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September 14: National Cream Filled Donut
(Doughnut) Day: -- Cream-filled donuts come in so many varieties.
If you aren't a fan of fillings in your pastries, consider trying
some of the latest flavors. Not only have bakeries become creative
with their fillings, but they've also branched out with their
toppings, too. Some of the top cream-filled donuts we love (in no
particular order) are: Boston Cream, Bavarian Cream, Chocolate
Cream, Lemon Cream, Custard, Caramel Cream, Strawberry Cream,
Vanilla Cream, Peanut Buttercream, Holland Cream. Fluffernutter
Cream. Orange Vanilla Cream. Nutella Cream. Marshmallow Cream.
Maple Cream. Espresso Cream. Coconut Cream and more! Now, if this
list doesn't make you run out and fill an order for at least a
dozen, keep reading - and there's not a sprinkle to be found! Add
bacon crumbles to the maple cream. If you order an espresso cream,
ask for a hazelnut drizzle. Of course, if you're in an autumn
frame of mind, sprinkle it with pumpkin spice and sugar. Orange
vanilla cream makes an excellent dessert when topped with vanilla
ice cream. Serve the caramel cream with coffee and cozy up with a
good book. When it comes to marshmallow cream, the obvious
toppings are chocolate and graham cracker crumbs. To observe
National Cream Filled Doughnut Day: Go out and enjoy a
Cream-Filled Donut or make some of your own. Here is a
Cream-Filled Donut recipe. Of course, you can always bring some to
work. Sharing with your co-workers garners unknown benefits.
Surprise a neighbor or your spouse. Visit your favorite bakery and
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September 14: National Food Is Medicine
Day: -- Health and food organizations use the day to raise
awareness about the barriers to good food in the U.S. The campaign
points out that many low-income families always have to deal with
obstacles that make it difficult for them to get the healthy foods
they need. The goal of bringing these challenges to the forefront
on National Food is Medicine Day is to generate enough buzz to
encourage government and private sector entities to collaborate on
developing solutions that make it simpler for more people to get
healthy food. Malnutrition is a threat that is getting worse
quickly. It is a global problem on the same level as poverty and
climate change. The World Committee on Food Security has said:
"malnutrition in all its forms, including hunger, lack of
micronutrients, overweight, and obesity, is a major problem not
only in developing countries but also in developed countries."
Malnutrition includes everything from starvation to being
overweight. The main causes of the global burden of disease today
are poor diets and the health risks that come with them. Diets
that aren't very good either don't have enough of certain
vitamins, minerals, and fiber, or they have too many calories,
saturated fats, salt, and sugar. In 2010, 10% of the world's
disease burden was caused by unhealthy eating and lack of exercise
(measured as the number of years lost due to ill health,
disability, or early death). By 2015, six of the top 11 global
risk factors, such as being undernourished, having a high body
mass index (B.M.I.), and having high cholesterol, were related to
diet. Obesity is usually linked to eating too much, but it can
also be caused by not getting enough of certain nutrients. Between
1990 and 2010, the number of adults in sub-Saharan Africa with a
high B.M.I. tripled. Countries in the Pacific, the Caribbean, the
Middle East, and Central America all have very high rates of
overweight and obese adults. So, all countries around the world
need to take action to deal with undernutrition, lack of
micronutrients, and overweight and obesity at the same time. On
National Food is Medicine Day, the Food Equality Initiative
encourages people to join the movement by giving money to groups
that help people get access to healthy food. Subsidizing the extra
costs of gluten-free food helps bring down medical costs, lowers
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Today, September 14, 2026
September 14: National Parents Day Off:
-- All parents deserve a day off. Today is an opportunity for
parents to recharge and get some much-deserved recognition!
Parents are the organizers, cheerleaders, teachers, and directors
of the family. They wear many hats and rarely have a moment for
themselves. Yet, they are dedicated to raising successful,
well-adjusted children. Once school starts, parents have a window
of time to take a breather. While we know carpools, after-school
activities, and school projects seem never-ending, taking time for
yourself benefits you and the entire family. National Parents Day
Off focuses on recognizing every parent and rewarding them for
their commitment to their children, no matter what stage of life
they are in. Parenting can be challenging and messy; that's why
parents should get ready for an epic break! Epic (the world's
leading digital reading platform for kids) teamed up with
bestselling author, TV personality and mom, Chrissy Teigen, to
celebrate by bringing levity to parenting's most challenging
moments and surprising overworked caregivers with rewarding
prizes. Epic founded National Parents Day Off in 2021 to show
their appreciation for parents and encourage them to take a
much-deserved break. Designed for unlimited discovery and
unmatched safety, Epic is the leading digital reading platform for
kids. Built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality
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September 14: National Live Creative Day:
- What better way to celebrate this day than to live creatively?
Though this holiday has been around for a relatively short period,
its value certainly can't be overemphasized. We're bringing you
all the best tips to celebrate this special holiday. The history
of the word, "creative" is traceable to the Latin word,
creo, which means to make or create something. In the past, the
word was used as an attribute that could only be ascribed to a
divine creator - God. Moreover, during the time of the Ancient
Greeks, creativity was not a considered concept. However, the
first to eventually apply the word "creativity" was a
Polish poet who lived during the 17th century, called Maciej
Kazimierz Sarbiewski. However, he only used the word in relation
to poetry. It wasn't until 1926 that Graham Walls published a
scholarly article identifying four stages of the creative process,
which he classified as preparation or saturation, incubation,
illumination, and verification. In modern times, creativity has
become associated with out-of-the-box thinking and ideas that
stand out from the crowd. It's no longer limited to disciplines
such as arts and literature but applies to every aspect of life,
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September 14, 2024: German Language Day:
-- Today we celebrate the language and beautiful culture of
Germany. From "Guten Tag" to "Auf Wiedersehen",
German is a language worth exploring. Known as "Tag Der
deutschen Sprache" (in the German language, of course!),
German Language Day offers an opportunity to appreciate the
language and culture of this. It is believed that the German
Language, or "Deutsch" got its start more than 2,000
years ago. Some records exist showing that people from the 1st
century in the Roman Empire may have come across German speakers.
Now, German is the most widely spoken official, or co-official
language in several European countries including Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, Lichtenstein, and even the province of Italy called
Tyrol. With roots that are similar, the German and English
languages tend to share quite a bit of vocabulary and are
considered to be 60% similar, lexically speaking. The German
Language Association seem to have started German Language Day and,
since then, it has also been endorsed by the United Nations
General Assembly and Conference. The purpose of the day is simply
to encourage people to appreciate the beauty of the German
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September 14: National Sober Day: -- A
day to renew one's commitment to staying sober or marking the
start of a journey to getting sober. Millions of people suffer
from substance abuse, and this day reminds them that they are
supported and that they are not alone in their struggles. Alcohol
is not only difficult to quit but one of the most widely abused
substances in the world with many deaths attributed to it every
year. Alcohol has a long history in our society and has been a
part of human culture for years. In the past, it was mainly made
by fermenting grains, fruit juice, and honey. Evidence of
fermented beverages can be found in ancient Chinese, Egyptian, and
Indian histories. In these early societies, the beverage was
consumed for a variety of reasons - for its nutritional value, as
a pain reliever, and as part of religious ceremonies. During the
16th century alcohol, specifically 'spirits,' were considered
medicinal. In the 18th century, Britain passed a law encouraging
the use of grain for distilling spirits. The law led to the rise
in the availability of cheap spirits. It spiked gin consumption
which reached 18 million gallons, and alcoholism became
widespread. In the 19th century, there was a change of mindset and
the temperance of the time pushed the idea of moderation in
alcohol consumption - which ultimately became a push for total
prohibition. The U.S. passed a law prohibiting the manufacture,
sale, import, and export of intoxicating liquors. It resulted in a
boom of illegal alcohol trading forcing the cancellation of the
prohibition of alcohol. Today alcohol has little to no nutritional
value. Medically alcohol is only used as a solvent for
water-insoluble compounds. In most religious ceremonies alcohol is
merely symbolic. More than 17 million American adults are
suffering from alcohol use disorder. Alcohol causes approximately
88,000 deaths a year, and 40% of all car accident deaths in the
U.S. involve alcohol. This National Sober Day, let us all join
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September 14: #BOTD: #HBD! (Traditional):
Prince Hall, African American abolitionist called "The Father
Of Civil Rights", leader of the free black community in
Boston, founder of Prince Hall Freemasonry who lobbied for
education rights for African American children and was active in
the Back-To-Africa Movement (d. December 4, 1807) is #born
according to tradition; he was actually born c. 1735, c. 1748 or
September 12, 1748. Death notices published on December 7, 1807,
state that he died at the age of 72, which indicates he was born
in 1735. A deposition dated August 31, 1807 records his age as
"about 70 years", suggesting his date of birth was about
1737. A letter written in 1795 by Reverend Jeremy Belknap, a
founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society, places Halls'
birth in 1737 or 1738. Belknap bases this year of birth upon
Prince Hall's stated age when Hall and Belknap met. Prince Hall's
date of birth, place of birth and parents are likewise unclear, as
are his marriages; this is at least partly due to the fact that
there were numerous "Prince Halls" during this time
period. He was born c. 1735, c. 1748 or September 12, 1748; his
traditional birthdate September 14. Prince Hall mentioned in his
writings that New England was his homeland. The Prince Hall Grand
Lodge of Massachusetts, in its Proceedings of 1906, opted for
1738, relying on a letter from Reverend Jeremy Belknap, a founder
of the Massachusetts Historical Society. A mural at the Grand Hall
Lodge in Dorchester, MA states he was born in 1735. According to
the Medford Historical Society & Museum, sources state he was
born on September 12, 1748 in Bridgetown, Barbados to Thomas
Prince Hall, an Englishmen, and a free Colored woman of French
descent, and that in Barbados, the Hall family was a very well
respected family and its members were known as "pious persons
of excellent character." Hall's early years are also unclear;
historian Charles H. Wesley theorized that by age 11 Prince Hall
was enslaved (or in service) to Boston tanner William Hall, and by
1770 was a free, literate man. It was through William Hall that
Prince learned how to process and dress leather. Historian David
L. Gray states that he was unable to find an official historical
record of the manumission. Hall, identified as able to read and
write, may have been self-taught or, like other enslaved people
and free blacks in New England, he may have had assistance. Hall
joined the Congregational Church in 1762 at 27 years of age. He
married an enslaved woman named Sarah Ritchie (or Ritchery) who
died in 1769. It has been asserted that Hall then married Flora
Gibbs of Gloucester in 1770; however David Gray states he was
married for a second time to Sylvia (Zilpha) Ward Hall. An article
written about Prince for the PBS documentary Africans In America
states that Prince Hall married a woman named Delia, a servant
outside William Hall's household, and had a son named Primus in
1756; however, David L. Gray asserts that there is no record of a
marriage of Prince Hall to Delia, nor record of a son, Primus. In
Boston, Hall worked as a peddler, caterer, and leatherworker,
owning his own leather shop. It is known that in April 1777, he
created five leather drumheads for an artillery regiment of
Boston. Hall was a homeowner who voted and paid taxes. As a
leader, Prince Hall devoted himself to gaining a place for New
Endland's enslaved and free blacks in Freemasonry, education, and
the military, which were some of the most crucial spheres of
society in his time. Hall is considered the founder of "Black
Freemasonry" in the United States, known today as Prince Hall
Freemasonry. Hall formed the African Grand Lodge of North America.
