Find out, in excrutiating detail, what has happened on your birthday.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/cc.htm

For me (June 23rd)


Midsummer Night’s Eve, a potent occasion in the pre-Christian and New Age calendars, when magic abounds.

National day of Luxembourg.

The Empress Josephine Beauhamais, née Marie Josephine Rose Tascher De La Pagerie, the wife of Napoleon, was born on Martinique in the West Indies in 1763. She married Bonaparte in 1796, after her first husband was guillotined for counterrevolutionary activities. He divorced her in 1809. Through her daughter Hortense she was the grandmother of Napoleon III.

French painter Édouard Manet was born on this day in 1842. His first significant painting was The Absinthe Drinker, which I saw in the Jeu de Paume in Paris and became one of my favorite paintings. He was an associate of the Impressionists.

On this day in 1865, Confederate General Stand Watie, who was also a Cherokee chief, surrendered the last sizable Confederate army at Fort Towson, in Indian Territory.

Alan Turing, cryptologist who broke Hitler’s “enigma code,” was born on this day in 1912.

The Armistice was announced between the forces of South Korea and its allies, and North Korea and its allies on this day in 1953, bringing the Korean War to an end. The armistice restored the pre-1950 status quo, with the 38th parallel being the demarcation.

The Wimbledon Tennis Courts opened on this day in 1922.

Choreographer Bob Fosse (Cabaret, Damn Yankees) was born on this day in 1927 in Chicago. The film All That Jazz was about him.

Country singer June Carter Cash was born on this day in 1929 in Mace Springs, Virginia, the daughter of Mother Maybelle Carter.

On this day in 1979, The Charlie Daniels Band released “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”
(words cannot express my joy at such an event)

[terrya]

1. Here's everything that happened on my birthday, April 10th.

Bananas were first sold in a London shop on this day in 1633.
The English poet and satirist John Wilmot, the 2nd Earl of Rochester, was born on this day in 1647.
On this day in 1739, outlaw Dick Turpin was executed in England for horse stealing.
Samuel Hahnemann, German physician and founder of the cure methods known as homeopathy, was born on this day in 1755.
The first congressionally approved lottery was approved by the Continental Congress in 1777. The prizes were small.
English essayist William Hazlitt was born on this day in 1778. He was a tremendous advocate of the new generation of Romantic. He wrote a strange essay about hating, in which he said that we most come to hate the persons we used to be. That's a profound truth.
On this day in 1790, the establishment of a Patent Office was ratified by the U.S. Congress to protect the intellectual property of American inventors.
Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, the American who opened Japan to trading, was born on this day in 1794. He was the younger brother of Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry of the War of 1812.
Confederate general Leonidas Polk, also the Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana, was born on this day in 1806. As bishop he laid the cornerstone for the University of the South (Sewanee) on October 9, 1860. Polk was killed at the Battle of Pine Mountain in the Atlanta Campaign on June 14, 1864. He was much beloved of his men because he was not an aggressive fighter and seldom put them in harm's way. When the Union took over the Rebel positions after Pine Mountain, a note was found nailed to a tree, saying, "You Yankee sons of bitches killed poor old Gen'l Polk."
On this day in 1816, in Philadelphia, church reformer Richard Allen, 56, was elected the first bishop of the newly-created African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Previously, in 1799, Allen had been the first black ordained to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
William Booth, the first "general" of the Salvation Army, was born on this day in England in 1829. He originally studied for the Methodist clergy. He founded the Salvation Army in 1878.
Another American Civil War general turned novelist Lew Wallace was born on this day in 1827. He wrote Ben-Hur, a novel which I have never read.
On this day in 1838, Edward Kremser, German chorister was born. Included among his numerous vocal and instrumental works is the enduring hymn tune Kresmer ("We Gather Together").
Hungarian born publisher Joseph Pulitzer was born on this day in 1847. His New York World was the rival of Hearst's Journal. Pulitzer utilized illustrations, news stunts, and entertainment features, to draw in subscribers. (See 1903 below.)
On this day in 1849, Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights for $100.
The Austrian archduke Maximilian was installed as the Emperor of Mexico on this day in 1864.
On this day in 1865, at Appomattox, Gen. Robert E. Lee issued General Order #9, the surrender order, his last.
On this day in 1866, the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was incorporated.
The Anglo-Irish poet George William Russell, who wrote lyrics under the name Æ, was born on this day in County Armagh in 1867. Next to Yeats, he was the most important figure of the Irish literary revival of the early 20th century.
On this day in 1877, Reconstruction ended when Federal troops were withdrawn from Columbia, South Carolina.
Frances Perkins, the first woman to hold cabinet-level position, Labor, was born on this day in 1880.
On this day in 1902, South African Boers accepted British terms of surrender, and the Boer War ended.
Clare Boothe Luce, the wife of Time, Life founder Henry R. Luce and former US ambassador to Vatican was born on this day in 1903. Once she and Dorothy Parker found themselves going through a door at the same time. Luce gestured for Parker to go through, saying, "Age before beauty." Parker swept through, saying, "Pearls before swine." • On the same day, Joseph Pulitzer, an American publisher, signed an agreement with
the School of Journalism at Columbia University that endowed a grant to award outstanding
American literature and journalism.
On this day in 1909, English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne died at 72. In his later years he was cared for by Theodore Watts-Dutton.
On this day in 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic set sail from Southampton, England.
Organic chemist Robert Burns Woodward (Nobel Prize winner in 1965) was born on this day in 1917.
Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was gunned down on this day in 1919.
Journalist and author David Halberstam (Pulitzer Prize for reporting in 1964) was born on this day in 1924.
Scribner's published Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby on this day in 1925. The New York company had published his earlier two novels. The book was a slim one, only 55,000 words, and sold for $2.50, which was a hefty price for such a thin novel. It was virtually out of print when he died December 21, 1940).
On this day in 1927, George Anthiel's Ballet Mecanique was presented for the first time at Carnegie Hall in New York City. It was the first symphonic work that used an airplane propeller and other mechanical contraptions not normally associated with the ballet.
On this day in 1930, synthetic rubber was first produced.
Author Kahlil Gibran died on this day in 1931.
On this day in 1932, Paul von Hindenburg was elected as German president. Adolf Hitler came in second.
On this day in 1933, Henry Van Dyke, 81, an American Presbyterian clergyman and author, died. He is still remembered for two writings: a book The Story of the Other Wise Man (1896), and a hymn, "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" (1908). The latter is usually sung to a tune from Beethoven's Choral Symphony.
On this day in 1938, Germany formally annexed Austria. A plebiscite in Austria, masterminded and
engineered by Adolf Hilter and his Nazi regime, showed that close to 100% of all voters
favored Austrian union with Germany.
On this day in 1941, U.S. troops occupied Greenland to prevent Nazi infiltration. • American travel writer Paul Theroux (Mosquito Coast) was born the same day.
The Bataan Death March, in which 5000 Americans lost their lives in the Philippines, began on this day in 1942.
The Nazi prison camp Buchenwald was liberated on this day in 1945. It was estimated that nearly 57,000 prisoners (mostly Jews) perished in the gas chambers of Buchenwald during its eight-year existence as a Nazi concentration camp.
On this day in 1959, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito married commoner Michiko Shoda.
English novelist Evelyn Waugh died on this day in 1966, "of snobbery," one of his friends said. Waugh's satires of the 1930s and '40s are brilliant. Decline and Fall is a delightfully wicked. His satire of the funeral business, The Loved One, was made into a wonderful movie. His wife was also named Evelyn.
On this day in 1963, the submarine USS Thresher sank in the Atlantic with a loss of 129 lives.
On this day in 1968, LBJ replaced General William Westmoreland with General Creighton Abrams in Vietnam.
On this day in 1971, the American table tennis team arrived in China.
On this day in 1972, a 7.0 earthquake killed 1/5 of population of the Iranian province of Fars. • On the same day, the U.S., USSR, and 70 other nations agreed to ban biological weapons.
On this day in 1974, Yitzhak Rabin replaced resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
On this day in 1979, my home town of Wichita Falls, Texas, was wounded badly by one of the most devastating tornadoes in American history. I was living in Abilene. I was on the phone with my mother at the time that the sirens started sounding. I told her to hang up and check on what was happening. About the same time a storm hit in Abilene. By the ten o'clock news I was hearing about the damage in Wichita Falls. A cousin called from Fort Worth saying that he had heard that the damage was horrible. I drove with a friend to Wichita Falls and got there about two. There was no power, and as we drove in, I saw National Guard tanks patrolling the streets. Within six blocks of my mother's house, the destruction was complete. • On the same day, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was overthrown by rebels and sent into exile.
On this day in 1991, the last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closed, at Third Avenue and 42nd Street in NYC.
On this day in 1998, negotiators reached a peace accord on governing British ruled Northern Ireland. Britain's direct rule was ended.
Sports and entertainment:
On this day in 1896, Greek runner Spiridon Loues won the first modern Olympic marathon, in Athens.
TV actor Harry Morgan (December Bride, MASH, Dragnet) was born on this day in 1915 in Detroit. He also played the trial judge in Inherit the Wind.
Athlete and actor Chuck Connors, (The Rifleman) +was born on this day in1921 in Brooklyn. • Novelty song singer Sheb Wooley ("Flying Purple People Eater") was born on the same day in Erik, Oklahoma.
Country comedian on Hee Haw Alvin "Junior" Samples was born on this day in 1926 in Cummings, Georgia.
Swedish born actor Max Von Sydow (The Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape) was born on this day in 1929.
Actor Omar Sharif was born in Cairo on this day in 1932.
John Madden, football coach and CBS sports commentator, was born on this day in 1936.
Don Meredith, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys and commentator on Monday Night Football, was born on this day in 1938 in Mount Vernon, Texas.
Actor Steven Seagal (Above the Law, Hard to Kill) was born on this day in 1952.
On this day in 1953, Eddie Fisher was discharged from the Army and arrived home to a check of $330,000 for record royalties for the 7 million records that were sold while he was enlisted. • On the same day, The House of Wax, the first 3-D movie, was released, in NYC.
On this day in 1956, Nat "King" Cole was beaten onstage by a racist in Birmingham, Alabama. • Clarence Beaumont, the first batter in the first World Series, died at 75 on the sa,e day.
On this day in 1957, Ricky Nelson sang for first time on TV's Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. He performed the song "I'm Walking."
On this day in 1958, Bobby Darin recorded "Splish Splash." • On the same day, W.C. Handy, composer/musician and father of the blues, died at 84 in NYC.
On this day in 1961, Gary Player of South Africa became the first foreign golfer to win the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia.
On this day in 1962, Stu Stutcliffe, the original Beatle bassist, died. • On the same day, the first baseball game was played at LA's Dodger Stadium.
On this day in 1967, the 13-day strike by the American Federation of Radio-TV Artists (AFTRA) came to an end less than two hours before the 39th Academy Awards presentation went on the air. In the program, In the Heat of the Night won best picture, Rod Steiger best actor and Katherine Hepburn best actress.
On this day in 1975, Marjorie Main, the actress in the Ma and Pa Kettle series, died at 85.
On this day in 1980, Actress Kay Medford died at 65. She played Fannie Brice's mother in the Broadway cast of Funny Girl.
On this day in 1988, football player Herschel Walker performed with the Fort Worth Ballet.
On this day in 1991, Natalie Schafer, the actress who played Mrs. Howell on Gilligan's Island, died at 90.
Larry Linville, who played Major Frank Burns on MASH, died at 60 of cancer.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Weird. Stu Sutcliffe died on your birthday, but he was born on mine.

(cue twilight zone music)

[terrya]

8. Wow, that is bizarre.

Interesting....

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. Here's confirmation.

