September 30

Ask A Stupid Question Day

International Translation Day

National Hot Mulled Cider Day

Blasphemy Day

National Mud Pack Day

National Women's Health & Fitness Day

1917- Buddy Rich, jazz drummer

1921- Deborah Kerr, actress

1924- Truman Capote, novelist

1931- Angie Dickinson, actress

1935- Johnny Mathis, singer

1954- Barry Williams, actor

1957- Fran Drescher, actress

1964- Crystal Bernard, actress

1971- Jenna Elfman, actress, "Dharma" on TV series "Dharma and Greg"
1981- Dominique Moceanu, 14 year old became the youngest U.S gymnast to win a gold medal







 Rayon is patented. (1902)


1790 - The first boat specializing as a Lifeboat (rescue) or lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
1835 - In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence (failed assassin) known as Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen.
1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS e.g Monitor is launched.
1908 - Mahatma Gandhi named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to 2 months in jail earlier in the month.
1911 - The destroyer USS Terry DD-25 6 makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
1933 - Adolf Hitler Machtergreifung e.g is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany (German Reich) named Chancellor of Germany.
1948 -  Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

1959 - Ship MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.

1972 - Bloody Sunday (1972) or Bloody Sunday: Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom) called British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland.
1975 - The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC Computer virus e.g virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple Inc. or Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
1994 - Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grandmaster.
1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.

1791- The first performance of 'The Magic Flute', the last opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1939 - NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34-7.
1947 - The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is television or televised for the first time.
1955 - Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
1965 - The 30 September Movement attempts a 'coup' against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to Indonesian killings of 1965–66 or a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
1968 - The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1972 - Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
1980 - Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol Chicago Tylenol murders known as kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
1996 - The United States Congress passes an Amendment that bars the possession of firearms for people who were convicted of domestic violence, even misdemeanor level.
2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.



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Events Edit

489 – Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern Italy).
737 – Battle of the Baggage: Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus and capture their baggage train.
1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.
1744 – France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1791 – The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as "incorruptible patriots".
1813 – Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
1860 – Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1895 – Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
1903 – The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
1906 – The Royal Galician Academy, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
1907 – McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1915 – A Serbian Army private becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1931 – Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 – At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 – General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34-7.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
1943 – The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) at Kings Point, New York was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1945 – The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
1947 – Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1965 – The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
1965 – The 30 September Movement attempts a coup against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
1965 – Trapped in the Sky, the pilot episode of Gerry Anderson's beloved Thunderbirds, airs on ITV for the first time.
1966 – The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
1967 – BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting its first show.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
1972 – Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1979 – The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982 – Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
1986 – Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel's covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
1988 – Al Holbert was fatally injured when his privately owned propeller driven Piper PA-60 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff near Columbus, Ohio when a clamshell door was not closed.
1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
1993 – An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
1994 – Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
1996 – The United States Congress passes an Amendment that bans the possession of firearms for people who were convicted of domestic violence, even misdemeanor level.
1999 – Japan's second-worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2009 – The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115 people.
Births Edit

1207 – Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)

1832 – Ann Jarvis, American activist, co-founded Mother's Day (d. 1905)