Prince Hall was unanimously elected its Grand Master, and served
until his death in 1807. Prince Hall Freemasonry is a branch of
North American Freemasonry for African Americans founded by Prince
Hall on September 29, 1784. There are two main branches of Prince
Hall Freemasonry: the independent State Prince Hall Grand Lodges,
most of which are recognized by White Masonic jurisdictions, and
those under the jurisdiction of the National Grand Lodge. Prince
Hall Freemasonry is the oldest and largest (300,000+ initiated
members) predominantly African American fraternity in the nation.
Prince Hall died in Boston, Massachusetts; according to biographer
David Gray, newspaper accounts showed that he died on this date,
and was buried three days later. However, the precised details of
his death (as well as his birth) are in dispute. A tribute
monument erected on June 24, 1835 in his name next to his grave
marker at Copp's Hill Burying Ground, a cemetery overlooking the
Charlstown naval yard in Boston's North End where other notable
Bostonians from the colonial era are buried, bears the
inscription: "Here lies ye body of Prince Hall, first Grand
Master of the colored Grand Lodge in Mass. Died Dec. 7, 1807"
(thousands of other African Americans who lived in the "New
Guinea" community are buried alongside Snowhill Street in
unmarked graves at the base of Copp's Hill). The Medford
Historical Society & Museum of Boston states that "after
many years of service, Prince Hall died on December 26, 1827".
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September 14, 1812: The Age Of
Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of
Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: The
French Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars (The Great French War)
(The French Revolutionary Wars, The Napoleonic Wars): The
Napoleonic Wars: The French Invasion Of Russia (The Russian
Campaign, The Patriotic War Of 1812): The Fire Of Moscow (1812):
-- The French Grande Armee enters a burning Moscow. The 1812 Fire
Of Moscow (sometimes referred to as The Kreme Brulee) begins as
soon as Russian troops and most remaining residents abandoned the
city as Napoleon' vanguard troops entered the city following the
Battle Of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars.
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September 14, 1917: The Aftermath Of
World War I: 20th Century Revolutions: The Revolutions Of
1917-1923: The Interwar Period (The Interbellum, Between The
Wars): The Russian Revolution: The Tsardom Of Russia And The
Russian Empire (Imperial Russia): The Dissolution Of The Russian
Empire: The Russian Republic (Russian: Rossiyskaya Respublika)
(The Russian Democratic Federal Republic): -- The end of the
Russian monarchy and The Russian Empire, which had existed from
its proclamation in November 1721, occurs when it is formally
dissolved and replaced by The Russian Republic, a short-lived
state which controlled, de jure (legally) if not necessarily
otherwise, the territory of the former Russian Empire after its
proclamation by the Russian Provisional Government on September 1
(September 14, N.S.) in a decree signed by Alexander Kerensky as
Minister-President and Alexander Zarudny as Minister of Justice.
Less than six weeks later, Kerensky's government and the Republic
itself was overtaken by the October Revolution beginning on
October 25, 1917 (November 7, N.S.) and the establishment of the
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR). It
was formed as a provisional government, an emergency governmental
authority set up to manage a political transition, generally in
the cases of new nations or following the collapse of the previous
governing administration, hence it formed itself by the name of
the Provisional Government. Officially, the Republic's government
was the Provisional Government, although de facto control of the
country and its armed forces was divided between the Provisional
Government and the Petrograd Soviet, the city council of Petrograd
(Saint Petersburg) that tried to extend its jurisdiction
nationwide as a rival power center to the Provisional Government,
creating what in Soviet historiography is known as the
Dvoyevlastiye (Dual power). Its committees were key components
during the Russian Revolution and some of them led the armed
revolt of the October Revolution. The term Russian Republic is
sometimes used erroneously for the period between the abdication
of the Emperor Nicholas II on March 2, 1917 (March 15, N.S) and
the declaration of the Republic in September. However, during that
period the future status of the monarchy remained to be resolved.
The Russian Republic's principal institutions were: the State Duma
of the Russian Empire, the lower house of the legislative
assembly; the Council of the Russian Republic, the upper house of
the legislative assembly; the Congress of Soviets, an assembly of
representatives of local councils that, in theory, was the supreme
power of the Soviet State, an organ of the dictatorship of the
proletariat; the Russian Provisional Government, the provisional
government of Russia established immediately following the
abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of the Russian Empire on March 2
[March 15, New Style], 1917, and ceased to exist when the
Bolsheviks gained power after the October Revolution in October
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September 14, 1901: #DOTD: #RIP: The
Assassination Of William McKinley: Eight days after being shot,
President William McKinley, 25th President of the United States,
serving from March 4, 1897 until his assassination, six months
into his second term (b. January 29, 1843) #dies from wounds
suffered during an assassination attempt in the Temple of Music, a
concert hall and auditorium built for the Pan-American Exposition
world's fair in Buffalo, New York. He was succeeded by Theodore
Roosevelt. He is buried in the William McKinley Tomb at the
McKinley National Memorial in McKinley Memorial Park, Canton,
Ohio, a site administered by The National Park Service (NPS).
William McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio, the seventh of nine
children of William McKinley Sr. and Nancy (nee Allison) McKinley.
McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War,
raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and
maintained the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of free
silver (effectively, expansionary monetary policy). McKinley was
the last president to have served in the American Civil War, and
the only one to have started the war as an enlisted soldier,
beginning as a private in the Union Army and ending as a brevet
major. After the war, he settled in Canton, Ohio, where he
practiced law and married Ida Saxton. In 1876, he was elected to
Congress, where he became the Republican Party's expert on the
protective tariff, which he promised would bring prosperity. His
1890 McKinley Tariff was highly controversial; which together with
a Democratic redistricting aimed at gerrymandering him out of
office, led to his defeat in the Democratic landslide of 1890. He
was elected Governor of Ohio in 1891 and 1893, steering a moderate
course between capital and labor interests. With the aid of his
close adviser Mark Hanna, he secured the Republican nomination for
president in 1896, amid a deep economic depression. He defeated
his Democratic rival, William Jennings Bryan, after a front porch
campaign in which he advocated "sound money" (the gold
standard unless altered by international agreement) and promised
that high tariffs would restore prosperity. Rapid economic growth
marked McKinley's presidency. He promoted the 1897 Dingley Tariff
to protect manufacturers and factory workers from foreign
competition, and in 1900, he secured the passage of the Gold
Standard Act. McKinley hoped to persuade Spain to grant
independence to rebellious Cuba without conflict, but when
negotiation failed, he led the nation into the Spanish-American
War of 1898; the U.S. victory was quick and decisive. As part of
the peace settlement, Spain turned over to the United States its
main overseas colonies of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines;
Cuba was promised independence, but at that time remained under
the control of the U.S. Army. The United States annexed the
independent Republic of Hawaii in 1898 and it became a U.S.
territory. Historians regard McKinley's 1896 victory as a
realigning election, in which the political stalemate of the
post-Civil War era gave way to the Republican-dominated Fourth
Party System, which began with the Progressive Era. McKinley
defeated Bryan again in the 1900 presidential election, in a
campaign focused on imperialism, protectionism, and free silver.
His legacy was suddenly cut short when he was shot on September 6,
1901 by Leon Czolgosz, a second-generation Polish-American with
anarchist leanings; McKinley died eight days later, and was
succeeded by his Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. As an
innovator of American interventionism and pro-business sentiment,
McKinley's presidency is generally considered above average,
though his highly positive public perception was soon overshadowed
by Roosevelt. National Carnation Day was established in his honor
as he always wore a red carnation on his lapel, which is observed
on his birthday, January 29. The carnation was said to be his
favorite flower, and he always wore one for good luck. According
to legend, when President McKinley was shot by an assassin's
bullet in September of 1901, it was just after he took off the
carnation he was wearing and gave it to a young girl. People
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Today, September 14, 2026
September 14, 1901: Eight days after
being shot, President William McKinley, 25th President of the
United States, serving from March 4, 1897 until his assassination,
six months into his second term (b. January 29, 1843) dies from
wounds suffered during an assassination attempt in the Temple of
Music, a concert hall and auditorium built for the Pan-American
Exposition world's fair in Buffalo, New York. Upon his death,
Theodore Roosevelt succeeds him as President Of The United States.
Theodore Roosevelt, often referred to as Teddy Roosevelt or his
initials T. R., American colonel, statesman, politician,
conservationist, naturalist, historian, writer, Freemason and
Nobel Peace Prize recipient, 26th President of the United States
from September 14, 1901 to March 3, 1909 (October 27, 1858 -
January 6, 1919) was born in New York City. He previously served
as 33rd governor of New York from 1899 to 1900 and the 25th vice
president of the United States from March to September 1901.
Roosevelt emerged as a leader of the Republican Party and became a
driving force for the anti-trust policy while supporting
Progressive Era policies in the early 20th century. He succeeded
to the presidency following the assassination of President William
McKinley. His face is depicted on Mount Rushmore alongside George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. He is best
remembered for stating, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Roosevelt was a sickly child with debilitating asthma, but he
overcame his health problems by embracing a strenuous lifestyle,
as well as growing out of his asthma naturally in his young adult
years. He integrated his exuberant personality, a vast range of
interests and world-famous achievements into a "cowboy"
persona defined by robust masculinity. He was home-schooled and
began a lifelong naturalist avocation before attending Harvard
College. His book The Naval War of 1812 (1882) established his
reputation as a learned historian and as a popular writer. Upon
entering politics, he became the leader of the reform faction of
Republicans in New York's state legislature. His wife and his
mother both died in rapid succession, and he began to frequent a
cattle ranch in the Dakotas. He served as Assistant Secretary of
the Navy under President William McKinley, but he resigned from
that post to lead the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American
War, returning a war hero. He was elected governor of New York in
1898. After Vice President Garret Hobart died in 1899, the New
York state party leadership convinced McKinley to accept Roosevelt
as his running mate in the 1900 election. Roosevelt campaigned
vigorously, and the McKinley-Roosevelt ticket won a landslide
victory based on a platform of peace, prosperity, and
conservation. Roosevelt took office as vice president in March
1901 and assumed the presidency at age 42 after McKinley was
assassinated the following September. He remains the youngest
person to become President of the United States. Roosevelt was a
leader of the progressive movement, and he championed his "Square
Deal" domestic policies, promising the average citizen
fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure
food and drugs. He made conservation a top priority and
established many new national parks, forests, and monuments
intended to preserve the nation's natural resources. In foreign
policy, he focused on Central America where he began construction
of the Panama Canal. He expanded the Navy and sent the Great White
Fleet on a world tour to project the United States' naval power
around the globe. His successful efforts to broker the end of the
Russo-Japanese War won him the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. He avoided
controversial tariff and money issues. Roosevelt was elected to a
full term in 1904 and continued to promote progressive policies,
many of which were passed in Congress. He groomed his close friend
William Howard Taft to successfully succeed him in the 1908
presidential election. Roosevelt grew frustrated with Taft's brand
of conservatism and belatedly tried to win the 1912 Republican
nomination for president. He failed, walked out, and founded the
so-called "Bull Moose" Party which called for
wide-ranging progressive reforms. He ran in the 1912 election and
the split allowed the Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson to win the
election. Following the defeat, Roosevelt led a two-year
expedition to the Amazon basin where he nearly died of tropical
disease. During World War I, he criticized Wilson for keeping the
country out of the war with Germany, and his offer to lead
volunteers to France was rejected. He considered running for
president again in 1920, but his health continued to deteriorate
and he died in 1919. He is generally ranked in polls of historians
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September 14, 1921: #BOTD: #HBD!
Constance Baker Motley, American jurist and politician, law clerk
to Thurgood Marshall, key strategist of the civil rights movement,
first Black woman to argue at the Supreme Court, New York state
senator, first female Borough President of Manhattan in New York
City, first Caribbean-American woman appointed to the federal
judiciary, Judge of the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York (d. September 28, 2005) is #born
Constance Baker in New Haven, Connecticut, the ninth of the twelve
children of Rachel Huggins and McCullough Alva Baker, both
immigrants from the Caribbean Island of Nevis of The West Indies.
