1535 London printer Miles Coverdale,
47, published his English version of the Bible. A good translator who later served on two other translation committees, Coverdale was also popular as a Lutheran preacher.
1858 Birth of Dorothy Frances Gurney, English devotional writer. During her lifetime she published two volumes of verse, as well as a small devotional work entitled, 'A Little Book of Quiet.'
1867 In Southwest Africa, the Rhenish Missionary Church constituted itself as the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
1890 Death of Catherine Booth, 61, wife of Salvation Army founder William Booth. Her last words were: 'The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under but over. Do not be concerned about dying; go on living well, the dying will be right.'
1965 Paul VI arrived in New York City, making him the first pope in history to visit the United States. While speaking at the UN, Paul published a document exonerating the Jews of all blame in the death of Christ.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Holidays
Bangladesh : Shab I Barat
Lesotho : Independence Day (1966)
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Missouri : Missouri Day - - - - - ( Monday )
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) - - - - - ( Monday )
Lesotho : Independence Day (1966)
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Missouri : Missouri Day - - - - - ( Monday )
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) - - - - - ( Monday )
On this day...
1582 Last day of the Julian calendar in Italy, many Catholic countries
1636 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
1777 Battle of Germantown 1824 Mexico becomes a republic
1830 Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
1862 Battle of Corinth ends
1864 National black convention meets (Syracuse NY)
1864 New Orleans Tribune, first black daily newspaper, forms
1883 Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail
1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Problem of Thor Bridge" (BG)
1901 Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (England) in 12th America's Cup
1906 Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36) of the year
1910 Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
1912 Nicaraguan Gen Zeledon, opponent of US occupation, is executed
1913 Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in a game
1916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
1923 Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for the shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns the decision
1924 NY Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series (World Series #21) 1926 Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
1928 25th World Series begins, NY Yankees vs St Louis Cardinals
1931 The comic strip Dick Tracy by Chester Gould debuts
1940 Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in the Alps
1940 Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
1944 The St Louis World Series-Cards vs Browns - St Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance (World Series #41)
1948 Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game
1949 American Contract Bridge League votes 58«% to keep blacks out
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7 (World Series #52)
1955 Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul
1957 "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS
1957 USSR launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial Earth satellite
1958 5th French republic established 1958 Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began (BOAC)
1959 1st world series (World Series #56) game played west of St Louis (in LA)
1959 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
1960 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
1962 USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300 m
1962 Whitey Ford's world series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends World Series #59)
1963 Gambia achieves full internal self-government
1964 3 cars of a commuter train derail in South Africa killing 81 1964 Patriots' Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against Broncos
1964 St Louis Cards clinch NL pennant
1965 Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
1965 USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
1966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1967 1st World Series since
1948 not to feature Yanks, Giants or Dodgers (World Series #64)
1969 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
1969 Baseball's 1st divisional playoff games, Mets beat Braves 9-5 & Orioles beat Twins 4-3 in 12 innings
1970 Jan Stenerud of Kansas City Chiefs kicks 55-yard field goal
1970 Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1971 Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
1974 John Lennon releases "Walls & Bridges" album
1976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke
1977 Pier 39 opens in SF
1978 Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
1981 Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest intl gymnastics participant
1983 Richard Noble reaches record
1019 kph in jet-powered car
1984 US govt closes down due to budget problems
1984 Yanks clinch AL East
1985 Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
1985 Shite Muslims claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
1987 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
1987 Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win the AL pennant
1987 James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals) 1988 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid 1990 Regional elections held, in what was East Germany
1991 NHL NY Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier
1636 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
1777 Battle of Germantown 1824 Mexico becomes a republic
1830 Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
1862 Battle of Corinth ends
1864 National black convention meets (Syracuse NY)
1864 New Orleans Tribune, first black daily newspaper, forms
1883 Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail
1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Problem of Thor Bridge" (BG)
1901 Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (England) in 12th America's Cup
1906 Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36) of the year
1910 Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
1912 Nicaraguan Gen Zeledon, opponent of US occupation, is executed
1913 Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in a game
1916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
1923 Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for the shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns the decision
1924 NY Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series (World Series #21) 1926 Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
1928 25th World Series begins, NY Yankees vs St Louis Cardinals
1931 The comic strip Dick Tracy by Chester Gould debuts
1940 Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in the Alps
1940 Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
1944 The St Louis World Series-Cards vs Browns - St Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance (World Series #41)
1948 Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game
1949 American Contract Bridge League votes 58«% to keep blacks out
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7 (World Series #52)
1955 Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul
1957 "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS
1957 USSR launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial Earth satellite
1958 5th French republic established 1958 Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began (BOAC)
1959 1st world series (World Series #56) game played west of St Louis (in LA)
1959 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
1960 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
1962 USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300 m
1962 Whitey Ford's world series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends World Series #59)
1963 Gambia achieves full internal self-government
1964 3 cars of a commuter train derail in South Africa killing 81 1964 Patriots' Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against Broncos
1964 St Louis Cards clinch NL pennant
1965 Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
1965 USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
1966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1967 1st World Series since
1948 not to feature Yanks, Giants or Dodgers (World Series #64)
1969 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
1969 Baseball's 1st divisional playoff games, Mets beat Braves 9-5 & Orioles beat Twins 4-3 in 12 innings
1970 Jan Stenerud of Kansas City Chiefs kicks 55-yard field goal
1970 Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1971 Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
1974 John Lennon releases "Walls & Bridges" album
1976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke
1977 Pier 39 opens in SF
1978 Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
1981 Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest intl gymnastics participant
1983 Richard Noble reaches record
1019 kph in jet-powered car
1984 US govt closes down due to budget problems
1984 Yanks clinch AL East
1985 Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
1985 Shite Muslims claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
1987 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
1987 Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win the AL pennant
1987 James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals) 1988 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid 1990 Regional elections held, in what was East Germany
1991 NHL NY Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier
Deaths which occurred on October 04:
1904 Frederic Auguste Bertholdi French sculptor ("Statue of Liberty")
1962 John Lowry Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder, dies at 79
1966 Sherman Billingsley talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66
1970 Janis Joplin rock singer, dies at 27
1972 Colin Gordon actor (John-The Baron), dies at 61
1976 Alexander Gray singer (This is Music), dies at 74
1991 Leonard C Odell wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83
1962 John Lowry Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder, dies at 79
1966 Sherman Billingsley talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66
1970 Janis Joplin rock singer, dies at 27
1972 Colin Gordon actor (John-The Baron), dies at 61
1976 Alexander Gray singer (This is Music), dies at 74
1991 Leonard C Odell wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83
Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of October 04:
1289 Louis X (the Stubborn) king of France (1314-16)
1626 Richard Cromwell lord protector of England (1658-59)
1822 Rutherford B Hayes (R) 19th pres (1877-81)
1850 John W McGraw (Gov-R-Wash) (1893-97)
1860 Sidney Paget illustrated Sherlock Holmes adventures
1861 Frederic Remington US, artist/sculptor of the American West
1880 Damon Runyon writer (Guys & Dolls-based on his work)
1889 John B Kelly Olympic champion rower/father of Grace Kelly
1892 Engelbert Dollfuss Austrian Fascist chancellor killed by Nazis
1894 Cliff Hall Brooklyn NY, actor (Crime Photographer)
1895 Buster Keaton actor (The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr)
19-- Bill Fagerbakke actor (Dauber Dybinski-Coach)
19-- Brynn Thayer actress (One Life to Live)
19-- Christopher Stone Manchester NH, actor (Dave-Dallas, The Interns)
19-- Eric Kilpatrick St Louis Mo, actor (Curtis-White Shadow)
19-- Mary Lynn Blanks actress (As the World Turns)
19-- Meg Bennett actress (Young & Restless)
1917 Jan Murray Bronx NY, comedian (Treasure Hunt, Who Killed Teddy Bear)
1922 Malcolm Baldrige Conn, US Secretary of Commerce (1981-87)
1923 Charlton Heston actor (10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes)
1929 Leroy Van Dyke Spring Fork Mo, country singer (Walk on By)
1931 Dick Tracy comic strip crimestopper
1932 Felicia Farr Westchester NY, actress (Charley Varrick, Kotch)
1934 Sam Huff NFL linebacker (NY Giants, Washington Redskins)
1935 Eddie Applegate Wyncote Pa, actor (Richard-Patty Duke Show)
1941 Jackie Collins London, author (Bitch, Stud)
1941 Lori Saunders Kansas City Mo (Petticoat Junction, Dusty Trails)
1943 Buddy Roemer (Gov-D-La)
1943 Owen Keir Davidson Australia, 4 time Wimbledon mix double champ
1944 Patti LaBelle singer (LaBelles-Lady Marmalade)
1945 Clifton Davis Chicago Ill, actor/singer (That's My Mama, Amen)
1946 Susan Sarandon [Tomaling], Jackson Hgts NY, actress (Bull Durham)
1949 Armand Assante NYC, actor (Private Benjamin, Unfaithfully Yours)
1960 Jennifer Anglin Adrian Mich, actress (Cheryl-General Hospital)
1961 David W Harper Abilene Tx, actor (Jim Bob-Waltons)
1989 Dakota Johnson son of Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson
1626 Richard Cromwell lord protector of England (1658-59)
1822 Rutherford B Hayes (R) 19th pres (1877-81)
1850 John W McGraw (Gov-R-Wash) (1893-97)
1860 Sidney Paget illustrated Sherlock Holmes adventures
1861 Frederic Remington US, artist/sculptor of the American West
1880 Damon Runyon writer (Guys & Dolls-based on his work)
1889 John B Kelly Olympic champion rower/father of Grace Kelly
1892 Engelbert Dollfuss Austrian Fascist chancellor killed by Nazis
1894 Cliff Hall Brooklyn NY, actor (Crime Photographer)
1895 Buster Keaton actor (The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr)
19-- Bill Fagerbakke actor (Dauber Dybinski-Coach)
19-- Brynn Thayer actress (One Life to Live)
19-- Christopher Stone Manchester NH, actor (Dave-Dallas, The Interns)
19-- Eric Kilpatrick St Louis Mo, actor (Curtis-White Shadow)
19-- Mary Lynn Blanks actress (As the World Turns)
19-- Meg Bennett actress (Young & Restless)
1917 Jan Murray Bronx NY, comedian (Treasure Hunt, Who Killed Teddy Bear)
1922 Malcolm Baldrige Conn, US Secretary of Commerce (1981-87)
1923 Charlton Heston actor (10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes)
1929 Leroy Van Dyke Spring Fork Mo, country singer (Walk on By)
1931 Dick Tracy comic strip crimestopper
1932 Felicia Farr Westchester NY, actress (Charley Varrick, Kotch)
1934 Sam Huff NFL linebacker (NY Giants, Washington Redskins)
1935 Eddie Applegate Wyncote Pa, actor (Richard-Patty Duke Show)
1941 Jackie Collins London, author (Bitch, Stud)
1941 Lori Saunders Kansas City Mo (Petticoat Junction, Dusty Trails)
1943 Buddy Roemer (Gov-D-La)
1943 Owen Keir Davidson Australia, 4 time Wimbledon mix double champ
1944 Patti LaBelle singer (LaBelles-Lady Marmalade)
1945 Clifton Davis Chicago Ill, actor/singer (That's My Mama, Amen)
1946 Susan Sarandon [Tomaling], Jackson Hgts NY, actress (Bull Durham)
1949 Armand Assante NYC, actor (Private Benjamin, Unfaithfully Yours)
1960 Jennifer Anglin Adrian Mich, actress (Cheryl-General Hospital)
1961 David W Harper Abilene Tx, actor (Jim Bob-Waltons)
1989 Dakota Johnson son of Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Holidays
Bangladesh : Jamat Ul-Wida
Barbados : United Nations Day/Clerks' Holiday
Germany : Reunion Day "Tag der Deutsche Einheit" (1990)
Honduras : Moraz n Day/Soldier's Day
Iraq : Independence Day (1932)
Netherlands : Relief of Leyden Day (1573-74)
South Korea : National Foundation Day (2333 BC)
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Missouri : Missouri Day - - - - - ( Monday )
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) - - - - - ( Monday )
Barbados : United Nations Day/Clerks' Holiday
Germany : Reunion Day "Tag der Deutsche Einheit" (1990)
Honduras : Moraz n Day/Soldier's Day
Iraq : Independence Day (1932)
Netherlands : Relief of Leyden Day (1573-74)
South Korea : National Foundation Day (2333 BC)
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Missouri : Missouri Day - - - - - ( Monday )
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) - - - - - ( Monday )
On this day...
2333 -BC- Tangun establishes kingdom of Chosun (Korea) (legendary)
1264 Comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
1430 Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
1789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
1862 Battle of Corinth, Miss
1863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
1904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School
1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
1918 Boris becomes king of Bulgaria
1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
1922 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC
1928 French sub "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
1929 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
1942 Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
1945 World Federation of Trade Unions formed; CIO a member
1947 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed
1947 With only 1 out to go, Yankee Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his world series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs & he lost the game (World Series #44)
1948 NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of the week
1949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
1950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
1951 Bobby Thomson HR-The Giants win the pennant defeating Dodgers
1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
1954 "Father Knows Best" premieres
1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres, Good Morning, Captain!
1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
1960 SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
1960 Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak
1961 "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1961 "Mr Ed" premieres 1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
1965 Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
1967 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
1968 Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando Bela£nde Terry in Peru
1970 Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
1971 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
1972 Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies (almost « of their 59 wins)
1974 Bundy victim (?) Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1974 Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 Watergate trial begins 1975 George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in UK
1978 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike
1982 Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)
1982 Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm
1982 Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours
1983 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK
1985 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die 1987 Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile
1988 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days
1988 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
1988 WBMW-FM, Wash DC changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern
1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
1990 East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
1990 George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades
1990 Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 HRs (& 51st)
1990 Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obscenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records
1264 Comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
1430 Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
1789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
1862 Battle of Corinth, Miss
1863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
1904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School
1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
1918 Boris becomes king of Bulgaria
1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
1922 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC
1928 French sub "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
1929 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
1942 Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
1945 World Federation of Trade Unions formed; CIO a member
1947 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed
1947 With only 1 out to go, Yankee Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his world series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs & he lost the game (World Series #44)
1948 NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of the week
1949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
1950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
1951 Bobby Thomson HR-The Giants win the pennant defeating Dodgers
1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
1954 "Father Knows Best" premieres
1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres, Good Morning, Captain!
