Post by farmgal on Sept 28, 2012 23:43:03 GMT -5
September 30th is the 274st day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
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430 - Death of Latin Father St. Jerome, ca.75. Converted at 19, Jerome spent the last half of his life rendering the Scriptures into the contemporary ("vulgar") Latin of his day -- hence the "Latin Vulgate" -- as well as preparing commentaries on nearly every book of the Bible.
1452 - 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible
1770 - English revivalist George Whitefield, 56, died in Newburyport, Mass., while on his seventh visit to America. Regarded as the most striking orator to come out of 18th century English revivalism, Whitefield's last spoken words were: 'I had rather wear out, than rust out.'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Whitefield
1783 Peter Muhlenberg (1746–1807) was promoted to Major General in the Continental Army.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Muhlenberg
1841 - A machine "for sticking pins into paper" was patented by Samuel Slocum of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (U.S. No. 2275). A sliding hopper deposited a number of pins in grooves in a plate, from where a row of wires pushed them into a folded paper. The operation was activated by a foot treadle. He had previously invented (1838), but not patented, a machine to manufacture pins with a solid head. He formed a company to make what became known as "Poughkeepsie pins" (1839). One man tending two such machines could produce 100,000 pins in 11 hours. Slocum's pin was the first with a solid head to be made in the U.S., though John Ireland Howe had made the first practical pin-making machine (patented 22 Jun 1832, No. 2013).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slocum
1846 - Dentist Dr. William Morton used an experimental anesthetic, ether, for the first time on one of his patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for tooth extraction.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T.G._Morton
1862 - U.S. patent No. 36,593 was issued for a revolving turret for battleships to the inventor, Theodore Ruggles Timby (born Dover, NY, 5 Apr 1822). When Ericsson built the first turret battleship in the world, the Monitor, he added a turret based on Timby's design to the ship
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Timby
1880 - Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of the Orion Nebula
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Draper
1882 - The world's first hydroelectric power plant in the U.S. was opened on the Fox River, in Appleton, Wisc. Powered by a water wheel, a single dynamo provided 12.5 kilowatts enough for 180 lights, of ten candlepower each. Appleton paper manufacturer H.F. Rogers, had been inspired by Thomas Edison's plans for a steam-powered electricity production station in New York. He had financial support from a personal friend of Edison's and two other men, all from Appleton. Rogers began building the power plant at his riverside paper mill during the summer of 1882. Later known as the Appleton Edison Light Company, it produced produced enough electricity to light Rogers' home, the plant itself, and a nearby building
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleton,_Wisconsin#History
1890 - Thomas A. Edison was granted U.S. patent No. 437422 for telegraphy, Nos. 437423,-4,-6 for a phonograph; No. 437425 for a phonograph-recorder; No. 437427 for a "Method of Making Phonograph Blanks"; No. 437428 for a "Propelling Device for Electrical Cars"; and No. 437429 for a phonogram blank.
1902- The "making of cellulose esters" was jointly patented by William H. Walker, Arthur D. Little and Harry S. Mork of Massachusetts. (U.S. No. 709922). A month later, on 28 Oct 1902, they also patented artificial silk (No. 712,200). Viscose was an early name for the product. The term rayon was adopted by the textile industry in 1924 to replace "artificial silk" and similar names. It was said to derive from the French for "shine" - a reference to its silklike lustre. Unlike most man-made fibers, rayon is not synthetic. Made from wood pulp, a naturally-occurring, cellulose-based raw material, rayon's properties are more similar to those of natural cellulosic fibers, such as cotton or linen, than those of petroleum-based synthetic fibers such as nylon.
1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1935 - Boulder Dam, Boulder City, Nev. was dedicated. The concrete-arch dam, subsequently named Hoover Dam (1947), supplied the first U.S. hydroelectric plant to produce a million kilowatts. This production peak occurred in June 1943, though the first of its four generators was placed into operation on 26 Oct 1936. The power serves the Los Angeles area.
1935 - Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premiers in Boston
1938 - At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia
1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 - General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
1941 - 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine
1943 - Pius XII issued the encyclical "Divino Afflante Spiritu," which encouraged Catholic scholars to devote more attention to biblical exegesis in their teachings and writings. One of the long-term effects of this encyclical was the publication in 1970 of the New American Bible.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divino_Afflante_Spiritu
1945 - Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins the pennant for the Tigers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Greenberg
1947 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
Nuremberg Trials. Defendants in the dock. The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Göring (at the left edge on the first row of benches), considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich after Hitler's death.
1946 - 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg, Von Ribbentrop & Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial. Missouri Synod Pastor Henry Gerecke ministered to the prisoners during the trial. A letter signed by the prisoners and expressing appreciation for Chaplain Gerecke’s ministry is in the files at Concordia Historical Institute.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials
1949 - Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights
1951 - Billy Graham's "Hour of Decision" first aired over ABC television. Broadcast on Sunday nights 10:00-10:30, the program aired through February 1954, before entering syndication.
