C18-L'S Kalendar, September 27-October 3 (Reasons to Celebrate)
Kevin Berland
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* THE KALENDAR - REASONS TO CELEBRATE *
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* Compiled for C18-L by Kevin Berland *
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SEPTEMBER 27
BIRTHDAYS: Louis XIII of France (1601-43); Jacques
Benigne Bossuet, French historian, orator, bishop (1627-
1704); Michel-Ange Slodtz, French sculptor (1705);
Samuel Adams, British North American reformer, helped
instigate Stamp Act Riots & Boston Tea Party, signed
Declaration of Independence, member of Continental
Congress & Governor of Massachusetts (1722-1803);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Sandor Kisfaludy, Hungarian
poet, Father of Hungarian Lyric Poetry (1772-1844);
Peter Joseph von Cornelius, German painter (1783-1867);
Agustin de Iturbide, Mexican soldier, emperor (1783-
1824); George Cruikshank, English artist, caricaturist,
illustrator (1792); Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German
chemist, in 1859 developed synthesis of acetylsalicylic
acid, aka aspirin (1818-84); Alfred Thayer Mahan, US
admiral, naval historian (1840-1914); Thomas Nast,
German-born US political satirist, cartoonist (1840-
1902); Louis Botha, South African soldier, PM (1862-
1919); Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist, 1926 Nobel
Laureate (1875-1936); Vincent Millie Youmans, US
composer, wrote Tea for Two (1898-1946); Louis Stanton
Auchinloss, US novelist (1917); Sir Martin Ryle, British
radio astronomer (1918); Arthur Penn, US stage & film
director (1922); Bud Powell, US jazz pianist, composer
(1924-66);
DEATHS: Marco Girolamo Vida (1566); St. Vincent de Paul
(1660); Pope Innocent XII (1700); Dr. Thomas Burnet
(1715); Admiral Rene Duguay-Trouin (1736); James
Brindley (1772)
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
MISCELLANEA: Ethiopia celebrates the Feast of the
Finding of the True Cross. It's the Feast of Sts. Cosmas
& Damian, Eleazar (and his wife the Blessed Delphina),
and Vincent de Paul, patron of all charitable
organizations.
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SEPTEMBER 28
BIRTHDAYS: Confucius, Chinese philosopher; Caravaggio,
Italian painter (1573-1610); Michel Anguier, French
sculptor (1612); Sir William Jones, English scholar of
oriental languages & culture (1746);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Prosper Merimee, French
writer, translator, senator (1803-70); Frances Willard,
US social reformer, 1st oresident of World Women's
Temperance Movement (1839-98); Georges Clemenceau, le
Tigre, French statesman, premier (1841-1929); Henri
Moissan, French chemist, inventor (1852-1907); Kate
Douglas Wiggin, US educator, founder of 1st free
kindergartren in US, author of best-selling children's
book Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1856-1923); Frederick
William MacMonnies, US sculptor (1863); Avery Brundage,
US sportsman, Olympics official (1887-1975); Herman
Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, British novelist,
author of the Bulldog Drummond books (1888-1937); Elmer
Rice, US playwright (1892-1967); Marshall Field III, US
publisher & philantropist (1893-1956); Wallace Kirkman
Harrison, US architect, designer of Rockefeller Center,
UN Headquarters, Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln
Center (1895-1981); Ed Sullivam, US journalist, TV
variety host (1902-74); Max Schmeling, German boxer
(1905); Al Capp, US cartoonist, deviser of Li'l' Abner,
set in Dogpatch (1909-79); Stephen Spender, English poet
(1909); Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of espionage and
executed (1915-53); Michael Somes, British ballet
dancer, director (1917); Marcello Mastroianni, Italian
actor (1924); Brigitte Bardot, French actress (1934)
DEATHS: Jean Baptiste Massillon (1742); Thomas Day (1789);
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1708, English forces under
James Stanhope took Minorca; in 1810, Madame de Stael
wrote to Napoleon protesting the suppression of her book
D'Allemagne;
MISCELLANEA: Taiwan celebrates the Birthday of Confucius
today. It is also the Feast of Sts. Annemund,
Eustochium, Exuperius of Toulouse, Faustus (Bishop of
Riez), Lioba (aka Liobgetha), Machan, and Wenceslas of
Bohemia (patron of Czechoslovakia). On this day in 1958,
the Fifth Republic was established in France;
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SEPTEMBER 29 -- Michaelmas Day
BIRTHDAYS: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish
novelist, poet, dramatist, author of Don Quixote (1547-
1616); Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor, creator of
Versailles sculptural decorations, portrait busts of
Louis XIV, Richelieu, Mazarin, Cone, &c. (1640-1720);
Francois Boucher, French historical & pastoral painter,
tapestry & porcelain designer, favorite of Mme. Pompadour
(1703-70); Robert Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey, English
soldier, colonial administrator, corrupt governor of
India, committed suicide after return in disgrace to
England (1725-74); Viscount Horatio Nelson, British
naval hero (1758-1805);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Henry Hobson Richardson, US
neo-Romanesque architect, designer of Boston's Trinity
Church & Harvard Law School (1838-86); Elizabeth
Cleghorn Gaskell, English novelist (1865); Gerardo
Machado y Morales, Cuban patriot, president (1871-1939);
Emma Wold, US lawyer, reformer, women's rights activist
(1871-1950); Herbert Sebastian Agar, US journalist
(1897-1980); Enrico Fermi, Italian-born physicist (1901-
54); Orvon Gene Autry, US singing cowboy actor,
businessman (1907); Virginia Bruce, US film actress of
the 30s (1910); Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film-
maker (1912); Stanley Kramer, US film director (1913);
Trevor Howard, British actor (1916); Samora Machel,
Mozambique statesman, president (1933); Jerry Lee Lewis,
US rockabilly & later country singer, pianist (1935);
Lech Walesa, Polish labor leader, founder of Solidarity
(1943); Sebastian Coe, English long-distance runner
(1956)
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1613, the New River's
entrance into London (a great feat of civil engineering)
under the direction of Sir Hugh Myddelton was marked by
pageants; in 1770, English Methodist George Whitefield
preached before a large outdoor gathering in Exeter, New
Hampshire, saying "How willingly would I live forever to
preach Christ, but I die to be with him" -- and the next
morning he was dead; in 1829 Robert Peel reorganized the
London police force, henceforth known as Bobbies (and
sometimes Peelers).
MISCELLANEA: In Brunei they're celebrating Constitution
Day (1959); Paraguay celebrates Battle of Boqueron Day.
Today is the Feast of Sts. Gaiana, Michael and All
Angels, Rhipsime and Theodata. Michaelmas is one of the
four traditional English quarter-days on which rents are
paid. On this day in 1902, Scottish poet William
McGonagall, author of "the worst poetry ever written, in
any language, at any time," died in Edinburgh.; 71 years
later to the day, in 1973, W.H. Auden died in Vienna.
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SEPTEMBER 30
BIRTHDAYS: Euripedes (480 BCE); Cneius Pompeius Magnus
(105 BCE); Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, French
philosopher of sensationalism (1714-80); Jacques Necker,
Swiss-born French financier, statesman, father of Madame
de Stael (1732-1804); William Hutton, English local
historian (1723-1815);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Fitzroy James Henry
Somerset Raglan, 1st Baron Raglan, British military
leader -- the "raglan" sleeve was named after the potato
sacks his men had to wear during the Crimean war (1788-
1855); William Wrigley, Jr., US manufacturer of chewing
gum, whose white & gold headquarters building stands
across the street from the Chicago Tribune towers, and
which my Uncle Will used to say had to come down because
"It's gumming up the river" -- he thought it was the
funniest joke he'd ever heard, and I miss him (1861-
1932); Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist (1870-
1942); Johannes (or Hans) Wilhelm Geiger, German
physicist, inventor of the eponymous machine for counting
radioactivity (1882-1945); Sir Nevill Francis Mott,
British solid state circuitry physicist (1905); Lester
Maddox, US segregationist politician, governor of Georgia
(1915); Park Chung Hee, South Korean statesman,
president (1917-79); Truman Capote, US novelist (1924-
84); Johnny Mathis, US singer (1935);
DEATHS: Sir Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1628); John
Reinhold Patkul (1707); John Dolland (1761); George
Whitefield (1770); Bishop Thomas Percy (1811);
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
MISCELLANEA: Today is Botswana Day, celebrating the 1966
independence of the former Bechuanaland; it's also
Nationalization Day in Sao Tome & Principe. Today is the
Feast of Sts. Gregory the Enlightener (aka the
Illuminator), Honorius of Canterbury, Jerome (patron of
students), Simon of Crepy, Tancred, Torthred, and Tova.
