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September 29th is the 273st day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
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855 Pope Benedict III (
–858) became pope. Benedict had a reputation for learning and piety.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_III
1227 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
1717 - An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1717_Guatemala_earthquake
1770 - The day before his death at age 56, English revivalist George Whitefield prayed: 'Lord Jesus, I am weary in thy work, but not of it.'
1789 - The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War
Federal Hall, New York City, site of the first two sessions of this Congress (1789)
1789 - The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_United_States_Congress
1803 - The first Roman Catholic Church in Boston was formally dedicated. (Catholics had not been permitted any religious freedom within this predominantly Puritan colony prior to the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_Church,_Boston
1838 The Missionary Board of the Reformed (German) Church in the United States was organized. The board supported missionaries sent by other agencies until 1865, when it began sending its own missionaries to the Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin and to Japan.
1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chaffin%27s_Farm
1890 The Chicago Presbytery petitioned the Chicago Board of Education to have the Bible read in the public schools.
1891 - Thomas A. Edison was issued U.S. patent No. 460122 for a "Process of and Apparatus for Generating Electricity" and No. 460123 for a "Phonogram-Blank Carrier."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Edison_patents
1902 The Porto Alegre, Brazil, mission of the Missouri Synod was begun.
1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_National_Cathedral
1914 - A patent for a "Phonograph-Record" was granted to Thomas A. Edison (U.S. No. 1111999).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_record
1915 - A transcontinental radio telephone demonstration was given in New York City. Speech was transmitted via Arlington, Va. to Mare Island at San Francisco, Cal. (2,500 miles). The same night, speech was also transmitted to Honolulu.
1916 - John D. Rockefeller becomes the second billionaire.
1918 - World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
1927 - An outbreak of tornadoes from Oklahoma to Indiana caused 81 deaths and 25 million dollars damage. A tornado (possibly two tornadoes) cut an eight-mile long path across Saint Louis MO, to Granite City IL, killing 79 persons. The damage path at times was a mile and a quarter in width. The storm followed a similar path to tornadoes which struck in 1871, 1896, and 1959. (The Weather Channel)
1941 - World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report. 33,771 Jews were killed in a single operation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar_massacre
1951 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1959 - A storm produced 28 inches of snow at Colorado Springs, CO. (David Ludlum)
1960 - Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev
1963 - The University of East Anglia is established in Norwich, England.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_East_Anglia
1963 The second session of the Second Vatican Council was opened in Rome by Pope Paul VI (1897–1978). This session lasted through December 4.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council#Second_period:_1963
1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Camaro
1970 - The New American Bible was published by the St. Anthony Guild Press. It represented the first English version Roman Catholic Bible to be translated from the original Biblical Greek and Hebrew languages. (The Rheims-Douai Version of 1610 had been based on Jerome's Latin Vulgate.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_American_Bible
1975 - WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
1982 - The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
1983 - Heavy rains began in central and eastern Arizona which culminated in the worst flood in the history of the state. Eight to ten inch rains across the area caused severe flooding in southeastern Arizona which resulted in thirteen deaths and 178 million dollars damage. President Reagan declared eight counties of Arizona to be disaster areas. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A slow moving cold front produced rain from the Great Lakes Region to the Central Gulf Coast Region. A late afternoon thunderstorm produced wind gusts to 62 mph at Buffalo NY. Warm weather continued in the western U.S. In Oregon, the afternoon high of 96 degrees at Medford was a record for the date. (The National Weather Summary)
1986 - A week of violent weather began in Oklahoma which culminated in one of the worst flooding events in the history of the state. On the first day of the week early morning thunderstorms caused more than a million dollars damage in south Oklahoma City. Thunderstorms produced 4 to 7 inches of rain from Hobart to Ponca City, and another round of thunderstorms that evening produced 7 to 10 inches of rain in north central and northeastern sections of Oklahoma. (Storm Data)
1988 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster.
