It is usually the first day of the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar (in the period 1900 C.E. to 2099 C.E.).
The terms September 11th, 11th September, and 9/11 (pronounced "Nine-eleven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in the United States of America.
In other places of the world the media also use it as shorthand for other events, for example, the September 11, 1973 Coup d'État in Chile is referred to as "El 11 de Septiembre" or "El once" ("September 11" or "The eleventh" in Spanish) as shorthand for the Coup events.
Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Class "The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforce, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property is safe." — Fredrick Douglass
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Beat the Press "If Thomas Edison invented the electric light today, it would be reported on the evening news that the candle-making industry was threatened. Ralph Nader would announce a lawsuit on behalf of poor people who might get electrocuted. And the candle workers union would have at least two Senators introduce a bill to block electricity on behalf of their industry." — House Speaker Newt Gingrich during a luncheon sponsored by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Kevin Sack, "Gingrich Attacks Media as Out of Touch," New York Times, 4-23-97
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent . . . " — John Connally, Secretary of the Treasury under Richard Nixon {Also governor of Texas that was second victim of the "magic bullet" in JFK assassination.}
Thought for the day: "Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest."
{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
A Scorpius Sky Spectacular
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EVENTS
● 506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
● 1185 - Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt which deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
● 1226 - The Roman Catholic practice of perpetual adoration begins.
● 1227 - Plague strikes the 5th Crusade, of Fredrick II, ending it.
● 1297 - Scotsman William Wallace defeated the English forces of Sir Hugh de Cressingham at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
● 1499 - French forces took over Milan, Italy.
● 1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko.
● 1589 - Barbara Huebmeyer, Appela Huebmeyer, and Anna Schnelling burned as witches.
● 1609 - Explorer Henry Hudson sailed into New York harbor and discovered Manhattan Island and the Hudson River.
● 1609 - Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all Spain's Moriscos.
● 1649 - Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.
● 1672 - Colonial American clergyman Solomon Stoddard, 29, was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Northampton, Mass. He remained at this pulpit for the next 57 years! (From 1727 until his death in 1729, Stoddard was assisted by his grandson, Jonathan Edwards.)
● 1683 - Battle of Vienna starts.
● 1695 - Imperial troops under Eugene of Savoy defeated the Turks at the Battle of Zenta.
● 1697 - Battle of Zenta
● 1708 - Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the battle of Poltava, and the Swedish empire is no longer a major power.
● 1709 - Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands and Austria defeat France.
● 1714 - Spanish and French troops broke into Barcelona and ended Catalonia's sovereignty after 13 months of seige.
● 1773 - The Public Advertiser publishes a satirical essay titled "Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One," which is written by Benjamin Franklin. The piece contains the quote, "There never was a good war or bad peace."
● 1776 - A Peace Conference was held between British General Howe and three representatives of the Continental Congress (Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge). The conference failed and the American war for independence continued for seven years.
● 1777 - American forces, under General George Washington, were forced to retreat at the Battle of Brandywine Creek by British forces under William Howe. The Stars and Stripes (American flag) were carried for the first time in the battle.
● 1786 - The Convention of Annapolis opened with the aim of revising the articles of the confederation.
● 1789 - Alexander Hamilton was appointed by U.S. President George Washington to be the first secretary of the treasury.
● 1792 - Hope Diamond is stolen along with other crown jewels when six men broke into the house used to store the jewels.
● 1802 - France annexed the Kingdom of Piedmont.
● 1812 - Luddite Potato riot in Nottingham, England.
● 1814 - The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, a major United States victory in the War of 1812.
● 1814 - The U.S. fleet defeated a squadron of British ships in the Battle of Lake Champlain, VT.
● 1842 - 1,400 Mexican troops captured San Antonio, TX. The Mexicans retreated with prisoners.
● 1847 - Stephen Foster's most well-known song, "Oh! Susanna," is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
● 1853 - 1st electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos
● 1855 - The siege of Sevastopol ended when French, British and Piedmontese troops captured the main naval base of the Russian Black fleet in the Crimean War.