1897 – Alfred Wintle, Russian-English soldier and politician (d. 1966)
1897 – Charlotte Wolff, German-British physician (d. 1986)
1898 – Renée Adorée, French-American actress (d. 1933)
1898 – Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (d. 1977)
1898 – Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, German-American author and illustrator (d. 1986)
1898 – Orestis Makris, Greek actor and tenor (d. 1975)
1901 – Thelma Terry, American bassist and bandleader (d. 1966)
1904 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (d. 1971)
1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1905 – Michael Powell, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1906 – Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996)
1908 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-Russian violinist (d. 1974)
1910 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish soldier (d. 1962)
1911 – Bill Boswell, Australian public servant (d. 1976)
1912 – Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
1913 – Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1975)
1915 – Lester Maddox, American politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
1917 – Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (d. 2014)
1917 – Buddy Rich, American drummer, bandleader, and actor (d. 1987)
1918 – Lewis Nixon, American captain (d. 1995)
1918 – René Rémond, French historian and economist (d. 2007)
1919 – Roberto Bonomi, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1992)
1919 – Elizabeth Gilels, Russian violinist (d. 2008)
1919 – William L. Guy, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (d. 2013)
1919 – Patricia Neway, American soprano and actress (d. 2012)
1920 – Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American cellist and educator
1921 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish-English actress and singer (d. 2007)
1922 – Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
1922 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1922 – Alan Stretton, Australian general (d. 2012)
1923 – Donald Swann, Welsh-English pianist and composer (Flanders and Swann) (d. 1994)
1924 – Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1924 – Nikos Rizos, Greek actor (d. 1999)
1925 – Arkady Ostashev, Russian engineer and educator (d. 1998)
1926 – Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
1926 – Robin Roberts, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2010)
1927 – W. S. Merwin, American poet, translator, and essayist
1928 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 – Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1929 – Carol Fenner, American author and illustrator (d. 2002)
1929 – Vassilis Papazachos, Greek seismologist and academic
1931 – Angie Dickinson, American actress
1931 – Teresa Gorman, English educator and politician (d. 2015)
1932 – Anthony Hawkins, Australian actor (d. 2013)
1932 – Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author, playwright, and politician, Governor of Tokyo
1932 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player and coach (d. 2008)
1933 – Michel Aoun, Lebanese general and politician, President of Lebanon
1933 – Ben Cooper, American actor
1933 – Cissy Houston, American singer (Sweet Inspirations and The Drinkard Singers)
1933 – Barbara Knox, English actress
1934 – Alan A'Court, English footballer and manager (d. 2009)
1934 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2014)
1934 – Anna Kashfi, Indian-American actress (d. 2015)
1935 – Z. Z. Hill, American singer and guitarist (d. 1984)
1935 – Johnny Mathis, American singer-songwriter and actor
1936 – Jim Sasser, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China
1937 – Jurek Becker, Polish-German author (d. 1997)
1937 – Valentyn Sylvestrov, Ukrainian pianist and composer
1937 – Gary Hocking, Rhodesian motorcycle racer (d. 1962)
1938 – Alan Hacker, English clarinet player and educator (d. 2012)
1939 – Len Cariou, Canadian actor and singer
1939 – Anthony Green, English painter
1939 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (d. 2015)
1940 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Leader of the House of Lords
1940 – Harry Jerome, Canadian sprinter (d. 1982)
1940 – Dewey Martin, Canadian-American drummer (Buffalo Springfield and The Standells) (d. 2009)
1941 – Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., American author and educator
1941 – Kamalesh Sharma, Indian academic and diplomat, 5th Commonwealth Secretary General
1941 – Reine Wisell, Swedish race car driver
1942 – Gus Dudgeon, English record producer (d. 2002)
1942 – Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (The Teenagers) (d. 1968)
1943 – Johann Deisenhofer, German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 – Marilyn McCoo, American singer and actress (The 5th Dimension)
1943 – Philip Moore, English organist and composer
1943 – Ian Ogilvy, English actor, playwright, and author
1944 – Diane Dufresne, Canadian singer and painter
1944 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
1944 – Red Robbins, American basketball player (d. 2009)
1945 – Richard Edwin Hills, British astronomer
1945 – Bob Lassiter, American radio host (d. 2006)
1945 – Ehud Olmert, Israeli lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Israel
1946 – Fran Brill, American actress, singer, and puppeteer
1946 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (d. 1993)
1946 – Jochen Mass, German race car driver
1946 – Paul Sheahan, Australian cricketer and educator
1946 – Claude Vorilhon, French journalist, founded Raëlism
1947 – Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (T. Rex and John's Children) (d. 1977)
1947 – Rula Lenska, English actress
1948 – Craig Kusick, American baseball player and coach (d. 2006)
1950 – Laura Esquivel, Mexican author and screenwriter
1950 – Victoria Tennant, English actress and dancer
1950 – Renato Zero, Italian singer-songwriter and actor
1951 – John Lloyd, English screenwriter and producer
1951 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1951 – Simon White, English astrophysicist and academic
1952 – John Lombardo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (10,000 Maniacs and John & Mary)
1952 – Jack Wild, English actor and singer (d. 2006)
1952 – Al Leong, American stuntman and actor
1952 – Andrew Shore, English actor and singer
1953 – Matt Abts, American drummer (Gov't Mule)
1953 – Deborah Allen, American singer-songwriter and producer
1953 – Keith Burnett, Welsh physicist and academic
1953 – Hilton Dawson, English politician
1953 – S. M. Stirling, French-American author
1954 – Basia, Polish singer-songwriter and producer (Perfect)
1954 – Scott Fields, American guitarist and composer
1954 – Patrice Rushen, American singer-songwriter and producer (CAB)
1954 – Barry Williams, American actor and singer
1955 – Andy Bechtolsheim, German engineer, co-founded Sun Microsystems
1955 – Frankie Kennedy, Irish flute player (Altan) (d. 1994)
1955 – Desmond Shawe-Taylor, English historian and academic
1956 – Trevor Morgan, English footballer and manager
1957 – Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Marty Stuart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959 – Debrah Farentino, American actress
1959 – Ettore Messina, Italian basketball player and coach
1960 – Julia Adamson, Canadian-English keyboard player, composer, and producer (The Fall)
1960 – Nicola Griffith, English author
1960 – Miki Howard, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Side Effect)
1960 – Blanche Lincoln, American politician
1961 – Crystal Bernard, American singer-songwriter and actress
1961 – Eric Stoltz, American actor, director, and producer
1961 – Mel Stride, English politician
1961 – Eric van de Poele, Belgian race car driver
1961 – Sally Yeh, Chinese singer and actress
1962 – Prosenjit Chatterjee, Indian actor, director, and producer
1962 – Marley Marl, American rapper and producer (Juice Crew)
1962 – Frank Rijkaard, Dutch footballer and manager
1963 – David Barbe, American bass player and producer (Sugar)
1964 – Trey Anastasio, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Phish, Oysterhead, Dave Matthews & Friends, Phil Lesh and Friends, Surrender to the Air, and SerialPod)
1964 – Monica Bellucci, Italian model and actress
1964 – Robby Takac, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Goo Goo Dolls and Amungus)
1965 – Omid Djalili, English comedian, actor, and producer
1965 – Matt Fallon, American singer-songwriter (Skid Row and Anthrax)
1965 – Kathleen Madigan, American comedian, actress, and producer
1966 – Gary Armstrong, Scottish rugby player
1966 – Shankar Balasubramanian, chemist
1966 – Markus Burger, German pianist, composer, and educator
1966 – Kerry G. Johnson, American graphic designer and illustrator
1967 – Emmanuelle Houdart, Swiss artist
1967 – Andrea Roth, Canadian actress
1967 – Magnus Falkehed, Swedish journalist
1969 – Erica Andrews, Mexican-American drag queen and performer (d. 2013)
1969 – Gintaras Einikis, Lithuanian basketball player
1969 – Mark Smith, English bodybuilder and actor
1969 – Chris Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1991)
1970 – Tony Hale, American actor and producer
1970 – Eric Piatkowski, American basketball player and sportscaster
1971 – Jenna Elfman, American actress and producer
1972 – Shaan, Indian singer and actor
1972 – Jamal Anderson, American football player and sportscaster
1972 – Ari Behn, Norwegian author
1972 – John Campbell, American bass player and songwriter (Lamb of God)
1972 – Mayumi Kojima, Japanese singer-songwriter
1972 – José Lima, Dominican-American baseball player (d. 2010)
1977 – Maia Brewton, American actress
1978 – Stark Sands, American actor and singer
1982 – Lacey Chabert, American actress and singer
1982 – Kieran Culkin, American actor
1982 – Teal Redmann, American actress

