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Monday, November 08, 2004

 
BEST THING EVER: Affiliations: Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare (Tolkien branch) (taken from )

Also it has just been brought to my attention that Sept. 19th is a very significant day for more reasons than two. My curiosity prompts me to ask Google...

September 19th: Events

* 1356 - In Battle of Poitiers English defeat French
* 1692 - Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
* 1777 - First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of Bemis Heights
* 1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States
* 1796 - George Washington's Farewell Address
* 1862 - Battle of Iuka, Mississippi - Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price
* 1863 - Battle of Chickamauga
* 1893 - Women's suffrage: In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
* 1900 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together
* 1934 - Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Junior.
* 1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union signed. (End of the Continuation War)
* 1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London
* 1952 - The US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England
* 1955 - Juan Peron is deposed in Argentina
* 1957 - First American underground nuclear bomb test
* 1959 - Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland
* 1972 – Parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
* 1973 - King Carl XVI Gustaf accedes to the throne of Sweden
* 1976 - A Turkish Boeing 727 hits a mountain in southern Turkey killing 155
* 1978 - newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing burglars at a farm
* 1982 - Scott Falman posts the first recorded instance of the emoticon :-) to an online bulletin board
* 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains independence
* 1989 - A terrorist bomb explodes a Union de Transportes Aùriens DC-10 Series 30 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger killing 171
* 1995 - The Washington Post publishes the Unabomber's manifesto

Births

* 86 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (d. 161)
* 1737 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Declaration of Independence Signer, US Senator (d. 1832)
* 1759 - William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
* 1828 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)
* 1901 - Joe Pasternak, film producer (d. 1991)
* 1904 - Doctor Bergen Evans, television host (d. 1978)
* 1905 - Leon Jaworski, Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)
* 1908 - Mika Waltari, novelist (d. 1979)
* 1909 - Ferry Porsche, automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
* 1910 - Jesse Lasky Jr., screenwriter (d. 1988)
* 1911 - Sir William Golding, novelist (d. 1993)
* 1912 - Kurt Sanderling, conductor
* 1913 - Frances Farmer, actress (d. 1970)
* 1919 - Mary Midgley, philosopher
* 1920 - Roger Angell, sports writer
* 1922 - Damon Knight, science fiction writer (d. 2002)
* 1922 - Emil Zátopek, athlete (d. 2000)
* 1922 - Dana Zátopková, athlete
* 1926 - Edwin Donald Duke Snider, Baseball Hall of Famer
* 1928 - Adam West, actor
* 1928 - William Hickey, actor (d. 1997)
* 1930 - Antonio Margheriti, film maker
* 1931 - Brook Benton, singer (d. 1988)
* 1931 - Lillian Kuzniakowski, dancer-Royal Winnipeg Ballet
* 1932 - Mike Royko, columnist (d. 1997)
* 1933 - David McCallum, actor
* 1934 - Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles (d. 1967)
* 1935 - Benjamin T. Hacker RAdm. USN, Naval Aviator (d. 2003)
* 1936 - Al Oerter, Olympic Games gold medalist in track and field
* 1940 - Bill Medley, singer
* 1940 - Paul Williams, composer
* 1941 - Mama Cass Elliott, musician (d. 1974)
* 1942 - Freda Payne, singer, actress
* 1943 - Joe Morgan, Baseball Hall of Famer
* 1945 - Randolph Mantooth, actor
* 1947 - Steve Bartlett - former U.S. Congressman and Mayor of Dallas, Texas
* 1948 - Jeremy Irons, actor
* 1949 - Twiggy Lawson, fashion model
* 1950 - Joan Lunden, journalist, television host
* 1952 - Nile Rodgers, musician, composer
* 1956 - Rex Smith, actor
* 1958 - Kevin Hooks, actor, director
* 1958 - Lita Ford, singer
* 1958 - Azumah Nelson, Ghanian royal and world boxing champion
* 1963 - David Seaman, English soccer goalkeeper
* 1964 - Trisha Yearwood, country music singer
* 1974 - Jimmy Fallon, actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
* 1974 – Victoria Silvstedt, Playboy Playmate

Deaths

* 1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
* 1881 - James Garfield, 20th President of the United States
* 1927 - Isadora Duncan, considered mother of modern dance
* 1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, rocket scientist, physicist
* 1968 - Red Foley, country music singer
* 1968 - Chester Carlson, inventor of xerography
* 1969 - Rex Ingram, actor
* 1972 - Robert Casadesus, pianist
* 1973 - Gram Parsons, country music/rock musician
* 1985 - Italo Calvino, writer
* 1990 - Hermes Pan, dancer, choreographer
* 1997 - Rich Mullins, singer

Holidays

* In ancient Greece, the sixth day of the Eleusinian mysteries, when the procession to Eleusis began at the Kerameikos in Athens.
* Saint Kitts and Nevis - National Day
* Chile - Day of the Glories of the Army
* International Talk Like a Pirate Day

From here

ALSO: Katana's bithday
Hemione's Birthday