1952 - The complete Old and New Testament of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible was first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons. (The RSV New Testament had first appeared in 1946.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Standard_Version
1954 -World's first nuclear submarine, the "USS Nautilus," was commissioned at Groton, Conn. Its nuclear reactor eliminated the diesel engines which had limited a sub’s range and speed. The nuclear reactor also eliminated the need for diesel fuel storage spaces and the need to surface periodically to recharge batteries. Nautilus could dive longer, faster, and deeper than any submarine before it. It was lauched 17 Jan 1954. Crew: 11 officers, 100 enlisted. Length: 319 feet, beam (hull diameter): 27 feet. Maximum depth: 400+ feet. Nautilus continued to break records in 1958 by becoming the first vessel to travel under the Arctic ice and cross the North Pole. Decommissioned in 1980, the sub was converted into a museum in 1985.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_(SSN-571)
1954 – Twelve countries signed a convention establishing the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which manages the world's largest particle physics laboratory.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Organization_for_Nuclear_Research
1959 - Three tornadoes spawned by the remnants of Hurricane Gracie killed 12 persons at Ivy VA. (The Weather Channel)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Gracie
1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Farm_Workers
1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1963 - The first birth of a gerenuk in the U.S. occurred at the Zoological Park, Bronx Park, New York City. Gerenuks (Litocranius walleri) are reddish-brown antelopes from eastern Africa. It is also known as the giraffe gazelle, for its the long neck. When its neck isn't quite long enough for it to reach certain branches, a geranuk will sometimes be seen standing on its hind legs to reach them.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerenuk
1965 - The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
1968 - The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1970 - A nineteen month drought in southern California came to a climax. The drought, which made brush and buildings tinder dry, set up the worst fire conditions in California history as hot Santa Anna winds sent the temperature soaring to 105 degrees at Los Angeles, and to 97 degrees at San Diego. During that last week of September whole communities of interior San Diego County were consumed by fire. Half a million acres were burned, and the fires caused fifty million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1970 The complete New American Bible was published in Paterson, New Jersey. It was the first Catholic-sponsored English translation of the Scriptures taken directly from the original Greek and Hebrew and was intended to replace the 1610 Douay version of the Bible.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_American_Bible
1971 - Last Washington Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit Yanks trailing 4-2 in the 9th with 2 outs, fans rush the field
1972 - Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Clemente
1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1977 - The temperature at Wichita Falls, TX, soared to 108 degrees to establish a record for September. (The Weather Channel)
1977 - Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1978 - Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Houston, New York, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title
1980 - Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1981 - Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics
1982 - H. Ross Perot and Jay Colburn completed the first circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter, the Spirit of Texas. Their journey began 29 days, 3 hours, and 8 minutes earlier on September 1. For their trip around the world, which began and ended in Fort Worth, Texas, Perot and Coburn flew a Long Ranger with full navigation equipment, survival gear, and emergency items. Pop-out floats were added, and a 151-gallon auxiliary fuel tank in place of the rear seat was used to enable the Spirit of Texas to fly eight hours without refueling. An Allison 250-C28B turbine engine performed flawlessly for 246.5 hours of flight, flying more than 10 hours a day, over open ocean, barren desert, and tropical rain forest with an average ground speed of 117 mph.
1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
1984 - Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner
1986 - Thunderstorms, which had inundated northern sections of Oklahoma with heavy rain, temporarily shifted southward producing 4 to 8 inches rains from Shawnee to Stilwell. Baseball size hail and 80 mph winds ripped through parts of southeast Oklahoma City, and thunderstorm winds caused more than half a million dollars damage at Shawnee. (Storm Data)
1987 - Afternoon thunderstorms in Michigan produced hail an inch in diameter at Pinckney, and wind gusts to 68 mph at Wyandotte. A thunderstorm in northern Indiana produced wet snow at South Bend. Seven cities in the northwestern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including readings of 98 degrees at Medford OR and 101 degrees at downtown Sacramento CA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Andrei A Gromyko retires
1988 - IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
1988 - Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win the Olympic gold medal
1988 - LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings
1988 - Unseasonably warm weather prevailed over Florida, and in the western U.S. The afternoon high of 94 degrees at Fort Myers FL was their tenth record high for the month. Highs of 98 degrees at Medford OR and 99 degrees at Fresno CA were records for the date, and the temperature at Borrego Springs CA soared to 108 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Nolan Ryan's perfect game is broken with 1 out in the 8th, but he strikes-out his 300th of the year
1989 - Thirteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date, as readings soared into the upper 80s and 90s from the Northern and Central High Plains Region to Minnesota. Bismarck ND reported a record high of 95 degrees, and the temperature reached 97 degrees at Broadus MT. Afternoon thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced wind gusts to 60 mph at Wendover UT. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2004 - The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Births
1227 Pope Nicholas IV (d. 4 April 1292).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_IV
1631 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stoughton_(Massachusetts)
1823 Ole Jensen Hatlestad, president of the Norwegian-Danish Augustana Synod, (d. 7 Sep 1892).
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1827 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician, United States Representative from New York and 20th Treasurer of the United States. (d. 1918)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_H._Roberts
1832 - Anna Maria Reeves Jarvis, American labor activist, organizer during and after the American Civil War. She and her daughter, Anna Marie Jarvis (1864–1948), are recognized as the founders of the Mother's Day holiday in the United States. (d. 1905)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Jarvis
1861 - William Wrigley Jr. (d 1932) American salesman and manufacturer whose Wrigley's chewing gum company became the largest producer and distributor of chewing gum in the world. He left his father's soap factory in 1891 when he moved to Chicago. There his uncle supplied seed money on the condition Wrigley take a cousin as partner, and they started manufacturing soap, baking powder, and later, chewing gum. When the gum became very popular, they dropped the other products. In 1899 he introduced spearmint gum, which lagged in sales until a major advertising campaign in 1907; within a year spearmint gum sales increased tenfold. In 1911, he bought Zeno Manufacturing Company, previously contracted to make his gum, and the William Wrigley, Jr., Company was founded.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wrigley_Jr
