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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:
Mission of Charity Day - In 1950, Mother Teresa founded the first Mission of
Charity in
Calcutta, India. There are now more than 450 such missions around the world. Mother
Teresa's book, "A Simple Path'" was published on this day in 1995.
Mule Day - The first mules in America arrived in Boston on this day in 1785. They were a
gift from King Charles III of Spain.
Perils of Predicting Day - In 2137 BC, the royal astronomers of the Chinese court, Ho and
Hsi, were beheaded after failing to predict an eclipse of the son 4 days earlier. Sponsor:
A Pilgrim's Almanac.
Born on this Day
1564: Composer Hans Leo Hassler
1685: Domenico Scarlatti, son of Alessandro Scarlatti, prolific composer of piano sonatas.
1800: Count Helmuth Karl Von Moltke, a
Prussian Field Marshal, whose reorganization of the Prussian Army lead to military
victories which allowed the unification of Germany.
1834: Architect Joseph Hansom (inventor of the
Hansom cab)
1855: Charles Post (founder of Post cereals:
Grape Nuts, Postum, Post Toasties)
1876: Actor H.B. (Henry Byron) Warner (Bulldog
Drummond series, It's a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The
Ten Commandments)
1879: Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky
1894: Publisher John Knight (Knight-Ridder
newspaper empire)
1906: Boxer Primo Carnera (Heaviest
heavyweight champion [270 pounds-3/1/34]: outweighed opponent by 86 lbs.)
1911: Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson (God's
Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares, Move on up a Little Higher, The Lord's Prayer, I
Sing Because I'm Happy)
1911: College and Pro Football Hall of Famer
Sid Gillman
1913: Musician Charlie Barnet (Cherokee, We're
All Burnt Up, Where Was I?, Pompton Turnpike, I Hear a Rhapsody,
Skyliners)
1914: Early child star Jackie Coogan. Later he
played Uncle Fester on The Addams Family.
1916: French President Francois Mitterrand
1919: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of
Iran
1929: Singer Neal Matthews (The Jordanaires)
1934: Basketball player 'Hot Rod' (John)
Hundley
1942: Actor Bob Hoskins (Hook, Brazil, The
Cotton Club, Mona Lisa, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Heart Condition, Mermaids)
1944: Singer Michael Piano (with the The
Sandpipers: Guantanamera, Come Saturday Morning)
1946: Singer musician Keith Hopwood (with the
group: Herman's Hermits: Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter, I'm Henry the Eighth I
Am)
1946: TV host Pat Sajak (Wheel of Fortune, The
Pat Sajak Show)
1946: Director Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters
series, Dave, Kindergarten Cop, Meatballs, Stripes)
1947: Attorney First lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton
1947: Actress Jaclyn Smith (Charlie's Angels,
Christine Cromwell, The Bourne Identity, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Goodbye Columbus)
1949: Baseball manager Cleveland Indians Mike
Hargrove
1949: Baseball pitcher Steve Rogers
1950: Football player Chuck Foreman (NFC
Rookie of the Year [1973]; NFC Player of the Year [1974, 1976])
1951: Singer Maggie Roche (The Roches)
1951: Musician Bootsy Collins
1953: Rock musician Keith Strickland (The
B-52's)
1954: Actor D.W. Moffett ("For Your
Love.')
1954: Actress Lauren Tewes (The Love Boat,
Magic Kid, The China Lake Murders)
1962: Actor Cary Elwes
1962: Actor Dylan McDermott ("The
Practice")
1963: Singer Natalie Merchant
1963: Actress Marla Maples (Will Roger's
Follies; married to Donald Trump)
1978: Singer Mark Barry (BBMak)
0033: Traditional date of
the death of St. Stephen, the first martyr of the Christian Church
0899: Alfred the Great, King
of Wessex, dies, succeeded by Edward the Elder
1369: Charles V "the
Wise," King of France, dedicates a monument to his personal chef, for a recipe for
pickled fish
1440: Execution of Gilles de Rais, on charges of witchcraft and murder.
Today's History Focus
A significant, yet frightening and unpleasant history focus.
1520: Charles V, Holy Roman
Emperor, crowned in France
1529: The Papal Legate
leaves England without giving Henry VIII his divorce
1580: Drake returns to
Plymouth
1595: Elizabeth I, Queen of
England, approves the conversion of archers into musketeers
1644: Organization of
English Royal Marines
1774: The first Continental
Congress, which protested British measures and called for civil disobedience, concludes in
Philadelphia.