1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
1960 SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
1960 Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak
1961 "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1961 "Mr Ed" premieres 1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
1965 Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
1967 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
1968 Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando Bela£nde Terry in Peru
1970 Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
1971 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
1972 Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies (almost « of their 59 wins)
1974 Bundy victim (?) Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1974 Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 Watergate trial begins 1975 George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in UK
1978 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike
1982 Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)
1982 Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm
1982 Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours
1983 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK
1985 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die 1987 Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile
1988 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days
1988 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
1988 WBMW-FM, Wash DC changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern
1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
1990 East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
1990 George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades
1990 Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 HRs (& 51st)
1990 Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obscenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records
Deaths which occurred on October 03:
1656 Myles Standish Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown)
1959 William Bishop actor (Steve-It's a Great Life), dies at 42
1965 Zachary Scott actor (Spotlight Playhouse), dies at 51
1979 Charles White artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles
1979 Claudia Jennings playmate (Nov, 1969)/actress, dies at 29
1983 John K.M. McCaffery TV host (One Minute Please), dies at 69
1985 Charles Collingwood newscaster (Chronicles), dies at 68
1985 Maurice Copeland actor (Ralph-Those Young Charmings), dies at 74
1988 Franz Josef Strauss German FR min of defense (1956-62), dies at 73
1988 Generoso Pope Jr National Enquirer owner, dies at 61
1990 Stefano Casiraghi Princess Caroline of Monaco husband, dies at 30
1959 William Bishop actor (Steve-It's a Great Life), dies at 42
1965 Zachary Scott actor (Spotlight Playhouse), dies at 51
1979 Charles White artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles
1979 Claudia Jennings playmate (Nov, 1969)/actress, dies at 29
1983 John K.M. McCaffery TV host (One Minute Please), dies at 69
1985 Charles Collingwood newscaster (Chronicles), dies at 68
1985 Maurice Copeland actor (Ralph-Those Young Charmings), dies at 74
1988 Franz Josef Strauss German FR min of defense (1956-62), dies at 73
1988 Generoso Pope Jr National Enquirer owner, dies at 61
1990 Stefano Casiraghi Princess Caroline of Monaco husband, dies at 30
Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of October 03
1605 Li Tzu-ch'eng Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor
1728 Christian d'Oriola France, foils (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1800 George Bancroft historian (Hall of Fame)
1803 John Gorrie inventor (cold-air process of refrigeration)
1804 Townsend Harris 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
1814 Mikhail (Yurevich) Lermontov Russia, romantic poet/novelist (Demon)
1844 Sir Patrick Manson "Father of tropical medicine"
1854 William Crawford Gorgas US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever
1859 Elenora Duse Italy, actress (Hedda Gabler)
1886 Henri Alain-Fournier French novelist (Le Grand Meaulnes)
1888 Carl von Ossietzky Germany, journalist, pacifist (Nobel 1935)
1899 Gertrude Berg Harlem NYC, actress (Molly Goldberg-The Goldbergs) 19-- Frank Hannon rock guitarist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1900 Jay Irving NYC, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh)
1900 Thomas Wolfe American novelist (Look Homeward Angel)
1904 Charles Pedersen UK, biochemist (Nobel 1987)
1911 Michael Hordern England, actor (Friar Domingo-Shogun)
1923 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Lwow Poland, conductor (Die Zauberfl”te)
1925 Gore Vidal writer/playwright (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln)
1928 Erik Bruhn Copenhagen Denmark, dancer (Natl Ballet of Canada)
1934 Madlyn Rhue Wash DC, actress (Bracken's World, Executive Suite)
1935 Abdon Pamich Italy, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1964)
1935 Charles M Duke Jr Charlotte NC, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut (Apol 16)
1936 Steve Reich NYC, composer (My Name is)
1937 Eli Jacobs baseball owner (Baltimore Orioles)
1938 Eddie Cochran Okla City, rocker (C'Mon Everybody)
1939 James Darren Phila, actor/singer (Gidget, Diamond Head)
1940 Jean Ratelle NHL center (NY Rangers, Boston Bruins)
1941 Chubby Checker singer (The Twist)
1945 Viktor Saneyev USSR, triple jumper (Olympic-3 gold/1 silv-1968-80)
1946 Bob Dotson St Louis Mo, newscaster (Primetime Sunday)
1947 Lindsey Buckingham rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk)
1950 Pamela Hensley Glendale Calif, actress (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
1951 Dave Winfield baseball outfielder (NY Yankee)
1951 Kathryn D Sullivan Paterson NJ, PhD/astro (STS 41-G, 28, 31, 45)
1956 Hart Bochner actor (Supergirl, Die Hard)
1959 Jack Wagner rocker/actor (General Hospital, Santa Barbara)
1962 Tommy Lee Greece, rock drummer (Motley Cre), wed Heather Locklear
1963 Patrick Flatley Ontario, right winger (NY Islanders, Oly-4 gold-1988)
1969 Shane Butterworth actor (Timmy-Bad News Bears)
1728 Christian d'Oriola France, foils (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1800 George Bancroft historian (Hall of Fame)
1803 John Gorrie inventor (cold-air process of refrigeration)
1804 Townsend Harris 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
1814 Mikhail (Yurevich) Lermontov Russia, romantic poet/novelist (Demon)
1844 Sir Patrick Manson "Father of tropical medicine"
1854 William Crawford Gorgas US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever
1859 Elenora Duse Italy, actress (Hedda Gabler)
1886 Henri Alain-Fournier French novelist (Le Grand Meaulnes)
1888 Carl von Ossietzky Germany, journalist, pacifist (Nobel 1935)
1899 Gertrude Berg Harlem NYC, actress (Molly Goldberg-The Goldbergs) 19-- Frank Hannon rock guitarist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1900 Jay Irving NYC, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh)
1900 Thomas Wolfe American novelist (Look Homeward Angel)
1904 Charles Pedersen UK, biochemist (Nobel 1987)
1911 Michael Hordern England, actor (Friar Domingo-Shogun)
1923 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Lwow Poland, conductor (Die Zauberfl”te)
1925 Gore Vidal writer/playwright (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln)
1928 Erik Bruhn Copenhagen Denmark, dancer (Natl Ballet of Canada)
1934 Madlyn Rhue Wash DC, actress (Bracken's World, Executive Suite)
1935 Abdon Pamich Italy, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1964)
1935 Charles M Duke Jr Charlotte NC, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut (Apol 16)
1936 Steve Reich NYC, composer (My Name is)
1937 Eli Jacobs baseball owner (Baltimore Orioles)
1938 Eddie Cochran Okla City, rocker (C'Mon Everybody)
1939 James Darren Phila, actor/singer (Gidget, Diamond Head)
1940 Jean Ratelle NHL center (NY Rangers, Boston Bruins)
1941 Chubby Checker singer (The Twist)
1945 Viktor Saneyev USSR, triple jumper (Olympic-3 gold/1 silv-1968-80)
1946 Bob Dotson St Louis Mo, newscaster (Primetime Sunday)
1947 Lindsey Buckingham rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk)
1950 Pamela Hensley Glendale Calif, actress (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
1951 Dave Winfield baseball outfielder (NY Yankee)
1951 Kathryn D Sullivan Paterson NJ, PhD/astro (STS 41-G, 28, 31, 45)
1956 Hart Bochner actor (Supergirl, Die Hard)
1959 Jack Wagner rocker/actor (General Hospital, Santa Barbara)
1962 Tommy Lee Greece, rock drummer (Motley Cre), wed Heather Locklear
1963 Patrick Flatley Ontario, right winger (NY Islanders, Oly-4 gold-1988)
1969 Shane Butterworth actor (Timmy-Bad News Bears)
Friday, October 2, 2009
Religious History
1782 The Baptist Missionary Society was founded in London, England. This first modern mission society was started by William Carey, then 21, who later became England's first great Protestant missionary to India.
1808 Birth of Allen W. Chatfield, an Anglican vicar in Herefordshire (a west England county bordering on Wales). His best remembered writings include the English translation of the hymn, "Lord Jesus, Think on Me."
1918 Birth of Don Hustad, organist for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He accompanied Graham as organist for his worldwide crusades during 1961-67.
1970 A two-day convention opened at which the Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania-South Jersey was formed. It was comprised of 9,000 charter members from 52 Southern Baptist churches.
1984 Grace Ministries International was incorporated in Grand Rapids, MI. Originating as Bethesda Mission in 1951, GMI engages in church planting in nearly a dozen overseas countries.
1808 Birth of Allen W. Chatfield, an Anglican vicar in Herefordshire (a west England county bordering on Wales). His best remembered writings include the English translation of the hymn, "Lord Jesus, Think on Me."
1918 Birth of Don Hustad, organist for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He accompanied Graham as organist for his worldwide crusades during 1961-67.
1970 A two-day convention opened at which the Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania-South Jersey was formed. It was comprised of 9,000 charter members from 52 Southern Baptist churches.
1984 Grace Ministries International was incorporated in Grand Rapids, MI. Originating as Bethesda Mission in 1951, GMI engages in church planting in nearly a dozen overseas countries.
Holidays
Guinea : Independence Day (1958)
India : Gandhi Jayanti
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Missouri : Missouri Day - - - - - ( Monday )
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) - - - - - ( Monday )
Bhutan : Tsechhu
India : Gandhi Jayanti
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Missouri : Missouri Day - - - - - ( Monday )
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) - - - - - ( Monday )
Bhutan : Tsechhu
On this day...
1187 Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders
1535 Jacques Cartie‚r discovers Mount Royal (Monte‚al)
1608 Hans Lippershey offers Dutch gov't a new invention, the telescope
1608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
1792 Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
1833 NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
1836 Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle
1853 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
1870 Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
1879 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG)
1889 1st Pan American conference (Washington DC)
1907 Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader
1908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
1910 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
1913 Phillies beat NY Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
1916 Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of the year
1919 Pres Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke
1920 Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
1926 Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical On the economic crisis
1932 NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 29th World Series
1932 Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0
1935 Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1935 NY Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the US, opens
1936 1st alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas
1936 Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series (World Series #33) grand slam 1937 FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
1938 Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller strikes out 18 Detroit Tigers
1938 Tigers' Chester Laabs struck out 5 times in a game
1939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF
1940 British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
1941 6 Parisian synagogues are bombed 1942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
1942 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
1946 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont
1947 Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1947 Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a world series (World Series #44) homer
1949 St Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3
1949 Yanks & Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play the final game of the season. Yanks win 5-3 & clinch pennant #16
1950 Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches
1950 Chic Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (55-13)
1950 The comic strip "Peanuts" 1st appears, in 9 newspapers
1953 Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in the 50th World Series
1954 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal
1954 NY Giants sweep Cleve Indians, in 51st World Series
1955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiers 1956 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
1957 NY Yankees appear in their 26th World Series (World Series #54)
1958 Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
1959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS
1961 "Ben Casey" premieres
1962 SF & LA play a 4h18m 9 inning game
1964 Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
1965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
1965 Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 NY Mets
1966 2 perfect game pitchers face each other (Bunning vs Koufax)
1967 Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
1967 Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia
1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
1968 Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts (World Series #65)
1970 Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers
1970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
1971 Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
1972 Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats NY Mets, 7-0
1972 Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Phila)
1978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding
1980 Larry Holmes retains WBC heavweight title defeating Muhammad Ali
1980 Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
1983 Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat 1984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit 1984 Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage
1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
1988 Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson & Robin Givens
1990 US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to the Supreme Court
1990 Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by the Doors
1535 Jacques Cartie‚r discovers Mount Royal (Monte‚al)
1608 Hans Lippershey offers Dutch gov't a new invention, the telescope
1608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
1792 Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
1833 NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
1836 Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle
1853 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
1870 Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
1879 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG)
1889 1st Pan American conference (Washington DC)
1907 Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader
1908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
1910 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
1913 Phillies beat NY Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
1916 Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of the year
1919 Pres Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke
1920 Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
1926 Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical On the economic crisis
1932 NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 29th World Series
1932 Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0
1935 Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1935 NY Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the US, opens
1936 1st alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas
1936 Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series (World Series #33) grand slam 1937 FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
1938 Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller strikes out 18 Detroit Tigers
1938 Tigers' Chester Laabs struck out 5 times in a game
1939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF
1940 British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
1941 6 Parisian synagogues are bombed 1942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
1942 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
1946 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont
1947 Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1947 Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a world series (World Series #44) homer
1949 St Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3
1949 Yanks & Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play the final game of the season. Yanks win 5-3 & clinch pennant #16
1950 Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches
1950 Chic Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (55-13)
1950 The comic strip "Peanuts" 1st appears, in 9 newspapers
1953 Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in the 50th World Series
1954 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal
1954 NY Giants sweep Cleve Indians, in 51st World Series
1955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiers 1956 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
1957 NY Yankees appear in their 26th World Series (World Series #54)
1958 Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
1959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS
1961 "Ben Casey" premieres
1962 SF & LA play a 4h18m 9 inning game
1964 Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
1965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
1965 Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 NY Mets
1966 2 perfect game pitchers face each other (Bunning vs Koufax)
1967 Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
1967 Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia
1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
1968 Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts (World Series #65)
1970 Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers
1970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
1971 Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
1972 Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats NY Mets, 7-0
1972 Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Phila)
1978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding
1980 Larry Holmes retains WBC heavweight title defeating Muhammad Ali
1980 Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
1983 Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat 1984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit 1984 Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage
1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
1988 Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson & Robin Givens
1990 US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to the Supreme Court
1990 Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by the Doors
Deaths which occurred on October 02:
322 -BC- Aristotle dies of indigestion
1264 Pope Urban IV (1261-64), dies (birth date unknown)
1678 Gen Wu San-kuei invited Manchus in China, dies trying to expell them
1780 John Andre British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold, dies at 30
1962 Frank Lovejoy actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48
1973 Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies
1973 Paul Hartman actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction), dies at 68
1981 Hazel Scott singer/pianist (Hazel Scott), dies at 61
1985 George Savalas actor (Kojak), dies at 58
1985 Rock Hudson actor (MacMillian & Wife), dies at 59 of aids
1985 Sidney Clute actor (Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey), dies at 69
1264 Pope Urban IV (1261-64), dies (birth date unknown)
1678 Gen Wu San-kuei invited Manchus in China, dies trying to expell them
1780 John Andre British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold, dies at 30
1962 Frank Lovejoy actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48
1973 Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies
1973 Paul Hartman actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction), dies at 68
1981 Hazel Scott singer/pianist (Hazel Scott), dies at 61
1985 George Savalas actor (Kojak), dies at 58
1985 Rock Hudson actor (MacMillian & Wife), dies at 59 of aids
1985 Sidney Clute actor (Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey), dies at 69
Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of October 02:
1800 Nat Turner Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion
1851 Ferdinand Foch believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I
1869 Mohandas K Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist
1871 Cordell Hull US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)
1879 Wallace Stevens Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)
1885 Ruth Bryan Rohde US, (Rep), minister to Denmark
1890 Julius "Groucho" Marx NYC, comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life)
1891 H V Porter basketball pioneer, created fan shape backboard
1895 Bud Abbott Asbury Pk NJ, comedian (Abbott & Costello)
1899 Nat Turner famous African
19-- Avery Brooks Evansville Ind, actor (Hawk-Spenser for Hire)
19-- Betty Kennedy Roswell NM, actress (Andrea-Ladies' Man)
19-- Chip McAllister St Louis Mo, actor (Luther-Better Days)
19-- Lani O'Grady Walnut Creek Calif, actress (Mary-8 is Enough)
19-- Wesley Thompson Chicago Ill, actor (Wardell-He's the Mayor)
1904 Graham Greene England, prolific novelist (Brighton Rock)
1914 Charles Drake Bayside NYC, actor (Air Force, Glenn Miller Story)
1921 Robert Runcie archbishop of Canterbury
1928 Clay Felker St Louis, journalist (NY Herald Tribune, Esquire)
1928 Spanky McFarland actor (Little Rascals)
1929 Moses Gunn St Louis Mo, actor (Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft)
1932 Maury Wills baseball shortstop (LA Dodgers, NL MVP 1962)
1938 Rex Reed Ft Worth Tx, movie critic/actor (Myra Breckinridge)
1939 Yuri N Glazkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 24)
1945 Don McLean singer/songwriter (American Pie, Vincent)
1945 Neil Frances Tennant rocker (Pet Shop Boy-West End Girl)
1946 Roger Jett Maryland, actor (Smithereens)
1948 Donna Karan Forest Hills NY, fashion designer (Coty Award-1977)
1950 Persis Khambatta Bombay India, actress (Star Trek, Megaforce)
1951 Mike Rutherford rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds, Mike & Mechanics)
1951 Romina Power LA Calif, actress (Justine)
1951 Sting AKA Gordon Sumner, rocker (Police-Roxanne)/actor (Dune)
1952 George Meegen England, walked 19,019 miles from Argentina to Alaska
1954 Lorraine Bracco actress (Someone to Watch Over Me, Dream Team)
1957 Kimberly Herrin Santa Barbara Calif, playmate (March, 1981)
1960 Glenn Anderson Vancouver, NHL (Edmonton Oilers)
1961 Phil Oakey rocker (Human League-Human)
1961 Robbie Nevil rocker (A Place Like This)
1962 Esai Morales actor (Bad Boys, La Bamba)
1964 Sherry Arnett St Louis Mo, playmate (Jan, 1986)
1965 Jill Powell Jacksonville Fla, actress (Marcy-As The World Turns)
1970 Kelly Ripa actress (Hayley Vaughan-All My Children)
1971 "Tiffany" Renee Darwich Norwalk Cal, singer (I Think We're Alone Now)
1991 Beau Grayson son of country singer Tanya Tucker
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Religious History
1883 American churchman A. B. Simpson founded the first school in America to train missionaries, in New York City. Called the Missionary Training Institute in 1894, its name was changed to Nyack College in 1972. 1889 Birth of Ralph W. Sockman, American scholar and devotional writer. His best-remembered poem begins: "I met God in the morning, when my day was at its best...." 1921 The Latin American Mission was incorporated in Philadelphia by founders Harry and Susan Strachan. Today, over 125 staff work with LAM in eight Central and South American countries. 1946 World Literature Crusade was founded in Saskatchewan, Canada, by Rev. Jack McAlister (president 1946-79). This mission is engaged primarily in Bible distribution, church planting and Bible correspondence courses. 1957 Representatives from 49 churches met in Roseville, MI, to begin organizing the Baptist State Convention of Michigan. The organization officially came into being the following month
Holidays
Burma : Bank Holiday
Cameroon : Unification Day (1961)
Cyprus & Tuvalu-1978 : National Day
Nigeria : Independence Day (1960, 1963)
Omaha, Nebraska : Ak-Sar-Ben Day (1894)
South Korea : Armed Forces Day
Spain : Day of Caudillo (1936)
US : Agricultural Fair Day (1810)
World : Vegetarian Day
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Missouri : Missouri Day - - - - - ( Monday )
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) - - - - - ( Monday )
China PR : Liberation Day (1949)
Cameroon : Unification Day (1961)
Cyprus & Tuvalu-1978 : National Day
Nigeria : Independence Day (1960, 1963)
Omaha, Nebraska : Ak-Sar-Ben Day (1894)
South Korea : Armed Forces Day
Spain : Day of Caudillo (1936)
US : Agricultural Fair Day (1810)
World : Vegetarian Day
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Missouri : Missouri Day - - - - - ( Monday )
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) - - - - - ( Monday )
China PR : Liberation Day (1949)
On this day...
