September 19

Birthdays:

1974 ~ Jimmy Fallon, American actor and talk show host.

1950 ~ Michael Proctor, British mathematician.

1949 ~ Twiggy (née Leslie Hornby), English model.

1948 ~ Jeremy Irons, English actor.

1941 ~ “Mama” Cass Elliot (d. 1974), American musician in the band, The Mamas and the Papas.

1939 ~ Moshe Weinberg (d. 1972), Israeli wrestling coach who was murdered in the massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

1933 ~ David McCallum, Scottish actor.

1932 ~ Mike Royko (d. 1997), American journalist and columnist.

1926 ~ Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.

1911 ~ William Golding (d. 1993), British writer best known for his utopian novel, Lord of the Flies.  He was the recipient of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.

1909 ~ Ferdinand Anton Ernst Prosche (d. 1998), Austrian automobile designer.

1907 ~ Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. (d. 1998), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1905 ~ Leon Jaworski (d. 1982), American attorney and Special Prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal.

1889 ~ Sarah Louise Delany (d. 1999), American physician and author.

1888 ~ James Waddell Alexander, II (d. 1971), American mathematician and topologist.  He died 4 days after his 84^th birthday.

1749 ~ Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (d. 1822), French mathematician.

1551 ~ King Henry III of France (d. 1589).

Events that Changed the World:

2010 ~ The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which began in April 2010, was finally sealed almost 5 months to the day when the environmental disaster occurred.

1985 ~ A strong earthquake near Mexico City killed thousands of individuals.

1972 ~ A parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London, England exploded and killed a diplomat.

1959 ~ Due to security reasons, Nikita Khurshchev was not permitted to visit Disneyland on his trip to the United States.

1940 ~ Witold Pilecki (1901 ~ 1948), founder of the Secret Polish Army resistance group, was voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz.  While there he was able to smuggle out intelligence to the outside world and start a resistance to the actions of the Nazis.

1934 ~ Bruno Hauptmann was arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.

1893 ~ Women in New Zealand were granted the right to vote.

1881 ~ Chester A. Arthur became United States President upon the death of James A. Garfield, who had been shot on July 2. 1881.

1778 ~ The Continental Congress passed the first budget of the United States.

1356 ~ Edward, the Black Prince of England, won the Battle of Poitiers in the Hundred Years War.

Good-Byes:

1995 ~ Orville Redenbacher (b. 1907), American businessman and founder of the Orville Redenbacher’s Company that manufactured popcorn.

1942 ~ Condé Nast (b. 1873), American publisher.

1881 ~ James Garfield (b. 1831), 20^th President of the United States died from his wounds suffered from being shot by an assassin on July 2.  He was the last U.S. President to have been born in a log cabin.

1843 ~ Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (b. 1792), French mathematician.  The Coriolis Effect was named after him.