Birthdays:
1962 ~ Guadalupe Lopez (d. Nov. 16, 2020), American 911 dispatcher in Chicago. He worked as a dispatcher for over 33 years and was beloved by many in the police department for his cool and calm way in guiding officers as they responded to homicides, shootings, carjackings and other emergencies. He died of Covid-19 at age 58. Sadly, his wife, Marie, died of cancer just five days after his death.
1956 ~ Jennifer Tour Chayes, American mathematician. She was born in New York, New York.
1956 ~ Gary Cole (né Gary Michael Cole), American actor. He was born in Park Ridge, Illinois.
1948 ~ George R.R. Martin (né George Raymond Richard Martin), American author of the Game of Thrones series of fantasy. He was born in Bayonne, New Jersey.
1941 ~ Dale Chihuly (né Dale Patrick Chihuly), American glass artist. In 1976, he lost an eye in a car accident, but that didn’t put a halt to his creativity. He was born in Tacoma, Washington.
1934 ~ Sophia Loren (née Sofia Villani Scicolone), Italian actress. She was born in Rome, Italy.
1931 ~ Malachy McCourt (né Malachy Gerard McCourt), Irish-American actor and writer. He was the younger brother of author Frank McCourt. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1930 ~ Richard Montague (né Richard Merritt Montague; d. Mar. 7, 1971), American mathematician. He was born in Stockton, California. He was killed in an unsolved murder in Los Angeles, California. He was 40 years old.
1929 ~ Anne Meara (née Anne Theresa Meara; d. May 23, 2015), American actress and comedian. She was married to Jerry Stiller (1927 ~ 2020) and together the two were a comedy team, Stiller and Meara. She was the mother of comedian and actor Ben Stiller. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died at age 85 in Manhattan, New York.
1928 ~ Donald Hall (né Donald Andrew Hall, Jr., d. June 23, 2018), American poet laureate who wrote of love, death and rural life. He was born in Hamden, Connecticut. He died at age 89 in Wilmot, New Hampshire.
1917 ~ Red Auerbach (né Arnold Jacob Auerbach; d. Oct. 28, 2006), American basketball coach of the Boston Celtics. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died at age 89 in Washington, D.C.
1915 ~ Lee Lorch (né Lee Alexander Lorch; d. Feb. 28, 2014), American mathematician and civil rights activist. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 98 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1906 ~ Vera Faddeeva (d. Apr. 15, 1983), Russian mathematician best known for her work in linear algebra. She died at age 76 in Leningrad, USSR.
1880 ~ Louise Peete (née Lofie Louise Preslar; d. Apr. 11, 1947), Louisiana serial killer. She was born in Bienville, Louisiana. She led a colorful life, marrying several times, with a number of her husbands “committing suicide.” She was tried for murder several times, once being sentenced to life in prison, but was released after serving only 19 years. Following additional murders, she was finally found guilty and sentenced to death, where she was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin. She was born in Bienville, Louisiana. She was 66 years old at the time of her execution.
1878 ~ Upton Sinclair (né Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.; d. Nov. 25, 1968), American writer, best known for his muckraking novel, The Jungle, which described the deplorable conditions of the meat-packing industry. The book was instrumental in the passage of laws requiring Federal standards for the distribution of food and drugs. In 1927, he wrote a book entitled Oil!, which is about the petroleum industry. That book is as significant today as it was when it was first written. He died at age 90.
1861 ~ Herbert Putnam (né George Herbert Putnam; d. Aug. 14, 1955), 8th Librarian of Congress. He held this Office from 1899 until 1939. He died at age 93.
1842 ~ Sir James Dewar (d. Mar. 27, 1923), Scottish chemist and physicist. He is best known for creating the Dewar’s Flask. He died at age 80.
1833 ~ Ernesto Toedoro Moneta (d. Feb. 10, 1918), Italian pacifist and recipient of the 1907 of the Nobel Peace Prize. He died at age 84.
1486 ~ Prince Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales (d. Apr. 2, 1502), son of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. He married Catherine of Aragon, but died before marriage was said to have been consummated. He died before his father, Henry VII, so his younger brother, Henry ultimately became King Henry VIII, who married Arthur’s widow. Arthur was 15 years old at the time of his death.
Events that Changed the World:
2019 ~ Greta Thunberg (b. 2003), an environmental activist teenager from Sweden led a demonstration in New York City to call attention to climate change and global warming.
2017 ~ Erev Rosh Hashanah.
2017 ~ Hurricane Maria stormed through the Caribbean and caused massive damage in Puerto Rico. Although the official toll of deaths at the time was only 64, a year later the governmental authorities acknowledged that over 1400 people were killed in the storm. The storm formed on September 16, 2017 and dissipated on October 2, 2017.
2011 ~ The United States military ended its “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, thereby allowing gay men and women to serve in the military.
2007 ~ Protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana in support of six young black students who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
1984 ~ A suicide bomber in a car attacked the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 22 people.
