September 4

Today is Newspaper Carrier Day, honoring Barney Flaherty, the first newspaper carrier (paperboy), hired in 1833, as well as current paper carriers.

1666 – In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.

1781 – Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers.

1862 – American Civil War: Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.

1882 – Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

1886 – American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.

1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

1939 – World War II: A Bristol Blenheim is the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of war. German ships are bombed.

1941 – World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.

1949 – The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.

1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race. The Southern 500 is being held today, at Darlington Raceway. That's 66 years. Racetime: 6:00 p.m. EST.;)

1957 – American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.

The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.

So, that's two things that failed in 1957. Ford and Faubus musta been bummed.

1964 – Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.

1965 - The Who had their van stolen containing over £5000 worth of equipment outside the Battersea Dogs Home. The band were inside the home at the time buying a guard dog. The van was later recovered. Guess they shoulda got a guard dog last week.:neutral:

1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.

1969 - The film 'Easy Rider' starring Jack Nicholson Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper opened at The Classic in London England. The movie's soundtrack featured The Band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Steppenwolf.

1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.

1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.

1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.

2010 – A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand causing widespread damage and several power outages.

Births

1901 – William Lyons (co-founded Jaguar Cars); 1908 – Edward Dmytryk (directed The Caine Mutiny); 1913 – Mickey Cohen 'The King of Los Angeles' (mob boss); 1917 – Henry Ford II; 1918 – Paul Harvey; 1919 – Howard Morris ('Ernest T. Bass' on The Andy Griffith Show); 1931 – Mitzi Gaynor:love:; 1942 – Raymond Floyd; 1942 – Merald "Bubba" Knight♪ ♫(Gladys Knight & The Pips); 1944 – Gene Parsons:shred:(The Byrds); 1945 – Danny Gatton:shred:; 1946 – Gary Duncan:shred:; 1949 – Tom Watson; 1951 – Judith Ivey; 1956 – Blackie Lawless:shred::bass:(WASP); 1957 – Khandi Alexander; 1958 – Drew Pinsky (Dr. Drew); 1960 – Kim Thayil:shred:(Soundgarden), Damon Wayans; 1968 – John DiMaggio (voice of 'Bender' on Futurama); 1970 - Igor Cavalera:drummer:(Sepultura); 1971 – Ione Skye, Ty Longley:shred:(Great White); 1981 – Beyoncé Carter♪ ♫; 1982 – Whitney Cummings (co-creator 2 Broke Girls)

Deaths

1864 – John Hunt Morgan; 1965 – Albert Schweitzer; 1974 – Creighton Abrams (namesake of the M1 Abrams main battle tank); 1990 – Irene Dunne; 1991 – Tom Tryon, Dottie West♪ ♫; 1993 – Hervé Villechaize ("De plane! De Plane!"); 1995 – William Kunstler; 2001 – Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf (It does not seem like 15 years since he died.); 2006 – Steve Irwin ("Crikey!"); 2014 – Joan Rivers

September 5

Today is Labor Day in the United States.

Today is Labour Day in Canada.

1661 – Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.

1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.

1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.

1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.

1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses. At least the attack came on their return from the outhouses. How would ya like to fight a band of wild Indians hollering for hair while clutching your mud?

1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

1877 – American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.

1906 – The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).

1921 – A Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe. It is one of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.

1945 – Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.

1945 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.

1957 – On the Road, a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, is published.

1960 – Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division:devil: and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.

1972 – Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine die the following day.

1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.

1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.

Births

1847 – Jesse James; 1850 – Jack Daniel; 1897 – Arthur Nielsen (Nielsen Ratings); 1902 – Darryl F. Zanuck; 1912 – John Cage ( ); 1929 – Bob Newhart; 1937 – William Devane; 1940 – Raquel Welch:heartpump; 1942 – Werner Herzog; 1945 – Al Stewart♪ ♫; 1946 – Freddie Mercury:devil:♪ ♫(Queen), Loudon Wainwright III♪ ♫; 1947 – Buddy Miles:drummer:; 1950 – Cathy Guisewite (created comic strip Cathy); 1951 – Michael Keaton; 1964 – Emmanuel Yarborough; 1967 – Arnel Pineda♪ ♫(Journey); 1969 – Dweezil Zappa♪ ♫; 1973 – Rose McGowan

Deaths

1877 – Crazy Horse; 1912 – Arthur MacArthur, Jr.; 1934 – Sidney Myer (founded Myer Stores); 1992 – Fritz Leiber; 1997 – Georg Solti♪ ♫; 1997 – Mother Teresa; 1999 – Allen Funt (Candid Camera); 2001 – Justin Wilson(Cajun chef, "I garr-awn-tee."); 2012 – Joe South♪ ♫

September 6

Today is National Coffee Ice Cream Day in the United States.

3114 BC – According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started. (Non-standard interpretation).

1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.

1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)

1628 – Puritans settle Salem, which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1803 – British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.

1847 – Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.

1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.

1901 – Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist (guess there wasn't much work for anarchists back then:neutral:), shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

1916 – The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tennessee, by Clarence Saunders.

1939 – World War II: At the Battle of Barking Creek, Britain suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War as a result of friendly fire.

1952 – A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.

1972 – Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group die (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.

1976 – Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lieutenant Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.

1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.

1990 - Tom Fogerty rhythm guitarist with Creedence Clearwater Revival died aged 49, due to complications from AIDS acquired during a blood transfusion.

1992 – Hunters discover the emaciated body of Christopher McCandless at his camp 20 miles (32 km) west of the town of Healy, Alaska.

1995 – Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.

1997 – The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.

Births

1757 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette; 1879 – Max Schreck; 1888 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.; 1893 – Claire Lee Chennault; 1921 – Norman Joseph Woodland (co-created the bar code); 1925 – Jimmy Reed:shred:; 1930 – Charles Foley (co-created Twister); 1937 – Jo Anne Worley; 1939 – David Allan Coe♪ ♫; 1942 – Mel McDaniel♪ ♫; 1943 – Roger Waters:bass:(Pink Floyd); 1944 – Swoosie Kurtz (Mike & Molly); 1947 – Jane Curtin (original SNL); 1954 – Carly Fiorina; 1958 – Jeff Foxworthy; 1958 – Michael Winslow (Police Academy); 1962 – Chris Christie, Elizabeth Vargas; 1963 – Mark Chesnutt♪ ♫; 1964 – Rosie Perez; 1965 – Christopher Nolan; 1967 – Macy Gray♪ ♫:rainfro:; 1969 – CeCe Peniston♪ ♫; 1971 - Delores O’Riordan♪ ♫(The Cranberries); 1972 – Idris Elba

Deaths

1945 – John S. McCain Sr.; 1959 – Edmund Gwenn; 1972 - David Mark Berger, Ze'ev Friedman, Yossef Gutfreund, Eliezer Halfin, Amitzur Shapira, Kehat Shorr, Mark Slavin, Andre Spitzer, Yakov Springer; 1984 – Ernest Tubb♪ ♫; 1987 – Quinn Martin; 1990 – Tom Fogerty♪ ♫(Creedence Clearwater Revival); 1994 – James Clavell; 1998 – Akira Kurosawa; 2012 – Art Modell (former owner Cleveland Browns); 2015 – Martin Milner (Route 66)

Addendum for September 6:

Deaths

2007 - Luciano Pavarotti

September 7

Today is National Beer Lovers Day! So, :beer:!!!

Today is Momdigr's birthday!:celebrat:

70 – A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.

1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).

1857 – Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon (Mormons!)settlers slaughter most members of peaceful, emigrant wagon train.

1876 – In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.

1896 – The first successful heart surgery was conducted on this day by Ludwig Rehn.

1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.

1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.

1909 – Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.

1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.

1923 – The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) is formed.

1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.

1936 – The last thylacine (aka Tasmanian Tiger), a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

1940 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.

1963 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.

1970 – Bill 'Willie' Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).

1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.

1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.

1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.

2004 – Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.

2008 – The US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Births

1795 – John William Polidori; 1860 – Grandma Moses; :artist:; 1867 – J. P. Morgan Jr.$; 1875 – Edward Francis Hutton ("When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen."); 1908 – Paul Brown, Michael E. DeBakey; 1908 – Max Kaminsky♪ ♫; 1909 – Elia Kazan; 1912 – David Packard (Hewlett-Packard); 1913 – Anthony Quayle; 1914 – James Van Allen (Van Allen Belts); 1923 – Peter Lawford; 1924 – Daniel Inouye; 1925 – Laura Ashley; 1926 – Ronnie Gilbert♪ ♫(The Weavers), Don Messick (voice actor Hanna-Barbera); 1934 – Little Milton♪ ♫; 1936 – Buddy Holly:shred:; 1949 – Gloria Gaynor♪ ♫; 1950 – Julie Kavner (Rhoda, voice of 'Marge Simpson'), Momdigr; 1951 – Chrissie Hynde♪ ♫(The Pretenders); 1953 - Benmont Tench:keys:(Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers); 1954 – Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law), Michael Emerson (Person Of Interest, Lost); 1956 – Diane Warren♪ ♫; 1961 – LeRoi Moore♪ ♫(Dave Matthews Band); 1970 – Tom Everett Scott; 1971 – Sugar Shane Mosley:boxers:; 1973 – Shannon Elizabeth:love:

Deaths

1566 – Suleiman the Magnificent; 1893 – Hamilton Fish; 1973 – Holling C. Holling; 1978 – Keith Moon:drummer:(The Who); 1991 – Ben Piazza; 1994 – Dennis Morgan; 2002 – Katrin Cartlidge; 2003 – Warren Zevon♪ ♫:shred:; 2008 – Don Haskins; 2010 – Glenn Shadix

It was Putin.

Was it really?

I don't think so, but you would believe it, wouldn't you?

I would.

September 8

Today is International Literacy Day, among many other 'days'.

1504 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.

1565 – St. Augustine, Florida was founded by Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.

1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.

1810 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.

1862 – Millennium of Russia monument unveiled in Novgorod.

1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.

1888 – In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral's submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made.

1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.

1900 – A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

1914 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.

1921 – Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.

1923 – Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.

1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.

1935 – US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.

1941 – German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad.

1944 – World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.

1945 – Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.

1962 – Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star.

1966 – The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".

1971 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

1975 – Gays in teh military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is given a general discharge, which was later upgraded to honorable.

1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.

1994 – USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard; resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.

2002 - Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson started his new job as an airline pilot. The heavy metal singer qualified as a £35,000 - a year first officer with Gatwick based airline Astraeus who took holidaymakers to Portugal and Egypt.

2011 - Jury selection began for the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray. Prospective jurors were asked to fill out a 30-page questionnaire to determining their level of knowledge of the case and any strong views about Jackson or Murray.

2012 – Former US President Jimmy Carter surpasses Herbert Hoover for longest retirement after leaving office. Hoover was retired for 11,553 days, and had held the record for over 54 years.

