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September 16: Mayflower Day: -- September
16, 1620: The Colonial History Of The United States: The British
Colonization Of The Americas: The Plymouth Colony: The Pilgrims'
Voyage On The Mayflower: -- Pilgrims set sail from England on the
Mayflower to found the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth,
Massachusetts. The Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers were early European
settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth,
Massachusetts, United States. The Pilgrims' leadership came from
the religious congregations of Brownist separatist Puritans who
had fled the volatile political environment in England for the
relative calm and tolerance of 17th-century Holland in the
Netherlands. They held Puritan Calvinist religious beliefs but,
unlike other Puritans, they maintained that their congregations
needed to be separated from the English state church. They were
also concerned that they might lose their English cultural
identity if they remained in the Netherlands, so they arranged
with English investors to establish a new colony in North America.
The colony was established in 1620 and became the second
successful English settlement in North America (after the founding
of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607). The Pilgrims' story became a
central theme of the history and culture of the United States. The
Mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the first
English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth,
England to the New World in 1620. There were 102 passengers, and
the crew is estimated to have been about 30, but the exact number
is unknown. The ship has become a cultural icon in the history of
the United States. The Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact prior
to leaving the ship and establishing Plymouth Colony, a document
which established a rudimentary form of democracy with each member
contributing to the welfare of the community. There was a second
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September 16: National Trail Of Tears
Commemoration Day: -- A day that is as tragic as it sounds. It
marks an atrocious epoch in history from 1830 to 1850 when
Cherokees and other Native Americans were forced out of their
homes and sent to live in a region assigned by the government as a
result of The Indian Removal Act into law on May 28, 1830 by
American President Andrew Jackson. During this journey, conducted
on foot, many people died in a ghastly manner, remembered by their
predecessors until today. Hence, the day makes it impossible for
us to forget all the people who suffered during that dark time in
American history. Trail of Tears Commemoration Day marks the
bloodshed faced by the Native Americans forced to leave their
land. It all started with the Indian Removal Act, which President
Andrew Jackson made legal on May 28, 1830. The act aimed to give
the president the power to exchange Indian lands with some lands
west of Mississippi. While some tribes tired of fighting decided
to leave in peace, others resisted. They did not want to leave
their homes to settle in a new place. The resistance led to
negotiations that became a formula for a disaster, much because
the government had no success in making a deal with the Cherokee
tribe. Instead, Major Ridge, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and
Andrew Ross spoke on behalf of the tribe and authorized a forceful
move. By 1836, the State of Georgia had limited the rights of
Cherokee, providing them with few resources to lead a peaceful
life. In 1837, the move to push out the tribe started, leading to
bloodshed. Since the government forced them out in a rush, they
did not have time to prepare for the journey. 18,000 Cherokees and
many thousands of other Native Americans walked towards their
death as they died of hunger and exhaustion. Children, men, and
women were also kept in concentration camps with inhumane living
conditions. Many passed away due to diseases, and it is said that
no elder over 60 and no child under six survived. The "Trail
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September 16: National Choose Your
Chocolate Day: -- An opportunity to celebrate what might be the
world's sweetest invention. This perfect combination of cocoa,
milk, and sugar has been celebrated for thousands of years and has
graced the tables of kings, presidents, celebrities and, of
course, your grandma. National Choose Your Chocolate Day
corresponds with the birthday of one of chocolate's modern
visionaries, a woman who no doubt belongs in the pantheon of great
chocolatiers, Mary See of See's Candies. To honor this confection,
and the woman whose innovative and high-quality recipes have laid
the foundation for nearly 100 years of candy-making excellence,
See's Candies has sponsored National Choose Your Chocolate Day.
The company is offering many fun, informative, and exciting ways
to celebrate Mary See and her chocolate legacy. The quiz below
will help you decide which chocolate candy matches your
personality. Chocolate has been a mainstay of our diets for more
than three millennia. The Aztecs greatly revered the cacao plant,
and the drink they created from it and even considered it a gift
from Quetzlacoatl, their God of wisdom. At the time, it was served
without sugar but still was thought to have many positive health
properties. It wasn't until 16th century Europe that milk and
sugar were combined with cocoa to make the chocolate we think of
today. It was enjoyed throughout the royal courts of Europe for
centuries, but it wasn't until the 19th century that it was able
to be made in quantities large enough for the average person to
afford. Enter Mary See. The matriarch of the See family was known
for her high-quality candy and chocolate recipes. Born Mary
Wiseman on this day in 1854 in Ontario, Canada, Mary raised three
children in and around Ontario, and her confections were enjoyed
solely by her family for years. It wasn't until 1921, when at the
age of 65, she moved with her elder son Charles to Los Angeles and
helped him found what would be the first See's Candies location in
Pasadena. Mary's recipes strictly called for only the finest
ingredients available and stringent production standards. These
would become the hallmarks of See's earliest successes and are
notably still adhered to today. In fact, many of the candies in
the current See's lineup still use those early recipes. By 1925,
there were more than a dozen See's Candies locations around Los
Angeles and in the ensuing decades, the brand would spread across
California, finding a particular foothold in San Francisco,
helping to build that city's reputation for high-quality
chocolate. Mary See's influence can't be understated and it has
been widely regarded as key to the brand's success. The company
never adds preservatives to their candies, have strict ingredient
quality control, and sell directly to consumers through hundreds
of West Coast shops. This ensures that every See's Candies
experience is good enough for Mary See. She is so iconic, that
boxes of See's Candies still bear her likeness as a reminder to
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September 16: Pet Promise Day: --
Supporting pet well-being involves sincere commitment, ensuring
animals receive comprehensive care for a fulfilling, healthy life.
Much like children, baby pets are cute but they require a lifetime
of care. Dedicated to raising awareness about the responsibilities
that pet owners make to their furry or feathered friends, Pet
Promise Day acts as a reminder for everyone that pets are more
than just a Christmas or birthday gift - they are forever family
members! Pet Promise Day was established with the purpose of
encouraging pet owners or prospective pet owners to be sure that
they are committed and dedicated to taking care of their animals
in all of the ways they need. To provide a safe and healthy
environment, give them plenty of opportunities for rest and play,
and treat them like family members for their whole lives! Bringing
a young pet into the family can be an exciting adventure, but it
also comes with a great deal of dedication and responsibility.
Some people enjoy the idea of getting or giving a puppy, kitten or
some other animal, but they aren't necessarily ready to commit to
taking care of it fully. Pet Promise Day is here to reduce the
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September 16: National Stepfamily Day: --
Families come in all shapes and sizes - small, big, biological,
adoptive, and even step, and they all deserve to be celebrated.
Unlike most types of families, members of a blended family choose
to come together. Whether it's because of divorce, estrangement,
death, or another reason, stepfamilies need to unite and rebuild
their lives together, and that deserves recognition. While love
and appreciation go beyond just one day, there is something
special about taking out some time to celebrate on a designated
day. Special days have been around for a long time such as
Mother's Day, Father's Day, Daughter's Day, Sibling's Day, etc.
However, blended families were unable to get the recognition that
they deserved. As times changed and society became more accepting,
recognition came into place for concepts that were historically
considered nontraditional. Divorce and remarriage became more
common and hence so did stepfamilies. Along with the internal
struggles of blending families, stepfamilies have also been
subjected to stigma and negative stereotypes by society. These
families are expected to fit into negative roles propagated by
film and television which often makes it even harder to make
things work. Despite this societal pressure, there are thousands
of blended families that survive and thrive through all the
hurdles for the sake of love and each other. Today, in the U.S.A.,
over 30% of the under 18 population lives in a stepfamily
environment. Blended families are now more common than ever and
deserve a day to be celebrated and recognized. Driven by this,
stepparent Christy Tusing-Borgeld created National Stepfamily Day
in 1997. Since then, September 16 of every year has been a
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September 16: National Working Parents
Day: -- For parents trying to balance work and raising kids, a day
off is more than needed. Help out a working parent you know, or do
some extra chores for your own. National Working Parents Day is a
day to celebrate those amazing parents who work hard all year to
provide for their families. It's a time to show some appreciation
and share the love in celebration of these folks who are
constantly on the job and on the go with their families! Being a
parent is tough and often involves balancing a full-time job,
child care and a marriage or relationship. Many parents work
incredibly hard in order to ensure their kids have food, clothing,
shelter and a whole host of luxury items in order to make their
childhood great. Although the origins of National Working Parents
Day are a little vague, the day seems to date back a couple of
decades to 2004. While perhaps it seems logical to suggest that
this day was created by an overworked, under-appreciated mother or
father who was seeking some basic recognition for their efforts,
that's not completely how the story goes. In fact, National
Working Parents Day was founded by the National Association of
Mothers' Centers. This organization in the United States is a
non-profit that supports the cause of working mothers has more
recently changed its name to Mom-mentum. Regardless of the origins
of the day, National Working Parents Day is a time for mothers and
fathers to put their feet up, relax, and take a much-needed break
from all the difficulties they face. It is also a day for children
to show their appreciation and potentially take on some of the
day-to-day household chores! Coworkers, friends, family members
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September 16: World Barber Day: -- Join
in this celebration if you enjoy making others look beautiful! Did
you know barbers in the Middle Ages were not only skilled at
haircuts and wet shaves, but also at pulling teeth, dressing
wounds, and performing operations! These 'barber surgeons' were
known for much more than just styling men's hair. They even
founded the first barbers' organization in France in 1096. World
Barber Day celebrates this sense of community - it's a
demonstration of how 'ordinary' barbers can contribute to
extraordinary differences. World Barber Day emphasizes how - in
just one week - every barber can make a real and significant
difference in the world. Barbers used to be the most talented men
in their tribes, and they generally specialized in more than one
discipline. People were quite superstitious about haircuts and
shaving back then because they thought that bad spirits entered
the body through the hair. Only the most trustworthy individuals
were entrusted with the task of barbering, which was usually the
priest or the clan leader. In recent years, there has been a
growing appreciation for the unique role that barbers play in
assisting people with their mental health. One such example is a
non-profit venture in which a salon doubles up as a meeting place
for men of color to discuss their issues. A similar program is
taking shape in the U.K., where the N.H.S., the country's public
health service, announced a 2020 initiative to provide mental
health first aid training to barbers. Barbers have been practicing
their trade for thousands of years, but it is only recently that
barbers have gained recognition for their contribution to
humanity. Booksy, which supports thousands of barbers, took
advantage of the chance to commemorate a day when customers and
barbers get together to contribute money for various social
causes. Barbers are often self-sufficient, driven entrepreneurs
that work relentlessly to keep their clients happy. It's a lot to
handle, so Booksy created World Barber Day to remind barbers that
taking a day off, taking some time for themselves, and talking
about their difficulties are perfectly acceptable. Aside from
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September 16: National Tattoo Story Day:
-- Today may inspire you to get your body inked! Tattoos are an
ancient form of body art that has lasted long enough for us to
take an interest in and practice it. National The tattoo train is
one a lot of people still get nervous to board. Tattoos are also
usually an expression of a person's story. Sometimes even a
prediction of where they are headed in life. They serve an
important part in cultures across the world and continue to evolve
with modern usage. And unlike other art forms, their permanent
nature makes them perfect for etching memories that remain dear
and indispensable to us! Historically, tattoos can be purely
decorative, symbolic, or pictorial depicting a thing or an emotion
on a person's body. In the U.S. tattoo exploded in the 1940s and
Norman Keith Collins, AKA Sailor Jerry, played a huge role in
establishing what is now known as the American Traditional way of
tattooing. The Hawai -based war veteran combined what he learned
from the American, European, and Japanese ways of tattooing to
establish a whole new style that's now known as the American
Traditional way of tattooing. Statistic-wise, according to the
result of a survey conducted by Statista, as many as 140 million
Americans representing 44% of the people that answered yes when
asked if they have one or more tattoos, have a tattoo! Although it
appears that many people have tattoos in the United States, it is
still considered an act of rebellion to get one especially
considering that according to the same survey's report, around
three to 17 million people have a tattoo around their face region
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September 16: Malaysia Day: -- September
16, 1963: The Aftermath Of World War II: Decolonization: British
Decolonization: Malaya: The History Of Malaya: British
Decolonization Of Malaya: Malaysia: The History Of Malaysia: The
Founding Of Malaysia: -- Malaysia is formed by the merger of the
Federation of Malaya with the former British colonies of North
Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore. This marked the end of a 144-year
British rule in Singapore which began with the founding of modern
Singapore by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819. However, Singapore, the
smallest state in the country by land area, was soon unwillngly
expelled from this new country on August 9, 1965, and became the
only country to date to gain independence unwillingly. This union
became unstable due to distrust and ideological differences
between the leaders of Singapore and of the federal government of
Malaysia. Malaysia (Malay: Malejsia) is a federal constitutional
monarchy in Southeast Asia that consists of thirteen states and
three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into
two regions, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Malaysia.
Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime border with
Thailand and maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and
Indonesia. East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with
Brunei and Indonesia and a maritime border with the Philippines
and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital, largest city
and the seat of the legislative branch of the federal government.
The nearby planned capital of Putrajaya is the administrative
capital, which represents the seat of both the executive branch
(Cabinet, federal ministries and agencies) and the judicial branch
of the federal government. With a population of over 32 million,
Malaysia is the world's 45th-most populous country. The
southernmost point of continental Eurasia is in Tanjung Piai. In
the tropics, Malaysia is one of 17 megadiverse countries, home to
numerous endemic species. Malaysia has its origins in the Malay
kingdoms which, from the 18th century, became subject to the
British Empire, along with the British Straits Settlements
protectorate. Peninsular Malaysia was unified as the Malayan Union
in 1946. Malaya was restructured as the Federation of Malaya in
1948 and achieved independence on August 31, 1957. The independent
Malaya united with the then British crown colonies of North
Borneo, Sarawak, and Singapore on September 16, 1963 to become
Malaysia. In August 1965, Singapore was expelled from the
federation and became a separate independent country. The country
is multiethnic and multicultural, which has a significant effect
on its politics. About half the population is ethnically Malay,
with minorities of Chinese, Indians, and indigenous peoples. The
country's official language is Malaysian, a standard form of the
Malay language. English remains an active second language. While
recognising Islam as the country's established religion, the
constitution grants freedom of religion to non-Muslims. The
government is modelled on the Westminster parliamentary system and
the legal system is based on common law. The head of state is an
elected monarch, chosen from among the nine state sultans every
five years. The head of government is the Prime Minister. After
independence, the Malaysian GDP grew at an average of 6.5% per
annum for almost 50 years. The economy has traditionally been
fuelled by its natural resources but is expanding in the sectors
of science, tourism, commerce and medical tourism. Malaysia has a
newly industrialised market economy, ranked third-largest in
Southeast Asia and 33rd-largest in the world. It is a founding
member of ASEAN, EAS, OIC and a member of APEC, the Commonwealth
and the Non-Aligned Movement. After the foundation of Malaysia,
the leaders of Singapore and of the federal government of Malaysia
often disagreed about finance, politics and racial policies.
Singapore continued to face significant trade restrictions despite
promises of a common market in return for a large proportion of
its tax revenues, and retaliated by withholding loans to Sabah and
Sarawak. In the political arena, the Malaysia-based United Malays
National Organisation (UMNO) and Singapore-based People's Action
Party (PAP), entered each other's political arenas, despite
previous agreements not to do so. These resulted in major race
riots in Singapore in 1964, which were attributed (at least in
part) to instigation by UMNO and its Malay-language newspaper
Utusan Melayu for affirmative action for Malays in Singapore.
Seeing no alternative to avoid further bloodshed, the Malaysian
Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman decided to expel Singapore from
the federation. The Parliament of Malaysia voted 126-0, with all
Singaporean MPs boycotting the vote, in favour of the expulsion on
August 9, 1965. On that day, a tearful Lee Kuan Yew announced on a
televised press conference that Singapore was a sovereign,
independent nation. In a widely remembered quote, he uttered that:
"For me, it would be a moment of anguish. I mean for me, it
is a moment of anguish because all my life... you see the whole of
my adult life... I have believed in Merger and the unity of these
two territories. You know it's a people connected by geography,
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September 16, 1810: National Hispanic
Heritage Month: -- The Spanish Colonization Of The Americas:
Rebellions Against The Spanish Empire: Spanish American Wars Of
Independence: The Mexican War Of Independence (Spanish: Guerra De
Independencia De Mexico): Mexican Independence Day: -- With the
Grito de Dolores, The Mexican War Of Independence begins in the
town of Dolores Hidalgo as Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang
his church's bells and exhorted local Indians to "recover
from the hated Spaniards the land stolen from your
forefathers...", a date celebrated as a federal holiday as
Mexican Independence Day. People of Mexican heritage all over the
world commemorate this important event in their country's history
-- the same church's bells rung by Hidalgo y Costilla rang over
200 years ago are ceremonially rung annually by the President Of
Mexico live on TV the night before the holiday. Mexico, once known
as New Spain, was a colony harshly ruled by the kingdom of Spain
for over 300 years. The native population was oppressed, farmland
and personal wealth were confiscated and only Spaniards were
allowed to hold political posts. The oppression became too much
and a Catholic priest in the town of Dolores named Miguel Hidalgo
y Costilla had enough. On September 16, 1810, he rang his church's
bell and delivered a speech now known as the Grito de Dolores (Cry
of Dolores), demanding the end of Spanish rule. This started the
brutal Mexican War of Independence, which lasted over a decade. On
August 24, 1821, Spain withdrew and officially recognized Mexico
as an independent country. Today, Father Hidalgo is known as the
Father of Mexican Independence. Mexican Independence Day has been
celebrated every year since that momentous day on September 16,
1810. To promote education among Hispanic students many
organizations and companies have established scholarships for
Hispanic students, as another way of supporting Mexican
independence. Mexican Independence Day has developed into a huge
nationwide celebration over the past 200-plus years. The country's
leaders were inspired by our own July 4 Independence Day
festivities, so fireworks fill the skies at night and the day is
filled with patriotic speeches, flag-waving, parades, live music,
and home-cooked feasts. Red, white and green - the colors of the
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September 16, 1386: #BOTD: #HBD! King
Henry V Of England, also known as Henry Of Monmouth, King Of
England from 1413 until his death in 1422, celebrated as one of
the greatest warrior-kings of medieval England who despite his
relatively short reign made England one of the strongest military
powers in Europe due to his outstanding military successes in the
Hundred Years' War against France, immortalised in Shakespeare's
"Henriad" plays ( Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry
IV, Part 2; and Henry V), especially famous for his historic
victory at The Battle Of Agincourt in 1415 (d. August 31, 1422) is
#born in the tower above the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle (Welsh:
Castell Trefynwy), a castle close to the centre of the town of
Monmouth, the county town of Monmouthshire, on a hill above the
River Monnow in south-east Wales, and for that reason Henry was
sometimes called Henry of Monmouth. During the reign of his father
Henry IV, Henry gained military experience fighting the Welsh
during the revolt of Owain Glyndwr and against the powerful
aristocratic Percy family of Northumberland at the Battle of
Shrewsbury. Henry acquired an increased role in England's
government due to the king's declining health, but disagreements
between father and son led to political conflict between the two.
After his father's death in 1413, Henry assumed control of the
country and asserted the pending English claim to the French
throne. In 1415, Henry embarked on war with France. His first
military campaign included his famous victory at the Battle of
Agincourt in 1415. By 1420, his armies had captured Paris and had
come close to conquering the whole of medieval France. Taking
advantage of political divisions within France, he conquered large
portions of Northern France, resulting in Normandy's occupation by
the English for the first time since the mid-14th century. After
months of negotiation with Charles VI of France, the 1420 Treaty
of Troyes recognised Henry V as regent and heir apparent to the
French throne, and he was subsequently married to Charles's
daughter, Catherine of Valois. Everything seemed to point to the
formation of a union between the kingdoms, in the person of Henry.
However, he died two years later and was succeeded by his only
child, the infant Henry VI. Analyses of Henry's reign are varied.
He was widely praised for his personal piety, bravery and military
genius even by contemporary French chroniclers, but his
occasionally cruel temperament and lack of focus on domestic
affairs have made him the subject of some criticism. Nonetheless,
his militaristic pursuits during the Hundred Years' War created a
strong sense of English nationalism and set the stage for the rise
of England and then later Britain to prominence as a dominant
global power. Henry V died of dysentery at his fortress home, The
Chateau de Vincennes, next to the town of Vincennes, on the
eastern edge of Paris, France, alongside what is now the Bois de
Vincennes public park, aged 35. He is buried in Westminster Abbey
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September 16, 1745: #BOTD: #HBD! Mikhail
Kutuzov, nicknamed "The Fox Of The North", Field Marshal
of the Russian Empire, one of the finest military officers and
diplomats in Russia who served under the reign of three Romanov
Tsars: Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I (d. April 28, 1813) is
#born Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov in Saint
Petersburg, Russian Empire. Prince Mikhail Illarionovich
Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky's military career was closely
associated with the rising period of Russia from the end of the
18th century to the beginning of the 19th century. Kutuzov is
considered to have been one of the best Russian generals. He was
born in Saint Petersburg in 1745 to a family of Novgorod nobility.