She obtained a role with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
Fund as a staff attorney in 1946 after receiving her law degree
from Columbia University, and continued her work with the
organization for more than twenty years. As a law clerk to
Thurgood Marshall, she aided him in the Supreme Court case Brown
v. Board of Education; as the first Black woman to argue at the
Supreme Court, she argued 10 landmark civil rights cases, winning
nine. In 1965, Motley was elected President of the Borough of
Manhattan to fill a one-year vacancy. As president, she authored a
revitalization plan for Harlem and East Harlem, successfully
fighting for 700K USD to improve these and other underserved areas
of the city. On January 26, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson
nominated Constance Baker Motley to the seat on the United States
District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by
Judge Archie Owen Dawson. Senator James Eastland of Mississippi
delayed her confirmation process for seven months. Eastland was in
opposition to her past desegregation work including Brown v. Board
of Education and Meredith v. Fair. He used his influence as chair
of the Senate Judiciary Committee to disrupt Motley's nomination,
and went as far as accusing her of being a member of the Communist
Party. Despite opposition, she was confirmed by the United States
Senate on August 30, 1966, and received her commission the same
day, becoming the first African American female federal judge. She
then served as Chief Judge from 1982 to 1986, and she assumed
senior status on September 30, 1986, and served for the rest of
her life. She married Joel Motley Jr., a real estate and insurance
broker, in 1946 at Saint Luke's Episcopal Church in New Haven,
Connecticut. They lived in Harlem, New York City and maintained a
second home in Chester, Connecticut from 1965 until her death in
2005. Baker and Motley were married for 59 years, until her death
of congestive heart failure on September 28, 2005, fourteen days
after her 84th birthday, at NYU Downtown Hospital in New York
City. Her funeral was held at the Connecticut church where she had
been married; a public memorial service was held at Riverside
Church in Manhattan. Her burial details are not publicly
disclosed. She left one son, Joel Wilson Motley III, co-chairman
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September 14, 1954: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1953-1962): Nuclear
Warfare: Nuclear Weapons Testing: Soviet Nuclear Warfare: Soviet
Nuclear Weapons Testing: The Soviet Atomic Bomb Project: The
RDS-6s (From The Soviet Codename For Their Atomic Bombs Reaktivnyy
Dvigatel' Spetsia, "Special Jet Engine"; American
Codename: Joe 4): The Totskoye Nuclear Exercise (Operation
Snowball): -- In a top secret nuclear test conducted by the Soviet
Army under the command of World War II hero Marshal Georgy Zhukov,
a Soviet Tu-4 bomber, a reverse-engineered copy of the
American-made Boeing B-29 Superfortress, drops a 40 kiloton RDS-4
(also known as Tatyana or Mk.1 ) atomic bomb, a plutonium
implosion-type fission bomb that detonates 600 meters above and
just north of the Russian village of Totskoye in Orenburg Oblast,
in the South Ural Military District. The Totskoye Nuclear
Exercise, codenamed Operation Snowball, had as its stated goal the
training of the military for breaking through heavily fortified
defensive lines of a military opponent using nuclear weapons, to
which end some 45,000 Red Army soldiers marched through the area
around the epicenter of the blast immediately after its detonation
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September 14, 1968: Rocket Launches: The
History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1962-1979): The Space
Age: The Space Race: The Discovery And Exploration Of The Solar
System: Missions To The Moon: Space Probes: Lunar Space Probes:
The Soviet Space Program: The Zond Program: Zond 5 (Russian: Probe
5): -- The first spacecraft to be launched to the moon to return,
and the first to bring terrestrial life forms to the vicinity of
the moon, is launched at 21:42:11 UTC atop a Proton-K rocket from
Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 81 in Kazakhstan. In September 1968, Zond
5 became the second spaceship to travel to and circle the Moon,
and the first to return safely to Earth. Zond 5 carried the first
terrestrial organisms to the vicinity of the Moon, including two
tortoises, fruit fly eggs, and plants. The tortoises underwent
biological changes during the flight, but it was concluded that
the changes were primarily due to starvation and that they were
little affected by space travel. The Zond spacecraft was a version
of the Soyuz 7K-L1 crewed lunar-flyby spacecraft. It was launched
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September 14, 2015: Great Discoveries:
Physics: The History Of Physics: Astrophysics: The History Of
Astrophysics: General Relativity (The General Theory Of
Relativity, GR, GTR): Gravitational Waves: The First Observation
Of Gravitational Waves (GW150914): -- The first observation of
gravitational waves was made, and was announced by the LIGO and
Virgo Interferometer collaborations on February 11, 2016. The
waveform, detected by both LIGO observatories, matched the
predictions of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity for
a gravitational wave emanating from the Binary black hole stellar
collission that was the inward spiral and merger of a pair of
black holes of around 36 and 29 solar masses and the subsequent
"ringdown" of the single resulting black hole. The
signal was named GW150914 (from "Gravitational Wave" and
the date of observation 2015-09-14). It was also the first
observation of a binary black hole merger, demonstrating both the
existence of binary stellar-mass black hole systems and the fact
that such mergers could occur within the current age of the
universe. This first direct observation was reported around the
world as a remarkable accomplishment for many reasons. Previously,
gravitational waves had only been inferred indirectly, via their
effect on the timing of pulsars in binary star systems. Efforts to
directly prove the existence of such waves had been ongoing for
over fifty years, and the waves are so minuscule that Albert
Einstein himself doubted that they could ever be detected. The
waves given off by the cataclysmic merger of GW150914 reached
Earth as a ripple in spacetime that changed the length of a 4 km
LIGO arm by a thousandth of the width of a proton, proportionally
equivalent to changing the distance to the nearest star outside
the Solar System by one hair's width. Einstein originally
predicted the existence of gravitational waves in 1916, on the
basis of his theory of general relativity. General relativity
interprets gravity as a consequence of distortions in space-time,
caused by mass. Therefore, Einstein also predicted that events in
the cosmos would cause "ripples" in space-time -
distortions of space-time itself - which would spread outward,
although they would be so minuscule that they would be nearly
impossible to detect by any technology foreseen at that time. It
was also predicted that objects moving in an orbit would lose
energy for this reason (a consequence of the law of conservation
of energy), as some energy would be given off as gravitational
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September 14, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD! Jerzy
Popieluszko, Polish Roman Catholic priest associated with the
Solidarity Union (d. October 19, 1984) is #born Alfons Popieluszko
in Okopy, near Suchowola, Republic of Poland. Jerzy Popieluszko
died when he was killed by three agents of Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa
(Security Service Of The Ministry of Internal Affairs), who were
shortly thereafter tried and convicted of the murder. He is buried
at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Warsaw, Poland. Jerzy
Popieluszko has been recognized as a martyr by the Catholic
Church, and was beatified on June 6, 2010 by Archbishop Angelo
Amato on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI. As of September 14, 2025, a
miracle attributed to his intercession and required for his
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September 14, 1990: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of
The Cold War): The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I):
Operation Desert Shield: -- The United Kingdom and France announce
the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia. Operation Desert Shield
began on August 7, 1990 when US troops were sent to Saudi Arabia
due also to the request of its monarch, King Fahd, who had earlier
called for US military assistance. This "wholly defensive"
doctrine was quickly abandoned when, on August 8, Iraq declared
Kuwait to be Iraq's 19th province and Saddam named his cousin, Ali
Hassan Al-Majid, as its military-governor. The US Navy dispatched
two naval battle groups built around the aircraft carriers USS
Dwight D. Eisenhower and USS Independence to the Persian Gulf,
where they were ready by 8 August. The US also sent the
battleships USS Missouri and USS Wisconsin to the region. A total
of 48 US Air Force F-15s from the 1st Fighter Wing at Langley Air
Force Base, Virginia, landed in Saudi Arabia, and immediately
commenced round the clock air patrols of the Saudi-Kuwait-Iraq
border to discourage further Iraqi military advances. They were
joined by 36 F-15 A-Ds from the 36th Tactical Fighter Wing at
Bitburg, Germany. The Bitburg contingent was based at Al Kharj Air
Base, approximately an hour south east of Riyadh. The 36th TFW
would be responsible for 11 confirmed Iraqi Air Force aircraft
shot down during the war. There were also two Air National Guard
units stationed at Al Kharj Air Base, the South Carolina Air
National Guard's 169th Fighter Wing flew bombing missions with 24
F-16s flying 2,000 combat missions and dropping 4 million pounds
of munitions, and the New York Air National Guard's 174th Fighter
Wing from Syracuse flew 24 F-16s on bombing missions. Military
buildup continued from there, eventually reaching 543,000 troops,
twice the number used in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Much of the
material was airlifted or carried to the staging areas via fast
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September 14, 1930: The Interwar Period
(The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Weimar Republic (The
German Reich, The German Republic): The Road To War: The 1930
German Federal Election: -- The Nazi Party becomes the second
largest party in Germany following a stunning election triumph.
Despite losing 10 seats, the Social Democratic Party of Germany
(SPD) remained the largest party in the Reichstag, winning 143 of
the 577 seats, while the Nazi Party (NSDAP) dramatically increased
its number of seats from 12 to 107. The two major parties of the
Weimar Coalition, the SPD and Zentrum (Centre Party), had no high
gains or losses, in contrast to their partner, the German People's
Party (DVP), a right-wing national liberal/conservative-liberal
party. The two results of the elections seen as dramatic were the
NSDAP's reaching more than 100 seats, and large gains for the
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September 14, 1886: #BOTD: #HBD! Jan
Masaryk, Czech soldier, diplomat, statesman, politician, Czech
Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1940 to 1948 (d. March 10 ,1948)
is #born Jan Garrigue Masaryk in Prague, Austria-Hungary (modern
Czech Republic). American journalist John Gunther described
Masaryk as "a brave, honest, turbulent, and impulsive man".
When on March 10, 1948 he died -- supposedly by suicide by jumping
out of a window in his pajamas in the courtyard of the Foreign
Ministry, though it was unofficially well known that he was most
likely murdered -- the word in the streets of the country was "Jan
Masaryk was a very tidy man. He was such a tidy man that when he
jumped he shut the window after himself." He is buried at
Hrbitov Lany (Czech: "Lany Cemetery") in Lany, Central
Bohemia, Czechoslovakia (modern Czechia). He was the son of Tomas
Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist, politician and philosopher,
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September 14, 1979: Afghanistan: The
History Of Afghanistan: The Afghan Conflict (The Afghan Crisis,
The Instability In Afghanistan): The Cold War: The Cold War
(1962-1979): The Cold War (1979-1985): The Cold War Era Of
Stagnation (1964-1982): The Overthrow Of Nur Muhammad Taraki: --
Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is overthrown upon the order
of his political protoge Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new
president. Under Amin's orders, he would be murdered on October 8,
1979. His death was a factor that led to the Soviet intervention
in Afghanisation in December 1979. Nur Muhammad Taraki (July 15,
1917 - October 8, 1979) was an Afghan author who wrote novels and
short stories in the socialist realism style and communist
statesman during the Cold War who served as President of
Afghanistan from 1978 to 1979. Taraki was born in Nawa, Ghazni
Province and graduated from Kabul University, after which he
started his political career as a journalist. He later became one
of the founding members of the People's Democratic Party of
Afghanistan (PDPA) and was elected as the party's general
secretary at its first congress. He ran as a candidate in the 1965
Afghan parliamentary election but failed to win a seat. In 1966 he
published the first issue of Khalq, a party newspaper, but the
government closed it down shortly afterward. Taraki led the Khalq
wing of the PDPA. In 1978 he, Hafizullah Amin and Babrak Karmal
initiated the Saur Revolution and established the Democratic
Republic of Afghanistan. Taraki's presidency was short-lived and
marked by controversies. The government was divided between two
PDPA factions: the Khalqists (led by Taraki), the majority, and
the Parchamites, the minority. He started a purge of the
government and party that led to several high-ranking Parchamite
members being sent into de facto exile by being assigned to serve
overseas as ambassadors. Taraki launched a land reform program on
January 1, 1979 that proved highly unpopular. His regime also
brutally locked up dissidents and oversaw massacres of villagers.
