Birthdays:
1991 ~ Valentina Blackhorse (d. Apr. 23, 2020), Navajo Nation pageant winner who dreamed of entering politics and becoming a delegate to the Navajo Nation Council. She was born in Tuba City, Arizona. She died at age 28 of Covid-19.
1966 ~ Salma Hayek (née Selma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez), Mexican-American actress. She was born in Coatzacoalcos, Vera Cruz, Mexico.
1964 ~ Keanu Reeves (né Keanu Charles Reeves), Canadian actor. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon.
1959 ~ Guy Labiberté, Canadian businessman, professional poker player and co-founder of Cirque de Soleil. He was born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
1958 ~ Dianna Ortiz (née Dianne Mae Ortiz; d. Feb. 19, 2021), American Roman Catholic nun who became an anti-torture campaigner. While serving as a missionary in Guatemala, she was abducted by the Guatemalan military and raped and tortured. She was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She died of cancer at age 62 in Washington, D.C.
1952 ~ Jimmy Connors (né James Scott Connors), American professional tennis player. He was born in Belleville, Illinois.
1951 ~ Mark Harmon (né Thomas Mark Harmon), American actor. He was born in Burbank, California.
1948 ~ Christa McAuliffe (née Sharon Christa Corrigan; d. Jan. 28, 1986), American schoolteacher from Concord, New Hampshire, who was selected to join the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger crew. The shuttle exploded upon take-off and she was one of the seven crew members and the only civilian killed in the disaster. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She was 37 years old.
1948 ~ Tiny Archibald (né Nathaniel Archibald), American baseball player who had a long career with the Boston Celtics. Because of his height, at 6 ft. 1 in., he was known as Tiny Archibald. He was born in New York, New York.
1948 ~ Terry Bradshaw (né Terry Paxton Bradshaw), American football player from Shreveport, Louisiana. After his football career ended, he became a sportscaster.
1946 ~ Dan White (né Daniel James White; d. Oct. 21, 1985), American politician. He assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (1929 ~ 1978) and Supervisor Harvey Milk (1930 ~ 1978). He was convicted of the murders and served time in prison. Less than two years after his release from prison, he committed suicide at age 39. He was born in Long Beach, California. He died in San Francisco.
1946 ~ Billy Preston (né William Everett Preston; b. June 6, 2006), American singer-songwriter and musician. He was born in Houston, Texas. He died of kidney disease at age 59 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
1941 ~ John Thompson, Jr. (né John Robert Thompson, Jr.; d. Aug. 30, 2020), African-American Georgetown University basketball coach who put his players first. He was born in Washington, D.C. He died 3 days before his 79th birthday in Arlington, Virginia.
1937 ~ Peter Ueberroth (né Peter Victor Ueberroth), 6th Commissioner of Major League Baseball. He served from 1984 until 1989. He was born in Evanston, Illinois.
1936 ~ Reiko Douglas (d. Sept. 9, 2013), Japanese woman who prevailed on TV. She was the third wife of comedy writer Jack Douglas. She and her husband were popular guests on talk shows, even though she could speak little English. She died of lung cancer a week after her 77th birthday in Los Angeles, California.
1936 ~ Andrew Grove (né András István Gróf; d. Mar. 21, 2016), Hungarian-born American businessman. He served as the third CEO of Intel Corp and made it one of the world’s most important technology companies. He grew up in Hungary, where he was hidden from the Nazis during World War II. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He died at age 79 in Los Altos, California.
1932 ~ Sue Mengers (née Susi Mengers; d. Oct. 15, 2011), German-born American Hollywood talent agent who mastered her part. She was born in Hamburg, Germany. She died of pneumonia at age 79 in Beverly Hills, California.
1932 ~ Arnold Greenberg (né Arnold Shepard Greenberg; d. Oct. 26, 2012), American businessman and co-founder of Snapple. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died of cancer at age 80 in New York, New York.
1931 ~ Alan Simpson (né Alan Kooi Simpson), United States Senator from Wyoming. He served in the Senate from January 1979 until January 1997. He was born in Denver, Colorado.
