Today In History

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On Aug. 25, 1944, Paris was liberated by Allied ****** after four years of **** occupation
On Aug. 25, 1918, Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer and pianist, was born. Following his death on Oct. 14, 1990, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On August 25, 1860, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Abraham Lincoln, slavery, and the presidential election of 1860
On this date in:


1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, with some of them settling in present-day New Orleans.


1825 Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil.


1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.


1916 The National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior.


1921 The United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.


1943 U.S. ****** overran New Georgia in the Solomon Islands during World War II.


1950 President Harry S. Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.


1975 The album "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen was released.


1981 The U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures and data about the ringed planet.


1984 Author Truman Capote was found dead at age 59.


1985 Samantha Smith, the schoolgirl whose letter to Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov resulted in her peace tour of the communist country, was ****** with her ****** in an airplane crash in Maine.


1997 The tobacco industry agreed to an $11.3 billion settlement with the state of Florida.


1998 Former Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell died at age 90.


2003 Tennis champion Pete Sampras announced his retirement during a news conference at the U.S. Open in New York.

Current Birthdays

Tim Burton turns 50 years old today.

92 Van Johnson
Actor


87 Monty Hall
Game show host ("Let's Make a Deal")


78 Sean Connery
Actor


78 Page Johnson
Actor


77 Regis Philbin
Talk show host ("Live With Regis and Kelly")


75 Wayne Shorter
Jazz saxophonist


75 Tom Skerritt
Actor ("Picket Fences")


72 Hugh Hudson
Director


70 David Canary
Actor


69 John Badham
Director


67 Marshall Brickman
Filmmaker


66 Walter Williams
R&B singer (The O'Jays)


64 Anthony Heald
Actor


62 Rollie Fingers
Baseball Hall of Famer


61 Anne Archer
Actress


59 Henry Paul
Country singer, musician (Outlaws, Blackhawk)


59 John Savage
Actor


59 Gene Simmons
Rock musician (Kiss)


57 Rob Halford
Rock singer (Judas Priest)


56 Geoff Downes
Rock musician (Asia)


54 Elvis Costello
Rock musician


47 Billy Ray Cyrus
Country singer


47 Ally Walker
Actress


46 Vivian Campbell
Rock musician (Def Leppard)


44 Blair Underwood
Actor


44 Joanne Whalley
Actress


42 Albert Belle
Baseball player


42 Terminator X
Rap DJ (Public Enemy)


41 Jeff Tweedy
Rock singer (Wilco)


40 David Alan Basche
Actor ("United 93")


40 Rachael Ray
TV chef


39 Cameron Mathison
Actor ("All My ********")


38 Robert Horry
Basketball player


38 Jo Dee Messina
Country singer


38 Claudia Schiffer
Model


37 Brice Long
Country singer


36 Marvin Harrison
Football player


34 Eric Millegan
Actor ("Bones")


30 Kel Mitchell
Actor


27 Rachel Bilson
Actress ("The O.C.")


14 Josh Flitter
Actor ("License to Wed," "Nancy Drew
Historic Birthdays

79 George Wallace
8/25/1919 - 9/13/1998
American four-time governor of Alabama and 1968 third-party candidate


60 Walt Kelly
8/25/1913 - 10/18/1973
American creator of the comic strip "Pogo"


81 Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
8/25/1900 - 11/22/1981
German-born English Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1953)


84 Sean O'Kelly
8/25/1882 - 11/23/1966
Irish president (1945-59) and leader of the Sinn Fein Party


77 Arthur Hinsley
8/25/1865 - 3/17/1943
English Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop of Westminster


45 Bill Nye
8/25/1850 - 2/22/1896
American journalist and humorist


40 Louis II ("mad king Ludwig")
8/25/1845 - 6/13/1886
German king of Bavaria (1864-86)


64 Allan Pinkerton
8/25/1819 - 7/1/1884
Scottish-born American founder of the Pinkerton detective agency


53 Ivan lV
8/25/1530 - 3/18/1584
Russian tsar remembered as "Ivan the Terrible"

 

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30 B.C. - Cleopatra, the seventh queen of Egypt, committed suicide.

1146 - European leaders outlawed the crossbow.

1645 - American Indians and the Dutch made a peace treaty at New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam later became known as New York.

1682 - William Penn sailed from England and later established the colony of Pennsylvania in America.

1780 - General Benedict Arnold secretly promised to surrender the West Point fort to the British army.

1806 - New York City's second daily newspaper, the "Daily Advertiser," was published for the last time.

1862 - The Confederates defeated Union ****** at the second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA.

1905 - Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers.

1918 - Fanny Dora Kaplan fired three shots at Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in an assassination attempt.

1928 - The Independence of India League was established in India.

1941 - During World War II, the Nazis severed the last railroad link between Leningrad and the rest of the Soviet Union.

1945 - General Douglas MacArthur set up Allied occupation headquarters in Japan.

1951 - The Philippines and the United States signed a defense pact.

1960 - A partial blockade was imposed on West Berlin by East Germany.

