On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on September 04:
0522 Greek poet Pindar
1383 Amadeus VIII, duke of Savoye/last antipope (Felix V (1439-48)
1736 Robert Raikes England, Sunday school pioneer
1768 Vicomte François René de Chateaubriand, French writer and chef who gave his name to a style of steak.
1795 Friedrich [August] von Alberti German geologist (Triassic Age)
1802 Marcus Whitman missionary, led to US securing Oregon
1803 Sarah Childress Polk 1st lady
1810 Donald McKay US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships
1824 Anton Bruckner Austria, Wagner disciple & monumental bore
1825 Dadabhai Naoroji 1st Indian in British parliament
1895 Nigel Bruce British/US actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes)
1917 Henry Ford II automaker (Ford)(SHOCK! I always thought he worked for GM.)
1918 Paul Harvey Tulsa Okla, news commentator (The rest.........of the story)
1920 Craig Claiborne food columnist (NY Times Cookbook)
1928 Dick York Fort Wayne Ind, actor (Darrin-Bewitched, Inherit the Wind)
1929 Thomas Eagleton (Sen-D-Mo, Dem VP candidate 1972)
1942 Ray Floyd Fort Bragg NC, PGA golfer (Masters 1976)
1953 Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs NYC, actor (Freddie-Welcome Back Kotter)
1959 William Kennedy Smith Kennedy accused of rape in Florida (1991)
1966 Debra Lewin South Burlington Vermont, Miss Vermont-America (1991)
1972 Merald Knight Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knights & Pips)
2179 Nyota Uhura Nairobi Kenya, communications officer (Star Trek)
Deaths which occurred on September 04:
1553 Cornelia da Nomatalcino monk converted to Judaism, burned at stake
1864 John Hunt Morgan (Confederate cavalry leader) killed in Greeneville, Tennessee
1907 Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), dies at 64
1965 Albert Schweitzer dies
1974 Creighton W Abrams US general/army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59
1975 Walter Tetley voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 60
1985 George O'Brien actor, dies of a stroke at 85
1991 Dottie West country singer, dies at 58 in a car crash
1995 William Moses Kunstler, UCLA attorney (Chicago 7), dies at 78
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
09-Sep-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Ryan G. Carlock Baghdad (NE of) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
04-Sep-2004 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric L. Knott Not reported yet Hostile - hostile fire
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
0422 St Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0476 Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed
1618 "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed
1682 English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet
1781 Los Angeles founded in Bahia de las Fumas by 44 settlers, (Valley of Smokes)
1807 Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat
1820 Czar Alexander declares that Russian influence in North America extends as far south as Oregon and closes Alaskan waters to foreigners
1833 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty-NY Sun)
1842 Work on Koln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus
1862 Gen Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops
1862 North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in SF
1864 Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama
1866 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published
1870 3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king (Question: Does this count as a French victory, or a French defeat?)
1882 1st district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)
1885 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
1886 Apache leader Geronimo surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona
1888 George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak"
1911 Garros sets world altitude record of 13,944 ft
1915 The U.S. military places Haiti under martial law to quell a rebellion in its capital Port-au-Prince.
1918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
1933 Coup against Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista
1933 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph, JR Wendell, Glenview, Il
1937 Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4)
1939 The Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated
1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652
1945 Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded
1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
1948 Queen Wilhelmina of Netherlands abdicates
1950 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
1950 D McI Hodgson of St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna
1951 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by Pres Truman
1951 NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network
1953 Yanks become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championships
1954 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed
1954 Peter B Cortese of the US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania
1957 Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.
1957 Ford Motor Co introduces the Edsel (Great moments in industry #371)
1961 US authorizes Agency for International Development
1964 NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
1964 "Gilligan's Island" begins its 98-show run on CBS
1965 Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1966 Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7
1967 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200
1967 Michigan Gov. George Romney told a TV interviewer he'd undergone a "brainwashing" by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam
1970 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
1972 US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
1976 Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus
1981 Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7, in 20 inn (started 9/3)
1983 Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph)
1985 Igor Paklin of the USSR set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12
1985 NY Mets Gary Carter's 2 HRs ties record of 5 HRs in 2 games
1986 189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1988 Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game
1990 Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186
1996 Whitewater prosecutors has Susan McDougal held in contempt for refusing to tell a grand jury whether President Clinton had lied at her trial.
1999 More than 60 people were killed when Chechnyan terrorists detonated a car bomb near an apartment building in Dagestan, Russia.
1999 2nd Million Youth March held in NYC headed by Khalid Abdul Muhammad 1-2 thousand people march and watched over by 1,400 police officers.
2002 President Bush said he would seek congressional approval for any military move on Iraq. He also promised to consult with allies, some of whom were opposed to his "regime change" plan.
2002 Texas cocktail waitress and aspiring pop star Kelly Clarkson is voted the first "American Idol" at the conclusion of the Fox TV series.
2003 Researchers report that the hormone YY3-36 appeared to curb the appetite of obese people.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Cahambal (Mayan holiday).
US, Canada, Guam, Virgin Islands : Labor Day (1894) (Monday)
US : Be Late For Something Day
Cook a Great Meal Day
National Ice Cream Sandwich Month
Religious Observances
RC-Vatican City : Triumph of the Cross
RC St-Marinus, hermit/founder (republic San Marino)
RC Ehrentraud, abbess to Salzburg
Luth : Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, missionary
Religious History
1645 The first Lutheran church building erected in America was dedicated at Easton (near Bethlehem), Pennsylvania.
1802 Birth of Marcus Whitman, American Presbyterian and pioneer medical missionary. In 1836 his family became the first whites to reach the Pacific coast by wagon train. Whitman and his wife Narcissa were murdered by the Cayuse Indians in present-day Washington state in 1847.
1813 "The Religious Remembrancer" (later renamed "The Christian Observer") was first published in Philadelphia. It was the first weekly religious newspaper in the U.S., and in the world.
1847 Anglican clergyman Henry Francis Lyte, 54, suffering from asthma and consumption, penned the words to his hymn, "Abide With Me," before preaching his last sermon in Devonshire, England. (Lyte died 2-1/2 months later.)
1973 The Assemblies of God opened its first theological graduate school in Springfield, MO, making it the second Pentecostal denomination to establish its own school of theology. (The first such school was opened by Oral Roberts in Tulsa.)
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE WILL LEAVE CALIFORNIA STANDING
BUT PLUNGE THE REST OF THE COUNTRY INTO THE OCEAN, EXPERT SAY
By BARRY DUTTER
A DEVASTATING earthquake will strike California in the next five to ten years -- with a force so powerful it will plunge the rest of the country into the sea, and leave the Golden State intact, experts say.
"For years, people have been saying California will someday fall into the ocean," seismologist Ron Felgar said. "Turns out California will actually be the safest place to be when the big one hits."
Felgar predicted that an earthquake measuring 15.0 on the Richter scale -- the largest in recorded history -- will rock the western United States. California's location directly atop numerous fault lines will cause the impact there to be diffused.
"The damage to the other states will be catastrophic," Felgar said. "Tidal waves will wash around California and swamp the rest of the country. Most of the survivors from the sunken states will head to California, resulting in massive overcrowding.
"If people thought the traffic in L.A. was bad before," he said, "it's about to get a whole lot worse."
Thought for the day :
"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."
Paul Harvey
