| 1180 | * | Philip II, Augustus succeeds to the French throne after the death of his father. | |
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| 1739 | | Treaty of Belgrade-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1755 | * | Fort Ticonderoga, NY opens. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1758 | * | James Abercromby is replaced as supreme commander of British forces after his defeat by French commander the Marquis of Montcalm at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War. Quebec is formally surrendered to the British. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1778 | * | Simon Kenton, under a Shawnee death sentence, marched about 12 miles to Piqua where non-life threatening torments are inflicted by the Shawnee. About this time Kenton is again made to run the guanlet for the 3rd time for the Indians at Machachack Creek. | Ref: 58 |
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| 1793 | * | President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1810 | * | Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1838 | * | The first issue of the Xenia Torchlight is published. (Ref: McAllister, Douglas, "A Short History of the Xenia Torchlight Newspaper", an unpublished manuscript) | |
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| 1850 | * | Congress passes the second Fugitive Slave Bill into law (the first was enacted in 1793), requiring the return of escaped slaves to their owners. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1873 | * | The panic of 1873 began with the failure of the firm of Jay Cooke, spread to the stock exchange, and eventually led to widespread unemployment. | |
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| 1874 | * | The Nebraska Relief and Aid Society is formed to help farmers whose crops were destroyed by grasshoppers swarming throughout the American West. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1877 | * | Sam Bass and others rob a Union Pacific train of $60,000 in gold near Big Springs NE. | Ref: 52 |
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| 1880 | * | Avalanche in the Himalayas. No details. | Ref: 81 |
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| 1882 | * | Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1891 | * | Harriet Maxwell Converse (her Indian name was Ga-is-wa-noh: the Watcher) became the first white woman to be named chief of an Indian tribe. Converse became chief of the Six Nations tribe at Tonawanda reservation in NY. She had been adopted by the Seneca tribe 7 years earlier because of her efforts on behalf of the tribe. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1895 | * | Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment to Harvey Lillard in Davenport, Iowa (now the home of Palmer Chiropractic College). | Ref: 4 |
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| 1895 | * | Booker T Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1914 | * | The Irish Home Rule Bill becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1914 | * | U.S. Army Air Service created. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1925 | * | (Shipp) Shipp dies. He is buried a few days later in Forest Hills Cemetery, the same cemetery in which Nevada Taylor was raped. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1929 | * | Charles Lindbergh takes off on a 10,000 mile air tour of South America. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1934 | * | The League of Nations admits the Soviet Union. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1934 | * | St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1942 | * | Groves buys 1250 tons of high quality Belgian Congo uranium ore stored on Staten Island. | Ref: 91 |
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| 1942 | * | Reduction of food rations for Jews in Germany. | Ref: 35 |
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| 1945 | * | 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | The National Security Act, which unified the Army, Navy and newly formed Air Force into a National Military Establishment, went into effect. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1948 | * | An avalanche occurs in Assanti, India | Ref: 81 |
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| 1948 | * | Margaret Chase Smith becomes the first woman elected to the Senate without completing another senator's term when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten. Smith is also the only woman to be elected to and serve in both houses of Congress. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1948 | * | Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1949 | * | Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1955 | | Nikita Khrushchev says, "Those who wait for that (Russia rejecting communism) must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle." | Ref: 62 |
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| 1960 | * | Two thousand cheer Castro's arrival in NY for the United Nations session. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1962 | * | Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to the UN. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1962 | * | The Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International was founded in Dallas by Gordon Lindsay, 56. In 1967, the name was changed to Christ for the Nations. It ministers today as a service agency supporting foreign missions through fund raising and literature distribution. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1975 | * | (Patty Hearst) Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1978 | | Begin and Sadat agree plan for peace in Middle East at Camp David. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1979 | * | Steven Lachs, appointed CA's first admittedly gay judge. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1981 | * | France abolishes the guillotine. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1985 | * | The 30th Mersenne Prime, 2^216091-1, was announced. It was discovered at Chevron Reaseach on their Cray X-MP. | Ref: 62 |
