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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
TELEPHONE OPERATOR DAY
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Thanks Buddy
Originally there were no female telephone operators in the young communications industry. However, the callers complained that the operators were rude. And so, the first woman was hired to be the courteous, friendly voice on the other end of the black box and wire.
The first woman telephone operator was Emma M. Nutt, who started work saying “Number pu-leeeeeze” for the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston, Massachusetts on this day in 1878. She remained in her career choice for 33 years.
Events September 1
1819 - The first plow with interchangeable parts was patented by Jethro Wood.
1859 - The Pullman sleeping car was placed into service. The car was built by company namesake George Pullman and he was assisted by Ben Field.
1887 - Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone. We know it better as the record player. Emile got the patent, but Thomas Edison got the notoriety for making it work and making music with his invention.
1894 - A massive forest fire destroyed Hinckley, Minnesota and about a dozen other towns. The fire(s) burned 350,000 acres and killed 418 people.
1906 - Pitcher Jack Coombs of the American League’s Philadelphia Athletics went 24 innings. For the record, the A’s defeated the Boston Red Sox.
1922 - The first daily news program on radio was The Radio Digest, on WBAY radio. The program, hosted by George F. Thompson, the program’s editor, originated from New York City.
1923 - The earth shook violently in Kanto, Japan. It was the worst earthquake in Japan’s history (magnituded 7.1), killing some 140,000 people.
1939 - This day would live in infamy as the beginning of World War II. It was marked by the invasion of Poland by Nazi troops and planes. Polish defenses crumbled under the massive mechanized land and air assault.
1939 - General George Marshall was sworn in as chief of staff of U.S. Army.
1942 - A U.S. federal judge in Sacramento, CA upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
1949 - Martin Kane, Private Eye debuted on NBC-TV. William Gargan starred on the Thursday night program. Gargan’s Martin Kane was a smooth, wisecracking operator who worked closely with the cops. His headquarters were at Happy McMann’s tobacco shop. As time passed, the format changed and so did the lead. Kane no longer worked closely with the fuzz and three other actors played the famous detective, Lloyd Nolan (1951-52), Lee Tracy (1952-53) and Mark Stevens (1953-54). Martin Kane, Private Eye ended on June 17, 1954.
1951 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS Treaty.
1961 - On the cover of LIFE magazine: First Lady Jackie Kennedy, who revealed her plans for the White House. NY Political Zoo, California Surfers, Paris Fashions.
1962 - An earthquake struck northwestern Iran near Ghazvin. The magnitude 7.3 quake killed some 12,000 people.
1965 - The Pakistan army launched a major assault on Kashmir. To relieve pressure on the Kashmir front, Indian forces counter-attacked in the Punjab, near the Pakistani city of Lahore, and they crossed the international border. By mid-September 1965, the war had reached a stalemate. On September 20, the United Nations Security Council called for a ceasefire, to which both sides agreed by September 22. A settlement was negotiated, and, although both sides made important territorial concessions, the underlying causes of the Kashmir dispute were never resolved, and the dispute continues...
1969 - A coup in Libya overthrew the monarchy of King Mohammed Idris and brought 27-year-old Colonel Moammar Gadhafi to power. Gadhafi took over as leader of the revolutionary government and, among other things, ordered the closure of Wheelus Air Force Base near Tripoli (June 1970).
1970 - The last episode of I Dream of Jeannie aired on NBC-TV. The comedy/fantasy had aired since September 18, 1965 with 139 half-hour episodes. I Dream of Jeannie was created by Sidney Sheldon and centered around the mishaps and misadventures of astronaut Anthony Nelson, played by Larry Hagman, and a genie named Jeannie, played by Barbara Eden. Nelson discovered Jeannie in a bottle on a desert island during an aborted space mission. Each episode was full of unusal happenings that Jeannie conjured up with the wink of an eye to please her master. Music for the series was done by Hugo Montenegro.
1971 - When Danny Murtaugh manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, handed in his lineup card to the umpire, it contained the names of nine black baseball players -- a first for the major leagues.
1972 - The O’Jays received a gold record for Back Stabbers. It was the first hit for the group from Canton, OH. The O’Jays would place nine more hits on the pop and R&B charts. Five of them were gold record winners: Love Train, I Love Music, Use ta Be My Girl, For the Love of Money and Put Your Hands Together.
1972 - America’s Bobby Fischer beat Russia’s Boris Spassky to become world chess champion. The chess match took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1973 - Horse-racing jockey Braulio Baeza won two races at Belmont Park, New York. Baeza then boarded an airplane and flew to Liberty Bell race track in Philadelphia to ride Determined King to victory in the Kindergarten Stakes.
1975 - The last Monday Night Baseball game was broadcast on NBC-TV. Montreal’s Expos defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5. ABC-TV picked up the games in 1976.
1977 - Singer Debbie Harry (of Blondie) signed a recording deal with Chrysalis Records. Chrysalis bought the group’s private stock label for $500,000. With the high visibility of the former Playboy Bunny, it was difficult to think of Blondie as a band, and not just Debbie Harry.
1978 - The last broadcast of Columbo aired on NBC TV. The Peter Falk whodunit was one of the most popular TV crime shows of all time. Columbo had begun as part of the NBC Mystery Movie, where it rotated with two other mysteries: McCloud, starring Dennis Weaver, and McMillan and Wife, with Rock Hudson and Susan St. James.