http://home.online.no/~helgery/sutcliffeeng.htm

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. January 8

Explorer Marco Polo died on this day in 1324.
On this day in 1604, Samuel Daniel masque presented his masque The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses at Hampton Court.
On this day in 1675, the New York Fishing Company incorporated itself in the United States. It was the first ever business to do so.
On this day in 1698, the French composer Jean-Baptise Lully hurt his foot with this baton while conducting his Te Deum. He died of gangrene ten weeks later.
On this day in 1790, President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address.
American hymn-tune writer Lowell Mason was born on this day in Medfield, Massachusetts, in 1791.
German composer Robert Schumann was born on this day in 1810. I have never warmed up to his music, especially his symphonies. Some of short piano works are nice. Schumann ended his life in madness.
The Battle of New Orleans of the War of 1812 was fought on this day in 1814 with Gen. Andrew Jackson in command of the American Army. Neither side knew that the war had ended two weeks earlier, December 24, 1814, by the Treaty of Ghent.
In 1290, Beatrice Poltinari died in Florence. From her niche in Paradise, she persuades the virtuous pagan Virgil to be her admirer (not lover) Dante's guide through the Inferno.
Astronomer Galileo Galilei died on this day in 1642, his works still on the roman Catholic Church's Index of Prohibited Books.
Confederate general James E. (Old Pete) Longstreet was born on this day in South Carolina in 1821. Apologists for Lee following the defeat at Gettysburg were quick to put the blame on Longstreet for not advancing quickly enough on the second day. The fact that after the war he converted to Catholicism and became a Republican. Such made him an easy target. When Jefferson Davis was making his farewell tour of the South, he made a speech in Georgia, to which Longstreet was not invited. He came anyway, and walked toward the stand to see how Jefferson would react. Davis embraced him. Although major military installations in the South are named for generals of much less talent (Polk, Bragg, Hood et alii), only an interstate highway bridge in Georgia is named for Longstreet, although Lee called him "my old war-horse." The charge on the last day of the Gettysburg called Pickett's Charge should have been called Longstreet's Assault. Drawing upon how many made him a scapegoat for Lee's failures, I wrote a sonnet called "Iscariot at Appomattox."
The first major English detective novelist, Wilkie Collins, was born on this day in 1824. I was enthralled by The Moonstone. I was reading a cheap paperback which fell apart as I read it. I threw pages in the wastepaper basket when I finished them. (In this splendid novel, the detective comes to realize that it was he himself (in an opium stupor) who stole the diamond.
British fin de siècle painter Lawrence Alma Tadema was born on this day in 1836. He often painted classical scenes.
On this day in 1864, Edward Albert, the first born son of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and Alexandra his wife, was born. He was dead at 27. His brother the Duke of York (later George V) became heir to the throne. Prince Eddy was awkward, sickly, and probably gay. He was engaged to Princess May of Teck. After he died in 1892, she became engaged to his brother, married him, and became Queen Mary. Rumors persist that the physicians dispatched by Queen Victoria, hastened his death.
On this day in 1865, near present-day San Angelo, 370 Texas militiamen attacked what was assumed to be an encampment of 1400 Comanches (they were actually peaceful Kickapoos). This engagement, called the Battle of Dove Creek, was one of the last battles in Texas between Anglos and Native Americans. The militia lost 36 men, with 60 wounded, while the Indians lost 11, with 61 wounded.
Emily Green Balch, American sociologist, economist and pacifist, was born on this day in 1867.
On this day in 1889, a patent was issued to Dr. Herman Hollerith for a tabulating machine, one of the first data processing machines. This invention eventually led to the formation of IBM.
Walther Wilhelm Bothe, German physicist who won the 1954 Nobel Prize, was born on this day in 1891.
The French poet Paul Verlaine died on this day in 1896.
Thomas Watson, Jr., was born on this day in 1894. He joined IBM in 1932 and became its president twenty years later.
Peter Arno, cartoonist seen mainly in The New Yorker, was born on this day in 1904.
José Ferrer was born in Puerto Rico on this day in 1912. He brought Rostand's Cyrano to the screen in 1950.
Mississippi became the first state to ratify the 18th amendment, creating prohibition.
Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, died on this day in 1941 at 83
On this day in 1913, Harold Munro opened the doors of the Poetry Bookshop in London. On that opening day, Robert Frost met Ezra Pound.
Peter Taylor, the American author who writes about Memphis and Tennessee, was born on this day in 1917.
President Woodrow Wilson delivered his Fourteen Points speech before the U.S. Congress on this day in 1918. On the same day, Mississippi was the first state to ratify the Prohibition Amendment.
On this day in 1926, 43-year old Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud declared himself the king of Hejaz and renamed it Saudi Arabia.
English physicist Stephen Hawking was born on this day in 1942. I read A Brief History of Time and understood about 10% of it.
Charles DeGaulle became president of the 5th French Republic on this day in 1959.
On this day in 1963, the Mona Lisa began a two-month visit to New York and Washington, D.C., on loan from the Louvre. Over a million people stood in line to see the world's most famous painting.
On this day in 1966, Stephen Cardinal Wyszynski, the primate of Poland, was barred by the Polish government from attending the Vatican celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of Christianity in Poland.
On this day in 1982, AT&T agreed to divest itself of the 22 "Baby Bell" phone companies.
On this day in 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 2000 mark for the first time. It continued its meteoric rise to above 2500 before crashing 500+ points on Black Monday in October.
On this day in 1992, U.S. President George Bush became ill and vomited on the Japanese prime minister's lap during a Japanese tour.
François Mitterrand, President of France (1981-95), died on this day in 1996.
British composer Sir Charles Tippett died on this day in 1998.
Sports and entertainment:
Comedian Larry Storch, TV comedian who played in F Troop, was born on this day in 1923.
TV comedian Soupy Sales was born on this day in 1926 in North Carolina.
The greatest of all—Elvis Presley was born on this day in 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi. The other day on NPR, I heard an interview with a man who had just published a book about Elvis' eating habits. Supposedly Priscilla cut up his meat because he refused to chew. My mother's father, Mose Glasgow, was born near Tupelo in 1872. Elvis has a stillborn twin named Jesse Garon. • On this day in 1956, Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" single went to #1 and stayed there for 11 weeks.
Host of TV's The Newlywed Game Bob Eubanks was born on this day in 1937 in Flint, Michigan. He was shown in Flint in the film Roger and Me.
Monty Python troupe member Graham Chapman was born on this day in 1941. He died in 1988.
Pop singer David Bowie was born on this day in 1947.
On this day in 1958, 14-year old Bobby Fisher won the United States Chess Championship for the first time.
Gap-toothed English comic Terry Thomas died on this day in 1990.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. David Bowie, Soupy Sales and Graham Chapman? Bloody hell!

On this day in 1992, U.S. President George Bush became ill and vomited on the Japanese prime minister's lap during a Japanese tour.

Ha ha!

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. No mention of the death of Steve Clark

of Def Leppard. The injustice!

[sundog]

36. Hey Beast Man - We have the same birthday!!

:hi:

[commander bunnypants]

3. jimmy hendrix died on my birthday

DDQM

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. That's not excruciating detail.

Must try harder. ;)

[LynneSin]

9. My favorite book is the Divine Comedy by Dante...

...and it turns out we share the same birthday (well about 8 centuries apart).

http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0514.htm

Other greats born on May 14th include
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
Thomas Gainesborough
Tony Perez (Hall of Famer & favorite baseball player)
George Lucas
Robert Zemeckis
David Byrnes (Talking Heads)
That chick from "Joan of Arcadia)
And half of Milli Vanilli (ok, it's not the perfect date)

Frank Sinatra died on my birthday :cry:

[finecraft]

22. Dante was born on your birthday....he died on mine

Some happier news: People that share my September 13 birthday:

Mel Torme, David Clayton Thomas, Jean Smart, Jacqueline Bisset, Nell Carter, Bill Monroe, Claudette Colbert, Rosemary Kennedy, Walter Reed.

Francis Scott key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner on this date.

Little Richard recorded "Tutti-Frutti" on this date in 1956

[eyesroll]

11. For me

Sept. 27 (start your shopping, people!)

No mention of Cliff Burton, who died on that date in 1986...also, Avril Lavigne is exactly either 9 or 10 years (forget which) younger than I am.

* On this day in 1540, through the encyclical Regimini militantis ecclesi¾, Pope Paul III officially approved the Society of Jesus, a body of priests organized by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 for missionary work.Ê Today, the Jesuits constitute the largest Catholic teaching order in the United States.
* Louis XIII, king of France (1610-1643), was born on this day in 1601.
* The English religious poet Thomas Traherne died on this day in 1674.
* On this day in 1722, the fiery Revolutionary War figure Samuel Adams was born.Ê He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, with his cousin John Adams.Ê He died in 1803.
* Martha Washington Jefferson, the oldest child of President Thomas Jefferson, was born on this day in 1772 at Monticello.Ê She died in 1836.
* Robert Robinson, English clergyman and author of the hymn, ÒCome, Thou Fount of Every Blessing, Ò was born on this day in 1835.Ê He was converted at age 20 under the preaching of revivalist George Whitefield.Ê
* On this day in 1777, Samuel Johnson was heard to remark, ÒWhen a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.Ó
* On this day in 1779, John Adams was elected to negotiate with the British over the American Revolutionary War peace terms.
* On this day in 1785, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S. was founded on this date, following the American Revolutionary War, when U.S. Anglicans met in Philadelphia to create a denomination independent from and autonomous of the Church of England.
* George Cruikshank, illustrator who did the drawings that accompanied Charles DickensÕ Oliver Twist, was born on this day in 1792.
* Future President James Buchanan graduated from Dickinson College on this day in 1809.
* On this day in 1821, Gen. Iturbide declared himself Emperor August’n of Mexico.
* On this day in 1825, George Stephenson operated the first locomotive that hauled a passenger train.
* Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Texas military hero and governor from 1887 to 1891, was born in Iowa on this day in 1827 and came to Texas from Iowa in a covered wagon.Ê He was an Indian fighter before the war and was most famous for ÒrecapturingÓ Cynthia Ann Parker in 1861.Ê He also served later in the Confederate army.
* Thomas Nast, the political cartoonist who created the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey, was born on this day in Germany in 1840. He also drew the first Santa Claus in the form we know today.
* Congressman Dan Sickles married Teresa Bagioli on this day in 1852 in New York City.Ê On February 27, 1859, Sickles shot and killed Philip Barton Key, son of Francis Scott Key, for having conducted an affair with Mrs. Sickles.Ê The murder took place on Lafayette Square, just north of the White House.Ê Sickles was acquitted.Ê He later forgave Teresa and was reconciled to her.s
* On this day in 1868, Dante Gabriel Rossetti read to his brother William Michael his poem ÒEden Bower.Ó
* Book matches were patented on this day in 1892 by Joshua Pusey of Lima, Pennsylvania.
* At 3 oÕclock in the afternoon on this day in 1903, the number 97 mail train running from Washington to Atlanta wrecked north of Danville, Virginia, because engineer Steve Brody was trying to make up lost time. The train jumped the trestle. Since it was a mail train, only seven casualties resulted. From this event developed the most famous train-wreck song in American musical history, ÒThe Wreck of the Old 97.Ó (The train was actually only one year old.) It was 14 years later that Vernon Dalhart recorded it for RCA. In July 1983 I drove from Chapel Hill up to Danville to see the site. I bought some copies of photos of the wreck, but I allowed the class I was studying with to present them to Louis D. Rubin, our professor, because Algonquin Press, with which he was associated, was publishing Katie Letcher LyleÕs book, Scalded to Death by the Steam, a book about train-wreck songs. Dr. Rubin was impressed with me because I knew the words to some many of these songs.
* Sam Ervin, Democratic Senator from North Carolina and Watergate committee chair, was born on this day in 1896.
* On this day in 1898 , composer and musician Vincent Youmans was born.
* American author Louis Auchincloss was born on this day in 1917. He was an uncle by marriage of Jacqueline Kennedy.
* On this day in 1922, scientists at the Naval Aircraftt Radio Laboratory near Washington, D.C., demonstrated that if a ship passed through a radio wave being broadcast between two stations, that ship could be detected, the essentials of radar.
* Harpsichordist Igor Kipnis was born on this day in 1930 in Berlin.
* On this day in 1937, in Albion, New York, the first Santa Claus school opened, offering a one-week course.
* Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, launched the first Queen Elizabeth liner on this day in 1938.
* Warsaw fell to the Germans on this day in 1939.
* On this day in 1941, the first World War II liberty ship, the freighter Patrick Henry, was launched.
* On this day in 1964, the Warren Commission appointed by President Ford to study the Kennedy Assassination, released its still controversial report, although no significant body of reputable evidence has contradicted the commissionÕs essential verdict that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
* On this day in 1973, Vice-President Spiro Agnew said he would not resign after he pleaded Òno contestÓ to a charge of tax evasion.Ê He did resign on October 10.
* On this day in 1979, the Department of Education became the 13th Cabinet in U.S. history.
* On this day in 1976, the first televised presidential candidate debate between an incumbent (Ford) and a challenger (Carter) was held.
* On this day in 1990, the deposed emir of Kuwait addressed the UN General Assembly and denounced the Òrape, destruction and terrorÓ that Iraq had inflicted upon his country.
* On this day in 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.Ê Bush then called on the Soviet Union to do the same.
* More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the Contract with America on this day in 1994.Ê It was a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
* On this day in 1996, the Taliban seized control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and hanged the former president Najibullah.
* Sports and entertainment:

* Actor George Raft (Each Dawn I Die, Scarface) was born on this day in 1895 in NYC.
* Jayne Meadows, TV personality of the 1950s and the wife of Steve Allen (see below) was born on this day in 1920 in China, the daughter of missionary parents.Ê ¥ÊÊ On the same day, actor William Conrad (Cannon), was born in Louisville.
* Film director Arthur Penn (The Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde) was born on this day in 1922 in Philadelphia.
* On this day in 1923, Lou Gehrig hit his first homer in the major leagaues.
* On this day in 1927, Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run of the season for the New York Yankees.
* Actor Sada Thompson was born on this day in 1929. In a film of Susan GlaspellÕs ÒA Jury of Her Peers,Ó she plays Mrs. Wright, the protagonist.
* Actor Wilfred Brimley was born on this day in 1934. ¥Ê Actor (Mission Impossible) Greg Morris was born the same day, in Cleveland.
* On this day in 1938, ÒThanks for the MemoriesÓ was heard for the first time on the The Bob Hope Show on radio.
* Don Cornelius, TV show host (Soul Train) was born on this day in 1941.
* On this day in 1942, Glenn Miller and his orchestra performed together for the last time.Ê Miller volunteered for the U.S. Army and disappeared September 15, 1944 over the English Channel.
* Model Cheryl Tiegs was born on this day in 1947 in Minnesota.
* On this day in 1950, heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles defeated Joe Louis.
* Rocker Meat Loaf was born on this day in 1951 in Dallas as Marvin Lee Aday.
* The Tonight Show aired for the first time on this date in 1954. Steve Allen hosted it until 1957. Jack Paar took over until 1962, when Johnny Carson took over from him.
* Mildred ÒBabeÓ Didrickson Zaharias, multi-talented athlete, died on this day in 1956.
* On this day in 1962, the New York Mets finished their first season with a dismal 40-160 record.Ê ¥Ê On the same day, The New York Times ran the story ÒBob Dylan: A Distinctive Folk Song StylistÓ after a concert at Carnegie Hall.
* On this day in 1964, The Beach Boys appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.Ê They performed ÒI Get Around.Ó
* On this day in 1985, Lloyd Nolan died at 83.
* Texas Football hero Doak Walker died on this day in 1998 at 71.

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. Ha ha.

Meat Loaf.

[eyesroll]

16. And Brimley!

I can have oatmeal meatloaf!

Mmm....haggis...

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. March 10.

http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0310.htm

Zelda Fitzgerald died on my birthday. Well, 28 years before I was born, but still. This may help explain my flare for the dramatic. And my prodigious intake of alcohol.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. So. The first telephone call was a dirty one?

Alexander Graham Bell uttered the first words over a telephone on this day in 1876. His assistant Thomas Watson heard him over the phone while he was in the next room say, "Come here, Watson. I want you."

I won't comment on you having the same birthday as Mark Chapman.

[Nomad559]

13. March 29

http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0329.htm

Retailer Sam Walton was born this day in 1918 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. He founded his first Wal-Mart store in 1962. By 1985, he was one of the richest men in America. Wal-Mart passed Sears to become the nation's largest retailer in 1991.

Billy Carter, brother of President Carter, was born on this day in 1937 in Plains, Georgia. His down-home style added folksiness to the Carter administration. He tried to market Billy Beer.

Country swing bandleader Moon Mullican was born on this day in 1909.

Phil Foster, comedian who played Frank De Fazio on Laverne and Shirley, was born on this day in 1913 in Brooklyn.

Singer Pearl Bailey was born on this day in 1918 in Newport News, Virginia.

One of the Monty Python troupe, Eric Idle ("Wink, wink, nudge, nudge"), was born on this day in 1943 in the university and cathedral city of Durham.

Australian model Elle Macpherson (Sports Illustrated 1986, 1987, 1988) was born on this day in 1964 in Sidney.


