Today In History
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1777 - The Battle of Saratoga was won by American soldiers during the Revolutionary War.
1796 - U.S. President Washington's farewell address was published.
1819 - John Keats wrote "Ode to Autumn."
1876 - Melville R. Bissell patented the carpet sweeper.
1881 - James A. Garfield died of wounds from an assassin. The 20th U.S. president lived for 11 weeks after the wounds were inflicted.
1891 - "The Merchant of Venice" was performed for the first time at Manchester.
1893 - In New Zealand, the Electoral Act 1893 was consented to giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1934 - Bruno Hauptman was arrested in New York and charged with the ********** and ****** of the ****** *** of Charles and Anna Lindbergh.
1945 - William Joyce, also known as "Lord Haw-Haw", was sentenced to death by a British court for his role as a **** propagandist.
1955 - Eva Marie Saint, Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman starred in the "Producer's Showcase" presentation of "Our Town" on NBC-TV.
1955 - Argentina President Juan Peron was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy.
1957 - The U.S. conducted its first underground nuclear test. The test took place in the Nevada desert.
1959 - Nikita Khruschev was not allowed to visit Disneyland due to security reasons. Khrushchev reacted angrily.
1960 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, checked out of the Shelburne Hotel angrily after a dispute with the management.
1970 - "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premiered on CBS-TV.
1982 - Scott Fahlman became the first person to use
in an online message.
1983 - Lebanese army units defending Souk el-Gharb were supported in their effort by two U.S. Navy ships off Beirut.
1983 - The final episode of "M*A*S*H" was aired on CBS-TV.
1984 - China and Britain completed a draft agreement transferring Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule by 1997.
1985 - An earthquake registering 8.1 on the Richter Scale hit the Mexico City area. About 6,000 people were ******.
1986 - U.S. health officials announced that AZT, though an experimental ****, would be made available to AIDS patients.
1988 - Israel successfully launched the Horizon-I test satellite.
1989 - A DC-10 belonging to the French airliner UTA disappeared while carrying 171 people to Paris. The wreckage of the plane was found the next day in Niger. It was believed a bomb was responsible.
1990 - Iraq began confiscating foreign assets of countries that were imposing sanctions against the Iraqi government.
1992 - The U.N. Security Council recommended suspending Yugoslavia due to its role in the Bosnian civil war.
1994 - U.S. troops entered Haiti peacefully to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995 - The Unabomber's manifesto was published by The Washington Post and the New York Times.
1995 - The U.S. Senate ****** a welfare overhaul bill.
1995 - The commander of American ****** in Japan and the U.S. ambassador apologized for the **** of a schoolgirl committed by three U.S. servicemen.
1996 - The government of Guatemala and leftist rebels signed a peace treaty to end their long war.
2002 - In Ivory Coast, around 750 rebel soldiers attempted to overthrow the government. U.S. troops landed on September 25th to help move foreigners, including Americans, to safer areas.
2003 - It was reported that AOL Time Warner was going to drop "AOL" from its name and be known as Time Warner Inc. The company had announced its merger and name change on January 10, 2000.
Current Birthdays
James Lipton turns 82 years old today.
88 Roger Angell
Author
82 Duke Snider
Baseball Hall of Famer
81 Harold Brown
Former defense secretary
78 Adam West
Actor ("Batman")
75 David McCallum
Actor
68 Bill Medley
Singer (The Righteous Brothers)
68 Sylvia Tyson
Singer
68 Paul Williams
Singer, actor
65 Joe Morgan
Baseball Hall of Famer, sportscaster
63 David Bromberg
Rock singer
63 Randolph Mantooth
Actor ("Emergency")
63 Freda Payne
R&B singer
61 Lol Creme
Rock musician (10cc)
60 Jeremy Irons
Actor
59 Twiggy Lawson
Actress, model
58 Joan Lunden
TV personality
57 Daniel Lanois
Rock singer, producer
56 Scott Colomby
Actor
56 Nile Rodgers
Musician, producer
53 Rex Smith
Singer, actor
51 Dan Hampton
Football Hall of Famer
50 Kevin Hooks
Actor
49 Carolyn McCormick
Actress
45 Jeff Bates
Country singer
44 Trisha Yearwood
Country singer
43 Cheri Oteri
Actress, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
42 Soledad O'Brien
Broadcast journalist
39 Espraronza Griffin
R&B singer
37 Sanaa Lathan
Actress
35 A. Jay Popoff
Rock singer (Lit)
34 Jimmy Fallon
Comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
32 Carter Oosterhouse
TV personality ("Trading Spaces")
32 Alison Sweeney
Actress
31 Ryan Dusick
Rock musician (Maroon 5)
26 Columbus Short
Actor
25 Eamon
Rapper
24 Kevin Zegers
Actor
21 Danielle Panabaker
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Sir William Golding
9/19/1911 - 6/19/1993
English Nobel Prize-winning novelist (1983)
78 Augustin Pajou
9/19/1730 - 5/8/1809
French sculptor and decorator
95 Charles Carroll
9/19/1737 - 11/14/1832
American patriot leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence
83 George Cadbury
9/19/1839 - 10/24/1922
English social reformer and chocolate manufacturer
73 William Hesketh Lever
9/19/1851 - 5/7/1925
English entrepreneur; built the Lever Brothers firm
79 Charles Mauguin
9/19/1878 - 4/25/1958
French mineralogist and crystallographer
73 Bergen Evans
9/19/1904 - 2/4/1978
English lexicographer and educator
77 Leon Jaworski
9/19/1905 - 12/9/1982
American lawyer; Watergate special prosecutor
90 Lewis F. Powell Jr.
9/19/1907 - 8/25/1998
American associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1972 -1987)
64 Elizabeth Stern
9/19/1915 - 8/18/1980
Canadian-born American pathologist
1796 - U.S. President Washington's farewell address was published.
1819 - John Keats wrote "Ode to Autumn."
1876 - Melville R. Bissell patented the carpet sweeper.
1881 - James A. Garfield died of wounds from an assassin. The 20th U.S. president lived for 11 weeks after the wounds were inflicted.
1891 - "The Merchant of Venice" was performed for the first time at Manchester.
1893 - In New Zealand, the Electoral Act 1893 was consented to giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1934 - Bruno Hauptman was arrested in New York and charged with the ********** and ****** of the ****** *** of Charles and Anna Lindbergh.
1945 - William Joyce, also known as "Lord Haw-Haw", was sentenced to death by a British court for his role as a **** propagandist.
1955 - Eva Marie Saint, Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman starred in the "Producer's Showcase" presentation of "Our Town" on NBC-TV.
1955 - Argentina President Juan Peron was ousted after a revolt by the army and navy.
1957 - The U.S. conducted its first underground nuclear test. The test took place in the Nevada desert.
1959 - Nikita Khruschev was not allowed to visit Disneyland due to security reasons. Khrushchev reacted angrily.
1960 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in New York to visit the United Nations, checked out of the Shelburne Hotel angrily after a dispute with the management.
1970 - "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premiered on CBS-TV.
1982 - Scott Fahlman became the first person to use
in an online message. 1983 - Lebanese army units defending Souk el-Gharb were supported in their effort by two U.S. Navy ships off Beirut.
1983 - The final episode of "M*A*S*H" was aired on CBS-TV.
1984 - China and Britain completed a draft agreement transferring Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule by 1997.
1985 - An earthquake registering 8.1 on the Richter Scale hit the Mexico City area. About 6,000 people were ******.
1986 - U.S. health officials announced that AZT, though an experimental ****, would be made available to AIDS patients.
1988 - Israel successfully launched the Horizon-I test satellite.
1989 - A DC-10 belonging to the French airliner UTA disappeared while carrying 171 people to Paris. The wreckage of the plane was found the next day in Niger. It was believed a bomb was responsible.
1990 - Iraq began confiscating foreign assets of countries that were imposing sanctions against the Iraqi government.
1992 - The U.N. Security Council recommended suspending Yugoslavia due to its role in the Bosnian civil war.
1994 - U.S. troops entered Haiti peacefully to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995 - The Unabomber's manifesto was published by The Washington Post and the New York Times.
1995 - The U.S. Senate ****** a welfare overhaul bill.
1995 - The commander of American ****** in Japan and the U.S. ambassador apologized for the **** of a schoolgirl committed by three U.S. servicemen.
1996 - The government of Guatemala and leftist rebels signed a peace treaty to end their long war.
2002 - In Ivory Coast, around 750 rebel soldiers attempted to overthrow the government. U.S. troops landed on September 25th to help move foreigners, including Americans, to safer areas.
2003 - It was reported that AOL Time Warner was going to drop "AOL" from its name and be known as Time Warner Inc. The company had announced its merger and name change on January 10, 2000.
Current Birthdays
James Lipton turns 82 years old today.
88 Roger Angell
Author
82 Duke Snider
Baseball Hall of Famer
81 Harold Brown
Former defense secretary
78 Adam West
Actor ("Batman")
75 David McCallum
Actor
68 Bill Medley
Singer (The Righteous Brothers)
68 Sylvia Tyson
Singer
68 Paul Williams
Singer, actor
65 Joe Morgan
Baseball Hall of Famer, sportscaster
63 David Bromberg
Rock singer
63 Randolph Mantooth
Actor ("Emergency")
63 Freda Payne
R&B singer
61 Lol Creme
Rock musician (10cc)
60 Jeremy Irons
Actor
59 Twiggy Lawson
Actress, model
58 Joan Lunden
TV personality
57 Daniel Lanois
Rock singer, producer
56 Scott Colomby
Actor
56 Nile Rodgers
Musician, producer
53 Rex Smith
Singer, actor
51 Dan Hampton
Football Hall of Famer
50 Kevin Hooks
Actor
49 Carolyn McCormick
Actress
45 Jeff Bates
Country singer
44 Trisha Yearwood
Country singer
43 Cheri Oteri
Actress, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
42 Soledad O'Brien
Broadcast journalist
39 Espraronza Griffin
R&B singer
37 Sanaa Lathan
Actress
35 A. Jay Popoff
Rock singer (Lit)
34 Jimmy Fallon
Comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
32 Carter Oosterhouse
TV personality ("Trading Spaces")
32 Alison Sweeney
Actress
31 Ryan Dusick
Rock musician (Maroon 5)
26 Columbus Short
Actor
25 Eamon
Rapper
24 Kevin Zegers
Actor
21 Danielle Panabaker
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Sir William Golding
9/19/1911 - 6/19/1993
English Nobel Prize-winning novelist (1983)
78 Augustin Pajou
9/19/1730 - 5/8/1809
French sculptor and decorator
95 Charles Carroll
9/19/1737 - 11/14/1832
American patriot leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence
83 George Cadbury
9/19/1839 - 10/24/1922
English social reformer and chocolate manufacturer
73 William Hesketh Lever
9/19/1851 - 5/7/1925
English entrepreneur; built the Lever Brothers firm
79 Charles Mauguin
9/19/1878 - 4/25/1958
French mineralogist and crystallographer
73 Bergen Evans
9/19/1904 - 2/4/1978
English lexicographer and educator
77 Leon Jaworski
9/19/1905 - 12/9/1982
American lawyer; Watergate special prosecutor
90 Lewis F. Powell Jr.
9/19/1907 - 8/25/1998
American associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1972 -1987)
64 Elizabeth Stern
9/19/1915 - 8/18/1980
Canadian-born American pathologist
1519 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan left Spain to find a route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Magellan was ****** during the trip, but one of his ships eventually made the journey.
1870 - The Papal States came under the control of Italian troops, leading to the unification of Italy.
1881 - Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the U.S. President James A. Garfield had died the day before.
1884 - The Equal Rights Party was formed in San Francisco, CA.
1921 - KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA, started a daily radio newscast. It was one of the first in the U.S.
1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival premiered. The original premier was delayed in 1939 due to World War II.
1946 - WNBT-TV in New York became the first station to promote a motion picture. Scenes from "The Jolson Story" were shown.
1953 - The TV show "Letter to Loretta" premiered. The name was changed to "The Loretta Young Show" on February 14, 1954.
1953 - Jimmy Stewart debuted on the radio western "The Six Shooter" on NBC.
1955 - "You'll Never Be Rich" premiered on CBS-TV. The name was changed less than two months later to "The Phil Silvers Show."
1958 - Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in the chest at a New York City department store by an apparently deranged black woman.
1962 - James Meredith, a black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett. Meredith was later admitted.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition to the moon in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
1977 - The first of the "boat people" arrived in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new U.S. resettlement program.
1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the U.S., France, and Italy were going to send peacekeeping troops back to Beirut.
1984 - A Hizbulla suicide bomber destroyed the rebuilt U.S. Embassy in Beirut. 25 people were ******.
1984 - "The Cosby Show" premiered on NBC-TV.
1985 - A second major earthquake hit Mexico City.
1988 - The United Nations opened it 43rd General Assembly.
1989 - The wreckage of a DC-10 belonging to the French airliner UTA was found in Niger. The plane disappeared on September 19 with 171 passengers onboard. The Paris-bound plane was believed to have been brought down by a bomb.
1989 - F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as president of South Africa.
1991 - U.N. weapons inspectors left for Iraq in a renewed search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
1992 - French voters approved the Maastricht Treaty.
1995 - AT&T announced that it would be splitting into three companies. The three companies were AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and NCR Corp.
1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to drop the national speed limit. This allowed the states to decide their own speed limits.
1999 - Raisa Gorbachev, wife of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorvachev, died of leukemia.
Current Birthdays
Sophia Loren turns 74 years old today.
84 Gogi Grant
Singer
79 Anne Meara
Actress, comedian
61 Chuck Panozzo
Rock musician (Styx)
57 Guy LaFleur
Hockey Hall of Famer
54 Peter White
Jazz guitarist
53 Betsy Brantley
Actress
52 Gary Cole
Actor
48 Deborah Roberts
Broadcast journalist ("20/20")
44 Randy Bradbury
Rock musician (Pennywise)
41 Kristen Johnston
Actress ("3rd Rock From the Sun")
41 Gunnar Nelson
Rock singer (Nelson)
41 Matthew Nelson
Rock singer (Nelson)
40 Ben Shepherd
Rock musician (Soundgarden)
29 Rick Woolstenhulme
Rock musician (Lifehouse)
26 Yung Joc
Rapper
Historic Birthdays
Upton Sinclair
9/20/1878 - 11/25/1968
American novelist and activist
94 Sir Richard Griffith
9/20/1784 - 9/22/1878
Irish geologist and civil engineer
58 Sterling Price
9/20/1809 - 9/29/1867
American governor of Missouri and Confederate general
80 Sir James Dewar
9/20/1842 - 3/27/1923
English chemist and physicist
93 Herbert Putnam
9/20/1861 - 8/14/1955
American librarian; led the Library of Congress (1899-1939)
62 Maxwell Perkins
9/20/1884 - 6/17/1947
American editor
83 Sue Sophia Dauser
9/20/1888 - 3/8/1972
American nurse; oversaw the Navy Nurse Corps in World War II
74 Leo Strauss
9/20/1899 - 10/18/1973
German-born American political philosopher
68 Stevie Smith
9/20/1902 - 3/7/1971
English poet, novelist and short story writer
69 Sid Chaplin
9/20/1916 - 1/11/1986
English novelist and short story writer
1870 - The Papal States came under the control of Italian troops, leading to the unification of Italy.
1881 - Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the U.S. President James A. Garfield had died the day before.
1884 - The Equal Rights Party was formed in San Francisco, CA.
1921 - KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA, started a daily radio newscast. It was one of the first in the U.S.
1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival premiered. The original premier was delayed in 1939 due to World War II.
1946 - WNBT-TV in New York became the first station to promote a motion picture. Scenes from "The Jolson Story" were shown.
1953 - The TV show "Letter to Loretta" premiered. The name was changed to "The Loretta Young Show" on February 14, 1954.
1953 - Jimmy Stewart debuted on the radio western "The Six Shooter" on NBC.
1955 - "You'll Never Be Rich" premiered on CBS-TV. The name was changed less than two months later to "The Phil Silvers Show."
1958 - Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in the chest at a New York City department store by an apparently deranged black woman.
1962 - James Meredith, a black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett. Meredith was later admitted.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition to the moon in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
1977 - The first of the "boat people" arrived in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new U.S. resettlement program.
1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the U.S., France, and Italy were going to send peacekeeping troops back to Beirut.
1984 - A Hizbulla suicide bomber destroyed the rebuilt U.S. Embassy in Beirut. 25 people were ******.
1984 - "The Cosby Show" premiered on NBC-TV.
1985 - A second major earthquake hit Mexico City.
1988 - The United Nations opened it 43rd General Assembly.
1989 - The wreckage of a DC-10 belonging to the French airliner UTA was found in Niger. The plane disappeared on September 19 with 171 passengers onboard. The Paris-bound plane was believed to have been brought down by a bomb.
1989 - F.W. de Klerk was sworn in as president of South Africa.
1991 - U.N. weapons inspectors left for Iraq in a renewed search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
1992 - French voters approved the Maastricht Treaty.
1995 - AT&T announced that it would be splitting into three companies. The three companies were AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and NCR Corp.
1995 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to drop the national speed limit. This allowed the states to decide their own speed limits.
1999 - Raisa Gorbachev, wife of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorvachev, died of leukemia.
Current Birthdays
Sophia Loren turns 74 years old today.
84 Gogi Grant
Singer
79 Anne Meara
Actress, comedian
61 Chuck Panozzo
Rock musician (Styx)
57 Guy LaFleur
Hockey Hall of Famer
54 Peter White
Jazz guitarist
53 Betsy Brantley
Actress
52 Gary Cole
Actor
48 Deborah Roberts
Broadcast journalist ("20/20")
44 Randy Bradbury
Rock musician (Pennywise)
41 Kristen Johnston
Actress ("3rd Rock From the Sun")
41 Gunnar Nelson
Rock singer (Nelson)
41 Matthew Nelson
Rock singer (Nelson)
40 Ben Shepherd
Rock musician (Soundgarden)
29 Rick Woolstenhulme
Rock musician (Lifehouse)
26 Yung Joc
Rapper
Historic Birthdays
Upton Sinclair
9/20/1878 - 11/25/1968
American novelist and activist
94 Sir Richard Griffith
9/20/1784 - 9/22/1878
Irish geologist and civil engineer
58 Sterling Price
9/20/1809 - 9/29/1867
American governor of Missouri and Confederate general
80 Sir James Dewar
9/20/1842 - 3/27/1923
English chemist and physicist
93 Herbert Putnam
9/20/1861 - 8/14/1955
American librarian; led the Library of Congress (1899-1939)
62 Maxwell Perkins
9/20/1884 - 6/17/1947
American editor
83 Sue Sophia Dauser
9/20/1888 - 3/8/1972
American nurse; oversaw the Navy Nurse Corps in World War II
74 Leo Strauss
9/20/1899 - 10/18/1973
German-born American political philosopher
68 Stevie Smith
9/20/1902 - 3/7/1971
English poet, novelist and short story writer
69 Sid Chaplin
9/20/1916 - 1/11/1986
English novelist and short story writer
1792 - The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.
1784 - "The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser" was published for the first time in Philadelphia. It was the first daily paper in America.
1893 - Frank Duryea took what is believed to be the first gasoline- powered automobile for a test drive. The "horseless carriage" was designed by Frank and Charles Duryea.
1897 - The New York Sun ran the "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause" editorial. It was in response to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon.
1931 - Britain went off the gold standard.
1931 - Japanese ****** began occupying China's northeast territory of Manchuria.
1937 - J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" was first published.
1938 - A hurricane struck parts of New York and New England ******* more than 600 people.
1941 - "The Second Mrs. Burton" premiered to the entire CBS Radio Network.
1948 - Milton Berle debuted as the host of "The Texaco Star Theater" on NBC-TV. The show later became "The Milton Berle Show." Berle was the regular host until 1967.
1948 - "Life With Luigi" debuted on CBS Radio.
1949 - Communist leaders proclaimed The People's Republic of China.
1957 - "Perry Mason", the television series, made its debut on CBS-TV. The show was on for 9 years.
1961 - Antonio Abertondo swam the English Channel (in both directions) in 24 hours and 25 minutes.
1964 - Malta gained independence from Britain.
1966 - The Soviet probe Zond 5 returned to Earth. The spacecraft completed the first unmanned round-trip flight to the moon.
1970 - "NFL Monday Night Football" made its debut on ABC-TV. The game was between the Cleveland Browns and the New York Jets. The Browns won 31-21.
1973 - Henry Kissinger was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become 56th Secretary of State. He was the first naturalized citizen to hold the office of Secretary of State.
1976 - Orlando Letelier, former foreign minister for President Salvador Allende of Chili, was ****** by a car bomb in Washington, DC.
1981 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1982 - National Football League (NFL) players began a 57-day strike. It was their first regular-season walkout.
1982 - Amin Gemayel was elected president of Lebanon. He was the ******* of Bashir Gemayel who was the president-elect when he was assassinated.
1984 - General Motors and the United Auto Workers union reached an agreement that would end the previous six days of spot strikes.
1985 - North and South Korea opened their borders for their ****** reunion program.
1989 - Hurricane Hugo hit Charleston, SC, causing $8 billion in damage.
1989 - 21 students were ****** in Alton, TX, when their bus was in an accident with a truck causing the bus to careen into a water-filled pit.
1991 - Richard L. Worthington finally freed his nine hostages at the end of 18 hours in Sandy, UT. Worthington had ****** a nurse before seizing control of a hospital maternity ward.
1993 - Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin announced that he was ousting the Communist-dominated Congress. The action was effectively seizing all state power.
1996 - The board of all-male Virginia Military Institute voted to admit women.
1996 - John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on Cumberland Island, GA.
1998 - The videotaped grand jury statement that U.S. President Bill Clinton made concerning the Monica Lewinsky case was made public.
Current Birthdays
Leonard Cohen turns 74 years old today.
90 Karl Slover
Actor ("The Wizard of Oz")
77 Larry Hagman
Actor ("I ***** of Jeannie," "Dallas")
73 Henry Gibson
Actor, comedian
67 James Woolsey
Former CIA director
64 Steve Beshear
Governor of Kentucky
64 Fannie Flagg
Author, comedian
61 Jerry Bruckheimer
Producer ("CSI")
61 Don Felder
Rock musician (The Eagles)
61 Stephen King
Author
58 Bill Murray
Actor
54 Philthy ******
Rock musician (Motorhead)
51 Ethan Coen
Writer, producer
49 Dave Coulier
Actor, comedian ("Full House")
48 David James Elliott
Actor ("JAG")
47 Nancy Travis
Actress
46 Rob Morrow
Actor ("Numb3rs," "Northern Exposure")
43 Cheryl Hines
Actress ("Curb Your Enthusiasm")
42 Mike Richter
Hockey player
41 Faith Hill
Country singer
41 Tyler Stewart
Rock musician (Barenaked Ladies)
40 Dave
Rapper (De La Soul)
40 Ricki Lake
Actress, talk show host
40 Ronna Reeves
Country singer
37 James Lesure
Actor
37 Alfonso Ribeiro
Actor
37 Luke Wilson
Actor
35 Virginia Ruano Pascual
Tennis player
30 Paulo Costanzo
Actor ("Joey")
29 Brian Westbrook
Football player
27 Nicole Richie
TV personality ("The Simple Life")
25 Maggie Grace
Actress ("Lost")
25 Joseph Mazzello
Actor
10 Lorenzo Brino
Actor ("7th Heaven")
10 Nikolas Brino
Actor ("7th Heaven")
Historic Birthdays
Henry Stimson
/21/1867 - 10/20/1950
American statesman; served under five presidents
80 John Loudon McAdam
9/21/1756 - 11/26/1836
Scottish inventor of macadamized road construction
69 Charles Nicolle
9/21/1866 - 2/28/1936
French Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist (1928)
79 H. G. Wells
9/21/1866 - 8/13/1946
English novelist, historian and science fiction writer
59 Gustav Holst
9/21/1874 - 5/25/1934
English composer and teacher
67 Sir Allen Lane
9/21/1902 - 7/7/1970
English publisher; pioneered paperback publishing
63 Westbrook Van Voorhis
9/21/1904 - 7/14/1968
American radio announcer
85 Hans Hartung
9/21/1904 - 12/7/1989
German-born French painter
1784 - "The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser" was published for the first time in Philadelphia. It was the first daily paper in America.
1893 - Frank Duryea took what is believed to be the first gasoline- powered automobile for a test drive. The "horseless carriage" was designed by Frank and Charles Duryea.
1897 - The New York Sun ran the "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause" editorial. It was in response to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon.
1931 - Britain went off the gold standard.
1931 - Japanese ****** began occupying China's northeast territory of Manchuria.
