Post by farmgal on Sept 3, 2010 14:17:02 GMT -5
September 4 is the 247th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 118 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days left until election day November 02, 2010 59
Days left until election day November 06, 2012 794
1645 - The first Lutheran church building erected in America was dedicated at Easton (near Bethlehem), Pennsylvania.
1666 - In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs
1781 - Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers.
1812 - War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.
1813 "The Religious Remembrancer" (later renamed "The Christian Observer") was first published in Philadelphia. It was the first weekly religious newspaper in the U.S., and in the world.
1833 - 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty-NY Sun)
1842 - Work on Cologne cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral
1847 - Anglican clergyman Henry Francis Lyte, 54, suffering from asthma and consumption, penned the words to his hymn, "Abide With Me," before preaching his last sermon in Devonshire, England. (Lyte died 2-1/2 months later.)
1862 - Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
1866 - 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published
1882 - 1st district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)
182 - 1882, The first newspaper plant to make use of the newly available electrical power provided by the Edison Illuminating Company was the New York Times. The building had previous been wired, with light fixtures and electric meters installed and inspected by an expert from the Board of Underwriters. There were 27 lamps installed in the editorial room and 25 lamps in the counting room. Next day, in the newspaper's own article, the workers were said to be unanimously in favour of the light provided by the carbon-filament lamps as being brighter and steadier than the gas lighting it replaced. There was no nauseous smell, and the lamps were very convenient to light by simply turning a thumbscrew. Additional lights were added later for the composing and press rooms.
1884 - The United Kingdom ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
1886 - Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
1888 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
1894 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
1906 - U.S. patent No. 830,115 was issued to Robert Eugene Turner of Norfolk, Virginia, for his invention of a "Type Writing Machine,"(typewriter) with a carriage powered by a motor to "return automatically when the end of the writing-line is reached, also to return same by pressing a key-lever on the keyboard to return the carriage at any point of its stroke." Also, line spacing was provided by manual or automatic means. A low-powered motor was adapted to feed the carriage in the printing direction, a high-powered motor for returning the carriage in the reverse direction, and the necessary mechanism to control their action. A buffering mechanism was included to reduce the impact of the returning carriage at the end of its reverse stroke
1916 - Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game
1918 - US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
1920 - Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
1923 - Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
1926 - The temperature at Yellowstone Park dipped to nine degrees below zero. It was the coldest reading of record in the U.S. during September. Severe freezes were widespread over the northwestern U.S. causing great crop destruction. In Washington State, Spokane County experienced their earliest snow of record. Harney Branch Experiment Station in Oregon reported a temperature of 2 degrees above zero to establish a state record for the month of September. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1933 - 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il
1937 - Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4)
1941 - World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.
1941 - Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 & clinch their 12th & earliest pennant
1944 - World War II: the British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
1945 - Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded
1945 - US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
1949 - The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
1950 - First appearance of the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip.
1950 - A smoke pall from western Canada forest fires covered much of the eastern U.S. Daylight was reduced to nighttime darkness in parts of the Northeast. The color of the sun varied from pink to purple, blue, or lavendar. Yellow to grey-tan was common. (24th-30th) (The Weather Channel)
1950 - 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
1950 - Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
1951 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.
1957 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
1957 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
1961 - US authorizes Agency for International Development
1965 - Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1967 - Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
1971 - A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
1972 - Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
1972 - Lightning struck a man near Waldport, OR, a young man who it so happens was carrying thirty-five pieces of dynamite. (The Weather Channel)
1973 - The Assemblies of God opened its first theological graduate school in Springfield, MO, making it the second Pentecostal denomination to establish its own school of theology. (The first such school was opened by Oral Roberts in Tulsa.)
1975 - The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.
1977 - The Golden Dragon Massacre took place in San Francisco, California.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dragon_Massacre
1981 - Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC
1983 - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship
1983 - Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph)
1985 - The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
1996 - War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
2005 - Hurricane Rita reached the Texas/Louisiana border area near Sabine Pass as a category-3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 120 mph. A storm surge of at least 15 feet flooded parts of Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Terrebonne and Vermilion parishes, where sugar cane crop losses were estimated near $300 million. An 8-foot storm surge in New Orleans overtopped the provisionally-repaired levees (from Hurricane Katrina damage) and caused additional flooding. A total of 10 fatalities were reported, and preliminary damage estimates ranged between $4-5 billion.
