Post by farmgal on Sept 1, 2012 0:15:32 GMT -5
September 1st is the 245th day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 121 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days until Election Day, Tuesday November 6, 2012: 66
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1578 The first Anglican service of worship to be held on Canadian soil was led by Rev. Robert Wolfall at Frobisher Bay, on Baffin Island.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wolfall
The city of Castro, on which the Wars of Castro centered.
1649 The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_Castro
1666 The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London
1752 Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
1784 English clergyman Thomas Coke, 37, was consecrated, the first "bishop" of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by founder John Wesley. Coke afterward journeyed to America, where he and Francis Asbury oversaw Methodism in the Colonies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Coke_(bishop)
1789 The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury
1792 During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_Massacres
1806 A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
www.myswitzerland.com/en/zoo-goldau.html
1833 Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberlin_College
1858 Lincoln makes speech about when you can fool people. Tradition has come to attribute this quote to his speech at Clinton, IL on September 2, 1858 where he stated: "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
Sunspots of September 1, 1859, as sketched by Richard Carrington A and B mark the initial positions of an intensely bright event, which moved over the course of 5 minutes to C and D before disappearing.
1859 A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
George B. McClellan
1862 American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._McClellan
1864 American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Campaign#Jonesborough_.28August_31_.E2.80.93_September_1.29
An illustration of the massacre from an 1886 issue of Harper's Weekly.
1885 Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 White miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre
1897 The first issue of "McCall’s" magazine was published. It was a monthly American women's magazine that enjoyed great popularity through much of the 20th century, peaking at a readership of 8.4 million in the early 1960s. It was established as a small-format magazine called The Queen in 1873. In 1897 it was renamed McCall's Magazine—The Queen of Fashion (later shortened to McCall's) and subsequently grew in size to become a large-format glossy. It was one of the "Seven Sisters" group of women's service magazines.
McCall's published fiction by such well-known authors as Ray Bradbury, Gelett Burgess, Willa Cather, Jack Finney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Barbara Garson, John Steinbeck, Tim O'Brien, Anne Tyler and Kurt Vonnegut.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCall%27s
1901 Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
1918 Baseball season ends due to WW I. In Washington, the Senators end the year on a light note, by splitting with the A's. Philadelphia wins the opener and the Nats take the nitecap, 8-3. The game ends with General March throwing out the last ball; he'll toss out the first next year.
1927 Sophie Tucker recorded her signature song, "Some of These Days". In 1911 Tucker recorded "Some of These Days," the song that became her trademark, and was soon touring with her own band. In 1921 she hired pianist Ted Shapiro, her long-term musical director, who wrote such famous songs for her as "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else" and "Red-Hot Mama." And, in 1925, Tucker sang "My Yiddische Mama," at the Palace Theater, the first performance of what would become a Jewish anthem in Europe after being banned by Hitler.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_of_These_Days
1930 While a missionary in the Philippines, American linguistic pioneer Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'God is always awaiting the chance to give us high days. We so seldom are in deep earnest about giving him his chance.'
1931 "15 Minutes with Bing Crosby" debuted on CBS. The head of CBS radio, William Paley, heard Bing's recording of I Surrender Dear and ordered him signed to a radio contract despite warnings of Bing's playboy reputation. Bing was scheduled to debut in a live CBS network radio show on August 31, 1931. Bing didn't show. After a second postponement, Bing finally made his network debut on Sept. 2. His first song was, appropriately, "Just One More Chance." To conclude the broadcast he sang "I'm thru with Love." Bing did not talk during the 15-minute broadcast. The announcer, Harry Von Zell, explained that Bing had missed the previous two shows because of laryngitis.
1935 Perhaps the most intense hurricane ever to hit the U.S. struck the Florida Keys with 200 mph winds. The hurricane produced a fifteen foot tide and waves thirty feet high. 400 persons perished in the storm on that Labor Day. The barometric pressure at Matecumbe Bay FL hits a record low for the U.S. of 26.35 inches.
1939 World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdañsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
1944 During WW II, George H. W. Bush ejects from a burning plane. After Bush's promotion to Lieutenant Junior Grade on August 1, San Jacinto commenced operations against the Japanese in the Bonin Islands. On September 2, 1944, Bush piloted one of four aircraft from VT-51 that attacked the Japanese installations on Chichi Jima. During their attack four TBM Avengers from VT-51 encountered intense antiaircraft fire. While starting the attack, Bush's aircraft was hit and his engine caught on fire. He completed his attack and released the bombs over his target, scoring several damaging hits. With his engine on fire, Bush flew several miles from the island, where he and one other crew member on the TBM Avenger bailed out of the aircraft. While Bush waited four hours in his inflated raft, several fighters circled protectively overhead until he was rescued by the lifeguard submarine U.S.S. Finback. For this action Bush received the Distinguished Flying Cross.
1945 World War II: VJ-Day, combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The timetable for the end of World War-II began with the atomic bombs dropped on Japan on August 6, and August 9, 1945, and surrender on Aug. 14, 1945. President Truman proclaimed Sept. 2, 1945 as V-J Day, Victory over Japan.
1945 Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1946 The Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
1949 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.'
1950 The temperature at Mecca, CA, soared to 126 degrees to establish a U.S. record for the month of September. The low that morning was 89 degrees.
1958 United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/c130_shootdown.shtml
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C-130_Hercules_crashes#1950s
1961 "Wooden Heart" by Joe Dowell topped the charts. Producer Shelby Singleton got Joe Dowell to sing a half-English, half-German version, which shot to #1 upon release. Elvis Presley sang this in the movie G.I. Blues. His version was a huge hit in the UK, but RCA Records had no intention of releasing it in the US. When this hit #1 for Elvis in the UK, he became the first artist there with 7 #1 hits.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_Heart
1963 CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1970 NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
1971 Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer.
1985 After teasing residents along the Gulf of Mexico for two days, Hurricane Elena finally came ashore at Biloxi MS. The hurricane, packing winds of 127 mph, caused more than a billion dollars damage.
