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Third Sunday in September: September 20,
2026: National Wife Appreciation Day: -- An annual celebration for
spouses to show appreciation to their wives. Every day, spouses do
things for each other, sometimes without thinking. Other times,
work and responsibilities get in the way. This observance offers a
way to remind husbands to show a little appreciation to their
wives. This particular observance sets aside time for couples who
have no children. Not every woman is a mother, either by chance or
choice. Since so many holidays celebrate families with children,
this day offers a day for those who remained childless. Couples
may choose to celebrate the day traditionally with a gift of
flowers, perfume, jewelry or clothing. However, other options
include a day at a spa, tickets to a show or dinner at a nice
restaurant. A foot massage and cooking breakfast or dinner at home
can also say, "Thank you for all the things you do every day.
I appreciate them." While research by NationalDayCalendar.com
did not uncover the source of the day, they did identify the
underlying meaning of Wife Appreciation Day. Even though it
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September 20: National Fried Rice Day: --
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fried rice stars as the centerpiece of the meal. Its flavor
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September 20: National Pepperoni Pizza
Day: -- An annual day of recognition of the most popular pizza
ever created! While pizza comes with many different toppings,
pepperoni is the single most popular pizza. Whether you like your
pizza Chicago Style or New York Style, thin and crispy or deep
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created the pie-shaped delicacy. In the queen's honor, he named it
Pizza Margherita and topped the pizza with tomatoes, basil, and
mozzarella. The colors represent the Italian flag. Since then,
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September 20: National Punch Day: -- An
annual celebration of the great thirst-quenching beverage! A wide
assortment of drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, fall into
the category of punch. A combination of fruit juice and a
carbonated beverage, the colorful, bubbly drink sparkles with
party personality. In fact, parties, weddings, and other
celebrations serve punch as part of the centerpiece at the
beverage table. Large wide bowls known as punch bowls provide a
beautiful vessel for serving punch. In the early 17th century,
punch made its appearance. It's believed sailors en route to
England via India created the drink. Punch quickly grew in
popularity and soon spread to other countries. The word punch is a
loanword from Hindi panch (meaning five). Originally, punch was
made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea
or spices. It was called paantsch. Soft drink manufacturers today
distribute many types of "fruit punch" beverages. Most
punch mixes are red in color. However, despite the name, they
contain a small fraction of fruit juice. Sugar, corn syrup, citric
acid, and artificial flavors make up the main ingredients. To
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September 20: National Care For Kids Day:
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foundation for building strong communities and society as a whole,
offering an opportunity for you to positively impact a child's
life in a variety of ways both large and small. We all know there
are many ways to be a role model in a child's life. Every day in
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teaching children art and science. National Care For Kids Day asks
you to step forward-to act on your ideas, donate and share your
time, creating more stories of inspiration. It's a day to
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September 20: National Crime And
Intelligence Analyst Appreciation Day: -- A day that honors the
work of crime and intelligence analysts in the U.S. - and it could
not come at a better time. Here's why: according to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, there are currently over three million federal,
state, and local law enforcement officers working across the
country. With so many people dedicated to protecting the country,
it can be easy for analysts to feel overlooked. However, without
the hard work of these analysts, police officers wouldn't be able
to do their jobs as effectively - and this is especially true
today. Crime analysts collect and analyze data from various
sources and locations. It could include anything from police
records to government statistics or even social media networks -
whatever it takes to gain insight into criminal activity so those
police departments can better understand what's going on in their
communities. The information they uncover is used to help inform
police officers about how they can most effectively fight crime,
as well as inform citizens on how they can protect themselves
against it. Identifying trends in criminal behavior helps law
enforcement predict when and where crimes might occur, which
allows them to allocate resources where they are needed. National
Crime & Intelligence Analyst Appreciation Day was first
recognized in 2021 by the Florida Crime & Intelligence Analyst
Association (F.C.I.A.A.). It was formed in 1995 as a non-profit
organization to foster the professional development of
Intelligence Analysts and investigators. With over 200 members
across the state, it has become a pillar in intelligence analysis,
providing education, training opportunities, and networking events
for analysts at every level. The F.C.I.A.A. began designing
certification courses for law enforcement analysts in late 2019.
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September 20, 1519: The Age Of Discovery
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Expedition (Armada De Molucca, Armada De Molucas, [Spanish: "The
Molucca Navy"] (Fleet Of The Moluccas): -- Ferdinand Magellan
sets sail from Sanlucar de Barrameda with the 270 men and five
ships of The Armada De Molucca to find a western route to the
Moluccas (Spice Islands). Three years later, on September 6, 1522,
the Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's
expedition, returned to Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming
the first ship to circumnavigate the world, under the command of
Juan Sebastian Elcano, who took command after Magellan's death in
the Philippines. The fleet had sailed across the Atlantic ocean
and down the eastern coast of South America, eventually
discovering the Strait of Magellan, allowing them to pass through
to the Pacific Ocean (which Magellan named). The fleet completed
the first Pacific crossing, stopping in the Philippines, and
eventually reached the Moluccas after two years. A much-depleted
crew led by Elcano finally returned to Spain on 6 September 1522,
having sailed west across the great Indian Ocean, then around the
Cape of Good Hope through waters controlled by the Portuguese and
north along the West African coast to eventually arrive in Spain.
The Victoria (or Nao Victoria, as well as Vittoria) was a Spanish
carrack or nao, as were all the other ships in the expedition
(except Santiago, which was a caravel) that began on August 10,
1519 with five ships. However, Victoria was the only ship to
complete the voyage. The four other ships were Trinidad (110 tons,
crew 55), San Antonio (120 tons, crew 60), Concepcion (90 tons,
crew 45), and Santiago (75 tons, crew 32). Trinidad, Magellan's
flagship, Concepcion, and Santiago were wrecked or scuttled; San
Antonio deserted the expedition during the navigation of the
Straits of Magellan and returned to Europe on her own. Magellan
did not complete the entire voyage because he was killed during
the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines in 1521. Victoria was
built at a shipyard in Gipuzkoa, with the Basques being reputed
shipbuilders at the time, and along with the four other ships, she
was given to Magellan by King Charles I of Spain (The Holy Roman
Emperor Charles V). Victoria was named after the church of Santa
Maria de la Victoria de Triana, where Magellan took an oath of
allegiance to Charles V. Victoria was an 85-ton ship with a crew
of 42. Ferdinand Magellan was born into a Portuguese noble family
in around 1480 (d. 27 April 1521). Magellan became a skilled
sailor and naval officer and was eventually selected by King
Charles I of Spain to search for a westward route to the Maluku
Islands (the "Spice Islands"). Commanding a fleet of
five vessels, he headed south through the Atlantic Ocean to
Patagonia, passing through the Strait of Magellan into a body of
water he named the "peaceful sea" (the modern Pacific
Ocean). Despite a series of storms and mutinies, the expedition
reached the Spice Islands in 1521 and returned home via the Indian
Ocean to complete the first circuit of the globe. Magellan did not
complete the entire voyage, as he was killed during the Battle of
Mactan in the Philippines in 1521. His gift of the now widely
venerated Santo Nino de Cebu statue to Rajah Humabon, the Rajah
(ruler) of Cebu, now a province of the Philippines, remains one of
his most enduring legacies. Magellan had already reached the Malay
Archipelago in Southeast Asia on previous voyages traveling east
(from 1505 to 1511-1512). By visiting this area again but now
travelling west, Magellan achieved a nearly complete personal
circumnavigation of the globe for the first time in history. The
Magellanic penguin is named after him, as he was the first
European to note it. Magellan's navigational skills have also been
acknowledged in the naming of objects associated with the stars,
including the Magellanic Clouds, now known to be two nearby dwarf
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September 20, 1890: #BOTD: #HBD! Jelly
Roll Morton, African American jazz pioneer, pianist, composer, and
bandleader (Red Hot Peppers and New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (d. July
10, 1941) is #born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe into the Creole
community in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans
around 1890; he claimed to have been born in 1885. Both parents
traced their Creole ancestry four generations to the 18th century.
Morton's birth date and year of birth are uncertain, given that no
birth certificate was ever issued for him. The law requiring birth
certificates for citizens was not enforced until 1914. His parents
were Edward Joseph (Martin) Lamothe, a bricklayer and occasional
trombonist, and Louise Hermance Monette, a domestic worker. His
father left his mother when Morton was three (they were never
married). When his mother married William Mouton in 1894,
Ferdinand adopted his stepfather's surname, anglicizing it to
Morton. Jelly Roll Morton started his career in New Orleans,
Louisiana. Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz,
Morton is perhaps most notable as jazz's first arranger, proving
that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential
spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition "Jelly
Roll Blues", published in 1915, was the first published jazz
composition. Morton also wrote the standards "King Porter
Stomp", "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom
Stomp", and "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say",
the last a tribute to New Orleans musicians from the turn of the
20th century. Morton' claim to have invented jazz in 1902 aroused
resentment. The jazz historian, musician, and composer Gunther
Schuller says of Morton' "hyperbolic assertions" that
there is "no proof to the contrary" and that Morton's
"considerable accomplishments in themselves provide
reasonable substantiation". Jelly Roll Morton died aged 50
after an eleven-day stay in Los Angeles County General Hospital of
respiratory illness stemming from a 1938 stabbing by a friend of
the owner of The Music Box (called, at various times, The Music
Box, The Blue Moon Inn, and The Jungle Inn), a bar Morton managed
and played piano in, in the African American neighborhood of Shaw,
Washington, D.C.. Morton suffered wounds to the head and chest in
the attack. A nearby whites-only hospital refused to treat him, as
the city had racially segregated facilities. He was transported to
a black hospital farther away. When he was in the hospital,
doctors left ice on his wounds for several hours before attending
to the injury. His recovery from his wounds was incomplete, and
thereafter he was often ill and became short of breath easily.
After this incident, his wife Mabel demanded they leave
Washington. Worsening asthma sent him to a hospital in New York
for three months. He continued to suffer from respiratory problems
when he travelled to Los Angeles with the intent to restart his
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September 19-20, 1961: Unidentified
Flying Objects (UFOs, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon, UAPs):
UFO Incidents (Unidentified Flying Object Incidents): Alien
Abductions: The Barney And Betty Hill Incident (The Hill
Abduction, The Zeta Reticuli Incident): -- American couple Barney
and Betty Hill claim they were abducted by extraterrestrials in a
rural portion of the state of New Hampshire during the evening of
September 19-20, 1961. During the abduction, Betty Hill claims to
have been shown a three-dimensional star map that she drew after
the event; according to some researchers and a computer analysis,
that map appears to depict the Zeta Reticuli star system, which
the alien that showed Hill the map told her was where they came
from. Their story was adapted into the best-selling 1966 book The
Interrupted Journey and the 1975 television film The UFO Incident.