1982 - After a two-year absence from the major leagues (following a near-fatal stroke in June of 1980), pitcher J.R. Richard was called back to the Houston Astros.
1983 - A Soviet interceptor plane destroyed a Korean Air Boeing 747 that had strayed 100 miles off course, flying over Soviet military installations. Flight 007, carrying 240 passengers and 29 crew members, had departed from New York and was en route to Seoul, Korea. All 269 on board perished.
1985 - The man in front of the monitor sat with his eyes almost glued to the monitor and calmly commented: “It’s something there.” The wreck of the luxury liner RMS Titanic, sunk by an iceberg in 1912, was found by Robert Ballard and other scientists aboard the U.S. Navy vessel Knorr in the Atlantic south of Newfoundland.
1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, Baseball Commissioner, died of a heart attack at his summer home in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. He was 51 years old.
1992 - Chess champ Bobby Fischer came out of his 20-year retirement to hold a press conference in Yugoslavi a. He spit on an order from the U.S. Treasury Department warning him of his pending violation of U.N. sanctions if he played chess in Yugoslavia. Fischer announced that he would, indeed, play his one-time rival, Boris Spassky, in a $5-million chess match in Sveti Stefan, Yugoslavia -- despite the sanctions. The match began on Sep 30 and ran thru Nov 11 (Fischer won).
1993 - Louis Freeh was sworn in as the Director of the FBI. Freeh would not serve as director for the entire 10-year term, resigning June 25, 2001.
1995 - The 716-acre Limekiln State Park on the California Big Sur coast opened.
1995 - The ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
1997 - The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon raised $50,475,055 -- a record -- to support Muscular Dystrophy Association research and services.
1997 - The minimum wage in the U.S. was raised to $5.15 per hour. Most of the nearly 7,000,000 workers to profit were those who work in the fast food, retail and service sectors.
1997 - Henri Paul, the driver of the Mercedes in which Princess Diana was fatally injured, had a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit. The Paris prosecutor’s office said, “The analysis of his blood showed a concentration of alcohol at an illicit level.”
1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs (in the Cardinals 7-1 win over the Marlins), breaking the one-season record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
1999 - These movies debuted in U.S. theatres: Chill Factor, with Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth, David Paymer and Hudson Leick; and Outside Providence, starring Shawn Hatosy, Alec Baldwin, Amy Smart, George Wendt, Jonathan Brandis, Gabriel Mann and Jon Abrahams.
2000 - These films opened in the U.S.: Highlander: Endgame, starring Christopher Lambert, Adrian Paul, Bruce Payne, Lisa Barbuscia, Donnie Yen and Adam Copeland (Edge); Saving Grace, with Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tcheky Karyo, Valerie Edmond, Phyllida Law, Leslie Phillips, Tristan Sturrock and Jamie Foreman; and Whipped, starring Amanda Peet, Brian Van Holt, Zorie Barber, Jonathan Abrahams and Judah Domke.
2002 - Israel and Jordan announced an $800-million pipeline intended to save the shrinking Dead Sea from environmental devastation. It was the largest joint project between the two nations.
2003 - Actor Rand Brooks, who played Scarlett O’Hara’s first husband in Gone with the Wind, died in Santa Ynez, CA. He was 84 years old.
2004 - New movies in the U.S.: Pauly Shore is Dead, with Pauly Shore, Jaime Bergman, Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, Fred Durst, Tom Sizemore, Chris Rock, Whoopi Goldberg, Heidi Fleiss, Ellen DeGeneres and Kurt Loder; and Vanity Fair, starring Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Aileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Romola Garai, Douglas Hodge, Bob Hoskins, Rhys Ifans, Natasha Little, Geraldine McEwan and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
2004 - Philadelphia officials announced plans to turn all 135 square miles of the city into the world’s largest wireless Internet hot spot. Cost of the project was estimated at $10 million.
2005 - Thirteen percent (64 of 490) of the female students at Timken Senior High School in Canton, Ohio were reported to be pregnant. One girl, eight months pregnant, said she believed the school’s abstinence-based sex education program wasn’t enough.
2005 - Mexican President Vicente Fox, in his last state-of-the-nation address, urged citizens to stay committed to Mexico’s newfound democracy.
2006 - Motion pictures debuting in U.S. theatres: Crank, starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez, Jose Cantillo, Jay Xcala, Carlos Sanz and Keone Young; Crossover, with Anthony Mackie, Welsey Jonathan, Wayne Brady, Kristen Wilson, Eva Pigford, Little JJ and Allen Payne; and The Wicker Man, starring Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, LeeLee Sobieski and Molly Parker.
2006 - U.S. Senator Barack Obama held talks with President Idriss Deby Itno in Chad on the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region and on Chad’s oil production. It was the final stop of Obama’s tour of Africa.
2007 - The Mountaineers of Appalachian State Univ (Boone, NC) pulled off one of the great upsets in college football history as Appalachian State beat No. 5 Michigan 34-32. It was the only time a team ranked in the AP poll has ever been defeated by a Division I-FCS team.
