On Sept. 28, 1909, satirical cartoonist Al Capp, the creator of "Li'l Abner," was born in New Haven, Conn.
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In 490 B. C. E., the Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon. A Greek soldier named Phidippides ran more than 26 miles to tell Athenians of the victory and died after his announcement. His feat provided the model for the modern marathon race.
In 1066, William the Conqueror invaded England to claim the English throne.
In 1542, Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrived at present-day San Diego.
In 1781, American forces, backed by a French fleet, began their successful siege of Yorktown, Va.
In 1787, the Congress of the Confederation voted to send the just-completed Constitution of the United States to state legislatures for their approval.
In 1850, flogging was abolished as a form of punishment in the U.S. Navy.
In 1892, Mansfield University was the home team for the first night football game at Smythe Park in Mansfield, Pa.
In 1920, in baseball's biggest scandal, a grand jury indicted eight Chicago White Sox players for throwing the 1919 World Series with the Cincinnati Reds.
In 1924, two U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle, having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days.
In 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a treaty calling for the partitioning of Poland, which the two countries had invaded.
In 1967, Walter E. Washington was sworn in as the first mayor-commissioner of the District of Columbia. (He'd been appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.)
In 1972, Japan and Communist China agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.
In 1974, first lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland, following discovery of a cancerous lump in her breast.
In 1982, the first reports appeared of deaths in the Chicago area from Extra-strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. Seven people died and the unsolved case resulted in tamper-proof packaging for consumer products.
In 1987, a federal appeals court declared Boston public schools officially desegregated after a 13-year effort.
In 1989, deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos died in exile in Hawaii at age 72.
In 1992, a Pakistan jetliner carrying 167 people, including three Americans, crashed into a hill southeast of Kathmandu, Nepal, killing all aboard. It was Nepal's worst air disaster.
In 1993, U.S. first lady Hillary Clinton was the administration's lead witness in congressional hearings on the proposed national healthcare program. As the power struggle in Russia intensified, the Interior Ministry sealed off the parliament building. Opponents to President Boris Yeltsin were holed up inside.
In 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents.
In 2000, capping a 12-year battle, the government approved use of the abortion pill RU-486. Ariel Sharon, leader of Israel's hard-line opposition, sparked new Israeli-Palestinian clashes by touring the Temple Mount. Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau died at age 80.
In 2001, the U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution to require all members to put a stop to financing and training of terrorists within their borders.
Five years ago: The price of oil topped $50 a barrel for the first time in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. An earthquake measuring magnitude 6.0 rocked central California. Kidnappers in Iraq released two female Italian aid workers, Simona Torretta and Simona Pari, and five other hostages. Award-winning fashion designer Geoffrey Beene died in New York at age 77.
In 2005, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws. (The charge was later thrown out. Delay is awaiting trial on money laundering and conspiracy charges.) The U.S. Treasury unveiled the new $10 bill, which features splashes of red, yellow and orange.
In 2006, in a move boosting support for the Afghan government, NATO voted to dramatically expand operations in Afghanistan.
In 2007, the U.S. Senate joined the House of Representatives in defying a veto threat from President George Bush to approve an expansion of the child health insurance program. The bill would spend about $35 billion to expand health insurance to more than 4 million children.
One year ago: President George W. Bush urged Congress to pass a $700 billion rescue plan for beleaguered financial companies, saying in a written statement, "Without this rescue plan, the costs to the American economy could be disastrous." [That's the AP. The Reverend Moon's UPI says: "U.S. congressional negotiators and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson agreed on a $700 billion banking industry bailout plan. It gave the Treasury unprecedented authority, including the ability to buy a range of troubled financial assets." — Ed.] Chinese astronauts aboard the Shenzhou 7 returned to Earth after completing their country's first-ever spacewalk mission. Austrian 16-year-olds voted for the first time in parliamentary elections under a law adopted in 2007.
Today's Birthdays: Actor William Windom is 86. Actor Arnold Stang is 84. Actress Brigitte Bardot is 75.
Today In Entertainment History September 28
In 1958, Dore Records released "To Know Him Is To Love Him" by The Teddy Bears.
In 1968, Janis Joplin's manager announced Joplin would leave Big Brother and the Holding Company in November after fulfilling current obligations. Joplin said she and the band "weren't growing together anymore."
In 1975, 40,000 people got to see Jefferson Starship and Jerry Garcia and Friends perform for free in San Francisco. "Jerry Garcia and Friends" ended up being the Grateful Dead, who had not performed together in more than a year.
In 1988, singer John Denver offered the Soviet Union $10 million to put him on a Soyuz spacecraft.
In 1991, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis died of pneumonia, respiratory failure and a stroke. He was 65. Garth Brooks became the first country artist to have an album debut at No. 1 on the album charts, with "Ropin' The Wind."
In 1995, Bobby Brown was caught in gunfire outside a Boston bar. Brown was unhurt, but his brother-in-law-to-be was killed.
In 2003, legendary Broadway and film director Elia Kazan died at his home in New York at the age of 94.
Thought for Today: "The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else, was to be indifferent to that difference." - Al Capp, American cartoonist (1909-1979). [To offset hideo-fascist Capp, here's Gertie Stein. — Ed.] A thought for the day: U.S. writer Gertrude Stein said, "... the creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic."
2 comments:
It's almost tomorrow already, Mister Snoozalotz.
Heck I was already worried you'd been eaten by fire ants or kidnapped by the NWO's black helicopters.
Wouldn't hurt to write once in a while, OK?
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Sheesh, can't a guy work on his novel (if you know what we mean) or atone for his sins ... well, rootless & cosmopolitan as we are, we aren't of even a culturally Hebrew heritage (Indeed, we were out sinning Hebrew-stylee, eating shellfish.) & don't recognize such bourgeois concepts as "sin" anyway, so no one will believe that ...
Damn, if only we had been sleeping.
But not to worry. THEY'LL NEVER GET US ALIVE!!
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