● 1857 - Mormon fanatic John D. Lee, angered over President Buchanan's order to remove Brigham Young from governorship of the Utah Territory, incited a band of Mormons and Indians to massacre a California-bound wagon train of 135 (mostly Methodists) in Mountain Meadows, Utah.
● 1869 - Work completed on the Wallace Monument.
● 1881 - Triple landslides bury Elm Switz
● 1883 - The mail chute was patented by James Cutler. The new device was first used in the Elwood Building in Rochester, NY.
● 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, the Filipino president whose corrupt government was overthrown in 1986, was born.
● 1885 - Author D. H. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, England.
● 1885 - Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
● 1888 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day was chosen.
● 1891 - The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
● 1892 - The Scarritt Bible and Training School in Nashville, TN, was dedicated, primarily as the result of the conception, urging and fund-raising of southern Methodist missions leader and social reformer, Belle Harris Bennett (1852-1922).
● 1893 - 443 Hoh move to new reservation established on coast of Olympic Peninsula.
● 1893 - First World Parliament of Religions conference held.
● 1895 - India - birth of Vinoba Bhave, land reformer.
● 1897 - A ten-week strike of coal workers in Pennsylvania, WV, and Ohio came to an end. The workers won and eight-hour workday, semi-monthly pay, and company stores were abolished.
● 1897 - After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
● 1904 - The U.S. battleship Connecticut was launched in New York.
● 1906 - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
● 1910 - In Hollywood, the first commercially successful electric bus line opened.
● 1911 - Middle Tennessee State University is founded in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as Middle Tennessee Normal School.
● 1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
● 1915 - The Pennsylvania Railroad begins electrified commuter rail service between Paoli and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using overhead AC trolley wires for power.
● 1916 - The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
● 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, the Filipino president whose corrupt government was overthrown in 1986, was born.
● 1919 - U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
● 1921 - Motion picture star Fatty Arbuckle is arrested for rape.
● 1921 - Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
● 1922 - The British Mandate of Palestine begins.
● 1922 - The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
● 1923 - The ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Tower
● 1925 - IWW marine strike.
● 1926 - An assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini fails.
● 1926 - In Honolulu Harbor, HI, the Aloha Tower was dedicated.
● 1929 - SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
● 1930 - Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
● 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
● 1932 - Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, killed in a plane crash as their RWD 6 crashed into the ground during a storm.
● 1936 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) in Nevada by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam's first hydroelectric generator.
● 1940 - George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
● 1940 - World War II: Buckingham Palace is damaged during a German air raid.
● 1941 - Charles A. Lindbergh brought on charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he blamed "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" for trying to draw the United States into World War II.
● 1941 - In Arlington, VA, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Pentagon took place.
● 1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave orders to attack any German or Italian vessels found in U.S. defensive waters. The U.S. had not officially entered World War II at this time.
● 1942 - Underground Norwegian trade union newspapers arrange thousands of letters to government rejecting Nazification.
● 1943 - World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
● 1943 - World War II: start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
● 1944 - FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference
● 1944 - World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
● 1944 - World War II: the first allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Nazi Germany.
● 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Japanese-run POW and civilian internee camp at Batu Lintang, Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo by Australian 9th Division forces. Over 2,000 prisoners, including women and children, were due to be executed on 15 September.
● 1946 - 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
● 1948 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
● 1950 - 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
● 1950 - 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio
● 1952 - Dr. Charles Hufnagel successfully replaced a diseased aorta valve with an artificial valve made of plastic.
● 1952 - West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
● 1955 - Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, the Bern Switzerland Temple.
● 1955 - The first Southern Baptist church to be established in Nebraska was organized at Lincoln, with 34 charter members. Founded by Southern Baptist U.S. Air Force personnel who had been stationed in Lincoln, the congregation first met for worship on Easter Sunday of this year.
● 1956 - People to People International is founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
● 1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald is discharged from the United States Marine Corps.
● 1959 - The U.S. Congress passed a bill authorizing the creation of food stamps.