These factors, among others, led to a popular backlash that
initiated a rebellion. Despite repeated attempts, Taraki was
unable to persuade the Soviet Union to intervene in support of the
restoration of civil order. Taraki's reign was marked by a
dictator-like cult of personality centered around him that
Hafizullah Amin had cultivated. The state press and subsequent
propaganda started to refer to him as the "Great Leader"
and "Great Teacher". However, his relationship with Amin
turned sour during his rule, ultimately resulting in Taraki's
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September 13-14, 1944: The European Civil
War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater
Of World War II): The Western Front Of World War II: The Siegfried
Line Campaign (The Pursuit To The Rhine, The Allied Advance From
Paris To The Rhine, The Liberation Of Western Europe): The Western
Allied Invasion Of The Netherlands (The Liberation Of The
Netherlands In World War II): -- Maastricht becomes the first
Dutch city to be liberated by Allied forces, achieved by the 30th
Infantry Division of the US Army National Guard, nicknamed the
"Old Hickory" division in honor of President Andrew
Jackson; the Germans nicknamed this division "Roosevelt's
SS". Early in World War II, the city was taken by the Germans
by surprise during the Battle of Maastricht of May 1940, one of
the first battles that took place during the German Campaign on
the Western Front. Maastricht's three Meuse bridges were destroyed
or severely damaged during the war. As elsewhere in the
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September 14, 1936: #BOTD: #HBD! Nicol
Williamson, Scottish actor and singer, described by John Osborne
as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando" and by
Samuel Beckett as "touched by genius", viewed by many
critics as "the Hamlet of his generation" during the
late 1960s (d. December 16, 2011) is #born (in 1936, though he
would claim that he was born in 1938 in Who's Who) Thomas Nicol
Williamson in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland. The son of a
factory owner, he was aged two his family moved south to England,
and Williamson was educated at the Central Grammar School for
Boys, Birmingham. He left school at 16 to begin work in his
father's factory and later attended the Birmingham School of
Speech & Drama. He recalled his time there as "a
disaster" and claimed "it was nothing more than a
finishing school for the daughters of local businessmen".
After his national service as a gunner in the Airborne Division
(National Service in the UK, which began September 3, 1939 when
the UK entereed World War II, ended gradually from 1957 on; it was
decided those born on or after October 1, 1939 would not be
required), Williamson made his professional debut with the Dundee
Repertory Theatre in 1960 and the following year appeared with the
Arts Theatre in Cambridge. In 1962 he made his London debut as
Flute in Tony Richardson's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream
at the Royal Court Theatre. His first major success came in 1964
with John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence, for which he was
nominated for a Tony Award when it transferred to Broadway the
following year. 1964 also saw him appearing as Vladimir in Samuel
Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Royal Court. He starred in the
film version in 1968. Williamson's Hamlet for Tony Richardson at
the Roundhouse caused a sensation; it was later transferred to New
York and made into a film, with a cast including Anthony Hopkins
and Marianne Faithfull. Faithfull later stated in her
autobiography Faithfull that she and Williamson had had an affair
while filming Hamlet. His most celebrated film role was as Merlin
the magician in the King Arthur epic Excalibur in 1981. Director
John Boorman cast him opposite Helen Mirren as Morgana over the
protests of both actors; the two had previously appeared together
on stage in Macbeth, with disastrous results, and they disliked
each other intensely. It was Boorman's hope that the very real
animosity that they had towards each other would generate more
tension between them on screen. Williamson gained recognition from
a much wider fanbase for his performance as Merlin. A review of
Excalibur in The Times in 1981 states: "The actors are led by
Williamson's witty, perceptive Merlin, missed every time he's off
the screen." According to Mirren, she and Williamson, free
from the problems with Macbeth, "wound up becoming very good
friends" during Excalibur. Some of his other notable
cinematic performances include as a deeply troubled Irish soldier
in the 1968 Jack Gold film The Bofors Gun; in 1975 as an
intelligence officer in apartheid South Africa in The Wilby
Conspiracy (starring Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine); as
Sherlock Holmes in the 1976 Herbert Ross film The Seven-Per-Cent
Solution; and as Little John in the 1976 Richard Lester film Robin
and Marian. Additionally, he portrayed an MI6 bureaucrat in The
Human Factor (1979) (adapted from a novel by Graham Greene), an
alcoholic attorney in I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982); a
colonel in the Cincinnati Gestapo in the Neil Simon comedy The
Cheap Detective; Lord Louis Mountbatten in Lord Mountbatten - The
Last Viceroy (1985); the dual roles of Dr. Worley/The Nome King in
Return To Oz (1985); Father Morning in The Exorcist III (1990);
Badger in the 1996 movie adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's Wind in
the Willows; and as Cogliostro in the 1997 movie adaptation of
Todd McFarlane's comic book Spawn. Williamson made a major
contribution to the documentary John Osborne and the Gift of
Friendship, recalling episodes from his long professional
relationship with Osborne. Recorded excerpts of his award-winning
stage performance in Inadmissible Evidence also feature in the
video. Williamson was known for several tantrums and onstage
antics. During the Philadelphia tryout of Inadmissible Evidence, a
play in which he delivered a performance that would win him a Tony
Award nomination in 1965, he hit the equally mercurial producer
David Merrick. In 1968, he apologised to the audience for his
performance one night while playing Hamlet and then walked off the
stage, announcing he was retiring. In the early 1970s, Williamson
left The Dick Cavett Show prior to a scheduled appearance, leaving
the host and guest Nora Ephron to fill the remaining time. In
1976, he slapped actor Jim Litten during the curtain call for the
Broadway musical Rex. In 1991, he hit co-star Evan Handler on the
backside with a sword during a Broadway performance of I Hate
Hamlet. Following a late-night chat show appearance in which he
showcased his singing talents, Williamson released an album of
songs in 1971 on the CBS label (S 64045). The album contained
songs such as "Didn't We", "It's Impossible"
and "Help Me Make It Through the Night". In 1974,
Williamson recorded an abridged reading of The Hobbit for Argo
Records, authorization for the abridgement having been provided by
Tolkien's publisher. The recording was produced by Harley Usill.
According to his official website, Williamson re-edited the
original script himself, removing many occurrences of "he
said", "she said", and so on, as he felt that an
over-reliance on descriptive narrative would not give the desired
effect; he performed each character in a distinctive voice. In
1978, he portrayed a murderous behaviour expert in the Columbo
episode "How To Dial A Murder". In 1971, Williamson
married actress Jill Townsend, who had played his daughter in the
Broadway production of Inadmissible Evidence. They had a son,
Luke, but divorced in 1977. Despite concerns over his health in
the 1970s, Williamson admitted drinking heavily and claimed to
smoke 80 cigarettes a day. In an episode of The David Frost Show
in the 1960s, during a discussion about death, which also involved
poet John Betjeman, Williamson revealed that he was very much
afraid of dying, saying that "I think of death constantly,
throughout the day" and that "I don't think there is
anything after this, except complete oblivion." On January
25, 2012, Luke Williamson announced on his father's official web
site that Nicol Williamson had died on 16 December 2011, aged 75,
after a two-year struggle with esophageal cancer. The news was
intentionally released late, as the actor did not want any fuss to
be made over his death. According to Luke, Nicol Williamson died
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September 14, 1814: The Anglo-French Wars
(1109-1815): The Second Hundred Years' War (1689-1815): The United
States And The French Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars: The Sixty
Years' War (French: Guerre De Soixante Ans) (1754-1815): The
American Indian Wars (The American Frontier Wars, The Indian
Wars): The War Of 1812: The Battle Of Baltimore: "Defence Of
Fort McHenry" ("The Star-Spangled Banner") -- The
poem "Defence Of Fort McHenry" is written by Francis
Scott Key, whose lyrics would ultimately become part of the United
States national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner". The
Battle Of Baltimore (September 12-15, 1814) was a sea/land battle
fought between British invaders and American defenders. American
forces repulsed sea and land invasions off the busy port city of
Baltimore, Maryland, and killed the commander of the invading
British forces. The British and Americans first met at North
Point. Though the Americans retreated, the battle was a successful
delaying action that inflicted heavy casualties on the British,
halted their advance and allowed the defenders at Baltimore to
properly prepare for an attack. During the battle, Francis Scott
Key composes his poem "Defence Of Fort McHenry". He
watched the British attack overnight and at dawn saw the American
flag still flying over the fort, inspiring him to write the verses
which were later coupled with the tune of a popular drinking song
and became the U.S. National Anthem in 1931 as "The
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Today, September 14, 2026
September 12-14, 1942: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of
World War II: The South West Pacific Area (SWPA): Operation
Cartwheel: The Solomon Islands Campaign: The Battle Of Guadalcanal
(The Guadalcanal Campaign, Operation Watchtower): The Battle Of
Edson's Ridge: (The Battle Of The Bloody Ridge, The Battle Of
Raiders Ridge, The Battle Of The Ridge) (September 12-14, 1942):
-- The last remnants of Japanese forces still left around the
ridge after their mass attack the day before are either destroyed
or retreat back into the jungle on the third and last day of one
of the most extraordinary and hellacious battles of the Second
World War, September 14. The Battle Of Edson's Ridge, also known
as the Battle of the Bloody Ridge, Battle of Raiders Ridge, and
Battle of the Ridge, during the Guadalcanal Campaign. The Battle
Of Edson's Ridge was a land battle of the Pacific campaign of
World War II between Imperial Japanese Army and Allied (mainly
United States Marine Corps) ground forces. It took place from
12-14 September 1942, on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, and
was the second of three separate major Japanese ground offensives
during the Guadalcanal Campaign. In the battle, U.S. Marines,
under the overall command of U.S. Major General Alexander
Vandegrift, repulsed an attack by the Japanese 35th Infantry
Brigade, under the command of Japanese Major General Kiyotake
Kawaguchi. The Marines were defending the Lunga perimeter that
guarded Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, which was captured from
the Japanese by the Allies in landings on Guadalcanal on 7 August
1942. Kawaguchi's unit was sent to Guadalcanal in response to the
Allied landings with the mission of recapturing the airfield and
driving the Allied forces from the island. Underestimating the
strength of Allied forces on Guadalcanal-about 12,000-Kawaguchi's
6,000 soldiers conducted several nighttime frontal assaults on the
U.S. defenses. The main Japanese assault occurred around Lunga
ridge south of Henderson Field, manned by troops from several U.S.
