Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

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Quote from: Krandall on August 27, 2009, 12:57:51 PM
1969 – Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.


Sounds like something peelz did....


Was Penetrated deep in "egyptian" territory while being commando.... :help:
:lol:


Corrected for Peels application

Peelz

whatever. we know you are the reason the sphinx smiles.  :lol:
Krandall: "peelz. I'll be real with you. As much as I hate on you for soccer, I really don't mind it"


Krandall

 :lol:

It's okay peelz. we won't judge you. At least gunz has done worse..  :lol:


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August 28 is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 125 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
1189 – Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1349 – 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz, accused of being the cause of the plague.
1511 – The Portuguese conquer Malacca.
1521 – The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1542 – Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) – Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterwards executed.
1565 – St. Augustine, Florida, is established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1619 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1640 – Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn.
1810 – Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
1830 – The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
1845 – Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
1859 – A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan.
1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas.
1867 – The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll.
1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1898 – Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1914 – World War I: the Royal Navy beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1914 – World War I: German troops conquer Namur.
1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
1917 – Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
1924 – Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1931 – France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943 – World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
1961 – Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
1979 – An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.
1981 – The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
1986 – United States Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. 75 are killed and 346 seriously injured.
1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1990 – The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales are divorced.
1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt.

Births

1025 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
1582 – Taichang Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620)
1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1628)
1612 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (d. 1653)
1667 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)
1691 – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1750)
1714 – Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American-born Catholic saint (d. 1821)
1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (d. 1877)
1814 – Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
1827 – Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894)
1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (birthdate according to O.S.) (d. 1910)
1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (d. 1900)
1853 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939)
1867 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
1878 – George Whipple, American doctor and Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1885 – Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959)
1894 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981)
1898 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1899 – Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
1904 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
1905 – Cyril Walters, England cricketer (d. 1992)
1906 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
1908 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist (d. 1996)
1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-born economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1911 – Joseph Luns, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
1913 – Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995)
1913 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
1913 – Terence Reese, British bridge player (d. 1996)
1913 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer
1913 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (d. 1993)
1915 – Max Robertson, British sports commentator
1915 – Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (d. 2008)
1916 – Jack Vance, American author
1916 – Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (d. 1997)
1917 – Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (d. 1994)
1919 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer Nobel Laureate (d. 2004)
1920 – Frits Bernard, pedophile activist (d. 2006)
1921 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (d. 2007)
1921 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
1924 – Janet Frame, New Zealand author (d. 2004)
1924 – Peggy Ryan, American actress (d. 2004)
1924 – Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer
1925 – Donald O'Connor, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 2003)
1925 – Billy Grammer, American country music singer and guitarist
1928 – F. William Free, American advertising executive (d. 2003)
1929 – István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
1929 – Ken Gampu, South African actor (d. 2003)
1930 – Windsor Davies, British actor
1930 – Ben Gazzara, American actor
1931 – John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
1931 – Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario and director
1932 – Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player
1935 – Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998)
1936 – Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire
1938 – Paul Martin, Canadian politician
1938 – Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist
1940 – Ken Jenkins, American actor
1940 – Roger Pingeon, French cylist
1940 – Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind)
1941 – Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat
1941 – Paul Plishka, American opera singer
1942 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
1943 – David Soul, American actor
1943 – Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
1943 – Surayud Chulanont, Thai 24th Prime Minister (former)
1944 – Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
1945 – Robert Greenwald, American film director/producer
1945 – Bob Segarini, American musician
1944 – Melvin Dummar, American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate
1947 – Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
1947 – Shoto Tanemura, Japanese martial artist
1948 – Danny Seraphine, American musician (Chicago)
1948 – Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer
1949 – Hugh Cornwell, British musician (The Stranglers)
1949 – Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player and coach
1951 – Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
1951 – Wayne Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)
1952 – Rita Dove, American poet
1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
1952 – Guy Nadon, Canadian actor
1952 – Jacques Chagnon, Canadian politician
1954 – George Church, American geneticist
1956 – Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor
1957 – Rick Rossovich, American actor
1958 – Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
1960 – Emma Samms, English actress
1961 – Kim Appleby, English singer
1961 – Cliff Benson, American football player
1962 – Paul Allen, English footballer
1962 – David Fincher, American music video and film director
1963 – Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
1963 – Regina Jacobs, American athlete
1965 – Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress
1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian singer
1965 – Myke Hawke, American Survivalist
1966 – Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
1967 – Frederick Kesner, Philippine-born Australian poet
1968 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
1969 – Jason Priestley, Canadian-born actor
1969 – Jack Black, American actor
1969 – Mary McCartney, English photographer
1969 – Pierre Turgeon, French Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Sherrié Austin, Australian actress/singer
1970 – Rick Recht, Jewish singer
1971 – Todd Eldredge, American figure skater
1971 – Janet Evans, American swimmer
1971 – Raul Marquez, Mexican-born American boxer
1971 – Shane Andrews, American baseball player
1972 – Jay Witasick, American baseball player
1972 – Ravindu Shah, Kenyan cricketer
1973 – Matthew John Armstrong, American actor
1973 – DJ Assault, American musician
1974 – Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer
1974 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer
1974 – Takahito Eguchi, Japanese composer
1975 – Jamie Cureton, English footballer
1975 – Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer
1975 – Vera Jordanova, Finnish actress and model
1976 – Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
1978 – Jess Margera, American drummer (CKY)
1978 – Shaniqua, American wrestling valet
1979 – Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
1979 – Shaila Durcal, Spanish singer
1979 – Kristen Hughes, Australian netballer
1979 – Markus Pröll, German footballer
1979 – Ruth Riley, American basketball player
1980 – T.J. Beam, American baseball player
1981 – Martin Erat, Czech hockey player
1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
1981 – Vaggelis Moras, Greek footballer
1981 – Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter
1981 – Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver
1982 – Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
1982 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer
1982 – Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
1982 – Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer
1983 – Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
1983 – Alfonso Herrera, Actor, and singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1985 – Ralph Woolfolk IV, American actor
1986 – Gilad Shalit, Israeli corporal
1988 – Ray Jones, English footballer (d. 2007)
1990 – Bojan Krkić, Serbian-Spanish footballer
1991 – Kyle Massey, American actor
1991 – Sarah Jane Santos, Filipina singer
1992 – Isabelle Abiera, Filipina actress
1999 – Prince Nikolai of Denmark

