AVAST YE SCURVY SWINE!
Birthdates which occurred on September 19:
0086 Antoninus Pius 15th Roman emperor (138-161)
0866 Leo VI Sophos Byzantine Emperor (886-912)/writer (Problematica)
1655 Jan Luyts Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1737 Charles Carroll signed Decl of Ind
1802 Louis Kossuth Hungary, President of Hungary (1849)
1822 Joseph Rodman West Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1867 Arthur Rackham England, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
1898 Giuseppe Saragat president of Italy (1964-71)
1901 Joseph Pasternak film producer (Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy)
1902 James Van Alen created Simplified Scoring System for tennis
1907 Lewis F Powell Jr Va, Supreme Court justice (1972-87)
1911 William Golding England, novelist (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983)
1914 Rogers Morton Louisville Ky, US Secretary of Interior (1968-75)
1922 Emil Zatopek Czechoslavakia, 5K/10K/marathon (Olympic-gold-1952)
1926 Edwin "Duke" Snider Bkln Dodger centerfielder (406 HRs)
1926 Lurleen Wallace (Gov-D-Ala)
1928 Adam West Walla Walla Wash, actor (Batman, Last Precinct)
1931 Brook Benton Camden, SC, singer (Rainy night in Georgia)
1932 Mike Royko Chicago, journalist (Chic Daily News)/author (Boss)
1933 David McCallum Glasgow Scot, actor (Ilyla Kuryakin-Man From UNCLE)
1940 Bill Medley Santa Ana Cal, rocker (Righteous Bros-'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin')
1940 Paul Williams singer/composer/actor (An Old Fashioned Love Song
, Planet of the Apes)
1943 Mama Cass Elliot Balt Md, singer (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday)
1945 David Bromberg Phila, musician (Demon in Disguise)
1945 Freda Payne Detroit Mich, singer (Band of Gold)
1945 Randolph Mantooth Sacramento Calif, actor (Emergency, Loving)
1948 Jeremy Irons England, actor (French Lieutenant's Woman)
1949 Twiggy Lawson [Leslie Hornby], England, model/actress (The Blues Brothers)
1950 Joan Lunden Fair Oaks Calif, news host (Good Morning America)
1957 Richard M Linnehan Lowell Mass, US Army Capt/astronaut
1958 Kevin Hooks Phila, actor (Sounder, Aaron Loves Angela)
1965 Debbye Turner Miss America (1990)
Deaths which occurred on September 19:
1180 Louis VII, the Younger, King of France (1137-80), dies
1356 Jean de Clermont, French marshal, dies in battle
1862 [Lewis] Henry Little US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
1863 Preston Smith US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 39
1864 Archibald Campbell Godwin Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1864 David Allen Russell US Union general-major, dies in battle at 43
1864 Robert Emmet Rodes US Confederate gen-major, dies in battle at 35
1881 James A Garfield US president, dies of gunshot wound
1968 Red Foley country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 58
1978 Rolf Gunther, East German priest, self imolation
1988 Oren Lee Staley 1st pres of Natl Farmers Org (1955-79), dies at 65
1995 Orville Reddenbacher, popcorn magnate, drowns in bathtub at 88
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
19-Sep-2004 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Brandon E. Adams Walter Reed Medical Ctr. Hostile - hostile fire - grenade
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
1356 English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers
1559 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
1657 Brandenburg & Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau
1676 Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Va on fire
1692 Giles Corey is pressed to death for standing mute and refusing to answer charges of witchcraft brought against him. He is the only person in America to have suffered this punishment.
1737 A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal hits Calcutta 3,000 people killed, 1,000s of ships destroyed.
