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B09011791 Lydia Sigourney, American religious author, "How to Be Happy".
B09011854 Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer, "Hansel and
B09011854CGretel".
B09011866 James `Gentleman Jim' Corbett, prize fighter.
B09011875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist, "Tarzan".
B09011875 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor, Whitney Museum.
B09011898 Marilyn Miller, actress of stage and screen, Findley, Ohio.
B09011901 Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach.
B09011904 Ray Flaherty, AFL, NFL, AAFC coach.
B09011907 Walter Reuther, labor leader, president of U.A.W. and C.I.O.
B09011922 Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense.
B09011922 Yvonne DeCarlo, actress, "Ten Commandments", "Munsters",
B09011922CVancouver B.C.
B09011923 Rocky Marciano, boxer, only heavyweight to retire undefeated.
B09011933 Conway Twitty, country singer, Friar's Point, Miss.
B09011939 Lily Tomlin, actress, comedienne, "9 to 5", Detroit, Mich.
B09011946 Barry Gibb, singer, Bee Gees, Isle of Man, England.
B09011957 Gloria Estefan, singer, Cuba.
B09021838 Queen Liliuokalani, last queen of Hawaii (1891-93).
B09021853 Wilhelm Ostwald, German physical chemist, Nobel 1909.
B09021866 Hiram Johnson, Calif governor, Progressive.
B09021895 Otto Glazer, research physicist, pioneer in radiology, radium
B09021895Ctherapy and nuclear medicine, Dept. head at the Cleveland Clinic
B09021895C(1924-1964).
B09021916 Dorthy May Bundy-Cheney, winner of more than 141 U.S. tennis
B09021916Ctitles.
B09021918 Allan Drury, author.
B09021918 Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General.
B09021937 Peter Ueberroth, baseball commissioner, Chicago, Ill.
B09021948 Terry Bradshaw, NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers).
B09021951 Mark Harmon, Burbank, Ca.
B09021952 James Scott (Jimmy) Connors, tennis brat.
B09031596 Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker.
B09031803 Prudence Crandall, founder of school for "young ladies of
B09031803Ccolour."
B09031849 Sarah Orne Jewett, author.
B09031856 Louis Sullivan, father of modern U.S. architecture.
B09031860 Edward A. Filene, merchant, established U.S. credit union
B09031860Cmovement.
B09031910 Samuel Burber, American composer.
B09031913 Alan Ladd, actor, "Shane".
B09031915 Kitty Carlisle, game show panelist, "What's My Line", New
B09031915COrleans, La.
B09031925 Anne Jackson, actress, Allegheny, Pa.
B09031943 Valerie Perrine, actress, Galveston, Tex.
B09031965 Charlie Sheen, actor, Santa Monica, Ca.
B09041768 François René de Chateaubriand, French poet, novelist, statesman.
B09041810 Donald McKay, U.S. naval architect, builder of fastest clipper
B09041810Cships.
B09041824 Anton Bruckner, Wagner disciple
B09041846 Daniel Burnham, American architect, built skyscrapers.
B09041872 Darius Milhaud, composer.
B09041901 Paul Osborn, playwright.
B09041908 Richard Wright, American author, "Native Son", "Uncle Tom's
B09041908CChildren", near Natchez, Miss..
B09041917 Henry Ford II, businessman.
B09041918 Paul Harvey, radio news commentator, Tulsa, Okla.
B09041920 Craig Claiborne, food columnist, NY Times.
B09041929 Thomas Eagleton, senator, politician.
B09041930 Mitzi Gaynor, actress, dancer, Chicago, Ill.
B09041942 Raymond Floyd, golfer.
B09041949 Tom Watson, golfer, holder of the lowest PGA 72-hole aggregate
B09041949Cof 286.
B09041951 Judith Ivey, actress, El Paso, Tex.
B09051638 Louis XIV (Sun King), king of France (1643-1715).
B09051735 Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach (English Bach).
B09051847 Jesse Woodson James, train robbery, outlaw, born in Missouri.
B09051875 Napolean "Nap" Lajoie, Hall of Fame baseball player, played on a
B09051875CCleveland team.  Sixth player to be inducted.
B09051897 A.C. (Arthur Charles) Nielsen, inventor of the Nielsen rating,
B09051897CChicago, Ill.
B09051902 Darryl F. Zanuck, Hollywood producer and motion picture
B09051902Cexecutive.
B09051905 Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born writer, "Darkness at Noon".
B09051912 John Cage, composer, "Silence".
B09051934 Carol Lawrence, actress, dancer, Melrose Park, Illinois.
B09051937 William Devane, actor.
B09051940 Raquel Welch, actress, "Myra Breckenridge", Chicago, Ill.
B09061757 Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary.
B09061766 John Dalton, chemist, developed the atomic theory of matter.
B09061805 Horatio Greenough, American neoclassical sculptor, writer.
B09061811 James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington.
B09061860 Jane Addams, American pacifist/social worker/feminist, Nobel
B09061860C1931, founded Hull House.
B09061869 Felix Salten, writer, Disney's "Bambi" based on his novel,
B09061869CBudapest, Hungary.
B09061888 Joseph P. Kennedy, financier-diplomat.
B09061890 Claire Lee Chennault, general, aviation pioneer, Flying Tigers
B09061890Cfame, Commerce, Texas.
B09061937 Jo Anne Worley, comedienne, "Laugh-In", Lowell, Indiana.
B09061944 Linda Kaye Henning, actress, "Petticoat Junction".
B09061947 Jane Curtin, comedienne, actress, "SNL", Cambridge, Mass.
B09071533 Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), daughter of Henry VIII.
B09071548 Catherine Parr, 6th and last wife of Henry VIII.
B09071707 George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history.
B09071829 August Kekule von Stradonitz, discovered structure of benzene
B09071829Cring
B09071860 Grandma Moses, American primitive painter
B09071908 Dr. Michael E. De Bakey, artificial heart pioneer.
B09071908 Paul Brown, first coach of the Cleveland Browns (1946-62) and
B09071908CCincinnati Bengals, Football Hall of Fame inductee, Norwalk, Oh.
B09071909 Elia Kazan, Istanbul, Turkey.
B09071913 Anthony Quayle, actor, "Anne of 1000 Days", "Lawrence of Arabia".
B09071914 James Alfred Van Allen, physicist, discovered Van Allen radiation
B09071914Cbelts, Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
B09071923 Peter Lawford, actor, "Mrs. Miniver", "Little Women".
B09071924 Daniel Inouye, U.S. senator, chair of Iran-Contra hearings.
B09071930 Sonny Rollins, saxophonist.
B09071936 Buddy Holly, singer, "That'll Be the Day", "Oh Boy", Lubbock, Tx.
B09071942 Richard Roundtree, actor (Shaft, Earthquake)
B09071950 Chrissie Hynde, singer, Pretenders.
B09071954 Corbin Bernsen (LA Law)
B09081157 King Richard I of England.
B09081830 Frédéric Mistral, Provençal poet, Nobel 1904.
B09081841 Antonín Dvorák in Nelahozeves, Czech, composer, "New World
B09081841CSymphony".
B09081897 Jimmy Rodgers, father of country music, Meridian, Miss.
B09081900 Claude D. Pepper, U.S. congressman.
B09081901 Ernest O. Lawrence, physicist, invented the cyclotron, Nobel
B09081901C1939.
B09081922 Sid Caesar, comedian, TV entertainment pioneer, Yonkers, N.Y.
B09081925 Peter Sellers, (not now, Kato).
B09081925 Denise Darcel, Paris, France.
B09081937 Virna Lisi, actress.
B09081957 Heather Thomas, actress, Greenwich, Conn.
B09091585 Cardinal de Richelieu, chief minister to Louis XIII of France.
B09091789 William Cranch Bond, American astronomer, co-discoverer of
B09091789CHyperion.
B09091850 Harishchandra, Indian poet, dramatist, father of modern Hindi.
B09091868 Mary Austin, feminist, nature writer.
B09091873 Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage director.
B09091877 Frank Chance, Hall of Fame Chicago Cub first baseman and manager,
B09091877Cmember of baseball's most famous double-play combination, Tinker
B09091877Cto Evers to Chance.
B09091905 Joseph E. Levine, film producer.
B09091919 Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, lay you 5 to 1.
B09091925 Cliff Robertson, actor, "Charly", La Jolla, Ca.
B09091932 Sylvia Miles, actress, "Farewell My Lovely", New York, N.Y.
B09091938 Rodney George Laver, tennis pro, first two-time grand slammer.
B09091941 Otis Redding, soul singer, "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay".
B09091949 Joe Theismann, NFL QB (Redskins).
B09091951 Michael Keaton, actor, "Batman", Pittsburgh, Pa.
B09091952 Angela Cartwright, actress, TV's "Lost in Space".
B09091962 Kristy McNichols, Los Angeles, Ca.
B09101487 Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55).
B09101736 Carter Braxton, signed Declaration of Independence, farmer,
B09101736CNewington Plantation, Va.
B09101839 Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (Funk and Wagnalls).
B09101886 Karl Barth, Swedish theologian.
B09101892 Arthur H. Compton, physicist, developed A-bomb, 1927 Nobel.
B09101907 Fay Wray, actress, King Kong's girlfriend, Alberta, Canada.
B09101914 Robert Wise, film director.
B09101915 Edmond O'Brien, actor, "Birdman of Alcatraz".
B09101929 Arnold Palmer, golfer
B09101934 Charles Kuralt, "On the road..." for CBS.
B09101934 Roger Maris, Yankee outfielder, HR champ (61 in 1961)
B09101945 José Feliciano, singer.
B09101948 Margaret Trudeau, former Canadian first lady, Vancouver.
B09101948 Judy Geeson, England.
B09101953 Amy Irving, Palo Alto, Cal.
B09111862 O Henry, pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer.
B09111885 D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, English novelist, "Lady
B09111885CChatterley's Lover".
B09111909 Anne Seymour in England, actress.
B09111913 Bear Bryant, kept the Crimson Tide winning...
B09111917 Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, former Philippines President.
B09111922 Charles Evers, civil rights leader.
B09111923 Betsy Drake, physical fitness expert.
B09111924 Tom Landry, NFL player (NY Giants), coach (Dallas Cowboys).
B09111928 Earl Holliman, actor, "Police Woman", Delhi, La.
B09111937 Robert L. Crippen, astronaut (STS-1, 7, 41C, 41G).
B09111940 Brian De Palma, director, "Dressed to Kill", Newark, N.J.
B09111946 Lola Falana, singer-dancer, Philadelphia, Pa.
B09111962 Kristy McNichol, actress, Los Angeles, Ca.
B09121818 Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of hand-cranked machine gun.