Births
1801 - Cullen Whipple (d 1868) American inventor and machinist of Providence, RI, who patented the first practical screw machine in the U.S. for making pointed screws (14 Dec 1852, No. 9,477). Early screws had blunt ends, and it was necessary to drill a starter hole. In Oct 1840, he was one of ten incorporators of The New England Screw Co. He invented a machine for the company to use cutting the threads of screws (patented 18 Aug 1842), another for shaving the heads of screws (patented 6 Apr 1843) and one for removing the burs left in cutting the slots in the heads (patented 19 Apr 1843). He invented and patented seven other machines or devices for improving the manufacture of screws, such as a Screw-Blank Feeding mechanism
1802 - Marcus Whitman (d. 1847) was an American physician and Oregon missionary in the Oregon Country.
1803 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (d. 1891)
1805 - William E. Dodge (d 1883) American industrialist, cofounder of Phelps, Dodge & Company, which was one of the largest mining companies in the US for more than a century. His marriage (1828) to Melissa Phelps connected him with a wealthy New York family; his father-in-law was a successful metals trader. In 1833 Dodge joined the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Company, which for two generations held a foremost place as dealers in copper and other metals. The firm had an important part in the development of Lake Superior copper and of Pennsylvania iron. Dodge also made extensive investments in timber lands and in railroad enterprises - the Erie, Lackawanna, Jersey Central, and Texas Central.
1810 - Donald McKay US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships (d 1880)
1824 - Phoebe Cary Cincinnati, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary)
1846 - Daniel Burnham, (d. 1912)American architect and urban planner, Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D.C.
1848 - Lewis Howard Latimer (d 1928) Black-American inventor who contributed to electrical technology. After joining a Boston firm of patent solicitors as an office boy, he taught himself drafting and eventually rose in the mid-1870's to the position of chief draftman. Meanwhile, he was issued his first patent for his invention of a water-closet for railroad cars. In 1880, he moved to be draftsman and private secretary to Hiram Stevens Maxim of the U.S. Lighting Co. where he took charge of the installation of commercial incandescent lighting systems. He patented his carbon filament lamp improvements and other inventions. By 1883, he was working for the Edison Electric Light Co., where his expertise with patents was recognised with a position with its new legal department in 1889
1866 - Simon Lake (d 1945) U.S. inventor whose submarine, the Argonaut, was the first to make extensive open-sea operations and to salvage cargo from sunken vessels. His career began in 1883 in his father's foundry and machine shop. At first, Lake invented equipment for surface vessels, including a steering gear, dredge and other improvement for fishing and oyster ships sailing in the Chesapeake and Delaware bays. In 1884, he built the Argonaut Jr., his first trial submersible. He was issued U.S. patent 581,213 for his submarine (20 Apr 1897). From 1886 he built the Argonaut, with a 30-hp gasoline engine, which he publicly demonstrated on 16 Dec 1897. After refitting, over several years, it sailed 2,000 miles and salvaged cargo from 30 wrecks
1886 - Albert Orsborn, General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967)
1906 - Max Delbrück (died 1981) German-born U.S. biologist, a pioneer in the study of molecular genetics. He was a co-recipient (with Alfred Day Hershey and Salvador Luria), of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of bacteriophages (a type of virus that infects bacteria, rather than ordinary cells.) Bacteriophages serve as models for the more complex, less approachable cells of animals and humans. This insight into the nature of viruses and of virus diseases leads to understanding the mechanism of inheritance, development growth and function of tissues and organs.
