Post by farmgal on Sept 10, 2012 21:36:24 GMT -5
September 11 in United States History
Births
1800 - Daniel S. Dickinson, New York senator (d 1866)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_S._Dickinson
1835 - Brig Gen William Wirt Allen 1st Alabama Cavalry
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wirt_Allen
1836 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
1838 - John Ireland, American Catholic archbishop (d. 1918)
1847 - Mary Watson Whitney (d 1921) American astronomer who trained with Maria Mitchell and succeeded her as professor and director of the Vassar College Observatory. As Mitchell had before her, Whitney championed science education the advancement of professional opportunities for women. She developed the astronomy department. Four years before her 1910 retirement, there were 160 students and eight different astronomy courses, including some of the first courses anywhere on astrophysics and on variable stars. During her tenure as director, the Observatory staff published 102 papers in major astronomical journals reporting their work on comets, asteroids, and variable stars. From 1896, photographic plates were used to study and measure star clusters.
1862 - O Henry pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer.
1880 Luther A. Weigle (d 1976), the Man Behind the Revised Standard Version. A professor at the Yale Divinity School, he chaired the committee that produced the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Standard_Version
1884 Harvey Fletcher (d 1981) American acoustical engineer who was the first to demonstrate stereophonic sound (1934). He was a trail blazing investigator of the nature of speech and hearing, noted for his contributions in acoustics, electrical engineering, speech, medicine, music, atomic physics, sound pictures, and education. He guided the development of the Western Electric Hearing Aid, the first such device to use vacuum tubes. He developed a group survey method using recorded sound of decreasing volume which has wide acceptance in schools throughout the nation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Fletcher
1892 Pinto Colvig, voice actor for Goofy, Pluto, and Bozo the Clown (d 1967)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinto_Colvig
1900 - D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman (d. 1999)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Brooks
1904 Ludwig Gross (d 1999) Austrian-born American physician who showed that leukemia could be caused by a virus. After his first discovery in 1951 of an RNA leukemia virus in mice, the subsequent studies by Gross revealed much about the mode of action of his RNA virus, including the vertical transmission of virus from one generation to the next, the activation of viruses by radiation, and the role of immunity in protection against the agent. His work led other researchers to study the role of viruses in cancer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Gross
1909 William Natcher (d 29 Mar 1994) Rep-D-Ky
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Natcher
1913 Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (d 1983)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_%22Bear%22_Bryant
1915 - Jack Fascinato Bevier Mo, pianist/orch leader (Kukla Fran & Ollie)
www.spaceagepop.com/fascinat.htm
1922 - Charles Evers civil rights leader within the Republican Party in his native Mississippi. He was the first African American elected since the Reconstruction era as mayor in a Mississippi city, in Fayette in 1969.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Evers
1924 Daniel Akaka, Chinese-American politician, junior U.S. Senator from Hawaii and a member of the Democratic Party. He is the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry and is currently the only member of the Senate who has Chinese ancestry.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Akaka
1924 Tom Landry, American football coach (d 2000)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Landry
1927 - Willie Christine King, Sister of Martin Luther King Jr.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Christine_King
1928 Reubin O'Donovan Askew, American politician, 37th Governor of the U.S. state of Florida from 1971 to 1979.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reubin_O%27Donovan_Askew
1932 Robert Packwood (Sen-R-Ore)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Packwood
1937 - Robert Laurel Crippen U.S. astronaut who piloted the first orbital test flight of the U.S. space shuttle program (STS-1, 12-14 Apr 1981). He was the commander of three additional shuttle flights. He first joined the U.S. Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory program in Oct 1966, and became a NASA astronaut in Sep 1969. Since then, Crippen has been part of the astronaut support crew for the Skylab 2, 3, and 4 missions, and for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission. With NASA, he was Deputy Director (Jul 1987 - Dec 1989) then Director (Jan 1990-Jan 1992) of Shuttle Operations at the John F. Kennedy Space Center. He became the director of Kennedy Space Center (Jan 1992 - Jan 1995), during which time the center carried out 22 shuttle missions.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Laurel_Crippen
1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman, co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, in 1982.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Geschke
1940 - Brian De Palma, American film director
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_De_Palma
1940 - Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Olson
1940 - Robert Palmer, American computer executive
1942 - Lola Falana, American singer
1943 - Mickey Hart, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
Deaths
1843 Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (b 1786) French mathematician, explorer, and cartographer with an interest in astronomy. He was born in France, but financially ruined by the 1830 Revolution, he left for the U.S. in 1831. He made a private survey of the Mississippi region (1836-7), the results of which he presented in Washington. In 1838, he led a surveying expedition for the U.S. government party mapping out the lakes and waterways of northcentral Minnesota. He stressed to map publishers the importance of elevation marks on published maps. His maps were considered among the most accurate and useful until the surveyors for the great logging companies arrived in Minnesota's vast pine forests.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nicolas_Nicollet
