September

1st
          1666    Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed
        1807    Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
        1859    1st pullman sleeping car in service
        1865    Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery
        1922    NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billards"
        1923    Earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama - kills 106,000
        1932    Jimmy Walker resigns as NYC mayor (graft charges)
        1939    Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig
        1941    Yellow star becomes obligatory for Jews in the Reich to wear
        1945    Japan surrenders ending WWII (US Date, Sept 2 in Japan)
        1948    UN's World Health Organization forms
        1972    Bobby Fisher (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title

        Birthdays:      
        1854    Engelbert Humperdinck (opera composer) Germany
        1866    James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (heavyweight champion 1892-97)
        1875    Edgar Rice Burroughs (novelist - Tarzan)
        1907    Walter Reuther (labor leader)
        1910    Jack Hawkins (actor) London, Eng.
        1923    Rocky Marciano (heavyweight champion 1952-56)
        1933    Ann Richards (TX Governor)
        1933    Conway Twitty [Harold Jenkins] (country singer)
        1939    Lily Tomlin (comedienne/actress)
        1946    Barry Gibb (singer - Bee Gees)
        1957    Gloria Estefan (singer) Cuba


2nd
        31 BC   Battle of Actium, Octavian defeats Marc Antony
        1789    US Treasury Dept established by Congress
        1864    Union General Wm. T. Sherman captures Atlanta
        1945    V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri
        1963    CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes

        Birthdays:      
        1838    Queen Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani last queen of Hawaii
        1919    Marge Champion (dancer - Marge & Gower Champion)
        1948    Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe (teacher/astronaut)
        1948    Terry Brandshaw (NFL QB)
        1951    Mark Harmon (actor)
        1952    Jimmy Connors (tennis star)
        1964    Keanu Reeves (actor)


3rd     
        1189    King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster
        1752    This day never happened nor the next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. 
                People riot thinking the govt stole 11 days of their lives 
        1783    Treaty of Paris (ending the Revolutionary War)
        1895    1st pro football game played - Latrobe, Pennsylvania
        1939    Britain declares war on Germany.  France follows 6 hrs later, followed by Australia, 
                New Zealand, South Africa & Canada

        Birthdays:      
        1856    Louis Henri Sullivan (father of modern US architecture) Boston
        1913    Alan Ladd (actor)
        1914    Kitty Carlisle Hart (actress) New Orleans
        1931    Mitzi Gaynor (actress) Chicago
        1942    Al Jardine (Beachboys)
        1965    Charlie Sheen [Carlos Estevez] (actor)


4th     
        1886    Geronimo is captured, ending last major US-Indian war
        1888    George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak"
        1951    1st transcontinetal TV broadcast, by Pres. Truman
        1957    Ford Motor Co. intrduces the Edsel
        1972    Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic Gold Medals

        Birthdays:      
        1846    Daniel Burnham (architect/built skyscapers) US
        1918    Paul Harvey (news commentator) Tulsa, OK
        1920    Craig Claiborne (food columnist NY Times)
        1928    Dick York (actor - Bewitched) Fort Wayne, IN


5th   
        1774    1st Continental Congress assembles in Philadelpia
        1836    Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas
        1882    10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
        1914    Battle of Marne (WWI) begins
        1960    Cassius Clay wins gold medal in Olympics
        1972    11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics
        1975    Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate Pres. Ford

        Birthdays:      
        1902    Darryl F. Zanuck (Hollywood producer)
        1923    Arthur C Nielsen (TV's Nielsen Ratings)
        1927    Paul Volcker (Federal Reserve Chairman)
        1929    Bob Newhart (comedian) Oak Park, IL
        1940    Raquel Welch (actress) Chicago, IL
        1946    Freddie Mercury (rock vocalist - Queen)


6th  
        1620    Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth England for the New World
        1899    Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
        1901    President Wm. McKinley is shot by Leon Czologosz in Buffalo, NY
        1941    All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
        1966    Star Trek" premiers on NBC TV