1963 - The "Hotline" between Moscow and Washington, DC, went into operation.

1965 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court.

1979 - Hurricane David hit the Caribbean island of Dominica. The hurricane took 1,100 lives in its journey through the Caribbean and the eastern U.S. seaboard.

1982 - P.L.O. leader Yasir Arafat left Beirut for Greece.

1983 - The space shuttle Challenger blasted off with Guion S. Bluford Jr. aboard. He was the first black American to travel in space.

1984 - The space shuttle Discovery lifted off for the first time. On the voyage three communications satellites were deployed.

1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and several others, were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame.

1989 - Leona Helmsley was found guilty of income tax evasion by a New York federal jury.

1991 - The Soviet republic of Azerbaijan declared its independence.

1992 - 15 people were ****** and 31 injured in a Sarajevo market when an artillery shell exploded.

1993 - On CBS-TV "The Late Show with David Letterman" premiered.

1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by Joseph Skipper. Parks was known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked the civil rights movement.

1994 - The largest U.S. defense contractor was created when the Lockheed and Martin Marietta corporations agreed to a merger.

1996 - An expedition to raise part of the Titanic failed when the nylon lines being used to raise part of the hull snapped.

1999 - The residents of East Timor overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia. The U.N. announced the result on September 4.

Current Birthdays


Cameron Diaz turns 36 years old today.
89 Kitty Wells
Country singer


81 Bill Daily
Actor ("I ***** of Jeannie," "The Bob Newhart Show")


69 Elizabeth Ashley
Actress


67 Ben Jones
Actor


65 R. Crumb
Cartoonist ("Fritz the Cat")


65 Jean-Claude Killy
Skier


61 Peggy Lipton
Actress ("The Mod Squad")


60 Lewis Black
Comedian ("The Daily Show")


57 Timothy Bottoms
Actor


55 Robert Parish
Basketball Hall of Famer


54 David Paymer
Actor


51 Gerald Albright
Jazz saxophonist


45 Michael Chiklis
Actor ("The Shield")


44 Robert Clivilles
Music producer


42 Michael Michele
Actress


40 Geoff Firebaugh
Country musician


37 Sherrie Austin
Country singer


35 Leon Caffrey
Rock musician (Space)


35 Lisa Ling
TV personality


34 Aaron Barrett
Rock musician (Reel Big Fish)


33 Rich Cronin
Singer (LFO)


31 Shaun Alexander
Football player


30 Matt Taul
Rock musician (Tantric)


26 Andy Roddick
Tennis player


22 Ryan Ross
Rock musician (Panic at the Disco)


21 Cameron Finley
Actor

Historic Birthdays


Shirley Booth
8/30/1898 - 10/16/1992
American stage, screen, radio, and television actress
77 Jacques-Louis David
8/30/1748 - 12/29/1825
French Neoclassicist painter


53 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
8/30/1797 - 2/1/1851
English novelist; wrote "Frankenstein"


58 Jacobus Hoff
8/30/1852 - 3/1/1911
Dutch/German first winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry (1901)


66 Ernest Rutherford
8/30/1871 - 10/19/1937
English Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1908)


42 Huey Long
8/30/1893 - 9/10/1935
American senator (1932-5) and powerful governor (1928-32) of Louisiana


86 Raymond Massey
8/30/1896 - 7/29/1983
Canadian-American actor, director and producer


68 John Gunther
8/30/1901 - 5/29/1970
American journalist and author


83 Fred MacMurray
8/30/1908 - 11/5/1991
American motion-picture and television actor


84 E. M. Purcell
8/30/1912 - 3/7/1997
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1952)


78 Sir Richard Stone
8/30/1913 - 12/6/1991
English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1984)

 

[Funkwerkz]

On August 30th, 1923, Turkish Army defeated British, French, Italian and Greek Army and won the ultimate victory of the Turkish Indepence War which was the first war against imperialism and imperialism lost, encourages many nations for their independence.

 

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1823 - Ferdinand VII was restored to the throne of Spain when invited French ****** entered Cadiz. The event is known as the Battle of Trocadero.

1852 - The first pre-stamped envelopes were created with legislation of the U.S. Congress.

1881 - The first tennis championships in the U.S. were played.

1886 - 110 people were ****** when an earthquake struck Charleston, SC.

1887 - The kinetoscope was patented by Thomas Edison. The device was used to produce moving pictures.

1888 - Mary Ann "Polly" Nicholls was found ******** in London. The ****** is generally accepted as the first "Jack the Ripper" crime.

1920 - The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI.

1935 - The act of exporting U.S. arms to belligerents was prohibited by an act signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1940 - Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Leigh were married.

1941 - The radio program "The Great Gildersleeve" made its debut on NBC.

1946 - Superman returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System after being dropped earlier in the year.

1950 - Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit four home runs in a single game off of four different pitchers.

1954 - 70 people were ****** when Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern coast of the U.S.

1959 - Sandy Koufax set a National League record by striking out 18 batters.