1937 - J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" was first published.
1938 - A hurricane struck parts of New York and New England ******* more than 600 people.
1941 - "The Second Mrs. Burton" premiered to the entire CBS Radio Network.
1948 - Milton Berle debuted as the host of "The Texaco Star Theater" on NBC-TV. The show later became "The Milton Berle Show." Berle was the regular host until 1967.
1948 - "Life With Luigi" debuted on CBS Radio.
1949 - Communist leaders proclaimed The People's Republic of China.
1957 - "Perry Mason", the television series, made its debut on CBS-TV. The show was on for 9 years.
1961 - Antonio Abertondo swam the English Channel (in both directions) in 24 hours and 25 minutes.
1964 - Malta gained independence from Britain.
1966 - The Soviet probe Zond 5 returned to Earth. The spacecraft completed the first unmanned round-trip flight to the moon.
1970 - "NFL Monday Night Football" made its debut on ABC-TV. The game was between the Cleveland Browns and the New York Jets. The Browns won 31-21.
1973 - Henry Kissinger was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become 56th Secretary of State. He was the first naturalized citizen to hold the office of Secretary of State.
1976 - Orlando Letelier, former foreign minister for President Salvador Allende of Chili, was ****** by a car bomb in Washington, DC.
1981 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1982 - National Football League (NFL) players began a 57-day strike. It was their first regular-season walkout.
1982 - Amin Gemayel was elected president of Lebanon. He was the ******* of Bashir Gemayel who was the president-elect when he was assassinated.
1984 - General Motors and the United Auto Workers union reached an agreement that would end the previous six days of spot strikes.
1985 - North and South Korea opened their borders for their ****** reunion program.
1989 - Hurricane Hugo hit Charleston, SC, causing $8 billion in damage.
1989 - 21 students were ****** in Alton, TX, when their bus was in an accident with a truck causing the bus to careen into a water-filled pit.
1991 - Richard L. Worthington finally freed his nine hostages at the end of 18 hours in Sandy, UT. Worthington had ****** a nurse before seizing control of a hospital maternity ward.
1993 - Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin announced that he was ousting the Communist-dominated Congress. The action was effectively seizing all state power.
1996 - The board of all-male Virginia Military Institute voted to admit women.
1996 - John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on Cumberland Island, GA.
1998 - The videotaped grand jury statement that U.S. President Bill Clinton made concerning the Monica Lewinsky case was made public.
Current Birthdays
Leonard Cohen turns 74 years old today.
90 Karl Slover
Actor ("The Wizard of Oz")
77 Larry Hagman
Actor ("I ***** of Jeannie," "Dallas")
73 Henry Gibson
Actor, comedian
67 James Woolsey
Former CIA director
64 Steve Beshear
Governor of Kentucky
64 Fannie Flagg
Author, comedian
61 Jerry Bruckheimer
Producer ("CSI")
61 Don Felder
Rock musician (The Eagles)
61 Stephen King
Author
58 Bill Murray
Actor
54 Philthy ******
Rock musician (Motorhead)
51 Ethan Coen
Writer, producer
49 Dave Coulier
Actor, comedian ("Full House")
48 David James Elliott
Actor ("JAG")
47 Nancy Travis
Actress
46 Rob Morrow
Actor ("Numb3rs," "Northern Exposure")
43 Cheryl Hines
Actress ("Curb Your Enthusiasm")
42 Mike Richter
Hockey player
41 Faith Hill
Country singer
41 Tyler Stewart
Rock musician (Barenaked Ladies)
40 Dave
Rapper (De La Soul)
40 Ricki Lake
Actress, talk show host
40 Ronna Reeves
Country singer
37 James Lesure
Actor
37 Alfonso Ribeiro
Actor
37 Luke Wilson
Actor
35 Virginia Ruano Pascual
Tennis player
30 Paulo Costanzo
Actor ("Joey")
29 Brian Westbrook
Football player
27 Nicole Richie
TV personality ("The Simple Life")
25 Maggie Grace
Actress ("Lost")
25 Joseph Mazzello
Actor
10 Lorenzo Brino
Actor ("7th Heaven")
10 Nikolas Brino
Actor ("7th Heaven")
Historic Birthdays
Henry Stimson
/21/1867 - 10/20/1950
American statesman; served under five presidents
80 John Loudon McAdam
9/21/1756 - 11/26/1836
Scottish inventor of macadamized road construction
69 Charles Nicolle
9/21/1866 - 2/28/1936
French Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist (1928)
79 H. G. Wells
9/21/1866 - 8/13/1946
English novelist, historian and science fiction writer
59 Gustav Holst
9/21/1874 - 5/25/1934
English composer and teacher
67 Sir Allen Lane
9/21/1902 - 7/7/1970
English publisher; pioneered paperback publishing
63 Westbrook Van Voorhis
9/21/1904 - 7/14/1968
American radio announcer
85 Hans Hartung
9/21/1904 - 12/7/1989
German-born French painter
1656 - An all-female jury heard the case of a woman ********* her *****. The jury in Patuxent, MD, voted for acquittal.
1776 - During the Revolutionary War, Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British.
1789 - The U.S. Congress authorized the office of Postmaster General.
1792 - The French Republic was proclaimed.
1828 - Shaka, the African ruler and founder of the Zulu kingdom, was ******** by his half-******* Dingane. Shaka's mental illness had begun to compromise his leadership.
1862 - U.S. President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It stated that all slaves held within rebel states would be free as of January 1, 1863.
1903 - Italo Marchiony was granted a patent for the ice cream cone.
1914 - Three British cruisers were sunk by one German submarine in the North Sea. 1,400 British sailors were ******. This event alerted the British to the effectiveness of the submarine.
1927 - In Chicago, IL, Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous "long-count" fight.
1949 - The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb successfully.
1955 - Commercial television began in Great Britain. The rules said that only six minutes of ads were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted.
1961 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy signed a congressional act that established the Peace Corps.
1964 - "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." debuted on NBC-TV.
1966 - The U.S. lunar probe Surveyor 2 crashed into the moon.
1969 - Willie Mays hit his 600th career home run.
1975 - Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. 17 days earlier Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme made an assassination attempt against Ford.
1980 - A border conflict between Iran and Iraq developed into a full-scale war.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addressed the U.N. General Assembly and voiced a new hope for arms control. He also criticized the Soviet Union for arresting U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff.
1988 - Canada's government apologized for the internment of Japanese-Canadian's during World War II. They also promised compensation.
1990 - Saudi Arabia expelled most of the Yememin and Jordanian envoys in Riyadh. The Saudi accusations were unspecific.
1991 - An article in the London newspaper "The Mail" revealed that John Cairncross admitted to being the "fifth man" in the Soviet Union's British spy ring.
1992 - The U.N. General Assembly expelled Yugoslavia for its role in the war between Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1993 - 47 people were ****** when an Amtrak passenger train derailed near Mobile, AL.
1994 - The U.S. upgraded its military control in Haiti.
1995 - AWACS plane crashed on takeoff at Elmendorf Air ***** Base near Anchorage, AK. All 24 of the U.S. and Canadian military personnel were ******.
1996 - Robert Dent, in Australia, became the first person to commit legally assisted suicide under a voluntary euthanasia law. Dent was suffering from terminal cancer.
1998 - The U.S. and Russia signed two agreements. One was to privatize Russia's nuclear program and the other was to stop plutonium stockpiles and nuclear scientists from leaving the country.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton, addressed the United Nations, and told world leaders to "end all nuclear tests for all time". He then sent the long-delayed global test-ban treaty to the U.S. Senate.
1998 - Keely Smith received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Current Birthdays
Opera singer Andrea Bocelli turns 50 years old today.
81 Tommy Lasorda
Hall of Fame baseball manager
74 Lute Olson
Hall of Fame basketball coach
66 David Stern
NBA commissioner
62 King Sunny Ade
Musician
62 Paul Le Mat
Actor
57 David Coverdale
Rock singer (Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
54 Shari Belafonte
Actress
52 Debby Boone
Singer
52 June Forester
Country singer (The Forester Sisters)
51 Nick Cave
Singer
51 Johnette Napolitano
Rock singer (Concrete Blond)
50 Joan Jett
Rock singer-musician
47 Scott Baio
Actor ("Happy Days," "Joanie Loves Chachi")
47 Catherine Oxenberg
Actress ("Dynasty")
46 Rob Stone
Actor
39 Matt Sharp
Rock musician
38 Dave Hernandez
Rock musician (The Shins)
37 Big Rube
R&B singer (Society of Soul)
32 Ronaldo
Soccer player
29 Swin Cash
Basketball player
21 Tom Felton
Actor ("Harry Potter" movies)
Historic Birthdays
John Houseman
9/22/1902 - 10/31/1988
American stage, film and radio actor
(Go to obit.)
75 Michael Faraday
9/22/1791 - 8/25/1867
English physicist and chemist
78 Caroline Astor
9/22/1830 - 10/30/1908
American aristocratic leader of New York high society
91 Victor Shelford
9/22/1877 - 12/27/1968
American zoologist and ****** ecologist
77 Dame Christabel Pankhurst
9/22/1880 - 2/13/1958
English women's suffragist
71 Erich von Stroheim
9/22/1885 - 5/12/1957
Austrian film director, writer and actor
87 Babette Deutsch
9/22/1895 - 11/13/1982
American poet, critic, translator and novelist
71 Paul Muni
9/22/1895 - 8/25/1967
Austrian-born American stage and film actor
66 William Spratling
9/22/1900 - 8/8/1967
American silver designer and architect
95 Charles Huggins
9/22/1901 - 1/12/1997
Canadian-born American Nobel Prize-winning surgeon and urologist (1966)
58 Eugen Sanger
9/22/1905 - 2/10/1964
German rocket propulsion engineer
1776 - During the Revolutionary War, Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British.
1789 - The U.S. Congress authorized the office of Postmaster General.
1792 - The French Republic was proclaimed.
1828 - Shaka, the African ruler and founder of the Zulu kingdom, was ******** by his half-******* Dingane. Shaka's mental illness had begun to compromise his leadership.
1862 - U.S. President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It stated that all slaves held within rebel states would be free as of January 1, 1863.
1903 - Italo Marchiony was granted a patent for the ice cream cone.
1914 - Three British cruisers were sunk by one German submarine in the North Sea. 1,400 British sailors were ******. This event alerted the British to the effectiveness of the submarine.
1927 - In Chicago, IL, Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous "long-count" fight.
1949 - The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb successfully.
1955 - Commercial television began in Great Britain. The rules said that only six minutes of ads were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted.
1961 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy signed a congressional act that established the Peace Corps.
1964 - "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." debuted on NBC-TV.
1966 - The U.S. lunar probe Surveyor 2 crashed into the moon.
1969 - Willie Mays hit his 600th career home run.
1975 - Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford. 17 days earlier Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme made an assassination attempt against Ford.
1980 - A border conflict between Iran and Iraq developed into a full-scale war.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addressed the U.N. General Assembly and voiced a new hope for arms control. He also criticized the Soviet Union for arresting U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff.
1988 - Canada's government apologized for the internment of Japanese-Canadian's during World War II. They also promised compensation.
1990 - Saudi Arabia expelled most of the Yememin and Jordanian envoys in Riyadh. The Saudi accusations were unspecific.
1991 - An article in the London newspaper "The Mail" revealed that John Cairncross admitted to being the "fifth man" in the Soviet Union's British spy ring.
1992 - The U.N. General Assembly expelled Yugoslavia for its role in the war between Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1993 - 47 people were ****** when an Amtrak passenger train derailed near Mobile, AL.
1994 - The U.S. upgraded its military control in Haiti.
1995 - AWACS plane crashed on takeoff at Elmendorf Air ***** Base near Anchorage, AK. All 24 of the U.S. and Canadian military personnel were ******.
1996 - Robert Dent, in Australia, became the first person to commit legally assisted suicide under a voluntary euthanasia law. Dent was suffering from terminal cancer.
1998 - The U.S. and Russia signed two agreements. One was to privatize Russia's nuclear program and the other was to stop plutonium stockpiles and nuclear scientists from leaving the country.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton, addressed the United Nations, and told world leaders to "end all nuclear tests for all time". He then sent the long-delayed global test-ban treaty to the U.S. Senate.
1998 - Keely Smith received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Current Birthdays
Opera singer Andrea Bocelli turns 50 years old today.
81 Tommy Lasorda
Hall of Fame baseball manager
74 Lute Olson
Hall of Fame basketball coach
66 David Stern
NBA commissioner
62 King Sunny Ade
Musician
62 Paul Le Mat
Actor
57 David Coverdale
Rock singer (Deep Purple, Whitesnake)
54 Shari Belafonte
Actress
52 Debby Boone
Singer
52 June Forester
Country singer (The Forester Sisters)
51 Nick Cave
Singer
51 Johnette Napolitano
Rock singer (Concrete Blond)
50 Joan Jett
Rock singer-musician
47 Scott Baio
Actor ("Happy Days," "Joanie Loves Chachi")
47 Catherine Oxenberg
Actress ("Dynasty")
46 Rob Stone
Actor
39 Matt Sharp
Rock musician
38 Dave Hernandez
Rock musician (The Shins)
37 Big Rube
R&B singer (Society of Soul)
32 Ronaldo
Soccer player
29 Swin Cash
Basketball player
21 Tom Felton
Actor ("Harry Potter" movies)
Historic Birthdays
John Houseman
9/22/1902 - 10/31/1988
American stage, film and radio actor
(Go to obit.)
75 Michael Faraday
9/22/1791 - 8/25/1867
English physicist and chemist
78 Caroline Astor
9/22/1830 - 10/30/1908
American aristocratic leader of New York high society
91 Victor Shelford
9/22/1877 - 12/27/1968
American zoologist and ****** ecologist
77 Dame Christabel Pankhurst
9/22/1880 - 2/13/1958
English women's suffragist
71 Erich von Stroheim
9/22/1885 - 5/12/1957
Austrian film director, writer and actor
87 Babette Deutsch
9/22/1895 - 11/13/1982
American poet, critic, translator and novelist
71 Paul Muni
9/22/1895 - 8/25/1967
Austrian-born American stage and film actor
66 William Spratling
9/22/1900 - 8/8/1967
American silver designer and architect
95 Charles Huggins
9/22/1901 - 1/12/1997
Canadian-born American Nobel Prize-winning surgeon and urologist (1966)
58 Eugen Sanger
9/22/1905 - 2/10/1964
German rocket propulsion engineer
63 B.C. - Caesar Augustus was born in Rome.
1642 - The first commencement at Harvard College, in Cambridge, MA, was held.
1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain was born in Madrid. He was king from 1746 to 1759.
1779 - John Paul Jones, commander of the American warship Bon Homme, was quoted as saying "I have not yet begun to fight!"
1780 - John Andre, a British spy, was captured with papers revealing that Benedict Arnold was going to surrender West Point, NY, to the British.
1806 - The Corps of Discovery, the Lewis and Clark expedition, reached St. Louis, MO, and ended the trip to the Pacific Northwest.
1838 - Victoria Chaflin Woodhull was born. She became the first female candidate for the U.S. Presidency.
1845 - The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York was formed by Alexander Joy Cartwright. It was the first baseball team in America.
1846 - Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.
1897 - The first recorded traffic fatality in Great Britain occurred. It happened 2 years before the first fatality in the U.S.
1912 - "Keystone Comedy" by Mack Sennett was released.
1930 - Flashbulbs were patented by Johannes Ostermeier.
1939 - Sigmund Freud died in London. He was recognized as the founder of psychoanalysis.
1951 - The first transcontinental telecast was received on the west coast. The show "Crusade for Freedom" was broadcast by CBS-TV from New York.
1952 - The first Pay Television sporting event took place. The Marciano-Walcott fight was seen in 49 theaters in 31 cities.
1952 - Richard Nixon gave his "Checkers Speech". At the time he was a candidate for U.S. vice-president.
1953 - "The Robe" premiered in Hollywood a week after its premiere in New York. The 20th Century Fox movie had been filmed using the Cinemascope wide screen process.
1957 - Nine black students withdrew from Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas due to the white mob outside.
1962 - New York's Philharmonic Hall opened. It was the first unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The hall was later renamed the Avery Fisher Hall.
1962 - "The Jetsons" premiered on ABC-TV. It was the first program on the network to be carried in color.
1964 - The new ceiling painting of the Paris Opera house was unveiled. The work was done by Russian-born artist Marc Chagall.
1973 - Overthrown Argentine president Juan Peron was returned to power. He had been overthrown in 1955. His wife, Eva Duarte, was the subject of the musical "Evita."
1981 - The Reagan administration announced its plans for what became known as Radio Marti.
1986 - Japanese newspapers quoted Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as saying that minorities lowered the "intelligence level" of America.
1990 - Iraq publicly threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and to ****** Israel if any nation tried to ***** it from Kuwait.
1991 - U.N. weapons inspectors find documents detailing Iraq's secret nuclear weapons program. The find in Baghdad triggered a standoff with authorities in Iraq.
1993 - The Israeli parliament ratified the Israel-PLO accord.
1993 - Blacks were allowed a role in the South African government after a parliamentary vote.
1998 - Jamie Lee Curtis received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - In Bryan, TX, Lawrence Russell Brewer was sentenced to death for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. John William King was sentenced to die on February 25, 1999.
1999 - A 17-month-old girl fell 230 feet from the Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The girl had bruises but no broken limbs from the fall onto a rocky ledge.
1999 - Siegfried & Roy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - Jean-Claude Van Damme was arrested for ***** driving and driving without a license after he crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a restaurant. On July 10, 2000, Van Damme was given three years probation and fined $1,200.
Current Birthdays
Bruce Springsteen turns 59 years old today.
88 Mickey Rooney
Actor
85 Margaret Pellegrini
Actress ("The Wizard of Oz")
65 Julio Iglesias
Singer
65 Marty Schottenheimer
Football cooach
63 Paul Petersen
Actor ("The Donna Reed Show")
61 Mary Kay Place
Actress
53 Leon Taylor
Rock musician (The Ventures)
51 Rosalind Chao
Actress
49 Jason Alexander
Actor ("Seinfeld")
47 Chi McBride
Actor
47 Elizabeth Pena
Actress
46 Don Herron
Country musician (BR549)
44 Erik Todd Dellums
Actor
42 LisaRaye
Actress
38 Ani DiFranco
Rock singer
36 Sarah Bettens
Rock singer (K's Choice)
36 Jermaine Dupri
Rapper, producer
28 Aubrey Dollar
Actress
28 Joba Chamberlain
N.Y. Yankees pitcher
Historic Birthdays
Victoria Clafin Woodhull Martin
9/23/1838 - 6/9/1927
American women's rights advocate
75 Caesar Augustus
9/23/63 BC - 8/19/14 AD
lst Roman emperor
72 William McGuffey
9/23/1800 - 5/4/1873
American educator; published popular elementary school readers
54 Helen Almira Shafer
9/23/1839 - 1/20/1894
American educator; president of Wellesley College (1888-94)
80 Robert Bosch
9/23/1861 - 3/9/1942
German engineer and industrialist
90 Mary Eliza Terrell
9/23/1863 - 7/24/1954
American social activist and civil rights advocate
82 Emmuska Orczy
9/23/1865 - 11/12/1947
Hungarian-born English novelist; wrote "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
85 Walter Lippmann
9/23/1889 - 12/14/1974
American newspaper commentator and author
77 Tom C. Clark
9/23/1899 - 6/13/1977
American associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
61 Aldo Moro
9/23/1916 - 5/9/1978
Italian five times premier; ******** by terrorists
40 John Coltrane
9/23/1926 - 7/17/1967
American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer
1642 - The first commencement at Harvard College, in Cambridge, MA, was held.
1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain was born in Madrid. He was king from 1746 to 1759.
1779 - John Paul Jones, commander of the American warship Bon Homme, was quoted as saying "I have not yet begun to fight!"
1780 - John Andre, a British spy, was captured with papers revealing that Benedict Arnold was going to surrender West Point, NY, to the British.
1806 - The Corps of Discovery, the Lewis and Clark expedition, reached St. Louis, MO, and ended the trip to the Pacific Northwest.
1838 - Victoria Chaflin Woodhull was born. She became the first female candidate for the U.S. Presidency.
1845 - The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York was formed by Alexander Joy Cartwright. It was the first baseball team in America.
1846 - Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.
1897 - The first recorded traffic fatality in Great Britain occurred. It happened 2 years before the first fatality in the U.S.
1912 - "Keystone Comedy" by Mack Sennett was released.
1930 - Flashbulbs were patented by Johannes Ostermeier.
1939 - Sigmund Freud died in London. He was recognized as the founder of psychoanalysis.
1951 - The first transcontinental telecast was received on the west coast. The show "Crusade for Freedom" was broadcast by CBS-TV from New York.
1952 - The first Pay Television sporting event took place. The Marciano-Walcott fight was seen in 49 theaters in 31 cities.
1952 - Richard Nixon gave his "Checkers Speech". At the time he was a candidate for U.S. vice-president.
1953 - "The Robe" premiered in Hollywood a week after its premiere in New York. The 20th Century Fox movie had been filmed using the Cinemascope wide screen process.
1957 - Nine black students withdrew from Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas due to the white mob outside.
1962 - New York's Philharmonic Hall opened. It was the first unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The hall was later renamed the Avery Fisher Hall.
1962 - "The Jetsons" premiered on ABC-TV. It was the first program on the network to be carried in color.
1964 - The new ceiling painting of the Paris Opera house was unveiled. The work was done by Russian-born artist Marc Chagall.
1973 - Overthrown Argentine president Juan Peron was returned to power. He had been overthrown in 1955. His wife, Eva Duarte, was the subject of the musical "Evita."
1981 - The Reagan administration announced its plans for what became known as Radio Marti.
1986 - Japanese newspapers quoted Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as saying that minorities lowered the "intelligence level" of America.
1990 - Iraq publicly threatened to destroy Middle East oil fields and to ****** Israel if any nation tried to ***** it from Kuwait.
1991 - U.N. weapons inspectors find documents detailing Iraq's secret nuclear weapons program. The find in Baghdad triggered a standoff with authorities in Iraq.
1993 - The Israeli parliament ratified the Israel-PLO accord.
1993 - Blacks were allowed a role in the South African government after a parliamentary vote.
1998 - Jamie Lee Curtis received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - In Bryan, TX, Lawrence Russell Brewer was sentenced to death for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. John William King was sentenced to die on February 25, 1999.
1999 - A 17-month-old girl fell 230 feet from the Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The girl had bruises but no broken limbs from the fall onto a rocky ledge.
1999 - Siegfried & Roy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - Jean-Claude Van Damme was arrested for ***** driving and driving without a license after he crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a restaurant. On July 10, 2000, Van Damme was given three years probation and fined $1,200.
Current Birthdays
Bruce Springsteen turns 59 years old today.
88 Mickey Rooney
Actor
85 Margaret Pellegrini
Actress ("The Wizard of Oz")
65 Julio Iglesias
Singer
65 Marty Schottenheimer
Football cooach
63 Paul Petersen
Actor ("The Donna Reed Show")
61 Mary Kay Place
Actress
53 Leon Taylor
Rock musician (The Ventures)
51 Rosalind Chao
Actress
49 Jason Alexander
Actor ("Seinfeld")
47 Chi McBride
Actor
47 Elizabeth Pena
Actress
46 Don Herron
Country musician (BR549)
44 Erik Todd Dellums
Actor
42 LisaRaye
Actress
38 Ani DiFranco
Rock singer
36 Sarah Bettens
Rock singer (K's Choice)
36 Jermaine Dupri
Rapper, producer
28 Aubrey Dollar
Actress
28 Joba Chamberlain
N.Y. Yankees pitcher
Historic Birthdays
Victoria Clafin Woodhull Martin
9/23/1838 - 6/9/1927
American women's rights advocate
75 Caesar Augustus
9/23/63 BC - 8/19/14 AD
lst Roman emperor
72 William McGuffey
9/23/1800 - 5/4/1873
American educator; published popular elementary school readers
54 Helen Almira Shafer
9/23/1839 - 1/20/1894
American educator; president of Wellesley College (1888-94)
80 Robert Bosch
9/23/1861 - 3/9/1942
German engineer and industrialist
90 Mary Eliza Terrell
9/23/1863 - 7/24/1954
American social activist and civil rights advocate
82 Emmuska Orczy
9/23/1865 - 11/12/1947
Hungarian-born English novelist; wrote "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
85 Walter Lippmann
9/23/1889 - 12/14/1974
American newspaper commentator and author
77 Tom C. Clark
9/23/1899 - 6/13/1977
American associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
61 Aldo Moro
9/23/1916 - 5/9/1978
Italian five times premier; ******** by terrorists
40 John Coltrane
9/23/1926 - 7/17/1967
American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer
1755 - John Marshall was born. He was the fourth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His court was credited with defining the principles of government and the role of the Supreme Court.
