Birthdays:
1959 ~ Saul
Perlemutter, American astrophysicist and recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in
Physics.
1958 ~ Joan
Jett, American singer.
1932 ~ Ingemar Johansson (d.
2009), Swedish world heavyweight champion who beat Floyd Patterson.
1927 ~ Tommy
Lasorda, American baseball player and manager.
1904 ~ Ellen
Church (d. 1965), American nurse. She is
best known for being the first female flight attendant.
1902 ~ John
Houseman (d. 1988), Rumanian-born actor.
1901 ~ Charles B. Huggins (d. 1997),
Canadian-born physician and recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or
Medicine for discovering that hormones could be used to control the spread of
some cancers. His specialty was prostate
cancer.
1896 ~ Uri Zvi Grinberg (d. 1981),
Israeli poet and journalist.
1880 ~ Dame
Christabel Pankhurst (d. 1958), British leader of the women’s suffrage
movement.
1876 ~ André Tardieu (d. 1945), 97th
Prime Minister of France.
1791 ~ Michael
Faraday (d. 1867), British chemist and physicist who discovered the principle
of electromagnetic induction.
1765 ~ Paolo Ruffini (d. 1822),
Italian mathematician.
1515 ~ Anne of Cleves (d. 1557),
English noblewoman and 4th wife of King Henry VIII. The marriage was annulled after a few months;
therefore, she did not lose her head.
Events
that Changed the World:
2015 ~ Yom Kippur began at sunset.
1993 ~ A barge struck a railroad
bridge near Mobile, Alabama. Forty-seven
passengers were killed in the ensuing accident.
1991 ~ The
Dead Seas Scrolls were made available for the first time to the public.
1980 ~ Iraq
invaded Iran. The War lasted nearly 8 years.
1975 ~ Sara
Jane Moore tried to assassinated President Gerald Ford.
1957 ~ François Duvalier, known as
Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti.
1951 ~ The college football game
between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh was the first live sporting event
seen coast-to-coast. The game was
broadcast on NBC.
1941 ~ German SS troops murdered 6,000
Jews who had survived a massacre a few days earlier in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. The murders occurred on Rosh HaShanah.
1869 ~ Das Rheingold, the opera by Richard Wagner, premiered in Munich.
1888 ~ The
first issue of the National Geographic Magazine was published.
1789 ~ The
Office of United States Postmaster General was established.
1761 ~ George
II and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz were crown King and Queen of the
Kingdom of Great Britain.
1598 ~ English playwright Ben Jonson
(1572 ~ 1637), killed an actor in a duel and was indicted for manslaughter.
Good-Byes:
2014 ~
Geraldine “Jerrie” Mock (b. 1925), American housewife who flew around the
world. In 1960, she became the first
woman to fly solo around the world. The
journey took her 29 days, 11 hours and 59 minutes.
2013 ~ David H. Hubel (b. 1926),
Canadian neurophysiologist and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine.
2012 ~ Irving Adler (b. 1913),
American mathematician.
2010 ~ Eddie
Fisher (b. 1928), American singer who left his wife, Debbie Reynolds, for
Elizabeth Taylor.
2007 ~ Marcel
Marceau (b. 1923), French mime artist.
2003 ~
Gordon Jump (b. 1932), American
2002 ~ Jan de
Hartog (b. 1914), Dutch-born writer.
2001 ~ Isaac
Stern (b. 1920), Ukrainian violinist.
1999 ~ George C. Scott (b. 1927),
American actor.
1989 ~ Irving
Berlin (b. 1888), Russian-born American songwriter.
1956 ~ Frederick Soddy (b. 1877),
English chemist and economist. He was
the recipient of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1952 ~ Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (b.
1865), 1st President of Finland.
1776 ~ Nathan
Hale (b. 1755), American patriot during the American Revolutionary War. He was a captain in the Continental
Army. He was hanged by the British as a
spy. Before he died, he stated: I only
regret that I have but one life to give my country.
1774 ~ Pope Clement XIV (né Giovanni
Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, b. 1705).
He was Pope from May 19, 1769 until his death on this date 5 years
later.
1703 ~ Vincenzo Viviani (b. 1622),
Italian mathematician.
1554 ~ Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
(b. 1494), Spanish explorer.
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