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Geez I wish you'd get that right, jseal.
1995 ~ eBay nearly foundered. (with a little help from Oldfart ) |
Oh, I dunno. It looks OK to me. :)
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September 4th
476 ~ Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed.
1781 ~ Los Angeles was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula). 1824 ~ Birthday of Anton Bruckner, Composer. 1888 ~ George Eastman registered the trademark Kodak. Interestingly, the Kodak company has just emerged from bankruptcy. It filed for Chapter 11 protection last year. 1891 ~ Birthday of Fritz Todt, developer of the German autobahn, the archtype for the limited access highway. 1957 ~ The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel. 1957 ~ The Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution in Great Britain came to the conclusion that outlawing homosexuality impinged upon civil liberties. 1965 ~ Death of Albert Schweitzer, Physician, J.S. Bach interpreter, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1952. 1995 ~ Death of William Kunstler, Attorney. 1998 ~ Google founded. |
September 5th
1793 ~ The French National Convention voted to implement terror measures to enforce the principles of the French Revolution.
1847 ~ Birthday of Jesse James, outlaw. 1882 ~ The first Labor Day parade in the U.S. was held in New York City. 1939 ~ The U.S. declared its neutrality in World War II. 1946 ~ Birthday of Freddie Mercury, British singer-songwriter (Queen) 1957 ~ “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac was published. 1972 ~ A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacked Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 1981 ~ Birthday of Ann Marie Rios, Porn actress. 1982 ~ Death of Douglas Bader, World War II RAF fighter pilot. 1997 ~ Death of Mother Teresa, Inspiration. |
September 6th
1620 ~ The Pilgrims set sail on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England, to settle in North America.
1766 ~ Birthday of John Dalton, British chemist and physicist. He was one of the earlier proponents of the atomic theory. 1847 ~ Henry Thoreau left Walden Pond and moved in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts. 1928 ~ Birthday of Robert Pirsig, Author (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance). 1941 ~ The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed, was extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas. 1965 ~ India invaded West Pakistan. 1986 ~ Birthday of Raven Riley, Porn Star. 1995 ~ Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2,131 consecutive baseball games. 1996 ~ Eddie Murray became the 15th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Oriole Park in Baltimore, Maryland. 2005 ~ The California Legislature became the first legislative body in the U.S. to approve same-sex marriages. |
September 7th
1776 ~ World's first submarine attack. American submersible craft Turtle attempted to attach a bomb to the hull of the British flagship Eagle in New York Harbor.
1908 ~ Birthday of Dr. Michael DeBakey, Heart Surgeon and inventor of the MASH. 1912 ~ Birthday of David Packard, Electrical Engineer. 1940 ~ The Blitz – Under orders from Adolf Hitler, the Luftwaffe began to bomb London. This was the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. 1977 ~ The U.S. agreed to transfer control of the Panama Canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century. 1986 ~ Desmond Tutu becomes the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa. 1992 ~ Ciskei soldiers kill 24 at political rally. 1994 ~ Death of James Clavell, Author (Shogun) & Screenwriter (To Sir, with Love; The Great Escape). 1997 ~ Death of Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire. 2008 ~ Too Big to Fail: The US Government took control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. |
September 8th
1636 ~ Harvard College was founded as the first college in the Americas.
1886 ~ Birthday of Siegfried Sassoon, Poet. 1925 ~ Birthday of Peter Sellers, Actor (A Shot in the Dark, Dr. Strangelove, The Pink Panther, etc.). 1930 ~ 3M began marketing Scotch transparent tape. 1941 ~ The Siege of Leningrad began. 1944 ~ London was hit by a V2 rocket for the first time. 1949 ~ Death of Richard Strauss, Composer. 1966 ~ The first episode of the original “Star Trek” aired. 1974 ~ President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon. 1981 ~ Death of Hideki Yukawa, the Japanese physicist who proposed the meson elementary particle, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1949. 2003 ~ Death of Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (Triumph of the Will). |
September 9th
1585 ~ Birthday of Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, French statesman.
1776 ~ The Continental Congress officially named their new country the United States. 1828 ~ Birthday of Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace). 1941 ~ Birthday of Otis Redding, Soul Singer. 1945 ~ Admiral Grace Hopper discovered the first computer bug. 1967 ~ Birthday of Anna Malle, Porn Actress. 1976 ~ Death of Mao Zedong, chief architect of the Chinese Communist Revolution. 1987 ~ Extradition to Belgium of twenty-five English football fans involved in the Heysel stadium disaster. 2001 ~ The leader of the Northern Alliance, Ahmed Shah Massoud, was assassinated in Afghanistan. 2003 ~ Death of Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist, "father of the hydrogen bomb". |
The first child to be born in the White House to U.S. President Grover Cleveland on September 9th 1893! Fun facts to know and share!
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Very cool! TY! :thumb:
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September 10th
1939 ~ World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley was sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Trition off the coast of Norway and became the first loss of the Royal Navy.
1942 ~ Birthday of Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist. 1943 ~ World War II: German forces began their occupation of Rome. 1945 ~ Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany. 1960 ~ Birthday of Colin Firth, Actor (Shakespeare in Love, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually). 1971 ~ Death of Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union. 1977 ~ Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of murder, became the last person to be executed by the guillotine in France. 1990 ~ The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world, consecrated by Pope John Paul II. 2000 ~ British paratroopers rescued six held hostage by the "West Side Boys". 2008 ~ CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is finally powered up. |
September 11th
1297 ~ William Wallace led a Scottish army to defeat the English in the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
1914 ~ In one of the earlier military engagements of WWI, Australian forces defeat Germans in New Britain. 1922 ~ British Mandate of Palestine began. 1948 ~ Death of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan. 1973 ~ A military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet toppled elected Marxist President Salvador Allende. 1981 ~ Birthday of Luscious Lopez, Porn actress. 1987 ~ CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, angry over being preempted for a tennis match, marched off the set, leaving affiliates with six minutes of an empty news desk. 1987 ~ Death of Lorne Greene, Canadian actor. 2001 ~ The September 11 terrorist attacks destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City, part of The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and crashed a passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 were killed. 2002 ~ Death of Johnny Unitas, Football Hall of Famer. |
September 12th
490 B.C. ~ The Athenians defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
1683 ~ The Ottoman Empire was defeated in the Battle of Vienna. 1814 ~ War of 1812: An American detachment halted the British land advance to Baltimore in the Battle of North Point. 1880 ~ Birthday of H.L. Mencken, Journalist, Author. 1913 ~ Birthday of Jesse Owens, American track and field athlete. 1940 ~ Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France. 1959 ~ First episode of Bonanza. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color. 1977 ~ Death of Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist. 1992 ~ Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, was captured. 2003 ~ Death of Johnny Cash, Country Music Great. |
September 12th
2013 ~ Pixies Place was SPAM bombed!
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September 13th
1819 ~ Birthday of Clara Schumann, Pianist, Composer.
1857 ~ Birthday of Milton S. Hershey, chocolate entrepreneur and founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company. 1948 ~ Margaret Chase Smith was elected senator, and became the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. 1971 ~ Frank Robinson became the 11th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. 1977 ~ Death of Leopold Stokowski, Conductor. 1981 ~ Birthday of August, a Porn actress. 1982 ~ Lindy Chamberlain's "dingo baby trial" opened in Australia. 1979 ~ Birthday of Catalina Cruz, Porn actress. 1993 ~ Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands on a peace deal. 2006 ~ Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others at Dawson College in Montreal. |
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