On this day in 1976, in Memphis, Bruce Springsteen jumped a fence at Graceland in an attempt to see his idol, Elvis Presley.

[GOPisEvil]

17. Sir Francis Drake claims San Francisco for England!

June 17, 1579.

Other notable occurances:

On this day in 1775, the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought actually on Breeds Hill across the Charles River from Boston. The American forces under General Israel Putnam withdrew after repulsing Lord Howe’s men.

Igor Stravinsky, the most famous Russian composer of the 20th century, was born in 1882. He spent most of his life in France and America.

M.C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist famous for his prints that show bizarre optical effects, was born on this day in 1898

On this day in 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the use of mandated prayer and Scripture reading in public schools.

On this day in 1972, the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Office Complex in Washington, D.C., was broken into, precipitating the most sustained political scandal in American history. President Nixon called it a “third rate burglary,” when in reality it was an attempt to install a wiretap.

O.J Simpson arrested for second degree murder on this day in 1994. His infamous white Bronco chase is televised live and watched by millions. (Thanks for screwing up my birthday, Juice! :grr:)

[mrboba1]

23. That's OK. My mom's birthday is

Nov 22.

That one's a little more recognizable than the OJ chase...

[russian33]

18. September 12th

On this day in 1609, English explorer Henry Hudson sailed down what is now known as the Hudson River.


John Kennedy married Jacqueline Bouvier on this day in 1953. • On the same day, Nikita Khrushchev was elected as the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (cool, had no idea)


On this day in 1960, Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy told a conference of church leaders in Houston that he would resign if his religious beliefs ever interfered with the conduct of the business of the Presidency. (yeah, Bush ain't no JFK, that's for sure)

French song and dance man Maurice Chevalier was born on this day in 1888.


Track star Jesse Owens, who spoiled Hitler’s 1936 Olympics by winning four gold medals, was born on this day in 1913.


R&B crooner Barry White was born on this day in 1944. (Rest in Peace Barry!)

Arnold Schwarzenegger became a U.S. citizen on this day in 1983. He had emigrated from Austria 14 years earlier. (don't hold that against me!!!!)

http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0912.htm

[LynzM]

54. Mine too!

Happy belated Birthday! :bounce:

[Bluzmann57]

19. A few highlights of October 26

Erie Canal opened, Rolling Stones appeared on Ed Sullivan, and Doonesbury debuted. A few notables who were born on 10-26, Mahalia Jackson, Jackie Coogan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the junior Senator from New York, Hillary Clinton. Cool. I always was partial to that date.

[peekaloo]

20. I forgot about this:

On this day in 1987, in Northhampton, Mssachusetts, Presidential daughter Amy Carter, Abbie Hoffman, and 13 others were acquitted on civil disobedience charges related with a CIA protest.

April 15.

DaVinci born, yet Sartre,Lincoln, Garbo and Joey Ramone (not mentioned :P ) died on this date. Also, the Titanic sunk and Auntie Em from 'The Wizard of Oz' committed suicide.

Yep, pretty excruciating.

http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0415.htm

[YellowRubberDuckie]

21. June 21.

Niccolo Machiavelli, author of The Prince died on this day in 1527.
He was an Italian statesman and writer who wrote about the political machinations of his time.
On this day in 1528, a court was convened at Blackfriars in London to decide if King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon was displeasing to the Almighty, since she had been his brother's widow. Henry VIII wanted the marriage dissolved so that he could marry Anne Boleyn and have a male heir. The bishops of England sat as a jury, and Cardinals Wolsey and Campeggio sat as judges. The latter, a papal legate, eventually called for the adjournment of the court and the return of the matter to papal jurisdiction. (See March 24.)
John Skelton, the English poet whose short lines based on colloquial speech came to be known as Skeltonics, died on this day in 1529.
On this day in 1633, Galileo Galilei was forced by the Inquisition to "abjure, curse, and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views.
Colonial clergyman Increase Mather was born on this day in 1639. He published nearly 100 books, and is credited with helping end executions for witchcraft in colonial America.
Martha Washington, the first First Lady, was born on this day in 1732. She insisted on being addressed as Lady Washington. She died in 1802, three years after her husband.
New Yorker Daniel D. Tompkins, sixth U.S. vice-president (1817-1825), was born on this day in 1774. He died shortly after leaving office.
On this day in 1788, New Hampshire ratified the Constitution which had been approved in Philadelphia in 1787. It required three-fourths of the states to ratify it before the new government went into effect. Thus New Hampshire's ratification made the new Constitution official. In 1629, Capt. John Mason of Plymouth Colony named the new colony after his home county in England. I have been in the state several times and have toured the State Capitol.
On this day in 1791, Alexandre de Beauharnais, president of the revolutionary Constituent Assembly in Paris, informed the group that the King and Queen had fled during the night. He then asked the assembly to carry on with the business of the day. Beauharnais would eventually die in the Reign of Terror. His wife was Josephine, the woman whose second husband Napoleon would crown Empress of the French.
Future President Zachary Taylor married Margaret Mackall Smith on this day in 1810 near Louisville, Kentucky. They were married 40 years.
On this day in 1813, the Duke of Wellington defeated the French at Victoria in the Peninsular Campaign, and Napoleon's brother Joseph, whom he had put on the Spanish throne, went back to France. Beethoven wrote an undistinguished concert-piece called Wellington's Victory.
The prince of Orange and the Allied powers signed a protocol on this day in 1814 that created the kingdom of the Netherlands by joining Austrian Netherlands (Belgium) and Holland.
Henry W. Baker, compiler of Hymns Ancient and Modern, the unofficial Anglican church hymnal, was born on this day in 1821. He also authored the hymn based on Psalm 23: “The King of Love My Shepherd Is.” • On the same day, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church was formally constituted in New York City. Nineteen clergymen were present, representing six African-American churches from New York City; Philadelphia; New Haven, and Newark.
On this day in 1834, Cyrus McCormick received a patent on his mechanical reaper.
Wagner’s opera Die Meistersinger was first produced (Munich) on this day in 1869.
American illustrator Rockwell Kent (he illustrated The Canterbury Tales) was born on this day in 1882.
Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican general who stormed the Alamo, only to be defeated at San Jacinto, died on this day in 1876 at 82.
On this day in 1890, Rudyard Kipling's dialect poem "On the Road to Mandalay" was published in The Scots Observer, published by William Ernest Henley, who wrote "Invictus."
Protestant theologian Reinhold Niehbur was born on this day in 1892. He once wrote, "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
Existentialist French author Jean-Paul Sartre was born on this day in 1905. I read a great deal of Sartre and other existentialist writing when I was an undergraduate, including the absurdist play No Exit, in which he claims that "Hell is other people." One does not hear the term existentialism bandied about much any more. I suppose it's been replaced by secular humanism as the new enemy of orthodoxy.
Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the American Boy Scouts, died on this day in 1910.
American novelist Mary McCarthy (The Group) was born on this day in 1912.
On this day in 1913, Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to jump from an airplane.
The captured German fleet was scuttled by the British at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys on this day in 1919.
French novelist Françoise Sagan was born on this day in 1935.
On this day in 1937 in Paris, Leon Blum's Popular Front cabinet resigned.
On this day in 1940, a young California high school teacher named Pat Ryan married an assistant district attorney named Richard Nixon.
On this day in 1941, German troops entered Russia on a front from the Arctic to Black Sea.
On the same day, future President John F. Kennedy received the B.A. degree cum laude from Harvard.
On this day in 1942, a Japanese submarine fired on the Oregon coast.
On this day in 1945, Allied forces captured Okinawa, Japan.
Following the blockade which the Soviet forces erected around the Allied-occupied sectors of West Berlin, the Berlin Airlift began on this day in 1948. The people of the quarantined city were supplied by Allied planes that brought in necessities. The blockade was lifted May 12, 1949.
Benazir Bhutto, PM of Pakistan (1988-1990, 1993-1996) and the first woman leader of a Islamic country, was born on this day in 1953.
Playwright Arthur Miller, who wrote The Crucible as a commentary on the dangers of McCarthyism, appeared this day in 1956 before the House Un-American Activities Committee, refusing to name names of communist sympathizers.
On this day in 1958, Linus Pauling and Detlev Bronke, both Americans, were elected to the Soviet Academy of Science.
France announced on this day in 1963 that they were withdrawing from the NATO fleet. • On the same day, Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) was elected the 261st Roman Catholic Pope. He succeeded John XXIII
On this day in 1964, three civil rights workers disappeared in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Their bodies were found on August 4, 1964 in an earthen dam. Eight Ku Klux Klan members later went to federal prison on conspiracy charges.
On this day in 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that community standards should be taken into account in obscenity cases.
On this day in 1977, Menachem Begin became Israel's sixth prime minister. • On the same day, former White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman entered prison for Watergate offenses.
On this day in 1982, the heir presumptive to the British throne, Prince William of Great Britain, was born. • On the same day, John Hinckley was found innocent of shooting President Ronald Reagan by reason of insanity.
Scientists announced on this day in 1985 that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
On this day in 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment.
The first capitalist style stock exchange in any Warsaw Pact country was officially opened in Budapest, Hungary, on this day in 1990. This was actually a re-launch since the Communist party had closed it 42 years ago.
American composer Alan Hovhannes died at 89 on this day in 2000 in Seattle. He was a prolific coposer. His tone-poem The Mysterious Mountain was the first of his works I came to know. He wrote a symphony on the eeruption of Mt. St. Helen's and one on The Rubáiyát.
Sports and entertainment:
Al Hirschfeld, American caricature artist, on this day in 1903.
Hollywood heart-throb Jane Russell was born on this day in 1921. Howard Hughes' marketing of the buxom brunette lounging about in a scanty bodice in the film The Outlaw was so outrageous that wags called it The Sale of Two Titties.
Judy Holliday, a comic film star of the '40s and '50s, was born Judith Turim on this day in 1922. She died in 1965. She starred with Broderick Crawford and William Holden in the Pygmalionesque comedy Born Yesterday. Her great line in that film is "Do me a favor, Harry. Drop dead."
Stage and film performer Maureen Stapleton, the wife of Eli Wallach, was born on this day in 1925.
Film composer Lalo (Boris) Schifrin was born on this day in 1932 in Buenos Aires.
Monte Markham, actor (Dallas), was born on this day in 1935 in Manatee, Florida.
Actor Ron Ely (Tarzan, Doc Savage) was born on this day in 1938 in Hereford, Texas.
On this day in 1939, Lou Gehrig quit baseball due to illness.
Two TV personalities were born on this day in1940: comedian Joe Flaherty (SCTV) in Pittsburgh, and actress Mariette Hartley (Polaroid spokesperson) in NYC.
On this day in 1948, Columbia Records began the first mass production of the 33 1/3 rpm LP.
In one of the strangest birthday coincidences that I have ever run across, Meredith Baxter, who played the mother of Alex Keaton (Michael J. Fox) on the TV sitcom Family Ties, and Michael Gross, who played his father, were born on the same day, this day, in 1955. • On the same day, Johnny Cash's first single, "Cry, Cry, Cry," was released.
Cartoonist Burke Breathed, who invented Bloom County, was born on this day in 1957.
On this day in 1958, Bobby Darin recorded "Splish Splash."
James Taylor's "How Sweet It Is" was released on this day in 1975.
On this day in 1978, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical play Evita starring Elaine Paige opened in London.
On this day in 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark opened.
On this day in 1985, Ron Howard directed his first music video for “Gravity” by Michael Sembello.
Pantera rode a float in Dallas Stars Stanley Cup victory parade in downtown Dallas on this day in 1999. Pantera is responsible for the Stars' theme song.
Actor Carroll O’Connor died on this day in 2001 at the age of 76. He was most famous for his portrayal as Archie Bunker on All in the Family. • Blues singer John Lee Hooker died the same day.

[RebelOne]

24. I share a birthday with Kevin Cosner.

And it was the day of the first UFO sighting in the USA at Boston.

[mrboba1]

25. March 16:

On this day in 597 BCE, according to certain archaeological calculations, the first conquest of Jerusalem by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar occurred.

On this day in 1521, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines. He was killed the next month by natives.

President James Madison was born on this day in 1751. Trivia buffs know two distinguishing facts about Madison: one, he was the smallest, not weighing even 100 pounds, and two, he is the only American President who ever exercised the role of Commander-in-Chief by leading troops in battle in the defense of Washington in the War of 1812.

On this day in 1758, George Washington proposed to the widow Martha Custis. They were married the following March 16.

On this day in 1935, Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the Versailles Treaty.

On this day in 1939, Germany occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.

On this day in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered men between the ages of 45 and 64 to register for non-military duty.

The island of Iwo Jima fell to the Americans on this day in 1945.

The first docking in space was done on this day in 1966 by the Gemini 8 spacecraft.

On this day in 1991, seven members of Reba McEntire’s band and her road manager were killed when their private plane crashed near California’s border with Mexico. McEntire was on a separate plane. • On the same day, Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli, was born.

On this day in 1994, Tonya Harding pled guilty in Portland, Oregon, of conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up the attack on her skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She was fined $100,000. She was also banned from amateur figure skating.

