting an explosive rally on Wall Street.
1998: President Clinton opened Mideast summit talks in Maryland that resulted in the Wye River land-for-peace agreement.
1999: The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1999: Irish tenor Josef Locke, whose life inspired the 1992 film "Hear My Song," died in County Kildare, Ireland, at age 82.
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