Most of Betty Hill's notes, tapes, and other items have been
placed in the permanent collection at the University of New
Hampshire, her alma mater. July 2011, the New Hampshire Division
of Historical Resources marked the site of the alleged craft's
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September 20, 1962: Civil Rights
Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968):
Anti-Black Racism In The United States: School Segregation: School
Segregation In The United States: The Ole Miss Riot Of 1962
(September 30 - October 1, 1962) (The Battle Of Oxford): -- James
Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering
the University of Mississippi. Meredith won a lawsuit that allowed
him admission to The University of Mississippi in September 1962.
He attempted to enter campus on September 20, September 25, and
again on September 26, only to be blocked by Mississippi Governor
Ross R. Barnett, who proclaimed that "...No school in our
state will be integrated while I am your Governor. I shall do
everything in my power to prevent integration in our schools."
After the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
held both Barnett and Lieutenant Governor Paul B. Johnson, Jr. in
contempt with fines of more than 10K USD for each day they refused
to allow Meredith to enroll, Meredith, escorted by a force of U.S.
Marshals, entered the campus on September 30, 1962. Two people
were killed by gunfire during the riot, a French journalist, Paul
Guihard and an Oxford repairman, Ray Gunter. One-third of the US
Marshals, 166 men, were injured, as were 40 soldiers and National
Guardsmen. After control was re-established by federal forces,
Meredith, thanks to the protection afforded by federal marshals,
was able to enroll and attend his first class on October 1.
Following the riot, elements of an Army National Guard division
were stationed in Oxford to prevent future similar violence. While
most Ole Miss students did not riot prior to his official
enrollment in the university, many harassed Meredith during his
first two semesters on campus. According to first person accounts,
students living in Meredith' dorm bounced basketballs on the floor
just above his room through all hours of the night. When Meredith
walked into the cafeteria for meals, the students eating would all
turn their backs. If Meredith sat at a table with other students,
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September 20, 1973: Sports: The History
Of Sports: The History Of Sports In The United States: Tennis: The
History Of Tennis: The Feminist Movement (The Women's Movement,
The Women's Rights Movement): The Battle Of The Sexes: Riggs vs.
King: -- Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the
Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome. Having been in the
national limelight following his win over Margaret Court at the
May 13, 1973 Mother's Day match in Ramona, California, Riggs
taunted all female tennis players, prompting King to accept a
lucrative financial offer to play Riggs in a nationally televised
match in prime time on ABC that the promoters dubbed "The
Battle Of The Sexes". The match, which had a winner-takes-all
prize of 100K USD (659K as of 2023), was held in Texas at the
Houston Astrodome on a Thursday. Then 29-year-old King had earned
her fifth year-end ranking as World No. 1 female player the
previous year, and would finish second to Court in 1973. ing
entered the court in the style of Cleopatra, on a feather-adorned
litter carried by four bare-chested muscle men dressed in the
style of ancient slaves. Riggs followed in a rickshaw drawn by a
bevy of models. Riggs presented King with a giant Sugar Daddy
lollipop, and she responded by giving him a squealing piglet,
symbolic of male chauvinism. Riggs was given 50K USD (330K as of
2023) to wear a yellow Sugar Daddy jacket during the match, which
he took off after three games. Riggs also placed many bets on and
invested a lot of money in the match. King, who also competed in
the Virginia Slims of Houston tournament during the same week, won
in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. In the first set, she fell behind
3-2 when Riggs broke her serve. In a 2015 interview, she said that
most people do not remember that she was initially behind in the
first set, and it looked bad for her in the early going. At this
point, King realized that she "had to win" given the
importance of the match, and broke right back and again in the
tenth game to close out the set. She had learned from Court's loss
and was ready for Riggs's game. Rather than playing her own usual
aggressive game, King mostly stayed at the baseline, at least at
first, easily handling Riggs's lobs and soft shots, making him
cover the entire court as she ran him from side to side and beat
him at his own defensive style of play. After quickly failing from
the baseline, where he had intended to play, Riggs dropped his
comedic effect and showed a more serious demeanor, as he was
forced to change to a serve-and-volley game, but he was no match
for King. Some male critics were less impressed by King's victory,
pointing to the fact that she was 26 years younger. Jack Kramer,
who was against equal pay for women and offered a tournament in
which the female winner got 1,500 USD while the male winner got
12,000 USD, was one example. According to him, "I don't think
Billie Jean played all that well. She hit a lot of short balls
which Bobby could have taken advantage of had he been in shape. I
would never take anything away from Billie Jean-because she was
smart enough to prepare herself properly-but it might have been
different if Riggs hadn't kept running around. It was more than
one woman who took care of Bobby Riggs in Houston." But
before the match, King had forced the American television network
ABC to drop Kramer as a commentator. King said, "He doesn't
believe in women's tennis. Why should he be part of this match? He
doesn't believe in half of the match. I'm not playing. Either he
goes -- or I go." More neutral observers were impressed by
King's brilliant play and smart tactics: "She both
first-served aggressively and attacked Riggs' own softball
deliveries with authority. She rushed to the net and commanded the
territory by whipping stunning volleys off her backhand and by
taking Riggs' infamous moon-shot lobs out of the Dome lights and
rifling overheads right back past him. She varied pace on ground
strokes, kept Riggs moving from corner to corner and played
consistently to his weak backhand. She concentrated on hitting
behind her opponent, wrong-footing him time and time again, then
surprising him with some of his own beloved spin garbage.
Everything worked... it was a brilliant rising to an occasion; a
clutch performance under the most trying of circumstances. Seldom
has there been a more classic example of a skilled athlete
performing at peak efficiency in the most important moment of her
life." Feminist media critic Susan Douglas later wrote "women
like me screamed with delight in our living rooms, she not only
vindicated female athletes and feminism but also inspired many of
us to get in shape-not because it would make us beautiful but
because it would make us strong and healthy". The match had
an audience of an estimated 50 million in the U.S. and 90 million
worldwide. The attendance in the Houston Astrodome was 30,472; as
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September 20, 2001: The War On Terror
(The Global War On Terrorism [GWOT]): The September 11 Attacks
(9/11): -- In the aftermath of The September 11 Attacks, U.S.
President George W. Bush declares a "War On Terror"
during an address to a joint session of Congress and the American
people. The War On Terror, officially the Global War On Terrorism
(GWOT), is a global counterterrorism military campaign initiated
by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is
also the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars. The
War On Terror began when The Authorization For Use Of Military
Force Against Terrorists (AUMF) was made law on September 14,
2001, which authorized the use of United States Armed Forces
against those responsible for the September 11 attacks. It
authorized the President to use all necessary and appropriate
force against those nations, organizations, or persons he
determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist
attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such
organizations or persons, to prevent any future acts of
international terrorism against the United States by such nations,
organizations or individuals. Ultimately, the main targets of the
war became militant Islamist and Salafi jihadist armed
organisations such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and their
international affiliates, which were waging military insurgencies
to overthrow governments of various Muslim-majority countries.
Other major targets included the Ba'athist regime in Iraq, which
was deposed in an invasion in 2003, and various militant factions
that fought during the ensuing insurgency. The "War On
Terror" uses war as a metaphor to describe a variety of
actions which fall outside the traditional definition of war. 43rd
President of the United States George W. Bush first used the term
"War On Terrorism" on 16 September 2001, and then "War
On Terror" a few days later in a formal speech to Congress.
Bush indicated the enemy of the War On Terror as "a radical
network of terrorists and every government that supports them."
The initial conflict was aimed at al-Qaeda, with the main theater
in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a region that would later be referred
to as "AfPak". The term "War On Terror" was
immediately criticized by individuals including Richard Myers,
then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff, and eventually more
nuanced terms came to be used by the Bush administration to define
the campaign. While "War On Terror" was never used as a
formal designation of U.S. operations, a Global War On Terrorism
Service Medal was and is issued by the U.S. Armed Forces. With the
major wars over and only low-level combat operations in some
places, the end of The War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) on August
30, 2021 symbolizes the visible ending of the war, or at least its
main phase, for many in the West. On August 30, 2021, the United
States completed the hasty withdrawal of its military from
Afghanistan. The withdrawal was heavily criticized both
domestically and abroad for being chaotic and haphazard, as well
as for lending more momentum to the Taliban offensive. However,
many European countries followed suit, including Britain, Germany,
Italy, and Poland. Despite evacuating over 120,000 people, the
large-scale evacuation has also been criticized for leaving behind
hundreds of American citizens, residents, and family members. The
U.S. military ceased awarding the National Defense Service Medal
for the Global War On Terrorism on December 31, 2022. As of 2023,
various operations in the campaign are ongoing, including an
ongoing counter-insurgency campaign in Somalia. According to the
Costs of War Project, the post-9/11 wars of the campaign have
displaced 38 million people, the second largest number of forced
displacements of any conflict since 1900, and caused at least 4.5
million deaths (direct and indirect) in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya,
Philippines, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. They also
estimate that it has cost over 8T USD for the US Treasury.
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and continuity; with critics questioning government measures to
infringe civil liberties and human rights. Controversial practices
of Coalition military forces have been condemned; including drone
warfare, surveillance, torture, extraordinary rendition and
various war-crimes. The participating governments have been
criticized for implementing authoritarian measures, repressing
minorities, for fomenting Islamophobia globally, and for causing
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September 20, 1872: #BOTD: Maurice
Gamelin, senior French Army general, best known for his
unsuccessful command (until May 17, 1940) of the French military
during The Battle Of France (May 10 - June 22, 1940) in World War
II and his steadfast defence of the republican model of government
at a time when Communists on the left and Royalists and Fascists
on the right were openly advocating regime change in France (d.
April 18, 1958) is #born Maurice Gustave Gamelin in Paris, France.
From an early age Gamelin showed potential as a soldier, growing
up in a generation seeking revenge on Germany for the annexation
of Alsace-Lorraine at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. As
Commander-In-Chief of the French Armed Forces at the start of
World War II, Gamelin was viewed as a man with significant
intellectual ability. He was respected, even in Germany, for his
intelligence and "subtle mind", though he was viewed by
some German generals as stiff and predictable. Despite this, and
his competent service in World War I, his command of the French
armies during the critical days of May 1940 proved to be
disastrous. Historian and journalist William L. Shirer presented
the view that Gamelin used World War I methods to fight World War
II, but with less vigor and slower response. Gamelin served with
distinction under Joseph Joffre in World War I. He is often
credited with being responsible for devising the outline of the
French counter-attack in 1914 which led to victory during the
First Battle of the Marne. In 1933 Gamelin rose to command the
French Army and oversaw a modernisation and mechanisation
programme, including the completion of the Maginot Line defences.