2016 -BC- Origin of Era of Abraham 331 -BC- Alexander the Great of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela 110 -BC- Origin of Sidonian Era 366 St Damasus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1661 Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James 1791 1st session of the new French legislative assembly 1800 Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty 1837 "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico) 1837 Treaty with Winnebago Indians 1847 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet 1851 1st Hawaiian stamps issued 1869 1st postcards are issued (Vienna) 1879 Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause 1885 Special delivery mail service begins in US 1886 US mint at Carson City, Nevada closes 1889 Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum 1890 Yosemite National Park established 1893 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi) 1894 Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska 1896 Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Veiled Lodger" takes place (BG) 1898 Henry Huntington buys the LA Railway 1898 Jews are expelled from Kiev Russia 1903 1st baseball World Series, Pitts Pirates vs Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox) 1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825) 1908 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1 1910 Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair) 1912 Yanks lose game #100 en route to a 50-102 season 1919 World Series #16 begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (The Black Sox Scandal) 1921 1st all NY series to be played entirely in 1 stadium (the Polo Grounds) & 1st NY Yankee World Series begins (World Series #18) 1922 Former Chicago Staleys play 1st NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0 1928 Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium bicycled 76 miles 504 yards in 1 hour 1932 Babe Ruth's points & hits a HR there, off of Cubs Charlie Root 1932 NHL readmits Ottawa & drops Pittsburgh 1933 Packers make 5 1st downs, the Giants make 0, but still win 10-7 1933 Wash Senator coach Nick Altrock plays in a game at age 57 1936 Gen Francisco Franco establishes the state of Spain 1937 Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1938 Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) 1939 Winston Chruchill refers to Soviet policy as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" 1940 Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens 1942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight 1943 Allied forces captured Naples during WW II 1944 Newspaper editor Alejandro C¢rdova assassinated in Guatemala 1944 St Louis Browns win their only AL pennant 1945 Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from the army 1946 1st NL playoffs, Dodgers vs Cards (St Louis wins 2 games to 0) 1946 Bob Feller 348th strikeout of the season 1947 1st helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca 1947 NHL Pension Society founded 1947 US control of Haitian customs & governmental revenue ends 1948 Calif Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages 1948 Radio Denmark begins transmitting 1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day) 1949 Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on the island of Formosa 1950 Phillies win NL pennant on last day of season (10th inning HR) 1951 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson 1951 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated 1952 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or 1953 Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras 1954 British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation 1955 "Honeymooners" premieres 1956 Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track 1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack 1958 Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia 1958 Inauguration of NASA 1958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA 1959 1st World Series (World Series #56) since 1948 not to feature a NY team (LA vs Chic) 1960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1961 A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha 1961 East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon 1961 Roger Maris sets record of 61 HRs, last off of Tracy Stallard 1962 Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia) 1962 Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage the Beatles through 1977 1962 James Meredith became 1st black at U of Mississippi 1962 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests 1962 The Lucy Show premiers 1962 US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope 1963 Nigeria becomes a republic within the Commonwealth 1964 Free Speech Movement launched at U of California, Berkley 1964 SF cable cars declared a national landmark 1968 "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh 1969 Guernsey & Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps 1970 Last game at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phils-2 Expos-1 1971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens 1972 1st games of the World Hockey Association 1973 Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager 1975 Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles 1975 Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu" 1975 Reunion Island stops prints stamps, France takes over production 1977 Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games 1977 Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title 1978 Tuvalu (Ellice Islands) gains independence from Britain 1978 Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians forcing a playoff game with Red Sox 1979 US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal) 1980 Cosmonauts Ryumin & Popov break space endurance record of 176 days 1982 EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida 1982 West Germany's Parliament ousts chancellor Helmut Schmidt 1984 Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus 1984 Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball 1986 President Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta 1987 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA 1988 Lowest batting avg for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313) 1988 Robert Englund the actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth 1989 Dallas Cowboy, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle 1989 Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany 1989 US issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus 1990 Pres Bush at the UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait 1991 Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network (WJFK-AM)
Deaths which occurred on October 01:
1807 John Mhlenberg Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday 1961 Donald Cook actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60 1972 Louis Leakey anthropologist, dies at 68 1973 Joe Devlin actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), dies at 74 1990 Curtis E LeMay USAF General, dies at 83
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Religious History
430 Death of Latin Father St. Jerome, ca.75. Converted at 19, Jerome spent the last half of his life rendering the Scriptures into the contemporary ("vulgar") Latin of his day -- hence the "Latin Vulgate" -- as well as preparing commentaries on nearly every book of the Bible.
1770 English revivalist George Whitefield, 56, died in Newburyport, Mass., while on his seventh visit to America. Regarded as the most striking orator to come out of 18th century English revivalism, Whitefield's last spoken words were: 'I had rather wear out, than rust out.'
1943 Pius XII issued the encyclical "Divino Afflante Spiritu," which encouraged Catholic scholars to devote more attention to biblical exegesis in their teachings and writings. One of the long-term effects of this encyclical was the publication in 1970 of the New American Bible.
1951 Billy Graham's "Hour of Decision" first aired over ABC television. Broadcast on Sunday nights 10:00-10:30, the program aired through February 1954, before entering syndication.
1952 The complete Old and New Testament of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible was first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons. (The RSV New Testament had first appeared in 1946.)
1770 English revivalist George Whitefield, 56, died in Newburyport, Mass., while on his seventh visit to America. Regarded as the most striking orator to come out of 18th century English revivalism, Whitefield's last spoken words were: 'I had rather wear out, than rust out.'
1943 Pius XII issued the encyclical "Divino Afflante Spiritu," which encouraged Catholic scholars to devote more attention to biblical exegesis in their teachings and writings. One of the long-term effects of this encyclical was the publication in 1970 of the New American Bible.
1951 Billy Graham's "Hour of Decision" first aired over ABC television. Broadcast on Sunday nights 10:00-10:30, the program aired through February 1954, before entering syndication.
1952 The complete Old and New Testament of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible was first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons. (The RSV New Testament had first appeared in 1946.)
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Botswana : Botswana Day (1966)
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Religious Observances
Botswana : Botswana Day (1966)
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Religious Observances
On this day...
1452 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
1630 1st execution in America-J Billington hanged in Plymouth, MA
1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during Creligious services
1777 Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance
1791 Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiers in Vienna
1846 Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
1857 US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Is. south of Hawaii
1867 Midway Islands formally declared a US possession
1877 1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)
1878 1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii
1880 Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of the Orion Nebula
1885 Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate
1887 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure "The Five Orange Pips" (BG)
1887 Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup
1895 France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
1898 City of NY established
1916 Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak
1922 Yanks clinch pennant #2
1927 Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary)
1928 Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 mi 604 yds in 1 hr
1929 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1934 Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3
1934 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1935 Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premiers in Boston
1936 Intl Commission of the Straits (Dardanelles & Bosphorus) ends
1938 Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
1939 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC)
1939 Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland
1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine
1944 Calais reoccupied by Allies
1945 Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins the pennant for the Tigers
1946 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg, Von Ribbentrop & Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial
1947 Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73,365-1st WS televised
1949 Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights
1950 1st congress of Internat'l Astronautical Federation opens in Paris
1954 1st atomic-powered vessel, submarine Nautilus launched
1956 Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR
1960 Flintstones premiers (1st prime time animation show)
1960 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"
1962 James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi
1966 Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
1967 BBC starts their own popular music radio station
1967 Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
1967 USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete the 1st automatic docking
1968 1st Boeing 747 rolls out
1968 Supremes release "Love Child"
1971 Last Wash Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit Yanks trailing 4-2 in the 9th with 2 outs, fans rush the field
1972 Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa)
1973 Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5
1975 5 drown in flash flood of sewer & water tunnel (Niagara Falls NY)
1977 Ringo releases "Ringo the 4th" album
1978 Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Houston, New York, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title
1980 1,754 turn out to see the Phillies play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1980 Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
1981 Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics
1984 Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner
1984 Calif Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0
1984 NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg
1986 US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
1988 Andrei A Gromyko retires
1988 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
1988 Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win the Olympic gold medal
1988 Robin Givens & Mike Tyson appear on the Barbara Walters Show
1988 LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii & Ascension
1989 Nolan Ryan's perfect game is broken with 1 out in the 8th, but he strikes-out his 300th of the year
1991 Haitian President Jean-Bertand Aristide is ousted
1630 1st execution in America-J Billington hanged in Plymouth, MA
1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during Creligious services
1777 Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance
1791 Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiers in Vienna
1846 Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
1857 US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Is. south of Hawaii
1867 Midway Islands formally declared a US possession
1877 1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)
1878 1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii
1880 Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of the Orion Nebula
1885 Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate
1887 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure "The Five Orange Pips" (BG)
1887 Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup
1895 France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
1898 City of NY established
1916 Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak
1922 Yanks clinch pennant #2
1927 Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary)
1928 Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 mi 604 yds in 1 hr
1929 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1934 Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3
1934 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1935 Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premiers in Boston
1936 Intl Commission of the Straits (Dardanelles & Bosphorus) ends
1938 Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
1939 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC)
1939 Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland
1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine
1944 Calais reoccupied by Allies
1945 Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins the pennant for the Tigers
1946 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg, Von Ribbentrop & Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial
1947 Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73,365-1st WS televised
1949 Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights
1950 1st congress of Internat'l Astronautical Federation opens in Paris
1954 1st atomic-powered vessel, submarine Nautilus launched
1956 Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR
1960 Flintstones premiers (1st prime time animation show)
1960 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"
1962 James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi
1966 Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
1967 BBC starts their own popular music radio station
1967 Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
1967 USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete the 1st automatic docking
1968 1st Boeing 747 rolls out
1968 Supremes release "Love Child"
1971 Last Wash Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit Yanks trailing 4-2 in the 9th with 2 outs, fans rush the field
1972 Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa)
1973 Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5
1975 5 drown in flash flood of sewer & water tunnel (Niagara Falls NY)
1977 Ringo releases "Ringo the 4th" album
1978 Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Houston, New York, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title
1980 1,754 turn out to see the Phillies play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1980 Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
1981 Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics
1984 Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner
1984 Calif Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0
1984 NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg
1986 US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
1988 Andrei A Gromyko retires
1988 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
1988 Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win the Olympic gold medal
1988 Robin Givens & Mike Tyson appear on the Barbara Walters Show
1988 LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii & Ascension
1989 Nolan Ryan's perfect game is broken with 1 out in the 8th, but he strikes-out his 300th of the year
1991 Haitian President Jean-Bertand Aristide is ousted
Deaths which occurred on September 30:
1955 James Dean killed in an auto collision at 24 near Cholame Calif
1959 John H Kliegl developer of the Klieg light, dies at 89
1978 Edgar Bergen ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75
1983 Freddy Martin orch leader (started Merv Griffin), dies at 76
1983 William D Elliot actor (Bernie Loves Bridget, Adam 12), dies at 49
1988 Joachim Prinz author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86
1959 John H Kliegl developer of the Klieg light, dies at 89
1978 Edgar Bergen ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75
1983 Freddy Martin orch leader (started Merv Griffin), dies at 76
1983 William D Elliot actor (Bernie Loves Bridget, Adam 12), dies at 49
1988 Joachim Prinz author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86
Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of September 30:
1627 Robinson Crusoe according to Daniel Defoe
1870 Jean Perrin France, physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926)
19-- Brian Forsythe rocker (Kix-Hot Wire)
19-- Deborah Mullowney actress (Capitol)
19-- Gary Cole actor (Jack-Midnight Caller)
19-- Susan Keith actress (Shana Vochek-Loving)
1908 David Oistrakh Odessa Russia, violinist/prof (Moscow Conservatory)
1912 Kenny Baker radio singer/actor (Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back)
1915 Lester Garfield Maddox (Gov-D-Ga)/restaurant owner
1917 Chung Hee Park general/pres of S Korea (1961-79), assassinated
1917 Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov USSR, director (Taganka)
1919 Patricia Neway Bkln NY, soprano (Consul, Maria Golovia)
1921 Deborah Kerr Helensburg Scotland, actress (King & I, Night of Iguana)
1924 Truman Capote a short short story writer (In Cold Blood)
1926 Robin Roberts Phillies pitcher, Hall of Famer (Won 28 in 1952)
1928 Elie Wiesel author (Souls on Fire), Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986)
1931 Angie Dickinson Kulm ND-best looking legs on a cop (Police Woman)
1932 Ben Cooper Hartford Ct, actor (Johnny Guitar, Rose Tattoo)
1934 Freddie King Gilmer Tx, blues singer (Hideaway)
1935 Jill Corey Avonmore Pa, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1935 Johnny Mathis singer (Chances are, 12th of Never)
1936 Jim Sasser (Sen-D-Tn)
1938 Salvatore Michael Caruana Mass, criminal (FBI Most Wanted List)
1939 Len Cariou actor (Four Seasons)
1942 Frankie Lymon NYC, rocker (& Teenagers-Why do Fools Fall in Love)
1942 Sture Pettersson Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
1943 Jody Powell press mouthpiece to Jimmy Carter
1943 Marilyn McCoo Jersey City NJ, host/singer (Solid Gold, 5th Dimension)
1947 Marc Bolan London England, rocker (T-Rex-Bang a Gong)
1947 Rula Lenska St Neots England, actress (Friends from Europe are here)
1950 Victoria Tennant London England (All of Me, Chiefs, Winds of War)
1951 Catie Ball US, 100 m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic-4X4 gold-1968)
1953 Deborah Allen Memphis Tn, country singer (Jim Stafford Show)
1954 Barry Williams Santa Monica Calif, actor (Greg-Brady Bunch)
1954 Calvin Levels Cleveland Ohio, actor (Knightwatch)
1957 William Christian Wash DC, actor (Derek-All My Children)
1958 Christopher Cass Cold Spring Harbor NY, actor (Jack Forbes-Loving)
1959 Basia Trzetrzelevska Poland, jazz singer (Time & Life)
1959 Debrah Farentino actress (Hooperman, Equal Justice)
1961 Crystal Bernard Dallas, actress (Amy-It's a Living, Wings)
1962 Dave Magadan 1st baseman (NY Mets)
1976 Adita Linares Miami Fla, spanish actress
1977 Maia Brewton LA Calif, actress (Margaret-Lime Street)
1870 Jean Perrin France, physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926)
19-- Brian Forsythe rocker (Kix-Hot Wire)
19-- Deborah Mullowney actress (Capitol)
19-- Gary Cole actor (Jack-Midnight Caller)
19-- Susan Keith actress (Shana Vochek-Loving)
1908 David Oistrakh Odessa Russia, violinist/prof (Moscow Conservatory)
1912 Kenny Baker radio singer/actor (Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back)
1915 Lester Garfield Maddox (Gov-D-Ga)/restaurant owner
1917 Chung Hee Park general/pres of S Korea (1961-79), assassinated
1917 Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov USSR, director (Taganka)
1919 Patricia Neway Bkln NY, soprano (Consul, Maria Golovia)
1921 Deborah Kerr Helensburg Scotland, actress (King & I, Night of Iguana)
1924 Truman Capote a short short story writer (In Cold Blood)
1926 Robin Roberts Phillies pitcher, Hall of Famer (Won 28 in 1952)
1928 Elie Wiesel author (Souls on Fire), Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986)
1931 Angie Dickinson Kulm ND-best looking legs on a cop (Police Woman)
1932 Ben Cooper Hartford Ct, actor (Johnny Guitar, Rose Tattoo)
1934 Freddie King Gilmer Tx, blues singer (Hideaway)
1935 Jill Corey Avonmore Pa, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1935 Johnny Mathis singer (Chances are, 12th of Never)
1936 Jim Sasser (Sen-D-Tn)
1938 Salvatore Michael Caruana Mass, criminal (FBI Most Wanted List)
1939 Len Cariou actor (Four Seasons)
1942 Frankie Lymon NYC, rocker (& Teenagers-Why do Fools Fall in Love)
1942 Sture Pettersson Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
1943 Jody Powell press mouthpiece to Jimmy Carter
1943 Marilyn McCoo Jersey City NJ, host/singer (Solid Gold, 5th Dimension)
1947 Marc Bolan London England, rocker (T-Rex-Bang a Gong)
1947 Rula Lenska St Neots England, actress (Friends from Europe are here)
1950 Victoria Tennant London England (All of Me, Chiefs, Winds of War)
1951 Catie Ball US, 100 m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic-4X4 gold-1968)
1953 Deborah Allen Memphis Tn, country singer (Jim Stafford Show)
1954 Barry Williams Santa Monica Calif, actor (Greg-Brady Bunch)
1954 Calvin Levels Cleveland Ohio, actor (Knightwatch)
1957 William Christian Wash DC, actor (Derek-All My Children)
1958 Christopher Cass Cold Spring Harbor NY, actor (Jack Forbes-Loving)
1959 Basia Trzetrzelevska Poland, jazz singer (Time & Life)
1959 Debrah Farentino actress (Hooperman, Equal Justice)
1961 Crystal Bernard Dallas, actress (Amy-It's a Living, Wings)
1962 Dave Magadan 1st baseman (NY Mets)
1976 Adita Linares Miami Fla, spanish actress
1977 Maia Brewton LA Calif, actress (Margaret-Lime Street)
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Religious History
1770 The day before his death at age 56, English revivalist George Whitefield prayed: 'Lord Jesus, I am weary in thy work, but not of it.'