1789 - The U.S. Congress ****** the First Judiciary Act. The act provided for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court.
1869 - Thousands of businessmen were financially ruined after a panic on Wall Street. The panic was caused by an attempt to corner the gold market by Jay Gould and James Fisk.
1880 - Sarah Knauss was born. She was the world's oldest person when she died at 119 years old on December 31, 1999.
1915 - "The Lamb," Douglas Fairbanks first film, was shown at the Knickerbocker Theater in New York City, NY.
1929 - The first all-instrument flight took place in New York when Lt. James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated NY2 Biplane over Mitchell Field.
1933 - "Roses and Drums" was heard on WABC in New York City. It was the first dramatic presentation for radio.
1934 - Babe Ruth played his last game as a New York Yankee player.
1938 - Don Budge became the first tennis player to win all four of the major titles when he won the U.S. Tennis Open. He had already won the Australian Open, the French Open and the British Open.
1948 - Mildred Gillars, known as "Axis Sally", pleaded innocent to charges of treason. She ended up serving 12 years for being a **** wartime radio propagandist.
1953 - The discovery of the antibiotic tetracycline was reported.
1955 - U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart ****** while on vacation in Denver, CO.
1957 - The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field.
1957 - U.S. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, AR, to enforce school integration.
1960 - The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier was launched. The USS Enterprise set out from Newport News, VA.
1961 - "The Bullwinkle Show" premiered in prime time on NBC-TV. The show was originally on ABC in the afternoon as "Rocky and His Friends."
1963 - The U.S. Senate ratified a treaty that limited nuclear testing. The treaty was between the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union.
1968 - "60 Minutes" premiered on CBS-TV.
1968 - "The Mod Squad" premiered on ABC-TV.
1969 - The trial began for the "Chicago Eight," who were accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
1976 - Patricia Hearst was sentenced to 7 years in prison for her role in a 1974 bank robbery. An executive clemency order from U.S. President Jimmy Carter set her free after only 22 months.
1977 - "The Love Boat" debuted on ABC-TV. The theme song was sung by Jack Jones and was written by Paul Williams and Charles Fox.
1991 - Jack Mann, a British hostage, was set free by Lebanese kidnappers. He had been held captive for more than two years.
1991 - Theodor Seuss Geisel died at the age of 87. The ********'s author is better known as Dr. Seuss.
1994 - Ten Haitians were ****** when a firefight erupted between U.S. Marines and a group of armed Haitians in Cap-Haitian.
1995 - Three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities ended with the signing of a pact by Israel and the PLO.
1996 - The United States, represented by President Clinton, and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
1998 - Gianluigi Assennato, 34, will be tried for one count of stalking and three counts of making terrorist threats towards Andrea Thompson.
1998 - The U.S. Federal Reserve released into circulation $2 billion in new harder-to-*********** $20 bills.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush froze the assets of 27 suspected terrorists and terrorist groups.
2003 - Anthony Hopkins received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2004 - The USS Crommelin stopped the fishing boat San Jose. The Coast Guard team found 26,000 pounds of *******.
Current Birthdays
Nia Vardalos turns 46 years old today.
Actress, screenwriter Nia Vardalos ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding")
84 Sheila MacRae
Actress
69 Sonny Turner
R&B singer (The Platters)
68 Barbara Allbut
Singer (The Angels)
66 Phyliss "Jiggs" Allbut
Singer (The Angels)
66 Gerry Marsden
Singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
62 Joe Greene
Football Hall of Famer
60 Gordon Clapp
Actor ("NYPD Blue")
56 Joseph Kennedy II
Former U.S. representative, D-Mass.
50 Kevin Sorbo
Actor
46 Cedric Dent
R&B singer (Take 6)
44 Rafael Palmeiro
Baseball player
39 Marty Mitchell
Country musician (Ricochet)
39 Megan Ward
Actress
37 Marty Cintron
Singer-musician (No Mercy)
37 Kevin Millar
Baltimore Orioles first baseman
35 Eddie George
Football player
26 Paul Hamm
Olympic gymnast
20 Kyle Sullivan
Actor
Historic Birthdays
F. Scott Fitzgerald
9/24/1896 - 12/21/1940
American novelist and short story writer
50 Albrecht Wallenstein
9/24/1583 - 2/25/1634
Bohemian statesman and general in the Thirty Years' War
46 Johan de Witt
9/24/1625 - 8/20/1672
Dutch statesman and political leader of Holland (1653-72)
79 John Marshall
9/24/1755 - 7/6/1835
American congressman, secretary of state and 4th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
66 Mark Hanna
9/24/1837 - 2/15/1904
American industrialist and political kingmaker
81 Sir A. P. Herbert
9/24/1890 - 11/11/1971
English novelist, playwright, poet and politician
88 Stephen Bechtel
9/24/1900 - 3/14/1989
American construction engineer; founded Bechtel Corp.
88 Severo Ochoa
9/24/1905 - 11/1/1993
Spanish Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and molecular biologist (1959)
66 Svetlana Beriosova
9/24/1932 - 11/10/1998
Lithuanian-born prima ballerina
53 Jim Henson
9/24/1936 - 5/16/1990
American puppeteer; creator of the Muppets
1789 - The U.S. Congress ****** the First Judiciary Act. The act provided for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court.
1869 - Thousands of businessmen were financially ruined after a panic on Wall Street. The panic was caused by an attempt to corner the gold market by Jay Gould and James Fisk.
1880 - Sarah Knauss was born. She was the world's oldest person when she died at 119 years old on December 31, 1999.
1915 - "The Lamb," Douglas Fairbanks first film, was shown at the Knickerbocker Theater in New York City, NY.
1929 - The first all-instrument flight took place in New York when Lt. James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated NY2 Biplane over Mitchell Field.
1933 - "Roses and Drums" was heard on WABC in New York City. It was the first dramatic presentation for radio.
1934 - Babe Ruth played his last game as a New York Yankee player.
1938 - Don Budge became the first tennis player to win all four of the major titles when he won the U.S. Tennis Open. He had already won the Australian Open, the French Open and the British Open.
1948 - Mildred Gillars, known as "Axis Sally", pleaded innocent to charges of treason. She ended up serving 12 years for being a **** wartime radio propagandist.
1953 - The discovery of the antibiotic tetracycline was reported.
1955 - U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart ****** while on vacation in Denver, CO.
1957 - The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field.
1957 - U.S. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, AR, to enforce school integration.
1960 - The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier was launched. The USS Enterprise set out from Newport News, VA.
1961 - "The Bullwinkle Show" premiered in prime time on NBC-TV. The show was originally on ABC in the afternoon as "Rocky and His Friends."
1963 - The U.S. Senate ratified a treaty that limited nuclear testing. The treaty was between the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union.
1968 - "60 Minutes" premiered on CBS-TV.
1968 - "The Mod Squad" premiered on ABC-TV.
1969 - The trial began for the "Chicago Eight," who were accused of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
1976 - Patricia Hearst was sentenced to 7 years in prison for her role in a 1974 bank robbery. An executive clemency order from U.S. President Jimmy Carter set her free after only 22 months.
1977 - "The Love Boat" debuted on ABC-TV. The theme song was sung by Jack Jones and was written by Paul Williams and Charles Fox.
1991 - Jack Mann, a British hostage, was set free by Lebanese kidnappers. He had been held captive for more than two years.
1991 - Theodor Seuss Geisel died at the age of 87. The ********'s author is better known as Dr. Seuss.
1994 - Ten Haitians were ****** when a firefight erupted between U.S. Marines and a group of armed Haitians in Cap-Haitian.
1995 - Three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities ended with the signing of a pact by Israel and the PLO.
1996 - The United States, represented by President Clinton, and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
1998 - Gianluigi Assennato, 34, will be tried for one count of stalking and three counts of making terrorist threats towards Andrea Thompson.
1998 - The U.S. Federal Reserve released into circulation $2 billion in new harder-to-*********** $20 bills.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush froze the assets of 27 suspected terrorists and terrorist groups.
2003 - Anthony Hopkins received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2004 - The USS Crommelin stopped the fishing boat San Jose. The Coast Guard team found 26,000 pounds of *******.
Current Birthdays
Nia Vardalos turns 46 years old today.
Actress, screenwriter Nia Vardalos ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding")
84 Sheila MacRae
Actress
69 Sonny Turner
R&B singer (The Platters)
68 Barbara Allbut
Singer (The Angels)
66 Phyliss "Jiggs" Allbut
Singer (The Angels)
66 Gerry Marsden
Singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
62 Joe Greene
Football Hall of Famer
60 Gordon Clapp
Actor ("NYPD Blue")
56 Joseph Kennedy II
Former U.S. representative, D-Mass.
50 Kevin Sorbo
Actor
46 Cedric Dent
R&B singer (Take 6)
44 Rafael Palmeiro
Baseball player
39 Marty Mitchell
Country musician (Ricochet)
39 Megan Ward
Actress
37 Marty Cintron
Singer-musician (No Mercy)
37 Kevin Millar
Baltimore Orioles first baseman
35 Eddie George
Football player
26 Paul Hamm
Olympic gymnast
20 Kyle Sullivan
Actor
Historic Birthdays
F. Scott Fitzgerald
9/24/1896 - 12/21/1940
American novelist and short story writer
50 Albrecht Wallenstein
9/24/1583 - 2/25/1634
Bohemian statesman and general in the Thirty Years' War
46 Johan de Witt
9/24/1625 - 8/20/1672
Dutch statesman and political leader of Holland (1653-72)
79 John Marshall
9/24/1755 - 7/6/1835
American congressman, secretary of state and 4th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
66 Mark Hanna
9/24/1837 - 2/15/1904
American industrialist and political kingmaker
81 Sir A. P. Herbert
9/24/1890 - 11/11/1971
English novelist, playwright, poet and politician
88 Stephen Bechtel
9/24/1900 - 3/14/1989
American construction engineer; founded Bechtel Corp.
88 Severo Ochoa
9/24/1905 - 11/1/1993
Spanish Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and molecular biologist (1959)
66 Svetlana Beriosova
9/24/1932 - 11/10/1998
Lithuanian-born prima ballerina
53 Jim Henson
9/24/1936 - 5/16/1990
American puppeteer; creator of the Muppets
1492 - The crew of the Pinta, one of Christopher Columbus' ships, mistakenly thought that they had spotted land.
1493 - Christopher Columbus left Spain with 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1513 - The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He named the body of water the South Sea. He was truly just the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
1690 - One of America's earliest newspapers published its first and last edition. The "Publik Occurences Both Foreign and Domestik" was published at the London Coffee House in Boston, MA, by Benjamin Harris.
1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot was born. He was the inventor and builder of two steam-propelled tractors. They are considered to be the world's first automobiles.
1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British during the American Revolutionary War. He was leading the ****** on Montreal.
1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.
1847 - During the Mexican-American War, U.S. ****** led by General Zachary Taylor captured Monterrey Mexico.
1882 - The first major league double header was played. It was between the Worcester and Providence teams.
1890 - The Sequoia National Park was established as a U.S. National Park in Central California.
1890 - Mormon President Wilford Woodruff issued a Manifesto in which the practice of polygamy was renounced.
1897 - Author William Faulkner was born. He is remembered for his works "As I Lay Dying," "Light in August" and "The Sound and the Fury."
1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, CO. The speaking tour was in support of the Treaty of Versailles.
1933 - Tom Mix was heard on NBC Radio for the first time. His show ran until June of 1950.
1956 - A transatlantic telephone-cable system began operation between Newfoundland and Scotland.
1957 - 300 U.S. Army troops stood guard as nine black students were escorted to class at Central High School in Little Rock, AR. The ******** had been ****** to withdraw 2 days earlier because of unruly white mobs.
1965 - Willie Mays, at the age of 34, became the oldest man to hit 50 home runs in a single season. He had also set the record for the youngest to hit 50 ten years earlier.
1973 - The three crewmen of Skylab II landed in the Pacific Ocean after being on the U.S. space laboratory for 59 days.
1978 - 144 people were ****** when a private plane and a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 collided over San Diego, CA.
1978 - Melissa Ludtke, a writer for "Sports Illustrated", filed a suit in U.S. District Court. The result was that Major League Baseball could not bar female writers from the locker room after the game.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court when she was sworn in as the 102nd justice. She had been nominated the previous July by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1983 - 38 Irish nationalist guerillas shot their way out of prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1983 - A Soviet military officer, Stanislav Petrov, averted a potential worldwide nuclear war. He declared a false alarm after a U.S. ****** was detected by a Soviet early warning system. It was later discovered the alarms had been set off when the satellite warning system mistakenly interpreted sunlight reflections off clouds as the presence of enemy missiles.
1986 - An 1894-S Barber Head dime was bought for $83,000 at a coin auction in California. It is one of a dozen that exist.
1987 - The booty collected from the Wydah, which sunk off Cape Cod in 1717, was auctioned off. The worth was around $400 million.
1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to impose an air embargo against Iraq. Cuba was the only dissenting vote.
1991 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously ordered a worldwide arms embargo against Yugoslavia and all of its warring factions.
1992 - In Orlando, FL, a judge ruled in favor of 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley. He had sought a divorce from his biological parents.
1992 - The Mars Observer blasted off on a mission that cost $980 million. The probe has not been heard from since it reached Mars in August of 1993.
1995 - Ross Perot announced that he would form the Independence Party.
1997 - NBC sportscaster Marv Albert plead guilty to assault and battery of a lover. He was fired from NBC within hours.
1997 - Mark & Brian received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 - The death toll due to Hurricane Georges rose to 307 after the storm ****** through Caribbean.
2001 - Michael Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA as a player for the Washington Wizards. Jordan became the president of basketball operations for the team on January 19, 2000.
2002 - In Karachi, Pakistan, seven people were ****** and another were wounded by gunmen in the offices of a Christian welfare organization.
2002 - U.S. ****** landed in Ivory Coast to aid in the rescue foreigners trapped in a school by fighting between government troops and rebel troops. Rebels had attempted to take over the government on September 19.
Current Birthdays
Will Smith turns 40 years old today.
79 Barbara Walters
TV personality ("The View")
75 Ian Tyson
Folk singer (Ian and Sylvia)
69 Joe Russell
R&B singer (The Persuasions)
65 Robert Gates
Secretary of Defense
65 Robert Walden
Actor ("Lou Grant")
64 Michael Douglas
Actor
61 Cheryl Tiegs
Model
59 Mimi Kennedy
Actress
59 Anson Williams
Actor ("Happy Days")
57 Mark Hamill
Actor ("Star Wars")
57 Bob McAdoo
Basketball Hall of Famer
57 Jimmy Sturr
Polka bandleader
56 Colin Friels
Actor
50 Michael Madsen
Actor
47 Heather Locklear
Actress ("Melrose Place," "Spin City")
46 Aida Turturro
Actress ("The Sopranos")
45 Tate Donovan
Actor ("Damages")
42 Jason Flemyng
Actor
43 Scottie Pippen
Basketball player
39 Catherine Zeta-Jones
Actress
39 Hal Sparks
Actor ("Queer as Folk")
37 Mike Luce
Rock musician (Drowning Pool)
35 Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
Actress
33 Matt Hasselbeck
Football player
28 Chris Owen
Actor
28 T.I.
Rapper
27 Rocco Baldelli
Baseball player
27 Lee Norris
Actor
23 Diana Ortiz
Singer (*****)
17 Emmy Clarke
Actress ("Monk")
Historic Birthdays
William Faulkner
9/25/1897 - 7/6/1962
American Nobel Prize-winning novelist and short story writer (1949)
67 Francesco Borromini
9/25/1599 - 8/2/1667
Italian Baroque architect
75 Claude Perrault
9/25/1613 - 10/9/1688
French physician, architect and engineer
45 Melville Bissell
9/25/1843 - 3/15/1889
American inventor of the carpet sweeper
66 Mark Rothko
9/25/1903 - 2/25/1970
American Abstract Expressionist painter
66 Columbus Iselin
9/25/1904 - 1/5/1971
American oceanographer
76 Red Smith
9/25/1905 - 1/15/1982
American syndicated sports columnist
68 Dmitry Shostakovich
9/25/1906 - 8/9/1975
Russian composer
81 John V. Dodge
9/25/1909 - 4/23/1991
American publishing executive of the Encyclopedia Britannica
50 Glenn Gould
9/25/1932 - 10/4/1982
Canadian pianist
1493 - Christopher Columbus left Spain with 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1513 - The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He named the body of water the South Sea. He was truly just the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
1690 - One of America's earliest newspapers published its first and last edition. The "Publik Occurences Both Foreign and Domestik" was published at the London Coffee House in Boston, MA, by Benjamin Harris.
1725 - Nicolas Joseph Cugnot was born. He was the inventor and builder of two steam-propelled tractors. They are considered to be the world's first automobiles.
1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British during the American Revolutionary War. He was leading the ****** on Montreal.
1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.
1847 - During the Mexican-American War, U.S. ****** led by General Zachary Taylor captured Monterrey Mexico.
1882 - The first major league double header was played. It was between the Worcester and Providence teams.
1890 - The Sequoia National Park was established as a U.S. National Park in Central California.
1890 - Mormon President Wilford Woodruff issued a Manifesto in which the practice of polygamy was renounced.
1897 - Author William Faulkner was born. He is remembered for his works "As I Lay Dying," "Light in August" and "The Sound and the Fury."
1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, CO. The speaking tour was in support of the Treaty of Versailles.
1933 - Tom Mix was heard on NBC Radio for the first time. His show ran until June of 1950.
1956 - A transatlantic telephone-cable system began operation between Newfoundland and Scotland.
1957 - 300 U.S. Army troops stood guard as nine black students were escorted to class at Central High School in Little Rock, AR. The ******** had been ****** to withdraw 2 days earlier because of unruly white mobs.
1965 - Willie Mays, at the age of 34, became the oldest man to hit 50 home runs in a single season. He had also set the record for the youngest to hit 50 ten years earlier.
1973 - The three crewmen of Skylab II landed in the Pacific Ocean after being on the U.S. space laboratory for 59 days.
1978 - 144 people were ****** when a private plane and a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 collided over San Diego, CA.
1978 - Melissa Ludtke, a writer for "Sports Illustrated", filed a suit in U.S. District Court. The result was that Major League Baseball could not bar female writers from the locker room after the game.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court when she was sworn in as the 102nd justice. She had been nominated the previous July by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1983 - 38 Irish nationalist guerillas shot their way out of prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1983 - A Soviet military officer, Stanislav Petrov, averted a potential worldwide nuclear war. He declared a false alarm after a U.S. ****** was detected by a Soviet early warning system. It was later discovered the alarms had been set off when the satellite warning system mistakenly interpreted sunlight reflections off clouds as the presence of enemy missiles.
1986 - An 1894-S Barber Head dime was bought for $83,000 at a coin auction in California. It is one of a dozen that exist.
1987 - The booty collected from the Wydah, which sunk off Cape Cod in 1717, was auctioned off. The worth was around $400 million.
1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to impose an air embargo against Iraq. Cuba was the only dissenting vote.
1991 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously ordered a worldwide arms embargo against Yugoslavia and all of its warring factions.
1992 - In Orlando, FL, a judge ruled in favor of 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley. He had sought a divorce from his biological parents.
1992 - The Mars Observer blasted off on a mission that cost $980 million. The probe has not been heard from since it reached Mars in August of 1993.
1995 - Ross Perot announced that he would form the Independence Party.
1997 - NBC sportscaster Marv Albert plead guilty to assault and battery of a lover. He was fired from NBC within hours.
1997 - Mark & Brian received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 - The death toll due to Hurricane Georges rose to 307 after the storm ****** through Caribbean.
2001 - Michael Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA as a player for the Washington Wizards. Jordan became the president of basketball operations for the team on January 19, 2000.
2002 - In Karachi, Pakistan, seven people were ****** and another were wounded by gunmen in the offices of a Christian welfare organization.
2002 - U.S. ****** landed in Ivory Coast to aid in the rescue foreigners trapped in a school by fighting between government troops and rebel troops. Rebels had attempted to take over the government on September 19.
Current Birthdays
Will Smith turns 40 years old today.
79 Barbara Walters
TV personality ("The View")
75 Ian Tyson
Folk singer (Ian and Sylvia)
69 Joe Russell
R&B singer (The Persuasions)
65 Robert Gates
Secretary of Defense
65 Robert Walden
Actor ("Lou Grant")
64 Michael Douglas
Actor
61 Cheryl Tiegs
Model
59 Mimi Kennedy
Actress
59 Anson Williams
Actor ("Happy Days")
57 Mark Hamill
Actor ("Star Wars")
57 Bob McAdoo
Basketball Hall of Famer
57 Jimmy Sturr
Polka bandleader
56 Colin Friels
Actor
50 Michael Madsen
Actor
47 Heather Locklear
Actress ("Melrose Place," "Spin City")
46 Aida Turturro
Actress ("The Sopranos")
45 Tate Donovan
Actor ("Damages")
42 Jason Flemyng
Actor
43 Scottie Pippen
Basketball player
39 Catherine Zeta-Jones
Actress
39 Hal Sparks
Actor ("Queer as Folk")
37 Mike Luce
Rock musician (Drowning Pool)
35 Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
Actress
33 Matt Hasselbeck
Football player
28 Chris Owen
Actor
28 T.I.
Rapper
27 Rocco Baldelli
Baseball player
27 Lee Norris
Actor
23 Diana Ortiz
Singer (*****)
17 Emmy Clarke
Actress ("Monk")
Historic Birthdays
William Faulkner
9/25/1897 - 7/6/1962
American Nobel Prize-winning novelist and short story writer (1949)
67 Francesco Borromini
9/25/1599 - 8/2/1667
Italian Baroque architect
75 Claude Perrault
9/25/1613 - 10/9/1688
French physician, architect and engineer
45 Melville Bissell
9/25/1843 - 3/15/1889
American inventor of the carpet sweeper
66 Mark Rothko
9/25/1903 - 2/25/1970
American Abstract Expressionist painter
66 Columbus Iselin
9/25/1904 - 1/5/1971
American oceanographer
76 Red Smith
9/25/1905 - 1/15/1982
American syndicated sports columnist
68 Dmitry Shostakovich
9/25/1906 - 8/9/1975
Russian composer
81 John V. Dodge
9/25/1909 - 4/23/1991
American publishing executive of the Encyclopedia Britannica
50 Glenn Gould
9/25/1932 - 10/4/1982
Canadian pianist
1774 - John Chapman was born. He was better known as Johnny Appleseed. He planted orchards, befriended wild *******, and was considered at great medicine man by Native Americans.
1777 - Philadelphia was occupied by British troops during the American Revolutionary War.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State. John Jay was appointed the first chief justice of the U.S. Samuel Osgood was appointed the first Postmaster-General. Edmund Jennings Randolph was appointed the first Attorney General.
1892 - "The King of Marches" was introduced to the general public.
1908 - Ed Eulbach of the Chicago Cubs became the first baseball player to pitch both games of a doubleheader and win both with shutouts.
1908 - In "The Saturday Evening Post" an ad for the Edison Phonograph appeared.
1914 - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission was established.
1918 - During World War I, the Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began. It was the final Allied offensive on the western front.
1950 - U.N. troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans during the Korean Conflict.
1955 - The New York Stock Exchange suffered its worst decline since 1929 when the word was released concerning U.S. President Eisenhower's heart ******.
1960 - The first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place in Chicago, IL.
1962 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiered on CBS-TV.
1964 - "Gilligan's Island" premiered on CBS-TV. The show aired for the last time on September 4, 1967.
1969 - "The Brady Bunch" series premiered on ABC-TV.
1980 - The Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbor to end the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.
1981 - The Boeing 767 made its maiden flight in Everett, WA.
1984 - Britain and China initialed a draft agreement on the future of Hong Kong when the Chinese take over ruling the British Colony.
1985 - Shamu was born at Sea World in Orlando, FL. Shamu was the first killer whale to survive being born in captivity.
1986 - The episode of "Dallas" that had Bobby Ewing returning from the dead was aired.
1986 - William H. Rehnquist became chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court following the retirement of Warren Burger.
1990 - The Motion Picture Association of America announced that it had created a new rating. The new NC17 rating was to keep moviegoers under the age of 17 from seeing certain films.
1991 - Four men and four women began their two-year stay inside the "Biosphere II." The project was intended to develop technology for future space colonies.
1991 - The U.S. Congress heard a plea from Kimberly Bergalis concerning mandatory AIDS testing for health care workers.
1992 - 163 people were ****** when a Nigerian military transport crashed shortly after takeoff.
