Post by farmgal on Sept 11, 2012 0:10:08 GMT -5
9/11: WE REMEMBER!
September 12th is the 256th day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
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1609 - Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
1695 - NY Jews petition Governor Dongan for religious liberties
1771 - Pioneer Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury, 26, on his maiden voyage to America, wrote in his journal: 'Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No, I am going to live to God, and to bring others to do so.'
1776 - Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission
1793 - Due to an outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia, the first quarantine in the U.S. on a city was declared when the governor of Maryland, Thomas Sim, stopped commerce from Philadelphia to Maryland.
1814 - Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
1847 - Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
1857 - The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.
1865 Ordination of Successful A. B. Simpson. A. B. Simpson brought thousands of men and women to follow Christ, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance, published more than seventy books, edited a weekly magazine and wrote gospel songs. What was the secret of his success? "I am no good unless I can get alone with God," he said. And, as his writings show, he believed we can do nothing unless we allow Christ to live his life in us. He did not reach this understanding all at once.
Born in 1844 on Prince Edward Island, Canada, Albert Benjamin Simpson was reared in a Presbyterian home where the things of Christ were taken seriously. His businessman father was an elder in the church. The family moved to Ontario where Albert gave his heart to Christ when he was fifteen. He decided to enter the ministry. After graduating from high school, he taught school in order to earn money to attend the Presbyterians' Knox College.
From college he went straight into the pulpit. Two churches offered him positions at the same time, the first a country congregation, the second one of Canada's largest Presbyterian churches. Agonizing in prayer, Simpson accepted the offer from the larger, Knox Church in Hamilton, Ontario, convinced that it gave him more room for action. On this day, September 12, 1865, Albert was ordained in Knox Church. The next day, he traveled to Toronto to marry Margaret Henry who would be his faithful wife. They ministered for two years at Knox and saw God add 750 members to the congregation.
However, Albert's health was weak. Canada's cold did not help him. And he felt the Lord stirring him to do a different work. When a large church in Louisville, Kentucky offered him its pulpit, he was convinced God was directing him there. He went. In Louisville, God used him to bring peace between people made bitter by the Civil War. God also impressed him with the need for city-wide revival. For two years the people of the city prayed, 10,000 gathering at a time. During the revival that followed, Albert dedicated himself even more completely to God. The result was that his already effective ministry became more powerful still. God also healed him physically and he found new strength to carry out his ministry.
God next sent Albert to New York where he had tremendous success among immigrants. Albert stressed that Christ must be the center of our religious life. He saw him as Savior, Sanctifier, Healer and Coming King. (These four relationships of Christ to the believer became the central ideas of the Foursquare churches and the Assemblies of God.) Meanwhile, Albert recognized that we must do all in our power to win men to Christ. To encourage people to live Christ-filled lives, he founded the Christian Alliance. To encourage mission work, he founded the Evangelical Missionary Alliance. Later he saw that they needed to merge as the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
Originally, Albert did not set out to create a new denomination. However, the refusal of his church leaders to allow immigrants to become members forced him to leave the Presbyterian Church. The leaders feared being overwhelmed by the foreigners and poor. The success of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in its goal of winning souls worldwide is demonstrated by the fact that it has six times as many congregations overseas as it does in the United States. Albert's last words before he slipped into a coma at his death in 1919 were prayer for these churches.
Albert summed up his Christian success in these words: "And when at last I got my eyes off my sanctification, and my experience of it, and just placed them on the Christ in me, I found, instead of an experience, the Christ larger than the moment's need, the Christ that had all that I should ever need who was given to me at once, and forever!"
