On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on August 24:
1113 Geoffrey Plantagenet France, conquerer of Normandy
1591 Robert Herrick England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds)
1759 Wilbur Wilberforce England, crusaded against slavery
1808 Benjamin Grubb Humphreys Brig General (Confederate Army)
1808 Thomas Fenwick Drayton Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1816 Sir Daniel Gooch laid 1st successful transatlantic cables
1827 Walter Husted Stevens Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
1828 George Hume "Maryland" Steuart Brig General (Confederate Army)
1872 Sir Max Beerbohm England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review)
1886 William Francis Gibbs naval architect, designed Liberty ships
1890 Duke Kahanamoku Hawaii, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1912, 20)
1898 Albert Claude Belgium, physician (Nobel 1974)
1900 Preston Foster Ocean City NJ, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger)
1902 Fernand Braudel French historian (Civililization & Capitalism)
1905 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, blues singer, a major influence on Elvis Presley.
1912 Durward Kirby Indianapolis Ind, TV announcer (Garry Moore Show){inventer of the Kirward Derby}
1924 Louis Teicher pianist (Ferrante & Teicher-Exodus)
1929 Yasir Arafat,murderer/leader of the Palestinian Liberation Movement.
1938 Mason Williams (musician: guitar: Classical Gas;
1943 John Cipollina SF Cal, rock guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1944 Gregory B Jarvis Detroit Mich, astronaut (STS 25)
1946 Richard "Dick" N Richards Key West Fl, USN/astr (STS-28, 41, sk:50)
1949 Anna L Fisher St Albans NY, MD/astronaut (STS 51-A)
1958 Steve Guttenberg Bkln NY, actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit)
1961 Cal Ripken Jr all-star shortstop (Balt Orioles)
1962 Mary E Weber Cleveland Ohio, PhD/astronaut
1965 Marlee Matlin Ill, deaf actress (Children of Lesser God-Acad Award)
Deaths which occurred on August 24:
1103 Magnus III Berbein, king of Norway (1093-1103)
1217 Eustace "the Monk" French buccaneer, dies in battle
1313 Henry VII, Roman Catholic German king/emperor (1308/12-13)
1680 Colonel Thomas Blood, Irish adventurer (Stole the Crown Jewels) dies
1888 Rudolph J E Clausius German physicist (thermodynamics), dies
1889 Jan E Matzeliger Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies
1943 Simone Weil French philosopher (Gravity and Grace) dies
1957 Ronald Knox writer, theologian
1967 Henry J Kaiser industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), dies at 85
1975 Charles H Revson, US cosmetic magnate, dies at 69
1983 Jack Somack actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64
1988 Max Shulman author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69
1991 Abel Kivlat US 1500m runner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies at 99
1991 Bernard Castro patented convertible couch, dies at 87
1998 E.G. Marshall actor, "The Defenders", "Nixon", "Absolute Power", dies at 88
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
24-Aug-2004 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Lance Corporal Jacob R. Lugo Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Staff Sergeant Donald N. Davis Fallujah (near) - Anbar Non-hostile - vehicle accident
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0079 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum
0410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
1215 Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
1349 Plague strikes Mainz. Jews are blamed and 6,000 killed
1349 Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1391 Jews of Palma Majorca, Spain massacred
1516 Battle of Marjdabik Ottoman Turks under Suliman I defeat the Mamelukes of Egypt
1542 In South America, Gonzalo Pizarro returns to the mouth of the Amazon River after having sailed the length of the great river as far as the Andes Mountains.
1572 King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants "St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre". 50,000 Huguenots and their leader, Admiral Gaspard de Chastillon, Count the Coligny killed
1608 1st English convoy lands at Surat India
1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
1751 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
1780 King Louis XVI abolishes torture as a means to get suspects to confess
1814 British sack Washington, DC, White House burned, in retaliation for the American burning of the parliament building in York (Toronto)
1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY)
1854 National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
1858 Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning to read
1862 C.S.S. Alabama commissioned at sea off Portugal's Azore Islands (beginning a career that would see over sixty Union merchant vessels sunk or destroyed by the Confederate raider.)
1869 Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron
1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1894 Congress passes the first graduated income tax law, which is declared unconstitutional the next year.
1897 Newspaper editor Charles Dudley Warner published his often-quoted sentence, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." The quotation is often mistakenly attributed to his friend Mark Twain.