His father was a Russian general and senator. Kutuzov began
military schooling at age 12 and joined the Imperial Russian Army
in 1759. Three years later Kutuzov became a company commander in
the Astrakhan Infantry Regiment under Alexander Suvorov. He took
part in crushing the Polish Bar Confederation rebellion. During
the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774 he served in the staff of Pyotr
Rumyantsev at Moldova for the battles of Larga and Kagul. In July
1774 at Crimea, Kutuzov was severely wounded by a bullet that went
through his temple and out near his right eye, which became
permanently scarred. He returned to Crimea in 1776 to assist
Suvorov and conducted negotiations with the last Crimean khan
Girey, convincing him to abdicate and submit to Russia. After
Kutuzov became Governor-General of Crimea in 1787, the
Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1792 began. He was again severely
wounded in 1788 during the Siege of Ochakov when a bullet was shot
through both of his temples. Kutuzov came back a year later,
taking part in the Battle of Rymnik and Siege of Izmail. Near the
end of the war, he led a decisive charge at the Battle of Macin.
Kutuzov was on good terms with Tsar Paul, but had disputes with
his successor Tsar Alexander. In 1805, he led Russian forces
alongside Austria during the Napoleonic Wars. The allied
Russo-Austrian army was defeated by Napoleon at the Battle of
Austerlitz. Alexander blamed Kutuzov and demoted him to Moldova
for the Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812. Kutuzov vanquished a
four-times larger Turkish army at Rousse and brought an end to the
war with a decisive victory at the Battle of the Danube. For his
achievements, he was awarded the titles of count and prince.
Kutuzov returned at the request of Alexander for the French
Invasion Of Russia. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief,
succeeding Barclay de Tolly and continuing his scorched earth
policy up to Moscow. Under Kutuzov's command, the Russian army
faced the Grande Armee at the Battle Of Borodino. He allowed
Napoleon to take an abandoned Moscow, which was set on fire.
Kutuzov counter-attacked once Napoleon retreated from Moscow,
pushing the French out of the Russian homeland. In recognition of
this, Kutuzov was awarded the victory title of Prince Smolensky.
He stepped down from command due to deteriorating health soon
after the French left Russia. Mikhail Kutuzov died at Bunzlau,
Silesia, then in the Kingdom of Prussia, now Boleslawiec, Poland,
aged 67; his cause of death is not specifically recorded, but he
was shot a number of times, in one case most extraordinarily in
the Crimea, when a bullet passed through his head via the two
temples: that he did not lose his sight made his recovery all the
more miraculous. He is buried at the Kazan Cathedral in Saint
Petersburg. He had five daughters; his only son died of smallpox
as an infant. As he had no male heir, his estates passed to the
Tolstoy family, as his eldest daughter, Praskovia, had married
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September 16, 1908: The Industrial
Revolution: The Second Industrial Revolution (1870s-1914): The
Automotive Industry: The History Of The Automobile: The History Of
The Automotive Industry: Foundings: -- General Motors Company is
formed in Flint, Michigan as a holding company controlled by
William C. Durant, owner of Buick. At the beginning of the 20th
century, there were fewer than 8,000 automobiles in America, and
Durant had become a leading manufacturer of horse-drawn vehicles
in Flint, in the 1880s and 1890s, before making his foray into the
automotive industry in 1904 by purchasing the fledgling Buick
Motor Company. GM's co-founder was Charles Stewart Mott, whose
carriage company was merged into Buick prior to GM's creation.
Over the years, Mott became the largest single stockholder in GM,
and spent his life with his Mott Foundation, which has benefited
the city of Flint, his adopted home. GM acquired Oldsmobile later
that year. In 1909, Durant brought in Cadillac, Elmore, Oakland,
and several others. Also in 1909, GM acquired the Reliance Motor
Truck Company of Owosso, Michigan, and the Rapid Motor Vehicle
Company of Pontiac, Michigan, the predecessors of GMC Truck.
Durant, along with R. S. McLaughlin, lost control of GM in 1910 to
a bankers' trust, because of the large amount of debt taken on in
its acquisitions, coupled with a collapse in new vehicle sales.
The next year, Durant started the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in
the U.S., and in Canada in 1915, and through this, he secretly
purchased a controlling interest in GM. Durant regained control of
the company after one of the most dramatic proxy wars in American
business history. Durant then reorganized General Motors Company
into General Motors Corporation in 1916, merging Chevrolet with GM
and merging General Motors of Canada Limited as an ally in 1918.
Shortly thereafter, he again lost control, this time for good,
after the new vehicle market collapsed. Alfred P. Sloan was picked
to take charge of the corporation, and led it to its post-war
global dominance when the seven manufacturing facilities operated
by Chevrolet before GM acquired the company began to contribute to
GM operations. These facilities were added to the individual
factories that were exclusive to Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile,
Oakland, and other companies acquired by GM. This unprecedented
growth of GM would last into the early 1980s, when it employed
349,000 workers and operated 150 assembly plants. On June 1, 2009,
after heavy losses, General Motors went bankrupt. Stockholders
lost essentially all of their investment. On July 10, 2009,
General Motors emerged from government backed Chapter 11
reorganization after an initial filing on June 8, 2009. Through
the Troubled Asset Relief Program the US Treasury invested 49.5B
USD in General Motors and recovered 39B USD when it sold its
shares on December 9, 2013 resulting in a loss of 10.3B USD. The
Treasury invested an additional 17.2B USD into GM's former
financing company, GMAC (now Ally). The shares in Ally were sold
on December 18, 2014 for 19.6B USD netting 2.4B USD. A study by
the Center for Automotive Research found that the GM bailout saved
1.2 million jobs and preserved 34.9B USD in tax revenue. Also in
2009 as part of the General Motors Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, the
company shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer,
while selling Saab Automobile to Dutch automaker Spyker, and
emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In
2010, the reorganized GM made an initial public offering that was
one of the world's top five largest IPOs to-date and returned to
profitability later that year. Today, General Motors Company,
commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American
multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs,
manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts,
and sells financial services. With global headquarters in
Detroit's Renaissance Center, GM manufactures cars and trucks in
35 countries. The company was the largest automobile manufacturer
from 1931 through 2007. GM reached the milestone of selling 10
million vehicles in 2016. Current auto brands are Buick, Cadillac,
Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, and Wuling. Former GM automotive brands
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September 16, 1920: Anti-Communism:
Anti-Communism In The United States: Red Scare: The First Red
Scare: Crime: Crime In The United States: Crime In New York City:
Political Violence: Political Violence In The United States:
Political Violence In New York City: Terrorism: Terrorism In The
United States: Terrorism In New York City: Mass Murders: Mass
Murders In The United States: Mass Murders In New York City:
Anarchism: Anarchism In The United States: Anarchism In New York
City: The History Of Anarchism: The History Of Anarchism In The
United States: The History Of Anarchism In New York City:
Galleanists (Italian: Galleanisti): The Wall Street Bombing: -- At
12:01 pm the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to that
point occurs when a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the
J. P. Morgan building in the Financial District of Manhattan, New
York City, killing 38 and injuring 400. The blast killed 30 people
immediately, and another eight died later of wounds sustained in
the blast. The bombing was never solved, although investigators
and historians believe the Wall Street bombing was carried out by
Galleanists (Italian anarchists), a group responsible for a series
of bombings the previous year. The attack was related to postwar
social unrest, labor struggles, and anti-capitalist agitation in
the United States. The Wall Street bomb killed more people than
the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times, which had been the
deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil to date, and the death
toll was exceeded one year later in the Tulsa Race Riot in 1921.
The horse-drawn wagon passed by lunchtime crowds on Wall Street
and stopped across the street from the headquarters of the J.P.
Morgan & Co. bank at 23 Wall Street, on the Financial
District's busiest corner. Inside the wagon, 100 pounds (45 kg) of
dynamite with 500 pounds (230 kg) of heavy, cast-iron sash weights
-- counter-weights concealed within the window frames of sash
windows used o facilitate opening and closing them -- exploded in
a timer-set detonation, sending the weights tearing through the
air. The horse and wagon were blasted into small fragments, but
the driver was seen by witnesses leaving the vehicle and escaping
down a side street. The 40 fatalities were mostly young people who
worked as messengers, stenographers, clerks, and brokers. Many of
the wounded suffered severe injuries. The bomb caused more than 2M
USD (30.4M USD as of 2024) in property damage and destroyed most
of the interior spaces of the Morgan building. Within one minute
of the explosion, William H. Remick, president of the New York
Stock Exchange (NYSE), suspended trading in order to prevent a
panic. Outside, rescuers worked feverishly to transport the
wounded to the hospital. James Saul, a 17-year-old messenger,
commandeered a parked car and transported 30 injured people to an
area hospital. Police officers rushed to the scene, performed
first aid, and appropriated all nearby automobiles as emergency
transport vehicles. The Justice Department's Bureau of
Investigation (BOI, the forerunner of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, or FBI) did not immediately conclude that the bomb
was an act of terrorism. Investigators were puzzled by the number
of innocent people killed and the lack of a specific target, other
than buildings that suffered relatively superficial,
non-structural damage. Exploring the possibility of an accident,
police contacted businesses that sold and transported explosives.
By 3:30 pm, the board of governors of the NYSE had met and decided
to open for business the next day. Crews cleaned up the area
overnight to allow for normal business operations, but in doing so
they destroyed physical evidence that might have helped police
investigators solve the crime. The Sons of the American Revolution
had previously scheduled a patriotic rally for the day after
(September 17) to celebrate Constitution Day at exactly the same
intersection. On September 17, thousands of people attended the
rally in defiance of the previous day's attack. The New York
assistant district attorney noted that the timing, location, and
method of delivery all pointed to Wall Street and J.P. Morgan as
the targets of the bomb, suggesting in turn that it was planted by
radical opponents of capitalism, such as Bolsheviks, anarchists,
communists, or militant socialists. Investigators soon focused on
radical groups opposed to U.S. financial and governmental
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September 16, 1955: Rocket Launches: The
History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight:
Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs): Submarine-Launched
Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) Of The Soviet Union: Maiden Flights:
The R-11FM Zemlya Scud Tactical Ballistic Missile (TBM): -- The
Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine B-67 becomes the first to launch
a ballistic missile, a nuclear weapon capable R-11FM Zemlya Scud
tactical ballistic missile (TBM). The Soviet Navy's Project 611
(NATO reporting name: Zulu class) were one of the first Soviet
post-war attack submarines. Like most conventional submarines
designed 1946-1960, their design was influenced by the German Type
XXI U-boat of the World War II era. Twenty-six boats were built
overall, entering service from 1952 to 1957, 8 of them in
Leningrad and 18 in Severodvinsk. Six were converted in 1956 to
become the world's first ballistic missile submarines, one armed
with a single R-11FM Scud missile and five others with two Scuds
each. They were designated as Project AV 611 and received the NATO
reporting name of Zulu V. The missiles were too long to be
contained in the boat's hull, and extended into the enlarged sail.