1988 - High pressure brought freezing temperatures to parts of Vermont and New York State. Burlington VT dipped to 30 degrees, and Binghamton NY reported a record low of 34 degrees. The high pressure system also brought cold weather to the Central Rocky Mountain Region. Alamosa CO reported a record low of 18 degrees, and Gunnison CO was the cold spot in the nation with a morning low of just five degrees above zero. (National Weather Summary)
1989 - Seven cities reported record high temperatures for the date, as readings soared into the 80s and low 90s in the Northern Plateau and Northern Plains Region. Record highs included 91 degrees at Boise ID, and 92 degrees at Sheridan WY. The high of 100 degrees at Tucson AZ marked their 51st record high of the year, and their 92nd day of 100 degree weather. (National Weather Summary)
1990 - Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_National_Cathedral
1990 - The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1995 - The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly Rogers".
2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
2005 - United States Senate confirms John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States.
2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails.
2008 - Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
Births
1636 Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born (d 14 Dec 1715).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tenison
1803 - Mercator Cooper (d 1872) was a ship's captain who is credited with the first formal American visit to Tokyo and the first formal landing on the mainland East Antarctica.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_Cooper
1829 Louis Lange Zennern, Kreisfritzer, Kurhesse, Germany (d. 1893). He was the publisher of both Die Abendschule and Die Rundschau in Saint Louis.
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=L&word=LANGE.LOUIS
1838 - Henry Hobson Richardson (d 1886) was a prominent American architect of the 19th century. His work left a significant impact on Boston, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Albany, and Chicago, among other cities. The style he popularized is named for him: Richardsonian Romanesque.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hobson_Richardson
1841 August Reinke, founder of LCMS deaf missions, Winsen, Hannover, Germany (d 18 Nov 1899).
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=R&word=REINKE.AUGUST
1842 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
1848 - Caroline Ardelia Yale, created the vowel and consonant charts for phonics during the 1880's. She was also the first woman in America to train teachers of the deaf a method of lip-reading. (d 1933)
1859 - Hermann Michael Biggs (d 1923) American physician who pioneered the use of bacteriological studies in the field of public health for the prevention and control of contagious diseases. From 1884 he learnt about current advances in bacteriology by visiting Europe. In 1892, he was appointed the first director of a new Division of Pathology, Bacteriology and Disinfection within the New York City Department of Health - the first municipal bacteriological laboratory in the U.S. - to address the scare of cholera from immigrants arriving at the harbour. He became general medical officer of New York City (1901) and then commissioner of health for the state of New York (1914). The measures he developed for public health spread through the nation.
1895 - Joseph Banks Rhine Pennsylvania, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception)
1897 - Herbert Sebastian Agar , New Rochelle, New York (d 1980, Sussex, England) American journalist and an editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1934 for his book The People's Choice, a critical look at the American presidency. Agar was associated with the Southern Agrarians and edited, with Allen Tate, Who Owns America? (1936). He was also a strong proponent of an Americanized version of the British distributist socioeconomic system.
1898 - Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (d 1976) Soviet biologist and agronomist who not only believed the Mendelian theory of heredity to be wrong, but with Stalin's support for two decades actively obstructed the course of Soviet biology. He caused the imprisonment and death of many of the country's eminent biologists. He followed I. V. Michurin's fanciful idea that plants could be forced to adapt to any environmental conditions, for example converting summer wheat to winter wheat by storing the seeds in ice. As director of the Institute of Genetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1940-65) his interference contributed to the disastrous decline of Soviet agriculture. After Stalin's death in 1956, he lost support and eventually in 1965 was exiled to an experimental farm.
1901 - Enrico Fermi (d 1954) Italian-born American physicist who was one of the chief architects of the nuclear age. He developed the mathematical statistics required to clarify a large class of subatomic phenomena, discovered neutron-induced radioactivity, and directed the first controlled chain reaction involving nuclear fission.
1901 John Sung, outstanding Christian missionary in China and Southeast Asia, was born Siong Chiat Sung in Hinghwa, China (d. 18 Aug 1944).
1903 - John Heyburn Gibbon (d 1973) American surgeon who invented the heart-lung machine. He was prompted when in 1930, as a Harvard research fellow in surgery, he saw a patient undergoing heart-lung surgery suffocate on his own blood. On 10 May 1935, he had built his first external pump, and was able to maintain the cardiac and respiratory functions of a cat. In the late 1940's, Gibbon received financial and technical assistance from the IBM Corporation to develop an oxygenator with sufficient capacity for a human. By 6 May 1953, with his improved machine he was able to perform the first successful open-heart operation - the repair of an atrial septal defect on 18-yr-old Cecelia Bavolek - maintaining the patient's heart and lung functions on the machine for 26 minutes.