1992 – Ezra Miller, American actor

2002 – Maddie Ziegler, American dancer and actress

September 29

Today Is...

International Coffee Day

World Heart Day

Michaelmas
(Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael)

MAGS Day
(Memphis Archaeological and Geological Society, celebrate by volunteering at [or visiting] a archaeological, geological, natural science, or earth science museum in your area

Mutation Day (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
(The celebration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Splinter's mutation, eventually leading to the Ninja Turtles formation, Cowabunga!)

VFW Day
(devoted to the VFW organization and those members who have served our nation, the Veterans of Foreign Wars)

Confucius Day
(Honors one of the world's greatest philosophers.)

Inventors Day

National Biscotti Day

Broadway Musicals Day

Birthdays
551 BC - Confucius
1899 -  László József Bíró, inventor of the ball point pen (d. 1988)
1901 -  Enrico Fermi, nuclear physicist, credited with the creation of the first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1(d. 1954)
1904 – Greer Garson, English-American actress and singer (d. 1996)
1907 – Gene Autry, American singer and actor, "The Singing Cowboy" (d. 1998)
1913 – Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
1913 – Stanley Kramer, American director and producer (d. 2001)
1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1942 – Madeline Kahn, American actress and singer (d. 1999)
1942 – Jean-Luc Ponty, French violinist and composer (Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever)
1948 - Bryant Gumbel, TV journalist, newsman
1957 – Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
1966 – Jill Whelan, American actress (Captain Stubing's daughter in "The Love Boat" and radio host

Today In History

1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1789 – The 1st United States Congress adjourns.

1845 - "The Raven" is published in the 'New York Evening Mirror', the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1900 - The American League is organized in Philadelphia with eight founding teams.
1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American United States Senate or U.S. Senator.
1936 - The List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame (chronological) known as first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.

1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.

1963 - The List of Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees or first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

September 28

Today Is...

Fish Tank Floorshow Night -- All year the fish and other denizens of the tank have to stay under the spotlight and keep us entertained. Well, turnabout is fair play. Gather family and friends ‘round the aquarium and dance and sing. Try La Mer, Sea Of Love, or even Swan Lake.