2008 - Movie-trailer voiceover artist Don LaFontaine died in Los Angeles CA. “The Voice of God,” as he was called by many, was 68 years old. The ‘King of Trailers’ narrated more than 5,000 movie previews and voiced some 350,000 radio and network TV promotional spots and commercials during a career spanning 43 years. His oft-repeated trailer opening, “In a world...” became kind a national in-joke with the movie geek crowd.
2008 - Hurricane Gustav smashed into the Gulf coast as a Category 2 storm with 110-mph winds. It came ashore just southwest of New Orleans, where levees held as waves splashed over. Some 750,000 people were left without power in Louisiana. It was later estimated that the storm caused at least $372 million in damage to crops.
2008 - The Republican National Convention opened at the Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minnesota. The first night’s session was abbreviated because of concerns about Hurricane Gustav roaring in the Gulf of Mexico.
2009 - An amended fisheries laws took effect in the Bahamas, giving protection to all sea turtles found in the Atlantic archipelago’s waters. The law banned the harvest, possession, purchase and sale of the endangered reptiles, including their eggs.
2009 - The Station wildfire continued to rage in Southern California with 53 homes destoyed thousands of people evacuated. The towering flames came within 15 miles of downtown Los Angeles. The fire, later blamed on arson, was not contained until Oct 17, 52 days after it started.
2010 - The American opened in U.S. theatres. The drama thriller stars George Clooney, Thekla Reuten, Irina Björklund, Violante Placido and Paolo Bonacelli.
Birthdays September 1
1791 - Lydia Sigourney
author: Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands, Letters to Young Ladies, How to Be Happy; died June 10, 1865
1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck
opera composer: Hansel and Gretel; name borrowed by pop singer Arnold Dorsey; died Sep 27, 1921
1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
writer: Tarzan of the Apes; died Mar 19, 1950
1898 - Richard Arlen (Van Mattimore)
actor: Road to Nashville, Johnny Reno, Apache Uprising, Sex and the College Girl, Buffalo Bill Rides Again, Island of Lost Souls; died Mar 28, 1976
1900 - Don Wilson
announcer, actor: The Jack Benny Show; died Apr 25, 1982
1904 - Johnny Mack Brown
actor: Apache Uprising, Ghost Rider, The Masked Rider, Oregon Trail, Rustlers of Red Dog, Texas Kid; died Nov 14, 1974
1907 - Walter (Philip) Reuther
labor union leader: president of United Automobile Workers [UAW] and Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]; killed in plane crash May 9, 1970
1916 - Arleen Whelan
actress: Never Wave at a WAC, Ramrod; died Apr 7, 1993
1920 - Richard Farnsworth
actor: The Fire Next Time, The Two Jakes, The Natural, Misery, Anne of Green Gables, Lassie, The Grey Fox, Legend of the Lone Ranger, Havana, The Boys of Twilight; died Oct 6, 2000
1922 - Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton)
actress: The Munsters, Salome, Where She Danced, The Ten Commandments, McLintock!; died Jan 8, 2007
1922 - Vittorio Gassman
actor: Sharkey’s Machine, The Scent of a Woman, Abraham, Bitter Rice, War and Peace, The Family; died June 29, 2000
1922 - Melvin R. Laird
politician: U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin; U.S. Secretary of Defense [1969-1973], ended the military draft and created the all-volunteer force
1923 - Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano)
boxer: World Heavyweight Champion [1952-56]: the only world champion to have won every fight in professional career [1947-56]; died Aug 31, 1969
1928 - George Maharis (Maharias)
actor: Route 66, Rich Man, Poor Man - Book 1, The Most Deadly Game, The Crash of Flight 401, Return to Fantasy Island, Murder on Flight 502, Land Raiders, Exodus
1931 - Boxcar Willie (Lecil Martin)
‘The Singing Hobo’: songwriter, singer: Not the Man I Used to Be; died Apr 12, 1999
1933 - Ann Richards
politician: Governor of Texas [1991-1995]; died Sep 13, 2006
1933 - Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins)
songwriter: Walk Me to the Door; singer: It’s Only Make Believe, Danny Boy, Lonely Boy Blue, What Am I Living For, Next In Line, Hello Darlin’, 15 Years Ago, You’ve Never been this Far Before, Don’t Cry Joni; CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1975], Grammy Award-winner [w/Loretta Lynn]: After the Fire is Gone [1971]; owns booking agency, music publishing company, Twitty Burgers, Twitty City theme park; died June 5, 1993
1935 - Seiji Ozawa
orchestra leader: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
1935 - Guy Rodgers
basketball: Milwaukee Bucks, Cincinnati Royals, Chicago Bulls, Philadelphia Warriors; died Feb 19, 2001
1937 - Al Geiberger
golf: holds PGA Tour Record for lowest score in 18 holes [59], played in 1977 during the second round of the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic at the Colonial Country Club
1937 - Ron O’Neal
actor: Original Gangstas, Up Against the Wall, Trained to Kill, Super Fly, Red Dawn, No Place to Be Somebody, The Equalizer, Bring ’Em Back Alive; died Jan 14, 2004
1939 - Lily (Mary Jean) Tomlin
Emmy Award-winning comedy-writer: Lily [1973-74], Lily Tomlin [1975-76], The Paul Simon Special [12/8/77], producer: Lily: Sold Out [1980-81]; Tony Award-winning actress: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe [1986]; Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, 9 to 5, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, And the Band Played On, Short Cuts, Nashville