Births

1841 – Antonín Dvořák:artist:, Charles J. Guiteau (assassin of POTUS James A. Garfield); 1897 – Jimmie Rodgers♪ ♫; 1915 – Frank Cady (played storekeeper 'Sam Drucker' in three different tv series, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and The Beverly Hillbillies); 1922 – Sid Caesar; 1924 – Wendell H. Ford; 1925 – Peter Sellers; 1932 – Patsy Cline♪ ♫; 1938 – Adrian Cronauer (inspiration for Good Morning, Vietnam), Sam Nunn; 1941 – Bernie Sanders; 1945 – Ron "Pigpen" McKernan:keys:(The Grateful Dead); 1946 – L. C. Greenwood(NFL); 1956 – Mick Brown:drummer:(Dokken, Ted Nugent, Lynch Mob); 1960 – Aimee Mann♪ ♫, David Steele♪ ♫(Fine Young Cannibals); 1970 – Neko Case♪ ♫; 1971 – David Arquette; 1975 – Larenz Tate; 1979 – Pink♪ ♫

Deaths

1949 – Richard Strauss♪ ♫; 1965 – Dorothy Dandridge; 1970 – Percy Spencer (invented the microwave oven); 1977 – Zero Mostel; 1980 – Willard Libby (radiocarbon dating); 2003 – Leni Riefenstahl; 2004 – Frank Thomas (animator, one of Disney's Nine Old Men); 2006 – Peter Brock:driving:; 2014 – S. Truett Cathy (founded Chick-fil-A)

September 9

1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

1850 – The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.

1926 – In the United States the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is formed.

1940 – George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.

1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.

1947 – First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.

US newspaper The Hollywood Reporter ran the following advertisement; 'Madness folk & roll musicians, singers wanted for acting roles in new TV show. Parts for 4 insane boys. The Monkees were born. 437 people applied for the job.

1968 - Working at Abbey Road studios on The White Album, The Beatles recorded 'Helter Skelter'. John Lennon played bass and honked on a saxophone, roadie Mal Evans tried his best at playing trumpet. Paul McCartney recorded his lead vocal and George Harrison ran about the studio holding a flaming ashtray above his head.

1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.

1972 – In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.

1993 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.

1999 – Sega releases the first 128-bit video game console, the Dreamcast.

2001 – The Unix billennium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix time stamps. Good times, man, good times.

2015 – Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.

Births

1585 – Cardinal Richelieu; 1754 – William Bligh (Commander of the HMS Bounty); 1828 – Leo Tolstoy; 1839 – Devil Anse Hatfield (Hatfield - McCoy feudster); 1887 – Alf Landon; 1890 – Col. Harlan Sanders (founded Kentucky Fried Chicken); 1919 – Jimmy 'The Greek' Snyder (Vegas bookmaker, sportscaster); 1924 – Jane Greer; 1927 – Elvin Jones:drummer:; 1940 – Joe Negroni♪ ♫(Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers); 1941 – Otis Redding♪ ♫, Dennis Ritchie (created C programming language); 1949 – Joe Theismann; 1950 – John McFee♪ ♫(The Doobie Bros.); 1951 – Tom Wopat ('Luke Duke'); 1952 – Angela Cartwright; 1952 – Dave Stewart:shred:(The Eurythmics); 1955 – John Kricfalusi (created The Ren & Stimpy Show); 1960 – Hugh Grant; 1966 – Adam Sandler; 1969 – Rachel Hunter; 1971 – Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family), Henry Thomas ('Elliott' in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial); 1975 – Michael Bublé; 1991 – Hunter Hayes♪ ♫

Deaths

1087 – William the Conqueror; 1834 – James Weddell (namesake of the Weddell Sea); 1871 – Stand Watie; 1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec:artist:; 1915 – Albert Spalding (co-founded Spalding sports equipment); 1978 – Jack L. Warner (co-founded Warner Bros.); 1994 – Patrick O'Neal; 1996 – Bill Monroe♪ ♫; 1997 – Burgess Meredith; 1999 – Ruth Roman; 2004 – Ernie Ball ('Slinkys' guitar strings); 2006 – William Bernard Ziff Jr. (founded Ziff Davis)

September 10

1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.

1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.

1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.

1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium.

1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.

1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon bare foot.

1961 – Italian Grand Prix: A crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.

2007 - Pamela Anderson's ex-husband Kid Rock was involved in an alleged assault on drummer Tommy Lee, (who was also married to the actress up until 1998). Police interviewed witnesses to a tussle involving the pair at the MTV Music Video Awards in Las Vegas. Lee was removed from the ceremony while Rock, was allowed to stay.

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

Births

1801 – Marie Laveau (voodoo practitioner); 1839 – Isaac K. Funk (Funk & Wagnalls); 1890 – Elsa Schiaparelli; 1896 – Adele Astaire (Fred's sister, and dance partner); 1915 – Edmond O'Brien; 1929 – Arnold Palmer; 1933 – Karl Lagerfeld; 1934 – Charles Kuralt, Roger Maris; 1945 – José Feliciano:shred:; 1948 – Margaret Trudeau; 1949 – Bill O'Reilly (American asshole); 1950 – Joe Perry:shred:(Aerosmith); 1953 – Amy Irving; 1954 – Don 'The Dragon' Wilson (kickboxer); 1960 – Colin Firth (The King's Speech); 1963 – Randy 'The Big Unit' Johnson; 1968 – Guy Ritchie; 1974 – Ryan Phillippe

Deaths

1842 – Letitia Christian Tyler (11th FLOTUS); 1935 – Huey Long; 1938 – Charles Cruft ("Cruft's Greatest Dog Show"); 1961 – Wolfgang von Trips:driving:; 1976 – Dalton Trumbo; 1996 – Joanne Dru; 2005 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown:shred:; 2011 – Cliff Robertson; 2014 – Richard Kiel ('Jaws' in Moonraker)

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:blackr:September 11:blackr:

Today isPatriot Day, today is also September 11 National Day of Service, both observed in the United States.

1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English.

1609 – Henry Hudson 'discovers' Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.

1792 – The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.

1813 – War of 1812: British troops arrive in Mount Vernon and prepare to march to and invade Washington, D.C..

1826 – Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason is arrested in Batavia, New York for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that lead to his mysterious disappearance.

1851 – Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves stand against their former owner in armed resistance in Christiana, Pennsylvania, creating a rallying cry for the abolitionist movement.

1857 – The Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.

1903 – The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.

1916 – The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907. A total of 88 lives were lost in the two events.

1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, the country's first independent declaration of war.

1941 – Ground is broken in Arlington, Virginia for the construction of The Pentagon.

1944 – World War II: The Western Allied invasion of Germany begins near the city of Aachen.

World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.

1950 – Korean War: President Harry S. Truman approved military operations north of the 38th parallel.

1964 - The London Evening News reported that a 16 year-old Eltham Collage boy, introduced as Laurie Yarham, was everyone's idea of a winner in a Mick Jagger look-a-like competition. Laurie looked like Mick Jagger and seemed to know his every action and the audience at Greenwich Town Hall were delighted, until the winner turned out to be Mick's younger brother Chris Jagger.

1970 - NME’s Keith Allston interviewed Jimi Hendrix in England. The interview turned out to be Hendrix's last; he died a mere seven days later.

1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.

1977 - David Bowie recorded a guest appearance on 'Bing Crosby's 'Merrie Olde Christmas' TV show duetting with Crosby on 'Peace On Earth - Little Drummer Boy'. The track became a UK No.3 hit five years later in 1982.

1978 – Janet Parker is the last person to die of smallpox, in a laboratory-associated outbreak.

1982, John Camp Cougarmellen became the only male artist to have two singles in the US Top Ten as well as the No.1 album. ‘Jack and Diane’ was No.4, while ‘Hurts So Good’ was at No.8. His album ‘American Fool’ was at No.1 for the first of nine weeks.

1985 – Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit.

1987 - Founding member of The Wailers Peter Tosh was shot dead at his home in Kingston Jamaica by armed robbers.

Peter Gabriel cleaned up at this year's (1987) MTV Awards, winning best video, best male video, best concept video, best special effects and five other awards for the track 'Sledgehammer'.

1997 – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.



2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. In total 2,996 people are killed.



2001 - Walking to work in New York (as an comic book illustrator) Gerard Way witnessed the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The day's events inspired him to start a band, which became My Chemical Romance with Way becoming their lead singer.

2003 - Tommy Chong, one-half of the comedy team of Cheech and Chong, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison and fined $20,000 for selling drug paraphernalia over the Internet.

2008 – A major Channel Tunnel fire broke out on a freight train, closed part of chunnel for 6 months.

2012 – The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.

Births

1816 – Carl Zeiss (lens maker); 1862 – Hawley Harvey Crippen (murderer, first person captured with the aid of wireless telegraphy), O. Henry; 1885 – D. H. Lawrence (not 'of Arabia'); 1913 – Bear Bryant; 1916 – Ed Sabol (founded NFL Films); 1917 – Ferdinand Marcos; 1924 – Tom Landry; 1928 – Earl Holliman (Police Woman); 1937 – Robert Crippen (astronaut); 1939 – Charles Geschke (co-founded Adobe Systems); 1940 – Brian De Palma; 1942 – Lola Falana♪ ♫(Her name was Lola); 1943 – Jack Ely♪ ♫, Mickey Hart:drummer:(The Grateful Dead); 1950 – Amy Madigan; 1953 – Tommy Shaw:shred:(Styx); 1961 – Elizabeth Daily, Virginia Madsen; 1962 – Kristy McNichol; 1965 – Moby♪ ♫(dj); 1967 – Maria Bartiromo, Harry Connick Jr.; 1969 – Gidget Gein:bass:(Marilyn Manson); 1970 – Taraji P. Henson:joylove:; 1977 – Ludacris♪ ♫

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Deaths

1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah; 1950 – Jan Smuts; 1971 – Nikita Khrushchev (Russian shoebanger); 1972 – Max Fleischer; 1973 – Salvador Allende; 1987 – Lorne Greene (Bonanza); 1987 – Peter Tosh♪ ♫(Bob Marley and the Wailers); 1994 – Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy); 2002 – Kim Hunter ('Stella' in A Streetcar Named Desire), Johnny Unitas; 2003 – John Ritter; 2004 – David Mann:artist::devil:; 2010 – Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

September 12

Today is the Day of the Programmer, recognizing computer programmers, observed on the 256th day of the year, which falls on September 12 in a leap year.

Today is also National Chocolate Milkshake Day, and National Day of Encouragement in the United States.

So...Go get a chocolate milkshake! You can do it!:cheerldr:

490 BC – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece. An Athenian runner was sent to Sparta (from Athens) to ask for assistance in the battle. He ran a distance of 140 miles (225 km), and arrived in Sparta the next day. The event is commemorated by the modern marathon.

1609 – Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.

1846 – Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.

1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush.

1906 – The Newport Transporter Bridge [No. No indeed. Hell no.] is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.

1933 – Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.

1942 – A U-boat sank RMS Laconia with a torpedo off the coast of West Africa and attempted to rescue the passengers, which included some 80 civilians, 160 Polish and 268 British soldiers and about 1800 Italian POWs.

1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.

1953 – U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.

1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.

1959 – Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.

1962 – President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

1966 - N.B.C. aired the first episode of The Monkees TV show in the US. The series ran for a total of 58 episodes.

1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.

1983 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.

1986 - Public Image Ltd guitarist John McGeoch needed 40 stitches in his face after a two-liter wine bottle was thrown at the stage during a gig in Vienna.

1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.

1994 – Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. The incident claimed Corder's life.

2003 - US singer songwriter Johnny Cash died of respiratory failure aged 71.

2011 – The 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City opens to the public.

2013 - Ray Dolby, the US engineer who founded Dolby Laboratories and pioneered noise reduction in audio recordings, died of leukemia at the age of 80. He helped develop the video tape recorder while at Ampex.

