This day in history...

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:02 pm

In 1914,during World War I,the first Battle of the Marne ended in an Allied victory against Germany.

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

In 1943, German paratroopers took Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he was being held by the Italian government.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:56 am

On this day...
122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall
604 Sabinian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1625 Rabbi Isiah Horowith & 15 other rabbis arrested in Jerusalem
1663 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)
1759 Wolfe defeats Montcalm on Plains of Abraham; Canada becomes English
1788 New York City becomes capital of the United States
1789 1st loan to US Govt (from NYC banks)
1849 1st US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy)
1867 Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors
1882 Britain invades Egypt
1883 Cleveland Hugh Daily no-hits Phila 1-0
1906 1st airplane flight in Europe
1922 136.4Ã¸F (58Ã¸ C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record)
1925 Bkln Dodger Dazzy Vance no-hits Phillies, 10-1
1927 Waite Hoyt became the only 20 game winner of the 1927 Yankees
1928 KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions
1932 NY Yankees clinch their 7th pennant

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:46 am

Birthdates which occurred on September 13:
1739 Grigory Potemkin army officer, statesman, Catherine II's lover, OS
1755 Oliver Evans pioneered high-pressure steam engine
1819 Clara Schumann (nâ€še Wieck) Leipzig, Germany, pianist/composer
1851 Walter Reed US Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever
1857 Milton S Hershey , chocolate manufacturer/philanthropist
1860 Gen John J (Blackjack) Pershing US commander in WW I
1863 Arthur Henderson Britain, socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel 1934)
1866 Adolf Meyer US, psychiatrist/neurologist (pioneered mental hygiene)

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:03 pm

In 1812,the Russians set fire to Moscow in the face of an invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte's troops.

In 1927,modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan died in Nice,France when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of her sports car.

In 1975,Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S. born saint.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:20 am

Deaths which occurred on September 15:
1963 Fred Hillebrand actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69
1979 Tommy Leonetti singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50
1981 Sara Haden actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83
1982 Sadegh Ghotbzadeh Iran's former foreign minister, executed by Iran
1983 LeRoy Prinz choreographer, dies at 88
1983 Willie Bobo jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49
1986 Virginia Gregg actress (Little Women), dies at 69

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:21 am

Birthdates which occurred on September 17:
879 Charles III [The Simple], king of France (893-923)
1271 Wenceslas II king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305)
1730 Baron Frederick von Steuben Germany, made Continental Army winners
1743 Marquis de Condorcet France, enlightenment philosopher
1774 Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages)
1819 Thomas Andrews Hendricks (D) 21st US VP; died in office
1850 AbÂ¡lio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro Portuguese poet (The Simple Ones)
1857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky pioneer in rocket & space research

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:37 pm

In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland more than two weeks after Nazi Germany had launched its assault.

In 1944,during Worls War II, Allied paratroopers launched Operation Market Garden landing behind german lines in the netherlands (After initial success,the Allies were beaten back by the Germans.)

In 1948,the United Nations mediator for Palestine,Count Folke Bernadotte,was assassinated in Jerusalem by Jewish extremists.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:33 am

Birthdates which occurred on September 18:
1684 Johann Gottfried Walther Erfurt Germany, composer/Musicographer
1709 Dr Samuel Johnson writer (Boswell's tour guide)
1733 George Read lawyer/signed Declaration of Independence
1752 Adrien-Marie Legendre mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals
1779 Joseph Story Mass, US Supreme Court justice (1812-45)
1819 Jean-Bernard-Lâ€šon Foucault his pendulum proved Earth rotates
1870 Clark Wissler anthropologist (American Indian)

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:48 am

In 1759,the French formally surrendered Quebec to the British.

In 1810,Chile made its initial declaration of independence from Spain.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:53 pm

In 1783, Jacques Etienne Montgolfer launched a duck,a sheep and a rooster aboard a hot-air ballon at Versailes in France.

In 1945,Nazi radio propagandist William Joyce,known as "Lord Haw-Haw, was convicted of treason and sentenced to death by a British court.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:56 pm

In 1888, Mary Ann Nichols was found murdered in London's East End in what is generally regarded as the fist slaying committed by "Jack the Ripper."

In 1957, the Federation of Malaya became independent of British colonial rule.

In 1962,the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent of British colonial rule.

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

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:33 pm

In 1519, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set out from Spain on five ships on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. (Magellan was killed en route,but one of his ships eventually circled the world.)

In 1857,Delhi,India,fell to British forces.

In 1870,Italian troops took control of the Papal States,leading to the unification of Italy.

USAF_Defender23 · Post by **USAF_Defender23** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:00 pm

1973 Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle Of The Sexes on the tennis court

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:22 am

In 1792,the French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.

In 1957,Norwasy's King Haakon VII died in Oslo at age 85.

