Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Peelz]

Happy International Literacy Day

I see most of you are not celebrating.

[Krandall]

u suk.

[socalrappy700]

September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

9 – Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushed and annihilated three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
1379 – Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
1493 – Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion.
1513 – James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1739 – Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britains mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
1776 – The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States.
1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
1801 – Alexander I of Russia confirmed the privileges of Baltic provinces.
1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
1850 – The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1886 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
1922 – Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party (CHP).
1924 – Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
1926 – The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
1943 – World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
1944 – World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
1945 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
1947 – First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1948 – The Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
1965 – The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
1965 – Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
1970 – A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
1990 – 1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
1991 – Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 – The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
1999 – The Dreamcast, the last video game console to be produced by SEGA, is released.
2001 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.
2001 – Pärnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pärnu County, Estonia.
2004 – 2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.

Births

214 – Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)
384 – Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
1349 – Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
1427 – Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
1466 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
1558 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
1585 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
1629 – Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)
1700 – Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
1711 – Thomas Hutchinson, American politician (d. 1780)
1721 – Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish naval architect and vice admiral (d. 1808)
1731 – Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer (d. 1787)
1737 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
1754 – William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
1755 – Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)
1777 – James Carr (Massachusetts politician), U.S. Congressman (d. 1818)
1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
1834 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
1853 – Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (d. 1926)
1855 – Anthony Francis Lucas, Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
1868 – Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)
1873 – Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
1877 – Frank Chance, American baseball player (d. 1924)
1878 – Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
1878 – Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
1887 – Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
1882 – Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
1890 – Harland Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
1892 – Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
1894 – Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
1894 – Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
1898 – Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1899 – Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1899 – Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984)
1899 – Bruno E. Jacob, Founder of the National Forensic League (d. 1979)
1900 – James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)
1903 – Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
1904 – Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
1905 – Hussain Sha, Indian philosopher (d. 1981)
1908 – Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
1911 – John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)
1911 – Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
1917 – Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (d. 1942)
1918 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of the Italian Republic
1919 – Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)
1919 – Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
1920 – Aldo Parisot, American cellist and teacher
1920 – Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
1920 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
1922 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1922 – Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
1922 – Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
1923 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
1924 – Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
1924 – Russell M. Nelson, LDS apostle and cardiac surgery pioneer
1924 – Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
1925 – Cliff Robertson, American actor
1926 – Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
1927 – Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004)
1929 – Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
1930 – Frank Lucas, Drug Lord
1932 – Sylvia Miles, American actress
1935 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
1935 – Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author
1939 – Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican actor
1939 – Ron McDole, American football player
1939 – Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
1941 – Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
1941 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
1942 – Inez Foxx, American R&B singer
1942 – Danny Kalb, American musician, (Blues Project)
1943 – Art LaFleur, American actor
1945 – Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer
1946 – Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
1946 – Doug Ingle, American musician (Iron Butterfly)
1946 – Hayato Tani, Japanese actor
1947 – David Rosenboom, American composer
1948 – Pamela Des Barres, American groupie and author
1949 – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician
1949 – Garry Maddox, American baseball player
1949 – Daniel Pipes, American writer and political commentator
1949 – Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator
1951 – Alexander Downer, Australian politician
1951 – Robert Desiderio, American actor
1951 – Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
1952 – Angela Cartwright, American actress
1952 – Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel)
1952 – David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
1954 – Jeffrey Combs, American actor
1955 – John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator
1957 – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
1957 – Gabriele Tredozi, Italian engineer
1959 – Eric Serra, French composer
1960 – Hugh Grant, English actor
1960 – Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur
1960 – Bob Stoops, American football coach
1963 – Roberto Donadoni, Italian football player and manager
1965 – Dan Majerle, American basketball player
1965 – Constance Marie, American actress
1966 – Georg Hackl, German luger
1966 – Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
1967 – Akshay Kumar, Indian actor
1967 – Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006)
1967 – B. J. Armstrong, American basketball player
1967 – Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer
1968 – Francois Botha, South African boxer
1968 – Jon Drummond, American former sprinter
1968 – Julia Sawalha, English actress
1968 – Clive Mendonca, English footballer
1969 – Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
1970 – Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress
1971 – Henry Thomas, American actor and musician
1972 – James Farmer, American educator and artist
1972 – Mike Hampton, American baseball player
1972 – Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader
1972 – Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player
1972 – Goran Višnjić, Croatian actor
1973 – Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
1974 – Shane Crawford, Australian rules footballer
1974 – Marcos Curiel, American guitarist of rock band (P.O.D.), Songwriter, Producer.
1974 – Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
1974 – Vikram Batra, Officer of the Indian Army
1974 – Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician
1975 – Michael Bublé, Canadian singer and actor
1976 – Emma de Caunes, French film actress
1976 – Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer
1976 – Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, ex-Borknagar)
1976 – Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor
1976 – Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
1977 – Chae Jung-an, South Korean actress and singer
1977 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
1977 – Kyle Snyder, American baseball player
1978 – Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player
1978 – Shane Battier, American basketball player
1978 – Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
1979 – Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer
1979 – Wayne Carlisle, Northern Irish footballer
1980 – Todd Coffey, American baseball player
1980 – Michelle Williams, American actress
1981 – Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress
1982 – Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
1982 – Graham Onions, English cricketer
1983 – Kyle Davies, American baseball player
1983 – Kristine Hermosa, Filipina actress
1983 – Sam Hollenbach, American football player
1983 – Edwin Jackson, American baseball player
1983 – Kim Jung-hwa, South Korean actress and model
1983 – Cleveland Taylor, English footballer
1984 – Farrah Gray, American author
1984 – Brad Guzan, American footballer
1984 – James Hildreth, English cricketer
1985 – Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer
1985 – Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
1985 – J. R. Smith, American basketball player
1986 – Michael Bowden, American baseball player
1986 – Chamu Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 – Luc Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player
1987 – Joshua Herdman, English actor
1987 – Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer
2000 – Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón, granddaughter of king Juan Carlos I of Spain