And of course, to top it all off:

On this day in 1963, “Puff The Magic Dragon” was released by Peter, Paul and Mary.
:smoke:

[Texasgal]

26. WOW! Sid vicious died..... DAMN!

Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, or Candlemas Day. All the candles used in church are blessed on this day. The English universities name their terms after certain holy days. The spring term began about this time, so it was called the Candlemas term. (The fall is the Michaelmas Term.)
On this day in 1536, Pedro de Mendoza of Spain founded the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On this day in 1556, as many as 830,000 people died in an earthquake in the Chinese provinces Shaaxi and Henan.
The greatest of Renaissance Italian sacred composers, Giovanni de Palestrina, died on this day in 1594. When I began collecting music in 1966, Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass was one of the first recordings I owned.
Shakespeare's twins, Hamnet and Judith, were baptized on this day in 1585. The former lived only 11 years.
On this day in 1602, John Donne wrote to appease his father-in-law Sir George More concerning his unapproved marriage to Anne More. When Donne was put under virtual house arrest for marrying the girl, he used a diamond to write on a windowpane, "John Donne, Anne Donne, undone."
King Charles II's mistress Nell Gwin was born on this day in 1650. He is reputed to have said, "Let not poor Nellie starve" on his deathbed. When a London mob was railing against her carriage on a London street, she is said to have stepped out and defended herself by saying, "I am a good English whore, not a French whore." Her royal benefactor Charles II died on the same day in 1685.
On this day in 1653, New Amsterdam (later New York) was incorporated.
On this day in 1709, British sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued after being marooned on a desert island for five years, his story inspiring Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe.
The popular English novelist Hannah Moore was born on this day in 1745. Her 1808 novel Coelebs in Search for a Wife was immensely popular on both sides of the Atlantic.
Georgia jurist and signer of the Declaration of Independence, George Walton died on this day in 1804/ he was born in 1741.
The French diplomat and premier Charles-Maurice, duke of Talleyrand-Périgord was born on this day in 1754. He was also a bishop. He played a significant role in the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
The French keyboard composer Armand-Louis Couperin died on this day in 1798. He was organist at Notre Dame Cathedral.
Ciivl war General Albert Sidney Johnston of the Confederate Army, mortally wounded at Shiloh in 1862, was born on this day in 1803. He is buried in the State Cemetery in Austin, under a statue by Elisabet Ney.
Delaware's signer of the Declaration of Independence Caesar Rodney died on this day in 1804.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, concluded between the United Syayes and Mexico on this day in 1848, ended the Mexican War and gave the Southwest to the United States for a modicum of payment.
On this day in 1852, Alexandre Dumas fils play La Dame aux Camélias, premiered in Paris. • Abdülhak Hâmid, Turkish poet and playwright, was born the same day. • On the same day, the first public toilet is inaugurated, located at 95 Fleet Street in London, by the Society of Arts.
Pioneer American sexologist Havelock Ellis (The Psychology of Sex) was born on this day in 1859.
On this day in 1862, Samuel Clemens, a journalist, published his first report in the Virginia City Enterprise. He used a pseudonym: Mark Twain.
On this day in 1867, President Andrew Johnson signed the Second Reconstruction Act, which divided the South into military districts.
On this day in 1870, Mark Twain, 34, married Olivia Langdon in Elmira, N.Y. She exercised a censoring hand on his work as much as possible. Twain once said about her swearing: "She knew all the words, but she couldn't get the tune right."
Violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler was born on this day in Vienna in 1875. On the same day in 1901, another maestro of the violin, Jascha Heifitz, was born in Vilna, Lithuania.
James Joyce, the great Irish writer of this century, was born on this day in 1882. Sylvia Beach, the American expatriate bibliophile, published his Ulysses on his 40th birthday. It was not allowed into the United States for a decade.
Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter patented the bottle cap with a cork sealer on this day in Baltimore in 1892. Without it the modern soft drink would not have been possible.
Russian-American author Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead), was born on this day in 1905. I read several of her books in my senior year of high school and would not read another for money.
The originator of the chemical periodic table Dmitri Mendeleyev died on this day in 1907. • On the same day, in a letter written to American statesman William Jennings Bryan, Christian Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy counseled: "'The most important thing is to know the will of God concerning one's life, i.e., to know what he wishes us to do and fulfill it."
New York City's Grand Central Station opened on this day in 1913.
The novelist and poet James Dickey, most famous for Deliverance, was born on this day in 1923.
James Dickey was born this day in 1925. Some people have read his novel Deliverance (I did), but because of the film, virtually everyone knows the theme music and the phrase "Squeal like a pig!" As with Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, most people will remember only the grossest aspect of a work.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France (1974-81), was born on this day in 1926. He was president of France when I was there in the summer of 1979. • The Broadway version of The Great Gatsby opened on the same day.
On this day in 1932, Al Capone was sent to prison.
On this day in 1933, two days after the German people elected Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor, he ordered the dissolution of the German Parliament, signaling the creation of a long and repressive regime that presided over a world war and the brutal killing of millions of Jews and others.
On this day in 1935, the first application of a polygraph machine—commonly referred to as the lie detector—was conducted by Leonard Keeler.
Democratic Vice-Presidential 2000 candidate Joseph Leiberman was born on this day in 1942 in Stamford, Connecticut, three days after his opponent Dick Cheney was born.
On this day in 1943, the German Army surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad. It was a turning point of World War II.
Newswoman and anchor Jessica Savitch was born on this day in 1948. An untimely death ended her short career.
The first Presidential news conference was shown on network TV on this day in 1955, with President Eisenhower.
English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell died on this day in 1970 at 98. He wrote in his Autobiography, "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
On this day in 1971, one of the most reviled dictators in modern times, Idi Amin, assumed power as the premier of Uganda following a military coup that ousted President Obote. Idi Amin presided over a burtal and repressive regime that saw thousands executed for political crimes. Idi Amin was himself ousted in 1979.
On this day in 1995, Space Shuttle Discovery took off on a historic mission, piloted by the first woman ever to command the ship -- Eileen Collins. Discovery later kept its appointed rendezvous with the Russian space station MIR
Sports and entertainment:
Baseball's National League was formed on this day in 1876, with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, and St. Louis.
The longest boxing match under modern rules took place on this day in 1892. It went 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois, between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby.
Professional football pioneer George "Papa Bear" Halas, co-founder of the NFL, was born on this day in 1895.
Gale Gordon was born on this day in 1906 (he died in 1995). He was one of the geniuses of Golden-Age TV. He played Madison High principal Mr. Conklin in Our Miss Brooks. But most of you remember him as Mr. Mooney on the later Lucy shows, although he did appear in many of the original I Love Lucy series.
Boxing champion John L. Sullivan died on this day in 1918.
The Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opened at Sixth Avenue and 54th Street in New York on this day in 1927.
Born on this day in 1923 were Bonita Granville, B-movie actress of the 1940s (I knew her son Chris slightly when I was in graduate school in Austin, because he was a friend's student), and Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, (in Fort Worth) gossip columnist.
Jazz saxophonist Stan Getz was born on this day in 1927.
TV comedian Tommy Smothers was born in New York City on this day in 1937. I learned in a biography of Barbra Streisand that she had a fling with him when they were young. He and his brother were considered radical in the summer of 1968, when their comedy hour ran on CBS-TV.
On this day in 1940, Frank Sinatra had his national singing debut in Indianapolis with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. His songs with the Dorsey band are some of the best of his recordings.
Rock artist Graham Nash was born on this day in 1942. He recorded with David Crosby and Stephen Stills.
TV performer Farah Fawcett was born on this day in 1946.
The first broadcast of What's My Line on CBS-TV came on this day in 1950. A panel of blindfolded celebrities guessed a person's occupation. John Daly was the first host and last mystery guest in the show's run.
Christie Brinkley, model and actress, was born on this day in 1954.
Actress Holly Hunter was born on this day in 1958 in Conyers, Georgia.
According to Don McLean, the music died on this day in 1959 when Buddy Holly was killed in the crash of their airplane American Pie crash in Iowa. Waylon Jennings was supposed to have been on the plane, but didn't go. Holly's band was the Crickets. The Beatles fashioned their name after that band.
Garth Brooks was born on this day in 1962 (his birth first-name is Troyal, which is one of those white-trash made-up names, the Bible and the saints lists not being enough for the Oklahoma Brookses.) Garth Brooks is in my estimation a prime example of what went wrong with country music. His vocal stylings lack any of the character or integrity of true traditional music. On the Letterman show, I saw him perform with the punk band Kiss. Brooks figured out that he couldn't make the megabucks in rock, his true love, so he put on this country persona to trick the rubes. It seems to have worked. Writer Kinky Friedman called him the Anti-Hank.
Pebbles Flintstone on the animated show of that name was born on this day in 1963. Her parents were Fred and Wilma.
On this day in 1964, while singing the National Anthem at the Ali-Liston fight, Robert Goulet forgot some of the words. Elvis Presley had an irrational hatred of Robert Goulet and once shot a TV set on which Goulet was singing. • GI Joe debuted as a popular toy on the same day.
Boris Karloff, the British actor who played the creature in Universal's 1931 version of Frankenstein died on this day in 1969. Some comic once said that the best word to say in doing a Karloff imitation was antipasto.
Sid Vicious , bassist for the band Sex Pistols, died of a heroin overdose at 31 on this day in 1979. He stood trial fort murder.
US actor John Cassavetes died on this day in 1989. he directed Rosemary's Baby.
Bert Parks , TV host of the Miss America Pageant, died on this day in 1992.
Donald Pleasance, English actor, died on this day in 1995.
Gene Kelly, actor and dancer most famous for his role in Singing in the Rain, died at 83 died on this day in 1996. He did a creditable job playing Hornbeck (the stand-in for H.L. Mencken) in Inherit the Wind.

[RandomKoolzip]

27. March 18th:

Dude, John Wilkes Booth AND Mark David Chapman were both born on my birthday! (So were Wilson Pickett and Ornette Coleman, so it kida evens out, IMO....)


* Feast of the Creation. Early Biblical scholars placed the Day of Creation at 4004 B.C.E.
* Frà Angelico (born Giovanni da Fiesole), the medieval Italian painter, died on this day in 1455. Most of his most celebrated paintings are in the Cathedral of San Marco in Venice.
* On this day in 1532, the English parliament banned payments by English Church to Rome.  This was one of the major steps of the Reformation, since before this ten percent, “Peter’s pence,” went to the Holy See.
* Russian czar Ivan IV “the Terrible” (1547-1584) died on this day in 1584 at 53.
* On this day in 1673, Lord Berkley sold his half of New Jersey to the Quakers.
* On this day in 1676, Bacon’s Rebellion, involving frontiersmen against the Virginia colonial government, began.
* On this day in 1692, proprietor William Penn of Pennsylvania was deprived of his governing powers.
* One of the oddest of early English novelists, Tobias Smollett, was born in Scotland on this day in 1721. His novel Humphrey Clinker is one of the comic masterpieces of the novel. His character Aunt Tabitha is the greatest perpetrator of malaprops. In her letters home (it is an epistolary novel, as many 18th century novels were) she says that she and her family escape tribulations by the "grease of God." Smollett also wrote a novel with a title character named Peregrine Pickle.
* Robert Walpole, the first English PM (1722-1742), died on this day in 1745 at 68.  The office evolved when one of the King’s ministers was given the responsibility of making sure that King George I, who had a little grasp on English, understood government policy.  Hence the term “prime (chief) minister” came into being.
* Lawrence Sterne, another 18th century novelist, died on this day in 1768. Sterne’s most remarkable novel is Tristram Shandy, published I think in 1776. It is in the post-modernist tradition. Tristram is the central character of this supposed biography, but most of the action takes place before he is born. The narrator strikes an irascible tone with the reader, demanding that they pay closer attention, scolding them for buying such cheap volumes that the pages fall out (and the pagination does change). Dr. Johnson had no use for Sterne. When a woman asked him, "If Sterne is so terrible an author, then why do I still like him?" Dr. Johnson’s answer was, "Because, madam, you are a dunce."
* John Caldwell Calhoun, Andrew Jackson’s Vice President (1825-1832), was born on this day in 1782 in Abbeville, South Carolina.  He resigned December 28, 1832, to take a seat in the U.S. Senate, where he served until his death.  He was carried into the Chamber in his sickbed in 1850 to vote for the Compromise of that year.
* On this day in 1798, William Wordsworth observed a hailstorm, which he wrote a poem about, included in Lyrical Ballads.
* On this day in 1834, six Dorset laborers were deported to Australia for trying to form a trade union.
* Grover Cleveland, the only American president to serve nonconsecutive terms, was born on this day in Paterson, New Jersey in 1837. Cleveland may remind contemporary Americans of a later American president in that he paid a substitute to go to the Civil War in his place when he was drafted (so did Franklin Roosevelt’s father), and he faced a sex scandal. A Buffalo woman accused him of being the father of her son. Cleveland paid support to her and later was instrumental in taking the child away from her when she proved unfit. He was put in an orphanage. The boy grew up to be a successful Buffalo doctor. Cleveland received the majority of the popular vote three times, but in his middle election in 1888, Benjamin Harrison received an electoral majority.  His first name was Stephen. Many years ago I was emceeing a quiz bowl among some college students. The question asked was, "What is the most common first name for American Presidents?"  The answer given was ‘Steve." Cleveland is the only one that would remotely fit that bill.
* John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, was born on this day in 1838.  He once played Marc Antony, the Roman who fought against Caesar’s assassins.  He was named for the 18th century liberal John Wilkes, who eventually became Lord Mayor of London
* The French poet Stéphane Mallarmé was born on this day in 1842 in Tikhvin, Russia. His poem L”Après d”un Faune was the inspiration for the Debussy tone poem of the same name.
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the Russian composer known for the symphonic poem Scheherezade and the tour de force "The Flight of the Bumblebee," was born on this day in 1844.
* Princess Louise of Great Britain, the fourth of Queen Victoria’s quintet of daughters, was born on this day in 1848.  Her third name gave its name to the Canadian province of Alberta, in which one finds Lake Louise.  She was the only one of Victoria’s and Albert’s nine children not to marry foreign royalty.  Her husband was a Scottish duke.
* On this day in 1850, Henry Wells and William Fargo founded American Express.  •  On the same day, tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton was born. His face with the Van Dyke beard used to appear on the orange and red tea boxes.
* Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the engine name for him, was born on this day in 1858.
* On this day in 1865, the Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourned for the last time, in Danville, Virginia
* British PM (1937-1940) at the time of the Munich Agreement of 1938, Neville Chamberlain was born on this day in 1869.  His phrase “peace in our time” came back to haunt him.
* On this day in1877, President Hayes appointed ex-slave Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington, D.C.
* Italian composer Gian Francesco Malipiero was born on this day in 1882.  He resented the way in which the composers of grand opera garnered all the attention of the musical community in his country.  He disparaged their work as “organ-grinder music.”
* Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin, was born on this day in 1899.  His assassination in 1953 was announced by a news bulletin in the middle of a Wild Bill Hickok program.  When the show came back on, Jingles was saying, “I guess that oughta hold him, huh, Wild Bill?”
* The English World War I poet Wilfred Owen was born on this day in 1893. He died in combat a week before the Armistice.
* Classical pianist John Kirkpatrick was born on this day in 1905 in NYC.  •  On the same day, actor Robert Donat, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips) was born on this day in Withington, Manchester, England. 
* George I, King of Greece (1861-1913), was assassinated on this day in 1913.
* On this day in 1922, Mahatma Ghandi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience in India.  He served only 2 years of the sentence.
* John Calvin Coolidge, the father of the future President of the same name, died on this day in 1926 in Plymouth, Vermont while his son was in office.
* The Shick electric razor made its debut on this day in 1931.
* American novelist John Updike was born on this day in 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania. I think I have read virtually every work of this popular writer. The most recent one I read was In the Beauty of the Lilies. His short story "A&P" used to be one of the most often anthologized modern American short stories.  In the last few years he has been doing book reviews for The New Yorker.  I used to work at a school where the president always asked the same question of prospective English teachers, whether they would teach Updike’s novel Couples, which the president had heard was sexy.
* F W de Klerk, President of South Africa (1989-1994), was born on this day in 1932.
* The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), one of the most ambitious government projects of the century, came into being on this day in 1933.
* Ernest Hemingway arrived in Spain on this day in 1937 to report on the Spanish Civil War and to lend moral support to the Spanish Republican side.
* On this day in 1938, President Lázaro Cardenas of Mexico nationalized American and British oil companies.
* On this day in 1940, Mussolini joined Hitler in Germany’s war against France and Britain.  Churchill called it a “stab in the back of France.”
* On this day in 1949, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was ratified and came into being.
* On this day in 1963, the Supreme Court’s Miranda decision required that defendants must have lawyers.  To be read one’s rights is to be miranda-ized.
* On this day in 1965, the USSR launched Voshkod 2, and Alexei Leonov made the first space walk (20 minutes).  •  Farouk I, the last King of Egypt (1936-1952), died on this day in 1965 at 45. 
* On this day in 1970, a Cambodian military coup put General Lon Nol in power, and Prince Sihanuk fled. 
* Danish baritone Lauritz Melchior died on this day in 1973 at 82.  He had the most famous adlib in the history of opera.  During a performance of Löhengrin, he failed to thate his seat on one of the wooden swans that were drawn across stage.  He turned to the audience and asked, “What time is the next swan?”
* Umberto of Piemonte, King Umberto II of Italy for less than one year in 1946, died on this day in 1983.
* American writer (The Fixer, The Natural) Bernard Malamud died on this day in 1986 at 71.
* On this day in 1990, Walker Percy, physician and novelist, died of cancer at 74.  In addition to his own books such as The Last Gentlemen and The Moviegoer, he championed writers such as John Kennedy Toole, bringing his Pulitzer-Prize winning A Confederacy of Dunces to posthumous publication.  As part of the celebration of Percy’s 65th birthday, I heard Cleanth Brooks read from his works at an MLA convention.   •  On the same day, the first free elections were held in East Germany, the Conservatives beating the Communists.
* Abstract artist Willem de Kooning died of Alzheimer’s on this day in 1997 at 92.
* Sports and entertainment:
* On this day in 1881, Barnum and Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth opened in Madison Square Gardens.
* Comic character actor Edward Everett Horton was born on this day in 1886. He played offbeat sophisticates. He played the administrator of Happy Dale sanitarium in Frank Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). Had the film followed the original play, he would have been the last victim of the toxic Brewster sisters” elderberry wine. In the 1930s, Scott Fitzgerald rented a bungalow apartment from him in Malibu. In the 1960s, he provided the voice-over for many of the "Fractured Fairy Tales" on The Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show.
* On this day in 1902, Enrico Caruso recorded ten arias for the Gramophone Company.  He was the first well-known performer to make a record.  •  On the same day, Arnold Schönberg’s tone-poem for strings Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) premiered in Vienna.  It is the only one of his works that is at all accessible to those unaccustomed to serial music.
* Comic actor Smiley (Lester) Burnette was born on this day in 1911 in Summum, Illinois.  He was Gene Autry’s sidekick.
* Actor Peter Graves (Mission Impossible, A&E’s Biography) was born on this day in 1925 in Minnneapolis.  He is the brother of James Arnass.
* Sportswriter (Paper Lion) George Plimpton 1927 was born on this day in 1927 in NYC.
* R&B singer Wilson Pickett was born on this day in 1941 in Prattville, Arkansas.
* Michael Reagan, talk-show host and Ronald Reagan’s son, was born on this day in 1946.
* Poppin’ Fresh, the Pillsbury Dough Boy, was introduced on this day in 1961.
* Actor Brad Dourif was born on this day in 1950.  He played in One Flew over the Cookoo’s Nest, but his most memorable role for me was as Haze Motes in the John Houston film of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood.
* Mark David Chapman, the assassin of John Lennon, was born on this day in 1955.
* Singer/songwriter James McMurtry, son of the novelist Larry, was born on this day in 1962.
* Actress Vanessa Williams was born on this day in 1963.  She was the only Miss America ever compelled to resign her crown.  •  On the same day, Decca signed the Rolling Stones on the advice of Beatle George Harrison.
* Entertainer Queen Latifah was born on this day in 1970.

