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On this Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on September 20:
0357 BC Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia, emperor
1810 Alpheus Starkey Williams Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 George Washington Morgan Brig General (Union volunteers)
1820 John Fulton Reynolds Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1842 Lord James Dewar, physician who invented the vacuum flask and cordite, the first smokeless powder.
1878 Upton Sinclair novelist (Jungle)
1885 Ferdinand Lamenthe (Jelly Roll Morton), jazz pianist, composer and singer, one of the first to orchestrate jazz music.
1902 Kermit Maynard Vevey Ind, cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup)
1917 Arnold "Red" Auerbach NBA coach/GM (Boston Celtics)
1920 Alexander Thereat
1928 Dr Joyce Brothers NYC, pop psychiatrist ($64,000 question winner)
1929 Anne Meara Bkln NY comedian/actress (Stiller & Meara, Archie's Place)
1934 Sophia Loren Rome, actress (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid)
1938 Tom Tresh NY Yankee (1962 AL Rookie of the Year)
1941 Dale Chihuly Tacoma Wash, artist in glass (Louis Tiffany Award 1967)
1951 Guy LaFleur Quebec, NHL right wing (Montreal, NY Rangers)
1954 Silvio Leonard Cuba, 100m sprinter (Olympic-silver-1980)
1957 Fran Drescher NYC, actress (The Nanny)

Deaths which occurred on September 20:
0019BC The Roman poet Virgil
1168 Paschal III, [Guido di Crema], Italian anti-Pope, dies
1327 King Edward II of England was murdered under the connivance of the queen.
1586 Anthony Babington, page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed at 24
1803 Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed
1863 Jakob Grimm, writer, dies at 78 (Grimms Brothers)
1947 Fiorello La Guardia (Mayor-R-NYC), dies
1957 Jean Sibelius Finnish composer, dies at 91
1959 Olin Howlin actor (Swifty-Circus Boy), dies at 63
1973 Jim Croce singer/songwriter (Time In A Bottle, Bad Bad Leroy Brown), dies in a plane crash at 30
1973 Glenn Strange actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
1974 Gail A. Cobb, a member of the Metropolitan Police Force of Washington, D.C., became the first female police officer to be killed in the line of duty.

2002 Necdet Kent (91), Turkish diplomat in France (1941-1944), died in Istanbul. He gave Turkish citizenship to dozens of Turkish Jews living in France who did not have proper identity papers to save them from deportation to the Nazi gas chambers.

Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
20-Sep-2003 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Staff Sergeant Frederick L. Miller Jr. Ramadi - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist Lunsford B. Brown II Baghdad (Abu Ghuraib Prison) Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack
US Sergeant David Travis Friedrich Baghdad (Abu Ghuraib Prison) Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack

20-Sep-2004 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Foster L. Harrington Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Steven C. T. Cates Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Joshua J. Henry Ash Sharqat (near) - Ninawa Hostile - hostile fire

Afghanistan
09/20/04 Wells, Wesley R. Specialist 21 Army 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Reg., 25th Infantry Div. Hostile - hostile fire Naka, Paktika Prov. [nr. Khost] Libertyville Illinois

09/20/04 Olaes, Tony B. Staff Sergeant 30 Army 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group Hostile - hostile fire Shkin, Paktika Province Walhalla South Carolina

09/20/04 Goodwin, Robert S. Staff Sergeant 35 Army 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group Hostile - hostile fire Shkin, Paktika Province Albany Georgia