1962 - The Caribbean nations Tobago and Trinidad became independent within the British Commonwealth.

1964 - California officially became the most populated state in America.

1965 - The Department of Housing and Urban Development was created by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.

1969 - The boxer Rocky Marciano died in an airplane crash in Iowa.

1980 - Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike.

1981 - The 30-year contract between Milton Berle and NBC-TV expired.

1985 - The "Night Stalker" killer, Richard Ramirez, was captured by residents in Los Angeles, CA.

1986 - 82 people were ****** when a small private plane collided with a Aeromexico DC-9 over Cerritos, CA.

1986 - The Admiral Nakhimov, a Soviet passenger ship, collided with a merchant vessel in the Black Sea. 448 people were ****** when both ships sank.

1988 - A Delta Boeing 727 crashed during takeoff at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Texas. Fourteen people were ****** in the accident that was later blamed on the crew's failure to set the wing flaps in their proper position.

1989 - Jim Bakker had an apparent breakdown in his attorney's office. This interrupted the fraud and conspiracy trial the PTL founder was undergoing.

1989 - Great Britain's Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announced that they were separating. The marriage was 16 years old.

1990 - U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar met with the Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to try and negotiate a solution to the crisis in the Persian Gulf.

1990 - East and West Germany signed a treaty that meant the harmonizing of political and legal systems.

1991 - Uzbekistan and Kirghiziz declared their independence from the Soviet Union. They were the 9th and 10th republics to announce their plans to secede.

1991 - In a "Solidarity Day" protest hundreds of thousands of union members marched in Washington, DC.

1992 - Randy Weaver, a white separatist, surrendered to authorities after an 11 day siege at his cabin in Naples, ID.

1993 - Russia withdrew its last soldiers from Lithuania.

1994 - A cease-fire was declared by the Irish Republican Army after 25 years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.

1994 - Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after a half-century.

1995 - Judge Lance Ito ruled that only two tapes of racist comments by Mark Fuhrman could be played in the trial of O.J. Simpson.

1996 - Nadine Lockwoods body was found in her ******'s apartment by New York City police. The four-year-old girl had been starved to death.

1997 - Princess Diana of Wales died at age 36 in a car crash in Paris. Her companion, Dodi Fayed, and their chauffeur were also ******.

1998 - A ballistic missile was fired over Japan by North Korea. The missile landed in stages in the waters around Japan. There was no known target.

1998 - U.S. embassies in Ghana and Togo were closed indefinitely because of security threats.

1998 - An explosion in a market in Algiers, Algeria ****** at least 17 and wounded approximately 60.

1998 - "Titanic" became the first movie in North America to earn more than $600 million.

1999 - At least 69 people were ****** when a Boeing 737 crashed just after take off in Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

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1533 - Queen Elizabeth I, of England, was born in Greenwich.

1812 - Napoleon defeated the Russian army of Alexander I at the battle of Borodino.

1813 - The nickname "Uncle Sam" was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in the New York's Troy Post.

1822 - Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.

1860 - American painter Anna Mary (Robertson Moses) was born in New York. Today it is known as "Grandma Moses Day."

1880 - George Ligowsky was granted a patent for his device that threw clay pigeons for trapshooters.

1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean became the first baby to be placed in an incubator.

1896 - A.H. Whiting won the first automobile race held on a racetrack. The race was held in Cranston, RI.

1901 - The Boxer Rebellion began in China ending the Peace of Beijing.

1921 - Margaret Gorman of Washington, DC, was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ.

1927 - Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using an image dissector.

1930 - The cartoon "Blondie" made its first appearance in the comic strips.

1940 - London received its initial rain of bombs from **** Germany during World War II.

1942 - During World War II, the Russian army counter attacked the German troops outside the city of Stalingrad.

1963 - The National Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, OH.

1966 - The final episode of the original "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was aired on CBS-TV.

1971 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" was seen for the final time on CBS-TV.

1977 - The Panama Canal treaties were signed by U.S. President Carter and General Omar Torrijos Herrera. The treaties called for the U.S. to turn over control of the canal's waterway to Panama in the year 2000.

1977 - G. Gordon Liddy was released from prison. He had been incarcerated for more than four years for his involvement in the Watergate conspiracy.

1979 - ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, made its debut on cable TV.

1984 - American Express Co. issued the first of its Platinum charge cards.

1986 - Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins threw his 100th career touchdown pass, in only his 44th NFL game, which set a NFL record.

1986 - President Augusto Pinochet survived an assassination attempt made by guerrillas.

1986 - Desmond Tutu was the first black to be installed to lead the Anglican Church in southern Africa.

1989 - Legislation was approved by the U.S. Senate that prohibited discrimination against the handicapped in employment, public accommodations, transportation and communications.

1992 - 28 people African National Congress supporters were ****** and 200 were wounded when fired upon by troops in South Africa.

1995 - U.S. Senator Bob Packwood announced that he would resign after 27 years in the Senate.

1998 - Mark McGwire set a new major league baseball record for most homeruns hit in a single season. The previous record was 61 set in 1961.