1851 - Sylvester Graham (b 1794) American physician and inventor of the graham cracker. Perhaps because of concern for his own health, after a long illness, he became interested in human physiology and nutrition, giving lectures in the eastern states, and developing what came to be known as the Graham System, a vegetarian dietetic theory. He advocated use of whole wheat for bread, hard mattresses, open windows, fresh fruits and vegetables, pure drinking water, and cheerfulness at meals Graham’s most ambitious work, Lectures on the Science of Human Life, published in 1839, became a leading text on health reform, but his popularity waned after 1840 and he died in 1851.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Graham
1896 - Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b 1825)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_James_Child
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_Child_Ballads
1915 - William Cornelius Van Horne (b 1843) U.S.-born Canadian railway official who directed the construction of Canada's first transcontinental railroad.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cornelius_Van_Horne
1915 - William Sprague IV, American politician (b. 1830)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sprague_IV
1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, American crime boss (b. 1868)
1941 - Rudolf Schoenheimer (b 1898) German-American biochemist whose technique of "tagging" molecules with radioactive isotopes made it possible to trace the paths of organic substances through animals and plants and revolutionized metabolic studies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Schoenheimer
1965 - Ralph C. Smedley, Founder of Toastmasters International (b 1878)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_C._Smedley
1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b 1889)
1971 - Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Soviet politician and leader (b 1894)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Sergeevich_Khrushchev
1981 - William R. Bascom (b 1912) American anthropologist who served as chairman (1956-57) of the anthropology department and acting director of African studies (1953, 1957) at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Bascom
1984 - Jerry Voorhis, American politician, served five terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947, representing the 12th Congressional district in Los Angeles County (b 1901)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Voorhis
1987 - Lorne Greene actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), dies at 72 (b 1915)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_Greene
1988 - Luis W Alvarez, 77 physicist (Nobel-1968)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Walter_Alvarez
1994 - Jessica Tandy, American actress (b 1909)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Tandy
1994 - William Obanhein, police officer, mentioned in "Alice's Restaurant" (b 1924)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Obanhein
2001 – Victims of the September 11 attacks:
David Angell, American sitcom creator (b. 1946)
Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player and scout (b. 1948)
Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1968)
Berry Berenson, widow of Anthony Perkins (b. 1948)
Mark Bingham, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970)
Tom Burnett, American businessman (b. 1963)
Peter J. Ganci, Jr., Chief of Department, FDNY (b. 1946)
Father Mychal F. Judge, Chaplain, FDNY (b. 1933)
Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter (b. 1966)
John P. O'Neill, American anti-terrorism FBI agent (b. 1952)
John Ogonowski, pilot for American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1951)
Barbara Olson, American political commentator (b. 1955)
Daniel M. Lewin, founder of Akamai Technologies (b. 1970)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_September_11_attacks
2002 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (b 1933)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Unitas
2003 - John Ritter, American actor (b 1948)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ritter
2007 Douglas Eugene "Gene" Savoy (b 11 May Bellingham, Washington – d Reno Nevada) American explorer, author, religious leader, and theologian. He served as Head Bishop of the International Community of Christ, Church of the Second Advent from 1971 until his death. Rising to prominence as one of the premier explorers of Peru in the 1960s, he is best known for his claims to have discovered more than 40 lost cities in Peru and is credited with bringing to light a number of Peru’s most important archeological sites, including Vilcabamba, the last refuge of the Incas during the Spanish conquest,and Gran Pajaten, which he named but did not discover
2005 - Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (b 1923)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Schenkel
2009 - Gertrude Baines, world's oldest living person (b 1894)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Baines
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Days:
Deiniol
John Gabriel Perboyre
Our Lady of Coromoto
Paphnutius of Thebes (Roman Catholic Church)
Protus and Hyacinth
September 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Venerable Theodora of Alexandria (491)
Saint Paphnutius the Confessor, Bishop in the Egyptian Thebaid (4th century)
Saint Euphrosynus the Cook of Alexandria (9th century)
Martyr Ia of Persia and the 9,000 martyrs with her (362-364)
Martyrs Diodorus, Didymus, and Diomedes of Laodicea (362-364)
Martyrs Euanthia, her husband Demetrius, and their son Demetrian at Skepsis on the Hellespont (1st century)
Martyrs Serapion, Hieronides, and Leontius of Alexandria (237)
Other commemorations
Weeping Kazan Icon of "Kaplunovka"
Translation of Relics of Sergius and Herman Wonder-workers of Valaam (1542-1550)
Repose of Elder Melchizedek of Mzensk (1846)
Canonization of Saint Xenia of Saint Petersburg (1978)
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