1803 The first Roman Catholic Church in Boston was formally dedicated. (Catholics had not been permitted any religious freedom within this predominantly Puritan colony prior to the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.)
1967 Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'God has very different people who like one another to different degrees.'
1970 The New American Bible was published by the St. Anthony Guild Press. It represented the first English version Roman Catholic Bible to be translated from the original Biblical Greek and Hebrew languages. (The Rheims-Douai Version of 1610 had been based on Jerome's Latin Vulgate.)
1990 In Washington, DC, the National Cathedral (officially, the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul) was completed after 83 years of construction. Begun in 1907, the Gothic edifice had been used in its incomplete form since 1912.
1803 The first Roman Catholic Church in Boston was formally dedicated. (Catholics had not been permitted any religious freedom within this predominantly Puritan colony prior to the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.)
1967 Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'God has very different people who like one another to different degrees.'
1970 The New American Bible was published by the St. Anthony Guild Press. It represented the first English version Roman Catholic Bible to be translated from the original Biblical Greek and Hebrew languages. (The Rheims-Douai Version of 1610 had been based on Jerome's Latin Vulgate.)
1990 In Washington, DC, the National Cathedral (officially, the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul) was completed after 83 years of construction. Begun in 1907, the Gothic edifice had been used in its incomplete form since 1912.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Bhutan : Dhimbhulhami Tsechhu
Paraguay : Battle of Boquer¢n Day (1930)
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Brunei : Constitution Day
India : Durga Puja
Bhutan : Dhimbhulhami Tsechhu
Paraguay : Battle of Boquer¢n Day (1930)
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
Brunei : Constitution Day
India : Durga Puja
On this day...
235 St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
855 Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1349 People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning the wells
1364 Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany
1650 Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England)
1785 Chaidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland
1789 1st congress adjourns
1789 US War Dept established a regular army
1793 Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine
1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty
1829 Scotland Yard formed in London
1849 1st passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad)
1853 Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348
1859 Great auroral display in US
1863 The opera "Pescatori di Perle", more properly known as "Les Pêcheurs de Perles", is produced (Paris)
1879 NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt the reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players
1890 1st pro baseball game, NY Metropolitans beat the Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at the Polo Grounds in NYC
1892 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
1902 Impresario David Belasco opened his 1st Broadway theater
1907 Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1911 Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning
1913 Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game
1915 A hurricane claims 275 in the Mississippi Delta
1915 Phila Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
1918 Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line
1920 Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54
1923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
1927 Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
1927 Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri
1928 Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10
1930 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
1930 Boquer¢n battle ends Paraguay border dispute
1936 Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
1940 1st US merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
1941 Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis KOs Lou Nova in 6
1943 Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice
1944 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
1946 1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards & Dodgers)
1946 Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10« secs
1946 Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA
1951 1st color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS)
1951 S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter
1953 AL approves Balt group purchase of St Louis Browns for $2,475,000
1953 Milton Berle Show premiers
1954 Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive
1957 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan)
1957 NY Giants play & lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts)
1959 Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
1962 Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket)
1963 2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opens in Rome
1963 Card's Stan Musial's final game, gets his 3,630th hit
1963 Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game
1963 Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros)
1965 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
1965 St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleve (49-13)
1968 Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts)
1969 "Love American Style," premiers on ABC
1969 7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6
1969 Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver
1973 Balt Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit)
1973 Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more highway accidents
1973 Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
1976 SF Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0
1977 Muhammad Ali won a unanimous, 15-round decision over Earnie Shavers
1977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
1979 Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
1979 Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland
1982 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
1983 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act
1983 Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0
1985 First of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
1986 Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)
1986 USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
1987 NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of the year
1988 26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets the 200m woman's record (21.34)
1988 UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
1990 Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years
1991 US beats Europeans 14« to 13« to capture the Ryder's cup
855 Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1349 People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning the wells
1364 Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany
1650 Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England)
1785 Chaidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland
1789 1st congress adjourns
1789 US War Dept established a regular army
1793 Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine
1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty
1829 Scotland Yard formed in London
1849 1st passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad)
1853 Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348
1859 Great auroral display in US
1863 The opera "Pescatori di Perle", more properly known as "Les Pêcheurs de Perles", is produced (Paris)
1879 NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt the reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players
1890 1st pro baseball game, NY Metropolitans beat the Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at the Polo Grounds in NYC
1892 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
1902 Impresario David Belasco opened his 1st Broadway theater
1907 Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1911 Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning
1913 Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game
1915 A hurricane claims 275 in the Mississippi Delta
1915 Phila Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
1918 Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line
1920 Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54
1923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
1927 Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
1927 Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri
1928 Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10
1930 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
1930 Boquer¢n battle ends Paraguay border dispute
1936 Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
1940 1st US merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
1941 Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis KOs Lou Nova in 6
1943 Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice
1944 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
1946 1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards & Dodgers)
1946 Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10« secs
1946 Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA
1951 1st color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS)
1951 S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter
1953 AL approves Balt group purchase of St Louis Browns for $2,475,000
1953 Milton Berle Show premiers
1954 Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive
1957 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan)
1957 NY Giants play & lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts)
1959 Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
1962 Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket)
1963 2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opens in Rome
1963 Card's Stan Musial's final game, gets his 3,630th hit
1963 Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game
1963 Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros)
1965 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
1965 St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleve (49-13)
1968 Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts)
1969 "Love American Style," premiers on ABC
1969 7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6
1969 Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver
1973 Balt Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit)
1973 Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more highway accidents
1973 Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
1976 SF Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0
1977 Muhammad Ali won a unanimous, 15-round decision over Earnie Shavers
1977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
1979 Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
1979 Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland
1982 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
1983 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act
1983 Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0
1985 First of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
1986 Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)
1986 USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
1987 NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of the year
1988 26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets the 200m woman's record (21.34)
1988 UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
1990 Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years
1991 US beats Europeans 14« to 13« to capture the Ryder's cup
Deaths which occurred on September 29:
1895 Louis Pasteur dies
1959 Harold Huber actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49
1962 Patrick Corry developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx
1964 Robert Burton actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row), dies at 69
1970 Edward Everett Horton actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84
1975 Casey Stengel NY Yankee manager (1949-60), dies in Glendale at 85
1978 Pope John Paul I
1986 Betty Kean actress (Amy Tucker-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
1987 Henry Ford II dies in Detroit at 70
1988 Charles Addams cartoonist (Addams Family), dies at 76 of heart attack
1989 A.A. Busch Jr brewer/baseball owner (St Louis Cards), dies at 90
1959 Harold Huber actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49
1962 Patrick Corry developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx
1964 Robert Burton actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row), dies at 69
1970 Edward Everett Horton actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84
1975 Casey Stengel NY Yankee manager (1949-60), dies in Glendale at 85
1978 Pope John Paul I
1986 Betty Kean actress (Amy Tucker-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
1987 Henry Ford II dies in Detroit at 70
1988 Charles Addams cartoonist (Addams Family), dies at 76 of heart attack
1989 A.A. Busch Jr brewer/baseball owner (St Louis Cards), dies at 90
Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of September 29:
1511 Michael Servetus Spain, physician (Christianism Rostituta)
1755 Robert Lord Clive, founded British empire in India
1758 Horatio Nelson Burnham Thorpe Britain, naval hero at Trafalgar
1838 Henry Hobson Richardson US Romanesque revival architect
1848 Caroline Ardelia Yale US, educated deaf
1893 Fabien Sevitzky Vishny Volotchok Russia, conductor (Phila Orch)
1895 Joseph Banks Rhine Penn, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception)
19-- Alex Skolnick rocker (Testament-Souls of Black)
19-- Arch Whiting Larchmont NY, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
19-- Barry Snider Salinas Calif, actor (Harry-Beacon Hill)
19-- Donovan Scott Chico Calif, actor (Leonard-Life With Lucy)
19-- Miguel Gallardo spanish singer (Corazon Viajero)
19-- Robert Gentry actor (All My Children)
19-- Suzanne Lederer Great Neck NY, actress (Carol-Eishied)
19-- Taime Downe rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
1901 Enrico Fermi Italy, physicist, gone fission (Nobel-1938)
1902 Miguel Alem n president of Mexico (1946-52)
1903 Ted Decorsia Bkln NY, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon)
1907 Gene Autry Tioga Tx, cowpoke/singer/actor/Calif Angels owner
1907 Michael Shepley Plymouth England, actor (Dick & the Duchess)
1907 Richard Harkness Artesian SD, newscaster (Story of the Week)
1908 Greer Garson North Ireland, actress (Pride & Prejudice)
1910 Virginia Bruce actress (Action in Arabia)
1912 Michelangelo Antonioni Ferrara Italy, director (Blow-up)
1913 Stanley E Kramer producer/director (On the Beach)
1915 Brenda Marshall Phillipines, actress (Sea Hawk, Paris After Dark)
1916 Trevor Howard England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Ryan's Daughter)
1919 Masao Takemoto Japan, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1960)
1920 James Mitchell Calif, actor (Oklahoma, Devil's Doorway)
1922 Lizabeth Scott Scranton, Pa, actress (Dark City, Desert Fury)
1923 O.A. "Bum" Phillips football coach (Houston Oilers/New Orlean Saints)
1924 Steve Forrest Huntsville Tx, actor (Ben-Dallas, SWAT)
1925 John Tower (Sen-R-Tx)
1927 Adhemar Ferreira da Silva Brazil, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-52, 56)
1927 Paul McCloskey (Sen-R-Calif)
1929 Bob Newhart Oak Park Ill, actor/comedian (Bob Newhart Show)
1930 Richard Bonynge Sydney Australia, conductor (Aust Orch Sydney-1976)
1931 Anita Ekberg Sweden, actress (La Dolce Vita, War & Peace)
1931 Eddie Barth Phila, actor (Shaft, Simon & Simon)
1932 Robert Benton Texas, writer/director (Kramer vs Kramer)
1935 Jerry Lee Lewis singer (Great Balls of Fire, Breathless)
1939 Larry Linville Ojai Calif, actor (Frank Burns-M*A*S*H, Blue Movie)
1939 Mylene Demongeot Nice France, actress (Just Another Pretty Face)
1942 Donna Corcoran Quincy Mass, actress (Man Without a Star)
1942 Ian McShane Blackburn England, actor (Roots, Bare Essence)
1942 Jean-Luc Ponty France, fusion violinist (Frank Zappa)
1942 Madeline Kahn Boston Mass, actress (Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety)
1942 William Nelson (Rep-D-Fla), astronaut (STS 61C)
1943 Lech Walesa Popowo Poland, leads Polish Solidarity (Nobel 1983)
1948 Bryant Gumbel New Orleans La, sportscaster/TV host (Today Show)
1948 Mark Farner Mich, guitar/vocalist (Grand Funk Railroad-Locomotion)
1948 Viktor Krovopouskov USSR, sabres (Olympic-gold-1976, 1980)
1953 Drake Hogestyn Ft Wayne Indiana, actor (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1954 Cindy Morgan [Cichorski], Chicago Ill, actress (Tron)
1956 Sebastian Coe England, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1980, 84)
1960 Leslie Graves Silver City NM, actress (Capitol)
1960 Wendy White Atlanta Ga, tennis player
1964 Julie Peterson Havre de Grace Md, playmate (Feb, 1987)
1966 Jill Whelan Oakland Calif, actress (Vicki-Love Boat)
1968 Luke Goss rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing)
1968 Matt Goss rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing)
1969 Erika Eleniak Glendale Ca, playmate (Jul, 1989)
1970 Emily Lloyd actress (Wish You Were Here)
1755 Robert Lord Clive, founded British empire in India
1758 Horatio Nelson Burnham Thorpe Britain, naval hero at Trafalgar
1838 Henry Hobson Richardson US Romanesque revival architect
1848 Caroline Ardelia Yale US, educated deaf
1893 Fabien Sevitzky Vishny Volotchok Russia, conductor (Phila Orch)
1895 Joseph Banks Rhine Penn, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception)
19-- Alex Skolnick rocker (Testament-Souls of Black)
19-- Arch Whiting Larchmont NY, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
19-- Barry Snider Salinas Calif, actor (Harry-Beacon Hill)
19-- Donovan Scott Chico Calif, actor (Leonard-Life With Lucy)
19-- Miguel Gallardo spanish singer (Corazon Viajero)
19-- Robert Gentry actor (All My Children)
19-- Suzanne Lederer Great Neck NY, actress (Carol-Eishied)
19-- Taime Downe rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
1901 Enrico Fermi Italy, physicist, gone fission (Nobel-1938)
1902 Miguel Alem n president of Mexico (1946-52)
1903 Ted Decorsia Bkln NY, actor (Police Chief Hegedorn-Steve Canyon)
1907 Gene Autry Tioga Tx, cowpoke/singer/actor/Calif Angels owner
1907 Michael Shepley Plymouth England, actor (Dick & the Duchess)
1907 Richard Harkness Artesian SD, newscaster (Story of the Week)
1908 Greer Garson North Ireland, actress (Pride & Prejudice)
1910 Virginia Bruce actress (Action in Arabia)
1912 Michelangelo Antonioni Ferrara Italy, director (Blow-up)
1913 Stanley E Kramer producer/director (On the Beach)
1915 Brenda Marshall Phillipines, actress (Sea Hawk, Paris After Dark)
1916 Trevor Howard England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Ryan's Daughter)
1919 Masao Takemoto Japan, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1960)
1920 James Mitchell Calif, actor (Oklahoma, Devil's Doorway)
1922 Lizabeth Scott Scranton, Pa, actress (Dark City, Desert Fury)
1923 O.A. "Bum" Phillips football coach (Houston Oilers/New Orlean Saints)
1924 Steve Forrest Huntsville Tx, actor (Ben-Dallas, SWAT)
1925 John Tower (Sen-R-Tx)
1927 Adhemar Ferreira da Silva Brazil, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-52, 56)
1927 Paul McCloskey (Sen-R-Calif)
1929 Bob Newhart Oak Park Ill, actor/comedian (Bob Newhart Show)
1930 Richard Bonynge Sydney Australia, conductor (Aust Orch Sydney-1976)
1931 Anita Ekberg Sweden, actress (La Dolce Vita, War & Peace)
1931 Eddie Barth Phila, actor (Shaft, Simon & Simon)
1932 Robert Benton Texas, writer/director (Kramer vs Kramer)
1935 Jerry Lee Lewis singer (Great Balls of Fire, Breathless)
1939 Larry Linville Ojai Calif, actor (Frank Burns-M*A*S*H, Blue Movie)
1939 Mylene Demongeot Nice France, actress (Just Another Pretty Face)
1942 Donna Corcoran Quincy Mass, actress (Man Without a Star)
1942 Ian McShane Blackburn England, actor (Roots, Bare Essence)
1942 Jean-Luc Ponty France, fusion violinist (Frank Zappa)
1942 Madeline Kahn Boston Mass, actress (Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety)
1942 William Nelson (Rep-D-Fla), astronaut (STS 61C)
1943 Lech Walesa Popowo Poland, leads Polish Solidarity (Nobel 1983)
1948 Bryant Gumbel New Orleans La, sportscaster/TV host (Today Show)
1948 Mark Farner Mich, guitar/vocalist (Grand Funk Railroad-Locomotion)
1948 Viktor Krovopouskov USSR, sabres (Olympic-gold-1976, 1980)
1953 Drake Hogestyn Ft Wayne Indiana, actor (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1954 Cindy Morgan [Cichorski], Chicago Ill, actress (Tron)
1956 Sebastian Coe England, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1980, 84)
1960 Leslie Graves Silver City NM, actress (Capitol)
1960 Wendy White Atlanta Ga, tennis player
1964 Julie Peterson Havre de Grace Md, playmate (Feb, 1987)
1966 Jill Whelan Oakland Calif, actress (Vicki-Love Boat)
1968 Luke Goss rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing)
1968 Matt Goss rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing)
1969 Erika Eleniak Glendale Ca, playmate (Jul, 1989)
1970 Emily Lloyd actress (Wish You Were Here)
Monday, September 28, 2009
Religious History
1704 A statute was enacted by the colony of Maryland, giving ministers the right to impose divorce on "unholy couples."
1774 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'We are always equally in danger in ourselves and always equally safe under the shadow of His wings.'