1939 - Rico (Ricardo Adolfo Jacobo) Carty
baseball: Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1970], Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays
1940 - DAVE White (Tricker)
singer, songwriter: group: Danny & The Juniors: At the Hop, Rock and Roll is Here to Stay
1943 - Don Stroud
actor: Dillinger and Capone, Prime Target, Twisted Justice, Amityville Horror, The Buddy Holly Story, Sudden Death, Killer Inside Me, Madigan, Coogan’s Bluff, Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, Kate Loves a Mystery, Dragnet
1944 - Archie Bell
singer: group: Archie Bell and the Drells: Tighten Up, I Can’t Stop Dancing
1944 - Leonard Slatkin
Grammy Award-winning orchestra director: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra
1946 - Barry Gibb
musician: rhythm guitar, songwriter, singer: group: The Bee Gees: Stayin’ Alive, Night Fever, How Deep Is Your Love, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Tragedy , Lonely Days; What Kind of Fool [w/Barbra Streisand], Emotion [w/Samantha Sang]; score: Saturday Night Fever; 29 hits: 7 gold, 4 platinum
1946 - Greg Errico
musician: drums: group: Sly and The Family Stone: Everyday People, [I Want to Take You] Higher, Dance to the Music, Hot Fun in the Summertime, Thank You [Falettinme be Mice Elf Agin]
1946 - Dennis Partee
football: San Diego Chargers
1947 - Ed Podolak
football: Kansas City Chiefs running back: Super Bowl IV
1948 - Dennis Miccoli
musician: keyboards, group: The Buckinghams: Kind of a Drag, I’ll Go Crazy, Makin’ Up and Breakin’ Up, Don’t You Care, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
1949 - Garry (Lee) Maddox
baseball: San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1980, 1983]
1950 - Phil McGraw
TV's Dr. Phil
1955 - Bruce Foxton
musician: guitar: band: 100 Men; group: The Jam: Down in the Tube Station at Midnight, David Watts, Eton Rifles, Little Boy Soldiers, Saturday’s Kids, Going Underground, Town Called Malice, Beat Surrender, Man in the Corner Shop, Set the House Ablaze, Start , The Planner’s Dream Gone Wrong
1957 - Gloria Estefan (Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo)
‘Queen of Latin Pop’: Grammy Award-winning singer: Mi Tierra [1993], Abriendo Puertas [1995]; group: Miami Sound Machine: Don’t Want to Lose You, Turn the Beat Around; solo: LPs: Cuts Both Ways, Into the Light, Greatest Hits, Destiny; over 45 million records sold; actress: Music of the Heart
1960 - Joseph Williams
omposer, singer: group: Toto: LPs: Fahrenheit, The Seventh One; solo LPs: Joseph Williams, I Am Alive, 3, Early Years
1961 - Scott ‘Bam Bam’ Bigelow
pro wrestler/actor WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Survivor Series, Wrestlemania, Extreme Championship Wrestling, WCW Saturday Night, Ready to Rumble; died Jan 19, 2007
1965 - Craig McLachlan
actor: The Great Raid, Hating Alison Ashley, Heroes’ Mountain, My Husband My Killer, Tribe, Absent Without Leave
1965 - Hardy Nickerson
football [linebacker]: Univ of California; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Green Bay Packers
1966 - Tim Hardaway
basketball [guard]: Texas-El Paso; NBA: Golden State Warriors, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers
1971 - Rachel Zoe
fashion stylist, author, TV personality: The Rachel Zoe Project
1973 - J.D. Fortune (Jason Dean Bennison)
musician: guitar; singer: group: INXS: Switch; winner of reality TV series Rock Star: INXS
1973 - Zach Thomas
football [middle linebacker]: Texas Tech Univ; NFL: Miami Dolphins
1974 - Jason Taylor
football [defensive end]: Univ of Akron; NFL: Miami Dolphins
1978 - Dante Hall
football [running back)]: Texas A&M Univ; NFL: Kansas City Chiefs, St. Louis Rams
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Chart Toppers September 1
1944Amor - Bing Crosby
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Time Waits for No One - Helen Forrest
Is You is or is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby) - Louis Jordan
1953I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
No Other Love - Perry Como
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
1962Sheila - Tommy Roe
You Don’t Know Me - Ray Charles
Party Lights - Claudine Clark
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1971How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - The Bee Gees
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
Good Lovin’ (Makes It Right) - Tammy Wynette
1980Sailing - Christopher Cross
Upside Down - Diana Ross
Emotional Rescue - The Rolling Stones
Cowboys and Clowns - Ronnie Milsap
1989Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul
Hangin’ Tough - New Kids on the Block
Are You Ever Gonna Love Me - Holly Dunn
1998I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
My Way - Usher
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
I’m Alright - Jo Dee Messina
2007Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie
The Way I Are - Timbaland featuring Keri Hilson
Hey There Delilah - Plain White T’s
Never Wanted Nothing More - Kenny Chesney
Chart Topper September 1st, 1971...Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
B hunter
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
TELEPHONE OPERATOR DAY
C/P
Thanks Buddy
Originally there were no female telephone operators in the young communications industry. However, the callers complained that the operators were rude. And so, the first woman was hired to be the courteous, friendly voice on the other end of the black box and wire.
