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 (née Ellen Naomi Cohen, d. 1974), American musician in the band, The Mamas and the Papas.  She was 32 years old.

1939 ~ Moshe Weinberg (d. 1972), Israeli wrestling coach who was murdered in the massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.  He was 32 years old.

1933 ~ David McCallum, Scottish actor.

1932 ~ Mike Royko (d. 1997), American journalist and columnist.  He died at age 64 of a brain aneurysm.

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

1913 ~ Frances Farmer (d. 1970), American actress.  She died at age 56.

1911 ~ Sir 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.  He died at age 81.

1909 ~ Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche (d. 1998), Austrian automobile designer.  He died at age 88.

1907 ~ Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. (d. 1998), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.  He was appointed to the High Court by President Richard Nixon.  He served on the Court from January 1972 until his retirement in June 1987.  He died at age 90.

1905 ~ Leon Jaworski (d. 1982), American attorney and Special Prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal.  He died at age 77.

1889 ~ Sarah Louise Delany (d. 1999), American physician and author.  She and her younger sister, Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany wrote the book, Having Our Say: The First 100 Years.  The book was published when both sisters were over 100 years old.  Sarah Delany died at age 109 and Bessie died at age 104.

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

1883 ~ Mabel Vernon (d. 1975), American suffragist.  She died 3 weeks before her 92^nd birthday.

1811 ~ Orson Pratt (d. 1881), American mathematician and religious leader in the Church of the Latter Day Saints.  He died at age less than 3 weeks after his 70^th birthday.

1749 ~ Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (d. 1822), French mathematician.  He died a month before his 73^rd birthday.

1551 ~ King Henry III of France (d. 1589).  He died at age 37.

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.  A financial settlement was reached in 2016, with funding available for coastal restoration along the Gulf Coast.

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.

1970 ~ The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered on CBS.  The show ran until March 1977.

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 (1899 ~ 1936) 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 (1829 ~ 1886) became United States President upon the death of James A. Garfield (1831 ~ 1881), 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.  King John II of France was captured.

Good-Byes:

2015 ~ Jackie Collins (b. 1937), British-American author who wrote about lust and power.  She died of breast cancer less than three weeks before her 78^th birthday.

1995 ~ Orville Redenbacher (b. 1907), American businessman and founder of the Orville Redenbacher’s Company that manufactured popcorn.  He was 88 years old.

1942 ~ Condé Nast (b. 1873), American publisher.  He was 69 years old.

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.  He was 49 years old.

1843 ~ Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (b. 1792), French mathematician.  The Coriolis Effect was named after him.  He died at age 51.