Births

1818 – Richard Jordan Gatling (invented the Gatling gun:rattat:); 1880 – H. L. Mencken; 1888 – Maurice Chevalier; 1892 – Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.; 1913 – Jesse Owens; 1914 – Desmond Llewelyn ('Q' in the James Bond movies); 1925 – Dickie Moore; 1931 – Ian Holm ('Bilbo Baggins' in The Lord of the Rings); 1931 – George Jones♪ ♫, Bill McKinney (Deliverance); 1937 – George Chuvalo:boxers:; 1940 – Linda Gray; 1944 – Barry White♪ ♫; 1950 – Bruce Mahler; 1951 – Joe Pantoliano; 1952 – Neil Peart:drummer:(Rush); 1956 – Ricky Rudd:driving:; 1957 – Rachel Ward; 1962 – Amy Yasbeck; 1966 – Ben Folds:shred::bass::keys:(Ben Folds Five); 1967 – Louis C.K.:lol2:; 1973 – Paul Walker; 1974 – Jennifer Nettles♪ ♫:scream:; 1981 – Jennifer Hudson♪ ♫

Deaths

1660 – Jacob Cats (invented cats); 1712 – Jan van der Heyden:artist:; 1972 – William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy); 1977 – Steve Biko; 1992 – Anthony Perkins (Psycho); 1993 – Raymond Burr (Perry Mason); 2003 – Johnny Cash♪ ♫:devil:; 2013 – Ray Dolby (founded Dolby Laboratories); 2014 – Joe Sample:keys:

September 13

1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.

1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

1814 – In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.

1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1 1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.

1862 – American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.

1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.

1985 – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.

1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.

1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).

2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.

Births

1851 – Walter Reed; 1857 – Milton S. Hershey; 1860 – John J. Pershing; 1903 – Claudette Colbert; 1911 – Bill Monroe; 1916 – Roald Dahl; 1924 – Scott Brady; 1925 – Mel Tormé; 1937 – Don Bluth; 1939 – Richard Kiel; 1944 – Peter Cetera; 1948 – Nell Carter; 1952 – Don Was; 1961 – Dave Mustaine; 1964 – Tavis Smiley; 1967 – Tim "Ripper" Owens; 1969 – Tyler Perry; 1971 – Stella McCartney; 1977 – Fiona Apple; 1978 – Peter Sunde

Deaths

81 – Titus; 1881 – Ambrose Burnside; 1996 – Tupac Shakur; 1998 – George Wallace; 2006 – Ann Richards; 2009 – Paul Burke; 2015 – Moses Malone



Assembled twice, posted once by a goddamned idiot who cannot have two thoughts in his head at the same time.

September 14

1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.

1752 – The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).

1901 – U.S. President William McKinley dies eight days after an assassination attempt (If he died, wasn't that an actual assassination?) on September 6. Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States at age 42, the youngest person ever to do so.

1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

1968 - Roy Orbison's house in Nashville burned down. His two eldest sons both died in the blaze. Orbison was on tour in the UK at the time of the accident.

1969 – The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the first Draft Lottery date.

1974 - Eric Clapton scored a US No.1 with his version of the Bob Marley song 'I Shot The Sheriff'. Clapton's version of the song was included on his 1974 album 461 Ocean Boulevard.

1979 - The film Quadrophenia was released. Based on The Who's 1973 rock opera the film featured Phil Daniels, Toyah Willcox, Ray Winstone, Michael Elphick and Sting.

1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.

US singer Steve Earle was sentenced to 1 year in jail after being found guilty of possession of crack cocaine.

1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.

2000 – Microsoft releases Windows ME.

2001 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

2008 - Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson was one of the pilots who flew specially chartered flights after 85,000 tourists were stranded in the US, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe after Britain's third-largest tour operator went into administration. The singer, who had worked for the airline Astraeus for nine years, took up flying during a low point in his solo career after he quit the band in 1993.

Births

1879 – Margaret Sanger; 1898 – Hal B. Wallis; 1914 – Clayton Moore, Mae Boren Axton 'The Queen Mother of Nashville' (songwriter); 1936 – Walter Koenig; 1944 – Joey Heatherton; 1946 - Pete Agnew:bass:(Nazareth); 1947 – Sam Neill; 1949 – Steve Gaines:shred:(Lynyrd Skynyrd), Ed King:shred:(Lynyrd Skynyrd); 1954 – Barry Cowsill; 1961 – Wendy Thomas (Wendy's); 1962 – Robert Herjavec; 1964 – Faith Ford; 1965 – Dmitry Medvedev; 1972 – Notah Begay III; 1973 – Andrew Lincoln; 1983 – Amy Winehouse (British skank)

Deaths

1638 – John Harvard (yeah, that one); 1715 – Dom Pérignon (yeah, that one); 1836 – Aaron Burr (3rd VPOTUS); 1851 – James Fenimore Cooper; 1901 – William McKinley (25th POTUS); 1927 – Isadora Duncan; 1936 – Irving Thalberg; 1982 – Grace Kelly; 1984 – Janet Gaynor; 2001 – Dorothy McGuire; 2002 – LaWanda Page (The Bronze Goddess of Fire, 'Aunt Esther' on Sanford & Son); 2009 – Henry Gibson; 2009 – Patrick Swayze

September 15

Today is Battle of Britain Day in England, commemorating The Battle of Britain.

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few". ~Winston Churchill

1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes.

1616 – The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.

1816 – HMS Whiting became wrecked on the Doom Bar, a treacherous shoal off the coast of Cornwall, England, that has caused over 600 known shipwrecks.

*1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.

1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.

1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.

1940 – World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.

1945 – A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.

1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h).

1950 – Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon.

1958 – A Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.

1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.

1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.

A group from Hawthorne, California called The Pendletones attend their first real recording session at Hite Morgan's studio in Los Angeles. The band recorded 'Surfin', a song that would help shape their career as The Beach Boys.

1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1965 - The Ford Motor Company became the first automaker to offer an 8-track tape player as an option for their entire line of vehicles in the US. Tapes were initially only available at auto parts stores, as home 8-track equipment was still a year away.

1970 - US Vice-President Spiro Agnew said in a speech that the youth of America were being "brainwashed into a drug culture" by rock music, movies, books and underground newspapers.

1971 – The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against nuclear testing on Amchitka Island.

*1981 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.

The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

1984 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 'Relax' became the longest running chart hit since Engelbert Humperdink's 'Release Me', after spending 43 weeks on the UK singles chart.

1990 - The Steve Miller Band had a UK No.1 with 'The Joker' 16 years after it's first release. The song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974. More than 16 years later, it reached No.1 in the UK Singles Chart after being used in "Great Deal", a Hugh Johnson-directed television advertisement for Levi's, thus holding the record for the longest gap between transatlantic chart-toppers.

2001 – George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, gives Post 9-11 Weekly Address, foreshadowing an interventionist United States Foreign Policy, leading to the Iraq, and Afghanistan Wars.

2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

Births

1254 – Marco Polo; 1789 – James Fenimore Cooper; 1830 – Porfirio Díaz; 1857 – William Howard Taft (27th POTUS); 1881 – Ettore Bugatti (yeah, that one); 1890 – Agatha Christie; 1903 – Roy Acuff:violin:; 1907 – Fay Wray; 1914 – Creighton Abrams (M1 Abrams battle tank); 1918 – Nipsey Russell; 1922 – Jackie Cooper; 1927 – Norm Crosby; 1940 – Merlin Olsen (Father Murphy); 1946 – Tommy Lee Jones:devil:, Oliver Stone; 1951 – Pete Carroll; 1958 – Wendie Jo Sperber (Bosom Buddies); 1961 – Dan Marino; 1964 – Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein:shred:(The Misfits); 1969 – Allen Shellenberger:drummer:(Lit); 1972 – Jimmy Carr; 1977 – Tom Hardy

Deaths

1851 - James Fenimore Cooper; 1885 – Jumbo ("The only good thing you ever did for the gals was get hit by that train!"); 1938 – Thomas Wolfe; 1978 – Willy Messerschmitt (yes, that Messerschmitt); 1989 – Robert Penn Warren; 2003 – Garner Ted Armstrong; 2004 – Johnny Ramone:shred:(The Ramones); 2007 – Brett Somers (Match Game panelist); 2008 – Richard Wright:keys:(Pink Floyd)

September 16

Today is Stay Away From Seattle Day in the United States.

1620 – Pilgrims set sail from England on the Mayflower.

1732– In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two thirds of its inhabitants.

1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.

1863 – Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.

1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the nation's oldest, continuously-independent college daily.

1908 – General Motors Corporation is founded.

1919 – The American Legion is incorporated.

1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.

1955 – The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.

1956 – TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.

1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.

1961 – The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.

1961 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone (one-minute sustained winds of 215 mph (345 km/h)), makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.

1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.

1970 - Jimi Hendrix joined Eric Burdon on stage at Ronnie Scott's in London for what would become the guitarist's last ever public appearance.

1975 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.

1977 - 29-year-old former T. Rex singer Marc Bolan was killed instantly when the car driven by his girlfriend, Gloria Jones, left the road and hit a tree in Barnes, London. Miss Jones broke her jaw in the accident. The couple were on the way to Bolan's home in Richmond after a night out at a Mayfair restaurant. A local man who witnessed the crash said, "When I arrived a girl was lying on the bonnet and a man with long dark curly hair was stretched out in the road - there was a hell of a mess."

1979 - The Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight' was released. While it was not the first single to feature rapping, it is generally considered to be the song that first popularized hip hop in the United States and around the world. The song's opening lyric "I said a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip hip hop" is world-renowned.

1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.

1992 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40-year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.

2004 – Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.

2007 – Mercenaries working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.

2013 – A gunman kills twelve people at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C..

Births

1875 – J. C. Penney; 1877 – Jacob Schick (yeah, the razor guy); 1880 – Alfred Noyes; 1886 – Jean Arp:artist:; 1888 – W. O. Bentley (yeah, that Bentley); 1891 – Karl Dönitz; 1898 – H. A. Rey (co-created Curious George); 1911 – Paul Henning (created The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, & Green Acres, wrote The Ballad Of Jed Clampett); 1914 – Allen Funt (Candid Camera); 1920 – Art Sansom (created comic strip The Born Loser); 1924 – Lauren Bacall; 1925 – B.B. King:shred:; 1926 – Robert H. Schuller; 1927 – Peter Falk (Columbo), Jack Kelly ('Bart Maverick' on Maverick); 1930 – Anne Francis (Forbidden Planet, Honey West); 1934 – George Chakiris (leader of The Sharks in the film version of West Side Story); 1941 - Joe Butler♪ ♫(The Lovin' Spoonful); 1942 – Bernie Calvert:bass::keys:(The Hollies); 1948 - Ron Blair:bass:(Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers); 1949 – Ed Begley Jr.; 1950 – David Bellamy♪ ♫(The Bellamy Bros.); 1952 – Mickey Rourke; 1954 – Earl Klugh:shred:; 1956 – David Copperfield; 1958 – Jennifer Tilly:love:; 1963 – Richard Marx♪ ♫; 1964 – Dave Sabo:shred:(Skid Row), Molly Shannon; 1971 – Amy Poehler; 1974 – Julian Castro; 1975 – Jason Leffler:driving:; 1979 – Flo Rida♪ ♫; 1981 – Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls); 1992 - Nick Jonas♪ ♫(The Jonas Bros.)