Deaths

388 – Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper
430 – Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)
1341 – King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)
1481 – King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)
1645 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
1654 – Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
1678 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
1757 – David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
1784 – Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)
1785 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
1793 – Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)
1805 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
1818 – Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, founder of Chicago
1820 – Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
1839 – William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
1900 – Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)
1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
1933 – Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
1943 – King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
1947 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
1955 – Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (b. 1941)
1959 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
1965 – Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
1975 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
1976 – Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
1978 – Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (b. 1927)
1981 – Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
1982 – Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
1985 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)
1987 – John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
1988 – Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
1990 – Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913)
1993 – William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)
1995 – Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)
2003 – Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)
2005 – Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
2005 – Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
2005 – George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
2006 – Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
2006 – Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2007 – Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)
2007 – Hilly Kristal, American musician (b. 1932)
2007 – Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)
2007 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
2007 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
2007 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)
2007 – Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)
2008 – Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

In Eastern Orthodox Churches using the Julian calendar: Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus, public holiday in the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Georgia
Many Christian churches: feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo.
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1349 – 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz, accused of being the cause of the plague.


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August 31 is the 243rd day of the year (244th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 122 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

1056 – Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1142 – With the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker, the Iroquois tribes establish the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee.
1422 – Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
1803 – Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 o clock in the morning.
1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1876 – Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1886 – An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's known victims.
1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
1914 – Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1915 – Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
1920 – First radio news program broadcast by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II in Europe.
1943 – The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
1948 – Actor Robert Mitchum is arrested in a Hollywood drug raid. He would later be found guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess marijuana and sentenced to 60 days in prison.
1949 – The retreat of the Greek Democratic Army in Albania after its defeat in mountain Grammos marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
1957 – The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1962 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
1965 – The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
1978 – William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.
1980 – Zimbabwe establishes diplomatic relations with Algeria.
1986 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1986 – The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
1991 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo .
1993 – HMS Mercury closes after 52 years in commission.
1994 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
1998 – North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.
1999 – The first of a series of bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground.
2005 – A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2006 – Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