Edouard Daladier supported Gamelin throughout his career, owing to
Gamelin's refusal to allow politics to play a part in military
planning and promotion, and his commitment to republican values.
After the Fall of France, Gamelin was succeeded as General d'armee
by Maxime Weygand, a post he had held immediately before Gamelin.
The Vichy regime tried Gamelin for treason along with other
important political and military figures of the Third Republic
(Edouard Daladier, Guy La Chambre, Leon Blum, and Robert Jacomet)
in The Riom Trial. Gamelin refused to answer the charges against
him, instead maintaining silence, and the entire proceeding
collapsed. Imprisoned by the Vichy regime in Fort du Portalet in
the Pyrenees, he was later deported by the Germans to the Itter
Castle in North Tyrol with a few other French high officials. He
was freed from the castle after the Battle for Castle Itter. After
the war, he published his memoirs, titled Servir (meaning "to
serve"). Gamelin died in Paris, France of natural causesat
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September 20, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD! Jay
Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founder of
Jay Ward Productions, creator and producer of animated TV cartoon
shows his characters Crusader Rabbit, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Dudley
Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the
Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken, designer of the trademark
characters for the Cap'n Crunch, Quisp, and Quake breakfast
cereals and creator of the TV commercials for those products (d.
October 12, 1989) is #born Joseph Ward Cohen Jr. in San Francisco,
California, the son of Joseph Ward Cohen (1890-1967) and Mercedes
Juanita (nee Troplong) Ward (1892-1972). Jay Ward also produced
the non-animated series Fractured Flickers that featured comedy
redubbing of silent films, as well the tv pilot The Nut House,
consisting of vaudeville humor sufficiently ahead of its time that
one can see foreshadowings of such future television series as
Laugh-In and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Jay Ward died of renal
cancer in West Hollywood, aged 69 He is buried in Glendale's
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September 20, 1881: U.S. President
Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming
President upon James A. Garfield' death. Chester A. Arthur,
American politician who served as the 21st president of the United
States from 1881 to 1885, Republican lawyer from New York who
previously served as the 20th vice president under President James
A. Garfield (October 5, 1829 - November 18, 1886) was born Chester
Alan Arthur in Fairfield, Vermont, grew up in upstate New York and
practiced law in New York City. He served as quartermaster general
of the New York Militia during the American Civil War. Following
the war, he devoted more time to New York Republican politics and
quickly rose in Senator Roscoe Conkling's political organization.
President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him as Collector of the Port
of New York in 1871, and he was an important supporter of Conkling
and the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party. In 1878,
following bitter disputes between Conkling and President
Rutherford B. Hayes over control of patronage in New York, Hayes
fired Arthur as part of a plan to reform the federal patronage
system. In June 1880, the extended contest between Grant,
identified with the Stalwarts, and James G. Blaine, the candidate
of the Half-Breed faction, led to the compromise selection of
Ohio's Garfield for president. Republicans then nominated Arthur
for vice president to balance the ticket geographically and to
placate Stalwarts disappointed by Grant's defeat. Garfield and
Arthur won the 1880 presidential election and took office in March
1881. Four months into his term, Garfield was shot by an assassin;
he died 11 weeks later on September 19, 1881, and Arthur assumed
the presidency, serving the remainder of his term until March 4,
1885. As president, Arthur presided over the rebirth of the US
Navy, but he was criticized for failing to alleviate the federal
budget surplus which had been accumulating since the end of the
Civil War. Arthur vetoed the first version of the 1882 Chinese
Exclusion Act, arguing that its twenty-year ban on Chinese
immigrants to the United States violated the Burlingame Treaty,
but he signed a second version, which included a ten-year ban. He
appointed Horace Gray and Samuel Blatchford to the Supreme Court.
He also enforced the Immigration Act of 1882 to impose more
restrictions on immigrants and the Tariff of 1883 to attempt to
reduce tariffs. Arthur signed into law the Pendleton Civil Service
Reform Act of 1883, which came as a surprise to reformers who held
a negative reputation of Arthur as a Stalwart and product of
Conkling's organization. Suffering from poor health, Arthur made
only a limited effort to secure the Republican Party's nomination
in 1884, and he retired at the end of his term. Arthur's failing
health and political temperament combined to make his
administration less active than a modern presidency, yet he earned
praise among contemporaries for his solid performance in office.
Journalist Alexander McClure wrote, "No man ever entered the
Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted as Chester Alan
Arthur, and no one ever retired ... more generally respected,
alike by political friend and foe." Chester A. Arthur died of
a cerebral hemorrage at his home in New York City aged 57, two
days after he fell seriously ill and ordered nearly all of his
papers, both personal and official, to be burned. On November 22,
a private funeral was held at the Church of the Heavenly Rest in
New York City, attended by President Cleveland and ex-President
Hayes, among other notables. Arthur was buried with his family
members and ancestors in the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New
York. He was laid beside his wife in a sarcophagus on a large
corner of the plot. In 1889, a monument was placed on Arthur's
burial plot by sculptor Ephraim Keyser of New York, consisting of
a giant bronze female angel figure placing a bronze palm leaf on a
granite sarcophagus. The New York World summed up Arthur's
presidency at his death in 1886: "No duty was neglected in
his administration, and no adventurous project alarmed the
nation." Mark Twain wrote of him, "It would be hard
indeed to better President Arthur's administration." Arthur's
post-presidency, some 19 months long, was the second-shortest of
all presidents who lived past their presidencies, after that of
James K. Polk who died just three months after leaving office.
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September 20, 1870: Italy: The History
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The Unification Of Italy (Italian: Risorgimento): The Capture of
Rome: (Italian: Presa Di Roma) -- In a major turning point in
Italian and European history, the final event of the Unification
Of Italy ends as the Italian 12th Bersaglieri (Italian:
"Sharpshooters") Battalion storms Rome through a breach
created by Italian artillery in the Aurelian Walls near Porta Pia,
leading to the capture of Rome, ending of the temporal power of
the Pope, who described himself as "a prisoner in the
Vatican"0 and thereby marking both the final defeat of the
Papal States under Pope Pius IX and the unification of the Italian
Peninsula (except San Marino) under the Kingdom of Italy. A
monument was erected in 1932 in front of Porta Pia to commemorate
the event at the same time as the National Museum of the
Bersaglieri corps was moved to Porta Pia, where it resides still
today. So ended the Papal States, which had existed since 756 AD,
as well the temporal power of the Holy See, and led to the
establishment of Rome as the capital of unified Italy. It is today
widely commemorated throughout Italy, with the Via XX Settembre
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day engagement occurs in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest
two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant
Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater. The Battle Of
Chickamauga, fought on September 18 - 20, 1863, between U.S. and
Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a
Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia
- the Chickamauga Campaign. It was the first major battle of the
war fought in Georgia, the most significant Union defeat in the
Western Theater, and involved the second-highest number of
casualties after the Battle Of Gettysburg. The battle was fought
between the Army of the Cumberland under Maj. Gen. William
Rosecrans and the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Braxton
Bragg, and was named for Chickamauga Creek, which meanders near
the battle area in northwest Georgia (and ultimately flows into
the Tennessee River about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northeast of downtown
Chattanooga). After his successful Tullahoma Campaign, Rosecrans
renewed the offensive, aiming to force the Confederates out of
Chattanooga. In early September, Rosecrans consolidated his forces
scattered in Tennessee and Georgia and forced Bragg's army out of
Chattanooga, heading south. The Union troops followed it and
brushed with it at Davis's Cross Roads. Bragg was determined to
reoccupy Chattanooga and decided to meet a part of Rosecrans's
army, defeat it, and then move back into the city. On September 17
he headed north, intending to attack the isolated XXI Corps. As
Bragg marched north on September 18, his cavalry and infantry
fought with Union cavalry and mounted infantry, which were armed
with Spencer repeating rifles. Fighting began in earnest on the
morning of September 19. Bragg's men strongly assaulted but could
not break the Union line. The next day, Bragg resumed his assault.
In late morning, Rosecrans was misinformed that he had a gap in
his line. In moving units to shore up the supposed gap, Rosecrans
accidentally created an actual gap, directly in the path of an
eight-brigade assault on a narrow front by Confederate Lt. Gen.
James Longstreet, whose corps had been detached from The Army Of
Northern Virginia. In the resulting rout, Longstreet's attack
drove one-third of the Union army, including Rosecrans himself,
from the field. Union units spontaneously rallied to create a
defensive line on Horseshoe Ridge ("Snodgrass Hill"),
forming a new right wing for the line of Maj. Gen. George H.
Thomas, who assumed overall command of remaining forces. Although
the Confederates launched costly and determined assaults, Thomas
and his men held until twilight. Union forces then retired to
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Martin Luther King Jr.: The September 20, 1958 Assassination
Attempt On Martin Luther King Jr.: -- As Martin Luther King Jr.
King is signing copies of his book Stride Toward Freedom in
Blumstein's department store in Harlem, he narrowly escapes death
when Izola Curry, a mentally ill black woman who thought that King
was conspiring against her with communists, stabbed him in the
chest with a letter opener, which nearly impinged on the aorta.
King received first aid by police officers Al Howard and Philip
Romano. King underwent emergency surgery with three doctors: Aubre
de Lambert Maynard, Emil Naclerio and John W. V. Cordice; he
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September 20, 1911: #BOTD: #HBD! Frank De
Vol, American composer, arranger, actor, comedian and record
producer (d. October 27, 1999) is #born Frank Denny De Vol in
Moundsville in Marshall County in northern West Virginia. As a
composer and aranger, he used the name De Vol. As a composer he
was nominated for four Academy Awards. De Vol began composing
music when he was 12. When he was 14, he became a member of the
Musicians' Union. After playing violin in his father's orchestra
and appearances in a Chinese restaurant, he joined the Horace
Heidt Orchestra in the 1930s, being responsible for the
arrangements. Later, he toured with the Alvino Rey Orchestra,
before embarking on his recording career. By the time De Vol was
16, he was doing arrangements with professional skill. From the
1940s, De Vol wrote arrangements for the studio recordings of many
top singers, including Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah
Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Dinah Shore, Doris Day, Vic Damone and Jaye
P. Morgan. His single most famous arrangement is probably the
haunting string and piano accompaniment to Cole's "Nature
Boy", which was a United States Number One in 1948. That same
year, he released a version of "The Teddy Bears' Picnic"
(Capitol Records 15420), that he arranged and sang lead vocals on.