1987 Late evening thunderstorms in the Northern Plains Region produced wind gusts to 75 mph at Jordan MT, and a "hot flash" at Redig SD. The temperature at Redig rose from 66 degrees at 10 PM to 86 degrees at 11 PM as thunderstorm winds gusted to 36 mph. Nine cities in the Upper Ohio Valley, the Tennessee Valley and the Central Gulf Coast States reported record low temperatures for the date, including Elkins WV with a reading of 38 degrees.
1988 Unseasonably hot weather prevailed in the northwestern U.S. Afternoon highs of 98 degrees at Olympia WA, 98 degrees at Seattle WA, 105 degrees at Portland OR, and 110 degrees at Medford OR, established records for the month of September. Quillayute WA equalled their September record with an afternoon high of 97 degrees.
1989 Eight cities in the Gulf Coast Region reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the upper 90s. Houston TX and Port Arthur TX hit 99 degrees. Late evening thunderstorms, developing ahead of a cold front, produced wind gusts to 63 mph at Dickinson ND, and golf ball size hail in North Dakota and Nebraska. Winds along the cold front itself gusted to 62 mph at Buffalo SD.
1990 Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
1992 An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
1992 The United States and Russia agreed to build a space station.
1992 The Southern California Gas Company purchased the first motor vehicles powered by natural gas.
Artist's impression of the aircraft involved.
1998 Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
1998 The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
2009, A special "Winton train" set off from the Prague Main railway station. The train, consisting of an original locomotive and carriages used in the 1930s, headed to London via the original Kindertransport route. On board the train were several surviving "Winton children" and their descendants, who were to be welcomed by Nicholas Winton in London. Sir Nicholas George Winton organized the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for them and arranged for their safe passage to Britain
2010: Archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed a 3,000-year-old Iron Age temple with a trove of figurines of ancient deities and circular clay vessels used for religious rituals, officials said today. The head of the Jordanian Antiquities Department, Ziad al-Saad, said the sanctuary dates to the eighth century B.C. and was discovered at Khirbat 'Ataroz near the town of Mabada, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) southwest of the capital Amman. The Moabites, whose kingdom ran along present-day Jordan's mountainous eastern shore of the Dead Sea, were closely related to the Israelites, although the two were in frequent conflict. The Babylonians eventually conquered the Moabites in 582 B.C.
2011: “Radio pulled its coverage of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in London this evening as a small number of anti-Israel protestors disrupted the concert by shouting anti-Israel slogans at the orchestra, which was performing as part of the prestigious annual BBC Proms classic music festival.”
1810 William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
1820 Lucretia Hale, (d 1900) American journalist and author
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Hale
1830 William P. Frye, (d 1911) American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Frye, a member of the Republican Party, spent most of his political career as a legislator, serving in the Maine House of Representatives and U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served for 30 years and died in office. Frye was a member of the Frye political family, and was the grandfather of Wallace H. White, Jr. and the son of John March Frye. He was also a prominent member of the Peucinian Society tradition.
1838 Liliuokalani of Hawaii, (d 1917) Queen of Hawaii, born Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha, was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii. She was also known as Lydia Kamakaʻeha Pākī, with the chosen royal name of Liliʻuokalani, and her married name was Lydia K. Dominis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliuokalani
1838 Erastus Blakelee (d 1908) A Congregationalist minister, he organized the Bible Study Publishing Co. (in Boston) in 1892 and the Bible Study Union. When he died in 1908, he had published more than 150 lessons.
1839 Henry George, American economist (d. 1897)
1847 Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
1850 Eugene Field (d 1895) American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.
Field once worked as a journalist for the St. Joseph Gazette in Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1875. That same year he married Julia Comstock, with whom he had eight children. For the rest of his life he arranged for all the money he earned to be sent to his wife, saying that he had no head for money himself.
Field soon rose to become city editor of the Gazette. He became known for his light, humorous articles written in a gossipy style, some of which were reprinted by other newspapers around the country. It was during this time that he wrote the famous poem "Lovers Lane" about a street in St. Joseph, Missouri.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Field
1850 Albert Spalding, (d 1915) American baseball player and co-founder of the A.G. Spalding sporting goods company.
1852 Charles Cuthbert Hall (d 1908) After graduating from Williams College in 1872, he served as a Presbyterian pastor and eventually as the president of Union Theological Seminary.
1869 Hiram Percy Maxim (d 17 Feb 1936, 66) American inventor and manufacturer whose name is remembered with the "Maxim silencer" gun attachment. (The Maxim machine gun was invented by his father, Hiram Stevens Maxim). He was also active in amateur radio, and pioneered in the automobile industry, air conditioning and space research.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Percy_Maxim
1884 Dr. Frank Laubach, (d 1970) American Christian missionary known as "The Apostle to the Illiterates." In 1935, while working at a remote location in the Philippines, he developed the "Each One Teach One" literacy program. It has been used to teach about 60 million people to read in their own language.[1] He was deeply concerned about poverty, injustice and illiteracy, and considered them barriers to peace in the world.
In 1955, he founded Laubach Literacy, which helped introduce about 150,000 Americans to reading each year and had grown to embrace 34 developing countries. An estimated 2.7 million people worldwide were learning to read through Laubach-affiliated programs. In 2002, this group merged with Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. to form ProLiteracy Worldwide.
During the latter years of his life, Laubach traveled all over the world speaking on the topics of literacy and world peace. He was author of a number of devotional writings and works on literacy.
One of his most widely influential devotional works was a pamphlet entitled "The Game with Minutes." In it, Laubach urged Christians to attempt keeping God in mind for at least one second of every minute of the day. In this way Christians can attempt the attitude of constant prayer spoken of in the Epistle to the Colossians. The pamphlet extolled the virtues of a life lived with unceasing focus on God. Laubach's insight came from his experiments in prayer detailed in a collection of his letters published under the title, Letters by a Modern Mystic.