 

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[Magrittes Pipe]

29. WTF? Mine says Chapman was born on the 10th.

Madeline L'Engel is spinning in her grave.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

34. I think you should duel to see who gets the honour

of sharing a birthday with John Lennon's murderer.

[SarahB]

28. I share a birthday with Yoko!

:scared:

A bunch of other stuff too, that I won't post, but if someone is actually interested... http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0218.htm

[NashVegas]

30. Sinead O'Connor Ripped Up a Picture of the Pope

How fitting. (Oct 3)

[soothsayer]

31. How come he left out the Space Shuttle blowing up on my birthday?

Elvis' first tv appearance, and Freddie Prinze's suicide he includes...

And what about the annual snowball fight of the Rinkydinks? (which my old Esquire book let me know about in their "365 excuses for a party" section).

January 28


Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. One of the most famous stories in religious history is that after having written the Summa Theologica, a compendium of all human knowledge up to that time, St. Thomas went into a kind of trace one day at Mass. When asked what he had seen, he said no human words could tell.
On this day in 814, Charlemagne, Frankish emperor, died at the age of 71. Though he had conquered much of Europe, his legacy was considerably reduced after his death from mismanagement and incompetence.
Henry Tudor, the Earl of Richmond, was born on this day in 1457. After he defeated the Yorkist king Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field, he became King Henry VII. He brought the War of the Roses to an end and married Elizabeth of York, the daughter of Edward IV. (She is thought to be the model for the Queen in a deck of cards.) It was probably the ambitious Henry VII and not Richard III who killed the princes in the Tower. Also on this day, his son Henry VIII died in 1547, after a reign of 38 momentous years. Henry left a widow, Catherine Paar, whom he had married because she was willing to change the bandages on his venereal sores on his legs. He was a wretched king and a monstrous human being. Despite the celluloid depiction of him as a kind of Merry Old Soul like Old King Cole, Henry VIII sacrificed a wise counselor like Sir Thomas More to the demands of his ego.
On this day 1595, English navigator Sir Francis Drake died off the coast of Panama. Drake was the first Englishman who circumnavigated the globe and was an admiral in the English fleet that destroyed the Spanish Armada. He was also famous for pillaging and plundering American settlements; Elizabeth, then Queen of England, knighted him for filling the British coffers and for his naval exploits.
Astronomer and star-cataloguer Johannes Helvetius was born on this day in 1611. He died on his 76th birthday.
Thomas Bodley, diplomat and founder of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, died on this day in 1612.
On this day in 1725, Russian czar Peter the Great died after ruling Russia for more than 40 years. First his mistress and then his wife, Catharine was proclaimed Czarina.
On this day in 1807, London became the first city to be illumined by gas light.
Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Civil War General and Reconstruction governor of Texas, was born on this day in 1815.
George Edward Pickett, Major General in the Confederate Army, was born on this day in 1825. He died in 1875. When he was about to meet General Lee after the war, he remarked to another general, "That old man ruined my division," to which the other man replied, "That old man made you immortal."
William Burke, murderer and body snatcher, was executed in Edinburgh on this day in 1829.
Charles George Gordon, British military hero in China and Africa, was born on this day in 1833. He died at Khartoum.
Sabine Baring-Gould, Anglican clergyman and author was born on this day in 1834. A man of widely diverging interests, he published numerous books on history, poetry and fiction. He also penned the verses to the enduring hymns "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day is Over."
On this day in 1846, Charlotte Brontë wrote to a London publisher about the poems of her sister Emily and their worthiness for publication.
William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the recording adding machine, was born on this day in 1855.
The state convention in Texas to consider secession from the Union convened in Austin on this day in 1861.
Henry Morton Stanley was born on this day in 1841. He is most famous for his locating (at the behest of James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald) African explorer David Livingstone. (See November 10). . Stanley was a soldier of fortune. At the age of 22, he had fought in an Arkansas brigade at the Battle of Shiloh.
On this day in 1871, Paris surrendered to the Prussian army after a five-month siege
The popular French novelist Colette was born on this day in 1873. One of her novels was made into the film Gigi. She was given a state funeral when she died in 1954.
The country's first telephone exchange was set up in New Haven, Connecticut, on this day in 1878.
Auguste Piccard, Swiss-born Belgian physicist who achieved fame as a balloonist and deep-sea explorer, was born on this day in 1884.
Pianist Artur Rubenstein was born in Lodz, Poland, on this day in 1887. He died in 1982.
American abstract artist Jackson Pollock was born on this day in 1912. In 1957, my family acquired a set of World Book encyclopedias. With it came a yearbook for 1956. It contained an article on Pollock's death, accompanied by one of his drip-paintings. I was intrigued with the notion that such was great art, not suspicious, just intrigued.
Mary, the Princess Royal, daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, married Lord Henry Lascelles, on this day in 1922. Their descendants, the Earls of Harewood, are the Queen's cousins.
Aaron Copland's First Piano Concerto was first performed on this day in 1928.
Susan Sontag, one of the most influential women intellectuals in 20th century America, was born on this day in 1933 in York City.
On this day in 1935, Iceland became the first nation to legalize abortions. • On the same day, Russian composer Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov Russian composer, died at 75. His orchestral suite On the Steppes of Central Asia is his most popular work.
In 1939 William Butler Yeats died. His epitaph reads, "Cast a cold eye/ On lie, on death,/ Horseman pass by." Larry McMurtry got the title of his first novel from the lines. It was filmed as Hud.
Leonard Bernstein's Jeremiah Symphony was premiered in Pittsburgh on this day in 1944.
Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov was born on this day in 1948.
Black American author Zora Neale Hurston died on this day in 1960.
On this day in 1961, Rwanda was proclaimed a republic with Gregoire Kayibanda as its president.
On this day in 1986, one of the most memorable disasters of American history occurred when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, ending the lives of six astronauts and Christa McAuliffe, a New Hampshire schoolteacher. I was running some errands on a lunch break, and when I came back to school, the flag was already at half-mast. A student told me of the disaster.
On this day in 1993, in a major boost to the gay rights movement, a Federal court ruled that US military's ban on homosexuals is unconstitutional and tells the military that it cannot discharge any person unless his or her sexual conduct interferes with a military mission. This ruling eventually led to Clinton administration's "Don't ask. Don't tell." policy of not asking personnel about their sexual proclivities.
William Levitt, urban planner and the father of suburbia, died on this day in 1994 in Manhasset, N.Y.
Sports and entertainment:
Early Hollywood star Lionel K.P. "Buster" Crabb was born on this day in 1909.
Pop clarinettist Acker Bilk ("Stranger on the Shore") was born on this day in 1929.
Actor Alan Alda , who played Hawkeye Pierce on MASH, was born on this day in 1936.
Country singer Patsy Cline won first place on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts TV show on this day in 1953, singing "Walking after Midnight." • On the same day, chimp J. Fred Muggs joined NBC's Today Show.
Elvis Presley made his first TV appearance on this day in 1956 on the Dorsey Brothers Talent Show.
On this day in 1958, Dodger catcher Roy Campanella was paralyzed in an automobile wreck.
1960 BBC's innovative comedy The Goon Show had its final episode broadcast on this day in 1960. They were the forerunners of the Monty Python style of humor.
Sarah McLachlan, American folk and pop singer, was born on this day in 1968.
Barnaby Jones began on CBS-TV on this day in 1973.
On this day in 1977, Star of TV's Chico and the Man Freddie Prinze took his own life at age 23.
Fantasy Island, starring Ricardo Montalban, premiered on ABC TV on this day in 1978.
Entertainer Jimmy Durante died at 86 on this day in 1980.
Hal Smith, the actor who played the town drunk Otis Campbell on The Andy Griffith Show, died at 77 on this day in 1994.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

32. Saigon fell on my 10th birthday!

http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0430.htm

Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and astronomer), ws born on this day in 1777.

On this day in 1789, George Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States under the new Federal Constitution signed in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787.

One of the world's tallest buildings, New York City's 102-story skyscraper, the Empire State Building, opened its doors to the public.

It is now assumed that Soviet reports about Hitler's suicide on this day in 1945 are accurate.

On this day in 1967, Mohammed Ali was stripped of his world heavyweight title for refusal to be drafted and his seeking status as a conscientious objector.

On this day in 1975, Marines evacuated the last Embassy Guards and civilian personnel from Saigon as the South Vietnamese government fell and the North Vietnamese unified the country.

On this day in 1993 in Hamburg, tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed in back by male assailant. She spent remainder of 1993 and all of 1994 recovering.

[Lavender Brown]

33. I share a birthday with Mozart, Lewis Carroll... and Troy Donahue!

http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0127.htm

[Richardo]

35. Wow! The Beatles released the White Album on my 12th birthday

11/22/1968. :wow:

[redqueen]

37. For October 9

I knew I shared a birthday with Lennon, but I just found out it's also his son's Sean's birthday -- which makes it doubly cool, since my first daughter was born on my birthday, too!

This sucks mightily, though:

- Latin-American revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Grevara was assassinated on this day in 1967.

:cry:

- On this day in 1002, Leif Erikson landed in North America.

- Operatic composer Giuseppe Verdi was born on this day in 1815.

- On this day in 1930, took off from Long Island’s Roosevelt Field for the first transcontinental flight by a woman. (who?)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

38. Must be Amelia Earhart.

[redqueen]

39. No... not her

This is cool too... it's my favorite Poe poem! (hehe... poe poem)

- On this day in 1844, The New York Tribune published Edgar Allen Poe’s “Annabel Lee.” Critics assume the poem refers to his young bride Virginia Clemm.


On edit... I looked it up... it was Laura Ingalls. Yay Laura! :D

[VelmaD]

40. The term "Tricky Dick" was coined on my birthday - Sept 29

I share a birthday with Lord Horatio Nelson, Gene Autry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Madeline Kahn, John Tower, Lech Walensa, Enrico Fermi and John Locke.

It's the day "The Brady Bunch" and "My Favorite Martian" debuted on TV.

It's the day Pope John Paul I died. It's the day Casey Stengel died and Louis Pasteur too.

It's the day the National Cathedral in DC was completed.