1907 - Orvon Eugene "Gene" Autry, Tioga Tx, American actor, singer, and businessman, American performer, gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s. Autry was also owner of the Los Angeles/California Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997, as well as a television station and several radio stations in southern California. Although his signature song was "Back in the Saddle Again", Autry is best known today for his Christmas holiday songs, "Here Comes Santa Claus" (which he wrote), "Frosty the Snowman", and his biggest hit, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". He is a member of both the Country Music and Nashville Songwriters halls of fame, and is the only celebrity to have five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (d. 1998)
1907 - George Washington Jenkins (d 1996) American businessman and founder of Publix Super Markets. In 1930, despite the Great Depression, Jenkins risked his career and everything he had to start a new grocery store. He named the chain Publix.
1908 - Thomas Edward "Eddie" Tolan (d 1967), nicknamed the "Midnight Express", was an American athlete and sprinter. He set world records in the 100 yard dash and 100 meters event and Olympic records in the 100 meters and 200 meters events. He was the first Afro-American to receive the title of the "world's fastest human" after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters events at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In March 1935, Tolan won the 75, 100 and 220 yard events at the World Professional Sprint Championships in Melbourne, Australia to become the first man to win both the amateur and professional world sprint championships. In his full career as a sprinter, Tolan won 300 races and lost only 7.
1913 - Stanley Earl Kramer (d 2001) American film director and producer responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies. His notable films include The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Ship of Fools (1965) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). His work was recognized with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1961, and over the course of his career he received nine Academy Award nominations.
1915 - Vincent Michael DeDomenico, Sr. (d 2007) American entrepreneur, one of the inventors of Rice-A-Roni, and a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Train.
1923 - Oail Andrew "Bum" Phillips former American football coach, and father of Wade Phillips, the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. "Bum" Phillips coached at the high school, college and pro level.
1925 - John Goodwin Tower (d 1991) first Republican United States senator from Texas since Reconstruction. He served from 1961 until his retirement in January 1985, after which time he was the chairman of the Reagan-appointed Tower Commission that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair.
1925 - Paul Beattie MacCready (d 2007) American engineer who invented not only the first human-powered flying machines, but also the first solar-powered aircraft to make sustained flights. On 23 Aug 1977, the pedal-powered aircraft, the Gossamer Condor successfully flew a 1.15 mile figure-8 course to demonstrate sustained, maneuverable manpowered flight, for which he won the £50,000 ($95,000) Kremer Prize. MacCready designed the Condor with Dr. Peter Lissamen. Its frame was made of thin aluminum tubes, covered with mylar plastic supported with stainless steel wire. In 1979, the Gossamer Albatross won the second Kremer Prize for making a flight across the English Channel.
1927 - Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey Jr former Republican politician from the U.S. state of California who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983. He ran on an anti-war platform for the Republican nomination for President in 1972 but was defeated by incumbent President Richard Nixon.[1] In April 2007, McCloskey switched his affiliation to the Democratic Party. He is a decorated United States Marine Corps veteran of combat during the Korean War, being awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, and two awards of the Purple Heart.
1931 - James Watson Cronin American particle physicist, who shared (with Val Logsdon Fitch) the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physics for "the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons." Their experiment proved that a reaction run in reverse does not follow the path of the original reaction, which implied that time has an effect on subatomic-particle interactions. Thus the experiment demonstrated a break in particle-antiparticle symmetry for certain reactions of subatomic particles.
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician, (Great Balls of Fire, Breathless)
1939 - Molly Haskell, American film critic
1942 - Clarence William "Bill" Nelson, senior Democratic U.S. Senator from Florida. In 1986, he became the second sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space, as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
1943 - Gary Boyd Roberts , Houston, Texas, American genealogist known for his scholarship in Americans of royal descent, the ancestors of American presidents, and notable kin. Roberts is the retired Senior Research Scholar of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS).
1943 - Lech Waùæsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1948 - Bryant Charles Gumbel American television journalist and sportscaster. He is best known for his 15 years as co-host of NBC's The Today Show. He is the younger brother of sportscaster Greg Gumbel.
