JANUARY

SEPTEMBER

BIRTHDAYS

9/1/1791 :Lydia Sigourney, US author ("How to Be Happy").

9/1/1854 :Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer.

9/1/1866 :James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, prize fighter.

9/1/1875 :Edgar Rice Burroughs, author ("Tarzan").

9/1/1907 :Walter Philip Reuther, labor leader and UAW president.

9/1/1922 :Melvin R. Laird, former US Defense Secretary.

9/1/1923 :Rocky Marciano, boxer.

9/1/1924 :Yvonne DeCarlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton), actress.

9/1/1933 :Ann Richards, Texas Governor.

9/1/1933 :Conway Twitty (Harold Jenkins), singer.

9/1/1935 :Seiji Ozawa, Japanese orchestra conductor.

9/1/1939 :Lily Tomlin, comedian-actress.

9/1/1946 :Barry Gibb, singer.

9/1/1956 :Vinnie (Vincent) Johnson, basketball player.

9/1/1957 :Gloria Estefan, singer.

9/2/1726 :John Howard, British prison reformer.

9/2/1766 :James Forten, abolishionist.

9/2/1850 :Eugene Field, US poet.

9/2/1869 :Hiram Maxim, inventor of the auto muffler and firearm silencer.

9/2/1877 :Frederick Soddy, chemist.

9/2/1917 :Cleveland Amory, author and conservationist.

9/2/1918 :Allen Drury, author ("Advise and Consent").

9/2/1931 :Alan K. Simpson, Wyoming Senator.

9/2/1937 :Peter Ueberroth, former Baseball Commissioner.

9/2/1948 :Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, teacher aboard Challenger.

9/2/1948 :Terry Bradshaw, football player.

9/2/1951 :Mark Harmon, actor.

9/2/1952 :Jimmy Connors, tennis player.

9/2/1955 :Linda Purl, actress.

9/2/1960 :Eric Dickerson, football player.

9/2/1965 :Keanu Reeves, actor.

9/3/1596 :Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker.

9/3/1803 :Prudence Crandall, teacher.

9/3/1849 :Sara Orne Jewett.

9/3/1856 :Louis Sullivan, architect.

9/3/1860 :Edward Albert Filene, credit union founder.

9/3/1907 :Loren Eiseley.

9/3/1913 :Alan Ladd, actor.

9/3/1914 :Kitty Carlisle Hart, actress. (1915?)

9/3/1921 :Henry Bellmon, Oklahoma Governor.

9/3/1923 :Mort Walker (Mortimer Walker Addison), cartoonist (Beetle Bailey).

9/3/1926 :Alison Lurie, American novelist ("The War Between the Tates").

9/3/1926 :Anne Jackson, actress.

9/3/1926 :Irene Papas, actress.

9/3/1927 :Hugh Sidey, "Time" magazine contributing editor.

9/3/1935 :Eileen Brennan, actress.

9/3/1940 :Pauline Collins, actress.

9/3/1942 :Al Jardine, Beach Boy.

9/3/1943 :Valerie Perrine, actress.

9/3/1965 :Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estevez), actor.

9/4/1768 :Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist and politician.

9/4/1803 :Sarah Childress Polk, wife of James Knox Polk.

9/4/1824 :Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer.

9/4/1846 :Daniel Hudson Burnham, US architect.

9/4/1892 :Darius Milhaud, composer.

9/4/1905 :Mary Renault.

9/4/1908 :Edward Dmytryk, film director.

9/4/1908 :Richard Wright, novelist and essayest.

9/4/1912 :Alexander Liberman, editor and painter.

9/4/1918 :Paul Harvey, radio news commentator.

9/4/1919 :Howard Morris, actor-comedian.

9/4/1920 :Craig Claiborne, cooking expert.

9/4/1926 :Donald Peterson, business executive.

9/4/1928 :Dick York, actor.

9/4/1931 :Mitzi Gaynor (Franchesca Mitzi Marlene de Charney von Gerber),

:dancer-actress.

9/4/1937 :Dawn Fraser, swimmer.

9/4/1944 :Jennifer Salt, actress.

9/4/1949 :Tom Watson, golfer.

9/4/1951 :Judith Ivey, actress.

9/4/1970 :Ione Skye, actress.

9/4/1972 :Danny Ponce.

9/5/1638 :King Louis XIV of France.

9/5/1735 :Johann Christian Bach, son of J.S. Bach.

9/5/1847 :Jesse Woodson James, outlaw.

9/5/1897 :Arthur Charles Nielsen, marketing research engineer.

9/5/1902 :Darryl Francis Zanuck, movie producer.

9/5/1905 :Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born author.

9/5/1912 :John Cage, composer.

9/5/1921 :Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America president.

9/5/1927 :Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve Board Chairman.

9/5/1929 :Bob Newhart, comedian.

9/5/1935 :Carol Lawrence (Carol Maria Laraia), singer and actress.

9/5/1936 :John Claggett Danforth, Missouri Senator.

9/5/1939 :George Lazenby, actor.

9/5/1939 :William Devane, actor.

9/5/1940 :Raquel Welch, actress.

9/5/1950 :Cathy Lee Guisewite, cartoonist ("Cathy").

9/5/1960 :Willie Gault, football player.

9/5/1969 :Dweezil Zappa.

9/6/1757 :The Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of US Revolution.

9/6/1766 :John Dalton, English chemist and physicist.

9/6/1860 :Jane Addams, pioneer social worker.

9/6/1869 :Felix Salten, novelist and playwright ("Bambi").

9/6/1888 :Joseph P. Kennedy Sr, financier and diplomat.

9/6/1899 :Billy Rose (William S. Rosenberg), theatrical producer.

9/6/1915 :Franz Josef Strauss, minister president of Bavaria.

9/6/1924 :John Melcher, Montana Senator.

9/6/1937 :JoAnne Worley, comedian.

9/6/1944 :Roger Waters.

9/6/1944 :Swoosie Kurtz, actress.

9/6/1947 :Jane Curtin, actress.

9/7/1533 :Queen Elizabeth I of England.

9/7/1860 :Anna Mary "Grandma" Moses, primitive painter.

9/7/1867 :John Pierpont Morgan Jr, financier.

9/7/1885 :Elinor Wylie.

9/7/1887 :Edith Sitwell.

9/7/1900 :Taylor Caldwell, novelist.

9/7/1908 :Michael DeBakey, heart surgeon.

9/7/1909 :Elia Kazan (Elia Kazanjoglou), film director.