Marine Corps units, primarily troops from the 1st Raider and 1st
Parachute Battalions under U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel
Merritt A. Edson. Although the Marine defenses were almost
overrun, Kawaguchi's attack was ultimately defeated, with heavy
losses for the Japanese. Because of the key participation by
Edson's unit in defending the ridge, the ridge was commonly
referred to as "Edson's" ridge in historical accounts of
the battle in Western sources. After Edson's Ridge, the Japanese
continued to send troops to Guadalcanal for further attempts to
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September 14, 1954: #BOTD: #HBD! Barry
Cowsill, American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, drummer,
bassist and record producer, member of the musical group The
Cowsills (d. September 2, 2005) is #born Barry Steven Cowsill in
Newport, Rhode Island, the fifth of seven children. As a teenager,
he became the drummer, and later the bass guitar player, of the
band initially formed by his brothers Bill and Bob Cowsill,
playing popular tunes at local dance clubs. By the late 1960s, the
band expanded to include younger brother John on drums, his mother
Barbara, older brother Paul, and younger sister Susan. The
Cowsills went on to churn out a string of hits, including the two
#2 hits "The Rain the Park and Other Things" and "Hair",
before officially disbanding by 1972. The group inspired the 1970s
television show The Partridge Family. After the group broke up,
Barry Cowsill moved frequently and worked various jobs including
construction and waiting tables. For a time, Cowsill owned a bar
in Austin which he admitted he lost because he "drank it dry.
I was drinking my face off in those days." Throughout his
life, he continued to play music and participated in various
post-heyday incarnations of The Cowsills. Barry was somewhat
successful in the East Coast New Wave scene before relocating to
New Orleans in the 1990s. The most troubled Cowsill, Barry
attempted suicide at least once before (by jumping off a bridge,
nearly killing him) his suspected 2005 suicide. In 1987, Cowsill
married Deborah Scott with whom he had two children (he also had
an older daughter). Cowsill and his wife were divorced in 2003. In
1998, he released his first solo CD, As Is. In 2002, he relocated
to his hometown of Newport, Rhode Island. In 2005, Cowsill
relocated again to New Orleans. Shortly before his death, he had
made plans to enter a Los Angeles rehab facility to seek help for
his alcoholism. His flight to Los Angeles had been scheduled for
August 28, but those plans were stymied when Hurricane Katrina hit
the city on August 29. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit
the city of New Orleans. Cowsill, who chose not to evacuate,
weathered the storm in an abandoned warehouse. Cowsill survived
the storm but was in need of help. He called his sister Susan from
a payphone (Susan also lived in New Orleans with her family but
chose to evacuate) and left four voice mail messages stating that
he was surrounded by looters and people shooting. Susan Cowsill
did not receive the messages until September 2. Cowsill was never
heard from again. After an extensive search, Cowsill's body was
found under a wharf on the Mississippi River on December 28, 2005.
His body was subsequently identified by comparison to dental
records. Cowsill's death was attributed to drowning as a result of
the flooding following Hurricane Katrina. His sister Susan's
detective work concluded it might not be that simple. Following
the storm, a brass plaque was found by a famous oak tree in New
Orleans' Audobon Park that said, "In honor of Barry Cowsill,
who died a true genius on the levee, Sept. 2, 2005." Cowsill
discovered, after a friend pointed out the plaque, that Barry's
necklace was wrapped around it. And the place he had been staying
with a friend was missing a piece of brass. Her conclusion from
this and other clues: Barry committed suicide. "We'll never
know for sure, but I think he walked into the water after putting
up a plaque in memorial to himself," she said. The Cowsill
family held two memorials for Barry in Newport and New Orleans. On
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Today, September 14, 2026
September 13-14, 1969: Counterculture Of
The 1960s: The Hippie Movement: Counterculture Festivals: Music
Festivals: Folk Festivals: The Big Sur Folk Festival (1964-1971):
The 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival: -- The 1969 Big Sur Folk concludes
with performances by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joan Baez,
John Sebastian, Joni Mitchell and Sal Valentino. The Big Sur Folk
Festival, held from 1964 to 1971 in California, was an informal
gathering of prominent and emerging folk artists from across the
United States. Nancy Jane Carlen (1941-2013) was working at the
Esalen Institute when Joan Baez was asked to lead workshops on
music. Carlen was a good friend of Baez, and they decided to
invite other artists, which turned into the first festival. Baez
performed at all seven events. Well-known acts included Joni
Mitchell, Judy Collins, the Beach Boys, Crosby, Stills, Nash &
Young, Country Joe McDonald, John Sebastian, Kris Kristofferson,
Arlo Guthrie, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Taj Mahal, Dorothy
Morrison with the Edwin Hawkins Singers, and Julie Payne. All of
the artists were paid union scale, about 50 USD. The audience paid
3.50 to 5.50 USD, depending on the year. All proceeds benefitted
Baez's Institute for the Study of Nonviolence. Carlen intended it
to be a friendly and low-key event that allowed artists to relax
after their long summer concert series. It was held except for one
year in front of the pool at the Esalen Institute on the Big Sur
coast. The second-to-last year was held at the Monterey County
Fairgrounds. Carlen purposefully kept advertising to a minimum to
help keep crowds small. Richard and Mimi Farina performed for the
first time at the festival, which led to a recording contract. At
the September 1969 festival, a documentary film was made.
Celebration at Big Sur featured many performers who had played
only four weeks earlier at Woodstock from August 15-18. The
festival was later considered by some as the antithesis of the
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Today, September 14, 2026
September 14, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! Zoe
Caldwell, Australian stage, film and television actress, four-time
Tony Award winner (d. February 16, 2020) is #born Zoe Ada Caldwell
in Melbourne, Australia and raised in its suburb of Balwyn. Zoe
Ada Caldwell OBE Won the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Play
for Slapstick Tragedy (1966), and Best Actress in a Play for The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1968), Medea (1982), and Master Class
(1996). Her film appearances include The Purple Rose of Cairo
(1985), Birth (2004), and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
(2011). She was also known for providing the voice of the Grand
Councilwoman in the Lilo & Stitch franchise and in Kingdom
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September 14, 1715: #DOTD: #RIP: Dom
Perignon, French Benedictine monk and priest who made important
contributions to the production and quality of champagne wine in
an era when the region's wines were predominantly still red (b. c.
1638) #dies at approximately age 77. He is buried in a section of
the Abbey of Saint-Vanne cemetery traditionally reserved only for
abbots near the town of Verdun. That cemetery is now the property
of the local commune. Dom (Don) Perignon, OSB (Order Of Saint
Benedict) was born Pierre Perignon to a clerk of the local marshal
in the town of Sainte-Menehould in the ancient Province of
Champagne in the Kingdom of France. He was born in December 1638
and was baptized on January 5, 1639. He was the youngest of his
parents' seven children, as his mother died the following summer.
His father's family owned several vineyards in the region. August
4, 1693 is the date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's
invention of champagne; it is not clear whether he actually
invented champagne, however he has been credited as an innovator
who developed the techniques used to perfect sparkling wine. By
the mid-19th century, sparkling champagne became the dominant
style of Champagne until the mid-19th century. The famous
champagne Dom Perignon, the prestige cuvee of Moet & Chandon,
is named for him. The remains of the monastery where he spent his
adult life is now the property of that winery. Dom Perignon was a
contemporary of Louis XIV (1638-1715). Champagne is a French
sparkling wine. Many people use the term Champagne as a generic
term for sparkling wine, but in the EU and some countries, it is
illegal to label any product Champagne unless it came from the
Champagne wine region of France and is produced under the rules of
the appellation. This alcoholic drink is produced from specific
types of grapes grown in the Champagne region following rules that
demand, among other things, specific vineyard practices, sourcing
of grapes exclusively from designated places within the Champagne
region, specific grape-pressing methods and secondary fermentation
of the wine in the bottle to cause carbonation. Sparkling wine is
a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it, making it
fizzy. While the phrase commonly refers to champagne, EU countries
legally reserve that term for products exclusively produced in the
Champagne region of France. Sparkling wine is usually either white
or rose, but there are examples of red sparkling wines such as the
Italian Brachetto, Bonarda and Lambrusco, Australian sparkling
Shiraz, and Azerbaijani "Pearl of Azerbaijan" made from
Madrasa grapes. The sweetness of sparkling wine can range from
very dry brut styles to sweeter doux varieties (French for 'hard'
and 'soft', respectively).
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 407: The Lesser Festival Of
John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher of the Faith:
#DOTD: #RIP: John Chrysostom, known in the Eastern Ortodox Church
as Saint John Chrysostom (b. 347) #dies in exile at Comana Pontica
(an ancient city located in ancient Pontus, now in modern Turkey)
in the Presbyterium (community of the clergy) belonging to the
church of Saint Basiliscus of Comana, while he was journeying into
exile from Cucusus, Cappadocia in Anatolia (modern day Turkey) to
Pitiunt (Pityus) (modern Pitsunda, in modern Georgia). His last
words are said to have been "Glory be to God for all things".
He is buried at St. George's Cathedral in Istanbul, Turkey. The
causes of John's exile are not clear, though it has been suggested
that they have to do with his connections to Arianism, a
Christological doctrine first attributed to Arius (c. AD 256-336),
a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt.] Arian theology
holds that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, begotten by God the
Father, but with the difference that the Son of God did not always
exist, but was begotten within time by God the Father - therefore
Jesus was not co-eternal with God the Father. John Chrysostom was
born in Antioch, Roman Syria (modern-day Antakya, Hatay, Turkey).
An important Early Church Father who served as archbishop of
Constantinople, he is known for his preaching and public speaking,
his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and
political leaders, The Divine Liturgy Of Saint John Chrysostom,
and his ascetic sensibilities. The epithet Chrysostomos,
anglicized as Chrysostom (Greek: "golden-mouthed")
denotes his celebrated eloquence. Chrysostom was among the most
prolific authors in the early Christian Church, although both
Origen of Alexandria and Augustine of Hippo exceeded Chrysostom.
He is honoured as a saint in the Oriental Orthodox, Eastern
Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran churches, as well as in
some others. The Eastern Orthodox, together with the Byzantine
Catholics, hold him in special regard as one of the Three Holy
Hierarchs (alongside Basil the Great and Gregory of Nazianzus).
The feast days of John Chrysostom in the Eastern Orthodox Church
are 14 September, 13 November and 27 January. In the Roman
Catholic Church he is recognized as a Doctor of the Church.
Because the date of his death is occupied by the feast of the
Exaltation of the Holy Cross (14 September), the General Roman
Calendar celebrates him since 1970 on the previous day, 13
September; from the 13th century to 1969 it did so on 27 January,
the anniversary of the translation of his body to Constantinople.
Of other Western churches, including Anglican provinces and
Lutheran churches, some commemorate him on 13 September, others on
27 January. John Chrysostom is remembered in the Church of England
with a Lesser Festival on September 13. The Coptic Church also
recognizes him as a saint (with feast days on 16 Thout and 17
Hathor). He was allegedly responsible for leading a mob that
destroyed the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World, for the second and final time. Cyril of Alexandria
attributed the destruction of the temple to John Chrysostom,
referring to him as "the destroyer of the demons and
overthrower of the temple of Diana". A later Archbishop of
Constantinople, Proclus, praised John's actions, saying "In
Ephesus, he despoiled the art of Midas", although there is
little evidence to support this claim. His legacy is tainted
because, during his first two years as a presbyter in Antioch
(386-387), John denounced Jews and Judaizing Christians in a
series of eight homilies delivered to Christians in his
congregation who were taking part in Jewish festivals and other
Jewish observances. It is disputed whether the main targets were
specifically Judaizers or Jews in general. His homilies were
expressed in the conventional manner, utilizing the uncompromising
rhetorical form known as the psogos (Greek: blame, censure).