1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast
Deaths
1581 Andreas Musculus (Latinized form of Meusel), theologian involved in the preparation of the Formula of Concord, died (b. 29 November 1514, Schneeberg, Saxony).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Musculus
1642 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
1804 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hillegas
1860 - Chapin Aaron Harris (b 1806) American dentist who was one of the founders of dentistry as a profession. He began as a partner in his brother's medical practice (1827). The next year, he turned to dentistry fulltime until 1835, during which time he moved to Baltimore and began a prodigious output of scientific articles and several books, including his most influential text, The Dental Art: A Practical Treatise on Dental Surgery (1839). He was a cofounder of the first dental school in the world, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery (1840), and cofounder of the first dental journal in the world, the American Journal of Dental Science (1849), serving as its editor for over 20 years. He is credited for placing dental education, literature, and organization on a permanent basis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapin_Aaron_Harris
1868 Lorrin Andrews, Hawaiian missionary and translator of the Bible into Hawaiian.(b 29 Apr1795).
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=A&word=ANDREWS.LORRIN
1889 Polycarp C. Henkel, first president of Concordia College (Conover, North Carolina), (b 23 Aug 1820 near Conover, North Carolina).
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=H&word=HENKELS.THE
1900 - Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Fenton_Cary
1913 Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (b 18 March) German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel
1937 - Raymond "Ray" Clarence Ewry (b 1873) American track and field athlete who won 8 gold medals at the Olympic Games and 2 gold medals at the "Intercalated Games" (1906 in Athens). This puts him among the most successful Olympians of all time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Ewry
1951 - Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)
1955 - Louis Leon Thurstone (b 1887) American psychologist who was instrumental in the development of psychometrics, the science that measures mental functions, and who developed statistical techniques for multiple-factor analysis of performance on psychological tests.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Leon_Thurstone
1967 Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
1970 Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
1975 - Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (b 1890) nicknamed "The Old Perfessor", was an American Major League Baseball player and manager from 1912 until 1965. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and originally nicknamed "Dutch", a common nickname at that time for Americans of German ancestry. After his major league career began, he acquired the nickname "Casey", which originally came from the initials of his hometown ("K. C."), which evolved into "Casey", influenced by the wide popularity of the poem Casey at the Bat. In the 1950s, sportswriters dubbed him with yet another nickname, "The Old Professor", for his sharp wit and his ability to talk at length on anything baseball-related.
www.caseystengel.com/
1978 - Pope John Paul I
1982 Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
1987 - Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company (b. 1917)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford_II
1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Addams
1989 August "Gussie" Anheuser Busch, Jr., American brewing magnate (b. 1899)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gussie_Busch
1993 Gordon Douglas, American film director (b. 1907)
1995 - Theron G. Randolph (b 1906?) U.S. pioneering allergist who founded the field of environmental medicine and characterized environmental illness as one that included such symptoms as chronic headache, fatigue, and mental depression.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theron_Randolph
1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
1998 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
2005 - Austin Leslie, American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1934)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Leslie
2006 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b 1981)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Monsoor
2010 Tony Curtis, American Actor (b. 1925)
2010 Greg Giraldo, American comedian (b.1965)
Christian Feast Day:
Saint Michael and All Angels - Lutheran
Michaelmas, feast of the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael.
Rhipsime
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhipsime
September 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Saint Cyriacus the Anchorite (556)
Saint Theophanes the Merciful of Palestine
Martyrs Dada, Gabdelas, and Casdoe (Casdoa) of Persia (4th century)
Martyr Gudelia of Persia
The Eighty Holy Martyrs of Byzantium (364-378)
Saint Cyprian, abbot, of Ustiug in Vologda (1276)
New Monk-martyr Malachi of Rhodes (1500)
Saint Onuphrius the Wonderworker, of Gareji, Georgia (1733)
New martyr John, Archbishop of Riga in Latvia (1934)
Martyr Petronia
Saint Neophytus the Enclosed
Saint Auxentius the Wonderworker
Martyrs Tryphon, Trophimus, and Dorymedon, and 150 Martyrs, in Palestine
Other Commemorations
Uncovering of the relics (1993) of St. John (Maximovitch), archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco (1966)
Repose of Blessed Anthony Alexeyovich, Fool-for-Christ of Zadonsk (1851)
Repose of Archimandrite Gerasim of Alaska (1969)
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855 Pope Benedict III (
–858) became pope. Benedict had a reputation for learning and piety.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_III
1227 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor
1717 - An earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1717_Guatemala_earthquake
1770 - The day before his death at age 56, English revivalist George Whitefield prayed: 'Lord Jesus, I am weary in thy work, but not of it.'
