19XX Publisher's Birthday.
Other awful things that have happened on this date:
| 1777 | American soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga during the Revolutionary War. |
| 1934 | Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby. |
| 1955 | President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted after a revolt by the military. |
| 1957 | The United States conducted its first underground nuclear test, in the Nevada desert. |
| 1970 | "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" debuted on CBS. |
| 1982 | Emoticons 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. |
| 1985 | The Mexico City area was struck by the first of two devastating earthquakes that claimed some 6,000 lives. |
| 1994 | U.S. troops entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. |
| 1995 | The New York Times and The Washington Post published the Unabomber's manifesto. |
| 2001 | The Pentagon ordered combat aircraft to the Persian Gulf in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. |
| 2002 | President 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. |
| 2004 | Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post. |
| 2005 | Former 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. |
| 2005 | Al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahri said his terror network had carried out the July 7 London bombings that killed 52 people. |
| 2008 | Struggling 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. |
| 2008 | AMC's "Mad Men" became the first basic-cable show to win a top series Emmy award. |
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| Jimmy Fallon turns 36 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 AP Photo/Evan Agostini Talk show host-comedian Jimmy Fallon turns 36 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Historic Birthdays | |
| Sir William Golding | |
 9/19/1911 - 6/19/1993 English Nobel Prize-winning novelist (1983) (Go to obit.) | |
| 78 | Augustin Pajou 9/19/1730 - 5/8/1809 French sculptor and decorator |
| 95 | Charles Carroll 9/19/1737 - 11/14/1832 American patriot leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| 83 | George Cadbury 9/19/1839 - 10/24/1922 English social reformer and chocolate manufacturer |
| 73 | William Hesketh Lever 9/19/1851 - 5/7/1925 English entrepreneur; built the Lever Brothers firm |
| 79 | Charles Mauguin 9/19/1878 - 4/25/1958 French mineralogist and crystallographer |
| 73 | Bergen Evans 9/19/1904 - 2/4/1978 English lexicographer and educator |
| 77 | Leon Jaworski 9/19/1905 - 12/9/1982 American lawyer; Watergate special prosecutor |
| 90 | Lewis F. Powell Jr. 9/19/1907 - 8/25/1998 American associate justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (1972 -1987) |
| 64 | Elizabeth Stern 9/19/1915 - 8/18/1980 Canadian-born American pathologist |
4 comments:
RANDOLPH MANTOOTH! Get me the PortaPower!
Happy solar-orbit day.
19XX Publisher's Birthday.
I remember 19XX like it was yesterday!
:)
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Happy Day, sir. (Slightly more elaborate wishes are on display over at WOC)
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.
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