1907 - Leo Castelli Trieste, American art dealer (d 1999)
1908 - Edward Dmytryk, American film director (d. 1999)
1908 - Richard Wright, American writer (d. 1960)
1912 - Alexander Liberman editor/painter/photographer (d 1999)
1913 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (d. 1976)
1913 - Stanford Moore, American chemist, Nobel laureate for his contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of ribonuclease molecule, an enzyme. Enzymes are large molecules (macromolecules). The way in which an enzyme accelerates a chemical reaction involves an interaction of the reacting substance (the substrate) with only a limited part of the enzyme molecule, its active site. Moore and Stein have carried out investigations which supplement each other and have led to a complete elucidation of the sequence of amino acids in the enzyme ribonuclease. (d. 1982)
1917 - Henry Ford II automaker (Ford) (d 1987)
1918 - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009)
1918 - Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter
1919 - Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (d. 2005)
1920 - Craig Claiborne food columnist (NY Times Cookbook)
1925 - Forrest Carter, American author of fraudulent memoir, Little Tree, former speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace (d. 1979)
1927 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist
1929 - Thomas Eagleton, American politician (d. 2007)
1931 - Mitzi Gaynor, American actress
1949 - Tom Watson, American golfer
1958 - David Drew Pinsky (Dr. Drew), American radio show host
1959 - William Kennedy Smith Kennedy accused of rape in Florida (1991)
1958 - George Hurley, American drummer (Minutemen)
1960 - Damon Wayans, American actor and comedian
1968 - Mike Piazza, American baseball player
1968 - John DiMaggio, American Voice Actor
1972 - Merald Knight Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knights & Pips)
Deaths
1804 - Richard Somers, American naval officer killed during an assault on Tripoli. (b 1778 or 9)
1864 - John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (Morgan's Raid) (b. 1825)
1909 - Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (Beau Brummel, Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines) (b. 1865)
1912 - William John McGee (b 1853) American geologist, hydrologist, archaeologist who was noted for his pioneer studies documenting the occurrence of waves of invasions and recessions of ice sheets in North America, thus establishing the complexity of the Great Ice Age. He worked in a number of governmental capacities, including as a director in the U.S. Geological Survey, and was a founder and president of the National Geographic Society. While on the staff of the Bureau of Soils, he organized the landmarkConference of Governors on Conservation of Natural Resources (13-15 May 1908) and has been called the "chief theorist of the conservation movement." As an anthropologist he studied the American Indians and wrote The Seri Indians (1898).
1917 - Irving Wightman Colburn (b 1861) American inventor and manufacturer whose process for fabricating continuous sheets of flat glass made the mass production of glass for windows possible. Colburn began his experiments in 1899 which resulted in his patent for a sheet glass drawing machine on 25 Mar 1902. He formed the Colburn Machine Glass Co. in Aug 1906, installed drawing machines at two factories in 1908 but went bankrupt in 1911 before the technology was perfected. The Toledo Glass Company bought Colburn's patents in 1912 and hired him soon after. He began refining the process at the Toledo Glass experimental plant where its first draw of sheet glass took place on 25 Nov 1913. The company subsequently organized as the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company in 1916
1922 - Edward Anthony Spitzka (b 1876) American anatomist and brain morphologist who autopsied (29 Oct 1901) the brain of Leon Franz Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. president William McKinley. At the time, he had just published an exhaustive series of eight papers on the human brain, but was only in the fourth year of his medical training. Although he detected a few very minor variations in gyri and sulci patterns in the brain of Czolgosz, he reported in the New York Medical Journal (1902) that "nothing has been found in the brain of this assassin that would condone his crime." He became editor of American editions of Gray's Anatomy. Throughout his career he studied the brain morphology of groups of famous people, different races, and criminals, thought ultimately he was unable to link traits to brain structure
1940 - Hans Zinsser (b 1878) American bacteriologist and immunologists who was an international authority on typhus, a deadly disease. In 1936, he isolated the typhus germ. By 1939 he had perfection of a method to produce enough anti-typhus vaccine to protect a country nation. He travelled abroad to study disease outbreaks: an typhus epidemic in Serbia (1915), cholera in the Soviet Union (1923), a prison typhus epidemic in Mexico (1931) and lectured in China (1938). He published over 160 scientific papers. The cause of typhus, Rickettsia organisms are carried by a louse or a rat flea and transmitted to humans by a bite from the parasites, especially in areas of poor sanitation and overcrowding. He wrote his autobiography in the third person, As I Remember Him, while dying of leukemia
1965 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)
1974 - Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)
1975 - Walter Tetley voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 60
1985 - George O'Brien actor, dies of a stroke at 85
1986 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (b. 1911)
1990 - Irene Dunne American actress (b. 1898)
1991 - Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)
1991 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1913)
1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
2001 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962)
2004 - James O. Page, American paramedic (b. 1936) leading authority on United States emergency medical services (EMS).
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Moses and Aaron (Luthern Church and Eastern Orthodox Church)
Rosalia
Rose of Viterbo
Ultan of Ardbraccan.