1777 Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga
1796 George Washington's farewell address as president
1846 Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elopes
1848 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion, moon of Saturn
1849 1st commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California
1862 Battle of Luka, Miss
1863 In Georgia, the two-day Battle of Chickamauga begins as Union troops under George Thomas clash with Confederates under Nathan Bedford Forrest
1864 3rd Battle of Winchester, Virginia
1870 Two Prussian armies begin a 135-day siege of Paris as the 2nd Empire collapsed.
1873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic
1879 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2¬" at age 17 years & 198 days
1890 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540
1928 Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)
1934 Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping the Linbergh baby
1939 Wehrmacht murder 100 Jews in Lukov, Poland
1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile women to work in Jewish homes
1944 Finland & Russia agree to cease fire
1944 Battle of the Huertgen Forest on the Belgian-German border began
1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London
1950 UN reject membership of China's People Republic
1955 Argentina's President Juan Peron is overthrown by rebels.
1956 1st intl conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne)
1959 Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland
1967 Nigeria begins offensive against Biafra
1970 "Mary Tyler Moore" show premiers
1973 NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington DC
1973 Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) goes on the air
1980 Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR)
1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert
1982 New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chic Bears 10-0
1982 Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service
1983 St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
1985 9,500 die in Mexico's earthquake (6.9)
1986 Fed health officals announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients
1988 Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance
1989 Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens
1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)
1991 Frozen mummy (Ice Age) found in the Alps Otzi (Frozen Fritz).
1998 At the 22nd annual Oktoberfest in Cincinnati 25,000 kazoos were distributed in an attempt to set a Guinness record for the "World’s Largest Kazoo Band."
2002 Colombian Army troops kill 21 guerrillas and freed 2 kidnapped civilians. A 3rd hostage died in the fighting
2002 A Palestinian terrorist blew himself up on a crowded bus in downtown Tel Aviv, killing at least five other people and wounding 49.
2003 Former Iraqi Gen. Sultan Hashim Ahmad, Saddam Hussein's last defense minister, surrendered to an American commander. 27 on the most-wanted list.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Bhutan : Blessed Rainy Day
Chile : Army Day (1810)
Laundry Day
St Kitts & Nevis Independence Day
US : National Talk Like A Pirate Day
Are You Somebody? Day
National Tie Week (Day 2)
National Butterscotch Pudding Day
National Dog Week (Day 2)
National Chicken Month
Religious Observances
Ang, RC : Ember Day
RC : Memorial of St Januarius, bishop, & companions, martyrs (opt)
Ang : Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury
Religious History
1853 Baptist pioneer missionary J. Hudson Taylor, 21, set sail from England to China. In 1865, Taylor founded the China Inland Mission, now known as Overseas Missionary Fellowship. Its U.S. branch is HQ'd today in Robesonia, PA.
1938 The Carpatho-Russian Diocese of the Eastern Rite of the U.S.A. was canonized as a diocese of the Greek Orthodox Church. Father Orestes Chornock, Orthodox bishop of Agathonikia, was made Metropolitan of the new diocese.
1943 The first Baptist church was organized in Anchorage. (Prior to this date, there had been no Baptist church in Anchorage, and only one Baptist church in all the rest of the state of Alaska.)
1948 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Father, make of me a "crisis man." Make of me a fork, so that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.'
1971 Death of William F. Albright, 80, American Methodist archaeologist. Professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins for nearly 30 years, he penned over 1,000 articles and books, and led several Near Eastern expeditions which excavated the biblical sites of Gibeah, Bethel and Petra.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
N.D. Residents Eat 4,518 Pounds of Fries
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - Residents here have gobbled up a new record for the largest single serving of french fries. An estimated 4,518 pounds of french fries were consumed during Thursday night's annual french fry feeding frenzy.
The event is held during "Potato Bowl U.S.A" week, which recognizes the potato industry in the Red River Valley and includes a weekend University of North Dakota football game.
This year's total eclipsed the record of 4,410 pounds of fries set two years ago.
Along with 11,000 servings of fries, organizers had more than 100 gallons of ketchup on hand.
Dave Gottberg, a director with the J.R. Simplot french fry plant in Grand Forks, estimated that about 10,000 people were served.
"It was fantastic weather and the 40th anniversary and all, plus they advertised pretty well for us this year," he said.
Thought for the day :
"Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking."
Mike Royko