Deaths

1736 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (invented the thermometer); 1965 – Fred Quimby (producer Tom & Jerry); 1977 – Marc Bolan:shred:(T. Rex), 1977 – Maria Callas♪ ♫; 1996 – McGeorge Bundy; 2001 – Samuel Z. Arkoff; 2002 – James Gregory ('Inspector Luger' on Barney Miller); 2003 – Sheb Wooley♪ ♫; 2009 - Mary Travers♪ ♫(Peter Paul & Mary)

That would have been a sight to see

And hear.

September 17

Today is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day in the United States, commemorating the adoption of the United States Constitution, and those who have become citizens of the United States of America.:f207:

1382 – Louis the Great's daughter, Mary, is crowned "king" of Hungary.

1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.

1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.

1716 – Jean Thurel (<--interesting read) enlists in the Touraine Regiment at the age of 18, the first day of a military career that would span for over 90 years. Born in the reign of Louis XIV and dying during that of Napoleon I, Thurel lived in three different centuries.

1776 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.

1778 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).

1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.

1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to be the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner".

1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.

1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."

1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history (combined total of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing).

1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

1920 – The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.

1923 - Hank Williams, Sr., regarded as one of the most important country music artists of all time, is born in Mount Olive, Alabama.

1928 – The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

1931 - The first long-playing record, a 33 1/3 rpm recording, was demonstrated at the Savoy Plaza Hotel in New York by RCA-Victor. The venture was doomed to fail however due to the high price of the record players, which started around $95 (about $1140 in today's dollars) and wasn't revived until 1948.

1944 – World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.

1961 – The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1969, Media on both sides of the Atlantic were running stories that said Paul McCartney was dead. He was supposedly killed in a car accident in Scotland on November 9th, 1966 and that a double had been taking his place for public appearances. In fact, Paul and his girlfriend Jane Asher were on vacation in Kenya at the time.

1976 – The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.

1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.

1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.

Over 4 million copies of Guns N' Roses' album, 'Use Your Illusion I' and 'Use Your Illusion II' were simultaneously released for retail sale, making it the largest ship-out in pop history in the US.

2001 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.

2006 – Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.

2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.

Births

879 – Charles the Simple; 1854 – David Dunbar Buick (yeah, that Buick); 1859 – Billy the Kid; 1868 – James Alexander Calder (not the sculptor, there was another one); 1900 – J. Willard Marriott (yeah, that Marriott); 1904 – Jerry Colonna♪ ♫; 1907 – Warren E. Burger (Chief Justice SCOTUS); 1923 – Hank Williams♪ ♫; 1926 – Bill Black:bass:(Elvis Presley); 1927 – George Blanda; 1928 – Roddy McDowall; 1929 – Stirling Moss:driving:; 1930 – David Huddleston, Edgar Mitchell; 1931 – Anne Bancroft; 1935 – Ken Kesey; 1938 – Paul Benedict (neighbor 'Bentley' on The Jeffersons); 1939 – David Souter (Associate Justice SCOTUS); 1947 – Jeff MacNelly (created comic strip Shoe); 1948 – John Ritter; 1953 – Rita Rudner; 1962 – Baz Luhrmann, 1962 – BeBe Winans♪ ♫; 1965 – Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights, tv series), Yuji Naka (created Sonic the Hedgehog); 1966 – Doug E. Fresh♪ ♫; 1967 – Michael Carbajal:boxers:; 1971 – Nate Berkus; 1975 – Jimmie Johnson:driving:

Deaths

1621 – Robert Bellarmine (namesake of Bellarmine University); 1858 – Dred Scott; 1868 – Roman Nose (Cheyenne warrior); 1899 – Charles Alfred Pillsbury (yeah, that Pillsbury); 1908 – Thomas Selfridge (first person to die in a powered airplane crash); 1972 – Akim Tamiroff; 1984 – Richard Basehart; 1985 – Laura Ashley; 1996 – Spiro Agnew (39th VPOTUS); 1997 – Red Skelton; 2014 – George Hamilton IV♪ ♫(not the tan one, this one's a country music singer)

September 18

Today is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day in the United States.

324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.

1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final, voyage.

1618 – The twelfth Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar begins.

1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.

1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.

1812 – The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.

1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".

1838 – The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.

1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.

1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.

1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta Compromise" address.

1906 – A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.

1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.

1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.

1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.

1939 – The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.

1944 – World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru, 5,600 killed.

1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.

1960 - On his twenty-first birthday, Frankie Avalon was given $600,000 that he earned as a minor from such hits as his 1959 US No.1 single 'Venus'.

1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

1970 - Jimi Hendrix was found unconscious and unresponsive at the residence of Monika Dannemann in London. An ambulance was dispatched and arrived at 11:27 a.m. Hendrix was taken to St Mary Abbot's Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 12:45 p.m. It was determined that Hendrix aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. Dannemann later revealed that Hendrix had taken nine of her prescribed Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended dosage.

1976 - One hit wonders Wild Cherry started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Play That Funky Music'. The song started life as a B-side.

1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

1983 - KISS appeared without their 'make-up' for the first time during an interview on MTV promoting the release of their newest album, Lick It Up.

1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.

1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.

2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

2006 - 73 year old country singer Willie Nelson and four members from his band were charged with drug possession after marijuana and magic mushrooms were found by police on his tour bus near Lafayette, Louisiana.

2009 – The 72-year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.

2014 – Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom.

Births

1819 – Léon Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum); 1872 – Carl Friedberg:keys:; 1895 – John Diefenbaker; 1905 – Eddie "Rochester" Anderson ("valet" to Jack Benny); 1905 – Greta Garbo; 1916 – Rossano Brazzi; 1917 – June Foray (voice of 'Rocky The Flying Squirrel', 'Cindy Lou Who', et al.); 1920 – Jack Warden; 1924 – J. D. Tippit (shot by Lee Harvey Oswald Nov. 22, 1963); 1926 – Bud Greenspan; 1933 – Jimmie Rodgers♪ ♫(Kisses Sweeter Than Wine); 1939 – Fred Willard; 1940 – Frankie Avalon♪ ♫; 1945 – P. F. Sloan♪ ♫(wrote Secret Agent Man, Eve of Destruction, et al.); 1945 – John McAfee (computer programmer & wacko, founded McAfee security software company); 1950 – Anna Deavere Smith (hospital administrator 'Gloria Akalitus' on Nurse Jackie); 1951 – Ben Carson, Dee Dee Ramone:bass:(The Ramones); 1952 – Rick Pitino; 1961 – James Gandolfini, Mark Olson♪ ♫(The Jayhawks); 1962 – Boris Said:driving:; 1964 – Holly Robinson Peete; 1967 – Ricky Bell♪ ♫(Bell Biv Devoe), Tara Fitzgerald; 1970 – Aisha Tyler:joylove:; 1971 – Lance Armstrong; 1971 – Jada Pinkett Smith; 1972 – Adam Cohen♪ ♫(son of Leonard Cohen); 1973 – James Marsden ('Cyclops' in X-Men movies); 1975 – Jason Sudeikis

Deaths

1949 – Frank Morgan ('The Wizard' in The Wizard of Oz); 1961 – Dag Hammarskjöld; 1964 – Seán O'Casey; 1970 – Jimi Hendrix:shred:; 1980 – Katherine Anne Porter; 1997 – Jimmy Witherspoon♪ ♫; 2004 – Russ Meyer; 2012 – Steve Sabol (co-founded NFL Films); 2013 – Ken Norton:boxers:

September 19

Ahoy mateys, ye need to be knowin' that today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day, it be happenin' on this day every yarr.

1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.

1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.

1796 – George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.

1846 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.

1863 – American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.

1864 – American Civil War: Third Battle of Winchester: Union troops under General Philip Sheridan defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Jubal Early. With over 50,000 troops engaged it was the largest battle fought in the Shenandoah Valley and was not only militarily decisive in that region of Virginia but also played a role in securing Abraham Lincoln's election in 1864.

1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.

1952 – The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.

1959 – Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.

1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered on CBS.

1973 - Country rock singer/songwriter 26-year-old Gram Parsons formerly of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, died under mysterious conditions in Joshua Tree, California. His death was attributed to heart failure but later was officially announced as a drug overdose. His coffin was stolen by two of his associates, manager Phil Kaufman and Michael Martin, a former roadie for The Byrds, and was taken to Cap Rock in the California desert, where it was set alight, in accordance to Parson's wishes. The two were later arrested by police.

1976 – Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.

1981 – Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park. Over 400,000 fans attend the show.

1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons, :-) and, :-(, on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.:)

1985 – A strong earthquake kills at least 5,000 people, and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.

Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.

1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.

1995 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.

2006 – The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.

2010 – The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed. The well blew out on April 20, and was capped 87 days later. Reports in early 2012 indicated the well site was still leaking.

Births

1911 – William Golding; 1913 – Frances Farmer; 1922 – Willie Pep:boxers:; 1926 – James Lipton (Inside The Actors' Studio); 1927 – Helen Carter♪ ♫(The Carter Family), William Hickey (Prizzi's Honor); 1928 – Adam West (Batman); 1931 – Brook Benton♪ ♫; 1932 – Mike Royko; 1933 – David McCallum ('Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard' on NCIS, 'Illya Kuryakin' in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.); 1934 – Brian Epstein (manager for The Beatles); 1940 – Bill Medley♪ ♫(The Righteous Bros.); 1940 – Paul Williams♪ ♫; 1941 – Mama Cass Elliot♪ ♫(The Mamas & The Papas); 1945 – Randolph Mantooth (Emergency!); 1948 – Jeremy Irons; 1949 – Twiggy; 1949 – Ernie Sabella (voice of 'Pumbaa' in The Lion King), Barry Scheck (co-founded The Innocence Project); 1950 – Joan Lunden; 1952 – Nile Rodgers:shred:(Chic); 1958 – Lita Ford:shred::devil::heartpump(The Runaways); 1960 – Mario Batali; 1962 – Cheri Oteri (SNL); 1964 – Trisha Yearwood♪ ♫; 1966 – Soledad O'Brien; 1970 – Victor Williams (The King of Queens); 1974 – Jimmy Fallon; 1980 – Sara & Tegan Quin♪ ♫(Tegan and Sara)

Deaths

1881 – James A. Garfield (20th POTUS); 1942 – Condé Montrose Nast (founded Condé Nast Publications); 1968 – Red Foley♪ ♫; 1973 – Gram Parsons♪ ♫; 1985 – Italo Calvino; 1995 – Orville Redenbacher; 2004 – Eddie Adams, Skeeter Davis♪ ♫; 2006 – Danny Flores♪ ♫("Tequila!"); 2009 – Arthur Ferrante:keys:; 2011 – Dolores Hope (Bob's main squeeze); 2015 – Jackie Collins

September 20

622 – Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrived in Medina.

1187 – Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.

1498 – The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.

1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.

1737 – The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.

1881 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.

1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.

1906 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania, the largest and fastest ship in the world at the time, is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

1911 – White Star Line's [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Olympic"]RMS Olympic[/URL] collides with British warship HMS Hawke.

1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.

1964 - At the end of their North American tour The Beatles played a charity concert at the Paramount Theatre in New York City, the 3,682 audience each paid $100 a ticket ($765, each, in 2016 dollars).

1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland.

1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.

1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.