1993 - The eight people who had stayed in "Biosphere II" emerged from their sealed off environment.
1995 - The warring factions of Bosnia agreed on guidelines for elections and a future government.
1996 - Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was sentenced to death in San Jose, CA.
1996 - Shannon Lucid returned to Earth after being in space for 188 days. The time set a record for a U.S. astronaut and a woman.
1997 - In Indonesia, a Garuda Airlines Airbus crashed ******* 234 people.
2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives ****** the Born-Alive ******* Protection Act. The act states that an ****** would be considered to have been born alive if he or she is completely extracted or expelled from the ****** and breathes and has a beating heart and definite movement of the voluntary muscles.
2000 - Slobodan Milosevic conceded that Vojislav Kostunica had won Yugoslavia's presidential election and declared a runoff. The declared runoff prompted mass protests.
2001 - In Kabul, Afghanistan, the abandoned U.S. Embassy was stormed by protesters. It was the largest anti-Amercian protest since the ****** attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, on September 11.
2001 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres announced plans to formalize a cease-fire and end a year of fighting in the region.
2001 - In New York City, hundreds of people began the process of filing for death certificates for ****** members still missing in the ruins of the World Trade Center. At the time more than 6,300 people were still missing
2004 Pakistani ****** ****** a suspected top al-Qaida operative wanted for his alleged role in the 2002 ********** and ********* of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2005 Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted by a military jury on six counts stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison ***** scandal. (She was later sentenced to three years in prison.)
2005 International weapons inspectors backed by Protestant and Catholic clergymen announced the Irish Republican Army's full disarmament.
2006 President George W. Bush ordered release of a declassified version of a government intelligence report that said the war in Iraq had become a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists.
2006 Former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to six years in prison for his role in the fallen energy company's bankruptcy.
2007 Myanmar began a violent crackdown on protests, beating and dragging away dozens of monks.
Current Birthdays
Serena Williams turns 27 years old today.
94 Jack LaLanne
Fitness expert
78 Philip Bosco
Actor
67 David Frizzell
Country singer
66 Kent McCord
Actor ("Adam 12")
64 Anne Robinson
Game show host ("The Weakest Link")
63 Bryan Ferry
Rock singer (Roxy Music)
62 Christie Todd Whitman
Former EPA administrator, former N.J. governor
61 Lynn Anderson
Singer
60 Mary Beth Hurt
Actress
60 Olivia Newton-John
Actress, singer
56 James Keane
Actor
54 Cesar Rosas
Rock musician (Los Lobos)
53 Carlene Carter
Country singer
52 Linda Hamilton
Actress
48 Doug Supernaw
Country singer
47 Cindy Herron
R&B singer (En Vogue)
46 Melissa Sue Anderson
Actress ("Little House on the Prairie")
46 Patrick Bristow
Actor
46 Al Pitrelli
Rock musician (Megadeth)
46 Tracey Thorn
Singer (Everything But The Girl)
42 Jillian Barberie Reynolds
TV weather reporter
40 Jim Caviezel
Actor
36 Shawn Stockman
R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
35 Nicholas Payton
Jazz trumpeter
31 T.J. Houshmandzadeh
Football player
29 Mark Famiglietti
Actor
27 Christina Milian
R&B singer-actress
Historic Birthdays
Paul VI
9/26/1897 - 8/6/1978
Italian pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1963-78)
86 Ivan Pavlov
9/26/1849 - 2/27/1936
Russian physiologist
56 Moses Mendelssohn
9/26/1729 - 1/4/1786
German-Jewish philosopher, critic and Bible translator
32 Jean-Louis Gericault
9/26/1791 - 1/26/1824
French painter and lithographer
66 Arthur B. Davies
9/26/1862 - 10/24/1928
American painter, printmaker and tapestry designer
76 T. S. Eliot
9/26/1888 - 1/4/1965
American-born poet, playwright, critic and editor
86 Martin Heidegger
9/26/1889 - 5/26/1976
German philosopher
77 Charles Munch
9/26/1891 - 11/6/1968
German-born conductor
82 Freda Kirchwey
9/26/1893 - 1/3/1976
American editor and publisher of "The Nation"
38 George Gershwin
9/26/1898 - 7/11/1937
American composer of operatic music and Broadway musicals
55 Albert Anastasia
9/26/1902 - 10/25/1957
American gangster
1777 - Philadelphia was occupied by British troops during the American Revolutionary War.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State. John Jay was appointed the first chief justice of the U.S. Samuel Osgood was appointed the first Postmaster-General. Edmund Jennings Randolph was appointed the first Attorney General.
1892 - "The King of Marches" was introduced to the general public.
1908 - Ed Eulbach of the Chicago Cubs became the first baseball player to pitch both games of a doubleheader and win both with shutouts.
1908 - In "The Saturday Evening Post" an ad for the Edison Phonograph appeared.
1914 - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission was established.
1918 - During World War I, the Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began. It was the final Allied offensive on the western front.
1950 - U.N. troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans during the Korean Conflict.
1955 - The New York Stock Exchange suffered its worst decline since 1929 when the word was released concerning U.S. President Eisenhower's heart ******.
1960 - The first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place in Chicago, IL.
1962 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiered on CBS-TV.
1964 - "Gilligan's Island" premiered on CBS-TV. The show aired for the last time on September 4, 1967.
1969 - "The Brady Bunch" series premiered on ABC-TV.
1980 - The Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbor to end the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.
1981 - The Boeing 767 made its maiden flight in Everett, WA.
1984 - Britain and China initialed a draft agreement on the future of Hong Kong when the Chinese take over ruling the British Colony.
1985 - Shamu was born at Sea World in Orlando, FL. Shamu was the first killer whale to survive being born in captivity.
1986 - The episode of "Dallas" that had Bobby Ewing returning from the dead was aired.
1986 - William H. Rehnquist became chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court following the retirement of Warren Burger.
1990 - The Motion Picture Association of America announced that it had created a new rating. The new NC17 rating was to keep moviegoers under the age of 17 from seeing certain films.
1991 - Four men and four women began their two-year stay inside the "Biosphere II." The project was intended to develop technology for future space colonies.
1991 - The U.S. Congress heard a plea from Kimberly Bergalis concerning mandatory AIDS testing for health care workers.
1992 - 163 people were ****** when a Nigerian military transport crashed shortly after takeoff.
1993 - The eight people who had stayed in "Biosphere II" emerged from their sealed off environment.
1995 - The warring factions of Bosnia agreed on guidelines for elections and a future government.
1996 - Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was sentenced to death in San Jose, CA.
1996 - Shannon Lucid returned to Earth after being in space for 188 days. The time set a record for a U.S. astronaut and a woman.
1997 - In Indonesia, a Garuda Airlines Airbus crashed ******* 234 people.
2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives ****** the Born-Alive ******* Protection Act. The act states that an ****** would be considered to have been born alive if he or she is completely extracted or expelled from the ****** and breathes and has a beating heart and definite movement of the voluntary muscles.
2000 - Slobodan Milosevic conceded that Vojislav Kostunica had won Yugoslavia's presidential election and declared a runoff. The declared runoff prompted mass protests.
2001 - In Kabul, Afghanistan, the abandoned U.S. Embassy was stormed by protesters. It was the largest anti-Amercian protest since the ****** attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, on September 11.
2001 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres announced plans to formalize a cease-fire and end a year of fighting in the region.
2001 - In New York City, hundreds of people began the process of filing for death certificates for ****** members still missing in the ruins of the World Trade Center. At the time more than 6,300 people were still missing
2004 Pakistani ****** ****** a suspected top al-Qaida operative wanted for his alleged role in the 2002 ********** and ********* of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2005 Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted by a military jury on six counts stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison ***** scandal. (She was later sentenced to three years in prison.)
2005 International weapons inspectors backed by Protestant and Catholic clergymen announced the Irish Republican Army's full disarmament.
2006 President George W. Bush ordered release of a declassified version of a government intelligence report that said the war in Iraq had become a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists.
2006 Former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to six years in prison for his role in the fallen energy company's bankruptcy.
2007 Myanmar began a violent crackdown on protests, beating and dragging away dozens of monks.
Current Birthdays
Serena Williams turns 27 years old today.
94 Jack LaLanne
Fitness expert
78 Philip Bosco
Actor
67 David Frizzell
Country singer
66 Kent McCord
Actor ("Adam 12")
64 Anne Robinson
Game show host ("The Weakest Link")
63 Bryan Ferry
Rock singer (Roxy Music)
62 Christie Todd Whitman
Former EPA administrator, former N.J. governor
61 Lynn Anderson
Singer
60 Mary Beth Hurt
Actress
60 Olivia Newton-John
Actress, singer
56 James Keane
Actor
54 Cesar Rosas
Rock musician (Los Lobos)
53 Carlene Carter
Country singer
52 Linda Hamilton
Actress
48 Doug Supernaw
Country singer
47 Cindy Herron
R&B singer (En Vogue)
46 Melissa Sue Anderson
Actress ("Little House on the Prairie")
46 Patrick Bristow
Actor
46 Al Pitrelli
Rock musician (Megadeth)
46 Tracey Thorn
Singer (Everything But The Girl)
42 Jillian Barberie Reynolds
TV weather reporter
40 Jim Caviezel
Actor
36 Shawn Stockman
R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
35 Nicholas Payton
Jazz trumpeter
31 T.J. Houshmandzadeh
Football player
29 Mark Famiglietti
Actor
27 Christina Milian
R&B singer-actress
Historic Birthdays
Paul VI
9/26/1897 - 8/6/1978
Italian pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1963-78)
86 Ivan Pavlov
9/26/1849 - 2/27/1936
Russian physiologist
56 Moses Mendelssohn
9/26/1729 - 1/4/1786
German-Jewish philosopher, critic and Bible translator
32 Jean-Louis Gericault
9/26/1791 - 1/26/1824
French painter and lithographer
66 Arthur B. Davies
9/26/1862 - 10/24/1928
American painter, printmaker and tapestry designer
76 T. S. Eliot
9/26/1888 - 1/4/1965
American-born poet, playwright, critic and editor
86 Martin Heidegger
9/26/1889 - 5/26/1976
German philosopher
77 Charles Munch
9/26/1891 - 11/6/1968
German-born conductor
82 Freda Kirchwey
9/26/1893 - 1/3/1976
American editor and publisher of "The Nation"
38 George Gershwin
9/26/1898 - 7/11/1937
American composer of operatic music and Broadway musicals
55 Albert Anastasia
9/26/1902 - 10/25/1957
American gangster
1779 - John Adams was elected to negotiate with the British over the American Revolutionary War peace terms.
1825 - George Stephenson operated the first locomotive that hauled a passenger train.
1840 - Thomas Nast was born. He was a political cartoonist that created the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey.
1854 - The steamship Arctic sank off Cape Race, Newfoundland, with 300 people onboard. It was the first major disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
1894 - The Aqueduct Race Track opened in New York City, NY.
1928 - The U.S. announced that it would recognize the Nationalist Chinese Government.
1938 - The League of Nations branded the Japanese as aggressors in China.
1939 - After 19 days of resistance, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered to the Germans after being invaded by the Nazis and the Soviet Union during World War II.
1940 - The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was set up. The military and economic pact was for 10 years between Germany, Italy and Japan.
1954 - The "Tonight!" show made its debut on NBC-TV with Steve Allen as host.
1959 - The Japanese island of Honshu was hit by Typhoon Vera. Nearly 5,000 people were ******.
1962 - The U.S. sold Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel.
1964 - The Warren Commission issued a report on the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in November of 1963. The report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone.
1968 - The U.K.'s entry into the European Common Market was barred by France.
1970 - "The Original Amateur Hour" aired for the last time on CBS. It had been on television for 22 years.
1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew said he would not resign after he pleaded "no contest" to a charge of tax evasion. He did resign on October 10th.
1979 - The Department of Education became the 13th Cabinet in U.S. history after the final approval from Congress.
1982 - Italian and French soldiers entered the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Beirut. The move was made by the members of a multinational ***** due to hundreds of Palestinians being massacred by Christian militiamen.
1983 - Larry Bird signed a seven-year contract with the Boston Celtics worth $15 million. The contract made him the highest paid Celtic in history.
1986 - The U.S. Senate approved federal tax code changes that were the most sweeping since World War II.
1989 - Columbia Pictures Entertainment agreed to buyout Sony Corporation for $3.4 billion.
1989 - Two men went over the 176-foot-high Niagara Falls in a barrel. Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi were the first to ever survive the Horshoe Falls.
1990 - The deposed emir of Kuwait addressed the U.N. General Assembly and denounced the "****, destruction and ******" that Iraq had inflicted upon his country.
1991 - U.S. President Bush eliminated all land-based tactical nuclear arms and removed all short-range nuclear arms from ships and submarines around the world. Bush then called on the Soviet Union to do the same.
1993 - U.S. Senator Kay Baily Hutchinson, Rep.-TX, was indicted on charges that she misused state facilities and employees while she was the Texas state treasurer. The charges were later dropped.
1994 - More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the Contract with America. It was a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
1995 - The U.S. government unveiled the redesigned $100 bill. The bill featured a larger, off-center portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
1996 - The Taliban seized control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and hanged the former president Najibullah.
1998 - In Germany, Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder was elected chancellor. The election ended 16 years of conservative rule.
1998 - Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) set a major league baseball record when he hit his 70th home run of the season.
2001 - In Zug, Switzerland, an armed man ****** 14 people and himself after entering the local parliament.
2002 - In Senegal, over 1,000 people were ****** when the ocean ferry MS Joola capsized.
2004 - North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon announced that North Korea had turned plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons. He also said that the weapons were to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent nuclear war in northeast Asia. The U.S. State Department noted that the U.S. has repeatedly said that the U.S. has no plans to ****** North Korea.
2005 Army reservist Lynndie England was sentenced to three years behind bars for her role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
2006 A gunman took six girls hostage at a high school in Bailey, Colo.; he ******** them and ****** one girl before committing suicide.
2007 Soldiers fired into crowds of anti-government demonstrators in Yangon, Myanmar, ******* at least nine people.
Current Birthdays
Gwyneth Paltrow turns 36 years old today.
89 Charles Percy
Former U.S. senator, R-Ill.
88 Jayne Meadows
Actress
86 Arthur Penn
Director ("The Miracle Worker," "Bonnie and Clyde")
79 Sada Thompson
Actress
75 Kathleen Nolan
Actress
74 Wilford Brimley
Actor
74 Claude Jarman Jr.
Actor
72 Don Cornelius
Producer ("Soul Train")
65 Randy Bachman
Rock singer, musician (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
61 Liz Torres
Actress ("Gilmore Girls")
60 A Martinez
Actor
59 Mike Schmidt
Baseball Hall of Famer
58 Cary-Hiroyuki Tagaw
Actor
57 Meat Loaf
Rock singer
55 Greg Ham
Rock musician (Men at Work)
50 Shaun Cassidy
Singer
44 Stephan Jenkins
Rock singer (Third Eye Blind)
40 Patrick Muldoon
Actor
38 Mark Calderon
Singer (Color Me Badd)
37 Amanda Detmer
Actress
30 Brad Arnold
Rock singer (3 Doors Down)
26 Lil' Wayne
Rapper
24 Avril Lavigne
Rock singer
Historic Birthdays
Alfred Thayer Mahan
9/27/1840 - 12/1/1914
American naval strategist
74 Cosimo de Medici
9/27/1389 - 8/1/1464
Florentine ruler
90 St. Alfonso Liguori
9/27/1696 - 8/1/1787
Italian theologian
81 Samuel Adams
9/27/1722 - 10/2/1803
American revolutionary leader
72 Benjamin Gould
9/27/1824 - 11/26/1896
American astronomer
62 Thomas Nast
9/27/1840 - 12/7/1902
American political cartoonist
80 Harry Blackstone
9/27/1885 - 11/16/1965
American magician and illusionist
88 Samuel Ervin
9/27/1896 - 4/23/1985
American senator from North Carolina; chairman of the committee that investigated Watergate
47 Vincent Youmans
9/27/1898 - 4/5/1946
American songwriter
66 Sir Martin Ryle
9/27/1918 - 10/14/1984
English physicist and astronomer
73 William Conrad
9/27/1920 - 2/11/1994
American radio, film and television actor and producer
37 Earl "Bud" Powell
9/27/1924 - 8/1/1966
American jazz pianist and composer
1825 - George Stephenson operated the first locomotive that hauled a passenger train.
1840 - Thomas Nast was born. He was a political cartoonist that created the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey.
1854 - The steamship Arctic sank off Cape Race, Newfoundland, with 300 people onboard. It was the first major disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
1894 - The Aqueduct Race Track opened in New York City, NY.
1928 - The U.S. announced that it would recognize the Nationalist Chinese Government.
1938 - The League of Nations branded the Japanese as aggressors in China.
1939 - After 19 days of resistance, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered to the Germans after being invaded by the Nazis and the Soviet Union during World War II.
1940 - The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was set up. The military and economic pact was for 10 years between Germany, Italy and Japan.
1954 - The "Tonight!" show made its debut on NBC-TV with Steve Allen as host.
1959 - The Japanese island of Honshu was hit by Typhoon Vera. Nearly 5,000 people were ******.
1962 - The U.S. sold Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel.
1964 - The Warren Commission issued a report on the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in November of 1963. The report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone.
1968 - The U.K.'s entry into the European Common Market was barred by France.
1970 - "The Original Amateur Hour" aired for the last time on CBS. It had been on television for 22 years.
1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew said he would not resign after he pleaded "no contest" to a charge of tax evasion. He did resign on October 10th.
1979 - The Department of Education became the 13th Cabinet in U.S. history after the final approval from Congress.
1982 - Italian and French soldiers entered the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in Beirut. The move was made by the members of a multinational ***** due to hundreds of Palestinians being massacred by Christian militiamen.
1983 - Larry Bird signed a seven-year contract with the Boston Celtics worth $15 million. The contract made him the highest paid Celtic in history.
1986 - The U.S. Senate approved federal tax code changes that were the most sweeping since World War II.
1989 - Columbia Pictures Entertainment agreed to buyout Sony Corporation for $3.4 billion.
1989 - Two men went over the 176-foot-high Niagara Falls in a barrel. Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi were the first to ever survive the Horshoe Falls.
1990 - The deposed emir of Kuwait addressed the U.N. General Assembly and denounced the "****, destruction and ******" that Iraq had inflicted upon his country.
1991 - U.S. President Bush eliminated all land-based tactical nuclear arms and removed all short-range nuclear arms from ships and submarines around the world. Bush then called on the Soviet Union to do the same.
1993 - U.S. Senator Kay Baily Hutchinson, Rep.-TX, was indicted on charges that she misused state facilities and employees while she was the Texas state treasurer. The charges were later dropped.
1994 - More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the Contract with America. It was a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
1995 - The U.S. government unveiled the redesigned $100 bill. The bill featured a larger, off-center portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
1996 - The Taliban seized control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and hanged the former president Najibullah.
1998 - In Germany, Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder was elected chancellor. The election ended 16 years of conservative rule.
1998 - Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) set a major league baseball record when he hit his 70th home run of the season.
2001 - In Zug, Switzerland, an armed man ****** 14 people and himself after entering the local parliament.
2002 - In Senegal, over 1,000 people were ****** when the ocean ferry MS Joola capsized.
2004 - North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon announced that North Korea had turned plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons. He also said that the weapons were to serve as a deterrent against increasing U.S. nuclear threats and to prevent nuclear war in northeast Asia. The U.S. State Department noted that the U.S. has repeatedly said that the U.S. has no plans to ****** North Korea.
2005 Army reservist Lynndie England was sentenced to three years behind bars for her role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
2006 A gunman took six girls hostage at a high school in Bailey, Colo.; he ******** them and ****** one girl before committing suicide.
2007 Soldiers fired into crowds of anti-government demonstrators in Yangon, Myanmar, ******* at least nine people.
Current Birthdays
Gwyneth Paltrow turns 36 years old today.
89 Charles Percy
Former U.S. senator, R-Ill.
88 Jayne Meadows
Actress
86 Arthur Penn
Director ("The Miracle Worker," "Bonnie and Clyde")
79 Sada Thompson
Actress
75 Kathleen Nolan
Actress
74 Wilford Brimley
Actor
74 Claude Jarman Jr.
Actor
72 Don Cornelius
Producer ("Soul Train")
65 Randy Bachman
Rock singer, musician (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
61 Liz Torres
Actress ("Gilmore Girls")
60 A Martinez
Actor
59 Mike Schmidt
Baseball Hall of Famer
58 Cary-Hiroyuki Tagaw
Actor
57 Meat Loaf
Rock singer
55 Greg Ham
Rock musician (Men at Work)
50 Shaun Cassidy
Singer
44 Stephan Jenkins
Rock singer (Third Eye Blind)
40 Patrick Muldoon
Actor
38 Mark Calderon
Singer (Color Me Badd)
37 Amanda Detmer
Actress
30 Brad Arnold
Rock singer (3 Doors Down)
26 Lil' Wayne
Rapper
24 Avril Lavigne
Rock singer
Historic Birthdays
Alfred Thayer Mahan
9/27/1840 - 12/1/1914
American naval strategist
74 Cosimo de Medici
9/27/1389 - 8/1/1464
Florentine ruler
90 St. Alfonso Liguori
9/27/1696 - 8/1/1787
Italian theologian
81 Samuel Adams
9/27/1722 - 10/2/1803
American revolutionary leader
72 Benjamin Gould
9/27/1824 - 11/26/1896
American astronomer
62 Thomas Nast
9/27/1840 - 12/7/1902
American political cartoonist
80 Harry Blackstone
9/27/1885 - 11/16/1965
American magician and illusionist
88 Samuel Ervin
9/27/1896 - 4/23/1985
American senator from North Carolina; chairman of the committee that investigated Watergate
47 Vincent Youmans
9/27/1898 - 4/5/1946
American songwriter
66 Sir Martin Ryle
9/27/1918 - 10/14/1984
English physicist and astronomer
73 William Conrad
9/27/1920 - 2/11/1994
American radio, film and television actor and producer
37 Earl "Bud" Powell
9/27/1924 - 8/1/1966
American jazz pianist and composer
48 B.C. - Pompey the Great was ******** on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt.
551 B.C. - Teacher and philosopher Confucius was born. He dedicated most of his life to teaching, starting at the age of 22 when he opened his first school.
1066 - England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.
1542 - San Diego, CA, was discovered by Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.
1687 - The Turks surrendered Athens to the Venetians.
1781 - During the Revolutionary War, American ****** began the siege on Yorktown, VA.
1787 - The U.S. Congress voted to send the new Constitution of the United States to the state legislatures for their approval.
1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment.
1850 - U.S. President Millard Fillmore named Brigham Young the first governor of the Utah territory. In 1857, U.S. President James Buchanan removed Young from the position.
1892 - The first nighttime football game in the U.S. took place under electric lights. The game was between the Mansfield State Normal School and the Wyoming Seminary.
1915 - The British defeated the Turks in Mesopotamia at Kut-el-Amara.
1920 - Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted in what was called the "Black Sox" scandal. They were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
1924 - The first around-the-world flight was completed by two U.S. Army planes when they landed in Seattle, WA. The trip took 175 days.
1936 - "Bachelor's ********" debuted on CBS Radio.
1939 - During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed upon a plan on the division of Poland.
1939 - "Fleischmann Hour" aired for the last time on radio.
1944 - "The Boys From Boise" was shown on WABD in New York as the first full-length comedy written for television.
1950 - The United Nations admitted Indonesia.
1955 - The World Series was televised in color for the first time. The game was between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1961 - "Dr. Kildare" premiered on NBC-TV.
1961 - "Hazel" premiered on NBC-TV.
1967 - The first mayor of Washington, DC, Walter Washington, took office.
1968 - The Atlanta Chiefs won the first North American Soccer League Championship.
1972 - Communist China and Japan agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.
1974 - First Lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy to remove a lump in her breast.
1978 - Heavy fighting occurred in Lebanon between Syrian peacekeeping troops and Lebanese Christian militiamen.
1978 - Don Sherman, editor of Car & Driver, set a new Class E record in Utah. Driving the Mazda RX7 he reached a speed of 183.904 mph.
1984 - Bob Hope showed outtakes of his 34 years in television on NBC.
1985 - Rioting erupted in London's Brixton district that lasted for two days. The incident occurred after a black woman was shot by a police officer during a raid on her home.
1987 - Mehdi Hashemi was executed for treason in an Iranian prison. Hashemi had at one time been a close aide to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989 - Ferdinand E. Marcos died in Hawaii, in exile, at the age of 72.
1991 - In response to U.S. President Bush's reduction of U.S. nuclear arms Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised to reciprocate.
