Post by farmgal on Sept 16, 2012 11:42:28 GMT -5
September 19th is the 263rd day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 103 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days until Election Day, Tuesday November 6, 2012: 48
Countdown until Obama leaves Office www.obamaclock.org/
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1676 Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Bacon_(colonist)
1692 Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Corey
1729 The Westminster Confession of Faith was adopted by American Presbyterians at the Synod of Philadelphia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Confession_of_Faith
Initial dispositions and movements at the Battle of Freeman's Farm, 19 September 1777
1777 American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Saratoga#First_Saratoga:_Battle_of_Freeman.27s_Farm_.28September_19.29
1778 The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Congress
A broadside of George Washington's Farewell Address, from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress
1796 George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_farewell_address
en.wikisource.org/wiki/Washington%27s_Farewell_Address
1839 A group of Saxon laity in Perry County, Missouri, issued their Protestation to C. F. W. Walther and the other clergy, addressing problems with the relationship between the clergy and the congregations in the aftermath of the deposition of Martin Stephan.
1853 Baptist pioneer missionary J. Hudson Taylor, 21, set sail from England to China. In 1865, Taylor founded the China Inland Mission, now known as Overseas Missionary Fellowship. Its U.S. branch is HQ'd today in Robesonia, PA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Hudson_Taylor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Missionary_Fellowship
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Iuka – Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iuka
Battle of Chickamauga (lithograph by Kurz and Allison, 1890).
1863 American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
1870 Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
1881 U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield
1893 Women's suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1906 California Concordia College, Oakland, opened.
1934 Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Hauptmann
1938 The Carpatho-Russian Diocese of the Eastern Rite of the U.S.A. was canonized as a diocese of the Greek Orthodox Church. Father Orestes Chornock, Orthodox bishop of Agathonikia, was made Metropolitan of the new diocese.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Carpatho-Russian_Orthodox_Diocese
1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance. ... He remained loyal to the London-based Polish government-in-exile and was executed in 1948 by the Stalinist secret police Urząd Bezpieczeństwa on charges of working for "foreign imperialism", thought to be a euphemism for MI6. Until 1989, information on his exploits and fate was suppressed by the Polish communist regime.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki
1943 The first Baptist church was organized in Anchorage. (Prior to this date, there had been no Baptist church in Anchorage, and only one Baptist church in all the rest of the state of Alaska.)
www.firstbaptistanchorage.org/about_us.html
1944 Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
Willys MB U.S. Army jeep beside the Hürtgen Hotel
1944 Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_H%C3%BCrtgen_Forest
William Joyce, who was "Lord Haw-Haw" to British wartime listeners, now silenced and under arrest, lies in an ambulance under armed guard before being taken from British Second Army Headquarters to a hospital.
1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw_Haw
1945 William J. Danker (1914–2001) was installed as the first LCMS missionary to Japan.
1946 The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Europe
1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival#History
1948 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Father, make of me a "crisis man." Make of me a fork, so that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.'
1952 The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin#Exile
1955 Neighbor Search in Ecuador. How'd you like to go looking for your neighbors?" Nate Saint had just flown into Arunjo on his weekly run from his permanent base at Shell Mera and was talking to Ed McCulley. The weather was favorable for searching for the elusive "Aucas" (Woadani). The missionaries wanted to share the gospel with them. Months earlier, Nate had flown over the last place they were known to have lived, but found no traces of them.
Ed eagerly boarded the "modern missionary mule" as Nate liked to call his little yellow missionary plane. The two lifted off into crystal clear air and began their hunt above the Ecuador jungle, searching for signs of Auca houses among the trees, especially along rivers. Some of the villages which had been reported earlier had hugged streams.
It seemed as if the hunt that began on this day, September 19, 1955, would prove futile like all others. Gas was running low and it was essential to turn back soon. But then Nate noticed a blemish, "barely discernible in the jungle." He headed for it. It grew and they saw it was a clearing with manioc plants growing. In the few minutes remaining to them, they spotted fifteen more clearings and a few houses. Elated they headed home. They had found the Aucas.
Excitement was intense because the men had long hoped to contact these sturdy forest dwellers who fiercely resisted all efforts to subdue them, killing many who ventured into their territory. Ten days later, ferrying men and goods to another station in four flights, Nate deliberately flew different routes each way, zigzagging to bring as much territory under his plane as possible. On the third flight he spotted Auca dwellings barely fifteen minutes by air from the Arunjo station.
On October 1st, bad weather kept Ed from going back to Arunjo. Ed, Nate and two other missionaries gathered at Shell Mera and talked into the wee hours of the morning, huddled over maps and trying to establish the best strategy for reaching the Auca. How could they show them they came in peace and not in hostility?