Laubach is the only American missionary to be honored on a US postage stamp, a 30¢ Great Americans series stamp in 1984.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Laubach
1886 Warren Brittingham, American soccer player (d. 1962)
1901 Adolph Rupp, (d 1977) American college basketball coach, one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball. Rupp is ranked 5th (behind Mike Krzyzewski, Bob Knight, Jim Boeheim, and Dean Smith) in total victories by a men's NCAA Division I college coach, winning 876 games in 41 years of coaching. Rupp is also second among all men's college coaches in all-time winning percentage (.822), trailing only Clair Bee. Adolph F. Rupp was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on April 13, 1969.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Rupp
1911 Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988)
1914 Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
1915 Benjamin Aaron, American labor law expert (d. 2007)
1915 Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (d. 2010)
1917 Cleveland Amory, American author (d. 1997)
1918 Allen Drury, American novelist (d. 1998)
1919 Marge Champion, American actress
1925 Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1927 Milo Hamilton, American Hall of Fame sports broadcaster
1928 Horace Silver, American jazz pianist and composer
1929 Hal Ashby, American film director (d 1988)
1931 Clifford Jordan, American jazz saxophonist (d 1993)
1934 Sam Gooden, American singer (The Impressions)
1934 Chuck McCann, American voice actor
1934 Grady Nutt, American humorist (d 1982)
1935 D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Wayne_Lukas
1936 Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
1937 Peter Ueberroth, American sport executive. He served as the sixth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1984 to 1989. He was recently the chairman of the United States Olympic Committee; he was replaced by Larry Probst in October 2008.[
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ueberroth
1938 Mary Jo Catlett, American actress
1938 Clarence Felder, American actor
1940 Jimmy Clanton, American singer
1941 David Bale, South African–born American animal rights activist (d. 2003)
1941 John Thompson, Jr., American college basketball coach
1943 Rosalind Ashford, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1943 Joe Simon, American singer
1946 Billy Preston, American keyboardist (d. 2006)
1946 Walt Simonson, American comic book artist and writer
1946 Dan White, American assassin (d. 1985)
1948 Nate Archibald, American basketball player
1948 Terry Bradshaw, former American football quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL). He is currently a TV analyst and co-host of Fox NFL Sunday. He played 14 seasons with Pittsburgh, won four Super Bowl titles in a six-year period (1974, 1975, 1978, and 1979), becoming the first quarterback to win three and four Super Bowls, and led the Steelers to eight AFC Central championships. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1989, his first year of eligibility.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Bradshaw
1948 Christa McAuliffe, (d 1986) American schoolteacher and astronaut - one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe
1950 Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
1951 James Warren "Jim" DeMint junior United States Senator from South Carolina, serving since 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party and a leading member in the Tea Party movement.[1][2][3] He previously served as the United States Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district from 1999 to 2005.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_DeMint
1951 Jon Feltheimer, American film executive
1951 Michael Gray, American actor
1951 Mark Harmon, American actor. Since the mid 1970s, he has appeared in a variety of television, film and stage roles following a brief career as a collegiate football player with the UCLA Bruins. Since 2003, Harmon has starred as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the hit CBS series NCIS.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Harmon
1952 Jimmy Connors, American former World No. 1 tennis player from the United States. Connors won eight Grand Slam singles titles and two Grand Slam doubles titles with Ilie Năstase. He was also a runner-up seven times in Grand Slam singles, a doubles runner-up with Năstase at the 1973 French Open, and a mixed doubles runner-up with Chris Evert at the 1974 US Open. He held the top ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from July 29, 1974 to August 22, 1977 and an additional eight times during his career for a total of 268 weeks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Connors
1953 John Zorn, American composer, arranger and saxophonist
1957 Tony Alva, American skateboarder
1960 Eric Dickerson, former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons during the 1980s and 1990s. Dickerson played college football for Southern Methodist University, and was recognized as an All-American. He was selected in the first round of the 1983 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Los Angeles Rams, Indianapolis Colts, Los Angeles Raiders, and Atlanta Falcons of the NFL. During his NFL career, he rushed for over 13,000 yards.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Dickerson
1960 John S. Hall, American poet and spoken-word artist
1960 Rex Hudler, American baseball player
1963 Sam Mitchell, American basketball player and coach
1966 Dino Cazares, Mexican-born American guitarist (Fear Factory)
1966 Tuc Watkins, American actor
1968 Kristen Cloke, American actress
1968 Cynthia Watros, American actress
1969 Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer
1971 Tommy Maddox, American football player
1973 Jason Blake, American ice hockey player
1973 Katt Williams, American comedian, actor and rapper
1975 MC Chris, American rapper
1976 Phil Lipscomb, American bassist (Taproot)
1976 Erin Hershey Presley, American actress
1979 Brian Westbrook, American football player
1982 Jason Hammel, American baseball player
1983 Rich Boy, American rapper
1986 Kyle Hines, American basketball player
1987 Spencer Smith, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)
1989 Marcus Morris, American basketball player
1989 Markieff Morris, American basketball player
6th century depiction of Simeon on his column. Christ is shown at the top in a mandorla, blessing Simeon; the serpent represents demonic temptations (Louvre).
459 Simeon Stylites, Christian ascetic saint who achieved fame for living 37 years on a small platform on top of a pillar near Aleppo in Syria. Several other stylites later followed his model (the Greek word style means pillar).