On his way to perform his second concert of the day, US singer/songwriter Jim Croce was killed with five others when his chartered aircraft clipped a pecan tree on take off in Louisiana. He was 30 years old.

1982 – The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.

1984 – A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two (or twenty-four) people.

1985 – Capital gains tax is introduced in Australia, one of a number of tax reforms by the Hawke/Keating government.

2000 – The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified.

2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".

2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.

2011 – The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

Births

1842 – James Dewar; 1878 – Upton Sinclair; 1892 – Roy Turk♪ ♫(wrote Are You Lonesome Tonight); 1917 – Red Auerbach, Fernando Rey, Don Starr (Dallas); 1920 – Jay Ward (designed Cap'n Crunch); 1929 – Anne Meara; 1934 – Sophia Loren:love:; 1934 – Jeff Morris (The Blues Bros); 1942 - Popdigr; 1946 – Pete Coors (yeah, that Coors); 1948 – George R. R. Martin; 1948 – Chuck Panozzo:bass:(Styx); 1948 – John Panozzo:drummer:(Styx); 1955 – Peter Scolari (Bosom Buddies, Honey, I Shrunk The Kids); 1956 – Gary Cole (Office Space); 1960 – Deborah Roberts; 1964 – Randy Bradbury:bass:(Pennywise); 1966 - Nuno Bettencourt♪ ♫:shred:(Boston, Extreme); 1967 – Gunnar & Matthew Nelson♪ ♫(Nelson, twin sons of Ricky Nelson); 1975 – Asia Argento:love:, Juan Pablo Montoya:driving:; 1990 – Phillip Phillips♪ ♫; 1991 – Spencer Locke:love:




Deaths

1793 – Fletcher Christian (mutineer on the HMS Bounty); 1945 – William Seabrook; 1957 – Jean Sibelius:violin:; 1973 – Jim Croce:shred:; 1984 – Steve Goodman:shred:; 2005 – Simon Wiesenthal; 2010 – Leonard Skinner (namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd, no shit); 2014 – Polly Bergen; 2015 – Jack Larson ('Jimmy Olsen' on Adventures of Superman)

September 21

Today is observed as an International Day of Peace.

1745 – Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart.

1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.

1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.

1897 – The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial is published in the New York Sun.

1921 – A storage silo containing 4,500 tonnes of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate explodes in Oppau, Germany, killing 500-600 people, injuring 2,000 more. The explosion was heard in Munich, more than 300 km away, blew roofs off houses 25 km away, and destroyed ~80 percent of all buildings in Oppau.

1937 – The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien, is published.

1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.

1942 – The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.

1961 – Maiden flight of the Boeing CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.

1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.

1980 - During a North American tour, Bob Marley collapsed while jogging in New York's Central Park. After hospital tests he was diagnosed as having cancer. Marley played his last ever concert two nights later at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.

1987 - American jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius died from injuries sustained in a fight. Pastorius was trying to enter the Midnight Bottle Club in Wilton Manors, Florida, (where he'd been banned), and became involved in a fight with a bouncer, Pastorius fell into a coma and was put on life support. In 2006, Pastorius was voted "The Greatest Bass Player Who Has Ever Lived" by readers in Bass Guitar magazine.

1996 – The Defense of Marriage Act passes the United States Congress (a vote of 342-67 in the House of Representatives and a vote of 85-14 in the Senate). The law prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriage, while allowing states to adopt any marital definition of their choosing.

2001 – Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.

2003 – Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.

2005 – Hurricane Rita becomes the third most intense hurricane (dropped to fourth on October 19, 2005).

Deaths

1645 – Louis Jolliet (namesake of Joliet, Illinois; Joliet, Montana; and Joliette, Quebec); 1866 – H. G. Wells; 1903 – Preston Tucker (designed the Tucker Sedan); 1912 – Chuck Jones; 1931 – Larry Hagman; 1934 – Leonard Cohen♪ ♫; 1935 – Henry Gibson; 1936 – Dickey Lee♪ ♫; 1940 – Bill Kurtis; 1944 – Steve Beshear; 1944 – Fannie Flagg, Hamilton Jordan, Bobby Tench:shred:; 1945 – Jerry Bruckheimer; 1945 – Richard Childre$$:driving:(NASCAR team owner); 1947 – Don Felder:shred:(The Eagles), Stephen King:speechls:; 1950 – Bill Murray; 1953 – Arie Luyendyk:driving:; 1954 – Shinzō Abe, Phil Taylor:drummer:(Motorhead); 1957 – Ethan Coen; 1959 – Dave Coulier; 1960 – David James Elliott (JAG); 1961 – Nancy Travis; 1962 – Rob Morrow (Northern Exposure); 1963 – Angus Macfadyen (Braveheart); 1965 – Cheryl Hines; 1967 – Faith Hill♪ ♫, Tyler Stewart:drummer:(Barenaked Ladies); 1968 – Ricki Lake (tv mouth); 1971 – Alfonso Ribeiro ('Carlton' on Fresh Prince of Bel Air), Luke Wilson; 1972 – Liam Gallagher♪ ♫(Oasis); 1981 – Nicole Richie; 1983 – Maggie Grace (Taken); 1989 – Jason Derulo

Deaths

1904 – Chief Joseph (Nez Perce chief); 1947 – Harry Carey (the actor); 1962 – Bo Carter:shred:(Mississippi Sheiks); 1974 – Walter Brennan, Jacqueline Susann; 1987 - Jaco Pastorious:bass:; 1998 – Florence Griffith Joyner (FloJo, Olympic sprinter); 2006 – Boz Burrell:bass:(King Crimson, Bad Company); 2007 – Alice Ghostley, Rex Humbard

And in 1967 we were building one a day, every day.

Which part did you build? I don't think you ever told us exactly what you did there in the factory.

At that time I machined the hubs and rings that hold the rotors plus miscellaneous small parts.

I have a friend that works for Sikorsky. He's involved with the high end custom helicopter projects. I think he was offered an interview for a position as a project leader for the next presidential helicopter. Would have to move to take the job if he got it. I think he must have passed cuz he still lives in Honkybrook.

I like this thread, btw. Adda boy, Gravdigr. Thanks for investing the time every day. Will you end it after you've done the entire year?

I don't know. Maybe branch out into specific areas related to Dwellars. Like Today In Seattle, or, This Day On Arran.

I only got 4-5months to go.

I'm glad people are enjoying it.

Yeah. It's good stuff. There is almost always something interesting in there each day.

September 22

Today marks the September Equinox, the moment when the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading southward.

Today is OneWebDay, as well as World Car Free Day, not to be confused with World Free Car Day, which only occurs in Oprahland.

Only 93 days until Christmas.

1692 – The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials are hanged; the remainder of those convicted are all eventually released.

1711 – The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina between British, Dutch, and German settlers and the Tuscarora Tribe.

1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.

1823 – Joseph Smith states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.

1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.

1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.

1892 – Lindal Railway Incident occurred, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by Arthur Conan Doyle and the TV series Lost.

1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

1914 – German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy on the Broad Fourteeens off the Dutch coast with the loss of over 1,400 men.

1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.

1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.

1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.

1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.

1957 – In Haiti, François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier is elected president.

1975 – Sara Jane Moore (one of only two women to attempt assassinating a U.S. president, the other being Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme, both attempts on Gerald Ford) tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.

1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.

1980 – Iraq invades Iran.

1985 - The first Farm Aid benefit concert was held before a crowd of 80,000 people at the Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. Organized by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, the event had been spurred on by Bob Dylan's comments at Live Aid earlier in that year that he hoped some of the money would help American farmers. The star studded line-up of country stars included: Alabama, Hoyt Axton, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels Band, John Denver, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Vince Gill, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, Roger Miller, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Willie Nelson, Charley Pride, Bonnie Raitt, Kenny Rogers.

1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.

1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.

Births

1515 – Anne of Cleves; 1741 – Peter Simon Pallas (Pallus' Cat); 1791 – Michael Faraday; 1885 – Erich von Stroheim; 1896 – Henry Segrave:driving:; 1902 – John Houseman; 1903 – Joseph Valachi (subject of The Valachi Papers); 1920 – Eric Baker (co-founded Amnesty International); 1924 – Charles Waterhouse:artist:; 1927 – Tommy Lasorda; 1943 – Toni Basil♪ ♫(sang "Mickey"); 1948 – Jim Byrnes♪ ♫; 1951 – David Coverdale♪ ♫(Whitesnake, Deep Purple), Bobby Radcliff:shred:; 1954 – Shari Belafonte; 1956 – Debby Boone♪ ♫; 1957 – Nick Cave♪ ♫; 1958 – Andrea Bocelli♪ ♫, Neil Cavuto, Joan Jett:shred:; 1959 – Tai Babilonia; 1960 – Scott Baio; 1961 – Bonnie Hunt; 1975 – Bob Sapp

Deaths

1692 – Martha Corey; 1776 – Nathan Hale; 1989 – Irving Berlin♪ ♫; 1996 – Dorothy Lamour; 1999 – George C. Scott; 2001 – Isaac Stern:violin:; 2003 – Gordon Jump (stn manager on WKRP In Cincinnatti); 2006 – Edward Albert; 2010 – Eddie Fisher♪ ♫; 2011 – Vesta Williams♪ ♫; 2015 – Yogi Berra

I'm addicted to it now... for some reason I'm always fascinated to see whose birthday it is that's within 5 years of me. We all enjoy our generation.

I think i said it before, in another thread about image of the day, that i think your contribution to the cellar is stellar! I love this thread.

I have to take exception to your categorization of Amy Winehouse as 'British skank' though. I urge you to watch the documentary called Amy and still call her that.

Let me know what you think once you've watched it.

:)

I think "Amy" is on Netflix atm. I may give it a try as I've been watching a lot of music-oriented docs lately.

As for the 'skank' comment, that was test to see if you were paying attention.

September 23

Today is Celebrate Bisexuality Day. So, Cellar guys, go find a pole. Cellar ladies, go talk to that little man in that boat. Tell him I said hello, and I miss him. And take pictures. Lots and lots of pictures.:cool:

1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christopher had three cannon and one hand gun.

1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, takes place.

1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure of over 100,000 pounds (<--I wonder if that means weight, or currency) of gold (worth over £1 billion today), is lost at sea off Land's End.

1642 – First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.

1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head. Jones later takes up bass guitar.

1780 – American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.

1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.

1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.

1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.

1909 – The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.

1911 – Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department.

1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.

1973 – Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.

1980 – Bob Marley plays what would be his last concert, in Pittsburgh.

1986 – Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets a major league record by striking out the first eight batters he faces in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

1999 – NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.

2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.:devil:

2004 – Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.

Births

63 BC – Augustus; 1215 – Kublai Khan; 1861 – Robert Bosch (founded Robert Bosch GmbH); 1897 – Walter Pidgeon; 1920 – Mickey Rooney; 1926 – John ColtraneAttachment 57993; 1927 – Mighty Joe Young:shred:; 1930 – Ray Charles:keys:; 1931 – Hilly Kristal (founded club CBGB); 1938 – Romy Schneider; 1939 – Roy Buchanan:shred:; 1943 – Julio Iglesias♪ ♫; 1943 – Marty Schottenheimer; 1945 – Ron Bushy:drummer:(Iron Butterfly); 1947 – Mary Kay Place; 1947 – Neal Smith:drummer:(Alice Cooper); 1949 – Jerry B. Jenkins, Bruce Springsteen♪ ♫; 1957 – Rosalind Chao; 1958 – Larry Mize; 1959 – Jason Alexander ('George' on Seinfeld); 1961 – Chi McBride; 1970 – Ani DiFranco♪ ♫; 1978 – Anthony Mackie

Deaths

1900 – William Marsh Rice (founded Rice University); 1939 – Sigmund Freud; 1974 – Robbie McIntosh:drummer:(Average White Band); 1981 – Chief Dan George (The Outlaw Josey Wales); 1987 – Bob Fosse; 1998 – Mary Frann

September 24

Today is National Punctuation Day, promoting the proper use of punctuation.

