Poor Gabriel's Almanac -- September 25
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Birthdays on this date:
In 1644 Olaus Roemer, first to attempt accurate measurement of the speed of
light
In 1657 Imre Thököly, Hungarian patriot, opposed Habsburg rule
In 1683 Jean Phillippe Rameau, French composer (baptized)
In 1725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed and built first automobile
In 1766 Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21)
In 1877 Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)
In 1897 William Faulkner, US author (Sound and the Fury) (Nobel 1949)
In 1903 Mark Rothko, painter
In 1905 Red Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist, reporter
In 1906 Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer
In 1918 Phil Rizzuto, NY Yankee (1941-56)
In 1926 Aldo Ray, actor (We're No Angels, The Green Berets, Pat and Mike)
In 1931 Barbara Walters (in Boston, MA), first Network news anchor woman
In 1937 Juliet Prowse (in Bombay, India), dancer, actor
In 1943 Robert Walden, actor (Blue Sunshine, Lou Grant)
In 1944 Michael Douglas, actor (Romancing the Stone), producer (Rainmaker)
In 1945 Cathy Burns, actor (One Life to Live, Red Sky at Morning)
In 1949 Mimi Kennedy (in Rochester, NY), actor (Dharma & Greg, 3 Girls 3)
+ Anson Williams, actor (Happy Days), director
In 1952 Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time)
+ Mark Hamill, actor (Star Wars)
In 1961 Heather Locklear, actor (Dynasty, T.J. Hooker)
In 1969 Catherine Zeta-Jones (Swansea, Wales), actor (Entrapment, Traffic)
Events worth noting:
In 1493 Columbus sailed on his second voyage to America.
In 1513 Vasco Nuñez de Balboa is the first European to see the Pacific
Ocean.
In 1639 First printing press in America.
In 1690 "Publick Occurrences", the first American newspaper, published first
and last edition in Boston.
In 1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured.
In 1789 Congress proposes the Bill of Rights.
In 1804 12th amendment to the US constitution, regulating judicial power.
In 1838 Scottish philosopher George Combe arrives in New York. "The first
impression of New York was not pleasing."
In 1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park.
+ Mormon pres Woodruff issued a Manifesto formally renouncing
polygamy.
In 1919 President Wilson became seriously ill and collapsed after a speech.
In 1926 Henry Ford announces the five day work week.
In 1929 Yankee manager Miller Huggins dies at 50.
In 1934 Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive game.
In 1956 First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation.
In 1957 9 children are escorted to school in Little Rock, AK as 300 US Army
troops stand guard.
In 1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1.
In 1973 Three-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59
days.
In 1978 Pacific SW Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide.
In 1980 John Bonham, Led Zeppelin drummer, dies after a drinking binge.
In 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as first female supreme court justice.
In 1982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children).
+ 28th Mersenne prime (2^86,243 - 1) is discovered.
And remember ...
National School Success Month
National Sewing Month
National Self-Awareness Month
National Preparedness Month
National Humor in Business Month
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