1870 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Lamont
1876 Albert Theodore William Steinhaeuser, a translator of Luther's Works, Buffalo, New York (d 1 Nov 1924).
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1882 - Charles Lanier Lawrance (d 1950) American aeronautical engineer who designed the first successful air-cooled aircraft engine, used on many historic early flights. He also designed a new type of wing section with an exceptionally good lift-to-drag ratio. His wing design was used widely in World War I. By the mid-1920s his improvements in engine power and reliability made a remarkable series of long-distance flights possible, including those of Admiral Byrd, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and Clarence Chamberlin. Despite the sensational publicity of the Lindbergh flight, Lawrance remained in relative obscurity - upon which he commented, "Who remembers Paul Revere's horse?" For his J-5 Whirlwind engine, Lawrance was awarded the annual Collier Trophy in 1928.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lanier_Lawrance
1883 - Nora Stanton Blatch Barney (d 1971) American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist whose professional and political activities built on her family's tradition of women leaders. In 1905, she was the first woman in the U.S. to obtain a degree in civil engineering and the first junior member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Fresh from college, she wrote a paper on the water supply of Washington, DC which was a reference for studies on the transport of solids in liquids for over 50 years. In 1908, she married Lee De Forest, inventor of the radio vacuum tube, for whom she worked as a laboratory assistant until 1909, when they separated (they divorced in 1912). In 1908, on a honeymoon trip to France, De Forest transmitted voice communication from the Eiffel Tower to receivers 500 miles away.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Stanton_Blatch_Barney
1893 - Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer (d 1964) represented the fifth district of the state of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives for seven terms from 1939–1953.
1895 - Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein) (d 1980)Russian-American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director. He also directed The Front Page (1931 - nomination), The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1940), Ocean's Eleven (1960), and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).
1915 - Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
1917 - Irving B. Kahn (d 1994) Inventor of the teleprompter, who headed the TelePrompTer company. In the mid 50's, Kahn designed and built what was perhaps the first remotely controlled, multi-image, rear projection system in the world for the U.S. Army’s facility in Huntsville, Ala., to make persuasive presentations to visiting Congressmen. With five images (one large, 3¼ by 4 slide or film image in the center flanked smaller slides at each side) and random access it could search and select among 500 slides. TelePrompTer also made many technological contributions to the early cable TV industry. In 1961, Kahn and Hub Schlafley demonstrated Key TV, an early pay TV concept, by showing the second Patterson vs. Johansson heavyweight fight, essentially giving birth to pay-per-view.
1917 - Buddy Rich, American big band jazz drummer (d. 1987)
1918 - Lewis Nixon III (September 30, 1918 - January 11, 1995) was a commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II.
1919 - Patricia Neway Brooklyn, New York, American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress who had an active international career during the mid 1940s through the 1970s. She is particularly remember for creating roles in the world premieres of several contemporary American operas, most notably Magda Sorel in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul. On Broadway she won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Mother Superior in the original production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.
1924 - Truman Capote a short short story writer (In Cold Blood)
1926 - Robin Roberts Phillies pitcher, Hall of Famer (Won 28 in 1952)
1927 - William Stanley Merwin,New York City, American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from his interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in Hawaii, he writes prolifically and is dedicated to the restoration of the islands' rainforests.
1928 - Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE, Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
1931 - Angie Dickinson, Kulm ND, American actress
1932 - Johnny Podres, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1935 - Johnny Mathis, American singer
1935 - Arzell "Z. Z." Hill (d 1984) American blues singer, in the soul blues tradition, known for his 1970s and 1980s recordings for Malaco. His 1982 album, Down Home, stayed on the Billboard soul album chart for nearly two years. The track "Down Home Blues" has been called the best-known blues song of the 1980s. This track plus the songs "Taxi", "Someone Else Is Steppin' In", and "Open House" have become R&B/Southern soul standards.
1936 - James Ralph Sasser, American politician and attorney. A Democrat, Sasser served three terms as a United States Senator from Tennessee (1977–1995) and was Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. From 1995 to 1999, during the Clinton Administration, he was the United States Ambassador to China.
1941 - Samuel F. Pickering, professor of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. His unconventional teaching style was one of the inspirations for the character of Mr. Keating, played by Robin Williams in the film Dead Poets Society. Pickering specializes in the familiar essay, children's literature, nature writers, and 18th and 19th century English literature. In addition to teaching, he has published many collections of non-fiction personal essays as well as over 200 articles.
1942 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968, heroin overdose)
1943 - Marilyn McCoo, American singer (The 5th Dimension)
1943 - Joseph Lester "Jody" Powell, Jr. (d 2009) was the White House Press Secretary during the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
1945 - Bob Lassiter (d 2006), also known as "Mad Dog," was a controversial and highly influential American radio talk show host in the 1980s and '90s. He worked in several markets but is best known for his long stint in the Tampa Bay area.
1957 - Fran Drescher, American actress
1960 - Blanche Lincoln, American politician
Deaths
420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
1770 - George Whitefield, Anglican Protestant minister who helped spread the Great Awakening in the Britain and, especially, in the British North American colonies. He was one of the founders of Methodism and of the evangelical movement generally. The best-known preacher in Britain and America in the 18th century, and because he traveled through all of the American colonies and drew great crowds and media coverage, he was one of the most widely recognized public figures in colonial America. (b. 1714)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Whitefield
1939 - Martha Wollstein (b 1868) American physician and investigator in pediatric pathology. Her first experimental work involved infant diarrhea and confirmed earlier studies relating the dysentery bacillus to the disease. At the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, she collaborated on the first experimental work on polio in the U.S., worked on an early investigation of pneumonia and developed, with Harold Amoss, a method for preparing antimeningitis serum. She also pioneered in early research on mumps, indicating, though not proving, its viral nature. After 1921, Wollstein investigated pediatric pathology at the Babies Hospital, especially jaundice, congenital anomalies, tuberculosis, meningitis, and leukemia. In 1930, she was the first female member of the American Pediatric Society.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Wollstein
1941 - Alice de Janzé, née Silverthorne (b 1899 1941) also known as Alice de Trafford and holder of the noble title Comtesse (Countess) de Janzé for a few years, was an American heiress who spent years in Kenya, as a member of the Happy Valley set of colonials. She was connected with numerous scandals, including the attempted murder of her lover in 1927, as well as the 1941 murder of Josslyn Hay, the Earl of Erroll in Kenya. Her tempestuous life was marked by promiscuity, drug abuse and several suicide attempts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_de_Trafford