1808 Andover Theological Seminary first opened in Massachusetts, under sponsorship of the Congregational Church.
1895 At a convention in Atlanta, three Baptist groups merged to form the National Baptist Convention. It is today the largest African-American denomination in America and the world.
1934 The first issue of "The Sword of the Lord" was published. Founded by Baptist evangelist John R. Rice, 39, it became the largest independent Christian weekly for years, and was recognized by liberals as the "voice of fundamentalism."
1774 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'We are always equally in danger in ourselves and always equally safe under the shadow of His wings.'
1808 Andover Theological Seminary first opened in Massachusetts, under sponsorship of the Congregational Church.
1895 At a convention in Atlanta, three Baptist groups merged to form the National Baptist Convention. It is today the largest African-American denomination in America and the world.
1934 The first issue of "The Sword of the Lord" was published. Founded by Baptist evangelist John R. Rice, 39, it became the largest independent Christian weekly for years, and was recognized by liberals as the "voice of fundamentalism."
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
California : Cabrillo Day discovery of Calif (1542)
Guinea : Referendum Day (1958)
Kiwanis : Kiwanis Kid Day
Libya : Shawwal 14
Republic of China (Taiwan) : Confucius' Birthday/Teachers' Day
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Good Neighbor Day (4th Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : American Indian Day (4th Friday in September) (1916) - - - - - ( Friday )
California : Cabrillo Day discovery of Calif (1542)
Guinea : Referendum Day (1958)
Kiwanis : Kiwanis Kid Day
Libya : Shawwal 14
Republic of China (Taiwan) : Confucius' Birthday/Teachers' Day
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Good Neighbor Day (4th Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : American Indian Day (4th Friday in September) (1916) - - - - - ( Friday )
On this day...
1066 William the Conqueror lands in England
1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay
1781 Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary War
1787 Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval
1829 Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston
1850 Flogging in US Navy & on merchant vessels abolished
1858 Donati's comet becomes the 1st to be photographed
1867 Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario
1868 Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella 2 of Spain to flee to France
1868 Opelousas Massacre at St Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed)
1879 Sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route
1906 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
1912 "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000
1914 German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1919 Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1
1920 8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal)
1922 Mussolini marches on Rome
1923 Yanks slaughter Red Sox 24-4
1924 2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops
1928 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel
1928 Yanks clinch pennant #6
1930 Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
1936 Brooklyn & Boston play a penalty free NFL game
1937 FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1939 Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to the USSR
1940 Michigan's Tom Harmon runs 72, 86 & 94 yard touchdowns
1941 Phillies lose club record 111th game
1941 Ted Williams assures his .400 avg on last day with 6 hits
1942 NY Americans NHL team folded
1944 1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)
1944 Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands
1948 WBAP-TV, (NBC affiliate) Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1951 Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951; Yanks clinch pennant #18
1951 Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards
1958 Guinea votes for independence from France
1959 Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around the Earth
1960 Ted Williams hits his final homer #521
1961 "Purlie Victorious," a farce by Ossie Davis, opens on Broadway
1961 Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic
1961 USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
1963 Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates a record 41.5 kph for 440 yds
1963 Italy's Giuseppe Camtarella skates a record 25.78 MPH
1964 Australia beats US in 1st clay court Davis Cup
1965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
1965 Lava flows kill at least 350 (Taal Phillipines)
1967 Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, DC
1968 Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr
1968 Atlanta Chiefs beat San Diego Toros 3-0 for NASL championship
1968 Beatles' "Hey Jude," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1968 Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes
1969 Joe Kapp (Minn Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (52-14)
1970 Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup
1972 Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
1974 1st lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
1974 Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
1974 John Lennon appears as guest dj on WNEW-FM (NYC)
1975 Oakland A's Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad & Rollie Fingers, no-hit Calif Angels 5-0
1976 Muhammad Ali retains heavyweight boxing championship in a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium
1978 Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
1979 Larry Holmes (retain championship) KOs Earnie Shavers in 11 rounds
1980 Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly the Atlantic standing on the wing
1981 Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City
1982 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1982 NASA launches Intelsat V
1983 STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1986 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
1988 Bronx Museum for the Arts opens
1988 LA Dodger Orel Hershiser sets record for consecutive scoreless inns
1990 Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
1991 NY Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game
1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay
1781 Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary War
1787 Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval
1829 Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston
1850 Flogging in US Navy & on merchant vessels abolished
1858 Donati's comet becomes the 1st to be photographed
1867 Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario
1868 Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella 2 of Spain to flee to France
1868 Opelousas Massacre at St Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed)
1879 Sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route
1906 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
1912 "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000
1914 German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1919 Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1
1920 8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal)
1922 Mussolini marches on Rome
1923 Yanks slaughter Red Sox 24-4
1924 2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops
1928 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel
1928 Yanks clinch pennant #6
1930 Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
1936 Brooklyn & Boston play a penalty free NFL game
1937 FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1939 Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to the USSR
1940 Michigan's Tom Harmon runs 72, 86 & 94 yard touchdowns
1941 Phillies lose club record 111th game
1941 Ted Williams assures his .400 avg on last day with 6 hits
1942 NY Americans NHL team folded
1944 1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)
1944 Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands
1948 WBAP-TV, (NBC affiliate) Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1951 Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951; Yanks clinch pennant #18
1951 Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards
1958 Guinea votes for independence from France
1959 Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around the Earth
1960 Ted Williams hits his final homer #521
1961 "Purlie Victorious," a farce by Ossie Davis, opens on Broadway
1961 Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic
1961 USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
1963 Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates a record 41.5 kph for 440 yds
1963 Italy's Giuseppe Camtarella skates a record 25.78 MPH
1964 Australia beats US in 1st clay court Davis Cup
1965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
1965 Lava flows kill at least 350 (Taal Phillipines)
1967 Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, DC
1968 Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr
1968 Atlanta Chiefs beat San Diego Toros 3-0 for NASL championship
1968 Beatles' "Hey Jude," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1968 Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes
1969 Joe Kapp (Minn Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (52-14)
1970 Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup
1972 Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
1974 1st lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
1974 Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
1974 John Lennon appears as guest dj on WNEW-FM (NYC)
1975 Oakland A's Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad & Rollie Fingers, no-hit Calif Angels 5-0
1976 Muhammad Ali retains heavyweight boxing championship in a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium
1978 Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
1979 Larry Holmes (retain championship) KOs Earnie Shavers in 11 rounds
1980 Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly the Atlantic standing on the wing
1981 Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City
1982 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1982 NASA launches Intelsat V
1983 STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
1986 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
1988 Bronx Museum for the Arts opens
1988 LA Dodger Orel Hershiser sets record for consecutive scoreless inns
1990 Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
1991 NY Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game
Deaths which occurred on September 28:
1833 Lemuel Haynes Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88
1953 Edwin P Hubble astronomer, designer of telescopes, dies at 63
1954 Bert Lytell actor (Henry-One Man's Family), dies at 69
1957 Albert Ascoli Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies
1961 Michael Shepley actor (Dick & the Duchess), dies at 54
1964 Harpo Marx comedian (Marx Bros), dies at 75
1966 Eric Fleming actor (Gil-Rawhide), dies at 41
1970 Nasser Egyptian Pres, dies of a heart attack at 52 replaced by Sadat
1973 Norma Crane actress (Rayola-Mr Peepers), dies at 42
1975 Sidney Fields comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 77
1978 Pope John Paul I 65-yr-old found dead, after only 33 days as Pope
1979 Jimmy McCulloch guitarist of Wings, dies at 26
1982 Larry Breeding (Who's Watching the Kids?), dies on 36th birthday
1982 Mabel Albertson actress, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 81
1989 Ferdinand Marcos deposed president of Phillipines, dies
1991 Miles Davis jazz musician, dies at 65 from pneumonia
1953 Edwin P Hubble astronomer, designer of telescopes, dies at 63
1954 Bert Lytell actor (Henry-One Man's Family), dies at 69
1957 Albert Ascoli Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies
1961 Michael Shepley actor (Dick & the Duchess), dies at 54
1964 Harpo Marx comedian (Marx Bros), dies at 75
1966 Eric Fleming actor (Gil-Rawhide), dies at 41
1970 Nasser Egyptian Pres, dies of a heart attack at 52 replaced by Sadat
1973 Norma Crane actress (Rayola-Mr Peepers), dies at 42
1975 Sidney Fields comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 77
1978 Pope John Paul I 65-yr-old found dead, after only 33 days as Pope
1979 Jimmy McCulloch guitarist of Wings, dies at 26
1982 Larry Breeding (Who's Watching the Kids?), dies on 36th birthday
1982 Mabel Albertson actress, dies of Alzheimer's disease at 81
1989 Ferdinand Marcos deposed president of Phillipines, dies
1991 Miles Davis jazz musician, dies at 65 from pneumonia
Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of September 28:
551 -BC- Confucius (as celebrated in Taiwan)
106 -BC- Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) Rome, warrior
1573 Caravaggio Italy, painter
1785 David Walker Wilmington NC, a black born free
1824 Francis Turner Palgrave Eng, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford)
1839 Frances Willard founded Women's Christian Temperance Union
1841 Georges Clemenceau France, statesman/PM (defended Dreyfuss)
1849 Dudley Allen Sargent US, physician/educator (Harvard U gymnasium)
1852 Henri Moissan France, chemist; isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906)
1856 Edward Thompson US archeologist who explored Mayan ruins
1856 Kate Douglas Wiggins author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
1870 Florent Schmitt Blƒmont France, composer (Fr‚d‚gonde)
1880 Ralph Edward Flanders Barnet VT, (Sen-VT)
1882 Jack Fournier 2nd baseman (1917-18 NY Yankees)
1885 Wilbur 'Lefty' Good pitcher (NY Yankees, 1905)
1887 Avery Brundage AAU & International Olympic Committee president
1895 Lawton Whitey Witt outfielder (NY Yankees, 1922-25)
19-- Eloy Phil Casados Long Beach Calif, actor (Young Daniel Boone)
19-- George Lynch rocker (Lynch Mob-Wicked Sensations)
19-- Michael Clayton Staten Island NY, rock drummer (Tyketto-Wings)
19-- Robert Wolders Rotterdam Holland, actor (Erik Hunter-Laredo)
19-- Sam Whipple Venice Calif, actor (Terry-Open All Night)
19-- Susan Walters Georgia, actress (Loving)
1901 William S Paley founder & chairman (CBS)
1902 Ed Sullivan TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show)
1905 Max Schmeling Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ (1930-32)
1905 William Northam Austria, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1964)
1907 Glen (Turk) Edwards NFL tackle (Boston/Washington Redskins)
1907 Heikki Savolainen Finland, pommel horse gymnast (Olympic-gold-1948)
1909 Al Capp New Haven Ct, cartoonist (Li'l Abner)
1910 Fran Lee NYC, actress (Ms Wong-Major Dell Conway)
1911 Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr tennis (US Open 1931,32)/golf player
1913 Alice Marble tennis player (US Open 1936, 1938-40)
1913 Vivian Fine Chicago Ill, composer (Women in the Garden)
1914 Harold Taylor Canada, educator (Art & the Future)
1916 Peter Finch actor (Network, Windom's Way, Raid on Entebbe)
1917 Michael Somes England, ballet dancer (Royal Ballet in London)
1919 Thomas Harmon football player/sportscaster (Heisman winner)
1922 Joe Silver Chicago Ill, actor (Mr I Magination, Fay)
1923 Fred Robbins Balt Md, DJ (Coke Time with Eddie Fisher, Robbins Nest)
1923 William Windom NYC, actor (Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote)
1924 Marcello Mastroianni actor (8«, La Dolce Vita)
1925 Arnold Stang Mass, comedian/actor (Broadside, Milton Berle, Top Cat)
1925 Seymour Cray inventor (Cray I computer)
1926 Jerry Clower Amite County Miss, country comedian (Nashville on Road)
1933 Madeleine M Kunin Switzerland (Gov-D-Vt), 1st Jewish gov of Vermont
1934 Brigitte Bardot Paris France, sex kitten (And God Created Women)
1936 Robert Hogan NYC, actor (Peyton Place, Operation Petticoat)
1938 Ben E King NC, singer (Stand by Me)
1940 Alexander S Ivanchenkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 29, T-6)
1941 Charley Taylor NFL wide receiver/running back (Wash Redskin)
1942 Grant Jackson pitcher (1972 NY Yankees)
1943 Gertrud "Traudl" Hecher Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1943 Joel Higgins Bloomington Ill, actor (Salvage 1, Silver Spoons)
1946 Fiona Lewis Westcliff England, actress (Stunts, Lisztomania)
1946 Herbert Jefferson Jr Jersey City NJ, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1946 Larry Breeding Winchester Ill, actor (Who's Watching the Kids?)
1948 Helen Shapiro London England, rocker (Straighten Up)
1948 Marielle Goitschel France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 Phil Hartman comedian (SNL)
1951 Christian Marlowe LA Calif, actor (Bram-Highcliffe Manor)
1951 Dave Rajsich pitcher (NY Yankees)
1952 Sylvia Kristel Holland, actress (Emmanuelle, Priv School for Girls)
1954 Steve Largent wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1958 Lory Del Santo Verona Italy, (Miss Italy-1980)
1961 Anne White Charleston WV, tennis (Wore spandex in '85 Wimbledon)
1962 Luis Enrique spanish singer (Luces del Alma)
1967 Moon Unit Zappa rocker (Valley Girl), Frank's daughter
1968 Carr‚ Otis SF Calif, actress (Wild Orchid)
106 -BC- Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) Rome, warrior
1573 Caravaggio Italy, painter
1785 David Walker Wilmington NC, a black born free
1824 Francis Turner Palgrave Eng, poet (Golden Treasury)/prof (Oxford)
1839 Frances Willard founded Women's Christian Temperance Union
1841 Georges Clemenceau France, statesman/PM (defended Dreyfuss)
1849 Dudley Allen Sargent US, physician/educator (Harvard U gymnasium)
1852 Henri Moissan France, chemist; isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906)
1856 Edward Thompson US archeologist who explored Mayan ruins
1856 Kate Douglas Wiggins author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
1870 Florent Schmitt Blƒmont France, composer (Fr‚d‚gonde)
1880 Ralph Edward Flanders Barnet VT, (Sen-VT)
1882 Jack Fournier 2nd baseman (1917-18 NY Yankees)
1885 Wilbur 'Lefty' Good pitcher (NY Yankees, 1905)
1887 Avery Brundage AAU & International Olympic Committee president
1895 Lawton Whitey Witt outfielder (NY Yankees, 1922-25)
19-- Eloy Phil Casados Long Beach Calif, actor (Young Daniel Boone)
19-- George Lynch rocker (Lynch Mob-Wicked Sensations)
19-- Michael Clayton Staten Island NY, rock drummer (Tyketto-Wings)
19-- Robert Wolders Rotterdam Holland, actor (Erik Hunter-Laredo)
19-- Sam Whipple Venice Calif, actor (Terry-Open All Night)
19-- Susan Walters Georgia, actress (Loving)
1901 William S Paley founder & chairman (CBS)
1902 Ed Sullivan TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show)
1905 Max Schmeling Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ (1930-32)
1905 William Northam Austria, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1964)
1907 Glen (Turk) Edwards NFL tackle (Boston/Washington Redskins)
1907 Heikki Savolainen Finland, pommel horse gymnast (Olympic-gold-1948)
1909 Al Capp New Haven Ct, cartoonist (Li'l Abner)
1910 Fran Lee NYC, actress (Ms Wong-Major Dell Conway)
1911 Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr tennis (US Open 1931,32)/golf player
1913 Alice Marble tennis player (US Open 1936, 1938-40)
1913 Vivian Fine Chicago Ill, composer (Women in the Garden)
1914 Harold Taylor Canada, educator (Art & the Future)
1916 Peter Finch actor (Network, Windom's Way, Raid on Entebbe)
1917 Michael Somes England, ballet dancer (Royal Ballet in London)
1919 Thomas Harmon football player/sportscaster (Heisman winner)
1922 Joe Silver Chicago Ill, actor (Mr I Magination, Fay)
1923 Fred Robbins Balt Md, DJ (Coke Time with Eddie Fisher, Robbins Nest)
1923 William Windom NYC, actor (Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote)
1924 Marcello Mastroianni actor (8«, La Dolce Vita)
1925 Arnold Stang Mass, comedian/actor (Broadside, Milton Berle, Top Cat)
1925 Seymour Cray inventor (Cray I computer)
1926 Jerry Clower Amite County Miss, country comedian (Nashville on Road)
1933 Madeleine M Kunin Switzerland (Gov-D-Vt), 1st Jewish gov of Vermont
1934 Brigitte Bardot Paris France, sex kitten (And God Created Women)
1936 Robert Hogan NYC, actor (Peyton Place, Operation Petticoat)
1938 Ben E King NC, singer (Stand by Me)
1940 Alexander S Ivanchenkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 29, T-6)
1941 Charley Taylor NFL wide receiver/running back (Wash Redskin)
1942 Grant Jackson pitcher (1972 NY Yankees)
1943 Gertrud "Traudl" Hecher Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1960)
1943 Joel Higgins Bloomington Ill, actor (Salvage 1, Silver Spoons)
1946 Fiona Lewis Westcliff England, actress (Stunts, Lisztomania)
1946 Herbert Jefferson Jr Jersey City NJ, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1946 Larry Breeding Winchester Ill, actor (Who's Watching the Kids?)