        Birthdays:      
        1757    Marquis de Lafayette (American patriot, French revolutionary)
        1766    John Dalton (chemist - developed atomic theory of matter)
        1860    Jane Addams (social worker/Nobel Prize winner 1931)
        1888    Joseph P Kennedy (financier/bootlegger/diplomat - father of JFK, RFK)
        1937    Jo Anne Worley (comedienne - Laugh In) Lowell, IN
        1947    Jane Curtin (actress - SNL) Cambridge, MA


7th  
        1822    Brazil declares independence from Portugal
        1927    Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in SF
        1936    Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) begins operation
        1940    Luftwaffe blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights
        1963    1st US TV appearance of the Beatles (Big Night Out - ABC)

        Birthdays:
        1533    Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII
        1860    Grandma (Anna Maria) Moses (primitive painter) NY
        1908    Dr. Michael E DeBakey (artifical heart pioneer)
        1909    Elia Kazan (director) Constantinople, Turkey
        1914    James Van Allen (discovered Van Allen radiation belts)
        1923    Peter Lawford (actor) London, Eng.
        1936    Buddy Holly (singer)
        1942    Garrison Keillor (humorist)
        1942    Richard Roundtree (actor - Shaft)
        1956    Michael Feinstein (pianist/singer)


8th  
        1565    1st permanent settlement in US forms (St Augustine, FL)
        1863    47 Texas volunteers repel Federal invasion force at Sabine Pass, TX
        1892    1st appearance of "The Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)
        1900    6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave destroy Galveston, TX 
                (most deadly in US history
        1920    US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF)
        1921    1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman)
        1930    1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"
        1935    Huey P Long assassinated at Baton Rouge Capital Building
        1939    FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe
        1943    Italy surrenders to the allies in WWII
        1944    1st V-2 rocket lands in Britian

        Birthdays:      
        1157    Richard I (the Lion Hearted) 
        1922    Sid Ceaser (comedian) Yonkers, NY
        1925    Peter Sellers (actor) England
        1932    Patsy Cline (country singer)


9th  
        1776    Continental Congress renames "United Colonies" - "United States"
        1850    California becomes 31st State
        1850    Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
        1908    Orville Wright makes first 1 hour flight, Fort Myer, VA
        1943    Italy surrenders to the Allies
        1956    Elvis' first appearance on Ed Sullivan Show

        Birthdays:      
        1585    Cardinal Richelieu (Louis XIII chief minister)
        1754    Wm Bligh (Capt. HMS Bounty)
        1828    Leo Tolstoy (novelist) Russia
        1887    Alfred "Alf" Landon (Presidential Candidate 1932, 1936)
        1890    Harland Sanders (KFC founder/colonel)
        1919    Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder (gambler/sportscaster)
        1925    Cliff Robertson (actor "PT 109") La Jolla, CA
        1935    Chaim Topol (actor - Fiddler on the Roof) Tel Aviv, Israel
        1941    Otis Redding (singer - Sitting on the Dock of the Bay) GA
        1949    Joe Theismann (NFL QB)
        1950    Tom Wopat (actor - The Dukes of Hazzard) Wisconsin
        1951    Michael Keton (actor - Batman) Pittsburgh
        1952    Angela Cartwright (actress - Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space, Sound of Music) England


10th    
        1608    John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, VA
        1776    George Washington asks for spy volunteer - Nathan Hale volunteers
        1823    Simon Bolivar named president of Peru
        1846    Elias Howe patents the sewing machine
        1913    Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
        1924    Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder
        1939    Canada declares war on Germany
        1953    Swanson sells its 1st "TV Dinner"
        1955    Gunsmoke premiers on CBS TV

        Birthdays:      
        1907    Fay Wray (actress - King Kong)
        1929    Arnold Palmer (golfer)
        1934    Roger Maris (Yankee)
        1945    Jose Feliciano (singer/songwriter) Lares, PR


