On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on September 30:
1207 Jalal ud-Din Rumi Poet
1627 Robinson Crusoe according to Daniel Defoe
1702 Arising from the tranquil waters of Deer Creek Lake (not unlike Venus on the half shell) Fawnn springs forth. A can of Spam in her left hand, a LARGE canister of the purest lard in her right, a orange propeller beanie at a rakish angle adorns her (naturally) curly locks. WooooHoooo! she cries She strides across the land on her mission to bring the joys of deepfrying to the poor benighted souls of the nation.
(Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.)
1870 Jean Perrin France, physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926)
1908 David Oistrakh Odessa Russia, violinist/prof (Moscow Conservatory)
1912 Kenny Baker radio singer/actor (Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back)
1915 Lester Garfield Maddox (Gov-D-Ga)/restaurant owner
1917 Chung Hee Park general/pres of S Korea (1961-79)
1919 Patricia Neway Bkln NY, soprano (Consul, Maria Golovia)
1921 Deborah Kerr Helensburg Scotland, actress (King & I, Night of Iguana)
1924 Truman Capote (Truman Streckfus Persons) writer (Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood)
1926 Robin Roberts Phillies pitcher, Hall of Famer (Won 28 in 1952)
1928 Elie Wiesel author (Souls on Fire), Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986)
1931 Angie Dickinson Kulm ND-best looking legs on a cop (Police Woman)
1932 Ben Cooper Hartford Ct, actor (Johnny Guitar, Rose Tattoo)
1934 Freddie King Gilmer Tx, blues singer (Hideaway)
1935 Jill Corey Avonmore Pa, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1935 Johnny Mathis singer (Chances are, 12th of Never)
1936 Jim Sasser (Sen-D-Tn)
1938 Salvatore Michael Caruana Mass, criminal (FBI Most Wanted List)
1942 Frankie Lymon NYC, rocker (& Teenagers-Why do Fools Fall in Love)
1942 Sture Pettersson Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
1943 Jody Powell press mouthpiece to Jimmy Carter
1943 Marilyn McCoo Jersey City NJ, host/singer (Solid Gold, 5th Dimension)
1947 Marc Bolan London England, rocker (T-Rex-Bang a Gong)
1951 Catie Ball US, 100 m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic-4X4 gold-1968)
1953 Deborah Allen Memphis Tn, country singer (Jim Stafford Show)
1954 Barry Williams Santa Monica Calif, actor (Greg-Brady Bunch)
1954 Calvin Levels Cleveland Ohio, actor (Knightwatch)
1957 William Christian Wash DC, actor (Derek-All My Children)
1959 Basia Trzetrzelevska Poland, jazz singer (Time & Life)
1959 Debrah Farentino actress (Hooperman, Equal Justice)
1961 Crystal Bernard Dallas, actress (Amy-It's a Living, Wings)
1962 Dave Magadan 1st baseman (NY Mets)
1976 Adita Linares Miami Fla, spanish actress
1977 Maia Brewton LA Calif, actress (Margaret-Lime Street)
Deaths which occurred on September 30:
1572 Francisco Borgia, Jesuit theologian/saint, dies at 61
1630 John Billington, murderer, 1st American execution, hanged.
1888 Catherine Eddowes, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
1888 Elizabeth Stride, Long Liz, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
1952 Waldorf Astor, House of Lords & Commons/owner of Observer
1955 James Dean killed in an auto collision at 24 near Cholame Calif
1959 John H Kliegl developer of the Klieg light, dies at 89
1978 Edgar Bergen ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75
1983 Freddy Martin orch leader (started Merv Griffin), dies at 76
1983 William D Elliot actor (Bernie Loves Bridget, Adam 12), dies at 49
1984 Ellsworth Bunker, US ambassador (South-Vietnam, dies at 90)
1985 Charles F Richter, US seismologist (scale of R), dies at 85
1988 Joachim Prinz author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86
1994 Roberto Viola, Argentine general/president (1981), dies at 69
1997 Male alligator, largest in Florida (14 feet), killed at about 65
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
30-Sep-2003 2 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 1
UKR Senior Sergeant Yuri Koidan Al Kut airport - Wasit Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Specialist Dustin K. McGaugh Balad - Salah ad Din Non-hostile - weapon discharge
30-Sep-2004 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Allen Nolan Brooke Army Med Center, TX Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Staff Sergeant Darren J. Cunningham Baghdad (near) Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack
US Specialist Rodney A. Jones Baghdad (western part) Hostile - hostile fire - car bomb
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
1399 King Richard II of England abdicates throne to Henry Bolingbroke who was proclaimed King Henry IV.
1452 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
1520 Suleiman I succeeds his father Selim I as sultan of Turkey
1555 Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic
1568 Eric XIV, king of Sweden, is deposed after showing signs of madness.
1630 1st execution in America-J Billington hanged in Plymouth, MA He was hanged for having shot John Newcomin following a quarrel.
1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services
1777 Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance
1791 Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" premiers in Vienna
1846 Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
1857 US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Is. south of Hawaii
1867 Midway Islands formally declared a US possession
1877 1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)
1878 1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii
1880 Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of the Orion Nebula
1885 Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate
1887 Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup
1895 France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar
1916 Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak
1922 Yanks clinch pennant #2
1927 Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary)
1928 Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 mi 604 yds in 1 hr
1929 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1934 Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3
1934 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1935 Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premiers in Boston
1938 Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany (Peace in our time)
1939 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC)
1939 The French Army is called back into France from its invasion of Germany. The attack, code named Operation Saar, penetrated a WHOLE five miles. (Another glorious french victory!)
