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Celebrate Today:
Saturday Night Massacre Day - Recognizes the anniversary of the major turning point in the Watergate fiasco in 1973.
Born on this Day
1435: Andrea Della Robbia, Florence, sculptor,
nephew of Luca
1616: Thomas Bartholin
1632: English astronomer and architect Sir
Christopher Wren. His greatest building is St Paul's Cathedral in London.
1854: French poet Artur Rimbaud.
1859: Educator John Dewey
1812: Austin Flint, 19th century pioneer in US
heart research
1819: 19th-century politician and Civil War
general, Daniel Sickles. (In 1859 he killed Philip Baron Key, the son of Francis Scott Key
and his wife's lover, on the White House grounds. He was acquitted of the charge of
manslaughter because it was a crime of passion. At Gettysburg, he was reprimanded by Gen.
Meade for his taking such an advanced, unprotected position on the Union left. He lost a
leg at Gettysburg. While minister to Spain after the War, he was the reputed lover of the
Queen of Spain.)
1874: Composer Charles Ives. In his spare time
he composed symphonies and other works which break all the rules, some of which are too
modern for some ears even today.
1884: Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor, most
famous for portraying Dracula (Some sources 1888)
1889: Comic actress Margaret Dumont.
19??: Daryl Coley
19??: Melissa Brewer (Dakota Motor Co.)
19??: Wendi Foy Green (Sierra)
1905: Mystery author Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay)
1908: Radio-television personality Arlene
Francis (actress: Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Thrill of it All; TV emcee: Who's There,
Talent Patrol, The Comeback Story, Blind Date; panelist: What's My Line)
1913: Country singer-musician Grandpa Jones
(Louis Marshall)
1915: Dancer Fayard Nicholas
1922: Herschel Bernardi (actor: Peter Gunn, Arnie, Love with the Proper Stranger, Irma La
Douce; voice: Charlie Tuna TV commercials,
Jetson characters)
1925: Columnist Art Buchwald
1928: Psychologist Joyce Brothers, America's
first media psychologist. In the mid 1950s, she appeared on the quiz show The $64,000
Question and won in the category of boxing.
1931: Mickey Mantle, baseball great who played
for the New York Yankees
1932: Actor William Christopher (Father
Francis Mulcahy on MASH)
1932: Roosevelt Brown (Pro Football Hall of Famer: NY Giants offensive tackle; 8 time All Pro)
1934: Actor Michael Dunn (Gary Miller)
1935: Actor Jerry Orbach (Law and Order, Dirty
Dancing, Straight Talk, Brewster's Millions; voice of candelabra: Beauty and the Beast)
1936: African-American political activist and
cofounder of the Black Panthers, Bobby Seale.
1937: Country singer Wanda Jackson (Right or
Wrong, Let's Have a Party, In the Middle of a Heartache; songwriter: [Let's Stop]
Kickin'
Our Hearts Around)
1937: Baseball Hall of Famer Juan Marichal
1942: Actor Earl Hindman ("Home
Improvement")
1946: Southern humorist Lewis Grizzard.
1950: Singer Tom Petty
1950: Isaac Curtis (football: Cincinnati
Bengals wide receiver: Super Bowl XVI)
1952: Actress Melanie Mayron
1953: Baseball All-Star Keith Hernandez
1958: Actor Viggo Mortensen
1958: Eric Scott (actor: The Waltons)
1964: Rock musician Jim Sonefeld (Hootie &
The Blowfish)
1964: Rock musician David Ryan (The
Lemonheads)
1971: Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg
0480BC: Greeks defeat
Persians in a naval battle at Salamis.
0766: Death of St. Andrew of
Crete
1097: The 1st Crusade
arrives before Antioch
1187: Death of Pope Urban
III
1314: Coronation of Louis
IV, King of Germany
1349: Pope Clement VI
condemns the flagellant movement
1382: St. Mary's College
founded at Westminister, England
1518: Florence, Italy,
requested that the remains of Dante be moved there
1600: Battle of Sekigahara,
which established the Tokugawa clan as rulers of Japan (SHOGUN)
1714: George I of England
crowned.
1587: In France, Huguenot
Henri de Navarre routs Duke de Joyeuse's larger Catholic force at
Coutras.
1803: The US Senate ratified
the Louisiana Purchase.
1818: Great Britain and the
United States sign a diplomatic convention establishing a boundary between the U.S. and
Canada along the forty-ninth parallel.
1820: Spain gives Florida to
the United States.