Strawberry Cream Pie Day

Drink Beer Day

National Good Neighbor Day

World Heart Day

International Right To Know Day

Read a Child a Book You Like Day

Family Day - Be Involved. Stay Involved

World Rabies Day

Birthdays

1573- Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio, painter

1901 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (d. 1974)

1909 – Al Capp, American cartoonist "Lil' Abner" (d. 1979)

1914 – Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (d. 2014)

1916 – Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (d. 1977)

1923 – William Windom, American actor (d. 2012)

1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (d. 1996)

1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress and singer

1938 – Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Drifters) (d. 2015)

1964- Janeane Garofalo, actress, comedian

1973- Gwyneth Paltrow, actress

Today In History 

1886 - France presented the U.S. with the statute of Liberty. 

1965 - The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is completed.

September 26

International Lace Day

National Museum Day

Johnny Appleseed Day

Family Health and Fitness Day USA

National Public Lands Day

National Hunting and Fishing Day

Shamu the Whale Day

European Day of Languages

Batman Day

Fish Amnesty Day

International Rabbit Day

R.E.A.D. in America Day

Support Purple for Platelets Day

September 25

Love Note Day

Math Story Telling Day

National One-Hit Wonder Day

Crab Meat Newburg Day

National Psychotherapy Day

World Pharmacists Day

Bright Pink Lipstick Day

Vegan Baking Day

(World) Ataxia Awareness Day

Hug A Vegetarian Day

Save The Koala Day

Native American Day

Birthdays
1905 – Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress and singer (d. 1990)
1917 - Phil Rizzuto, MLB baseball player,  and sportscaster
1931 - Barbara Walters, TV journalist, news reporter
1944 - Michael Douglas, actor
1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, model
1951 - Mark Hamill, actor
1952 - Christopher Reeve, actor, "Superman" movie
1961 - Heather Locklear, actress
1968 - Will Smith, actor, "MIB"
1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress

Today In History
1237 – England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.
1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1789 – The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
1890 – The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
1996 – The last of the Magdalene asylums closes in Ireland.

September 24

Today Is...

National Cherries Jubilee

National Bluebird of Happiness Day
(The mythology of the bluebird of happiness goes back thousands of years. The bluebird is widely accepted as a symbol of cheerfulness, good health, new births, prosperity, and hearth and home.)

Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving

World Maritime Day

Punctuation Day

Innergize Day
(observed annually on the day after the Autumnal Equinox. This is a day for you! Take this day to relax and rejuvenate yourself.)

National Teach Ag Day
(a day to celebrate school-based agricultural education and to encourage agricultural education advocate)

Birthdays
1755 – John Marshall, American captain, jurist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of State (d. 1835)
1870 – Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting (d. 1960)
1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1940)
1918 – Audra Lindley, American actress most famous for her role as landlady Helen Roper on the sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off, The Ropers. (d. 1997)
1921 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster and journalist (d. 2008)
1931 - Anthony Newley, English-American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
1936 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer and screenwriter, created The Muppets (d. 1990)
1941 – Linda McCartney, American singer, photographer, and activist (Wings and Suzy and the Red Stripes) (d. 1998)
1948 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
1962 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress and screenwriter "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

Today In History 
1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
1780 – Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
1789 – The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
1935 – Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1960 – USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
1968 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS.
1975 – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on the Southwest Face expedition become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces.
1979 – CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
2015 – At least 717 people are killed and another 863 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

September 23

Today Is...

Dogs In Politics Day
Checkers Day
1952, Richard M. Nixon was a candidate for Vice-President of the United States, running with Dwight D. Eisenhower.  Media speculation centered around an $18,000 campaign contribution, and speculation that Nixon may have used some for his personal use.  In a brilliant political maneuver, Nixon took his case to the American people.
On September 23, 1952, Richard Nixon gave a speech that directly addressed and explained the issue. He assured the public that he did not use any of the funds for personal use. Towards the end of the speech, he stated that his daughters had received a dog, which they named "Checkers", as a gift. He said they would keep the dog.

Celebrate Bi-sexuality Day

Mabon

Fall (Autumn) Equinox
(4:21 am)

National Rehabilitation Day

Restless Legs Awareness Day

See You St The Pole Day
(See You at the Pole (SYATP) is an annual gathering of Christian students at a flagpole in front of their local school for prayer, scripture-reading and worship, during the early morning before school starts. The American SYATP events occur on the 23 of September at 7:00 A.M. while gathering around a school flag pole. The events began in 1990 in the United States, where public schools cannot sponsor prayers and some Christians see public schools as hostile to Christian students. It has grown by word of mouth, announcements at youth rallies and churches, and the Internet. It is now an international event; in 2005, over two million students in the U.S. participated.)

Birthdays
1897 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor and singer, Mrs. Miniver, Forbidden Planet, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Funny Girl (d. 1984)
1920 – Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2014)
1926 – André Cassagnes, French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (d. 2013)
1926 – John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (Miles Davis Quintet) (d. 1967)
1930 - Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2004)
1943 - Julio Iglesias, singer
1949 - Bruce Springsteen, singer-songwriter and guitarist (E Street Band and Steel Mill)
1959 - Jason Alexander, actor, best known for his role as George Costanza on the sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998)

Today In History
1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End.
1642 – First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
1846 - The planet Neptune is first discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Golle.
1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
1911 – Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
1980 – Bob Marley plays what would be his last concert in Pittsburgh.
2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.