1951 Sylvester Clarence Michelfelder, Lutheran World Federation leader, (b 27 Oct 1889, New Washington, Ohio).
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1955 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dean
1959 - Ross Granville Harrison (born 13 Jan 1870) American zoologist who developed the first successful animal-tissue cultures and pioneered organ transplantation techniques. He discovered the hanging-drop culture method (1907), a new method of studying cells, which permitted him to keep fragments of living tissue alive in suitable media and watch them multiply. Using this technique, he settled a controversy about the embryonic origins of nerve fibres. The hanging-drop method has been valuable not only in embryology, but also in oncology, genetics, virology and other fields. In an early experiment using tissue grafting techniques, he joined parts of embryos from differently coloured frogs to observe the movement of cells during the subsequent development of the embryos produced in this way.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Granville_Harrison
1865 Prisoners Cried When Wayland Died Francis Wayland lay desperately ill. On Thursday evening, September 28, his oldest son took his hand and asked, "Do you know me, father." Francis opened his eyes which seemed filled with affection and answered, "Yes." But when a younger son arrived from out of state Friday morning, Francis neither opened his eyes nor gave any sign that he heard his boy speak to him. On this day, September 30, 1865, a Saturday evening at twenty minutes to six, the family were gathered at his bedside.
His daughter saw that his body showed signs of change and laid her hand gently on his cheek. Francis' eyes fluttered open. He took in the sight of his loved ones with complete consciousness, closed his eyes and died.
A long and productive life was over. Through the greater part of his seventy years, Francis Wayland was both a notable Baptist preacher and outstanding educator. If you have been given the option of choosing elective classes in college or in high school, remember that he was a pioneer in electives.
Born in New York City, Francis studied at Andover Theological Center and became a Baptist minister. He served for six years at the First Baptist Church, Boston, and became known for effectual sermons which brought his listeners to repentance and conversion.
Leaving the Boston church, Francis became a professor at Union College and then accepted the position as president of Brown College. He would be there eighteen years, sometimes called the school's "golden years."
Although head of this seminary, Francis distrusted seminaries. "The tendency of seminaries is to become schools for theological and philological learning and elegant literature, rather than schools to make preachers of the Gospel," he said. He was determined that his school not drift with that tide. He himself led in worship and delivered sermons to his students, urging those who were not converted to get right with God.
Francis did not see seminary training as the sole ticket to pastoring. "I was said to be opposed to ministerial education because I held that a man with the proper moral qualifications might be called to the ministry by any church and be a useful minister of Christ and that we had no right to exclude such a man because he had not gone through a nine or ten years' course of study. God calls men to the ministry by bestowing upon them suitable endowments, and an earnest desire to use them for His service." These views led him to establish flexible entrance requirements.
He founded the free library of Wayland, Massachussets and won legislation that allowed towns to support public libraries with tax money. After his retirement, he sometimes preached. In his last public sermon, given just days before he died, he urged his listeners to be faithful followers of Jesus. He prayed with them. On his way home, he remarked to the man escorting him that "we do not pray enough; we lack faith in God."
Francis was also involved in prison work and made such a deep impression on the state prisoners that the prison chapel was filled with sobs when the chaplain announced that he had died.
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630540/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wayland
1973 - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pitseolak
1977 - Mary Ford, American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (b. 1924)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ford
1978 - Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bergen
1985 - Charles Francis Richter (b 1900) American seismologist and physicist. Richter is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes. Inspired by Kiyoo Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, Richter first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg; both worked at California Institute of Technology, California, USA. The quote "logarithmic plots are a device of the devil" is attributed to Richter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Richter
1988 - Al Holbert, American race car driver and team owner (b 1946)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Holbert
1990 - Rob Moroso (b 1968) NASCAR racing driver who was champion of the NASCAR Busch Series (now Nationwide Series) in 1989,[1] was posthumously awarded the 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup Series) Rookie of the Year award. He was killed in a traffic accident on roads near his hometown of Terrell, North Carolina
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Moroso
1998 - Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b 1953)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quisenberry
2003 - Yusuf Bey (b. Joseph Stephens, (b 1935, Greenville, Texas, Oakland, California) was a Black Muslim activist and charismatic leader. After discovering the teachings of Elijah Muhammed in the 1960s, he adopted the name Yusuf Bey and moved to Oakland, California, and then Santa Barbara, California, where in 1968 he opened a bakery. The bakery moved to Oakland by 1971. Renamed Your Black Muslim Bakery, it became the center of a local Black nationalist community. Held out at the time as a model of African American economic self-sufficiency, the business fell apart after Bey's death and a series of murders linked to criminal activities.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Bey
2004 - Jacques Levy, Jewish American songwriter, theatre director, and clinical psychologist (b 1935)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Levy
Christian Feast Day
Jerome
Gregory the Illuminator
Honorius of Canterbury
September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Hieromartyr Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop of Greater Armenia (335)
Venerable Gregory, Abbot of Pelshme, Wonderworker of Vologda (1442)
Saint Michael, first Metropolitan of Kiev (992)
Martyrs Rhipsime and Gaiana of Armenia (4th century)
Saint Michael, Prince of Tver (1318)
New martyr Nicholas Zagorovsky (monastic name Seraphim), priest (1943)
Martyr Stratonicus
Martyr Mardonius
Other Commemorations
Repose of Blessed Jerome (Hieronymus) of Stridonium (420)
Repose of Archimandrite Gerasim of Alaska (1969)
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430 - Death of Latin Father St. Jerome, ca.75. Converted at 19, Jerome spent the last half of his life rendering the Scriptures into the contemporary ("vulgar") Latin of his day -- hence the "Latin Vulgate" -- as well as preparing commentaries on nearly every book of the Bible.