1031 Saint Emeric of Hungary
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Emeric
1898 Wilford Woodruff, American fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b 1807)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilford_Woodruff
1921 Anthony Francis Lucas (b 1855) Croatian-born oil explorer. With Pattillo Higgins he organized the drilling of an oil well near Beaumont, Texas that became known as Spindletop. This led to the widespread exploitation of oil and the start of the petroleum age.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Francis_Lucas
1934 Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1884)
1934 Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist and actor (b. 1908)
1937 Pierre de Coubertin, (b 1863) French educationalist and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games. Born into a French aristocratic family, he became an academic and studied a broad range of topics, most notably education and history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Coubertin
1941 Lloyd Seay, American stock car driver (b. 1919)
1942 James Juvenal, American rower (b. 1874)
1944 Bella Rosenfeld, Russian-born American wife of Marc Chagall and subject of many of his paintings (b. 1895)
1945 Mason Phelps, American golfer (b. 1885)
1948 Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
1953 Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, (b 1883) U.S. general, career American army officer and the commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to the Empire of Japan during World War II. Wainwright is a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Mayhew_Wainwright_IV
1962 William Wilkerson, American founder of the Hollywood Reporter and the Flamingo Hotel and nightclub owner (b. 1890)
1964 Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1964 Alvin York, (b 1887) one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others. This action occurred during the U.S.-led portion of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, which was part of a broader Allied offensive masterminded by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to breach the Hindenburg line and make the opposing German forces surrender.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York
1973 Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
1973 J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, (3 Jan 1892) English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, (a trilogy describes a war between good and evil in which evil is routed through courage and sacrifice.) and The Silmarillion.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was reading an old Saxon poem "The Crist of Cynewulf" when a phrase leapt off the page. "Hail Earendel brightest of angels, over Middle Earth sent to men." Middle Earth is an ancient expression for our world which lies between Heaven and Hell. For years Ronald had been studying languages, inventing his own and making up stories set in a mythical past. Eventually he combined all this material into a world called Middle Earth.
Authors create their work according to their view of the world. Ronald's was a Christian view and his books show it. Christianity appears in the ideas and symbols of his famous trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.
Ronald said, "The gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essences of fairy-stories." The essence of the gospel and of fairy-tales is a surprising, hopeful turn in all man's despair and sorrow. Joy is the result, a brief glimpse of intense delight springing out of unexpected good news.
When Ronald's good creatures think about good and evil, predestination, history, freewill and grace, mercy, providence, judgment and redemption, they follow their maker's Christian mind. For instance, when an elf says, "But whereas the light perceives the very heart of darkness, its own secret has not been discovered," he echoes the Apostle John who said, "The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it." (John 1:5).
Ronald, who lived through both world wars and spent time in the trenches, knew first-hand about light and darkness. His views of light required him to be obedient and he was-- to the point of almost losing the girl he loved. He lost both parents at a young age. Father Francis Morgan took over his upbringing. Observing that sixteen-year-old Ronald was becoming too friendly with Edith Bratt, a nineteen-year-old girl, Father Morgan commanded him to break off the relationship until he turned 21. Ronald obeyed.
Fortunately, Edith forgave him. They married before he went to war. Once, while he was based at Hull, Edith and he were able to spend time together. She danced for him in the woods and this was the inspiration for his tale of Beren and Luthien. He saw himself as Beren, and Edith as Luthien. During the war, he acquired trench fever and had to be sent home to recover.
As is well known, Ronald became a close friend of C. S. Lewis. His wisdom pointed Lewis back to Christianity. The two were founding members of one of history's most famous literary groups: the Inklings.
Ronald had difficulty getting The Lord of the Rings published. The publisher expected to lose money on it. Instead, it was such a success that by Ronald's death on this day, September 2, 1973, he was moderately wealthy. The book has spawned hundreds of imitations which unfortunately do not share its Christian world view
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630834/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien
1978 Fred G. Meyer, American entrepreneur, founder of Fred Meyer, Inc. (b 1886)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_G._Meyer
1979 Otto P. Weyland, (b 1903) American Air Force General, and the post-World War II Commander of Far East Air Forces during the Korean War and of Tactical Air Command.
1985 Jay Youngblood, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
1992 Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock
1997 Viktor Frankl, (b 1905) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy". His best-selling book, Man's Search for Meaning (published under a different title in 1959: From Death-Camp to Existentialism, and originally published in 1946 as Trotzdem Ja Zum Leben Sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager), chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate which led him to discover the importance of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to continue living. Frankl became one of the key figures in existential therapy and a prominent source of inspiration for humanistic psychologists.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl
1998 Allen Drury, American novelist (b. 1918)
2000 Curt Siodmak, German-born American screenwriter (b. 1907)
2001 Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Barnard
2001 Troy Donahue, American actor (b 1936)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Donahue
2005 Bob Denver, (b 1935) American comedic actor known for his roles as Gilligan on the television series Gilligan's Island and the beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the 1959–1963 TV series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Denver
2006 Bob Mathias, American decathlete and congressman (b. 1930)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mathias
2006 Willi Ninja, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
2008 Bill Meléndez, American character animator (b. 1916)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Syriac Orthodox Church)
Agricola of Avignon
Antoninus of Pamiers
Castor of Apt
Nonnosus
San Esteban del Rey (Acoma Pueblo)
September 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyr Mamas of Caesarea in Cappadocia with his parents, martyrs Theodotus and Rufina (275)
Saint John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople (595)
3,618 martyrs of Nicomedia (3rd and 4th centuries)
Venerable Anthony and Theodosius, Founders of Monasticism in Rus' of the Kiev Caves
Martyrs Diomedes, Julian the martyr, Philip the martyr, Eutykhian, Hesychios the martyr, Leonides the martyr, Eutychios the martyr, Philadelphos, Melanippos, Parthagapa and Theodore the martyr.
Righteous Eleazar, son of Aaron
Righteous Phinehas, son of Eleazar, grandson of Aaron
Martyrs Aeithalas and Ammon of Thrace
Other commemorations
Celebration of the Icon of the Theotokos at Kaluga
Repose of Hieromonk Seraphim Rose of Platina (1982)
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www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/weather_history/today2S.pl
thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
www.christianity.com/HistoryByDay/0902/
There are 121 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days until Election Day, Tuesday November 6, 2012: 66
Countdown until Obama leaves Office www.obamaclock.org/
U.S. Debt Clock: www.usdebtclock.org/
1578 The first Anglican service of worship to be held on Canadian soil was led by Rev. Robert Wolfall at Frobisher Bay, on Baffin Island.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wolfall
The city of Castro, on which the Wars of Castro centered.