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| 1988 | | After bloody student riots, Burma military seize power; Gen. U. Saw Maung repels students | Ref: 10 |
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| 1989 | * | Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Former savings and loan chief executive Charles H. Keating is jailed in Los Angeles in lieu of $5 million bail after he is indicted on criminal fraud charges.(XDG, p. 4A, 9/18/2000) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1990 | * | A 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1990 | * | Atlanta is chosen to host the 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | SAC forces stand down from Alert status. | Ref: 50 |
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| 1993 | * | Gaidar rejoins government as first deputy prime minister | Ref: 89 |
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| 1995 | * | Microsoft announces Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro for MS-DOS and Windows 95, a digital-optical joystick designed specifically to enhance the way PC gamers play. | |
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| 1995 | * | (OJ Simpson) Prosecution conditionally rests its case. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1996 | * | President Clinton began a five-day re-election campaign fund-raising tour that got off to a rocky start after a deal to convert the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard to civilian use collapsed at the last minute. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1997 | * | Time Warner vice-chairman Ted Turner pledged one billion dollars for United Nations programs over ten years. The money came from Time Warner shares Turner acquired in the Time Warner-Turner Broadcasting merger. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1997 | * | Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse agreed to merge to create the world's biggest accounting firm. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1998 | * | The House Judiciary Committee voted to release a videotape of President Clinton's Aug. 17 grand jury testimony. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | A multinational fleet sailed toward East Timor, the vanguard of a U-N-approved force assigned to bring order to the bloodied Indonesian province. | Ref: 2 |
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| 2001 | * | New York City reveals death and missing toll of Sept. 11 disaster at 5,422 later revised to 2,787. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1763 | * | An instrument named the spinet was mentioned in The Boston Gazette newspaper on this day. John Harris made the spinet, a small upright piano with a three to four octave range. There is no verifiable evidence to support the rumor that a man named Spinetti made the first spinet. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1769 | * | First piano, a spinet, produced in America by John Harris of Boston. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1830 | * | A race was held between a horse and an iron horse. Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in America, was pitted against a real horse in a nine-mile course between Riley’s Tavern and Baltimore. Tom Thumb suffered mechanical difficulties including a leaky boiler. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1881 | * | Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1911 | * | Britain's first twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1977 | * | The Voyager I spacecraft (launched on Sep 5, 1977 from cape Canaveral, FL) snapped the first photograph showing the earth and moon together. (As of Feb 17, 1998, Voyager I is further away from Earth than any other man-made object.) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1980 | * | Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station. The Cuban is Cosmonaut Arnoldo Tamayo, a Cuban, who becomes the first black to be sent on a mission in space. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of Atlantic. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1991 | * | Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1759 | * | Quebec surrenders to the British after a battle which sees the deaths of both James Wolfe and Louis Montcalm, the British and French commanders. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1862 | * | After waiting all day for a Union attack which never came at Antietam, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins a retreat out of Maryland and back to Virginia. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1914 | * | Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1918 | * | The opening of the British offensive in Palestine (Battle of Megiddo). | |
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| 1939 | * | A German U-boat sinks the British aircraft carrier Courageous, killing 500 people. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1940 | * | Adolf Hitler postpones invasion plans of Great Britain. | |
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| 1964 | * | U.S. destroyers fire on hostile targets in Vietnam. | Ref: 2 |
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| 2001 | * | Taliban leaders in Afghanistan confirm their declaration of a Jihad (holy war) against America. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1903 | * | Phillie's Chick Fraser no-hits Chic Cubs, 10-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1908 | * | At Cleveland's League Park I, Bob Rhoads tosses a no-hitter against beating the the Red Sox, 2-1. The Indian hurler outduels Frank Arellanes, who is the only Mexican-American playing in the majors. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1915 | * | Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1919 | * | (Black Sox) Arnold "Chick" Gandil, first baseman for the Chicago White Sox, meets with Joseph "Sport" Sullivan, a gambler, and tells him that the World Series can be bought. | Ref: 87 |