September 22

Car Free Day
(Encourages motorists to go green and give up their cars for a day.)

National Ice Cream Cone Day

Elephant Appreciation Day

Hobbit Day

Dear Diary Day

American Business Women's Day

Chainmail Day

International Day of Radiant Peace

National Centenarian's Day

National Rock n' Roll Dog Day
(After doing some research I've learned that it's also called National Walk n' Roll Day
for dogs with Intervertabral Disc Disease (IVDD) and dogs inwheelchairs!)

National Voter Registration Day

National White Chocolate Day

World Rhino Day

National Woman Road Warrior Day

Yom Kippur

Mabon in the Northern Hemisphere, Ostara in the Southern Hemisphere.

OneWebDay, an annual day of Internet celebration and awareness, started in 2006.

100 Days remaining until the end of the year.

Birthdays
1902 – John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (d. 1988)
1927 - Tommy Lasorda, MLB baseball manager
1934 - MY MOM!  :) (d. 2005)
1956 - Debby Boone, singer
1958 – Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
1958 – Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress (The Runaways)
1959 – Tai Babilonia, American figure skater
1961 - Scott Baio, actor
1961 – Catherine Oxenberg, American-English actress
1964 - Bonnie Hunt, actress

Today In History 
1692 – The last people hanged for witchcraft in England's North American colonies takes place.
1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
1999 - The record for drinking Ketchup belongs to Dustin Phillips (USA). On this day, he drank a 14 oz. bottle of Ketchup through a 1/4" straw in 33 seconds.

September 21

Today Is...

International Day Of Peace

Miniature Golf Day

World Gratitude Day

Peace One Day

International Banana Festival

National Pecan Cookie Day

Respect for The Aged Day

World's Alzheimer's Day

Birthdays
1866 – H. G. Wells, English journalist, historian, and author (d. 1946)
1931 – Larry Hagman, American actor, director, and producer "I Dream of Jeannie" and  "J.R. Ewing" on "Dallas" (d. 2012)
1934 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet
1935 - Henry Gibson, actor, comedian, "Laugh-In"
1944 – Fannie Flagg, American actress and author
1947 - Stephen King, novelist, horror stories
1950 - Bill Murray, actor, comedian
1962 - Rob Morrow, actor, TV shows "Northern Exposure" and "NUMBERS"
1967 - Faith Hill, singer
1968 - Riki Lake, actor

Today In History
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
1897 – The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial is published in the New York Sun.
1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
1945 - Henry Ford retires from Ford Motor Company.
1942 – The Holocaust: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi (west Ukraine) to Bełżec extermination camp.
1942 – In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
1942 – The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
1964 – Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
1981 – Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
2003 – Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.

September 20

National Gibberish Day
National Rum Punch Day
Wife Appreciation Day
Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play
Puppy Mill Awareness Day
National Punch Day
National Women's Friendship Day

Birthdays
1934 - Sophia Loren, actress
1964 - Crispin Glover, George McFly in "Back to the Future", Layne in "River's Edge", Rubin Farr in "Rubin and Ed", Andy Warhol in "The Doors"
1967 - Kristen Johnston, Sally Solomon in "3rd Rock from the Sun", Wilma Flintstone in "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas", Holly Franklin in "The Exes".

Today In History
1498 – The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
1942 – Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1971 – Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
1973 – Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
2011 – The United States military ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

September 19

Today Is...

Talk Like A Pirate Day

Fall Astronomy Day

National Gymnastics Day

National Butterscotch Pudding Day

National Woman Road Warrior Day

AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Day

Big Whopper Liar Day

Boys' and Girls' Club Day for Kids

International Eat An Apple Day

International Coastal Cleanup Day

National Seatcheck Saturday 2015

Oktoberfest, begins

Birthdays
1929 - Adam West, actor
1930 - Rosemary Harris, actress
actress
1933 - David McCallum, actor, "Illya Kuryakin" on  TV series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
1940 - Paul Williams, singer, songwriter
1941 - Cass Elliot, singer, member of the "Mamas and the Papas"
1946 -  Leslie Lawson "Twiggy", model, actress, "Laugh-In"
1951 - Joan Lunden, host of ABC TV's "Good Morning America"
1974 - Jimmy Fallon, actor, comedian, regular on Saturday Night Live

Today In History
1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
1796 – George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1846 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur, becomes President upon Garfield's death.
1970 – The Mary Tyler Moore Show an American sitcom premiered on CBS
1981 – Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park.
1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists. Ötzi, a well-preserved natural mummy of a man who lived around 3,300 BCE, more precisely between 3359 and 3105 BCE, with a 66% chance that he died between 3239 and 3105 BCE.