B09121829 Charles Dudley Warner, U.S. newspaperman, author.
B09121856 Johann Heinrich Beck, conductor, composer, teacher, and
B09121856Cviolinist, born in Cleveland.
B09121880 Henry L. Mencken, newspaperman, critic, Baltimore's son.
B09121888 Maurice Chevalier, French singer, actor, "Gigi", "Thanked heaven
B09121888Cfor little girls".
B09121891 Arthur Hays Sulzberger, N.Y. Times owner.
B09121892 Alfred A. Knopf, U.S. publisher.
B09121902 Margaret Hamilton, wicked witch of the west.
B09121913 Jesse Owens, athlete, spoiled Hitler's Olympic plans in 1936,
B09121913CCleveland, Ohio.
B09121921 Amílcar Cabral, worked for independence of Portuguese Africa.
B09121921 Stanislaw Lem, Polish science-fiction writer.
B09121940 Linda Gray, actress, Santa Monica, Ca.
B09121943 Maria Muldaur in Greenwich Village, "Midnight at the Oasis".
B09121944 Barry White, singer.
B09131755 Oliver Evans, pioneered the high-pressure steam engine.
B09131819 Clara Wieck Schumann, German pianist, composer.
B09131851 Walter Reed, who proved mosquitos transmit yellow fever.
B09131857 Milton S. Hershey, U.S. chocolate manufacturer, philanthropist.
B09131860 John "Black Jack" Pershing, U.S. general.
B09131863 Arthur Henderson, British socialist, disarmament worker,
B09131863CNobel 1934.
B09131874 Arnold Schoenberg, American composer, twelve-tone system.
B09131876 Sherwood Anderson, writer, "Winesbury, Ohio".
B09131894 J.B. Priestley, prolific British novelist.
B09131925 Mel Torme, singer, Chicago, Ill.
B09131934 Barbara Bain, actress, "Mission Impossible", Chicago, Ill.
B09131937 Fred Silverman, broadcasting executive (NBC).
B09131938 Judith Martin, Miss Manners.
B09131944 Jacqueline Bisset actress, Weybridge, England.
B09141742 James Wilson, judge, signed Declaration of Independence,
B09141742CCarskerdo, Scotland.
B09141864 Lord Cecil of Chelwood, helped form League of Nations, Nobel
B09141864C1937.
B09141867 Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew the "Gibson Girl"
B09141878 Isadora Duncan, renown dancer.
B09141883 Margaret Higgins Sanger, feminist, nurse, birth control
B09141883Cproponent.
B09141899 Hal Wallis, movie producer.
B09141908 Clayton Moore, the Lone Ranger, Chicago, Ill.
B09141928 Albert Shanker, American labor leader.
B09141938 Nicol Williamson, actress.
B09141934 Kate Millett, writer, feminist, "Sexual Politics".
B09141944 Joey Heatherton, actress, Rockville Center, N.Y.
B0914     Walter Koenig, actor, Ensign Chekov.
B09151789 James Fenimore Cooper, first major American novelist, "Prairie".
B09151857 William Howard Taft (R), 27th President (1909-1913), Cincinnati,
B09151857COhio.
B09151876 Bruno Walter, German-American conductor, founder of Salzburg
B09151876Cfestival.
B09151881 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder.
B09151890 Dame Agatha Christie, mystery writer, "Murder on the Orient
B09151890CExpress".
B09151894 Jean Renoir, cineaste, "Grand Illusion".
B09151903 Roy Acuff, country and western singer
B09151908 Penny Singleton.
B09151913 John Mitchell, attorney general who went to jail.
B09151914 Creighton Abrams, Army general.
B09151922 Jackie Cooper, actor.
B09151929 Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks.
B09151938 Gaylord Perry, baseball player.
B09151940 Merlin Olsen, NFL defensive tackle (Rams), sportscaster, actor.
B09151940CLogan, Ut.
B09151946 Oliver Stone, film director, New York, N.Y.
B09151946 Tommy Lee Jones, actor, San Saba, Tex.
B09151961 Dan Marino, Miami Dolphins QB.
B09151984 Prince Henry, called "just plain Harry at home," Charles and Di's
B09151984Csecond son, London, England.
B09161387 Henry V, king of England (1413-22).
B09161822 Charles S. Crocker, of Southern Pacific fame.
B09161823 Francis Parkman, American historian, author, "Oregon Trail".
B09161877 James J Jeans, cosmologist and astrophysicist.
B09161887 Jean Hans Arp, French avant-garde artist.
B09161888 Frans Sillanpää, Finnish writer, "Meek Heritage", Nobel 1939.
B09161893 Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian biochemist, Nobel 1937.
B09161893 Alexander Korda, Anglo-Hungarian film director.
B09161914 Allen Funt, "Candid Camera" creator, New York, N.Y.
B09161922 Janis Paige, Tacoma, Washington.
B09161924 Lauren Bacall, actress, whistler, "Dark Passage", New York, N.Y.
B09161924 Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945, N.Y.
B09161925 B.B. King, guitarist, musician, Itta Bena, Miss.
B09161925 Charlie Byrd, guitarist.
B09161926 Robert Schuller, televangelist.
B09161927 Peter Falk, actor, "Colombo", New York, N.Y.
B09161932 Anne Francis, actress, "Forbidden Planet", in Ossining, NY.
B09161948 Rosemary Casals, tennis player.
B09161949 Ed Begley, Jr., actor, "St. Elsewhere".
B09161956 David Copperfield, magician, Meluchen, N.J.
B0917 879 Charles III (The Simple), king of France (893-923).
B09171730 Baron von Frederick William Steuben, trained Washington's troops,
B09171730CMagdeburg, Prussia.
B09171743 Marquis de Condorcet, French Enlightenment philosopher.
B09171854 David D. Buick, auto pioneer.
B09171857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket and space research,
B09171857Cfather of Soviet astronautics, Izhevskoye, Russia.
B09171869 Christian Lange, Norwegian pacifist, internationalist, Nobel
B09171869C1921.
B09171901 Sir Francis Chichester, British yachtsman, first to solo around
B09171901Cthe world.
B09171907 Warren E Burger, former Supreme Court chief justice.
B09171923 Hank Williams, country music singer.
B09171927 George Blanda, NFL quarterback, place kicker (Oakland Raiders).
B09171930 Thomas P Stafford, astronaut (Gemini 6, 9, Apollo 10),
B09171930CWeatherford, Okla.
B09171931 Anne Bancroft, actress, "Graduate", Bronx, NY.
B09171934 Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, tennis star
B09171935 Ken Kesey, American writer, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
B09171948 John Ritter, actor, "3's Company", Burbank, Ca.
B09171951 Elvira (Cassandra Peterson), actress, Manhattan, Kansas.
B09181709 Samuel Johnson, Boswell's tour guide, writer.
B09181733 George Read, lawyer, signer of Declaration of Independence, near
B09181733CNorth East, Md.
B09181752 Adrien-Marie Lagendre, mathematician, worked on elliptic
B09181752Cintegrals.
B09181779 Joseph Story, U.S. Supreme Court justice.
B09181819 Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault, his pendulum proved earth rotates.
B09181905 Greta Garbo (Greta Gustafsson), actress, "Grand Hotel",
B09181905CStockholm, Sweden.
B09181905 Claudette Colbert, actress, "It Happened One Night", Paris,
B09181905CFrance.
B09181905 Eddie Anderson, actor.
B09181920 Jack Warden, actor, "Verdict", "Brian's Song".
B09181930 Phyllis Kirk, actress, in N.J.
B09181933 Robert Blake, actor, "Baretta".
B09181940 Frankie Avalon, singer, (beach movies), Philadelphia, Pa.
B09191655 Jan Luyts, Dutch scholar, physicist, mathematician, astronomer.
B09191737 Charles Carroll, signed Declaration of Independence, lawyer,
B09191737CAnnapolis, Md.
B09191897 Louis B.Seltzer, journalist and long-time editor of the Cleveland
B09191897CPlain Dealer.
B09191901 Joseph Pasternak, film producer.
B09191907 Lewis F. Powell, Jr, former U.S. Supreme Court justice.
B09191911 William Golding, British author, "Lord of the Flies", Nobel 1983.
B09191919 Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano.
B09191926 Duke Snyder, baseball player.
B09191933 David McCallum, actor, Ilya Kuryakin, Glascow, Scotland.
B09191940 Paul Williams, singer, composer, actor, Omaha, Neb.
B09191945 Freda Payne, singer, sung about a Band of Gold, Detroit, Mich.
B09191948 Jerome Irons, actor, Cowes, England.
B09191945 Jane Blalock, LPGA Golfer.
B09191946 Twiggy (Leslie Hornby), model, actress, London, England.
B09201833 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian journalist, Nobel Peace Prize
B09201833C1907.
B09201878 Upton Sinclair, novelist, "Jungle".
B09201885 Ferdinand (Jelly Roll) Morton, jazz pianist, composer, singer.
B09201917 Arnold "Red" Auerbach, coach of the Boston Celtics.
B09201928 Doctor Joyce Brothers, New York, N.Y.
B09201929 Anne Meara, New York, N.Y.
B09201934 Sophia Loren, Italian actress, "Black Orchid", Rome, Italy.
B09201959 Allanah Currie, singer, Thompson Twins'.
B09201968 Eric Turner, Cleveland Browns' safety, Ventura, Ca.
B09211452 Girolamo Savonarola, Florentine monk, preacher, reformer
B09211737 Francis Hopkinson, lawyer, writer, signed Declaration of
B09211737CIndependence, Philadelphia, Pa.
B09211756 John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt)
B09211866 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells, futurist, writer, "War of the
B09211866CWorlds", Bromley, Eng.
B09211874 Gustav Holst, composer of 'The Planets'
B09211884 Hugh (Shorty) Ray, supervisor of NFL officials.
B09211931 Larry Hagman, actor, "I Dream of Jeannie", "Dallas", son of Mary
B09211931CMartin, Weatherford, Tex.
B09211932 Melvin Van Peebles, American playwright.
B09211935 Henry Gibson, comedian, Laugh-in's poet, Germantown, Pa.
B09211944 Fanny Flagg, "Candid Camera", Alabama.
B09211947 Stephen King, horror writer, "Shining", "Kujo", Portland, Me.
B09211950 Bill Murray, comedian, SNL's first replacement, Evanston, Ill.
B09221694 Lord Chesterfield, introduced Gregorian calendar to Eng (1752).
B09221791 Michael Faraday, discovered principle of the electric motor.
B09221885 Erich von Stroheim, early film director.
B09221902 John Houseman, actor, "Paperchase", "Ghost Story".