1973 ~ Billie Jean King (b. 1943) beat Bobby Riggs (1918 ~ 1995) in a tennis match dubbed The Battle of the Sexes. The match was held in the Houston, Texas Astrodome.
1971 ~ Atlantic Ocean Hurricane Irene crossed Nicaragua and regained strength as it entered the Pacific Ocean where it was renamed Hurricane Olivia. It is the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic into the Pacific. The storm formed on September 11, 1971 and dissipated on October 1, 1971.
1962 ~ James Meredith (b. 1933), an African-American student, was temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi. He was the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
1946 ~ The first annual Cannes International Film Festival was held. The film festival had originally been planned to begin in September 1939, but was postponed due to the initiation of World War II.
1942 ~ German SS began the two-day massacre of at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv, Ukraine.
1881 ~ Chester A. Arthur (1829 ~ 1886) was formally inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield (1831 ~ 1881), who had died the day before.
1848 ~ The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was formed.
1633 ~ Galileo Galilei (1564 ~ 1642) was tried before the Congregation of for the Doctrine of Faith for heresy for suggesting that the earth orbits the sun. He was found guilty and placed under house arrest for the rest of his life. It was not until October 1992, over 300 years later, that he was finally exonerated by Pope John Paul II.
1519 ~ Fernando Magellan (1480 ~ 1521) began his first voyage to circumnavigate the world. He never completed the voyage because he was killed in the Philippines. Of the original 237 men who set out on this historic trip, only 19 survived to complete the circling of the world and returned to Spain. Magellan “discovered” the Strait of Magellan, the body of water at the tip of South America that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
1378 ~ Cardinal Robert of Geneva (1373 ~ 1394) was elected as the Avignon Pope Clement VII, thereby beginning the Papal schism.
1187 ~ Saladin (1137 ~ 1193) began the Siege of Jerusalem.
Good-Byes:
2015 ~ Jack Larson (né Jack Edward Larson; b. Feb. 8, 1928), American actor and playwright who couldn’t escape his role as Jimmy Olsen from Superman. He was 87 years old.
2014 ~ Polly Bergen (née Nellie Pauline Burgin; b. July 14, 1930), American actress and star who shown in Hollywood and business. She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. She died at age 84 in Southbury, Connecticut.
2013 ~ Carolyn Cassady (née Carolyn Elizabeth Robinson; b. Apr. 28, 1923), American woman who was the Beats’ muse and lover. She was married to Neal Cassady. She was born in Lansing, Michigan. She died in Bracknell, England following complications of surgery at age 90.
2005 ~ Simon Wiesenthal (b. Dec. 31, 1908), Austrian holocaust survivor, author and Nazi hunter. He died at age 96.
1999 ~ Raisa Gorbacheva (née Raisa Maximovna Titarenko; b. Jan. 5, 1932), wife of Russian leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. She died of leukemia at age 67.
1996 ~ Paul Erdős (b. Mar. 26, 1913), Hungarian mathematician. He died at age 83.
1985 ~ Helen MacInnes (née Helen Clark MacInnes; b. Oct. 7, 1907), Scottish-American librarian and author of espionage novels. She died about 3 weeks before her 78th birthday.
1975 ~ Saint-John Perse (né Alexis Leger; b. May 31, 1887), French poet and recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at age 88.
1973 ~ Jim Croce (né James Joseph Croce; b. Jan. 10, 1943), American singer and songwriter. He was killed in a plane crash at age 30 that had taken off from Natchitoches, Louisiana.
1973 ~ G.B. Stern (née Gladys Bertha Stern; b. June 17, 1890), British novelist. She died at age 83.
1971 ~ Giorgos Seferis (b. Mar. 13, 1900), Greek poet and recipient of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature. His birthday is sometime listed as February 29, because of the calendar in use in Greece at the time of his birth. He died at age 71.
1957 ~ Jean Sibelius (né Johan Julius Christian Sebelius; b. Dec. 8, 1865), Finnish composer best known for his famous work, Finlandia, which was first performed in Helsinki in 1900. He died at age 91.
1947 ~ Fiorello H. La Guardia (né Fiorello Henry La Guardia, b. Dec. 11, 1882), American politician and 99th Mayor of New York City. He served as Mayor from January 1934 through December 1945. One of the airports servicing New York City was named for him. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 64.
1863 ~ Jacob Grimm (né Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, b. Jan. 4, 1785), German attorney and author. He is best known for his work along with his brother, Wilhelm (1786 ~ 1859), for compiling the Grimm Fairy Tales. He died at age 78.
1793 ~ Fletcher Christian (b. Sept. 25, 1764), English navy officer and mutineer who seized control of the Bountyfrom Captain Bligh. He was killed on Pitcairn’s Island 5 days before his 29th birthday.
1714 ~ Anna Waser (b. Oct. 16, 1678), Swiss painter. She was born and died in Zurich, Switzerland. She died 26 days before her 36th birthday as a result of injuries sustained in a fall.
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