1649 The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_Castro
1666 The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London
1752 Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
1784 English clergyman Thomas Coke, 37, was consecrated, the first "bishop" of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by founder John Wesley. Coke afterward journeyed to America, where he and Francis Asbury oversaw Methodism in the Colonies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Coke_(bishop)
1789 The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury
1792 During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_Massacres
1806 A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.
www.myswitzerland.com/en/zoo-goldau.html
1833 Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberlin_College
1858 Lincoln makes speech about when you can fool people. Tradition has come to attribute this quote to his speech at Clinton, IL on September 2, 1858 where he stated: "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
Sunspots of September 1, 1859, as sketched by Richard Carrington A and B mark the initial positions of an intensely bright event, which moved over the course of 5 minutes to C and D before disappearing.
1859 A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
George B. McClellan
1862 American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._McClellan
1864 American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Campaign#Jonesborough_.28August_31_.E2.80.93_September_1.29
An illustration of the massacre from an 1886 issue of Harper's Weekly.
1885 Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 White miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre
1897 The first issue of "McCall’s" magazine was published. It was a monthly American women's magazine that enjoyed great popularity through much of the 20th century, peaking at a readership of 8.4 million in the early 1960s. It was established as a small-format magazine called The Queen in 1873. In 1897 it was renamed McCall's Magazine—The Queen of Fashion (later shortened to McCall's) and subsequently grew in size to become a large-format glossy. It was one of the "Seven Sisters" group of women's service magazines.
McCall's published fiction by such well-known authors as Ray Bradbury, Gelett Burgess, Willa Cather, Jack Finney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Barbara Garson, John Steinbeck, Tim O'Brien, Anne Tyler and Kurt Vonnegut.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCall%27s
1901 Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
1918 Baseball season ends due to WW I. In Washington, the Senators end the year on a light note, by splitting with the A's. Philadelphia wins the opener and the Nats take the nitecap, 8-3. The game ends with General March throwing out the last ball; he'll toss out the first next year.
1927 Sophie Tucker recorded her signature song, "Some of These Days". In 1911 Tucker recorded "Some of These Days," the song that became her trademark, and was soon touring with her own band. In 1921 she hired pianist Ted Shapiro, her long-term musical director, who wrote such famous songs for her as "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else" and "Red-Hot Mama." And, in 1925, Tucker sang "My Yiddische Mama," at the Palace Theater, the first performance of what would become a Jewish anthem in Europe after being banned by Hitler.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_of_These_Days
1930 While a missionary in the Philippines, American linguistic pioneer Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'God is always awaiting the chance to give us high days. We so seldom are in deep earnest about giving him his chance.'
1931 "15 Minutes with Bing Crosby" debuted on CBS. The head of CBS radio, William Paley, heard Bing's recording of I Surrender Dear and ordered him signed to a radio contract despite warnings of Bing's playboy reputation. Bing was scheduled to debut in a live CBS network radio show on August 31, 1931. Bing didn't show. After a second postponement, Bing finally made his network debut on Sept. 2. His first song was, appropriately, "Just One More Chance." To conclude the broadcast he sang "I'm thru with Love." Bing did not talk during the 15-minute broadcast. The announcer, Harry Von Zell, explained that Bing had missed the previous two shows because of laryngitis.
1935 Perhaps the most intense hurricane ever to hit the U.S. struck the Florida Keys with 200 mph winds. The hurricane produced a fifteen foot tide and waves thirty feet high. 400 persons perished in the storm on that Labor Day. The barometric pressure at Matecumbe Bay FL hits a record low for the U.S. of 26.35 inches.
1939 World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdañsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
1944 During WW II, George H. W. Bush ejects from a burning plane. After Bush's promotion to Lieutenant Junior Grade on August 1, San Jacinto commenced operations against the Japanese in the Bonin Islands. On September 2, 1944, Bush piloted one of four aircraft from VT-51 that attacked the Japanese installations on Chichi Jima. During their attack four TBM Avengers from VT-51 encountered intense antiaircraft fire. While starting the attack, Bush's aircraft was hit and his engine caught on fire. He completed his attack and released the bombs over his target, scoring several damaging hits. With his engine on fire, Bush flew several miles from the island, where he and one other crew member on the TBM Avenger bailed out of the aircraft. While Bush waited four hours in his inflated raft, several fighters circled protectively overhead until he was rescued by the lifeguard submarine U.S.S. Finback. For this action Bush received the Distinguished Flying Cross.
1945 World War II: VJ-Day, combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The timetable for the end of World War-II began with the atomic bombs dropped on Japan on August 6, and August 9, 1945, and surrender on Aug. 14, 1945. President Truman proclaimed Sept. 2, 1945 as V-J Day, Victory over Japan.
1945 Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1946 The Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister.
1949 English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.'
1950 The temperature at Mecca, CA, soared to 126 degrees to establish a U.S. record for the month of September. The low that morning was 89 degrees.
1958 United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/c130_shootdown.shtml
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C-130_Hercules_crashes#1950s
1961 "Wooden Heart" by Joe Dowell topped the charts. Producer Shelby Singleton got Joe Dowell to sing a half-English, half-German version, which shot to #1 upon release. Elvis Presley sang this in the movie G.I. Blues. His version was a huge hit in the UK, but RCA Records had no intention of releasing it in the US. When this hit #1 for Elvis in the UK, he became the first artist there with 7 #1 hits.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_Heart
1963 CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
1970 NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
1971 Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer.
1985 After teasing residents along the Gulf of Mexico for two days, Hurricane Elena finally came ashore at Biloxi MS. The hurricane, packing winds of 127 mph, caused more than a billion dollars damage.