September 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Clear Day (Church of Scientology)
Newspaper Carrier Day (United States)
www.todayinsci.com/9/9_04.htm
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_4
There are 118 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days left until election day November 02, 2010 59
Days left until election day November 06, 2012 794
1645 - The first Lutheran church building erected in America was dedicated at Easton (near Bethlehem), Pennsylvania.
1666 - In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs
1781 - Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers.
1812 - War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.
1813 "The Religious Remembrancer" (later renamed "The Christian Observer") was first published in Philadelphia. It was the first weekly religious newspaper in the U.S., and in the world.
1833 - 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty-NY Sun)
1842 - Work on Cologne cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral
1847 - Anglican clergyman Henry Francis Lyte, 54, suffering from asthma and consumption, penned the words to his hymn, "Abide With Me," before preaching his last sermon in Devonshire, England. (Lyte died 2-1/2 months later.)
1862 - Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
1866 - 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published
1882 - 1st district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)
182 - 1882, The first newspaper plant to make use of the newly available electrical power provided by the Edison Illuminating Company was the New York Times. The building had previous been wired, with light fixtures and electric meters installed and inspected by an expert from the Board of Underwriters. There were 27 lamps installed in the editorial room and 25 lamps in the counting room. Next day, in the newspaper's own article, the workers were said to be unanimously in favour of the light provided by the carbon-filament lamps as being brighter and steadier than the gas lighting it replaced. There was no nauseous smell, and the lamps were very convenient to light by simply turning a thumbscrew. Additional lights were added later for the composing and press rooms.
1884 - The United Kingdom ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
1886 - Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
1888 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
1894 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
1906 - U.S. patent No. 830,115 was issued to Robert Eugene Turner of Norfolk, Virginia, for his invention of a "Type Writing Machine,"(typewriter) with a carriage powered by a motor to "return automatically when the end of the writing-line is reached, also to return same by pressing a key-lever on the keyboard to return the carriage at any point of its stroke." Also, line spacing was provided by manual or automatic means. A low-powered motor was adapted to feed the carriage in the printing direction, a high-powered motor for returning the carriage in the reverse direction, and the necessary mechanism to control their action. A buffering mechanism was included to reduce the impact of the returning carriage at the end of its reverse stroke
1916 - Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game
1918 - US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
1920 - Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
1923 - Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
1926 - The temperature at Yellowstone Park dipped to nine degrees below zero. It was the coldest reading of record in the U.S. during September. Severe freezes were widespread over the northwestern U.S. causing great crop destruction. In Washington State, Spokane County experienced their earliest snow of record. Harney Branch Experiment Station in Oregon reported a temperature of 2 degrees above zero to establish a state record for the month of September. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1933 - 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il
1937 - Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4)
1941 - World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.
1941 - Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 & clinch their 12th & earliest pennant
1944 - World War II: the British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
1945 - Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded
1945 - US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
1949 - The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
1950 - First appearance of the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip.
1950 - A smoke pall from western Canada forest fires covered much of the eastern U.S. Daylight was reduced to nighttime darkness in parts of the Northeast. The color of the sun varied from pink to purple, blue, or lavendar. Yellow to grey-tan was common. (24th-30th) (The Weather Channel)
1950 - 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
1950 - Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
1951 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.
1957 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
1957 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
1961 - US authorizes Agency for International Development
1965 - Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1967 - Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
1971 - A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
1972 - Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
1972 - Lightning struck a man near Waldport, OR, a young man who it so happens was carrying thirty-five pieces of dynamite. (The Weather Channel)
1973 - The Assemblies of God opened its first theological graduate school in Springfield, MO, making it the second Pentecostal denomination to establish its own school of theology. (The first such school was opened by Oral Roberts in Tulsa.)
1975 - The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.
1977 - The Golden Dragon Massacre took place in San Francisco, California.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dragon_Massacre
1981 - Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC
1983 - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship
1983 - Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph)
1985 - The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
1996 - War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
2005 - Hurricane Rita reached the Texas/Louisiana border area near Sabine Pass as a category-3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 120 mph. A storm surge of at least 15 feet flooded parts of Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Terrebonne and Vermilion parishes, where sugar cane crop losses were estimated near $300 million. An 8-foot storm surge in New Orleans overtopped the provisionally-repaired levees (from Hurricane Katrina damage) and caused additional flooding. A total of 10 fatalities were reported, and preliminary damage estimates ranged between $4-5 billion.