9/7/1913 :Anthony Quayle, actor and director.

9/7/1914 :James Van Allen, physicist and rocket developer.

9/7/1921 :Arthur Ferrante, pianist composer.

9/7/1924 :Daniel Ken Inouye, Hawaii Senator.

9/7/1936 :Charles Hardin (Harden?) "Buddy" Holly, rock 'n' roll pioneer.

9/7/1937 :John Philip Law, actor.

9/7/1942 :Richard Roundtree, actor.

9/7/1944 :Andy Bradford, stuntman.

9/7/1948 :Susan Blakely, actress.

9/7/1950 :Peggy Noonan, writer.

9/7/1951 :Chrissie Hynde, singer and songwriter.

9/7/1951 :Julie Kavner, actress.

9/7/1955 :Corbin Bernsen, actor.

9/7/1956 :Michael Feinstein, singer and pianist.

9/8/1157 :King Richard "the Lion Hearted" I of England.

9/8/1474 :Ludovico Ariosto.

9/8/1841 :Anton Dvorak, composer.

9/8/1863 :Jessica Wilcox Smith.

9/8/1873 :Alfred Jarry, French surrealist poet and playwright ("Ubu Roi").

9/8/1873 :Max Reinhardt, film director. (9/9?)

9/8/1886 :Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and memoirist ("Memoirs of a

:Fox-Hunting Man").

9/8/1897 :Jimmie Rogers, country music pioneer.

9/8/1900 :Claude Denson Pepper, Florida Congressman.

9/8/1911 :Euell Gibbons, natural-food writer ("Stalking the Wild

:Asparagus").

9/8/1914 :Hillary Brooke, actress.

9/8/1922 :Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr, political activist.

9/8/1922 :Samuel R. Pierce Jr, former secretary of housing and urban

:development.

9/8/1922 :Sid Caesar, comedian.

9/8/1924 :Wendell Hampton Ford, Kentucky Senator.

9/8/1925 :Peter (Richard Henry) Sellers, actor.

9/8/1932 :Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley), country music singer.

9/8/1937 :Barbara Frum, journalist.

9/8/1938 :Sam Nunn, Georgia Senator.

9/8/1945 :Rogie Vachon, hockey player.

9/8/1945 :Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.

9/8/1946 :Freddie Mercury, singer and musician.

9/8/1947 :Ann Beattie, author.

9/8/1954 :Marilyn (Williamson) Mims, opera singer.

9/8/1956 :Maurice Cheeks, basketball player.

9/8/1957 :Heather Thomas, actress.

9/9/1585 :Duc de Richelieu, French statesman and Roman Catholic cardinal.

9/9/1739 :Luigi Galvani, inventor of galvanized steel.

9/9/1754 :William Bligh, Captain of HMS Bounty.

9/9/1794 :William Lonsdale.

9/9/1828 :Leo Tolstoy, Russian author.

9/9/1873 :Max Reinhardt, film director. (9/8?)

9/9/1877 :Frank Chance, baseball player.

9/9/1887 :Alf (Alfred Mossman) Landon, Kansas Republican.

9/9/1890 :Colonel Harland (Harlan?) Sanders, of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame.

9/9/1900 :James Hilton, novelist ("Lost Horizon").

9/9/1907 :Leon Edel.

9/9/1919 :James "Jimmy the Greek" Snyder (Demetrius George Synodinos),

:oddsmaker. (1923?)

9/9/1924 :Jane Greer, actress.

9/9/1925 :Cliff Robertson, actor.

9/9/1935 :Topol (Chaim Topol), actor.

9/9/1941 :John Thompson, college basketball coach.

9/9/1941 :Otis Redding, singer.

9/9/1943 :Joe Morgan, baseball player.

9/9/1946 :Billy Preston, singer and musician.

9/9/1949 :Joe Theisman, football player.

9/9/1951 :Michael Keaton (Michael Douglas), actor and comedian.

9/9/1951 :Tom Wopat, actor.

9/9/1952 :Angela Cartwright, actress.

9/9/1965 :Daniel Lewis Majerlee, basketball player.

9/9/1967 :BJ (Benjamin Roy) Armstrong, basketball player.

9/10/1713:John Needham, English scientist and clergyman.

9/10/1736:Carter Braxton, US revolutionary statesman.

9/10/1839:Isaac Kauffman Funk, Wagnalls' publishing partner.

9/10/1855:Robert Koldewey, German archaeologist (excavator of Babylon).

9/10/1886:Hilda Doolittle ("H.D."), American poet.

9/10/1890:Franz Werfel, Austrian author ("The Song of Bernadette").

9/10/1892:Arthur Holley Compton, X-ray physicist.

9/10/1903:Cyril Connolly, English critic.

9/10/1914:Robert Wise, film director.

9/10/1928:Yma Sumac, singer.

9/10/1929:Arnold Daniel Palmer, golfer.

9/10/1934:Charles Bishop Kuralt, journalist.

9/10/1939:Greg Mullavey, actor.

9/10/1945:Jose Feliciano, singer.

9/10/1948:Bob Lanier, basketball star.

9/10/1948:Judy Geeson, actress.

9/10/1953:Amy Irving, actress.

9/10/1958:Jennifer Tilly, actress.

9/10/1963:Cap (Casper N.) Boso, football player.

9/11/1862:William Sydney Porter (a.k.a. O. Henry), US short story writer.

9/11/1885:David Herbert Lawrence, author ("Lady Chatterley's Lover").

9/11/1913:Paul "Bear" Bryant, University of Alabama football coach.

9/11/1917:Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, exhiled former Philippine president.

9/11/1924:Thomas Wade Landry, football coach.

9/11/1926:Alfred Slote, author.

9/11/1928:Earl Holliman, actor.

9/11/1928:William Xavier Kienzle, author.

9/11/1932:Bob Packwood, Oregon Senator.

9/11/1940:Brian DePalma, film director.

9/11/1943:Lola Falana, entertainer.

9/11/1962:Kristy McNichol, actress.

9/11/1964:Ellis Rena Burks, baseball player.

9/12/1486:Agrippa.

9/12/1818:Richard Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun.

9/12/1829:Charles Dudley Warner, US newspaperman.

9/12/1880:Henry Louis Mencken, US critic.

9/12/1888:Maurice Chevalier, French entertainer.

9/12/1892:Alfred A. Knopf, publisher.

9/12/1906:Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer. (9/25?)