B09221912 Alfred G Vanderbilt, sportsman.
B09221914 Martha Scott, actress.
B09221922 Chen Ning Yang, Chinese physicist, disproved parity, Nobel 1957.
B09221927 Tom Lasorda, baseball manager (LA Dodgers).
B09221940 Anna Karina.
B09221949 Harold Carmichael, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles).
B09221954 Shari Belafonte-Harper, singer, in NY.
B09221956 Debby Boone, singer, daughter of Pat, Hackensack, N.J.
B09221960 Joan Jett, singer, Philadelphia, Pa.
B09221960 Scott Baio, actor, "Joanie loves Chachi", Brooklyn, N.Y.
B0923  63 Octavian (Augustus Ceasar), first Roman emperor.
B09231713 Ferdinand VI, king of Spain (1746-59).
B09231800 William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers for children).
B09231838 Victoria Claflin Woodhull, first woman to run for President
B09231838C(against Grant), N.Y. stockbroker, newspaper publisher, pioneer
B09231838Cof women's rights and free love, Homer, Ohio.
B09231852 William Stewart Halsted, established first surgical school in
B09231852CU.S.
B09231880 John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO, Nobel 1949.
B09231889 Walter Lippmann, journalist, political writer, New York, N.Y.
B09231898 Walter Pidgeon, actor, "Mrs. Miniver", "Madame Curie".
B09231900 Louise Nevelson, sculptor.
B09231920 Mickey Rooney, actor, Brooklyn, N.Y.
B09231926 John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist.
B09231930 Ray Charles, singer, musician, Albany, Ga.
B09231938 Romy Schneider, actress, Vienna, Austria.
B09231943 Julio Iglesias, singer, Madrid, Spain.
B09231949 Bruce Springsteen, rock 'n roll singer, Freehold, N.J.
B09241717 Horace Walpole, English writer.
B09241755 John Marshall, Supreme Court Chief Justice.
B09241824 Richard Gilmour, bishop of the Cleveland Diocese, help founded
B09241824CSt. Ann's Asylum and Maternity House (now east side Kaiser), St.
B09241824CAlexis and St. John's Hospitals, and the newspaper Catholic
B09241824CUniverse.
B09241837 Marcus Alonza Hanna, senator, businessman, and politician, born
B09241837Cin New Lisbon, Ohio.
B09241870 Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light.
B09241890 Sir Alan Herbert, English journalist and writer.
B09241896 F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer, "Great Gatsby", St. Paul, Minn.
B09241911 Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet leader.
B09241921 Jim McKay, ABC Sportscaster.
B09241924 Sheila MacRae, actress, London, England.
B09241930 John W Young, astronaut (Gemini 3, 10, Apollo 10, 16, STS-1, 9),
B09241930CSan Francisco, Ca.
B09241931 Anthony Newley, actor, song writer.
B09241934 John Brunner, British sci-fi author, "Sheep Look Up".
B09241936 Jim Hensen, who made Kermit and Miss Piggy what they are today.
B09241942 Linda Eastman McCartney, singer, Wings.
B09251644 Olaus Roemer, first to accurately measured speed of light.
B09251683 Jean Phillippe Rameau, French composer.
B09251725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed and built first automobile.
B09251728 Mercy Warren, patriot, author, poet and playwright, "History of
B09251728Cthe Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution",
B09251728CBarnstable, Mass.
B09251877 Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-
B09251877C1928).
B09251897 William Faulkner, U.S.  author, "Sound and the Fury", Nobel 1949.
B09251903 Mark Rothko, Abstract Expressionist painter, Dvinsk, Russia.
B09251905 Red Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist, reporter.
B09251906 Dmitri Shostakovich, composer, St. Petersburg, Russia.
B09251918 Phil Rizzuto, NY Yankee.
B09251926 Aldo Ray, actor.
B09251931 Barbara Walters, broadcast journalist, first network news anchor
B09251931Cwoman, Boston, Mass.
B09251937 Juliet Prowse, actress, Bombay, India.
B09251944 Michael Douglas, actor, film director, producer, New Brunswich,
B09251944CN.Y.
B09251951 Mark Hamill, actor, Luke Skywalker, Oakland, Ca.
B09251952 Christopher Reeve, actor, Superman of the '70's, New York, N.Y.
B09251961 Heather Locklear, actress, Jack LaLanne spokesperson, L.A., Ca.
B09261729 Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher, critic, Bible translator.
B09261774 John Chapman, alias Johnny Appleseed.
B09261846 George H. Hulett, inventor of ore-loading machinery, and
B09261846Cindustrialist, born in Conneaut, Ohio.
B09261849 Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, pioneer in psychology.
B09261888 T.S. Eliot, writer, "Waste Land", Nobel 1948, St. Louis, Mo.
B09261889 Martin Heidegger, German Existentialist, founded phenomenological
B09261889Cmovement, "Being and Time", Messkirch, Germany.
B09261891 Charles Munich, American conductor.
B09261897 Paul VI, 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78)
B09261898 George Gershwin, American composer, "Rhapsody in Blue", Brooklyn,
B09261898CN.Y.
B09261914 Jack LaLanne, exercise mogul.
B09261926 Julie London, singer, "Cry Me A River", Santa Rosa, Cal.
B09261927 Patrick O'Neal, actor.
B09261947 Olivia Newton-John, singer, "Let's Get Physical", Cambridge, Eng.
B09261947 Lynn Anderson, singer, Grand Forks, North Dakota
B09261962 Melissa Sue Anderson, actress, Berkeley, Ca.
B09271601 Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43).
B09271722 Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser, leader of the Sons of
B09271722CLiberty, Committee of Correspondence, signed the Declaration of
B09271722CIndependence, Boston, Mass.
B09271792 George Cruikshank, English illustrator.
B09271840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America.
B09271842 Henry Alden Sherwin, manufacturer and co-founder of Sherwin-
B09271842CWilliams Company.
B09271875 Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist, "Old Man of the Mountain",
B09271875C1926 Nobel.
B09271886 Raymond Moley, political-science professor, presidential-advisor
B09271886Cand columnist, born in Berea, Ohio.
B09271895 George Raft, actor.
B09271896 Sam Ervin, senator, Watergate Committee chairman.
B09271899 Thomas Edward "Red" Manning, broadcaster, first radio voice of
B09271899Cthe Cleveland Indians.
B09271918 Sir Martin Ryle, British radio astronomer, astronomer royal 1972-
B09271918C1982.
B09271920 Jayne Meadows (Mrs. Steve Allen), actress, Wu Chang, China.
B09271922 Arthur Penn, stage and film director.
B09271929 Sada Thompson, actress, Des Moines, Iowa.
B09271934 Greg Morris, actor, Mission Impossible, Cleveland, Ohio.
B09271939 Kathy Whitworth, winner of over 80 LPGA tournaments.
B09271947 Cheryl Tiegs, model, actress, born in Minnesota.
B09281573 Michelangelo Caravaggio, Italian painter.
B09281820 Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher.
B09281839 Frances Willard, founded Women's Christian Temperance Union.
B09281852 Henri Moissan, French chemist, isolated fluorine, Nobel 1906.
B09281887 Avery Brundage, American president of Olympic Committee for 20
B09281887Cyears.
B09281902 Ed Sullivan, CBS variety show host.
B09281909 Al Capp, cartoonist, put Dogpatch, USA on the map.
B09281916 Peter Finch, British actor, "Network".
B09281924 Marcello Mastroanne, Italian actor.
B09281925 Seymour Cray, inventor of Cray I computer.
B09281928 Roddy McDowall, actor "Planet of the Apes".
B09281934 Brigitte Bardot, actress, Paris, France.
B09281941 Charley Taylor, NFL wide receiver, running back (Redskin).
B09281952 Sylvia Kristel, actress, "Emmanuelle", Holland.
B09281954 Steve Largent, wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks).
B09291755 Lord Robert Clive, founder of British empire in India.
B09291758 Adm Horatio Nelson, British naval hero at Trafalgar.
B09291787 David Long, Cleveland's first physician.
B09291848 Caroline Ardelia Yale, American educator of deaf.
B09291858 Charles Sumner Howe, educator.
B09291877 Frank Ray Walker, a Cleveland architect, Municipal Stadium and
B09291877CPublic Auditorium.
B09291895 Joseph B Rhine, parapsychologist.
B09291898 Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, Soviet biologist, agriculturalist.
B09291901 Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, A-bomb.
B09291907 Gene Autry, cowpoke/singer/actor/Calif Angels owner, Tioga, Tex.
B09291908 Greer Garson, actress, Co. Down, North Ireland.
B09291929 Bob Newhart, comedian, actor, Oak Park, Ill.
B09291931 Anita Ekberg, actress, Malmo, Sweden.
B09291935 Jerry Lee Lewis, rock n' roll star, Ferriday, La.
B09291942 Bill Nelson, astronaut (STS 61C).
B09291942 Madeline Kahn, actress, Boston, Mass.
B09291943 Lech Walesa, electrician, Polish labor and Solidarity leader,
B09291943CNobel 1983.
B09291948 Bryant Gumbel, TV broadcaster, "Today".
B09291956 Sebastian Coe, British middle-distance runner.
B09301627 Robinson Crusoe, according to Daniel Defoe.
B09301802 Antoine Jerome Balard, discovered the element bromine.
B09301861 William Wrigley, Jr., founder of gum company, owner of the
B09301861CChicago Cubs, Phoenix, Arizona.
B09301870 Jean Perrin, French physicist, studied Brownian motion, Nobel
B09301870C1926.
B09301895 Lewis Milestone, U.S. film director.
B09301921 Deborah Kerr, actress, "King and I", "Night of Iguana",
B09301921CHelensburgh, Scotland.
B09301924 Truman Capote, a short story writer, novelist, "In Cold Blood".
B09301926 Edmund de Rothschild, French financier.
B09301928 Elie Wiesel, author, "Souls on Fire", Nazi hunter, Nobel 1986.
B09301931 Angie Dickinson, actress, Kulm, ND.
B09301935 Johnny Mathis, singer, San Francisco, Ca.
B09301943 Marilyn McCoo, singer, 5th Dimensions, Jersey City, N.J.
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S09011772 the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in California.
S09011852 Robert E. Lee is appointed superintendent of West Point.
S09011859 the first pullman sleeping car is put in service.
S09011859 R.C.Carrington and R. Hodgson make the first observation of a
S09011859Csolar flare.
S09011864 General Sherman captures Atlanta.
S09011870 Napoleon III is captured at Sedan.
S09011878 the first woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in
S09011878CBoston).
S09011890 the first baseball tripleheader is played - Boston vs Pittsburgh.