Deaths

701 – Pope Sergius I
1000 – Olaf I of Norway
1087 – King William I of England
1398 – King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
1487 – Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
1488 – Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
1513 – King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
1569 – Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
1596 – Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
1612 – Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
1676 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
1680 – Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
1755 – Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
1806 – William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
1815 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
1841 – A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778)
1891 – Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
1901 – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
1907 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
1909 – Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell, first female American Doctor (b.181)
1915 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
1941 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
1960 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
1969 – Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
1976 – Mao Zedong, Chinese communist leader (b. 1893)
1978 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
1978 – Jack Warner, Canadian-born American film executive (b. 1892)
1980 – John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
1981 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)
1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1990 – Doc Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1905)
1990 – Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
1990 – Alexander Men, Russian priest (b. 1930)
1996 – Bill Monroe, American bluegrass singer and composer (b. 1911)
1997 – Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1997 – Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
1998 – Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
1999 – Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
1999 – Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
1999 – Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925)
2000 – Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
2001 – Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)
2003 – Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
2004 – Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
2005 – John Wayne Glover, English serial killer (b. 1932)
2006 – Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
2006 – Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
2006 – Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
2006 – William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
2007 – Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952)
2008 – Warith Deen Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

California Admission Day (to commemorate the state's admission to the USA).
Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise
Eastern Orthodoxy – Synaxis of the Theopatores Joachim and Anna.
Macedonian independence day. (From Yugoslavia)
Japan – Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku).
North Korea – Republic Day (1948).
Tajikistan – Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
Sega Dreamcast (Ten year anniversary of the Sega Dreamcast in North America which was released 9/9/99).
Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, festivity of Our Lady of Arantzazu

[Krandall]

1999 – The Dreamcast, the last video game console to be produced by SEGA, is released.


RIP Sega.