1987 Late evening thunderstorms in the Northern Plains Region produced wind gusts to 75 mph at Jordan MT, and a "hot flash" at Redig SD. The temperature at Redig rose from 66 degrees at 10 PM to 86 degrees at 11 PM as thunderstorm winds gusted to 36 mph. Nine cities in the Upper Ohio Valley, the Tennessee Valley and the Central Gulf Coast States reported record low temperatures for the date, including Elkins WV with a reading of 38 degrees.
1988 Unseasonably hot weather prevailed in the northwestern U.S. Afternoon highs of 98 degrees at Olympia WA, 98 degrees at Seattle WA, 105 degrees at Portland OR, and 110 degrees at Medford OR, established records for the month of September. Quillayute WA equalled their September record with an afternoon high of 97 degrees.
1989 Eight cities in the Gulf Coast Region reported record high temperatures for the date as readings soared into the upper 90s. Houston TX and Port Arthur TX hit 99 degrees. Late evening thunderstorms, developing ahead of a cold front, produced wind gusts to 63 mph at Dickinson ND, and golf ball size hail in North Dakota and Nebraska. Winds along the cold front itself gusted to 62 mph at Buffalo SD.
1990 Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
1992 An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
1992 The United States and Russia agreed to build a space station.
1992 The Southern California Gas Company purchased the first motor vehicles powered by natural gas.
Artist's impression of the aircraft involved.
1998 Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
1998 The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
2009, A special "Winton train" set off from the Prague Main railway station. The train, consisting of an original locomotive and carriages used in the 1930s, headed to London via the original Kindertransport route. On board the train were several surviving "Winton children" and their descendants, who were to be welcomed by Nicholas Winton in London. Sir Nicholas George Winton organized the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for them and arranged for their safe passage to Britain
2010: Archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed a 3,000-year-old Iron Age temple with a trove of figurines of ancient deities and circular clay vessels used for religious rituals, officials said today. The head of the Jordanian Antiquities Department, Ziad al-Saad, said the sanctuary dates to the eighth century B.C. and was discovered at Khirbat 'Ataroz near the town of Mabada, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) southwest of the capital Amman. The Moabites, whose kingdom ran along present-day Jordan's mountainous eastern shore of the Dead Sea, were closely related to the Israelites, although the two were in frequent conflict. The Babylonians eventually conquered the Moabites in 582 B.C.
2011: “Radio pulled its coverage of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in London this evening as a small number of anti-Israel protestors disrupted the concert by shouting anti-Israel slogans at the orchestra, which was performing as part of the prestigious annual BBC Proms classic music festival.”
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1810 William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897)
1820 Lucretia Hale, (d 1900) American journalist and author
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Hale
1830 William P. Frye, (d 1911) American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Frye, a member of the Republican Party, spent most of his political career as a legislator, serving in the Maine House of Representatives and U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served for 30 years and died in office. Frye was a member of the Frye political family, and was the grandfather of Wallace H. White, Jr. and the son of John March Frye. He was also a prominent member of the Peucinian Society tradition.
1838 Liliuokalani of Hawaii, (d 1917) Queen of Hawaii, born Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamakaʻeha, was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii. She was also known as Lydia Kamakaʻeha Pākī, with the chosen royal name of Liliʻuokalani, and her married name was Lydia K. Dominis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliuokalani
1838 Erastus Blakelee (d 1908) A Congregationalist minister, he organized the Bible Study Publishing Co. (in Boston) in 1892 and the Bible Study Union. When he died in 1908, he had published more than 150 lessons.
1839 Henry George, American economist (d. 1897)
1847 Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900)
1850 Eugene Field (d 1895) American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.
Field once worked as a journalist for the St. Joseph Gazette in Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1875. That same year he married Julia Comstock, with whom he had eight children. For the rest of his life he arranged for all the money he earned to be sent to his wife, saying that he had no head for money himself.
Field soon rose to become city editor of the Gazette. He became known for his light, humorous articles written in a gossipy style, some of which were reprinted by other newspapers around the country. It was during this time that he wrote the famous poem "Lovers Lane" about a street in St. Joseph, Missouri.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Field
1850 Albert Spalding, (d 1915) American baseball player and co-founder of the A.G. Spalding sporting goods company.
1852 Charles Cuthbert Hall (d 1908) After graduating from Williams College in 1872, he served as a Presbyterian pastor and eventually as the president of Union Theological Seminary.
1869 Hiram Percy Maxim (d 17 Feb 1936, 66) American inventor and manufacturer whose name is remembered with the "Maxim silencer" gun attachment. (The Maxim machine gun was invented by his father, Hiram Stevens Maxim). He was also active in amateur radio, and pioneered in the automobile industry, air conditioning and space research.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Percy_Maxim
1884 Dr. Frank Laubach, (d 1970) American Christian missionary known as "The Apostle to the Illiterates." In 1935, while working at a remote location in the Philippines, he developed the "Each One Teach One" literacy program. It has been used to teach about 60 million people to read in their own language.[1] He was deeply concerned about poverty, injustice and illiteracy, and considered them barriers to peace in the world.
In 1955, he founded Laubach Literacy, which helped introduce about 150,000 Americans to reading each year and had grown to embrace 34 developing countries. An estimated 2.7 million people worldwide were learning to read through Laubach-affiliated programs. In 2002, this group merged with Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. to form ProLiteracy Worldwide.
During the latter years of his life, Laubach traveled all over the world speaking on the topics of literacy and world peace. He was author of a number of devotional writings and works on literacy.
One of his most widely influential devotional works was a pamphlet entitled "The Game with Minutes." In it, Laubach urged Christians to attempt keeping God in mind for at least one second of every minute of the day. In this way Christians can attempt the attitude of constant prayer spoken of in the Epistle to the Colossians. The pamphlet extolled the virtues of a life lived with unceasing focus on God. Laubach's insight came from his experiments in prayer detailed in a collection of his letters published under the title, Letters by a Modern Mystic.