It's the day the first US merchant ship captained by am African-American was launched.

It's the day the first "bobbies" started patrolling in London.

It's the day the first night time football game was played.

And just for Will Pitt...it's the day the first Catholic church opened it's doors in Boston.

But the "Tricky Dick" thing is my favorite.

[Donkeyboy75]

41. Absolutely nothing happened on my birthday.

What are the odds? :shrug:

Jesus, it smells hot in here.

[asthmaticeog]

42. I've got some cool ones.

May 20:

On this day in 1506, Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator and explorer, died. (DIE, Colonialist scum!)

Dorothea Daindridge Payne Todd Madison, the wife of President James Madison, was born on this day in 1768 in North Carolina.

On this day in 1774, Britain's Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish the American  colonists for their increasingly anti-British behavior. (Ha ha, fuck you, England!)

The French novelist Honoré de Balzac was born on this day in 1799. (His "Droll Stories," a travesty of Chaucer, is wonderful.)

John Stuart Mill, the 19th century British thinker, was born on this day in 1806. (He and Nietzsche famously hated each other, but I like 'em both.)

Frédéric Passy, co-winner of 1st Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, was born on this day in 1822.

Dolly Madison, one of the most famous of American first ladies, died in Washington on this day in 1849 (What does it mean when you die on your birthday?)

On this day in 1775, in the Mecklenberg Resolutions, North Carolina became the first colony to declare its independence. On this day in 1861, North Carolina seceded from the Union, the last state to do so. (What does it mean when you die on your birthday?)

Jimmy Stewart, who starred in such films as Philadelphia Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Harvey, and Rear Window, was born on this day in 1908.

Charles Lindbergh took off from Long Island at 7:40 a.m. on this day in 1927 for his non-stop flight to Paris.  •  On the same day in 1932, Amelia Earhart took off and became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

On this day in 1944, German army officers tried to assassinate Hitler at a staff meeting in East Prussia.

Rock-singer Joe Cocker was born on this day in 1944.

Actress and singer Cher (born Cherilyn LaPiere) was born on this day in 1946.

Comedian Dave Thomas was born on this day in 1949 in St. Catherines, Ontario.

On this day in 1954, Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" was released. It was not successful until it was released in 1955 on the soundtrack to "Blackboard Jungle."

On this day in 1958, Ronald Prescot Reagan, Presidential son and TV host, was born. (My real-life name is Ron, so this strikes me as funny.)

On this day in 1970, Let It Be, the film by the Beatles, premiered worldwide. (This was the year I was born. Clearly, I was sent to Earth to replace the Beatles, so start buying my records. Er, I mean, someone start putting out my records.)

On edit: HOLY SHIT, how did I missTHIS?
Today is Liza Doolittle Day.  In My Fair Lady, the flower girl Liza Doolittle is so angry with her teacher Henry Higgins that she imagines that someday the King will declare May 20 her special day and will grant her one wish, and her wish will be for "'Enry 'Iggins' 'ead.'"  So the day is dedicated to vengeance.

HELL YEAH!

[Merrick]

43. April 20th: Nothing's happened

[asthmaticeog]

44. Nonsense!

Lots of Deadheads get really, really baked on 4/20.

[IronLionZion]

45. and Hitler's birthday

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

47. August 27

* St. Monica's Day. She is the patroness of married women.
* According to tradition, the Chinese philosopher Confucius, was born on this day in 551 BCE.
* The Flemish church composer Josquin Des Prés died on this day in 1521. His works mark the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
* The Venetian painter Titian died on this day in 1576.
* On this day in 1603, King James I came to Oxford and was hailed by the students as the descendent of the Scottish warrior Banquo.
* The Spanish composer Tomás Luís de Victoria, known for his sacred music, died on this day in 1611.
* The Spanish playwright of el Siglo de Oro, Lope de Vega, died on this day in 1635.
* On this day in 1650, an expedition of six Englishmen, accompanied by three Indians, made the first European expedition across the Allegheny Mountains. They left from near Richmond and were gone for nine days.
* John Milton's works were burned in London on this day in 1660, after the Restoration of King Charles II. Milton had fallen into disfavor because of his significant role in the intellectual life of the Cromwellian Commonwealth. Had he not been blind and ill, he probably would have been executed along with the other regicides.
* On this day in 1665, Ye Bare and Ye Cubb became the first play performed in North America, at Acomac, Virginia.
* The 19th century philosopher Georg Wilhelm Hegel was born on this day in 1770 (see November 14.)
* On this day in 1789, the Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted by the French National Assembly.
* The 15th Vice-President pf the United States (1861-1865), Republican Hannibal Hamlin was born in Maine on this day in 1805. He died in 1891. • On the same day in 1865, another Vice-President, the 30th (1925-1929), Republican Charles Gates Dawes (Nobel Prize winner in 1925), was born. He died in 1951,
* John Keats wrote to his sister Fanny on this day in 1819 about his optimism for the tragedy Otho the Great, which he and his companion Charles Armitage Brown, had written.
* Uruguay was formally proclaimed independent during preliminary talks between Brazil and Argentina on this day in 1828.
* On this day in 1858, the New York Sun ran a news story about the signing of a treaty between the Chinese Empire and several European countries, by which embassies were to be allowed in Peking. The novel fact about the story was that the dispatch had come to New York viâ the newly laid transatlantic telegraph cable.
* This is the birthday of the American petroleum industry since on this day in 1859, oil began to be pumped from Edwin Drake's well near Titusville, Pennsylvania
* The German idealist philosopher Georg Wilhelm Hegel was born on this day in 1770 in Stuttgart. It is said that among Hegel's last words was the statement, "Only one man ever understood my philosophy, and he didn't really understand it all that well."
* General George Washington and his Continental Army evacuated New York City after their defeat at the Battle of Long Island. The British remained in control of the city until after the end of the Revolutionary War.
* Hannibal Hamlin, 15th Vice-President of the U.S. (1861-1865 under Abraham Lincoln), was born on this day in 1809 in Paris, Maine. · Another Vice-President of the U.S., Charles Gates Dawes of Ohio, was born on this day in 1985. He died in 1951.
* The English author C.S. Forster was born on this day in 1871, as was the American novelist Theodore Dreiser, in Indiana. His brother Paul Dresser wrote the state song, "When the Moon Shines Tonight along the Wabash." Dreiser came very close to booking a return-to-America trip on the Titanic.
* Lloyd C. Douglas, American Lutheran clergyman and religious novelist, was born on this day in 1877. Douglas published his first best-seller, Magnificent Obsession (about Michaelangelo) in 1929, followed later by The Robe (1942) and The Big Fisherman (1948).
* On this day in 1883, the volcano Krakatoa, west of Java, exploded with a force of 1,300 megatons.
* Dadaist photographer/artist Man Ray was born on this day in 1890.
* On this day in 1894, the U.S. Supreme Court declared income tax to be unconstitutional. It will take a constitutional amendment, the 16th, ratified in 1913, to make such taxes legal. Income taxes had first been levied during the Civil War.
* Historical English novelist C.S. Forester was born on this day in 1889. He created Horatio Hornblower.
* Galveston, Texas, was hit on this day in 1900 by a devastating hurricane and tidal wave in which 6000 people died. It was the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.
* The Albanian nun who brought the world's attention to the plight of the urban poor, Mother Teresa, was born on this day in 1907. One of my cousins on my mother's side of the family is a radiologist in California who worked with the medical team treating her in late 1996.
* The 36th President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson, was born on this day in 1908 in the Texas town that carries his family name. I saw him one time, at the Wichita County Court House in 1962, when he was Vice-President. Despite his role in perpetuating the Vietnam War long after its evils became obvious, I have retained a respect for him because of his policies designed to better the lives of the poor.
* On this day in 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs' book Tarzan of the Apes was published for the first time.
* On this day in 1913, Lt. Peter Nestrov of the Imperial Russian Air Service performed a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (the first aerobatic maneuver in an airplane).
* The Kellogg-Briand pact, signed on this day in 1928, outlawed war between nations.
* Ira Levin, the author of Rosemary's Baby, was born on this day in 1929. The film version of this horror novel is one of the few that ever gave me nightmares.
* Lady Antonia Fraser, British biographer (Mary Queen of Scots. The Royal Charles) was born on this day in 1932. I have read most of her books and enjoy her writing.
* On this day in 1938, poet Robert Frost, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers to disrupt a poetry recital by another poet, Archibald MacLeish.
* Nazi Germany demanded the Polish Corridor and Danzig on this day in 1939.
* On this day in 1945, American troops landed in Japan after the surrender of the Japanese government at the end of World War II.
* On this day in 1950, President Truman nationalized American railroads to avert a strike he considered damaging to the economy. They were reprivatized in 1952.
* Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the Cyclotron and Nobel Prize winner in 1939, died at 57 on this day in 1958.
* Mariner 2 was launched by the United States on this day in 1962. In December of the same year, the spacecraft flew past Venus.
* On this day in 1963, W.E.B Du Bois, scholar and founder of the NAACP, dies at 95 in Accra, Ghana.
* Bennett Cerf, publisher (Random House) and TV panelist (What's My Line?), died on this day in 1971 at 73.
* North Vietnam's major port at Haiphong saw the first bombings from U.S. warplanes on this day in 1972.
* Haile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, died at 83 on this day in 1975.
* On this day in 1979, Irish terrorists assassinated Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma, Prince Phillip's uncle and counselor to the Royal Family. He was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria. Mountbatten's greatest victory was the marriage of his nephew to Princess Elizabeth. He resented his fact that the Queen did not make Mountbatten the royal family surname.
* On this day in 1981, work began on recovering a safe from the Andrea Doria. The Andrea Doria was a luxury liner that had sank in 1956 in the waters off of Massachusetts.
* On this day in 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced that the first citizen to go into space would be a teacher. The teacher that was eventually chosen was Christa McAuliffe. She died in the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.
* The Soviet republic of Moldavia declared its independence as Moldova on this day in 1991.
* On this day in 1992, Federal troops were ordered to Florida for emergency relief for victims of Hurricane Andrew.
* On this day in 1996, California Governor Pete Wilson signed an order that would halt state benefits to illegal immigrants.
* Sports and entertainment:
o Samuel Goldwyn, American film-maker, was born on this day in 1882.
o On this day in 1889, boxer Jack Dempsey was defeated for the first time of his career by George LaBlanche.
o The vocalist and comedian Martha Raye was born on this day in 1916 in Butte, Montana.
o On this day in 1921, the owner of Acme Packing Company bought a pro football team for Green Bay, Wisconsin. J.E. Clair paid tribute to those who worked in his plant by naming the team the Green Bay Packers.
o Country bluegrass star J.D. Crowe was born on this day in 1937 in Lexington, Kentucky.
o Film star Tuesday Weld was born on this day in 1943. She played Zelda Fitzgerald in Jason Miller's excellent film F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood.
o Herbert Streicher, male star (under the name Harry Reems) of the most famous adult film Deep Throat, was born on this day in 1947. He was later prosecuted under federal obscenity laws. When the film was so controversial, I saw it at the Academic Center (the undergraduate library) at the University of Texas at Austin with about 500 other students in the middle of the afternoon. Civil liberties advocates showed it as a test of local obscenity laws.
o Paul Rubens, TV actor who gained fame, then notoriety under the name Pee-Wee Herman, was born on this day in 1952.
o On this day in 1965, Elvis Presley played host to The Beatles at his home in
Bel-Air. • On the day, Bob Dylan's second electric album Highway 61 Revisited was released.
o On this day in 1966, Francis Chichester began the first solo sailing voyage around the world.
o On this day in 1967, Brian Epstein was found dead in his home from an overdose of sleeping pills. Epstein was the manager of The Beatles.
o On this day in 1976, transsexual Renee Richards (formerly Richard Raskind) was barred from competition in the U.S. Tennis Open.
o Actor Robert Shaw (Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons) died at 51 on this day in 1978.
o Humorist Sam Levenson died at 68 in 1980.
o On this day in 1984, Diane Sawyer became the fifth reporter on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes. • On the same day, the Menetta Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village opened. It was the first new off-Broadway theater to be built in 50 years in New York City. I saw Gross Indecency, a play about the trials of Oscar Wilde, there in 1997.
o Stevie Ray Vaughn and three members of Eric Clapton's band
were killed on this day in 1990 in a helicopter crash in Wisconsin.
o On this day in 1992, John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "A Day In The Life" sold for $87,000 at an auction.

[IronLionZion]

46. April 29

April 29
Items highlighted in red are those I consider of paramount importance to the world. Those highlighted in green are those I consider of greatest importance to me.

