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Appreciation Month National AIDS Awareness Month National Breast Cancer Awareness Month National Car Care Month National Caramel Month National Communicate With Your Kid Month National Cookie Month National Crime Prevention Month |
Celebrate Today:
Black Poetry Day - This day celebrates the birthday of Jupiter
Hammon. He was born on
this day in 1711. He was the first American black to publish his poetry. This day
recognizes the contributions of black poets to American life and culture. Sponsor: Black
Poetry Day Committee.
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - Devoted to eliminating poverty in all
countries, especially developing nations. Sponsor: United Nations.
RCA Day - The Radio Corporation of America was founded on this day in 1919.
Born on this Day
1711: Jupiter Hammon, America's first
published black poet
1880: Charles Kraft (Kraft Foods)
1885: Danish writer Isak Dinesen, who wrote
mainly in English
1893: Actress Spring Byington (Please Don't
Eat the Daisies, Angels in the Outfield, Jezebel, Little Women, Laramie, December Bride)
1903: Actress Irene Ryan
1903: Author Nathaniel West (Miss Lonelyhearts, Day of the Locust)
1915: Playwright Arthur Miller
1917: Actress Marsha Hunt
1918: Actress Rita Hayworth
1920: Actor Montgomery Clift (From Here to
Eternity, Suddenly Last Summer, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Misfits, A Place in the Sun)
1920: Dean Ray Bower (My Dad)
1926: Actress Beverly Garland
1926: Actress Julie Adams
1927: Actor Tom Poston
1930: Newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin
1938: Daredevil Evel Knievel
1941: Singer Jim Seals (Seals & Crofts)
1941: Country singer Earl Thomas Conley
1942: Singer Gary Puckett
1947: Actor Michael McKean
1948: Actress Margot Kidder
1948: Actor George Wendt
1948; Actor Bill Hudson
1950: Actor Howard Rollins
1955: Actor Sam Bottoms
1956: Astronaut Mae Jemison
1958: Country singer Alan Jackson
1962: Animator Mike Judge ("King of the
Hill")
1968: Reggae singer Ziggy Marley
1972: Singer Wyclef Jean
1244: The Sixth Crusade ends
when an Egyptian-Khwarismian force almost annihilates the Frankish army.
1346: English forces defeat
the Scots under David II during the Battle of Neville's Cross, Scotland.
1651: Defeated by Oliver
Cromwell at Worcester, Charles II of England flees to France. See
Today's History Focus
1707: Johann Sebastian Bach
got married to his cousin Maria Barbara Bach. That was the first of Bach's two marriages.
He had children by both.
1777: At one of the turning
points of the American Revolution, British Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American Gen.
Horatio Gates at Saratoga, N.Y.
1849: Chopin died in Paris
of tuberculosis.
1913: Zeppelin LII explodes
over London, killing 28.
1919: The Radio Corporation
of America was created.
1931: Mobster Al Capone was
convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to eleven years in prison. (He was released
in 1939).
1933: Albert Einstein
arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
1941: The U.S. destroyer
Kearney is damaged by a German U-boat torpedo off Iceland; 11 Americans are killed.
1945: Juan Peron became
dictator of Argentina. He remained in power for 11 years before being overthrown.
1945: Colonel Juan Peron
staged a coup, becoming absolute ruler of Argentina.
1957: French author Albert
Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
1960: Charles Van Doren and
13 others were arrested for fraud in connection with rigged quiz shows.
1973: Arab oil-producing
nations announced they would begin cutting back on oil exports to Western nations and
Japan; the result was a total embargo that lasted until March 1974.
1977: West German commandos
stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner that was on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia,
freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers.
1979: Mother Teresa of India
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her years of work on behalf of the destitute in
Calcutta.
1980: Mt. St. Helens erupts
3 times in 24 hours, in Washington.
1987: First lady Nancy
Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1988: Philip Morris
Companies Incorporated launched an $11.5 billion takeover bid for Kraft Incorporated.
1989: Earthquake strikes San
Francisco bay area minutes before the start of a World Series game there. The earthquake
registers 6.9 on the Richter scale--66 are killed and damage is estimated at $10 billion.
1990: In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State James Baker said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein "must fail if peace is to succeed."
1990: The Cincinnati Reds opened up a 2-0 World Series lead, beating the Oakland A's 5-4.
1992: Japanese exchange
student Yoshi Hattori, 16, was shot and killed by Rodney Peairs in Center, Louisiana,
after Hattori and his American host mistakenly knocked on Peairs' door while looking for a
Halloween party. (Peairs was acquitted of manslaughter, but in a civil trial was ordered
to pay more than $650,000 in damages to Hattori's family.)
1993: Senate Minority Leader
Bob Dole, in a CBS interview, said he would offer legislation restricting President
Clinton's authority to send troops to Haiti.
1993: The Philadelphia
Phillies defeated the Toronto Blue Jays, 6-to-4, evening the World Series at one game
each.
1994: Leaders of Israel and Jordan initialed a draft peace treaty. Negotiators for the Angolan government and rebels agreed to a peace treaty to end their 19-year civil war.
1995: President Clinton told wealthy contributors at a Houston fund-raiser that "you think I raised your taxes too much. It might surprise you to know that I think I raised them too much, too"
— a statement that drew criticism from both Republicans and Democrats.
1995: A bomb exploded aboard a Paris subway car, wounding 29 people.
1995: The Cleveland Indians won the American League pennant by defeating the Seattle Mariners, 4-0, in game six of their playoff series.
1996: Russian President
Boris Yeltsin fired security chief Alexander Lebed, one day after the former general was
accused by a rival of building his own rogue army.
1997: The remains of
revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were laid to rest in his adopted Cuba, 30
years after his execution in Bolivia.
1998: A pipeline explosion and fire in southwest Nigeria killed some 700 people.
1999: The FBI reported that serious crimes reported to police declined for seventh straight year in 1998 and murder and robbery rates reached 30-year lows.
1999: Former nurse Orville Lynn Majors was convicted of murdering six patients at a western Indiana hospital; the jury deadlocked on a seventh count. (Majors is serving a 360-year prison sentence.)
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