On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on August 09:
1593 Izaak Walton England, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler)
1808 William Thomas Ward, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1823 Daniel Marsh Frost, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1824 Simon Goodell Griffin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1883 George Hoyt NBA hall of fame referee (elected 1961)
1896 Jean Piaget Switz, pioneer developmental psychologist/zoologist
1897 Ralph Wyckoff American pioneer in x-ray crystallography
1909 John Baur museum director/author (American Paintings in 19th Century)
1911 Robert McCormick Danville Ky, NBC newscaster (Current Opinion)
1911 William A Fowler US, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)
1913 Harry Mills singer (Mills Brothers-Paper Doll)
1913 Herman Talmadge (Sen-D-Ga, Watergate Committee)
1919 Ralph Houk baseball manager (Yankees, Tigers)
1927 Marvin Minsky Artifical intelligence computer scientist (MIT)
1927 Robert Shaw England, actor (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday)
1930 Betty Boop animation
1934 Merle Kilgore (songwriter,Ring of Fire,Johnny Reb, Wolverton Mountain)
1938 Rod Laver Australia, tennis ace (1962, 1969 Grand Slam)
1944 Sam Elliot Calif, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty)
1945 Ken Norton Heavyweight Boxing Champ/TV panelist (Gong Show)
1957 Melanie Griffith NYC, actress (Something Wild, Working Girl)
1958 Amanda Bearse actress (Marcy Rhoodes/Darcy-Married With Children)
1963 Whitney Houston Newark NJ, singer (One Moment in Time)
Deaths which occurred on August 09:
1896 Otto Lilenthal killed during a glider test
0117 Mark Ulpius Trajanus, emperor of Rome (98-117)
0378 Flavius Valens, emperor of Byzantium (364-78), dies in battle at 50
1612 Ottavio M Frangipani, Pope elect, dies
1862 Joseph Bennett Plummer, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 42 or 46
1961 Walter Bedell Smith, US general/WW II chief of staff, dies at 75
1962 Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85
1973 Dean Corll shot; he raped & killed 26 boys
1988 Alan Napier (Alfred the Butler on Batman), dies at 85
1995 Jerry Garcia, rock vocalist (Grateful Dead), dies at 53
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1967 CHERRY ALLEN SHELDON---UNIVERSITY CITY MO.
[REMAINS IDENTIFIED 15 JULY 1999]
1967 LENGYEL LAUREN ROBERT---LYNNFIELD MA.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1967 MYERS GLENN L.---PENN HILLS PA.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1968 WOLFKEIL WAYNE B.---WILKES BARRE PA.
1968 WINN DAVID W.---AUSTIN MN.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1969 BECK EDWARD EUGENE JR.---NORTH CANTON OH.
1969 DOTSON JEFFERSON S.---POUND VA.
1969 GOURLEY LAURENT L.---VILLISCA IA.
1969 JANOUSEK RONALD J.---POSEN IL.
1969 KANE BRUCE E.---DEER PARK NY.
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
0480 -BC- Persia defeats Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae
0378 Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army
1638 Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in the Bronx
1655 Lord Protector Cromwell divides England into 11 districts
1673 Dutch recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674
1778 Capt Cook passes through Bering Strait
1786 1st ascent of Mt Blanc
1790 Columbia becomes 1st US flagged ship to voyage around the world
1803 1st horses arrive in Hawaii
1829 "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service
1831 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
1842 US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty
1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with the Free Soil Party nominating Martin Van Buren for president
1849 Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
1854 Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"
1855 Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising
1862 Prelude to 2nd Manassas, Jackson is victorious at Battle of Cedar Mt, however Gen Charles S Winder is killed
1864 Battle of Ft Morgan AL
1892 Thomas Edison received a patent for the two-way telegraph which allowed operators to send messages simultaneously over one wire
1893 1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in NY
1902 Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria
1910 Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine
1923 NY State Golf Assoc formed
1930 Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
1936 Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal of Berlin Olympics
1942 British arrests Indian nationalist Mohandas K Gandhi
1942 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland
1942 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony performed in Leningrad
1942 Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island
1945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
1946 1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night
1951 Dutch Korea volunteers win US Collective Unit Citation
1956 1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
1956 South African women demonstrate against pass laws
1960 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
1961 James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court
1963 Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premiers
1965 Singapore gains independence from Malaysia (National Day)
1967 Marines launch Operation Cochise
1970 Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 US exchange students explodes
1971 Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame
1972 Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct the Space Shuttle
1974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres
1979 English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach
1981 6 English lifeguards set relay swim record the English Channel (7:17)
1988 Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to LA Kings for $15-$20 millions
1988 Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888
1990 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Japan : Nagasaki Memorial Day (1945)
Libya : Sanusi Army Day
Rhode Island : Victory Day
Singapore : National Day (1965)
Zambia : Youth Day
Don't Wait...Celebrate Week (Day 2)
National Apple Week (Day 2)
National Catfish Month
Religious Observances
Christian : Commemoration of St Denys
Religious History
1765 English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'You have but one Pattern; follow Him inwardly and outwardly. If other believers will go step for step with you, well; but if not, follow Him!'
1788 Birth of Adoniram Judson, American Baptist missionary. He first sailed to Burma in 1812, and spent nearly all of his remaining 38 years in missionary and literacy work there. Judson translated the entire Bible into Burmese by 1834.
1884 Birth of Kenneth Scott Latourette, Baptist church historian. Teaching at Yale from 1921-53, his greatest writings were his 7-volume History of the Expansion of Christianity (1937-45) and 5-volume Christianity in a Revolutionary Age (1958-62). Latourette died a bachelor.
1942 English Bible expositor Arthur W. Pink wrote in a letter: 'Waiting on the Lord (Isa. 40:31, etc.) describes an attitude of soul when we are engaged in true prayer, but waiting for the Lord is the exercise of patience while His answer tarries.'
1960 The Church of the Lutheran Confession adopted its constitution at a convention held at Watertown, South Dakota. The denomination was formally organized the following January (1961) at Sleepy Eye, Minnesota.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"Someone is speaking well of you."
Media Reports of the Apocalypse...
Wired:
THE LAST NEW THING
You Might Be An Engineer If...
You hesitate to look at something because you don't want to break down its wave function
Doggie Dictionary...
DROOL: Is what you do when your persons have food and you don't.
To do this properly you must sit as close as you can and look sad and let the drool fall to the floor, or better yet, on their laps.
Dumb Laws...
New York New York:
Citizens may not greet each other by "putting one's thumb to the nose and wiggling the fingers".