1789 - The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War
Federal Hall, New York City, site of the first two sessions of this Congress (1789)
1789 - The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_United_States_Congress
1803 - The first Roman Catholic Church in Boston was formally dedicated. (Catholics had not been permitted any religious freedom within this predominantly Puritan colony prior to the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_Church,_Boston
1838 The Missionary Board of the Reformed (German) Church in the United States was organized. The board supported missionaries sent by other agencies until 1865, when it began sending its own missionaries to the Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin and to Japan.
1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chaffin%27s_Farm
1890 The Chicago Presbytery petitioned the Chicago Board of Education to have the Bible read in the public schools.
1891 - Thomas A. Edison was issued U.S. patent No. 460122 for a "Process of and Apparatus for Generating Electricity" and No. 460123 for a "Phonogram-Blank Carrier."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Edison_patents
1902 The Porto Alegre, Brazil, mission of the Missouri Synod was begun.
1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_National_Cathedral
1914 - A patent for a "Phonograph-Record" was granted to Thomas A. Edison (U.S. No. 1111999).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_record
1915 - A transcontinental radio telephone demonstration was given in New York City. Speech was transmitted via Arlington, Va. to Mare Island at San Francisco, Cal. (2,500 miles). The same night, speech was also transmitted to Honolulu.
1916 - John D. Rockefeller becomes the second billionaire.
1918 - World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
1927 - An outbreak of tornadoes from Oklahoma to Indiana caused 81 deaths and 25 million dollars damage. A tornado (possibly two tornadoes) cut an eight-mile long path across Saint Louis MO, to Granite City IL, killing 79 persons. The damage path at times was a mile and a quarter in width. The storm followed a similar path to tornadoes which struck in 1871, 1896, and 1959. (The Weather Channel)
1941 - World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report. 33,771 Jews were killed in a single operation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar_massacre
1951 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1959 - A storm produced 28 inches of snow at Colorado Springs, CO. (David Ludlum)
1960 - Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev
1963 - The University of East Anglia is established in Norwich, England.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_East_Anglia
1963 The second session of the Second Vatican Council was opened in Rome by Pope Paul VI (1897–1978). This session lasted through December 4.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council#Second_period:_1963
1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Camaro
1970 - The New American Bible was published by the St. Anthony Guild Press. It represented the first English version Roman Catholic Bible to be translated from the original Biblical Greek and Hebrew languages. (The Rheims-Douai Version of 1610 had been based on Jerome's Latin Vulgate.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_American_Bible
1975 - WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
1982 - The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
1983 - Heavy rains began in central and eastern Arizona which culminated in the worst flood in the history of the state. Eight to ten inch rains across the area caused severe flooding in southeastern Arizona which resulted in thirteen deaths and 178 million dollars damage. President Reagan declared eight counties of Arizona to be disaster areas. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - A slow moving cold front produced rain from the Great Lakes Region to the Central Gulf Coast Region. A late afternoon thunderstorm produced wind gusts to 62 mph at Buffalo NY. Warm weather continued in the western U.S. In Oregon, the afternoon high of 96 degrees at Medford was a record for the date. (The National Weather Summary)
1986 - A week of violent weather began in Oklahoma which culminated in one of the worst flooding events in the history of the state. On the first day of the week early morning thunderstorms caused more than a million dollars damage in south Oklahoma City. Thunderstorms produced 4 to 7 inches of rain from Hobart to Ponca City, and another round of thunderstorms that evening produced 7 to 10 inches of rain in north central and northeastern sections of Oklahoma. (Storm Data)
1988 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster.