9/12/1913:James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens, US olympic athlete.

9/12/1920:Irene Dailey, actress.

9/12/1931:George Jones, singer.

9/12/1940:Linda Gray, actress ("Dallas").

9/12/1940:Michael Stephen Lolich, baseball player.

9/12/1943:Maria Muldaur, singer.

9/12/1944:Barry White, singer.

9/12/1954:Peter Scolari, actor.

9/12/1959:Deron Leigh Cherry, football player.

9/12/1966:Timothy Duane Hardaway, basketball player.

9/13/1766:Samuel Wilson ("Uncle Sam").

9/13/1851:Walter Reed, US Army physician (known for yellow fever work).

9/13/1857:Milton Hershey, candy maker.

9/13/1860:General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, hero of World War I.

9/13/1876:Sherwood Anderson, US author ("Winesburg Ohio").

9/13/1894:J.B. Priestley, English critic, playwright, and novelist ("Lost

:Empires").

9/13/1905:Claudette Colbert (Claudette Chauchoin), actress.

9/13/1916:Roald Dahl, author ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory").

9/13/1925:Mel Torme, singer.

9/13/1928:Ernest L. Boyer, educator.

9/13/1928:Robert Indiana, artist.

9/13/1937:Fred Silverman, TV producer.

9/13/1938:John Smith, British Labor Party leader.

9/13/1938:Judith Martin, "Miss Manners."

9/13/1939:Larry Speakes, former White House spokesman.

9/13/1944:Jacqueline Bisset, actress ("Rich and Famous").

9/13/1944:Peter Cetera, singer and songwriter.

9/13/1948:Nell Carter, actress.

9/13/1964:Faith Ford, actress.

9/14/1769:Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, scientist.

9/14/1791:Franz Bopp, comparative linguistics founder.

9/14/1849:Ivan Pavlov.

9/14/1879:Margaret (Higgins) Sanger, founder of US birth control movement.

9/14/1914:Clayton Moore, actor ("The Lone Ranger").

9/14/1921:Hughes Rudd, TV newscaster.

9/14/1930:Allan Bloom, author.

9/14/1933:Zoe Caldwell, actress.

9/14/1934:Kate (Katherine Murray) Millett, feminist author.

9/14/1938:Nicol Williamson, actor.

9/14/1942:John F. Lehman, former US Navy Secretary.

9/14/1944:Joey Heatherton, actress and singer.

9/14/1959:Mary Crosby, actress.

9/15/1613:Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French aphorist.

9/15/1789:James Fenimore Cooper, novelist.

9/15/1857:William Howard Taft, 27th US president.

9/15/1889:Robert Benchley.

9/15/1890:Agatha Christie, English mystery writer.

9/15/1903:Roy Acuff, country music singer-songwriter.

9/15/1922:Jackie Cooper, actor and director.

9/15/1926:Bobby Short (Robert Waltrip), pianist.

9/15/1926:Edward J. Derwinski, US Secretary of Vetrans Affairs.

9/15/1927:Norm Crosby, comedian.

9/15/1928:Julian (Cannonball) Adderly, jazz saxophonist.

9/15/1938:Gaylord Perry, baseball player.

9/15/1940:Merlin Olsen, actor and sportscaster.

9/15/1945:Jessye Norman, opera singer.

9/15/1946:Oliver Stone, movie director.

9/15/1946:Tommy Lee Jones, actor.

9/15/1960:Joe Morris, football player.

9/15/1961:Dan Marino, football player.

9/15/1962:Ernest Byner, football player.

9/15/1966:Sherman Douglas, basketball player.

9/15/1984:Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales.

9/16/1387:Henry V, of England.

9/16/1797:Anthony Panizzi, only librarian hanged in effigy.

9/16/1823:Francis Parkman, US historian and author ("The Oregon Trail").

9/16/1838:James Jerome Hill, railroad magnate.

9/16/1875:James Cash Penney, department store founder.

9/16/1888:Walter Bentley, British car designer.

9/16/1914:Allen Funt, "Candid Camera" creator.

9/16/1924:Lauren Bacall (Betty Joan Perske), actress.

9/16/1925:B.B. King, blues singer.

9/16/1925:Charles Haughey, former prime minister of Ireland.

9/16/1925:Charlie Byrd, musician.

9/16/1926:John Knowles, American novelist ("A Separate Peace").

9/16/1926:Rev. Robert Schuller, clergyman and author.

9/16/1927:Peter Falk, actor ("Columbo").

9/16/1929:Stan Stephens, Montana Governor.

9/16/1949:Ed Begley Jr, actor.

9/16/1955:Robin Yount, baseball player.

9/16/1958:Orel Leonard Hershiser IV, baseball player.

9/16/1959:Timothy Raines, baseball player.

9/16/1963:Richard Marx, singer.

9/17/1764:John Goodricke, German astronomer.

9/17/1819:Thomas Andrews Hendricks, 21st US vice president.

9/17/1879:Andrew (Rube) Foster, "The Father of Negro Baseball".

9/17/1883:William Carlos Williams, poet.

9/17/1890:Gabriel Heatter, 1940s radio news commentator.

9/17/1907:Warren Earl Burger, former US Chief Justice.

9/17/1918:Chaim Herzog, president of Israel.

9/17/1923:Hank Williams Sr (Hiram King Williams), country music pioneer.

9/17/1928:Roddy McDowall, actor.

9/17/1931:Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Italiano), actress.

9/17/1933:Charles Ernest Grassley, Iowa Senator.

9/17/1933:Dorothy Loudon, actress.

9/17/1935:Ken Kesey, author.

9/17/1938:Paul Benedict, actor.

9/17/1939:David Souter, US Supreme Court Justice.

9/17/1945:Phil Jackson, basketball coach.

9/17/1947:Jeff MacNelly, cartoonist ("Shoe").

9/17/1948:John Ritter, actor.

9/17/1951:Cassandra Peterson, actress ("Elvira").

9/17/1955:Rita Rudner, comic.

9/17/1960:Anthony Carter, football player.

9/17/1965:Kyle Chandler, actor.

9/18/1709:Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (wrote first English dictionary).

9/18/1733:George Read, signer of US Declaration of Independence.

9/18/1779:Joseph Story, US Supreme Court Justice.

9/18/1819:Jean Foucault, French physicist (inventor of the gyroscope).

9/18/1895:John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and prime minister.

9/18/1905:Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustaffson), actress.

9/18/1916:Rossano Brazzi, actor.

