I also recall a claim that the Germans used poison gas in a limited manner during the siege of Sevastopol in 1942 - probably to clear underground bunkers. I don't recall any details.
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on September 08:
1157 Richard I [Richard the Lion Hearted], King of England (1189-99)
1207 Sancho II, king of Portugal
1821 Henry Baxter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
1828 Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Bvt Major General, Medal of Honor (Union volunteers, 20th Maine), hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg
1829 George Crook, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1829 Seth Maxwell Barton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1841 Antonin Dvorak Nelahozeves, Czech, composer (New World Symphony)
1873 David O McKay Huntsville, Utah, 9th pres of Mormon church
1889 Robert A Taft (Sen-R-Ohio, Taft-Hartley Act)(Mr. Republican)
1897 Jimmie Rodgers Meridian Miss, country singer/singing brakeman (In The Jailhouse, "Blue Yodel No. 8" (Muleskinner Blues), Peach Pickin' Time Down in Georgia)
http://www.jimmierodgers.com/home.html
1907 Leon Askin Vienna Austria, actor (Gen. Burkhalter, Hogans Hero's)
1922 Lyndon LaRouche American presidental candidate/worldclass nutcase (1980)
1922 Sid Caesar Yonkers NY, comedian (Your Show of Shows)
1925 Peter Sellers England, actor (not now, Kato, Bobo, Pink Panther, Being There)
1932 Patsy Cline Va, country singer (Walkin' After Midnight)
1937 Virna Lisi Italy, actress (Assault on a Queen, Bluebeard)
1938 Sam Nunn (Sen-D-Ga, Sec. Defence)
1940 Willie Tyler Red Level Ala, ventriloquist (Lester)
1941 Alan Feinstein NYC, actor (Max-Berrengers, Family Tree)
1945 Jose Feliciano, singer/songwriter/guitarist, Lares, Puerto Rico.
1948 Great Kabuki, [Akihisa Yone Yoshi Mera], wrestler (NWA/NJPW/WAR/SWS)
1951 Randy T Odle, Port Arthur Texas, astronaut
1957 Heather Thomas Greenwich Ct, actress (Jody-Fall Guy, Coed Fever)
1964 Steffan Peters, equestrian dressage (Olympics-bronze-96)
1981 Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Bethlehem PA, actor (Randy-Home Improvement)
Deaths which occurred on September 08:
0394 Arbogast, Frankish warleader, commits suicide
0701 Sergius I, Syrian/Italian Pope (687-701), dies
1100 Clement III 1st antipope (1084-1100), dies (birth date unknown)
1654 Peter Claver, Spanish saint (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies
1888 Annie Chapman, second victim of London serial killer "Jack the Ripper."
1895 Adam Opel, German manufacturer (motorcars), dies at 58
1933 Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria, dies at 50
1935 Huey P "Kingfisher" Long (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building
1949 Richard Strauss, German composer, dies at 85
1935 Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Sen Huey Long, shot down
1951 Jurgen Stroop, Nazi exterminator of Warsaw Ghetto, hanged on site of the ghetto
1969 Bud Collyer TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61
1977 Zero [Samuel J] Mostel, US actor (The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way Too The Forum), dies at 62
1979 Jean Seberg actress, dies at 40
1981 Roy Wilkins longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80
1991 Alex North music composer (Spartacus), dies at 80 of cancer
1993 Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88
1995 Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of Boris Pasternak, dies of cancer at 83
1999 Economist Herbert Stein, who served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Nixon administration, died in Washington DC at age 83. (Ben Stein's father)
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
08-Sep-2004 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Jason L. Sparks Fallujah - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Michael A. Martinez Ba’qubah (near) - Diyala Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Sergeant James Daniel Faulkner Baghdad (eastern part) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist Lauro G. DeLeon Jr. Balad (near) - Salah ad Din Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
1380 Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars
1504 Michelangelo's 13-foot marble statue of David is unveiled in Florence, Italy.
1529 The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman re-enters Buda and establishes John Zapolyai as the puppet king of Hungary.
1553 City of Lichfield, England established
1565 1st permanent settlement in US established Pedro Menendez de Aviles establishes settlement on the site of the Timucuan Indian village of Seloy. (St Augustine Fla.)
1565 Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St John
1628 Bay of Matanzas Cuba: Piet Heyn captures Spanish silver fleet
1636 First college founded in America, Harvard College, originally called Cambridge College(Named for Reverend John Harvard)
1755 Battle of Lake George, NY British defeat the French
1760 French surrendered the city of Montreal to British Gen. Jeffrey Amherst
1771 Mission San Gabriel Archangel forms in California
1796 Battle of Bassano-French beat Austrians
1847 US under Gen Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey
1858 Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people
1863 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal invasion force at Sabine Pass, TX
1863 Federal troops reconquer the Cumberland Gap, Tennessee
1864 George McClellan accepts nomination as Democratic candidate for President
1868 NY Athletic Club formed
1883 Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont
1883 NY Giants score 13 runs in an inning against the Phillies
1892 1st appearance of "The Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)
1900 6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave destroys Galveston, Texas, most deadly in US history
1903 Between 30,000 and 50,000 Bulgarian men, women and children are massacred in Monastir by Turkish troops seeking to check a threatened Macedonian uprising.