1948 Helen Shapiro London England, rocker (Straighten Up)
1948 Marielle Goitschel France, slalom (Olympic-gold-1968)
1948 Phil Hartman comedian (SNL)
1951 Christian Marlowe LA Calif, actor (Bram-Highcliffe Manor)
1951 Dave Rajsich pitcher (NY Yankees)
1952 Sylvia Kristel Holland, actress (Emmanuelle, Priv School for Girls)
1954 Steve Largent wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1958 Lory Del Santo Verona Italy, (Miss Italy-1980)
1961 Anne White Charleston WV, tennis (Wore spandex in '85 Wimbledon)
1962 Luis Enrique spanish singer (Luces del Alma)
1967 Moon Unit Zappa rocker (Valley Girl), Frank's daughter
1968 Carr‚ Otis SF Calif, actress (Wild Orchid)
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Religious History
1540 Through the encyclical "Regimini militantis ecclesiae," Pope Paul III officially approved the Society of Jesus, a body of priests organized by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 for missionary work. Today, the Jesuits constitute the largest Catholic teaching order in the United States.
1735 Birth of Robert Robinson, English clergyman and author of the hymn, "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing." He was converted at age 20 under the preaching of revivalist George Whitefield.
1785 The Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S. was founded on this date, following the American Revolutionary War, when U.S. Anglicans met in Philadelphia to create a denomination independent from and autonomous of the Church of England.
1947 The Church of South India was officially formed by the merger of three denominations: the Anglicans, the Methodists and the South India United Church (a Presbyterian and Congregational union). Historically, it was the first union ever between episcopal and non-episcopal bodies.
1957 The dramatic anthology series "Crossroads" aired for the last time over ABC television. Depicting the work of various clergymen, the series had premiered in October 1955.
1735 Birth of Robert Robinson, English clergyman and author of the hymn, "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing." He was converted at age 20 under the preaching of revivalist George Whitefield.
1785 The Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S. was founded on this date, following the American Revolutionary War, when U.S. Anglicans met in Philadelphia to create a denomination independent from and autonomous of the Church of England.
1947 The Church of South India was officially formed by the merger of three denominations: the Anglicans, the Methodists and the South India United Church (a Presbyterian and Congregational union). Historically, it was the first union ever between episcopal and non-episcopal bodies.
1957 The dramatic anthology series "Crossroads" aired for the last time over ABC television. Depicting the work of various clergymen, the series had premiered in October 1955.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
South Belgium : French Day
Taiwan : Moon Festival
World : Ancestor Appreciation Day
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Good Neighbor Day (4th Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Press Sunday - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : American Indian Day (4th Friday in September) (1916) - - - - - ( Friday )
Hong Kong : Moon Cake Festival
South Belgium : French Day
Taiwan : Moon Festival
World : Ancestor Appreciation Day
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Good Neighbor Day (4th Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Press Sunday - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : American Indian Day (4th Friday in September) (1916) - - - - - ( Friday )
Hong Kong : Moon Cake Festival
On this day...
1290 Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000
1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
1777 Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by the British
1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain
1787 Constitution submitted to the states for ratification
1821 Mexican Empire declares its independence
1821 Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw
1825 Railroad transportation is born with 1st track in England
1854 Steamship Arctic sank with 300 people aboard
1863 Jo Shelby's calvery in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas
1877 John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti
1881 Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12
1894 Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY
1905 1st published blues composition goes on sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues
1905 Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chic White Sox, 2-0
1910 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplance (France)
1919 Democratic National Committee votes to admit women
1919 Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs
1921 Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds
1923 Lou Gehrig's 1st homer
1928 US recognizes Nationalist Chinese government
1930 Bobby Jones completes the Grand Slam of Golf
1930 White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle the ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns
1931 Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game
1937 1st Santa Claus school opens (Albion NY)
1938 Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched at Glasgow
1939 Warsaw, Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance
1940 Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces
1940 Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennant clinching beating Bob Feller
1941 1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched
1942 NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down
1942 St Louis Cards win NL pennant on last day of the season
1950 Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis
1953 Bert Bechichar, Baltimore Colts, kicks a 56-yard field goal
1953 Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan
1954 School integration begins in Wash DC & Baltimore Md public schools
1954 Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" premiers
1959 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit
1959 Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, kills nearly 5,000
1961 Sierre Leone becomes the 100th member of the UN
1962 US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles
1963 At 10:59 AM the census clock, records US population at 190,000,000
1964 Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place
1964 Warren Commission released, finding Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
1967 Phillies Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year
1968 Cardinal's super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of the year
1970 Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error
1972 1st game at Nassau Coliseum, Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 (exhibition)
1973 Nolan Ryan strikesout his 383rd batter of the year
1973 Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2 days)
1977 Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title
1979 Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education
1980 WHOT (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins on 1620 AM & 92.5 FM
1982 John Palmer becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1985 Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits the Atlantic coast
1986 Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms
1987 NFL players' strike
1988 Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story
1988 Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ`s burial cloth
1988 Senate votes for major federal tax code changes
1989 Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
1990 A gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkley Calif
1990 Deposed emir of Kuwait address the UN General Assembly
1990 Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court nomination
1990 Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House
1991 "Princesses" premiers on CBS TV
1991 Pres Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert
1991 1st scheduled NHL exhibition game in St Petersburg Fla, is cancelled due to poor ice conditions (NY Islanders vs Boston Bruins)
1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
1777 Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by the British
1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain
1787 Constitution submitted to the states for ratification
1821 Mexican Empire declares its independence
1821 Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw
1825 Railroad transportation is born with 1st track in England
1854 Steamship Arctic sank with 300 people aboard
1863 Jo Shelby's calvery in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas
1877 John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti
1881 Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12
1894 Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY
1905 1st published blues composition goes on sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues
1905 Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chic White Sox, 2-0
1910 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplance (France)
1919 Democratic National Committee votes to admit women
1919 Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs
1921 Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds
1923 Lou Gehrig's 1st homer
1928 US recognizes Nationalist Chinese government
1930 Bobby Jones completes the Grand Slam of Golf
1930 White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle the ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns
1931 Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game
1937 1st Santa Claus school opens (Albion NY)
1938 Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched at Glasgow
1939 Warsaw, Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance
1940 Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces
1940 Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennant clinching beating Bob Feller
1941 1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched
1942 NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down
1942 St Louis Cards win NL pennant on last day of the season
1950 Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis
1953 Bert Bechichar, Baltimore Colts, kicks a 56-yard field goal
1953 Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan
1954 School integration begins in Wash DC & Baltimore Md public schools
1954 Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" premiers
1959 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit
1959 Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, kills nearly 5,000
1961 Sierre Leone becomes the 100th member of the UN
1962 US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles
1963 At 10:59 AM the census clock, records US population at 190,000,000
1964 Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place
1964 Warren Commission released, finding Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
1967 Phillies Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year
1968 Cardinal's super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of the year
1970 Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error
1972 1st game at Nassau Coliseum, Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 (exhibition)
1973 Nolan Ryan strikesout his 383rd batter of the year
1973 Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2 days)
1977 Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title
1979 Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education
1980 WHOT (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins on 1620 AM & 92.5 FM
1982 John Palmer becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1985 Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits the Atlantic coast
1986 Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms
1987 NFL players' strike
1988 Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story
1988 Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ`s burial cloth
1988 Senate votes for major federal tax code changes
1989 Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
1990 A gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkley Calif
1990 Deposed emir of Kuwait address the UN General Assembly
1990 Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court nomination
1990 Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House
1991 "Princesses" premiers on CBS TV
1991 Pres Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert
1991 1st scheduled NHL exhibition game in St Petersburg Fla, is cancelled due to poor ice conditions (NY Islanders vs Boston Bruins)
Deaths which occurred on September 27:
1660 St Vincent de Paul Vincentian Cong founder, dies
1870 Henry TP Comstock Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
1956 Milburn Apt in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash
1956 Mildred "Babe" Didrickson Zaharias great female athlete, dies
1962 Francisco Brochado da Rocha PM of Brazil (1962), dies at 52
1965 Harry Reser orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 69
1972 Rory Storm lead singer of Rory Storm & Hurricane, commits suicide
1979 Jimmy McCullough musician (Wings), dies of a drug overdose
1981 Robert Montgomery actor/dir (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 77
1984 John Facenda sportscaster (NFL Action), dies at 72
1985 Lloyd Nolan actor (Dr Chegley-Julia), dies of lung cancer at 83
1988 William V Shannon US ambassador to Ireland (1977-81), dies at 61
1870 Henry TP Comstock Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50
1956 Milburn Apt in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash
1956 Mildred "Babe" Didrickson Zaharias great female athlete, dies
1962 Francisco Brochado da Rocha PM of Brazil (1962), dies at 52
1965 Harry Reser orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 69
1972 Rory Storm lead singer of Rory Storm & Hurricane, commits suicide
1979 Jimmy McCullough musician (Wings), dies of a drug overdose
1981 Robert Montgomery actor/dir (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 77
1984 John Facenda sportscaster (NFL Action), dies at 72
1985 Lloyd Nolan actor (Dr Chegley-Julia), dies of lung cancer at 83
1988 William V Shannon US ambassador to Ireland (1977-81), dies at 61
Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of September 27:
1601 Louis XIII king of France (1610-43)
1657 Sophia regent of Russia (1682-89)
1722 Samuel Adams revolutionary rabble rouser/(Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94)
1772 S…ndor Kisfaludy Hungary, poet/Austrian army (1793-1801)
1783 Agust¡n I de Iturbide emperor of Mexico (1822-23)
1792 George Cruikshank England, illustrator for Charles Dickens
1817 Hiram R Revels Fayetteville NC, 1st black US senator
1840 Alfred Thayer Mahan US, naval officer (Influence of Sea Power)
1840 Thomas Nast political cartoonist of late 1800s America
1858 Giuseppe Peano Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic
1875 Grazia Deledda Italy, novelist (Old Man of the Mtn-Nobel 1926)
1880 Jacques Thibaud Bordeaux France, violinist (Caf‚ Rogue)
1881 William Clothier 1st pres of tennis hall of fame
1895 George Raft NYC, actor (Each Dawn I Die, Scarface, Some Like It Hot)
1896 George Bender Cleveland, (Rep/Sen-R-Oh)
1896 Sam Ervin (D-Sen-NC), Watergate committee chairman
19-- Gail Edwards Coral Gables Fla, actress (Dot-It's a Living)
19-- John Shearin Charlotte NC, actor (Hunter, Flamingo Road)
19-- Peter Simon actor (Ed-Guiding Light)
1905 Ernest Baier Germany, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1936)
1917 Louis Auchincloss Lawrence NY, lawyer/novelist (Watchfires)
1918 Jame McCallion Glasgow Scotland, actor (Mi Taylor-National Velvet)
1918 Sir Martin Ryle Britain, radio astronomer, astronomer royal 1972-82
1919 Charles H Percy (Sen-R-Ill)
1920 William Conrad Louisville Ky, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Cannon)
1921 Mil¢s Jancs¢ V c Hungary, director (My Way Home)
1922 Arthur Penn Phila, director (Miracle Worker, Bonnie & Clyde)
1923 Mary McCarty Winfield Ks, actress/singer (Starch-Tra[pper John MD)
1926 Jayne Meadows Wu Chang China, Mrs Steve Allen, actr (Dark Delusion)
1929 Sada Thompson Des Moines Ia, actress (Family, Pursuit of Happiness)
1930 Igor Kipnis Berlin Germany, harpsichordist/professor (Fairfield)
1933 Kathleen Nolan St Louis Mo, actress (Real McCoys, Janie, Broadside)
1934 Barbara Howar Nashville, reporter (Wash Post, Entertainment Tonight)
1934 Claude Jarman Jr Nashville Tn, actor (Rio Grande, Inside Straight)
1934 Dick Schaap sportscaster/author (Joe Namath's co-writer)
1934 Greg Morris Cleveland Ohio, actor (Mission Impossible, Vega$)
1934 Wilford Brimley Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Gus-Our House, Cocoon)
1935 Jerome Shipp US, basketball (Olympic-gold-1964)
1939 Kathy Whitworth golfer (AP Woman Athlete of the Year-1966)
1941 Don Cornelius TV show host (Soul Train)
1943 Randy Bachman Winnipeg, rocker (Bachman-Turner Overdrive-Roll On)
1945 Misha Dichter Shanghai China, pianist (Tchaikowsy 2nd prize-1966)
1947 A Martinez Glendale Calif, actor (Whiz Kids, Cruz-Santa Barbara)
1947 Cheryl Tiegs Minnesota, model's figure
1947 Liz Torres Bronx NY, actress (Phyllis, All in the Family)
1947 Meatloaf aka Marvin Lee Aday, Dallas, rocker (Bat Out of Hell)
1949 Mike Schmidt 3rd baseman & HR hitter (Phillies)
1949 Robb Weller TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Home Show)
1952 Del Russel Pasadena Calif, actor (Richard-Arnie)
1952 Dumitru Prunariu 1st Romanian space traveler (on board Soyuz 40)
1958 Shaun Cassidy LA Calif, actor/singer (Hardy Boys, Breaking Away)
1959 Beth Heiden Madison Wisc, 3000m speed skater (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1963 Caren Metschuck German DR, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1970 Mark Caldero vocalist (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up)
1657 Sophia regent of Russia (1682-89)
1722 Samuel Adams revolutionary rabble rouser/(Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94)
1772 S…ndor Kisfaludy Hungary, poet/Austrian army (1793-1801)
1783 Agust¡n I de Iturbide emperor of Mexico (1822-23)
1792 George Cruikshank England, illustrator for Charles Dickens
1817 Hiram R Revels Fayetteville NC, 1st black US senator
1840 Alfred Thayer Mahan US, naval officer (Influence of Sea Power)
1840 Thomas Nast political cartoonist of late 1800s America
1858 Giuseppe Peano Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic
1875 Grazia Deledda Italy, novelist (Old Man of the Mtn-Nobel 1926)
1880 Jacques Thibaud Bordeaux France, violinist (Caf‚ Rogue)
1881 William Clothier 1st pres of tennis hall of fame
1895 George Raft NYC, actor (Each Dawn I Die, Scarface, Some Like It Hot)
1896 George Bender Cleveland, (Rep/Sen-R-Oh)
1896 Sam Ervin (D-Sen-NC), Watergate committee chairman
19-- Gail Edwards Coral Gables Fla, actress (Dot-It's a Living)
19-- John Shearin Charlotte NC, actor (Hunter, Flamingo Road)
19-- Peter Simon actor (Ed-Guiding Light)
1905 Ernest Baier Germany, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1936)
1917 Louis Auchincloss Lawrence NY, lawyer/novelist (Watchfires)
1918 Jame McCallion Glasgow Scotland, actor (Mi Taylor-National Velvet)
1918 Sir Martin Ryle Britain, radio astronomer, astronomer royal 1972-82
1919 Charles H Percy (Sen-R-Ill)
1920 William Conrad Louisville Ky, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Cannon)
1921 Mil¢s Jancs¢ V c Hungary, director (My Way Home)
1922 Arthur Penn Phila, director (Miracle Worker, Bonnie & Clyde)
1923 Mary McCarty Winfield Ks, actress/singer (Starch-Tra[pper John MD)
1926 Jayne Meadows Wu Chang China, Mrs Steve Allen, actr (Dark Delusion)
1929 Sada Thompson Des Moines Ia, actress (Family, Pursuit of Happiness)
1930 Igor Kipnis Berlin Germany, harpsichordist/professor (Fairfield)
1933 Kathleen Nolan St Louis Mo, actress (Real McCoys, Janie, Broadside)
1934 Barbara Howar Nashville, reporter (Wash Post, Entertainment Tonight)
1934 Claude Jarman Jr Nashville Tn, actor (Rio Grande, Inside Straight)
1934 Dick Schaap sportscaster/author (Joe Namath's co-writer)
1934 Greg Morris Cleveland Ohio, actor (Mission Impossible, Vega$)
1934 Wilford Brimley Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Gus-Our House, Cocoon)
1935 Jerome Shipp US, basketball (Olympic-gold-1964)
1939 Kathy Whitworth golfer (AP Woman Athlete of the Year-1966)
1941 Don Cornelius TV show host (Soul Train)
1943 Randy Bachman Winnipeg, rocker (Bachman-Turner Overdrive-Roll On)
1945 Misha Dichter Shanghai China, pianist (Tchaikowsy 2nd prize-1966)
1947 A Martinez Glendale Calif, actor (Whiz Kids, Cruz-Santa Barbara)
1947 Cheryl Tiegs Minnesota, model's figure
1947 Liz Torres Bronx NY, actress (Phyllis, All in the Family)
1947 Meatloaf aka Marvin Lee Aday, Dallas, rocker (Bat Out of Hell)
1949 Mike Schmidt 3rd baseman & HR hitter (Phillies)
1949 Robb Weller TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Home Show)
1952 Del Russel Pasadena Calif, actor (Richard-Arnie)
1952 Dumitru Prunariu 1st Romanian space traveler (on board Soyuz 40)
1958 Shaun Cassidy LA Calif, actor/singer (Hardy Boys, Breaking Away)
1959 Beth Heiden Madison Wisc, 3000m speed skater (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1963 Caren Metschuck German DR, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1970 Mark Caldero vocalist (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up)
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Religious History
1774 Birth of pioneer environmentalist Jonathan Chapman (Johnny Appleseed). Distributing apple seeds and religious tracts from the Alleghenies to the Ohio Valley, Chapman's theology was strongly reminiscent of Swedenborgianism, which taught an empathy with the natural world.