● 1960 - Young Americans for Freedom meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr. promulgates the Sharon Statement.
● 1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
● 1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest storm ever to hit the state.
● 1962 - American Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in a letter: 'We have not tasted the things given to us in Christ. Instead, we have built around ourselves walls and cells, and buried ourselves in dust and documents, and now we wonder why we cannot see God, or leap to do his will.'
● 1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) arrived in South Vietnam and was stationed at An Khe.
● 1967 - US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material.
● 1969 - Shelter exposes slum homelessness; The housing charity, Shelter, says up to three million people in Britain are living in damp, overcrowded slum conditions.
● 1970 - 88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews or Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
● 1971 - Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died at the age of 77 from a heart attack.
● 1971 - The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
● 1972 - Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in San Francisco, California begins regular service.
● 1973 - CIA overthrows democratically elected government of Chile, assassinating President Salvador Allende, folk singer Victor Jara, and many others. Sixteen years of repressive military rule follows. Guards singled out Jara as he continued to sing protest songs in the stadium, beat him viciously, and machine-gunned his mutilated body in front of the other prisoners. The US-backed military dictatorship banned Jara's music, image, and name, and, for a time, even outlawed the public performance of the evocative folk-guitar. Coup was led by General Augusto Pinochet. He immediately killed or "disappeared" hundreds, and, in coming years, thousands more. Striking Chilean labor unions, instrumental in destabilizing the Allende government, were secretly bankrolled by the CIA. Pinochet remained in power for almost 17 years.
● 1974 - Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
● 1976 - A police officer is killed attempting to dismantle a bomb in New York City's Grand Central Station. Croatian militants claimed responsibility.
● 1978 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter, President Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Begin of Israel met at Camp David and agreed on a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
● 1978 - Umbrella stab victim dies; Writer and broadcaster Georgi Markov dies of blood poisoning, four days after he said he was stabbed with an umbrella at a London bus stop.
● 1980 - Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt go into effect.
● 1980 - Federal District Court judge dismisses an $11 billion suit filed by Oglala Lakota for damages to, and restoration of, the sacred Black Hills in South Dakota.
● 1980 - Famous gem grabbed in armed raid; The Marlborough diamond is stolen from a London jewellers in a bold £1m robbery.
● 1982 - The international forces, which were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon, left Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees were massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
● 1985 - A U.S. satellite passed through the tail of the Giacobini-Zinner comet. It was the first on-the-spot sampling of a comet.
● 1987 - Reggae star Peter Tosh is shot and killed in his home in Kingston, Jamaica. Police say Tosh was shot in the head after refusing to give money to robbers.
● 1987 - CBS went black for six minutes after anchorman Dan Rather walked off the set of "The CBS Evening News" because a tennis tournament being carried by the network ran overtime.
● 1987 - Twelve people die in a shoot-out in Jean-Bertrand Aristide's church in Haiti.
● 1988 - The Innu of North West River in Labrador, Canada, begin protesting low-altitude training at NATO base near Goose Bay, citing environmental damage. The ongoing campaign has included numerous runway occupations by the Innu, and solidarity actions across Western Europe, but has received little attention in the U.S., which funds much of the base operations.
● 1989 - Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
● 1989 - The iron curtain opens between the communist Hungary and Austria. From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany.
● 1990 - U.S. anthropologist Myma Mack murdered by U.S.-paid Guatemalan military.
● 1990 - U.S. Pres. George Bush claims 120,000 Iraqi troops with 850 tanks are moving south in Kuwait, toward Saudi Arabia. Soviet satellite photos taken today show no troop build-up.
● 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded. He mentions the term "New World Order" in this speech for the first time, which is also named "Towards a New World Order".
● 1991 - 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston
● 1991 - 51 prisoners were released by Israel.
● 1991 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced that thousands of troops would be drawn out of Cuba.
● 1992 - Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history , devastates the State of Hawaii, especially the islands of Kauai and Oahu and killing at least 5.
● 1994 - Actress Jessica Tandy died at the age of 85 in Easton, CT.
