On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on August 14:
1774 Meriwether Lewis Charlottsville VA, capt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
1777 Hans Christian Oersted Den, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law)
1810 Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer
1851 John Henry "Doc" Holliday gambler born Griffin, Georgia
1860 Ernest T Seton naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind-1938)
1867 John Galsworthy England, author (Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932)
1901 Sir James Pitman England, educator/publisher/phonetic speller
1903 John Ringling North circus director
1920 Nehemiah Persoff actor (Al Capone, Yentl)
1925 Russell Baker columnist/humorist (NY Times)
1926 Alice Ghostly Montana, actress (Bewitched, With 6 You Get Egg Roll)
1926 Buddy Greco Phila Pa, singer (Away We Go, Broadway Open House)
1930 Earl Weaver St Louis Mo, manager (Balt Orioles 1968-82, 85-86)
1940 Dash Crofts Cisco Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
1941 Connie Smith Elkhart, Indiana, singer (Dream Painter, New Horizons)
1941 David Crosby rocker (Crosby, Stills & Nash-Southern Cross)
1942 Sandy Gilmour Montclair NJ, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday)
1943 Jon A McBride Charleston WV, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 41G)
1944 Robyn Smith Astaire jockey/wife of Fred Astaire
1945 Steve Martin Waco Tx, comedian (The Jerk, Man With 2 Brains)
1946 Antonio Fargas Bronx NY, actor (Huggy Bear-Starsky & Hutch)
1946 Susan St James LA Cal, (MacMillan & Wife, Kate & Allie, Name of Game)
1950 Gary Larson cartoonist (The Far Side)
1952 Debbie Meyer US, 200m/400m/800m freestyle swimmer (Oly-gold-1968)
1952 Mark C Lee Viroqua Wisconsin, Major USAF/astronaut (STS-30)
1956 Sharon Bryant vocalist (Atlantic Starr - Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1958 Earvin (Magic) Johnson NBA star (LA Lakers)
1961 Susan Olson actress (Cindy-Brady Bunch)
1965 Lynette Falls Ridgewood NJ, Miss NJ-America-1991
1975 SevenofNine foreign corespondent FNN (Freeper News Network "we report, you tell us we're wrong") internationaly known tiddlywinks champion.
"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."
Happy Birthday
1992 Federal Judge John J. Sirica (Watergate) dies
Deaths which occurred on August 14:
1433 Johan I, king of Portugal (1383-1433)
1778 Augustus Montague Toplady (b.1740), English Calvinist hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies
1785 John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies
1932 Rin Tin Tin, US Hollywood dog, dies
1936 Rainey Bethea hung, last US public execution
1951 William Randolph Hearst newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills
1958 Gladys L Presley mom of Elvis, dies at 46
1958 Mary Ritter Beard American historian, dies at 82
1972 Jules Romains French novelist, dies at 86
1972 Oscar Levant actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life), dies at 65
1982 Patrick Magee Irish actor, dies at 58
1988 Roy Buchanan guitarist Johnny Otis band, Ronnie Hawkins, Delbert McClinton
1988 Enzo Ferrari Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari), dies at 90
1991 Douglas Kiker newscaster (NBC-TV), dies of a heart attack at 61
1999 Lane Kirkland, former 16-year AFL-CIO president (1979-1995), die age 77
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
14-Aug-2003 2 | US: 1 | UK: 1 | Other: 0
UK Captain David Martyn Jones Basra - Basrah Hostile - hostile fire - bomb
US Private 1st Class David M. Kirchhoff Landstuhl Reg. Med. Ctr. Non-hostile - illness - heatstroke
14-Aug-2004 1 | US: 0 | UK: 0 | Other: 1
NL Sergeant 1st Class Jeroen Severs Ar Rumaythah (near) - Muthanna Hostile - hostile fire
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
2,000,000bc first there was dirt, then God said "Let there be RaceBannon" 5th hezekiah 6:47. Why? Well this is a question that has troubled theologians, natural philosophers, parking lot attendants since the dawn of time. In the end all we can say is God works in mysterious ways.
" Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever"
Happy Birthday
0410 Vandals under Alaric sacks Rome
0554 Ravenna becomes seat of Byzantines military governor in Italy
1248 Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun
1281 Kublai Khans invading fleet disappears in typhoon near Japan (Kamikaze-Divine Wind)
1385 Grand Duke Jogaila signs a treaty with Poland at Krievos Castle. Agrees to convert to Christianity and to seek the conversion of all of Lithuania and unite with Poland.