In 1966-1967, he arranged the soundtrack for the 1967 Columbia
Pictures comedy film The Happening starring Anthony Quinn and
co-produced The Supremes recording of the theme from the film with
Motown producers Holland-Dozier-Holland which became a #1 American
pop hit later that year. The success of "Nature Boy",
recorded for Capitol Records, led to an executive position for De
Vol at the rival Columbia Records. There, he recorded a series of
orchestral mood music albums under the studio name "Music by
De Vol" (which he also used for some of his film and TV
work). The 1959 album Bacchanal! (The Passions and Pageantry of
Gods and Goddesses of Mythology) is an acclaimed example of De
Vol's mood music; each track is by English composer Albert Harris
and is named after a god or goddess of Greek mythology. In the
1950s, De Vol's orchestra played frequently at the Hollywood
Palladium under the concert name "Music of the Century".
De Vol wrote the scores for many Hollywood movies, receiving
Academy Award nominations for four of them: Pillow Talk (1959),
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), Cat Ballou (1965) and Guess
Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). De Vol's numerous scores included
Kiss Me Deadly (1955), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962),
McLintock! (1963), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), The Glass
Bottom Boat (1966), The Dirty Dozen (1967), Hustle (1975), Herbie
Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) and Herbie Goes Bananas (1980). He also
scored many Doris Day comedies and films for director Robert
Aldrich. De Vol also composed the jingle for the Screen Gems'
"Dancing Sticks" logo (1963-1965), which appeared on all
television series produced by the television division of Columbia
Pictures. De Vol was musical director (and occasionally seen) on
Edgar Bergen's CBS Television prime-time game show Do You Trust
Your Wife? (1956-1957). "Frank De Vol's orchestra" was
featured on the NBC Television prime-time musical variety series
The Lux Show Starring Rosemary Clooney (1957-1958). During this
time, he appeared on The Betty White Show (1954) and Rod Cameron's
syndicated State Trooper. In 1964 he was seen in an episode during
the first season of, My Favorite Martian and several guest spots
on different television shows throughout the 1960s. In the 1970s,
he appeared as the ironically named dour bandleader Happy Kyne on
the talk show satire/parody Fernwood 2 Night (1977) and America
2-Night (1978). De Vol is best recognized for his television theme
tunes, like Family Affair, The Brady Bunch and My Three Sons. The
My Three Sons theme was musically complex, with a marimba playing
a triplet obligato (the famous tune "Chopsticks") over
the melody in 4/4 time, and was a hit single in 1961. He composed
scores for episodes of McCloud and The Love Boat, amongst other
work for television. Beginning in 1969, "The Fuzz"
became the theme song of Brazilian television newscast Jornal
Nacional. De Vol was also an actor specializing in deadpan comic
characters, especially as the dour bandleader Happy Kyne on the
talk show parodies Fernwood 2 Night and America 2-Night, in
1977-78. He also had a recurring role in I'm Dickens, He's
Fenster, as Myron Bannister, Dickens & Fenster's boss; as well
as appearances on The Cara Williams Show, I Dream of Jeannie,
Gidget, Bonanza, Petticoat Junction - (1967 episode: "That
Was the Night That Was" & 1969 episode: "The Organ
Fund" - as Reverend Barton), Mickey starring Mickey Rooney,
The Brady Bunch, Get Smart (at least 2 appearances as Professor
Carleton) and The Jeffersons. De Vol had also comic roles as Chief
Eaglewood, the head of the Thundercloud Boys' Camp in 1961's The
Parent Trap, and as the onscreen narrator in Jerry Lewis's 1967
comedy film The Big Mouth. De Vol also appeared as a bandleader in
the last season of My Three Sons, in addition to writing the theme
music and serving as in-house composer for most of the show's
twelve seasons. He also scored most episodes of Family Affair,
including many of the same incidental music cues as My Three Sons.
In 1980, he appeared in the second season of Diff'rent Strokes,
episode 22 called, "The Slumber Party". De Vol preferred
to be credited as "Frank De Vol" for his acting
appearances, and as "De Vol" for his musical work. De
Vol was initiated as an honorary member of the Gamma Omega chapter
of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the national fraternity for men in
music, in 1962. In the mid 1990s, when well into his eighties, De
Vol was active in the Big Band Academy of America. De Vol was
married twice. His first marriage was to Grayce Agnes McGinty in
1935. This 54-year marriage produced two daughters, Linda
Morehouse and Donna Copeland, and ended with Grayce's death in
1989. His second marriage was to television actress and big band
singer Helen O'Connell from 1991 until her death in 1993. De Vol
died of congestive heart failure on October 27, 1999, in
Lafayette, California. He is interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial
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September 20, 1925: Aesthetics:
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Premieres: -- The Freshman, an American silent comedy film that
tells the story of a college freshman trying to become popular by
joining the school football team, is released to theaters. It
stars Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict, and James
Anderson. It remains one of Lloyd's most successful and enduring
films. The film was written by John Grey, Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan,
and Ted Wilde. It was directed by Taylor and Fred C. Newmeyer. In
1990, The Freshman was selected for preservation in the United
States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being
"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant",
added in the second year of voting and one of the first 50 films
to receive the honor. The Freshman is widely considered one of
Lloyd's most hilarious, well-constructed films and was his most
successful silent film of the 1920s. Hugely popular at the time of
its release, it sparked a craze for college films that lasted well
beyond the 1920s. It was one of Lloyd's few films to remain widely
available after the sound era, and he reissued the film (with
cuts) and used extended scenes in compilation films of the 1960s.
The football game sequence was reused by Lloyd and director
Preston Sturges in Lloyd's last film, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
(1947). American humorist and author H. C. Witwer sued Lloyd in
April 1929 for 2.3M USD over The Freshman, claiming that it was
"pirated" from Witwer's short story "The
Emancipation of Rodney", first published in 1915. When Witwer
died from liver failure in Los Angeles, on August 9, 1929, the
lawsuit had not been settled. Witwer's widow pursued the lawsuit
and won a judgment against Lloyd in November 1930. On appeal, the
United States Court of Appeals overturned the ruling and Witwer's
widow received nothing. A further lawsuit was brought in 2000 by
Lloyd's granddaughter, Suzanne Lloyd Hayes, against the Walt
Disney Company, alleging that elements of The Freshman were copied
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September 20, 1969: Aesthetics:
Performing Arts: Finales: American Television Finales: --
Happening '68, a rock-and-roll variety show produced by Dick Clark
Productions which aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
network, ends its run on ABC TV, having premiered on January 6,
1968. Happening '68 was co-hosted by Mark Lindsay and Paul Revere
of Paul Revere And The Raiders, and their band made frequent
appearances. Variously known throughout its two-year run as
Happening '68, Happening, Happening '69 and It's Happening, the
show followed American Bandstand on Saturday afternoons. Happening
'68 was popular enough that ABC added a weekday spin-off. It's
Happening ran on Mondays through Fridays from July 15, 1968
through October 25, 1968.When 1968 ended, Happening '68 became
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September 20, 1878: #BOTD: #HBD! Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, muckraker, essayist, political activist, 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California, and Pulitzer Prize For Fiction recipient who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres (d. November 25, 1968) is #born Upton Beall Sinclair in Baltimore, Maryland. Sinclair wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muck-raking expose of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the "free press" in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created, known as the Fourth Estate's Journalism Code of Practice (Accuracy, Independence, Impartiality, Integrity, Harm Minimization, Engagement, Accountability) authored by The Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation (also referred to as Fourth Estate), an international, non-partisan, human rights, membership organization dedicated to a strong free press. Time magazine called Sinclair "a man with every gift except humor and silence". He is also well remembered for the line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." He used this line in speeches and the book about his campaign for governor as a way to explain why the editors and publishers of the major newspapers in California would not treat seriously his proposals for old age pensions and other progressive reforms. Many of his novels can be read as historical works. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's and the industrialist's points of view. Novels such as King Coal (1917), The Coal War (published posthumously), Oil! (1927), and The Flivver King (1937) describe the working conditions of the coal, oil, and auto industries at the time. The Flivver King describes the rise of Henry Ford, his "wage reform" and his company's Sociological Department, to his decline into antisemitism as publisher of The Dearborn Independent. Sinclair was an outspoken socialist and ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a nominee from the Socialist Party. He was also the Democratic Party candidate for Governor of California during the Great Depression, running under the banner of the End Poverty in California campaign, but was defeated in the 1934 elections. Upton Sinclair died in a nursing home in Bound Brook, New Jersey, aged 89. He is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., next to his third wife Mary Willis. On Sale Until Midnight Tonight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/grde7padosem.html
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September 20, 1930: #BOTD: #HBD! Harry
Harrison, popular American radio personality, primarily in New
York City, for over 50 years, the only DJ to be a WMCA "Good
Guy", a WABC "All-American", and on the WCBS-FM
line-up when the New York station flipped to the "Jack"
format in June 2005 (d. January 28, 2020) is #born Harry M. (M for
McKenna?) Harrison in Chicago, Illinois to Harry Harrison and Mary
(McKenna) Harrison. Harrison worked at WCFL as a summer
replacement, yet remained there eight months, substituting for the
permanent DJs. Harrison became program director at WPEO, Peoria
and hosted the morning show as the "Morning Mayor of Peoria."
In just six months, Harrison made WPEO the top station. In 1959,
Harrison joined WMCA, New York, as the mid-day "Good Guy."