Births

12 – Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor (d. 41)
161 – Commodus, Roman Emperor (d. 192)
1569 – Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1627)
1602 – Amalia von Solms, countess of Solms-Braunfels (d. 1675)
1663 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705)
1721 – George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)
1741 – Husein Gradaščević, Bosniak general (d. 1834)
1741 – Jean Paul Egide Martini, French composer (d. 1816)
1821 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German scientist (d. 1894)
1822 – Galusha A. Grow, American politician (d. 1907)
1834 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886)
1843 – Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919)
1870 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (d. 1952)
1871 – James E. Ferguson, Governor of Texas (d. 1944)
1878 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)
1879 – Alma Mahler, Austrian socialite, wife of composer Gustav Mahler (d. 1964)
1880 – Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands (d. 1962)
1885 – DuBose Heyward, American playwright (d. 1940)
1893 – Lily Laskine, French harpist (d. 1988)
1894 – Albert Facey, Australian writer (d. 1982)
1896 – Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and novelist (d. 1982)
1897 – Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)
1900 – Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1943)
1903 – Arthur Godfrey, American television host (d. 1983)
1903 – Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher (d. 1985)
1905 – Sanford Meisner, American actor and teacher (d. 1997)
1907 – Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician (d. 2007)
1907 – Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of the Philippines (d. 1957)
1907 – William Shawn, American editor (d. 1992)
1907 – Altiero Spinelli, Italian advocate of European federalism (d. 1986)
1908 – William Saroyan, American novelist (d. 1981)
1911 – Edward Brongersma, Dutch politician, writer and political activist. (d. 1998)
1913 – Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer
1913 – Helen Levitt, American photographer (d. 2009)
1914 – Richard Basehart, American actor (d. 1984)
1916 – Daniel Schorr, American journalist
1916 – Danny Litwhiler, American baseball player and coach
1916 – John S. Wold, American politician
1918 – Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (d. 1986)
1919 – Amrita Preetam, Indian poet and author (d. 2005)
1921 – Raymond Williams, Welsh academic (d. 1988)
1924 – Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (d. 2003)
1928 – James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)
1931 – Jean Béliveau, Canadian ice hockey player
1931 – Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)
1934 – Nikos Xanthopoulos, Greek actor
1935 – Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist (d. 1998)
1935 – Frank Robinson, American baseball player and manager
1937 – Warren Berlinger, American actor
1937 – Bobby Parker, American musician
1938 – Martin Bell, British journalist
1938 – Murray Gleeson, Chief Justice of Australia
1939 – Jerry Allison, American drummer (The Crickets)
1940 – Jack Thompson, Australian actor
1941 – William DeWitt, Jr., American businessman
1943 – Leonid Ivashov, Russian general
1944 – Roger Dean, English artist
1944 – Clive Lloyd, Guyanese West Indies cricketer
1944 – Jos LeDuc, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1945 – Van Morrison, Northern Irish musician
1945 – Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist
1946 – Jerome Corsi, American writer
1947 – Mona Marshall, American voice actress
1947 – Luca di Montezemolo, Italian businessman
1947 – Yumiko Ōshima, Japanese manga artist
1947 – Somchai Wongsawat, Thai 26th Prime Minister
1948 – Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (d. 1982)
1948 – Lowell Ganz, American screenwriter
1948 – Holger Osieck, German footballer and coach
1948 – Rudolf Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions)
1949 – Richard Gere, American actor
1949 – H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1952 – Herbert Reul, German politician
1953 – Miguel Ángel Guerra, Argentine racing driver
1953 – György Károly, Hungarian author
1953 – Pavel Vinogradov, Russian cosmonaut
1954 – Julie Brown, American actress, singer-songwriter and screenwriter
1955 – Edwin Moses, American athlete
1955 – Gary Webb, American journalist (d. 2004)
1956 – Maria Balazova, Slovak painter
1956 – Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer
1957 – Colm O'Rourke, Irish footballer and commentator
1957 – Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go's)
1957 – Glenn Tilbrook, English singer and guitarist (Squeeze)
1958 – Serge Blanco, French rugby union footballer
1959 – Ralph Krueger, Canadian ice hockey coach
1960 – Vali Ionescu, Romanian long jumper
1960 – Chris Whitley, American musician (d. 2005)
1962 – Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor
1963 – Reb Beach, American guitarist (Winger, Whitesnake)
1963 – Todd Carty, Irish actor
1963 – Sonny Silooy, Dutch footballer
1964 – Raymond P. Hammond, American poet and editor
1965 – Daniel Bernhardt, Swiss actor
1965 – Céline Bonnier, French Canadian actress
1965 – Willie Watson, New Zealand cricketer
1966 – Jan Einar Thorsen, Norwegian Alpine skier
1967 – Jonathan Cake, British actor
1967 – Anita Moen, Norwegian Cross-country skier
1968 – Valdon Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician and Australian football player
1968 – Hideo Nomo, Japanese baseball player
1969 – Nathalie Bouvier, French alpine skier
1969 – Andrew Cunanan, American spree killer (d. 1997)
1969 – Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor
1969 – Javagal Srinath, Indian cricketer
1970 – Deborah Gibson, American singer
1970 – Nikola Gruevski, Macedonian Prime Minister
1970 – Queen Rania of Jordan
1970 – Arie van Lent, Dutch-German footballer
1970 – Amy Stein, American photographer
1970 – Zack Ward, Canadian actor
1971 – Pádraig Harrington, Irish golfer
1972 – Chris Tucker, American actor
1973 – Scott Niedermayer, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Andriy Medvedev, Ukrainian tennis player
1975 – Craig Cumming, New Zealand cricketer
1975 – John Grahame, American ice hockey player
1975 – Daniel Harding, British conductor
1975 – Gabe Kapler, American baseball player and manager
1975 – Sara Ramirez, American actress
1975 – Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film music composer
1975 – Takahiro Suwa, Japanese professional wrestler
1976 – Vincent Delerm, French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer
1976 – Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballer
1976 – Radek Martínek, Czech ice hockey player
1977 – Jeff Hardy, American wrestler
1977 – Ian Harte, Irish footballer
1977 – Craig Nicholls, Australian musician (The Vines)
1978 – Philippe Christanval, French footballer
1978 – Phina Oruche, British actress
1979 – Clay Hensley, American baseball player
1979 – Mickie James, American professional wrestler
1979 – Mark Johnston, Canadian swimmer
1979 – Simon Neil, Scottish musician (Biffy Clyro)
1979 – Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film music composer
1979 – Ramón Santiago, Dominican baseball player
1980 – Joe Budden, American rapper
1981 – Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby union footballer
1981 – Steve Saviano, American ice hockey player
1982 – Ian Crocker, American swimmer
1982 – Lien Huyghebaert, Belgian athlete
1982 – Josh Kroeger, American baseball player
1982 – Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-born ice hockey player
1982 – José Reina, Spanish footballer
1982 – Michele Rugolo, Italian racing driver
1983 – Larry Fitzgerald, American football player
1984 – Matti Breschel, Danish road bicycle racer
1984 – Ted Ligety, American alpine skier
1984 – Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer
1985 – Andrew Foster, Australian rules footballer
1986 – Feng Tianwei, Singaporean table tennis player
1987 – Petros Kravaritis, Greek footballer