1991 - Marion Barry, former mayor of the District of Columbia, was sentenced to six months in prison for possession of crack *******.
1992 - In Nepal, 167 people were ****** when a Pakistani jetliner crashed.
1994 - 900 people were ****** when an Estonian ferry capsized in the Baltic Sea.
1994 - Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu was assassinated. He was the No. 2 man in the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Mexico.
1995 - Yasser Arafat of the PLO and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed an accord that transferred control of the West Bank.
1997 - The 103rd convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) was held in New York City, NY. The official debut of the DVD format was featured.
2000 - The U.S. Federal **** Administration approved the use of RU-486 in the United States. The pill is used to induce an abortion.
2004 - The U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. Secret Service introduced the first newly redesigned $50 bill.
2004 - Nate Olive and Sarah Jones arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border to complete the first known continuous hike of the 1,800-mile trail down the U.S. Pacific Coast. They started the trek on June 8.
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2005 House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury on a charge of conspiring to ******* political fundraising laws. (The charge was later thrown out. Delay is awaiting trial on money laundering and conspiracy charges.)
2005 The U.S. Treasury unveiled the new $10 bill, which features splashes of red, yellow and orange.
Current Birthdays
Naomi Watts turns 40 years old today.
85 William Windom
Actor
83 Arnold Stang
Actor
80 Koko Taylor
Blues singer
74 Brigitte Bardot
Actress
70 Ben E. King
R&B singer
65 Joel Higgins
Actor
62 Jeffrey Jones
Actor ("Deadwood")
62 Helen Shapiro
Singer
58 John Sayles
Writer, director
56 Sylvia Kristel
Actress
54 Steve Largent
Football Hall of Famer
54 George Lynch
Rock musician
51 C.J. Chenier
Zydeco singer, musician
46 Grant Fuhr
Hockey Hall of Famer
44 Janeane Garofalo
Actress, comedian
42 Matt King
Country singer
41 Mira Sorvino
Actress
41 Moon Zappa
TV personality
40 Carre Otis
Actress, model
35 Chuck Crawford
Country musician (Heartland)
33 Mandy Barnett
Country singer
31 Young Jeezy
Rapper
31 Se Ri Pak
Golfer
21 Hilary Duff
Actress, singer ("Lizzie McGuire")
16 Skye McCole Bartusiak
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Ed Sullivan
9/28/1901 - 10/13/1974
American television host
60 Pierre-Louis Maupertuis
9/28/1698 - 7/27/1759
French mathematician, biologist and astronomer
66 Prosper Merimee
9/28/1803 - 9/23/1870
French dramatist, historian, archaeologist and short story writer
88 Georges Clemenceau
9/28/1841 - 11/24/1929
French statesman; premier of the Third Republic (1917-20)
87 Avery Brundage
9/28/1887 - 5/8/1975
American president of the International Olympic Committee (1952-72)
74 Elmer Rice
9/28/1892 - 5/8/1967
American playwright, director and novelist
89 William Paley
9/28/1901 - 10/26/1990
American broadcaster; led CBS for over 50 years
70 Al Capp
9/28/1909 - 11/5/1979
American cartoonist; created "Li'l Abner"
77 Alice Marble
9/28/1913 - 12/13/1990
American tennis player
76 Michael Somes
9/28/1917 - 11/18/1994
English ballet dancer
70 Tom Harmon
9/28/1919 - 3/15/1990
American football player; won Heisman Trophy in 1940
72 Marcello Mastroianni
9/28/1924 - 12/19/1996
Italian actor
551 B.C. - Teacher and philosopher Confucius was born. He dedicated most of his life to teaching, starting at the age of 22 when he opened his first school.
1066 - England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.
1542 - San Diego, CA, was discovered by Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.
1687 - The Turks surrendered Athens to the Venetians.
1781 - During the Revolutionary War, American ****** began the siege on Yorktown, VA.
1787 - The U.S. Congress voted to send the new Constitution of the United States to the state legislatures for their approval.
1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment.
1850 - U.S. President Millard Fillmore named Brigham Young the first governor of the Utah territory. In 1857, U.S. President James Buchanan removed Young from the position.
1892 - The first nighttime football game in the U.S. took place under electric lights. The game was between the Mansfield State Normal School and the Wyoming Seminary.
1915 - The British defeated the Turks in Mesopotamia at Kut-el-Amara.
1920 - Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted in what was called the "Black Sox" scandal. They were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
1924 - The first around-the-world flight was completed by two U.S. Army planes when they landed in Seattle, WA. The trip took 175 days.
1936 - "Bachelor's ********" debuted on CBS Radio.
1939 - During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed upon a plan on the division of Poland.
1939 - "Fleischmann Hour" aired for the last time on radio.
1944 - "The Boys From Boise" was shown on WABD in New York as the first full-length comedy written for television.
1950 - The United Nations admitted Indonesia.
1955 - The World Series was televised in color for the first time. The game was between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1961 - "Dr. Kildare" premiered on NBC-TV.
1961 - "Hazel" premiered on NBC-TV.
1967 - The first mayor of Washington, DC, Walter Washington, took office.
1968 - The Atlanta Chiefs won the first North American Soccer League Championship.
1972 - Communist China and Japan agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.
1974 - First Lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy to remove a lump in her breast.
1978 - Heavy fighting occurred in Lebanon between Syrian peacekeeping troops and Lebanese Christian militiamen.
1978 - Don Sherman, editor of Car & Driver, set a new Class E record in Utah. Driving the Mazda RX7 he reached a speed of 183.904 mph.
1984 - Bob Hope showed outtakes of his 34 years in television on NBC.
1985 - Rioting erupted in London's Brixton district that lasted for two days. The incident occurred after a black woman was shot by a police officer during a raid on her home.
1987 - Mehdi Hashemi was executed for treason in an Iranian prison. Hashemi had at one time been a close aide to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989 - Ferdinand E. Marcos died in Hawaii, in exile, at the age of 72.
1991 - In response to U.S. President Bush's reduction of U.S. nuclear arms Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised to reciprocate.
1991 - Marion Barry, former mayor of the District of Columbia, was sentenced to six months in prison for possession of crack *******.
1992 - In Nepal, 167 people were ****** when a Pakistani jetliner crashed.
1994 - 900 people were ****** when an Estonian ferry capsized in the Baltic Sea.
1994 - Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu was assassinated. He was the No. 2 man in the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Mexico.
1995 - Yasser Arafat of the PLO and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed an accord that transferred control of the West Bank.
1997 - The 103rd convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) was held in New York City, NY. The official debut of the DVD format was featured.
2000 - The U.S. Federal **** Administration approved the use of RU-486 in the United States. The pill is used to induce an abortion.
2004 - The U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. Secret Service introduced the first newly redesigned $50 bill.
2004 - Nate Olive and Sarah Jones arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border to complete the first known continuous hike of the 1,800-mile trail down the U.S. Pacific Coast. They started the trek on June 8.
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2005 House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury on a charge of conspiring to ******* political fundraising laws. (The charge was later thrown out. Delay is awaiting trial on money laundering and conspiracy charges.)
2005 The U.S. Treasury unveiled the new $10 bill, which features splashes of red, yellow and orange.
Current Birthdays
Naomi Watts turns 40 years old today.
85 William Windom
Actor
83 Arnold Stang
Actor
80 Koko Taylor
Blues singer
74 Brigitte Bardot
Actress
70 Ben E. King
R&B singer
65 Joel Higgins
Actor
62 Jeffrey Jones
Actor ("Deadwood")
62 Helen Shapiro
Singer
58 John Sayles
Writer, director
56 Sylvia Kristel
Actress
54 Steve Largent
Football Hall of Famer
54 George Lynch
Rock musician
51 C.J. Chenier
Zydeco singer, musician
46 Grant Fuhr
Hockey Hall of Famer
44 Janeane Garofalo
Actress, comedian
42 Matt King
Country singer
41 Mira Sorvino
Actress
41 Moon Zappa
TV personality
40 Carre Otis
Actress, model
35 Chuck Crawford
Country musician (Heartland)
33 Mandy Barnett
Country singer
31 Young Jeezy
Rapper
31 Se Ri Pak
Golfer
21 Hilary Duff
Actress, singer ("Lizzie McGuire")
16 Skye McCole Bartusiak
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Ed Sullivan
9/28/1901 - 10/13/1974
American television host
60 Pierre-Louis Maupertuis
9/28/1698 - 7/27/1759
French mathematician, biologist and astronomer
66 Prosper Merimee
9/28/1803 - 9/23/1870
French dramatist, historian, archaeologist and short story writer
88 Georges Clemenceau
9/28/1841 - 11/24/1929
French statesman; premier of the Third Republic (1917-20)
87 Avery Brundage
9/28/1887 - 5/8/1975
American president of the International Olympic Committee (1952-72)
74 Elmer Rice
9/28/1892 - 5/8/1967
American playwright, director and novelist
89 William Paley
9/28/1901 - 10/26/1990
American broadcaster; led CBS for over 50 years
70 Al Capp
9/28/1909 - 11/5/1979
American cartoonist; created "Li'l Abner"
77 Alice Marble
9/28/1913 - 12/13/1990
American tennis player
76 Michael Somes
9/28/1917 - 11/18/1994
English ballet dancer
70 Tom Harmon
9/28/1919 - 3/15/1990
American football player; won Heisman Trophy in 1940
72 Marcello Mastroianni
9/28/1924 - 12/19/1996
Italian actor
1758 - England's Admiral Horatio Nelson was born.
1789 - A regular army was established by the U.S. War Department with several hundred men.
1829 - The first public appearance by London's re-organized police ***** was met with jeers from political opponents. The ***** became known as Scotland Yard.
1902 - David Belasco opened his first Broadway theater.
1930 - Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS Radio. He was in the radio business for the next 46 years.
1930 - Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee were married.
1940 - The radio quiz show "Double or Nothing" debuted on the Mutual Radio Network.
1943 - U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marchal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson.
1946 - "The Adventures of Sam Spade" debuted on CBS Radio.
1951 - The first network football game was televised by CBS-TV in color. The game was between the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania.
1953 - "Make Room for *****" premiered on ABC-TV.
1955 - "A View From the Bridge," a play by Arthur Miller, opened in New York at the Coronet Theater.
1957 - The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds. The next year the Giants were in San Francisco, CA.
1960 - "My Three Sons" debuted on ABC-TV.
1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy nationalized the Mississippi National guard in response to city officials defying federal court orders. The orders had been to enroll James Meredith at the University of Mississippi.
1963 - "My Favorite Martian" premiered on CBS-TV.
1963 - "The Judy Garland Show" premiered on CBS-TV.
1967 - The International Monetary Fund reformed monetary systems around the world.
1977 - Eva Shain became the first woman to officiate a heavyweight title boxing match. About 70 million people watched Muhammad Ali defeat Ernie Shavers on NBC-TV.
1978 - Pope John Paul I was found dead after only one month of serving as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1982 - In Chicago, IL, seven people died after taking capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. 264,000 bottles were recalled.
1983 - The War Powers Act was used for the first time by the U.S. Congress when they authorized President Reagan to keep U.S. Marines in Lebanon for 18 more months.
1983 - "A Chorus Line" with performance number 3,389 became the longest running show on Broadway.
1984 - Irish officials announced that they had intercepted the Marita Anne carrying seven tons of U.S.-purchased weapons. The weapons were intended for the Irish Republican Army.
1984 - Elizabeth Taylor was voted to be the world's most beautiful woman in a Louis Harris poll. Taylor was at the time in the Betty Ford Clinic overcoming a weight problem.
1986 - Nicholas Daniloff was released by the Soviet Union. He had been held on spying charges.
1986 - Mary Lou Retton announced that she was quitting gymnastics.
1988 - The space shuttle Discovery took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It was the first manned space flight since the Challenger disaster.
1990 - "Millie's Book" by First Lady Barbara Bush was the best-selling non-fiction book in the U.S.
1992 - Magic Johnson announced that he was returning to professional basketball. The comeback ended the following November.
1992 - Brazilian lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to impeach President Fernando Collor de Mello.
1993 - Bosnia's parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject an international peace plan unless Bosnian Serbs returned land that had been taken by *****.
1994 - The U.S. House voted to end the practice of lobbyist buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress.
1995 - Three U.S. servicemen were indicted on **** charges concerning a 12-year-old Okinawan girl. The men were handed over to Japanese authorities.
1998 - Hasbro announced plans to introduce an action figure of retired U.S. General Colin Powell.
1998 - In Austin, TX, nine carnival ride executives were indicted by a grand jury for the death of teenage girl who had been ****** when thrown from a ride.
2000 Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, ******* four Palestinians and wounding 175.
2005 John Roberts was sworn in as the nation's 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.
2005 New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
2006 Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned after being confronted with sexually explicit computer messages he'd sent to former House pages.
Current Birthdays
Zachary Levi turns 28 years old today
86 Lizabeth Scott
Actress
84 Steve Forrest
Actor
77 Eddie Barth
Actor
77 Anita Ekberg
Actress
76 Robert Benton
Director, writer
73 Jerry Lee Lewis
Rock singer, musician
66 Ian McShane
Actor ("Deadwood")
66 Bill Nelson
U.S. senator, D-Fla.
66 Jean-Luc Ponty
Jazz violinist
64 Mike Post
TV, film theme composer
62 Patricia Hodge
Actress
60 Mark Farner
Rock musician (Grand Funk Railroad)
60 Bryant Gumbel
TV personality
60 Mike Pinera
Rock musician (Iron Butterfly)
58 Alvin Crow
Country singer
55 Drake Hogestyn
Actor ("Days of Our Lives")
53 Gwen Ifill
Broadcast journalist
52 Suzzy Roche
Singer (The Roches)
51 Andrew "Dice" Clay
Comedian
50 John Payne
Rock singer (Asia)
46 Roger Bart
Actor
45 Les Claypool
Rock singer, musician (Primus)
42 Jill Whelan
Actress ("The Love Boat")
40 Brad Smith
Rock musician (Blind Melon)
39 Erika Eleniak
Actress
39 Devante Swing
R&B singer (Jodeci)
38 Brad Cotter
Country singer ("Nashville Star")
38 Emily Lloyd
Actress
38 Natasha Gregson Wagner
Actress
37 Rachel Cronin
Actress ("Ed")
35 Danick Dupelle
Country musician (Emerson Drive)
26 Katie McNeill
Country singer (3 of Hearts)
21 Josh Farro
Rock musician (Paramore)
Historic Birthdays
Enrico Fermi
9/29/1901 - 11/28/1954
Italian-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1938)
57 Pompey The Great
9/29/106 BC - 9/28/48 BC
Roman statesman and general of the Roman Republic
68 John Leslie
9/29/1527 - 5/31/1596
Scottish bishop; advisor to Queen Mary
66 Francois Boucher
9/29/1703 - 5/30/1770
French painter, engraver and designer
47 Horatio Nelson
9/29/1758 - 10/21/1805
English naval commander
84 Caroline Yale
9/29/1848 - 7/2/1933
American educator of the deaf
54 Walther Rathenau
9/29/1867 - 6/24/1922
German statesman, industrialist and philosopher
80 Miguel Aleman
9/29/1902 - 5/14/1983
Mexican president (1946-52)
91 Greer Garson
9/29/1904 - 4/6/1996
English-born motion-picture actress
71 Trevor Howard
9/29/1913 - 1/7/1988
English stage and screen actor
1789 - A regular army was established by the U.S. War Department with several hundred men.
1829 - The first public appearance by London's re-organized police ***** was met with jeers from political opponents. The ***** became known as Scotland Yard.
1902 - David Belasco opened his first Broadway theater.
1930 - Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS Radio. He was in the radio business for the next 46 years.
1930 - Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee were married.
1940 - The radio quiz show "Double or Nothing" debuted on the Mutual Radio Network.
1943 - U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marchal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson.
1946 - "The Adventures of Sam Spade" debuted on CBS Radio.
1951 - The first network football game was televised by CBS-TV in color. The game was between the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania.
1953 - "Make Room for *****" premiered on ABC-TV.
1955 - "A View From the Bridge," a play by Arthur Miller, opened in New York at the Coronet Theater.
1957 - The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds. The next year the Giants were in San Francisco, CA.
1960 - "My Three Sons" debuted on ABC-TV.
1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy nationalized the Mississippi National guard in response to city officials defying federal court orders. The orders had been to enroll James Meredith at the University of Mississippi.
1963 - "My Favorite Martian" premiered on CBS-TV.
1963 - "The Judy Garland Show" premiered on CBS-TV.
1967 - The International Monetary Fund reformed monetary systems around the world.
1977 - Eva Shain became the first woman to officiate a heavyweight title boxing match. About 70 million people watched Muhammad Ali defeat Ernie Shavers on NBC-TV.
1978 - Pope John Paul I was found dead after only one month of serving as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1982 - In Chicago, IL, seven people died after taking capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. 264,000 bottles were recalled.
1983 - The War Powers Act was used for the first time by the U.S. Congress when they authorized President Reagan to keep U.S. Marines in Lebanon for 18 more months.
1983 - "A Chorus Line" with performance number 3,389 became the longest running show on Broadway.
1984 - Irish officials announced that they had intercepted the Marita Anne carrying seven tons of U.S.-purchased weapons. The weapons were intended for the Irish Republican Army.
1984 - Elizabeth Taylor was voted to be the world's most beautiful woman in a Louis Harris poll. Taylor was at the time in the Betty Ford Clinic overcoming a weight problem.
1986 - Nicholas Daniloff was released by the Soviet Union. He had been held on spying charges.
1986 - Mary Lou Retton announced that she was quitting gymnastics.
1988 - The space shuttle Discovery took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It was the first manned space flight since the Challenger disaster.
1990 - "Millie's Book" by First Lady Barbara Bush was the best-selling non-fiction book in the U.S.
1992 - Magic Johnson announced that he was returning to professional basketball. The comeback ended the following November.
1992 - Brazilian lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to impeach President Fernando Collor de Mello.
1993 - Bosnia's parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject an international peace plan unless Bosnian Serbs returned land that had been taken by *****.
1994 - The U.S. House voted to end the practice of lobbyist buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress.
1995 - Three U.S. servicemen were indicted on **** charges concerning a 12-year-old Okinawan girl. The men were handed over to Japanese authorities.
1998 - Hasbro announced plans to introduce an action figure of retired U.S. General Colin Powell.
1998 - In Austin, TX, nine carnival ride executives were indicted by a grand jury for the death of teenage girl who had been ****** when thrown from a ride.
2000 Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine and opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, ******* four Palestinians and wounding 175.
2005 John Roberts was sworn in as the nation's 17th chief justice after winning Senate confirmation.
2005 New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
2006 Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned after being confronted with sexually explicit computer messages he'd sent to former House pages.
Current Birthdays
Zachary Levi turns 28 years old today
86 Lizabeth Scott
Actress
84 Steve Forrest
Actor
77 Eddie Barth
Actor
77 Anita Ekberg
Actress
76 Robert Benton
Director, writer
73 Jerry Lee Lewis
Rock singer, musician
66 Ian McShane
Actor ("Deadwood")
66 Bill Nelson
U.S. senator, D-Fla.
66 Jean-Luc Ponty
Jazz violinist
64 Mike Post
TV, film theme composer
62 Patricia Hodge
Actress
60 Mark Farner
Rock musician (Grand Funk Railroad)
60 Bryant Gumbel
TV personality
60 Mike Pinera
Rock musician (Iron Butterfly)
58 Alvin Crow
Country singer
55 Drake Hogestyn
Actor ("Days of Our Lives")
53 Gwen Ifill
Broadcast journalist
52 Suzzy Roche
Singer (The Roches)
51 Andrew "Dice" Clay
Comedian
50 John Payne
Rock singer (Asia)
46 Roger Bart
Actor
45 Les Claypool
Rock singer, musician (Primus)
42 Jill Whelan
Actress ("The Love Boat")
40 Brad Smith
Rock musician (Blind Melon)
39 Erika Eleniak
Actress
39 Devante Swing
R&B singer (Jodeci)
38 Brad Cotter
Country singer ("Nashville Star")
38 Emily Lloyd
Actress
38 Natasha Gregson Wagner
Actress
37 Rachel Cronin
Actress ("Ed")
35 Danick Dupelle
Country musician (Emerson Drive)
26 Katie McNeill
Country singer (3 of Hearts)
21 Josh Farro
Rock musician (Paramore)
Historic Birthdays
Enrico Fermi
9/29/1901 - 11/28/1954
Italian-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1938)
57 Pompey The Great
9/29/106 BC - 9/28/48 BC
Roman statesman and general of the Roman Republic
68 John Leslie
9/29/1527 - 5/31/1596
Scottish bishop; advisor to Queen Mary
66 Francois Boucher
9/29/1703 - 5/30/1770
French painter, engraver and designer
47 Horatio Nelson
9/29/1758 - 10/21/1805
English naval commander
84 Caroline Yale
9/29/1848 - 7/2/1933
American educator of the deaf
54 Walther Rathenau
9/29/1867 - 6/24/1922
German statesman, industrialist and philosopher
80 Miguel Aleman
9/29/1902 - 5/14/1983
Mexican president (1946-52)
91 Greer Garson
9/29/1904 - 4/6/1996
English-born motion-picture actress
71 Trevor Howard
9/29/1913 - 1/7/1988
English stage and screen actor
1399 - Henry Bolingbroke became the King of England as Henry IV.
1630 - John Billington was hanged for ******. He was the first criminal to be executed in the American colonies.
1777 - The Congress of the United States moved to York, PA, due to advancing British ******.
1787 - The Columbia left Boston and began the trip that would make it the first American vessel to sail around the world.
1846 - Ether, an experimental anesthetic at the time, was used for the first time by Dr. William Morton at Massachusetts General Hospital.
1861 - Chewing gum tycoon William Wrigley, Jr. was born.
1868 - Spain's Queen Isabella was deposed and fled to France.
1882 - In Appleton, WI, the world's first hydroelectric power plant began operating.
1924 - Truman Streckfus Persons was born in New Orleans, LA. He later changed his name to Truman Capote.
1927 - George Herman "Babe" Ruth hit his 60th homerun of the season. He broke his own record with the homerun. The record stood until 1961 when Roger Maris broke the record.
1930 - "Death Valley Days" was heard for the first time on the NBC Blue radio network.
1935 - "The Adventures of Dick Tracey" debuted on Mutual Radio Network.
1935 - "Porgy and Bess" premiered in Boston.
1938 - The Munich Conference ended with a decision to appease Adolf Hitler. Britain, and France allowed Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to be annexed by the Nazis.
1939 - "Captain Midnight" was heard for the first time on the Mutual Radio Network.
1946 - An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top **** leaders guilty of war crimes.
1947 - The World Series was televised for the first time. The sponsors only paid $65,000 for the entire series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees.
1949 - The Berlin Airlift came to an end. The airlift had taken 2.3 million tons of food into the western sector despite the Soviet blockade.
1951 - "The Red Skelton Show" debuted on NBC-TV.
1954 - The U.S. Navy commissioned the Nautilus submarine at Groton, CT. It was the first atomic-powered vessel. The submarine had been launched on January 21, 1954.
1954 - Julie Andrews made her first Broadway appearance in "The Boy Friend".
1955 - Actor James Dean was ****** in a car accident at the age of 24 near Cholame, CA. Dean's mechanic, who was also in the vehicle, eventually recovered from his injuries.
1962 - James Meredith succeeded in registering at the University of Mississippi. It was his fourth attempt to register.
1963 - The Soviet Union publicly declared itself on the side of India in their dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir.
1966 - Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were released at midnight from Spandau prison after completing their 20-year sentences. Speer was the **** minister of armaments and von Schirach was the founder of Hitler Youth.
1971 - The Soviet Union and the United States signed pacts that were aimed at avoiding an accidental nuclear war.
1971 - A committee of nine people was organized to investigate the prison riot at Attica, NY. 10 hostages and 32 prisoners were ****** when National Guardsmen stormed the prison on September 13, 1971.
1976 - California enacted the Natural Death Act of California. The law was the first example of right-to-die legislation in the U.S.
1980 - Israel issued its new currency, the shekel, to replace the pound.
1982 - "Cheers" began an 11-year run on NBC-TV.
1984 - 107 Moslem extremists were sentenced to prison for their actions after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981.
1984 - Mike Witt became only the 11th pitcher to throw a perfect game in major league baseball.
1984 - "Doonesbury" by Garry Trudeau returned. The comic strip had not been printed in nearly 20 months.
1985 - Four Soviet diplomats were ********* in Beirut by the Islamic Liberation Organization. One of the diplomats was ****** and the other three were later released.