On this day in 1935 George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
premiered in Boston; in 1962 black student James Meredith
was escorted by US marshals onto the formerly whites-only
campus of the University of Mississippi
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OCTOBER 1
BIRTHDAYS: Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect
(1507); Claes Berchem, Dutch painter (1620); Charles
VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1685-1840); John Peter Gabriel
Muhlenberg, clergyman, American Revolutionary general of
light infantry, member of 1st US Congress (1746-1807);
Paul 1, Tsar of Russia 1796-1801 (1754-1801); James
Lawrence, US naval officer, commander of the Chesapeake,
defeated by the British navy near Boston in 1813, still
exclaiming "Don't give up the ship!" (1781-1813);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Rufus Choate, US lawyer,
statesman (1799-1859); Annie Besant, English reformer,
theosophist, political leader in India (1847-1933);
Louis Untermeyer, US poet & editor (1885-1977); Faith
Baldwin, US novelist (1893-1978); Vladimir Horowitz,
Russian-born US virtuouso pianist (1904); Otto Robert
Frisch. Austrian-born English nuclear physicist (1904);
Bonnie Parker, US bank-robber, partner to Clyde Barrow
L1910-34); Daniel J. Boorstin, US historian, poet,
Librarian of Congress 1975-92 (1914); Walter Matthau,
corrugated-faced US actor (1920); James Whitmore, US
actor (1921); James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, US politician,
39th president, Habitat for Humanity builder (1924);
William Rehnquist, US jurist (1924); Laruska Mischa
Skikne, better known as Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born
English actor (1928-73); Richard St. John Harris,
English actor, singer of that strange J. Webb song,
"MacArthur Park" (1930); Julia Elizabeth Wells, better
known as Julie Andrews, English actress & singer (1935);
Edward Villella, US ballet dancer (1936); Larry Poons,
US painter; Randy Quaid, US actor (1950);
DEATHS: Pierre Corneille (1684);
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
MISCELLANEA: Today is National Day in the People's
Republic of China; Korea celebrates Armed Forces Day;
it's Nigeria's National Holiday; San Marino celebrates
Captain Regent's Day; the US observes Agricultural Fair
Day (commemorating the 1st such fair at Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, in 1810). Today is also the Feast of Sts.
Bavo (patron of Ghent & Haarlem), Fidharleus of Ireland,
Francis of Pesaro (aka Cecco), Melorus, Piat of Tournay,
Remigius. Romanus the Melodist, Theresa of Lisieux
(patron of all foreign missions), and Wasnulf (patron of
Conde). On this day in 1897, Shaw's The Devil's Disciple
was 1st performed, in Albany, New York; in 1908, the 1st
Model T Ford went on sale for $850.
