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Gravdigr · 09-29-2016, 03:02 PM

September 29

Today is Michaelmas.

Today is National Coffee Day in the United States, and other countries.

Today is World Heart Day.

61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.

1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London.

1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.

1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.

*1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.

1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.

1940 – Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collide in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together after colliding, and then land safely.

1941 – The Holocaust: German Nazis, aided by local collaborators, began the Babi Yar massacre in Kiev, Ukraine, killing over 30,000 Jewish civilians in two days and thousands more in the months that followed.

1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

1957 – Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.

1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.

1976 - Enjoying his own birthday celebrations singer Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shot his bass player Norman Owens in the chest. Lewis had been blasting holes in an office door. Owens survived but sued his boss.

1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

*1990 – Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.

1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.

2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth (~a million miles).

2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.

2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.

Births

106 BC – Pompey; 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes; 1571 – Caravaggio

; 1758 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson; 1901 – Enrico Fermi; 1904 – Greer Garson; 1907 – Gene Autry; 1907 – George W. Jenkins (founded Publix); 1913 – Trevor Howard; 1923 – Bum Phillips; 1925 – Steve Forrest; 1931 – Anita Ekberg; 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis

; 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi (Bunga Bunga); 1939 – Larry Linville ('Major Frank Burns' on tv series MASH); 1942 – Madeline Kahn

; 1942 – Ian McShane; 1943 – Lech Wałęsa; 1944 – Mike Post♪ ♫(tv Theme composer); 1946 – Ian Wallace

(King Crimson, Don Henley); 1948 – Mark Farner

(Grand Funk Railroad); 1948 – Bryant Gumbel; 1948 – Mike Pinera

(Blues Image, Iron Butterfly); 1955 – Ann Bancroft; 1956 – Sebastian Coe

; 1963 – Les Claypool

(Primus); 1970 – Russell Peters

Deaths

1862 – William "Bull" Nelson; 1902 – Émile Zola; 1910 – Winslow Homer

; 1913 – Rudolf Diesel (yeah, that diesel); 1970 – Edward Everett Horton; 1975 – Casey Stengel; 1987 – Henry Ford II; 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein

; 1998 – Tom Bradley; 2001 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu; 2010 – Tony Curtis; 2010 – Greg Giraldo; 2013 – L. C. Greenwood

09-29-2016, 03:02 PM	#296
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	September 29 Today is Michaelmas. Today is National Coffee Day in the United States, and other countries. Today is World Heart Day. 61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday. 1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters in Threadneedle Street, London. 1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men. 1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded. 1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England. 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital. 1923 – The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine. 1940 – Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collide in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together after colliding, and then land safely. 1941 – The Holocaust: German Nazis, aided by local collaborators, began the Babi Yar massacre in Kiev, Ukraine, killing over 30,000 Jewish civilians in two days and thousands more in the months that followed. 1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed. 1957 – Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. 1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station. 1976 - Enjoying his own birthday celebrations singer Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shot his bass player Norman Owens in the chest. Lewis had been blasting holes in an office door. Owens survived but sued his boss. 1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. 1990 – Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed. 1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time. 2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth (~a million miles). 2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize. 2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history. Births 106 BC – Pompey; 1547 – Miguel de Cervantes; 1571 – Caravaggio; 1758 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson; 1901 – Enrico Fermi; 1904 – Greer Garson; 1907 – Gene Autry; 1907 – George W. Jenkins (founded Publix); 1913 – Trevor Howard; 1923 – Bum Phillips; 1925 – Steve Forrest; 1931 – Anita Ekberg; 1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis; 1936 – Silvio Berlusconi (Bunga Bunga); 1939 – Larry Linville ('Major Frank Burns' on tv series MASH); 1942 – Madeline Kahn; 1942 – Ian McShane; 1943 – Lech Wałęsa; 1944 – Mike Post♪ ♫(tv Theme composer); 1946 – Ian Wallace(King Crimson, Don Henley); 1948 – Mark Farner(Grand Funk Railroad); 1948 – Bryant Gumbel; 1948 – Mike Pinera(Blues Image, Iron Butterfly); 1955 – Ann Bancroft; 1956 – Sebastian Coe; 1963 – Les Claypool(Primus); 1970 – Russell Peters Deaths 1862 – William "Bull" Nelson; 1902 – Émile Zola; 1910 – Winslow Homer; 1913 – Rudolf Diesel (yeah, that diesel); 1970 – Edward Everett Horton; 1975 – Casey Stengel; 1987 – Henry Ford II; 1997 – Roy Lichtenstein; 1998 – Tom Bradley; 2001 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu; 2010 – Tony Curtis; 2010 – Greg Giraldo; 2013 – L. C. Greenwood __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.