Birthdays:
1955 ~ Efim
Zelmanov, Russian mathematician.
1954 ~ Corbin
Bernsen, American actor best known his role as Arnie Becker on LA Law.
1951 ~
Chrissie Hynde, American singer and guitarist.
She was a member of The Pretenders.
1950 ~ Julie
Kavner, American actress best known as the voice of Marge Simpson on the TV
show, The Simpsons.
1950 ~ Peggy Noonan (née Margaret
Ellen Noonan), American journalist and
political speechwriter. She was the
primary speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan.
1949 ~ Gloria
Gaynor, American singer.
1936 ~ Buddy Holly (né Charles Hardin
Holly, d. Feb. 3, 1959), American singer.
He was killed in a plane crash at age 22.
1934 ~ Meir Brandsdorfer (d. May 13,
2009), Belgian-Israeli rabbi. He died at
age 74 of cardio-vascular disease.
1926 ~ Ronnie Gilbert (née
Ruth Alice Gilbert, d. June 6, 2015), American folksinger who was blacklisted
in the 1950s during a period of anti-communist sediment due to her left-wing
sympathies. She was one of the original
members of The Weavers. She was 88 years old.
1925 ~ Laura Ashley (d. Sept. 17, 1985),
British fashion designer. She died just
10 days after her 60th birthday after falling down a flight of
stairs. She suffered from a brain
hemorrhage.
1925 ~ Robert Jastrow (d. Feb. 8, 2008),
American astronomer who brought outer space down to earth. He died at age 82.
1924 ~ Daniel Inouye (d. Dec. 17, 2012),
American politician from Hawaii. He died
at age 88.
1923 ~ Peter Lawford (né Peter
Sydney Ernest Alyen, d. Dec. 24, 1984), English-American actor. He was the former brother-in-law to President
John F. Kennedy during his marriage to the President’s sister, Patricia. He died at age 61 of cardiac arrest,
complicated by renal and liver failure.
1917 ~ Sir John Cornforth (d. Dec. 8, 2013),
Australian chemist and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 96.
1915 ~ Kiyoshi Itō (d. Nov. 7, 2008),
Japanese mathematician. He died at age
93.
1914 ~ James Van Allen (d. Aug. 9, 2006),
American physicist. The Van Allen
radiation belts are named in his honor.
He died a month before his 92nd birthday.
1912 ~ David Packard (d. Mar. 26, 1996),
American businessman and co-founder of Hewlett-Packard. He died at age 83.
1911 ~ Todor Zhivkov (d. Aug. 5, 1998),
Prime Minister of Bulgaria. He served in
that position from November 1962 until July 1971. He died a month before his 87th
birthday.
1909 ~ Elia Kazan (d. Sept. 28, 2003),
Greek-American actor and movie director.
He died 3 weeks after his 94th birthday.
1908 ~ Michael
Ellis DeBakey (d. July 11, 2008), Lebanese-American cardiologist, surgeon and
inventor, best known for being a pioneer in heart transplants. He made heart transplants seem routine. He was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, He died at age 99.
1900 ~ Taylor Caldwell (né Janet Miriam
Holland Taylor Caldwell, d. Aug. 30, 1985), English-born American
novelist. She is best known for her
novel entitled Captains and the Kings.
She died 8 days before her 85th birthday.
1887 ~ Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (d. Dec.
9, 1964), British poet and critic. She
died at age 77.
1885 ~ Elinor Wylie (d. Dec. 16, 1928),
American author and poet. She died of a
stroke at age 43.
1875 ~Edward Francis Hutton (d. July 11,
1962), American businessman and financier.
He was a co-founder of E.F. Hutton & Company. He died at age 86.
1860 ~ Grandma
Moses (née Anna Mary Robertson Moses, d. Dec. 13, 1961), American folk
artist. She died at age 101.
1836 ~ Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (d.
Apr. 22, 1908), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was Prime Minister from December 1905
until his death on this date in April 1908 during the reign of King Edward VII. He died at age 71, just 19 days after he
resigned as Prime Minister.
1819 ~ Thomas A. Hendricks (d. Nov. 25, 1885),
21st Vice President of the United States. He served under President Grover Cleveland
for only 8 months, from March 1885 until his death at age 66 in November 1885.
1818 ~ Thomas Talbot (d. Oct. 6, 1885),
31st Governor of Massachusetts.
He served as Governor from January 1879 until January 1880. He died a month after his 67th birthday.
1707 ~ Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de
Buffon (d. Apr. 16, 1788), French mathematician. He died at age 80.
1533 ~ Queen Elizabeth I of England (d.
Mar. 24, 1603). She was the daughter of
King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She was
Queen from November 1558 until her death nearly 50 years later. She died at age 69.
1524 ~ Thomas Erastus (d. Dec. 31, 1583),
Swiss physician and theologian. He
argued that sinners should be punished by the government, and not the Church,
believing that the Church should not withhold sacraments to sinners. He died at age 59.
Events that Changed the World:
2015 ~ Labor
Day in the United States.
2008 ~ The United States government took
control over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
2004 ~
Hurricane Ivan hit Grenada as a Category 5 storm, killing nearly 40 people.
1999 ~ A 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit
Athens, Greece, killing over 140 people, and leaving over 50,000 people
homeless.
1979 ~ The Chrysler Corporation sought a
$1.5 Billion hand-out from the United States government to avoid bankruptcy.
1979 ~ The Entertainment and Sports
Programming Network (ESPN) began broadcasting.