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630538/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._B._Simpson
1866 - The first burlesque show opened in New York CityThe show was a four-act performance called "The Black Crook". When playwright Charles M. Barras objected to having his derivative text "cheapened" by the inclusion of musical numbers, a $1,500 bonus elicited his silence. Wheatley later claimed that he spent the then-unheard of sum of $25,000 to produce "The Black Crook." The opening night performance on September 12 lasted a bottom-numbing five and a half hours, but audiences were too dazzled to complain. There were dazzling special effects, including a "transformation scene" that mechanically converted a rocky grotto into a fairyland throne room in full view of the audience. But the show's key draw was its underdressed female dancing chorus, choreographed in semi-classical style by David Costa. It ran for 475 performances and made about $1.3 million for its producers.
1873 - The first practical typewriter was sold to customers. Christopher Latham Sholes was a U.S. mechanical engineer who invented the first practical modern typewriter, patented in 1868. Sholes invented the typewriter with partners S. W. Soule and G. Glidden, that was manufactured (by Remington Arms Company) in 1873. The action of the type bars in the early typewriters was very sluggish, and tended to jam frequently. To fix this problem, Sholes obtained a list of the most common letters used in English, and rearranged his keyboard from an alphabetic arrangement to one in which the most common pairs of letters were spread fairly far apart on the keyboard.
1882 - Hot and dry winds caused tree foliage in eastern Kansas to wither and crumble. (David Ludlum)
1908 - The Bible-distributing mission agency known as the Pocket Testament League was incorporated in Birmingham, England. (The U.S. branch of this outreach is headquartered in Lititz, PA)
1915 - A prisoner developed a rash associated with the disease pellegra. He was part of a study designed by Dr. Joseph Goldberger to provide a protein-deficient diet for several months to 12 volunteer inmates of the state prison at Jackson, Mississippi. For Goldberger, it meant a proof that the cause of the deadly disease pellegra was a result of poor diet, and that it was not contagious. For the inmates, it earned a pardon.
1918 - During WW I, US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel. On this day in 1918, the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) under the command of General John J. Pershing launches its first major offensive operation as an independent army during World War I.
After lending much-needed support to the exhausted French forces at Belleau Wood in June 1918 and in the Second Battle of the Marne in July, Pershing and Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch decided that the 1st Army of the AEF should establish its headquarters in the Saint-Mihiel sector and prepare a front facing the Saint-Mihiel salient, a triangular wedge of land between Verdun and Nancy, in northeastern France, that had been occupied by the Germans since the fall of 1914. By heavily fortifying the area, the Germans had effectively blocked all rail transport between Paris and the Eastern Front. In mid-August, the AEF was given the task of leading an attack on the salient; it would be its first independent operation of the war.
The attack began on September 12, 1918, with the advance of Allied tanks across the trenches at Saint-Mihiel, followed closely by the AEF’s infantry troops. Foul weather plagued the offensive as much as the enemy troops, as the trenches filled with water and the fields turned to mud, bogging down many of the tanks. Despite the conditions, the attack proved successful—in part because the German command made the decision to abandon the salient—and greatly lifted the morale and confidence of Pershing’s young army. By September 16, 1918, Saint-Mihiel and the surrounding area were free of German occupation. The American forces immediately shifted further south, to a new offensive near the Argonne Forest and the Meuse River, where they combined with British and French forces to further hammer the Germans, as the Allies moved ever closer to victory in World War I.
1919 - Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
1922 - The House of Bishops of the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church voted 36-27 to delete the word "obey" from the vows of their denomination's official marriage service.
1938 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1940 - Johnny Long’s orchestra recorded the classic "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town"
1940 - An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200.
1942 - World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
1942 - World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces.
1943 - World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
1944 - World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
1953 - Jacqueline Bouvier marries John F Kennedy
1953 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes first Secretary of USSR Communist Party
1954 - "Lassie" was seen on CBS-TV for the first time
1956 - Construction was completed on the first U.S. commercial coal pipeline, which was placed in operation 4 Jun 1957.
1958 - In Canada, a two-day church convention closed in Winnipeg, Ontario. At this assembly the Lutheran Church of Canada (LCC) was organized.