1986 - The U.S. released accused Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov, one day after the Nicholas Daniloff had been released by the Soviets.
1987 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev retired President Andrei A. Gromyko from the Politburo and fired other old-guard leaders in a shake-up at the Kremlin.
1989 - Thousands of East Germans began emigrating under an accord between the NATO nations and the Soviet Union.
1989 - Non-Communist Cambodian guerrillas claimed that they had captured 3 towns and 10 other positions from the residing government ******.
1990 - The Soviet Union and South Korea opened diplomatic relations.
1991 - Haiti's first freely elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown by Brigadier General Raoul Cedras. Aristide was later returned to power.
1992 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals reached his 3,000th career hit during a game against the California Angels.
1992 - Moscow banks distributed privatization vouchers aimed at turning millions of Russians into capitalists.
1993 - About 10,000 people were ****** in India when an earthquake that measured 6.4 hit the southern part of the country.
1993 - U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell retired.
1994 - The space shuttle Endeavor took off on an 11-day mission. Part of the mission was to use a radar instrument to map remote areas of the Earth.
1997 - France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the persecution and deportation of Jews the pro-**** Vichy regime.
1998 - Gov. Pete Wilson of California signed a bill into law that defined "invasion of privacy as trespassing with the intent to capture audio or video images of a ********* or crime victim engaging in a personal of ****** activity." The law went into effect January 1, 1999.
1999 - The San Francisco Giants played the Los Angeles Dodgers in the last baseball game to be played at Candlestick Park (3Com Park). The Dodgers won 9-4.
1999 - In Tokaimura, Japan, radiation escaped a nuclear facility after workers accidentally set off an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction.
2003 - The FBI began a criminal investigation concerning the possibility that White House officials had illegally ****** the identity of an undercover CIA officer
2004 Merck & Co. pulled Vioxx, its heavily promoted arthritis ****, from the market after a study found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Current Birthdays
Marion Cotillard turns 33 years old today
82 Robin Roberts
Baseball Hall of Famer
80 Elie Wiesel
Author, Nobel Peace Prize winner
77 Angie Dickinson
Actress ("Police Woman")
75 Cissy Houston
Gospel singer
73 Johnny Mathis
Singer
69 Len Cariou
Actor
66 Dewey Martin
Rock musician (Buffalo Springfield)
65 Marilyn McCoo
Singer (The Fifth Dimension)
62 Sylvia Peterson
Singer (The Chiffons)
56 John Finn
Actor ("Cold Case")
56 John Lombardo
Rock musician (10,000 Maniacs)
55 Deborah Allen
Country singer
54 Calvin Levels
Actor
54 Patrice Rushen
Singer
54 Barry Williams
Actor ("The Brady Bunch")
52 Vondie Curtis-Hall
Actor
51 Fran Drescher
Actress ("The Nanny")
50 Marty Stuart
Country singer
49 Debrah Farentino
Actress
48 Blanche Lincoln
U.S. senator, D-Ark.
47 Crystal Bernard
Actress ("Wings")
47 Eric Stoltz
Actor
46 Marley Marl
Rapper, producer
45 Eddie Montgomery
Country singer (Montgomery Gentry)
44 Trey Anastasio
Rock singer, musician (Phish)
44 Monica Bellucci
Actress ("Matrix" movies)
44 Robby Takac
Rock musician (Goo Goo Dolls)
42 Lisa Thornhill
Actress
41 Andrea Roth
Actress
38 Tony Hale
Actor
37 Jenna Elfman
Actress ("Dharma and Greg")
36 Jose Lima
Baseball player
34 Ashley Hamilton
Actor
33 Carlos Guillen
Baseball player
29 Mike Damus
Actor
28 Martina Hingis
Tennis player
26 Lacey Chabert
Actress ("Mean Girls," "Party of Five")
26 Kieran Culkin
Actor
24 T-Pain
Singer-rapper
Historic Birthdays
Truman Capote
9/30/1924 - 8/25/1984
American novelist, short-story writer and playwright
64 Etienne Bonnot Condillac
9/30/1715 - 8/2/3/1780
French philosopher, psychologist, logician and economist
73 Zacharias Frankel
9/30/1801 - 2/13/1875
Bohemian rabbi and theologian; founded Conservative Judaism
73 Antoine-Jerome Balard
9/30/1802 - 3/30/1876
French chemist; discovered the element bromine
71 Sir Charles Stanford
9/30/1852 - 3/29/1924
Irish-born English composer, conductor and teacher
77 Thomas Lamont
9/30/1870 - 2/2/1948
American banker and financier
71 Jean Perrin
9/30/1870 - 4/17/1942
French Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1926)
62 Hans Geiger
9/30/1882 - 9/24/1945
German physicist; introduced the Geiger Counter
87 Nora Stanton Barney
9/30/1883 - 1/18/1971
American civil engineer, architect and suffragist
90 Sir Nevill Mott
9/30/1905 - 8/8/1996
English physicist
72 Kenny Baker
9/30/1912 - 8/10/1985
American movie and radio singer and actor
1630 - John Billington was hanged for ******. He was the first criminal to be executed in the American colonies.
1777 - The Congress of the United States moved to York, PA, due to advancing British ******.
1787 - The Columbia left Boston and began the trip that would make it the first American vessel to sail around the world.
1846 - Ether, an experimental anesthetic at the time, was used for the first time by Dr. William Morton at Massachusetts General Hospital.
1861 - Chewing gum tycoon William Wrigley, Jr. was born.
1868 - Spain's Queen Isabella was deposed and fled to France.
1882 - In Appleton, WI, the world's first hydroelectric power plant began operating.
1924 - Truman Streckfus Persons was born in New Orleans, LA. He later changed his name to Truman Capote.
1927 - George Herman "Babe" Ruth hit his 60th homerun of the season. He broke his own record with the homerun. The record stood until 1961 when Roger Maris broke the record.
1930 - "Death Valley Days" was heard for the first time on the NBC Blue radio network.
1935 - "The Adventures of Dick Tracey" debuted on Mutual Radio Network.
1935 - "Porgy and Bess" premiered in Boston.
1938 - The Munich Conference ended with a decision to appease Adolf Hitler. Britain, and France allowed Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to be annexed by the Nazis.
1939 - "Captain Midnight" was heard for the first time on the Mutual Radio Network.
1946 - An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top **** leaders guilty of war crimes.
1947 - The World Series was televised for the first time. The sponsors only paid $65,000 for the entire series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees.
1949 - The Berlin Airlift came to an end. The airlift had taken 2.3 million tons of food into the western sector despite the Soviet blockade.
1951 - "The Red Skelton Show" debuted on NBC-TV.
1954 - The U.S. Navy commissioned the Nautilus submarine at Groton, CT. It was the first atomic-powered vessel. The submarine had been launched on January 21, 1954.
1954 - Julie Andrews made her first Broadway appearance in "The Boy Friend".
1955 - Actor James Dean was ****** in a car accident at the age of 24 near Cholame, CA. Dean's mechanic, who was also in the vehicle, eventually recovered from his injuries.
1962 - James Meredith succeeded in registering at the University of Mississippi. It was his fourth attempt to register.
1963 - The Soviet Union publicly declared itself on the side of India in their dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir.
1966 - Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were released at midnight from Spandau prison after completing their 20-year sentences. Speer was the **** minister of armaments and von Schirach was the founder of Hitler Youth.
1971 - The Soviet Union and the United States signed pacts that were aimed at avoiding an accidental nuclear war.
1971 - A committee of nine people was organized to investigate the prison riot at Attica, NY. 10 hostages and 32 prisoners were ****** when National Guardsmen stormed the prison on September 13, 1971.
1976 - California enacted the Natural Death Act of California. The law was the first example of right-to-die legislation in the U.S.
1980 - Israel issued its new currency, the shekel, to replace the pound.
1982 - "Cheers" began an 11-year run on NBC-TV.
1984 - 107 Moslem extremists were sentenced to prison for their actions after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981.
1984 - Mike Witt became only the 11th pitcher to throw a perfect game in major league baseball.
1984 - "Doonesbury" by Garry Trudeau returned. The comic strip had not been printed in nearly 20 months.
1985 - Four Soviet diplomats were ********* in Beirut by the Islamic Liberation Organization. One of the diplomats was ****** and the other three were later released.
1986 - The U.S. released accused Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov, one day after the Nicholas Daniloff had been released by the Soviets.
1987 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev retired President Andrei A. Gromyko from the Politburo and fired other old-guard leaders in a shake-up at the Kremlin.
1989 - Thousands of East Germans began emigrating under an accord between the NATO nations and the Soviet Union.
1989 - Non-Communist Cambodian guerrillas claimed that they had captured 3 towns and 10 other positions from the residing government ******.
1990 - The Soviet Union and South Korea opened diplomatic relations.
1991 - Haiti's first freely elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown by Brigadier General Raoul Cedras. Aristide was later returned to power.
1992 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals reached his 3,000th career hit during a game against the California Angels.
1992 - Moscow banks distributed privatization vouchers aimed at turning millions of Russians into capitalists.
1993 - About 10,000 people were ****** in India when an earthquake that measured 6.4 hit the southern part of the country.
1993 - U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell retired.
1994 - The space shuttle Endeavor took off on an 11-day mission. Part of the mission was to use a radar instrument to map remote areas of the Earth.
1997 - France's Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the persecution and deportation of Jews the pro-**** Vichy regime.
1998 - Gov. Pete Wilson of California signed a bill into law that defined "invasion of privacy as trespassing with the intent to capture audio or video images of a ********* or crime victim engaging in a personal of ****** activity." The law went into effect January 1, 1999.
1999 - The San Francisco Giants played the Los Angeles Dodgers in the last baseball game to be played at Candlestick Park (3Com Park). The Dodgers won 9-4.
1999 - In Tokaimura, Japan, radiation escaped a nuclear facility after workers accidentally set off an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction.
2003 - The FBI began a criminal investigation concerning the possibility that White House officials had illegally ****** the identity of an undercover CIA officer
2004 Merck & Co. pulled Vioxx, its heavily promoted arthritis ****, from the market after a study found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Current Birthdays
Marion Cotillard turns 33 years old today
82 Robin Roberts
Baseball Hall of Famer
80 Elie Wiesel
Author, Nobel Peace Prize winner
77 Angie Dickinson
Actress ("Police Woman")
75 Cissy Houston
Gospel singer
73 Johnny Mathis
Singer
69 Len Cariou
Actor
66 Dewey Martin
Rock musician (Buffalo Springfield)
65 Marilyn McCoo
Singer (The Fifth Dimension)
62 Sylvia Peterson
Singer (The Chiffons)
56 John Finn
Actor ("Cold Case")
56 John Lombardo
Rock musician (10,000 Maniacs)
55 Deborah Allen
Country singer
54 Calvin Levels
Actor
54 Patrice Rushen
Singer
54 Barry Williams
Actor ("The Brady Bunch")
52 Vondie Curtis-Hall
Actor
51 Fran Drescher
Actress ("The Nanny")
50 Marty Stuart
Country singer
49 Debrah Farentino
Actress
48 Blanche Lincoln
U.S. senator, D-Ark.
47 Crystal Bernard
Actress ("Wings")
47 Eric Stoltz
Actor
46 Marley Marl
Rapper, producer
45 Eddie Montgomery
Country singer (Montgomery Gentry)
44 Trey Anastasio
Rock singer, musician (Phish)
44 Monica Bellucci
Actress ("Matrix" movies)
44 Robby Takac
Rock musician (Goo Goo Dolls)
42 Lisa Thornhill
Actress
41 Andrea Roth
Actress
38 Tony Hale
Actor
37 Jenna Elfman
Actress ("Dharma and Greg")
36 Jose Lima
Baseball player
34 Ashley Hamilton
Actor
33 Carlos Guillen
Baseball player
29 Mike Damus
Actor
28 Martina Hingis
Tennis player
26 Lacey Chabert
Actress ("Mean Girls," "Party of Five")
26 Kieran Culkin
Actor
24 T-Pain
Singer-rapper
Historic Birthdays
Truman Capote
9/30/1924 - 8/25/1984
American novelist, short-story writer and playwright
64 Etienne Bonnot Condillac
9/30/1715 - 8/2/3/1780
French philosopher, psychologist, logician and economist
73 Zacharias Frankel
9/30/1801 - 2/13/1875
Bohemian rabbi and theologian; founded Conservative Judaism
73 Antoine-Jerome Balard
9/30/1802 - 3/30/1876
French chemist; discovered the element bromine
71 Sir Charles Stanford
9/30/1852 - 3/29/1924
Irish-born English composer, conductor and teacher
77 Thomas Lamont
9/30/1870 - 2/2/1948
American banker and financier
71 Jean Perrin
9/30/1870 - 4/17/1942
French Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1926)
62 Hans Geiger
9/30/1882 - 9/24/1945
German physicist; introduced the Geiger Counter
87 Nora Stanton Barney
9/30/1883 - 1/18/1971
American civil engineer, architect and suffragist
90 Sir Nevill Mott
9/30/1905 - 8/8/1996
English physicist
72 Kenny Baker
9/30/1912 - 8/10/1985
American movie and radio singer and actor
1596 - The Duke of Norfolk was imprisoned by Britain's Queen Elizabeth for trying to marry Mary the Queen of Scots.
1781 - James Lawrence was born. He was the American naval officer whose dying words were "Don't give up the ship."
1800 - Spain ceded the territory of Louisiana back to France. Later the property would be purchased by the U.S. effectively doubling its size.
1880 - Thomas Edison began the commercial production of electric lamps at Edison Lamp Works in Menlo Park.
1885 - Special delivery mail service began in the United States. The first routes were in West Virginia.
1890 - The U.S. Congress ****** the McKinley Tariff Act. The act raised tariffs to a record level.
1896 - Rural Free Delivery was established by the U.S. Post Office.
1903 - The first modern World Series took place between the Boston Pilgrims and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1908 - The Model T automobile was introduced by Henry Ford. The purchase price of the car was $850.
1918 - Damascus was captured from the Turks during World War I by a ***** made up of British and Arab ******.
1933 - Babe Ruth made his final pitching appearance. He pitched all nine innings and hit a home run in the 5th inning.
1936 - General Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of the Spanish state.
1938 - German ****** enter Czechoslovakia and seized control of the Sudetenland. The Munich Pact had been signed two days before.
1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened as the first toll superhighway in the United States.
1943 - Naples was captured by the Allied ****** during World War II.
1946 - The International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced 12 **** officials to death. Seven others were sentenced to prison terms and 3 were acquitted.
1946 - The first baseball play-off game for a league championship was played. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2.
1949 - Mao Tse-tung raised the first flag of the People's Republic of China when the communist ****** had defeated the Nationalists. The Nationalist ****** fled to Taiwan.
1952 - "This is Your Life" began airing on NBC-TV.
1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season to beat Babe Ruth's major league record of 60.
1962 - Johnny Carson began hosting the "Tonight" show on NBC-TV. He stayed with the show for 29 years. Jack Paar was the previous host.
1964 - The Free Speech Movement was started at the University of California at Berkeley.
1968 - "Night of the Living Dead" premiered in Pittsburgh, PA.
1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, FL.
1972 - The Chinese government approved friendly relations with the United States.
1979 - The United States handed control of the Canal Zone over to Panama.
1980 - Robert Redford became the first male to appear alone on the cover of "Ladies' Home Journal." He was the only male to achieve this in 97 years.
1981 - EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) Center opened in Florida. The concept was planned by Walt Disney.
1984 - U.S. Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan announced that he was taking a leave of absence following his indictment on charges of larceny and fraud. He was later acquitted.
1985 - The PLO's headquarters in Tunisia was raided by Israeli jet fighters.
1987 - Eight people were ****** in Los Angeles when an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale hit the area.
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the Soviet presidency.
1989 - The authorized Charles Schulz biography, Good Grief, was published.
1989 - 7,000 East Germans were welcomed into West Germany after they were allowed to leave by the communist government.
1990 - U.S. President Bush addressed the U.N. General Assembly and once again condemned Iraq's takeover of Kuwait.
1990 - In Croatia, minority Serbs proclaimed autonomy.
1991 - U.S. President Bush condemned the military coup in Haiti that removed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power. U.S. economic and military aid was suspended.
1991 - The U.S. trust territory of Palau became independent.
1992 - The USS Saratoga accidentally fired missiles at a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea. Five people were ****** in the incident.
1992 - The Strategic Arm Reduction Treaty was approved by the U.S. Senate.
1993 - 12-year-old Polly Klaas was ******** from her home in Petaluma, CA, by an intruder.
1994 - The U.S. and Japan avoided a trade war by reaching a series of trade agreements.
1994 - The National Hockey League (NHL) team owners began a lockout of the players that lasted 103 days.
1995 - Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine other defendants were convicted in New York of conspiring to ****** the U.S. through bombings, kidnappings and assassinations.
1995 - Southwestern Turkey experienced an earthquake that ****** about 90 people.
1996 - Lucent Technologies became an independent company.
1996 - A federal grand jury indicted Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in the 1994 mail bomb ****** of an ad executive.
1998 - The U.S. government posted a $2.2 million reward for the capture of Augustin Vasquez Mendoza. He is accused of ******* an undercover U.S. agent during a **** purchase in 1994.
1999 - The 50th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China was celebrated in Beijing.
2001 - San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban Internet filters designed to keep pornography away from ******** at city libraries. The board left the decision up to the Library Commission to decide whether to install filtering software in ********'s areas. A federal law in the U.S. mandated the use of the filters.
Current Birthdays
Jimmy Carter turns 84 years old today.
87 James Whitmore
Actor
84 Roger Williams
Pianist
81 Tom Bosley
Actor ("Happy Days")
73 Julie Andrews
Actress, singer
65 Jerry Martini
Rock musician (Sly and the ****** Stone)
63 Rod Carew
Baseball Hall of Famer
62 Dave Holland
Actor ("7th Heaven")
61 Stephen Collins
Jazz bassist
58 Randy Quaid
Actor
51 Yvette Freeman
Actress ("ER")
49 Youssou N'Dour
Singer
46 Esai Morales
Actor
45 Mark McGwire
Baseball player
44 Christopher Titus
Actor
43 Cindy Margolis
Actress, model
40 Kevin Griffin
Rock musician (Better Than Ezra)
34 Keith Duffy
Singer
22 Jurnee Smollett
Actress
19 Brie Larson
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Vladimir Horowitz
10/1/1903 - 11/5/1989
Ukraine-born American pianist
65 Henry III
10/1/1207 - 11/16/1272
King of England (1216-72)
50 Richard Stockton
10/1/1730 - 2/8/1781
American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independece
31 James Lawrence
10/1/1781 - 6/1/1813
American naval officer
85 Annie Besant
10/1/1847 - 9/20/1933
British theosophist writer, educator and politician
69 Paul Abraham Dukas
10/1/1865 - 5/17/1935
French composer
74 William Boeing
10/1/1881 - 9/28/1956
American engineer
91 Stanley Holloway
10/1/1890 - 1/30/1982
British actor
74 Otto R. Frisch
10/1/1904 - 9/22/1979
Austrian physicist
23 Bonnie Parker
10/1/1910 - 5/23/1934
American bank robber
1781 - James Lawrence was born. He was the American naval officer whose dying words were "Don't give up the ship."
1800 - Spain ceded the territory of Louisiana back to France. Later the property would be purchased by the U.S. effectively doubling its size.
1880 - Thomas Edison began the commercial production of electric lamps at Edison Lamp Works in Menlo Park.
1885 - Special delivery mail service began in the United States. The first routes were in West Virginia.
1890 - The U.S. Congress ****** the McKinley Tariff Act. The act raised tariffs to a record level.
1896 - Rural Free Delivery was established by the U.S. Post Office.
1903 - The first modern World Series took place between the Boston Pilgrims and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1908 - The Model T automobile was introduced by Henry Ford. The purchase price of the car was $850.
1918 - Damascus was captured from the Turks during World War I by a ***** made up of British and Arab ******.
1933 - Babe Ruth made his final pitching appearance. He pitched all nine innings and hit a home run in the 5th inning.
1936 - General Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of the Spanish state.
1938 - German ****** enter Czechoslovakia and seized control of the Sudetenland. The Munich Pact had been signed two days before.
1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened as the first toll superhighway in the United States.
1943 - Naples was captured by the Allied ****** during World War II.
1946 - The International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced 12 **** officials to death. Seven others were sentenced to prison terms and 3 were acquitted.
1946 - The first baseball play-off game for a league championship was played. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2.
1949 - Mao Tse-tung raised the first flag of the People's Republic of China when the communist ****** had defeated the Nationalists. The Nationalist ****** fled to Taiwan.
1952 - "This is Your Life" began airing on NBC-TV.
1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season to beat Babe Ruth's major league record of 60.
1962 - Johnny Carson began hosting the "Tonight" show on NBC-TV. He stayed with the show for 29 years. Jack Paar was the previous host.
1964 - The Free Speech Movement was started at the University of California at Berkeley.
1968 - "Night of the Living Dead" premiered in Pittsburgh, PA.
1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, FL.
1972 - The Chinese government approved friendly relations with the United States.
1979 - The United States handed control of the Canal Zone over to Panama.
1980 - Robert Redford became the first male to appear alone on the cover of "Ladies' Home Journal." He was the only male to achieve this in 97 years.
1981 - EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) Center opened in Florida. The concept was planned by Walt Disney.
1984 - U.S. Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan announced that he was taking a leave of absence following his indictment on charges of larceny and fraud. He was later acquitted.
1985 - The PLO's headquarters in Tunisia was raided by Israeli jet fighters.
1987 - Eight people were ****** in Los Angeles when an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale hit the area.
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the Soviet presidency.
1989 - The authorized Charles Schulz biography, Good Grief, was published.
1989 - 7,000 East Germans were welcomed into West Germany after they were allowed to leave by the communist government.
1990 - U.S. President Bush addressed the U.N. General Assembly and once again condemned Iraq's takeover of Kuwait.
1990 - In Croatia, minority Serbs proclaimed autonomy.
1991 - U.S. President Bush condemned the military coup in Haiti that removed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power. U.S. economic and military aid was suspended.
1991 - The U.S. trust territory of Palau became independent.
1992 - The USS Saratoga accidentally fired missiles at a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea. Five people were ****** in the incident.
1992 - The Strategic Arm Reduction Treaty was approved by the U.S. Senate.
1993 - 12-year-old Polly Klaas was ******** from her home in Petaluma, CA, by an intruder.
1994 - The U.S. and Japan avoided a trade war by reaching a series of trade agreements.
1994 - The National Hockey League (NHL) team owners began a lockout of the players that lasted 103 days.
1995 - Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine other defendants were convicted in New York of conspiring to ****** the U.S. through bombings, kidnappings and assassinations.
1995 - Southwestern Turkey experienced an earthquake that ****** about 90 people.
1996 - Lucent Technologies became an independent company.
1996 - A federal grand jury indicted Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in the 1994 mail bomb ****** of an ad executive.
1998 - The U.S. government posted a $2.2 million reward for the capture of Augustin Vasquez Mendoza. He is accused of ******* an undercover U.S. agent during a **** purchase in 1994.
1999 - The 50th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China was celebrated in Beijing.
2001 - San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban Internet filters designed to keep pornography away from ******** at city libraries. The board left the decision up to the Library Commission to decide whether to install filtering software in ********'s areas. A federal law in the U.S. mandated the use of the filters.
Current Birthdays
Jimmy Carter turns 84 years old today.
87 James Whitmore
Actor
84 Roger Williams
Pianist
81 Tom Bosley
Actor ("Happy Days")
73 Julie Andrews
Actress, singer
65 Jerry Martini
Rock musician (Sly and the ****** Stone)
63 Rod Carew
Baseball Hall of Famer
62 Dave Holland
Actor ("7th Heaven")
61 Stephen Collins
Jazz bassist
58 Randy Quaid
Actor
51 Yvette Freeman
Actress ("ER")
49 Youssou N'Dour
Singer
46 Esai Morales
Actor
45 Mark McGwire
Baseball player
44 Christopher Titus
Actor
43 Cindy Margolis
Actress, model
40 Kevin Griffin
Rock musician (Better Than Ezra)
34 Keith Duffy
Singer
22 Jurnee Smollett
Actress
19 Brie Larson
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Vladimir Horowitz
10/1/1903 - 11/5/1989
Ukraine-born American pianist
65 Henry III
10/1/1207 - 11/16/1272
King of England (1216-72)
50 Richard Stockton
10/1/1730 - 2/8/1781
American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independece
31 James Lawrence
10/1/1781 - 6/1/1813
American naval officer
85 Annie Besant
10/1/1847 - 9/20/1933
British theosophist writer, educator and politician
69 Paul Abraham Dukas
10/1/1865 - 5/17/1935
French composer
74 William Boeing
10/1/1881 - 9/28/1956
American engineer
91 Stanley Holloway
10/1/1890 - 1/30/1982
British actor
74 Otto R. Frisch
10/1/1904 - 9/22/1979
Austrian physicist
23 Bonnie Parker
10/1/1910 - 5/23/1934
American bank robber
1452 - Richard III was born. He married the widow of the Prince of Wales and then imprisoned his ******-in-law for life.