11th    
        1789    Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of Treasury
        1850    Jenny Lind ("Swedish Nightingale") gives 1st US concert
        1875    1st newspaper cartoon strip
        1936    FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
        2001    Worst terrorist attack on American soil:  2819+ die

        Birthdays:      
        1862    O Henry (pen name of Wm. Sidney Porter)
        1885    David Herbert "DH" Lawrence (writer) England
        1913    Bear Bryant (coach)
        1924    Tom Landry (NFL player, coach)
        1932    Valentino (fashion designer) Milan, Italy
        1940    Brian DePalma (director)
        1942    Tom Dreesen (comedian)


12th    
        1953    Jacqueline Bouvies marries John F Kennedy
        1966    The Monkees" premiers on NBC

        Birthdays:      
        1818    Richard Jordan Gatlin (inventor - hand cranked machine gun) US
        1880    H. L. Mencken (newspaperman/critic) Baltimore, MD
        1888    Maurice Chevalier (actor) Paris
        1902    Margaret Hamilton (actress - Wicked Witch of the West) OH
        1913    Jesse Owens (track star, spoiled  1936 Olympics for Hitler)
        1931    George Jones (country singer)
        1940    Linda Gray (actress - Sue Ellen Ewing on "Dallas")
        1944    Barry White (singer) Galveston, TX


13th     
        122    Building begins on Hadrian's Wall
        1788    New York City becomes capital of the US
        1814    Francis Scott Key writes the poem that will be come our National Anthem in 1931;
        originally titled "The Defence of Fort McHenry"
        1948    Margaret Chase Smith elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress

        Birthdays:      
        1851    Walter Reed (US Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever)
        1857    Milton S. Hershey (chocolate maker)
        1860    Gen. John J. (Blackjack) Pershing (US commander WWI)
        1894    JB Priestly (author)
        1916    Roald Dahl (children's author)
        1924    Maurice Jarre (composer - Dr. Zhivago - Oscar 1966) Lyons, France
        1925    Mel Torme (singer "Velvet Fog") Chicago, IL
        1944    Jacqueline Bisset (Actress) England
        1944    Peter Cetera (Singer) Chicago


14th    
        1716    1st  Lighthouse in US is lit in Boston Harbor
        1752    England & colonies adopt Gregorian calendar - 11 days disappear
        1812    Napoleon occupies Moscow
        1901    President McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin.
                Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
        1975    Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US born saint

        Birthdays:      
        1879    Margaret Sanger (feminist/nurse/birth control proponent)
        1908    Clayton Moore (Lone Ranger) Chicago, IL
        1938    Walter Koenig (actor- Checkov "Star Trek") Chicago, IL
        1944    Joey Heatherton (dancer/actress)


15th    
        1862    Stonewall Jackson takes Harpers Ferry
        1904    Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
        1935    Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship & 
                makes swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany
        1949    The Lone Ranger premiers on ABC-TV

        Birthdays:      
        1789    James Fenimore Cooper (1st major American novelist)
        1857    Wm. Howard Taft (27th President)
        1889    Robert Benchley (author)
        1890    Dame Agatha Christie (mystery writer)
        1903    Roy Acuff (country singer)
        1921    Jackie Cooper (actor)
        1928    Cannonball Adderley (singer)
        1946    Oliver Stone (director) NYC
        1946    Tommy Lee Jones (actor)
        1961    Dan Marino (NFL QB)

16th    
        1630    Mass. village of Shawmut changes name to Boston
        1810    Mexican War of Independence begins
        1893    Cherokee Strip, OK opened to white settlement homesteaders
        1908    General Motors founded by William C Durant
        1932    Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest caste separation
        1940    FDR approves military draft
        1968    Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-In"

        Birthdays:      
        1875    James Cash Penney (dept. store founder)
        1914    Allen Funt (Candid Camera)
        1924    Bess Myerson (Miss America - 1945)
        1924    Lauren Bacall (actress) Staten Island, NY
        1925    BB King (blues musician) 
        1925    Charlie Byrd (musician)
        1927    Peter Falk (actor - Colombo)
        1949    Ed Begley, Jr (actor)