To be fired, the submarine had to surface and raise the missile
out of the sail. Most Project 611 submarines were converted to
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September 16, 1966: Grand Openings:
Theatre Grand Openings (Theater Grand Openings): Opera House
Openings: -- The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center
in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera
Antony and Cleopatra, featuring revolutionary choreographer Alvin
Ailey, conductor Thomas Schippers and a top rate cast headed by
Leontyne Price as Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40, is an
opera in three acts by American composer Samuel Barber. The
libretto was prepared by Franco Zeffirelli. It was based on the
play Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare and made use of
Shakespeare's language exclusively. The opera was first performed
on September 16, 1966, commissioned for the opening of the new
Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
in New York City. After an unsuccessful premiere, the opera was
extensively revised by Barber and Gian Carlo Menotti in an edition
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September 16, 1991: Unidentified Flying
Objects (UFOs, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon, UAPs): UFO
Incidents (Unidentified Flying Object Incidents): UFO Aviation
Incidents (Unidentifed Flying Object Aviation Incidents): The 1991
Mexican Independence Day Air Show UFO Incident: -- At the annual
Mexico City military airshow held in celebration of the September
16 Mexican Independence Day holiday, Vincente Sanchez Guerrero's
video camera captured a UFO hovering in front of a squadron of
military jets on maneuver. As Guerro kept his camera focused on
the UFO, it came directly towards him, and as it got close to him,
his camera turned off when his battery, which showed a full charge
in view finder at the time, went dead in the midst of the
recording. The Mexican military did not disclose how their planes
reacted to their own close encounters with the object, but
witnesses reported that five of those jets broke formation and
gave chase to the UFO. During EarthStation1 MediaOutlet's J.C.
Kaelin's research on The STS-UFO Incident of September 15, 1991 --
the apparent firing of a Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) "Star
Wars" space weapon at a UFO during the Space Shuttle
Discovery's STS-48 mission, an event that was broadcast live on
NASA's live video stream -- he discovered that the two events were
one day apart, with the apparent firing of a space weapon at a UFO
during a space flight being was followed the next day by a UFO
interfering with a flight of military jets. The firing of a weapon
at a UFO is necessarily a hostile reaction against a potentially
hostile craft, and the provocative nature of a UFO interposing
itself before a squadron of military jets, which resulted in the
object apparently taking defensive action against the camera that
was recording it led Kaelin to conclude that it was likely that
the two events together form part of a deliberate coordinated
extraterrestrial military confrontation, and that these two events
were therefore connected. ========= September 16, 1993:
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Aviation Incidents): The 1993 Mexican Independence Day Air Show
UFO Incident: -- Three years to the day after The 1991 Mexican
Independence Day Air Show UFO Incident, another amateur
videographer captured a video of a UFO flying through a squadron
of helicopters. Image analysis indicates that the camera captured
an object 2-3 meters / 6.5 to 10 feet in diameter. It flew
dangerously close to the helicopters, sometimes in front of and
sometimes behind the helicopter's rotor systems. The Mexican
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September 16, 1776: The Age Of
Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of
Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The American Enlightenment:
The American Revolution: The American Revolutionary War: The New
York And New Jersey Campaign: The Battle Of Harlem Heights: -- The
day after British forces under General William Howe launched an
amphibious landing at Kip's Bay on the East River shore of
Manhattan, north of what then constituted New York City, resulting
in the capture of New York that very day, The Battle of Harlem
Heights is fought in what is now the Morningside Heights area, and
east into the future Harlem neighborhoods of northwestern
Manhattan Island, all part of what is now New York City. The
Continental Army, under Commander-in-chief General George
Washington, Major General Nathanael Greene, and Major General
Israel Putnam, totaling around 9,000 men, held a series of high
ground positions in upper Manhattan. Immediately opposite was the
vanguard of the British Army totaling around 5,000 men under the
command of Major General Henry Clinton. An early morning skirmish
between a patrol of Knowlton's Rangers and British light infantry
pickets developed into a running fight as the British pursued the
Americans back through woods towards Washington's position on
Harlem Heights. The overconfident British light troops, having
advanced too far from their lines without support, had exposed
themselves to counter-attack. Seeing this, Washington ordered a
flanking maneuver which failed to cut off the British force but,
in the face of this attack and pressure from troops arriving from
the Harlem Heights position, the outnumbered British retreated.
Meeting reinforcements coming from the south and with the added
support of a pair of field pieces, the British light infantry
turned and made a stand in open fields on Morningside Heights. The
Americans, also reinforced, came on in strength and there followed
a lengthy exchange of fire. After two hours, with ammunition
running short, the British force began to pull back to their
lines. Washington cut short the pursuit, unwilling to risk a
general engagement with the British main force, and withdrew to
his own lines. Having held their own against picked British
troops, the American army received a much needed boost to their
morale after the debacle of the previous day, while the British
acquired a renewed respect for the American ability to stand and
fight. It was Washington's first battlefield success of the war.
After a month without any major fighting between the armies,
Washington was forced to withdraw his army north to the town of
White Plains in southeastern New York when the British moved west
into Westchester County and threatened to flank Washington further
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September 16, 2025: #DOTD: #RIP: Robert
Redford, American actor, director, producer, businessman,
environmentalist, and philanthropist, founder of the Sundance Film
Festival (b. August 18, 1936) #dies in his sleep at his home in
Sundance, Utah, at the age of 89. Several of Redford's co-stars
paid tribute to him, including frequent collaborator Jane Fonda,
who wrote, "He meant a lot to me and was a beautiful person
in every way. He stood for an America that we have to keep
fighting for." Fonda later added: "I was always in love
with him. The most gorgeous human being and such great values. And
he did a lot for movies, he really changed movies, lifted up
independent movies." His Out of Africa co-star Meryl Streep
wrote, "One of the lions has passed. Rest in peace, my lovely
friend." His The Way We Were co-star Barbra Streisand
released a lengthy statement, which read in part, "Bob was
charismatic, intelligent, intense, always interesting -- and one
of the finest actors ever." Streisand later appeared at the
98th Academy Awards to talk about her positive memory of working
with him. His All the President's Men co-star Dustin Hoffman paid
tribute to Redford, writing, "Working with Redford... was one
of the greatest experiences I've ever had... I'll miss him".
Journalist Bob Woodward, whom Redford portrayed in All the
President's Men, also paid tribute, calling Redford a close friend
and a "principled force for good". Others who commented
on Redford's death include politicians such as incumbent U.S.
president Donald Trump, former U.S. president Barack Obama, former
First Lady Hillary Clinton and former vice president Al Gore.
Numerous prominent figures from the entertainment industry paid
tribute to Redford, including filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese
and Ron Howard, and actors such as Morgan Freeman, Leonardo
DiCaprio, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson and
Reese Witherspoon. Redford was buried on his property in Sundance
after a private funeral. At the 98th Academy Awards, Barbra
Streisand eulogized Redford during the in memoriam segment. She
also briefly sang "The Way We Were". Robert Redford was
born Charles Robert Redford Jr. in Santa Monica, California.
Redford began acting on television in the early 1960s. He earned
an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in
The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). His greatest Broadway success
was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in Neil
Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut
in War Hunt (1962). His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him
a Golden Globe for best new star. He starred in Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a
major star. In 1972, he had a critical and box office hit with
Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 had the greatest hit of his
career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, for which he was
nominated for an Academy Award. The popular and acclaimed All the
President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. The first
film that Redford directed, Ordinary People (1980), was one of the
most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade,
winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award
for Best Director for Redford. In 1980, he starred in Brubaker
(1980). He starred in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous
critical and box office success, and won seven Oscars including
Best Picture. He released his third film as a director, A River
Runs Through It, in 1992. Redford intends to retire from acting
after his final movie, The Old Man and the Gun, is completed. He
went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in
1995 for Quiz Show. He received a second Academy Award for
Lifetime Achievement in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of
the Legion d'Honneur. He has won BAFTA, Directors Guild of
America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards. In April
2014, Time magazine included Redford in their annual Time 100 as
one of the "Most Influential People in the World",
declaring him the "Godfather of Indie Film". In 2016,
Redford was honored with a Presidential Medal Of Freedom.
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September 16, 1940: The European Civil
War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater
Of World War II): The North African Campaign: The Western Desert
Campaign (The Desert War): The Italian Invasion Of Egypt
(Operazione E): The "Battle" Of Sidi Barrani: -- Some
four infantry divisions of the Italian 10th Army, supported by
Carro Armato M11/39 Italian medium tanks and numerous L3 tankettes
of the 10th Army's mechanised Maletti Group, "conquer"
Sidi Barrani. It was a small battle for a small village, but
Italian propaganda made it out to be a major victory over a major
city. Sidi Barrani, then part of the British Empire, is on the
Mediterranean coast in Egypt, about 95 km (59 mi) east of the
Egypt-Libya border, and around 240 km (150 mi) from Tobruk, Libya.