1988 - High pressure brought freezing temperatures to parts of Vermont and New York State. Burlington VT dipped to 30 degrees, and Binghamton NY reported a record low of 34 degrees. The high pressure system also brought cold weather to the Central Rocky Mountain Region. Alamosa CO reported a record low of 18 degrees, and Gunnison CO was the cold spot in the nation with a morning low of just five degrees above zero. (National Weather Summary)
1989 - Seven cities reported record high temperatures for the date, as readings soared into the 80s and low 90s in the Northern Plateau and Northern Plains Region. Record highs included 91 degrees at Boise ID, and 92 degrees at Sheridan WY. The high of 100 degrees at Tucson AZ marked their 51st record high of the year, and their 92nd day of 100 degree weather. (National Weather Summary)
1990 - Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_National_Cathedral
1990 - The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1995 - The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the "Jolly Rogers".
2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
2005 - United States Senate confirms John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States.
2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails.
2008 - Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
Births
1636 Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born (d 14 Dec 1715).
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1803 - Mercator Cooper (d 1872) was a ship's captain who is credited with the first formal American visit to Tokyo and the first formal landing on the mainland East Antarctica.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_Cooper
1829 Louis Lange Zennern, Kreisfritzer, Kurhesse, Germany (d. 1893). He was the publisher of both Die Abendschule and Die Rundschau in Saint Louis.
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1838 - Henry Hobson Richardson (d 1886) was a prominent American architect of the 19th century. His work left a significant impact on Boston, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Albany, and Chicago, among other cities. The style he popularized is named for him: Richardsonian Romanesque.
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1841 August Reinke, founder of LCMS deaf missions, Winsen, Hannover, Germany (d 18 Nov 1899).
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1842 - Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
1848 - Caroline Ardelia Yale, created the vowel and consonant charts for phonics during the 1880's. She was also the first woman in America to train teachers of the deaf a method of lip-reading. (d 1933)
1859 - Hermann Michael Biggs (d 1923) American physician who pioneered the use of bacteriological studies in the field of public health for the prevention and control of contagious diseases. From 1884 he learnt about current advances in bacteriology by visiting Europe. In 1892, he was appointed the first director of a new Division of Pathology, Bacteriology and Disinfection within the New York City Department of Health - the first municipal bacteriological laboratory in the U.S. - to address the scare of cholera from immigrants arriving at the harbour. He became general medical officer of New York City (1901) and then commissioner of health for the state of New York (1914). The measures he developed for public health spread through the nation.
1895 - Joseph Banks Rhine Pennsylvania, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception)
1897 - Herbert Sebastian Agar , New Rochelle, New York (d 1980, Sussex, England) American journalist and an editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1934 for his book The People's Choice, a critical look at the American presidency. Agar was associated with the Southern Agrarians and edited, with Allen Tate, Who Owns America? (1936). He was also a strong proponent of an Americanized version of the British distributist socioeconomic system.
1898 - Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (d 1976) Soviet biologist and agronomist who not only believed the Mendelian theory of heredity to be wrong, but with Stalin's support for two decades actively obstructed the course of Soviet biology. He caused the imprisonment and death of many of the country's eminent biologists. He followed I. V. Michurin's fanciful idea that plants could be forced to adapt to any environmental conditions, for example converting summer wheat to winter wheat by storing the seeds in ice. As director of the Institute of Genetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1940-65) his interference contributed to the disastrous decline of Soviet agriculture. After Stalin's death in 1956, he lost support and eventually in 1965 was exiled to an experimental farm.
1901 - Enrico Fermi (d 1954) Italian-born American physicist who was one of the chief architects of the nuclear age. He developed the mathematical statistics required to clarify a large class of subatomic phenomena, discovered neutron-induced radioactivity, and directed the first controlled chain reaction involving nuclear fission.
1901 John Sung, outstanding Christian missionary in China and Southeast Asia, was born Siong Chiat Sung in Hinghwa, China (d. 18 Aug 1944).
1903 - John Heyburn Gibbon (d 1973) American surgeon who invented the heart-lung machine. He was prompted when in 1930, as a Harvard research fellow in surgery, he saw a patient undergoing heart-lung surgery suffocate on his own blood. On 10 May 1935, he had built his first external pump, and was able to maintain the cardiac and respiratory functions of a cat. In the late 1940's, Gibbon received financial and technical assistance from the IBM Corporation to develop an oxygenator with sufficient capacity for a human. By 6 May 1953, with his improved machine he was able to perform the first successful open-heart operation - the repair of an atrial septal defect on 18-yr-old Cecelia Bavolek - maintaining the patient's heart and lung functions on the machine for 26 minutes.