S09011896 Chop Suey is devised to appeal to both American and Chinese
S09011896Ctaste. The word means 'hash' in Chinese.
S09011902 Clifton Boulevard opens in Lakewood, Ohio.
S09011914 the last passenger pigeon, Martha, dies in captivity at the
S09011914CCincinnati Zoo.
S09011939 Germany invades Poland, dividing the country with Russia, which
S09011939Cattacked Poland Sept. 6.
S09011939 black Holes are first dealt with in the Physical Review issue.
S09011949 the first network detective series, "Private Eyes", premieres.
S09011969 Col. Moammar Gadhafi rises to power by deposing of Libya's King
S09011969CIdris I in a bloodless coup.
S09011970 the world's first computer chess tournament opens.
S09011971 Qatar declared itself independent.
S09011972 Bobby Fischer wins the world championship of chess by defeating
S09011972Cthe Russian master, Boris Spassky..
S09011977 the first TRS-80 Model I computer is sold.
S09011978 Indians' Sammy Stewart tosses 7 consecutive strikeouts, setting a
S09011978Cclub record (vs. Baltimore).
S09011983 a Korean Boeing 747, Flight 007, strays into Soviet air space and
S09011983Cis shot down by a Soviet jet fighter (U.S. admits a spy plane was
S09011983Cin the same area two hours before the airliner).
S09011984 a solar power array is deployed by the space shuttle.
S09011985 the Titanic, sunk in 1912, is found by French and American
S09011985Cscientists.
S0901    2Labor Day, a legal holiday.
S0901     Beginning of Orthodox church year.
S0901     Feast of St. Drithelm of Northumbria, c. 700.
S0901     Feast of St. Giles, abbot.
S0902  31 BC Battle of Actium -  Octavian defeats Antony and becomes
S0902  31CEmperor Augustus.
S0902  31 BC, the Roman fleet under Octavian defeats the fleet of Antony
S0902  31Cand Cleopatra.
S09021666 the Great Fire of London starts at 1 AM inside a baker's shop;
S09021666Cdestroys St. Paul's Church.
S09021752 was the last day of Julian calendar in Britain and the British
S09021752Ccolonies.
S09021789 the U.S. Treasury Department is established by Congress.
S09021804 K. L. Harding discovers Juno, the third known asteroid.
S09021859 gas lighting is introduced to Hawaii.
S09021898 the machine gun is used for the first time in a large-scale
S09021898Cconflict at the battle of Omdurman in Sudan (20 English guns
S09021898Cversus ten's of thousands of Sudanese calvary).
S09021901 Vice-President Teddy Roosevelt quotes an African proverb, "Speak
S09021901Csoftly and carry a big stick, you will go far."
S09021924 Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in New York
S09021924CCity, including the famous "Indian Love Call."
S09021945 Japan formally surrenders unconditionally.
S09021945 Vietnam declares independence from France (National Day).
S09021957 Milwaukee Brave's Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game.
S09021958 the National Defense Education Act is signed, providing students
S09021958Cloans and aid for technical education.
S09021963 Gov. Wallace calls state troopers to prevent integration at a
S09021963CTuskegee, Alabama high school. (JFK counters by federalizing the
S09021963CAlabama National Guard on September 10 to insure integration.
S09021963 CBS and NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes.
S0902    2Labor Day, a legal holiday.
S0902     Feast of St. William, c. 1070, English bishop, apostle to Danes.
S0902     Feast of St. Stephen, first King of Hungary.
S0902     Great Britain adopts Gregorian calendar (1752).
S09031609 Henry Hudson first enters New York harbor and begins sailing up
S09031609Cthe river that carries his name in search for the Northwest
S09031609CPassage.
S09031783 Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, is signed.
S09031849 the California State Constitutional Convention convenes in
S09031849CMonterey.
S09031912 the world's first cannery opens in England to supply food to the
S09031912Cnavy.
S09031916 the Allies turn back the Germans in World War I's Battle of
S09031916CVerdun.
S09031935 the first automobile to exceed 300 mph is driven by Sir Malcolm
S09031935CCampbell.
S09031939 Britain declares war on Germany.  France follows six hours later,
S09031939Cand is quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and
S09031939Canada.
S09031940 the first showing of high definition color TV is presented.
S09031943 Allied troops invade Italy (Italy signs a secret surrender which
S09031943Cis announced on Sept. 8).
S09031949 John Cade publishes results of lithium's first clinical trial on
S09031949Cmental patients.
S09031967 Lt. Gen. Ngyuen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam.
S09031976 U.S. Viking 2 lands on Mars at Utopia. (Viking spacecrafts' tests
S09031976Cstrengthen the hint of life on Mars.)
S09031978 the crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29.
S09031983 the U.S. Census reports the world population at 4.72 billion.
S0903    2Labor Day, a legal holiday.
S0903     Feast of St. Pius X, pope (1903-14).
S0903     Qatar National Day.
S09041682 Halley gets his only look at the comet that will bear his name.
S09041781 Los Angeles is founded in the Valley of Smokes (Indian Name).
S09041807 Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat on the Hudson River.
S09041833 the first newsboy in the U.S. is hired (Barney Flaherty) by the
S09041833CN.Y. Sun.
S09041841 the first congregation of Lakewood, Ohio is organized by James
S09041841CNicholson (First Society of Rockport).  The church on Detroit and
S09041841CAndrews is completed in 1848 (the First New Jerusalem Church of
S09041841CRockport.)
S09041866 the first daily newspaper in Hawaii is published.
S09041870 the French republic is proclaimed.
S09041882 New York's Pearl Street Station becomes the first district lit by
S09041882Celectricity.
S09041885 the first cafeteria opens for business, in New York City.
S09041886 the Apache chief, Geronimo, surrenders, ending last major U.S.-
S09041886CIndian war.
S09041888 George Eastman patents first roll-film camera and registers
S09041888C"Kodak".
S09041918 U.S. troops land in Archangel, Russia, and stay 10 months.
S09041928 the first cargo of Cleveland-made goods departs for Europe via
S09041928Cdirect ship.
S09041950 the first helicopter rescue of an American pilot behind enemy
S09041950Clines occurs.
S09041951 President Truman makes the first transcontinental TV broadcast.
S09041951 NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network.
S09041964 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1).
S09041970 George Harrison releases the single "My Sweet Lord".
S09041972 American swimmer Mark Spitz becomes the first athlete to win 7
S09041972COlympic gold medals.
S09041977 four cases of the mysterious Legionnaires disease is confirmed in
S09041977COhio.
S09041987 the National Cancer Institute reports the first known case of a
S09041987Cresearcher getting AIDS in the lab.
S0904    2Labor Day, a legal holiday
S09051774 the first Continental Congress is held in Philadelphia.
S09051781 at the Battle of Virginia Capes, the French Fleet defeats the
S09051781CBritish rescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown.
S09051836 Sam Houston is elected president of the Republic of Texas.
S09051882 10,000 workers marched in the first Labor Day parade in NYC.
S09051885 the first gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer.
S09051905 the Treaty of Portsmouth is signed ending the Russian-Japanese
S09051905CWar.
S09051922 Yankees play their final game at the Polo Grounds, after 7 years.
S09051923 Flyweights Gene LaRue and  Kid Pancho KO each other
S09051923Csimultaneously.
S09051939 the U.S. declares neutrality in the European war.
S09051953 the first privately operated atomic reactor goes on line in
S09051953CRaleigh, N.C.
S09051958 the first color video recording on magnetic tape is presented in
S09051958CCharlotte, N.C.
S09051961 the U.S. makes airline hijacking a federal offense.
S09051972 11 Israeli athletes are slain by members of the Black September
S09051972Cgroup at the Munich Olympics.
S09051973 White House aide Ehrlichman, and three others are indicted for
S09051973Cstealing Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatric records.
S09051975 Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme is arrested after agents save
S09051975CPresident Ford by pulling gun from her hand.
S09051977 the Cleveland Indians stage the first "I hate the Yankee Hanky
S09051977CNight".
S09051977 Voyager 1 is launched for a fly-by of Jupiter and Saturn.
S09051978 Sadat, Begin and Carter open a peace conference at Camp David,
S09051978CMd.
S09051980 World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens.
S09051986 the U.S. launches an unmanned rocket on a secret mission to the
S09051986Cmoon, the first since the Challenger.
S0905    2Labor Day, a legal holiday.
S0905     Be Late For Something Day.
S0905     Feast of St. Laurence Justinian, bishop of Venice, confessor.
S09061522 the Victoria, the only ship left of Magellan's five-ship fleet,
S09061522Creturns to Spain with 18 of the original 277 men, and after
S09061522Ctravelling 42,000 miles.
S09061628 Puritans land at Salem, and form the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
S09061716 the first lighthouse in U.S. is built, in Boston.
S09061869 the first westbound train arrives in San Francisco.
S09061873 regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street.
S09061876 Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to San Francisco is
S09061876Ccompleted.
S09061901 President William McKinley is shot in Buffalo, N.Y., (dies
S09061901CSept.14).
S09061907 the Liner Lusitania leaves London on its maiden voyage.
S09061913 Dr. Noguchi isolates rabies germ.
S09061941 the Nazis issue an order requiring the Star of David to be warn
S09061941Cby Jews.
S09061946 the Cleveland Browns played, and won, their first game.
S09061946 the third All-American Football Conference plays its first game
S09061946C(Cleveland 44, Miami 0).
S09061954 Yankees record a record with 10 pinch hitters.
S09061968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain.
S09061972 John and Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.
S09061975 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for asylum in the U.S.
S09061976 a Soviet pilot lands a highly advanced MIG-25 in Japan and asks
S09061976Cfor U.S. political asylum.
S09061978 the House Select Committee on Assassination opens hearings into
S09061978Cthe assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
S09061978 a doctor in California develops a successful method of choosing
S09061978Ca child's sex.
S09061991 the new State Council of Russia recognizes the independence of
S09061991CEstonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
S09061992 a F-14 Tomcat loses an engine at the Cleveland Air Show and makes
S09061992Can emergency landing at Burke Lakefront Airport.  The pilot
S09061992Cstates had it been the other engine, the plane would have crashed
S09061992Cinto the boats on the lake watching the show.
S0906    2Labor Day, a legal holiday.
S0906     Feast of the Transfiguration.
S0906     National Holiday of Swaziland.
S09071822 Brazil declares its independence from Portugal.
S09071880 George Ligowsky of Cincinnati is granted a patent for his device
S09071880Cto throw clay pigeons for trapshooters.
S09071892 the first gloved match under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules
S09071892Coccurs in New Orleans.
S09071896 the first closed-circuit auto race is ran in Cranston, R.I.
S09071916 the U.S. Congress activates Workmen's Compensation Act,
S09071916Cencompassing 500,000 federal employees.