Although they badly wanted prayer cover, the men decided to say as little as possible to the outside world. Government powers or secular forces might try to one-up them with armed expeditions. Nate and the other missionaries hoped to prevent that. They wanted no interference in winning Auca souls.
The outcome is well known. Nate Saint, Ed McCulley, Jim Elliot, Roger Youderan and Pete Fleming made contact with the Aucas. They dropped gifts to them from the air and landed on a beach where they spoke with members of the tribe. On January 6, 1956 all five were massacred in an ambush. Later, through the efforts of the widows, the Aucas discovered the meaning of Christian love and forgiveness and were converted to Christ.
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630810/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aucas#Recent_history
Plumbbob Priscilla
1957 First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbob).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbob
Khrushchev (right) with U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, 1959
1959 Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev
1961 Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_and_Barney_Hill
1971 Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
1972 A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1976 Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_158
1976 Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
1978 The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_%26_Garfunkel
1982 Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticons
1982 Karl L. Barth was inaugurated as the eighth president of Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis). Barth, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, native, had served for twelve years as president of the South Wisconsin District. He entered the parish ministry after graduating from the Saint Louis seminary in 1947. He served from 1974 to 1981 as chairman of the Missouri Synod's Commission on Theology and Church Relations.
1985 A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Mexico_City_earthquake
1985 Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipper_Gore
1989 A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTA_Flight_772
1991 Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi_the_Iceman
1995 The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
2010 The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon
1737 Charles Carroll of Carrollton (d 14 Nov 1832) wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from Great Britain. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and later as first United States Senator for Maryland. He was the only Catholic and the longest-lived (and last surviving) signatory of the Declaration of Independence, dying at the age of 95.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carroll_of_Carrollton
1754 John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_Key
1774 Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti, Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Caspar_Mezzofanti
1804 Elling Eielsen (d 10 Jan 1883) born at Voss, Norway. Becoming a Lutheran lay preacher, he founded the Norwegian Lutheran Church of North America, showing that enthusiastic amateurs have a place in the kingdom of heaven.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elling_Eielsen
1811 Orson Pratt, (d 3 Oct 1881) leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles. He was born in Hartford, New York, USA, the son of Jared and Charity Dickenson Pratt. Orson Pratt died of complications from diabetes on October 3, 1881, the last surviving member of the original Council of the Twelve.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Pratt
1840 Galen Spencer, American archer (d. 1904)
1887 Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
1887 Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943)
1888 J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1888 Porter Hall, American actor d. 1953
1889 Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)
1889 Ernest Truex (d 26 Jun 1973) American actor of stage and film. (Pop-Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Truex
1900 Ricardo Cortez, born Jacob Krantz, American actor (d 1977)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Cortez
1902 James Henry Van Alen (d 3 July 1991) best known for being the founder of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the largest tennis museum in the world. A poet, musician, publisher, civic leader and raconteur, Jimmy Van Alen achieved his greatest renown in tennis. His greatest legacies are as the inventor of the tiebreaker in tennis, and as founder and primary benefactor of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum at the Newport Casino, which he gave to the United States Tennis Association in 1954, saving the national landmark from a proposed car park.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Van_Alen
1904 Bergen Baldwin Evans (d 4 Feb 1978) American lexicographer, a Rhodes Scholar, a Harvard College graduate, a Northwestern University professor of English, and a television host. Evans became known as the question supervisor, or "authority," for the television series $64,000 Question. His books include Word-A-Day Vocabulary Builder (1963), and the annotated Dictionary of Quotations (1993).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen_Evans
1905 Betty Garde Philadelphia, actress (Aggie-The Real McCoys) (d 25 Dec 1989)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Garde
1905 Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d 1982)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Jaworski
1907 Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (d 1998)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell,_Jr.
1908 Tatsuo Shimabuku, founder of Isshinryu Karate (d 1975)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuo_Shimabuku