The first woman telephone operator was Emma M. Nutt, who started work saying “Number pu-leeeeeze” for the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston, Massachusetts on this day in 1878. She remained in her career choice for 33 years.
Events September 1
1819 - The first plow with interchangeable parts was patented by Jethro Wood.
1859 - The Pullman sleeping car was placed into service. The car was built by company namesake George Pullman and he was assisted by Ben Field.
1887 - Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone. We know it better as the record player. Emile got the patent, but Thomas Edison got the notoriety for making it work and making music with his invention.
1894 - A massive forest fire destroyed Hinckley, Minnesota and about a dozen other towns. The fire(s) burned 350,000 acres and killed 418 people.
1906 - Pitcher Jack Coombs of the American League’s Philadelphia Athletics went 24 innings. For the record, the A’s defeated the Boston Red Sox.
1922 - The first daily news program on radio was The Radio Digest, on WBAY radio. The program, hosted by George F. Thompson, the program’s editor, originated from New York City.
1923 - The earth shook violently in Kanto, Japan. It was the worst earthquake in Japan’s history (magnituded 7.1), killing some 140,000 people.
1939 - This day would live in infamy as the beginning of World War II. It was marked by the invasion of Poland by Nazi troops and planes. Polish defenses crumbled under the massive mechanized land and air assault.
1939 - General George Marshall was sworn in as chief of staff of U.S. Army.
1942 - A U.S. federal judge in Sacramento, CA upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
1949 - Martin Kane, Private Eye debuted on NBC-TV. William Gargan starred on the Thursday night program. Gargan’s Martin Kane was a smooth, wisecracking operator who worked closely with the cops. His headquarters were at Happy McMann’s tobacco shop. As time passed, the format changed and so did the lead. Kane no longer worked closely with the fuzz and three other actors played the famous detective, Lloyd Nolan (1951-52), Lee Tracy (1952-53) and Mark Stevens (1953-54). Martin Kane, Private Eye ended on June 17, 1954.
1951 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS Treaty.
1961 - On the cover of LIFE magazine: First Lady Jackie Kennedy, who revealed her plans for the White House. NY Political Zoo, California Surfers, Paris Fashions.
1962 - An earthquake struck northwestern Iran near Ghazvin. The magnitude 7.3 quake killed some 12,000 people.
1965 - The Pakistan army launched a major assault on Kashmir. To relieve pressure on the Kashmir front, Indian forces counter-attacked in the Punjab, near the Pakistani city of Lahore, and they crossed the international border. By mid-September 1965, the war had reached a stalemate. On September 20, the United Nations Security Council called for a ceasefire, to which both sides agreed by September 22. A settlement was negotiated, and, although both sides made important territorial concessions, the underlying causes of the Kashmir dispute were never resolved, and the dispute continues...
1969 - A coup in Libya overthrew the monarchy of King Mohammed Idris and brought 27-year-old Colonel Moammar Gadhafi to power. Gadhafi took over as leader of the revolutionary government and, among other things, ordered the closure of Wheelus Air Force Base near Tripoli (June 1970).
1970 - The last episode of I Dream of Jeannie aired on NBC-TV. The comedy/fantasy had aired since September 18, 1965 with 139 half-hour episodes. I Dream of Jeannie was created by Sidney Sheldon and centered around the mishaps and misadventures of astronaut Anthony Nelson, played by Larry Hagman, and a genie named Jeannie, played by Barbara Eden. Nelson discovered Jeannie in a bottle on a desert island during an aborted space mission. Each episode was full of unusal happenings that Jeannie conjured up with the wink of an eye to please her master. Music for the series was done by Hugo Montenegro.
1971 - When Danny Murtaugh manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, handed in his lineup card to the umpire, it contained the names of nine black baseball players -- a first for the major leagues.
1972 - The O’Jays received a gold record for Back Stabbers. It was the first hit for the group from Canton, OH. The O’Jays would place nine more hits on the pop and R&B charts. Five of them were gold record winners: Love Train, I Love Music, Use ta Be My Girl, For the Love of Money and Put Your Hands Together.
1972 - America’s Bobby Fischer beat Russia’s Boris Spassky to become world chess champion. The chess match took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1973 - Horse-racing jockey Braulio Baeza won two races at Belmont Park, New York. Baeza then boarded an airplane and flew to Liberty Bell race track in Philadelphia to ride Determined King to victory in the Kindergarten Stakes.
1975 - The last Monday Night Baseball game was broadcast on NBC-TV. Montreal’s Expos defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5. ABC-TV picked up the games in 1976.
1977 - Singer Debbie Harry (of Blondie) signed a recording deal with Chrysalis Records. Chrysalis bought the group’s private stock label for $500,000. With the high visibility of the former Playboy Bunny, it was difficult to think of Blondie as a band, and not just Debbie Harry.
1978 - The last broadcast of Columbo aired on NBC TV. The Peter Falk whodunit was one of the most popular TV crime shows of all time. Columbo had begun as part of the NBC Mystery Movie, where it rotated with two other mysteries: McCloud, starring Dennis Weaver, and McMillan and Wife, with Rock Hudson and Susan St. James.