1958 - Jack Kilby demonstrated his invention of a miniaturized electronic circuit to his supervisor at Texas Instruments, now recognised as the first integrated circuit to be built and operated. On 6 Feb 1959, he applied for a patent, which was eventually issued on 23 Jun 1964.
1959 - Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
1959 - "The Three Bells" by The Browns topped the charts
1961 - Patent #3,000,000 was granted for an automatic bar code reading system If the patent office has a soft spot for round numbers, maybe it's not a recent phenomenon. Patent #6,000,000 went to 3Com, it's about HotSyncing. Patent #5,000,000 concerns alcohol production by plasmid-modified bacteria. It went to the University of Florida. Patent #4,000,000 went to some guy in Las Vegas, concerning improved material properties of asphalt-aggregates. Patent #3,000,000 was for Kenneth Eldredge's barcode reading system. Patent #2,000,000 had something to do with constructing wheels. Patent #1,000,000 also involved tires.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy delivered perhaps the most famous space speech ever given. Speaking at the stadium of Rice University, the text of his speech included these memorable lines, "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the office of the Presidency."
1964 - Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
1964 - Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4"
1965 - Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75
1966 - "The Monkees," premier on NBC
1966 - The Beatles received a gold record this day for "Yellow Submarine"
1966 - Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
1970 - "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor was released to radio
1970 - Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
1973 - Horse race jockey Bill Shoemaker rode his 100th winner -- in a $100,000 stakes race
1974 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
1974 - Violence in Boston over racial busing. In Boston, Massachusetts, opposition to court-ordered school "busing" turns violent on the opening day of classes. School buses carrying African American children were pelted with eggs, bricks, and bottles, and police in combat gear fought to control angry white protesters besieging the schools.
U.S. District Judge Arthur Garrity ordered the busing of African American students to predominantly white schools and white students to black schools in an effort to integrate Boston's geographically segregated public schools. In his June 1974 ruling in Morgan v. Hennigan, Garrity stated that Boston's de facto school segregation discriminated against black children. The beginning of forced busing on September 12 was met with massive protests, particularly in South Boston, the city's main Irish-Catholic neighborhood. Protests continued unabated for months, and many parents, white and black, kept their children at home. In October, the National Guard was mobilized to enforce the federal desegregation order.
1976 - White Sox Minnie Minoso at age 53 hits a single. Largely as a publicity stunt, Minoso in 1980 became the second person in major league history to play in five different decades. An attempt by the Chicago White Sox to activate him again in 1990 in order to make it a record six decades was not allowed by Commissioner Fay Vincent. Minoso was much more than a publicity stunt as a player. In 1,835 games, Minoso batted .298 with 1,963 hits, including 336 doubles, 83 triples, and 186 home runs. He stole 205 bases, scored 1,136 runs, and had 1,023 RBI.
1976 Gerhardt W. Hyatt (1916–1985) was installed as president of Concordia College (Saint Paul, Minnesota). Hyatt retired from active duty as the U.S. Army chef of chaplains on 31 July 1975 with the rank of major general. After that he served as a staff consultant to The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod Foundation. A 1944 graduate of Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis), Hyatt received a master of arts degree from Washington University in Saint Louis in 1964.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhardt_W._Hyatt
1977 - Thunderstorms deluged the Kansas City area with torrential rains in the early morning hours, and then again that evening. Some places were deluged with more than six inches of rain twice that day, with up to 18 inches of rain reported at Independence MO. Flooding claimed the lives of 25 persons. The Country Club Plaza area was hardest hit. 2000 vehicles had to be towed following the storm, 150 of which had to be pulled out of Brush Creek, which runs through the Plaza area. (The Kansas City Weather Almanac)
1977 - South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody.
1978 - Situation comedy "Taxi" premiers on ABC television
1979 - Hurricane Frederick smashed into the Mobile Bay area of Alabama packing 132 mph winds. Winds gusts to 145 mph were reported as the eye of the hurricane moved over Dauphin Island AL, just west of Mobile. Frederick produced a fifteen foot storm surge near the mouth of Mobile Bay. The hurricane was the costliest in U.S. history causing 2.3 billion dollars damage. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)
1983 - A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
1983 - The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1.