1999 - The White House announced that 12 jailed members of the Puerto Rican independence group Armed ****** of National Liberation had accepted a clemency offer proposed by U.S. President Clinton.

1999 - Viacom Inc. announced that it had plans to buy CBS Corp.

2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the only the fifth player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season.

Current Birthdays


Michael Emerson turns 54 years old today.
87 Arthur Ferrante
Pianist


84 Daniel Inouye
U.S. senator, D-Hawaii


78 Sonny Rollins
Jazz saxophonist


62 Alfa Anderson
Singer (Chic)


59 Gloria Gaynor
Singer


57 Chrissie Hynde
Rock singer (The Pretenders)


57 Julie Kavner
Actress ("The Simpsons," "Rhoda")


55 Benmont Tench
Rock musician (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)


54 Corbin Bernsen
Actor ("L.A. Law")


52 Michael Feinstein
Pianist


51 Margot Chapman
Singer (Starland Vocal Band)


45 W. Earl Brown
Actor ("Deadwood")


42 Toby Jones
Actor


39 Angie Everhart
Model, actress


38 Tom Everett Scott
Actor


38 Chad Sexton
Rock musician (311)


37 Diane Farr
Actress


36 Jason Isringhausen
Baseball player


35 Shannon Elizabeth
Actress


32 Oliver Hudson
Actor


30 Devon Sawa
Actor


21 Evan Rachel Wood
Actress ("Across the Universe")

Historic Birthdays


Grandma Moses
69 Elizabeth I
9/7/1533 - 3/24/1603
English queen (1558-1603)


85 William Butterfield
9/7/1814 - 2/23/1900
English Gothic Revival architect


58 Ferdinand Hayden
9/7/1829 - 12/22/1887
American geologist


75 John Morgan Jr.
9/7/1867 - 3/13/1943
American banker and financier


43 Elinor Wylie
9/7/1885 - 12/16/1928
American poet and novelist


77 Dame Edith Sitwell
9/7/1887 - 12/9/1964
English poet


84 Taylor Caldwell
9/7/1900 - 8/30/1985
American novelist


83 David Packard
9/7/1912 - 3/26/1996
American engineer; cofounder of Hewlett-Packard Co.


76 Sir Anthony Quayle
9/7/1913 - 10/20/1989
English stage and screen actor and director


22 Buddy Holly
9/7/1936 - 2/3/1959
American singer and songwriter

 

[bodie54]

1940 - London received its initial rain of bombs from **** Germany during World War II.

Hats off to our courageous brethren in the U.K., who withstood a rain of ****** the likes of which the United States has thus far been spared :hatsoff:

1998 - Mark McGwire set a new major league baseball record for most homeruns hit in a single season. The previous record was 61 set in 1961

:ban:

2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) became the only the fifth player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season.

:ban:

 

[gunslingingbird]

1533 - Queen Elizabeth I, of England, was born in Greenwich.

The First? Are you sure it wasn't the current Queen Elizabeth that was born that year?

 

[bodie54]

The First? Are you sure it wasn't the current Queen Elizabeth that was born that year?

Oh man.....that was cold!

:1orglaugh

I actually think she looks damn good for her age

 

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1565 - A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, FL.

1664 - The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who then renamed it New York.

1866 - The first recorded birth of sextuplets took place in Chicago, IL. The parents were James and Jennie Bushnell.

1892 - An early version of "The Pledge of Allegiance" appeared in "The Youth's Companion."

1893 - In New Zealand, the Electoral Act 1893 was ****** by the Legislative Council. It was consented by the governor on September 19 giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.

1888 - In London, The body of Annie Champman was found. She was the second victim of "Jack The Ripper."

1900 - Galveston, TX, was hit by a hurricane that ****** about 6,000 people.

1934 - A fire aboard the liner Morro Castle off the New Jersey coast ****** 134 people.

1935 - U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded. He died two days later.

1945 - In Washington, DC, a bus equipped with a two-way radio was put into service for the first time.

1945 - Bess Myerson of New York was crowned Miss America. She was the first Jewish contestant to win the title.

1951 - A peace treaty with Japan was signed by 48 other nations in San Francisco, CA.

1952 - The Ernest Hemingway novel "The Old Man and the Sea" was published.

1960 - NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, was dedicated by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The facility had been activated in July earlier that year.

1966 - NBC-TV aired the first episode of "Star Trek" entitled "The Man Trap". The show was canceled on September 2, 1969.

1971 - In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was inaugurated. The opening featured the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass."

1973 - Hank Aaron hit his 709th home run.

1974 - U.S. President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former U.S. President Nixon.

1975 - In Boston, MA, public schools began their court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of ********.

1986 - Herschel Walker made his start in the National Football League (NFL) after leaving the New Jersey Generals of the USFL.

1994 - 132 people were ****** when A USAir Boeing 737 crashed as it was approaching Pittsburgh International Airport.

1997 - America Online acquired CompuServe.