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| 1928 | * | Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | The Yankees edge the Browns 7-6 in 10 innings as pitcher Red Ruffing hits two HRs in the winning effort. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1930 | | Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1938 | * | Despite losing a double header, Yanks clinch pennant #10. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1946 | * | Joe Louis KO's Tami Mauriello in the first round to retain the heavyweight boxing title in New York City. | Ref: 97 |
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| 1954 | * | With 3-2 victory over the Tigers, the Indians clinch the American League pennant. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1960 | * | Braves' hurler Lew Burdette faces the minimum 27 batters as he no-hits the Phillies, 1-0. Tony Gonzalez, who is hit by a pitch in the fifth inning, is erased on a double play. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1962 | * | The American League holds a meeting in New York to explore the possibilities of major league baseball coming to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Although the idea is deemed worthy, league owners reject Kansas City A's owner Charley Finley's attempt to move his team to the metroplex. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1963 | * | Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | | Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st America's Cup. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | After being no-hit yesterday by Gaylord Perry, the Cardinal hurler Ray Washburn returns the favor by no-hitting the Giants, 2-0. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1971 | * | San Diego Padre Clay Kirby retires the first 21 in a row before Willie McCovey homers for San Francisco's only hit in a 2-1 Padres victory. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1972 | * | First black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1976 | * | In his last major league at-bat, future Hall of Fame Cleveland manager Frank Robinson strokes a pinch-hit single against the Orioles. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1977 | | Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1983 | * | New Orleans Saints first OT victory; beating Chic Bears 34-31. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1984 | * | Tigers become 4th team to stay in first place from opening day. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1987 | * | Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is first 40 year old to hit 30 HRs. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1988 | * | The Seoul Summer Olympics were the first since Munich in 1972, to have no organized boycotts going on. On this first day of competition, the Soviet Union was first to claim a gold medal -- in the women's air rifle event. U.S. swimmers won silver and bronze in women’s platform diving. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1989 | * | Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as Yankee manager. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1990 | * | The National League Expansion Committee hears presentations from all three South Florida groups and one from the Miami Beacon Council. They also hear Denver's presentaton. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1991 | * | Dave Dombrowski, Montreal Expos General Manager, is named Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Florida Marlins. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1993 | * | Trailing by two runs with two outs in the bottom of ninth, Mike Stanley hits a pop fly to left for the apparent third out, but time had been called just as the pitch was delivered due to a fan running out onto the Yankee Stadium field . Given a second chance, the Yankee catcher singles which is followed by a Wade Boggs's hit, a walk to Dion James, and a Don Mattingly's single driving in two runs to beat the Red Sox, 4-3. | Ref: 1 |
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| 1998 | * | The Colorado Rockies agrees to a player development contract with the Double-A Carolina Mudcats of the Southern League. | Ref: 86 |
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| 1998 | * | St Louis Cardinal Mark McGuire his his 64th home run of the season, pulling him ahead of Sammy Sosa. (XDG, p 4A, 9/18/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1999 | * | Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs became the first player in major league baseball history to hit 60 homer runs in a season twice. | Ref: 70 |
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| 2000 | * | Pitching a one-hitter against the Yankees, Indian hurler Bertran Colon nearly ends the longest streak in major league history of a team being held hitless by its opponents. The Bronx Bombers have not been denied a hit in a game since since Hoyt Wilhelm did it on September 9,1958 spanning total of 6,637 contests. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2001 | * | Due to the terrorist attacks that shut down baseball and the nation, Jon Lieber became the first Cub to start consecutive contests since Scott Sanderson in 1986. | Ref: 86 |
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| 2002 | * | Not too fleet-of-foot Greg Colbrunn hits an improbable triple in his last turn at bat to complete the cycle. The Diamondback infielder had five hits which included two two-run homers in the 10-3 victory over the Padres. | Ref: 1 |
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| 2003 | * | Patrick Graber, a Swiss body-building coach, is arrested for allegedly offering to kill LA Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant's alleged rape victim for $3M. (USA Today, p 8C, 9/19/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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| 1851 | * | The New York Times begins publishing “All the News That’s Fit to Print” at 2¢ a copy. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1888 | * | Fiction: Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Sign of Four" (BG). | Ref: 5 |