1926 ~ Joachim A. Nitsche (d. Jan. 12, 1996), German mathematician. He died at age 69.
1923 ~ René Thom (né René Frédéric Thom; d. Oct. 25, 2002), French mathematician. He was the recipient of the 1958 Fields Medal. He died at age 79.
1922 ~ Arthur Ashkin (d. September 21, 2020), American physicist. He recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is known as the father of optical tweezers. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died 19 days after his 98th birthday in Rumson, New Jersey.
1920 ~ George Hendry (né George Jack Hendry; d. Aug. 17, 2011), American comeback kid of table tennis. He was born and died in St. Louis, Missouri. He died 16 days before his 91st birthday.
1918 ~ Allen Drury (né Allen Stuart Drury; d. Sept. 2, 1998), American novelist, best known for his novel, Advice and Consent. He was born in Houston, Texas. He died on his 80th birthday in San Francisco, California.
1917 ~ Cleveland Amory (d. Oct. 14, 1997), American author. He was born in Nahant, Massachusetts. He died of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at age 81 in Manhattan, New York.
1913 ~ Israel Gelfand (d. Oct. 5, 2009), Russian-born mathematician who could not be contained. He made significant contributions to many fields of mathematics, including group theory and functional analysis. He died about a month after his 96th birthday in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
1912 ~ Richard G. Hendrickson (né Richard Granger Hendrickson; d. Jan. 9. 2016), American stalwart volunteer who recorded the weather for 85 years. He was the longest serving volunteer with the National Weather Service to observe weather conditions. He recorded conditions such as temperatures, wind speed, rainfall, snow and other data from a small weather station in Long Island, New York. He was born in Bridgehampton, New York. He died at age 103.
1883 ~ Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (d. Mar. 16, 1963). She married twice. Her first husband was Prince Otto of Windisch-Graetz (1873 ~ 1952). They married in 1902 and divorced in 1948. Her second husband, whom she married in 1948, was Leopold Petznek. She was of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. She was the daughter of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium. She was the granddaughter of Leopold II, King of Belgium. She was Roman Catholic. She died at age 79.
1878~ Maurice Fréchet (né René Maurice Fréchet; d. June 4, 1973), French mathematician. He made major contributions to general topology and was the first to define metric spaces. He was born in Maligny, France. He died at age 94 in Paris, France.
1877 ~ Frederick Soddy (d. Sept. 22, 1956), English radiochemist and recipient of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in nuclear reactions. He died less than 3 weeks after his 79th birthday.
1855 ~ M. Hoke Smith (né Michael Hoke Smith; d. Nov. 27, 1931), 19th United States Secretary of the Interior. He served under President Grover Cleveland from March 1893 until September 1896. He later served as a United States Senator from Georgia. He also served two non-consecutive terms as Governor of Georgia. He was born in Newton, North Carolina. He died at age 76 in Atlanta, Georgia.
1853 ~ Wilhelm Ostwald (né Friedrich Wilhlem Ostwald; d. Apr. 4, 1932), German chemist and recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities. He is sometime known as being the father of modern physical chemistry. He died at age 78.
1850 ~ Albert Spalding (né Albert Goodwill Spalding, d. Sept. 9, 1915), American baseball player and co-founder of the Spalding Sporting Goods Company. He was born in Byron, Illinois. He died of a stroke a week after his 66th birthday in San Diego, California.
1838 ~ Queen Lili’uokalani (d. Nov. 11, 1917) of Hawaii. She was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was born and died in Honolulu. She died at age 79.
1830 ~ William P. Frye (né William Pierce Frye, d. Aug. 8, 1911), United States Senator from Maine. He served as Senator from March 1881 until his death in August 1911. He was the President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate from February 1896 until his death. He was born and died in Lewiston, Maine. He died less than a month before his 81stbirthday.
1820 ~ Lucretia Peabody Hale (d. June 12, 1900), American journalist and author. She was born and died in Boston, Massachusetts. She died at age 79.