The village is mainly a Bedouin community; though it had food,
gasoline outlets and one small hotel, it had, and continues to
have as of 2022, virtually no tourist activity or visited
historical curiosities. It is currently the site of an Egyptian
Air Force base. In response to this invasion, the British launched
on December 10, 1940 the two-day Battle of Sidi Barrani, the
opening battle of Operation Compass, the first big British attack
of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, attacked
by British, Commonwealth and imperial troops. During that battle,
while retreating from Sidi Barrani and Buq Buq, the 10th Army
divisions crowded on the coast road and were easy targets for HMS
Terror and two gunboats, which bombarded the Sollum area all day
and for most of the night of December 11. By late on December 12,
the only Italian positions left in Egypt were at the approaches to
Sollum and the vicinity of Sidi Omar. The British took 38,300
prisoners for a loss of 624 men and continued the five-day raid on
Italian positions in Egypt, eventually capturing Cyrenaica and
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September 16, 1893: #BOTD: #HBD! Sir
Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director, producer, and
screenwiter, founder of London Films and, post-war, the owner of
British Lion Films, producer of many outstanding classics of the
British film industry such as The Private Life of Henry VIII,
Rembrandt, Things To Come, The Thief of Baghdad and The Third Man
(d. January 23, 1956) is #born Sandor Laszlo Kellner into a Jewish
family in Pusztaturpaszto, Austria-Hungary. He began his career in
Hungary, he worked briefly in the Austrian and German film
industries during the era of silent films, before being based in
Hollywood during the transition to "talkies" from 1926
to 1930 for the first of his two brief periods there (the other
was during World War II). The change led to divorce from his first
wife, popular Hungarian actress Maria Corda, who could not make
the transition to "talkies" because of her strong accent
in English. From 1930, Korda became a leading figure in the
British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner
of British Lion Films, a film distributing company. Korda was the
first filmmaker to have been knighted. Alexander Korda died of a
heart attack at the age of 62 at his home in London, England. He
was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London; his ashes
were finally interred in February 1959 at Stoke Poges Memorial
Gardens in Buckinghamshire, England. #AlexanderKorda
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September 16, 1875: #BOTD: #HBD! J.C.
Penney, American businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist and
Freemason, founder of the J. C. Penney stores in 1902 (d. February
12, 1971) is #born James Cash Penney on a farm outside of
Hamilton, Caldwell County, Missouri to James Cash Penney, Sr. and
Mary Frances (born Paxton) Penney. the seventh of twelve children,
only six of whom lived to adulthood. Penney's father was a Baptist
preacher and farmer whose strict discipline included making his
son pay for his own clothing once he reached his late pre-teens.
After graduation from Hamilton High School, Penney intended to
attend college with the hopes of becoming a lawyer. However, his
father's untimely death forced a change in plans, and Penney was
forced to take a job as a store clerk to help support the family.
Penney's health problems caused him to venture west to Longmont,
Colorado. In 1898, James Cash Penney began working for a small
chain of stores in the western United States called the Golden
Rule stores. In 1902, owners Guy Johnson and Thomas Callahan,
impressed by his work ethic and salesmanship, offered him
one-third partnership in a new store he would open. Penney
invested 2K USD and moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming, to open a store
there. He participated in opening two more stores, and when
Callahan and Johnson dissolved their partnership in 1907 he
purchased full interest in all three stores. By 1912, there were
34 stores in the Rocky Mountain States. In 1913, he moved the
company to the Kearns Building in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.
The company was incorporated under the new name, J. C. Penney
Company. In 1916, he began to expand the chain east of the
Mississippi and during the 1920s, the Penney company expanded
nationwide, with 120 stores in 1920 (mostly still in the west). By
1924, Penney reported income of more than 1M USD annually. The
number of stores reached 1,400 by 1929. The large income allowed
him to be heavily involved in many philanthropic causes during the
1920s. By 1921 he had a home (Belle Isle) on Biscayne Bay in
Miami. Penney and partner Ralph W. Gwinn had invested heavily in
Florida real estate including 120,000 acres (490 km2) in Clay
County. Some of this land became Penney Farms. This was also the
start of Foremost Dairy Products Inc. Penney later recruited Paul
E. Reinhold to run the dairy. Most of this work was halted when
the stock market crash of 1929 and the Clutch Plague left Penney
in financial ruin. After the crash, Penney lost virtually all of
his personal wealth and borrowed against his life insurance
policies to help the company meet its payroll. The financial
setbacks took a toll on his health, and he checked himself into
the Battle Creek Sanitarium for treatment. After hearing the hymn
"God Will Take Care of You" (written by Civilla Durfee
Martin) being sung at a service in the hospital's chapel, he
became a born-again Christian. Even after relinquishing daily
operating management of the company, Penney continued his active
involvement in managing the company and its stores. In 1940,
during a visit to a store in Des Moines, Iowa, he trained a young
Sam Walton on how to wrap packages with a minimal amount of paper
and ribbon. He remained chairman of the board until 1946, and
after that, as honorary chairman until his death in 1971. Until
the end of his life, he continued to go to his offices. Penney
directed his stores to be closed on Sunday so employees could
attend church. Penney was married three times. His first marriage,
to Bertha Alva Hess (1869-1910) in 1899, produced two sons before
her death from pneumonia: Roswell Kemper Penney (1901-1971) and
James Cash Penney III (1903-1938). After Bertha's death in 1910,
he married Mary Hortense Kimball (d. 1923) in July 1919. Mary gave
birth to their son before her death of unspecified medical issues:
Kimball Penney (1920-1979). In 1926, Penney married Caroline Marie
Autenrieth (1895-1992). She was badly hurt in 1928 when she fell
from a horse at their estate in White Plains. They had two
daughters: Mary Frances Penney (b. 1927), and Carol Marie Penney
(1929-2002). Penney lived in New York City at 888 Park Avenue,
though he spent the winters in Palm Springs, California. On
December 26, 1970, Penney fell and fractured his hip. Just a few
weeks later, he suffered a heart attack and never fully recovered.
He died on February 12, 1971. The Reverend Dr. Norman Vincent
Peale delivered the eulogy at the funeral. Penney was buried in
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, not far from that
of fellow retail entrepreneur, F. W. Woolworth. His estate was
valued at approximately 35M USD. Penney was a Freemason most of
his adult life, being initiated into Wasatch Lodge No. 1 Free and
Accepted Masons of Utah, on April 18, 1911.A member of both the
Scottish and York Rites, Penney was coroneted a 33rd Degree on
October 16, 1945, and received the Gold Distinguished Service
Award by the General Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, in Kansas
City, Missouri, in 1958. He typically wore a large ring showing
his Masonic degree. Penney was a member of two professional
collegiate fraternities: Alpha Gamma Rho for agriculture and Alpha
Kappa Psi for business. Penney was involved with the founding of
the University of Miami and served on its Board of Trustees from
1926 to 1930. At the end of the Great Depression, Penney teamed
with Thomas J. Watson, President and Founder of IBM, Arthur
Godfrey, the radio and TV personality; and Norman Vincent Peale, a
minister, inspirational speaker, and author of The Power of
Positive Thinking, to help Henry Simler, an executive with the
Remington Rand company form the first board of 40Plus, an
organization that helps unemployed managers and executives. Penney
founded the James C. Penney Foundation in 1954. The foundation was
restructured in 1999 as the Penney Family Fund, and is no longer
affiliated with J.C. Penney Co., Inc., or its corporate giving
program. Today, the fund is part of the Common Counsel Foundation,
an Oakland, California, consortium of family philanthropic
foundations and individual donors. The Penney Family Fund endows
organizations in Oregon, California, and Washington state that
work to advance human rights, community social, political,
economic empowerment, government accountability, and environmental
sustainability. In 1960 Penney teamed up with the University of
Missouri to establish the Penney-Missouri Awards to recognize
excellence in Women's Page journalism, hoping to improve the
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Today, September 16, 2026
September 16, 1859: #BOTD: Yuan Shikai,
Chinese general and government official, President of the Republic
Of China, Hongxian Emperor of China (d. June 6, 1916) is #born in
the village of Zhangying to the Yuan Clan, both of which moved to
the city of Xiangcheng, Henan, Qing Empire, China. Yuan Shikai
rose to power during the late Qing dynasty, and tried to save the
dynasty with a number of modernization projects including
bureaucratic, fiscal, judicial, educational, and other reforms. He
established the first modern army and a more efficient provincial
government in North China in the last years of the Qing Empire
before the abdication of the last Qing Emperor in 1911. Through
negotiation, he became the first president of the Republic Of
China in 1912. This army and bureaucratic control were the
foundation of his autocratic rule as the first formal President of
the Republic Of China. On 20 November 1915, Yuan held a specially
convened "Representative Assembly" which voted
unanimously to offer Yuan the throne. On 12 December 1915, Yuan
"accepted" the invitation and proclaimed himself Emperor
of the Chinese Empire (Chinese: Zhonghua Diguo Da Huangdi) under
the era name of Hongxian (simplified Chinese: Hongxian; i.e.
Constitutional Abundance). The new Empire of China was to formally
begin on 1 January 1916, when Yuan, the Hongxian Emperor, intended
to conduct the accession rites. Soon after becoming emperor, the
Hongxian Emperor placed an order with the former imperial potters
for a 40,000-piece porcelain set costing 1.4 million yuan, a large
jade seal, and two imperial robes costing 400,000 yuan each. He
was frustrated his short-lived attempt to restore monarchy by the
National Protection War that arose to oppose his attempt to return
China to monarchy, and by his death from uremia in Beijing,
Republic Of China at the age of 56. He is buried at The Tomb Of
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Today, September 16, 2026
September 16, 1945: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
The Pacific Theater Of World War II): China: The History Of China:
The Century Of Humiliation (The Hundred Years Of National
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Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to
the Empire of Japan on December 25 (Christmas Day) 1941. His
surrender occurred after 18 days of fierce fighting against the
Japanese forces that invaded the territory. The occupation lasted
for three years and eight months until Japan surrendered at the
end of the Second World War. The length of the period, three years
and eight months, later became a metonym of the occupation: "Three
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September 16, 1903: #BOTD: #HBD! Joe
Venuti, American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist
considered the father of jazz violin (d. August 14, 1978) is #born
Giuseppe Venuti in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Joe Venuti
pioneered the use of string instruments in jazz along with the
guitarist Eddie Lang, a friend since childhood. Through the 1920s
and early 1930s, Venuti and Lang made many recordings as leader
and as featured soloists. He and Lang became so well known for
their 'hot' violin and guitar solos that on many commercial dance
recordings they were hired to do 12 or 24 bar duos towards the end
of otherwise stock dance arrangements. In 1926, Venuti and Lang
started recording for the OKeh label as a duet (after a solitary
duet issued on Columbia), followed by "Blue Four"
combinations, which are considered milestone jazz recordings.