September 18

Today Is...

National Cheeseburger Day
(Totally deserving of a holiday of its own!!!)

National Respect Day

World Water Monitoring Day

Air Force Birthday

Chiropractic Founders Day

National Ceiling Fan Day

Hug A Greeting Card Writer Day

Rice Krispies Treats Day

National Tradesmen Day

POW/MIA Recognition Day

Birthdays

1905- Agnes DeMille, dancer, choreographer

choreographer

1905- Greta Garbo, actress

1920- Jack Warden, actor

1933- Robert Blake, actor, TV series "Baretta"

1939 -Frankie Avalon, singer, actor

1971- Lance Armstrong, six time Tour de France cycling champion

Today In History 

1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final, voyage.
1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) goes on the air.
1945 – General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
1947 – The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
2009 – The 72-year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.

September 17

National Apple Dumpling Day

Citizenship Day

Constitution Day

International Country Music Day 

Time's Up Day
(A day to let you know that if you've been waiting to make up with someone close to you, that you've officially run out of time and it's time to make amends. Life's too short to be on bad terms with those you should be close to you.)

 Hildegard of Bingen Feast Day
(Was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath. She is considered the founder of scientific natural history in Germany)

Birthdays 
1896- Sam Ervin Jr., Key figure in the Senate Watergate investigation
1907- Warren Burger, chief justice of the Supreme Court
1923 – Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Drifting Cowboys)
1928- Roddy McDowall, actor, "Planet of the Apes" movies
1931- Anne Bancroft, actress
1944- James Brady, gun control advocate, presidential press secretary  during Reagan administration
1945- Phil Jackson, NBA basketball player, coach
1947- Jeff MacNelly, cartoonist, created "Shoe"
1948- John Ritter, actor, comedian, TV series "Three's Company"

History 

1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1778 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).
1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to be the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.

September 16

National Tattoo Story Day (Originator is NBC's "Blindspot")
(Every tattoo tells a story!)

School Backpack Awareness Day

Trail of Tears Commemoration Day
(The Trail of Tears is the name of the forced removal by the U.S. to Indian Territory. The phrase is applied to the forced removals of the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek, and Seminole, who were all removed from the Southeast.

Mayflower Day

Play-doh Day

Collect Rocks Day

Stepfamily Day

National Cinnamon Raisin Bread Day

International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

Stay Away From Seattle Day

Working Parents Day

Wrinkled Raincoat Day

Birthdays
1914 - Allen Funt, TV producer,  "Smile, You're on Candid Camera"
1924 - Lauren Bacall, actress
1924 - B. B. King, blues singer
1926 - John Knowles, novelist
1927 - Peter Falk, actor, TV series "Columbo"
1949 - Ed Begley Jr., actor
1956 - David Copperfield, magician
1958 - Orel Hershiser, MLB baseball pitcher
1964 - Molly Shannon, actress, comedian, "SNL"

Today In History 
1620 - The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, England. It carried pilgrims headed to the New World, to escape religious persecution.
1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
1919 – The American Legion is incorporated.
1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.

September 15

Today Is...

Make A Hat Day

Felt Hat Day
(On this day, men traditionally put away their felt hats)

National Linguine Day

8-Track Tape Day

Greenpeace Day

International Day of Democracy

International Dot Day

National Caregivers Day

National Creme de Menthe Day

National Thank You Day

Software Freedom Day

Rosh Hashannah: 14-15
(Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה‎, literally "head of the year") is the Jewish New Year. The Biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah (Hebrew: יוֹם תְּרוּעָה‎, literally "day [of] shouting/raising a noise") or the Feast of Trumpets.)

Get Ready Day)
(to prepare for emergencies or disasters, ...a great day for fire drills!)

Google.com Day

LGBT Center Awareness Day
(a national day of action focused on awareness around the work of LGBT community centers everywhere)

Birthdays
1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th  U.S. President (1909-1913), chief justice of the Supreme Court
1890 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer
1907 - Fay Wray, actress, "King Kong"
1918 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1921 - Jackie Cooper, actor, director, producer
1940 - Merlin Olsen, football player, sportscaster, actor
1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, actor, "M.I.B."
1946 - Oliver Stone, director & movie producer, "The Doors", "Platoon", "Natural Born Killers", "Born On The Fourth of July"
1961 - Dan Marino, NFL Miami Dolphins quarterback
1984 - Prince Harry, Prince of England

Today In History 
1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

September 14

Today Is...

Cream Filled Donut Day

National Anthem Day

Eat a Hoagie Day

National Boss/Employee Exchange Day (First Monday after Labor Day)

Rosh Hashannah: 14-15

World Maritime Day (Second Monday)

Today In History 
1814 - Francis Scott-Key composed the lyrics to "The Star Spangled Banner".