1978 ~ While walking across the Waterloo
Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov (1929 ~ 1978) was
assassinated when he was hit with a ricin pellet fired from a specially
designed umbrella by a Bulgarian secret police agent.
1953 ~ Nikita Khrushchev (1894 ~ 1971)
was elected as the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1943 ~ A fire at the Gulf Hotel in
Houston, Texas killed over 50 people. This
fire remains the worst loss of life in a fire in that city’s history.
1942 ~ Over 8,700 Jews from Kolomyia in
the western Ukraine were sent to the Belzec concentration camp.
1940 ~ The Blitz of London in World War
II began. The bombing lasted for 57
consecutive nights.
1927 ~ The first fully electronic
television system was achieved by Philo Farnsworth (1901 ~ 1971).
1923 ~ The International Criminal Police
Organization (INTERPOL) was formed.
1921 ~ The first Miss American Pageant
was held. It was a two-day event in
Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sixteen-year
old Margaret Gorman (1905 ~ 1995) would be crowned the first Miss America on
the second day of the event.
1901 ~ The Boxer Rebellion during the
Qing dynasty in China officially ended with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
1896 ~ Physician Ludwig Wilhelm Rehn
(1849 ~ 1930) Carl conducted the first successful heart surgery when he
repaired a stab wound suffered by a 22-year old man.
1864 ~ General William Tecumseh Sherman
(1820 ~ 1891) ordered the evacuation of Atlanta, Georgia during the American
Civil War.
1822 ~ Brazil declared its independence
from Portugal.
1818 ~ Carl III (1763 ~ 1844) of
Sweden-Norway was crowned King of Norway.
1654 ~ The
first Jewish immigrants in North America fled from Recife, Brazil, after
Portugal took control of the country. The
Jews settled in what was is now New York.
The Dutch West Indies Company allowed them to stay despite the
opposition of Governor Peter Stuvyesant.
1630 ~ The City of Boston, Massachusetts
was founded.
1228 ~ Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II
(1194 ~ 1250) landed in Acre, in what is now Israel, and started the Sixth
Crusade. This ultimately resulted in a
peaceful restitution of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
70 ~ The tradition date ascribed to
when the Roman army under Titus occupied and plundered Jerusalem.
Good-Byes:
2015 ~ Dickie
Moore (né John Richard Moore, Jr., b. Sept. 12, 1925), American child superstar
who survived the Hollywood limelight. He
was one of the last surviving actors to have appeared in silent films. He appeared in such films as Our Gang and Sergeant York. He died 5
days before his 90th birthday.
2010 ~ Barbara
Holland (b. Apr. 5, 1933), American writer who celebrated her vices, such as
drinking and smoking cigarettes. She
died at age 77 of lung cancer.
2010 ~ John Werner
Kluge (b. Sept. 21, 1914), German-born American immigrant who build a media
empire. He died 2 weeks before his 96th
birthday.
2003 ~ Warren Zevon (b. Jan. 24, 1947),
American musician. He died at age 56.
2002 ~ Uziel Gal (b. Dec. 15, 1923),
Israeli firearms designed and namesake of the Uzi submachine gun. He died at age 78.
1991 ~ Edwin McMillan (b. Sept. 18, 1907),
American physicist and recipient of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died less than 2 weeks before his 84th
birthday.
1981 ~ Christy Brown (b. June 5, 1932).
Irish painter and writer. He had cerebral
palsy and was able to write and paint only with his feet. His autobiography was entitled My Left
Foot, which was later made into a film by the same name. He died at age 49.
1978 ~ Keith Moon (b. Aug. 23, 1946),
British musician who played was the drummer for The Who. He died of a drug
overdose 15 days after his 32nd birthday.
1969 ~ Everett Dirksen (b. Jan. 4, 1896),
United States Senator from Illinois. He
died at age 73.
1962 ~ Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke,
(née Karen Christenze Denesen, b. Apr. 17, 1885), Danish author who wrote under
the name Isak Dinesen. She is best known
for her memoir, Out of Africa.
She died at age 77.
1951 ~ John French Sloan (b. Aug. 2,
1871), American artist. He died at age
80 in Hanover, New Hampshire.
1942 ~ Cecilia Beaux (b. May 1, 1855),
American painter. She died at age 87 in
Gloucester, Massachusetts.
1893 ~ Hamilton Fish (b. Aug. 3, 1808),
26th United States Secretary of State. He served under Presidents Ulysses S. Grant
and Rutherford B. Hayes. He served in
that Office from March 1869 through March 1877.
He had previously served as the Governor of New York, from January 1849
through December 1950. He died about a
month after his 85th birthday.
1892 ~ John Greenleaf Whittier (b. Dec.
17, 1807), American poet and abolistionist.
He was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts and died in Hampton Falls, New
Hampshire. He died at age 84.
1731 ~ Eudoxia Lopukhina (b. Aug. 9,
1669), Russian wife of Tsar Peter the Great.
She died a month after her 62nd birthday.
1362 ~ Joan of The Tower (b. July 5,
1321), Scottish wife of King David II of Scotland. She was known as Joan of the Tower because
she was born in the Tower of London. She
died at age 41. She was most likely a
victim of the Black Death.
1151 ~ Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count
of Anjou (b. Aug. 24, 1113). He died
suddenly just 14 days after his 38th birthday.
859 ~ Emperpr Xuānzong
of Tang (b. July 27, 810), Chinese emperor.
He was the last emperor of the Tang dynasty. He died at age 49.
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