9/18/1920:Jack Warden, actor.

9/18/1924:Zelda Fichandler, theater producer.

9/18/1933:Robert Blake (Michael Gubitosi), actor.

9/18/1940:Frankie Avalon, singer.

9/18/1959:Ryne Sandberg, baseball player.

9/18/1964:Holly Robinson, actress.

9/19/1478:Mona Lisa.

9/19/1655:Jan Luyts, Dutch scholar and physicist.

9/19/1737:Charles Carroll, signer of US Declaration of Independence.

9/19/1778:Henry Peter Brougham, Scotch jurist.

9/19/1802:Louis Kossuth.

9/19/1867:Arthur Rackham.

9/19/1879:Irvin Westheimer, founder of the "Big Brothers" movement.

9/19/1894:Rachel Field.

9/19/1905:Leon Jaworski, Watergate prosecutor.

9/19/1907:Lewis Franklin Powell Jr, retired US Supreme Court Justice.

9/19/1911:William Golding, author ("Lord of the Flies").

9/19/1912:Clifton Daniel, former New York Times Managing Editor.

9/19/1920:Roger Angell, author.

9/19/1926:Duke Snider, baseball player.

9/19/1927:Harold Brown, former US Secretary of Defense.

9/19/1929:Adam West, actor ("Batman"). (1928?)

9/19/1930:Rosemary Harris, actress.

9/19/1932:Mike Royko, journalist and author.

9/19/1933:David McCallum, actor.

9/19/1940:Paul Williams, singer-songwriter.

9/19/1945:Jane Blalock, golfer.

9/19/1945:Randolph Mantooth, actor.

9/19/1948:Jeremy Irons, actor.

9/19/1949:Twiggy Lawson (Leslie Hornby), model-actress.

9/19/1950:Joan Lunden (Blunden), "Good Morning America" co-host.

9/19/1958:Kevin Hooks, actor.

9/19/1967:Jim Abbott, baseball player.

9/20/1878:Upton (Beall) Sinclair, novelist ("The Jungle").

9/20/1884:Maxwell Perkins.

9/20/1885:Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, jazz musician. (1890?)

9/20/1886:Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse (pioneered the treatment

:of polio victims).

9/20/1902:Stevie Smith.

9/20/1917:Arnold "Red" Auerbach, basketball coach.

9/20/1924:Gogi Grant, singer.

9/20/1924:James Galanos, fashion designer.

9/20/1928:Donald A. Hall, author.

9/20/1929:Anne Meara, actress and comedienne. (1924?)

9/20/1934:Sophia Loren, actress.

9/20/1951:Guy LaFleur, hockey player.

9/20/1970:Gunnar Nelson, singer.

9/20/1970:Matthew Nelson, singer.

9/21/1452:Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Florentine demagogue.

9/21/1645:Louis Jolliet, French-Canadian explorer of Mississippi River.

9/21/1788:Margaret Smith Taylor, wife of Zachary Taylor..

9/21/1866:Herbert George Wells, author-historian ("The Time Machine").

9/21/1874:Gustav Holst, composer.

9/21/1902:Sir Allen Lane, British publisher (pioneered paperback book).

9/21/1912:Chuck Jones, cartoon animator.

9/21/1931:Larry Hagman, actor.

9/21/1934:Leonard Cohen, singer and songwriter.

9/21/1935:Henry Gibson, actor and comedian.

9/21/1940:Bill Kurtis, newscaster.

9/21/1941:James Woolsey, CIA Director.

9/21/1944:Fannie Flagg, author and comedian.

9/21/1944:Hamilton Jordan, former White House chief of staff.

9/21/1947:Stephen King, author.

9/21/1949:Artis Gilmore, basketball player.

9/21/1950:Bill Murray, comedian.

9/21/1957:Sidney Moncrief, basketball player.

9/21/1959:Dave Coulier, actor.

9/21/1963:Cecil Grant Fielder, baseball player.

9/21/1968:Ricki Lake, actress.

9/21/1971:Alfonso Ribeiro, actor.

9/22/1290:Bilbo Baggins (in Shire Reckoning).

9/22/1368:Frodo Baggins (in Shire Reckoning).

9/22/1694:Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield and statesman.

9/22/1711:Thomas Wright, philosopher.

9/22/1791:Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist.

9/22/1885:Eric Von Stroheim, film director and actor.

9/22/1892:Frank Sullivan, humorist.

9/22/1895:Paul Muni, actor.

9/22/1902:John Houseman, producer-actor.

9/22/1914:Martha Scott, actress.

9/22/1927:Tommy Lasorda, baseball player and manager.

9/22/1928:Eugene Roche, actor.

9/22/1939:Mike Sullivan, Wyoming Governor.

9/22/1939:Timothy E. Wirth, Colorado Senator.

9/22/1948:Captain Mark Phillips, ex-husband of Princess Anne of England.

9/22/1954:Shari Belafonte-Harper, actress.

9/22/1956:Debbie Boone, singer.

9/22/1959:Wally (Walter Wayne) Backman, baseball player.

9/22/1960:Joan Jett, singer and musician.

9/22/1961:Catherine Oxenberg, actress.

9/22/1961:Scott Baio, actor.

9/22/1962:Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer.

9/23/-480:Euripides, Greek dramatist.

9/23/-63 :Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar, Roman emperor.

9/23/1713:Ferdinand VI of Spain.

9/23/1800:William Holmes McGuffey, author ("McGuffey Readers").

9/23/1838:Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, first female candidate for president.

9/23/1852:William Halsted, pioneering surgeon (hernia and breast cancer

:operations).

9/23/1889:Walter Lippmann, journalist.

9/23/1898:Walter Pidgeon, actor. (1897?)

9/23/1920:Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule Jr), actor.

9/23/1926:John Coltrane, jazz musician.

9/23/1930:Ray Charles (Robinson), singer-pianist.

9/23/1935:Les McCann, musician and singer.

9/23/1943:Julio Jose Iglesias de la Cueva, singer.

9/23/1947:Mary Kay Place, writer and actress.

9/23/1949:Bruce Springsteen, rock star.

9/23/1952:Dennis Lamp, baseball player.

9/23/1958:Larry Mize, golfer.

9/23/1966:Tony Joseph Mandarich, football player.

9/24/1717:Horace Walpole, novelist.

9/24/1755:John Marshall, fourth chief justice of the US.

9/24/1870:Georges Claude, French chemist and inventor of the neon lamp.