1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine
1943 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps became the Women's Army Corps, a regular contingent of the U.S. Army with the same status as other army service corps.
1944 Calais reoccupied by Allies
1945 Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins the pennant for the Tigers
1946 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg, Von Ribbentrop & Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial
1947 Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73,365-1st WS televised
1949 Berlin Airlift ends after 277,264 flights. Through accidents 31 Americans lost their lives in support of the airlift. They transported some 2.3 million tons of food to supply the 2.1 million residents of the blockaded portion of the city.
1950 1st congress of Internat'l Astronautical Federation opens in Paris
1953 Pres. Eisenhower named California Gov. Earl Warren (62) Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
1954 1st atomic-powered vessel, submarine Nautilus launched
1954 NATO nations agree to arm and admit West Germany
1956 Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR
1960 Flintstones premiers (1st prime time animation show)
1960 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"
1961 Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost
1962 James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi
1965 President Lyndon Johnson signs legislation that establishes the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities
1966 Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
1967 BBC starts their own popular music radio station
1967 Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
1967 USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete the 1st automatic docking
1968 1st Boeing 747 rolls out
1968 Supremes release "Love Child"
1969 Nazi war criminals Albert Speerand Baldur von Schirach, freed at midnight from Spandau prison after serving twenty-year prison sentences.
1971 Last Wash Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit Yanks trailing 4-2 in the 9th with 2 outs, fans rush the field
1973 Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5
1975 5 drown in flash flood of sewer & water tunnel (Niagara Falls NY)
1977 Ringo releases "Ringo the 4th" album
1978 Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Houston, New York, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title
1980 1,754 turn out to see the Phillies play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1980 Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
1984 Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner
1984 Calif Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0
1984 NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg
1986 US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
1988 Andrei A Gromyko retires
1988 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
1988 Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win the Olympic gold medal
1988 Robin Givens & Mike Tyson appear on the Barbara Walters Show
1988 LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii & Ascension
1991 Haitian President Jean-Bertand Aristide is ousted
1992 Congress approves a bill requiring the release of nearly all government files concerning the assassination of President Kennedy.
1993 General Colin Powell retires at 56
1993 MS Dos 6.2 released
1999 Russia sent troops into the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
2001 Pashtun chiefs from both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border met in Quetta to discuss the crisis brought on by the Sep 11 attacks on the US. The groups included the Kuchi, Zadran, Ghilzai and Buzdar and were crucial in the Taliban’s rise to power
2004 Russia's Cabinet approved the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Botswana : Botswana Day (1966)
US : Gold Star Mother's Day (Last Sunday in September) (Sunday)
US : Ask a "Stupid" Question Day.
World : Vegetarian Day. Annual day for focusing on the personal and global benefits of a vegetarian diet.
(Vegetables are what food eats)
Saxon New Year.
Louisiana : Huey P. Long Day.
National Courtesy Month
Religious Observances
Ang, RC, Luth : Memorial of St Jerome, patron of scholars/librarians
Religious History
430 Death of Latin Father St. Jerome, ca.75. Converted at 19, Jerome spent the last half of his life rendering the Scriptures into the contemporary ("vulgar") Latin of his day -- hence the "Latin Vulgate" -- as well as preparing commentaries on nearly every book of the Bible.
1770 English revivalist George Whitefield, 56, died in Newburyport, Mass., while on his seventh visit to America. Regarded as the most striking orator to come out of 18th century English revivalism, Whitefield's last spoken words were: 'I had rather wear out, than rust out.'
1943 Pius XII issued the encyclical "Divino Afflante Spiritu," which encouraged Catholic scholars to devote more attention to biblical exegesis in their teachings and writings. One of the long-term effects of this encyclical was the publication in 1970 of the New American Bible.
1951 Billy Graham's "Hour of Decision" first aired over ABC television. Broadcast on Sunday nights 10:00-10:30, the program aired through February 1954, before entering syndication.
1952 The complete Old and New Testament of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible was first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons. (The RSV New Testament had first appeared in 1946.)
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Media boasts land top hooker in jail
Sept. 30, 10:28 AM (ET)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A $2,000 an hour prostitute known as New York's No. 1 Escort pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of money laundering and prostitution that stemmed from her bragging in the media about her work.
Canadian Natalia McLennan, 25, sobbed uncontrollably in Manhattan Criminal Court after she was unable to post $50,000 bail and was taken away in handcuffs to jail.
The charges against McLennan came after she bragged in several interviews about her professional exploits, including posing provocatively for the cover of New York Magazine under the headline "N.Y.'s # 1 Escort Reveals All."
In that interview, she told the magazine she generated revenues of $1.5 million annually and kept 45 percent of that sum in return for having sex with high-roller clients of NY Confidential, a swanky Moroccan-themed brothel in Manhattan.
McLennan showed up for her arraignment dressed in a skimpy mini-skirt, a see-through blouse and four-inch spike heels, and told the court she had no idea she would remain in custody after the hearing. She wailed as she was taken from the courtroom.
She will remain in jail pending her next hearing on Monday. She faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
(I understand she's going to study to be a brain surgeon while in jail.)
Thought for the day :
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."
Jalal ud-Din Rumi
Thanks for a delightful series. Not being a re-enacter myself, it was a fascinating read of the "inside story." And the wonderful sidebar of the tale of you and Josie was the perfect icing on the cake.
to Lee for his fine tale of the re-enactors life. I went to the part of Battle of Westport re-enactment here in Kansas City that was held about 10 or 12 years ago. Very Interesting. Regards alfa6 ;>}