Birthdays
1914 - Clayton Moore, actor, the "Lone Ranger"
1936 - Walter Koenig, actor, director, producer
1956 - Joe Penny, actor
1959 - Mary Crosby, actress
1964 - Faith Ford, actress, Corky Sherwood in "Murphy Brown", Hope Fairfield-Shanowski in "Hope & Faith".
1983 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter

September 13

Today Is...

Grandparents Day (First Sunday after Labor Day)

National Peanut Day

Defy Superstition Day

International Chocolate Day

Fortune Cookie Day

Positive Thinking Day

Kids Take Over The Kitchen Day

Bald is Beautiful Day

Uncle Sam Day - his image was first used in 1813

Programmers Day
(Programmers’ Day is celebrated on the 256th day of the year – chosen because this is the number of distinct values that can be represented with an eight-bit byte, and the highest power of two which is less than 365.)

Hug Your Hound Day (Second Sunday in September )

National Celiac Awareness Day

National Pet Memorial Day (Second Sunday in September) 


Birthdays
1851 - Walter Reed, army physician, bacteriologist, Walter Reed Hospital in D.C. named in his honor
1860 - John J. Pershing, World War I General
1903 - Claudette Colbert, actress
1916 - Roald Dahl Day, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, was born
(A day to "enjoy a few snozzcumbers and partake in a little whizzpopping")
1925 - Mel Torme, singer, songwriter
1938 - Judith Martin, author, write, "Miss Manners"
1944 - Jacqueline Bisset, actress
1944 - Peter Cetera, singer, member of band "Chicago"
1948 – Nell Carter, American actress and singer (d. 2003)
1952 – Iyanla Vanzant, American educator and author1959 - Fred Silverman, TV producer
1963 - MY BROTHER, CHUCK
1980 - Ben Savage, actor, "Cory Matthews" on TV series "Boy Meets World"

Today In History 
1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1969 - Scooby Doo premieres on CBS

September 12

Today Is...

Video Games Day

Chocolate Milkshake Day

National Police Woman Day

International Drive Your Studebaker Day

International Day for South-South Cooperation

National Day of Encouragement

Prairie Day

National Hollerin' Day (2nd Saturday)

National Iguana Awareness Day (2nd Saturday)

Birthday
1888 - Maurice Chevalier, actor, singer, sang "Thank Heaven for Little Girls"
1913 - Jesse Owens, champion Olympic track and field star
1942 - Linda Gray, actress, "Sue Ellen Ewing" on TV series "Dallas"
1944 - Barry White, singer
1957 - Rachel Ward, actress
1978 - Ruben Studdard, "American Idol" winner

Today In History
1846 – Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning.
1953 -  Future President John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Bouvier.

September 11

National Day of Service and Remembrance

Patriot Day

National Hot Cross Bun Day
("Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! one a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns!
If you have no daughters, give them to your sons. One a penny two a penny, Hot cross buns!" ...Everybody Sing Along!!!)

Remember Freedom Day
( "A reminder to all that freedom never comes cheaply. Study it, preserve it, and pass it on." Wellcat.com)

Make Your Bed Day
(This day only falls once a year, so why not make it now!?!?)

Libraries Remember Day

No News is Good News Day

Women's Baseball Day

Birthdays
1862 - O. Henry (William S. Porter), short-story writer
1924 - Tom Landry, NFL Dallas Cowboys coach
1940 - Brian DePalma, filmmaker (Scarface, Carrie, The Untouchables)
1946 - Lola Falana, actress
1962 - Kristy McNichol, actress
1967 - Harry Connick Jr., actor, singer

Today In History 
1226 – The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.

1962 - The Beatles recorded their 1st single "Love Me Do".

1997 – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.

2001 - Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. In total 2,996 people are killed.

September 10

Today Is...

Swap Ideas Day
(Great day to find some new ways to help you sail through life are from Life Hackers websites!

International Make-Up Day

TV Dinner Day
(...Think I'll gobble up one of my Swansons tonight! )

(World) Suicide Prevention Day

Birthdays
1801 – Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner
1898 - Waldo Semon, chemist, invented vinyl
1907 - Fay Wray, actress
1934 - Charles Kuralt, TV journalist, newscaster
1929 - Arnold Palmer, golfer
1934 - Roger Maris, baseball player, homerun slugger
1935 – Mary Oliver, American poet and author
1943 – Neale Donald Walsch, American author

1945 - Jose Feliciano, singer (Met him once. He told me who he was, I thought he was joshing me, and I replied "OK, well I'm Bruce Springsteen!" Then I saw him on TV that night and thought "Woops!"