9/24/1896:Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, novelist ("The Great Gatsby").

9/24/1921:Jim McKay, sports announcer.

9/24/1924:Sheila MacRae, singer and actress. (1923?)

9/24/1931:Anthony Newley, actor and singer.

9/24/1936:Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets.

9/24/1942:Linda McCartney (Linda Eastman), singer-photographer.

9/24/1947:"Mean" Joe Green, football player.

9/24/1952:Joseph Kennedy II, Massachusetts congressman.

9/24/1964:Rafael Corrales Palmeiro, baseball player.

9/25/1683:Jean Phillippe Rameau, French composer and musical theorist.

9/25/1749:Abraham Gottlob Werner, geologist.

9/25/1798:Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Leonce Elie de Beaumont, geologist.

9/25/1897:William Faulkner, novelist.

9/25/1905:Walter Wesley "Red" Smith, sports columnist.

9/25/1906:Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer. (9/12?)

9/25/1918:Phil Rizzuto, New York Yankee broadcaster.

9/25/1931:Barbara Walters, TV reporter.

9/25/1936:Juliet Prowse, dancer and actress.

9/25/1943:Robert Walden, actor.

9/25/1944:Michael Douglas, actor-director.

9/25/1952:Christopher Reeve, actor.

9/25/1952:Mark Hamill, actor.

9/25/1962:Heather Locklear, actress.

9/25/1968:Will Smith.

9/26/1774:John Chapman (a.k.a. Johnny Appleseed), frontier nurseryman.

9/26/1888:Thomas Stearns Eliot, poet.

9/26/1889:Martin Heidegger, German philosopher.

9/26/1897:Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini).

9/26/1898:George Gershwin, composer ("Porgy and Bess").

9/26/1914:Jack LaLanne, fitness expert.

9/26/1923:J.S. Borthwick.

9/26/1925:Marty Robbins, country singer.

9/26/1926:Julie London, singer-actress.

9/26/1927:Patrick O'Neal, actor.

9/26/1942:Kent McCord, actor.

9/26/1945:Bryan Ferry, singer and songwriter.

9/26/1947:Lynn Anderson, singer.

9/26/1948:Olivia Newton-John, pop singer.

9/26/1956:Linda Hamilton, actress.

9/26/1959:Rich Gedman, baseball player.

9/26/1961:Teddy Kennedy Jr.

9/26/1962:Melissa Sue Anderson, actress.

9/26/1985:Shamu, first killer whale born in captivity.

9/27/1722:Samuel Adams, US patriot and brewer.

9/27/1792:George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Dickens' books).

9/27/1840:Thomas Nast, political cartoonist.

9/27/1885:Joseph McCarthy, composer ("You Made Me Love You").

9/27/1895:George Raft, actor.

9/27/1898:Vincent Youmans, composer ("Tea for Two").

9/27/1917:Louis Auchincloss, novelist.

9/27/1919:Charles Percy, former Illinois Senator.

9/27/1920:William Conrad, actor.

9/27/1922:Arthur Heller Penn, stage and film director.

9/27/1926:Jayne Meadows, actress.

9/27/1929:Sada Thompson, actress.

9/27/1933:Kathleen Nolan, actress.

9/27/1934:Barbara Howar, author.

9/27/1934:Dick Schaap, sportscaster.

9/27/1934:Greg Morris, actor.

9/27/1934:Wilfred Brimley, actor.

9/27/1936:Don Cornelius.

9/27/1947:Cheryl Tiegs, model.

9/27/1948:Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday), singer. (1947?)

9/27/1949:Mike Schmidt, baseball player.

9/27/1958:Shaun Cassidy, actor. (1959?)

9/27/1965:Stephen Douglas Kerr, basketball player.

9/28/-551:Confucius. (8/27?)

9/28/-106:Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) the Great, Roman statesman and

:military commander.

9/28/1475:Michelangelo Buanarroti, Italian painter and sculpter.

9/28/1803:Prosper Merimee, writer ("Carmen").

9/28/1839:Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, founder of Women's Christian

:Temperance Union.

9/28/1841:Georges Clemenceau, French Premier.

9/28/1856:Kate Douglas Wiggin, author ("Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm").

9/28/1901:William Samuel Paley, CBS founder.

9/28/1902:Ed Sullivan, TV emcee.

9/28/1909:Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin), cartoonist ("Li'l Abner").

9/28/1923:William Windom, actor.

9/28/1924:Marcello Mastroianni, actor.

9/28/1925:Seymore R. Cray, computer designer.

9/28/1926:Jerry Clower, comedian.

9/28/1933:Madeleine M. Kunin, Vermont Governor.

9/28/1934:Brigitte Bardot (Camille Javal), actress.

9/28/1938:Ben E. King, singer.

9/28/1940:George Greenstein.

9/28/1954:Steve Largent, football player.

9/28/1963:Johnny Earl Dawkins Jr, basketball player.

9/28/1967:Moon Unit Zappa, daughter of Frank Zappa.

9/29/1547:Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author ("Don Quixote").

9/29/1758:Horatio Nelson, British naval commander.

9/29/1810:Elizabeth Gaskell.

9/29/1864:Miguel de Unamuno.

9/29/1901:Enrico Fermi, pioneer nuclear physicist.

9/29/1907:Gene Autry, singing cowboy and baseball magnate.

9/29/1908:Greer Garson, actress.

9/29/1912:Michelangelo Antonioni, movie director.

9/29/1913:Stanley Kramer, film director.

9/29/1923:Bum Phillips, football coach.

9/29/1925:John Tower, former US Senator.

9/29/1931:Anita Ekberg, actress.

9/29/1935:Jerry Lee Lewis, rock 'n' roll pioneer.

9/29/1939:Larry Linville, actor.

9/29/1942:Madeline Kahn, actress.

9/29/1943:Lech Walesa, union leader and political activist.

9/29/1948:Bryant Gumbel, TV host.

9/29/1965:Hersey R. Hawkins Jr, basketball player.

9/29/1966:Jill Whelan.

9/30/1732:Jacques Necker, French banker and statesman.

9/30/1882:Hans Geiger, German physicist (co-inventor of Geiger counter).

9/30/1895:Lewis Milestone, film director ("All Quiet on the Western Front").

9/30/1915:Lester Garfield Maddox, former Georgia Governor.

9/30/1921:Deborah Kerr (Deborah Kerr-Trimmer), actress.

9/30/1924:Truman Capote (Truman Streckfus Persons), novelist ("In Cold

:Blood").