1385 Portuguese defeat Castilians at Aljubarrota, retain independence
1457 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)
1756 French capture Fort Oswego, NY
1765 Mass. colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
1784 First Russian settlement in Alaska, on Kodiak Island, Grigori Shelekhov, a Russian fur trader, founded Three Saints Bay
1813 British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus
1824 General Lafayette returned to US.
1842 Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance
1848 Oregon Territory created
1861 Martial Law declared in St. Louis, MI
1862 Lincoln receives 1st group of blacks to confer with US president
1873 "Forest & Stream" begins publishing
1876 Prairie View State University forms
1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed(began in 1248)
1893 France issues 1st driving licenses, included required test
1900 Intl forces including US Marines enter Beijing to put down Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at ridding China of foreigners
1904 The Hereros of German South West Africa (later Namibia) rebel. Kaiser Wilhelm II sends General Lothar von Trotha to put down the Herero uprising. Trotha drove the Hereros into the desert and then issued a formal "extermination order". 75,000 of 80,000 Hereros die. 1st genocide of the 20th century
1907 "Ha-Tikva" adopted as official Zionist hymn
1908 Race riot in Springfield Illinois
1910 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC
1912 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
1917 China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
1919 Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play
1925 Mount Rushmore monument 1st proposed
1935 Social Security Act became law
1936 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)
1937 Detroit Tigers score 36 runs in double header vs St Louis Browns
1941 Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill
1942 Dwight D. Eisenhower named the Anglo-American commander for Operation Torch
1945 V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II
1947 India granted independence within British Commonwealth
1947 Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000
1947 Pakistan gains independence from Britain
1948 14th Olympic games in London closes
1958 Canadian Football League plays 1st game (Winnipeg 29, Edmonton 21)
1958 Cleve Indian, Vic Power steals home twice in 1 game
1961 Phila Phillies lose 17th straight game
1962 French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m
1962 US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
1965 Beatles tape an appearance for the Ed Sullivan Show
1965 Continental Football League plays 1st games
1966 1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting the Moon
1967 Pirate radio stations Radio 270, Radio London, Radio Ireland, Radio Scotland & Radio Swinging Holland go off the air
1969 British troops intervenes militarily in Northern Ireland
1969 NY Mets fall 9 games back, later to win the pennant
1970 City University of NY inaugurates open admissions
1971 Bahrain proclaims independence after 110 years of British rule
1971 British begin internment without trial in Northern Ireland
1971 St Louis Cards Bob Gibson no-hits Pitts, 11-0
1972 East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156
1973 Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Balt Colts
1974 Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold
1978 French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleonic drama-67%, Knockout-33%)
1979 Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hour duration
1980 17,000 Polish workers, led by Lech Walesa, began a 17-day strike at the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk. Solidarity labor movement founded, begining of the end of the Warsaw act and the USSR.
1981 George Foster hits his 8th HR into the red seats at Riverfront
1982 Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)
1984 IBM releases MS-DOS version 3.0
1986 Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days
1990 Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside the park grandslam
1990 Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise
1991 Comedian Jackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld (37)
1992 Food aid to Somalia begins
1994 Ilich Ramirez Sánchez, AKA Carlos the Jackal, captured in Sudan
1997 Timothy McVeigh, convicted on fifteen counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, was sentenced to die by lethal injection.
2001 Helios, a remote-controlled, solar powered NASA plane, reached a record 96,500 feet
2003 Massive power blackout hits 8 northeastern US states and southern Canada. It shut down 10 major airports and 9 nuclear power stations.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Arkansas : World War II Memorial Day (1945)
Bahrain : Independence Day (1971)
Chicago : Bud Billiken Day-honors children (1923)
Liechtenstein : Prince Franz-Joseph Day
Massachusett : Liberty Tree Day (1765)
Pakistan-1947, Bahrain-1971 : Independence Day
Portugal : Independence Day (1385)
Rhode Island, Michigan : V-J Day (1945)
US : Atlantic Charter Day; US & UK agree on war aims (1941)
Italy : Palio Del Golfo
Zambia : Youth Day ( Monday )
National Whiffle Ball Day
National Creamsicle Day
National Senior Citizens Day
Foot Health Month(so keep yours out of your mouth)
Religious Observances
RC : St Vigil of the Assumption of Mary
RC : Memorial of Maximilian Kolbe, priest, martyr at Auschwitz
Religious History
1739 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Our extremity is God's opportunity.'
1810 Birth of Samuel S. Wesley, grandson of Methodist hymnwriter Charles Wesley. Himself a sacred composer, Samuel Wesley penned over 130 original hymn tunes. The best remembered of these today is AURELIA, to which is sung "The Church's One Foundation."
1814 During the American Revolution, American patriot Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) was held overnight as a British prisoner during their shelling of Fort McHenry in Baltimore. In the morning, Key penned what later became our national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner."
1848 Death of English devotional writer Sarah Flower Adams, 43. In 1845 she published The Flock at the Fountain, a catechism containing hymns for children. One of those hymns remains popular to this day: "Nearer, My God, To Thee."
1944 German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill all His promises ... leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Surf's up for Australian rodents!
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia -- land of sun, sand and ... surfing mice?
Australian Shane Willmott is training three mice, named Harry, Chopsticks and Bunsen, to surf small waves on tiny mouse-size surf boards at beaches on the country's Gold Coast. The mice are put through rigorous bathtub training and then some have their fur dyed when it is time to hit the beach.
"Usually if he is surfing big waves, I usually color his hair up. Because he's white, when he gets in the whitewash it's hard to find him," Willmott told Australian television.
Despite Willmott's training, Harry, Chopsticks and Bunsen -- who live in miniature custom-made villas and own specially made jet skis -- are proving no threat to world champion Kelly Slater just yet.
Thought for the day :
"Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right."
John Donne