1908 Alberto Socarras, Cuban-American flautist (d 1987)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Socarras
1908 Carl Elof Lund-Quist, Lutheran World Federation president, was born in Lindsborg, Kansas (d 26 Aug 1965).
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lund-Quist
1910 Margaret Lindsay, American actress (d 1981)
1910 Jack Dunham, American animator and television producer (d 2009)
1911 William Golding England, novelist (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983) (d 19 June 1993)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Golding
1913 Frances Farmer, American actress (d 1970)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Farmer
1913 Helen Ward (jazz singer), American jazz singer(d. 1998)
1914 Rogers Clark Ballard Morton (d 19 Apr 1979) American politician who served as Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, respectively. He also served as a member of the House of Representatives, representing Maryland's 1st congressional district.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Morton
1915 Blanche Thebom (d 23 March 2010) American operatic mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and opera director. She was part of the first wave of American opera singers that had highly successful international careers. In her own country she had a long association with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City which lasted 22 years. Opera News stated, "An ambitious beauty with a velvety, even-grained dramatic mezzo, Thebom was a natural for opera: she commanded the stage with the elegantly disciplined hauteur of an old-school diva, relishing the opportunity to play femmes du monde such as Marina in Boris Godunov, Herodias and Dalila."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Thebom
1915 Clyde Moody, bluegrass musician (d 1989)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Moody
1920 Roger Angell, American sports writer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Angell
1922 Damon Knight, American writer (d. 2002)
1926 Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider (d 27 February 2011), nicknamed "The Silver Fox" and "The Duke of Flatbush", Major League Baseball center fielder and left-handed batter who played for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers (1947–62), New York Mets (1963), and San Francisco Giants (1964). Snider was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Snider
1926 Lurleen Brigham Burns Wallace (d 7 May 1968), born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the 46th governor of Alabama from 1967 until her death in 1968. She was the first wife of Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace, whom she succeeded as governor because he was constitutionally ineligible to seek a second consecutive term. She was Alabama's first, and to date, only female governor. She was also the first, and so far, only female governor in U.S. history to have died in office. In 1973, she was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurleen_Wallace
1926 James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio
1927 William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
1927 Nick Massi, American singer and guitarist (The Four Seasons) (d 2000)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Massi
1927 Helen Carter, American singer, member of the Carter Family (d 1998)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Carter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Carter
1928 Adam West, American actor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_West
1930 Muhal Richard Abrams, American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist
1931 Brook Benton, American singer (d. 1988)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_Benton
1931 Ray Danton NYC, (d 11 Feb 1992) actor/director (Longest Day, Psychic Killer)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Danton
1932 Mike Royko, (d 29 Apr 1997) Chicago newspaper columnist, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Over his 30-year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for three newspapers, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Royko
1935 Benjamin Hacker, American naval aviator (d. 2003)
1936 Al Oerter, American athlete (d 2007)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Oerter
1937 Abner Haynes, American football player
1939 Bruce Bastin, folklorist, a leading expert on the Piedmont Blues
1940 Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Medley
1940 Paul Williams, American composer
1941 "Mama" Cass Elliot, American musician (d 1974)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Elliot
1942 Freda Payne, American singer and actress
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Payne
1943 Joe Morgan, American baseball player
1945 Randolph Mantooth, American actor
1945 David Bromberg, American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter
1947 Brian Hill, American basketball head coach
1948 Jeremy Irons, English actor
1948 Jan Hoag, American actress
1949 Ernie Sabella, American actor
1949 Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founder Innocence Project
1949 Twiggy, English model
1950 Joan Lunden, American journalist and television host
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Lunden
1952 Nile Rodgers, American musician and composer
1952 Rhys Chatham, American musician, primarily trumpet and guitar, and composer
1952 Henry Kaiser (musician), American guitarist and composer
1954 Michael Wolff, American jazz pianist, composer, producer, actor, and jazz educator
1955 Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
1955 Rex Smith, American singer and actor
1956 Charlie Reliford, American baseball umpire
1957 American veterinarian and a NASA astronaut.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Linnehan
1957 Chris Roupas, Greek-American professional basketball player
1958 Kevin Hooks, American actor and director
1958 Lita Ford, American singer
1960 Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur
1962 Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian
1962 Ken Rosenthal, American sportswriter
1964 Bob Papa, American sportscaster
1964 Kim Richards, American child actress
1964 Trisha Yearwood, American singer
1966 Soledad O'Brien, American journalist
1966 Eric Robert Rudolph, American criminal
1967 Jim Abbott, American baseball player
1968 Jimmy Bower, American drummer (Down),(Crowbar)
1968 Monica Crowley, American author and commentator
1970 Dan Bylsma, American ice hockey player
1970 Victor Williams, American actor
1971 Sanaa Lathan, American actress
1974 Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
1975 Marcus Dunstan, American director and screenwriter
1975 Gina Trapani, American tech blogger
1976 Raja Bell, American basketball player
1976 Alison Sweeney, American actress
1976 Jim Ward, American musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
1976 Jessica York, American television personality
1977 Kyle Cease, American actor and comedian
1977 Danny Forster, American television host and producer and architect
1977 Scott Orlinger, American wrestler
1977 Mike Smith, American baseball pitcher
1978 Nick Johnson, American baseball player
1978 Amil, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
1980 Amber Lancaster, American model and actress
1981 Rick DiPietro, American ice hockey player
1982 Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
1982 Jesse Blaze Snider, American singer-songwriter, illustrator, and writer (Baptized By Fire)
1982 Columbus Short, American actor and choreographer
1983 Joey Devine, American baseball player
1983 Eamon, American pop singer
1983 Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
1983 Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist
1984 Danny Valencia, American baseball player
1985 Gio Gonzalez, American baseball player
1986 Mandy Musgrave, American actress
1986 Ryan Succop, American football player
1986 Peter Vack, American voice actor
1987 Kenny Britt, American football player
1987 Danielle Panabaker, American actress
1989 Tyreke Evans, Basketball player
1991 Colin Grafton, American Pairs Skater
2001 Taylor Geare, American actress
2002 Jason and Kristopher Simmons, American identical twin actors
690 Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
1668 William Waller, English soldier
1692 Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials
1812 Mayer Amschel Rothschild, (b 1744)
1868 William Sprague, American minister and politician (b 1809)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sprague_(Michigan)
1881 James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b 1831)
1893 Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b 1817)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Tilloch_Galt