S09071921 the first bathing beauty contest, for Miss America, is held in
S09071921CAtlantic City.
S09071931 Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, is
S09071931Cdedicated.
S09071948 the first use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete occurs
S09071948Cin Akron, Oh.
S09071971 the BBC bars "Sesame Street" because of alleged authoritarian
S09071971Caims.
S09071977 the treaty is signed giving the Panama Canal to Panama in 1999.
S09071978 scientists produce insulin through genetic engineering.
S09071979 President carter announces plan to deploy 200 MX missiles.
S09071981 Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets a club record with 57 pass
S09071981Cattempts (completing 31), Browns 14, San Diego 44.
S09071992 a F-14 Tomcat, the second in two days, loses an engine at the
S09071992CCleveland Air Show and makes an emergency landing at Burke
S09071992CLakefront Airport.
S09071992 the Pinzone Pavilion at the Cleveland Children's Museum is
S09071992Cdedicated.
S09071992 Baseball Commissioner Vincent resigns.
S0907    2Labor Day, a legal holiday.
S0907     Independence Day, celebrated in Brazil.
S0907    1National Grandparents' Day.
S09081565 the first permanent settlement in U.S. is founded at St.
S09081565CAugustine, Florida.
S09081664 the Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (New York) to the English,
S09081664Crecapture it in 1673, then ceded it back in 1674.
S09081771 the Mission San Gabriel Archangel is founded in California.
S09081858 Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people.
S09081883 Northern Pacific Railroad's last spike is driven at Independence
S09081883CCreek, Mont.
S09081898 the East Ohio Gas Company is incorporated.
S09081920 the first U.S. Air Mail service begins.
S09081924 Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes first woman ambassador.
S09081939 the Yankees beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7 innings (game is called because
S09081939Cof lightning).
S09081941 Ho Chi Minh forms the League for the Independence of Vietnam
S09081941C(Viet Minh) which leads resistance to the occupying Japanese.
S09081943 Italy's surrender to the allies in WW II is announced (they had
S09081943Csigned a secret surrender five days earlier).
S09081944 the Nazis' new remote-controlled rockets, the V-2's, are first
S09081944Cdirected at London and Antwerp.
S09081945 Tokyo Rose (Los Angeles-born Iva Togori) is arrested in Yokohama.
S09081954 the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is formed.
S09081966 the first Star Trek episode, "Man Trap," aired on NBC.
S09081967 Uganda is proclaimed a republic.
S09081971 the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens in
S09081974CWashington, D.C.
S09081974 President Gerald Ford pardons former president Richard Nixon.
S09081974 Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to rocket across the Snake
S09081974CRiver.
S09081976 artist Christo unveils his $2 million, 24-mile environmental art
S09081976Cwork, "The Running Fence".
S09081977 Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy.
S09081978 Pan Am and National Airlines agree to a $350 million merger.
S09081982 three of the five Lutheran denominations in America vote to
S09081982Cmerge, creating the third largest Protestant Church in the U.S.
S09081983 a Czech family escapes from the Austria in a hot air balloon
S09081983Cmade of raincoats.
S0908     International Literacy Day.
S0908     Feast of the Nativity of Mary.
S0908    1National Grandparents' Day.
S09091776 the Continental Congress authorizes the name "United States".
S09091839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
S09091850 California becomes the 31st state.
S09091850 the Territories of New Mexico and Utah are created.
S09091867 Luxembourg gains independence.
S09091892 E.E.Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, the fifth Jupiter moon.
S09091895 the American Bowling Congress is formed in New York City.
S09091926 NBC is created by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
S09091932 Frank Crosetti ties the record, strikes out twice in 1 inning.
S09061946 the Cleveland Browns play their first regular season game in the
S09061946CAll-American Conference, Browns 44, Miami 0.
S09091948 North Korea proclaims its independence as the Democratic People's
S09091948CRepublic of Korea.
S09091950 the first use of TV laugh track is employed by Hank McCune.
S09091956 Elvis Presley appears on Ed Sullivan's "Toast of the Town" for
S09091956Cthe first time.
S09091960 the fourth American Football League plays its first game
S09091960C(Denver 13, Boston 10).
S09091964 William Willis, a 71-year-old American explorer and author,
S09091964Ccompletes a two-stage, 9,800-mile, 200 day drift across the
S09091964CPacific Ocean from Peru to Queensland, Australia.
S09091965 the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is created.
S09091965 Sandy Koufax pitches the ninth perfect game, and becomes the
S09091965Cfirst to pitch four no-hitters.
S09091966 LBJ signs a car safety bill, creating the National Traffic Safety
S09091966CAgency.
S09091967 the first successful test flight of a Saturn V rocket occurs.
S09091968 Arthur Ashe becomes the first black male to win a major tennis
S09091968Ctournament (U.S. Open).
S09091971 John Lennon releases the "Imagine" album.
S09091975 Viking 2 is launched toward Mars.
S09091982 "Conestoga I", the first private rocket, is launched.
S09091984 Michael Witt pitches the twelve perfect game in major league
S09091984Chistory, Angels 1, Texas 0.
S09091985 President Reagan, in reversal, authorizes limited sanctions
S09091985Cagainst South Africa.
S0909     Admission Day, a California Holiday.
S0909     Feast of St. Gorgonius, martyr.
S0909     National Day in North Korea.
S0909    1National Grandparents' Day.
S09101608 John Smith is elected president of the Jamestown colony council.
S09101813 the Battle of Lake Erie is won by Commodore Oliver Perry.
S09101846 Elias Howe receives a patent for his sewing machine.
S09101847 the first theater opens in Hawaii.
S09101860 Commodore Perry's statue is the first monument erected on
S09101860CCleveland's Public Square.
S09101860 the Hower and Higbee store opens (later is became the  Higbee
S09101860CCo.)
S09101869 a Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan to
S09101869Chelp his invalid wife get about.
S09101894 the Cleveland Trust Company (later Ameritrust) is organized.
S09101897 George Smith of London, after 2 or 3 beers, drives his cab into a
S09101897Cbuilding entrance (becoming the world's first convicted drunk
S09101897Cdriver).
S09101913 Lincoln Highway opens as the first paved coast-to-coast highway.
S09101919 the treaty of Saint-Germain is signed in Austria forcing
S09101919Crecognition of Czech, Polish, Hungarian, and Yugoslavian
S09101919Cindependence.
S09101934 Aristed Van Grosse isolates Proaclinium, element 91, in
S09101934CCleveland.
S09101937 the first American Football League plays its first game (LA 21,
S09101937CPittsburgh 0).
S09101953 an underground explosion blows up 3/4 of mile of West 117th
S09101953CStreet.  The cause is never determined.
S09101953 Swanson sells it's first "TV Dinner".
S09101955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS television.
S09101960 Mickey Mantle's home run in Detroit over the right field roof is
S09101960Cmeasured trigonometrically in 1985 to have traveled 643 feet.
S09101963 President Kennedy federalizes Alabama National Guard to insure
S09101963Cintegration of schools in Alabama.
S09101967 Surveyor V soft-lands on the moon, and sends photos back to the
S09101967CU.S.
S09101967 the Denver Broncos gain a total of -5 yards against the Oakland
S09101967CRaiders (NFL record).
S09101974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
S09101979 Britain ends production of the MG sportscar.
S09101989 the Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive
S09101989Crecord, Browns 51, Steelers 0.
S0910     Feast of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, confessor.
S0910    1National Grandparents' Day.
S09111777 the British under Howe defeats Washington at the Battle of
S09111777CBrandywine, Pa.
S09111782 British attack Fort Henry, Wheeling, WV., the last battle of the
S09111782CAmerican Revolution, eleven months after the war.
S09111814 the Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Lake Champlain.
S09111850 the "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives her first concert.
S09111853 the first electric telegraph is in use, Merchant's Exchange to
S09111853CPoint Lobos.
S09111910 the first commercially successful electric bus line opens, in
S09111910CHollywood.
S09111912 Phillies' Edward T. Collins sets the modern record for the most
S09111912Cstolen bases in a game with 6.
S09111926 Aloha Tower is dedicated (in Honolulu).
S09111929 Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system.
S09111950 the "Dick Tracy" TV show sparks uproar concerning violence.
S09111950 the first typesetting machine to dispense with metal type is
S09111950Cexhibited.
S09111954 the first Miss America Contest is broadcasted on TV.
S09111972 BART begins service with a 26 mile line from Oakland to Fremont.
S09111973 Chilean President Allende is killed in a C.I.A.-backed coup.
S09111981 Interior Secretary James Watt announces major cutbacks in the EPA
S09111981Cresources.
S09111984 Secretary of State Shultz says U.S. will admit thousands of
S09111984CVietnamese children fathered by U.S. servicemen.
S09111985 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose hits his 4,192 base hit, surpassing Ty
S09111985CCobb's record.
S09111986 Congress approves the use of the military to curb drug imports.
S09111987 CBS Anchor Dan Rather, angry over news delay due to a tennis
S09111987Cmatch, walks off set, leaving seven minutes of dead air.
S0911     Feast of SS. Protus and Hyacinth, martyrs.
S0911    1National Grandparents' Day.
S0912 490 BC the Athenians defeat the second Persian invasion of Greece at
S0912 490CMarathon.
S09121758 Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula and begins a catalog.
S09121848 Switzerland adopts a new federal constitution patterned after the
S09121848CU.S.
S09121928 Katharine Hepburn makes her New York stage debut in
S09121928C"Night Hostess."
S09121948 "Meet the Press" first airs weekly on NBC.
S09121953 John F. Kennedy weds Miss Jaqueline Lee Bouvier.
S09121954 the Indians sweep the Yanks at Municipal Stadium.  Fans sets club
S09121954Cand major league attendance records for a doubleheader, 84,587.
S09121959 "Bonanza" premieres.
S09121966 "The Monkees" premieres.
S09121980 the Chevy Chevette, the ford Escort, and the Mercury Lynx are the
S09121980Cfirst U.S. cars to record 30 mpg.
S09121985 the U.S. ends policy of checking draft registration through
S09121985Ccollege records.
S09121991 the 43rd Shuttle Mission, Discovery 13 is launched.
S09121992 the 50th Shuttle Mission, the Endeavour, the $2 billion
S09121992Creplacement for the Challenger, is launched on it's second
S09121992Cmission, carrying the first married couple and the first black
S09121992Cwoman into space, and the first Japanese to fly on a U.S.
S09121992Cspacecraft.
S0912     Cape Verde National Day.
S0912     Feast of the Holy Name of Mary.
S0912    1National Grandparents' Day.
S09131513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the isthmus of Panama and
S09131513C"discovers" the Pacific Ocean.