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 1851: #DOTD: #RIP: James
Fenimore Cooper, American sailor, novelist, short story writer,
and historian whose historical romances depicting colonist and
Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought
him fame and fortune (b. September 15, 1789) #dies in Cooperstown,
New York, likely due to liver disease, the day before his 62nd
birthday. He is buried in the Christ Episcopal Churchyard, where
his father, William Cooper, is buried. Cooper's wife Susan
survived her husband only by a few months and was buried by his
side at Cooperstown. He lived much of his boyhood and the last
fifteen years of life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded
by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. James
Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey. Cooper became
a member of the Episcopal Church shortly before his death and
contributed generously to it. He attended Yale University for
three years, where he was a member of the Linonian Society. After
a stint on a commercial voyage, Cooper served in the U.S. Navy as
a midshipman, where he learned the technology of managing sailing
vessels which greatly influenced many of his novels and other
writings. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale
about espionage set during the American Revolutionary War and
published in 1821. He also created American sea stories. His
best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier
period, written between 1823 and 1841, known as the
Leatherstocking Tales, which introduced the iconic American
frontier scout, Natty Bumppo. Cooper's works on the U.S. Navy have
been well received among naval historians, but they were sometimes
criticized by his contemporaries. Among his more famous works is
the romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his
masterpiece. Throughout his career, he published numerous social,
political, and historical works of fiction and non-fiction with
the objective of countering European prejudices and nurturing an
original American art and culture.
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 1852: #DOTD: #RIP: Arthur
Wellesley, 1st Duke Of Wellington, Anglo-Irish field marshal and
statesman, whose victory against Napoleon at The Battle Of
Waterloo in 1815 puts him in the first rank of Britain's military
heroes as one of the leading military and political figures of the
19th-century, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the only
Irishman to serve as British prime minister (b. May 1, 1769) #dies
at Walmer Castle in Kent, England, his residence as Lord Warden of
the Cinque Ports and reputedly his favourite home, due to the
after-effects of a stroke culminating in a series of seizures. He
was aged 83. He was found to be unwell on that morning and was
helped from his campaign bed, which he had used throughout his
military career, and seated in his chair where he died. Although
in life he hated travelling by rail, having witnessed the death of
William Huskisson, one of the first railway accident casualties,
his body was taken by train to London, where he was given a state
funeral - one of a small number of British subjects to be so
honoured (other examples include Lord Nelson and Sir Winston
Churchill). The funeral took place on November 18, 1852. Before
the funeral, the Duke's body lay in state at the Royal Hospital
Chelsea. Members of the royal family, including Queen Victoria,
the Prince Consort, the Prince Of Wales, Albert, and their
daughter, Victoria, Princess Royal, visited to pay their respects.
When viewing opened to the public, crowds thronged to visit and
several people were killed in the crush. He was buried in St
Paul's Cathedral, and during his funeral, there was little space
to stand due to the number of attendees. A bronze memorial was
sculpted by Alfred Stevens, and features two intricate supports:
"Truth tearing the tongue out of the mouth of False-hood",
and "Valour trampling Cowardice underfoot". Stevens did
not live to see it placed in its home under one of the arches of
the cathedral. Wellington's casket was decorated with banners
which were made for his funeral procession. Originally, there was
one from Prussia, which was removed during World War I and never
reinstated. In the procession, the "Great Banner" was
carried by General Sir James Charles Chatterton of the 4th Dragoon
Guards on the orders of Queen Victoria. In 2002, he was number 15
in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. Owing to its links
with Wellington, as the former commanding officer and colonel of
the regiment, the title "33rd (The Duke of Wellington's)
Regiment" was granted to the 33rd Regiment of Foot, on June
18, 1853 (the 38th anniversary of The Battle Of Waterloo) by Queen
Victoria. Wellington's battle record is exemplary; he participated
in some 60 battles during the course of his military career.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Of Wellington, KG (Order Of The
Garter), GCB (Order Of The Bath), GCH (Royal Guelphic Order), PC
(Privy Council), FRS (Fellow Of The Royal Society) was born Arthur
Wesley in Dublin, into the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. He
was commissioned as an ensign in the British Army in 1787, serving
in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive Lords Lieutenant of
Ireland. He was also elected as a Member of Parliament in the
Irish House Of Commons. He was a colonel by 1796, and saw action
in the Netherlands and in India, where he fought in the Fourth
Anglo-Mysore War at the Battle of Seringapatam. He was appointed
governor of Seringapatam and Mysore in 1799 and, as a newly
appointed major-general (since 1802), won a decisive victory over
the Maratha Confederacy at the Battle of Assaye in 1803. Wellesley
rose to prominence as a general during the Peninsular campaign of
the Napoleonic Wars, and was promoted to the rank of field marshal
after leading the allied forces to victory against the French
Empire at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813. Following Napoleon's
exile in 1814, he served as the ambassador to France and was
granted a dukedom. During the Hundred Days in 1815, he commanded
the allied army which, together with a Prussian army under
Blucher, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Wellington's battle record
is exemplary; he ultimately participated in some 60 battles during
the course of his military career. Wellington is famous for his
adaptive defensive style of warfare, resulting in several
victories against numerically superior forces while minimising his
own losses. He is regarded as one of the greatest defensive
commanders of all time, and many of his tactics and battle plans
are still studied in military academies around the world. After
the end of his active military career, Wellington returned to
politics. He was twice British prime minister as part of the Tory
party: from 1828 to 1830, and for a little less than a month in
1834. He oversaw the passage of the Catholic Relief Act 1829, the
culmination of the process of Catholic Emancipation throughout the
UK, but opposed the Reform Act 1832 that would have introduced
wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales.
He continued as one of the leading figures in the House of Lords
until his retirement and remained Commander-in-Chief of the
British Army until his death. When he learned that American
General Winfield Scott had succeeded in leading U.S. Army forces
against alarming odds in capturing Mexico City on September 15,
1847 during the Mexican-American war, Wellington declared that
Scott was "the greatest living general".
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 1937: #DOTD: #RIP: Tomas
Masaryk, sometimes anglicised as Thomas Masaryk, Austrian-Czech
sociologist, philosopher and politician, 1st President of
Czechoslovakia (b. March 7, 1850) #dies in Lany, Czechoslovakia,
aged 87. He was buried next to his wife in a plot at Lany
cemetery, where later also the remains of his son Jan Masaryk and
daughter Alice Masarykova were laid to rest. Masaryk was spared
having to live to see the Munich Agreement and the Nazi occupation
of his country, and was known as the Grand (Great) Old Man of
Europe. Tomas Masaryk was born Tomas Garrigue Masaryk to a poor,
working-class family in the predominantly Catholic city of
Hodonin, Margraviate of Moravia, in Moravian Slovakia (in the
present-day Czech Republic, then part of the Austrian Empire). The
nearby Slovak village of Kopcany, the home of his father Jozef,
also claims to be his birthplace. Masaryk grew up in the village
of Cejkovice, in South Moravia, before moving to Brno to study.
After trying to reform the Austro-Hungarian monarchy into a
federal state with the help of the Allied Powers, he eventually
succeeded in gaining Czechoslovak independence as a republic after
World War I. He both founded and was the first President of
Czechoslovakia and so is called the "President Liberator".
He is the father of Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier, diplomat,
politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1940 to 1948.
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 2009: #DOTD: #RIP: Jody
Powell, American diplomat, political advisor and White House press
secretary during the Presidency Of Jimmy Carter (b. September 30,
1943) #dies of a heart attack at his home on the Eastern Shore in
Maryland, aged 65. His burial details are not publicly disclosed.
He was born Joseph Lester Powell, Jr. in Cordele, Georgia. Powell
grew up on a farm in Vienna, 35 miles east of Carter's home town
of Plains. He attended the United States Air Force Academy
beginning in 1961, but was expelled three years later for cheating
on a history exam. After finishing his Bachelor of Arts at Georgia
State University in 1966, Powell enrolled in the doctoral program
in political science at Emory University. He earned a Master of
Arts in the discipline before leaving the program. While at Emory
in 1968, he sent a paper he had written on southern populism to
Jimmy Carter, and began working for the future president, who at
the time, was running for governor of Georgia. Powell's first job
for Carter was as a volunteer driver, with Powell taking Carter to
various campaign stops throughout Georgia. Powell eventually
became Carter's close friend and functionally served as his press
secretary. Powell eventually quit Emory prior to completing his
doctorate to work full-time for Carter. During Carter's
presidential campaign in 1976, Powell was noted for his energy and
for calling reporters from wayside pay telephones to make sure
they got Carter's record straight. In the run-up to the 1976
presidential election, Time Magazine profiled Powell, anticipating
that if Carter were elected, Powell would serve a "dual role
as adviser and spokesman" and would become one of the most
powerful White House press secretaries in history due to his close
relationship with Carter. After Carter's 1976 election as
president, Powell was described as a member of the "Georgia
Mafia", a group of close aides from Georgia who moved to high
positions in the Carter administration, but who were inexperienced
in national politics. Powell and Carter's Chief Of Staff Hamilton
Jordan appeared in 1977 as caricatures on the cover of Time in
1977 and were pictured on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine,
where they were dubbed Carter's "whiz kids". Powell
served as White House press secretary for Carter's entire term as
president. In 1985, he published a memoir, The Other Side of the
Story, in which he discussed his leak to the Associated Press of
the Jimmy Carter rabbit incident, Carter's 1979 encounter with a
swamp rabbit, that "was intent on climbing into the
Presidential boat". In 1990, he participated in Ken Burns'
PBS documentary miniseries The Civil War, lending his distinctive
voice to Confederate figures of the American Civil War, notably
Generals Stonewall Jackson and John B. Gordon. Powell and Sheila
Tate, former White House press secretary to Nancy Reagan,
co-founded Powell Tate, a public relations firm based in
Washington, D.C., in 1991. Powell worked as CEO of the firm until
his death in 2009. Powell was a member of the Board of Advisors
for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 1936: #DOTD: #RIP: Irving
Thalberg, American screenwriter and film producer during the early
years of motion pictures whose films carved out an international
market, projecting a vital and positive image of American life
rooted in democracy and freedom, known as "The Boy Wonder"
for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose actors, gather
production staff, and make profitable films, including Grand
Hotel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, China Seas, Camille, Mutiny on
the Bounty, and The Good Earth (b. May 30, 1899) #dies in an
oxygen tent at home in Santa Monica, California of pneumonia at
the age of 37. A few weeks earlier, Thalberg's leading
screenwriter, Al Lewin, had proposed doing a film based on a
soon-to-be published book, Gone With The Wind. Although Thalberg
said it would be a "sensational" role for Gable, and a
"terrific picture," he decided not to do it. He said to
Louis B. Mayer "Look, I have just made Mutiny on the Bounty
and The Good Earth. And now you're asking me to burn Atlanta? No!
Absolutely not! No more epics for me now. Just give me a little
drawing-room drama. I'm tired. I'm just too tired." Besides,
Thalberg told Mayer, "[n]o Civil War picture ever made a
nickel". Shortly after the Labor Day, which fell on September
7 that year, he was diagnozed wih the disease while on the set of
A Day at the Races. His condition quickly worsened and he died
days later. Sam Wood, while directing A Day at the Races, was
given the news by phone. He returned to the set with tears in his
eyes and told the others. As the news spread, the studio was
paralyzed with shock. Work stopped and hundreds of people wept,
with stars, writers, directors, and studio employees all sharing a
sense of loss at the death of a man who had been a part of their
working lives. His funeral took place two days later, and when the
services began the other studios throughout Hollywood observed
five minutes of silence. Producer Sam Goldwyn wept uncontrollably
for two days and was unable to regain his composure enough to
attend. The MGM studio closed for that day. Services were held at
the Wilshire Boulevard Temple that Thalberg had occasionally
attended. The funeral attracted thousands of spectators who came
to view the arrival of countless stars from MGM and other studios,
including Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, the Marx Brothers, Charlie
Chaplin, Walt Disney, Howard Hughes, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper,
Carole Lombard, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, among the
screen luminaries. The ushers who led them to their seats included
Clark Gable, Fredric March, and playwright Moss Hart. Erich Von
Stroheim, who had been fired by Thalberg, came to pay his
respects. Producers Louis B. Mayer, the Warner brothers, Adolph
Zukor, and Nicholas Schenck sat together solemnly as Rabbi Magnin
gave the eulogy. Thalberg is buried in a private marble tomb in
the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale,
California, lying at rest beside his wife, Norma Shearer Thalberg
Arrouge (Thalberg's crypt was engraved "My Sweetheart
Forever" by Shearer). Over the following days, tributes were
published by the national press. Louis B. Mayer, his co-founding
partner at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, said he had lost "the finest
friend a man could ever have", while MGM president Nicholas
Schenck stated that "Thalberg was the most important man in
the production end of the motion-picture industry." Leading
producers from the other studios also expressed their feelings in
published tributes to Thalberg. Cecil B. DeMille of him "The
passing of Irving Thalberg is the greatest conceivable loss to the
motion-picture industry, and I say that absolutely without
qualification. There are hundreds of executives but only about six
men with the genuine genius for making motion pictures and Mr.
