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Today in History ~ September 14
Events1628 - Salem, Mass., was founded.
1666 - St Paul's in London destroyed by fire
1716 - 1st lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor)
1741 - George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days
1776 - The British Army entered New York City after defeating the Americans, under Gen. Washington, at the Battle of Long Island.
1807 - Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
1812 - Napoleon occupies Moscow & fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th). The Russians have occasionally adopted the "scorched earth" policy to keep out invaders. Napoleon lost a large hunk of his army in the invasion of Russia and the wintry retreat that followed. [H]
1814 - Francis Scott Key composed the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the massive British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812. [H]
1847 - During the Mexican-American War, US Marines under General Winfield Scott entered Mexico City and raised the American flag over the Hall of Montezuma "From the halls of Montezuma..." [H]
1848 - Alexander Stewart opens 1st US dept store
1854 - Allied armies, including those of Britain & France, land in Crimea
1856 - Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders
1857 - Mormon leader Brigham Young tried to prevent US troops from entering the territory of Utah. Mormon settlers were hostile to immigrants flowing into Utah.
1862 - Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harper's Ferry
1862 - Skirmish at Mountain MD (Boonesboro, Crampton's Gap, Fox's Gap)
1872 - Britain pays US $15 million for damages during Civil War
1876 - Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda
1882 - British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
1886 - George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon
1901 - 42-year-old Theodore Roosevelt is suddenly elevated to the White House when President McKinley dies from an assassin's bullet. [H]
1912 - The United States government notified Nicaragua that it would protect American lives and property there and uphold the government against rebels. That, of course, meant the Marines. The United States has a long history of intervening in Central American politics, and an equally long history of lying about it to its citizens
1917 - Alexsandr Kerenski regime declares Russian republic
1919 - British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dail
1930 - Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
1933 - 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
1938 - Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
1939 - British fleet attacks German U39 U-boat
1939 - Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow where the British battle fleet is anchored
1940 - Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
1940 - German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die
1942 - Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942 - Another bad day for the Russians, when armies of Nazi Germany began their siege of the Russian city of Stalingrad.
1948 - Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary
1948 - Ground breaking ceremony for UN world headquarters
1948 - Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
1950 - Western allies rearm West Germany
1954 - Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage
1959 - Soviet spacecraft Lunik 2 (unmanned) became the first manmade object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
1960 - Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1
1960 - Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo
1960 - Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form OPEC
1963 - First Set of Quintuplets in US History Born
1965 - 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opens
1968 - 1st broadcast of "60 Minutes" on CBS-TV
1969 - Males of Swiss canton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage
1972 - Two former White House aides and five other men were indicted on charges of conspiracy in the break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington.
1972 - "Waltons" TV program premieres
1972 - Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in NYC
1973 - Pres Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout
1975 - Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st US saint
1975 - Rembrandt's "Nightwatch" slashed & damaged in Amsterdam
1982 - The grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan's Invisible Empire of Florida announced that he was moving the group's headquarters from Orlando to Gainesville. Why? Because, he said, it's "a progressive community, and we think we can fit in."
1982 - Grace Kelly killed in an automobile crash. Kelly rose to prominence in film with 1952's 'High Noon', and she worked with Alfred Hitchcock in several films including 'Rear Window'. Her movie career was a brief six years where she did win an Oscar for 'The Country Girl'. In 1956 she retired from film following her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1982 - Lebanon's president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed by a bomb.
1984 - Joe Kittinger, 56, left Caribou, Maine, in a 10-story-tall helium balloon to make the first solo trans-Atlantic balloon crossing. He reached the French coast on the 17th and crash-landed in Italy the next day.
1986 - President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, appeared together on radio and television to appeal for a "national crusade" against drug abuse.
1987 - Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) ends
1989 - 47-year-old Joseph Wesbecker used an AK-47 assault rifle to kill seven people in a Louisville, Ky., printing plant where he once worked. He then shot himself to death.
1990 - Iraqi soldiers stormed the French, Belgian and Canadian diplomatic buildings in Kuwait and briefly detained five diplomats, including a U.S. consul.
1990 - Ken Griffey, Sr & Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning
1991 - The government of South Africa, the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party signed a national peace pact.
1991 - Secretary of State James A. Baker III met with leaders of the Baltic nations, which had declared independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - Carolyn Suzanne Sapp of Hawaii was crowned "Miss America."
1993 - Katherine Ann Power -- a Vietnam War opponent who'd been a fugitive for more than 20 years in the death of a police officer during a bank robbery in Boston -- surrendered. She later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight to 12 years in prison.
1994 - All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season, Allan H. "Bud" Selig, the acting major league base ball commissioner, announced that the remainder of the season, the playoffs and the World Series was cancelled because of the month-old strike by players.