1823: The friendship between
Carl Maria von Weber and Franz Schubert was permanently damaged when Schubert, in response
to a request for a candid assessment of some of von Weber's music, replied that it didn't
have enough melody.
1825: The Erie Canal opened
in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River.
1881: The "Gunfight at
the O-K Corral" took place in Tombstone, Arizona, as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and
"Doc" Holliday confronted Ike Clanton's gang. Three members of Clanton's gang
were killed; Earp's brothers were wounded.
1905: Norway signs a treaty
of separation with Sweden. Norway chooses Prince Charles of Denmark as the new king; he
becomes King Haakon VII.
1906: Workers in St.
Petersburg set up the first Russian "soviet," or council.
1920: The Lord Mayor of
Cork, Ireland, Terence McSwiney, died after a two-and-one-half-month hunger strike in a
British prison cell, demanding independence for Ireland.
1942: The US ship
"Hornet" was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands during World War Two.
1954: Chevrolet introduces
the V-8 engine.
1956: International Atomic
Energy Agency established.
1957: The Russian government
announces that Marshal Georgi Zhukov, the nation's most prominent military hero, has been
relieved of his duties as Minister of Defense. Khrushchev accused Zhukov as promoting his
own "cult of personality" and saw him as a threat to his own popularity.
1958: Pan American Airways
flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York to Paris; the trip took eight hours and
41 minutes.
1967: The Shah of Iran
crowned himself and his Queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne.
1970: The
"Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
1972: National security
adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam.
1975: Anwar Sadat became the
first Egyptian president to pay an official visit to the United States.
1977: The experimental space
shuttle "Enterprise" glided to a bumpy but successful landing at Edwards Air
Force Base in California.
1979: South Korean President
Park Chung-hee was shot to death by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency,
Kim Jae-kyu.
1987: In Miami, an investor
who had suffered heavy stock market losses shot and killed a brokerage manager and wounded
his personal broker, then turned the gun on himself.
1988: A French
pharmaceutical company, Roussel Uclaf, announced it would halt worldwide distribution of
RU-486, a pill to induce abortions, because of "an outcry of opinion at home and
abroad." (The French government ordered the company to reverse itself two days
later.)
1989: Washington DC attorney
Paul Tagliabue was tapped by NFL team owners to be the league's new commissioner,
succeeding Pete Rozelle.
1990: The State Department issued a warning that terrorists could be planning an attack on a passenger ship or aircraft.
1990: William S. Paley, the founder of CBS Inc., died in New York at age 89.
1990: Wayne Gretzky became the first NHL player to reach 2,000 points.
1992: Voters in Canada
rejected a constitutional reform package known as the Charlottetown Accord. Robert C.
Stempel resigned as chairman and chief executive officer of General Motors Corporation.
1993: Deborah Gore Dean, a
central figure in the Reagan-era HUD scandal, was convicted of 12 felony counts of
defrauding the government, taking a payoff and lying to Congress. (Dean was later
sentenced to three concurrent 21-month prison sentences; however, five of her convictions
were later overturned, and Dean has requested a new trial.)
1994: Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty
during a ceremony attended by President Clinton.
1995: The House passed, 227-203, a Republican balanced-budget bill that would shrink the federal government, cut taxes and return power to the states.
1995: The Cleveland Indians won their second game of the World Series by defeating the Atlanta Braves, 5-4, in Game Five.
1996: Federal prosecutors
cleared Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic park bombing, ending a three-month
ordeal for the former security guard.
1996: The New York Yankees
won their first World Series since 1978, defeating the Atlanta Braves 3-to-2 in game six.
1997: The Florida Marlins
became the youngest franchise to win the World Series with a 3-to-2 victory in the
eleventh inning over the Cleveland Indians in the seventh and final game.
1997: Chinese leader Jiang
Zemin arrived in Honolulu en route to a White House summit with President Clinton.
1998: Russian President
Boris Yeltsin was ordered by his doctors to cancel a one-day trip to Austria so he could
recuperate from high blood pressure and extreme fatigue.
1998: The Education
Department reported that the default rate on student loans had fallen into single digits
for the first time.
1999: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study which said the number of Americans considered obese soared from about one in eight in 1991 to nearly one in five in 1998.
1999: The New York Yankees beat the Atlanta Braves, 6-5, to take a 3-0 lead in the World Series.
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