1900 Clarence Alphonsus Walworth, hymn translator, (Holy God, We Praise Thy Name) (b 30 May 1820, Plattsburg, New York).
www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/w/a/l/walworth_ca.htm
1938 Pauline Frederick, American actress (b 1883)
1942 Condé Nast, American publisher (b 1873)
1949 Will Cuppy, American humorist (b 1884)
1955 John D. Dingell, Sr., U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Dingell
1968 Chester Carlson, (b 1906) best known for having invented the process of electrophotography, which produced a dry copy rather than a wet copy, as was produced by the mimeograph process. Carlson's process was subsequently renamed xerography, a term that literally means "dry writing."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Carlson
1968 Red Foley, American singer (b 1910)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Foley
1969 Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895)
1971 William Foxwell Albright, 80, American Methodist archaeologist. Professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins for nearly 30 years, he penned over 1,000 articles and books, and led several Near Eastern expeditions which excavated the biblical sites of Gibeah, Bethel and Petra.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Albright
1973 Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)
1988 Oren Lee Staley, 65, First president of National Farmers Organization (NFO) (1955-79).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Farmers_Organization
uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=356
1989 Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (b. 1923)
1990 Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)
1993 Lorenz C. Wunderlich (b 14 Feb 1906). He graduated from Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) in 1927 and served congregations in Indiana, Kansas and Missouri. He served on the Missouri Synod's hymnody commission, its commission for review of publications and its appeals and adjudication committee. He also served the Kansas District as treasurer and the Saint Louis seminary as a member of the faculty and registrar. He was the author of The Half-Known God, a book on the Holy Spirit.
1995 Orville Redenbacher, (b. 1907) American botanist and businessman, most often associated with the brand of popcorn that bears his name.
1997 Jack May, American voice actor (b. 1922)
1997 Rich Mullins, American singer (b. 1955)
2004 Eddie Adams, American photographer (b. 1933)
2004 Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian-born American civil servant (b. 1919)
2004 Skeeter Davis, born Mary Frances Penick (b 19 Sep 2004) American country music singer best known for crossover pop music songs of the early 1960s. She started out as part of The Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Victor. In the late '50s, she became a solo star. Her best-known hit was the pop classic "The End of the World" in 1963.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeeter_Davis
2004 Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman, musician, and activist (b. 1908)
2006 Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
2006 Chuck Rio, American singer and saxophonist (The Champs) (b. 1929)
2006 Martha Holmes, American photographer (b. 1923)
2009 Arthur Ferrante, American popular pianist (b. 1921)
2009 Roc Raida, Turntablist (b. 1972)
2011 Thomas Capano, attorney, criminal (b. 1949)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Goeric of Metz
Januarius (Western Christianity)
Theodore of Tarsus (Church of England)
Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon
September 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon of Synada (276)
Blessed Prince Theodore of Smolensk and Yaroslavl (1299) and his children Saints David and Constantine ca (1322)
Saint Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (690)
Saint Seguanos of Gaul (580)[1]
Martyr Zosimas, hermit of Cilicia (4th century)
Hieromartyr Januarius, Bishop of Benevento, and his companions Deacons Sosius and Proclus, Gantiol, Eutychius, Acutius, Festus, and Desiderius, at Pozzuoli (305) (see Saint Proculus of Pozzuoli)
Blessed Igor-George, tonsured Gabriel, great prince of Chernigov and Kiev (1147)
New Hieromartyr Priest Constantine Golubev of Bogorodsk, and two martyrs with him (1918)
Other Commemorations
Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Alexis of Zosima Hermitage (1928)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_19
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_19_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih0919.htm
www.hymntime.com/tch/index.htm
www.christianity.com/churchhistory/
www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html
There are 103 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days until Election Day, Tuesday November 6, 2012: 48
Countdown until Obama leaves Office www.obamaclock.org/
U.S. Debt Clock: www.usdebtclock.org/
1676 Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Bacon_(colonist)
1692 Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Corey
1729 The Westminster Confession of Faith was adopted by American Presbyterians at the Synod of Philadelphia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Confession_of_Faith
Initial dispositions and movements at the Battle of Freeman's Farm, 19 September 1777
1777 American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Saratoga#First_Saratoga:_Battle_of_Freeman.27s_Farm_.28September_19.29
1778 The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Congress
A broadside of George Washington's Farewell Address, from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress
1796 George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_farewell_address
en.wikisource.org/wiki/Washington%27s_Farewell_Address
1839 A group of Saxon laity in Perry County, Missouri, issued their Protestation to C. F. W. Walther and the other clergy, addressing problems with the relationship between the clergy and the congregations in the aftermath of the deposition of Martin Stephan.
