Happy birthday and many happy returns Pamela De Carvalho. Born on the same day, across the years, as Charles the Simple (879), Stephen Hales (1677), Jonathan Alder (1773), Ira Davenport (1839), Walter Murdoch (1874), Francis Chichester (1901), Bea Miles (1902), Hank Williams (1923), Roddy McDowall (1928), Stirling Moss (1929), Anne Bancroft (1931), Shelby Flint (1939), Rita Rudner (1953), Mandawuy Yunupingu (1956), Dustin Nguyen (1962) and Justyna Jegiołka (1991). On your day, Constitution Day in the United States 1859 – Disgruntled with the legal and political structures of the United States, Joshua Norton distributed letters to various newspapers in San Francisco, proclaiming himself Emperor Norton. 1914 – Andrew Fisher became Prime Minister of Australia for the third time, beginning a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s. 1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Nazi Germanys attack on that country from the west. 1978 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Accords after twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. 2011 – Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, organized a protest against corporate influence on democracy at Zuccotti Park in New York City that became known as Occupy Wall Street. Emperor Norton is gone. Andrew Fisher has reformed. Poland is back. Twelve days of talks end with talk. Occupy Wall street is vacant. Enjoy your day. Hatches 456 – Remistus, Roman general (magister militum), is besieged with a Gothic force at Ravenna and later executed in the Palace in Classis, outside the city. 1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crownAlfonso VII as King of Galicia. 1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought. 1462 – The Battle of Świecino (also known as the Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years War. 1577 – The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots. 1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded. 1631 – Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War. 1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing animalcules: the first known description of protozoa. 1716 – Jean Thurel enlists in the Touraine Regiment at the age of 18, the first day of a military career that would span for over 90 years. 1761 – The Battle of Kosabroma is fought. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean. 1776 – The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain. 1778 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians). 1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia. 1793 – The Battle of Peyrestortes is fought. 1794 – The Battle of Sprimont is fought. 1809 – Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn. 1813 – The Second Battle of Kulm is fought. 1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem Defence of Fort McHenry, later to be the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner. 1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery. 1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States. 1861 – Battle of Pavón is fought. 1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lees Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history. 1862 – American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war. 1894 – Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War. 1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac. 1901 – The Battle of Blood River Poort is fought. 1901 – The Battle of Elands River is fought. 1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality. 1914 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. 1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France. 1924 – The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armedSoviet raids and local bandits. 1924 – The Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian is formed. 1932 – A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident. 1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germanys invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939. 1939 – World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous. 1939 – Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6 1940 – World War II: Following the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely. 1941 – World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued. 1941 – World War II: Soviet forces enter Teheran marking the end of the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. 1943 – World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Germans. 1944 – World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the Market half of Operation Market Garden. 1948 – The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel. 1948 – The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union. 1949 – The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives. 1957 – Malaysia joins the United Nations. 1961 – The worlds first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1974 – Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations. 1976 – The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA. 1978 – The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt. 1980 – After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established. 1980 – Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay. 1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America. 1987 – Pope John Paul II embraces an AIDS-infected boy while visiting San Francisco. 1991 – Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations. 1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. 1992 – An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany. 2001 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression. 2006 – Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years. 2006 – An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country. 