[socalrappy700]

September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Istanbul.
1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1823 – Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1897 – Lattimer Massacre – a sheriff's posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
1927 – France wins its first Davis Cup since first competing in the event in 1905.
1932 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
1943 – World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
1951 – The United Kingdom begins an economic boycott of Iran.
1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
1963 – 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
1972 – The United States loses its first international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
1990 – The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
2001 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
2003 – Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

Births

1169 – Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)
1385 – Le Loi, national hero of Viet Nam, founder of the Later Lê Dynasty
1487 – Pope Julius III, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (d. 1555)
1550 – Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish Armada commander (d. 1615)
1561 – Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634)
1588 – Nicholas Lanier, English composer (d. 1666)
1624 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
1638 – Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
1659 – Henry Purcell, English composer (d. 1695)
1714 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
1758 – Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
1786 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854)
1786 – William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
1788 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
1801 – Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
1836 – Joseph Wheeler, American general (d. 1906)
1839 – Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (d. 1912)
1839 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
1844 – Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
1852 – Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
1855 – Albert F. Mummery, British mountaineer (d. 1895)
1861 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)
1866 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930)
1871 – Charles Collett, British mechanical engineer (d. 1952)
1885 – Carl Clinton Van Doren, American biographer and critic (d. 1950)
1886 – Hilda Doolittle, American poet and novelist (d. 1961)
1887 – Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1978)
1887 – Kenneth Mason, British geographer (d. 1976)
1890 – Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
1890 – Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian novelist (d. 1945)
1892 – Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1893 – Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian and former oldest living person (d. 2009)
1895 – Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976)
1896 – Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
1896 – Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981)
1896 – Robert Taschereau, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970)
1897 – Georges Bataille, French writer (d. 1962)
1897 – Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
1898 – Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
1898 – Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
1904 – Max Shachtman, American politician (d. 1972)
1906 – Karl Wien, German mountaineer (d. 1937)
1907 – Alva R. Fitch, American army officer (d. 1989)
1908 – Waldo Wedel, American Archaeologist (d. 1996)
1908 – Raymond Scott, American composer, bandleader, electronic music pioneer (d. 1994)
1912 – Mary Walter, Filipina actress (d. 1993)
1914 – Robert Wise, American film director (d. 2005)
1915 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
1917 – Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat (d. 2009)
1918 – Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
1920 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
1922 – Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer (d. 2008)
1924 – Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1924 – Boyd K. Packer, LDS apostle
1925 – Roy Brown, American blues musician (d. 1981)
1928 – Jean Vanier, Canadian disabilities advocate
1928 – Walter Martin, American Christian apologist (d. 1989)
1929 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer
1931 – Philip Baker Hall, American actor
1931 – Joan Carroll Cruz, American author
1932 – Bo Goldman, American screenwriter
1933 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
1933 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer
1934 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
1934 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1935 – Mary Oliver, American poet
1937 – Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
1941 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
1941 – Christopher Hogwood, English conductor
1941 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
1942 – Danny Hutton, American singer
1943 – Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham), American professional wrestler
1943 – Daniel Truhitte, American actor
1943 – Neale Donald Walsch, American author
1944 – Sir Thomas Allen, English baritone
1945 – Jose Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer
1946 – Jim Hines, American athlete
1946 – Don Powell, English drummer
1946 – Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician
1948 – Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director
1948 – Judy Geeson, English actress
1948 – Bob Lanier, American basketball player
1948 – Margaret Trudeau, former wife of Pierre Trudeau
1948 – Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese writer
1948 – Charlie Waters, American football player
1949 – Don Muraco, professional wrestler
1949 – Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and commentator
1950 – Joe Perry, American musician
1952 – Vic Toews, Canadian politician
1952 – Medea Benjamin, American activist
1953 – Amy Irving, American actress
1956 – Johnny Hickman, American musician
1956 – Johnny Fingers, Irish musician The Boomtown Rats
1957 – Carol Decker, UK singer
1957 – Kate Burton, Swiss actress
1958 – Chris Columbus, American film director
1958 – Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer
1959 – Peter Nelson, American actor
1960 – Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist
1960 – Colin Firth, English actor
1960 – David Lowery, American musician
1963 – Randy Johnson, American baseball player
1963 – Bill Stevenson, American music producer and musician
1964 – John E. Sununu, American politician
1965 – Robin Goodridge, English rock drummer
1966 – Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
1968 – Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer
1968 – Guy Ritchie, British film director
1969 – Johnathon Schaech, American actor
1970 – Paula Kelley, musician
1970 – Ménélik, French rapper
1972 – Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
1972 – James Duval, American actor
1972 – Bente Skari, Norwegian cross-country skier
1972 – Katarína Hasprová, Slovak singer
1973 – Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
1974 – Ryan Phillippe, American actor
1974 – Mirko Filipovic, Croatian martial artist
1974 – Ben Wallace, American basketball player
1975 – Jonathan Hoenig, American investment advisor
1975 – Sammy Knight, American football player
1975 – Melanie Pullen, American Photograper
1976 – Matt Morgan, American professional wrestler
1979 – Jacob Young, American actor and singer
1986 – Hiroki Uchi, Japanese Idol
1988 – Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Coco Rocha, Canadian fashion model