1953 - Amy Irving, actress
1975 - Ryan Phillippe, actor

Today In History
1846 - The Sewing Machine is patented.
1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would become known as Mother Teresa.
1955 – The television series Gunsmoke premieres on CBS . It was the second western television series written for adults. The first was the Lone Ranger.

September 9

As well as...

Teddy Bear Day

Wiener Schnitzel Day

New Words Day

Wonderful Weirdos Day ( -- All of us are blessed with one or two wonderful weirdos in our lives. These are the folks who remind us to think outside the box, to be a little more true to ourselves. Today's the day to thank them. So give them a hug, and say "I love you, you weirdo!" - Wellcat.com)

Today In History
1956 - Elvis Presley first appears on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Birthdays
1890 -Harland Sanders, "Colonel Sanders", founded Kentucky Fried Chicken
1925- Cliff Robertson, actor (La Jolla, CA)
1941- Otis Redding, singer, "Sittin on the Dock of the Bay"
1949- Joe Theisman, NFL Washington Redskins quarterback, sportscaster
1951- Tom Wopat, actor, singer
1952- Angela Cartwright, actress
1960 -Hugh Grant, actor
1966- Adam Sandler, actor, comedian

September 8

Today Is...

Pardon Day
National Iguana Awareness Day
World Physical Therapy Day
Another Look Unlimited Day  (Day after Labor Day)
International Literacy Day
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Day
Virgin Mary Day (birthday)

Birthdays
1157- Richard I, King of England - "Richard the Lion-Hearted"
1841- Antonin Dvorak, composer
1922- Sid Caesar, actor, comedian
1925- Peter Sellers, actor
1932- Patsy Cline, country singer
1957- Heather Thomas, actress
1981- Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor, "Randy Taylor" On TV series "Home Improvement

Today In History
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1966 - Star Trek premiered on television.
1974 - President Ford gives unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon for any crimes related to Watergate.

September 7

Today Is...

National Beer Lovers Day
Buy A Book Day
Google Commemoration (Founded)  
Great Bathtub Race (Always on Labor Day)
Grandma Moses Day
Labor Day
National Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day
"Neither Snow nor Rain" Day
Salami Day
Postal Workers Day
National Threatened Species Day
National Acorn Squash Day

Today In History
Raggedy Ann was created
(1921) The first Miss America beauty Pageant is held in Atlantic City N.J.

Birthdays
1860 - Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Moses), painter
1908 - Michael DeBakey, pioneer heart surgeon
1909 - Elia Kazan, director, producer
1923 - Peter Lawford, actor
1931 - Al McGuire, basketball coach, sportscaster
1936 - Buddy Holly, singer, musician
1947 - Ann Beattie, writer
1949 - Gloria Gaynor, singer "I Will Survive"
1954 - Corbin Bernsen, actor, "Arnie Becker" on TV series "L.A. Law"

October

Month:

Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
American Pharmacist Month
Apple Jack Month
Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Clergy Appreciation Month
Computer Learning Month
Cookie Month
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Eat Country Ham Month
International Drum Month
Lupus Awareness Month
National Diabetes Month
National Pizza Month
National Vegetarian Month
National Popcorn Popping Month
Sarcastic Month
Seafood Month
Weekly Celebrations:

Week 1 Get Organized Week
Week 1 Customer Service Week
Week 2 Fire Prevention Week
Week 2 Pet Peeve Week
Week 3 Pastoral Care Wee

October 1

Today Is...

International Music Day

Homemade Cookies Day

CD Player Day

Model T Day

Fire Pup Day

National Book It! Day

National Lace Day

International Day of Older Persons: 1

World Vegetarian Day: 1

National Walk Your Dog Day: 1 Link

BIRTHDAYS
1904 - Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
1920 - Walter Matthau, actor
1921 - James Whitmore, actor
1924 - Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President (1977-1981)
1924 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1927 - Tom Bosley, actor
1928 - George Peppard, actor, the leader in TV series "A-Team"
1935 -Julie Andrews, actress, singer, "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music"
1950 - Randy Quaid, actor, "cousin "Eddy" in "Vacation" movies
1963 - Mark McGwire, MLB baseball slugger, home run record holder

HISTORICAL EVENTS

1959 - The Television series "The Twilight Zone" premeired
1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida

September 3

Today Is...

Penny Press Day

Skyscraper Day

Welsh Rarebit Day

US Bowling League Day

Birthdays

1856 - Louis H. Sullivan, architect, developed skyscrapers

1913 - Alan Ladd, actor, "Shane"

1915 - Kitty Carlisle Hart, actress

1923 - Mort Walker, cartoonist, created "Beetle Bailey"

1965 - Charlie Sheen, actor

History

1813 - The image of "Uncle Sam", a symobl of America, was first used. 

1951 - TV soap opera Search for Tomorrow premieres on CBS.