1983 - A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
1987 - Showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flooding in North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Parts of Virginia received 3 to 4 inches of rain in just two hours early in the day. Later in the day, three to five inch rains deluged Cumberland County of south central Pennsylvania. Evening thunderstorms produced seven inches of rain at Marysville PA, most of which fell in three hours time. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1987 - "La Bamba" by Los Lobos topped the charts
1988 - An afternoon tornado spawned a tornado which skipped across northern sections of Indianapolis IN damaging roofs and automobiles. It was the first tornado in central Indiana in September in nearly forty years of records. Hurricane Gilbert plowed across the island of Jamaica, and by the end of the day was headed for the Cayman Islands, packing winds of 125 mph. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1989 - Snow whitened the mountains and foothills of northeastern Colorado, with eight inches reported at Buckhorn Mountain, west of Fort Collins. Two to three inches fell around Denver, causing great havoc during the evening rush hour. Thunderstorms produced severe weather in the Southern Plains Region between mid afternoon and early the next morning. Thunderstorms produced hail three inches in diameter at Roswell NM, and wind gusts greater than 98 mph at Henryetta OK. Thunderstorms also produced torrential rains, with more than seven inches at Scotland TX, and more than six inches at Yukon OK. (National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1990 - US, England, France, USSR, East & West Germany sign agreements allowing the 2 Germanys to merge
1992 - The crew of the Shuttle Endeavour included the first African-American woman in space, Mae C. Jemison, as a Science Mission Specialist aboard Endeavour. During the eight-day mission, she conducted space-sickness experiments and conducted research on bone loss in zero gravity. The first married couple, Mark Lee and Jan David, together with the first Japanese citizen on a U.S. space mission were also members of the same crew.
1994 - Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
2001 - President Bush called Tuesday's terrorist attacks "acts of war." Stunned rescue workers continued to search for bodies in the World Trade Center's smoking rubble a day after a terrorist attack that shut down the financial capital, badly damaged the Pentagon and left thousands dead. The US began building a broad intel. coalition for a possible military retaliation against those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11. Federal authorities said followers of Osama bin Laden were responsible for airline hijackings directed at NYC and the Pentagon. The US air system remained grounded and financial markets closed.
2001 - The FAA gave airlines a security directive to guard against further terrorist attacks. The FAA gave airlines a 3-page security directive to guard against further terrorist attacks. It included a ban on curbside checking and effectively eliminated the jobs of thousands of skycaps.
2003 - In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
2008 - The 2008 Chatsworth train collision between a Metrolink commuter train and a Pacific Union Freight Train kills 25 people.
Births
1720 - Frederick Philipse III NYC, land owner (Bronx, Westchester & Putnam)
1788 Alexander Campbell, who developed a restoration movement that came to be known as the Disciples of Christ, was born in Ballymena, Ireland (d 4 Mar 1866).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Campbell_(clergyman)
1797 - Samuel Joseph May, American Abolitionist (d. 1871)
1811 - James Hall (d 1898) U.S. geologist and paleontologist who is considered one of the founders of American geology. He invented the term geosyncline and the geosyncline theory for mountain building, which proposed that as sediment is increasingly deposited in a shallow basin, the basin will sink, causing the adjacent area to rise. (This was superseded in the 1960's by the new theories of Plate Tectonics.) In paleontology, he studied the Silurian and Devonian fossils (345 million - 430 million years old) found in New York, and recorded his results in a 13-volume series, The Paleontology of New York (1847-94). Hall was a charter member of the Academy of Sciences
1812 - Richard March Hoe (d 1886) American inventor who developed and manufactured the first successful rotary printing press (1846). A cylinder rolled over stationary plates of inked type and the cylinder made an impression on paper. This eliminated the need for making impressions directly from the type plates themselves, which were heavy and difficult to manoeuvre. By constantly turning in only one direction, Hoe's revolving press increased the number of pages that could be printed per hour.