1853 Baptist pioneer missionary J. Hudson Taylor, 21, set sail from England to China. In 1865, Taylor founded the China Inland Mission, now known as Overseas Missionary Fellowship. Its U.S. branch is HQ'd today in Robesonia, PA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Hudson_Taylor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Missionary_Fellowship
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Iuka – Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iuka
Battle of Chickamauga (lithograph by Kurz and Allison, 1890).
1863 American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
1870 Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
1881 U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield
1893 Women's suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
1906 California Concordia College, Oakland, opened.
1934 Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Hauptmann
1938 The Carpatho-Russian Diocese of the Eastern Rite of the U.S.A. was canonized as a diocese of the Greek Orthodox Church. Father Orestes Chornock, Orthodox bishop of Agathonikia, was made Metropolitan of the new diocese.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Carpatho-Russian_Orthodox_Diocese
1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance. ... He remained loyal to the London-based Polish government-in-exile and was executed in 1948 by the Stalinist secret police Urząd Bezpieczeństwa on charges of working for "foreign imperialism", thought to be a euphemism for MI6. Until 1989, information on his exploits and fate was suppressed by the Polish communist regime.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki
1943 The first Baptist church was organized in Anchorage. (Prior to this date, there had been no Baptist church in Anchorage, and only one Baptist church in all the rest of the state of Alaska.)
www.firstbaptistanchorage.org/about_us.html
1944 Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
Willys MB U.S. Army jeep beside the Hürtgen Hotel
1944 Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_H%C3%BCrtgen_Forest
William Joyce, who was "Lord Haw-Haw" to British wartime listeners, now silenced and under arrest, lies in an ambulance under armed guard before being taken from British Second Army Headquarters to a hospital.
1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw_Haw
1945 William J. Danker (1914–2001) was installed as the first LCMS missionary to Japan.
1946 The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Europe
1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival#History
1948 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Father, make of me a "crisis man." Make of me a fork, so that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.'
1952 The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin#Exile
1955 Neighbor Search in Ecuador. How'd you like to go looking for your neighbors?" Nate Saint had just flown into Arunjo on his weekly run from his permanent base at Shell Mera and was talking to Ed McCulley. The weather was favorable for searching for the elusive "Aucas" (Woadani). The missionaries wanted to share the gospel with them. Months earlier, Nate had flown over the last place they were known to have lived, but found no traces of them.
Ed eagerly boarded the "modern missionary mule" as Nate liked to call his little yellow missionary plane. The two lifted off into crystal clear air and began their hunt above the Ecuador jungle, searching for signs of Auca houses among the trees, especially along rivers. Some of the villages which had been reported earlier had hugged streams.
It seemed as if the hunt that began on this day, September 19, 1955, would prove futile like all others. Gas was running low and it was essential to turn back soon. But then Nate noticed a blemish, "barely discernible in the jungle." He headed for it. It grew and they saw it was a clearing with manioc plants growing. In the few minutes remaining to them, they spotted fifteen more clearings and a few houses. Elated they headed home. They had found the Aucas.
Excitement was intense because the men had long hoped to contact these sturdy forest dwellers who fiercely resisted all efforts to subdue them, killing many who ventured into their territory. Ten days later, ferrying men and goods to another station in four flights, Nate deliberately flew different routes each way, zigzagging to bring as much territory under his plane as possible. On the third flight he spotted Auca dwellings barely fifteen minutes by air from the Arunjo station.
On October 1st, bad weather kept Ed from going back to Arunjo. Ed, Nate and two other missionaries gathered at Shell Mera and talked into the wee hours of the morning, huddled over maps and trying to establish the best strategy for reaching the Auca. How could they show them they came in peace and not in hostility?
Although they badly wanted prayer cover, the men decided to say as little as possible to the outside world. Government powers or secular forces might try to one-up them with armed expeditions. Nate and the other missionaries hoped to prevent that. They wanted no interference in winning Auca souls.