1920 US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF)
1921 1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of Washington DC)
1924 Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador
1930 Richard Drew creates Scotch tape
1930 1st appearance of the comic strip "Blondie"
1930 NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew
1939 FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe
1939 Yanks beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called because of lightning
1939 Gen Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw
1941 Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated
1941 Siege of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins
1943 Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II
1944 1st V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp
1944 Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany
1945 US invades Japanese-held Korea
1945 Korea is partitioned by the Soviet Union and the United States.
1948 British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound
1951 Japan signs treaty of peace with 48 countries (SF)
1952 Ernest Hemingway's "Old Man & the Sea" published
1954 SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) formed to stop communist spread in SE Asia
1954 With a 3-2 count, Phillies Richie Ashburn fouls next 14 pitches, then walks (never give up)
1955 Earliest clinching of an NL pennant (Brooklyn Dodgers)
1956 Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
1957 Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV
1960 NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
1960 Penguin Books in Britain is charged with obscenity for trying to publish the D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover.
1963 Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys
1965 Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana & Florida
1965 KC A's Bert Campaneris plays all 9 positions in a game
1966 "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premiers on ABC-TV
1967 Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10
1967 Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic
1971 John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens in Washington DC
1972 Chic Cub Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th game for 6th straight year
1973 1st all Australian women's US Open final, (Court beats Goolagong)
1973 Billy Martin named manager of the Texas Rangers
1973 Hank Aaron sets record of most HRs in 1 league (709)
1974 President Gerald Ford pardons former President Nixon of all federal crimes
1974 Evel Knievel attempts to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho on his rocket-powered motorcycle. He failed and parachuted down
1975 Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools
1977 Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy
1978 2nd game of the Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
1983 NASA launches RCA-6
1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41G mission
1985 "USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers
1985 Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hr women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool
1985 Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits
1988 Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43 m (7' 11")
1989 Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk Belgium
1990 Ellis Island Historical Site opens on Eliis Island, NYC
1991 Buffalo Bill Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pitts (52-34)
1994 Last US, British and French troops leave West-Berlin
1997 America Online Inc. (AOL) takes over Compuserve
1998 Mark McGwire hits his 62nd home run off Chicago Cubs pitcher Steve Trachsel in St. Louis and brakes the 1961 record set by Roger Maris
2000 US Bureau of Indian Affairs markes its 175th birthday and Kevin Grover, head of the bureau, offeres a formal apology to American Indians for the misdeeds of the agency that included massacres, forced relocations of tribes and attempts to wipe out Indian cultures.
2000 The UN Millennium Summit ends in NYC with the adoption of an 8-page plan, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to cure the world’s direst problems. Pledges were made to halve the proportion of people in poverty, to reverse the spread of AIDS, and to strengthen the UN’s ability to keep peace.
(Now don't you feel better? I know I sure do. It gives me a warm feeling all over just to know that the UN is on the job!)
2001 UN World Conference on Racism ended and agreed to condemn the “barbarism” of the slave trade, proposed an aid package for Africa, recognized Palestinian rights and Israeli security concerns, opposed bias against ethnic minorities, refugees, indigenous peoples and women.
(I have nothing too say)
2004 Terrorist kidnap the family of an Iraqi National Guard officer and set fire to his home northeast of the capital
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Andorra : National Day
Guinea-Bissau : Independence Day (1974)
Lichfield, England : Sheriff's Ride Ceremony (1533)
Malta : Commemoration of Regatta Day/Commemoration of 2 Sieges (1565)
North Korea : National Day (Established Govt) (1948)
South Korea : Thanksgiving Day
Uganda : Republic Day (1967)
Fall TV Series Flop Prediction Day
Kiss a Bald Head Week (Day 5)
National Boss Day/Employee Exchange Day
National Papaya Month
Religious Observances
RC-Vatican City : Mary's Nativity, birthday of Blessed Virgin Mary
Feast of St. Gorgonius, martyr.
Feast of Saint Peter Claver
Religious History
0070 Following a six-month siege, Jerusalem surrendered to the 60,000 troops of Titus' Roman army. Over a million Jewish citizens perished in the siege and, following the city's capture, another 97,000 were sold into slavery.
1565 The parish of St. Augustine, Florida, was founded by Father Don Martin Francisco Lopez de Mendozo Grajales, chaplain to the conquering Spanish forces. It became the first and oldest Roman Catholic parish established in America.
1636 Harvard College (later University) was founded by the Massachusetts Puritans at New Towne. It was the first institution of higher learning established in North America, and was originally founded to train future ministers.
1845 Oxford Movement leader, John Henry Newman, 44, resigned from the Church of England -- convinced that it had severed itself from its ancient episcopal moorings and true apostolic succession -- and became a Roman Catholic.
1928 Pius XI issued the encyclical "Rerum Orientalium," promoting study of the history, doctrine and liturgy of Eastern Orthodoxy. He recommended that priests apply themselves to special studies at the Oriental Institute in Rome, founded in 1917 by Benedict XV.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Police Recruit Has Hand in His Own Arrest
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A New Zealand police recruit has had a hand in his own arrest for an unsolved assault. As part of a training exercise in fingerprinting at the Royal New Zealand Police College, the recruit gave his prints - and they matched him to an arrest warrant for a serious assault, Wellington's Dominion Post newspaper reported Wednesday.
He was arrested late last week and will appear in court later this week, the paper reported.
Training commander, Superintendent Alistair Beckett, said the recruit, whose name was not reported, had managed to slip through rigorous screening of potential recruits.
"By and large, the people we get are top of the line, top drawer. They normally don't have things from the past they want to hide," he was quoted saying.
But the police are not taking any chances that others might try to fool the system. Starting from October, all recruit applicants will be fingerprinted before they are given training, Beckett said.
Thought for the day :
"The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, -he- was a genius."
Sid Caesar
Good afternoon everyone.
Thanks for a great read Sam.