17th    
        1787    At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, delegates from 12 states 
                vote to unanimously approve the proposed US Constitution
        1862    Antietam - 26,000 men are dead, wounded or missing by nightfall 
                as Gen. George B. McClellan's numerically superior forces stop Gen. Robert E. Lee
        1939    Soviets invade Eastern Poland taking 200,000 Poles prisoner - 
                done in accord with the Nazi-Soviet Pact to divide Poland
        1947    James Forrestal sworn in as 1st US Secretary of Defense
        1953    1st successful separation of Siamese twins

        Birthdays:      
        1907    Supreme Court Justice Warren E. Burger in St. Paul, Minn.
        1923    Hank Williams (country singer)
        1928    Roddy McDowall (actor)_
        1930    Thomas P. Stafford (astronaut) Weatherford, OK
        1931    Anne Bancroft (actress)
        1948    John Ritter (actor)
        1955    Rita Rudner (comedienne)


18th    
        1755    Fort Ticonderoga, NY opens
        1793    Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
        1947    U.S. Air Force established as a separate military service
        1965    Get Smart" premiers

        Birthdays:      
        1709    Dr. Samuel Johnson (writer)
        1905    Greta Garbo (actress) Stockholm, Sweden
        1905    Agness De Mille (choreographer - Oklahoma) NYC
        1905    Claudette Colbert (actress) Paris
        1905    Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (actor - Jack Benny Show) Oakland, CA
        1916    Rossano Brazzi (actor) Bologna, Italy
        1920    Jack Warden (actor) Newark, NJ
        1933    Jimmie Rogers (country singer) Washington
        1933    Robert Blake (actor - Baretta) Nutley, NJ
        1933    Roman Polanski (director) Paris, France
        1940    Frankie Avalon (singer/actor) Philadelphia
        1964    Holly Robinson (actress) Philadelphia


19th    
        1796    George Washington's farewell address
        1846    Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elope
        1881    James A Garfield (US President) dies of gunshot wound
        1893    New Zealand becomes first country to grant women the right to vote
        1934    Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby
        1959    Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland

        Birthdays:      
        1901    Joseph Pasternak (film producer)
        1911    William Golding (author - Lord of the Flies; Nobel Prize 1983) Cornwall, Eng.
        1928    Adam West (actor - Batman) Walla Walla, WA
        1931    Brook Benton (singer) Camden, SC
        1932    Mike Royko (journalist) Chicago
        1933    David McCallum (actor - Man From Uncle, NCIS)
        1940    Bill Medley (singer - Righteous Bros.) Santa Ana, CA
        1940    Paul Williams (composer/singer/actor)
        1943    Mama Cass Elliot (singer)
        1949    Twiggy [Leslie Hornby] (model/actress) England
        1950    Joan Lunden (news host)


20th 
        1519    Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world
        1797    US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
        1859    Patent granted on the electric range
        1873    Panic on NY Stock Exchange - railroad bond default & bank failure
        1881    Chester A Arthur sworn in as President
        1958    Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC
        1973    Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
        1990    Both Germanys ratify reunification

        Birthdays:      
        1878    Upton Sinclair (novelist)
        1895    Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (composer/jazz pianist) New Orleans
        1917    Arnold "Red" Auerbach (NBA coach/GM)
        1928    Dr. Joyce Brothers (psychiatrist/$64,000 Question Winner)
        1934    Sophia Loren (actress)
        1957    Fran Drescher (actress) NYC


21st    
        1780    Benedict Arnold give British Major Andre plans to West Point
        1790    1st French Republic declared
        1897    NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial
        1937    J.R.R. Tolkien publishes "The Hobbit"
        1957    Perry Mason" premiers on CBS-TV with Raymond Burr
        1981    Sandra Day O'Connor becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice

        Birthdays:      
        1452    Girolamo Savonarola (monk/preacher/reformer) Italy
        1776    Nathan Hale hung by British for spying
        1866    H. G. (Herbert George) Wells (author) Bromley, Eng.
        1912    Chuck Jones (animator - Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck)
        1931    Larry Hagman (actor) Forth Worth, TX
        1935    Henry Gibson (comedian - Laugh-In) 
        1940    Bill Kurtis (newscaster) FL
        1944    Fannie Flagg (comediene/writer/actress)
        1947    Stephen King (writer)
        1950    Bill Murray (comedian/actor) Evanston, IL


22nd     
        1692    Last person hung for witchcraft in US
        1776    Nathan Hale executed as a spy by the British
        1817    John Quincy Adams becomes Secretary of State
        1862    President Lincoln says he will free all slaves in all states on Jan 1
        1863    President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech
        1915    Southern Methodist University holds its 1st class
        1964    "Fiddler on the Roof" opens on Broadway - runs 3,242 performances
        1964    The Man from U.N.C.L.E." premiers on NBC-TV
        1973    Henry Kissinger sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State
        1991    California University makes the Dead Sea Scrolls public

        Birthdays:      
        1791    Michael Faraday (discovered principle of electric motor)
        1885    Erich von Stroheim (early film director/actor)
        1895    Paul Muni (actor - Oscar 1936 for Angel on My Shoulder)
        1902    John Houseman (actor) Bucharest, Romania
        1927    Tom Lasorda (baseball manager)
        1956    Debby Boone (singer; daughter of Pat Boone)
        1960    Joan Jett (singer)
        1960    Scott Baio (actor)


23rd     
        1642    First Harvard College commencement
        1780    British spy Major John Andre caught near Tarrytown, NY
        1806    Lewis & Clark return to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest
        1845    1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
        1912    1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" released
        1952    Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech

        Birthdays:      
        484 BC  Euripedes (Greek playwright - "Trojan Women")
        1838    Victoria Chaflin Woodhull (feminist/reformer/free love/1st female presidential candidate) Ohio
        1869    Edgar Lee Masters (poet/novelist - Spoon River Anthology)
        1920    Mickey Rooney (actor) Brooklyn, NY
        1926    John Coltrane (saxophonist)
        1930    Ray Charles (singer/pianist) Albany, GA
        1943    Julio Iglesias (singer)
        1945    Paul Petersen (actor - Jeff on "The Donna Reed Show")
        1949    Bruce Springsteen (musician) Asbury, NY
        1967    Harry Connick, Jr (singer)


24th   
        1493    Columbus' 2nd expedition to the New World
        1683    Jews are expelled from all French possessions in America
        1883    Black Friday; Wall St. panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
        1929    Lt. James H. Doolittle  makes 1st all-instrument flight
        1957    Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
        1960    1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier launches (USS Enterprise)
        1968    60 Minutes premiers
        1969    Trial of "Chicago 8" (protestors at Dem. Nat'l. Conv) begins

        Birthdays:      
        1755    John Marshall (4th Supreme Court Chief Justice) VA
        1870    Georges Claude (inventor - neon light)
        1896    F. Scott Fitzgerald (author) St. Paul, MN
        1921    Jim McKay (sportscaster) Philadelphia
        1931    Anthony Newley (actor/song writer/singer)
        1936    Jim Henson (muppeteer) Greenville, MS


25th     
        1775    Ethan Allen captured (Revolutionary War Hero)
        1789    Congress proposes Bill of Rights
        1926    Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week
        1934    Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive game
        1956    1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation
        1957    Escorted by the 101st Army Airborne Division, nine black students enter the all-white Central
                High School in Little Rock, AK

        Birthdays:      
        1887    William Faulkner (author - Nobel Prize 1949 for The Sound & the Fury)
        1918    Phil Rizzuto (sportscaster/shortstop) Brooklyn, NY
        1926    Aldo Ray (actor)
        1931    Barbara Walters (newscaster) Boston, MA
        1936    Juliet Prowse (actress/dancer)
        1944    Michael Douglas (actor)
        1951    Mark Hamill (actor - Star Wars)
        1952    Christopher Reeve (actor)
        1961    Heather Locklear (actress)