1997 - The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of Timothy McVeigh for his role in the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, OK.

1998 - Mark McGwire, of the St. Louis Cardinals, hit his 62nd home run of the season. He had beaten a record that had stood for 37 years by Roger Maris. McGwire would eventually reach 70 home runs on September 27.

1999 - Russia's Mission Control switched off the Mir space station's central computer and other systems to save energy during a planned six months of unmanned flights.

1999 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno named former U.S. Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation into the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, TX.

Current Birthdays
Rock singer Aimee Mann turns 48 years old today.




86 Sid Caesar
Comedian ("Your Show of Shows")


70 Sam Nunn
Former U.S. senator, D-Ga.


68 Willie Tyler
Ventriloquist ("Laugh-In")


67 Alan Feinstein
Actor


66 Sal Valentino
Singer (The Beau Brummels)


58 Zachary Richard
Singer


56 Will Lee
Rock musician ("Late Show with David Letterman")


51 Heather Thomas
Actress


48 David Steele
Rock musician (Fine Young Cannibals)


46 Thomas Kretschmann
Actor


44 Marc Gordon
R&B singer (Levert)


43 Darlene Zschech
Gospel singer


38 Neko Case
Singer


38 Latrell Sprewell
Basketball player


37 David Arquette
Actor


37 Martin Freeman
Actor ("The Office")


33 Richard Hughes
Rock musician (Keane)


34 Amani Toomer
Football player


33 Larenz Tate
Actor


31 Nathan Corddry
Actor


27 Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Actor ("Home Improvement")



Historic Birthdays


Claude Pepper
American senator (1936-51) and U.S. representative (1963-89) from Florida; championed help for the elderly
58 Ludovico Ariosto
9/8/1474 - 7/6/1533
Italian poet


59 Marin Mersenne
9/8/1588 - 9/1/1648
French philosopher and theologian


90 Margaret Olivia Sage
9/8/1828 - 11/4/1918
American philanthropist


83 Frederic Mistral
9/8/1830 - 3/25/1914
French Nobel Prize-winning poet (1904 )


62 Antonin Dvorak
9/8/1841 - 5/1/1904
Bohemian composer


71 Jessie Willcox Smith
9/8/1863 - 5/3/1935
American painter and illustrator


63 Robert A. Taft
9/8/1889 - 7/31/1953
American senator from Ohio (1939-53) and powerful Republican Party leader


35 Jimmie Rodgers
9/8/1897 - 5/26/1933
American country and western singer and guitarist


90 Buck Leonard
9/8/1907 - 11/27/1997
American baseball player


30 Patsy Cline
9/8/1932 - 3/5/1963
American country and western singer

 

[bodie54]

1945 - Bess Myerson of New York was crowned Miss America. She was the first Jewish contestant to win the title.

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1974 - U.S. President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former U.S. President Nixon.

Gad what a charade that was. A total miscarriage of justice.

:ban:

 

[gunslingingbird]

What, nothing historical happened on my birthday? MiniD? :helpme:

 

[bodie54]

What, nothing historical happened on my birthday? MiniD? :helpme:

Oooops!
Sorry, my fault!
She asked me to post historical occurrences for September 9th, but I got busy with.....errrrr......other things.

Anyway, here goes:

1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. State with Bodie as its first governor.

1943 - The Bodie Expeditionary ****** land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.

1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time (as an opening act for Bodie).

2005 - Bodie considers joining Freeones but gets distracted by a "Cops" marathon on TV and doesn't join until October.

2008 - While double teaming Nastia Lukin and Alicia Sacaramone, Bodie forgets to post to the "today in history" thread.

 

[gunslingingbird]

Oooops!
Sorry, my fault!
She asked me to post historical occurrences for September 9th, but I got busy with.....errrrr......other things.

Anyway, here goes:

1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. State with Bodie as its first governor.

1943 - The Bodie Expeditionary ****** land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.

1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time (as an opening act for Bodie).

2005 - Bodie considers joining Freeones but gets distracted by a "Cops" marathon on TV and doesn't join until October.

2008 - While double teaming Nastia Lukin and Alicia Sacaramone, Bodie forgets to post to the "today in history" thread.

:rofl: Thanks bodie! I didn't realize you were such a prominent historical figure!

 

[Facetious]

A bunch of "little Eichmann" were attacked in NYC -

As per W Churchill - University of Colorado Professor of whatever :dunno:,
A supposed indigenous American

 

[minidog]

What, nothing historical happened on my birthday? MiniD? :helpme:

a 1000 apologies my humble gsb

sept 9th
gsb's birthday
490 B.C. - The Battle of Marathon took place between the invading Persian army and the Athenian Army. The marathon race was derived from the events that occurred surrounding this battle.

1776 - The second Continental Congress officially made the term "United States", replacing the previous term "United Colonies."

1836 - Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law.

1850 - California became the 31st state to join the union.

1898 - In Omaha, NE, Tommy Fleming of Eau Claire, WI won the first logrolling championship.