1753 ~ Marie Joséphine of Savoy (d. Nov. 13, 1810), Countess of Provence. She was the wife of Prince Louis Stanislas, Count of Provence (1755 ~ 1824) who later became Louis XVIII, King of France. She died before her husband became king, thus she was never the Queen consort. She was of the House of Savoy. She was the daughter of Victor Amadeus III, King of Sardinia and Duke of Savoy and Infanta Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain. She was Roman Catholic. She died of edema at age 57.
Events that Changed the World:
2019 ~ Labor Day.
2019 ~ Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastated the Bahamas. At least 84 people were killed by the storm. The storm had formed on August 24 and dissipated on September 10.
2016 ~ Hurricane Hermine made landfall in Florida. The storm had formed on August 28 and dissipated on September 8, 2016.
2013 ~ Labor Day.
1998 ~ Swissair Flight 111 crashed in Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada killing all 229 people aboard.
1992 ~ A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck in Nicaragua and killed over 100 people.
1987 ~ The trial of 19-year-old Mathias Rust (b. June 1, 1968) began in Moscow, Russia. In May 1987, he had flown his Cessna into Red Square. He was found guilty and spent 14 months in prison before being pardoned by Andrei Gromyko (1909 ~ 1989).
1963 ~ The CBS Evening News became the first United States network television news program to begin broadcasting for 30 minutes.
1958 ~ A United States Air Force plane was shot down by when it strayed into Soviet airspace in Armenia. All crew members were killed.
1945 ~ V-J Day, which stands for Victory over Japan, which also marked the end of World War II after Japan surrendered to Allied forces. There was a formal surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay aboard the battleship the USS Missouri.
1945 ~ Vietnam declared its independence and formed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1935 ~ The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 made landfall in the Florida Keys. Over 400 people were killed by the storm. The storm had formed on August 29 and dissipated on September 10, 1935.
1901 ~ Vice President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 ~ 1919) made his famous “Speak Softly and Carry A Big Stick” speech at the Minnesota State Fair.
1859 ~ A solar super storm disrupted electrical telegraph services. The storm, known as the Carrington Effect, occurred when a solar coronal mass ejection hit the Earth’s magnetosphere.
1833 ~ Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio was founded by Presbyterian ministers John Jay Shipherd (1808 ~ 1844) and Philo Stewart (1798 ~ 1868).
1811 ~ The University of Oslo was founded as the Royal Fredericks University.
1789 ~ The United States Department of the Treasury was established.
1752 ~ Great Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar, nearly 200 years after most other countries in Western Europe.
1666 ~ The Great Fire of London began. It burned for three days and destroyed numerous buildings, including St. Paul’s Cathedral. It is believed to have started in a bakery.
1192 ~ Richard I, King of England (1157 ~ 1199) of England and Saladin (1137 ~ 1193) signed the Treaty of Jaffa, which led to the end of the Third Crusade.
Good-Byes:
2020 ~ David Graeber (né David Rolfe Graeber; b. Feb. 12, 1961), American anthropologist and anarchist activist. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 59 while on vacation in Venice, Italy.
2016 ~ Jerry Heller (né Gerald Elliot Heller; b. Oct. 6, 1940), American impresario who helped launch gansta rap. He was a music manager and businessman. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He died about a month before his 76th birthday in Thousand Oaks, California.
2013 ~ Ronald Coase (né Ronald Harry Coase, b. Dec. 29, 1910), British economist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. He was the Nobel winner who reshaped economics. He died at age 102 in Chicago, Illinois.
2007 ~ Esther Hoffe (née Ilse Esther Hoffe, b. May 8, 1906), Czech-born Israeli mistress of Max Brod. She was born in Opava, Czechia. She died in Tel Aviv at age 101.
2005 ~ Bob Denver (né Robert Osbourne Denver, b. Jan. 9, 1935), American actor, best known for his role as Gilligan on the television sit-com Gilligan’s Island. He was born in New Rochelle, New York. He died of cancer at age 70 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
2002 ~ Abe Lemons (né A.E. Lemons; b. Nov. 21, 1922), American basketball player and college coach. He was born in Ryan, Oklahoma. He died at age 79 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma of complications from Parkinson’s disease.