Thalberg was the greatest of those. I have long considered him the
most competent and inspired producer in the business." David
O. Selznick described him as "beyond any question the
greatest individual force for fine pictures." Samuel Goldwyn
called him "the foremost figure in the motion-picture
industry ... and an inspiration." M. H. Aylesworth, Chairman
of RKO, wrote that "his integrity, vision and ability made
him the spearhead of all motion-picture production throughout the
world." Harry Warner, president of Warner Bros., described
him as "gifted with one of the finest minds ever placed at
the service of motion-picture production." Sidney R. Kent,
president of Twentieth Century Fox, said that "he made the
whole world richer by giving it the highest type of entertainment.
He was a true genius." Columbia president Harry Cohn said the
"motion picture industry has suffered a loss from which it
will not soon recover...". Darryl F. Zanuck noted, "More
than any other man he raised the industry to its present world
prestige." Adolph Zukor, chairman of Paramount, stated,
"Irving Thalberg was the most brilliant young man in the
motion picture business." Jesse Lasky said, "It will be
utterly impossible to replace him." Among the condolences
that came from world political leaders, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt wrote, "The world of art is poorer with the passing
of Irving Thalberg. His high ideals, insight and imagination went
into the production of his masterpieces." Among the pictures
that were unfinished or not yet released at the time of his death
were A Day at the Races, The Good Earth, Camille, Maytime, and
Romeo and Juliet. Groucho Marx, star of A Day at the Races, wrote,
"After Thalberg's death, my interest in the movies waned. I
continued to appear in them, but ... The fun had gone out of
picture making." Thalberg's widow, Norma Shearer, recalled,
"Grief does very strange things to you. I didn't seem to feel
the shock for two weeks afterwards. ... then, at the end of those
two weeks, I collapsed." The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial
Award, given out periodically by the Academy Of Motion Picture
Arts And Sciences since 1937, has been awarded to producers whose
body of work reflected consistently high quality films. Irving
Thalberg was born Irving Grant Thalberg in Brooklyn, New york to
German Jewish immigrant parents William and Henrietta (Haymann).
Shortly after birth, he was diagnosed with "blue baby
syndrome", caused by a congenital disease that limited the
oxygen supply to his heart. The prognosis from the family's doctor
and specialists was that he might live to the age of twenty, or at
most, to thirty. During his high school years in Brooklyn, he
began having attacks of chest pains, dizziness and fatigue. This
affected his ability to study, though until that time he was a
good student. When he was 17 he contracted rheumatic fever, and
was confined to bed for a year. His mother, in order to prevent
him falling too far behind other students, brought him homework
from school, books, and tutors to teach him at home. She also
hoped that the schoolwork and reading would distract him from the
"tantalizing sounds" of children playing outside his
window. With little to entertain him, he read books as a main
activity. He devoured popular novels, classics, plays, and
biographies. His books, of necessity, replaced the streets of New
York, and led to his interest in classical philosophy and
philosophers, such as William James. When Thalberg returned to
school, he finished high school but lacked the stamina for
college, which he felt would have required constant late-night
studying and cramming for exams. Instead, he took part-time jobs
as a store clerk, and in the evenings, to gain some job skills,
taught himself typing, shorthand and Spanish at a night vocational
school. When he turned 18, he placed an advertisement in the local
newspaper hoping to find better work: "Situation Wanted:
Secretary, stenographer, Spanish, English, high school education,
no experience; $15". He found work as an office secretary at
Universal Pictures' New York office, and later became personal
secretary to the studio's founder and president, Carl Laemmle.
Among Thalberg's duties were transcribing and editing notes that
Laemmle had written during screenings of his films. He earned $25
weekly, becoming adept at making insightful servations, which
impressed Laemmle. Laemmle took Thalberg to see his Los Angeles
production facility, where he spent a month watching how movie
production worked. Before returning to New York, Laemmle told
Thalberg to remain and "keep an eye on things for me."
Two months later, Laemmle returned to California, partly to see
how well Thalberg was able to handle the responsibilities he was
given. Thalberg gave him suggestions, and thus impressed Laemmle
by his ability to understand and explain problems. Thalberg
suggested, "The first thing you should do is establish a new
job of studio manager and give him the responsibility of watching
day-to-day operations." Laemmle immediately agreed: "All
right. You're it." In shock, Thalberg replied, "I'm
what?" Laemmle told him to take charge of the Los Angeles
studio, which he did in early 1919. When aged 20, Thalberg became
responsible for immediately overseeing the nine ongoing film
productions and nearly thirty scenarios then under development.
His youth was a subject of conversation within the movie
community. Executives from other studios, actors, and film crew,
often mistook him to be a junior employee. Movie columnist Louella
Parsons, upon first being introduced to him, asked, "What's
the joke? Where's the new general manager?" After five
minutes of talking to Thalberg, however, she later wrote about
"Universal's Boy Wonder": "He might be a boy in
looks and age, but it was no child's mind that was being asked to
cope with the intricate politics of Universal City." Novelist
Edna Ferber responded the same way, writing that "I had
fancied motion-picture producers as large gentlemen smoking
oversized cigars. But this young man whose word seemed so final at
Universal City ... impressed me deeply." The male actors in
the studio had a similar reaction. Lionel Barrymore, who was
nearly twice his age, recalled their meetings: "I used to go
into his office with the feeling I was addressing a boy. In a
moment, I would be the one who felt young and inexperienced. I
would feel he was not one, but all the forty disciples."
Thalberg likewise gained the respect of leading playwrights, some
of whom also looked down on him due to his youth. George S.
Kaufman, co-author of Dinner at Eight, several Marx Brothers
films, and two George Gershwin plays, came from New York to meet
with Thalberg. Afterward he confided to his friend, Groucho Marx:
"That man has never written a word, yet he can tell me
exactly what to do with a story. I didn't know you had people like
that out here." Actress Norma Shearer, whom he later married,
was surprised after he greeted her at the door, then walked her to
his office for her first job interview: "Then you're not the
office boy?" she asked. He smiled, as he sat himself behind
his desk: "No, Miss Shearer, I'm Irving Thalberg,
vice-president of the Mayer Company. I'm the man who sent for
you." His younger-than-normal age for a studio executive was
usually mentioned even after he left Universal to help start up
MGM. Screenwriter Agnes Christine Johnson, who worked with
Thalberg for years, described his contribution during meetings:
"He's so marvelous that no one who doesn't know him can
believe it. Seeing him sitting in with all the important people,
looking such a boy, and deferred to by everybody, you'd think that
either they were crazy or you were. But if you stayed and
listened, you'd understand. He has a mind like a whip. Snap! He
has an idea - the right idea - the only idea!" Conrad Nagel,
who starred in numerous Thalberg films, reported "Thalberg
never raised his voice. He just looked into your eyes, spoke
softly, and after a few minutes he cast a spell on you." Film
producer Walter Wanger said "You thought that you were
talking to an Indian savant. He could cast a spell on anybody."
His talent as a producer was enhanced by his "near-miraculous"
powers of concentration, notes film critic J. Hoberman. As a
result, he was never bored or tired, and supplemented his spare
time with reading for his own amusement, recalls screenwriter
Bayard Veiller, with some of his favorite authors being Francis
Bacon, Epictetus, and Immanuel Kant. After leaving Universal
Pictures, he partnered with Louis B. Mayer's new studio and, after
it merged with two other studios, helped create
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). He was made head of production of MGM
in 1925, at the age of twenty-six, helping MGM become the most
successful studio in Hollywood. During his twelve years with MGM,
until his early death at age 37, he produced four hundred films,
most of which bore his imprint and innovations, including story
conferences with writers, sneak previews to gain early feedback,
and extensive re-shooting of scenes to improve the film. In
addition, he introduced horror films to audiences and coauthored
the "Production Code," guidelines for morality followed
by all studios. During the 1920s and 1930s, he synthesized and
merged the world of stage drama and literary classics with
Hollywood films. Thalberg created numerous new stars and groomed
their screen images. Among them were Lon Chaney, Ramon Novarro,
John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace
Beery, Luise Rainer, Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore, and Norma
Shearer, who became his wife. He had the ability to combine
quality with commercial success, and was credited with bringing
his artistic aspirations in line with the demands of audiences.
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 919: The Vikings: The
Viking Age (793-1066 CE): Viking Expansion: The Viking Age Of
Ireland (795-1024): Viking Activity In The British Isles: The
Battle Of Islandbridge: -- Niall Glundub, High King Of Ireland and
Overking of the Northern Ui Neill, is killed while leading a
coalition of native Irish against the Dublin-based Vikings of the
Ui Imair, led by King Sitric Caech. It was one in a series of
battles initiated by the native Irish to attempt to drive from
Ireland the Vikings of the Ui Imair, a royal Norse-Gael dynasty
which ruled much of the Irish Sea region, the Kingdom of Dublin,
the western coast of Scotland, the Hebrides and some part of
Northern England. The battle was a decisive victory for Sitric
Caech and the Ui Imair, with Niall Glundub and five other Irish
kings dying in the battle. The failure of this coalition to drive
out the Vikings ensured the hold of the Ui Imair on Dublin
remained strong. Nevertheless, war between the Vikings and the
native Irish continued, and the following year there was a battle
between the Vikings of Dublin and Donnchad Donn, the brother of
the slain king Conchobar mac Flainn and the new High King Of
Ireland. In 853, Viking leader Amlaib (Olaf) had became the first
king of Dublin. He ruled along with his brothers Imar (possibly
Ivar the Boneless) and Auisle. Over the following decades, there
was regular warfare between the Vikings and the Irish, and between
two groups of Vikings: the Dubgaill and Finngaill (dark and fair
foreigners). The Vikings also briefly allied with various Irish
kings against their rivals. In 866, Aed Findliath burnt all Viking
longphorts in the north, and they never managed to establish
permanent settlements in that region. The Vikings had been driven
from Dublin in 902, but they returned in 914, led by the Ui Imair
(House of Ivar). During the next eight years the Vikings won
decisive battles against the Irish, regained control of Dublin,
and founded settlements at Waterford, Wexford, Cork and Limerick,
which became Ireland's first large towns. They were important
trading hubs, and Viking Dublin was the biggest slave port in
western Europe. These Viking territories became part of the
patchwork of kingdoms in Ireland. Vikings intermarried with the
Irish and adopted elements of Irish culture, becoming the
Norse-Gaels. Some Viking kings of Dublin also ruled the kingdom of
the Isles and York; such as Sitric Caech, Gofraid ua Imair, Olaf
Guthfrithson and Olaf Cuaran. Sigtrygg Silkbeard was "a
patron of the arts, a benefactor of the church, and an economic
innovator" who established Ireland's first mint, in Dublin.