Joe O'Brien (mornings) and Harrison gave WMCA a "one-two
punch" for over eight years. Harrison, along with wife Patti,
and children Brian Joseph ["B.J."], Patti, Patrick, and
Michael called the New York suburbs "home". In 1965, he
recorded the nationally charted holiday narration "May You
Always" on Amy Records. Other WMCA "Good Guys"
included Jack Spector, B. Mitchel Reed, Dan Daniel and Johnny
Dark, and talk show host Barry Gray. Harrison became popular with
his "Housewife Hall of Fame" feature, and participated
in the 1966 WMCA Good Guy picnic. Often, he scored the highest
ratings on WMCA. WABC program director Rick Sklar took note. In
1968, when WABC morning man Herb Oscar Anderson left the station,
Rick Sklar hired Harrison to replace him. Harrison was followed in
the WABC day by Ron Lundy. Every year, Harrison played seasonal
songs, such as his holiday greeting "May You Always" in
the winter (the Amy records single of this song made the Billboard
Christmas charts in 1965), and Allan Sherman's summer camp
novelty, "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", throughout the
summer months. WABC personalities included, along with Harrison,
Charlie Greer, Scott Muni, Bob Lewis, Lundy, Johnny Donovan, Dan
Ingram, "Cousin Brucie" Bruce Morrow, Chuck Leonard, Bob
Cruz, Frank Kingston Smith, and Roby Yonge, and others. Harrison
had a number of "trademark" phrases, such as "Morning,
Mom", "Every brand new day should be unwrapped like a
precious gift", "Stay well, stay happy, stay right here"
and "Harry Harrison wishing you all the very best... because
that's exactly what you deserve!" Also, on the last day of
every year, Harrison would bring his four children to work with
him and at the end of his shift, he would join them in giving
listeners New Year's wishes. Harrison was let go from WABC as the
station changed direction in November 1979. In March 1980,
Harrison became the morning personality at WCBS-FM (101.1),
playing oldies music. In 1984, with Lundy joining the station,
they were once again heard back-to-back. Harrison would interact
with Morning Crew engineer Al Vertucci, Phil Pepe, who reported
sports, and joke about "wacky weather" and toupee
warnings with Irv "Mr. "G" Gikofsky (weather), Mary
Jane Royce, and Sue Evans. At 7:20 AM, Harrison opened the
"birthday book" and announced listener and celebrity
birthdays. On April 25, 1997 New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
issued a proclamation, naming April 25 "Harry Harrison Day"
in honor of the second "Mayor." On March 19, 2003, after
a 44-year career in New York radio, Harrison left WCBS-FM, saying
"I am not retiring." His farewell to his loyal radio
friends (from 5:30 to 10:00am) was held before a live audience at
the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City. It offered
old airchecks plus guest appearances by WCBS-FM colleagues Don K.
Reed, Bobby Jay, Steve O'Brien, Randy Davis and Dan Taylor, his
replacement, as well as his son and daughter, and wife Patti.
Harrison took phone calls from Bob Shannon, Mike Fitzgerald, Ed
Baer, and Ron Lundy. Songs included Gladys Knight's "Neither
One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" and the
Little River Band's "Reminiscing," before closing with
"That's What Friends Are For." Shortly after he left
WCBS-FM, Harrison's long-time wife, Patti, who he had always
referred to as "Pretty Patti" on the air, died. Harrison
returned to WCBS-FM with a Saturday morning show in 2004. It
offered two hours of variety and two hours of Beatles music and
memories. On Memorial Day, May 30, 2005, Harry and "Cousin"
Bruce Morrow were guests on WABC Radio's annual Rewound show. Four
days later, on June 3, WCBS-FM ended its "oldies"
format, in favor of the new "Jack" format. However, as a
result of listener disapproval, the WCBS-FM Oldies format was
brought back on July 12, 2007, in a modernized form. Harry
Harrison died peacefully at his home in Westwood, New Jersey, at
the age of 89. He is buried at Rockland Cemetery in Sparkill,
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September 20, 1893: The Industrial
Revolution: The Second Industrial Revolution (1870s-1914): The
Automotive Industry: The History Of The Automobile: The History Of
The Automotive Industry: -- Charles Duryea and his brother
road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
Charles Duryea claimed that on April 19, 1892 he and his brother,
Frank, produced and road-tested America's first gasoline-powered
car. Frank claimed that in fact occurred it on September 20, 1893,
and suggested that the April 19, 1892 date was chosen by Charles
Duryea to spite his brother Frank, with whom he entered into a
business rivalry. Other sources claim that on September 21, 1893
they performed road-test the first-ever, working American
gasoline-powered automobile on the Howard Bemis farm in Chicopee,
Massachusetts. The Duryea's "motor wagon" was a used
horse drawn buggy that the brothers had purchased for 70 USD and
into which they had installed a 4 HP, single cylinder gasoline
engine. The car (buggy) had a friction transmission, spray
carburetor and low tension ignition. Frank Duryea test drove it
again on November 10, this time in a prominent location: past
their garage at 47 Taylor Street in Springfield. The next day it
was reported by The Republican newspaper with great fanfare. This
particular car was put into storage in 1894 and stayed there until
1920, when it was rescued by a former Duryea engineer Inglis M.
Uppercu and presented to the United States National Museum.
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Today, September 20, 2026
September 20, 1972: Sports: The History
Of Sports: The History Of Sports In The United States: The History
Of Boxing: The History Of Heavyweight Boxing: Muhammad Ali vs.
Floyd Patterson Fights: The Second Muhammad Ali vs. Floyd
Patterson Fight (Muhammad Ali vs. Floyd Patterson II): -- The
Second Muhammad Ali vs. Floyd Patterson boxing match takes place
at Madison Square Garden on September 20, 1972, for the regional
North American Boxing Federation (NABF) heavyweight title.
Paterson again lost by a technical knockout; this time the fight
was stopped in the 7th round. The defeat proved to be the last
fight for Patterson, aged 37, although there was never an
announcement of retirement. Muhammad Ali vs. Floyd Patterson
refers to two heavyweight professional boxing matches. The first
match took place on November 22, 1965, for the WBC/Ring/lineal
world heavyweight championship; and the second on September 20,
1972 at Madison Square Garden for the regional North American
Boxing Federation (NABF) heavyweight title. Ali won both fights
through technical knockouts. The first fight was stopped in the
12th round; and the second after the 7th round. The first first
fight, Patterson went into the fight with an optimistic view.
Instead of scoring a quick knockout, Ali mocked, humiliated and
punished Patterson throughout, before the referee stopped the
fight in the 12th round. A New York Times reporter complained that
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September 20, 1984: Aesthetics:
Performing Arts: Premieres: Television Premieres: United States
Television Premieres: -- The Cosby Show, an American television
sitcom co-created by and starring Bill Cosby, premieres on the NBC
television network, running until April 30, 1992. It focused on
the Huxtables, an upper middle-class African-American family
living in Brooklyn, New York; the series was based on comedy
routines in Cosby's stand-up comedy act, which in turn were based
on his family life. The Cosby Show spent five consecutive seasons
as the number-one rated show on television and, along with All In
The Family, is the only sitcom in the history of the Nielsen
ratings as the number-one show for five seasons, having spent the
series in the top 20 ratings. Two hundred one episodes were
produced. The series was followed by a spin-off, titled A
Different World, broadcast from 1987 to 1993 for 144 episodes in
six seasons. TV Guide listed the series as "TV's biggest hit
in the 1980s", adding it "almost single-handedly revived
the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes", while also
ranking it 28th on their list of 50 Greatest Shows; with this
list, Cliff Huxtable was named as the "Greatest Television
Dad" in 2014. In May 1992, Entertainment Weekly stated that
The Cosby Show helped to make possible a larger variety of shows
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September 20, 1989: South Africa: The
History Of South Africa: Segregation: Racial Segregation:
Apartheid (Racial Segregation In South Africa): Elections And
Referendums In South Africa: The 1989 South African General
Eelection: -- After the last Prime Minister of South Africa, P. W.
Botha, resigned on August 14, and F.W. de Klerk was named acting
state president until September 20, de Klerk was elected and sworn
in to a full five-year term as state president of South Africa.
After he became acting president, ANC leaders spoke out against
him, believing that he would be no different from his
predecessors; he was widely regarded as a staunch supporter of
apartheid. When the prominent anti-apartheid activist clergymen
Desmond Tutu and Allan Boesak planned and organized a protest
march in Cape Town, De Klerk nevertheless turned down his security
chiefs' proposal to ban it, stating that "the door to a new
South Africa is open, it is not necessary to batter it down".
The march took place and was attended by approximately 30,000
people. Further protest marches followed in Grahamstown,
Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Durban. Meanwhile, de Klerk authorized
the continuation of secret talks in Geneva between his National
Intelligence Service and two exiled ANC leaders, Thabo Mbeki and
Jacob Zuma. In October, he personally agreed to meet with Tutu,
Boesak, and Frank Chikane in a private meeting in Pretoria. That
month, he also released a number of elderly anti-apartheid
activists then imprisoned, including Walter Sisulu. He also
ordered the closure of the National Security Management System. In
December he visited Mandela in prison, speaking with him for three
hours about the idea of transitioning away from white-minority
rule. On 2 February 1990 he gave an address to the country's
parliament in which he announced plans for sweeping reforms of the
political system. He announced that a number of banned political
parties, including the ANC and Communist Party of South Africa,
would be legalised, although stipulated that this did not
constitute an endorsement of their socialist economic policies nor
of violent actions carried out by their members.] He also
announced that the Separate Amenities Act of 1953, which governed
the segregation of public facilities, would be lifted. His speech
revealed that all of those who were imprisoned solely for
belonging to a banned organisation would be freed. He declared
that Mandela would be released from prison unconditionally; the
latter was released a week later. The vision set forth in de
Klerk's address was for South Africa to become a Western-style
liberal democracy; it envisioned a market-oriented economy which
privileged private enterprise and restricted the government's role
in economics. De Klerk later related that "that speech was
mainly aimed at breaking our stalemate in Africa and the West.
Internationally we were teetering on the edge of the abyss."
Throughout South Africa and across the world, there was
astonishment at de Klerk's move. Foreign press coverage was
largely positive and de Klerk received messages of support from
other governments. Tutu said that "It's incredible... Give
him credit. Give him credit, I do." Some black radicals
regarded it as a gimmick and that it would prove to be without
substance. It was also received negatively by some on the white
right-wing, including in the Conservative Party, who believed that
de Klerk was betraying the white population. De Klerk believed
that the sudden growth of the Conservatives and other white
right-wing groups was a passing phase reflecting anxiety and
insecurity. These white right-wing groups were aware that they
would not get what they wanted through the forthcoming
negotiations, and so increasingly tried to derail the negotiations
using revolutionary violence. The white-dominated liberal
Democratic Party found itself in limbo, as de Klerk embraced much
of the platform it had espoused, leaving it without a clear
purpose. Further reforms followed; membership of the National
Party was opened up to non-whites. In June, parliament approved
new legislation that repealed the Natives Land Act, 1913 and
Native Trust and Land Act, 1936. The Population Registration Act,
which established the racial classificatory guidelines for South
Africa, was rescinded. In legislative terms, he enabled the
gradual end of apartheid. De Klerk also opened the way for the
negotiations of the government with the anti-apartheid-opposition
about a new constitution for the country. His presidency was
dominated by the negotiation process, mainly between his NP
government and the ANC, which led to the democratization of South
Africa. In 1992, de Klerk held a whites-only referendum on ending
apartheid, with the result being an overwhelming "yes"
vote to continue negotiations to end apartheid. Nelson Mandela was
distrustful of the role played by de Klerk in the negotiations,
particularly as he believed that de Klerk was knowledgeable about
'third force' attempts to foment violence in the country and
destabilize the negotiations. In 1990, de Klerk gave orders to end
South Africa's nuclear weapons programme; the process of nuclear
disarmament was essentially completed in 1991. The existence of
the programme was not officially acknowledged before 1993. In
1993, de Klerk and Mandela were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize for their work in ending apartheid. The awarding of the
prize to de Klerk was controversial, especially in the light of de
Klerk's reported admission that he ordered a massacre of supposed
Azanian Peoples' Liberation Army fighters, including teenagers,
shortly before going to Oslo in 1993. It appears that this
massacre may form part of the basis for criminal charges that the
Anti-Racism Action Forum laid against de Klerk in early 2016.