1452 - 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible
1770 - English revivalist George Whitefield, 56, died in Newburyport, Mass., while on his seventh visit to America. Regarded as the most striking orator to come out of 18th century English revivalism, Whitefield's last spoken words were: 'I had rather wear out, than rust out.'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Whitefield
1783 Peter Muhlenberg (1746–1807) was promoted to Major General in the Continental Army.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Muhlenberg
1841 - A machine "for sticking pins into paper" was patented by Samuel Slocum of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (U.S. No. 2275). A sliding hopper deposited a number of pins in grooves in a plate, from where a row of wires pushed them into a folded paper. The operation was activated by a foot treadle. He had previously invented (1838), but not patented, a machine to manufacture pins with a solid head. He formed a company to make what became known as "Poughkeepsie pins" (1839). One man tending two such machines could produce 100,000 pins in 11 hours. Slocum's pin was the first with a solid head to be made in the U.S., though John Ireland Howe had made the first practical pin-making machine (patented 22 Jun 1832, No. 2013).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slocum
1846 - Dentist Dr. William Morton used an experimental anesthetic, ether, for the first time on one of his patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for tooth extraction.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T.G._Morton
1862 - U.S. patent No. 36,593 was issued for a revolving turret for battleships to the inventor, Theodore Ruggles Timby (born Dover, NY, 5 Apr 1822). When Ericsson built the first turret battleship in the world, the Monitor, he added a turret based on Timby's design to the ship
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Timby
1880 - Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of the Orion Nebula
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Draper
1882 - The world's first hydroelectric power plant in the U.S. was opened on the Fox River, in Appleton, Wisc. Powered by a water wheel, a single dynamo provided 12.5 kilowatts enough for 180 lights, of ten candlepower each. Appleton paper manufacturer H.F. Rogers, had been inspired by Thomas Edison's plans for a steam-powered electricity production station in New York. He had financial support from a personal friend of Edison's and two other men, all from Appleton. Rogers began building the power plant at his riverside paper mill during the summer of 1882. Later known as the Appleton Edison Light Company, it produced produced enough electricity to light Rogers' home, the plant itself, and a nearby building
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleton,_Wisconsin#History
1890 - Thomas A. Edison was granted U.S. patent No. 437422 for telegraphy, Nos. 437423,-4,-6 for a phonograph; No. 437425 for a phonograph-recorder; No. 437427 for a "Method of Making Phonograph Blanks"; No. 437428 for a "Propelling Device for Electrical Cars"; and No. 437429 for a phonogram blank.
1902- The "making of cellulose esters" was jointly patented by William H. Walker, Arthur D. Little and Harry S. Mork of Massachusetts. (U.S. No. 709922). A month later, on 28 Oct 1902, they also patented artificial silk (No. 712,200). Viscose was an early name for the product. The term rayon was adopted by the textile industry in 1924 to replace "artificial silk" and similar names. It was said to derive from the French for "shine" - a reference to its silklike lustre. Unlike most man-made fibers, rayon is not synthetic. Made from wood pulp, a naturally-occurring, cellulose-based raw material, rayon's properties are more similar to those of natural cellulosic fibers, such as cotton or linen, than those of petroleum-based synthetic fibers such as nylon.
1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1935 - Boulder Dam, Boulder City, Nev. was dedicated. The concrete-arch dam, subsequently named Hoover Dam (1947), supplied the first U.S. hydroelectric plant to produce a million kilowatts. This production peak occurred in June 1943, though the first of its four generators was placed into operation on 26 Oct 1936. The power serves the Los Angeles area.
1935 - Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premiers in Boston
1938 - At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia
1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 - General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
1941 - 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine
1943 - Pius XII issued the encyclical "Divino Afflante Spiritu," which encouraged Catholic scholars to devote more attention to biblical exegesis in their teachings and writings. One of the long-term effects of this encyclical was the publication in 1970 of the New American Bible.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divino_Afflante_Spiritu
1945 - Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins the pennant for the Tigers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Greenberg
1947 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
Nuremberg Trials. Defendants in the dock. The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Göring (at the left edge on the first row of benches), considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich after Hitler's death.
1946 - 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg, Von Ribbentrop & Goering sentenced to death by Nuremberg trial. Missouri Synod Pastor Henry Gerecke ministered to the prisoners during the trial. A letter signed by the prisoners and expressing appreciation for Chaplain Gerecke’s ministry is in the files at Concordia Historical Institute.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials
1949 - Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights
1951 - Billy Graham's "Hour of Decision" first aired over ABC television. Broadcast on Sunday nights 10:00-10:30, the program aired through February 1954, before entering syndication.