S09131583 Dante Alighieri Day.
S09131786 the Connecticut Act of Cession is signed, ceding all Connecticut
S09131786Cclaims to lands of Ohio, except the Western Reserve, to the
S09131786CFederal government.
S09131788 New York City becomes the capitol of the United States.
S09131845 the Knickerbocker Club, which codified baseball rules, is founded
S09131845Cin New York City.
S09131882 J.H. Wade donates land to Cleveland (later becomes Wade Park).
S09131905 the Cleveland News premiers.
S09131922 the world's highest shade temperature is recorded at Al' Aziziyah
S09131922C(El Azizia), Libya (136.4 degrees F).
S09131953 NBC votes to ban crime shows before 9:30 PM.
S09131953 Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist
S09131953CParty.
S09131959 the Soviet's Lunak II becomes the man-made spacecraft on the
S09131959Cmoon.
S09131961 an unmanned Mercury capsule orbits and is recovered in a test for
S09131961Cthe first manned flight.
S09131961 "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres.
S09131963 "The Outer Limits" premieres.
S09131965 the Beatles' "Yesterday" is released.
S09131970 IBM announces the System 370 computer.
S09131976 the National Academy of Sciences backs curbs on fluorocarbon
S09131976Cgases as propellants in aerosol spray cans.
S09131976 the California Legislature approves the Natural Death Act, the
S09131976Cnation's first right-to-die law, permitting a terminally ill
S09131976Cperson to avoid life-prolonging treatment.
S09131977 the first TV viewer discretion warning is employed for Soap.
S09131979 Venda, an unrecognized nation, is granted independence by South
S09131979CAfrica.
S09131985 the first anti-satellite rocket, fired from a F-15 at a satellite
S09131985C290 miles above the earth, is tested successfully.
S0913    1National Grandparents' Day.
S0913    6Friday the 13th!  Beware!
S09141716 the first lighthouse in U.S. is lit (in Boston Harbor).
S09141752 England and its colonies adopt the Gregorian calendar (11 days
S09141752Cdisappear).
S09141814 the Star Spangle Banner is written by Francis Scott Key while the
S09141814CBritish bombard Fort McHenry.  (Originally titled "Defense of
S09141814CFort McHenry".)
S09141848 Alexander Stewart opens the first department store in the U.S.
S09141886 the typewriter ribbon is patented.
S09141892 A.P. Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo.
S09141899 while in New York, Henry Bliss becomes the first automobile
S09141899Cfatality.
S09141939 the first practical helicopter, the VS300, is test flown.
S09141940 Congress passes the first peace time draft law.
S09141948 Milton Berle starts his TV career on the Texaco Star Theater.
S09141956 the first prefrontal lobotomy is performed, Washington, D.C.
S09141960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and Saudia Arabia form OPEC.
S09141964 Walt Disney is awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House.
S09141965 "F-Troop" premieres.
S09141968 Denny McLain of Detroit Tigers wins his 30th game, the first to
S09141968Cdo so since Dizzy Dean in 1934.
S09141972 Pope Paul VI abolishes the tonsure, the circular shaving of the
S09141972Chead of aspirants to the priesthood.
S09141974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, the 13th satellite of Jupiter.
S09141975 the first U.S.-born saint, Mother Elizabeth Ann Baylor Seton
S09141975C(1774-1821) is canonized.
S09141981 "Entertainment Tonight" premieres.
S0914     Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.
S0914     National Boss/Employee Exchange Day.
S09151534 the Jesuit Order is founded.
S09151789 the Department of Foreign Affairs is renamed the Department of
S09151789CState.
S09151821 Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras and Nicaragua all
S09151821Cgain their independence.
S09151882 Jeptha Wade donates 73 acres to create the original Cleveland
S09151882CZoo.
S09151916 Britain first uses the tank in the Battle of the Somme, the
S09151916Cbloodiest battle in all history.
S09151917 Russia is proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky.
S09151928 Alexander Fleming reports discovering a bacteria-killing compound
S09151928C(penicillin).
S09151930 the first international bridge match is held in London. The
S09151930CU.S. team defeats Great Britain.
S09151935 new Reich laws deprive German Jews of citizenship and make the
S09151935Cswastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
S09151937 WPA extends the L-Taraval streetcar to the Zoo (at Sloat Blvd).
S09151940 the second American Football League plays its first game
S09151940CMilwaukee 14, Columbus 2).
S09151947 the first 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane is tested in
S09151947CColumbus, Oh.
S09151952 the first "American Bandstand" is broadcasted in Philadelphia.
S09151957 "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres.
S09151960 the People's Republic of the Congo gains independence.
S09151965 "Lost in Space" premieres.
S09151972 two former White House aides, Hunt and Liddy, and five others are
S09151972Cindicted for the Watergate break-in.
S09151981 International Peace Day.
S0915     Independence Day, for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala,
S0915    CHonduras and Nicaragua.
S0915     Felt Hat Day, when men of fashion put away their straw hats.
S0915     Battle of Britain Day.
S0915     Feast of the 7 Sorrows of Mary.
S0915    3Intl Day of Peace (UN observance).
S09161620 the Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 149 pilgrims.
S09161630 Shawmut, Massachusetts, changes its name to Boston.
S09161782 the Great Seal of the United States is used for the first time.
S09161810 Mexico first declares independence from Spain (National Day).
S09161857 the patent is issued for the typesetting machine.
S09161893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opens to white settlement homesteaders.
S09161908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors.
S09161915 Haiti becomes a U.S. protectorate.
S09161919 American Legion is incorporated by an act of Congress
S09161940 the first peace-time draft in U.S. is enacted.
S09161950 the Cleveland Browns play their first regular season game in the
S09161950CNational Football League, Browns 35, Philadelphia 10.
S09161963 the Federation of Malaysia is formed by Malaya, Singapore,
S09161963CSarawak and North Borneo (Singapore later withdraws).
S09161964 "Shindig" premieres.
S09161966 the new Metropolitan Opera House in N.Y. opens.
S09161968 Richard Nixon appears on Laugh-in.
S09161974 President Ford announces conditional amnesty for draft evaders
S09161974Cproviding they agree to work two years in public service.
S09161974 BART begins regular transbay service.
S09161975 Rhodes Scholarship administrators announce fellowships will be
S09161975Coffered to women.
S09161975 Papua New Guinea gains independence.
S09161976 the Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests and
S09161976Cbishop
S09161984 "Miami Vice" premieres.
S09161987 70 nations sing an accord to save the ozone layer.
S0916     Independence Day, celebrated in Mexico.
S0916     Feast of SS. Cornelius, pope (251-53), and Cyprian, bishop,
S0916    Cmartyrs.
S0916    3International Day of Peace (U.N. observance).
S09171776 the Presidio of San Francisco was founded as Spanish fort.
S09171787 the U.S. Constitution is adopted.
S09171789 William Herschel discovers Mimas, a satellite of Saturn.
S09171819 the first whaling ship arrives in Hawaii.
S09171862 the Battle of Antietam, Md occurs; Confederate forces retreat.
S09171908 the first person dies in an airplane crash (Thomas Selfridge).
S09171911 C.P. Rogers begins the first transcontinental airplane flight.
S09171911CHe travels from New York City to Pasadena in 82 air-hours.
S09171920 owners of professional football teams meet in Canton to discuss
S09171920Cforming the American Professional Football Association (later
S09171920Cbecame the N.F.L.).
S09171922 the first public presentation of sound on film occurs in Berlin,
S09171922CGermany.
S09171927 Charles Lindbergh in San Francisco.
S09171930 Earl Averill becomes the first Cleveland Indian to homer three
S09171930Ctimes in one game.  (He did it in consecutive at-bats!)
S09171947 James Forrestal is sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense.
S09171947 the Department of Defense is established, uniting all branches of
S09171947Cthe armed services.  James Forrestal is sworn in as the first
S09171947CSecretary of Defense.
S09171962 the U.S. Justice Department files the first federal suit to end
S09171962Cracial segregation in public schools.
S09171963 "The Fugitive" premieres.
S09171964 "Bewitched" premieres.
S09171967 "Mission Impossible" premieres.
S09171972 BART begins passenger service.
S09171976 NASA unveils the Space Shuttle.
S09171978 Begin, Sadat and Carter sign the Camp David Accord.
S09171978 Mohammad Ali, in a decision over Leon Spinks, becomes the first
S09171978Cto win the heavyweight title three times.
S09171983 Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America
S09171983C(relinquishes the title Jul. 23, 1984).
S0917     Constitution Day.
S0917     Citizenship Day.
S0917     Impression of the Stigmata of St. Francis.
S0917     St. Lambert's Day (Anglican).
S0917    3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance).
S09181759 Wolfe defeats Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, capturing
S09181759CQuebec (Canada becomes English) - both generals are killed.
S09181777 when the British were about to occupy Philadelphia, the Liberty
S09181777CBell is moved to Allentown, Pa.
S09181793 Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol Building.
S09181810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day).
S09181851 "The New York Times" goes on sale, at 2 cents a copy.
S09181882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board).
S09181895 D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes the first chiropractor.
S09181927 the Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (now CBS) transmits
S09181927Cits first program.
S09181927 airplane passenger service between Cleveland and Detroit is
S09181927Cstarted by Stout Air Services.
S09181954 the Cleveland Indians win the American League pennant (for the
S09181954Clast time).
S09181954 the Saturday Evening Post prints an article proclaiming Hiram
S09181954CCollege the "happiest college in the land".
S09181957 "Wagon Train" premieres.
S09181961 U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is killed in Northern
S09181961CRhodesia in an plane crash.
S09181965 "Get Smart" premieres.
S09181975 Pattie Hearst, Symbionese Liberation Army hostage/accomplice, is
S09181975Capprehended.
S09181977 the U.S. Voyager I takes the first space photograph of the earth
S09181977Cand moon together.
S09181984 Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the
S09181984CAtlantic.
S0918     Independence Day, celebrated in Chile.
S0918     The start of the Jewish New Year.
S0918     Feast of St. Joseph of Cupertino, confessor.
S0918    3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance).
S09191356 the English defeat the French at the Battle of Poitiers.
S09191665 weekly deaths in London are reported at 10,000.
S09191796 George Washington delivers his farewell address as president.
S09191812 Napoleon's retreat from Russia begins.
S09191848 Bond (U.S.) and Lassell (England) independently discover
S09191848CHyperion.
S09191849 the first commercial laundry is established, in Oakland, Cal.
S09191873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co. fails, causing a securities panic.
S09191881 President James A. Garfield dies from gun-shot wound.
S09191928 Mickey Mouse makes his screen debut in  "Steamboat Willie."