* The national day of Japan.
* On this day in 1429, under the leadership of Joan of Arc, the French lifted the siege of Orlèans.
* The first Anglican (Episcopal) church in the American colonies was established on this day in 1607 at Cape Henry, Virginia.
* On this day in 1628, Sweden entered the Thirty Years War by signing a treaty with Denmark for the defense of Stralsund.
* English playwright George Farquar died on this day in 1707. He is thought of as a Restoration dramatist, but his style of comedy transcended Restoration artifice. His most famous work is The Beaux’ Stratagem, produced the year of his death.
* On this day in 1752 at the University of Glasgow, Adam Smith was moved from a chair in logic to a chair in moral philosophy. He is one of the pioneers of the science of economics.
* Malvina Stone Arthur, the mother of future President Chester A. Arthur, was born on this day in 1802 in Berkshire, Vermont. She died in 1869.
* On this day in 1817, Lord Byron arrived in Rome for a three-week stay. He was accompanied by his long-time friend John Cam Hobhouse. He took rooms in the Piazza di Espagna, near where Keats would live (and die) four years later.
* Joseph H. Gilmore, American Baptist clergyman and Hebrew instructor, was born on this day in 1834. He is better remembered today, however, as author of the hymn: “He Leadeth Me, O Blessed Thought.”
* The first edition of Roget’s Thesaurus was published on this day in 1852.
* The Crimean War ended on this day in 1856 with peace between Britain and Russia.
* On this day in 1861, Maryland’s House of Delegates voted against seceding from Union.
* On this day in 1862, New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War. It remained in nion hands for the rest of the war.
* Newspaper giant William Randolph Hearst was born on this day in 1863.
* English composer/conductor Sir Thomas Beecham was born on this day in 1879.
* Emperor Hirohito of Japan (1926-89) was born on this day in 1901. Many thought he should have been punished for his part in World War II. • On the same day, train robber and one of the last of the Old West outlaws Thomas “Black Jack” Ketchum was hanged at Clayton, New Mexico Territory. The hangman used old measurements to determine the drop, and as Ketchum had gained considerable weight during his incarceration, the hanging resulted in his sudden decapitation.
* The zipper was patented by Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback in 1903.
* On this day in 1916, Irish rebels destroyed the Dublin Post Office. Irish nationalists eventually surrendered to the British.
* Author Harper Lee was born on this day in 1926. She wrote the immensely popular To Kill a Mockingbird.
* American popular poet-laureate of the touchy-feely 1960s, Rod McKuen, was born on this day in 1938. He actually penned a volume called Listen to the Warm.
* The Indian born conductor Zubin Mehta, who followed Leonard Bernstein as conductor of the New York Philharmonic, was born on this day in 1936.
* On this day in 1945, U.S. forces liberated Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany. On the same day in the bunker in Berlin, Hitler married Eva Braun, the day before he took both their lives.
* 50,000 American troops made an incursion into Cambodia on this day in 1970. It has been said that President Nixon ordered this invasion after watching the movie Patton.
* On this day in 1992, riots broke out in Los Angeles after policemen are acquitted by a Simi Valley jury. The riots began in South Central LA and spread; by the time things were under control, 51 were dead and $1.5 billion in damages. Rioting actually spread to other cities in the U.S. and Canada, due to the influence of TV.
* Former CIA director William Colby was reported mysteriously missing. His body turned up later after a supposed boating accident.
* Sports and entertainment:

o Jazz composer Duke Ellington was born on this day in 1899.

o Fred Zinnemann, movie director (From Here to Eternity, Julia) was born on this day in 1907.

o Tom Ewell, a Hollywood actor who was with Marilyn Monroe in The Seven-Year Itch, was born on this day in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1909. His birth name was Ewell Tomkins. He played in two films based on Scott Fitzgerald novels, Tender Is the Night in 1962 and The Great Gatsby in 1974.

o Actor Celeste Holm was born on this day in 1919.

o Actor Daniel Day-Lewis was born on this day in 1957. His father was the Poet Laureate C. Day-Lewis (see April 27).

o The most popular person on American television, Long-Island born Jerry Seinfeld, was born on this day in 1955. While his shows seem to be about nothing, they are some of the most tightly-plotted programs on the tube.

o Film star Michelle Pfeiffer was born on this day in 1957.

o ABCs Wide World of Sports debuted on this day in 1961.

o Tennis pro André Agassi was born on his day in 1970.

o Bert Reynolds and Loni Anderson were married on this day in 1980, creating one of Hollywood’s most celebrated and stormy marriages. • Director Sir Alfred Hitchcock died the same day at 80.

[AlFrankenFan]

48. February 16th....

February 16



Items highlighted in red are those I consider of paramount importance to the world. Those highlighted in green are those I consider of greatest importance to me.

The feast day of St. Benedict Joseph Labre, the patron saint of beggars. He is said to have sat 11 years in the Roman Coliseum begging.
Frederick William, the Great Elector and founder of Brandenburg-Prussia, was born on this day in 1620.
The earliest recorded check was written on a British bank on this day in 1659.
On this day in 1728, Henry Fielding’s first play, Love in Several Masques, was performed at Drury Lane. Fielding is far more noted for his novels, including the perfect novel, Tom Jones. (See February 28.)
On this day in 1751, one of the most quoted poems in English literature, Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” was published. The poem celebrates the lives of the humble poor in many a rural cemetery. Students used to memorize this poem. When I was a child, I spent quite a good deal of time with my father’s sister, my Aunt Trudie. In the evening, when we were doing chores and the daylight grew dim, she would quote the first line, “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.” He was from the village of Stoke Poges, but he did not remain the “mute inglorious Milton” he described in the poem. He became a professor of history at Cambridge. He published only thirteen poems in his lifetime, but he was offered the post of Poet Laureate (thought he declined it). The poem has some evocative language in it, but it is a typical Tory justification of poverty, since the “short and simple annals of the poor” do not contain any stories of vanity and vaingloriousness. The most misquoted phrase is “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife.”
James (later President) and Elizabeth Kortright Monroe were married on this day in 1786 in NYC. They were married 44 years.
On this day in 1801 in Baltimore, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church officially separated from its parent, the Methodist Episcopal Church. The denomination later became part of the AME Church, reconstituted in 1816 under Richard Allen. It held its first national conference in 1821.
Henry Wilson, the 18th Vice-President (1873-1875), was born on this day in 1812. During the Civil War his mistress was Rebel spy Rosa Greenlaw.
American historian Henry Brooks Adams, the grandson of John Quincy Adams, was born on this day in 1838. His autobiographical Education of Henry Adams is one of the most revealing documents of 19th century American intellectual life.
On this day in 1862, the Confederate fort on the Cumberland River, Ft. Donelson, surrendered to Grant, after he expressed his terms of surrender as being “Unconditional.” Because of his initials, he came to be known then as “Unconditional Surrender” Grant.
English clergyman Sabine Baring-Gould, 31, first published the hymn “Now the Day is Over” on this day in 1965. It was based on the text of Proverbs 3:24: ‘When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid...and thy sleep shall be sweet.’
Austrian composer Johann Strauss, the “Waltz King,” was born on this day in 1866.
The English historian George Macauley Trevelyan was born on this day in 1876. He was a grandnephew of the 19th century historian T.B. Macauley. He is credited with making historical writing more literarily respectable.
On this day in 1883, the Ladies Home Journal began publication.
Van Wyck Brooks, the American literary critic and cultural historian, was born on this day in 1886. He wrote a five-volume literary history of the United States called Makers and Finders.
George F. Kennan, Milwaukee WI, American Ambassador the USSR, was born on this day in 1904 in Milwaukee.
On this day in 1911, William P. Merrill, 44, first published his hymn, “Rise Up, O Men of God,” in the Presbyterian periodical The Continent. The hymn has been made gender-inclusive recently in many hymns making it “Rise Up, O Saints of God.”
American composer John Corigliano was born on this day in 1938 in New York City.
On this day in 1943, a sign went up on a Munich façade reading “Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!” and done by the White Rose student group. The perpretator was caught on February 18 and beheaded four days later.
Nobel-Prize-winning Norwegian author Knut Hamsun died on this day in 1952. I have read that during World War II he sympathized with the Nazi occupiers.
On this day in 1956, Great Britain abolished the death penalty.
Howard Hanson, American composer from Nebraska, died on this day in 1981 at 84. His “Lament for Beowulf” is popular.
Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, politician, Governor of California and father of another, died on this day in 1996 at 90.
Celebrity birthdays:
Katharine Cornell, who starred in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, was born on this day in 1898.
Edgar Bergen, the most famous of American ventriloquists, was born on this day in 1903. He paid $35 for this first Charley McCarthy.
Sonny Bono, the lesser half of the duo Sonny and Cher, the nadir of pop music in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, was born in this day in 1935. He died in an accident in 1998.
On this day in 1950. the longest-running prime-time game show What’s My Line began on CBS.
Ice-T, white rap singer, was born on this day in 1958.
Tennis player John McEnroe was born on this day in 1959.
On this day in 1963, the Beatles top British rock charts with “Please, Please Me”
Smiley Burnette, died on this day in 1867 at 55. He played Mr. Haynie on Green Acres.
On this day in 1968, Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon and their wives flew to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
On this day in 1982, Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett Majors were divorced. On the same day in 1989, Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden separated after 16 years of marriage.

[Voltaire]

49. Oh GOD! Pat Robertson AND Orin Hatch are on my birthday

I wonder if its too late to switch

[BlackVelvetElvis]

50. I share a birthday with Elijah Muhammed.

It was also the day EA Poe died (Oct. 7).
Oh christ, I also share a bday with Oliver North! I suddenly feel dirty.

[sleepyhead]

51. Sept 25 - I'm so proud!

On this day in 1789, the Congress approved the first ten Amendments to the Federal Constitution, usually referred to as the Bill of Rights, and sent them on to the states for ratification. The establishment of religion on a national level was expressly prohibited in the U.S. with the adoption of the First Amendment, the opening words of which read: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Final ratification of the First Amendment came in 1791.

Much better than the birthdays of Barbara Walters, Michael Douglas, and Catherine Zeta-Jones!

[short bus president]

52. Yay! I share a birthday with Beau Brummel!

And Tom Jones, and even Marky Mark himself. Oh, yeah!

[alarcojon]

53. Birthday trivia

I counted 27 birthdays, and there are two people with the same b'day (January 8).

Mathematically, if you select 23 people at random, there are better that 50/50 odds that at least two will share a birthday.

Mine is January 6: Epiphany, fall of the Alhambra, birthday of Joan of Arc, Carl Sandburg, Khalil Gibran, Alan Watts, Tom Mix, Earl Scruggs, Diane Keaton, and E.L. Doctorow, as well as the launch date of the Peanuts comic strip.

[yardwork]

55. and.......Mr. Yardwork and I got married on June 23

twenty years ago this year!

[EnfantTerrible]

56. Feb. 19

On this day in 356, Emperor Constantine shut all heathen temples.

On this day in 1473, the Polish astronomer Copernicus was born (see Galileo, February 15.)

Anglican churchman Miles Coverdale died on this day in 1568 at 80.  His translation of the Bible into English was the first complete one. He was an editor of the Great Bible of 1539.  Most of the Psalter in the Book of Common Prayer use his words in the traditional versions.

Shivaji, Indian king who reigned 1674-1680 and founded the Maratha kingdom of India, was born on this day in 1630.

On this day in 1674, Netherlands and England signed the Peace of Westminster, by which New York became English. 

Philip V, King of Spain (1700-1746), was born on this day in 1683.

David Garrick, actor and writer, was born on this day in 1717.

Luigi Boccherini, a prolific compeer of chamber music in the 18th century, was born in Lucca on this day in 1743. His cello concerto is one of the most famous of that genre.

Willem III, the last King of the Netherlands (1849-1890), was born on this day in 1817.  

On this day in 1807, former Vice-President Aaron Burr was arrested in Alabama for treason because it was suspected that he was trying to establish a separate nation in the American Southwest.  He was later found innocent after a six-months trial.

On this day in 1830, Charles Johnson, the son of future President Andrew and Eliza Johnson, was born in Greeneville, Tennessee.  He died in 1863.

On this day in 1831, the first practical U.S. coal-burning locomotive made its first trial run, in Pennsylvania 

Even though the legislation admitted Texas into the Union had been signed on Dec. 29, 1845, it was not until this day in 1846 that state officials replaced officials of the Republic of Texas.

On this day in 1859, New York congressman Dan Sickles was acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity for shooting his wife's lover, the son of Francis Scott Key, on the grounds of the White House.  It was the first time this defense was used.  

On this day in 1861, Russian Tsar Alexander II abolished serfdom.

On this day in 1869 died Elizabeth Clephane, 39, an orphaned Scottish poet who left the Church with two hauntingly beautiful hymns: "Beneath the Cross of Jesus" and "The Ninety and Nine." (All of Clephane's poetry was published posthumously.) 

On this day in 1878, Thomas Alva Edison patented the gramophone (phonograph).  This invention came about as a result of Edison's laziness and incompetence as a telegraph operator.  He devised a way to record the Morse code signals so that he could decode them.

Álvaro Obregón, Mexican statesman and reformer, president of Mexico, 1920-1924, was born on this day in 1880.

On this day in 1881, Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.

On this day in 1906, W.K. Kellogg and Charles D. Bolin incorporated Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in Michigan.

Adolf Rudnicki, Polish writer remembered for his descriptions of Jewish life and experiences under the Nazis during World War II, was born this day in 1912.

On this day in 1913, the first prize was inserted into a Cracker Jack box.  I loved getting these prizes as a child when my aunt would buy them for me.  One of my earliest memories is getting a little plastic replica of the Capitol. She asked me to show it to my uncle, an old reprobate.  This was in the depth of the Cold War.  He said, "Do you know what Stalin would like to do to that?"  and he took his shoe heel and brought it down on my toy, shouting, "Stal-een!"    •  On the same day, Mexican General Huerta took power with U.S. support.

French author André Breton was born on this day in 1896. He wrote three surrealist manifestos and inspired antirationalist artists.

Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist, died on this day in 1916 at 78.  His name is applied to the speed of sound.

The Georgia-born author Carson McCullers was born this day in 1917. Her short novel The Ballad of the Sad Cafe I have often taught as the quintessence of the Southern Gothic tradition. It's about an cross-eyed Amazon of a woman in a crossroads town who falls in love with a sickly dwarf, at the same time that an ex-con falls in love with her. One might think that being a contemporary of McCullers', Flannery O'Connor would have found in her a kindred spirit. But not so. When an interviewer asked O'Connor what she thought of Carson McCullers, O'Connor said, "Not much."

Speaking of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, Faulkner finished the novel Light in August on this day in 1932. He was working in a room in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, above the Intimate Book Shop. I spent most of the summer of 1983 studying Southern culture with Louis D. Rubin at Chapel Hill, and I bought many a book at the Intimate Book Shop. Since I was on an NEH grant, I had to submit an accounting. I hoped that the person examining my expense list realized that the receipts from the Intimate Book Shop were from a truly scholarly academic book store, not a porn shop. The wife of a friend of mine, Gail Galloway, worked at this book store while she and her husband both studied at UNC. They were cat-lovers, and had rescued a homeless cat from the Carolina beach and being bibliophiles, they named her Sylvia Beach, after the Paris bookseller who befriended the expatriate writers of the '20s from her store Shakespeare and Co., on the rue de l'Ódeon. (I visited the revived version of the store in 1979, on the quai Voltaire, right on the Seine.) So one day Sylvia Beach, the cat, died. Tim, Gail's husband, was very distraught and came to the Intimate Book Shop about closing time to tell Gail. In fact, the store was already closed, but he could see Gail inside talking to some other clerks. A couple was also trying to gain access to the store. When Gail let Tim in, the couple followed. As Tim told Gail about the death of the cat, the couple demanded to know why he had been let in and they hadn't. (Tim was wearing a typical grad-student beard at the time.) Gail's friend explained, "A cat they know just died." The woman of the couple thought they were all beatniks, so she turned to her husband and whispered, "That means a friend of theirs just died.

On this day in 1935 Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing" premiered in NYC.

On this day in 1942, Franklin Roosevelt issued Presidential Executive Order 9066, placing 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry (of which over 2/3 were -born citizens) into ten "relocation centers" for the duration of World War II.  During confinement within the armed, barbed-wire surroundings, however, prayer meetings, Bible
studies and worship services were held. 