1952 - The complete Old and New Testament of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible was first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons. (The RSV New Testament had first appeared in 1946.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Standard_Version
1954 -World's first nuclear submarine, the "USS Nautilus," was commissioned at Groton, Conn. Its nuclear reactor eliminated the diesel engines which had limited a sub’s range and speed. The nuclear reactor also eliminated the need for diesel fuel storage spaces and the need to surface periodically to recharge batteries. Nautilus could dive longer, faster, and deeper than any submarine before it. It was lauched 17 Jan 1954. Crew: 11 officers, 100 enlisted. Length: 319 feet, beam (hull diameter): 27 feet. Maximum depth: 400+ feet. Nautilus continued to break records in 1958 by becoming the first vessel to travel under the Arctic ice and cross the North Pole. Decommissioned in 1980, the sub was converted into a museum in 1985.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_(SSN-571)
1954 – Twelve countries signed a convention establishing the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which manages the world's largest particle physics laboratory.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Organization_for_Nuclear_Research
1959 - Three tornadoes spawned by the remnants of Hurricane Gracie killed 12 persons at Ivy VA. (The Weather Channel)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Gracie
1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Farm_Workers
1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1963 - The first birth of a gerenuk in the U.S. occurred at the Zoological Park, Bronx Park, New York City. Gerenuks (Litocranius walleri) are reddish-brown antelopes from eastern Africa. It is also known as the giraffe gazelle, for its the long neck. When its neck isn't quite long enough for it to reach certain branches, a geranuk will sometimes be seen standing on its hind legs to reach them.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerenuk
1965 - The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
1968 - The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1970 - A nineteen month drought in southern California came to a climax. The drought, which made brush and buildings tinder dry, set up the worst fire conditions in California history as hot Santa Anna winds sent the temperature soaring to 105 degrees at Los Angeles, and to 97 degrees at San Diego. During that last week of September whole communities of interior San Diego County were consumed by fire. Half a million acres were burned, and the fires caused fifty million dollars damage. (David Ludlum)
1970 The complete New American Bible was published in Paterson, New Jersey. It was the first Catholic-sponsored English translation of the Scriptures taken directly from the original Greek and Hebrew and was intended to replace the 1610 Douay version of the Bible.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_American_Bible
1971 - Last Washington Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit Yanks trailing 4-2 in the 9th with 2 outs, fans rush the field
1972 - Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
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1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1977 - The temperature at Wichita Falls, TX, soared to 108 degrees to establish a record for September. (The Weather Channel)
1977 - Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1978 - Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Houston, New York, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title
1980 - Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1981 - Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics
1982 - H. Ross Perot and Jay Colburn completed the first circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter, the Spirit of Texas. Their journey began 29 days, 3 hours, and 8 minutes earlier on September 1. For their trip around the world, which began and ended in Fort Worth, Texas, Perot and Coburn flew a Long Ranger with full navigation equipment, survival gear, and emergency items. Pop-out floats were added, and a 151-gallon auxiliary fuel tank in place of the rear seat was used to enable the Spirit of Texas to fly eight hours without refueling. An Allison 250-C28B turbine engine performed flawlessly for 246.5 hours of flight, flying more than 10 hours a day, over open ocean, barren desert, and tropical rain forest with an average ground speed of 117 mph.
1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
1984 - Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner
1986 - Thunderstorms, which had inundated northern sections of Oklahoma with heavy rain, temporarily shifted southward producing 4 to 8 inches rains from Shawnee to Stilwell. Baseball size hail and 80 mph winds ripped through parts of southeast Oklahoma City, and thunderstorm winds caused more than half a million dollars damage at Shawnee. (Storm Data)
1987 - Afternoon thunderstorms in Michigan produced hail an inch in diameter at Pinckney, and wind gusts to 68 mph at Wyandotte. A thunderstorm in northern Indiana produced wet snow at South Bend. Seven cities in the northwestern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including readings of 98 degrees at Medford OR and 101 degrees at downtown Sacramento CA. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
1988 - Andrei A Gromyko retires
1988 - IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
1988 - Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win the Olympic gold medal
1988 - LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings
1988 - Unseasonably warm weather prevailed over Florida, and in the western U.S. The afternoon high of 94 degrees at Fort Myers FL was their tenth record high for the month. Highs of 98 degrees at Medford OR and 99 degrees at Fresno CA were records for the date, and the temperature at Borrego Springs CA soared to 108 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Nolan Ryan's perfect game is broken with 1 out in the 8th, but he strikes-out his 300th of the year
1989 - Thirteen cities reported record high temperatures for the date, as readings soared into the upper 80s and 90s from the Northern and Central High Plains Region to Minnesota. Bismarck ND reported a record high of 95 degrees, and the temperature reached 97 degrees at Broadus MT. Afternoon thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced wind gusts to 60 mph at Wendover UT. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)
2004 - The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Births
1227 Pope Nicholas IV (d. 4 April 1292).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_IV
1631 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stoughton_(Massachusetts)
1823 Ole Jensen Hatlestad, president of the Norwegian-Danish Augustana Synod, (d. 7 Sep 1892).
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1827 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician, United States Representative from New York and 20th Treasurer of the United States. (d. 1918)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_H._Roberts
1832 - Anna Maria Reeves Jarvis, American labor activist, organizer during and after the American Civil War. She and her daughter, Anna Marie Jarvis (1864–1948), are recognized as the founders of the Mother's Day holiday in the United States. (d. 1905)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Jarvis
1861 - William Wrigley Jr. (d 1932) American salesman and manufacturer whose Wrigley's chewing gum company became the largest producer and distributor of chewing gum in the world. He left his father's soap factory in 1891 when he moved to Chicago. There his uncle supplied seed money on the condition Wrigley take a cousin as partner, and they started manufacturing soap, baking powder, and later, chewing gum. When the gum became very popular, they dropped the other products. In 1899 he introduced spearmint gum, which lagged in sales until a major advertising campaign in 1907; within a year spearmint gum sales increased tenfold. In 1911, he bought Zeno Manufacturing Company, previously contracted to make his gum, and the William Wrigley, Jr., Company was founded.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wrigley_Jr