9/30/1927:William S. Merwin.

9/30/1928:Elie Wiesel, author.

9/30/1932:Angie Dickinson (Angeline Brown), actress.

9/30/1935:Johnny Mathis, singer.

9/30/1936:James Ralph Sasser, Tennessee Senator.

9/30/1943:Jody Powell, former White House Press Secretary.

9/30/1943:Marilyn McCoo, singer and actress.

9/30/1947:Rula Lenska, actress.

9/30/1953:Deborah Allen, singer.

9/30/1953:Victoria Tennant, actress.

EVENTS

9:All-American Breakfast Month

9:Baby Safety Month

9:Be Kind to Writers and Editors Month

9:Board and Care Recognition Month (New Jersey)

9:Cable TV Month

9:Hispanic Awareness Month.

9:International Cooperation in Learning Month

9:International Gay Square Dance Month

9:Library Card Sign-up Month

9:National Cat Health Month

9:National Chicken Month

9:National Cholesterol Education and Awareness Month

9:National Clock Month

9:National Courtesy Month

9:National Honey Month

9:National Mind Mapping Month

9:National Month (Chile)

9:National Piano Month

9:National Rice Month

9:Sea Cadet Month

#: Events depending on weekdays

M(9/7) :Labor Day (first Monday).

M(9/7) :Settler's Day (Republic of South Africa) (first Monday).

S(9/7) :Braemar Highland Gathering (Scotland) (first Saturday).

U(9/7) :Historical Regatta (Italy) (first Sunday).

U(9/7) :Joust of the Saracen (Italy) (first Sunday).

U(9/11):Historical Procession (Belgium) (Sunday nearest 9/8).

S(9/12):Federal Lands Cleanup Day (Monday after Labor Day).

U(9/13):National Grandparents Day (Sunday after Labor Day).

M(9/14):National Boss/Employee Exchange Day (Monday after Labor Day).

U(9/14):Giostra Della Quintana (Italy) (second Sunday).

U(9/14):National Pet Memorial Day (second Sunday).

S(9/19):Cherokee Strip Celebration (Oklahoma) (Saturday nearest 9/16).

T(9/21):International Day of Peace (UN) (third Tuesday).

T(9/21):Prinsjesdag (Netherlands) (third Tuesday).

F(9/21):National Laundry Workers Day (third Friday).

F(9/28):Native American Day (fourth Friday).

S(9/28):Kiwanis Kids' Day (fourth Saturday).

S(9/28):National Hunting and Fishing Day (fourth Saturday).

U(9/28):National Good Neighbor Day (fourth Sunday).

U(9/30):Daylight Savings Time Ends (Europe) (last Sunday).

U(9/30):Gold Star Mother's Day (last Sunday).

#: Normal events

9/1 :Army Day (Chile). (9/19?)

9/1 :Revolution Day (Libyan Arab Republic).

9/1/-5598:Grecian Mundane Era began.

9/1/1422 :Henry VI became English Sovereign.

9/1/1557 :Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer, died.

9/1/1635 :First grand jury convened (Newe Towne, Massachusetts).

9/1/1689 :Graduated Tax on Beards imposed in Russia.

9/1/1729 :Sir Richard Steele, English essayist, died.

9/1/1772 :Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded.

9/1/1807 :Aaron Burr acquitted of conspiracy to commit treason.

9/1/1859 :Joshua A. Norton proclaimed himself 'Emperor Norton I'.

9/1/1859 :Pullman sleeping car debuted.

9/1/1862 :First US Federal tax on tobacco.

9/1/1869 :Prohibition Party formed.

9/1/1878 :First female telephone operator (Emma M. Nutt).

9/1/1914 :Passenger pigeon became extinct.

9/1/1916 :Keating-Owen Act (goods made with child labor banned from US

:interstate commerce).

9/1/1923 :Earthquake hit Japan (74,000 killed).

9/1/1939 :Germany invaded Poland.

9/1/1940 :Lillian D. Wald, sociologist, died.

9/1/1948 :Charles A. Beard, US historian, died.

9/1/1969 :Colonel Moammar Gadhafi came to power.

9/1/1972 :Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky in World Chess Match.

9/1/1977 :Lead in paint ruled to be illegal.

9/1/1979 :Pioneer 11 (US) made first flyby of Saturn.

9/1/1980 :Terrence Stanley Fox had to end his run across Canada for cancer.

9/1/1982 :Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 miles per hour.

9/1/1983 :Korean Air Lines flight 007 shot down by Russian fighter planes.

9/1/1985 :RMS Titanic found.

9/1/1989 :A. Bartlett Giamatti, major league baseball commissioner, died.

9/2 :Bison-Ten-Yell Day.

9/2 :Independence Day (Vietnam).

9/2/-490 :Phidippides ran from Marathon to Sparta.

9/2/1666 :Great Fire of London began (13,000 homes destroyed, four days).

9/2/1752 :Gregorian Calendar adopted by Britain and her colonies (9/3

:became 9/14).

9/2/1789 :US Treasury Department established.

9/2/1864 :General Sherman and troops entered Atlanta, Georgia.

9/2/1880 :First night baseball game played (Jordan Marsh vs. R.H. White -

:Hull, Massachusetts).

9/2/1901 :Theodore Roosevelt said "Speak Softly and carry a big stick."

9/2/1914 :War risk insurance bureau established.

9/2/1924 :Rudolf Friml's "Rose-Marie" opened on Broadway.

9/2/1938 :"Carefree," starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, released.

9/2/1945 :Democratic Republic of Vietnam proclaimed.

9/2/1945 :Japan signed unconditional surrender.

9/2/1946 :"The Iceman Cometh" premiered.

9/2/1963 :Governor Wallace had police surround Tuskegee High School to stop

:integration.

9/2/1964 :Sgt. Alvin York, WWI hero, died.

9/2/1968 :Series of earthquakes hit Iran (12000 killed).

9/2/1973 :Last episode of "The Bullwinkle Show" aired.

9/2/1983 :Henry "Scoop" Jackson, Senator, died.

9/2/1984 :Typhoon Ike hit the Philippines.

9/2/1985 :Passaic, New Jersey fire, set by 2 boys ($400 million damage, 500

:homeless).

9/3 :Anniversary Day of the Founding of the Republic (San Marino).

9/3 :Independence Day (Qatar).

9/3 :Memorial Day (Tunisia).

9/3/1189 :Richard I became the English Sovereign.