● 1994 - Frank Eugene Corder steals a Cessna plane, intending to crash it into the White House.
● 1996 - Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad.
● 1997 - The Army issued a searing indictment of itself, asserting that "sexual harassment exists throughout the Army, crossing gender, rank and racial lines."
● 1997 - After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom after 290 years of union with England.
● 1997 - NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
● 1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
● 1999 - The Wall Street Journal reported that Bayer Corp. had quit putting a wad of cotton in their bottles of aspirin. Bayer had actually stopped the practice earlier in the year.
● 2000 - Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia.
● 2001 - Coordinated attacks resulting in the collapse or severe damage of several skyscrapers at the World Trade Center in New York City, destruction of the western portion of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and an intentional passenger airliner crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In total, 2,974 people are killed in these coordinated attacks .
● 2001 - Terrorists hijack four commercial airplanes in Eastern U.S., manage to successfully fly three of them - two into the World Trade Center's twin towers, destroying them, and a third into the west side of the Pentagon. Nearly 3,000 killed, democracy and American sense of invulnerability badly wounded.
● 2002 - Football Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas died at age 69.
● 2003 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on September 10.
● 2003 - The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into effect.
● 2004 - All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea. Passengers include Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and 16 others (including journalists and bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria).
● 2005 - The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
● 2007 - Russia tested the largest conventional weapon bomb, the Father of All Bombs.
BIRTHS
● 1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
● 1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (d. 1605)
● 1524 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (d. 1585)
● 1611 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
● 1681 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
● 1700 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (d. 1748)
● 1711 - William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
● 1723 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790)
● 1786 - Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (d. 1832)
● 1798 - Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (d. 1895)
● 1800 - Daniel S. Dickinson, New York senator (d. 1866)
● 1816 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
● 1825 - Eduard Hanslick, German music critic (d. 1904)
● 1836 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
● 1838 - John Ireland, American Catholic archbishop (d. 1918)
● 1854 - William Holabird, American architect (d. 1923)
● 1859 - Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian writer (d. 1905)
● 1860 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
● 1860 - James Allan, former All Black (d. 1934)
● 1862 - O. Henry, American writer (d. 1910)
● 1862 - Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935)
● 1865 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)
● 1877 - Rosika Schwimmer, Hungarian-born feminist and pacifist (d. 1948)
● 1877 - James Hopwood Jeans, Scientist (d. 1946)
● 1883 - Giovanni Pastrone, Italian motion-picture director and producer (d. 1959)
● 1885 - D.H. Lawrence, English novelist (d. 1930)
● 1892 - Pinto Colvig, Goofy's and Pluto's voice (d. 1967)
● 1892 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (d. 1980)
● 1893 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (d. 1974)
● 1895 - Vinoba Bhave, Indian social reformer; disciple of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1982)
● 1899 - Jimmie Davis, composer (d. 2000)
● 1899 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (d. 1945)
● 1903 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher, composer, and sociologist (d. 1969)
● 1911 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban pianist (d. 1971)
● 1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d. 1983)
● 1914 - Patriarch Pavle, Patriarch of Serbian Orthodox Church
● 1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (1966-86) (d. 1989)
● 1917 - Jessica Mitford, British writer (d. 1996)
● 1917 - Herbert Lom, film actor
● 1923 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda, Hindu guru (d. 2003)
● 1923 - Betsy Drake, Actress
● 1924 - Daniel Akaka Chinese-American politician
● 1924 - Tom Landry, American football coach (d. 2000)
● 1924 - Rudolf Vrba, Jewish Canadian professor, Holocaust survivor (d. 2006)
● 1925 - Harry Somers, Canadian composer (d. 1999)
● 1926 - Eddie Miksis, baseball player (d. 2005)
● 1927 - G. David Schine, American businessman (d. 1996)
● 1927 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (d. 2002)
● 1927 - Willie Christine King, Elder sister of Martin Luther King Jr.
● 1928 - Reubin O'Donovan Askew, American politician
● 1928 - Earl Holliman, American actor
● 1930 - Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
● 1932 - Bob Packwood, Former U.S. senator, R-Ore.