1870 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Lamont
1876 Albert Theodore William Steinhaeuser, a translator of Luther's Works, Buffalo, New York (d 1 Nov 1924).
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1882 - Charles Lanier Lawrance (d 1950) American aeronautical engineer who designed the first successful air-cooled aircraft engine, used on many historic early flights. He also designed a new type of wing section with an exceptionally good lift-to-drag ratio. His wing design was used widely in World War I. By the mid-1920s his improvements in engine power and reliability made a remarkable series of long-distance flights possible, including those of Admiral Byrd, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and Clarence Chamberlin. Despite the sensational publicity of the Lindbergh flight, Lawrance remained in relative obscurity - upon which he commented, "Who remembers Paul Revere's horse?" For his J-5 Whirlwind engine, Lawrance was awarded the annual Collier Trophy in 1928.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lanier_Lawrance
1883 - Nora Stanton Blatch Barney (d 1971) American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist whose professional and political activities built on her family's tradition of women leaders. In 1905, she was the first woman in the U.S. to obtain a degree in civil engineering and the first junior member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Fresh from college, she wrote a paper on the water supply of Washington, DC which was a reference for studies on the transport of solids in liquids for over 50 years. In 1908, she married Lee De Forest, inventor of the radio vacuum tube, for whom she worked as a laboratory assistant until 1909, when they separated (they divorced in 1912). In 1908, on a honeymoon trip to France, De Forest transmitted voice communication from the Eiffel Tower to receivers 500 miles away.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Stanton_Blatch_Barney
1893 - Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer (d 1964) represented the fifth district of the state of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives for seven terms from 1939–1953.
1895 - Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein) (d 1980)Russian-American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director. He also directed The Front Page (1931 - nomination), The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1940), Ocean's Eleven (1960), and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).
1915 - Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
1917 - Irving B. Kahn (d 1994) Inventor of the teleprompter, who headed the TelePrompTer company. In the mid 50's, Kahn designed and built what was perhaps the first remotely controlled, multi-image, rear projection system in the world for the U.S. Army’s facility in Huntsville, Ala., to make persuasive presentations to visiting Congressmen. With five images (one large, 3¼ by 4 slide or film image in the center flanked smaller slides at each side) and random access it could search and select among 500 slides. TelePrompTer also made many technological contributions to the early cable TV industry. In 1961, Kahn and Hub Schlafley demonstrated Key TV, an early pay TV concept, by showing the second Patterson vs. Johansson heavyweight fight, essentially giving birth to pay-per-view.
1917 - Buddy Rich, American big band jazz drummer (d. 1987)
1918 - Lewis Nixon III (September 30, 1918 - January 11, 1995) was a commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II.
1919 - Patricia Neway Brooklyn, New York, American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress who had an active international career during the mid 1940s through the 1970s. She is particularly remember for creating roles in the world premieres of several contemporary American operas, most notably Magda Sorel in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul. On Broadway she won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Mother Superior in the original production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.
1924 - Truman Capote a short short story writer (In Cold Blood)
1926 - Robin Roberts Phillies pitcher, Hall of Famer (Won 28 in 1952)
1927 - William Stanley Merwin,New York City, American poet, credited with over 30 books of poetry, translation and prose. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, Merwin's writing influence derived from his interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in Hawaii, he writes prolifically and is dedicated to the restoration of the islands' rainforests.
1928 - Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE, Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
1931 - Angie Dickinson, Kulm ND, American actress
1932 - Johnny Podres, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1935 - Johnny Mathis, American singer
1935 - Arzell "Z. Z." Hill (d 1984) American blues singer, in the soul blues tradition, known for his 1970s and 1980s recordings for Malaco. His 1982 album, Down Home, stayed on the Billboard soul album chart for nearly two years. The track "Down Home Blues" has been called the best-known blues song of the 1980s. This track plus the songs "Taxi", "Someone Else Is Steppin' In", and "Open House" have become R&B/Southern soul standards.
1936 - James Ralph Sasser, American politician and attorney. A Democrat, Sasser served three terms as a United States Senator from Tennessee (1977–1995) and was Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. From 1995 to 1999, during the Clinton Administration, he was the United States Ambassador to China.
1941 - Samuel F. Pickering, professor of English at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. His unconventional teaching style was one of the inspirations for the character of Mr. Keating, played by Robin Williams in the film Dead Poets Society. Pickering specializes in the familiar essay, children's literature, nature writers, and 18th and 19th century English literature. In addition to teaching, he has published many collections of non-fiction personal essays as well as over 200 articles.
1942 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968, heroin overdose)
1943 - Marilyn McCoo, American singer (The 5th Dimension)
1943 - Joseph Lester "Jody" Powell, Jr. (d 2009) was the White House Press Secretary during the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
1945 - Bob Lassiter (d 2006), also known as "Mad Dog," was a controversial and highly influential American radio talk show host in the 1980s and '90s. He worked in several markets but is best known for his long stint in the Tampa Bay area.
1957 - Fran Drescher, American actress
1960 - Blanche Lincoln, American politician
Deaths
420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
1770 - George Whitefield, Anglican Protestant minister who helped spread the Great Awakening in the Britain and, especially, in the British North American colonies. He was one of the founders of Methodism and of the evangelical movement generally. The best-known preacher in Britain and America in the 18th century, and because he traveled through all of the American colonies and drew great crowds and media coverage, he was one of the most widely recognized public figures in colonial America. (b. 1714)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Whitefield
1939 - Martha Wollstein (b 1868) American physician and investigator in pediatric pathology. Her first experimental work involved infant diarrhea and confirmed earlier studies relating the dysentery bacillus to the disease. At the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, she collaborated on the first experimental work on polio in the U.S., worked on an early investigation of pneumonia and developed, with Harold Amoss, a method for preparing antimeningitis serum. She also pioneered in early research on mumps, indicating, though not proving, its viral nature. After 1921, Wollstein investigated pediatric pathology at the Babies Hospital, especially jaundice, congenital anomalies, tuberculosis, meningitis, and leukemia. In 1930, she was the first female member of the American Pediatric Society.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Wollstein
1941 - Alice de Janzé, née Silverthorne (b 1899 1941) also known as Alice de Trafford and holder of the noble title Comtesse (Countess) de Janzé for a few years, was an American heiress who spent years in Kenya, as a member of the Happy Valley set of colonials. She was connected with numerous scandals, including the attempted murder of her lover in 1927, as well as the 1941 murder of Josslyn Hay, the Earl of Erroll in Kenya. Her tempestuous life was marked by promiscuity, drug abuse and several suicide attempts.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_de_Trafford