Further, de Klerk's role in the destabilization of the country
during the negotiation process through the operation of a 'third
force' came to the attention of the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, and was never ultimately clarified. After the first
universal elections in 1994, de Klerk became deputy president in
the government of national unity under Nelson Mandela, a post he
kept until 1996. In 1997 he resigned the leadership of the
National Party and retired from politics. In 1993, de Klerk issued
an apology for the actions of the apartheid government, stating
that: "It was not our intention to deprive people of their
rights and to cause misery, but eventually apartheid led to just
that. Insofar as that occurred we deeply regret it... Yes we are
sorry". Tutu urged for people to accept the apology, stating
that "saying sorry is not an easy thing to do... We should be
magnanimous and accept it as a magnanimous act", although
Tutu was privately frustrated that de Klerk's apology had been
qualified and had not gone so far as to call apartheid an
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September 20, 1187: Religion: The History
Of Religion: Abrahamic Religions: Christianity: The History Of
Roman Catholicism: The Latin Church (Latin: Ecclesia Latina): The
Middle Ages (The Medieval Period, The Mediaeval Period): The
Crusades: The Ayyubid-Crusader Conflict (1169-1254): Sieges Of
Jerusalem: The Siege Of Jerusalem (1187): -- Saladin (An-Nasir
Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub) also known as Salah ad-Din, the
first sultan of Egypt and Syria, begins the Siege Of Jerusalem,
lasting until October 2, 1187, when the French crusader noble of
the crusader state of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Count Balian of
Ibelin (known as the "Shaear Wahid" or "Hairy One"
due to his notably thick body hair, which was said to have grown
like a pelt in his later years) surrendered the city to Saladin.
Citizens who were able to pay the ransom were set free, however
several thousand were enslaved. The Kingdom of Jerusalem, weakened
by internal disputes, was defeated two months prior at the Battle
of Hattin on July 4, 1187. Most of the nobility were taken
prisoner, including King Guy. Thousands of Muslim slaves were
freed. By mid-September, Saladin had taken Acre, Nablus, Jaffa,
Toron, Sidon, Beirut, and Ascalon. Though Jerusalem fell, it was
not the end of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, as the capital shifted
first to Tyre, the only city able to hold out against Saladin due
to the fortuitous arrival of Conrad of Montferrat and where
survivors of the battle and other refugees fled, and later to Acre
after the Third Crusade. Latin Christians responded in 1189 by
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September 20, 1984: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: The Arab Cold War: The Arab-Israeli
Conflict: The Iran-Israel Proxy Conflict (The Iran-Israel Proxy
War: The Iran-Israel Cold War): The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
The Lebanese Civil War: The 1984 United States Embassy Annex
Bombing In Beirut: -- The Shi'a Islamic militant group Islamic
Jihad Organization (IJO), a precursor of the Shia Islamist
political party and militant group Hezbollah, carries out a
suicide car bombing targeting the U.S. embassy annex in East
Beirut, Lebanon, with support and direction from the Islamic
Republic of Iran who actually planned, organized and executed the
plot. The attack killed 24 people. Hezbollah had also used suicide
car or truck bombs in the April 1983 U.S. embassy bombing and the
1983 Beirut barracks bombings. In July 1984, the U.S. had
relocated its embassy operations from West Beirut to the relative
security of Aukar, a Christian suburb of East Beirut. When on
September 20, 1984, the attacker sped his van laden with 3,000
pounds (1360 kg) of explosives toward the six-story embassy,
crucial security measures had not yet been completed at the
complex, including a massive steel gate. The van was heading for
the entrance of the diplomatic facility, but did not get within
ten yards of the building after the driver was shot by a bodyguard
of the British ambassador and Lebanese embassy guards and lost
control of the vehicle. The vehicle detonated at 11:44 a.m. after
striking a parked van. The explosion "ripped off the front of
the embassy, shredding glass, bending steel bars and destroying
cars in a nearby parking lot." The attack killed a total of
24 people (including the suicide bomber). Only two of the dead
were American: Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth V. Welch of the U.S.
Army and Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Ray Wagner of the U.S.
Navy, who were both assigned to the U.S. Defense Attache Office in
Beirut. The majority of those killed were Lebanese, "either
local employees or people seeking visas". Of the injured, the
U.S. Ambassador, Reginald Bartholomew, was slightly hurt, as well
as the British Ambassador, David Miers, who was meeting with
Bartholomew at the time of explosion. The Islamic Jihad
Organization (IJO) claimed responsibility for the attack in a
telephone call a few hours after the explosion. The caller said,
"The operation goes to prove that we will carry out our
previous promise not to allow a single American to remain on
Lebanese soil." The U.S. government understood that Hezbollah
had carried out the attack under the cover name of IJO with the
support of Iran. Through satellite reconnaissance, U.S.
intelligence discovered that a mock-up of the annex had been
created at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard-run Sheikh Abdullah
barracks in Baalbek to practice for the attack. Under the amended
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, victims of the bombing and their
families have filed cases against the Islamic Republic of Iran,
holding it responsible for its role in the attack and demanding
compensation. These legal cases are: 1) Estate of Doe, et al. v
Republic of Iran, et al. (2013) - 58 foreign national employees
and one American employee that were killed or injured in the 1983
embassy bombing and 1984 embassy annex bombing are awarded 8.4B
USD. The judge ruled "that the attacks were carried out by
the terrorist group Islamic Jihad, known most commonly as
Hezbollah, operating with Iranian support and encouragement.";
and 3) Brewer v. Islamic Republic of Iran (2009) - Security guard
Richard Brewer and his family are awarded 310M USD in damages.
Brewer was injured in the bombing. The judge ruled "Hezbollah
received substantial funds and support from Iran via its Ministry
of Information and Security and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
Corps. This court concludes that defendants provided 'material
support and resources' to Hezbollah." The Lebanese Civil War
(Arabic: Al-Harb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnaniyyah) was a multifaceted
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an estimated 120,000 fatalities. As of 2012, approximately 76,000
people remain displaced within Lebanon. There was also an exodus
of almost one million people from Lebanon as a result of the war.
Before the war, Lebanon was multi-sectarian, with Sunni Muslims
and Christians being the majorities in the coastal cities, Shia
Muslims being mainly based in the south and the Beqaa Valley to
the east, and with the mountain populations being mostly Druze and
Christian. The government of Lebanon had been run under a
significant influence of the elites among the Maronite Christians.
The link between politics and religion had been reinforced under
the mandate of the French colonial powers from 1920 to 1943, and
the parliamentary structure favored a leading position for its
Christian population. However, the country had a large Muslim
population and many pan-Arabist and left-wing groups opposed the
pro-western government. The establishment of the state of Israel
and the displacement of a hundred thousand Palestinian refugees to
Lebanon during the 1948 and 1967 exoduses contributed to shifting
the demographic balance in favor of the Muslim population. The
Cold War had a powerful disintegrative effect on Lebanon, which
was closely linked to the polarization that preceded the 1958
political crisis, since Maronites sided with the West while
leftist and pan-Arab groups sided with Soviet-aligned Arab
countries. Fighting between Maronite and Palestinian forces
(mainly from the Palestine Liberation Organization) began in 1975,
then Leftist, pan-Arabist and Muslim Lebanese groups formed an
alliance with the Palestinians.[11] During the course of the
fighting, alliances shifted rapidly and unpredictably.
Furthermore, foreign powers, such as Israel and Syria, became
involved in the war and fought alongside different factions.
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September 20, 1934: #BOTD: #HBD! Sophia
Loren, Italian actress, sex symbol and beauty, is #born Sofia
Villani Scicolone in the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, Italy,
the daughter of Romilda Villani (1910-1991) and Riccardo
Scicolone, a construction engineer of noble descent (Loren wrote
in her autobiography that she is entitled to call herself the
Marchioness of Licata Scicolone Murillo). Sofia Villani Scicolone
Dame Grand Cross OMRI was one of the most recognisable stars of
classic Hollywood. She was named by the American Film Institute as
the 21st greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. She is
currently the only living actress and the highest ranked living
person on the list. Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after
entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age 16
in 1950. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the
early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with
Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Notable film
appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion,
Houseboat, and It Started in Naples. Loren's performance as Cesira
in the movie Two Women (1961) directed by Vittorio De Sica earned
her the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first actor
or actress to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance. She
holds the record for having earned six David di Donatello Awards
for Best Actress: Two Women; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963);
Marriage Italian Style (1964) (for which she was nominated for a
second Oscar); Sunflower (1970); The Voyage (1974); and A Special
Day (1977). After starting a family in the early 1970s, Loren
chose to make rarer film appearances. Most recently, she has
appeared in American films such as Grumpier Old Men (1995) and
Nine (2009). She has also won a Grammy Award, five special Golden
Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award), a BAFTA Award, a
Laurel Award, the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film
Festival and the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 1991, she received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime
achievements, one of many such awards. A black and white photo of
Sophia Loren was modeled to appear prominently on the cover of
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band, but in the final shoot,
only a small portion of her right cheek is visible between the
waxworks John Lennon's right shoulder and the waxwork's George
Harrison's left cheek; she has been cited as having been exluded
from the cover, but as part of her visage is visible, we therefore
cite her as de facto appearing on the cover. On Sale Until
Midnight Tonight PT!