1907 - Orvon Eugene "Gene" Autry, Tioga Tx, American actor, singer, and businessman, American performer, gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s. Autry was also owner of the Los Angeles/California Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997, as well as a television station and several radio stations in southern California. Although his signature song was "Back in the Saddle Again", Autry is best known today for his Christmas holiday songs, "Here Comes Santa Claus" (which he wrote), "Frosty the Snowman", and his biggest hit, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". He is a member of both the Country Music and Nashville Songwriters halls of fame, and is the only celebrity to have five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (d. 1998)
1907 - George Washington Jenkins (d 1996) American businessman and founder of Publix Super Markets. In 1930, despite the Great Depression, Jenkins risked his career and everything he had to start a new grocery store. He named the chain Publix.
1908 - Thomas Edward "Eddie" Tolan (d 1967), nicknamed the "Midnight Express", was an American athlete and sprinter. He set world records in the 100 yard dash and 100 meters event and Olympic records in the 100 meters and 200 meters events. He was the first Afro-American to receive the title of the "world's fastest human" after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters events at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In March 1935, Tolan won the 75, 100 and 220 yard events at the World Professional Sprint Championships in Melbourne, Australia to become the first man to win both the amateur and professional world sprint championships. In his full career as a sprinter, Tolan won 300 races and lost only 7.
1913 - Stanley Earl Kramer (d 2001) American film director and producer responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies. His notable films include The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Ship of Fools (1965) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). His work was recognized with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1961, and over the course of his career he received nine Academy Award nominations.
1915 - Vincent Michael DeDomenico, Sr. (d 2007) American entrepreneur, one of the inventors of Rice-A-Roni, and a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Train.
1923 - Oail Andrew "Bum" Phillips former American football coach, and father of Wade Phillips, the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. "Bum" Phillips coached at the high school, college and pro level.
1925 - John Goodwin Tower (d 1991) first Republican United States senator from Texas since Reconstruction. He served from 1961 until his retirement in January 1985, after which time he was the chairman of the Reagan-appointed Tower Commission that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair.
1925 - Paul Beattie MacCready (d 2007) American engineer who invented not only the first human-powered flying machines, but also the first solar-powered aircraft to make sustained flights. On 23 Aug 1977, the pedal-powered aircraft, the Gossamer Condor successfully flew a 1.15 mile figure-8 course to demonstrate sustained, maneuverable manpowered flight, for which he won the £50,000 ($95,000) Kremer Prize. MacCready designed the Condor with Dr. Peter Lissamen. Its frame was made of thin aluminum tubes, covered with mylar plastic supported with stainless steel wire. In 1979, the Gossamer Albatross won the second Kremer Prize for making a flight across the English Channel.
1927 - Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey Jr former Republican politician from the U.S. state of California who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983. He ran on an anti-war platform for the Republican nomination for President in 1972 but was defeated by incumbent President Richard Nixon.[1] In April 2007, McCloskey switched his affiliation to the Democratic Party. He is a decorated United States Marine Corps veteran of combat during the Korean War, being awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, and two awards of the Purple Heart.
1931 - James Watson Cronin American particle physicist, who shared (with Val Logsdon Fitch) the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physics for "the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons." Their experiment proved that a reaction run in reverse does not follow the path of the original reaction, which implied that time has an effect on subatomic-particle interactions. Thus the experiment demonstrated a break in particle-antiparticle symmetry for certain reactions of subatomic particles.
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician, (Great Balls of Fire, Breathless)
1939 - Molly Haskell, American film critic
1942 - Clarence William "Bill" Nelson, senior Democratic U.S. Senator from Florida. In 1986, he became the second sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space, as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
1943 - Gary Boyd Roberts , Houston, Texas, American genealogist known for his scholarship in Americans of royal descent, the ancestors of American presidents, and notable kin. Roberts is the retired Senior Research Scholar of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS).
1943 - Lech Waùæsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1948 - Bryant Charles Gumbel American television journalist and sportscaster. He is best known for his 15 years as co-host of NBC's The Today Show. He is the younger brother of sportscaster Greg Gumbel.