1951 Sylvester Clarence Michelfelder, Lutheran World Federation leader, (b 27 Oct 1889, New Washington, Ohio).
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1955 - James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)
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1959 - Ross Granville Harrison (born 13 Jan 1870) American zoologist who developed the first successful animal-tissue cultures and pioneered organ transplantation techniques. He discovered the hanging-drop culture method (1907), a new method of studying cells, which permitted him to keep fragments of living tissue alive in suitable media and watch them multiply. Using this technique, he settled a controversy about the embryonic origins of nerve fibres. The hanging-drop method has been valuable not only in embryology, but also in oncology, genetics, virology and other fields. In an early experiment using tissue grafting techniques, he joined parts of embryos from differently coloured frogs to observe the movement of cells during the subsequent development of the embryos produced in this way.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Granville_Harrison
1865 Prisoners Cried When Wayland Died Francis Wayland lay desperately ill. On Thursday evening, September 28, his oldest son took his hand and asked, "Do you know me, father." Francis opened his eyes which seemed filled with affection and answered, "Yes." But when a younger son arrived from out of state Friday morning, Francis neither opened his eyes nor gave any sign that he heard his boy speak to him. On this day, September 30, 1865, a Saturday evening at twenty minutes to six, the family were gathered at his bedside.
His daughter saw that his body showed signs of change and laid her hand gently on his cheek. Francis' eyes fluttered open. He took in the sight of his loved ones with complete consciousness, closed his eyes and died.
A long and productive life was over. Through the greater part of his seventy years, Francis Wayland was both a notable Baptist preacher and outstanding educator. If you have been given the option of choosing elective classes in college or in high school, remember that he was a pioneer in electives.
Born in New York City, Francis studied at Andover Theological Center and became a Baptist minister. He served for six years at the First Baptist Church, Boston, and became known for effectual sermons which brought his listeners to repentance and conversion.
Leaving the Boston church, Francis became a professor at Union College and then accepted the position as president of Brown College. He would be there eighteen years, sometimes called the school's "golden years."
Although head of this seminary, Francis distrusted seminaries. "The tendency of seminaries is to become schools for theological and philological learning and elegant literature, rather than schools to make preachers of the Gospel," he said. He was determined that his school not drift with that tide. He himself led in worship and delivered sermons to his students, urging those who were not converted to get right with God.
Francis did not see seminary training as the sole ticket to pastoring. "I was said to be opposed to ministerial education because I held that a man with the proper moral qualifications might be called to the ministry by any church and be a useful minister of Christ and that we had no right to exclude such a man because he had not gone through a nine or ten years' course of study. God calls men to the ministry by bestowing upon them suitable endowments, and an earnest desire to use them for His service." These views led him to establish flexible entrance requirements.
He founded the free library of Wayland, Massachussets and won legislation that allowed towns to support public libraries with tax money. After his retirement, he sometimes preached. In his last public sermon, given just days before he died, he urged his listeners to be faithful followers of Jesus. He prayed with them. On his way home, he remarked to the man escorting him that "we do not pray enough; we lack faith in God."
Francis was also involved in prison work and made such a deep impression on the state prisoners that the prison chapel was filled with sobs when the chaplain announced that he had died.
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630540/
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1973 - Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pitseolak
1977 - Mary Ford, American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (b. 1924)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ford
1978 - Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bergen
1985 - Charles Francis Richter (b 1900) American seismologist and physicist. Richter is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes. Inspired by Kiyoo Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes, Richter first used the scale in 1935 after developing it in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg; both worked at California Institute of Technology, California, USA. The quote "logarithmic plots are a device of the devil" is attributed to Richter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Richter
1988 - Al Holbert, American race car driver and team owner (b 1946)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Holbert
1990 - Rob Moroso (b 1968) NASCAR racing driver who was champion of the NASCAR Busch Series (now Nationwide Series) in 1989,[1] was posthumously awarded the 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup Series) Rookie of the Year award. He was killed in a traffic accident on roads near his hometown of Terrell, North Carolina
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Moroso
1998 - Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b 1953)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quisenberry
2003 - Yusuf Bey (b. Joseph Stephens, (b 1935, Greenville, Texas, Oakland, California) was a Black Muslim activist and charismatic leader. After discovering the teachings of Elijah Muhammed in the 1960s, he adopted the name Yusuf Bey and moved to Oakland, California, and then Santa Barbara, California, where in 1968 he opened a bakery. The bakery moved to Oakland by 1971. Renamed Your Black Muslim Bakery, it became the center of a local Black nationalist community. Held out at the time as a model of African American economic self-sufficiency, the business fell apart after Bey's death and a series of murders linked to criminal activities.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Bey
2004 - Jacques Levy, Jewish American songwriter, theatre director, and clinical psychologist (b 1935)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Levy
Christian Feast Day
Jerome
Gregory the Illuminator
Honorius of Canterbury
September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Hieromartyr Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop of Greater Armenia (335)
Venerable Gregory, Abbot of Pelshme, Wonderworker of Vologda (1442)
Saint Michael, first Metropolitan of Kiev (992)
Martyrs Rhipsime and Gaiana of Armenia (4th century)
Saint Michael, Prince of Tver (1318)
New martyr Nicholas Zagorovsky (monastic name Seraphim), priest (1943)
Martyr Stratonicus
Martyr Mardonius
Other Commemorations
Repose of Blessed Jerome (Hieronymus) of Stridonium (420)
Repose of Archimandrite Gerasim of Alaska (1969)
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