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Props
And Jets: Fighter Aces Of World War II DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, September 20, 2026
September 20, 1993: #DOTD: #RIP: Erich
Hartmann, nicknamed "The Black Devil" (German: "Der
Schwarze Teufel", Russian: "Cherniy Chort"), also
nicknamed "Bubi" (ironically, in light of his having
been an airmen for Nazi Germany, because "Bubi" is both
a Yidddish and a German word, meaning "Little One",
"Beloved Child" or simply "The Kid"), German
fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter
ace in the history of aerial warfare (b. April 19, 1922) #dies of
natural causes at the age of 71 in Weil im Schonbuch, Germany. He
is buried New Cemetery, Weil im Schonbuch. In 2016, Hartmann's
former German Air Force unit, JG 71, honoured him by applying his
tulip colour scheme to their aircraft. Erich Hartmann was given
the nickname The Black Devil because of his skill (the Soviet
Command had put a price of 10,000 rubles on his head) and the
paint scheme of his aircraft, in the shape of a black tulip laying
on its side with the bottom of the bulb flush with the engine
cowling and its petals extending along the sides in a triangular
formation (though this became synonymous with Hartmann, in reality
he flew with the insignia on only five or six occasions). Erich
Hartmann was bprm Erich Alfred Hartmann in Weissach, Wurttemberg,
Weimar Republic, Germany. Erich Hartmann flew 1,404 combat
missions and participated in aerial combat on 825 separate
occasions. He was credited with shooting down 352 Allied aircraft
- 350 Soviet and two American - while serving as a Luftwaffe
fighter pilot, most often in the Messerschmidt Bf 109. During the
course of his career, Hartmann was forced to crash-land his
fighter 16 times due to either damage received from parts of enemy
aircraft he had just shot down or mechanical failure. Hartmann, a
pre-war glider pilot, joined the Luftwaffe in 1940 and completed
his fighter pilot training in 1942. He was posted to the veteran
Jagdgeschwader 52 (JG 52) on the Eastern Front and was fortunate
to be placed under the supervision of some of the Luftwaffe's most
experienced fighter pilots. Under their guidance, Hartmann
steadily developed his tactics. On 29 October 1943 he was awarded
the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for 148 enemy aircraft
destroyed and the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross for 202 enemy
aircraft on 2 March 1944, followed by the Swords to the Knight's
Cross with Oak Leaves exactly four months later for 268 enemy
aircraft shot down. Ultimately, Hartmann earned the coveted
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and
Diamonds on 25 August 1944 for claiming 301 aerial victories. At
the time of its presentation to Hartmann, this was Germany's
highest military decoration. Hartmann achieved his 352nd and last
aerial victory at midday on 8 May 1945, hours before the German
surrender. Along with the remainder of JG 52, he surrendered to
United States Army forces and was turned over to the Red Army. In
an attempt to pressure him into service with the Soviet-friendly
East German National People's Army, he was tried on war crimes
charges and convicted. He was initially sentenced to 20 years of
imprisonment, later increased to 25 years, and spent 10 years in
various Soviet prison camps and gulags until he was released in
1955. In 1997, the Russian Federation (posthumously) relieved him
of all charges. In 1956, Hartmann joined the newly established
West German Air Force in the Bundeswehr, and became the first
Geschwaderkommodore of Jagdgeschwader 71 "Richthofen".
He was retired in 1970, due to his opposition to the procurement
of the F-104 Starfighter. In his later years, after his military
career had ended, he became a civilian flight instructor.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Fiorello La Guardia DVD Biography Documentaries DVD MP4 Video
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Today, September 20, 2026September 20, 1947: #DOTD: #RIP: Fiorello
La Guardia American lawyer and propressive politician, liberal
member of the Republican Party, 99th Mayor of New York City for
three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a Republican (b. December 11,
1882) #dies of pancreatic cancer in his home at 5020 Goodridge
Avenue, in the Fieldston neighbourhood of Riverdale, Bronx, aged
64. La Guardia is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx in a
simple grave that reads "La Guardia. Statesman |
Humanitarian". Fiorello H. La Guardia was born Fiorello
Raffaele Enrico La Guardia in Greenwich Village, New York City to
Achille Luigi Carlo La Guardia and Irene Luzzatto-Coen. He was
named in honor of his maternal grandmother, paternal grandfather,
and uncle. Fiorello's father Achille was born in Foggia, Kingdom
of the Two Sicilies, on March 26, 1849, and his father, Don
Raffaele La Guardia, was a municipal official. Achille visited the
United States in 1878, while on tour with Adelina Patti, an
Italian opera singer, earning huge fees at the height of her
career in the music capitals of Europe and America in the 19th
century. Fiorello's mother Irene was a member of the Sephardic
Jewish Luzzatto family, and was born in Trieste, Austria, on July
18, 1859. Fiorello's parents married on June 3, 1880, after having
known each other for only half a year. Achille, a former Catholic,
was an atheist, and Irene was a nonpracticing Jew. Achille
prohibited his children from speaking Italian; Fiorello would not
become proficient in Italian until his time as a consular agent,
and would regularly give political speeches in a mix of American
English, Italian and Yiddish. Fiorello Henry La Guardia had been
elected to Congress in 1916 and 1918, and again from 1922 through
1930. Irascible, energetic, and charismatic, he craved publicity
and is acclaimed as one of the greatest mayors in American
history. Only five feet, two inches (1.57 m) tall, he was called
"the Little Flower" (Fiorello is Italian for "little
flower"). La Guardia, a Republican who appealed across party
lines, was very popular in New York during the 1930s. As a New
Dealer, he supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat,
and in turn Roosevelt heavily funded the city and cut off
patronage for La Guardia' enemies. La Guardia revitalized New York
City and restored public faith in City Hall. He unified the
transit system, directed the building of low-cost public housing,
public playgrounds, and parks, constructed airports, reorganized
the police force, defeated the powerful Tammany Hall political
machine, and reestablished employment on merit in place of
patronage jobs. La Guardia was a domineering leader who verged on
authoritarian but whose reform politics were carefully tailored to
address the sentiments of his diverse constituency. He defeated a
corrupt Democratic machine, presided during a depression and a
world war, made the city the model for New Deal welfare and public
works programs, and championed immigrants and ethnic minorities.
He succeeded with the support of a sympathetic president. He
secured his place in history as a tough-minded reform mayor who
helped clean out corruption, brought in gifted experts, and fixed
upon the city a broad sense of responsibility for its own
citizens. His administration engaged new groups that had been kept
out of the political system, gave New York its modern
infrastructure, and raised expectations of new levels of urban
possibility.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Nikita
Khrushchev Biography Documentary Set MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, September 20, 2026September 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 6, September 20, 1959:
Morning: -- En route to San Francisco, Khrushchev's train makes a
stop in San Luis Obispo so the Premier can disembark and greet the
crowd gathered on the platform. Khrushchev had complained to Lodge
that he wasn't getting enough opportunities to mingle with regular
Americans. 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's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Russian
Right Stuff: Soviet Space Program TV Series DVD, Download, USB
Today, September 20, 2026September 20, 2000: #DOTD: #RIP: Gherman
Titov, Russian general, pilot, and cosmonaut, who aboard Vostok 2
on August 6, 1961 became the second known human to orbit the
Earth, the fourth known person in space counting the suborbital
voyages of US astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom (b.
September 11, 1935) #dies of cardiac arrest in his sauna at the
age of 65 in Moscow, Russia. He is buried in the Novodevichy
Cemetery in Moscow. Gherman Titov was born Gherman Stepanovich
Titov in the village of Verkhneye Zhilino in the Altai Krai, a
federal subject of Russia (krai). Titov's flight finally proved
that humans could live and work in space. He was the first person
to orbit the Earth multiple times (a total of 17), to spend more
than a day in space, to sleep in orbit and to suffer from space
sickness. In fact, he also holds the record for being the first
person to vomit in space. He was the first to pilot a spaceship
personally and he made the first manual photographs from orbit,
thus setting a record for modern space photography. A month short
of 26 years old at launch, he remains the youngest person to fly
in space. In his subsequent life Titov continued to work for the
Soviet space program, playing a major role in the Spiral project
where he trained to become the first pilot of an orbital
spaceplane. However, after the death of Yuri Gagarin in a military
aircraft accident in 1968 the Soviet government decided it
couldn't afford to lose its second cosmonaut, and so Titov's
career as test pilot ended. Titov served in the Soviet Air Force
and become a colonel-general, and in his final years in
post-Soviet Russia he became a Communist politician. Despite
having been chosen only second after Gagarin to fly into space, it
was Titov who later proposed the Soviet Government regularly
celebrate Cosmonautics Day on April 12, the day of Gagarin's
flight.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: DJ
Madness! 1950s-60s-70s Radio Shows DVD, MP3 Download, USB Drive
Today, September 20, 2026September 20, 1973: #DOTD: #RIP: Jim
Croce, American folk and rock singer, songwriter and guitarist (b.
January 10, 1943) #dies at the height of his popularity, along
with his songwriter and guitarist partner Maury Muehleisen and all
five others on their chartered Beechcraft E18S light aircraft,
when it crashes into a tree on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional
Airport in Louisiana. That Thursday crash occurred during Croce's
Life and Times tour and the day before his ABC single "I Got
a Name" was released. Others killed in the crash were pilot
Robert N. Elliott, Maury Muehleisen, comedian George Stevens,
manager and booking agent Kenneth D. Cortese and road manager
Dennis Rast. An hour before the crash, Croce had completed a
concert at Northwestern State University's Prather Coliseum in
Natchitoches; he was flying to Sherman, Texas, for a concert at
Austin College. An investigation by the NTSB named the probable
cause as the pilot's failure to see the obstruction due to
physical impairment and because fog reduced his vision. The
57-year-old Elliott suffered from severe coronary artery disease
and had run three miles to the airport from a motel. He had an ATP
certificate, 14,290 hours total flight time and 2,190 hours in the
Beech 18 type airplane. A later investigation placed the sole
blame on pilot error due to his downwind takeoff into a "black
hole" of severe darkness, limiting his use of visual
references. Croce was buried at Haym Salomon Memorial Park in
Frazer, Pennsylvania. Jim Croce was born James Joseph Croce in
South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to James Albert Croce and Flora
Mary (Babusci) Croce, both Italian Americans from Trasacco and
Balsorano in Abruzzo and Palermo in Sicily. Jim Croce released
five studio albums and numerous singles. His first two albums were
commercially unsuccessful, failing to chart or produce any hit
singles. During this period, Croce took a series of odd jobs to
pay bills while he continued to write, record, and perform
concerts. After forming a partnership with songwriter and
guitarist Maury Muehleisen his fortunes turned in the early 1970s.