1905 Chicago Cubs beat the Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
1909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1912 NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US olympians
1912 Territory of Alaska organized (Ok, everyone line up according to height, men on the left women on the right....Come on people we haven't got all day. Katharine! We're waiting for you! Anytime you're ready.(sigh))
1912 US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition the govt
1922 1st Phillie to hit for the cycle (Cy Williams)
1929 Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
1932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1936 Australian Antarctic Territory created
1936 FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists & communists
1939 Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established
1950 Operation Magic Carpet-45,000 Yemenite Jews move to Israel
1954 Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism
1954 International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
1959 Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
1960 -127 F, Vostok, Antarctica (world record){More proof of global warming}
1961 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice
1963 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
1963 John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'
1967 Valin joins USAF (commies quake in fear, not to mention a couple of T.I.s who give serious consideration to sucide)
1968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa
1970 Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
1972 Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
1976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1979 NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder
1984 Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver
1985 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
1989 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1990 Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
1990 Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev sent a message to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein warning the Persian Gulf situation was "extremely dangerous."
(Nothing get by this guy! Sharp as a tack)
1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
1991 Ukraine declares independence from the USSR
1992 Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida.
1994 Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare & tourism
1995 Windows 95 debuts
1996 Steve Fossett sails across the Pacific Ocean, sets a solo speed record time (20 days)
1998 24 beads are donated to the Native American Museum of North America at the Crazy Horse Memorial, said to be the ones used in 1626 to buy Manhattan from Native Americans
1999 A federal judge in Ohio halts the state's 4-year-old tuition voucher program saying that it violated constitutional mandates for separation of church and state.
2001 Tom Green, a Mormon fundamentalist with five wives and 30 children, is sentenced by a court in Provo, Utah, to five years in prison in the state's biggest polygamy case in nearly half a century
2004 Nigerian Senate orders Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to pay 1.5 billion dollars compensation for damages caused by nearly 60 years of exploration in the Niger Delta.
(I expect to hear any day now of the Nigerian Senate giving back a portion of the money they derived from this oil)
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Liberia : Flag Day (1847)
Sierra Leone : President's Birthday
Windows 95 Birthday
Intergalactic waffle day
Volcano Eruption Awareness Day
National Catfish Month
Religious Observances
RC, Ang, Luth : Feast of St Bartholomew, apostle
Religious History
0410 The Visigoths sacked Rome, disillusioning Christians who were trusting in God's protection of this ecclesiastical center of early Christianity. St. Augustine (354©430) later tacked this religious problem in his monumental work, "City of God" (ca.413ª27).
1456 In Mainz, Germany, volume two of the famed Gutenberg Bible was bound, completing a two-year publishing project, and making it the first full-length book to be printed using movable type.
1572 The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre took place all across France, where thousands of French Protestants (Huguenots) were slaughtered. depleted the intellectual, educational and financial reserves of the French nation.
1854 The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa was organized by German Lutherans. In 1930 this synod merged with the synods of Ohio and Buffalo to form the American Lutheran Church.
1906 Five Baptist congregations met at Jellico Creek, Whitley County, Kentucky, and formed the Church of God of the Mountain Assembly. The CGMA both pentecostal and holiness in doctrine reports a world membership today of 7,000.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Mo. Minister Plans Bonnie & Clyde B&B
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - Neighbors aren't welcoming a minister's plans to convert a garage apartment that was the site of an infamous Bonnie and Clyde shootout into a bed-and-breakfast.
"When I think of a bed-and-breakfast, I think of charm, antiques and history - not murder," says Peggy Webb, who is among the opponents.
In his application for a special-use permit, the Rev. Phillip McClendon said he wants to buy the property from its current owner.
The 1933 shootout happened in the middle of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's bank-robbing spree across Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana and New Mexico. Authorities in Louisiana ambushed and killed Bonnie and Clyde in May 1934.
Though two lawmen who were gunned down at the apartment would be honored with a plaque in front of the building, irate neighbors circulated a petition against the bed-and-breakfast plan.
Many said they wanted to curb extra traffic and keep curiosity seekers away.
But DeWayne Tuttle has called the concerns overstated. He said the apartment has been a tourist attraction for the 37 years that he has owned the property.
"I can hardly go in and out of the house that I don't have to talk to somebody," Tuttle said.
He noted that neighbors didn't object in the past when he offered the apartment for rent.
"It can't involve more than two cars," Tuttle said of the proposed bed-and-breakfast, which would house two to four guests at a time. "I don't see anything that is going to bother the neighbors."
Thought for the day :
"You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces."
Henry J. Kaiser
beachy, Please play some more Van Morrison. Oh man, I love that man!
