On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on September 24:
1501 Gerolamo Cardano, mathematician, author of Games of Chance, the first systematic computation of probabilities.
1717 Horace Walpole England, writer (The Castle of Otranto)
1755 John Marshall Va, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1801-35)
1825 Frances E.W. Harper famous African
1870 Georges Claude inventor (neon light)
1890 Sir Alan Herbert England, journalist/writer (Punch, Helen)
1896 F Scott Fitzgerald St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby)
1898 Baron Florey Aust, pathologist; purified penicillin (Nobel '45)
1914 Herb Jeffries Detroit Mich, actor (Where's Huddles)
1919 Vaclav Nelhybel Polanka Czechoslovakia, composer (Everyman)
1921 Jim McKay Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
1922 Theresa Merritt Newport News Va, actress (Mama-That's My Mama)
1924 Sheila MacRae London England, actress (Jackie Gleason Show)
1924 Walter Fufido Bronx NY, Iwo Jima casualty (WW II)
1930 John W Young SF Calif, astronaut (Gem 3 10, Apol 10 16, STS 1 9)
1931 Anthony Newley actor/song writer/singer (Dr Doolittle)
1934 John Brunner Britain, sci-fi author (Sheep Look Up)
1936 Jim Henson Greenville Miss, muppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show)
1943 Lee Aaker LA Calif, actor (Rusty-Rin Tin Tin)
1946 "Mean" Joe Greene NFL tackle (Pitts Steelers), Coke spokesman
1948 Phil Hartman (comedian, actor
1962 Joseph Kennedy II (FORMER Rep-D-Mass)
1971 Shane Conrad actress (Cody-High Mountain Rangers)
Deaths which occurred on September 24:
0768 Pippin III, the short, King of France, dies at 53
0786 Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies
0996 Hugo Capet, king of the Franks (987-96), dies
1180 Manuel I Comnenus Byzantine emperor (1143-80), dies
1601 Tycho Brahe, astronomer, dies in Prague at 54
1815 John Sevier indian fighter, dies at 70
1975 Ian Hunter actor (Sir Richard-Robin Hood), dies at 75
1984 Neil Hamilton actor (Com Gordon-Batman), dies of asthma at 85
1991 Theodore Geisel (Dr Seuss), dies at 87
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
24-Sep-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Michael Andrade Balad - Salah ad Din Non-hostile - vehicle accident
24-Sep-2004 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US 2nd Lieutenant Ryan Leduc Ar Rutbah - Anbar Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Sergeant Timothy Folmar Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Ramon Mateo Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Aaron Boyles Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
Afghanistan/other
09/24/02
Foraker, Ryan D. Sgt. 31 Army Guantanamo Logan Ohio
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0312 Start of Imperial Indication
0366 Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0622 Mohammed's Hegira("flight" from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution.)
0673 Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
0787 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor
1493 Columbus' 2nd expedition to the New World
1625 Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1683 Jews are expelled from all French possessions in America
1789 Congress creates the Post Office
1789 Congress' 1st Judiciary Act, Attorney General & Supreme Court
1829 Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
1838 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1841 Sarawak obtained by Britain from Sultan of Brunei
1845 1st baseball team is organized
1852 A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated
1862 President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus against anyone suspected of being a Southern sympathizer
1862 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1864 Battle of Pilot Knob (Fort Davidson), Missouri
1865 James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
1869 Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1883 National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky
1890 Wilford Woodruff, Pres of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching & practice of polygamy should be abandoned.
1895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months) (Would of taken 10 months BUT she kept stopping to ask directions)
1906 Devils Tower, designated first US National Monument by President Theodore Roosevelt
1919 Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
1922 Roger Hornsby sets the NL HR mark at 42
1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become the Maple Leafs
1927 Yanks set record of 106 victories
1929 Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the 1st all-instrument flight
1938 Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam
1941 9 Allied govts pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter
1950 "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel
1952 Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
1954 Tonight Show premiers on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
1955 Pres Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
1957 Bkln Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
1957 Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
1958 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia
1960 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise)
1960 Internationl Development Assn (UN agency) comes into existence
1962 The University of Mississippi agrees to admit James Meredith as the first black university student, sparking more rioting.