2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City. Matches 879 – Charles the Simple, French king (d. 929) 1192 – Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219) 1605 – Francesco Sacrati, Italian composer (d. 1650) 1677 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist and chemist, invented Forceps (d. 1761) 1743 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and political scientist (d. 1794) 1854 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick Motor Company (d. 1929) 1874 – Walter Murdoch, Australian academic and author (d. 1970) 1878 – Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (d. 1950) 1884 – Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (d. 1920) 1900 – J. Willard Marriott, American businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985) 1901 – Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor (d. 1972) 1902 – Bea Miles, Australian author (d. 1973) 1903 – Frank OConnor, Irish author and educator (d. 1966) 1903 – Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (d. 1971) 1909 – Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (d. 1968) 1917 – Isang Yun, South Korean-German composer and educator (d. 1995) 1923 – Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Drifting Cowboys) (d. 1953) 1926 – Bill Black, American bass player (The Blue Moon Boys) (d. 1965) 1926 – Hovie Lister, American pianist (The Statesmen Quartet and Masters V) (d. 2001) 1928 – Roddy McDowall, English-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1998) 1930 – Thomas P. Stafford, American general, pilot, and astronaut 1931 – Anne Bancroft, American actress and singer (d. 2005) 1939 – Carl Dennis, American poet and educator 1939 – Shelby Flint, American singer-songwriter 1940 – Lorella De Luca, Italian actress and director (d. 2014) 1944 – Les Emmerson, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Five Man Electrical Band) 1948 – John Ritter, American actor and producer (d. 2003) 1950 – Fee Waybill, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Tubes) 1953 – Tamasin Day-Lewis, English chef 1953 – Rita Rudner, American comedian and actress 1953 – Steve Williams, Welsh drummer and songwriter (Budgie) 1956 – Mandawuy Yunupingu, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Yothu Yindi) (d. 2013) 1961 – Ty Tabor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Kings X, Platypus, and The Jelly Jam) 1962 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter 1962 – Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1965 – Yuji Naka, Japanese video game designer, created Sonic the Hedgehog 1968 – Anastacia, American singer-songwriter and producer 1969 – Adam Devlin, English guitarist and songwriter (The Bluetones) 1969 – Keith Flint, English singer-songwriter (The Prodigy and Flint) 1973 – Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress 1974 – Mirah, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Microphones) 1975 – Constantine Maroulis, American singer-songwriter and actor (Pray for the Soul of Betty) 1977 – Anna Marie Cseh, Hungarian film actress and fashion model 1977 – Genaro García, Mexican boxer (d. 2013) 1982 – Wade Robson, Australian dancer and choreographer 1983 – Sanaya Irani, Indian actress 1984 – Eugenia Volodina, Russian model 1985 – Tomáš Berdych, Czech tennis player 1986 – Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Japanese voice actor 1991 – Minako Kotobuki, Japanese voice actress and singer (Sphere) 1991 – Justyna Jegiołka, Polish tennis player 1996 – Ella Purnell, English actress Despatches 454 – Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria 456 – Remistus, Roman general 1179 – Hildegard of Bingen, German mystic, composer, and saint (b. 1098) 1575 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1504) 1762 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1687) 1858 – Dred Scott, American slave (b. 1795) 1863 – Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1797) 1877 – Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (b. 1800) 1899 – Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American businessman, co-founded the Pillsbury Company (b. 1842) 1907 – Ignaz Brüll, Czech-Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1846) 1908 – Henri Julien, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1852) 1925 – Carl Eytel, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1862) 1951 – Jimmy Yancey, American pianist and composer (b. 1898) 1966 – Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930) 1985 – Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, founded Laura Ashley plc (b. 1925) 1991 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902) 1994 – Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954) 1994 – Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher (b. 1902) 1997 – Red Skelton, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1913) 1998 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian historian and author (b. 1922) 1999 – Frankie Vaughan, English singer (b. 1928) 2000 – Paula Yates, Welsh television host and author (b. 1959) 2006 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (b. 1924) 2012 – Tedi Thurman, American model and actress (b. 1923) 2013 – Kristian Gidlund, Swedish drummer and journalist (Sugarplum Fairy) (b. 1983) 2013 – Larry Lake, American-Canadian trumpet player and composer (b. 1943) 2013 – Bernie McGann, Australian saxophonist and composer (b. 1937) 2013 – Marvin Rainwater, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925) 2013 – Eiji Toyoda, Japanese businessman (b. 1913) === 2014 Christian feast day: Albert Avogadro Ariadne of Phrygia Hildegard of Bingen Lambert Robert Bellarmine Satyrus of Milan Socrates and Stephen September 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitution Day (observed on the previous Friday if it falls Saturday, the following Monday if on a Sunday), Citizenship Day, Von Steuben Day. (United States) Heroes Day (Angola) Operation Market Garden is still remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day. (Netherlands) Pompéia founding day (1928, State of São Paulo, Brazil)
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