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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of September 01:

1791 Lydia Sigourney US, religious author (How to Be Happy)
1849 Elizabeth Harrison US, educator (Natl Congress of Parents & Teachers)
1854 Engelbert Humperdinck Germany, opera composer (Parsifal)
1864 Sir Roger David Casement Ireland, martyr (IRA)
1866 James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97)
1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs novelist (Tarzan, Mars Saga)
19-- Arnaldo Santana El Paso Tx, actor (Hector-AKA Pablo)
19-- Mari Gorman NYC, actress (Vivian-Harper Valley PTA)
19-- Marisela Verena Cuba, spanish singer
1900 Richard Arlen actor (Alice in Wonderland)
1904 Ray Flaherty AFL/NFL/AAFC coach (NY Giants)
1907 Walter Reuther labor leader/president of UAW & CIO
1910 Jack Hawkins London England, actor (Ben-Four Just Men)
1922 Melvin R Laird (Rep-R-Mich), US Secretary of Defense (1969-73)
1922 Vittorio Gassman actor (War & Peace)
1922 Yvonne De Carlo Vancouver BC, actress (10 Commandments, Munsters)
1923 Rocky Marciano heavyweight champion boxer (1952-56)
1933 Ann Richards (Gov-Tx)
1933 Conway Twitty [Harold Jenkins], Miss, country singer (Hello Darlin')
1935 Seiji Ozawa Hoten Manchuria, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
1937 Al Geiberger golfer (US PGA lowest score on 18 holes, a 59)
1937 Ron O'Neal Utica NY, actor (Superfly)
1938 George Maharis Astoria NY, actor (Buz-Route 66, Most Deadly Game)
1939 Heinrich Messner Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1939 Lily Tomlin Detroit, comedienne/actress (9 to 5, Laugh-in, All of Me)
1944 Leonard Slatkin LA Calif, conductor (Concert Orch, Neth)
1946 Barry Gibb singer (BeeGees-Stayin' Alive)
1946 Erich Sch„rer Switzerland, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1980)
1957 Gloria Estefan Cuba, singer (Miami Sound Machine-Conga, 1-2-3)


Deaths which occurred on September 01:

1159 Adrian IV only English pope (1154-59), dies (birth date unknown)
1557 Jacques Cartier French explorer, dies (birth date unknown)
1648 Marin Mersenne French mathematician, dies at 59
1715 Louis XIV the great, king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76
1838 William Clark 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 68
1862 Oliver Tilden of the Bronx, killed in the Civil War in Virginia
1914 Martha last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo
1955 Philip Loeb actor (Jake-The Goldbergs), dies at 61
1967 James Dunn actor (Uncle Earl-It's a Great Life), dies at 65
1969 Drew Pearson newscaster (Drew Pearson), dies at 71
1977 Ethel Waters actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather), dies at 76
1983 Henry "Scoop" Jackson (Sen-D-Wash), dies at 71
1984 Howland Chamberlain actor, dies at 73
1986 Murray Hamilton actor (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 63
1988 Leonor Sullivan (Rep-D-Missouri, 1955-77), dies at 86
1989 A Bartlett Giamatti baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

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 1966    NICHOLS          HUBERT C.         PENSACOLA             FL       
1966 SCHMIDT NORMAN BEN LOMOND CA 03/06/74 REMAINS RETURNED
1967 JOHNSON ROBERT D. DALLAS TX
1967 OTT EDWARD L. III ROCKVILLE CT
1968 KINKADE WILLIAM L. CORVALLIS OR
1969 ESCOBEDO JULIAN JR. SAN ANTONIO TX

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On this day...