In 980, Mael Sechnaill Mor defeated the Dublin Vikings and forced
them into submission. Over the following thirty years, Brian Boru
subdued the Viking territories and made himself High King Of
Ireland. The Dublin Vikings, together with Leinster, twice
rebelled against him, but they were defeated in the battles of
Glenmama (999) and Clontarf (1014). After the battle of Clontarf,
the Dublin Vikings could no longer "single-handedly threaten
the power of the most powerful kings of Ireland". Brian's
rise to power and conflict with the Vikings is chronicled in Cogad
Gaedel re Gallaib ("The War of the Irish with the
Foreigners"). The Viking Age Of Ireland (795- 1024) had first
begun in 795, when small bands of Vikings began plundering
monastic settlements along the coast of Gaelic Ireland. The Annals
of Ulster state that in 821 the Vikings plundered Howth and
"carried off a great number of women into captivity".
From 840 the Vikings began building fortified encampments,
longphorts, on the coast and overwintering in Ireland. The first
were at Dublin and Linn Duachaill. Their attacks became bigger and
reached further inland, striking larger monastic settlements such
as Armagh, Clonmacnoise, Glendalough, Kells and Kildare, and also
plundering the ancient tombs of Bru na Boinne. Viking chief
Thorgest is said to have raided the whole midlands of Ireland
until he was killed by Mael Sechnaill I in 845.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 1836: #DOTD: #RIP: Aaron
Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the
United States (1801-1805), serving during Thomas Jefferson's first
term (b. February 6, 1756) #dies in the village of Port Richmond,
Staten Island, New York in a boarding house that later became
known as the St. James Hotel on the same day his divorce from
wealthy New York socialite Eliza Jumel was officially completed.
Soon after the marriage, Jumel realized her fortune was dwindling
due to Burr's land speculation losses, so she separated from him
after four months of marriage; she chose Alexander Hamilton Jr. as
her divorce lawyer in 1834, the same year Burr suffered an
immobilizing stroke. He is buried near his father in Princeton,
New Jersey. Aaron Burr was born Aaron Burr Jr. in Newark, in what
was then the Province of New Jersey. He was the second child of
the Reverend Aaron Burr Sr., a Presbyterian minister and second
president of the College of New Jersey, which became Princeton
University. His mother, Esther Edwards Burr, was the daughter of
noted theologian Jonathan Edwards and his wife Sarah. Burr served
as a Continental Army officer in the Revolutionary War, after
which he became a successful lawyer and politician. He was elected
twice to the New York State Assembly (1784-1785, 1798-1799), was
appointed New York State Attorney General (1789-1791), was chosen
as a U.S. senator (1791-1797), from the State of New York, and
reached the apex of his career as vice president. The highlight of
Burr's tenure as president of the Senate, one of his few official
duties as vice president, was the Senate's first impeachment
trial, that of Supreme Court justice Samuel Chase. In 1804, the
last full year of his single term as vice president, Burr killed
his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a famous duel. Burr was
never tried for the illegal duel, and all charges against him were
eventually dropped, but Hamilton's death ended Burr's political
career. After leaving Washington, Burr traveled west seeking new
opportunities, both economic and political. His activities
eventually led to his arrest on charges of treason in 1807. The
subsequent trial resulted in acquittal, but Burr's western schemes
left him with large debts and few influential friends. In a final
quest for grand opportunities, he left the United States for
Europe. He remained overseas until 1812, when he returned to the
United States to practice law in New York City. There he spent the
rest of his life in relative obscurity.
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 1862: The American Civil
War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern
Theater Of The American Civil War: The Maryland Campaign (The
Antietam Campaign): The Battle Of South Mountain (The Battle Of
Boonsboro Gap): -- Three pitched battles are fought for possession
of three South Mountain passes: Crampton's, Turner's, and Fox's
Gaps. Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, commanding the Union Army Of
The Potomac, needed to pass through these gaps in his pursuit of
Confederate General Robert E. Lee's precariously divided Army Of
Northern Virginia. Although the delay bought at South Mountain
would allow him to reunite his army and forestall defeat in detail
(Defeat in detail, or divide and conquer, is a military tactic of
bringing a large portion of one's own force to bear on small enemy
units in sequence, rather than engaging the bulk of the enemy
force all at once), Lee considered termination of the Maryland
Campaign at nightfall.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rowan &
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 2009: #DOTD: #RIP: Henry
Gibson, American actor, comedian, singer, dancer and soldier, best
known as a cast member of the TV sketch-comedy series Rowan &
Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1971 (b. September 21, 1935) #dies
of cancer at his home in Malibu, California, a week before his
74th birthday. He was cremated at Westwood Village Memorial Park
Cemetery and his ashes were given to his family. Born James
Bateman in Germantown, Philadelphia, he was also known for voicing
the protagonist Wilbur in the 1973 animated film Charlotte's Web,
his portrayal of country star Haven Hamilton in Robert Altman's
1975 film Nashville, as the Illinois Nazi leader in the 1980 film
The Blues Brothers, and for his performance opposite Tom Hanks and
Brother Theodore in 1989's The 'Burbs. After graduating from the
Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., he served as
an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force with the
66th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing in France from 1957 to 1960.
Early in his career as a professional entertainer, he developed a
comedy act in which he played a poet from Fairhope, Alabama. He
adopted the stage name Henry Gibson, which is a homophone for the
name of famed Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. He also is known
to have used the name Olsen Gibson, in honor of Ole Olsen of the
Vaudevillian team Olsen and Johnson.
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 1927: #DOTD: #RIP: Isadora
Duncan, American-Russian dancer and choreographer who performed to
great acclaim throughout Europe (b. May 26, 1877) #dies at age 50
when her scarf became entangled in the wheels and axle of the car
in which she was travelling in Nice, France. She is buried at The
Cimetiere Du Pere Lachaise in Paris, France. Isadora Duncan was
born Angela Isadora Duncan in San Francisco, the youngest of the
four children of Joseph Charles Duncan (1819-1898), a banker,
mining engineer and connoisseur of the arts, and Mary Isadora
Gray. Raised in California, she lived and danced in Western Europe
and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death.
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 1984: #DOTD: #RIP: Janet
Gaynor, American film, stage and television actress, painter, and
beauty (b. October 6, 1906) #dies at Desert Hospital in Palm
Springs at the age of 77. Her doctor, Bart Apfelbaum, attributed
her death to the 1982 car wreck and stated that Gaynor "never
recovered" from her injuries. Gaynor is buried at Hollywood
Forever Cemetery next to her second husband, Adrian; her headstone
reads "Janet Gaynor Gregory", her legal name after her
marriage to her third husband, producer and director Paul Gregory.
Janet Gaynor was born Laura Augusta Gainor in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Gaynor began her career as an extra in shorts and
silent films. After signing with Fox Film Corporation (later 20th
Century-Fox) in 1926, she rose to fame and became one of the
biggest box office draws of the era. In 1929, she was the first
winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances
in three films: 7th Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
(1927), and Street Angel (1928). This was the only occasion on
which an actress has won one Oscar for multiple film roles.
Gaynor's career success continued into the sound film era, and she
achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is
Born (1937), for which she received a second Best Actress Academy
Award nomination.
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 2022: #DOTD: #RIP: Irene
Papas, Greek actress, singer and beauty who starred in over 70
films in a career spanning more than 50 years (b. September 3,
1926) #dies of complications from Alzheimer's disease at the age
of 93 in the village of Chiliomodi, outside Corinth, Corinthia,
Greece, where she was born Eirini Lelekou, and where she is buried
at Chiliomodi Cemetery. Irene Papas (or Pappas) gained
international recognition through such films as The Guns of
Navarone and Zorba the Greek. She was a powerful protagonist in
films including The Trojan Women and Iphigenia. She played the
title roles in Antigone (1961) and Electra (1962). She played
leading roles in critically acclaimed films such as Z (1969),
where her political activist's widow has been called "indelible"
by James Monaco in he Encyclopedia of Film (1991). Papas was a
member of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), and in 1967 called
for a "cultural boycott" against the "Fourth
Reich", meaning the military government of Greece at that
time, The Greek Military Junta Of 1967-1974 . Her opposition to
the regime sent her, and other artists such as Theodorakis whose
songs she sang, into exile when the military junta came to power
in Greece in 1967; she moved to Italy. In 1954 she met the actor
Marlon Brando and they had a long and "secret love affair".
Papas won Best Actress awards in 1961 at the Berlin International
Film Festival for Antigone and in 1971 from the National Board of
Review for The Trojan Women. Her career awards include the Golden
Arrow Award in 1993 at Hamptons International Film Festival, and
the Golden Lion Award in 2009 at the Venice Biennale.
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Today, September 14, 2026September 14, 1982: #DOTD: #RIP: Grace
Kelly, American actress and beauty who, after starring in several
significant films in the early to mid-1950s, became Princess of
Monaco by marrying Prince Rainier III on April 19, 1956 (b.
November 12, 1929) #dies when a mild cerebral hemorrhage while
driving back to Monaco from her country home in Roc Agel on
September 13 caused her to lose control of her 1971 Rover P6 3500
and drive off the steep, winding road and down the 120-foot (37 m)
mountainside. Her teenage daughter Stephanie, who was in the
passenger seat, tried but failed to regain control of the car. The
Princess was taken to the Monaco Hospital (later named the
Princess Grace Hospital Centre) with injuries to the brain and
thorax and a fractured femur. She died the following night at
10:55 p.m. after Rainier decided to turn off her life support.
Stephanie suffered a light concussion and a hairline fracture of a
cervical vertebra, and was unable to attend her mother's funeral.
Princess Grace's funeral was held at the Cathedral of Our Lady
Immaculate in Monaco-Ville, on September 18, 1982. After a Requiem
Mass, she was buried in the Grimaldi family vault. Over 400 people
attended, including Cary Grant, Nancy Reagan, Danielle Mitterrand,
Empress Farah of Iran, and Diana, Princess of Wales. Rainier, who
did not remarry, was buried alongside her after his death in 2005.
Grace Kelly was born Grace Patricia Kelly at Hahnemann University
Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Kelly was born into a
prominent Catholic family in Philadelphia. After graduating from
the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1949, Kelly began
appearing in New York City theatrical productions and television
broadcasts. She gained stardom from her performance in John Ford's
adventure-romance Mogambo (1953), for which she was nominated for
an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won the Academy
Award for Best Actress for her performance in the drama The
Country Girl (1954). Other notable works include the western High
Noon (1952), the romantic comedy High Society (1956), and three
consecutive Alfred Hitchcock suspense thrillers: Dial M for Murder
(1954), Rear Window (1954), and To Catch a Thief (1955). Kelly
retired from acting at age 26 to marry Rainier, and began her
duties as Princess of Monaco. The couple had three children:
Princess Caroline, Prince Albert, and Princess Stephanie. Her
charity work focused on young children and the arts. In 1964, she
established the Princess Grace Foundation to support local
artisans. Her organization for children's rights, AMADE Mondiale,
gained consultive status within UNICEF and UNESCO. Grace's final
film contribution was to the documentary The Children of Theatre
Street (1977) directed by Robert Dornhelm, where she served as the
narrator. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Documentary Feature. Kelly died at the age of 52 at Monaco
Hospital on September 14, 1982, from injuries sustained in a car
crash the previous day. She is listed 13th among the American Film
Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars of Classical Hollywood
cinema. Her son, Prince Albert, helped establish the Princess
Grace Awards in 1984 to recognize emerging performers in film,
theatre, and dance.
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