● 1932 - Peter Anderson, English footballer
● 1933 - William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (d. 2002)
● 1934 - Oliver Jones, Canadian jazz pianist
● 1934 - Norma Croker, Australian sprinter
● 1935 - Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
● 1935 - Gherman Titov, second man in space (d. 2000)
● 1936 - Ian Abercrombie, English actor
● 1937 - Iosif Kobzon, Soviet singer and Russian businessman
● 1937 - Queen Paola Ruffo di Calabria of Belgium
● 1937 - Robert Crippen, American astronaut
● 1938 - David Higgins, British Composer and Conductor
● 1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
● 1940 - Brian de Palma, American film director
● 1940 - Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
● 1942 - Lola Falana, American singer
● 1942 - Gerome Ragni American Playwright
● 1943 - Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
● 1943 - Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
● 1944 - Everaldo, Brazilian footballer
● 1945 - Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
● 1945 - Leo Kottke, American acoustic guitarist
● 1945 - Felton Perry, American actor
● 1948 - John Martyn, English musician
● 1950 - Bruce Doull, Australian rules footballer
● 1950 - Amy Madigan, American actress
● 1950 - Barry Sheene, British motorcyclist (d. 2003)
● 1951 - Richard D. Gill, British-Dutch mathematician
● 1951 - Hugo Porta, Argentine rugby player
● 1953 - Tommy Shaw, American musician and singer (Styx)
● 1953 - Jani Allan, South African journalist and media personality.
● 1953 - Lesley Visser, Sports journalist
● 1954 - Reed Birney, Actor
● 1957 - Jon Moss, Rock musician (Culture Club)
● 1957 - Brad Bird, American director and animator
● 1957 - Jeff Sluman, American professional golfer
● 1958 - Scott Patterson, American actor ("Gilmore Girls")
● 1958 - Roxann Dawson, American actress ("Star Trek: Voyager")
● 1958 - Mick Talbot, Rock musician (The Style Council)
● 1961 - Virginia Madsen, American actress ("Sideways")
● 1961 - Philip Ardagh, British writer
● 1962 - Elizabeth Daily, American actress
● 1962 - Filip Dewinter Belgian politician
● 1962 - Kristy McNichol, American actress ("Empty Nest," "Family")
● 1962 - Julio Salinas, Spanish footballer
● 1963 - Dr Patrick McWilliams, Irish author
● 1964 - Ellis Burks, American baseball player
● 1964 - Victor Wooten, American musician
● 1965 - Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria
● 1965 - Paul Heyman, American wrestling manager
● 1965 - Moby, American musician
● 1965 - David Roe, English snooker player
● 1966 - Princess Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family
● 1967 - Maria Bartiromo, financial broadcast journalist
● 1967 - Harry Connick, Jr., American singer
● 1967 - Tony David, Australian darts player
● 1967 - Bart Van Der Zeeuw, Rock musician
● 1968 - Kay Hanley, American musician
● 1968 - Paul Mayeda Berges, American film writer and director
● 1969 - Eduardo Perez, American baseball player
● 1969 - Gidget Gein, American musician
● 1970 - Chris Garver, tattoo artist
● 1970 - Taraji P. Henson, American actress and singer
● 1970 - William Joppy, American boxer
● 1970 - Ted Leo, American musician
● 1970 - Laura Wright, Actress ("General Hospital")
● 1971 - Richard Ashcroft, British singer
● 1971 - Markos Moulitsas, American blogger and author
● 1971 - Johnny Vegas, English comedian
● 1971 - Jeremy Popoff, Rock musician (Lit)
● 1975 - Brad Fischetti, Pop singer (LFO)
● 1975 - Mark Klepaski, American musician
● 1976 - Elephant Man, Jamaican musician
● 1976 - Tomáš Enge, Czech racing driver
● 1976 - Flora Redoumi, Greek hurdler
● 1977 - Ludacris, American rapper
● 1977 - Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player
● 1977 - Jon Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay)
● 1977 - Becky Lee, American Survivor contestant
● 1977 - Mr. Black, Rapper
● 1978 - Ed Reed, American football player
● 1978 - Ben Lee, Australian musician and singer
● 1978 - Dejan Stanković, Serbian footballer
● 1979 - Andols Herrick, American drummer (Chimaira)
● 1979 - Nathan Gale, American murderer (d. 2004)
● 1979 - Ariana Richards, American actress
● 1979 - Frank Francisco, Major League Baseball pitcher
● 1979 - Steve Hofstetter, comedian & radio personality
● 1979 - David Pizarro, Chilean footballer
● 1980 - Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1980 - Antônio Pizzonia, Brazilian Formula One driver
● 1981 - Andrea Dossena, Italian footballer
● 1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School Massacre co-perpetrator (d. 1999)
● 1982 - Ryan Slattery, Actor
● 1982 - Shriya Saran, South Indian actress
● 1983 - Ike Diogu, American basketball player
● 1983 - Jacoby Ellsbury, American baseball player
● 1985 - Shaun Livingston, American basketball player