The outcome is well known. Nate Saint, Ed McCulley, Jim Elliot, Roger Youderan and Pete Fleming made contact with the Aucas. They dropped gifts to them from the air and landed on a beach where they spoke with members of the tribe. On January 6, 1956 all five were massacred in an ambush. Later, through the efforts of the widows, the Aucas discovered the meaning of Christian love and forgiveness and were converted to Christ.
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630810/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aucas#Recent_history
Plumbbob Priscilla
1957 First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbob).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbob
Khrushchev (right) with U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, 1959
1959 Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev
1961 Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_and_Barney_Hill
1971 Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
1972 A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1976 Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 155 passengers and crew.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_158
1976 Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
1978 The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a free concert in New York's Central Park.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_%26_Garfunkel
1982 Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticons
1982 Karl L. Barth was inaugurated as the eighth president of Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis). Barth, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, native, had served for twelve years as president of the South Wisconsin District. He entered the parish ministry after graduating from the Saint Louis seminary in 1947. He served from 1974 to 1981 as chairman of the Missouri Synod's Commission on Theology and Church Relations.
1985 A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Mexico_City_earthquake
1985 Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipper_Gore
1989 A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTA_Flight_772
1991 Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi_the_Iceman
1995 The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
2010 The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Births~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1737 Charles Carroll of Carrollton (d 14 Nov 1832) wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from Great Britain. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and later as first United States Senator for Maryland. He was the only Catholic and the longest-lived (and last surviving) signatory of the Declaration of Independence, dying at the age of 95.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carroll_of_Carrollton
1754 John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_Key
1774 Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti, Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Caspar_Mezzofanti
1804 Elling Eielsen (d 10 Jan 1883) born at Voss, Norway. Becoming a Lutheran lay preacher, he founded the Norwegian Lutheran Church of North America, showing that enthusiastic amateurs have a place in the kingdom of heaven.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elling_Eielsen
1811 Orson Pratt, (d 3 Oct 1881) leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles. He was born in Hartford, New York, USA, the son of Jared and Charity Dickenson Pratt. Orson Pratt died of complications from diabetes on October 3, 1881, the last surviving member of the original Council of the Twelve.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Pratt
1840 Galen Spencer, American archer (d. 1904)
1887 Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
1887 Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943)
1888 J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1888 Porter Hall, American actor d. 1953
1889 Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany, American physician and author (d. 1999)
1889 Ernest Truex (d 26 Jun 1973) American actor of stage and film. (Pop-Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Truex
1900 Ricardo Cortez, born Jacob Krantz, American actor (d 1977)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Cortez
1902 James Henry Van Alen (d 3 July 1991) best known for being the founder of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the largest tennis museum in the world. A poet, musician, publisher, civic leader and raconteur, Jimmy Van Alen achieved his greatest renown in tennis. His greatest legacies are as the inventor of the tiebreaker in tennis, and as founder and primary benefactor of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum at the Newport Casino, which he gave to the United States Tennis Association in 1954, saving the national landmark from a proposed car park.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Van_Alen
1904 Bergen Baldwin Evans (d 4 Feb 1978) American lexicographer, a Rhodes Scholar, a Harvard College graduate, a Northwestern University professor of English, and a television host. Evans became known as the question supervisor, or "authority," for the television series $64,000 Question. His books include Word-A-Day Vocabulary Builder (1963), and the annotated Dictionary of Quotations (1993).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen_Evans
1905 Betty Garde Philadelphia, actress (Aggie-The Real McCoys) (d 25 Dec 1989)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Garde
1905 Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d 1982)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Jaworski
1907 Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (d 1998)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell,_Jr.
1908 Tatsuo Shimabuku, founder of Isshinryu Karate (d 1975)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuo_Shimabuku