1492 - King Henry VII of England invaded France.
1780 - British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold.
1835 - The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place near the Guadalupe River when American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry unit.
1836 - Charles Darwin returned to England after 5 years of acquiring knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He used the information to develop his "theory of evolution" which he unveiled in his 1859 book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
1869 - Mahatma (Mohandas) K Gandhi was born. He was known for his advocacy of non-violent resistance to fight tyranny.
1870 - Rome was made the capital of Italy.
1876 - The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opened. It was the state's first venture into public higher education. The school was formally dedicated 2 days later by Texas Gov. Richard ****.
1889 - The first international Conference of American States began in Washington, DC.
1890 - Groucho Marx was born in New York. He is known for the "Marx Brothers" movies and his quiz show "You Bet Your Life."
1895 - Ruth Cheney Streeter was born. She became the first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve.
1908 - Addie Joss of Cleveland pitched the fourth perfect game in major league baseball history.
1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially *********.
1920 - The Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates played the only triple-header in baseball history. The Reds won 2 of the 3 games.
1924 - The Geneva Protocol adopted the League of Nations.
1925 - Scottish inventor John Logie Baird completed the first transmission of moving images.
1929 - "The National **** and Home Hour" debuted on NBC radio.
1933 - "Red Adams" debuted on NBC radio.
1937 - Warner Bros. released "Love Is on the Air." Ronald Reagan made his acting debut in the motion picture. He was 26 years old.
1940 - During World War II, the HMS Empress was sunk while carrying ***** refugees from Britain to Canada.
1941 - Operation Typhoon was launched by **** Germany. The plan was an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1944 - The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising.
1947 - The Federatino Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) formally established Formula One racing in Grand Prix competition.
1948 - The first automobile race to use asphalt, cement and dirt roads took place in Watkins Glen in New York. It was the first road race in the U.S. following World War II.
1949 - "The Aldrich ******" debuted on NBC-TV.
1950 - "Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers.
1953 - "Person to Person" debuted on CBS-TV.
1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" debuted on CBS-TV.
1958 - Guinea, the French colony in West Africa, proclaimed its independence. Sekou Toure was the first president of the Republic of Guinea.
1959 - "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.
1962 - U.S. ports were closed to nations that allowed their ships to carry arms to Cuba, ships that had docked in a socialist country were prohibited from docking in the United States during that voyage, and the transport of U.S. goods was ****** on ships owned by companies that traded with Cuba.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall was sworn in. He was the first African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1985 - Rock Hudson died from the AIDS virus at the age of 59.
1988 - Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered free elections.
1989 - In Leipzig, East Germany a protest took place demanding the legalization of opposition groups and the adoption of democratic reforms.
1990 - The Allies ceded their rights to areas they occupied in Germany.
1993 - Opponents of Russian President Boris Yeltsin fought police and set up burning barricades.
1996 - Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and fined $200 after pleading no contest to perjury at O.J. Simpson's trial.
1998 - Hawaii sued petroleum companies, claiming state drivers were overcharged by about $73 million a year in price-fixing.
1998 - About 10,000 Turkish soldiers cross into northern Iraq and attacked Kurdish rebels.
2001 - The U.S. Postmaster unveiled the "Tribute to America" stamp. The stamp was planned for release the next month.
2001 - NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated that an ****** on one member is an ****** on all members. The act was in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.
2002 A man was shot and ****** in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Md., the first victim in a series of sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area, that left 10 dead.
2005 Playwright August Wilson died at age 60.
2006 An man took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., ******* five and wounding five others before committing suicide.
2007 A federal jury ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million to a former team executive, concluding that she'd been sexually harassed and fired out of spite.
Current Birthdays
Sting turns 57 years old today
81 Leon Rausch
Country musician (Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys)
76 Maury Wills
Baseball player
70 Rex Reed
Movie critic
63 Don McLean
Singer, songwriter
62 Jo-el Sonnier
Cajun, country singer
60 Avery Brooks
Actor
59 Annie Leibovitz
********* photographer
58 Mike Rutherford
Rock musician (Genesis)
54 Lorraine Bracco
Actress ("The Sopranos")
54 Greg Jennings
Country musician (Restless Heart)
53 Phil Oakey
Rock singer (The Human League)
50 Freddie Jackson
R&B singer
50 Robbie Nevil
Singer, producer
46 James Hunter
Soul singer
41 Bud Gaugh
Rock musician
41 Gillian Welch
Folk, country singer
40 Jana Novotna
Tennis Hall of Famer
40 Kelly Willis
Country singer
38 Dion Allen
R&B singer (Az Yet)
38 Kelly Ripa
Actress, talk show host ("Live with Regis and Kelly")
37 Tiffany
Singer
35 Lene Nystrom
Rock singer
35 Efren Ramirez
Actor
35 LaTocha Scott
R&B singer (Xscape)
32 Mandisa
Gospel singer ("American Idol")
Historic Birthdays
Mahatma Mohandask Gandhi
10/2/1869 - 1/30/1948
Spiritual and political leader of Indian independence movement
32 Richard III
10/2/1452 - 8/22/1485
King of England
46 Saint Charles Borromeo
10/2/1538 - 11/3/1584
Italian Roman Catholic bishop
31 Nat Turner
10/2/1800 - 11/11/1831
American slave hanged for leading violent slave uprising
86 Paul Von Hindenburg
10/2/1847 - 8/2/1934
German military officer and politician
77 Ferdinand Foch
10/2/1851 - 3/20/1929
French army general
63 Sir William Ramsay
10/2/1852 - 7/23/1916
British chemist
83 Cordell Hull
10/2/1871 - 7/23/1955
American diplomat
75 Wallace Stevens
10/2/1879 - 8/2/1955
American poet
86 Groucho Marx
10/2/1890 - 8/19/1977
American comedian
77 Bud Abbott
10/2/1897 - 4/24/1974
American comedian
85 Charles Stark Draper
10/2/1901 - 7/25/1987
American engineer
86 Graham Greene
10/2/1904 - 4/3/1991
English novelist
1492 - King Henry VII of England invaded France.
1780 - British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold.
1835 - The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place near the Guadalupe River when American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry unit.
1836 - Charles Darwin returned to England after 5 years of acquiring knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He used the information to develop his "theory of evolution" which he unveiled in his 1859 book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
1869 - Mahatma (Mohandas) K Gandhi was born. He was known for his advocacy of non-violent resistance to fight tyranny.
1870 - Rome was made the capital of Italy.
1876 - The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opened. It was the state's first venture into public higher education. The school was formally dedicated 2 days later by Texas Gov. Richard ****.
1889 - The first international Conference of American States began in Washington, DC.
1890 - Groucho Marx was born in New York. He is known for the "Marx Brothers" movies and his quiz show "You Bet Your Life."
1895 - Ruth Cheney Streeter was born. She became the first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve.
1908 - Addie Joss of Cleveland pitched the fourth perfect game in major league baseball history.
1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially *********.
1920 - The Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates played the only triple-header in baseball history. The Reds won 2 of the 3 games.
1924 - The Geneva Protocol adopted the League of Nations.
1925 - Scottish inventor John Logie Baird completed the first transmission of moving images.
1929 - "The National **** and Home Hour" debuted on NBC radio.
1933 - "Red Adams" debuted on NBC radio.
1937 - Warner Bros. released "Love Is on the Air." Ronald Reagan made his acting debut in the motion picture. He was 26 years old.
1940 - During World War II, the HMS Empress was sunk while carrying ***** refugees from Britain to Canada.
1941 - Operation Typhoon was launched by **** Germany. The plan was an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1944 - The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising.
1947 - The Federatino Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) formally established Formula One racing in Grand Prix competition.
1948 - The first automobile race to use asphalt, cement and dirt roads took place in Watkins Glen in New York. It was the first road race in the U.S. following World War II.
1949 - "The Aldrich ******" debuted on NBC-TV.
1950 - "Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers.
1953 - "Person to Person" debuted on CBS-TV.
1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" debuted on CBS-TV.
1958 - Guinea, the French colony in West Africa, proclaimed its independence. Sekou Toure was the first president of the Republic of Guinea.
1959 - "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.
1962 - U.S. ports were closed to nations that allowed their ships to carry arms to Cuba, ships that had docked in a socialist country were prohibited from docking in the United States during that voyage, and the transport of U.S. goods was ****** on ships owned by companies that traded with Cuba.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall was sworn in. He was the first African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1985 - Rock Hudson died from the AIDS virus at the age of 59.
1988 - Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered free elections.
1989 - In Leipzig, East Germany a protest took place demanding the legalization of opposition groups and the adoption of democratic reforms.
1990 - The Allies ceded their rights to areas they occupied in Germany.
1993 - Opponents of Russian President Boris Yeltsin fought police and set up burning barricades.
1996 - Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and fined $200 after pleading no contest to perjury at O.J. Simpson's trial.
1998 - Hawaii sued petroleum companies, claiming state drivers were overcharged by about $73 million a year in price-fixing.
1998 - About 10,000 Turkish soldiers cross into northern Iraq and attacked Kurdish rebels.
2001 - The U.S. Postmaster unveiled the "Tribute to America" stamp. The stamp was planned for release the next month.
2001 - NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated that an ****** on one member is an ****** on all members. The act was in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.
2002 A man was shot and ****** in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Md., the first victim in a series of sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area, that left 10 dead.
2005 Playwright August Wilson died at age 60.
2006 An man took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., ******* five and wounding five others before committing suicide.
2007 A federal jury ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million to a former team executive, concluding that she'd been sexually harassed and fired out of spite.
Current Birthdays
Sting turns 57 years old today
81 Leon Rausch
Country musician (Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys)
76 Maury Wills
Baseball player
70 Rex Reed
Movie critic
63 Don McLean
Singer, songwriter
62 Jo-el Sonnier
Cajun, country singer
60 Avery Brooks
Actor
59 Annie Leibovitz
********* photographer
58 Mike Rutherford
Rock musician (Genesis)
54 Lorraine Bracco
Actress ("The Sopranos")
54 Greg Jennings
Country musician (Restless Heart)
53 Phil Oakey
Rock singer (The Human League)
50 Freddie Jackson
R&B singer
50 Robbie Nevil
Singer, producer
46 James Hunter
Soul singer
41 Bud Gaugh
Rock musician
41 Gillian Welch
Folk, country singer
40 Jana Novotna
Tennis Hall of Famer
40 Kelly Willis
Country singer
38 Dion Allen
R&B singer (Az Yet)
38 Kelly Ripa
Actress, talk show host ("Live with Regis and Kelly")
37 Tiffany
Singer
35 Lene Nystrom
Rock singer
35 Efren Ramirez
Actor
35 LaTocha Scott
R&B singer (Xscape)
32 Mandisa
Gospel singer ("American Idol")
Historic Birthdays
Mahatma Mohandask Gandhi
10/2/1869 - 1/30/1948
Spiritual and political leader of Indian independence movement
32 Richard III
10/2/1452 - 8/22/1485
King of England
46 Saint Charles Borromeo
10/2/1538 - 11/3/1584
Italian Roman Catholic bishop
31 Nat Turner
10/2/1800 - 11/11/1831
American slave hanged for leading violent slave uprising
86 Paul Von Hindenburg
10/2/1847 - 8/2/1934
German military officer and politician
77 Ferdinand Foch
10/2/1851 - 3/20/1929
French army general
63 Sir William Ramsay
10/2/1852 - 7/23/1916
British chemist
83 Cordell Hull
10/2/1871 - 7/23/1955
American diplomat
75 Wallace Stevens
10/2/1879 - 8/2/1955
American poet
86 Groucho Marx
10/2/1890 - 8/19/1977
American comedian
77 Bud Abbott
10/2/1897 - 4/24/1974
American comedian
85 Charles Stark Draper
10/2/1901 - 7/25/1987
American engineer
86 Graham Greene
10/2/1904 - 4/3/1991
English novelist
1226 - St. Francis of Assisi died. He was the founder of the Franciscan order.
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln declared that the last Thursday of November would be recognized as Thanksgiving Day.
1888 - "The Yeomen of the Guard" was performed for the first time. It was the first of 423 shows.
1893 - The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman.
1901 - The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated. After a merger with Radio Corporation of America the company became RCA-Victor.
1902 - Harvey Kurtzman, founder of "Mad" magazine, was born.
1906 - W.T. Grant opened a 25-cent department store.
1922 - Rebecca L. Felton became the first female to hold office of U.S. Senator. She was appointed by Governor Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia to fill a vacancy.
1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1932 - Iraq was admitted into the League of Nations leading Britain to terminate their mandate over the nation. Britain had ruled Iraq since taking it from Turkey during World War I.
1935 - Italian ****** invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia).
1941 - Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that Russia was "broken" and they "would never rise again."
1942 - The Office of Economic Stabilization was established by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also authorized controls on rents, wages, salaries and **** prices.
1944 - During World War II, U.S. troops broke through the Siegfried Line.
1946 - "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day" began airing on NBC-TV.
1951 - CBS-TV aired the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prizefight. Dave Sands defeated Carl Olson at Soldier Field in Chicago.
1952 - Britain became the third nuclear power in the world when they successfully detonated their first atomic bomb. The U.S. and Russia were the only other nuclear powers.
1954 - "****** Knows Best" began airing on CBS-TV.
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS-TV.
1955 - Rock Hudson was featured on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.
1955 - "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC-TV.
1961 - "The Dick Van Dyke Show" debuted on CBS-TV.
1962 - The Sigma VII blasted off from Cape Canaveral for a nine-hour flight.
1962 - The play, "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!" opened on Broadway.
1974 - Frank Robinson took over the management position of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. He was the first black manager in major league baseball.
1981 - Irish Nationalist in Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland called off their hunger strike. The strike had lasted 7 months and ten people had died.
1986 - "Tough Guys" was released. It was the first comedy to feature Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. It was, however, their seventh movie together.
1988 - The space shuttle Discovery landed safely after its four-day mission. It was the first American shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
1988 - Mithileshwar Singh, an Indian educator, was released by kidnappers in Lebanon. He had been held captive for almost two years with three Americans.
1989 - An unsuccessful coup was attempted against Panamanian Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega.
1989 - East Germany suspended unrestricted travel to Czechoslovakia in an effort to slow the flow of refugees to the West.
1989 - Art Shell became the first African-American head coach in the modern NFL when he took over the Los Angeles Raiders.
1990 - The Berlin Wall was dismantled eleven months after the borders between East and West Germany were dissolved. The unification of Germany ended 45 years of division.
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein made a visit to Kuwait since his country had seized control of the oil-rich nation.
1994 - The headquarters of the Haitian pro-army militia was raided by U.S. soldiers.
1995 - O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 ****** of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman. Simpson was later found liable in a civil trial.
1997 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that U.S. President Clinton had broken the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.
2001 - Near Manchester, TN, a passenger on a Greyhound bus slashed the throat of the driver. The resulting wreck ****** six and injured 34 others. The driver survived his injuries. The attacker was ****** in the accident and was identified as Damir Igric.
2001 - ESPN began its 10th season of National Hockey League (NHL) coverage.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) broke Babe Ruth's major league single-season record for walks at 171.
2003 - Ray Horn, of the duo "Siegfried & Roy," was attacked by tiger during a performance. Roy survived the ****** after being dragged offstage. The tiger, a 7-year-old male named Montecore, was debuting in his first show.
2006 - North Korea announced that it would conduct a nuclear test as a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it viewed as a deterrent against a U.S. ******. A date for the test was not announced.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a new high ending the day at 11,727.34. Earlier in the session, the Dow had risen to 11,758.95. Both previous records had been set on January 14, 2000.
Current Birthdays
Clive Owen turns 44 years old today.
83 Gore Vidal
Author
82 Marques Haynes
Basketball Hall of Famer
72 Steve Reich
Composer
70 David Obey
U.S. congressman, D-Wis.
68 Alan O'Day
Singer
67 Chubby Checker
Rock singer
66 Alan Rachins
Actor
65 Jeff Bingaman
U.S. senator, D-N.M.
64 Roy
Magician (Siegfried & Roy)
64 Bob Riley
Governor of Alabama
59 Lindsey Buckingham
Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac)
58 Ronnie Laws
Jazz saxophonist
57 Keb' Mo'
Blues singer
57 Dave Winfield
Baseball Hall of Famer
54 Dennis Eckersley
Baseball Hall of Famer
54 Al Sharpton
Civil rights activist
52 Hart Bochner
Actor
52 Peter Frechette
Actor
49 Jack Wagner
Actor
46 Tommy Lee
Rock musician (Motley Crue)
39 Janel Moloney
Actress ("The West Wing")
39 Gwen Stefani
Rock singer (No Doubt)
37 Kevin Richardson
Singer (Backstreet Boys)
36 G. Love
Rock singer
35 Keiko Agena
Actress ("Gilmore Girls")
35 Neve Campbell
Actress
33 India.Arie
R&B singer
33 Talib Kweli
Rapper
33 Alanna Ubach
Actress
32 Seann William Scott
Actor
30 Shannyn Sossamon
Actress
27 Seth Gabel
Actor ("Dirty Sexy Money")
26 Erik Von Detten
Actor
24 Ashlee Simpson-Wentz
Singer, actress
Historic Birthdays
Emily Post
10/3/1873 - 9/25/1960
American writer
75 John Ross
10/3/1790 - 8/1/1866
American Cherokee leader
90 George Bancroft
10/3/1800 - 1/17/1891
American historian
77 Sir Patrick Manson
10/3/1844 - 4/9/1922
Scottish physician
65 William Crawford Gorgas
10/3/1854 - 7/3/1920
American physician
65 Eleonora Duse
10/3/1858 - 4/21/1924
Italian actress
79 Pierre Bonnard
10/3/1867 - 1/23/1947
French painter
37 Thomas Clayton Wolfe
10/3/1900 - 9/15/1938
American novelist
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln declared that the last Thursday of November would be recognized as Thanksgiving Day.
1888 - "The Yeomen of the Guard" was performed for the first time. It was the first of 423 shows.
1893 - The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman.
1901 - The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated. After a merger with Radio Corporation of America the company became RCA-Victor.
1902 - Harvey Kurtzman, founder of "Mad" magazine, was born.
1906 - W.T. Grant opened a 25-cent department store.
1922 - Rebecca L. Felton became the first female to hold office of U.S. Senator. She was appointed by Governor Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia to fill a vacancy.
1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1932 - Iraq was admitted into the League of Nations leading Britain to terminate their mandate over the nation. Britain had ruled Iraq since taking it from Turkey during World War I.
1935 - Italian ****** invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia).
1941 - Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that Russia was "broken" and they "would never rise again."
1942 - The Office of Economic Stabilization was established by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also authorized controls on rents, wages, salaries and **** prices.
1944 - During World War II, U.S. troops broke through the Siegfried Line.
1946 - "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day" began airing on NBC-TV.
1951 - CBS-TV aired the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prizefight. Dave Sands defeated Carl Olson at Soldier Field in Chicago.
1952 - Britain became the third nuclear power in the world when they successfully detonated their first atomic bomb. The U.S. and Russia were the only other nuclear powers.
1954 - "****** Knows Best" began airing on CBS-TV.
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS-TV.
1955 - Rock Hudson was featured on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.
1955 - "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC-TV.
1961 - "The Dick Van Dyke Show" debuted on CBS-TV.
1962 - The Sigma VII blasted off from Cape Canaveral for a nine-hour flight.
1962 - The play, "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!" opened on Broadway.
1974 - Frank Robinson took over the management position of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. He was the first black manager in major league baseball.
1981 - Irish Nationalist in Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland called off their hunger strike. The strike had lasted 7 months and ten people had died.
1986 - "Tough Guys" was released. It was the first comedy to feature Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. It was, however, their seventh movie together.
1988 - The space shuttle Discovery landed safely after its four-day mission. It was the first American shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
1988 - Mithileshwar Singh, an Indian educator, was released by kidnappers in Lebanon. He had been held captive for almost two years with three Americans.
1989 - An unsuccessful coup was attempted against Panamanian Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega.
1989 - East Germany suspended unrestricted travel to Czechoslovakia in an effort to slow the flow of refugees to the West.
1989 - Art Shell became the first African-American head coach in the modern NFL when he took over the Los Angeles Raiders.
1990 - The Berlin Wall was dismantled eleven months after the borders between East and West Germany were dissolved. The unification of Germany ended 45 years of division.
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein made a visit to Kuwait since his country had seized control of the oil-rich nation.
1994 - The headquarters of the Haitian pro-army militia was raided by U.S. soldiers.
1995 - O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 ****** of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman. Simpson was later found liable in a civil trial.
1997 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that U.S. President Clinton had broken the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.
2001 - Near Manchester, TN, a passenger on a Greyhound bus slashed the throat of the driver. The resulting wreck ****** six and injured 34 others. The driver survived his injuries. The attacker was ****** in the accident and was identified as Damir Igric.
2001 - ESPN began its 10th season of National Hockey League (NHL) coverage.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) broke Babe Ruth's major league single-season record for walks at 171.
2003 - Ray Horn, of the duo "Siegfried & Roy," was attacked by tiger during a performance. Roy survived the ****** after being dragged offstage. The tiger, a 7-year-old male named Montecore, was debuting in his first show.
2006 - North Korea announced that it would conduct a nuclear test as a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it viewed as a deterrent against a U.S. ******. A date for the test was not announced.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a new high ending the day at 11,727.34. Earlier in the session, the Dow had risen to 11,758.95. Both previous records had been set on January 14, 2000.
Current Birthdays
Clive Owen turns 44 years old today.
83 Gore Vidal
Author
82 Marques Haynes
Basketball Hall of Famer
72 Steve Reich
Composer
70 David Obey
U.S. congressman, D-Wis.
68 Alan O'Day
Singer
67 Chubby Checker
Rock singer
66 Alan Rachins
Actor
65 Jeff Bingaman
U.S. senator, D-N.M.
64 Roy
Magician (Siegfried & Roy)
64 Bob Riley
Governor of Alabama
59 Lindsey Buckingham
Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac)
58 Ronnie Laws
Jazz saxophonist
57 Keb' Mo'
Blues singer
57 Dave Winfield
Baseball Hall of Famer
54 Dennis Eckersley
Baseball Hall of Famer
54 Al Sharpton
Civil rights activist
52 Hart Bochner
Actor
52 Peter Frechette
Actor
49 Jack Wagner
Actor
46 Tommy Lee
Rock musician (Motley Crue)
39 Janel Moloney
Actress ("The West Wing")
39 Gwen Stefani
Rock singer (No Doubt)
37 Kevin Richardson
Singer (Backstreet Boys)
36 G. Love
Rock singer
35 Keiko Agena
Actress ("Gilmore Girls")
35 Neve Campbell
Actress
33 India.Arie
R&B singer
33 Talib Kweli
Rapper
33 Alanna Ubach
Actress
32 Seann William Scott
Actor
30 Shannyn Sossamon
Actress
27 Seth Gabel
Actor ("Dirty Sexy Money")
26 Erik Von Detten
Actor
24 Ashlee Simpson-Wentz
Singer, actress
Historic Birthdays
Emily Post
10/3/1873 - 9/25/1960
American writer
75 John Ross
10/3/1790 - 8/1/1866
American Cherokee leader
90 George Bancroft
10/3/1800 - 1/17/1891
American historian
77 Sir Patrick Manson
10/3/1844 - 4/9/1922
Scottish physician
65 William Crawford Gorgas
10/3/1854 - 7/3/1920
American physician
65 Eleonora Duse
10/3/1858 - 4/21/1924
Italian actress
79 Pierre Bonnard
10/3/1867 - 1/23/1947
French painter
37 Thomas Clayton Wolfe
10/3/1900 - 9/15/1938
American novelist
1535 - The first complete English translation of the Bible was printed in Zurich, Switzerland.
1648 - The first volunteer fire department was established in New York by Peter Stuyvesant.
1777 - At Germantown, PA, Patriot ****** and British ****** both suffer heavy losses in battle. The battle was seen as British victory, which actually served as a moral boost to the Americans.
1876 - The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas formally dedicated by Texas Gov. Richard ****. It was the state's first venture into public higher education. The college opened for classed two days earlier.
1881 - Edward Leveaux received a patent for the player piano.