● 1985 - Zack Stortini, Canadian ice hockey player
● 1986 - Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby player
● 1986 - Dwayne Jarrett, Wide Receiver for the Carolina Panthers.
● 1987 - Tyler Hoechlin, American actor
DEATHS
● 1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
● 1185 - Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier
● 1279 - Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1215)
● 1298 - Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
● 1349 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315)
● 1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for planned fratricide (b. 1577)
● 1677 - James Harrington, English political philosopher (b. 1611)
● 1680 - Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
● 1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
● 1721 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (b. 1665)
● 1733 - François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
● 1760 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
● 1822 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
● 1823 - David Ricardo, economist (b. 1772)
● 1843 - Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer (b. 1786)
● 1851 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (b. 1794)
● 1865 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806)
● 1888 - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina (b. 1811)
● 1896 - Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b. 1825)
● 1911 - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
● 1915 - William Cornelius Van Horne, North American railway executive (b. 1843)
● 1917 - Georges Guynemer, French World War I aviator (b. 1894)
● 1921 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
● 1926 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
● 1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, crime boss (b. 1868)
● 1932 - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilots who died in a plane crash (Żwirko b. 1895 Wigura b. 1901)
● 1939 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
● 1941 - Christian Rakovsky, Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary (b. 1873)
● 1948 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (b. 1876)
● 1950 - Jan Smuts, South African soldier and statesman (b. 1870)
● 1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I (b. 1894)
● 1958 - Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
● 1958 - Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1889)
● 1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
● 1967 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
● 1968 - René Cogny, French General (b. 1904)
● 1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader (b. 1894)
● 1972 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
● 1973 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
● 1974 - Víctor Olea Alegría, member of the Chilean Socialist Party, "disappeared."
● 1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (assassinated) (b. 1929)
● 1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer, the final victim of smallpox, (b. c. 1938)
● 1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish F1 driver. Crashed on Monza circuit. (b. 1944)
● 1984 - Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
● 1985 - William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
● 1985 - Andrew C. Thornton II, Former Lexington, KY narcotics agent turned smuggler (b. 1945)
● 1987 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915)
● 1987 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician and singer (murdered) (b. 1944)
● 1988 - John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
● 1990 - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (assassinated) (b. 1949)
● 1993 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
● 1993 - Antoine Izméry, Haitian pro-democracy activist (assassinated) (b. unknown)
● 1994 - Jessica Tandy, American actress (b. 1909)
● 1994 - William Obanhein, police officer, mentioned in "Alice's Restaurant" (b. 1924)
● 1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist (b. 1952)
● 1997 - Camille Henry, National Hockey League player (b. 1933)
● 1998 - Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1913)
● 1999 - Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972)
● 2001 - Alice Stewart Trillin, American author (b. 1938)
● 2001 – Deaths as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks:
● Marwan Al-Shehhi, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1978)
● David Angell, American sitcom creator, passenger on American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1946)
● Mohamed Atta, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1968)