Venuti also recorded commercial dance records for OKeh under the
name "New Yorkers". He worked with Paul Whiteman, Benny
Goodman, Adrian Rollini, the Dorsey Brothers, Bing Crosby, Bix
Beiderbecke, Jack Teagarden, Frank Signorelli, the Boswell
Sisters, and most of the other important white jazz and semi-jazz
figures of the late 1920s and early 1930s. However, following
Lang's death in 1933, Venuti's career began to wane, though he
continued performing through the 1930s, recording a series of
commercial dance records (usually containing a Venuti violin solo)
for the dime store labels, as well as OKeh and Columbia, plus the
occasional jazz small group sessions. He was also a strong early
influence on western swing players like Cecil Brower. Many of the
1920s OKeh sides continued to sell and remained in print through
1935 when ARC discontinued the OKeh label and reissued selected
sides on the 35-cent Vocalion label (the OKeh label was revived by
CBS in 1940). After a period of relative obscurity in the 1940s
and 1950s, Venuti played violin and other instruments with Jack
Statham at the Desert Inn Hotel in Las Vegas. Statham headed
several musical groups that played at the Desert Inn from late
1961 until 1965, including a Dixieland combo. Venuti was with him
during that time, and was active with the Las Vegas Symphony
Orchestra during the 1960s. He was 'rediscovered' in the late
1960s. In the 1970s, he established a musical relationship with
tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims resulting in three recordings. In
1976, he recorded an album of duets with pianist Earl Hines
entitled Hot Sonatas. He also recorded an entire album with
country-jazz musicians including mandolinist Jethro Burns (of
Homer & Jethro), pedal steel guitarist Curly Chalker and
former Bob Wills sideman and guitarist Eldon Shamblin. Joe Venuti
died of either cancer or a heart attack in Seattle, Washington,
aged 74. He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon,
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Today, September 16, 2026
September 16, 1925: #BOTD: #HBD! B.B.
King, African American blues singer, electric guitarist,
songwriter, and record producer (d. May 14, 2015) is #born Riley
B. King (the middle B is the whole middle name) on the Berclair
cotton plantation in Berclair, Mississippi near the city of Itta
Bena, Mississippi, the son of sharecroppers Albert and Nora Ella
King. He considered the nearby city of Indianola, Mississippi, to
be his home. It was as a guitarist and radio DJ that King adopted
the nickname "Beale Street Blues Boy," which was
shortened to "Blues Boy" and finally, B.B.. B.B. King
introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string
bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric
blues guitarists. King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in 1987, and is considered one of the most influential blues
musicians of all time, earning the nickname "The King Of The
Blues", and is considered one of the "Three Kings Of The
Blues Guitar" (along with Albert and Freddie King). King was
known for performing tirelessly throughout his musical career,
appearing on average at more than 200 concerts per year into his
70s. In 1956 alone, he reportedly appeared at 342 shows. King
worked at a cotton gin in Indianola, Mississippi. He was attracted
to music and the guitar in church, and began his career in juke
joints and local radio. He later lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and
Chicago, and toured the world extensively. King died from
congestive heart failure and complications from diabetes at the
age of 89 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is buried at the B.B. King
Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Mississippi. On
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Today, September 16, 2026
September 16, 1927: #BOTD: #HBD! Peter
Falk, American film and television actor, best known for his role
as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running NBC series Columbo
(1968-1978, 1989-2003), for which he won four Primetime Emmy
Awards (1972, 1975, 1976, 1990) and a Golden Globe Award (1973),
ranked No. 21 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list
(d. June 23, 2011) is #born Peter Michael Falk in The Bronx, New
York City into a Jewish family from Poland and Russia on his
father's side and from Hungary and Poland on his mother's side.
Falk's right eye was surgically removed when he was three because
of a retinoblastoma. He wore an artificial eye for most of his
life. The artificial eye was the cause of his trademark squint.
Despite this limitation, as a boy he participated in team sports,
mainly baseball and basketball. In a 1997 interview in Cigar
Aficionado magazine with Arthur Marx, Falk said: "I remember
once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I
was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed
it to him and said, 'Try this.' I got such a laugh you wouldn't
believe. Falk was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actor, for Murder, Inc. (1960) and Pocketful of
Miracles (1961), and won his first Emmy Award in 1962 for The Dick
Powell Theatre. He was the first actor to be nominated for an
Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year, achieving the
feat twice (1961 and 1962). He went on to appear in such films as
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), The Great Race (1965),
Anzio (1968), Murder by Death (1976), The Cheap Detective (1978),
The Brink's Job (1978), The In-Laws (1979), The Princess Bride
(1987), Wings of Desire (1987), The Player (1992), and Next
(2007), as well as many television guest roles. He first starred
as Columbo in two 2-hour "World Premiere" TV pilots; the
first with Gene Barry in 1968 and the second with Lee Grant in
1971. The show then aired as part of The NBC Mystery Movie series
from 1971 to 1978, and again on ABC from 1989 to 2003. Falk was
also known for his collaborations with filmmaker, actor, and
personal friend John Cassavetes acting in films such as Husbands
(1970), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Elaine May's Mikey and
Nicky (1976) and the Columbo episode "Etude in Black"
(1972). Peter Falk died in the evening at his longtime home on
Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills at the age of 83. His death was
primarily caused by pneumonia, with complications of Alzheimer's
being a secondary and underlying cause. His daughters said they
would remember his "wisdom and humor". He is buried at
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles,
California. His death was marked by tributes from many film
celebrities including Jonah Hill and Stephen Fry. Steven Spielberg
said, "I learned more about acting from him at that early
stage of my career than I had from anyone else". Rob Reiner
said: "He was a completely unique actor", and went on to
say that Falk's work with Alan Arkin in The In-Laws was "one
of the most brilliant comedy pairings we've seen on screen".
His epitaph reads "I'm not here, I'm home with Shera"
(Shera Danese, his wife). He received a posthumous star on the
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Today, September 16, 2026
September 16, 1924: #BOTD: #HBD! Lauren
Bacall, American actress, activist and beauty known for her
distinctive voice and sultry looks (d. August 12,2014) is #born
Betty Joan Perske to Jewish parents in The Bronx, New York City.
She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood
cinema by the American Film Institute and received an Academy
Honorary Award from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And
Sciences in 2009 for recognition of her contribution to the Golden
Age of motion pictures. Bacall began a career as a model before
making her film debut as a leading lady in To Have and Have Not
(1944) at the age of 19. She continued in the film noir genre with
appearances with Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark
Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948), and she starred in the
romantic comedies How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn
Monroe and Betty Grable, and Designing Woman (1957) with Gregory
Peck. She co-starred with John Wayne in his final film The
Shootist (1976) by Wayne's personal request. She also worked on
Broadway in musicals, earning Tony Awards for Applause (1970) and
Woman of the Year (1981). She won a Golden Globe Award and was
nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in The Mirror
Has Two Faces (1996). Lauren Bacall died of a a massive stroke.
one month before her 90th birthday at her longtime apartment in
The Dakota, the Upper West Side building near Central Park in
Manhattan. She is buried along with her first husband Humphrey
Bogart at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Los Angeles
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Today, September 16, 2026
September 15-27, 1959: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1953-1962): Soviet
Union-United States Relations: Soviet Union-United States
Conferences: The State Visit Of Nikita Khrushchev To The United
States (September 15-27, 1959): Day 2, September 16, 1959: 9:40AM
-- Khrushchev departs Washington, D.C. for the Agricultural
Experiment Station in Beltsville, Maryland where he allegedly
complains that the pigs are too fat and the turkeys are too small.
The state visit of Nikita Khrushchev to the United States was a
13-day visit from September 15-27, 1959. It marked the first state
visit of a Soviet leader to the US. Khrushchev, then General
Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman
of the Council of Ministers, was also the first ethnic Ukrainian
leader to set foot in the Western Hemisphere. Being the first
visit by a leader of his kind, the coverage of it resulted in an
extended media circus.
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Today, September 16, 2026September 16, 1975: Aviation: The History
Of Aviation: The History Of Civil Aviation: Maiden Flights: -- The
first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its first
flight. The Mikoyan MiG-31 (NATO reporting name: Foxhound) is a
supersonic interceptor aircraft developed for use by the Soviet
Air Forces. The aircraft was designed by the Mikoyan design bureau
as a replacement for the earlier MiG-25 "Foxbat"; the
MiG-31 is based on, and shares design elements with the MiG-25.
The MiG-31 has the distinction of being one of the fastest combat
jets in the world. It continues to be operated by the Russian Air
Force and the Kazakhstan Air Force following the end of the Cold
War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Russian
Defence Ministry expects the MiG-31 to remain in service until at
least 2030.
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Today, September 16, 2026September 16, 1956: #DOTD: #RIP: Klaus
Landsberg, pioneering German-American electrical engineer,
inventor, producer and station manager who made history with early
commercial telecasts and who helped pave the way for today's
television networks (b. July 7, 1916) #dies of cancer in Los
Angeles, California, aged 39. His burial details are not publicly
disclosed. Klaus Landsberg was born in Berlin, German Empire. In
1947, KTLA Channel 5, a Los Angeles Television station funded by
Paramount and helmed by Klaus Landsberg, began regular commercial
broadcasts, the first commercial television station west of the
Mississippi River. The first KTLA commercial broadcast was January
22, 1947, hosted by Bob Hope. By 1948, KTLA boasted a show lineup
that included Spade Cooley, The Ina Ray Hutton Show, The
Continental Lover, Time for Beany, Korla Pandit's Adventures in
Music and Hollywood Wrestling. KTLA went on to be the first to do
many things in the history of television and broadcast journalism.
Landsberg appeared in many plays during his in Germany childhood.
In his early teens, he combined his technical skill and expressed
desire to pursue his strong artistic inclination, setting out to
prove that the two could be successfully blended. In 1936 he was
called upon to assist in the history-making telecast of the Berlin
Olympic Games. In 1937 Klaus was appointed laboratory engineer and
assistant to Dr. Arthur Korn, the inventor of picture telegraphy.
During this association, Landsberg himself created many new
electronic devices. The most outstanding of these achievements was
the invention of an electronic aid to navigation and blind
landings, considered so vital to the Third Reich that upon being
patented was declared a military secret, which Landsberg was
determined to destroy as a Nazi weapon (he was successful). This
basic radar principle later became Landsberg's passport to America
when he fled Nazi Germany in 1938. Following his arrival in the
US, Farnsworth Television, Inc. hired Klaus Landsberg as
Television Development Engineer in Philadelphia in 1938. In 1939
he went to New York for the National Broadcasting Company
television division. During this period, Landsberg helped NBC make
possible the first public demonstrations of electronic television
in America, at the April 30, 1939 opening of the New York World's
Fair. Allen B. DuMont recognized Landsberg's qualifications, and
signed him as television design and development engineer for the
New York-based DuMont Laboratories, a pioneer United States
television organization. There he supervised technical operations
of the television unit at the U.S. Army Maneuvers in Cantons, New
York, developing automatic synchronizing circuits. In 1939 he was
contracted to build DuMont's station WABD, as well as produce the
station's first shows. In 1941 Klaus was sent by Paramount
Pictures to Los Angeles to build W6XYZ, an experimental television
station. He ran the experimental station from 1942 to 1947, during
which time he produced Paramount's first kinescope.