1996 - Bosnians went to the polls in their first national elections since the 3 1/2 -year civil war that had ravaged the Balkan republic. Bosnians elected a three-person collective presidency: one Muslim, one Serb and one Croat. Four days later, Washington said its peacekeeping forces will leave Bosnia by year's end.
1996 - Tara Dawn Holland of Kansas was crowned "Miss America."
1998 - WorldCom purchased MCI in the third-largest telecommunications merger in U.S. history.
2000 - President Clinton said he was "quite troubled" by the way the Energy and Justice departments had handled the Wen Ho Lee case, and he expressed his regrets.
2000 - Republican presidential candidate Gov. George W. Bush agreed to take part in the presidential debates being organized by a bipartisan commission, after saying for weeks that he would not participate.
Birthdays Today
1486 - Agrippa von Nettesheim, German occultist/alchemist/royal astrologer
1531 - Philipp Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German geography/cartographer
1732 - Franz Josef Haydn, Austria, composer (Die Schopfung)
1737 - Johann Michael Haydn, composer
1760 - Luigi Cherubini, Italian prodigy/composer
1849 - Ivan Pavlov Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology (Nobel 1904); passed away Feb 27, 1867 - Charles Gibson (artist: The Gibson Girl; passed away in 1944)
1879 - Margaret Sanger (nurse, feminist: birth control advocate; 1st president of International Planned Parenthood; passed away Sep 6, 1966)
1885 - Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor/composer (Batture d'aspetto)
1886 - Jan Garrique Masaryk, Czech statesman
1887 - Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist
1913 - Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA
1914 - Clayton Moore (actor: The Lone Ranger, Jesse James Rides Again; passed away Dec 28, 1999)
1920 - Kay Medford (Maggie O'Regin) (actress: Lola, Funny Girl, Butterfield 8, The Rat Race, Dean Martin Presents, The Dean Martin Show, To Rome with Love; passed away Apr 10, 1980)
1921 - Constance Baker Motley (civil rights attorney; 1st woman elected as president of Manhattan [NYC]; 1st black woman to become a state senator of New York; federal judge)
1921 - Hughes Rudd (news correspondent: CBS Morning News [20 years]; ABC; passed away Oct 13, 1992)
1923 - Bud (John) Palmer (basketball: Princeton Univ., New York Knickerbockers; broadcaster: CBS Sports, ABC's Wide World of Sports)
1924 - Jerry Coleman (baseball: NY Yankees; broadcaster: San Diego Padres, CBS Radio Sports: "There's a long drive. The outfielder is back at the warning track and hits his head on the wall! It rolls back toward second base! This could be a triple!")
1927 - Gardner Dickinson (golf: member of NCAA Championship team at LSU [1947]; 1st PGA tour victory: Miami Beach Open [1956]; last tour victory: Atlanta Classic [defeated Jack Nicklaus in playoff: 1971]; member U.S. Ryder Cup teams [1967, 1971]; member of Sports Halls of Fame: Georgia, Alabama, LSU; passed away Apr 19, 1998)
1930 - Allan Bloom (author: The Closing of the American Mind, Love and Friendship; passed away Oct 7, 1992)
1933 - Zoe Caldwell, Australia, actress (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1944 - Joey (Davenie) Heatherton (actress: Dean Martin Presents, Cry-Baby, Bluebeard; daughter of Ray Heatherton of Tropicana Orange Juice fame)
1947 - Jon 'Bowzer' Bauman (singer: group: Sha Na Na: LP: Rock & Roll is Here to Stay!; VJ: VH-1)
1947 - Sam Neill , Northern Ireland,actor: In the Mouth of Madness, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, The Piano, Jurassic Park, The Hunt for Red October, Sleeping Dogs, Ivanhoe, The Final Conflict, My Brilliant Career)
1957 - Tim (Timothy Charles) Wallach (baseball: Montreal Expos [all-star: 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990], LA Dodgers, California Angels)
1959 - Jean Smart (actress: Designing Women, The Brady Bunch Movie, The Odd Couple II [1998], Guinevere)
1964 - Faith Ford (actress: Murphy Brown)
Famous deaths
0258 - Thascius C Cyprian, Saint/Bishop of Carthage, dies at 58
0407 - Johannes Chrysostomus, patriarch, dies
1646 - Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, dies under Queen Elizabeth's headsman
1750 - Carl T Pachelbel, US organist/composer
1759 - Louis Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47
1836 - Aaron Burr, 3rd VP, dies
1852 - Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington, dies at 83
1852 - James Fennimore Cooper, writer, dies at 62
1901 - William Mc Kinley , 25th president of the U.S., dies from wounds received in an assassination attempt by Polish anarchist Leon Czolgosz,
1927 - Isadora Duncan, dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel
1982 - John C Gardner, US, writer (Life & Times of Chaucer High), dies at 49
1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco, dies from injuries suffered in a car crash the previous day
1996 - Juliet Prowse, actress/dancer (Mona McCluskey), dies at 59
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