● Garnet Bailey, NHL player and Los Angeles Kings scout, passenger on United Airlines Flight 175 (b. 1948)
● Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1968)
● Berry Berenson, widow of actor Anthony Perkins and a passenger on American Airlines flight 11 (b. 1948)
● Mark Bingham, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970)
● Tom Burnett, businessman and passenger on United Airlines Flight 93, (b. 1963)
● Kevin Cosgrove, worker in the south tower of the world trade center (b. 1955)
● Peter J. Ganci, Jr., Chief of Department, FDNY (b. 1946)
● Hani Hanjour, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1972)
● Ziad Jarrah, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1975)
● Father Mychal F. Judge, Chaplain, FDNY (b. 1933)
● Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter, winner of Murder in Small Town X (b. 1966)
● John P. O'Neill, former anti-terrorism FBI agent, and Director of Security at the World Trade Center (b. 1952)
● John Ogonowski, pilot for American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1951)
● Barbara Olson, American political commentator, passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 (b. 1955)
● 2002 - Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922)
● 2002 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
● 2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (assassinated) (b. 1957)
● 2003 - John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
● 2004 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (helicopter crash) (b. 1949)
● 2004 - Fred Ebb, American lyricist (b. 1933)
● 2004 - David Mann, U.S. artist (emphysema) (b. 1939)
● 2005 - Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
● 2006 - William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto (b. 1924)
● 2006 - Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930)
● 2006 - Joachim Fest, German journalist and author (b. 1926)
● 2006 - Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office (b. 1921)
● 2007 - Ian Porterfield, Manager of Armenia National Football Club (b. 1946)
● 2007 - Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (b. 1927)
● 2007 - Joe Zawinul, Austrian musician, Pioneer in Jazz Fusion (b. 1932)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● Our Lady of Coromoto
● Virgin of the Holy cave
● St. Adelphus
● St. Almirus
● St. Ambrose Edward Barlow
● St. Bodo
● St. Daniel
● St. Deiniol
● St. Diodorus
● St. Emilian
● Sts. Felix & Regula
● St. Paphnutius
● St. Patiens
● St. Peter of Chavanon
● Sts. Protus & Hyacinth, martyrs
● St. Theodora
● St. Vincent of Leon
● Bl. Caspar Kotenda
● Bl. Francis Takea
● Bl. John-Gabriel Perboyre
● Bl. Peter Ikiemon
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 29 (Civil Date: September 11)
● The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John.
● St. Alexander, abbot of Voche.
● New-Martyr Anastasius of Bulgaria.
● New-Martyr Peter, Metropolitan of Krutitsa (1936).
● Greek Calendar:
● St. Theodora of Thessalonica.
● St. Arcadius of Arsinoe on Cyprus, Bishop of and Wonderworker.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Joseph the Sanctified of Samaka.
● Repose of Righteous Pachomius the Silent of Valdai Monastery (1886).
● Catalonia - National Day.
● Coptic calendar - Feast of Neyrouz, the New Year's Day.
● Ethiopian calendar - New Year's Day (Enkutatash).
● Latin America Teacher's Day, after the death of Argentine Domingo F. Sarmiento.
● National Day of Catalonia, remembering those Catalan patriots who died in the Siege of Barcelona, in defense of the city, against the Franco-Spanish army.
● Pakistan - Death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. (1948)
● Tunisia : Evening of Destiny
● Patriot Day (USA) - Anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
● Proclaimed 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day by President Reagan on August 26 in 1987 and celebrated since then by some United States communities, particularly the local emergency services.
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Hispanics - National Hispanic Heritage Week - ( Sunday )
● US - National Grandparents' Day - ( Sunday )
● Afghanistan - National Assembly Foundation Day (1964) - ( Wednesday )
● Scotland - Fisherman's Walk Day - ( Friday )
IN FICTION
● 1889 - Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Crooked Man"
Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.
Additional facts taken from:
On this day in the New York Times
The BBC’s Take on the day
On This Day Website
Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.
Scope Systems Any Day Website
Roman Catholic Saint of the Day
Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004
Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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