In 1982,Amin Gemayel,brother of Lebannon's assassinated president-elect,Bashir Gemayel,was himself elected president.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:03 am

Birthdates which occurred on September 22:
1290 Bilbo Baggins (in Shire Reconning)
1694 Lord Chesterfield letter writer; introduced Gregorian calendar (1752)
1791 Michael Faraday discovered principle of electric motor
1822 Brig Gen Eppa Hunton fought in most ANV campaigns
1878 Shigeru Yoshida Japanese PM (most of 1946-54)
1885 Erich von Stroheim early film director/actor (Grand Illusion)
1892 Frank Sullivan humorist (New Yorker Magazine)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:25 am

Deaths which occurred on September 23:
1877 Urbain JJ Leverrier codiscoverer of Neptune, dies
1939 Sigmund Freud created psychoanalysis, dies at 83
1956 Earl Godwin newscaster (Meet the Veep), dies at 75
1972 Carl Frank actor (Uncle Gunnar-Mama), dies at 63
1974 Cliff Arquette comedian "Charlie Weaver", dies at 68
1982 Jimmy Wakely country western singer, dies of heart failure at 68
1985 Mickey Simpson actor, dies of a heart attack at 72

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:26 pm

On this day...
1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement
1779 John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats 'HMS Serepis'
1780 British MAJ John Andre was apprehended as a Spy, near Tarrytown, NY
1803 Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army
1806 Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from the Pacific Northwest
1845 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
1846 Johann Gottfried Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
1862 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
1863 Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins
1868 Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain)
1873 Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title
1879 Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia
1890 Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning
1897 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)
1908 Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay & pennant)
1908 University of Alberta opens
1912 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released
1926 Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title
1932 Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1933 Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12
1938 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm)
1939 Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:27 am

Birthdates which occurred on September 24:
1501 Girolamo Cardano Italy, mathematician/astrologer (Ars Magna-1545)
1717 Horace Walpole England, writer (The Castle of Otranto)
1755 John Marshall Va, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1801-35)
1825 Frances E.W. Harper famous African
1870 Georges Claude inventor (neon light)
1890 Sir Alan Herbert England, journalist/writer (Punch, Helen)
1896 F Scott Fitzgerald St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby)
1898 Baron Florey Aust, pathologist; purified penicillin (Nobel '45)
19-- Audra Lindley LA Calif, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers)
19-- Denis D'Amour Canada, rock guitarist (Voivod-Angel Rat)
19-- John Monte rocker (Mind Funk-Sugar Aint So Sweet, Fire)
19-- Larkin Malloy NY, actor (Edge of Night, All My Children, Guid Light)
19-- Louis Edmonds actor (Langley Wallingford-All My Children)
1902 Cheryl Crawford producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon)
1912 Don Porter Miami Okla, actor (Russ Lawrence-Gidget, Ann Sothern Show)
1914 Andrzej Panufnik Warsaw Poland, composer (Tragic Overture)
1914 Herb Jeffries Detroit Mich, actor (Where's Huddles)
1915 Larry Gates St Paul Minn, actor (Guiding Light)
1917 William Putnam Bundy London, editor (Lvaggerier & Vagaries)
1919 Dayton Allen NYC, comedian (Steve Allen Show)
1919 Vaclav Nelhybel Polanka Czechoslovakia, composer (Everyman)
1921 Jim McKay Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
1922 Theresa Merritt Newport News Va, actress (Mama-That's My Mama)
1924 Sheila MacRae London England, actress (Jackie Gleason Show)
1924 Walter Fufido Bronx NY, Iwo Jima casualty (WW II)
1930 John W Young SF Calif, astronaut (Gem 3 10, Apol 10 16, STS 1 9)
1931 Anthony Newley actor/song writer/singer (Dr Doolittle)
1934 John Brunner Britain, sci-fi author (Sheep Look Up)
1936 Jim Henson Greenville Miss, muppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show)
1939 Manfred Wâ€rner Secretary General of NATO
1941 Linda Eastman McCartney NYC, Mrs Paul McCartney, rocker (Wings-Ram)
1943 Lee Aaker LA Calif, actor (Rusty-Rin Tin Tin)
1946 "Mean" Joe Greene NFL tackle (Pitts Steelers), Coke spokesman
1946 Jacqueline Courtney NJ, actress (Another World, One Life to Live)
1951 Terry Metcalf Seattle, NFL, CFL running back (St Louis, Toronto)
1956 Ilona Slupianek German DR, shot-putter (Olympic-gold-1980)
1962 Joseph Kennedy II (Rep-D-Mass)
1964 Gene Watkins Waco Tx, actor (James Walsh-As the World Turns)
1969 Gene Hunt entertainer
1969 Lisa Matthews Peoria Ill, playmate (Apr, 1990)
1971 Shane Conrad actress (Cody-High Mountain Rangers)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:14 am

Birthdates which occurred on September 25:
1644 Olaus RÃmer Denmark, 1st to accurately measure speed of light
1657 Imre Thâ€kâ€ly Hungary, patriot, opposed Habsburg rule
1683 Jean-Philippe Rameau Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized)
1725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot designed & built 1st automobile
1766 Armand-Emmanuel duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21)
1866 Thomas Hunt Morgan US, biologist (Nobel-1933)
1877 Plutarco ElÂ¡as Calles Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)
1887 May Sutton Bundy US, 1st US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904)

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:33 pm

In 1493,Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz,Spain,with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

In 1513,Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.