1827: During the Greek War
for Independence, a combined Turkish and Egyptian armada is destroyed by an allied
British, French, and Russian naval force at the Battle of Navarino.
1842: Wagner's career
finally took off when "Rienzi" was sung in Dresden to great acclaim. Wagner was
then 29 years old. The same opera company immediately made plans to stage "The Flying
Dutchman."
1818: The United States and
Britain agreed to establish the 49th parallel as the official boundary between the United
States and Canada.
1892: The city of Chicago
dedicated the World's Columbian Exposition.
1903: A joint commission
ruled in favor of the United States in a boundary dispute between the District of Alaska
and Canada.
1906: Lee De Forrest, the
father of radio, was given a patent for the vacuum tube. Today's
History Focus
1918: Germany accepted U.S.
President Wilson's terms to end World War I.
1935: Just over a year after
the start of the Long March, Mao Zedong arrives in Hanoi in northwest China with 8,000
survivors, and sets up Chinese Communist headquarters.
1944: General Douglas
MacArthur kept his promise to return to the Philippine Islands as he landed with American
forces during World War II. Two and a-half years after he'd said, "I shall
return."
1944: The Yugoslav cities of
Belgrade and Dubrovnik were liberated during World War Two.
1945: Egypt, Syria, Iraq and
Lebanon form the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a
Jewish state in Palestine.
1947: Hollywood came under
scrutiny as the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged
Communist influence and infiltration within the motion picture industry.
1961: The TV sitcom about
police, Car 54, Where Are You?, premiered, and ran till 1963.
1964: The 31st president of
the United States, Herbert Hoover, died in New York at age 90.
1967: Seven men were
convicted in Meridian, Mississippi, of violating the civil rights of three murdered civil
rights workers.
1968: Former first lady
Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
1973: In the so-called
"Saturday Night Massacre," special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox was
dismissed and Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William B.
Ruckelshaus resigned.
1973: After fifteen years of
construction, the Sydney Opera House is officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
II. . Famous for its geometric roof shells, the structure contains several large
auditoriums and presents an average of 3,000 events a year to an estimated two million
people.
1973: Arab oil-producing
nations ban oil exports to the United States, following the outbreak of Arab-Israeli war.
1977: Three members of the
rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in the crash of a chartered plane near
McComb,
Mississippi.
1987: Ten people were killed
when an Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn hotel near Indianapolis International
Airport after the pilot, who was trying to make an emergency landing, ejected safely.
1988: The Los Angeles
Dodgers won the World Series, defeating the Oakland A's in game five by a score of 5-to-2.
1990: Three members of the rap group 2 Live Crew were acquitted by a jury in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, of violating obscenity laws with an adults-only concert in nearby Hollywood the previous June.
1990:The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series, 2-1, sweeping the Oakland A's in four games.
1992: The host Toronto Blue
Jays defeated the Atlanta Braves, 3-to-2 in game three of the World Series, taking a
two-games-to-one lead. (This was the first World Series game to be played outside the US.
During the pre-game ceremony, a Marine color guard presented the Canadian flag correctly,
two days after another guard held the banner upside-down before game two.)
1993: The Senate adopted a
non-binding resolution saying Congress should give its approval before any US troops were
sent to enforce a Bosnian peace accord.
1993: Attorney General Janet
Reno warned the TV industry to limit violence in programs.
1993: Toronto took a
three-games-to-one lead in the World Series as the Blue Jays defeated the Philadelphia
Phillies, 15-to-14.
1995: Space shuttle "Columbia" was launched on a research flight that had been delayed six times.
1995:NATO Secretary General Willy Claes resigned to face corruption charges in his native Belgium (he later received a three-year suspended jail sentence).
1995: France, the United States and Britain announced a treaty banning atomic blasts in the South Pacific
– but only after France finished testing there the following year.
1996: Japanese Prime
Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's party won a parliamentary election.
1996: The Atlanta Braves
defeated the New York Yankees 12-to-1 in game one of the World Series.
1997: Hungarian-born US
financier and philanthropist George Soros announced he would donate as much as half a
billion dollars in aid to Russia over the next three years.
1997: Mir cosmonauts
performed history's first "internal spacewalk" (because of the need for
spacesuits) to restore power to the damaged Spektr module of the space station.
1999: Elizabeth Dole, unwisely abandoned her Republican bid to be America's first woman president.
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1999: The government laid out new rules to protect children's privacy on the Internet and to shield them from commercial e-mail
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