1890 - Harland Sanders was born. He was the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

1893 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland's wife, Frances Cleveland, gave birth to a ********, Esther. It was the first time a president's ***** was born in the White House.

1904 - Mounted police were used for the first time in the City of New York.

1911 - Italy declared war on the Ottoman Turks and annexed Libya, Tripolitania, and Cyrenaica in North Africa.

1919 - The majority of Boston's police ***** went on strike. The ***** was made up of 1,500 men.

1919 - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin's HD-4, a hydrofoil craft, set a world marine speed record.

1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was created by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).

1942 - Japan dropped incendiaries over Oregon in an attempt to set fire to the forests in Oregon and Washington. The forest did not ignite.

1943 - During World War II Allied ****** landed at Taranto and Salerno.

1946 - Ben Alexander hosted "Heart’s Desire" for the first time on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

1948 - North Korea became the People's Democratic Republic of Korea.

1950 - Sal Maglie of the New York Giants pitched a fourth consecutive shutout. Only four other pitchers in the National League had ever accomplished this feat.

1957 - The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction was signed into law by U.S. President Eisenhower.

1965 - French President Charles de Gaulle announced that France was withdrawing from NATO to protest the domination of the U.S. in the organization.

1965 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched the eighth perfect game in major league baseball history.

1971 - Inmates seized control of the Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, NY. Nine prisoners were held hostage and died along with their 32 captors when the prison was stormed four days later.

1971 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National Hockey League (NHL).

1976 - Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung died at the age of 82.

1979 - Tracy Austin, at 16, became the youngest player to win the U.S. Open women’s tennis title.

1983 - The Soviet Union announced that the Korean jetliner the was shot down on September 1, 1983 was not an accident or an error.

1984 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown’s combined yardage record when he reached 15,517 yards.

1986 - Frank Reed was taken hostage in Lebanon by pro-Iranian kidnappers. The director of a private school in Lebanon was released 44 months later.

1986 - Ted Turner presented the first of his colorized films on WTBS in Atlanta, GA.

1986 - Gennadiy Zakharov was indicted by a New York jury on espionage charges. Zakharov was a Soviet United Nations employee.

1987 - Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer aired for the last time on CBS.

1990 - Liberian President Samuel K. Doe was captured and ****** by rebels.

1993 - Israeli and PLO leaders agreed to recognize each other.

1993 - Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was buried in his homeland. The event occurred about four years after his death in exile.

1993 - U.S. and Pakistani peacekeepers opened fire on Somalis that were attacking other peacekeepers. About a hundred Somali gunmen and civilians were ******.

1994 - The U.S. agreed to accept about 20,000 Cuban immigrants a year. This was in return for Cuba's promise to halt the flight of refugees.

1994 - Los Angeles prosecutors announced that they would not seek the death penalty against O.J. Simpson.

1994 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off on an 11-day mission.

1995 - Amtrak's Broadway Limited service made its final run between New York City, NY and Chicago, IL.

1997 - Sinn Fein, the IRA's political ally, formally renounced ******** as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.

1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to the U.S. Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of U.S. President Clinton.

1998 - Four tourists who had paid $32,500 each were taken in submarine to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The ship is 2 miles below the Atlantic off Newfoundland.

1999 - At least 93 people were ****** when a bomb exploded in an apartment building in Moscow, Russia.

1999 - The Sega Dreamcast game system went on sale. By 1:00pm all Toys R Us locations in the U.S. had sold out.


gsb shared his birthday with




Adam Sandler 42
85 Cliff Robertson
Actor


73 Topol
Actor ("Fiddler on the Roof")


66 Inez Foxx
Singer


66 Luther Simmons
R&B singer


63 Dee Dee Sharp
R&B singer


62 Doug Ingle
Rock singer, musician (Iron Butterfly)


61 Freddy Weller
Country singer


59 Joe Theismann
Football player, sportscaster


57 Tom Wopat
Actor ("Dukes of Hazzard")


56 Angela Cartwright
Actress ("The Danny Thomas Show," "Lost in Space")


56 Dave Stewart
Rock musician, producer (Eurythmics)


48 Hugh Grant
Actor


42 David Bennent
Actor


40 Paul Durham
Rock singer (Black Lab)


39 Rachel Hunter
Model


37 Henry Thomas
Actor


36 Goran Visnjic
Actor ("ER")


33 Michael Buble
Singer


31 Maria Rita
Singer


30 Shane Battier
Basketball player


28 Michelle Williams
Actress ("Brokeback Mountain")


and the less fortunate ones who didnt live to see our very own gsbs birthday were

Alfred Landon
9/9/1887 - 10/12/1987
American governor of Kansas (1933-7) and unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate (1936)
61 Luigi Galvani
9/9/1737 - 12/4/1798
Italian physician and physicist