S09191955 President Peron of Argentina is overthrown by rebels.
S09191957 the first underground nuclear test is set off.
S09191968 a baby is born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!).
S09191970 "The Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres.
S09191975 undersea explorers find wreckage of early Bronze Age ships off
S09191975Cthe coast of Greece.
S09191977 Jacqueline Onassis negotiates settlement with her late husband's
S09191977Cdaughter for $20 million.
S09191981 Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel perform a reunion concert in Central
S09191981CPark, New York.
S09191982 streetcars stop running on Market St. in San Francisco after 122
S09191982Cyears of service.
S09191983 top commodity trader Marc Rich is indicted on $48 million tax
S09191983Cevasion, the biggest in U.S. history.
S09191983 the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis is created.
S09191986 "Captain EO" permieres at Disney World.
S09191989 an appeals court restores the America's Cup to the U.S.
S09191989CThe New York Supreme Court took it away when New Zealand
S09191989Cprotested the U.S.'s use of a catamaran in the race.
S09191991 the Iceman, a Stone Age wanderer and the most ancient human being
S09191991Cever found, is discovered in the Similaun glacier in the Alps on
S09191991Cthe Italian-Austrian border
S0919     National Aviation Day.
S0919     Feast of St. Januarius and his companions, martyrs.
S0919     St. Gennaro Day (celebrated in Italy).
S0919    3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance).
S09201519 Magellan starts the first successful circumnavigation of the
S09201519Cworld.
S09201797 the U.S. frigate "Constitution" (Old Ironsides) is launched in
S09201797CBoston.
S09201859 a patent is granted on the electric range.
S09201860 the Prince of Wales, later to become King Edward VII, becomes
S09201860Cthe first British royalty to visit the United States.
S09201863 the Confederate Army under Bragg and Longstreet defeat the Union
S09201863Cunder Rosecran at Chickamauga, Tenn.
S09201880 Western Reserve College moves to Cleveland.
S09201884 the Equal Rights Party founding convention in San Francisco
S09201884cnominates female candidates for President and Vice President.
S09201863 the Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tn, ends.
S09201946 rock slides into the Niagara Gorge turns the American Falls into
S09201946Cthe Horseshoe Falls.
S09201946 the first Cannes Film Festival is held on the French Riviera.
S09201952 Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase publish a report confirming DNA
S09201952Cholds hereditary data.
S09201952 "The Jackie Gleason Show" premieres on CBS.
S09201954 the first FORTRAN computer program is ran.
S09201961 after 84 1/3 innings, Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls.
S09201961 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 and barely misses # 60 in game 154
S09201961Cof the season.
S09201967 the HMS Queen Mary makes he final voyage.
S09201968 Mickey Mantle hits his final career homer, # 536.
S09201973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in straight sets in the battle-
S09201973Cof-sexes tennis match.
S09201982 NFL players begin the first strike during the season in its 63-
S09201982Cyear history.
S09201987 Walter Payton scores his 107th rushing touchdown to break the
S09201987CNFL record of 106 held by Jim Brown.
S09201992 Eric Metcalf scores 4 TD's in the Browns 28-16 win over the
S09201992CRaiders (first Brown to do so since Leroy Kelly on Dec. 1, 1968).
S0920     Feast of St. Eustace and his companions, martyrs.
S0920    3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance).
S09211784 the first successful daily newspaper in U.S. begins publication,
S09211784Cthe Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser.
S09211792 the first French Republic is declared.
S09211895 the first auto manufacturer opens, Duryea Motor Wagon Company.
S09211915 the famous stones at Stonehenge, England, are sold at auction
S09211915Cto C.H.E.  Chubb of Salisbury, England for 6,600 pounds.
S09211930 Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention, the flashbulb.
S09211945 President Truman approves recommendation by Secretary of War
S09211945CHenry Stimson to designate the war as "World War II".
S09211946 the last game is played at Cleveland's League Park, Detroit 5,
S09211946CIndians 3.
S09211949 the People's Republic of China is proclaimed.
S09211954 the first nuclear submarine, the "Nautilus," is commissioned.
S09211957 "Perry Mason" premieres.
S09211964 Malta gains independence from Britain.
S09211969 the Jets' Steve O'Neal sets the record for the longest punt, 98
S09211969Cyards.
S09211970 "Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC, broadcasted from
S09211970CCleveland, Ohio (Browns 31, Jets 21).
S09211971 the U.S.  reveals eight unanswered 1945 letters from Ho Chi Minh
S09211971Cseeking aid against French colonial rule.
S09211981 Sandra Day O'Connor is the first woman appointed to the Supreme
S09211981CCourt.
S09211981 Belige gains independence from Britain.
S09211982 the cable cars in S.F. cease operations for 2 years of repairs.
S09211992 former Secretaries of State Melvin Laird and James Schlennger
S09211992Ctell the Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs they belive POW's
S09211992C(133's fate is still unknown) were left behind in Vietnam (Henry
S09211992CKissinger and Alexander Haig, the next day, refute the
S09211992Ctestimony, but the Committee concludes on Jan. 5, 1993 that POWs
S09211992Cwere "probably" left).
S0921     Fall begins today.
S0921     Feast of St. Matthew, apostle, evangelist
S0921    3International Day of Peace (United Nations observance)
S09221776 Nathan Hale is executed as a spy by the British.
S09221780 the first recorded lynching occurs, named after William Lynch who
S09221780Cterrorized British sympathizers and loyalists.
S09221789 the U.S. Post Office is established.
S09221792 the First Republic of France is declared (France is governed by
S09221792Cthe Fifth Republic since 1958).
S09221863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech.
S09221872 Reverend S.H. McCallister is inaugurated as the first president
S09221872Cof Buchtel College, now the University of Akron, and the college
S09221872Cis officially opened.
S09221886 Miss Annie Hathaway Brown's School for Girls opens in Cleveland.
S09221893 the first auto built in U.S. runs in Springfield (built by Duryea
S09221893Cbrothers.)
S09221903 Italo Marchiony is granted a patent for the ice cream cone.
S09221908 Fred 'Bonehead' Merkle misses 2nd base, costing N.Y. Giants the
S09221908Cpennant.
S09221918 the first transcontinental trucking run (22 days) arrives in San
S09221918CFrancisco from Boston.
S09221927 during the famous "long count" fight, Dempsey loses boxing title
S09221927Cto Tunney.
S09221951 a Stockholm court fines a sailor for kissing his girl in public,
S09221951Ccalling the offense "obnoxious behavior repulsive to public
S09221951Cmorals."
S09221959 the first telephone cable linking Europe and the U.S. is
S09221959Cinaugurated.
S09221961 the Peace Corps is formally established.
S09221964 "The Man from UNCLE" premieres.
S09221975 President Ford escapes possible assassination by Sara Jane Moore.
S09221980 Proctor and Gamble recalls a brand of tampons that is linked to
S09221980CToxic Shock Syndrome.
S09221980 workers in Gdansk, Poland, led by Lech Walesa, create the new
S09221980Cunion Solidarnosc, or Solidarity.
S09221980 the 8-year-long Iran-Iraq War begins over a dispute of the Shatt
S09221980Cal Arab waterway.
S09221981 the bullet-nosed 160 mph train called the TGV makes its French
S09221981Cdebut.
S09221983 Interior Secretary James Watt apologizes for a remark about "a
S09221983Cblack, a woman, two Jews and a cripple" (he is forced to resign
S09221983COct.9).
S09221987 the second regular-season National Football League player strike
S09221987Cbegins.
S09221988 following a disputed boxing decision in the Seoul Olympics,
S09221988CSouth Korean coaches attack a New Zealand referee and
S09221988Cprompts one of the biggest riots in Olympic history.  Mean-
S09221988Cwhile, the Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in.
S09221991 the Huntington Library in San Marcos, California decides to open
S09221991Cits collection of film negatives of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
S09221992 the U.N. expels (seat vacant) Yugoslavia because of its
S09221992Cinvolvement in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the first time a
S09221992Cmember is removed from the organization.
S09221992 the oldest structures ever found, 12,000-year-old prehistoric
S09221992CIndians, are discovered in Sharon County, Ohio.
S0922     The Autumn Harvest Festival in Wheaton, Illinois.
S0922     Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga.
S0922     Autumn Harvest Festival in Wheaton, Illinois.
S0922     Feast of St. Thomas of Villanova, bishop of Valencia, confessor.
S0923  63 BC - Augustus becomes the first Roman Emperor.
S09231779 John Paul Jones on the Bon Homme Richard defeats the H.M.S.
S09231779CSerepis and Countess of Scarborough.
S09231780 John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point.
S09231846 Johann Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune.
S09231912 the first Mack Sennett "Keystone Cop Comedy" movie is released.
S09231916 eight-year-old Anthony Farrer receives the Albert Medal for
S09231916Cfighting off a cougar to save a girl.
S09231932 the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is formed (National Day).
S09231952 Richard Nixon makes his famous "Checkers" speech.
S09231952 the first closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event is
S09231952Cseen.
S09231962 ABC's first color TV series premieres, "The Jetsons".
S09231973 the largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049 - 1, is discovered.
S09231976 the first Ford-Carter TV debate is broadcasted.
S09231977 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on "Charlie's Angels".
S09231979 St. Louis Cardinal Lou Brock, in his last New York appearance as
S09231979Ca player, steals his 938th base, a major league record.
S09231981 it is announced that a 1971 tape links Nixon to a plan to use
S09231981cTeamsters "thugs" against war protesters.
S0923     The first day of Fall.
S0923     Feast of St. Linus, 2nd pope (c 67-c 76), martyr.
S09241789 Congress' Federal Judiciary Act creates the position of Attorney
S09241789CGeneral and the Supreme Court.
S09241845 the first baseball team is organized.
S09241852 a new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated.
S09241853 the first round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt) is
S09241853Cmade.
S09241869 Black Friday: crashing gold prices causes stock market panic.
S09241895 the first round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle occurs
S09241895C(took 15 months.)
S09241903 Bill Bradley becomes the first Cleveland baseball player
S09241903C(Cleveland Naps) to hit for the cycle.
S09241908 Robert B. Rhoads becomes the first Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland
S09241908CNaps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1.
S09241929 Lt. James H. Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over
S09241929CMitchell Field in N.Y. in the first all-instrument flight.
S09241934 Babe Ruth makes his farewell appearance as a baseball player.
S09241941 the French Resistance National Council forms to organize
S09241941Canti-Nazi efforts in Europe.
S09241954 "The Tonight Show" premieres.
S09241957 Eisenhower orders U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock schools.
S09241960 the first atomic powered aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Enterprise,
S09241960Cis launched.