1818 - Richard Jordan Gatling (d 1903) U.S. inventor, whose Gatling gun (1861) was first successful machine gun, a crank-operated, rapid-fire multibarrel design combining reliability, high firing rate and ease of loading into a single device. His father was also an inventor, and while young, Richard helped him create machines for sowing cotton seeds and thinning cotton plants. In 1839, he designed a screw propeller for steamboats, but found a similar one had been previously patented. From 1844, he continued to invent improved agricultural machines, including one to plant grains, like rice and wheat (adapted from the cotton-sowing machine); a hemp-breaking machine (1850); and a steam plow (1857). The outbreak of the American Civil War spurred him to design firearms (1861).
1818 George Duffield Jr., hymnist and American Presbyterian clergyman, was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania (d 6 Jul 1888, Bloomfield, New Jersey). Wrote "Blessed Savior, Thee I Love," and
"Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus."
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/d/u/f/duffield_g.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Duffield,_Jr.
1829 - Charles Dudley Warner Mass, newspaperman/author (Being a Boy)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Dudley
1830 - William Sprague IV (d 1915) Governor of the U.S. state of Rhode Island from 1860-1863, and U.S. Senator from 1863-1875, participated in the First Battle of Bull Run during the American Civil War.
1851 - Francis E. Clark, American Congregationalist clergyman. In 1881, at age 29, Clark organized the world's first church "youth fellowship" in Portland, Maine. Clark's original name for this Christian group concept was "The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Edward_Clark
1880 - Henry L Mencken Baltimore, Md, newspaperman/critic (Prejudices)
1886 Ernest E. Ryden, hymnist, (d 1 Jan 1981). Translated "Thy Holy Wings, Dear Savior" and "Day by Day thy Mercies, Lord, Attend Me."
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/r/y/d/ryden_ee.htm
1892 - Alfred A Knopf US, publisher (1966 Alexander Hamilton Medal)
1898 - Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-born American artist (d. 1969)
1902 - Margaret Hamilton Ohio, wicked witch of the west (Wizard of Oz)
1913 - Jesse Owens track star, spoiled Hitler's 1936 Olympics with 4 gold
1915 - Frank McGee Monroe La, news anchor (NBC Evening News)
1916 - Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
1922 - Mark Rosenzweig, American brain researcher (d. 2009)
1924 - Howard Curtis Nelson (Rep-R-Ut)
1931 - George Jones country singer (White Lightning, He Stopped Loving Her Today, I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair)
1934 - Gunther Gebel-Williams lion tamer (Ringling Bros Circus)
1934 - Glenn Davis (Glenn Ashby "Jeep" Davis; d 2009) Olympic hurdler and sprinter who won a total of three gold medals in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic games. He later played professional football with the Detroit Lions and was a teacher and coach in his adopted hometown of Barberton, Ohio for 33 years.
1935 - Richard H Hunt Chicago, sculptor (Pyramidal Construction)
1938 - Tatiana Troyanos NYC, mezzo-soprano (Octavian-Der Rosenleavalier)
1939 - Henry Waxman, American politician
1940 - Mickey Lolich Detroit Tiger pitcher (won 25 in 1971)
1940 - Stephen J Solarz (Rep-D-NY)
1944 - Leonard Peltier, American activist
1945 - John Mauceri NYC, conductor (Wash DC Opera)
1953 - John Williams US, archer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1958 - Wilfredo Benitez PR, boxer (world champ at 17y176d)
1959 - Scott Brown, United States Senator from Massachusetts
Deaths
1870 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
1918 - Maxime Bôcher (b 1867) American mathematician whose reputation was built upon both his teaching and his research in differential equations, series, and higher algebra.