1814 With over 1,000 delegates from 17 churches, the Flint River Association was established -- the first official Baptist organization of its kind in the history of Alabama.
1835 The Suwanee Association was formed, in Florida. Comprised of eight member churches, it was the first official Baptist organization in Florida history.
1897 Birth of Giovanni Battista Montini. He was ordained in 1920, named a cardinal in 1958, and in June 1963 chosen successor to John XXIII as Pope Paul VI. His 15 years as pontiff saw a widening application of the decisions first made at the Vatican II Ecumenical Council (1962-65).
1990 In Russia, the Supreme Soviet ended decades of religious repression with a new declaration, forbidding government interference in religious activities and giving citizens the right to study religion in homes and private schools.
1814 With over 1,000 delegates from 17 churches, the Flint River Association was established -- the first official Baptist organization of its kind in the history of Alabama.
1835 The Suwanee Association was formed, in Florida. Comprised of eight member churches, it was the first official Baptist organization in Florida history.
1897 Birth of Giovanni Battista Montini. He was ordained in 1920, named a cardinal in 1958, and in June 1963 chosen successor to John XXIII as Pope Paul VI. His 15 years as pontiff saw a widening application of the decisions first made at the Vatican II Ecumenical Council (1962-65).
1990 In Russia, the Supreme Soviet ended decades of religious repression with a new declaration, forbidding government interference in religious activities and giving citizens the right to study religion in homes and private schools.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
New Zealand : Dominion Day
Sri Lanka : Bandaranaike Day (1959)
Yemen Arab Rep, Yemen Peo Dem Rep : Revolution Day (1962)
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Good Neighbor Day (4th Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Press Sunday - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : American Indian Day (4th Friday in September) (1916) - - - - - ( Friday )
Khmer Republic : Ceremony of the Dead
New Zealand : Dominion Day
Sri Lanka : Bandaranaike Day (1959)
Yemen Arab Rep, Yemen Peo Dem Rep : Revolution Day (1962)
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Good Neighbor Day (4th Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Press Sunday - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : American Indian Day (4th Friday in September) (1916) - - - - - ( Friday )
Khmer Republic : Ceremony of the Dead
On this day...
1687 Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians
1777 British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution
1789 Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney Genl
1824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
1835 The opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" is produced (Naples)
1890 US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3 piece
1892 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)
1896 John Philip Sousa led band's 1st performance (Plainfield, NJ)
1906 Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game
1907 New Zealand becomes a dominion
1908 Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader
1914 Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
1918 Meuse-Argonne offensive against Germany began during WW I
1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead
1926 Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to the Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
1934 British liner Queen Mary is launched
1947 Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series
1948 Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
1950 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England
1950 UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul
1952 Yanks clinch pennant #19
1954 Typhoon strikes Kakodate Bay Japan, killing over 1,600
1955 NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1957 Dag Hammarskj”ld re-elected secretary-general of the UN
1957 Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway
1958 Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup
1959 SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0
1960 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago)
1960 Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
1961 Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record
1962 1st to steal 100 bases in a season (Maury Wills goes on to 104)
1962 TV comedy series "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiers on CBS
1962 Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
1966 "Staten Island," 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
1968 Hawaii Five-O debuts as an hourly program on CBS
1968 St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA
1969 Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
1972 American Museum of Immigration dedicated
1973 Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m
1973 Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors
1975 Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM
1976 Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title
1977 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY
1978 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
1979 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million
1980 Cuban govt closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"
1980 Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
1981 Houston Astro Nolan Ryan 5th no-hitter beats LA Dodgers, 5-0
1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1983 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner)
1983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
1983 St Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0
1984 5,251 turn out to see the Phillies play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1984 Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1984 Pres Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
1986 Antonin Scalia becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1986 William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
1988 Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test
1988 NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark
1988 Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM
1988 US space shuttle STS-26 launched
1990 Motion Picture Assn of America creates new NC-17 rating
1991 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins
1777 British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution
1789 Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney Genl
1824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
1835 The opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" is produced (Naples)
1890 US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3 piece
1892 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)
1896 John Philip Sousa led band's 1st performance (Plainfield, NJ)
1906 Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game
1907 New Zealand becomes a dominion
1908 Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader
1914 Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
1918 Meuse-Argonne offensive against Germany began during WW I
1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead
1926 Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to the Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
1934 British liner Queen Mary is launched
1947 Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series
1948 Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
1950 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England
1950 UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul
1952 Yanks clinch pennant #19
1954 Typhoon strikes Kakodate Bay Japan, killing over 1,600
1955 NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1957 Dag Hammarskj”ld re-elected secretary-general of the UN
1957 Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway
1958 Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup
1959 SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0
1960 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago)
1960 Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
1961 Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record
1962 1st to steal 100 bases in a season (Maury Wills goes on to 104)
1962 TV comedy series "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiers on CBS
1962 Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
1966 "Staten Island," 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
1968 Hawaii Five-O debuts as an hourly program on CBS
1968 St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA
1969 Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
1972 American Museum of Immigration dedicated
1973 Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m
1973 Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors
1975 Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM
1976 Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title
1977 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY
1978 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
1979 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million
1980 Cuban govt closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"
1980 Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
1981 Houston Astro Nolan Ryan 5th no-hitter beats LA Dodgers, 5-0
1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1983 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner)
1983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
1983 St Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0
1984 5,251 turn out to see the Phillies play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1984 Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1984 Pres Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
1986 Antonin Scalia becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1986 William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
1988 Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test
1988 NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark
1988 Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM
1988 US space shuttle STS-26 launched
1990 Motion Picture Assn of America creates new NC-17 rating
1991 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins
Deaths which occurred on September 26:
1820 Daniel Boone frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85
1904 Lafcadio Hearn multinational author, dies
1937 Bessie Smith singer, dies of injuries sustained in car crash
1959 PM Solomon Bandaranaike of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) assassinated
1964 Calvin Thomas actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79
1972 Charles Correll actor (Calvin and the Colonel), dies at 82
1973 Anna Magnani actress, dies at 64
1990 Alberto Moravia Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82
1904 Lafcadio Hearn multinational author, dies
1937 Bessie Smith singer, dies of injuries sustained in car crash
1959 PM Solomon Bandaranaike of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) assassinated
1964 Calvin Thomas actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79
1972 Charles Correll actor (Calvin and the Colonel), dies at 82
1973 Anna Magnani actress, dies at 64
1990 Alberto Moravia Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82
Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of September 26:
1729 Moses Mendelssohn philosopher/critic/Bible translator
1774 John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman
1820 Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)
1876 Edith Abbott dean U of Chic Social Sciences
1888 T.S. Eliot St Louis poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948)
1889 Martin Heidegger Germany, Existentialist (Being & Time)
1891 Charles Munch Strasbourg Alsatian conductor (French Legion D'Honeur)
1895 Fay Holden Birmingham England, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films)
1897 Pope Paul VI 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78)
1898 George Gershwin [Jacob Gershvin] Bkln NY, composer (Rhapsody in Blue)
19-- Lorraine Lewis rocker (Femme Fatale)
19-- Rachel Jacobs Ririe Idaho, actress (It's Not Easy)
19-- Richard Herd Brighton Mass, actor (TJ Hooker, V)
19-- Todd Chase rocker (Tuff-What Comes Around Goes Around)
1901 Donald Cook Portland Ore, actor (Too Young To Go Steady)
1902 Albert Anastasia head of Murder Inc
1907 Ralph Michael London England, actor (Quest, Doctor in the House)
1914 Jack LaLanne exercise mogul
1919 Barbara Britton Long Beach, Calif, actress (Young & Willing)
1925 Bobby Shantz baseball player (1952 AL MVP)
1925 Marty Robbins Glendale Az, singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone)
1926 Julie London Santa Rosa Calif, actress (Nurse McCall-Emergency)
1927 Patrick O'Neal Ocala Fla, actor (Kaz, Alvarez Kelly, King Rat)
1930 Fritz Wunderlich Kusel Germany, tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58)
1930 Philip Bosco Jersey City, actor (Trading Places)
1932 Clifton C Williams Jr Mobile Alabama, Major USMC/astronaut
1932 Joyce Jameson Chicago Ill, comedienne (Spike Jones Show)
1933 Donna Douglas [Dot Smith], Pride La, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1942 Kent McCord LA Calif, actor (Officer Jim Reed-Adam 12)
1945 Brian Ferry England, rocker (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together)
1946 Mary Beth Hurt Iowa, actress (Garp, Change of Seasons)
1947 Graham Faulkner London, actor (Brother Sun Sister Moon)
1947 Lynn Anderson ND, country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden)
1947 Richard Roth US, 400m swim medley (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 Olivia Newton-John Cambridge England, singer (I Honestly Love You, Physical)
1948 Vladimir Remek 1st Czechoslovakian space traveler (in Soyuz 28)
1952 James Keane Buffalo NY, actor (Willis Bell-Paper Chase)
1956 Linda Hamilton Salisbury Md, actress (Catherine-Beauty & the Beast)
1962 Melissa Sue Anderson Cal, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1962 Tracey Thorn rocker (Everything But the Girls)
1963 Lysette Anthony London, actress (Angelique-Dark Shadows, Switch)
1964 Ty Miller Granada Hills Calif, actor (The Kid-The Young Riders)
1967 Martha Nix Orange County Calif, actress (Serena-Waltons)
1972 Shann Stockman [Slim], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
1774 John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman
1820 Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)
1876 Edith Abbott dean U of Chic Social Sciences
1888 T.S. Eliot St Louis poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948)
1889 Martin Heidegger Germany, Existentialist (Being & Time)
1891 Charles Munch Strasbourg Alsatian conductor (French Legion D'Honeur)
1895 Fay Holden Birmingham England, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films)
1897 Pope Paul VI 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78)
1898 George Gershwin [Jacob Gershvin] Bkln NY, composer (Rhapsody in Blue)
19-- Lorraine Lewis rocker (Femme Fatale)
19-- Rachel Jacobs Ririe Idaho, actress (It's Not Easy)
19-- Richard Herd Brighton Mass, actor (TJ Hooker, V)
19-- Todd Chase rocker (Tuff-What Comes Around Goes Around)
1901 Donald Cook Portland Ore, actor (Too Young To Go Steady)
1902 Albert Anastasia head of Murder Inc
1907 Ralph Michael London England, actor (Quest, Doctor in the House)
1914 Jack LaLanne exercise mogul
1919 Barbara Britton Long Beach, Calif, actress (Young & Willing)
1925 Bobby Shantz baseball player (1952 AL MVP)
1925 Marty Robbins Glendale Az, singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone)
1926 Julie London Santa Rosa Calif, actress (Nurse McCall-Emergency)
1927 Patrick O'Neal Ocala Fla, actor (Kaz, Alvarez Kelly, King Rat)
1930 Fritz Wunderlich Kusel Germany, tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58)
1930 Philip Bosco Jersey City, actor (Trading Places)
1932 Clifton C Williams Jr Mobile Alabama, Major USMC/astronaut
1932 Joyce Jameson Chicago Ill, comedienne (Spike Jones Show)
1933 Donna Douglas [Dot Smith], Pride La, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1942 Kent McCord LA Calif, actor (Officer Jim Reed-Adam 12)
1945 Brian Ferry England, rocker (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together)
1946 Mary Beth Hurt Iowa, actress (Garp, Change of Seasons)
1947 Graham Faulkner London, actor (Brother Sun Sister Moon)
1947 Lynn Anderson ND, country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden)
1947 Richard Roth US, 400m swim medley (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 Olivia Newton-John Cambridge England, singer (I Honestly Love You, Physical)
1948 Vladimir Remek 1st Czechoslovakian space traveler (in Soyuz 28)
1952 James Keane Buffalo NY, actor (Willis Bell-Paper Chase)
1956 Linda Hamilton Salisbury Md, actress (Catherine-Beauty & the Beast)
1962 Melissa Sue Anderson Cal, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1962 Tracey Thorn rocker (Everything But the Girls)
1963 Lysette Anthony London, actress (Angelique-Dark Shadows, Switch)
1964 Ty Miller Granada Hills Calif, actor (The Kid-The Young Riders)
1967 Martha Nix Orange County Calif, actress (Serena-Waltons)
1972 Shann Stockman [Slim], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
Friday, September 25, 2009
Religious History
1555 The Peace of Augsburg was signed, resolving bitter disputes between Protestants and Catholics in the German states. Its wider significance, however, meant that both the political unity of Germany and the medieval unity of Christendom was permanently dissolved.
1789 The establishment of religion on a national level was expressly prohibited in the U.S. with the adoption of the First Amendment, the opening words of which read: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Final ratification of the First Amendment came in 1791.
1872 Death of Peter Cartwright, 87, early American Methodist circuit rider. Converted at age 29, Cartwright possessed a rough, uneducated and eccentric personality; but he spent over 50 of his 87 years spreading the Gospel through the Midwestern frontiers of Kentucky and Illinois.
1890 Polygamy was officially banned by the Mormon Church. (This announcement followed on the heels of an 1890 Supreme Court ruling denying all privileges of U.S. citizenship to Mormons who practiced this outlawed form of marriage.)
1908 Death of English Old Testament textual scholar Henry A. Redpath, 60. From 1892-1906, Redpath and Edwin Hatch compiled "A Concordance to the Septuagint and Other Greek Versions of the Old Testament"-- still in print today!
1789 The establishment of religion on a national level was expressly prohibited in the U.S. with the adoption of the First Amendment, the opening words of which read: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' Final ratification of the First Amendment came in 1791.
1872 Death of Peter Cartwright, 87, early American Methodist circuit rider. Converted at age 29, Cartwright possessed a rough, uneducated and eccentric personality; but he spent over 50 of his 87 years spreading the Gospel through the Midwestern frontiers of Kentucky and Illinois.
1890 Polygamy was officially banned by the Mormon Church. (This announcement followed on the heels of an 1890 Supreme Court ruling denying all privileges of U.S. citizenship to Mormons who practiced this outlawed form of marriage.)
1908 Death of English Old Testament textual scholar Henry A. Redpath, 60. From 1892-1906, Redpath and Edwin Hatch compiled "A Concordance to the Septuagint and Other Greek Versions of the Old Testament"-- still in print today!