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| 1924 | * | A complete Bible translation of the Old and New Testaments was published by American Bible scholar and historian James Moffatt, 54. Moffatt's intention was to make available to the lay reader, in simple language, a current scholarly understanding of the biblical text. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1927 | | The Columbia Broadcasting System (later CBS) debuted with a network of 16 radio stations. The Tiffany Network, as CBS was called, broadcast an opera, The King’s Henchman, as its first program. William S. Paley put the network together, purchasing a chain of 16 failing radio stations. The controlling interest cost between $250,000 and $450,000. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1940 | | Harper and Brothers published "You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1942 | * | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1947 | * | Country singers Ernest Tubb and Roy Acuff perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City. It was the first country show for the NYC venue. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1948 | | The Original Amateur Hour returned to radio on ABC, two years after the passing of the program’s originator and host, Major Bowes. Bowes brought new star talent into living rooms for 13 years. Ted Mack, the new host, had also started a TV run with The Original Amateur Hour on the DuMont network in January of 1948. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | What had been "The Toast of the Town" on CBS Television (since 1948) became "The Ed Sullivan Show". | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | The Big Record, hosted by ‘the singing rage’, Miss Patti Page, debuted on CBS-TV. The Big Record was a live musical showcase featuring established artists singing their big songs. The Big Record lasted one big season. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1957 | * | "Wagon Train" premiers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1963 | * | The Patty Duke Show premiers on ABC-TV. (XDG, p 4A, 9/18/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1965 | * | Larry Hagman (Captain Tony Nelson) and Barbara Eden (Jeannie) starred in the first episode of I Dream of Jeannie on NBC-TV. Capt. Nelson had been forced to make a parachute landing on a desert island. He happened upon an old bottle that had washed up on the shore. He popped the top and bingo! Out popped Jeannie, a 2000-year-old, very pretty genie. Jeannie took to Tony and started making weekly magic that lasted until September 1, 1970. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1965 | * | "Get Smart" premiers. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Herb Alpert’s European tour culminated in a performance before Princess Grace and the royal family in Monaco. From Washington to the Riviera, it seemed that no place was out of place for Alpert’s ‘Ameriachi’ sound. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1969 | * | Tiny Tim announces his engagement to Miss Vicki Budinger on the Tonight Show. The couple were wed on December 17th. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1979 | * | Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1993 | * | Kimberly Clarice Aiken of South Carolina is crowned Miss America in Atlantic City NJ. (XDG, p 4A, 9/18/2003) | Ref: 83 |
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| 1993 | * | Garth Brooks' In Pieces debuted at #1 in the U.S. on both the Billboard Hot 200 and Country LP charts. The album has sold over 8 million copies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 52 | * | Birth of Marcus Ulpius Trajan, Emperor of Rome from AD 98-117. He was the third Roman emperor to rule, after Nero (54-68) and Domitian (81-96), who persecuted the Early Church. During Trajan's reign, the apostolic father Ignatius of Antioch was martyred, in AD 117. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1684 | * | Johann Gottfried Walther Erfurt Germany, composer/Musicographer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1709 | * | Samuel Johnson writer: created the first true dictionary of the English language in 1755; poet; essayist; novelist: Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1733 | * | (Declaration of Independence) George Read, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence signer, is born in Near Northeast, MD. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1752 | * | Adrien-Marie Legendre mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals, is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1765 | * | Birth of Oliver Holden, early Puritan pastor and statesman. His love for music is demonstrated in the hymn tune CORONATION ("All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name"), which he composed in 1792 at the age of 27. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1765 | * | The man who would later become Pope Gregory XVI is born. | Ref: 69 |
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| 1779 | * | (US Supreme Court Justice) Joseph Story associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1811-1845]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1819 | * | Jean-Bernard Foucault, French physicist and inventor of the "Foucault pendulum", proved Earth rotates, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1827 | * | John Towsend Trowbridge, poet and author of books for boys, wrote the Jack Hazzard and Toby Trafford series, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1839 | * | John Aitken, physician and meterologist, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1869 | * | Sir John Kerr, English embryologist and pioneer in naval camouflage, is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1870 | * | Clark Wissler anthropologist (American Indian), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1883 | * | Elmer Maytag, American industrialist who built and sold Maytag washing machines, is born in Newton IA. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1883 | * | Lord Berners (Gerald Tyrwhitt) England, composer (1st Childhood), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1893 | * | Arthur Benjamin Sydney Australia, composer (Jamaican Rumba), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1895 | * | John (George) Diefenbaker Canadian Prime Minister [1957-1963]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1898 | * | George (Ernest) Uhle 'The Bull': baseball: Cleveland Indians [World Series: 1920], Detroit Tigers, NY Giants, NY Yankees, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1901 | * | Harold Clurman producer/director (Deadline at Dawn), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1904 | * | Bun (Frederick) Cook Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL: is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1905 | * | Actress Greta Garbo is born in Stockholm, Sweden. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1905 | * | Agnes De Mille NYC, choreographer (OK), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1905 | * | Eddie "Rochester" Anderson Oakland Calif, actor (Jack Benny Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1907 | * | Edwin McMillan, American Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist (1951), is born. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1909 | * | Kwame N'Krumah, is born. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1910 | * | Ray Geiger editor: The Farmer’s Almanac [1934-1993]; the longest-held position of any almanac editor in America; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1911 | * | Syd (Sydney) Howe hockey: NHL: Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Eagles, Detroit Red Wings [1943-1944 record: scored six goals in game]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1916 | * | John J Rhodes (Rep-R-Az), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1916 | * | Rossano Brazzi Bologna Italy, actor (Antaeus-Survivors), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1920 | * | Jack Warden Emmy Award-winning actor: Brian’s Song [1971-72]; N.Y.P.D., Bad News Bears, Crazy like a Fox, Shampoo, From Here to Eternity, All the President’s Men, Problem Child, Used Cars, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1924 | * | Zelda Fichandler Boston, theater director/producer (Raisin, K2), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1925 | * | Harvey Haddix ‘The Kitten’: baseball: pitcher: SL Cardinals [all-star: 1953, 1954, 1955], Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Redlegs, Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1960/lost 12-inning perfect game to Milwaukee Braves in 13th inning: 5-26-1959], Baltimore Orioles; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1927 | * | Bob Toski golf: Graffis Award [1980], is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1928 | * | Phyllis Kirk Syracuse NY, actress (Thin Man, Red Button's Show), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1929 | * | Teddi King singer: Mr. Wonderful; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1929 | * | Phyllis Kirk (Kirkegaard) actress: The Red Buttons Show, The Thin Man, House of Wax, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1932 | * | Jack Mullaney Pitts Pa, actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1932 | * | Nikolai N Rukavishnikov cosmonaut (Soyuz 10, 16, 33), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1933 | * | Robert Blake (Michael James Vijencio Gubitosi) Emmy Award-winning actor: Baretta [1974-75]; In Cold Blood, Pork Chop Hill, PT 109, Our Gang, Little Beaver & Red Ryder series, is born in Nutley NJ. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Jimmie Rodgers singer: Honeycomb, Kisses Sweeter than Wine, Oh-Oh, I’m Falling in Love Again, Secretly, Are You Really Mine; TV host: The Jimmie Rodgers Show, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1933 | * | Roman Polanski, Paris France, director (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1939 | * | Frankie (Frances) Avalon (Avellone) singer: Venus, Bobby Sox to Stockings, A Boy Without a Girl, Just Ask Your Heart, Why, Dede Dinah; actor: Disc Jockey Jamboree, Guns of the Timberland, The Carpetbaggers, Beach Party series, Back to the Beach, is born in Philadelphia PA. (also TWA, 1998) | Ref: 4 |
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| 1939 | * | Fred Willard Ohio, comedian (Fernwood 2 Night, Real People), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1940 | * | Frankie Avalon (Frances Avellone), Philadelphia PA, actor (Beach movies)/singer (Venus), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1941 | * | Mariangela Melato Milan Italy, actress (Flash Gordon, Summer Night), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1944 | * | Charles Lacy Veach, Chicago IL, astronaut (STS 39), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1948 | * | Ken (Kenneth Alven) Brett baseball: Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1967], Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1974], Chicago White Sox, NY Yankees, California Angels, LA Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, KC Royals; broadcaster: California Angels, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1949 | * | Kerry Livgren musician: guitar, keyboards: group: Kansas, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr., African-American neurosurgeon, is born. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1951 | * | Daryl Stingley football: Purdue Univ., NE Patriots; paralyzed in a collision with Oakland Raiders’ Jack Tatum [1978]; is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1951 | * | Tony (Anthony) Scott baseball: Montreal Expos, SL Cardinals, Houston Astros, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1952 | * | Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) musician: drums: group: The Ramones: is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1955 | * | Jeana Tomasino Milwaukee Wis, playmate (Nov, 1980), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1959 | * | Ryne (Dee) Sandberg baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1961 | * | James Gandolfini Emmy Award-winning actor, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1962 | * | Joanne Catherall singer: group: Human League, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1964 | * | Holly Robinson Phila, actress (21 Jump Street), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1966 | * | Spike, vocal/guitar (Ian Spice Breathe, Flash Cadillac-R&R Forever), is born. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1967 | * | Ricky Bell singer: group: New Edition, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1971 | * | Jada Pinkett actress: The Nutty Professor, A Different World, Menace II Society, If These Walls Could Talk, Scream 2, Woo, Bamboozled, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | James Marsden actor: X-Men, In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco, Boogies Diner, On the Edge of Innocence, Disturbing Behavior, Ally McBeal, is born. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1180 | | King Louis VII France dies. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1783 | * | Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist, dies at age 76. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1872 | * | Charles XV Louis E King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet, dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1890 | * | Dion Boucicault, Irish-born American playwright and actor, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1905 | * | George Macdonald, Scottish novelist, dies at age 80. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1911 | * | Russian Premier Piotr Stolypin dies four days after being shot at the Kiev opera house by socialist lawyer Dimitri Bogroff. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1911 | * | Russian Premier Piotr Stolypin dies four days after being shot at the Kiev opera house by socialist lawyer Dimitri Bogroff. | Ref: 2 |
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| 1919 | * | Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1926 | * | Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1930 | * | Death of New England music evangelist Carrie E. Rounsefell, 69. It was Rounsefell who composed the hymn tune MANCHESTER, to which we sing today, "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go." | Ref: 5 |
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| 1935 | * | Alice Nelson Dunbar, American novelist, poet and essayist, dies at age 60. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1939 | * | Charles M. Schwab, "Boy Wonder" of the steel industry. President of both U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel, dies at age 77. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1949 | * | Frank Morgan (Francis Wuppermann), actor (Annie Get Your Gun), dies at 59. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1958 | * | Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian-born German illustrator and satirist, dies at age 85. | Ref: 10 |
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| 1961 | * | Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish statesman, 2nd UN Secretary-General (1953-61) (Nobel 1961), is killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1964 | * | Sean O’Casey playwright: Harvest Festival, The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock, Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars; dies. | Ref: 68 |
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| 1968 | * | Red (Clyde Julian) Foley songwriter, singer: Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy, Birmingham Bounce, Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Blues in My Heart, Tennessee Saturday Night, Tennessee Polka, Peace in the Valley, Mississippi, Tennessee Border, Goodnight Irene; TV host: Ozark Jubilee; elected to Country Music Hall of Fame [1967]; actor: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; died Sep 19, 1968 | Ref: 4 |
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| 1968 | * | Francis McDonald, Bowling Green Ky, actor (Will-Adv of Champion), dies. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1968 | * | Franchot Tone (Stanislas Pascal), actor: Mutiny on the Bounty, Advice and Consent, In Harm’s Way; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1970 | * | Jimi (James Marshall) Hendrix musician, singer: Foxy Lady, Purple Haze, All Along the Watch Tower, The Wind Cries Mary, Manic Depression, Spanish Castle Magic; dies from an overdose of sleeping pills in London at age 27. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1973 | * | W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: The Age of Anxiety [1948]; Poems, The Orators, an English Study, The Dog Beneath the Skin, Look, Stranger!, The Double Man, Nones, Enchafed Flood, Forewords and Afterwords, Thanksgiving for a Habitat; Bollingen Poetry Prize [1954]; National Medal for Literature [1967]; dies. | Ref: 17 |
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| 1974 | * | Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1979 | * | Gene Kelly sportscaster (Sportsreel), dies at 60 | Ref: 5 |
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| 1980 | * | Katherine Anne Porter US, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Ship of Fools), dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1982 | * | Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon. | Ref: 5 |
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| 1982 | * | Clyde (Edward) McCullough baseball: catcher: Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1945/all-star: 1948, 1953], Pittsburgh Pirates; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 1994 | * | Tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis, 40, was found dead in the guest cottage of a friend's home in Southampton, N.Y., of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. | Ref: 70 |
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| 1997 | * | Jimmy Witherspoon singer: Ain’t Nobody’s Business, Some of My Best Friends are the Blues, You’re Next; dies. | Ref: 4 |
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| 2003 | * | (Hurricane Isabel) Hurricane Isabel comes hits the North Carolina shore as predicted, as a Category 2 hurricane. It's size (about the size of Colorado) more significant than its strength. Three deaths are blamed on the storm. (USA Today, p 2A, 9/19/2003) | Ref: 13 |
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