On this Day In history
Birthdates which occurred on September 26:
1729 Moses Mendelssohn philosopher/critic/Bible translator
1774 John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman
1820 Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)
1833 James Deering Fessenden Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1839 Frances Willard founded Women's Christian Temperance Union
1840 Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton LCol (Confederate Army, Thomas Jackson's aid de camp)
1841 Georges Clemenceau France, PM (1906-09, 17-20, defended Dreyfuss)
1888 T.S. Eliot St Louis poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948)
1889 Martin Heidegger Germany, Existentialist (Being & Time)
1895 Fay Holden Birmingham England, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films)
1897 Pope Paul VI 262nd Roman Catholic pope (1963-78)
1898 George Gershwin [Jacob Gershvin] Bkln NY, composer (Rhapsody in Blue)
1901 William S Paley founder & chairman (CBS)
1902 Ed Sullivan TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show)
1902 Albert Anastasia head of Murder Inc
1909 Al Capp New Haven Ct, cartoonist (Li'l Abner)
1914 Jack LaLanne exercise mogul
1925 Marty Robbins Glendale Az, singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone)
1926 Julie London Santa Rosa Calif, actress (Nurse McCall-Emergency)
1927 Patrick O'Neal Ocala Fla, actor (Kaz, Alvarez Kelly, King Rat)
1932 Clifton C Williams Jr Mobile Alabama, Major USMC/astronaut
1932 Joyce Jameson Chicago Ill, comedienne (Spike Jones Show)
1933 Donna Douglas [Dot Smith], Pride La, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1942 Kent McCord LA Calif, actor (Officer Jim Reed-Adam 12)
1945 Brian Ferry England, rocker (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together)
1948 Vladimir Remek 1st Czechoslovakian space traveler (in Soyuz 28)
1962 Melissa Sue Anderson Cal, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
1962 Tracey Thorn rocker (Everything But the Girls)
1963 Lysette Anthony London, actress (Angelique-Dark Shadows, Switch)
Deaths which occurred on September 26:
0929 Wenceslaus I duke of Bohemia, murdered
1342 John I, ruler of Poland, dies
1820 Daniel Boone frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85
1833 Lemuel Haynes Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88
1917 Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina), dies
1937 Bessie Smith singer, dies of injuries sustained in car crash
1952 George Santayana, US philosopher/poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88
1959 PM Solomon Bandaranaike of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) assassinated
1964 Calvin Thomas actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79
1990 Alberto Moravia Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82
1991 Miles Davis jazz trumpeter, dies of pneumonia at 65
2000 Actor Richard Mulligan (Little Big Man, "Soap", "Empty Nest" died at age 67.
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1966 BALLARD ARTHUR T. SPARTANBURG SC.
[03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 2000
1966 MOSBURG HENRY L. PUTNAM OK.
1966 PHILLIPS MARVIN F. GRUETLI TN.
1967 GEIST STEPHEN J. SILVER SPRINGS MD.
1967 HUDDLESTON LYNN R. RALLS TX.
1967 MOE HAROLD JOHN EAU CLAIRE WI.
1968 OLSON BARRY A. ALBERT LEA MN.
1972 WALSH JAMES P. WINSTED CN.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG, ALIVE IN 99]
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
1066 William the Conqueror troops sail to England
1396 Sultan Bajezid I beheads several hundred crusaders
1580 Francis Drake returned to Plymouth, England, in the Golden Hind, becoming the first British navigator to have circumnavigated the planet, returns to England with Spanish treasure
1655 Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from Swedish in Delaware
1687 Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes king of Scotland
1777 British troops occupy Philadelphia during the American Revolution
1781 Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of Revolutionary War
1789 Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney Genl
1824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
1826 The Persian cavalry is routed by the Russians at the Battle of Ganja in the Russian Caucasus.
1829 Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed.