1908 Alberto Socarras, Cuban-American flautist (d 1987)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Socarras
1908 Carl Elof Lund-Quist, Lutheran World Federation president, was born in Lindsborg, Kansas (d 26 Aug 1965).
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lund-Quist
1910 Margaret Lindsay, American actress (d 1981)
1910 Jack Dunham, American animator and television producer (d 2009)
1911 William Golding England, novelist (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983) (d 19 June 1993)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Golding
1913 Frances Farmer, American actress (d 1970)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Farmer
1913 Helen Ward (jazz singer), American jazz singer(d. 1998)
1914 Rogers Clark Ballard Morton (d 19 Apr 1979) American politician who served as Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, respectively. He also served as a member of the House of Representatives, representing Maryland's 1st congressional district.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Morton
1915 Blanche Thebom (d 23 March 2010) American operatic mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and opera director. She was part of the first wave of American opera singers that had highly successful international careers. In her own country she had a long association with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City which lasted 22 years. Opera News stated, "An ambitious beauty with a velvety, even-grained dramatic mezzo, Thebom was a natural for opera: she commanded the stage with the elegantly disciplined hauteur of an old-school diva, relishing the opportunity to play femmes du monde such as Marina in Boris Godunov, Herodias and Dalila."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Thebom
1915 Clyde Moody, bluegrass musician (d 1989)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Moody
1920 Roger Angell, American sports writer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Angell
1922 Damon Knight, American writer (d. 2002)
1926 Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider (d 27 February 2011), nicknamed "The Silver Fox" and "The Duke of Flatbush", Major League Baseball center fielder and left-handed batter who played for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers (1947–62), New York Mets (1963), and San Francisco Giants (1964). Snider was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Snider
1926 Lurleen Brigham Burns Wallace (d 7 May 1968), born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the 46th governor of Alabama from 1967 until her death in 1968. She was the first wife of Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace, whom she succeeded as governor because he was constitutionally ineligible to seek a second consecutive term. She was Alabama's first, and to date, only female governor. She was also the first, and so far, only female governor in U.S. history to have died in office. In 1973, she was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurleen_Wallace
1926 James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio
1927 William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
1927 Nick Massi, American singer and guitarist (The Four Seasons) (d 2000)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Massi
1927 Helen Carter, American singer, member of the Carter Family (d 1998)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Carter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Carter
1928 Adam West, American actor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_West
1930 Muhal Richard Abrams, American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist
1931 Brook Benton, American singer (d. 1988)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_Benton
1931 Ray Danton NYC, (d 11 Feb 1992) actor/director (Longest Day, Psychic Killer)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Danton
1932 Mike Royko, (d 29 Apr 1997) Chicago newspaper columnist, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Over his 30-year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for three newspapers, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Royko
1935 Benjamin Hacker, American naval aviator (d. 2003)
1936 Al Oerter, American athlete (d 2007)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Oerter
1937 Abner Haynes, American football player
1939 Bruce Bastin, folklorist, a leading expert on the Piedmont Blues
1940 Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Medley
1940 Paul Williams, American composer
1941 "Mama" Cass Elliot, American musician (d 1974)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Elliot
1942 Freda Payne, American singer and actress
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Payne
1943 Joe Morgan, American baseball player
1945 Randolph Mantooth, American actor
1945 David Bromberg, American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter
1947 Brian Hill, American basketball head coach
1948 Jeremy Irons, English actor
1948 Jan Hoag, American actress
1949 Ernie Sabella, American actor
1949 Barry Scheck, American lawyer, co-founder Innocence Project
1949 Twiggy, English model
1950 Joan Lunden, American journalist and television host
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Lunden
1952 Nile Rodgers, American musician and composer
1952 Rhys Chatham, American musician, primarily trumpet and guitar, and composer
1952 Henry Kaiser (musician), American guitarist and composer
1954 Michael Wolff, American jazz pianist, composer, producer, actor, and jazz educator
1955 Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
1955 Rex Smith, American singer and actor
1956 Charlie Reliford, American baseball umpire
1957 American veterinarian and a NASA astronaut.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M._Linnehan
1957 Chris Roupas, Greek-American professional basketball player
1958 Kevin Hooks, American actor and director
1958 Lita Ford, American singer
1960 Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur
1962 Cheri Oteri, American actress and comedian
1962 Ken Rosenthal, American sportswriter
1964 Bob Papa, American sportscaster
1964 Kim Richards, American child actress
1964 Trisha Yearwood, American singer
1966 Soledad O'Brien, American journalist
1966 Eric Robert Rudolph, American criminal
1967 Jim Abbott, American baseball player
1968 Jimmy Bower, American drummer (Down),(Crowbar)
1968 Monica Crowley, American author and commentator
1970 Dan Bylsma, American ice hockey player
1970 Victor Williams, American actor
1971 Sanaa Lathan, American actress
1974 Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
1975 Marcus Dunstan, American director and screenwriter
1975 Gina Trapani, American tech blogger
1976 Raja Bell, American basketball player
1976 Alison Sweeney, American actress
1976 Jim Ward, American musician (At the Drive-In, Sparta)
1976 Jessica York, American television personality
1977 Kyle Cease, American actor and comedian
1977 Danny Forster, American television host and producer and architect
1977 Scott Orlinger, American wrestler
1977 Mike Smith, American baseball pitcher
1978 Nick Johnson, American baseball player
1978 Amil, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
1980 Amber Lancaster, American model and actress
1981 Rick DiPietro, American ice hockey player
1982 Jordan Parise, American ice hockey player
1982 Jesse Blaze Snider, American singer-songwriter, illustrator, and writer (Baptized By Fire)
1982 Columbus Short, American actor and choreographer
1983 Joey Devine, American baseball player
1983 Eamon, American pop singer
1983 Charlie Haeger, American baseball player
1983 Matt Wiman, American mixed martial artist
1984 Danny Valencia, American baseball player
1985 Gio Gonzalez, American baseball player
1986 Mandy Musgrave, American actress
1986 Ryan Succop, American football player
1986 Peter Vack, American voice actor
1987 Kenny Britt, American football player
1987 Danielle Panabaker, American actress
1989 Tyreke Evans, Basketball player
1991 Colin Grafton, American Pairs Skater
2001 Taylor Geare, American actress
2002 Jason and Kristopher Simmons, American identical twin actors
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Deaths~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
690 Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
1668 William Waller, English soldier
1692 Giles Corey, American farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials
1812 Mayer Amschel Rothschild, (b 1744)
1868 William Sprague, American minister and politician (b 1809)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sprague_(Michigan)
1881 James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (b 1831)
1893 Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b 1817)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Tilloch_Galt