63 William Bligh
9/9/1754 - 12/7/1817
English admiral; commanded the HMS Bounty


74 Fremont Lawson
9/9/1850 - 8/19/1925
American newspaper editor and publisher


70 Max Reinhardt
9/9/1873 - 10/31/1943
Austrian stage and screen director


69 James Agate
9/9/1877 - 6/6/1947
English drama critic for the London Sunday Times (1923-47)


54 James Hilton
9/9/1900 - 12/20/1954
English novelist


80 Granville Hicks
9/9/1901 - 6/18/1982
American critic, novelist and teacher


26 Otis Redding
9/9/1941 - 12/10/1967
American soul singer and songwriter


44 John Curry
9/9/1949 - 4/15/1994
English Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater (1976


a belated many happy returns gsb
am i forgiven?:thumbsup:

 

[bodie54]

a belated many happy returns gsb

from me as well, gsb :hatsoff:

:rofl: Thanks bodie! I didn't realize you were such a prominent historical figure!

well.....I don't like to brag, but....

 

[minidog]

1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson sailed down what is now known as the Hudson River.

1814 - During the War of 1812, the Battle of North Point was fought in Maryland.

1866 - "The Black Crook" opened in New York City. It was the first American burlesque show.

1873 - The first practical typewriter was sold to customers.

1878 - Patent litigation involving the Bell Telephone Company against Western Union Telegraph Company and Elisha Gray began. The issues were over varios telephone patents.

1914 - The first battle of Marne ended when the allied ****** stopped the German offensive in France.

1916 - Adelina and August Van Buren finished the first successful transcontinental motorcycle tour to be attempted by two women. They started in New York City on July 5, 1916.

1918 - During World War I, At the Battle of St. Mihiel, U.S. Army personnel operate tanks for the first time. The tanks were French-built.

1922 - The Episcopal Church removed the word "Obey" from the bride's section of wedding vows.

1928 - Katharine Hepburn made her stage debut in the play "The Czarina." Four years later she made her film debut in "A Bill of Divorcement."

1938 - In a speech, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.

1940 - The Lascaux paintings were discovered in France. The cave paintings were 17,000 years old and were some of the best examples of art from the Paleolithic period.

1943 - During World War II, Benito Mussolini was taken by German paratroopers from the Italian government that was holding him.

1944 - U.S. Army troops entered Germany, near Trier, for the first time during World War II.

1953 - U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.

1953 - Nikita Krushchev was elected as the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1954 - "Lassie" made its television debut on CBS. The last show aired on September 12, 1971.

1963 - The last episode of "Leave it to Beaver" was aired. The show had debuted on October 4, 1957.

1966 - "****** Affair" premiered on CBS television.

1974 - ******** occurred on the opening day of classes in Boston, MA, due opposition to court-ordered school "busing."

1974 - Emperor Haile Selassie was taken out of power by Ethiopia's military after ruling for 58 years.

1977 - South African anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko died at the age of 30. The student leader died while in police custody which triggered an international outcry.

1979 - Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox became the first American League player to get 3,000 career hits and 400 career home runs.

1980 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini listed four conditions for the release of American hostages taken on November 4, 1979. The conditions were the unfreezing of Iranian assets, the return of the shah’s wealth to Iran, the cancellation of U.S. claims against Iran, and a U.S. pledge of noninterference in Iran’s internal affairs.

1983 - Arnold Schwarzenegger became a U.S. citizen. He had emigrated from Austria 14 years earlier.

1984 - Michael Jordan signed a seven-year contract to play basketball with the Chicago Bulls.

1984 - Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets set a rookie strikeout record with his 251st strikeout of the season.

1986 - Joseph Cicippio was ********* in Beirut. He was the acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut. Cicippio was released in December of 1991.

1986 - The U.S. released Soviet physicist Gennadiy Zakharov and the Soviet Union released journalist Nicholas Daniloff. Both were put into the custody of their respective countries pending their espionage trials.

1988 - Hurricane Gilbert hit Jamaica ******* 45 people and causing about $1 billion in damage.

1991 - The space shuttle Discovery took off on a mission to deploy an observatory that was to study the Earth's ozone layer.

1992 - Police in Peru captured Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman.

1992 - Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first African-American woman in space. She was the payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Endeavor. Also onboard were Mission Specialist N. Jan Davis and Air ***** Lieutenant Colonel Mark C. Lee. They were the first married couple to fly together in space. And, Mamoru Mohri became the first Japanese person to fly into space.

1994 - Frank Corder was ****** when he crashed a stolen, single-engine Cessna on the South Lawn of the White House.

1995 - Two Americans were ****** when their hydrogen balloon was shot down by the Belarussian military during an international race.