2002 ~ Sheila May Edmonds (b. Apr. 1, 1916), British mathematician. She died at age 86.
2001 ~ Christiaan Barnard (né Christiaan Neethling Bernard, b. Nov. 8, 1922), South African cardiac surgeon who performed the first human heart-to-heart transplant. He died of a severe asthma attack at age 78 while on vacation in Cyprus.
1998 ~ Allen Drury (né Allen Stuart Drury, d. Sept. 2, 1918), American novelist, best known for his novel, Advice and Consent. He was born in Houston, Texas. He died on his 80th birthday in San Francisco, California.
1997 ~ Viktor Frankl (né Viktor Emil Frankl, b. Mar. 26, 1905), Austrian neurologist and psychologist. He survived several concentration camps during the Holocaust. He was born and died in Vienna, Austria. He died at age 92.
1992 ~ Barbara McClintock (née Eleanor McClintock, b. June 16, 1902), American geneticist and recipient of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She died at age 90 in Huntington, New York.
1991 ~ Alfonso García Robles (b. Mar. 20, 1911), Mexican diplomat and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize. He died at age 80.
1975 ~ Mabel Vernon (b. Sept. 19, 1883), American suffragist. She was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She died 3 weeks before her 92nd birthday in Washington, D.C.
1973 ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (né John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, b. Jan. 3, 1892), British author best known for his novels The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series. He died at age 81.
1969 ~ Hô Chí Minh (b. May 19, 1890), 1st President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. He assumed the Office of 1St President of the Democratic Republic Of Vietnam on his 55th birthday. He served in this Office from September 1945 until his death 24 years later. He died at age 79 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
1944 ~ Bella Rosenfeld (b. Nov. 15, 1895), Russian-born wife of Marc Chagall (1887 ~ 1985), and subject of many of his paintings. She died of a viral infection at age 49.
1937 ~ Pierre de Coubertin (né Pierre de Frédy; b. Jan. 1, 1963), French historian and educator. He is known as the Father of the Modern Olympics because he founded the International Olympic Committee. He was born in Paris, France. He died of a heart attack at age 74 in Geneva, Switzerland.
1910 ~ Henri Rousseau (né Henri Julien Félix Rousseau; b. May 21, 1844), French post-impressionist painter. He died in Paris, France following surgery for gangrene in his leg. He was 66 at the time of his death.
1865 ~ Sir William Hamilton (né William Rowan Hamilton, b. Aug. 4, 1805), Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was known for his work in pure mathematics and mathematical physics. He was born and died in Dublin, Ireland. He died of a severe gout attack about a month after his 60th birthday.
1820 ~ Jiaqing Emperor (né Aixin-Jueluo Yongyan, b. Nov. 13, 1760), 7th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. He died at age 59.
1768 ~ Antoine Deparcieux (b. Oct. 28, 1703), French mathematician. He died at age 64.
1764 ~ Reverend Nathaniel Bliss (b. Nov. 28, 1700), British astronomer, mathematician, and clergyman. He died at age 63.
1515 ~ Barbara of Brandenburg (b. May 30, 1464), Queen consort of Bohemia and first wife of Vladislaus II, King of Bohemia (1456 ~ 1516). He was her second husband. They married in 1476. During their marriage, he secretly married another woman. The marriage between Barbara and Vladislaus was not legally dissolved until 1500. She had previously been married to Henry XI, Duke of Głogów (1435 ~ 1476). They had married in 1472 when Barbara was just 8 years old. She was of the House of Hohenzollern. She was the daughter of Albrecht III, Elector of Brandenburg and Anna of Saxony. She died at age 51.
1332 ~ Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür (b. Feb. 16, 1304), Chinese Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. He died at age 28.
1031 ~ Saint Emeric of Hungary (b. 1007), member of the Hungarian royal family. He married in 1022, however, the name of his wife is lost to history. He was of the Árpád dynasty. He was the son of Stephen I, King of Hungary and Giselle of Bavaria. The exact date of his birth is not known. He was killed by a boar while hunting.
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