1982 - After a two-year absence from the major leagues (following a near-fatal stroke in June of 1980), pitcher J.R. Richard was called back to the Houston Astros.
1983 - A Soviet interceptor plane destroyed a Korean Air Boeing 747 that had strayed 100 miles off course, flying over Soviet military installations. Flight 007, carrying 240 passengers and 29 crew members, had departed from New York and was en route to Seoul, Korea. All 269 on board perished.
1985 - The man in front of the monitor sat with his eyes almost glued to the monitor and calmly commented: “It’s something there.” The wreck of the luxury liner RMS Titanic, sunk by an iceberg in 1912, was found by Robert Ballard and other scientists aboard the U.S. Navy vessel Knorr in the Atlantic south of Newfoundland.
1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, Baseball Commissioner, died of a heart attack at his summer home in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. He was 51 years old.
1992 - Chess champ Bobby Fischer came out of his 20-year retirement to hold a press conference in Yugoslavi a. He spit on an order from the U.S. Treasury Department warning him of his pending violation of U.N. sanctions if he played chess in Yugoslavia. Fischer announced that he would, indeed, play his one-time rival, Boris Spassky, in a $5-million chess match in Sveti Stefan, Yugoslavia -- despite the sanctions. The match began on Sep 30 and ran thru Nov 11 (Fischer won).
1993 - Louis Freeh was sworn in as the Director of the FBI. Freeh would not serve as director for the entire 10-year term, resigning June 25, 2001.
1995 - The 716-acre Limekiln State Park on the California Big Sur coast opened.
1995 - The ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
1997 - The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon raised $50,475,055 -- a record -- to support Muscular Dystrophy Association research and services.
1997 - The minimum wage in the U.S. was raised to $5.15 per hour. Most of the nearly 7,000,000 workers to profit were those who work in the fast food, retail and service sectors.
1997 - Henri Paul, the driver of the Mercedes in which Princess Diana was fatally injured, had a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit. The Paris prosecutor’s office said, “The analysis of his blood showed a concentration of alcohol at an illicit level.”
1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs (in the Cardinals 7-1 win over the Marlins), breaking the one-season record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
1999 - These movies debuted in U.S. theatres: Chill Factor, with Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth, David Paymer and Hudson Leick; and Outside Providence, starring Shawn Hatosy, Alec Baldwin, Amy Smart, George Wendt, Jonathan Brandis, Gabriel Mann and Jon Abrahams.
2000 - These films opened in the U.S.: Highlander: Endgame, starring Christopher Lambert, Adrian Paul, Bruce Payne, Lisa Barbuscia, Donnie Yen and Adam Copeland (Edge); Saving Grace, with Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tcheky Karyo, Valerie Edmond, Phyllida Law, Leslie Phillips, Tristan Sturrock and Jamie Foreman; and Whipped, starring Amanda Peet, Brian Van Holt, Zorie Barber, Jonathan Abrahams and Judah Domke.
2002 - Israel and Jordan announced an $800-million pipeline intended to save the shrinking Dead Sea from environmental devastation. It was the largest joint project between the two nations.
2003 - Actor Rand Brooks, who played Scarlett O’Hara’s first husband in Gone with the Wind, died in Santa Ynez, CA. He was 84 years old.
2004 - New movies in the U.S.: Pauly Shore is Dead, with Pauly Shore, Jaime Bergman, Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, Fred Durst, Tom Sizemore, Chris Rock, Whoopi Goldberg, Heidi Fleiss, Ellen DeGeneres and Kurt Loder; and Vanity Fair, starring Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Aileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Romola Garai, Douglas Hodge, Bob Hoskins, Rhys Ifans, Natasha Little, Geraldine McEwan and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
2004 - Philadelphia officials announced plans to turn all 135 square miles of the city into the world’s largest wireless Internet hot spot. Cost of the project was estimated at $10 million.
2005 - Thirteen percent (64 of 490) of the female students at Timken Senior High School in Canton, Ohio were reported to be pregnant. One girl, eight months pregnant, said she believed the school’s abstinence-based sex education program wasn’t enough.
2005 - Mexican President Vicente Fox, in his last state-of-the-nation address, urged citizens to stay committed to Mexico’s newfound democracy.
2006 - Motion pictures debuting in U.S. theatres: Crank, starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez, Jose Cantillo, Jay Xcala, Carlos Sanz and Keone Young; Crossover, with Anthony Mackie, Welsey Jonathan, Wayne Brady, Kristen Wilson, Eva Pigford, Little JJ and Allen Payne; and The Wicker Man, starring Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, LeeLee Sobieski and Molly Parker.
2006 - U.S. Senator Barack Obama held talks with President Idriss Deby Itno in Chad on the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region and on Chad’s oil production. It was the final stop of Obama’s tour of Africa.
2007 - The Mountaineers of Appalachian State Univ (Boone, NC) pulled off one of the great upsets in college football history as Appalachian State beat No. 5 Michigan 34-32. It was the only time a team ranked in the AP poll has ever been defeated by a Division I-FCS team.
