Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of September 14:
1849 Ivan Pavlov Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology
1864 Lord Cecil of Chelwood UK, help form League of Nations (Nobel 1937)
1867 Charles Dana Gibson illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl"
1879 Margaret Sanger feminist/nurse/birth control proponent
1886 Jan Garrique Masaryk Czech, statesman/minister to London (1918-35)
1887 Karl Taylor Compton physicist/atomic bomb scientist
1887 Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel HW boxing champ (1908-10)
1899 Hal Wallis movie producer (Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park)
19-- Barbara Sharma Dallas Tx, actress (Laugh-in, Rhoda, Glitter)
1904 Richard Mohaupt Breslau Germany, composer (Bucolica)
1907 A Cecil Snyder Chief Justice of Puerto Rico
1907 Cecil Brown news correspondent (CBS)
1908 Bernie Green NYC, orch leader (Arthur Godfrey Show, Garry Moore Show)
1908 Clayton Moore Chicago Ill, actor (Lone Ranger)
1910 Lehman Engel Jackson Miss, conductor/comp (Streetcar Named Desire)
1910 Rolf Liebermann Zrich Switzerland, composer (Leonore)
1913 Jacobo Arbenz president of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA
1914 Kay Medford NYC, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love)
1916 Eric Bentley England, critic/writer (In Search of Theater)
1918 Jack Somack Chic Ill, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show)
1920 Bud Palmer Hollywood Calif, NBAer (NY Knicks)/sportscaster
1921 Hughes Rudd TV newscaster (CBS)
1924 Jerry Coleman 2nd baseman/sportscaster (NY Yankees)
1925 Robert Webber Santa Ana Calif, actor ($, Nuts, Pvt Benjamin)
1928 Albert Shanker American labor leader (Amer Fed of Teachers)
1929 John Gutfreund
1933 Harve Presnell Modesto Calif, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown)
1933 Zoe Caldwell Australia, actress (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1934 Kate Millett St Paul Minn, feminist/author (Sexual Politics)
1938 Leonard Frey US, comedian/actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1938 Nicol Williamson Scotland, actor (Excalibur, Robin & Marian)
1938 Walter Koenig Chicago Ill, actor (Checkov-Star Trek)
1944 Joey Heatherton Rockville Center NY, dancer/actress (Bluebeard)
1947 Jon "Bowser" Bauman Queens NY, singer (Sha Na Na)
1947 Wolfgang Schwartz Austria, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1968)
1952 Margit Schumann German DR, luge (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 Joe Penny London, actor (Gangster Wars, Riptide, Jake & the Fatman)
1959 Mary Crosby LA Calif, actress (Kristin-Dallas, Ice Pirates)
1959 Morten Harket rocker (Aha-Take on Me)
1960 Anthony Addabbo actor (Jason-Generations)
1963 Antonia Real Spain, 400m freestyle (Olympic-1976)
1964 Faith Ford Louisiana, actress (Another World, Corky-Murphy Brown)
Deaths which occurred on September 14:
1759 Louis Montcalm French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47
1836 Aaron Burr 3rd VP, dies
1852 Arthur Wellesley General/Duke of Wellington, dies at 83
1901 Pres William McKinley dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted
by an assassin. VP Theodore Roosevelt became president
1911 Piotr Stolypin Russia's PM assassinated by Mordka Bogrov
1927 Isadora Duncan dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel
1966 Gertrude Berg actress (Molly Goldberg-The Goldbergs), dies at 66
1974 Vera Vague [Barbara Jo Allen], actr (Follow the Leader), dies at 70
1974 Warren Hull actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World), dies at 71
1982 Bashir Gemayel Lebanon's president-elect, killed by a bomb
1982 Grace Kelly princess of Monaco, dies at 52 in a car crash
1984 Janet Gaynor actress, dies at 77 from a traffic accident
1988 Louis Quinn actor, dies at 73 of cancer
1991 Julie Bovasso actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 61 of cancer
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
891 Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1716 1st lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor)
1752 England & colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear
1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow
1814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner"
1847 US troops under General Scott enter Mexico City
1848 Alexander Stewart opens the 1st US dept store
1856 Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders
1872 Britain pays the US $15« M for damages during Civil War
1886 George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon
1891 "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M
1892 AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo
1899 Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY)
1903 NY Giant Red Ames no-hits St Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game
1905 RAC Tourist Trophy, 1st run, on the Isle of Man
1916 Christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game
1917 Provisional government of Russia established, Republic proclaimed
1923 Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
1930 Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
1930 Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
1933 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
1940 Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
1942 Yanks clinch pennant #13
1943 Yanks clinch pennant #14
1948 Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary
1948 Groundbreaking ceremony for the UN world headquarters
1948 Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
1951 Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats
1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage
1956 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
1957 UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
1963 Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, SD, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a boy
1964 Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House
1965 "F-Troop" premiers
1967 Melville Abrams Ball Field in the Bronx named
1967 Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in the Bronx
1968 Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of the season
1968 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight
1971 Cleve Indians & Wash Senators, play 20 innings
1972 "Waltons" TV program premiers
1973 Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise
1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
1973 Pres Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout
1974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
1975 Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint
1979 Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC & back to Yates Center, Ks
1981 Entertainment Tonight premiers on TV
1982 36" snow (Red Lodge, MT)
1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of the English Channel
1982 Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"
1983 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
1984 1st MTV awards-Bette Midler & Dan Aykroyd host
1986 Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game
1987 Oriole Cal Ripken Jr sets record of playing 8,243 inn in 910 games
1987 Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles
1989 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
1991 Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii) crowned Miss America 1992
1991 Magic Johnson weds Erieatha "Cookie" Kelly
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Japan : Nicaragua : Battle of San Jacinto (1856)
Pakistan : Jamat Ul-Wida
US : National Anthem Day (1814)
US : National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
Hispanics : National Hispanic Heritage Week
- - - - - ( Sunday ) Afgh nist n : National Assembly Foundation Day (1964)
- - - - - ( Wednesday ) Scotland : Fisherman's Walk Day
- - - - - ( Friday )
Religious Observances
Ang, RC, Luth : Memoria of the Exaltation + Holy Cross Day +
Orth : Beginning of the Orthodox church year (9/1 OS)
Religious History
1741 German composer George Frederick Handel, 56, finished composing his oratorio, "The Messiah." He wrote the score, start-to-finish, in only 24 days, subsisting primarily on coffee.
1765 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'How unspeakable are our obligations to the grace of God.'
1918 The Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Wisconsin, Ohio and Other States was formed from the merger of several smaller synods. In 1930 this denomination merged with two other synods to form the American Lutheran Church (ALC).
1927 Bob Jones University opened in Greenville, South Carolina, and eighty-eight students registered for the first fall term.
1975 (Mother) Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821) was canonized by Pope Paul VI, making her the first native-born American citizen to become a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
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 :
" Show affection, it will probably meet with pleasant response. "