622 – Muhammad and his followers completed their Hijra from Mecca to Medina to escape religious persecution.

1645 – Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles.

1664 – The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.

1780 – Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.

1846 – Mexican–American War: General (and future POTUS) Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.

1869 – "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.

1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.

1911 – His Majesty's Airship No. 1, the Mayfly, [or in this case, the Maynotfly] Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.

1935 – Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi.

1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.

1950 – Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon is seen as far away as Europe.

1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.

The Elvis Presley classic, ‘Jailhouse Rock’ was released. It became his ninth US number one single and stayed on the Billboard chart for nineteen weeks. The film clip from the movie where he sang the song is considered by many historians to be the first rock video.

1960 – USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.

1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.

1968 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS.

1975 – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on the Southwest Face expedition become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces.

1979 – CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.

1988 - Bobby McFerrin started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Don't Worry Be Happy', the first a-cappella record to be a No.1.

2009 – The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of Long-Range Acoustic Devices in U.S. history.

2015 – At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

Births

1883 – Franklin Clarence Mars (founded Mars, Incorporated); 1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald; 1900 – Ham Fisher (created comic strip Joe Palooka); 1902 – Ruhollah Khomeini; 1912 – Don Porter (Gidget's father); 1918 – Audra Lindley ('Mrs. Roper' on Three's Company, and The Ropers); 1921 – Jim McKay; 1931 – Anthony Newley♪ ♫; 1933 - Mel Taylor:drummer:(The Ventures); 1934 – Chick Willis♪ ♫; 1936 – Jim Henson; 1941 – Linda McCartney♪ ♫; 1942 – Gerry Marsden♪ ♫(Gerry & The Pacemakers); 1945 – Lou Dobbs; 1948 – Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue), Phil Hartman; 1957 – Tod Howarth:shred:(Frehley's Comet); 1958 – Kevin Sorbo; 1961 – Allen Bestwick; 1962 – Nia Vardalos (wrote My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding); 1965 – Sean McNabb:bass:(Quiet Riot, Dokken); 1969 – Paul Ray Smith (MOH recipient); 1969 – Megan Ward; 1982 – Morgan & Paul Hamm (American gymnasts)

Deaths

1945 – Hans Geiger (co-invented the Geiger counter); 991 – Peter Bellamy♪ ♫; Dr. Seuss:biggrinha

Ol' Ike wasn't fucking around. He didn't send the Nat'l Guard. He didn't send the Army. He sent the badasses, the 101st Airborne Screamin' Eagles by God. Fucking Rangers:devil:.

I didn't think the Army could be used against the citizenry? I thought that's what the Nat'l Guard was for.

September 25

Banned Books Week begins today.

1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.

1237 – England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.

1789 – The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.

1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.

1890 – The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.

1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.

1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.

1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.

1956 – TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.

1963 – Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo Affair.

1970 - The first episode of The Partridge Family was shown on US TV, featuring Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey and Danny Bonaduce.

1974 – The first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (Tommy John surgery) performed, on baseball player Tommy John.

1975 - Jackie Wilson had a heart attack while performing live on stage at the Latin Casino, New Jersey. Wilson collapsed into a coma suffering severe brain damage. Ironically, he was in the middle of singing one of his biggest hits, 'Lonely Teardrops' and was two words into the line, "....my heart is crying" when he collapsed to the stage, striking his head heavily. Wilson died on 21st January 1984.

1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.

1980 - John Bonham, drummer with Led Zeppelin, died aged 32 after a heavy drinking session. ‘Bonzo’ was found dead at guitarist Jimmy Page's house of what was described as asphyxiation, after inhaling his own vomit after excessive vodka consumption (40 shots in 4 hours).

1983 – Maze Prison escape: Thirty-eight republican prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since World War II and in British history.

1992 – NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.

1999 - Stephen Canaday of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils was killed when the vintage WW II plane he was flying in, rolled, inverted and crashed into a tree. The pilot failed to maintain speed which resulted in a stall.

2000 - Ozzy Osbourne formally requested that Black Sabbath be removed from the nomination list for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Calling the inclusion "meaningless", Osbourne went on to say "Let's face it. Black Sabbath have never been media darlings. We're a people's band and that suits us just fine."

Births

1764 – Fletcher Christian (HMS Bounty mutineer); 1897 – William Faulkner; 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg (spy); 1917 – Phil Rizzuto; 1926 – Aldo Ray; 1929 – Ronnie Barker (one of The Two Ronnies); 1929 – Barbara Walters; 1930 – Shel Silverstein; 1936 – Ken Forsse (created Teddy Ruxpin), Juliet Prowse; 1942 – Dee Dee Warwick♪ ♫(younger sister to Dionne Warwick); 1943 – Robert Gates, John Locke:keys:(Spirit, Nazareth), Robert Walden; 1944 – Michael Douglas; 1946 – Jerry Penrod:bass:(Iron Butterfly); 1947 – Cheryl Tiegs:heartpump; 1951 – Mark Hamill; 1952 – Christopher Reeve; 1956 – Jamie Hyneman (The Mythbusters); 1957 – Michael Madsen ('Mr. Blonde'); 1961 – Heather Locklear:love:; 1962 – Aida Turturro (Tony's sister 'Janice' on The Sopranos); 1964 – Chris Impellitteri:shred:; 1968 – Will Smith; 1969 – Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal:shred:; 1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kerri Kendall:love:(Playboy Playmate), Dean Ween:shred:(Ween); 1976 – Santigold♪ ♫

Deaths

1849 – Johann Strauss I♪ ♫; 1867 – Oliver Loving (co-developed the Goodnight–Loving Trail); 1928 – Richard F. Outcault (created Buster Brown, the comic, not the shoes); 1933 – Ring Lardner; 1960 – Emily Post; 1980 – John Bonham:drunk::drummer:(Led Zeppelin); 1984 – Walter Pidgeon; 1987 – Mary A$tor; 1988 – Billy Carter (brother to 39th POTUS Jimmy Carter); 1991 – Klaus Barbie "Butcher of Lyon"; 2003 – George Plimpton; 2005 – Don Adams (Get Smart); 2006 – Jeff Cooper (creator of the "modern technique" of handgun shooting); 2012 – Andy Williams♪ ♫

Well, they assumed it was his vomit.

You can't really dust for vomit.
--Nigel Tufnel

Vomit is usually quite apparent to one sense or another, depending on it's age.

Dusting for vomit...

Like dusting for fingerprints...:lol2:

Let me rephrase, or at least emphasize the important word in the statement:

Well, they assumed it was his vomit.

Not:

Well, they assumed it was his vomit.

Hey, mr. Grav. Have you watched Amy yet? I watched it again for like the 6th time. I fell a little bit in love with her for her talent and just being a real fucked up person like so many of us are.

Please watch! :)

Oh, it'll have to be some kind of special circumstance for me to ever watch it. I wasn't a fan. Didn't like her music, for the most part. Can't even name one of her songs.

I don't think it's on Netflix. I thought it was. I might not ever see it.

Just checked the movie store here in town, and I might rent the dvd. Sometime.:rolleyes:

September 26

Today is Johnny Appleseed Day, celebrated on the birthday of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed.

46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus.

1087 – William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.

1580 – The Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth, England, as explorer Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the globe.

1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed there.

1687 – The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.

1777 – American Revolution: British troops occupy Philadelphia.

1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.

1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.

1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.

1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, "Don't shoot, G-Men!", which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.

1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.

1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.

1960 – In Chicago, the first televised presidential debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

1961 - The Greenbriar Boys started a two-week residency at Gerde's Folk Club in New York. The opening act was Bob Dylan.

1965 - At the end of a European tour Roger Daltry knocked out Keith Moon and the singer was sacked from The Who. The band were playing two shows in one night in Denmark, when an argument broke about between all four band members. Daltrey was reinstated the following day.

1969 – Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.

1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.

1981 – Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.:notworthy

1981 - Bruce Dickinson joined UK rock band Iron Maiden. Dickinson had been the vocalist with Samson).

1983 – Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.

2003 - English singer/songwriter Robert Palmer died of a heart attack, aged 54, in Paris France. [The dude rocked a suit. Literally.]

2014 – A mass kidnapping occurs in Iguala, Mexico.

Births

1774 – Johnny Appleseed; 1875 – Edmund Gwenn (Miracle On 34th Street); 1887 – Barnes Wallis (invented the Bouncing Bomb, the Tall boy bomb, and
the Grand Slam Bomb); 1888 – T. S. Eliot; 1898 – George Gershwin:keys:; 1901 – George Raft; 1901 – Ted Weems♪ ♫; 1909 – Bill France, Sr. (founded NASCAR); 1914 – Jack LaLanne; 1919 – Barbara Britton; 1925 – Marty Robbins♪ ♫:shred::driving::devil:; 1926 – Julie London♪ ♫; 1927 – Robert Cade (co-invented Gatorade); 1927 – Patrick O'Neal; 1932 – Donna Douglas ('Elly May Clampett'); 1937 – Jerry Weintraub; 1942 – Kent McCord (Adam-12); 1944 – Jan Brewer; 1944 – Anne Robinson (hostess Weakest Link); 1945 – Bryan Ferry♪ ♫; 1946 – Christine Todd Whitman; 1947 – Lynn Anderson♪ ♫; 1948 – John Foxx:shred::keys:; 1948 – Olivia Newton-John♪ ♫; 1955 – Carlene Carter♪ ♫(daughter of June Carter); 1956 – Linda Hamilton; 1961 – Cindy Herron♪ ♫(En Vogue); 1962 – Melissa Sue Anderson ('Mary Ingalls' on Little House On The Prairie); 1963 – Lysette Anthony; 1963 – Joe Nemechek:driving:; 1964 – John Tempesta:drummer:(White Zombie, The Cult, Testament, et al.); 1967 – Shannon Hoon♪ ♫(Blind Melon); 1968 – Jim Caviezel (Person of Interest); 1970 – Sheri Moon Zombie ('Baby Firefly' in House of 1,000 Corpses); 1981 – Christina Milian♪ ♫; 1981 – Serena Williams

Deaths

1820 – Daniel Boone (the rippin'est, roarin'est, fightin'est man the frontier ever knew); 1902 – Levi Strauss (yeah, that one); 1945 – Béla Bartók:keys:; 1946 – William Strunk, Jr.; 1973 – Ralph Earnhardt:driving:(father to Dale, Sr., grandfather to Dale, Jr.); 1979 – Arthur Hunnicutt; 1991 – Billy Vaughn♪ ♫; 1998 – Betty Carter♪ ♫; 2000 – Richard Mulligan; 2003 – Robert Palmer♪ ♫:devil:(The Power Station); 2006 – Byron Nelson; 2008 – Paul Newman:eyeball::eyeball:; 2012 – M'el Dowd♪ ♫

September 27

Today is National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.