1927 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
1939 - Henry Chandler Cowles (b 1869) American botanist who was a pioneer in the field of plant ecology, especially the concept of dynamic ecology, which he devised in the 1890's through a study of sand dune vegation at the southern end of Lake Michigan. He observed ecological succession, whereby starting with a bare habitat, there is a sequence of biological communities, each providing modification of the habitat to favour successors, until a climax community is established, characteristic of the climatic conditions of the region. His field work there showed that the vegetation at any one point in the system is related to the distance the point lies from the lake, the kind of soil present at the location, and the time period over which seeds and spores have had a chance to germinate.
1972 - William Boyd, American actor (b. 1895) After nearly 40 years of riding across millions of American TV and movie screens, the cowboy actor William Boyd, best known for his role as Hopalong Cassidy, dies on this day in 1972 at the age of 77.
Boyd's greatest achievement was to be the first cowboy actor to make the transition from movies to television. Following World War II, Americans began to buy television sets in large numbers for the first time, and soon I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners were standard evening fare for millions of families. But despite their proven popularity in movie theaters, westerns were slow to come to the small screen. Many network TV producers scorned westerns as lowbrow "horse operas" unfit for their middle- and upper-class audiences.
Riding to the small screen's rescue came the movie cowboy, William Boyd. During the 1930s, Boyd made more than 50 cheap but successful "B-grade" westerns starring as Hopalong Cassidy. Together with his always loyal and outlandishly intelligent horse, Topper, Hopalong righted wrongs, saved school marms in distress, and single-handedly fought off hordes of marauding Indians. After the war, Boyd recognized an opportunity to take Hopalong and Topper into the new world of television, and he began to market his old "B" westerns to TV broadcasters in Los Angeles and New York City. A whole new generation of children thrilled to "Hoppy's" daring adventures, and they soon began to clamor for more.
Rethinking their initial disdain for the genre, producers at NBC contracted with Boyd in 1948 to produce a new series of half-hour westerns for television. By 1950, American children had made Hopalong Cassidy the seventh most popular TV show in America and were madly snapping up genuine "Hoppy" cowboy hats, chaps, and six-shooters, earning Boyd's venture more than $250 million. Soon other TV westerns followed Boyd's lead, becoming popular with both children and adults. In 1959, seven of the top-10 shows on national television were westerns like The Rifleman, Rawhide, and Maverick. The golden era of the TV western would finally come to an end in 1975 when the long-running Gunsmoke left the air, three years after Boyd rode off into his last sunset.
1977 - Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)
1980 - Lillian Randolph actress (Roots, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
1992 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
2000 - Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1934)
2001 - Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
2009 - Norman Borlaug, American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution", one of only six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. (b. 1914)
Christian Feast Day:
Ailbe of Emly
Guy of Anderlecht
Holy Name of Mary
Laisrén mac Nad Froích
Sacerdos of Lyon
September 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Hieromartyr Autonomus, Bishop of Italy (313)
Saint Coronatus, Bishop of Iconium (259)
Martyr Julian of Galatia and 40 martyrs with him (4th century)
Hieromartyr Theodore of Alexandria
Saint Sacerdos of Lyon, Bishop of Lyon in Gaul
Saint Athanasius, disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh (early 15th century) and abbot of the Vysotsky Monastery in Serpukhov
Saint Bassian of Tikhsnen in Vologda (1624)
Martyr Macedonios in Phrygia, and with him martyrs Tatian and Theodoulos
Saint Daniel of Thassius, monk
Other Commemorations
Apodosis of the Nativity of the Theotokos
Translation of the relics of righteous Simeon of Verkoturye (1704)
US: National Grandparents' Day
www.amug.org/~jpaul/sep12.html
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lascaux-cave-paintings-discovered
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_12_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/weather_history/today2S.pl
www.todayinsci.com/9/9_12.htm
www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html
www.hymntime.com/tch/index.htm