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Today, September 16, 2026September 16, 1996: #DOTD: #RIP: McGeorge
Bundy, nicknamed "Mac", American intelligence officer,
diplomat, educator, and philanthropist, foreign-policy
intellectual expert in defense policy, serving as the 6th United
States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and
Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 through 1966, one of the "wise
men" who played a crucial role in all of the major foreign
policy and defense decisions of the Kennedy administration and was
retained by Lyndon B. Johnson for part of his tenure, president of
the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979is best remembered for
his direct involvement in the Kennedy administration's
deliberations regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis as one of the
chief architects of the United States' escalation of the Vietnam
War during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations (b. March 30,
1919) #dies of a heart attack at the age of 77 in the town of his
birth, Boston, Massachusetts. He is buried in Mount Auburn
Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. McGeorge Bundy was born into
a prosperous family long involved in Republican politics. Mac
Bundy served as an intelligence officer during World War II, and
in 1949 he was selected for The Council On Foreign Relations. He
worked with a study team on implementation of the Marshall Plan.
He was appointed as a professor of government at Harvard
University, and in 1953 as its youngest dean of the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences, working to develop Harvard as a merit-based
university. In 1961 he joined Kennedy's administration. After
serving at the Ford Foundation, in 1979 he returned to academia as
professor of history at New York University, and later as scholar
in residence at the Carnegie Corporation.
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Today, September 16, 2026September 16, 2019: #DOTD: #RIP: Sander
Vanocur, American television journalist who focused on U.S.
national electoral politics (b. January 8, 1928) #dies aged 91 in
Santa Barbara, California from complications caused by dementia.
His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Sander Vanocur was
born Alexander Vinocur in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Rose
(Millman) and Louis Vinocur, a lawyer. His family was of Russian
Jewish descent. Sander "Sandy" Vanocur moved to Peoria,
Illinois when he was twelve years old. After attending Western
Military Academy in Alton, Illinois, he earned a bachelor's degree
in political science from the Northwestern University School of
Speech (1950) and studied at the London School of Economics
(1951-52). After serving for two years in the U.S. Army, he began
his journalism career as a reporter on the London staff of The
Manchester Guardian and also did general reporting for The New
York Times. Described as "one of the country's most prominent
political reporters during the 1960s," Vanocur served as
White House correspondent and national political correspondent for
NBC News in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was one of the
questioners at the first of the Kennedy-Nixon debates in 1960. He
was also chosen as one of the questioners in the 1992 presidential
debate, as well as one of NBC's "four horsemen," its
floor reporters at the political conventions in the 1960s-the
other three were John Chancellor, Frank McGee, and Edwin Newman.
While White House correspondent during the Kennedy administration,
Vanocur was one of the first reporters to publicly ask Kennedy to
justify the failure of the Bay Of Pigs Invasion. Vanocur also
dubbed Kennedy's coterie the "Irish mafia." Later,
Vanocur covered the 1968 United States presidential election in
which United States Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. Vanocur,
who had interviewed Kennedy on June 4, 1968, shortly before the
Democratic candidate was shot, reported on the incident from The
Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, for the entire night.
Kennedy died the following day at Good Samaritan Hospital. On the
final night of the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami
Beach, during a convention-wrapping Thursday night round-table
discussion with his fellow NBC floor reporters in the vacated
folding chairs on the convention hall floor, Vanocur suggested
that the Republicans had "kissed off the black vote" in
1968, a comment which caused a media uproar in the ensuing week.
Vanocur also served as host of First Tuesday, a monthly
newsmagazine that premiered in 1969 and continued after Vanocur
left the network. His work at NBC earned him a place on the Nixon
administration's "enemies list". After leaving NBC in
1971, Vanocur worked for PBS and as a television writer for The
Washington Post. He joined ABC News in 1977 and worked there until
1991, holding various positions, including Chief Diplomatic
Correspondent, Senior Correspondent in Buenos Aires, and anchor
for Business World, the first regularly scheduled weekly business
program. He covered the 1997, 1998, and 1999 World Economic
Summits and was Chief Overview Correspondent during the 1980 and
1984 presidential elections. In 1984, Vanocur moderated the Vice
Presidential debate between incumbent George H. W. Bush and
Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro. He made a cameo appearance as
himself in the movie Dave and was one of the major performers,
again playing himself, in the sci-fi television special Without
Warning as one of the main news anchors linking the various scenes
together. Vanocur hosted two of the History Channel's primetime
series: Movies in Time and History's Business. Vanocur married his
first wife, fashion designer Edith Pick, on March 3, 1956, and
they had two sons, Nicholas and Christopher Vanocur. Christopher
is a television news reporter and a former news anchor in Salt
Lake City television market. After Edith's death in April, 1975,
Vanocur married Virginia Backus Wood on December 19, 1975. The
1971 comedy film Cold Turkey depicts a national news anchor whose
name is "Sandy Van Andy."
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Monarchy In The UK: British Royal History DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, September 16, 2026September 16, 1701: #DOTD: #RIP: James II
Of England, King Of England and King Of Ireland as James II, King
Of Scotland as James VII, deposed in the Glorious Revolution of
1688, the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland
(b. October 24, 1633) #dies of a brain hemorrhage at
Saint-Germain-en, France, aged 67. James's heart was placed in a
silver-gilt locket and given to the convent at Chaillot, Paris,
France, and his brain was placed in a lead casket and given to the
Scots College in Paris. His entrails were placed in two gilt urns
and sent to the parish church of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the
English Jesuit college at Saint-Omer, while the flesh from his
right arm was given to the English Augustinian nuns of Paris. The
rest of James's body was laid to rest in a triple sarcophagus
(consisting of two wooden coffins and one of lead) at the St
Edmund's Chapel in the Church Of The English Benedictines in the
Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, France, with a funeral oration by
Henri-Emmanuel de Roquette. James was not buried, but put in one
of the side chapels. Lights were kept burning round his coffin
until the French Revolution. In 1734, the Archbishop of Paris
heard evidence to support James's canonisation, but nothing came
of it. During the French Revolution, James's tomb was raided.
James's younger daughter Anne succeeded him when James II's
deposer, William III of England, died on March 19, 1702. James
II's reign is now remembered primarily for conflicts over
religious tolerance, but it also involved struggles over the
principles of absolutism and the divine right of kings. His
deposition ended a century of political and civil strife in
England by confirming the primacy of the English Parliament over
the Crown. James II Of England was born James Stuart at St James's
Palace, Westminster, England. James succeeded to the thrones of
England, Ireland and Scotland following the death of his brother,
with widespread support in all three countries, largely because
the principles of eligibility based on divine right and birth were
widely accepted. Tolerance of his personal Catholicism did not
extend to tolerance of Catholicism in general, and the English and
Scottish parliaments refused to pass his measures. When James
attempted to impose them by decree, this was met with opposition;
some academics have, however, argued that it was a political
principle, rather than a religious one, that ultimately led to his
removal. In June 1688, two events turned dissent into a crisis.
Firstly, the birth of James's son and heir James Francis Edward
Stuart on June 10 raised the prospect of establishing a Catholic
dynasty and excluding his Anglican daughter Mary and her
Protestant husband William III, Prince of Orange, who was also his
nephew, from the line of succession. Secondly, the prosecution of
the Seven Bishops for seditious libel was viewed as further
evidence of an assault on the Church of England, and their
acquittal on 30 June destroyed his political authority in England.
The ensuing anti-Catholic riots in England and Scotland led to a
general feeling that only James's removal from the throne could
prevent a civil war. Leading members of the English political
class invited William of Orange to assume the English throne. When
William landed in Brixham on 5 November 1688, James's army
deserted and he went into exile in France on 23 December. In
February 1689, a special Convention Parliament held that James had
"vacated" the English throne and installed William and
Mary as joint monarchs, thereby establishing the principle that
sovereignty derived from Parliament, not birth. James landed in
Ireland on 14 March 1689 in an attempt to recover his kingdoms,
but, despite a simultaneous rising in Scotland, in April a
Scottish Convention followed that of England, both finding that
James had "forfeited" the throne and offered it to
William and Mary. After his defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in
July 1690, James returned to France, where he spent the rest of
his life in exile at Saint-Germain, protected by Louis XIV. While
his contemporary opponents often portrayed him as an absolutist
tyrant, some historians-beginning in the 20th century-have praised
James for advocating religious tolerance. More recent scholarship
has tended to take a middle ground between these views.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Monarchy In The UK: British Royal History DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, September 16, 2026September 16, 1701: The English Monarchy
(The Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of England): Royal Pretensions:
Pretensions To The English, Scottish And Irish Thrones: -- James
Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called "The Old Pretender",
the senior House Of Stuart claimant to the thrones of England,
Ireland and Scotland upon the death of his father, the deposed
James II and VII, lays claim to both thrones, but is instead
replaced by his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband, William
III of Orange, who was also his nephew. James Francis Edward
Stuart (June 10, 1688 - January 1, 1766) was born in St. James's
Palace, London, Kingdom of England. Raised primarily in France and
Italy, he was The House Of Stuart claimant to the thrones of
England, Ireland and Scotland from 1701 until his death in 1766.
The only son of James II of England and his second wife, Mary of
Modena, he was Prince Of Wales and heir until his Catholic father
was deposed and exiled in The Glorious Revolution of 1688. His
Protestant half-sister Mary II and her husband William III became
co-monarchs. As a Catholic, he was subsequently excluded from the
succession by The Act Of Settlement 1701. As part of The War Of
The Spanish Succession, in 1708 Louis XIV of France backed a
landing in Scotland on his behalf. This failed, as did further
attempts in 1715 and 1719. Led by his elder son Charles Edward
Stuart, the 1745 Rising was the last serious effort to restore The
House Of Stuart. After a lingering illness, James died aged 77 at
his home, the Palazzo Muti in Rome, Italy and was buried in the
crypt of St. Peter's Basilica in present-day Vatican City. His
grave is marked by The Monument To The Royal Stuarts. His claimed
reign had lasted for 64 years, 3 months and 16 days, longer than
any British monarch until Queen Elizabeth II's reign surpassed it
on May 23, 2016. His two sons, Charles Edward Stuart and Henry
Benedict Stuart, are buried with him.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Golden Age Of Rock 'N' Roll DVD, MP4 Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, September 16, 2026September 16, 2015: #DOTD: #RIP: Lady Bo,
African American rock and roll pioneer, nicknamed The Queen Mother
Of Guitar, one of the first - perhaps the first - female rock
guitarists in a highly visible rock band, rhythm guitar player in
Bo Diddley's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s (b. July 19,
1940) #dies at the age of 75. Her place of death and cause of
death is still unknown, and her burial details are not publicly
disclosed. Lady Bo was born Peggy Jones in Harlem, New York City.