Deaths

651 – Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary
683 – Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque
1234 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (b. 1212)
1372 – Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)
1422 – King Henry V of England (b. 1387)
1645 – Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566)
1654 – Ole Worm, Danish physician (b. 1588)
1688 – John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)
1730 – Gottfried Finger, Czech composer
1741 – Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
1772 – William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
1795 – François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (b. 1726)
1799 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720)
1814 – Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
1867 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821)
1869 – Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim (b. 1827)
1888 – Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)
1920 – Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (b. 1832)
1920 – Jens Oliver Lisberg, Faroese law student, designer of the Flag of the Faroe Islands(b. 1896)
1940 – Georges Gauthier, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1871)
1941 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
1948 – Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)
1952 – Henri Bourassa, French Canadian political leader (b. 1868)
1963 – Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
1967 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1969 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
1973 – John Ford, American film director (b. 1894)
1974 – William Pershing Benedict, American pilot
1974 – Norman Kirk, New Zealand prime minister (b. 1923)
1978 – John Wrathall, President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
1979 – Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (b. 1904)
1979 – Tiger Smith, England cricketer (b. 1886)
1985 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
1986 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)
1986 – Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
1997 – Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian film producer (b. 1955)
2000 – Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (b. 1925)
2000 – Lucille Fletcher, American screenwriter of film, radio, and television (b. 1912)
2002 – Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (b. 1908)
2002 – George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2004 – Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943)
2005 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)
2005 – Michael Sheard, British actor (b. 1940)
2006 – Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
2006 – Tom Delaney, British racing driver (b. 1911)
2006 – Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (b. 1977)
2007 – Gay Brewer, American golfer (b. 1932)
2007 – Karloff Lagarde, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1928)
2008 – Ike Pappas, American news correspondent (b. 1933)
2008 – Victor Yates, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances

Roman Catholic Saints – Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Saint Abundius, Saint Raymond Nonnatus
Poland, Europe – Day of Solidarity and Freedom, on the anniversary of August Agreement from 1980
Moldova: Day of Our Language (Limba Noastra)
Malaysia – Hari Merdeka, a National Day (independence within the Commonwealth, 1957)
Kyrgyzstan – Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
Trinidad and Tobago – Independence Day (from United Kingdom, 1962)
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September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 121 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

462 – Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
1355 – Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.
1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
1644 – Battle of Tippermuir: Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
1752 – The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1772 – Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
1804 – Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1807 – Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason.
1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1859 – A solar superstorm affects electrical telegraph service.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly – Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1875 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
1894 – Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 400 people.
1897 – The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1902 – A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
1906 – The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
1911 – The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
1914 – St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
1928 – Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
1934 – SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany invades Poland, beginning the war in Europe.
1939 – George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1939 – The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date.
1939 – Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
1961 – The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate
1962 – Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
1964 – Indian Oil Corporation forms after the merger of Indian Oil Refineries and Indian Oil Company.
1969 – A revolution in Libya brings Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, which is later transferred to the People's Committees.
1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.
1972 – In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.
1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
1979 – The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
1980 – Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
1981 – A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
1982 – Canada adopts a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution.
1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
1990 – The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey.
1991 – Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
2006 – Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.