Laubach is the only American missionary to be honored on a US postage stamp, a 30¢ Great Americans series stamp in 1984.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Laubach
1886 Warren Brittingham, American soccer player (d. 1962)
1901 Adolph Rupp, (d 1977) American college basketball coach, one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball. Rupp is ranked 5th (behind Mike Krzyzewski, Bob Knight, Jim Boeheim, and Dean Smith) in total victories by a men's NCAA Division I college coach, winning 876 games in 41 years of coaching. Rupp is also second among all men's college coaches in all-time winning percentage (.822), trailing only Clair Bee. Adolph F. Rupp was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on April 13, 1969.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Rupp
1911 Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988)
1914 Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
1915 Benjamin Aaron, American labor law expert (d. 2007)
1915 Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (d. 2010)
1917 Cleveland Amory, American author (d. 1997)
1918 Allen Drury, American novelist (d. 1998)
1919 Marge Champion, American actress
1925 Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1927 Milo Hamilton, American Hall of Fame sports broadcaster
1928 Horace Silver, American jazz pianist and composer
1929 Hal Ashby, American film director (d 1988)
1931 Clifford Jordan, American jazz saxophonist (d 1993)
1934 Sam Gooden, American singer (The Impressions)
1934 Chuck McCann, American voice actor
1934 Grady Nutt, American humorist (d 1982)
1935 D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Wayne_Lukas
1936 Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
1937 Peter Ueberroth, American sport executive. He served as the sixth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1984 to 1989. He was recently the chairman of the United States Olympic Committee; he was replaced by Larry Probst in October 2008.[
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ueberroth
1938 Mary Jo Catlett, American actress
1938 Clarence Felder, American actor
1940 Jimmy Clanton, American singer
1941 David Bale, South African–born American animal rights activist (d. 2003)
1941 John Thompson, Jr., American college basketball coach
1943 Rosalind Ashford, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1943 Joe Simon, American singer
1946 Billy Preston, American keyboardist (d. 2006)
1946 Walt Simonson, American comic book artist and writer
1946 Dan White, American assassin (d. 1985)
1948 Nate Archibald, American basketball player
1948 Terry Bradshaw, former American football quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL). He is currently a TV analyst and co-host of Fox NFL Sunday. He played 14 seasons with Pittsburgh, won four Super Bowl titles in a six-year period (1974, 1975, 1978, and 1979), becoming the first quarterback to win three and four Super Bowls, and led the Steelers to eight AFC Central championships. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1989, his first year of eligibility.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Bradshaw
1948 Christa McAuliffe, (d 1986) American schoolteacher and astronaut - one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe
1950 Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
1951 James Warren "Jim" DeMint junior United States Senator from South Carolina, serving since 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party and a leading member in the Tea Party movement.[1][2][3] He previously served as the United States Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district from 1999 to 2005.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_DeMint
1951 Jon Feltheimer, American film executive
1951 Michael Gray, American actor
1951 Mark Harmon, American actor. Since the mid 1970s, he has appeared in a variety of television, film and stage roles following a brief career as a collegiate football player with the UCLA Bruins. Since 2003, Harmon has starred as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the hit CBS series NCIS.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Harmon
1952 Jimmy Connors, American former World No. 1 tennis player from the United States. Connors won eight Grand Slam singles titles and two Grand Slam doubles titles with Ilie Năstase. He was also a runner-up seven times in Grand Slam singles, a doubles runner-up with Năstase at the 1973 French Open, and a mixed doubles runner-up with Chris Evert at the 1974 US Open. He held the top ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from July 29, 1974 to August 22, 1977 and an additional eight times during his career for a total of 268 weeks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Connors
1953 John Zorn, American composer, arranger and saxophonist
1957 Tony Alva, American skateboarder
1960 Eric Dickerson, former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons during the 1980s and 1990s. Dickerson played college football for Southern Methodist University, and was recognized as an All-American. He was selected in the first round of the 1983 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Los Angeles Rams, Indianapolis Colts, Los Angeles Raiders, and Atlanta Falcons of the NFL. During his NFL career, he rushed for over 13,000 yards.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Dickerson
1960 John S. Hall, American poet and spoken-word artist
1960 Rex Hudler, American baseball player
1963 Sam Mitchell, American basketball player and coach
1966 Dino Cazares, Mexican-born American guitarist (Fear Factory)
1966 Tuc Watkins, American actor
1968 Kristen Cloke, American actress
1968 Cynthia Watros, American actress
1969 Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer
1971 Tommy Maddox, American football player
1973 Jason Blake, American ice hockey player
1973 Katt Williams, American comedian, actor and rapper
1975 MC Chris, American rapper
1976 Phil Lipscomb, American bassist (Taproot)
1976 Erin Hershey Presley, American actress
1979 Brian Westbrook, American football player
1982 Jason Hammel, American baseball player
1983 Rich Boy, American rapper
1986 Kyle Hines, American basketball player
1987 Spencer Smith, American musician (Panic! at the Disco)
1989 Marcus Morris, American basketball player
1989 Markieff Morris, American basketball player
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6th century depiction of Simeon on his column. Christ is shown at the top in a mandorla, blessing Simeon; the serpent represents demonic temptations (Louvre).
459 Simeon Stylites, Christian ascetic saint who achieved fame for living 37 years on a small platform on top of a pillar near Aleppo in Syria. Several other stylites later followed his model (the Greek word style means pillar).