1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast
Deaths
1581 Andreas Musculus (Latinized form of Meusel), theologian involved in the preparation of the Formula of Concord, died (b. 29 November 1514, Schneeberg, Saxony).
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1642 - René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
1804 - Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hillegas
1860 - Chapin Aaron Harris (b 1806) American dentist who was one of the founders of dentistry as a profession. He began as a partner in his brother's medical practice (1827). The next year, he turned to dentistry fulltime until 1835, during which time he moved to Baltimore and began a prodigious output of scientific articles and several books, including his most influential text, The Dental Art: A Practical Treatise on Dental Surgery (1839). He was a cofounder of the first dental school in the world, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery (1840), and cofounder of the first dental journal in the world, the American Journal of Dental Science (1849), serving as its editor for over 20 years. He is credited for placing dental education, literature, and organization on a permanent basis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapin_Aaron_Harris
1868 Lorrin Andrews, Hawaiian missionary and translator of the Bible into Hawaiian.(b 29 Apr1795).
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1889 Polycarp C. Henkel, first president of Concordia College (Conover, North Carolina), (b 23 Aug 1820 near Conover, North Carolina).
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1900 - Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Fenton_Cary
1913 Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (b 18 March) German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel
1937 - Raymond "Ray" Clarence Ewry (b 1873) American track and field athlete who won 8 gold medals at the Olympic Games and 2 gold medals at the "Intercalated Games" (1906 in Athens). This puts him among the most successful Olympians of all time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Ewry
1951 - Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)
1955 - Louis Leon Thurstone (b 1887) American psychologist who was instrumental in the development of psychometrics, the science that measures mental functions, and who developed statistical techniques for multiple-factor analysis of performance on psychological tests.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Leon_Thurstone
1967 Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
1970 Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
1975 - Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (b 1890) nicknamed "The Old Perfessor", was an American Major League Baseball player and manager from 1912 until 1965. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and originally nicknamed "Dutch", a common nickname at that time for Americans of German ancestry. After his major league career began, he acquired the nickname "Casey", which originally came from the initials of his hometown ("K. C."), which evolved into "Casey", influenced by the wide popularity of the poem Casey at the Bat. In the 1950s, sportswriters dubbed him with yet another nickname, "The Old Professor", for his sharp wit and his ability to talk at length on anything baseball-related.
www.caseystengel.com/
1978 - Pope John Paul I
1982 Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
1987 - Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company (b. 1917)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford_II
1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Addams
1989 August "Gussie" Anheuser Busch, Jr., American brewing magnate (b. 1899)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gussie_Busch
1993 Gordon Douglas, American film director (b. 1907)
1995 - Theron G. Randolph (b 1906?) U.S. pioneering allergist who founded the field of environmental medicine and characterized environmental illness as one that included such symptoms as chronic headache, fatigue, and mental depression.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theron_Randolph
1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
1998 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
2005 - Austin Leslie, American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1934)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Leslie
2006 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b 1981)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Monsoor
2010 Tony Curtis, American Actor (b. 1925)
2010 Greg Giraldo, American comedian (b.1965)
Christian Feast Day:
Saint Michael and All Angels - Lutheran
Michaelmas, feast of the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael.
Rhipsime
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September 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Saint Cyriacus the Anchorite (556)
Saint Theophanes the Merciful of Palestine
Martyrs Dada, Gabdelas, and Casdoe (Casdoa) of Persia (4th century)
Martyr Gudelia of Persia
The Eighty Holy Martyrs of Byzantium (364-378)
Saint Cyprian, abbot, of Ustiug in Vologda (1276)
New Monk-martyr Malachi of Rhodes (1500)
Saint Onuphrius the Wonderworker, of Gareji, Georgia (1733)
New martyr John, Archbishop of Riga in Latvia (1934)
Martyr Petronia
Saint Neophytus the Enclosed
Saint Auxentius the Wonderworker
Martyrs Tryphon, Trophimus, and Dorymedon, and 150 Martyrs, in Palestine
Other Commemorations
Uncovering of the relics (1993) of St. John (Maximovitch), archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco (1966)
Repose of Blessed Anthony Alexeyovich, Fool-for-Christ of Zadonsk (1851)
Repose of Archimandrite Gerasim of Alaska (1969)
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