1887 - The Paris Herald Tribune was published for the first time. It was later known as the International Herald Tribune.
1893 - The first professional football contract was signed by Grant Dibert for the Pittsburgh AC.
1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament took place in Newport, RI. Horace Rawlins, 19 years old, won the tournament.
1909 - The first airship race in the U.S. took place in St. Louis, MO.
1915 - The Dinosaur National Monument was established. The area covered part of Utah and Colorado.
1927 - The first actual work of carving began on Mount Rushmore.
1931 - The comic strip "Dick Tracy" made its debut in the Detroit Daily Mirror. The strip was created by Chester Gould.
1933 - "Esquire" magazine was published for the first time.
1940 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in the Alps at Brenner Pass. Hitler was seeking help from Italy to fight the British.
1948 - The Railroad Hour" debuted on ABC radio.
1953 - "I Led Three Lives" was first seen in syndication. The TV show was never on network.
1954 - "December Bride" debuted on CBS-TV.
1956 - "Playhouse 90" debuted on CBS-TV.
1957 - "Leave it to Beaver" debuted on CBS-TV.
1957 - The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I into orbit around the Earth. Sputnik was the first manmade satellite to enter space. Sputnik I fell out of orbit on January 4, 1958.
1958 - British Overseas Airways Corporation became the first jetliner to offer trans-Atlantic service to passengers with flights between London, England and New York.
1959 - The first World Series to be played west of St. Louis began in Los Angeles, CA.
1965 - Pope Paul VI addressed the U.N. General Assembly and became the first reigning pontiff to visit the Western Hemisphere.
1976 - Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the anchor desk of the "ABC Evening News" for the first time.
1981 - Bruce Jenner and Harry Belafonte debuted in their first dramatic roles in NBC-TV's "Grambling's White Tiger".
1985 - The Shiite Muslim group Islamic Jihad announced that they had ****** American hostage William Buckley. Later another American hostage said that he believed that Buckley had died four months earlier from *******.
1986 - Two men mugged Dan Rather in New York City, NY.
1987 - NFL owners used replacement personnel to play games despite the player's strike.
1989 - Fawaz Younis, a Lebanese hijacker, was sentenced in Washington for commandeering a Jordanian jetliner with two Americans aboard in 1985.
1990 - The German parliament had its first meeting since reunification.
1992 - The 16-year civil war in Mozambique ended.
1993 - Russian Vice-President Alexander Rutskoi and Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov surrendered to Boris Yeltsin after a ten-hour tank assault on the Russian White House. The two men had barricaded themselves in after Yeltsin called for general elections and dissolved the legislative body.
1993 - Dozens of Somalis dragged an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu. A videotape showed Michael Durant being taken prisoner by Somali militants.
1994 - South African President Nelson Mandela was welcomed to the White House by U.S. President Clinton.
1997 - Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally on the Mall in Washington, DC.
1998 - The Vincent Van Gogh exhibit opened in Washington, DC. The exhibit featured 70 paintings.
1998 - Davis Gaines performed as the Phantom in the show "Phantom of the Opera" for the 2,000th time.
2001 - NATO granted the United States open access to their airfields and seaports and agreed to deploy ships and early-warning radar planes in the war on terrorism.
2001 - A Russian airliner blew up as it flew over the Black Sea. There were no survivors of the 76 people on the plane. U.S. intelligence sources stated that they likely cause of the accident was a missile strike from a Ukrainian military exercise.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 70th home run of the season to tie Mark McGwire's major league record. Bonds also moved past Reggie Jackson on the all-time list with his 564th career home run.
2001 - Rickey Henderson (San Diego Padres) scored his 2,246th career run to break Ty Cobb's major league record.
2001 - Shannen Doherty was sentenced to serve five days in a work-release program for a ******* driving arrest on December 28, 2000. The sentence came after Doherty had given lectures to teens about the dangers of driving under the influence.
2001 - In Washington, DC, Reagan National Airport re-opened. The airport had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
2004 - SpaceShipOne reached an altitude of 368,000 feet. It was the first privately built, manned rocket ship to fly in space twice within a two week window. The ship won the Ansari X Prize of $10 million dollars for their success.
Current Birthdays
Susan Sarandon turns 62 years old today.
79 Leroy Van Dyke
Country singer
76 Felicia Farr
Actress
74 Sam Huff
Football Hall of Famer
73 Eddie Applegate
Actor ("The Patty Duke Show")
67 Roy Blount Jr.
Author
67 Anne Rice
Author
67 Lori Saunders
Actress
63 Clifton Davis
Actor
62 Chuck Hagel
U.S. senator, R-Neb.
60 Duke Robillard
Blues guitarist
59 Lee Blessing
Playwright
59 Armand Assante
Actor
58 Alan Rosenberg
Actor
51 Bill Fagerbakke
Actor
51 Russell Simmons
Music producer
49 Chris Lowe
Rock musician (The Pet Shop Boys)
48 Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard
Country musician (Sawyer Brown)
47 David W. Harper
Actor ("The Waltons")
47 Jon Secada
Singer
41 Liev Schreiber
Actor
39 Abraham Benrubi
Actor
38 Heidi Newfield
Country musician
38 Andy Parle
Rock musician
32 Alicia Silverstone
Actress ("Clueless")
30 Phillip Glasser
Actor
30 Marc Roberge
Rock singer, musician (O.A.R.)
29 Rachael Leigh Cook
Actress
28 Jimmy Workman
Actor
21 Jessica Benson
R&B singer (3lw)
21 Michael Charles Roman
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Buster Keaton
10/4/1895 - 2/1/1966
American actor
26 Louis X
10/4/1289 - 6/5/1316
King of Navarre (1305-14) and king of France (1314-16)
61 Charles IX
10/4/1550 - 10/30/1611
King of Sweden (1604-11)
85 Lord Richard Cromwell
10/4/1626 - 7/12/1712
English lord protector (1658-9)
60 Jean Francois Millet
10/4/1814 - 1/20/1875
French painter
70 Rutherford Birchard Hayes
10/4/1822 - 1/17/1893
19th president of the United States (1877-81)
48 Frederic Remington
10/4/1861 - 12/26/1909
American artist; specialized in western themes
67 Edward L. Stratemeyer
10/4/1862 - 5/10/1930
American writer
62 Damon Runyon
10/4/1884 - 12/10/1946
American writer
69 John Kelly
10/4/1890 - 6/20/1960
American oarsman
1648 - The first volunteer fire department was established in New York by Peter Stuyvesant.
1777 - At Germantown, PA, Patriot ****** and British ****** both suffer heavy losses in battle. The battle was seen as British victory, which actually served as a moral boost to the Americans.
1876 - The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas formally dedicated by Texas Gov. Richard ****. It was the state's first venture into public higher education. The college opened for classed two days earlier.
1881 - Edward Leveaux received a patent for the player piano.
1887 - The Paris Herald Tribune was published for the first time. It was later known as the International Herald Tribune.
1893 - The first professional football contract was signed by Grant Dibert for the Pittsburgh AC.
1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament took place in Newport, RI. Horace Rawlins, 19 years old, won the tournament.
1909 - The first airship race in the U.S. took place in St. Louis, MO.
1915 - The Dinosaur National Monument was established. The area covered part of Utah and Colorado.
1927 - The first actual work of carving began on Mount Rushmore.
1931 - The comic strip "Dick Tracy" made its debut in the Detroit Daily Mirror. The strip was created by Chester Gould.
1933 - "Esquire" magazine was published for the first time.
1940 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in the Alps at Brenner Pass. Hitler was seeking help from Italy to fight the British.
1948 - The Railroad Hour" debuted on ABC radio.
1953 - "I Led Three Lives" was first seen in syndication. The TV show was never on network.
1954 - "December Bride" debuted on CBS-TV.
1956 - "Playhouse 90" debuted on CBS-TV.
1957 - "Leave it to Beaver" debuted on CBS-TV.
1957 - The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I into orbit around the Earth. Sputnik was the first manmade satellite to enter space. Sputnik I fell out of orbit on January 4, 1958.
1958 - British Overseas Airways Corporation became the first jetliner to offer trans-Atlantic service to passengers with flights between London, England and New York.
1959 - The first World Series to be played west of St. Louis began in Los Angeles, CA.
1965 - Pope Paul VI addressed the U.N. General Assembly and became the first reigning pontiff to visit the Western Hemisphere.
1976 - Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the anchor desk of the "ABC Evening News" for the first time.
1981 - Bruce Jenner and Harry Belafonte debuted in their first dramatic roles in NBC-TV's "Grambling's White Tiger".
1985 - The Shiite Muslim group Islamic Jihad announced that they had ****** American hostage William Buckley. Later another American hostage said that he believed that Buckley had died four months earlier from *******.
1986 - Two men mugged Dan Rather in New York City, NY.
1987 - NFL owners used replacement personnel to play games despite the player's strike.
1989 - Fawaz Younis, a Lebanese hijacker, was sentenced in Washington for commandeering a Jordanian jetliner with two Americans aboard in 1985.
1990 - The German parliament had its first meeting since reunification.
1992 - The 16-year civil war in Mozambique ended.
1993 - Russian Vice-President Alexander Rutskoi and Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov surrendered to Boris Yeltsin after a ten-hour tank assault on the Russian White House. The two men had barricaded themselves in after Yeltsin called for general elections and dissolved the legislative body.
1993 - Dozens of Somalis dragged an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu. A videotape showed Michael Durant being taken prisoner by Somali militants.
1994 - South African President Nelson Mandela was welcomed to the White House by U.S. President Clinton.
1997 - Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally on the Mall in Washington, DC.
1998 - The Vincent Van Gogh exhibit opened in Washington, DC. The exhibit featured 70 paintings.
1998 - Davis Gaines performed as the Phantom in the show "Phantom of the Opera" for the 2,000th time.
2001 - NATO granted the United States open access to their airfields and seaports and agreed to deploy ships and early-warning radar planes in the war on terrorism.
2001 - A Russian airliner blew up as it flew over the Black Sea. There were no survivors of the 76 people on the plane. U.S. intelligence sources stated that they likely cause of the accident was a missile strike from a Ukrainian military exercise.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 70th home run of the season to tie Mark McGwire's major league record. Bonds also moved past Reggie Jackson on the all-time list with his 564th career home run.
2001 - Rickey Henderson (San Diego Padres) scored his 2,246th career run to break Ty Cobb's major league record.
2001 - Shannen Doherty was sentenced to serve five days in a work-release program for a ******* driving arrest on December 28, 2000. The sentence came after Doherty had given lectures to teens about the dangers of driving under the influence.
2001 - In Washington, DC, Reagan National Airport re-opened. The airport had been closed since the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
2004 - SpaceShipOne reached an altitude of 368,000 feet. It was the first privately built, manned rocket ship to fly in space twice within a two week window. The ship won the Ansari X Prize of $10 million dollars for their success.
Current Birthdays
Susan Sarandon turns 62 years old today.
79 Leroy Van Dyke
Country singer
76 Felicia Farr
Actress
74 Sam Huff
Football Hall of Famer
73 Eddie Applegate
Actor ("The Patty Duke Show")
67 Roy Blount Jr.
Author
67 Anne Rice
Author
67 Lori Saunders
Actress
63 Clifton Davis
Actor
62 Chuck Hagel
U.S. senator, R-Neb.
60 Duke Robillard
Blues guitarist
59 Lee Blessing
Playwright
59 Armand Assante
Actor
58 Alan Rosenberg
Actor
51 Bill Fagerbakke
Actor
51 Russell Simmons
Music producer
49 Chris Lowe
Rock musician (The Pet Shop Boys)
48 Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard
Country musician (Sawyer Brown)
47 David W. Harper
Actor ("The Waltons")
47 Jon Secada
Singer
41 Liev Schreiber
Actor
39 Abraham Benrubi
Actor
38 Heidi Newfield
Country musician
38 Andy Parle
Rock musician
32 Alicia Silverstone
Actress ("Clueless")
30 Phillip Glasser
Actor
30 Marc Roberge
Rock singer, musician (O.A.R.)
29 Rachael Leigh Cook
Actress
28 Jimmy Workman
Actor
21 Jessica Benson
R&B singer (3lw)
21 Michael Charles Roman
Actor
Historic Birthdays
Buster Keaton
10/4/1895 - 2/1/1966
American actor
26 Louis X
10/4/1289 - 6/5/1316
King of Navarre (1305-14) and king of France (1314-16)
61 Charles IX
10/4/1550 - 10/30/1611
King of Sweden (1604-11)
85 Lord Richard Cromwell
10/4/1626 - 7/12/1712
English lord protector (1658-9)
60 Jean Francois Millet
10/4/1814 - 1/20/1875
French painter
70 Rutherford Birchard Hayes
10/4/1822 - 1/17/1893
19th president of the United States (1877-81)
48 Frederic Remington
10/4/1861 - 12/26/1909
American artist; specialized in western themes
67 Edward L. Stratemeyer
10/4/1862 - 5/10/1930
American writer
62 Damon Runyon
10/4/1884 - 12/10/1946
American writer
69 John Kelly
10/4/1890 - 6/20/1960
American oarsman
1813 - Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Indians was ****** at the Battle of Thames when American ****** defeated the British and the allied Indian warriors.
1877 - Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians surrendered to the U.S. Army after a 1,000-mile retreat towards the Canadian border.
1882 - Robert H. Goddard , known as the "****** of the Space Age", was born.
1892 - The Dalton gang was nearly wiped out while attempting to rob two banks simultaneously in Coffeyville, KS. Four members of the gang and four citizens were ******. The only survivor of the gang, Emmett Dawson, was sentenced to life after surviving his wounds.
1902 - Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, was born.
1919 - Enzo Ferrari debuted in his first race. He later founded the Auto Avio Construzioni Ferrari, an independent manufacturing company.
1921 - The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time. The game was between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees.
1930 - Laura Ingalls became the first woman to make a transcontinental airplane flight.
1930 - "The Fighting Priest" began airing on CBS radio.
1931 - Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon landed in Washington after flying non-stop across the Pacific Ocean. The flight originated in Japan and took about 41 hours.
1934 - "Hollywood Hotel" became the first major network radio to originate from Hollywood, CA.
1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.
1947 - U.S. President Harry S Truman held the first televised presidential address from the White House. The subject was the current international food crisis.
1952 - "Inner Sanctum" was heard for the last time on ABC radio.
1955 - The play "The Diary of Anne Frank" opened at the Cort Theatre in New York.
1969 - Dianne Linkletter jumps to her death from her apartment in West Hollywood. Art Linkletter, her ******, claimed that she was under the influence of LSD at the time of her death.
1969 - A Cuban defector landed a Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air ***** Base in Florida. The plane entered U.S. air space and landed without being detected.
1969 - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuted on BBC television.
1970 - Anwar Sadat took office as President of Egypt replacing Gamal Abdel Nassar. Sadat was assassinated in 1981.
1974 - American David Kunst completed the first journey around the world on foot. It took four years and 21 pairs of shoes. He crossed four continents and walked 14,450 miles.
1985 - An Egyptian policeman went on a shooting rampage at a Sinai beach. Seven Israeli tourists were ******. The policeman died in prison the following January of an apparent suicide.
1986 - "Business World" began airing on ABC-TV.
1986 - Sandinista soldiers captured American Eugene Hasenfus after shooting him down over southern Nicaragua.
1988 - In a debate between candidates for vice president of the U.S., Democratic Lloyd Bentsen told Republican Dan Quayle, "You're no Jack Kennedy."
1989 - Jim Bakker was convicted of using his television show to defraud his viewers.
1989 - The Dalai Lama (Lhama Dhondrub, Tenzin Gyatso) was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent campaign to end the Chinese domination of Tibet. Gyatso was the 15th Dalai Lama.
1990 - The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall opened.
1990 - A jury in Cincinnati, OH, acquitted an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced that his country would cut its nuclear arsenal in response to the arms reduction that was initiated by U.S. President George Bush.
1993 - China set off an underground nuclear explosion.
1994 - 48 people found dead in two Swiss villages. The people were members of a secret religious doomsday cult. Five other people were found in Montreal, Canada.
1995 - A 60-day cease-fire was agreed upon by Bonsian combatants. The civil war had lasted 3 1/2.
1997 - In London, the Express Newspapers printed an article claiming that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were homosexual and that their marriage was a sham to cover the truth. The paper paid damages in a settlement on October 29, 1998.
1998 - The U.S. paid $60 million for Russia's research time on the international space station to keep the cash-strapped Russian space agency afloat.
1999 - Kevin Spacey received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - MCI Worldcom Inc. and Sprint Corp. announced plans to merge.
2006 - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. rolled out its $4 generic **** program to the entire state of Florida after a successful test in the Tampa area.
Current Birthdays
Parminder Nagra turns 33 years old today
86 Bil Keane
Cartoonist ("****** Circus")
85 Glynis Johns
Actress
84 Bill Dana
Comedian
75 Diane Cilento
Actress
72 Vaclav Havel
Former Czech president, playwright
67 Arlene Smith
R&B singer (The Chantels)
66 Richard Street
R&B singer (The Temptations)
65 Steve Miller
Rock musician
61 Brian Johnson
Rock singer (AC/DC)
58 Jeff Conaway
Actor ("Taxi")
57 Karen Allen
Actress
56 Clive Barker
Writer, director
54 David Bryson
Rock musician (Counting Crows)
54 Bob Geldof
Rock singer, activist
48 Daniel Baldwin
Actor
46 Michael Andretti
Auto racer
44 Dave Dederer
Rock musician
43 Mario Lemieux
Hockey Hall of Famer
43 Patrick Roy
Hockey Hall of Famer
41 Guy Pearce
Actor
38 Josie Bissett
Actress
36 Grant Hill
Basketball player
34 Heather Headley
R&B singer-actress
33 Brian Mashburn
Rock musician (Save Ferris)
33 Scott Weinger
Actor
33 Kate Winslet
Actress
30 James Valentine
Rock musician (Maroon 5)
28 Paul Thomas
Rock musician (Good Charlotte)
25 Nicky Hilton
TV personality
23 Brooke Valentine
R&B singer
Historic Birthdays
Ray A. Kroc
10/5/1902 - 1/14/1984
American fast-food entrepeneur; built McDonalds restaurant chain
54 Jonathan Edwards
10/5/1703 - 3/22/1758
American evangelical religious leader
70 Denis Diderot
10/5/1713 - 7/31/1784
French philosopher
67 William Scoresby
10/5/1789 - 3/21/1857
British explorer
57 Chester Alan Arthur
10/5/1829 - 11/18/1886
21st president of the United States
83 Louis Jean Lumiere
10/5/1864 - 6/6/1948
French chemist
62 Robert Hutchings Goddard
10/5/1882 - 8/10/1945
American scientist
65 Walter Bedell Smith
10/5/1895 - 8/9/1961
American Army chief of staff for U.S. ****** in Europe during World War II
79 Joshua Logan
10/5/1908 - 7/12/1988
American stage and film director, producer and writer
1877 - Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians surrendered to the U.S. Army after a 1,000-mile retreat towards the Canadian border.
1882 - Robert H. Goddard , known as the "****** of the Space Age", was born.
1892 - The Dalton gang was nearly wiped out while attempting to rob two banks simultaneously in Coffeyville, KS. Four members of the gang and four citizens were ******. The only survivor of the gang, Emmett Dawson, was sentenced to life after surviving his wounds.
1902 - Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, was born.
1919 - Enzo Ferrari debuted in his first race. He later founded the Auto Avio Construzioni Ferrari, an independent manufacturing company.
1921 - The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time. The game was between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees.
1930 - Laura Ingalls became the first woman to make a transcontinental airplane flight.
1930 - "The Fighting Priest" began airing on CBS radio.
1931 - Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon landed in Washington after flying non-stop across the Pacific Ocean. The flight originated in Japan and took about 41 hours.
1934 - "Hollywood Hotel" became the first major network radio to originate from Hollywood, CA.
1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor nations.
1947 - U.S. President Harry S Truman held the first televised presidential address from the White House. The subject was the current international food crisis.
1952 - "Inner Sanctum" was heard for the last time on ABC radio.
1955 - The play "The Diary of Anne Frank" opened at the Cort Theatre in New York.
1969 - Dianne Linkletter jumps to her death from her apartment in West Hollywood. Art Linkletter, her ******, claimed that she was under the influence of LSD at the time of her death.
1969 - A Cuban defector landed a Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air ***** Base in Florida. The plane entered U.S. air space and landed without being detected.
1969 - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuted on BBC television.
1970 - Anwar Sadat took office as President of Egypt replacing Gamal Abdel Nassar. Sadat was assassinated in 1981.
1974 - American David Kunst completed the first journey around the world on foot. It took four years and 21 pairs of shoes. He crossed four continents and walked 14,450 miles.
1985 - An Egyptian policeman went on a shooting rampage at a Sinai beach. Seven Israeli tourists were ******. The policeman died in prison the following January of an apparent suicide.
1986 - "Business World" began airing on ABC-TV.
1986 - Sandinista soldiers captured American Eugene Hasenfus after shooting him down over southern Nicaragua.
1988 - In a debate between candidates for vice president of the U.S., Democratic Lloyd Bentsen told Republican Dan Quayle, "You're no Jack Kennedy."
1989 - Jim Bakker was convicted of using his television show to defraud his viewers.
1989 - The Dalai Lama (Lhama Dhondrub, Tenzin Gyatso) was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent campaign to end the Chinese domination of Tibet. Gyatso was the 15th Dalai Lama.
1990 - The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall opened.
1990 - A jury in Cincinnati, OH, acquitted an art gallery and its director of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibit of sexually graphic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced that his country would cut its nuclear arsenal in response to the arms reduction that was initiated by U.S. President George Bush.
1993 - China set off an underground nuclear explosion.
1994 - 48 people found dead in two Swiss villages. The people were members of a secret religious doomsday cult. Five other people were found in Montreal, Canada.
1995 - A 60-day cease-fire was agreed upon by Bonsian combatants. The civil war had lasted 3 1/2.
1997 - In London, the Express Newspapers printed an article claiming that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were homosexual and that their marriage was a sham to cover the truth. The paper paid damages in a settlement on October 29, 1998.
1998 - The U.S. paid $60 million for Russia's research time on the international space station to keep the cash-strapped Russian space agency afloat.
1999 - Kevin Spacey received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - MCI Worldcom Inc. and Sprint Corp. announced plans to merge.
2006 - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. rolled out its $4 generic **** program to the entire state of Florida after a successful test in the Tampa area.
Current Birthdays
Parminder Nagra turns 33 years old today
86 Bil Keane
Cartoonist ("****** Circus")
85 Glynis Johns
Actress
84 Bill Dana
Comedian
75 Diane Cilento
Actress
72 Vaclav Havel
Former Czech president, playwright
67 Arlene Smith
R&B singer (The Chantels)
66 Richard Street
R&B singer (The Temptations)
65 Steve Miller
Rock musician
61 Brian Johnson
Rock singer (AC/DC)
58 Jeff Conaway
Actor ("Taxi")
57 Karen Allen
Actress
56 Clive Barker
Writer, director
54 David Bryson
Rock musician (Counting Crows)
54 Bob Geldof
Rock singer, activist
48 Daniel Baldwin
Actor
46 Michael Andretti
Auto racer
44 Dave Dederer
Rock musician
43 Mario Lemieux
Hockey Hall of Famer
43 Patrick Roy
Hockey Hall of Famer
41 Guy Pearce
Actor
38 Josie Bissett
Actress
36 Grant Hill
Basketball player
34 Heather Headley
R&B singer-actress
33 Brian Mashburn
Rock musician (Save Ferris)
33 Scott Weinger
Actor
33 Kate Winslet
Actress
30 James Valentine
Rock musician (Maroon 5)
28 Paul Thomas
Rock musician (Good Charlotte)
25 Nicky Hilton
TV personality
23 Brooke Valentine
R&B singer
Historic Birthdays
Ray A. Kroc
10/5/1902 - 1/14/1984
American fast-food entrepeneur; built McDonalds restaurant chain
54 Jonathan Edwards
10/5/1703 - 3/22/1758
American evangelical religious leader
70 Denis Diderot
10/5/1713 - 7/31/1784
French philosopher
67 William Scoresby
10/5/1789 - 3/21/1857
British explorer
57 Chester Alan Arthur
10/5/1829 - 11/18/1886
21st president of the United States
83 Louis Jean Lumiere
10/5/1864 - 6/6/1948
French chemist
62 Robert Hutchings Goddard
10/5/1882 - 8/10/1945
American scientist
65 Walter Bedell Smith
10/5/1895 - 8/9/1961
American Army chief of staff for U.S. ****** in Europe during World War II
79 Joshua Logan
10/5/1908 - 7/12/1988
American stage and film director, producer and writer
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