1031 Saint Emeric of Hungary
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Emeric
1898 Wilford Woodruff, American fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b 1807)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilford_Woodruff
1921 Anthony Francis Lucas (b 1855) Croatian-born oil explorer. With Pattillo Higgins he organized the drilling of an oil well near Beaumont, Texas that became known as Spindletop. This led to the widespread exploitation of oil and the start of the petroleum age.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Francis_Lucas
1934 Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1884)
1934 Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist and actor (b. 1908)
1937 Pierre de Coubertin, (b 1863) French educationalist and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games. Born into a French aristocratic family, he became an academic and studied a broad range of topics, most notably education and history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Coubertin
1941 Lloyd Seay, American stock car driver (b. 1919)
1942 James Juvenal, American rower (b. 1874)
1944 Bella Rosenfeld, Russian-born American wife of Marc Chagall and subject of many of his paintings (b. 1895)
1945 Mason Phelps, American golfer (b. 1885)
1948 Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)
1953 Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, (b 1883) U.S. general, career American army officer and the commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to the Empire of Japan during World War II. Wainwright is a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Mayhew_Wainwright_IV
1962 William Wilkerson, American founder of the Hollywood Reporter and the Flamingo Hotel and nightclub owner (b. 1890)
1964 Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
1964 Alvin York, (b 1887) one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns, killing 28 German soldiers and capturing 132 others. This action occurred during the U.S.-led portion of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, which was part of a broader Allied offensive masterminded by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to breach the Hindenburg line and make the opposing German forces surrender.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York
1973 Carl Dudley, American film director (b. 1910)
1973 J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, (3 Jan 1892) English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, (a trilogy describes a war between good and evil in which evil is routed through courage and sacrifice.) and The Silmarillion.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was reading an old Saxon poem "The Crist of Cynewulf" when a phrase leapt off the page. "Hail Earendel brightest of angels, over Middle Earth sent to men." Middle Earth is an ancient expression for our world which lies between Heaven and Hell. For years Ronald had been studying languages, inventing his own and making up stories set in a mythical past. Eventually he combined all this material into a world called Middle Earth.
Authors create their work according to their view of the world. Ronald's was a Christian view and his books show it. Christianity appears in the ideas and symbols of his famous trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.
Ronald said, "The gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essences of fairy-stories." The essence of the gospel and of fairy-tales is a surprising, hopeful turn in all man's despair and sorrow. Joy is the result, a brief glimpse of intense delight springing out of unexpected good news.
When Ronald's good creatures think about good and evil, predestination, history, freewill and grace, mercy, providence, judgment and redemption, they follow their maker's Christian mind. For instance, when an elf says, "But whereas the light perceives the very heart of darkness, its own secret has not been discovered," he echoes the Apostle John who said, "The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it." (John 1:5).
Ronald, who lived through both world wars and spent time in the trenches, knew first-hand about light and darkness. His views of light required him to be obedient and he was-- to the point of almost losing the girl he loved. He lost both parents at a young age. Father Francis Morgan took over his upbringing. Observing that sixteen-year-old Ronald was becoming too friendly with Edith Bratt, a nineteen-year-old girl, Father Morgan commanded him to break off the relationship until he turned 21. Ronald obeyed.
Fortunately, Edith forgave him. They married before he went to war. Once, while he was based at Hull, Edith and he were able to spend time together. She danced for him in the woods and this was the inspiration for his tale of Beren and Luthien. He saw himself as Beren, and Edith as Luthien. During the war, he acquired trench fever and had to be sent home to recover.
As is well known, Ronald became a close friend of C. S. Lewis. His wisdom pointed Lewis back to Christianity. The two were founding members of one of history's most famous literary groups: the Inklings.
Ronald had difficulty getting The Lord of the Rings published. The publisher expected to lose money on it. Instead, it was such a success that by Ronald's death on this day, September 2, 1973, he was moderately wealthy. The book has spawned hundreds of imitations which unfortunately do not share its Christian world view
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630834/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien
1978 Fred G. Meyer, American entrepreneur, founder of Fred Meyer, Inc. (b 1886)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_G._Meyer
1979 Otto P. Weyland, (b 1903) American Air Force General, and the post-World War II Commander of Far East Air Forces during the Korean War and of Tactical Air Command.
1985 Jay Youngblood, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
1992 Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock
1997 Viktor Frankl, (b 1905) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy". His best-selling book, Man's Search for Meaning (published under a different title in 1959: From Death-Camp to Existentialism, and originally published in 1946 as Trotzdem Ja Zum Leben Sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager), chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate which led him to discover the importance of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to continue living. Frankl became one of the key figures in existential therapy and a prominent source of inspiration for humanistic psychologists.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl
1998 Allen Drury, American novelist (b. 1918)
2000 Curt Siodmak, German-born American screenwriter (b. 1907)
2001 Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Barnard
2001 Troy Donahue, American actor (b 1936)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Donahue
2005 Bob Denver, (b 1935) American comedic actor known for his roles as Gilligan on the television series Gilligan's Island and the beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the 1959–1963 TV series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Denver
2006 Bob Mathias, American decathlete and congressman (b. 1930)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mathias
2006 Willi Ninja, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
2008 Bill Meléndez, American character animator (b. 1916)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Syriac Orthodox Church)
Agricola of Avignon
Antoninus of Pamiers
Castor of Apt
Nonnosus
San Esteban del Rey (Acoma Pueblo)
September 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyr Mamas of Caesarea in Cappadocia with his parents, martyrs Theodotus and Rufina (275)
Saint John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople (595)
3,618 martyrs of Nicomedia (3rd and 4th centuries)
Venerable Anthony and Theodosius, Founders of Monasticism in Rus' of the Kiev Caves
Martyrs Diomedes, Julian the martyr, Philip the martyr, Eutykhian, Hesychios the martyr, Leonides the martyr, Eutychios the martyr, Philadelphos, Melanippos, Parthagapa and Theodore the martyr.
Righteous Eleazar, son of Aaron
Righteous Phinehas, son of Eleazar, grandson of Aaron
Martyrs Aeithalas and Ammon of Thrace
Other commemorations
Celebration of the Icon of the Theotokos at Kaluga
Repose of Hieromonk Seraphim Rose of Platina (1982)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi
www.amug.org/~jpaul/sep02.html
www.todayinsci.com/9/9_02.htm
www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/weather_history/today2S.pl
thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
www.christianity.com/HistoryByDay/0902/