9/3/1697 :King William's War ended.

9/3/1783 :Treaty of Paris signed (ending the US Revolutionary War).

9/3/1833 :New York Sun debuted.

9/3/1881 :Lorenzo Delmonico, famed restaurateur, died.

9/3/1894 :Labor Day first observed as a legal holiday.

9/3/1898 :First municipal subway opened to North Station, Boston,

:Massachusetts.

9/3/1918 :"Slacker Raids" began (soldiers and sailors stop draft age men at

:bayonet point and demand to see their draft papers - 13,000 in

:3 days found in New Jersey).

9/3/1928 :Ty Cobb got his final hit.

9/3/1939 :World War II began.

9/3/1943 :Allied forces invaded Italy.

9/3/1951 :"Search for Tomorrow" debuted.

9/3/1962 :e.e. cummings, American poet, died.

9/3/1969 :Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Tat Thanh), Vietnamese revolutionary, died.

9/3/1976 :Viking 2 (US) softlanded on Mars.

9/3/1979 :Hurricane David hit the eastern US seaboard (1,000 killed).

9/3/1985 :Johnny Marks, songwriter ("Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"), died.

9/3/1991 :Frank Capra, director, died.

9/4 :Animal's Day (Curacao).

9/4 :Los Angeles Day.

9/4 :Newspaper Carrier Day.

9/4/1609 :Island of Manhattan discovered (Henry Hudson).

9/4/1781 :Los Angeles (El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles

:de Porciuncula) founded.

9/4/1833 :First "newsboy" in US hired (Barney Flaherty, ten years old).

9/4/1882 :Electric lights introduced to New York (Thomas Edison).

9/4/1886 :Geronimo (Goyathlay) surrendered.

9/4/1888 :Kodak camera patented (George Eastman).

9/4/1907 :Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg, Norwegian composer, died.

9/4/1910 :Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French painter, died.

9/4/1936 :First preliminary model of the Citroen Deux Chevaux was unveiled.

9/4/1936 :"Swing Time," starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, released.

9/4/1954 :First passage of the McClure Strait (Nortwest Passage).

9/4/1957 :Ford Motor Co. introduced the Edsel.

9/4/1965 :Dr. Albert Schweitzer, missionary, died.

9/4/1970 :Natalia Makarova, ballerina, defected from Russia to England.

9/4/1972 :First athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals (Mark Spitz).

9/4/1977 :First parade with marching music supplied by transistor radios

:(Streamwood, Illinois).

9/4/1979 :IMSAI closed their doors.

9/4/1980 :Abbie Hoffman, radical activist, surrendered to New York

:authorities.

9/4/1988 :Gert Frobe (Karl-Gerhard Frobe), actor, died.

9/4/1990 :Irene Marie Dunne (Dunn), actress ("I Remember Mama"), died.

9/4/1993 :Descendants of 1918 world champion Red Sox finally receive World

:Series "medals."

9/4/1993 :Herve Villechaize, actor, died.

9/5 :Be Late for Something Day.

9/5 :National Holiday (Western Samoa).

9/5/1774 :First Continental Congress convened (Philadelphia).

9/5/1795 :Treaty with the Dey of Algiers (US to pay tribute to the Barbary

:Pirates).

9/5/1836 :Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas.

9/5/1881 :Michigan's Great Fire (125 killed).

9/5/1882 :First Labor Day parade (New York).

9/5/1902 :Rudolf Virchow, German "founder of cellular pathology," died.

9/5/1905 :Treaty of Portsmouth signed (ended Russo-Japanese War).

9/5/1914 :First Battle of the Marne began.

9/5/1925 :Rapid aerial photography made (finished and dropped in 27

:minutes).

9/5/1961 :Kennedy ordered resumption of underground nuclear tests.

9/5/1972 :11 Israeli athletes and 6 others killed by Palestinian terrorists

:(Munich).

9/5/1975 :Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempted to shoot US president Ford.

9/5/1977 :Voyager 1 (US) launched.

9/5/1979 :UFO sighting, Dresser, Wisconsin.

9/5/1980 :Saint Gotthard Auto Tunnel (Switzerland), longest underground

:motorway in the world (ten miles), opened.

9/5/1982 :Janet Gaynor, winner of the first best actress Oscar, involved in

:a car crash which would later prove fatal.

9/5/1984 :US space shuttle Discovery ended its inaugural flight.

9/5/1985 :Two E.F. Hutton officials resigned after disclosure that the

:brokerage firm engaged in a check-kiting scheme.

9/5/1991 :Soviet Union restructured.

9/6 :Defense of Pakistan Day (Pakistan).

9/6 :Independence Day (Swaziland).

9/6 :Settlers Day (South Africa).

9/6/1667 :"Dreadful Hurry Cane," (Virginia).

9/6/1776 :First submarine attack.

9/6/1782 :Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson, died.

9/6/1847 :Henry David Thoreau ended his stay at Walden Pond.

9/6/1853 :Women's Right's Convention met (New York).

9/6/1853 :World's Temperance Convention met (New York).

9/6/1883 :First major league team to score 18 runs in an inning (Chicago).

9/6/1901 :William McKinley, 25th president, shot (Buffalo, New York).

9/6/1909 :Word received that Robert Peary had reached the North Pole and

:died.

9/6/1932 :"Ballyhoo" opened (New York).

9/6/1935 :"Top Hat," starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, released.

9/6/1954 :Groundbreaking for world's first nuclear power plant

:(Shippingport, Pennsylvania).

9/6/1966 :Hendrik Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister stabbed to death.

9/6/1966 :Margaret (Higgins) Sanger, founder of US birth control movement,

:died.

9/6/1968 :Swaziland attained national independence.

9/6/1975 :Martina Navratilova, Czechoslovakian tennis star requested US

:political asylum.

9/6/1978 :First Americans reached the summit of K2 (James Wickwire and

:Louis Reichardt).

9/6/1983 :The Soviet Union admitted shooting down KAL flight 007.

9/6/1984 :Ernest Tubb died.

9/6/1991 :Baltic States' independence recognized by the Soviet government.

9/7 :Independence Day (Brazil).

9/7 :Pioneer Florida Day.

9/7/1630 :First settlement at Boston.

9/7/1822 :Brazil declared independence from Portugal.

9/7/1881 :Michigan forest fires caused a "Yellow Day" in the Northeast.

9/7/1892 :James J. Corbett beat John L. Sullivan and became the first World

:Heavyweight champ.

9/7/1892 :John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet, died.