Today is also World Tourism Day.

1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.

1777 – American Revolutionary War: Lancaster, Pennsylvania becomes the capital of the United States, for one day after the Second Continental Congress evacuates Philadelphia to avoid invading British forces.

1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone.

1825 – Locomotion No. 1 hauled the train on the opening day of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public railway to use steam locomotives.

1854 – The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.

1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

1930 – Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.

1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.

1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight Starring Steve Allen (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.

1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.

1962 – Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

1964 – The British TSR-2 aircraft XR219 makes its maiden flight from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire.

1968 – The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.

1979 - Scottish guitarist Jimmy McCullough died from a heroin overdose in his flat in Maida Vale, London, aged 26.

1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.

1986 - Metallica bass player Cliff Burton was crushed to death after the bands tour bus crashed between Stockholm and Copenhagen. During a European tour members from the band drew cards for the most comfortable bunk on the tour bus, Burton had won the game with an Ace of Spades and was asleep when the tour bus ran over a patch of black ice and skidded off of the road. He was thrown through the window of the bus, which fell on top of him.

1996 – The Julie N., a tanker ship, spills thousands of gallons of oil after crashing into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine.

1998 – The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.

2003 – SMART-1 satellite is launched.

2004 - Legendary record producer Phil Spector was formally charged with murder in the February 3rd, 2003 shooting of actress Lana Clarkson. He was convicted in April, 2009 and sentenced to 19 years to life in the California State prison system.

2007 – NASA launches the Dawn probe.

2011 - Tony Bennett became the oldest living person to top the US album chart when the 85-year-old's 'Duets II' album went to No.1. The record, which featured collaborations with Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga, was also his first US No.1 in his 60 year career.

Births

1722 – Samuel Adams; 1803 – Samuel Francis Du Pont; 1824 – William "Bull" Nelson; 1840 – Thomas Nast; 1885 – Harry Blackstone, Sr.; 1919 – Jayne Meadows; 1920 – William Conrad (Cannon, Nero Wolfe; Jake & The Fat Man); 1922 – Arthur Penn; 1927 – Sada Thompson; 1933 – Greg Morris (Mission Impossible); 1934 – Wilford Brimley; 1934 – Claude Jarman, Jr. (The Yearling); 1934 – Dick Schaap; 1936 – Don Cornelius♪ ♫ (Soul Train); 1942 – Dith Pran (inspiration/subject of The Killing Fields); 1943 – Randy Bachman:shred:(Bachman-Turner Overdrive, The Guess Who); 1947 – Meat Loaf♪ ♫; 1953 – Greg Ham♪ ♫(Men At Work); 1954 – Larry Wall (creator of the Perl programming language); 1957 – Peter Sellars; 1958 - Shaun Cassidy♪ ♫; 1963 – Marc Maron; 1966 – Debbie Wasserman Schultz; 1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow; 1982 – Lil Wayne♪ ♫; 1984 – Avril Lavigne♪ ♫

Deaths

1876 – Braxton Bragg; 1917 – Edgar Degas:artist:; 1921 – Engelbert Humperdinck (no, not that one, there was another one); 1944 – Aimee Semple McPherson; 1956 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias; 1965 – Clara Bow; 1979 – Jimmy McCulloch:shred:; 1981 – Robert Montgomery; 1985 – Lloyd Nolan ('Mike Shayne' in the Shayne detective movies); 1986 – Cliff Burton:bass:(Metallica); 1993 – Jimmy Doolittle; 2003 – Donald O'Connor; 2008 – Henri Pachard (porn & sexploitation movie director/producer); 2009 – William Safire; 2010 – George Blanda; 2014 – James Traficant

September 28

Today is a busy day:

Today is Freedom From Hunger Day.

Today is International Right to Know Day, "raising awareness about people's right to access government information while promoting freedom of information as essential to both democracy and good governance".

Today is See You at the Pole Day, "an annual gathering of thousands of Christian students at a flagpole in front of their local school for prayer, scripture-reading and worship, during the early morning before school starts."

Today is World Rabies Day.

And, finally, today is Ask a Stupid Question Day, in the United States. In honor of same: Who is buried in Grant's tomb?

48 BC – After landing in Egypt, Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of Ptolemy, King of Egypt.

1066 – William the Conqueror invades England beginning the Norman conquest of England.

1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.

1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.

1791 – France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population.

1871 – The Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.

1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.

1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.

1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.

1924 – First round-the-world flight is completed.

1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.

1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.

1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile.

1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.

1991, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis died of a stroke and pneumonia. His 1959 album 'Kind of Blue', is a major influence on jazz music. Davis is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.

1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.

2008 – SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, Falcon 1 into orbit.

Births

551 BC – Confucius ("He who stand on toilet, is high on pot."); 1836 – Thomas Crapper (invented the ballcock, snicker); 1901 – William S. Paley (founded CBS); 1901 – Ed Sullivan (had a really big shoe); 1905 – Max Schmeling:boxers:; 1909 – Al Capp (created Li'l Abner); 1914 – Maria Franziska von Trapp (of the The Sound Of Music von Trapps); 1916 – Peter Finch (he's as mad as hell, and he's not going to take this anymore); 1925 – Seymour Cray (founded the CRAY Computer Company); 1926 – Jerry Clower; 1934 – Brigitte Bardot; 1935 – Ronald Lacey (got his face melted off in Raiders Of The Lost Ark); 1938 – Ben E. King♪ ♫; 1943 – J. T. Walsh; 1950 – John Sayles; 1954 – George Lynch:shred:(Dokken, Lynch Mob); 1964 – Janeane Garofalo; 1967 – Mira Sorvino; 1967 – Moon Zappa; 1968 – Francois Botha:boxers:; 1968 – Rob Moroso:driving:; 1968 – Naomi Watts; 1972 – Dita Von Teese; 1979 – Bam Margera (jackass, I mean Jackass); 1987 – Hilary Duff♪ ♫

Deaths

48 BC – Pompey; 1891 – Herman Melville (Typee, Omoo, Moby Dick); 1895 – Louis Pasteur; 1914 – Richard Warren Sears (yeah, that Sears); 1935 – William Kennedy Dickson (invented the Kinetoscope); 1953 – Edwin Hubble; 1956 – William Boeing (yeah, that Boeing); 1964 – Harpo Marx; 1970 – John Dos Passos; 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser; 1989 – Ferdinand Marcos; 1991 – Miles Davis♪ ♫; 2000 – Pierre Trudeau:f32:; 2003 – Althea Gibson; 2003 – Elia Kazan; 2007 – Wally Parks (founded Nat'l Hot Rod Assn (NHRA); 2012 – Chris Economaki; 2016 – Shimon Peres

Where do you get all this stuff that you put into this Day in History?

That's a trade secret. :crone: Just appreciate how much work it is and thank him.

Everything comes from Wikipedia, and This Day In Music.

Copy/paste, copy/paste...:D

Have you watched Network?

Never heard of it.



j/k Don't remember anything other than Peter Finch's scene where he told people to go yell out their windows.

September 29

Today is Michaelmas.

Today is National Coffee Day in the United States, and other countries.

Today is World Heart Day.

61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.

1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.

1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.

1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.

*1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.

1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.

1940 – Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collide in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together after colliding, and then land safely.

1941 – The Holocaust: German Nazis, aided by local collaborators, began the Babi Yar massacre in Kiev, Ukraine, killing over 30,000 Jewish civilians in two days and thousands more in the months that followed.

1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

1957 – Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.

1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.

1976 - Enjoying his own birthday celebrations singer Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shot his bass player Norman Owens in the chest. Lewis had been blasting holes in an office door. Owens survived but sued his boss.

1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

*1990 – Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.

1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.

2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth (~a million miles).

2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.

2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.

Births

106 BC – Pompey; 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes; 1571 – Caravaggio:artist:; 1758 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson; 1901 – Enrico Fermi; 1904 – Greer Garson; 1907 – Gene Autry; 1907 – George W. Jenkins (founded Publix); 1913 – Trevor Howard; 1923 – Bum Phillips; 1925 – Steve Forrest; 1931 – Anita Ekberg; 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis:keys:; 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi (Bunga Bunga); 1939 – Larry Linville ('Major Frank Burns' on tv series MASH); 1942 – Madeline Kahn:love:; 1942 – Ian McShane; 1943 – Lech Wałęsa; 1944 – Mike Post♪ ♫(tv Theme composer); 1946 – Ian Wallace:drummer:(King Crimson, Don Henley); 1948 – Mark Farner:shred:(Grand Funk Railroad); 1948 – Bryant Gumbel; 1948 – Mike Pinera:shred:(Blues Image, Iron Butterfly); 1955 – Ann Bancroft; 1956 – Sebastian Coe:bolt:; 1963 – Les Claypool:bass:(Primus); 1970 – Russell Peters

Deaths

1862 – William "Bull" Nelson; 1902 – Émile Zola; 1910 – Winslow Homer:artist:; 1913 – Rudolf Diesel (yeah, that diesel); 1970 – Edward Everett Horton; 1975 – Casey Stengel; 1987 – Henry Ford II; 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein:artist:; 1998 – Tom Bradley; 2001 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu; 2010 – Tony Curtis; 2010 – Greg Giraldo; 2013 – L. C. Greenwood

September 30

Today is International Translation Day, celebrated on the feast day of St. Jerome, who translated the Bible into Latin.

Today, Canadians observe Recovery Day, celebrating the ability of those with drug, alcohol and behavioral addictions to achieve long-term sobriety.

1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.

1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day Fort Smith, Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.

1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.

1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.

1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

1915 – A Serbian Army private becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.

1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".

1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34–7.

1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.

1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.

1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.

1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.

1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.

1965 – The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.

1967 – BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting its first show.

1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.

1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight. 8 years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.

1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

1982 – Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.

1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.

1994 – Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.

1999 – The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.

Births

1861 – William Wrigley, Jr. (the gum guy); 1882 – Hans Geiger (Geiger counter); 1912 – Kenny Baker♪ ♫(The Jack Benny Program); 1917 – Buddy Rich:drummer:; 1921 – Deborah Kerr; 1924 – Truman Capote; 1928 – Elie Wiesel; 1931 – Angie Dickinson:love:; 1932 – Anthony Hawkins; 1933 – Cissy Houston♪ ♫; 1935 – Z. Z. Hill:shred:; 1935 – Johnny Mathis♪ ♫; 1936 – Jim Sasser; 1939 – Len Cariou; 1940 – Dewey Martin:drummer:(Buffalo Springfield); 1942 – Frankie Lymon♪ ♫; 1943 – Marilyn McCoo♪ ♫; 1947 – Marc Bolan:shred:(T. Rex); 1954 – Barry Williams ('Greg Brady' on The Brady Bunch); 1955 – Andy Bechtolsheim (co-founded Sun Microsystems); 1957 – Fran Drescher; 1958 – Marty Stuart♪ ♫; 1961 – Crystal Bernard:love:; 1961 – Eric Stoltz; 1964 – Trey Anastasio:shred:(Phish); 1964 – Monica Bellucci:heartpump; 1965 – Kathleen Madigan:lol2:; 1971 – Jenna Elfman:heartpump; 1975 – Marion Cotillard; 1981 – Dominique Moceanu; 1985 – T-Pain

Deaths

420 – Jerome; 1888 - Elizabeth Stride (3rd victim of Jack The Ripper); 1888 – Catherine Eddowes (4th victim of Jack The Ripper); 1955 – James Dean; 1977 – Mary Ford:shred:(Les Paul & Mary Ford); 1978 – Edgar Bergen; 1985 – Charles Francis Richter (Richter Scale); 1985 – Simone Signoret; 1988 – Al Holbert:driving:; 1990 – Rob Moroso:driving:; 1998 – Dan Quisenberry; 2010 – Stephen J. Cannell

October 1 Yes, I typed September before remembering it's October.

