On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on September 02:
1661 Georg Bohm German organist/composer
1837 James Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925
1838 Queen Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani last queen of Hawaii (1891-93)
1839 Henry George land reformer/writer (Progress & Poverty)
1850 Albert Spaulding baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company
1853 Wilhelm Ostwald Germany, physical chemist (Nobel 1909)
1856 Yang Hsiu-ch'ing commander in chief of the Taiping Rebellion
1866 Hiram Johnson (Gov-Progressive-Cal)
1884 Frank Laubach Benton Pa, educator, taught reading through phonetics
1901 Adolph Rupp, basketball coach at the University of Kentucky who achieved a record 876 victories.
1917 Cleveland Amory Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide)
1918 Allen Drury author (Advise & Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize)
1918 Martha Mitchell wife of Attorney General John Mitchell
1919 Marge Champion LA Calif, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show)
1936 Joan Kennedy 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted
1937 Peter Ueberroth organized 1984 LA Olympics/baseball commissioner
1940 Jimmy Clanton Baton Rogue, La, rock vocalist (Just a Dream)
1943 Rosalind Ashford Detroit,vocalist (Martha Reeve & Vandellas)
1944 Claude Nicollier Vevey Switzerland, astronaut (STS 61-K, sk: 46)
1948 Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe teacher/astronaut (Challenger)
1948 Terry Bradshaw NFL QB (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1951 Mark Harmon Burbank Calif, actor (Dr Caldwell-St Elsewhere)
1951 Michael Gray Chicago Ill, actor (Ronnie-Brian Keith Show)
1952 Jimmy Connors tennis brat (US Open-78,82,83 Wimbledon-74,82)
1964 Keanu Reeves actor (Speed)
Deaths which occurred on September 02:
1384 Louis I, duke of Anjou/king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers)
1547 Hernan Cortes Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians
1862 Thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brig-general, dies at 40
1937 Baron Pierre de Coubertin revivor of Olympics, dies at 74
1964 Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese gen/pres (1951-58), dies at 70
1964 Morris Ankrum, actor (Kronos, Earth vs Flying Saucers), dies at 67
1969 President Ho Chi Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam dies of a heart attack
1970 Allan Walker actor/writer (Red Buttons Show), dies at 64
1973 J R R Tolkien, British story writer (Farmer Giles of Ham)
1982 Jay Novello actor, dies of cancer at 78
1994 Richard M Major, US anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72
1997 Viktor Frankl, psychotherapist (Man's Search for Meaning), dies at 92
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
02-Sep-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Christopher A. Sisson Camp Dogwood (S. of Baghdad) - Babil Non-hostile - helicopter crash
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0031 BC Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Antony, becomes Emp Augustus
0911 Viking monarch Oleg of Kiev, signs treaty with Byzantines
1192 Sultan Saladin (Salah ed Din) & King Richard I "Coeur-de-Lion" sign cease fire
1620 The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims.
1732 Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
1752 Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies
1789 US Treasury Department established by Congress
1792 Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen from jails and slaughter them
1859 Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
1864 Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
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1870 Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies
1894 Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
1898 Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
1898 Machine gun 1st used in battle
1901 VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
1919 Communist Party of America organized in Chicago
1922 Pres Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem
1927 Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
1930 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
1935 A hurricane slams the Florida Keys killing 423
1936 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
1940 Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
1941 Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
1944 Anne Frank (Diary of Anne Frank), is sent to Auschwitz
1944 During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)
1945 V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WWII ends)
1946 Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
1949 Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)
1954 Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
1957 Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game
1956 Tennessee National Guardsmen halt rioters protesting the admission of 12 African-Americans to schools in Clinton.
1963 Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
1963 CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
1964 Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal
1971 Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer
1978 Graham Salmon set the worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
1978 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
1983 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israelli PM
1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
1987 Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season
1987 West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, goes on trial in Russia
1989 Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1991 Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45 Million
1999 Genetic experts report that Chardonnay and 15 other varietal wines have resulted from a coupling between Pinot and Gouais blanc grapes
2003 Locust plague, (Oedaleus decorus asiaticus), destroys some 47 million acres of Mongolian grasslands.
2004 Egypt's antiquities chief reveals a 2,500-year-old hidden tomb under the shadow of one of Giza's three giant pyramids.
2004 One policeman was killed and three others wounded in clashes with terrorists in a town northeast of Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Vietnam : Independence Day (1945)
USA : National Sleepwalking Day.
International Gay Square Dance Month
National Spanish Green Olive Week (Day 5)
National Religious Reference Books Week (Day 5)
Victory in Japan Day (V-J Day)
Bourbon Month
Religious Observances
Luth : Commemoration of Bp Nikolai Grundtvig, renewer of the Church
Old Catholic : Feast of St Stephen, 1st King of Hungary
Christian : Feast of St William, English bishop, apostle to Danes
RC : Commem of Bl Andre Grasset, Canadian Holy Cross brother
Saint Agricola of Avignon Feast Day
Ang : Feast of the martyrs of New Guinea
Religious History
1758 The first Anglican service of worship to be held on Canadian soil was led by Rev. Robert Wolfall at Frobisher Bay, on Baffin Island.
1784 English clergyman Thomas Coke, 37, was consecrated, the first "bishop" of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by founder John Wesley. Coke afterward journeyed to America, where he and Francis Asbury oversaw Methodism in the Colonies.
1930 While a missionary in the Philippines, American linguistic pioneer Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'God is always awaiting the chance to give us high days. We so seldom are in deep earnest about giving him his chance.'
1949 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.'
1973 Death of J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, English Christian language scholar and novelist. His 1954-55 "Lord of the Rings" trilogy describes a war between good and evil in which evil is routed through courage and sacrifice.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
German woman torches house trying to kill spiders
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02 September 2005
BERLIN: A German woman laid waste to her family home by setting fire to it as she tried to kill spiders in a garage with a can of hairspray and a cigarette lighter.
Police in the western town of Zuelpich said that when the aerosol failed to finish them off, the 34-year-old woman tried to burn them with the lighter. However, this set the area she had just sprayed on fire and the blaze spread to a hedge.
"It was a series of unfortunate events which led to the damage," a police spokesman said.
"She tried to put the fire out with a garden hose, but couldn't. Instead her semi-detached house next to the hedge caught fire. It's now uninhabitable."
Fire-fighters managed to extinguish the blaze and save the neighbouring house, which sustained broken windows and some charring. The spokesman estimated the total cost of the damage at well over 100,000 euros. No one was hurt.
"The family have had to look for somewhere else to stay," he said. "The spiders are gone though – that problem was solved."
Thought for the day :
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
J. R. R. Tolkien