S09241964 "The Munsters" premieres.
S09241964 the first Minuteman II ICBM is tested.
S09241968 "60 Minutes" premieres.
S09241969 the trial of the `Chicago 8' begins.
S09241970 the Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth, completing the first unmanned
S09241970Cround trip to the moon.
S09241976 newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is sentenced to 7 years for her
S09241976Cpart in a 1974 bank robbery. She is released after 22 months by
S09241976CPresident Carter.
S09241979 CompuServe system is started.
S0924     Feast of Our Lady of Ransom
S09251513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa is the first European to see the Pacific
S09251513COcean.
S09251639 the first printing press is operating in America.
S09251690 the "Publick Occurrences", the first American newspaper,
S09251690Cpublishes its first and last edition.
S09251775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen is captured.
S09251789 Congress submits the Bill of Rights to the states for
S09251789Cratification.
S09251846 the discovery of Neptune is announced (discovered two days
S09251846Cearlier).
S09251890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park.
S09251942 the Maritime Commission announces 488 ships were built in the
S09251942Cpast year.
S09251956 the first transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation,
S09251956CNewfoundland to Scotland.
S09251974 scientists first report freon gases released from aerosol spray
S09251974Ccans are destroying the ozone layer.
S09251975 the Senate makes public 238 illegal FBI burglaries against
S09251975Cdissident groups.
S09251981 Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first female Supreme Court
S09251981Cjustice.
S09251992 a 12-year-old boy wins a suit in a Florida court ending the
S09251992Cparental rights of his natural mother and allowing his foster
S09251992Cparents to adopt him.
S09261542 Cabrillo discovers California.
S09261687 the Parthenon is destroyed in the war between Turks and
S09261687CVenetians.
S09261789 Jefferson is appointed the first Secretary of State, John Jay the
S09261789Cfirst Chief Justice, Samuel Osgood the first Postmaster, and
S09261789CEdmund J. Randolph the first Attorney General.
S09261824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives.
S09261896 John Philip Sousa leads band's first performance in Plainfield,
S09261896CNew Jersey.
S09261914 the Federal Trade Commission is organized.
S09261926 scientists find the skull of a prehistoric man in Java, believed
S09261926Cto be the "missing link".
S09261934 the Queen Mary is launched (her maiden voyage begins 5/27/1936).
S09261945 Camus' play "Caligula" has world premiere in Paris.
S09261955 actress Debbie Reynolds marries singer Eddie Fisher (daughter
S09261955CCarrie is born 13 months later).
S09261957 the musical "The West Side Story" opens on Broadway.
S09261957 "Three Faces of Eve" starring Joanne Woodward opens.
S09261960 the first of four TV Nixon and Kennedy debates take place in
S09261960CChicago.
S09261962 the TV comedy "The Beverly Hillbillies" premieres on CBS.
S09261962 Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed (National Day).
S09261965 Queen Elizabeth decorates the Beatles with the Order of the
S09261965CBritish Empire.
S09261966 the Staten Island is the first icebreaker to enter San Francisco
S09261966CBay.
S09261969 Beatles' "Abbey Road" album is released.
S09261972 the American Museum of Immigration is opened at the base of the
S09261972CStatue of Liberty.
S09261976 Denver's Rick Upchurch returns 2 punts for TD's against
S09261976CCleveland, the most in one game in Browns' history, Browns 13,
S09261976CBroncos 44.
S09261977 the Cleveland Browns play their first overtime game, Browns 30,
S09261977CPatriots 27.
S09261977 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate `Skytrain' service London to
S09261977CNew York.
S09261983 Australia wins America's Cup, ending a 132-year U.S. reign.
S09261991 the self-reliance and ecological harmony experiment of Biosphere
S09261991C2 begins, intending to last two years.
S0926     Feast of SS. Cyprian and Justina, martyrs.
S0926     Feast of St. Cosmas and Damian.
S09271540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola.
S09271777 at the Battle of Germantown, Washington is defeated by the
S09271777CBritish.
S09271825 the first public railroad using steam locomotion is completed
S09271825Cin England.
S09271919 the Democratic National Committee votes to admit women.
S09271923 Lou Gehrig's hits his first homer.
S09271938 Bob Hope's first success in radio, the "Pepsodent Show" on NBC,
S09271938Cdebuts.
S09271938 the HMS Queen Elizabeth is launched on her maiden voyage.
S09271941 the first WW II liberty ship, the freighter Patrick Henry, is
S09271941Claunched.
S09271954 Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" premieres.
S09271964 the Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
S09271979 Congress approves the creation of the Department of Education.
S09271986 the Senate approves the most comprehensive tax reform bill since
S09271986CWW II.
S09271987 the 50 millionth VCR is shipped to market.
S0927     Ancestor Appreciation Day.
S0927     Feast of SS. Cosmas and Damian, martyrs.
S09281066 William the Conqueror lands in England.
S09281542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay.
S09281781 siege of Yorktown begins, last major battle of the
S09281781CRevolutionary War.
S09281785 Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in
S09281785CParis (42 in a class of 51).
S09281787 the Constitution is submitted to the states for ratification.
S09281858 Donati's comet becomes the first to be photographed.
S09281904 a woman is arrested for smoking a cigarette on 5th Avenue, N.Y.C.
S09281920 a grand jury indicts 8 Chicago White Sox for throwing the 1919
S09281920CWorld Series with the Cincinnati Reds, baseball's biggest
S09281920Cscandal.
S09281924 the first circumnavigation of the earth by air is completed by
S09281924Ctwo U.S. Army Douglas DWC amphibians.
S09281941 Ted Williams assures his 400 avg. on the last day with 6 hits.
S09281951 Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams passes for a NFL-record 554 yards.
S09281958 the U.S. Air Force selects the Thor over the Jupiter rocket for
S09281958Cmass production as ICBM's.
S09281959 Explorer VI takes the first TV pictures of Earth.
S09281960 Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 at his last turn at bat.
S09281966 the N.Y. Whitney Museum, home for American Art, opens.
S09281969 Euclid Beach Park in Cleveland closes.
S09281971 Cardinal Mindszenty, after a 15-year confinement in the U.S.
S09281971CEmbassy in Budapest, accepts exile in Rome.
S09281982 the first reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol
S09281982Ccapsules.
S09281986 Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the
S09281986Clongest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24,
S09281986CDetroit 21.
S0928     Feast of St. Wenceslas, duke and patron of Bohemia, martyr.
S09291650 Henry Robinson opens the first marriage bureau, in England.
S09291752 Michaelmas.
S09291829 Scotland Yard is formed in London.
S09291892 Cleveland General Electric Company (later C.E.I.) is organized.
S09291892 the first night football game is played in Mansfield, Penn.
S09291923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public.
S09291928 the Yanks (17) and the Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45).
S09291928CTigers win 19-10
S09291943 Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is published in the U.S.
S09291951 the first color telecast of football game on network airs.
S09291951 S. Nicholson discovers the 4th and the 12th satellite of Jupiter.
S09291957 the fans chase the Giants to the clubhouse after the last game
S09291957Cbefore the move to California.
S09291969 "Love American Style" premieres.
S09291982 cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills seven in Chicago.
S09291986 the House overrides Reagan's veto on South African sanctions.
S09291986 Indians' Jay Bell, on his first appearance at the plate, hits a
S09291986Chome run.
S09291987 Don Mattingly hits record sixth grand slam in a season.
S09291988 the 26th Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 is launched, the first
S09291988Cshuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
S09291992 Magic Johnson announces he will return to the Lakers.  He
S09291992Cannounced he was retiring Nov. 7, 1991 because he had contracted
S09291992cthe AIDS virus.  His first game in uniform was October 10.
S0929     Feast of the Archangels SS. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.
S0929     Michaelmas (Feast of St. Michael), quarter day in medieval
S0929    CEngland.
S09301452 the first book is published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible.
S09301659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe).
S09301846 the first tooth extraction is done under anesthetics in
S09301846CCharlestown, Mass., by William Morris.
S09301878 the first immigrants from Portugal arrive in Hawaii.
S09301880 Henry Draper takes the first photograph of the Orion Nebula.
S09301898 the City of New York is established.
S09301927 Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run.
S09301929 the first rocket plane makes successful test flight.
S09301934 in Ruth's final game as a Yankee, he goes 0 for 3.
S09301935 "Porgy & Bess" premieres in Boston (not New York).
S09301939 the first televised College football game airs, Fordham vs
S09301939CWaynesburg.
S09301949 the Berlin airlift is officially halted after 277,264 flights
S09301949C(the blockade ended May 12, 1949).
S09301952 Cinerama, a new film projection system with wide-angle screen,
S09301952Cis displayed to the public.
S09301953 President Eisenhower chooses California Governor Earl Warren as
S09301953CChief Justice of the Supreme Court.
S09301960 on Howdy Doody's last show, Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye,
S09301960Ckids"
S09301960 "The Flintstones" premieres.
S09301961 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
S09301961Cis established.
S09301966 Botswana gains independence from Britain.
S09301971 in the last Washington Senator home game, the Yankees win career
S09301971Cfifth forfeit.  With the Yankees trailing 4-2 in the 9th with 2
S09301971Couts, the fans rush the field.
S09301978 John Paul I dies after just a month as Pope, the second shortest
S09301978Creign in the Church's history.
S09301982 H. Ross Perot and Jay Colburn complete the first circumnavigation
S09301982Cof the world in a helicopter (Spirit of Texas).
S09301984 the Browns set a team record for allowing the most sacks (11),
S09301984CBrowns 6, K.C. 10.
S09301985 the Soviets offer a 50% cut in arms in return for Star Wars
S09301985Ccurbs.
S0930     Feast of St. Jerome, doctor, patron of scholars, librarians.
S0930     Huey P. Long Day in Louisiana.
R0900     It's Bourbon Month!
R0900     The gem for September is the sapphire.
R0900     The morning-glory is the flower of September.
R0900     September means the seventh month in Latin.
R09010922 Virgo is the zodiac sign for this day.
R09010922   Symbol: The Virgin.
R09010922   Ruling Planet: Mercury.
R09010922   Element: Earth.
R09010922   Traits: Analytical, discriminating, modest, neat.
R09010922   Body part associated with this sign: The belly.
R09010922   Occupations: Editor, medicine, chemistry, research, accounting.
R09230930 Libra is the Zodiac sign for this day.
R09230930   Symbol: The Balance.
R09230930   Ruling Planet: Venus.
R09230930   Element: Air.
R09230930   Traits: Charming, diplomatic, idealistic, indecisive.
R09230930   Body part associated with this sign: Reins.
R09230930   Occupations: Acting, the arts, law and legal activities,
R09230930    politics.