2008 - Movie-trailer voiceover artist Don LaFontaine died in Los Angeles CA. “The Voice of God,” as he was called by many, was 68 years old. The ‘King of Trailers’ narrated more than 5,000 movie previews and voiced some 350,000 radio and network TV promotional spots and commercials during a career spanning 43 years. His oft-repeated trailer opening, “In a world...” became kind a national in-joke with the movie geek crowd.
2008 - Hurricane Gustav smashed into the Gulf coast as a Category 2 storm with 110-mph winds. It came ashore just southwest of New Orleans, where levees held as waves splashed over. Some 750,000 people were left without power in Louisiana. It was later estimated that the storm caused at least $372 million in damage to crops.
2008 - The Republican National Convention opened at the Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minnesota. The first night’s session was abbreviated because of concerns about Hurricane Gustav roaring in the Gulf of Mexico.
2009 - An amended fisheries laws took effect in the Bahamas, giving protection to all sea turtles found in the Atlantic archipelago’s waters. The law banned the harvest, possession, purchase and sale of the endangered reptiles, including their eggs.
2009 - The Station wildfire continued to rage in Southern California with 53 homes destoyed thousands of people evacuated. The towering flames came within 15 miles of downtown Los Angeles. The fire, later blamed on arson, was not contained until Oct 17, 52 days after it started.
2010 - The American opened in U.S. theatres. The drama thriller stars George Clooney, Thekla Reuten, Irina Björklund, Violante Placido and Paolo Bonacelli.
Birthdays September 1
1791 - Lydia Sigourney
author: Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands, Letters to Young Ladies, How to Be Happy; died June 10, 1865
1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck
opera composer: Hansel and Gretel; name borrowed by pop singer Arnold Dorsey; died Sep 27, 1921
1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
writer: Tarzan of the Apes; died Mar 19, 1950
1898 - Richard Arlen (Van Mattimore)
actor: Road to Nashville, Johnny Reno, Apache Uprising, Sex and the College Girl, Buffalo Bill Rides Again, Island of Lost Souls; died Mar 28, 1976
1900 - Don Wilson
announcer, actor: The Jack Benny Show; died Apr 25, 1982
1904 - Johnny Mack Brown
actor: Apache Uprising, Ghost Rider, The Masked Rider, Oregon Trail, Rustlers of Red Dog, Texas Kid; died Nov 14, 1974
1907 - Walter (Philip) Reuther
labor union leader: president of United Automobile Workers [UAW] and Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]; killed in plane crash May 9, 1970
1916 - Arleen Whelan
actress: Never Wave at a WAC, Ramrod; died Apr 7, 1993
1920 - Richard Farnsworth
actor: The Fire Next Time, The Two Jakes, The Natural, Misery, Anne of Green Gables, Lassie, The Grey Fox, Legend of the Lone Ranger, Havana, The Boys of Twilight; died Oct 6, 2000
1922 - Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton)
actress: The Munsters, Salome, Where She Danced, The Ten Commandments, McLintock!; died Jan 8, 2007
1922 - Vittorio Gassman
actor: Sharkey’s Machine, The Scent of a Woman, Abraham, Bitter Rice, War and Peace, The Family; died June 29, 2000
1922 - Melvin R. Laird
politician: U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin; U.S. Secretary of Defense [1969-1973], ended the military draft and created the all-volunteer force
1923 - Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano)
boxer: World Heavyweight Champion [1952-56]: the only world champion to have won every fight in professional career [1947-56]; died Aug 31, 1969
1928 - George Maharis (Maharias)
actor: Route 66, Rich Man, Poor Man - Book 1, The Most Deadly Game, The Crash of Flight 401, Return to Fantasy Island, Murder on Flight 502, Land Raiders, Exodus
1931 - Boxcar Willie (Lecil Martin)
‘The Singing Hobo’: songwriter, singer: Not the Man I Used to Be; died Apr 12, 1999
1933 - Ann Richards
politician: Governor of Texas [1991-1995]; died Sep 13, 2006
1933 - Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins)
songwriter: Walk Me to the Door; singer: It’s Only Make Believe, Danny Boy, Lonely Boy Blue, What Am I Living For, Next In Line, Hello Darlin’, 15 Years Ago, You’ve Never been this Far Before, Don’t Cry Joni; CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1975], Grammy Award-winner [w/Loretta Lynn]: After the Fire is Gone [1971]; owns booking agency, music publishing company, Twitty Burgers, Twitty City theme park; died June 5, 1993
1935 - Seiji Ozawa
orchestra leader: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
1935 - Guy Rodgers
basketball: Milwaukee Bucks, Cincinnati Royals, Chicago Bulls, Philadelphia Warriors; died Feb 19, 2001
1937 - Al Geiberger
golf: holds PGA Tour Record for lowest score in 18 holes [59], played in 1977 during the second round of the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic at the Colonial Country Club
1937 - Ron O’Neal
actor: Original Gangstas, Up Against the Wall, Trained to Kill, Super Fly, Red Dawn, No Place to Be Somebody, The Equalizer, Bring ’Em Back Alive; died Jan 14, 2004
1939 - Lily (Mary Jean) Tomlin
Emmy Award-winning comedy-writer: Lily [1973-74], Lily Tomlin [1975-76], The Paul Simon Special [12/8/77], producer: Lily: Sold Out [1980-81]; Tony Award-winning actress: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe [1986]; Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, 9 to 5, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, And the Band Played On, Short Cuts, Nashville