Births
1801 - Cullen Whipple (d 1868) American inventor and machinist of Providence, RI, who patented the first practical screw machine in the U.S. for making pointed screws (14 Dec 1852, No. 9,477). Early screws had blunt ends, and it was necessary to drill a starter hole. In Oct 1840, he was one of ten incorporators of The New England Screw Co. He invented a machine for the company to use cutting the threads of screws (patented 18 Aug 1842), another for shaving the heads of screws (patented 6 Apr 1843) and one for removing the burs left in cutting the slots in the heads (patented 19 Apr 1843). He invented and patented seven other machines or devices for improving the manufacture of screws, such as a Screw-Blank Feeding mechanism
1802 - Marcus Whitman (d. 1847) was an American physician and Oregon missionary in the Oregon Country.
1803 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (d. 1891)
1805 - William E. Dodge (d 1883) American industrialist, cofounder of Phelps, Dodge & Company, which was one of the largest mining companies in the US for more than a century. His marriage (1828) to Melissa Phelps connected him with a wealthy New York family; his father-in-law was a successful metals trader. In 1833 Dodge joined the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Company, which for two generations held a foremost place as dealers in copper and other metals. The firm had an important part in the development of Lake Superior copper and of Pennsylvania iron. Dodge also made extensive investments in timber lands and in railroad enterprises - the Erie, Lackawanna, Jersey Central, and Texas Central.
1810 - Donald McKay US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships (d 1880)
1824 - Phoebe Cary Cincinnati, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary)
1846 - Daniel Burnham, (d. 1912)American architect and urban planner, Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D.C.
1848 - Lewis Howard Latimer (d 1928) Black-American inventor who contributed to electrical technology. After joining a Boston firm of patent solicitors as an office boy, he taught himself drafting and eventually rose in the mid-1870's to the position of chief draftman. Meanwhile, he was issued his first patent for his invention of a water-closet for railroad cars. In 1880, he moved to be draftsman and private secretary to Hiram Stevens Maxim of the U.S. Lighting Co. where he took charge of the installation of commercial incandescent lighting systems. He patented his carbon filament lamp improvements and other inventions. By 1883, he was working for the Edison Electric Light Co., where his expertise with patents was recognised with a position with its new legal department in 1889
1866 - Simon Lake (d 1945) U.S. inventor whose submarine, the Argonaut, was the first to make extensive open-sea operations and to salvage cargo from sunken vessels. His career began in 1883 in his father's foundry and machine shop. At first, Lake invented equipment for surface vessels, including a steering gear, dredge and other improvement for fishing and oyster ships sailing in the Chesapeake and Delaware bays. In 1884, he built the Argonaut Jr., his first trial submersible. He was issued U.S. patent 581,213 for his submarine (20 Apr 1897). From 1886 he built the Argonaut, with a 30-hp gasoline engine, which he publicly demonstrated on 16 Dec 1897. After refitting, over several years, it sailed 2,000 miles and salvaged cargo from 30 wrecks
1886 - Albert Orsborn, General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967)
1906 - Max Delbrück (died 1981) German-born U.S. biologist, a pioneer in the study of molecular genetics. He was a co-recipient (with Alfred Day Hershey and Salvador Luria), of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of bacteriophages (a type of virus that infects bacteria, rather than ordinary cells.) Bacteriophages serve as models for the more complex, less approachable cells of animals and humans. This insight into the nature of viruses and of virus diseases leads to understanding the mechanism of inheritance, development growth and function of tissues and organs.