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Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0480 BC Themistocles and his Greek fleet win one of history's first decisive naval victories over Xerxes' Persian force off Salamis.
0451 General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne
0622 Mohammad's Hegira
1519 Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world
1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla & massacre the French
1664 Maryland enacts 1st anti-amaglmation law to prevent widespread intermarriage of English women & black men
1777 Paoli, PA massacre of sleeping Continental troops by British Dragoons
1792 French defeat Prussians at Valmy
1784 Packet and Daily, the first daily publication in America, appears on the streets.
1797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
1830 1st National Black convention meets (Phila)
1850 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
1854 British & French defeat Russians at Alma, in the Crimea
1859 Patent granted on the electric range
1860 1st British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII)
1863 Battle of Shepardstown VA
1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga, Tenn, ends
1873 Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure)
1881 Chester A Arthur sworn in as president (succeeding James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated)
1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP
1927 NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry
1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike
1939 U-27 was located and sunk by destroyers "Fortune" and "Forester."
1944 Nijmegen free (Operation Market-Garden)
1944 Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth
1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US
1946 Churchill argues for a "US of Europe"
1948 Mexican Baseball league disbanded
1949 Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional
1951 Swiss males votes against female suffrage
1951 1st North Pole jet crossing
1951 Ford Frick elected commissioner of baseball
1954 1st FORTRAN computer program run
1954 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
1958 Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC
1960 UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations)
1961 After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
1961 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26
1962 James Meredith is blocked from entering Miss U as its 1st black
1965 Seven U.S. planes downed in one day over Vietnam
1966 US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23
1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
1970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm
1973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
1973 Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season
1975 Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28¬" draw
1976 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women
1977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
1979 Bloodless coup in Central African Rep overthrows Emperor Bokassa I
1979 NASA launches HEAO
1980 Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium
1980 Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out
1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1983 3,112 turn out to see the Pirates play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1984 Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut
1985 Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest
1986 Wichita State blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State
1987 Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown
1990 Both Germanys ratify reunification
1990 Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message
1991 On Capitol Hill, Senate hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court concluded.
1992 French voters narrowly approved the Maastricht Treaty on European unity.
2000 Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation, "insufficient evidence to warrant charges against President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton".
2001 America demanded that Afghanistan hand over Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Otherwise, he said, the Taliban wouild share his fate.
2001 FBI arrested Nabil Al-Marabh (34), a suspected bin laden associate, in the Chicago area

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Laos : Thanksgiving
Biosphere Day
Blessed Rainy Day (Bhutan).
Idaho Spud Day
National Punch Day
Birthday of Quetzacoatl (Incan holiday).
National Tie Week (Day 3)
National Singles Week (Day 3)
Pleasure Your Mate Month

Religious Observances
Ang, RC : Ember Day
RC : Commemoration of St Eustace & his companions/martyrs
RC : Mem of SS Andrew Kim, Paul Chong & companions, Korean martyrs
Ang : St John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia/companions

Religious History
1378 The Great Schism in the Catholic Church began. It was touched off when Gregory XI died, shortly after returning the papal seat from Avignon, in France, to Rome. Continuing for nearly 40 years (until 1417), the Schism at one point produced three concurrent popes!
1883 Birth of Albrecht Alt, German Lutheran Old Testament scholar. "Biblia Hebraica" (13th ed., 1962), which Alt edited with Rudolph Kittel, became a standard critical Hebrew text of the Old Testament among students of the Bible for years.
1932 Four branches of Methodism in England united to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain and Ireland. These were the Wesleyan Methodists (founded 1784), the Primitive Methodists (1811), the United Methodist Free Churches (1857) and the United Methodists (1907).
1947 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Those who suffer the same things from the same people for the same Person can scarcely not love each other.'
1948 American missionary Jim Elliot -- eight years before his martyrdom at the hands of the Auca Indians of Ecuador -- penned in his journal: 'I am Thine at terrible cost to Thyself. Now Thou must become mine -- as Thou didst not attend to the price, neither would I.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

SCIENTISTS REVEAL LAWYERS & LEECHES HAVE IDENTICAL GENETIC MAKEUP!

By MARK MILLER

INNSBRUCK, Austria -- It's been suspected for centuries, but a team of world-renowned scientists has finally confirmed it: Lawyers and leeches have identical genetic makeup.

Dr. Andreas Volkenweiler of Austria's famed Innsbruck Institute of Genetic Research confirms that, "While studying the DNA sequences of many genes that control body patterns in various occupations, our research team observed that each lawyer gene contains a stretch of 180 nucleotides -- or structural components of DNA -- which exactly match the structure of those found in leeches.

"Once we made that basic match, other similarities between the two species were fairly easy to observe." Those similarities include the facts that both lawyers and leeches are:
Famed for their blood-sucking abilities.
Have large round mouths functioning as suckers to hold on to their hosts.
Have fine, conical teeth.
Are recognized for being the lowest, sleaziest and slimiest of their species.
Thrive in the bottom-mud and ooze of existence.
Partial to consuming the blood of fish, frogs and turtles.
Equally popular in social situations.
The American Bar Association is proceeding with a defamation of character lawsuit, but Dr. Volkenweiler is not worried. "We haven't stated anything that's not a documented fact," he says.

Thought for the day :
"Politics is very much like taxes—everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him."
Fiorello La Guardia