1939 - Rico (Ricardo Adolfo Jacobo) Carty
baseball: Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1970], Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays
1940 - DAVE White (Tricker)
singer, songwriter: group: Danny & The Juniors: At the Hop, Rock and Roll is Here to Stay
1943 - Don Stroud
actor: Dillinger and Capone, Prime Target, Twisted Justice, Amityville Horror, The Buddy Holly Story, Sudden Death, Killer Inside Me, Madigan, Coogan’s Bluff, Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, Kate Loves a Mystery, Dragnet
1944 - Archie Bell
singer: group: Archie Bell and the Drells: Tighten Up, I Can’t Stop Dancing
1944 - Leonard Slatkin
Grammy Award-winning orchestra director: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra
1946 - Barry Gibb
musician: rhythm guitar, songwriter, singer: group: The Bee Gees: Stayin’ Alive, Night Fever, How Deep Is Your Love, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Tragedy , Lonely Days; What Kind of Fool [w/Barbra Streisand], Emotion [w/Samantha Sang]; score: Saturday Night Fever; 29 hits: 7 gold, 4 platinum
1946 - Greg Errico
musician: drums: group: Sly and The Family Stone: Everyday People, [I Want to Take You] Higher, Dance to the Music, Hot Fun in the Summertime, Thank You [Falettinme be Mice Elf Agin]
1946 - Dennis Partee
football: San Diego Chargers
1947 - Ed Podolak
football: Kansas City Chiefs running back: Super Bowl IV
1948 - Dennis Miccoli
musician: keyboards, group: The Buckinghams: Kind of a Drag, I’ll Go Crazy, Makin’ Up and Breakin’ Up, Don’t You Care, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
1949 - Garry (Lee) Maddox
baseball: San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1980, 1983]
1950 - Phil McGraw
TV's Dr. Phil
1955 - Bruce Foxton
musician: guitar: band: 100 Men; group: The Jam: Down in the Tube Station at Midnight, David Watts, Eton Rifles, Little Boy Soldiers, Saturday’s Kids, Going Underground, Town Called Malice, Beat Surrender, Man in the Corner Shop, Set the House Ablaze, Start , The Planner’s Dream Gone Wrong
1957 - Gloria Estefan (Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo)
‘Queen of Latin Pop’: Grammy Award-winning singer: Mi Tierra [1993], Abriendo Puertas [1995]; group: Miami Sound Machine: Don’t Want to Lose You, Turn the Beat Around; solo: LPs: Cuts Both Ways, Into the Light, Greatest Hits, Destiny; over 45 million records sold; actress: Music of the Heart
1960 - Joseph Williams
omposer, singer: group: Toto: LPs: Fahrenheit, The Seventh One; solo LPs: Joseph Williams, I Am Alive, 3, Early Years
1961 - Scott ‘Bam Bam’ Bigelow
pro wrestler/actor WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Survivor Series, Wrestlemania, Extreme Championship Wrestling, WCW Saturday Night, Ready to Rumble; died Jan 19, 2007
1965 - Craig McLachlan
actor: The Great Raid, Hating Alison Ashley, Heroes’ Mountain, My Husband My Killer, Tribe, Absent Without Leave
1965 - Hardy Nickerson
football [linebacker]: Univ of California; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Green Bay Packers
1966 - Tim Hardaway
basketball [guard]: Texas-El Paso; NBA: Golden State Warriors, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers
1971 - Rachel Zoe
fashion stylist, author, TV personality: The Rachel Zoe Project
1973 - J.D. Fortune (Jason Dean Bennison)
musician: guitar; singer: group: INXS: Switch; winner of reality TV series Rock Star: INXS
1973 - Zach Thomas
football [middle linebacker]: Texas Tech Univ; NFL: Miami Dolphins
1974 - Jason Taylor
football [defensive end]: Univ of Akron; NFL: Miami Dolphins
1978 - Dante Hall
football [running back)]: Texas A&M Univ; NFL: Kansas City Chiefs, St. Louis Rams
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Chart Toppers September 1
1944Amor - Bing Crosby
I’ll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby
Time Waits for No One - Helen Forrest
Is You is or is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby) - Louis Jordan
1953I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
No Other Love - Perry Como
You, You, You - The Ames Brothers
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
1962Sheila - Tommy Roe
You Don’t Know Me - Ray Charles
Party Lights - Claudine Clark
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
1971How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - The Bee Gees
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
Good Lovin’ (Makes It Right) - Tammy Wynette
1980Sailing - Christopher Cross
Upside Down - Diana Ross
Emotional Rescue - The Rolling Stones
Cowboys and Clowns - Ronnie Milsap
1989Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
Cold Hearted - Paula Abdul
Hangin’ Tough - New Kids on the Block
Are You Ever Gonna Love Me - Holly Dunn
1998I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
My Way - Usher
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
I’m Alright - Jo Dee Messina
2007Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie
The Way I Are - Timbaland featuring Keri Hilson
Hey There Delilah - Plain White T’s
Never Wanted Nothing More - Kenny Chesney
Chart Topper September 1st, 1971...Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
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