On this day in 1945 30,000 U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima.  My uncle Odys was a gunner on a ship shelling the island.  In his later years, he had nightmares in which a Japanese mother is begging him not to kill her son.

André<-Paul-Guillaume> Gide, French writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947, died on this day in 1951 at 81.

Chinese-American novelist Amy Tan (I read The Joy Luck Club) was born on this day in 1952.  •  Norwegian author Knut Hamsun died at 92 on the same day.

On this day in 1953, William Inge's Picnic premiered in New York City.

On this day in 1959, Cyprus was granted independence, thanks to an agreement signed by Britain, Turkey and Greece. 

On this day in 1960, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, was born. He gained a certain notoriety during the Falkland Island War. His marriage to Sarah Ferguson, now a Weight-Watchers spokesperson, is reportedly over, yet she lives on his estate.

On this day in 1986, Jordanian King Hussein severed ties with the PLO.

On this day in 1997, Deng Xiaoping, supreme leader of Communist China, died. Deng, the most powerful leader since Mao Tse Tung, left a lasting impression on China by loosening economic controls while tightening political and governmental reins. 

On this day in 1998, Lt. Col. Larry Wayne Harris (Aryan Nations) and William Leavitt were arrested in Henderson, Nevada, for possession of the biological toxin anthrax, military grade, enough to kill an entire city. Their Mercedes was hermetically sealed by authorities and brought to Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada for hazmat. 
Sports and entertainment:

Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who played Captain Hook in film Peter Pan, was born on this day in 1893 in Stourbridge, England.

Tap dancer John Bubbles was born on this day in 1902 in Louisville, Kentucky.  He is most famous for his on-screen hoofing with Shirley Temple.

Actress Merle Oberon was born on this day in 1911 in Calcutta.  She played Titania in the black-and-white version of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Jazz musician and orchestra leader Stan Kenton was born on this day in 1912 in Wichita, Kansas.  His theme came from Debussy's Daphne and Chloe.

Jockey Eddie Arcaro (1958 Racing Hall of Fame, two triple crowns), was born on this day in 1916.

On this day in 1922, Ed Wynn became the first talent to sign as a radio entertainer.

Lee Marvin was born on this day in 1924 in New York City.  I never cared for his acting and was astounded when he won an Oscar for Cat Ballou.

On this day in 1934, Bob and Dolores Hope married. 

Acress and singer Carlin Glynn was born on this day in 1940.  She played the irritable daughter-in-law in The Trip to Bountiful and sang the role of Miss Mona in the Broadway recording of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

"Mama" Cass Elliot, singer with the Mamas and the Papas, was born on this day in 1941.  She died in 1974, some say choking to death on a ham sandwich.

On this day in 1942, the New York Yankees announced that 5,000 uniformed soldiers would be admitted free at each of their upcoming home games.

On this day in 1953, Georgia approved the first literature censorship board in the U.S.

Actress Margaux Hemingway (Lipstick) was born on this day in 1955 in Portland, Oregon.  She followed in her famous grandfather's footsteps in 1996 by taking her life.  •  Actor Jeff Daniels (Something Wild, Dumb & Dumber) was born the same day in Chelsea, Michigan.

On this day in 1958 Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records 

Actress Justine Bateman, who played Mallory on Family Ties, was born on this day in 1966 in Rye, New York.

On this day in 1981, George Harrison was ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" of "My Sweet Lord" from "He's So Fine."

Ina Ray Hutton died on this day in 1984 at 66.  She had an all-woman band in the 1940s and 1950s.

On this day in 1985, canned and bottled Cherry Coke was introduced by Coca-Cola.

On this day in 1989, Broadway's biggest flop (lost $5.3 million) Legs Diamond closed at Mark Hellinger Theater in New York City after 64 performances. 

Louis "Grandpa" Jones, country comic, singer, and banjo wizard (Hee Haw), died on this day in 1998 at 84.  He was called Grandpa even in his younger performing years.  He was a splendid folk singer, his 1945 recording of "Fair Eleanor and the Nut-Brown Maid" is one of the best folk recordings.




 

[JohnKleeb]

57. k

National day of Liberia (see 1847 below).
The greatest scholar of the Anglo-Saxon period, the Venerable Bede died on this day in 725. He was later canonized. I happened to be attending a service at Durham Cathedral on this day in 1989, and I found to the side of the chapel Bede's tomb.
Jacques Cartier landed on the Canadian shore and claimed the territory for France on this day in 1534.
On this day in 1603 James VI of Scotland was crowned King James I of Britain. He then called for an English translation of the Scriptures, first published in 1611 and known since as the King James Version of the Bible.
On this day in 1605, William Shakespeare invested heavily in the corporation budget of his home city of Stratford-upon-Avon.
On this day in 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded a trading post at Fort
Pontchartrain, at the site of Detroit.
On this day in 1704, Great Britain took Gibraltar from Spain.
John Newton, an English slave ship's captain, was born this day in 1725. He was converted at age 22, and entered the Anglican ministry. Newton is remembered today as author of several enduring hymns, including "Amazing Grace" and "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken."
George Clinton, fourth U.S. Vice-President (1805-1812) was born on this day in 1738 in New York He was the first Vice-President to die in office (April 20, 1812).
The Welsh poet John Dyer died on this day in 1758. • On the same day, George Washington was admitted to Virginia House of Burgess.
On this day in 1775, a postal system was established by the Second Continental Congress of the United States. The first Postmaster General was Benjamin Franklin.
On this day in 1782, Irish composer John Field was born.
The South American liberator Simon Bolívar was born on this day in 1783.
On this day in 1788, New York ratified the 1787 Constitution, the 11th state to do so. For decades it was the most populous state. I first went to New York in 1965, and have made over a dozen trips there since then. I try to spend some time in New York City every year, visiting a museum or some display, and I spend time in upstate New York with my sister Mitzi Robinson, who has lived in New York since 1955.
On this day in 1794, Alexandre de Beauharnais was executed in Paris during the Reign of Terror. His wife Josephine was imprisoned in the Carmelites prison and barely escaped death herself. She later married Napoleon.
The popular French novelist Alexandre Dumas père was born on this day in 1802. He wrote two of the most widely-read novels, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
On this day in 1824, the results of the world's first public opinion poll were published in Delaware, on voting intentions for the next U.S. presidential election.
On this day in 1847, a patent for rotary type printing press with cylinders was issued to Richard Marsh Hoe of New York. This press, which greatly increased the production of newspapers, was first used in the offices of the Philadelphia Ledger. • On the same day, Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in
the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah. They planned to establish an independent nation. The leader made the famous utterance, "This is the place." • On the same day, Liberia declared independence from the American Colonization Society.
Playwright George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion, Major Barbara) was born on this day in 1856 in Dublin. His play Heartbreak House was the play I had to study for my Ph.D. qualifying exam in 1973.
President Martin Van Buren died on this day in 1862 at his home in Kinderhook, New York, 21 years after he left the White House. Gore Vidal's political trilogy poses the notion that Van Buren was the illegitimate son of Aaron Burr. Hhe was
the first U.S. president not to be born a British subject.
On this day in 1863, Sam Houston, president and later governor of Texas, died at 70. His last words were "Margaret! Texas!" • On the same day at Salineville, Ohio, Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan and 364 of his troops surrendered.
On this day in 1869 in Britain, the Disestablishment Bill was passed, officially dissolving the Church of Ireland. Organized opposition to this legislation coined one of longest words in the English language: antidisestablishmentarianism.
Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted 1870. He designed Central Park.
Russian conductor Serge Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony was born on this day in 1874.
Psychological Carl Jung, who founded analytic psychology was born on this day in 1875 in Switzerland.
Tennessee was the first Confederate state readmitted to the Union on this day in 1866. The fact that most of Tennessee had been under Union control throughout most of the war and that an ex-Governor of Tennessee was in the White House probably assisted in the readmission.
Composer Ernest Bloch was born on this day in 1880. His Sacred Service is very moving.
Nellie Wilson Reagan, the mother of future President Ronald Wilson Reagan, was born on this day in 1885 in Fulton, Illinois.
English author Aldus Huxley (Brave New World) was born this day in 1894 in Goldaming, Surrey. He died the same day as John F. Kennedy.
English author Robert Graves of I, Claudius fame was born on this day in 1895.
Aviator Amelia Earhart was born this day in 1897.
Zelda Sayre, the original flapper and the wife of Scott Fitzgerald, was born on this day in Montgomery, Alabama. Her father was a judge on the Alabama Supreme Court. A special fraternity was formed at Auburn consisting of her admirers. (See March 10.)
On this day in 1901, O. Henry left a Federal prison in Ohio, where he had been serving a 3-year sentence for embezzlement.
On this day in1915, more than 800 people were lost when the pleasure steamer Eastland, top-heavy with passengers, rolled over a few feet from a Chicago dock (the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes). The Eastland had run the Cleveland-Cedar Point route from 1907 to 1913.
On this day in 1918 on Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem, the cornerstone for Hebrew University was laid by Dr.Chaim Weizmann, who was elected thirty years later the first president of the modern state of Israel.
New York congresswoman and feminist Bella Abzug was born this day in 1920.
On this day in 1923, Turkey and the Allied powers signed the Treaty of Lausanne
by which Turkey gave up all claims to non-Turkish territories lost in the World War I
John Scopes was found guilty on this day in 1925 of teaching Darwinian evolution, contrary to Tennessee state law. Scopes was only a substitute teacher, and rather than being in opposition to the town, Scopes was encouraged by some local businessmen to test the law. He was fined $100. William Jennings Bryan, American statesman who had come to Dayton to speak for the prosecution, died the same day.
On this day in 1926, the National Bar Association incorporated.
Humorist Jean Shepherd was born on this day in 1929. Most people will know him as the author of the seasonal classic A Christmas Story. • On the same day, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.
On this day in 1937, the state of Alabama dropped charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the so-called Scottsboro case.
On this day in 1941, the AFL agreed to a no-strike rule during the pre-war emergency.
On this day in 1947, President Harry S Truman signed The National Security Act. The act created The National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the Central
On this day in 1952, Eva "Evita" Peron, Argentina's first lady, died in Buenos Aires at 33. Some swore that they saw her portrait on the moon on the night she died. • O the same day, King Farouk I of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.
On this day in 1953, Fidel Castro began his revolt against Fulgencio Batista with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba. Castro eventually ousted Batista six years later.
On this day in 1956, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.
On this day in 1959, Vice-President Richard Nixon argued with Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev while the latter was touring America. It became known as the Kitchen Debate because they were touring a kitchen facility.
The first hijacking of a U.S. commercial plane to Cuba happened on this day in 1961.
On this day in 1965, the Indian Ocean Republic of Maldives gained independence from Britain.
On this day in 1967, French president Charles de Gaulle, touring Canada, said, "Vive le Québec libre!" ("Long live free Quebec!"). The Canadians were angered by his support of the separatist movement and De Gaulle went home.
On this day in 1974, the U.S. House Judiciary voted three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon. His resignation in early August made them a moot point. • On the same day, Sir James Chadwick, the English physicist who discovered the neutron and later worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atom bomb, died.
On this day in 1986, Averell Harriman, statesman, died in Yorktown Heights, New York, at 94.
On this day in 1987, Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Hulda became the oldest person to climb Japan’s highest peak.
On this day in 1998, Russell E. Weston, Jr., a man who believed Navy Seals were hiding in his cornfield, shot two guards at the U.S. Capitol building and wounded one civilian. The guards died from their wounds, and it was revealed Weston was a schizophrenic who decided to cease medication. (Two days prior to the Capitol shooting, at his grandmother's insistence, Weston shot and killed his family's 25 cats because they had fleas.)
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel prize winning author, died on this day in 1991 at 87.
Sports and entertainment:
One of the funniest showbiz women of all time, Gracie Allen of Burns and Allen was born on this day in 1902 in San Francisco.
Director Stanley Kubrick (2001, Dr Strangelove, Lolita) was born on this day in 1925 in NYC.
On this day in 1933, the first broadcast of The Romance of Helen Trent was heard on radio. 7,222 episodes were aired. I remember this radio serial because my aunt listened to it. It asked the question, "Can a woman find happiness after 35?" • On the same day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his fourth Fireside Chat.
Ruth Buzzi, who was an original on Laugh-In, was born on this day in 1936 in Rhode Island.
On this day in 1938, Artie Shaw recorded "Begin the Beguine."
Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Bob Lilly was born this day in 1939 in Throckmorton, Texas.
On this day in 1942, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly recorded "For Me and My Gal."
Rock megastar Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones was born on this day in 1943.
Pianist Peter Serkin was born this day in 1947. • On the same day, actor Robert Hays (Airplane!) was born in Bethesda, Maryland.
Michael Richards, who plays Cosmo Kramer on TV's Seinfeld, was born on this day in 1948. • On the same day, Babe Ruth was seen by the public for the last time, when he attended the New York City premiere of the the motion picture The Babe Ruth Story.
Lynda Carter, who played Wonder Woman on TV from 1977 to 1979, was born on this day in 1951 in Phoenix.
On this day in 1953, Mickey Mantle hit his first grand-slammer.
Dorothy Hamill, figure skater (Olympic gold, 1976), was born on this day in 1956 in Connecticut.
On this day in 1965, The Beach Boys' "California Girls" was released. • ON the same day, Bob Dylan released "Like a Rolling Stone."
On this day in 1967, The Elvis Presley movie Double Trouble premiered.
Actress-turned-singer Jennifer Lopez, who got her big break playing
slain singer Selena in a film of the same name, was born on this day in 1970.
On this day in 1979, Little Richard, billed as the Reverend Richard Penniman, spoke to a revival meeting in San Francisco about the dangers of rock and roll.
Actor Peter Sellers died on this day in 1980 at 54.
The movie biography of Richie Valens, La Bamba, opened on this day in 1987.
On this day in 1990, a wrongful death trial involving Judas Priest opened in Reno. Parents had charged in a lawsuit that the band's Stained Class album contained subliminal messages that drove two teen-agers to attempt suicide. The judge cleared the group.
Tazio Secchiaroli, one of the world's most famous photographers and
the paparazzo who inspired Federico Fellini's film La Dolce Vita, died
aged 73.

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58. No wonder I'm a Guthrie fan

Aug 23rd

Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in the Massachusetts State Prison on this day in 1927, following one of the most talked-about criminal cases of the century. The two Italian immigrants had been convicted of a 1920 armored-car robbery on the basis of racially tainted and politically motivated testimony. They were exonerated fifty years later.