Sunday, September 19, 2010

History Shows Again & Again

1881      The President Dead.
19XX     Publisher's Birthday.
Other awful things that have happened on this date:
1777American soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga during the Revolutionary War.
1934Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby.
1955President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the military.
1957The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test, in the Nevada desert.
1970"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" debuted on CBS.
1982Emoticons were born when Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman proposed punctuating humorous or sarcastic computer messages with a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis – :–) – to depict a horizontal smiley face.
1985The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed some 6,000 lives.
1994U.S. troops entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1995The New York Times and The Washington Post published the Unabomber's manifesto.
2001The Pentagon ordered combat aircraft to the Persian Gulf in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2002President George W. Bush asked Congress for authority to use military force if necessary to disarm and overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he did not quickly meet United Nations demands to abandon weapons of mass destruction.
2004Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post.
2005Former Tyco CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski and former finance chief Mark Swartz were each sentenced to up to 25 years in prison for looting the company of hundreds of millions of dollars.
2005Al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahri said his terror network had carried out the July 7 London bombings that killed 52 people.
2008Struggling to stave off financial catastrophe, the Bush administration asked Congress for $700 billion to buy up troubled mortgage-related assets from U.S. financial institutions.
2008AMC's "Mad Men" became the first basic-cable show to win a top series Emmy award.

Current Birthdays
Jimmy Fallon turns 36 years old today.

AP Photo/Evan Agostini Talk show host-comedian Jimmy Fallon turns 36 years old today.

90Roger Angell
Author
84James Lipton
TV host ("Inside the Actor's Studio")
84Duke Snider
Baseball Hall of Famer
83Harold Brown
Former defense secretary
83Rosemary Harris
Actress
80Adam West
Actor ("Batman")
70Bill Medley
Singer (The Righteous Brothers)
70Paul Williams
Singer, actor
67Joe Morgan
Baseball Hall of Famer, sportscaster
65David Bromberg
Rock singer
65Randolph Mantooth
Actor ("Emergency")
62Jeremy Irons
Actor
61Twiggy Lawson
Actress, model
60Joan Lunden
TV personality
59Daniel Lanois
Rock singer, producer
46Trisha Yearwood
Country singer
45Cheri Oteri
Actress, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
23Danielle Panabaker
Actress

Historic Birthdays
Sir William Golding

9/19/1911 - 6/19/1993
English Nobel Prize-winning novelist (1983)
(Go to obit.)

78Augustin Pajou
9/19/1730 - 5/8/1809
French sculptor and decorator
95Charles Carroll
9/19/1737 - 11/14/1832
American patriot leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence
83George Cadbury
9/19/1839 - 10/24/1922
English social reformer and chocolate manufacturer
73William Hesketh Lever
9/19/1851 - 5/7/1925
English entrepreneur; built the Lever Brothers firm
79Charles Mauguin
9/19/1878 - 4/25/1958
French mineralogist and crystallographer
73Bergen Evans
9/19/1904 - 2/4/1978
English lexicographer and educator
77Leon Jaworski
9/19/1905 - 12/9/1982
American lawyer; Watergate special prosecutor
90Lewis F. Powell Jr.
9/19/1907 - 8/25/1998
American associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1972 -1987)
64Elizabeth Stern
9/19/1915 - 8/18/1980
Canadian-born American pathologist

4 comments:

N__B said...

RANDOLPH MANTOOTH! Get me the PortaPower!

Happy solar-orbit day.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

19XX Publisher's Birthday.

I remember 19XX like it was yesterday!

:)
~

Scott C. said...

Happy Day, sir. (Slightly more elaborate wishes are on display over at WOC)

M. Bouffant said...

It Was Yesterday!! Editor Responds:

Gee, thanks all. Don't feel like such a sad blegger now.

And we're still revolving around the sun.