26th     
        1580    Francis Drake returns to England after circumnavigating globe
        1687    Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians
        1789    Jefferson appointed 1st Sec. of State; John Jay 1st Chief Justice; 
                Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J. Randolph 1st Attorney General
        1914    Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
        1934    British liner "Queen Mary" is launched
        1957    "Westside Story" opens on Broadway
        1960    1st Kennedy-Nixon Debate; 1st Presidential TV debate
        1962    "Beverly Hillbillies" premiers on CBS

        Birthdays:      
        1774    John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed]
        1888    T. S. Eliot (poet/dramatist/critic)
        1897    Pope Paul VI (262nd Roman Catholic Pope 1963-1978)
        1898    George Gershwin (composer)
        1914    Jack LaLanne (fitness expert)
        1925    Marty Robbins (singer)
        1933    Donna Douglas (actress - Beverly Hillbillies)
        1948    Olivia Newton-John (singer)


27th     
        1540    Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
        1779    John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain
        1787    Constitution submitted to the states for ratification
        1821    Mexican Empire declares its independence
        1923    Lou Gehrig's 1st homer
        1937    1st Santa Claus school opens in Albion, NY
        1939    Warsaw, Poland surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance

        Birthdays:      
        1722    Samuel Adams (revolutionary rabble rouser)
        1895    George Raft (actor) NYC
        1919    Charles H. Percy (Sen-R-IL)
        1920    William Conrad (actor)
        1934    Wilford Brimley (actor) Salt Lake City, UT
        1941    Don Cornelius (TV show host - Soul Train)
        1947    Cheryl Tiegs (model)
        1947    Meatloaf (aka Marvin Lee Aday) (singer) Dallas, TX
        1958    Shaun Cassidy (actor/singer) LA


28th    
        1781    Siege of Yorktown begins - last battle of the Revolutionary War

        Birthdays:      
        1573    Caravaggio (painter) Italy
        1856    Kate Douglas Wiggins (author - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
        1902    Ed Sullivan (TV host/columnist)
        1905    Max Schmeling (world heavyweight boxing champ 1930-32) Germany
        1909    Al Capp (cartoonist - Lil Abner)
        1916    Peter Finch (actor)
        1924    Marcello Mastroianni (actor)
        1934    Brigitte Bardot (actress) Paris, France
        1938    Ben E King (singer - Stand By Me)
        1948    Phil Hartman (comedian)


29th    
        1789    1st Congress adjourns
        1789    US War Department establishes a regular army
        1829    Scotland Yard formed in London
        1953    Milton Berle Show premiers
        1982    Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kill 7 in Chicago

        Birthdays:      
        1758    Horation Nelson (naval hero Trafalgar)
        1901    Enrico Fermi (physicist Nobel Prize 1938)
        1907    Gene Autry (cowboy/singer/actor) Tioga, TX
        1908    Greer Garson (actress) Ireland
        1913    Stanley Kramer (producer/director)
        1916    Trevor Howard (actor) England
        1923    O.A. "Bum" Phillips (football coach)
        1929    Bob Newhart (actor/comedian) Oak Park, IL
        1935    Jerry Lee Lewis (singer)
        1943    Lech Walesa  (Poland)
        1948    Bryant Gumbel (sportscaster) New Orleans


30th    
        1452    1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
        1949    Berlin Airlift ends
        1955    actor James Dean killed in car accident
        1960    The Flintstones premiers
        1960    Howdy Doody's last show

        Birthdays:      
        1921    Deborah Kerr (actress) Scotland
        1924    Truman Capote (writer)
        1928    Elie Wiesel (author & Nazi hunter - Nobel Prize 1986)
        1931    Angie Dickinson (actress) 
        1935    Johnny Mathis (singer)
        1943    Marilyn McCoo (singer - 5th Dimension)
        1954    Barry Williams (actor - Brady Bunch)


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