69 Traditional date of the destruction of Jerusalem
312 -BC- Origin of Greek Era-Start of Indiction of Constantinople
891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
1267 Ramban (Nachmanides) arrives in Jerusalem to establish Jew community
1614 Vincent Fettmich expells Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
1661 1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James
1666 Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed
1739 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal
1772 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California
1799 Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
1836 Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem
1849 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
1858 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month
1859 1st pullman sleeping car in service
1859 RC Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare
1862 Severe action at Chantilly, Virginia
1863 RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated
1865 Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery
1870 Napoleon III captured at Sedan
1874 Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
1878 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
1890 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh
1905 Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
1906 Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time
1906 Joseph Harris (Boston) & Jack Coombs (A's) pitch complete 24 inn game
1906 Papua placed under Australian administration
1911 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
1914 St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd
1916 Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1918 Baseball season ends due to WW I
1918 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920
1922 NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billards"
1923 Earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 106,000
1923 US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup
1928 Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king
1932 NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)
1939 Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes"
1939 WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig
1941 Yellow star becomes obligatory for Jews in the Reich to wear
1945 Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan)
1945 Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season
1946 Batty Berg wins the US Open
1947 NY Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936
1948 Communist form North China People's Republic
1948 UN's World Health Organization forms
1949 1st network detective series-Private Eyes-premiers
1950 West Berlin granted a constitution
1951 US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty
1952 Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney
1956 Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory
1957 Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400
1958 St Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout
1961 USSR tests nuclear bombs in central Asia
1962 10,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran
1962 UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion
1963 St Louis Cards pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate
1967 SF Giants beat Cincinatti Reds, 1-0, in 21 innings
1968 Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlandsd) begins transmitting
1969 Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris
1971 Qatar declares independence from Britain
1972 Bobby Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title
1973 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
1973 George Foreman KOs Jose Roman in the 1st to retain heavyweight title
1975 Gunsmoke goes off the air
1975 KOL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KMPS
1975 NY Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons
1975 NYC transit fare rises from 35 to 50
1976 NASA launches space vehicle S-197
1976 NJ Meadowlands racetrack opens
1976 Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray)
1977 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
1978 Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia
1979 Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
1979 LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
1979 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
1981 Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH)
1982 Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH
1982 Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon
1983 Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet
1983 WGH-AM in Newport News VA changes call letters to WNSY
1985 US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album
1989 Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their seperation
5492 -BC- Origin of Ecclesiastical Era of Antioch
5508 -BC- Origin of Civil Era of Constantinople
5598 -BC- Origin of Grecian Mundane Era





Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Brunei : Revelation of the Koran
Lybia, Egypt : Revolution Day (1969)
Malaysia : National Day
Mexico : Presidental Message Day/Opening of congress
Michigan : Mackinac Bridge Walk Day
Pakistan : Quaid-i-Azam's Death
Puerto Rico : Labor Day (1894)
Syria : United Republic's Unity Day
Tanzania : Heroes' Day
Namibia, South Africa : Settlers' Day - - - - - ( Monday )
US, Canada, Guam, Virgin Islands : Labor Day (1894) - - - - - ( Monday )

Religious Observances

Ang : Commemoration of David Pendleton Oakerhater
Christian : Feast of Adjutor Day
Orthodox church : Beginning of year (9/14 NS)
Christian : Feast of St Drithelm of Northumbria
RC : Commemoration of St Giles, abbot

Religious History

1558 Dutch Anabaptist reformer Menno Simons, 62, confessed in a letter: 'There is nothing upon earth my heart loves more than it does the church.'
1646 The Cambridge Synod of Congregational Churches convened in Mass. It formulated the 'Cambridge Platform,' outlining the proper polity (religious government) to be followed by the New England Congregational churches.
1803 In Boston, the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) was instituted. It was the first tract society established in North America.
1836 A wagon train of Presbyterian missionaries, led by pioneer missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman, reached the site of modern Walla Walla, WA. Whitman's wife Narcissa became the first white woman to cross the North American continent.
1985 The HQ of Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry moved to its present location in Bellmawr, NJ. Founded in 1938 by Victor Buksbazen, F.I.G.M. works through evangelism and Bible distribution.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

Thought for the day :

" Mistakes are oft the stepping stones to failure. "

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