1835 The opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" is produced (Naples)
1850 Flogging in US Navy & on merchant vessels abolished
1864 General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his men assault a Federal garrison near Pulaski, Tennessee
1868 Opelousas Massacre at St Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed)
1890 US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3cent piece
1892 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)
1901 Guerrilla's assault unarmed US soldiers in Balangiga Phil, 38 killed
1906 US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
1912 "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000
1907 New Zealand becomes a dominion
1908 Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader
1914 Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
1918 Meuse-Argonne offensive against Germany began during WW I
1918 German Ace Ernst Udet shoots down two Allied planes, bringing his total for the war up to 62
1920 8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal)
1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead
1926 Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to the Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
1930 Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
1934 British liner Queen Mary is launched
1939 Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland & gives Lithuania to USSR, last Polish troops surrender
1948 Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
1950 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England
1950 UN troops in Korean War recapture Seoul
1952 Yanks clinch pennant #19
1954 Typhoon strikes Kakodate Bay Japan, killing over 1,600
1955 NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1957 Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway
1958 Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup
1960 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago)
1960 Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
1961 Nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan makes his New York singing debut at Gerde's Folk City.
1961 Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record
1962 1st to steal 100 bases in a season (Maury Wills goes on to 104)
1962 "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiers on CBS
1962 Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
1968 Hawaii Five-O debuts as an hourly program on CBS
1968 St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA
1969 Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
1972 American Museum of Immigration dedicated
1973 Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m
1975 Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM
1976 Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title
1976 Muhammad Ali retains heavyweight boxing championship in a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium
1977 Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY
1978 Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord
1978 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
1979 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million
1980 Cuban govt closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"
1980 Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
1981 Houston Astro Nolan Ryan 5th no-hitter beats LA Dodgers, 5-0
1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1983 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner)
1983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
1984 Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1984 Pres Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
1986 Antonin Scalia becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1986 William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
1988 Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test
1988 NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark
1988 Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM
1988 US space shuttle STS-26 launched
1990 Motion Picture Assn of America creates new NC-17 rating
1991 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins
1996 Richard Allen Davis, the killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, was formally sentenced to death in San Jose, Calif.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
New Zealand : Dominion Day
Sri Lanka : Bandaranaike Day (1959)
Yemen Arab Rep, Yemen Peo Dem Rep : Revolution Day (1962)
US : Gold Star Mother's Day
US : Good Neighbor Day
US : Press Sunday (Sunday)
Khmer Republic : Ceremony of the Dead
National Dog Week (Day 6)
Religious Freedom Week (Day 6)
Roller Skating Week (Day 6)
Sea Cadet Month
Self Improvement Month
Religious Observances
RC : Memorial of SS Cosmas & Damian, martyrs, patrons of MDs (opt)
Ang : Commemoration of Lancelot Andrewes, bishop of Winchester
Religious History
1774 Birth of pioneer environmentalist Jonathan Chapman (Johnny Appleseed). Distributing apple seeds and religious tracts from the Alleghenies to the Ohio Valley, Chapman's theology was strongly reminiscent of Swedenborgianism, which taught an empathy with the natural world.
1814 With over 1,000 delegates from 17 churches, the Flint River Association was established -- the first official Baptist organization of its kind in the history of Alabama.
1835 The Suwanee Association was formed, in Florida. Comprised of eight member churches, it was the first official Baptist organization in Florida history.
1897 Birth of Giovanni Battista Montini. He was ordained in 1920, named a cardinal in 1958, and in June 1963 chosen successor to John XXIII as Pope Paul VI. His 15 years as pontiff saw a widening application of the decisions first made at the Vatican II Ecumenical Council (1962-65).
1990 In Russia, the Supreme Soviet ended decades of religious repression with a new declaration, forbidding government interference in religious activities and giving citizens the right to study religion in homes and private schools.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily."
Things You Wouldn't Hear a Southerner Say...
Does the salad bar have bean sprouts?
Lesser Known Breeds of Dogs - Cross Breeds
Irish Water Spaniel + English Springer Spaniel = Irish Springer, a dog fresh and clean as a whistle
The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...
Inorganic Chemistry:
That which is left over after the organic, analytical, and physical chemists get through picking over the periodic table.
Things you would like to say at work, but won't...
I like you! You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
Note: I have a week of training 1st shift I will not will be posting "On This Day In History" until Sat.
NOW STOP CRYING! It'll be all right