1900 Clarence Alphonsus Walworth, hymn translator, (Holy God, We Praise Thy Name) (b 30 May 1820, Plattsburg, New York).
www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/w/a/l/walworth_ca.htm
1938 Pauline Frederick, American actress (b 1883)
1942 Condé Nast, American publisher (b 1873)
1949 Will Cuppy, American humorist (b 1884)
1955 John D. Dingell, Sr., U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Dingell
1968 Chester Carlson, (b 1906) best known for having invented the process of electrophotography, which produced a dry copy rather than a wet copy, as was produced by the mimeograph process. Carlson's process was subsequently renamed xerography, a term that literally means "dry writing."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Carlson
1968 Red Foley, American singer (b 1910)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Foley
1969 Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895)
1971 William Foxwell Albright, 80, American Methodist archaeologist. Professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins for nearly 30 years, he penned over 1,000 articles and books, and led several Near Eastern expeditions which excavated the biblical sites of Gibeah, Bethel and Petra.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Albright
1973 Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)
1988 Oren Lee Staley, 65, First president of National Farmers Organization (NFO) (1955-79).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Farmers_Organization
uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=356
1989 Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (b. 1923)
1990 Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)
1993 Lorenz C. Wunderlich (b 14 Feb 1906). He graduated from Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) in 1927 and served congregations in Indiana, Kansas and Missouri. He served on the Missouri Synod's hymnody commission, its commission for review of publications and its appeals and adjudication committee. He also served the Kansas District as treasurer and the Saint Louis seminary as a member of the faculty and registrar. He was the author of The Half-Known God, a book on the Holy Spirit.
1995 Orville Redenbacher, (b. 1907) American botanist and businessman, most often associated with the brand of popcorn that bears his name.
1997 Jack May, American voice actor (b. 1922)
1997 Rich Mullins, American singer (b. 1955)
2004 Eddie Adams, American photographer (b. 1933)
2004 Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian-born American civil servant (b. 1919)
2004 Skeeter Davis, born Mary Frances Penick (b 19 Sep 2004) American country music singer best known for crossover pop music songs of the early 1960s. She started out as part of The Davis Sisters as a teenager in the late 1940s, eventually landing on RCA Victor. In the late '50s, she became a solo star. Her best-known hit was the pop classic "The End of the World" in 1963.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeeter_Davis
2004 Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman, musician, and activist (b. 1908)
2006 Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
2006 Chuck Rio, American singer and saxophonist (The Champs) (b. 1929)
2006 Martha Holmes, American photographer (b. 1923)
2009 Arthur Ferrante, American popular pianist (b. 1921)
2009 Roc Raida, Turntablist (b. 1972)
2011 Thomas Capano, attorney, criminal (b. 1949)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Goeric of Metz
Januarius (Western Christianity)
Theodore of Tarsus (Church of England)
Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon
September 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon of Synada (276)
Blessed Prince Theodore of Smolensk and Yaroslavl (1299) and his children Saints David and Constantine ca (1322)
Saint Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (690)
Saint Seguanos of Gaul (580)[1]
Martyr Zosimas, hermit of Cilicia (4th century)
Hieromartyr Januarius, Bishop of Benevento, and his companions Deacons Sosius and Proclus, Gantiol, Eutychius, Acutius, Festus, and Desiderius, at Pozzuoli (305) (see Saint Proculus of Pozzuoli)
Blessed Igor-George, tonsured Gabriel, great prince of Chernigov and Kiev (1147)
New Hieromartyr Priest Constantine Golubev of Bogorodsk, and two martyrs with him (1918)
Other Commemorations
Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Alexis of Zosima Hermitage (1928)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_19
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_19_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih0919.htm
www.hymntime.com/tch/index.htm
www.christianity.com/churchhistory/
www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html