1963 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
1964 "The Munsters" premiers
1968 "60 Minutes" premiers
1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins (Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Rennie Davis)
1971 Houston Astros beat SD Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings
1972 Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yds vs Green Bay (rec)
1972 NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34)
1973 Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) declares independence
1973 The world is introduced to Sxytxredhead73. If this is a good thing or not is still under Investigation by a team of high level scientists. On the plus side it' is reported that she is neither cheap nor easy...unlike a certain Txradioguy, And to her credit she has managed to make an honest man of him. How she was able to do this remains a mystery to this day, it is whispered that cookies were involved. HOWEVER rumors still abound that mention certain shadowy government agencies...wetwork being done in certain 3rd world nations and shortages of black forest cake in these counties.....be we will speak no more of these thing, as SOMETHINGS are best left unsaid.
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Happy Birthday!
1974 Al Kaline gets his 3,000th career hit
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter
1977 Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards
1978 Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74
1979 CompuServe system started
1981 Four Armenian gunmen seized the Turkish consulate in Paris, holding 60 hostages for 15 hours before surrendering.
1982 US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
1985 Apollo Computer Inc. lays off 300 employees
1985 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)
1985 Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1988 Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop
1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets the heptathlon woman's record(7,291)
1990 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
1991 Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles
1996 Israel opened a second entrance to a tunnel used by archeologists at the Temple Mount, sacred to Muslims as well as Jews. The action sparked deadly rioting.
1996 Stephen King releases two books at once
1998 Iran's foreign minister announced that Iran had dropped its 1989 call for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses" which many Muslims found blasphemous.
2000 Fflooding in Bangladesh forces some 60,000 to flee their homes and at least 9 people sere killed. (And where was George Bush?)
2001 President Bush orders a freeze on the assets of 27 people and organizations with suspected links to terrorism, including Islamic terrorist & worldclass POS Osama bin Laden.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Pennsylvania Dutch : Schwenkenfelder Thanksgiving Day (1734)
US : American Indian Day (1916)
Safety Awareness Week (Day 5)
National Ballroom Dance Week ends
National Mind Mapping for Problem Solving Week (Day 4)
National Rabbit Day
Thanksgiving Day for the Pennsylvania Dutch
Potato Bread Month
Religious Observances
Succoth.
RC-Dominican Republic : Commemoration of Our Lady of Ransom
Religious History
787 The Second Nicene Council opened under Pope Hadrian I. Numbered by some as the 7th of the church's 21 ecumenical councils, Nicea II condemned iconoclasm (belief that the veneration of Christian images and relics is idolatry).
1889 In Holland, the Declaration of Utrecht was signed and became the doctrinal basis of the Old Catholic Church. ("Old Catholics" reject clerical celibacy, papal authority and the Council of Trent decisions.) Today in Europe, Old Catholics are active in Holland, Germany and Switzerland.
1956 In Minneapolis-St. Paul, a congregation of worshipers was organized into the first Southern Baptist church to be established in Minnesota.
1977 Rev. John T. Walker was installed as the sixth -- and first African American -- bishop of the Episcopal diocese in Washington, D.C.
1988 The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts elected Barbara C. Harris, 58, as a suffragen (assistant) bishop, making her the first woman to be so ordained in the Anglican communion.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Drug dealers hitched lift from cop
Two Romanian drug dealers were arrested when they accepted a lift from a passing drugs squad officer.
Catalin Vasile and Gheorghita Marienescu, both 22, from Targu Frumos, had filled their rucksacks with 25 ounces of cannabis from their own plantation.
They started hitch-hiking on their way back into town when it started to rain - and got a lift from an off duty police officer with the local drugs squad, who soon recognised the distinctive smell.
Policeman Florin Ardelean said: "I saw the two men standing near a field trying to hitch a lift. I felt sorry for them as it had just started to pour down and so I stopped to help.
"I smelt the cannabis on them as soon as they had shut the doors."
The policeman then drove the pair straight to the police station in Targu Frumos.
He added: "It turns out they had been cultivating the drugs for some time in the field and were selling it locally."
The pair are now facing up to five years' jail on charges of growing and dealing drugs.
Thought for the day :
"Adults are obsolete children."
Dr. Theodore Seuss Geisel
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