His breakthrough came in 1972; his third album You Don't Mess
Around with Jim produced three charting singles, including "Time
in a Bottle", which reached No. 1 after his death. The
follow-up album, Life and Times, contained the song "Bad, Bad
Leroy Brown", which was the only No. 1 hit he had during his
lifetime. Croce's music continued to chart throughout the 1970s
following his death. His wife, Ingrid Croce, was his early
songwriting partner and she continued to write and record after
his death, and his son A. J. Croce himself became a
singer-songwriter in the 1990s.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Today, September 20, 2026September 20, 2005: #DOTD: #RIP: Simon
Wiesenthal, Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter and
writer (b. December 31, 1908) #dies in his sleep at age 96 in
Vienna. He was buried in the city of Herzliya in Israel. Simon
Wiesenthal KBE (Knight Commander Of The Most Excellent Order Of
The British Empire) was born in Buczacz, Kingdom Of Galicia And
Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary (modern Buchach, Ternopil Oblast,
Ukraine). He studied architecture and was living in Lwow at the
outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration
camp (late 1941 to September 1944), the Krakow-Plaszow
concentration camp (September to October 1944), the Gross-Rosen
concentration camp, a death march to Chemnitz, Buchenwald, and the
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp (February to 5 May 1945).
After the war, Wiesenthal dedicated his life to tracking down and
gathering information on fugitive Nazi war criminals so that they
could be brought to trial. In 1947, he co-founded the Jewish
Historical Documentation Centre in Linz, Austria, where he and
others gathered information for future war crime trials and aided
refugees in their search for lost relatives. He opened the
Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the
Nazi Regime in Vienna in 1961 and continued to try to locate
missing Nazi war criminals. He played a small role in locating
Adolf Eichmann, who was captured in Buenos Aires in 1960, and
worked closely with the Austrian justice ministry to prepare a
dossier on Franz Stangl, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in
1971. In the 1970s and 1980s, Wiesenthal was involved in two
high-profile events involving Austrian politicians. Shortly after
Bruno Kreisky was inaugurated as Austrian chancellor in April
1970, Wiesenthal pointed out to the press that four of his new
cabinet appointees had been members of the Nazi Party. Kreisky,
angry, called Wiesenthal a "Jewish fascist", likened his
organisation to the Mafia, and accused him of collaborating with
the Nazis. Wiesenthal successfully sued for libel, the suit ending
in 1989. In 1986, Wiesenthal was involved in the case of Kurt
Waldheim, whose service in the Wehrmacht and probable knowledge of
the Holocaust were revealed in the lead-up to the 1986 Austrian
presidential elections. Wiesenthal, embarrassed that he had
previously cleared Waldheim of any wrongdoing, suffered much
negative publicity as a result of this event. With a reputation as
a storyteller, Wiesenthal was the author of several memoirs
containing tales that are only loosely based on actual events. In
particular, he exaggerated his role in the capture of Eichmann in
1960. Wiesenthal died in his sleep at age 96 in Vienna and was
buried in the city of Herzliya in Israel. The Simon Wiesenthal
Center, headquartered in Los Angeles, is named in his honor.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Nazis:
The Occult Conspiracy MP4 Video Download Or DVD
Today, September 20, 2026September 20, 1910: #BOTD: #HBD! Ellic
Howe, British astrologer, soldier, author, authority on printing
history, Freemason, occultist and ceremonial magician, authority
on the secret occult society The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn
(HOGD), who during World War II worked for Great Britain's
Political Warfare Executive on psychological warfare and forgery
as a forger, black propagandist and fabricator of Nostradamus and
astrological predictions under the name 'Armin Hull', member of
The Quatuor Coronati Lodge of The United Grand Lodge Of England
(UGLE), writer for the Lodge's annual journal Ars Quatuor
Coronatorum, writer as well as on typography and military history
(d. September 28, 1991) is #born Ellic Paul Howe in London,
England. He attended Hertford College, Oxford (1929-31). During
World War II he served with the British army (1939-41) and was
promoted to the Foreign Office (1941-45). After the war he became
a director of printing companies (1947-62). In addition to his
comprehensive studies of the history of British printing, he wrote
and edited several important books on the occult and the history
of magic, including Urania's Children: The Strange World Of The
Astrologers (1967) (U.S. title, Astrology: A Recent History
Including The Untold Story Of Its Role In World War II, 1968) and
The Magicians Of The Golden Dawn (1972). The former discusses how
astrology was used in psychological warfare in WWII. The latter
work is a comprehensive study of the history and membership of the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the fountainhead of most
contemporary ceremonial magic. His death and burial information
are not publicly disclosed.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, September 20, 2026September 20, 1933: #DOTD: #RIP: Annie
Besant, freemason, theosophist, fabian, occultist, women's rights
activist, social activist, political activist, union activist,
socialist, writer, orator, educationist, and philanthropist (b.
October 1, 1847) #dies at age 85 in Adyar, Madras Presidency,
British India. Her body was cremated, the ashes were scattered
both on the river Ganges and in The Garden Of Remeberance at
Adyar. After her death, colleagues Jiddu Krishnamurti, Aldous
Huxley, Guido Ferrando, and Rosalind Rajagopal, built the Happy
Valley School in California, now renamed the Besant Hill School Of
Happy Valley in her honour. Born Annie Wood in Clapham, London,
England, she is regarded as a champion of human freedom, an ardent
supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule. She was a prolific
author with over three hundred books and pamphlets to her credit.
As an educationist, her contributions included being one of the
founders of the Banaras Hindu University. In 1867, Annie, at age
20, married Frank Besant, a clergyman, and they had two children.
However, Annie's increasingly unconventional religious views led
to their legal separation in 1873. She then became a prominent
speaker for the National Secular Society (NSS), as well as a
writer, and a close friend of Charles Bradlaugh, English political
activist and atheist who founded the National Secular Society in
1866. In 1877 they were prosecuted for publishing a book by birth
control campaigner Charles Knowlton, The Fruits of Philosophy, or
the Private Companion of Young Married People, which contained a
summary of what was then known about the physiology of conception,
listed a number of methods to treat infertility and impotence, and
explained a method of birth control Knowlton had developed to wash
out the vagina after intercourse with certain chemical solutions.
The scandal made them famous, and Bradlaugh was subsequently
elected M.P. for Northampton in 1880. Thereafter, she became
involved with union actions, including the Bloody Sunday
demonstration and the London matchgirls strike of 1888. She was a
leading speaker for both the Fabian Society and the Marxist Social
Democratic Federation (SDF). She was also elected to the London
School Board for Tower Hamlets, topping the poll, even though few
women were qualified to vote at that time. In 1890 Besant met
Helena Blavatsky, and over the next few years her interest in
theosophy grew, whilst her interest in secular matters waned. She
became a member of the Theosophical Society and a prominent
lecturer on the subject. As part of her theosophy-related work,
she travelled to India. In 1898 she helped establish the Central
Hindu School, and in 1922 she helped establish the Hyderabad
(Sind) National Collegiate Board in Mumbai, India. In 1902, she
established the first overseas Lodge of the International Order of
Co-Freemasonry, Le Droit Humain. Over the next few years she
established lodges in many parts of the British Empire. In 1907
she became president of the Theosophical Society, whose
international headquarters were, by then, located in Adyar,
Madras, (Chennai). She also became involved in politics in India,
joining the Indian National Congress. When World War I broke out
in 1914, she helped launch the Home Rule League to campaign for
democracy in India, and dominion status within the British Empire.
This led to her election as president of the Indian National
Congress party in late 1917. In the late 1920s, Besant travelled
to the United States with her protege and adopted son Jiddu
Krishnamurti, who she claimed was the new Messiah and incarnation
of Buddha. Krishnamurti rejected these claims in 1929. After the
war, she continued to campaign for Indian independence and for the
causes of theosophy, until her death in 1933.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
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Today, September 20, 2026September 20, 1929: #BOTD: #HBD! Anne
Meara, American actress of stage, television, and numerous films,
comedian and playwright, one-half of a prominent 1960s comedy
team, Stiller And Meara, formed with her husband Jerry Stiller (d.
May 23, 2015) is #born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of
parents of Irish descent, Mary (nee Dempsey) and Edward Joseph
Meara, a corporate lawyer for American Standard. During her
career, Meara was nominated for four Emmy Awards and a Tony Award,
and she won a Writers Guild Award as a co-writer for the TV movie
The Other Woman. Stiller And Meara's son is actor, director, and
producer Ben Stiller. Anne Meara died at her home in Manhattan at
the age of 85, having suffered multiple strokes. The accounts of
her burial conflict; FindAGrave states that she, like her husband
Jerry, is buried at Nantucket Jewish Cemetery in Nantucket,
Massachusetts. However, IMDB states that, also like her husband,
her remains were cremated, and her ashes are scattered at Hessian
Lake, Bear Mountain State Park in Rockland and Orange Counties,
New York.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, September 20, 2026September 20, 2024: #DOTD: #RIP: Kathryn
Crosby, American actress and singer who performed in films under
the stage names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff, second and
last wife of Bing Crosby (b. November 25, 1933) #dies in
Hillsborough, California, U.S. at the age of 90. She is interred
in the Crosby family plot at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City.
Kathryn Crosby was born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff in West Columbia,
Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a
Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1955. Two years later she became Bing
Crosby's second wife, being more than thirty years his junior. The
couple had three children, Harry, Mary Frances, and Nathaniel. She
appeared as a guest star on her husband's 1964-1965 ABC sitcom The
Bing Crosby Show. Crosby largely retired from acting after her
marriage, but did have featured roles as Princess Parisa in The
7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), and in the courtroom drama Anatomy of
a Murder (1959). She also played the part of "Mama Bear"
alongside her husband and children in Goldilocks and co-starred
with Jack Lemmon in the comedy Operation Mad Ball (1957), with
Tony Curtis in the drama Mister Cory (1957) and as a trapeze
artist in The Big Circus (1959). In the mid-1970s, she hosted The
Kathryn Crosby Show, a 30-minute local talk-show on KPIX-TV in San
Francisco. Husband Bing appeared as a guest occasionally. Since
Bing Crosby's death in 1977, she has taken on a few smaller roles
and the lead in the short-lived 1996 Broadway musical State Fair.
In the 1960s, Crosby studied for and received her nursing degree
at the Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles. For 16 years
ending in 2001, Crosby hosted the Crosby National Golf Tournament
at Bermuda Run Country Club in Bermuda Run, North Carolina. A
nearby bridge carrying U.S. Route 158 over the Yadkin River is
named for Kathryn Crosby. On November 4, 2010, Crosby was
seriously injured in an automobile accident in the Sierra Nevada
that killed her 85-year-old second husband, Maurice William
Sullivan, whom she had married in 2000.
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