9/7/1896 :America's first motor vehicle track races run (Narragansett

:Park, Rhode Island).

9/7/1901 :Boxer Protocol signed, officially ending Boxer Rebellion.

9/7/1908 :Walter Johnson pitched a third consecutive shutout in four days.

9/7/1909 :Sigmund Freud began a series of lectures at Clark University.

9/7/1914 :New York Post Office Building opened to the public.

9/7/1918 :F. Scott Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre.

9/7/1940 :London blitz launched.

9/7/1953 :First female tennis grand slam winner (Maureen Connolly).

9/7/1963 :US Football Hall of Fame dedicated.

9/7/1970 :Willie Shoemaker broke the all time horse racing win record

:(6033).

9/7/1974 :Nolan Ryan became the first pitcher officially clocked over 100

:MPH.

9/7/1977 :G. Gordon Liddy released from prison.

9/7/1978 :Keith Moon died.

9/7/1979 :ESPN debuted.

9/7/1979 :Ivor Armstrong Richards, author and critic, died.

9/7/1986 :Desmond Tutu installed as first black leader of Anglican Church

:in southern Africa.

9/8 :International Literacy Day (UN).

9/8/1522 :First circumnavigation of the globe completed (Juan de Elcano,

:Spain).

9/8/1565 :Malta defeated the Turks.

9/8/1565 :First permanent European settlement in North America (Saint

:Augustine, Florida).

9/8/1664 :Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to British (later renamed New

:York).

9/8/1771 :Mission San Gabriel Archangel founded.

9/8/1784 :Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker sect, died.

9/8/1875 :Theosophical Society founded.

9/8/1892 :An early version of "The Pledge of Allegiance" appeared in print.

9/8/1900 :Hurricane and tidal wave struck Galveston, Texas (10,000 killed).

9/8/1921 :First Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman).

9/8/1930 :"Blondie" (comic strip) first appeared.

9/8/1935 :Huey Pierce Long, Louisiana Governor, shot.

9/8/1944 :First German V-2 rocket hit Britain.

9/8/1949 :Richard Georg Strauss, German composer, died.

9/8/1951 :Japan signed a formal peace treaty.

9/8/1965 :Bert Campaneris (Kansas City) played all nine positions in one

:baseball game.

9/8/1966 :"Star Trek" debuted (NBC).

9/8/1974 :Gerald R. Ford pardoned Richard M. Nixon.

9/8/1980 :Willard Frank Libby, inventor of "carbon dating," died.

9/8/1981 :Roy Wilkins, ex NAACP executive director, died.

9/8/1985 :USA WEEKEND, weekly newspaper feature, debuted.

9/9 :Bonza Bottler Day.

9/9 :Choyo, Chrysanthemum Festival (Japan).

9/9 :Liberation Day (Luxembourg).

9/9 :National Day (North Korea).

9/9 :Socialist Revolution Anniversary (Bulgaria).

9/9/1087 :William I, The Conqueror, King of England, and Duke of Normandy,

:died.

9/9/1776 :United Colonies renamed the United States.

9/9/1781 :Battle of Eutau Springs, South Carolina.

9/9/1815 :J.S. Copley died.

9/9/1850 :California became the 31st US state.

9/9/1851 :Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the first school for the

:deaf, died.

9/9/1919 :Boston Police force went on strike.

9/9/1926 :NBC created (by RCA).

9/9/1932 :"Family Circle" first published.

9/9/1934 :First rocket to reach 700 miles per hour launched (Staten Island).

9/9/1956 :Elvis Presley first appeared on US national TV ("The Ed Sullivan

:Show").

9/9/1965 :Sandy Koufax pitched a no-hitter vs. Chicago Cubs.

9/9/1971 :Prisoners' rebellion at Attica state prison.

9/9/1975 :Viking 2 (US) launched.

9/9/1976 :Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist Party Chairman, died.

9/9/1977 :Ethel Waters, singer and actress, died.

9/9/1980 :John Howard Griffin, US author and photographer, died.

9/9/1984 :Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit Canada.

9/10 :Admission Day (California).

9/10 :Chusuk, Korean Thanksgiving Day (South Korea).

9/10 :Moon Festival (Taiwan).

9/10 :Saint George's Caye Day (Belize).

9/10 :Swap Ideas Day.

9/10/1623:First cargo from Plymouth shipped back to England (lumber and

:furs).

9/10/1794:First nondenominational college chartered (Blount College,

:Tennessee).

9/10/1797:Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, English writer, died.

9/10/1813:Admiral Perry said "We have met the enemy and they are ours."

9/10/1813:Battle of Lake Erie.

9/10/1823:Simon Bolivar named president of Peru.

9/10/1842:Letitia Christian Tyler, first wife of John Tyler, died.

9/10/1845:Joseph Story, US Supreme Court Justice, died.

9/10/1846:Sewing machine patent granted (Elias Howe).

9/10/1857:Mountain Meadows Massacre (Mormons attacked Gentile wagon train).

9/10/1900:Douglas Fairbanks Sr made his professional debut ("The Duke's

:Jester").

9/10/1935:Huey Long, Louisiana governor, died.

9/10/1948:Mildred Gillars (a.k.a. "Axis Sally") indicted in Washington DC.

9/10/1963:Twenty black students entered schools in Alabama after a standoff

:between federal authorities and Governor Wallace.

9/11 :Ethiopian New Year (Ethiopia).

9/11 :Founder's Death Anniversary (Pakistan).

9/11 :National Holiday (Chile).

9/11 :911 Day (celebration of emergency number).

9/11 :No News is Good News Day.

9/11/1723:First honorary Yale medical degree received (D. Turner).

9/11/1777:Battle of Brandywine (Pennsylvania).

9/11/1814:Battle of Lake Champlain.

9/11/1841:All of US President John Tyler's cabinet resigned except

:Secretary of State Daniel Webster.

9/11/1850:Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano, debuted in US.

9/11/1857:Frederick Law Olmsted appointed superintendent of New York

:Central Park.

9/11/1948:Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, died.

9/11/1949:New York Yankees drew 11 walks (third inning).

9/11/1958:Robert William Service, Canadian poet ("The Shooting of Dan

:McGrew"), died.

9/11/1973:Military coup in Chile.

9/11/1985:Pete Rose broke Ty Cobb's all time hitting record (4,192).

9/11/1986:DOW Jones Industrial Avg. plunged 86.61 points.

9/12 :Defender's Day (Maryland).<