Births

1286 – Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1335)
1453 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
1566 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
1588 – Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646)
1651 – Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
1653 – Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)
1711 – William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
1795 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
1818 – José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the republic (d. 1892)
1848 – Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
1854 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
1855 – Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
1856 – Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)
1866 – James J. Corbett, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1933)
1868 – Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
1871 – J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)
1876 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)
1877 – Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1878 – Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
1883 – Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)
1884 – Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (d. 1947)
1886 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1957)
1887 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
1888 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
1889 – Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
1892 – Leverett Saltonstall, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
1895 – Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
1896 – A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977)
1897 – Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
1899 – Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (d. 1951)
1904 – Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (d. 1974)
1905 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
1906 – Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
1906 – Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
1906 – Eleanor Burford Hibertt (Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr...), English writer (d. 1993)
1907 – Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)
1908 – Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)
1909 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
1913 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1979)
1913 – Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
1916 – Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player
1919 – Ossie Dawson, South African cricketer (d. 2008)
1920 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
1921 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d. 1995)
1921 – Madhav Mantri, Indian cricketer
1922 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
1922 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
1923 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
1923 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
1925 – Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)
1926 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
1926 – Gene Colan, American comic book artist
1927 – Wyatt Cooper, American author and screenwriter (d. 1978)
1928 – Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician
1928 – George Maharis, American actor
1929 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1931 – Boxcar Willie, American country musician (d. 1999)
1932 – Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician
1932 – Sunny von Buelow, American socialite (d. 2008)
1933 – Ann W. Richards, American politician (d. 2006)
1933 – Conway Twitty, American singer (d. 1993)
1935 – Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
1937 – Al Geiberger, American golfer
1937 – Ron O'Neal, American actor, film director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1939 – Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedian
1941 – Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer
1942 – C. J. Cherryh, American writer
1943 – Don Stroud, American actor
1944 – Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
1945 – Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
1946 – Greg Errico, American drummer (Sly & the Family Stone)
1946 – Barry Gibb, English singer (Bee Gees)
1946 – Roh Moo-Hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009)
1947 – Al Green, American politician
1948 – Józef Życiński, Polish archbishop and philosopher
1949 – P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
1950 – Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
1950 – Dr. Phil McGraw, American talk show host
1951 – Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (d. 1996)
1951 – David Bairstow, England cricketer (d. 1998)
1952 – Phil Hendrie, American radio personality
1953 – Beau Billingslea, American voice actor
1953 – Ted Petty, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1954 – Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Billy Blanks, American martial artist
1955 – Bruce Foxton, English bassist (The Jam)
1956 – Philece Sampler, American voice artist
1956 – Bernie Wagenblast, American broadcaster and editor
1957 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban/American singer
1957 – Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball coach
1958 – Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (d. 2002)
1959 – Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
1960 – Joseph Williams, American singer and film score composer
1961 – Bam Bam Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1962 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
1962 – Tony Cascarino, Irish footballer
1963 – Stephen Kernahan, Australian rules footballer
1963 – Carola Smit, Dutch singer
1964 – Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 – Cécilia Rhode, Swedish model
1964 – Ray D'Arcy, Irish DJ and TV presenter
1966 – Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
1967 – David Whissell, Quebec politician
1968 – Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
1969 – Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
1970 – Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
1970 – Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress
1970 – Mitsou, Quebec singer, television and radio host, actress
1970 – Vanna, Croatian singer
1971 – Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
1971 – Joe Enochs, American soccer player
1971 – Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese composer
1971 – Lââm, French singer
1971 – Jimmy Snuka, Jr., American professional wrestler
1971 – Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer
1972 – Doug Williams, British professional wrestler
1973 – Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
1973 – J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)
1973 – Zach Thomas, American football player
1974 – Jason Taylor, American football player
1974 – Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
1975 – Scott Speedman, English-born actor
1975 – Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian actress and singer
1975 – Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Puerto Rican guitarist
1975 – Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player
1976 – Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver
1976 – Erik Morales, Mexican boxer
1976 – Jada Fire, American porn actress
1976 – Polly Shannon, Canadian actress
1976 – Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
1976 – Clare Connor, England Woman cricketer
1977 – Aaron Schobel, American football player
1977 – Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver
1977 – Shoshana Bean, American stage actress
1977 – Aamir Ali, Indian television actor
1977 – David Albelda, Spanish footballer
1978 – Max Vieri, Australian soccer player
1978 – Lucie Blackman, English murder victim (d. 2000)
1979 – James O'Connor, Irish footballer
1980 – Chris Riggott, English footballer
1980 – Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
1981 – Clinton Portis, American football player
1981 – Adam Quick, Australian basketball player
1981 – Matthew McGuire, Australian Rower
1982 – Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
1982 – Paul Dumbrell, Australian racing driver
1982 – Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
1983 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
1983 – Jeff Woywitka, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Joseph Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1984 – Nick Noble, American footballer
1984 – Rod Pelley, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Camile Velasco, Filipino-American singer
1986 – Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
1986 – Anthony Allen, English rugby union player
1987 – Dann Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore)
1988 – Gabriel Ferrari, American footballer
1988 – Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
1989 – Juliana Lohmann, Brazilian actress
1993 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
1994 – Bianca Ryan, American singer

Deaths

1067 – Baldwin V of Flanders
1159 – Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)
1256 – Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
1414 – William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
1557 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
1581 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
1600 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
1615 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)
1648 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
1685 – Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)
1687 – Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
1715 – François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
1715 – King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1818 – Robert Calder, British naval officer (b. 1745)
1838 – William Clark, American explorer, part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (b. 1770)
1943 – Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
1947 – Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
1953 – Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
1957 – Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
1967 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886)
1967 – Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)
1969 – Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
1970 – François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
1977 – Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896)
1981 – Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)
1981 – Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)
1982 – Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
1982 – Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish communist leader (b. 1905)
1983 – Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)
1983 – Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)
1985 – Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
1985 – Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)
1986 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
1988 – Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
1989 – Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)
1994 – Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1998 – Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (b. 1930)
1998 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
1999 – W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
2001 – Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
2003 – Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
2004 – Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
2005 – R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)
2005 – Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2006 – Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
2006 – Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)
2006 – Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
2006 – Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
2007 – Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
2008 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
2008 – Jerry Reed, American musician and actor (b. 1937)

Holidays and observances

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the new liturgical year begins on September 1. Also see September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church, the new Liturgical Year (Indiction) also begins.
Church of England – Saint Giles.
Russia – Knowledge Day.
Singapore – Teachers' Day.
Slovakia – Constitution Day.
Uzbekistan – Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
Libya – Revolution Day (1969)
First day of Spring in Australia and New Zealand.
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1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.

AWESOME!  :nod:








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Quote from: Krandall on September 01, 2009, 07:56:21 AM
1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.

AWESOME!  :nod:








Or does it?? :batman:

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