1907 - Leo Castelli Trieste, American art dealer (d 1999)
1908 - Edward Dmytryk, American film director (d. 1999)
1908 - Richard Wright, American writer (d. 1960)
1912 - Alexander Liberman editor/painter/photographer (d 1999)
1913 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (d. 1976)
1913 - Stanford Moore, American chemist, Nobel laureate for his contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of ribonuclease molecule, an enzyme. Enzymes are large molecules (macromolecules). The way in which an enzyme accelerates a chemical reaction involves an interaction of the reacting substance (the substrate) with only a limited part of the enzyme molecule, its active site. Moore and Stein have carried out investigations which supplement each other and have led to a complete elucidation of the sequence of amino acids in the enzyme ribonuclease. (d. 1982)
1917 - Henry Ford II automaker (Ford) (d 1987)
1918 - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009)
1918 - Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter
1919 - Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (d. 2005)
1920 - Craig Claiborne food columnist (NY Times Cookbook)
1925 - Forrest Carter, American author of fraudulent memoir, Little Tree, former speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace (d. 1979)
1927 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist
1929 - Thomas Eagleton, American politician (d. 2007)
1931 - Mitzi Gaynor, American actress
1949 - Tom Watson, American golfer
1958 - David Drew Pinsky (Dr. Drew), American radio show host
1959 - William Kennedy Smith Kennedy accused of rape in Florida (1991)
1958 - George Hurley, American drummer (Minutemen)
1960 - Damon Wayans, American actor and comedian
1968 - Mike Piazza, American baseball player
1968 - John DiMaggio, American Voice Actor
1972 - Merald Knight Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knights & Pips)
Deaths
1804 - Richard Somers, American naval officer killed during an assault on Tripoli. (b 1778 or 9)
1864 - John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (Morgan's Raid) (b. 1825)
1909 - Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (Beau Brummel, Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines) (b. 1865)
1912 - William John McGee (b 1853) American geologist, hydrologist, archaeologist who was noted for his pioneer studies documenting the occurrence of waves of invasions and recessions of ice sheets in North America, thus establishing the complexity of the Great Ice Age. He worked in a number of governmental capacities, including as a director in the U.S. Geological Survey, and was a founder and president of the National Geographic Society. While on the staff of the Bureau of Soils, he organized the landmarkConference of Governors on Conservation of Natural Resources (13-15 May 1908) and has been called the "chief theorist of the conservation movement." As an anthropologist he studied the American Indians and wrote The Seri Indians (1898).
1917 - Irving Wightman Colburn (b 1861) American inventor and manufacturer whose process for fabricating continuous sheets of flat glass made the mass production of glass for windows possible. Colburn began his experiments in 1899 which resulted in his patent for a sheet glass drawing machine on 25 Mar 1902. He formed the Colburn Machine Glass Co. in Aug 1906, installed drawing machines at two factories in 1908 but went bankrupt in 1911 before the technology was perfected. The Toledo Glass Company bought Colburn's patents in 1912 and hired him soon after. He began refining the process at the Toledo Glass experimental plant where its first draw of sheet glass took place on 25 Nov 1913. The company subsequently organized as the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company in 1916
1922 - Edward Anthony Spitzka (b 1876) American anatomist and brain morphologist who autopsied (29 Oct 1901) the brain of Leon Franz Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. president William McKinley. At the time, he had just published an exhaustive series of eight papers on the human brain, but was only in the fourth year of his medical training. Although he detected a few very minor variations in gyri and sulci patterns in the brain of Czolgosz, he reported in the New York Medical Journal (1902) that "nothing has been found in the brain of this assassin that would condone his crime." He became editor of American editions of Gray's Anatomy. Throughout his career he studied the brain morphology of groups of famous people, different races, and criminals, thought ultimately he was unable to link traits to brain structure
1940 - Hans Zinsser (b 1878) American bacteriologist and immunologists who was an international authority on typhus, a deadly disease. In 1936, he isolated the typhus germ. By 1939 he had perfection of a method to produce enough anti-typhus vaccine to protect a country nation. He travelled abroad to study disease outbreaks: an typhus epidemic in Serbia (1915), cholera in the Soviet Union (1923), a prison typhus epidemic in Mexico (1931) and lectured in China (1938). He published over 160 scientific papers. The cause of typhus, Rickettsia organisms are carried by a louse or a rat flea and transmitted to humans by a bite from the parasites, especially in areas of poor sanitation and overcrowding. He wrote his autobiography in the third person, As I Remember Him, while dying of leukemia
1965 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)
1974 - Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)
1975 - Walter Tetley voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 60
1985 - George O'Brien actor, dies of a stroke at 85
1986 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (b. 1911)
1990 - Irene Dunne American actress (b. 1898)
1991 - Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)
1991 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1913)
1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
2001 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962)
2004 - James O. Page, American paramedic (b. 1936) leading authority on United States emergency medical services (EMS).
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Moses and Aaron (Luthern Church and Eastern Orthodox Church)
Rosalia
Rose of Viterbo
Ultan of Ardbraccan.
September 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Clear Day (Church of Scientology)
Newspaper Carrier Day (United States)
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