Jones grew up in the Sugar Hill section, and attended the High
School of Performing Arts where she studied tap and ballet dance
and trained in opera. Even from a very young age, she found
herself completely consumed with music; purchasing her first
guitar at the age of 15. She was briefly in a local doo-wop group,
the Bop Chords, which disbanded in 1957. Jones met Bo Diddley in
1956 backstage after playing with the Bop-Chords in the Apollo
Theater. Bo Diddley was impressed to see a girl with a guitar
case, and this chance meeting led to an invitation to join
Diddley's band as a guitarist and singer. She recorded with him
from 1957 to approximately 1963, appearing on singles including
"Hey! Bo Diddley", "Road Runner", "Bo
Diddley's A Gunslinger", and the instrumental "Aztec"
which she wrote and played all the guitar parts. Throughout her
time with Diddley, Jones maintained the separate career she had
begun independently as a songwriter, session musician, and
bandleader. She led her own band, the Jewels (also known as the
Fabulous Jewels, Lady Bo and the Family Jewels, and various other
names, but not to be confused with The Jewels), which became a top
R & B band on the New York - Boston east coast club scene the
1960s and 1970s. She eventually left Diddley's band to concentrate
on the Jewels and other activities. She was replaced with another
female guitarist, Norma-Jean Wofford ("The Duchess"). In
1970, she re-joined Bo Diddley's band, bringing The Jewels with
her. Jones was known for playing the Roland guitar synthesizer, an
experimental instrument not typically heard in rhythm and blues
music. Jones played guitar on Les Cooper's 1962 instrumental
"Wiggle Wobble" and percussion on the 1967 hit "San
Franciscan Nights" by Eric Burdon and The Animals and other
recordings and later backed James Brown and Sam & Dave. She
remained musically active well into the 21st century. Many assumed
that Lady Bo and Bo Diddley were a couple, considering her given
name, but that was not the case. She was married to the band's
bass player, Wally Malone. .
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Mrs.
Fenwick Went To Washington: Millicent Fenwick DVD, Download, USB
Today, September 16, 2026September 16, 1992: #DOTD: #RIP:
Millicent Fenwick, American journalist, fashion editor, politician
and diploma, four-term Republican member of the United States
House Of Representatives from New Jersey (b. February 25, 1910)
#dies of heart failure in her home town of Bernardsville, New
Jersey, aged 82. She is buried at Saint Bernards Cemetery in
Bernardsville. Millicent Vernon Hammond Fenwick was born Millicent
Vernon Hammond in New York City, the middle of the three children
of politician and later Ambassador to Spain Ogden Haggerty Hammond
(October 13, 1869 - October 29, 1956) of Louisville, Kentucky and
his first wife, Mary Picton Stevens (May 16, 1885 - May 7, 1915)
of Hoboken, New Jersey. Millicent Fenwick entered politics late in
life and was renowned for her energy and colorful enthusiasm. She
was regarded as a moderate and progressive within her party and
was outspoken in favor of civil rights and the women's movement.
She was considered the inspiration behind Lacey Davenport, a
fictional character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury.
Walter Cronkite called her "the conscience of Congress".
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
11-22-63: The Day The Nation Cried John F. Kennedy DVD, MP4, USB
Drive
Today, September 16, 2026September 16, 2009: #DOTD: #RIP: Mary
Travers, American singer, songwriter and beauty, founding member
of the folk music group Peter, Paul and Mary along with Peter
Yarrow and Paul Stooke (b. November 9, 1936) #dies aged 72 from
complications related to her 2004 marrow transplant and other
treatments. She is buried at Umpawaug Cemetery in Redding,
Connecticut. Peter, Paul and Mary was one of the most successful
folk music groups of the 1960s. Travers, unlike most folk
musicians of the early 1960s who were a part of the burgeoning
music scene, grew up in New York City's Greenwich Village. A
contralto, Travers released five solo albums in addition to her
work with Peter, Paul and Mary. Mary Allin Travers was born in
Louisville, Kentucky to Robert Travers and Virginia Coigney,
journalists and active organizers of The Newspaper Guild, a trade
union. In 1938, the family moved to Greenwich Village in New York
City. Mary attended the progressive Little Red School House, where
she met musical icons like Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson. Robeson
sang her lullabies. Travers did not graduate from high school; she
left school in the 11th grade to become a member of the Song
Swappers folk group. The Song Swappers sang backup for Pete Seeger
on four reissue albums in 1955, when Folkways Records reissued a
collection of Seeger's pro-union folk songs, "Talking Union".
Travers regarded her singing as a hobby and was shy about it, but
was encouraged by fellow musicians. She also was in the cast of
the Broadway show The Next President. The group Peter, Paul and
Mary was formed in 1961, and was an immediate success. They shared
a manager, Albert Grossman, with Bob Dylan. Their success with
Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" helped
propel Dylan's Freewheelin' album into the U.S. Top 30 four months
after its release. An Associated Press obituary noted:" The
group's first album [Peter, Paul and Mary] came out in 1962 and
immediately scored hits with their versions of "If I Had a
Hammer" and "Lemon Tree". The former won them
Grammys for best folk recording and best performance by a vocal
group. Their next album, Moving, included the hit tale of
innocence lost, "Puff, The Magic Dragon", which reached
No. 2 on the U.S. charts . The trio's third album, In the Wind,
featured three songs by the 22-year-old Bob Dylan. "Don't
Think Twice, It's All Right" and "Blowin' in the Wind"
reached the [U.S.] top 10, bringing Dylan's material to a massive
audience; the latter shipped 300,000 copies during one two-week
period. At one point in 1963, three of their albums were in the
top six Billboard best-selling LPs [in the U.S.] as they became
the biggest stars of the folk revival movement. Their version of
[Pete Seeger's] "If I Had a Hammer" became an anthem for
racial equality, as did Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind",
which they performed at the August 1963 March On Washington."
Peter, Paul and Mary broke up in 1970. The band broke up shortly
after having their biggest UK hit, singer-songwriter John Denver's
poignant ballad "Leaving on a Jet Plane" (originally
titled "Babe I Hate To Go") (UK No. 2, February 1970);
the song made No. 1 on both the U.S. Billboard and Cash Box charts
in December 1969 and was the group's only number one hit. Travers
subsequently pursued a solo career and recorded five albums: Mary
(1971), Morning Glory (1972), All My Choices (1973), Circles
(1974) and It's in Everyone of Us (1978). Peter, Paul and Mary
re-formed in 1978, toured extensively, and issued many new albums.
The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999.
Travers was married four times. Her first brief union, to John
Filler, produced her older daughter, Erika, in 1960. In 1963, she
married Barry Feinstein, a prominent freelance photographer of
musicians and celebrities. Her younger daughter, Alicia, was born
in 1966, and the couple divorced the following year. In the 1970s,
she was married to Gerald Taylor, publisher of National Lampoon.
Following her marriage to Taylor, Travers had a relationship for
several years with former Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste
while raising her daughters in New York. In 1991, she married
restaurateur Ethan Robbins; Travers lived with Robbins in the
small town of Redding, Connecticut, for the remainder of her life.
In 2004, Travers was diagnosed with leukemia. A bone marrow
transplant in 2005 induced a temporary remission, but she died on
September 16, 2009, at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, from
complications related to the marrow transplant and other
treatments. She was 72 years old. In addition to her husband,
survivors included daughters Erika and Alicia; her sister, the
educator and psychologist Ann Gordon; and two granddaughters,
Virginia and Wylly. She was buried at Umpawaug Cemetery in
Redding, Connecticut. A memorial service for Travers was held on
November 9, 2009, at Riverside Church In New York City. The
four-hour service, on what would have been her seventy-third
birthday, was attended by a capacity crowd. Two of the many
reflections shared at the service speak to the impact of Mary
Travers's work and the significance of her legacy. Feminist Gloria
Steinem commented that with her poise and conviction as a
performer, Ms. Travers "seemed to us to be a free woman, and
that helped us to be free." Folk singer and co-founder of the
Newport Folk Festival, Theodore Bikel, mused on her roles as
political activist and glamorous pop-music touchstone.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Maria
Callas: An Operatic Biography 1988 DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, September 16, 2026September 16, 1977: #DOTD: #RIP: Maria
Callas, American-born Greek soprano, actress and beauty, one of
the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th
century (b. December 2, 1923) #dies in Paris, France of a heart
attack at age 53. A funerary liturgy was held at St Stephen's
Greek Orthodox Cathedral on rue Georges-Bizet, Paris on September
20, 1977. She was later cremated at Paris' famed Pere Lachaise
Cemetery and her ashes were placed in the columbarium there. After
being stolen and later recovered, they were scattered over the
Aegean Sea, off the coast of Greece, according to her wish, in the
spring of 1979. Maria Callas was born Sophie Cecilia Kalos at
Flower Hospital (now the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care
Center), 1249 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City (she was
christened Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos). Many critics
praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic
interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria
to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini and,
further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early
career, to the music dramas of Wagner. Her musical and dramatic
talents led to her being hailed as La Divina. Born to Greek
immigrant parents, she was raised by an overbearing mother who had
wanted a son. Maria received her musical education in Greece at
age 13 and later established her career in Italy. Forced to deal
with the exigencies of 1940s wartime poverty and with
near-sightedness that left her nearly blind onstage, she endured
struggles and scandal over the course of her career. She turned
herself from a heavy woman into a svelte and glamorous one after a
mid-career weight loss, which might have contributed to her vocal
decline and the premature end of her career. The press exulted in
publicizing Callas's temperamental behavior, her supposed rivalry
with Renata Tebaldi and her love affair with Greek shipping tycoon
Aristotle Onassis. Although her dramatic life and personal tragedy
have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press,
her artistic achievements were such that Leonard Bernstein called
her "the Bible of opera" and her influence so enduring
that, in 2006, Opera News wrote of her: "Nearly thirty years
after her death, she's still the definition of the diva as
artist-and still one of classical music's best-selling vocalists."
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