Deaths

210 BC – Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China.
918 – Count Baldwin II of Flanders (b. 865)
954 – King Louis IV of France (b. 920)
1167 – Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1102)
1197 – Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
1217 – William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon
1308 – Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
1382 – Louis I of Hungary, the King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Jerusalem and Sicily from 1342 and of Poland
1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (assassinated) (b. 1371)
1482 – Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron
1519 – John Colet, English churchman and educator
1559 – Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1501)
1591 – Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
1604 – William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
1607 – Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545)
1669 – Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
1676 – Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
1680 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)
1748 – Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (b. 1663)
1749 – Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
1759 – Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
1801 – Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
1851 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
1867 – Simon Sechter, Austrian composer (b. 1788)
1898 – Elisabeth of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1837)
1905 – Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
1915 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
1931 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
1935 – Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)
1937 – Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1948 – King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
1952 – Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (b. 1866)
1961 – Leo Carrillo, American actor (b. 1880)
1961 – Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
1965 – Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880)
1966 – Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
1971 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
1975 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1976 – Dalton Trumbo, American writer (b. 1905)
1978 – Ronnie Peterson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1944)
1979 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (b. 1922)
1983 – Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1983 – John Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
1985 – Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)
1991 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
1995 – Charles Denner, French actor (b. 1926)
1995 – Yasutomo Nagai, motorbike driver (b.1965)
1996 – Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1923)
1996 – Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
1997 – Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1998 – Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
1999 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
2000 – Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)
2001 – DJ Uncle Al (b. 1969)
2004 – Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)
2005 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (b. 1924)
2006 – Patty Berg, American golf player (b. 1918)
2006 – King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918)
2006 – Daniel Wayne Smith, son of Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1986)
2007 – Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
2007 – Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
2007 – Ted Stepien, former basketball team owner (b. 1925)
2008 – Domagoj Kapeć, Croatian hockey player (b. 1989)

Holidays and observances

Calendar of Saints – Nicholas of Tolentino; Saint Aubert.
Also see September 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Gibraltar – National Day.
Teacher's Day in People's Republic of China and Hong Kong.

[Krandall]

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.


It's gonna create a black hole and suck us all in!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Peelz]

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.


It's gonna create a black hole and suck us all in!!!!!!!!!!!! 

sorta like Preddy's a$$.

[Krandall]

sounds about right

[Colorado700R]

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.


It's gonna create a black hole and suck us all in!!!!!!!!!!!! 

No, I'm not that lucky

[dragonz]

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.


It's gonna create a black hole and suck us all in!!!!!!!!!!!! 

No, I'm not that lucky

That was suck IN, not OFF.......... & I thought Preddy already did that for you

[Krandall]

MORNING GUYS!

[Peelz]

Crazy one here! 

[Krandall]

Surprisingly slow here. which is fine w/ me. slept like crap last night.

[dragonz]

Surprisingly slow here. which is fine w/ me. caught the clap last night.

We don't want to know how or where! 

[Peelz]

Surprisingly slow here. which is fine w/ me. caught the clap last night.

We don't want to know how or where! 

Liar, yes you do.