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OCTOBER 2
BIRTHDAYS: King Richard III of England (1452-85);
Cardinal Carlo Borromeo (1538); the Chevalier d'Eon,
French diplomat, transvestite, and gambler (1728-1810);
Joseph Ritson, English antiquary (1752); Alexis Petit,
French thermodynamic physicist, developer of methods for
determining atomic weights (1791-1820);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Nat Turner, African-
American slave, rebel (1800-31); Charles Pratt, US oil
magnate, philanthropist (1830-91); Paul von Hindenberg,
German soldier, statesman (1847-1934); Ferdinand Foch,
French soldier, allied marshal (1851-1929); Sir William
Ramsay, Scottish chemist, discoverer of helium, krypton,
and xenon (1852-1916); Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma"
Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader, developer of
nonviolent resistance or satyagraha (1869-1948); Cordell
Hull, US statesman & diplomat, 1945 Nobel Peace Prize
(1871-1955); Carl Trumbull Hayden, US politician (1877-
1972); Wallace Stevens, US poet, insurance man (1879-
1955); Ruth Bryan Rohde, US politician, diplomat (1885-
1954); Julius "Groucho" Marx, US comedian, philosopher:
"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a
lot" (1890-1977); William "Bud" Abbott, US comedian,
partner to Lou Costello (1895-1974); Ignatius Roy
Dunnachie Campbell, South African Poet (1901-57); Graham
Greene, English novelist (1904); Willy Ley, German-born
US rocket scientist (1906-69); Alexander Robertus Todd,
Baron Todd of Trumoington, Scottish biochemist (1907);
Christian Rene de Duve, Belgian physiologist (1917);
Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (1921); James
"Jan" Morris, Welsh author (1926); David W. McCullough,
US writer (1937); Sting, English rock singer, songwriter
(1951);
DEATHS: Major John Andre (1780); Admiral Augustus
Keppell (1786);
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1700, Charles II of Spain's
will left Spain to the Bourbons, more particularly to
Philip, duc d'Anjou, Louis XIV's grandson; in 1771,
Henry Frederic, Duke of Cumberland, married the Hon. Mrs.
Horton, a marriage not much favoured by his brother King
George III; in 1780, Washington's army executed English
adjutant Major Andre in lieu of Benedict Arnold;
MISCELLANEA: Today is the People's Republic of China's
National Day; Guinea celebrates Independence Day (1958);
India celebrates Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. Today is the
Feast of the Guardian Angels, and of Sts. Eleutherius and
Leodegarius (aka Leger), and Thomas of Hereford.
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OCTOBER 3
BIRTHDAYS: Sir Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English
poet, statesman, chancellor (1554-1628); Richard Boyle,
Earl of Corke (1566); Electress Sophia of Hanover
(1712); Giovannia Battista Beccaria, Italian natural
philosopher (1716);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Ithiel Town, US architect,
bibliophile, designer of New York's Wall Street Customs
House & the Indiana and North Carolina statehouses (1784-
1844); George Bancroft, US diplomat, historian (1800-
91); George Ripley, US journalist, social reformer,
founder of the transcendentalist journal The Dial,
Harper's Magazine, and the utiopian community Brook Farm
(1802-80); Townsend Harris, US diplomat (1804-78);
Alexey Vasilyevich Koltsov, Russian poet (1809-42); Sir
Patrick Manson, English physician, Father of Tropical
Medicine (1844-1922); Percy Faraday Frankland, English
chemist (1858-1946); Eleonora Duse, Italian actress
(1859-1924); Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist,
anti-fascist, 1935 Nobel Peace Prize (1888-1938);
Gertrude Edelstein, aka Gertrude Berg, US comic actress &
writer, "Molly Goldberg" of radio & tv's The Goldbergs
(1889=1966); Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin, Russian
imagist poet, husband to Isadora Duncan (1895-1925);
Louis Aragon, French poet, novelist, Dadaist, Surrealist
(1897); Leo McCarey, US film-maker (1898-1969); Thomas
Wolfe, US novelist (1900-38); Johnny Burke, US
songwriter (Moonlight Becomes You; Pennies from Heaven)
(1908-64); Gore Vidal, US novelist, critic (1925); Erik
Bruhn, aka Belton Evers, Danish ballet dancer, artistic
director of the National Ballet of Canada (1928)l Kare
Isaachsen Willock, Norwegian statesman, PM (1928); Eddie
Cochrane, rock star (1938); Ernest Evans, better known
as Chubby Checker, African-American rock singer,
popularizer of gyrating dance of the 60s, the Twist
(1941);
DEATHS: Robert Barclay (1690);
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1691, the Treaty of Limerick
was signed, bringing to an end the Irish resistance to
the new government of William III; in 1777, English
troops defeated the Continental Army of George Washington
at Germantown;
MISCELLANEA: On October 3, Honduras celebrates Francisco
Morazan's birthday; Korea celebrates National Foundation
Day (2333 BCE). It's also the Feast of the two Saint
Ewalds (patrons of Westphalia), and of Sts. Attilanys of
Zamora, Froilan of Leon, Gerard of Brogne, Heyschius, and
Thomas Cantelupe. On this day in 1929, the Kingdom of
the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes adopted the name "Yugoslavia."
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