Today is International Day of Older Persons, as well as World Vegetarian Day.

331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.

1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans.

1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.

1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.

1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison [If only ol' Tom could see what we've done to his light bulb.]

1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.

1891 – Stanford University, founded by railroad magnate and California Governor Leland Stanford and his wife Jane on their former farm lands in Palo Alto, California, officially opened with 559 students and free tuition.

1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.

1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825. ($21,282.74 in 2016 dollars.)

1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, killing 21.

1918 – World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus.

1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.

1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.

1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.

1947 – The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.

1957 – First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.

1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

1965 - Bob Dylan appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York City. He introduced his new touring band on this tour, made up of guitarist Robbie Robertson, organist Garth Hudson, bassist Rick Danko, pianist Richard Manual and drummer Levon Helm. They will become known simply as The Band.

1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

1970 - Jimi Hendrix was buried at The Greenwood Cemetery at the Dunlop Baptist Church Seattle. Among the mourners; Miles Davis, Eric Burdon, Johnny Winter and members of Derek and the Dominoes.

1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.

1975 – The Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines. Frequently regarded as one of the best boxing matches in boxing history.

1975 – Al Jackson, Jr., drummer for Booker T. & the M.G.'s, was shot in the back five times, fatally, in his own home.

1979 – The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.

1982 – Epcot opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.

1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).

1989 – Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".

Births

1808 – Mary Anna Custis Lee (wife of Robert E. Lee); 1881 – William Boeing (yeah, that one); 1893 - Ip Man; 1896 – Ted Healy (created The Three Stooges); 1903 – Vladimir Horowitz:keys:; 1903 – Pierre Veyron (namesake of the Bugatti Veyron supercar); 1904 – Otto Robert Frisch; 1910 – Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie & Clyde); 1913 – Hélio Gracie:devil:(Brazilian martial artist); 1920 – Walter Matthau; 1921 – James Whitmore; 1924 – Jimmy Carter (39th POTUS); 1924 – William Rehnquist (former Chief Justice SCOTUS); 1924 – Roger Williams:keys:; 1927 – Tom Bosley ('Howard Cunningham' on Happy Days); 1928 – Laurence Harvey (The Alamo, The Manchurian Candidate (1962)); 1928 – George Peppard ("I love it when a plan comes together."); 1929 – Bonnie Owens♪ ♫(wife of Buck Owens, and, later, Merle Haggard); 1930 – Richard Harris (left his cake out in the rain); 1932 – Albert Collins:shred:; 1935 – Julie Andrews; 1938 – Stella Stevens; 1940 – Marc Savoy (created the Cajun accordion); 1942 – Herb Fame♪ ♫(Peaches & Herb); 1947 – Dave Arneson (co-created Dungeons & Dragons); 1947 – Stephen Collins; 1948 – Cub Koda:shred:(Brownsville Station); 1950 – Randy Quaid (American nut); 1956 – Theresa May (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom); 1958 – Martin Cooper♪ ♫(Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark); 1962 – Esai Morales; 1964 – Christopher Titus; 1969 – Zach Galifianakis; 1989 – Brie Larson

Deaths

1972 – Louis Leakey; 1975 – Al Jackson, Jr.:drummer:(Booker T & The MGs); 1985 – E. B. White (wrote Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web); 1990 – Curtis LeMay; 2002 – Walter Annenberg; 2004 – Richard Avedon; 2004 – Bruce Palmer:bass:(Buffalo Springfield); 2013 – Tom Clancy

October 2

Today is observed as an International Day Of Non-Violence, observed on the birth date of one Mohandas K. Gandhi.

Rosh Hashanah begins today at sunset. So...Shanah Tovah Umetukah!

1187 – Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.

1535 – Jacques Cartier "discovers" [there was already a fortified village of ~3000 Iroquois living there] the area where Montreal is now located.

1789 – George Washington sends proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.

1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.

1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.

1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.

1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.

1928 - Opus Dei is founded by Josemaría Escrivá.

1937 – Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 people are killed over the next five days.

1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Curacoa, off the coast of Ireland, killing 239 crewmen aboard the Curacoa.

1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.

1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.

1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.

1980 – Michael Myers, then Democratic Representative of Pennsylvania, becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.

1992 – The Carandiru massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil. 111 prisoners are killed.

2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.

2006 – Five Amish girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.

Births

1452 – Richard III of England; 1800 – Nat Turner; 1847 – Paul von Hindenburg; 1869 – Mahatma Gandhi:flower:; 1871 – Cordell Hull; 1879 – Wallace Stevens; 1890 – Groucho Marx; 1897 – Bud Abbott (Abbott & Costello); 1904 – Graham Greene (no, not the one in Dances With Wolves, there was another one); 1911 – Jack Finney (wrote The Body Snatchers); 1915 – Chuck Williams (Williams-Sonoma); 1917 – Charles Drake; 1921 – Albert Scott Crossfield (X-plane pilot); 1929 – Moses Gunn; 1942 – Steve Sabol (co-founded NFL Films); 1945 – Don McLean♪ ♫(sang American Pie); 1946 – Jo-El Sonnier♪ ♫; 1948 – Avery Brooks ('Hawk' on Spenser: For Hire, 'Capt. Sisko' on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine); 1948 – Donna Karan (founded DKNY); 1948 – Chris LeDoux♪ ♫; 1949 – Richard Hell:bass:; 1949 – Annie Leibovitz; 1950 – Ian McNeice; 1950 – Mike Rutherford:bass:(Genesis, Mike & The Mechanics); 1951 – Sting:bass:(The Police); 1954 – Lorraine Bracco (Tony's shrink on The Sopranos); 1955 – Philip Oakey:keys:(The Human League); 1956 – Freddie Jackson:keys:; 1967 – Gillian Welch♪ ♫; 1970 – Kelly Ripa; 1971 – Jim Root:shred:(Slipknot); 1971 - Tiffany♪ ♫; 1974 – Paul Teutul Jr. (co-founded Orange County Choppers); 1987 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.:driving:; 1988 - Brittany Howard♪ ♫:shred:(Alabama Shakes)

Deaths

1764 – William Cavendish; 1803 – Samuel Adams; 1968 – Marcel Duchamp:artist:; 1985 – Rock Hudson:rainbo:; 1994 – Harriet Nelson (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet); 1998 – Gene Autry♪ ♫; 2005 – Nipsey Russell; 2006 – Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones); 2007 – George Grizzard

October 3

2333 BC – According to Korean legend, Dangun, the "grandson of heaven", established Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom.

382 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.

1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, is the first nobleman to be executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.

1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.

1789 – George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the US.

1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.

1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by United States President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.

1872 – The Bloomingdale brothers open their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.

1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.

1942 – Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.

1945 - Elvis Presley made his first ever-public appearance in a talent contest at the Mississippi Alabama Dairy Show singing 'Old Shep', Elvis was 10 years old at the time and came in second (Wiki says he came in 5th).

1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.

1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.

1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.

1967 - American singer, songwriter Woody Guthrie died after suffering from Huntington's Chorea disease. Guthrie was a major influence on American folk music.

1978 - The members of Aerosmith bailed thirty fans out of jail after they were arrested for smoking pot during an Aerosmith concert at Fort Wayne Coliseum.

1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J).

1990 – German reunification: The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.

:devil:1991 - Texas governor Ann Richards proclaimed October 3, (Stevie Ray Vaughan's birthday), to be "Stevie Ray Vaughan Day". An annual motorcycle ride and concert in Central Texas benefits the Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial Scholarship Fund.

1992 - Sinead O'Connor (Irish attention whore) ripped up a photograph of Pope John Paul II, on the US TV show 'Saturday Night Live', as a protest over sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. The incident happened as O'Connor ended her live performance and out of nowhere, produced a photograph of Pope John Paul II, which she ripped into pieces. There was stunned silence in the studio and the station went to a commercial. NBC was fined $2.5 million dollars by the Federal Communications Commission.

1993 – Battle of Mogadishu: A firefight occurs during a failed attempt to capture key officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, costing the lives of 18 American soldiers, and over 350 Somalis.

1995 – O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

2000 - John Lennon's assassin Mark Chapman was denied parole after serving 20 years in prison. Chapman was interviewed for 50 minutes by parole board members who concluded that releasing Chapman would 'deprecate the seriousness of the crime.'

2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.

2011 - According to new scientific research, Queen's 'We Are The Champions' was found to be the catchiest song ever written. Musicologist Dr Alisun Pawley from the University of London, England, conducted research into what makes a song memorable and compiled a list of the ten "catchiest" songs of all time. During the research, they discovered that sing-along songs contained four key elements: long and detailed musical phrases, multiple pitch changes in a song's 'hook', male vocalists, and higher male voices making a noticeable vocal effort. 'Y.M.C.A.' by the Village People, Sum 41's 'Fat Lip', and Europe's 'The Final Countdown' were also in the list.

Births

85 BC – Gaius Cassius Longinus; 1790 – John Ross (Cherokee Chief); 1804 – Townsend Harris; 1865 – Gustave Loiseau:artist:; 1879 – Warner Oland (Charlie Chan); 1900 – Thomas Wolfe; 1916 – James Herriot; 1925 – Gore Vidal; 1938 – Eddie Cochran♪ ♫; 1940 – Alan O'Day♪ ♫(wrote & sang "Undercover Angel"); 1941 – Chubby Checker♪ ♫; 1944 – Roy Horn; 1949 – Lindsey Buckingham:shred:(Fleetwood Mac); 1951 – Keb' Mo':shred:; 1954 – Al Sharpton (asshole); 1954 – Stevie Ray Vaughan:shred:; 1955 – Allen Woody:bass:(Allman Bros., Gov't Mule); 1959 – Fred Couples; 1959 – Greg Proops; 1959 – Jack Wagner; 1962 – Tommy Lee:drummer:(Motley Crue); 1964 – Clive Owen; 1967 – Chris Collingwood♪ ♫(Fountains of Wayne); 1969 – Gwen Stefani♪ ♫(No Doubt); 1973 – Neve Campbell; 1973 – Lena Headey ('Ma Ma' in Dredd); 1975 – India Arie♪ ♫; 1976 – Seann William Scott ('Stifler' in American Pie movies); 1984 – Jessica Parker Kennedy:love:; 1984 – Ashlee Simpson


Deaths

42 BC – Gaius Cassius Longinus; 1226 – Francis of Assisi:ipray:; 1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd; 1656 – Myles Standish; 1838 – Black Hawk (Sauk war chief); 1867 – Elias Howe; 1965 – Zachary Scott; 1967 – Woody Guthrie♪ ♫; 1969 – Skip James♪ ♫; 1998 – Roddy McDowall; 1999 – Akio Morita (co-founded Sony); 2000 – Benjamin Orr:bass:(The Cars); 2003 – Florence Stanley; 2004 – Janet Leigh; 2005 – Ronnie Barker (one of The Two Ronnies); 2015 – Denis Healey