Current Birthdays


Joe Pantoliano turns 57 years old today.
88 Irene Dailey
Actress


83 Dickie Moore
Actor ("Our Gang" films)


81 Freddie Jones
Actor


77 Ian Holm
Actor


77 George Jones
Country singer


69 Henry Waxman
U.S. congressman, D-Calif.


68 Linda Gray
Actress ("Dallas")


65 Maria Muldaur
Rock singer


56 Gerry Beckley
Rock musician (America)


56 Neil Peart
Rock musician (Rush)


53 Peter Scolari
Actor ("Newhart," "Bosom Buddies")


52 Sam Brownback
U.S. senator, R-Kansas


51 Rachel Ward
Actress


46 Amy Yasbeck
Actress


43 Norwood Fisher
Rock musician (Fishbone)


42 Darren E. Burrows
Actor


42 Ben Folds
Rock singer, musician (Ben Folds Five)


40 Larry LaLonde
Rock musician (Primus)


38 Josh Hopkins
Actor


35 Paul Walker
Actor


34 Jennifer Nettles
Country singer (Sugarland)


30 Benjamin McKenzie
Actor ("The O.C.")


30 Ruben Studdard
R&B singer ("American Idol")


28 Yao Ming
Basketball player


27 Jennifer Hudson
Singer, actress ("American Idol," "Dreamgirls")


22 Emmy Rossum
Actress


Historic Birthdays


Jesse Owens
9/12/1913 - 3/31/1980
American Olympic medal-winning track and field athlete (1936)

26 Lorenzo de' Medici
9/12/1492 - 5/4/1519
Florentine ruler (1513-9)


52 Francis I
9/12/1494 - 3/31/1547
French king and patron of the arts and scholarship (1515-47)


77 Sir David Macpherson
9/12/1818 - 8/16/1896
Scottish-born American politician and railway builder


84 Richard Gatling
9/12/1818 - 2/26/1903
American inventor


75 H. L. Mencken
9/12/1880 - 1/29/1956
American journalist and critic


83 Maurice Chevalier
9/12/1888 - 1/1/1972
French musical comedy star of stage and screen


91 Alfred Knopf
9/12/1892 - 8/11/1984
American publisher; founded Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.


89 Giuseppe Saragat
9/12/1898 - 6/11/1988
Italian founder of the Socialist Party of Italian Workers


70 Ben Shahn
9/12/1898 - 3/14/1969
American painter and graphic artist

 

[gunslingingbird]

a belated many happy returns gsb

from me as well, gsb :hatsoff:

Thank you both! :hatsoff:

am i forgiven?:thumbsup:

Why, soitenly! :thumbsup:

 

[minidog]

:bowdown:gsb

 

[minidog]

1709 - The creator of the first dictionary of the English language, Samuel Johnson, was born in England.

1759 - The French formally surrendered Quebec to the British.

1763 - It was reported, by the Boston Gazette, that the first piano had been built in the United States. The instrument was named the spinet and was made by John Harris.

1789 - Alexander Hamilton negotiated and secured the first loan for the United States. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was repaid on June 8, 1790 at the sum of $191,608.81.

1793 - U.S. President George Washington laid the actual cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.

1810 - Chile declared its independence from Spain.

1830 - The "Tom Thumb", the first locomotive built in America, raced a ***** on a nine-mile course. The ***** won when the locomotive had some mechanical difficulties.

1850 - The Fugitive Slave Act was declared by the U.S. Congress. The act allowed slave owners to claim slaves that had escaped into other states.

1851 - The first issue of "The New York Times" was published.

1891 - Harriet Maxwell Converse became the first white woman to ever be named chief of an Indian tribe. The tribe was the Six Nations Tribe at Towanda Reservation in New York.

1895 - Daniel David Palmer gave the first chiropractic adjustment.

1927 - Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System made its debut with its network broadcast over 16 radio stations. The name was later changed to CBS.

1940 - "You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe was published by Harper and Brothers.

1947 - The U.S. Air ***** was established as a separate military branch by the National Security Act.

1955 - The "Ed Sullivan Show" began on CBS-TV. The show had been "The Toast of the Town" since 1948.

1961 - United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was ****** in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).

1963 - "The Patty Duke Show" premiered on ABC-TV.

1965 - The first episode of "I ***** of Jeannie" was shown on NBC-TV. The last show was televised on September 1, 1970.

1975 - The FBI captured newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst in San Francisco, CA. 19 months earlier she had been ********* by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

1981 - A museum honoring former U.S. President Ford was dedicated in Grand Rapids, MI.

1984 - The 39th session of the U.N. General Assembly was opened with an appeal to the U.S. and Soviet Union to resume arms negotiations.

1990 - Charles H. Keating was jailed in Los Angeles after being indicted on criminal fraud charges concerning saving-and-loans.

1991 - U.S. President Bush said that he would send warplanes to ****** U.N. helicopters that were searching for hidden Iraqi weapons if it became necessary.

1994 - Haiti's military leaders agreed to depart on October 15th. This action averted a U.S.-led invasion to ***** them out of power.

1997 - Ted Turner, U.S. Media magnate, announced that over the next ten years he would give $1 billion to the United Nations.

1998 - 18 people, including adults and ********, were massacred by gunmen in el Sauzal, Mexico. The victims were lined up in firing squad style after being dragged from their beds.

1998 - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted to release to videotape of President Clinton's grand jury testimony from August 17.

1998 - The FDA approved a once-a-day easier-to-swallow medication for AIDS patients.

2003 - Robert Duvall received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.