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Rwanda : Government Day/National Assembly Day/Referendum Day
US : Pacific Ocean Day (1513)
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Good Neighbor Day (4th Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Press Sunday - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : American Indian Day (4th Friday in September) (1916) - - - - - ( Friday )
Rwanda : Government Day/National Assembly Day/Referendum Day
US : Pacific Ocean Day (1513)
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Good Neighbor Day (4th Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Press Sunday - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : American Indian Day (4th Friday in September) (1916) - - - - - ( Friday )
On this day...
1492 Crewman on the Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early
1493 Columbus sails on 2nd voyage to America
1513 Vasco Nu¤ez de Balboa is the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean
1639 1st printing press in America
1690 Publick Occurrences, 1st US (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st & last ed
1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
1789 Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)
1804 12th amendment to the US constitution, regulating judicial power
1861 Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1882 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (BG)
1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (Calif)
1890 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG)
1908 Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw Doubleheader shutout
1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY
1911 Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park
1919 Pres Wilson becomes seriously ill & collapses after a speech
1920 Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
1924 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH
1926 Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week
1926 International slavery convention signed by 20 states
1926 NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive game
1934 Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup
1939 Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I
1949 Louis Suggs wins US Woman's Golf championship
1956 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation
1956 Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Phila Phillies, 5-0
1957 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark
1957 Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced
1960 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday losses
1962 A black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
1962 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title
1962 Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup
1965 Beatle cartoon show begins in the US
1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1
1970 Ringo releases his "Beaucoups of Blues" album
1973 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
1973 Willie Mays night at Shea Stadium
1976 Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park
1978 PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die
1980 Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows)
1981 Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Phila)
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice
1982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
1983 Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0
1985 Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to the Supreme Court
1986 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s
1990 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Balt Orioles to tie record
1990 Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title
1990 Saddam Hussein warns US will repeat Vietnam experience
1990 UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
1991 "Good & Evil" premiers on ABC TV
1991 The Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens
1493 Columbus sails on 2nd voyage to America
1513 Vasco Nu¤ez de Balboa is the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean
1639 1st printing press in America
1690 Publick Occurrences, 1st US (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st & last ed
1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
1789 Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)
1804 12th amendment to the US constitution, regulating judicial power
1861 Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1882 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (BG)
1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (Calif)
1890 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG)
1908 Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw Doubleheader shutout
1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY
1911 Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park
1919 Pres Wilson becomes seriously ill & collapses after a speech
1920 Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
1924 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH
1926 Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week
1926 International slavery convention signed by 20 states
1926 NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive game
1934 Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup
1939 Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I
1949 Louis Suggs wins US Woman's Golf championship
1956 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation
1956 Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Phila Phillies, 5-0
1957 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark
1957 Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced
1960 Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday losses
1962 A black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
1962 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title
1962 Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup
1965 Beatle cartoon show begins in the US
1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1
1970 Ringo releases his "Beaucoups of Blues" album
1973 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
1973 Willie Mays night at Shea Stadium
1976 Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park
1978 PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die
1980 Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows)
1981 Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Phila)
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice
1982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
1983 Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0
1985 Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to the Supreme Court
1986 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s
1990 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Balt Orioles to tie record
1990 Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title
1990 Saddam Hussein warns US will repeat Vietnam experience
1990 UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
1991 "Good & Evil" premiers on ABC TV
1991 The Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens
Deaths which occurred on September 25:
1929 Miller Huggins Yankee manager, dies at 50
1959 S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk
1960 Emily Post etiquette expert, dies at 86
1974 William Sloane publisher/writer ("The Edge of Running Water"), dies
1975 Bob Considine newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at 68
1984 Walter Pidgeon New Brunswick Canada, actor (MGM-Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie), dies at 87 after a series of strokes
1988 Billy Carter Pres Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51
1959 S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk
1960 Emily Post etiquette expert, dies at 86
1974 William Sloane publisher/writer ("The Edge of Running Water"), dies
1975 Bob Considine newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at 68
1984 Walter Pidgeon New Brunswick Canada, actor (MGM-Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie), dies at 87 after a series of strokes
1988 Billy Carter Pres Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51
Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of September 25:
1644 Olaus Rímer Denmark, 1st to accurately measure speed of light
1657 Imre Th”k”ly Hungary, patriot, opposed Habsburg rule
1683 Jean-Philippe Rameau Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized)
1725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot designed & built 1st automobile
1766 Armand-Emmanuel duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21)
1866 Thomas Hunt Morgan US, biologist (Nobel-1933)
1877 Plutarco El¡as Calles Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)
1887 May Sutton Bundy US, 1st US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904)
1897 William Faulkner Mississippi, author (Sound & the Fury-Nobel 1949)
19-- Brett Hadley actor (Young & Restless)
19-- Josh Taylor Princeton Ill, actor (Frank-Riker, Michael-Valerie)
19-- Michael Madsen Chicago Ill, actor (Our Family Honor)
19-- Rob Mingrino Ct, rocker (Rythm Syndicate)
19-- Todd Davis NYC, actor (General Hospital)
19-- Tommy Norden NYC, actor (Flipper)
1903 Mark Rothko US, painter (Green on Blue)
1905 Red Smith Green Bay Wisc, sportscaster/columnist (Fight Talk)
1906 Dimitri Shostakovich St Petersburg Russia, composer (9th-1945)
1907 Robert Bresson France, director (Pickpocket, Mouchette)
1918 Phil Rizzuto Bkln NY, sportscaster/shortstop (NY Yankees-MVP 1950)
1920 Sergey Bondarchuk Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace)
1925 Silvana Pampanini Rome Italy, actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner)
1926 Aldo Ray actor (God's Little Acre, Naked & the Dead, Green Beret)
1926 John Ericson Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Sam Bolt-Honey West)
1926 Sergei Filatov USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960)
1927 Carl Braun basketball player (NY Knicks)
1927 Sir Colin Rex Davis Weybridge England, conductor (NY Met 1967-71)
1931 Barbara Walters Boston Mass, newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV)
1932 Glenn Herbert Gould Toronto Canada, pianist (sued Steinway Piano)
1934 John S Bull Memphis Tennessee, astronaut
1936 Juliet Prowse Bombay India, actress/dancer (Who Killed Teddy Bear)
1943 John Locke LA, rocker (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
1943 Robert Walden NYC, actor (Joe Rossi-Lou Grant, New Doctors)
1944 Eugenia Zukerman Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist (Deceptive Cadence)
1944 Michael Douglas NJ, actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile)
1945 Cathy Burns actress (Last Summer)
1949 Anson Williams LA Calif, actor (Potsie-Happy Days)
1949 Mimi Kennedy Rochester NY, actress (Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under 1 Roof)
1951 Bob McAdoo NBA forward/center (Buffalo Braves, LA Lakers)
1951 Mark Hamill Oakland Calif, actor (Star Wars)
1952 Christopher Reeve actor (Superman)
1955 Steve Severin rocker (Siouxsie & the Banshees-Wild Thing)
196- Shell Danielson actress (Laken Lockridge-Santa Barbara)
1961 Heather Locklear LA Calif, actress (Stacy-T.J. Hooker)
1965 Fresh Prince [Will Smith], rapper (Parents Just Don't Understand)
1967 Lezlie Lund Tolna ND, Miss ND-America (1991)
1968 Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands
1970 Kerri Kendall San Diego Ca, playmate (Sep, 1990)
1657 Imre Th”k”ly Hungary, patriot, opposed Habsburg rule
1683 Jean-Philippe Rameau Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized)
1725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot designed & built 1st automobile
1766 Armand-Emmanuel duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21)
1866 Thomas Hunt Morgan US, biologist (Nobel-1933)
1877 Plutarco El¡as Calles Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)
1887 May Sutton Bundy US, 1st US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904)
1897 William Faulkner Mississippi, author (Sound & the Fury-Nobel 1949)
19-- Brett Hadley actor (Young & Restless)
19-- Josh Taylor Princeton Ill, actor (Frank-Riker, Michael-Valerie)
19-- Michael Madsen Chicago Ill, actor (Our Family Honor)
19-- Rob Mingrino Ct, rocker (Rythm Syndicate)
19-- Todd Davis NYC, actor (General Hospital)
19-- Tommy Norden NYC, actor (Flipper)
1903 Mark Rothko US, painter (Green on Blue)
1905 Red Smith Green Bay Wisc, sportscaster/columnist (Fight Talk)
1906 Dimitri Shostakovich St Petersburg Russia, composer (9th-1945)
1907 Robert Bresson France, director (Pickpocket, Mouchette)
1918 Phil Rizzuto Bkln NY, sportscaster/shortstop (NY Yankees-MVP 1950)
1920 Sergey Bondarchuk Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace)
1925 Silvana Pampanini Rome Italy, actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner)
1926 Aldo Ray actor (God's Little Acre, Naked & the Dead, Green Beret)
1926 John Ericson Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Sam Bolt-Honey West)
1926 Sergei Filatov USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960)
1927 Carl Braun basketball player (NY Knicks)
1927 Sir Colin Rex Davis Weybridge England, conductor (NY Met 1967-71)
1931 Barbara Walters Boston Mass, newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV)
1932 Glenn Herbert Gould Toronto Canada, pianist (sued Steinway Piano)
1934 John S Bull Memphis Tennessee, astronaut
1936 Juliet Prowse Bombay India, actress/dancer (Who Killed Teddy Bear)
1943 John Locke LA, rocker (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
1943 Robert Walden NYC, actor (Joe Rossi-Lou Grant, New Doctors)
1944 Eugenia Zukerman Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist (Deceptive Cadence)
1944 Michael Douglas NJ, actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile)
1945 Cathy Burns actress (Last Summer)
1949 Anson Williams LA Calif, actor (Potsie-Happy Days)
1949 Mimi Kennedy Rochester NY, actress (Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under 1 Roof)
1951 Bob McAdoo NBA forward/center (Buffalo Braves, LA Lakers)
1951 Mark Hamill Oakland Calif, actor (Star Wars)
1952 Christopher Reeve actor (Superman)
1955 Steve Severin rocker (Siouxsie & the Banshees-Wild Thing)
196- Shell Danielson actress (Laken Lockridge-Santa Barbara)
1961 Heather Locklear LA Calif, actress (Stacy-T.J. Hooker)
1965 Fresh Prince [Will Smith], rapper (Parents Just Don't Understand)
1967 Lezlie Lund Tolna ND, Miss ND-America (1991)
1968 Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands
1970 Kerri Kendall San Diego Ca, playmate (Sep, 1990)
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Religious History
787 The Second Nicene Council opened under Pope Hadrian I. Numbered by some as the 7th of the church's 21 ecumenical councils, Nicea II condemned iconoclasm (belief that the veneration of Christian images and relics is idolatry).
1889 In Holland, the Declaration of Utrecht was signed and became the doctrinal basis of the Old Catholic Church. ("Old Catholics" reject clerical celibacy, papal authority and the Council of Trent decisions.) Today in Europe, Old Catholics are active in Holland, Germany and Switzerland.
1956 In Minneapolis-St. Paul, a congregation of worshipers was organized into the first Southern Baptist church to be established in Minnesota.
1977 Rev. John T. Walker was installed as the sixth -- and first African American -- bishop of the Episcopal diocese in Washington, D.C.
1988 The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts elected Barbara C. Harris, 58, as a suffragen (assistant) bishop, making her the first woman to be so ordained in the Anglican communion.
1889 In Holland, the Declaration of Utrecht was signed and became the doctrinal basis of the Old Catholic Church. ("Old Catholics" reject clerical celibacy, papal authority and the Council of Trent decisions.) Today in Europe, Old Catholics are active in Holland, Germany and Switzerland.
1956 In Minneapolis-St. Paul, a congregation of worshipers was organized into the first Southern Baptist church to be established in Minnesota.
1977 Rev. John T. Walker was installed as the sixth -- and first African American -- bishop of the Episcopal diocese in Washington, D.C.
1988 The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts elected Barbara C. Harris, 58, as a suffragen (assistant) bishop, making her the first woman to be so ordained in the Anglican communion.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Pennsylvania Dutch : Schwenkenfelder Thanksgiving Day (1734)
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Good Neighbor Day (4th Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Press Sunday - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : American Indian Day (4th Friday in September) (1916) - - - - - ( Friday )
Pennsylvania Dutch : Schwenkenfelder Thanksgiving Day (1734)
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Good Neighbor Day (4th Sunday in September) - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : Press Sunday - - - - - ( Sunday )
US : American Indian Day (4th Friday in September) (1916) - - - - - ( Friday )
On this day...
312 Start of Imperial Indication
366 Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
673 Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
787 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor
1493 Columbus' 2nd expedition to the New World
1625 Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1683 Jews are expelled from all French possessions in America
1742 Faneuil Hall opens to the public
1789 Congress creates the Post Office
1789 Congress' 1st Judiciary Act, Attorney General & Supreme Court
1829 Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
1838 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1841 Sarawak obtained by Britain from Sultan of Brunei
1845 1st baseball team is organized
1852 A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated
1853 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
1862 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1865 James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
1869 Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1883 National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky
1895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Red Circle" (BG)
1906 St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
1919 Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
1922 Roger Hornsby sets the NL HR mark at 42
1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become the Maple Leafs
1927 Yanks set record of 106 victories
1929 Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the 1st all-instrument flight
1930 Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
1934 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
1938 Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam
1940 Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
1941 9 Allied govts pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter
1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Wash DC
1950 "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel
1952 Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
1953 "Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway
1954 Tonight Show premiers on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
1954 Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
1955 Pres Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
1957 Bkln Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
1957 Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
1958 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia
1960 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise)
1960 Internationl Development Assn (UN agency) comes into existence
1962 US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to U of Miss
1963 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
1964 "The Munsters" premiers
1964 Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd
1967 Cards Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals vs Steelers
1968 "60 Minutes" premiers
1968 "That's Life" premiers-A Broadway musical type TV show
1968 NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack
1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins
1970 1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16
1971 Houston Astros beat SD Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings
1972 Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22
1972 Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yds vs Green Bay (rec)
1972 NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34)
1973 Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) declares independence
1973 St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals
1974 Al Kaline gets his 3,000th career hit
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter
1977 Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards
1978 Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74
1979 CompuServe system started
1982 Tennis great Bj”rn B”rg retires at 26
1982 US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
1984 Paul McCartney releases "No More Lonely Nights"
1985 Apollo Computer Inc. lays off 300 employees
1985 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)
1985 Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1988 Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop
1988 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec
1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets the heptathlon woman's record (7,291)
1990 South African president F.W. de Klerk meets Pres Bush in Wash DC
1990 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
1991 "Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premiers on ABC TV
1991 Doogie Howser loses his virginity
1991 Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles
366 Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
673 Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
787 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor
1493 Columbus' 2nd expedition to the New World
1625 Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1683 Jews are expelled from all French possessions in America
1742 Faneuil Hall opens to the public
1789 Congress creates the Post Office
1789 Congress' 1st Judiciary Act, Attorney General & Supreme Court
1829 Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
1838 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1841 Sarawak obtained by Britain from Sultan of Brunei
1845 1st baseball team is organized
1852 A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated
1853 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
1862 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1865 James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
1869 Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1883 National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky
1895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Red Circle" (BG)
1906 St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
1919 Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
1922 Roger Hornsby sets the NL HR mark at 42
1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become the Maple Leafs
1927 Yanks set record of 106 victories
1929 Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the 1st all-instrument flight
1930 Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
1934 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
1938 Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam
1940 Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
1941 9 Allied govts pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter
1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Wash DC
1950 "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel
1952 Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
1953 "Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway
1954 Tonight Show premiers on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
1954 Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
1955 Pres Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
1957 Bkln Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
1957 Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
1958 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia
1960 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise)
1960 Internationl Development Assn (UN agency) comes into existence
1962 US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to U of Miss
1963 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
1964 "The Munsters" premiers
1964 Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd
1967 Cards Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals vs Steelers
1968 "60 Minutes" premiers
1968 "That's Life" premiers-A Broadway musical type TV show
1968 NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack
1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins
1970 1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16
1971 Houston Astros beat SD Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings
1972 Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22
1972 Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yds vs Green Bay (rec)
1972 NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34)
1973 Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) declares independence
1973 St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals
1974 Al Kaline gets his 3,000th career hit
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter
1977 Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards
1978 Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74
1979 CompuServe system started
1982 Tennis great Bj”rn B”rg retires at 26
1982 US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
1984 Paul McCartney releases "No More Lonely Nights"
1985 Apollo Computer Inc. lays off 300 employees
1985 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)
1985 Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1988 Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop
1988 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec
1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets the heptathlon woman's record (7,291)
1990 South African president F.W. de Klerk meets Pres Bush in Wash DC
1990 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
1991 "Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premiers on ABC TV
1991 Doogie Howser loses his virginity
1991 Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles
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