Birthdates Which Occur on September 20:
357 -BC- Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia/emperor
1593 Gottfried Scheidt composer
1653 Benedict Schultheiss composer
1663 Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli composer
1665 Johannes van der Hagen vicar/genealogist/chronologer
1706 Franz Habermann composer
1744 Giacomo Quarenghi Ital/Russian master builder (Hermitage Theater)
1767 Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia composer
1771 Mungo Park Scotish explorer (Africa)
1777 Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba composer
1790 Francisco Acu€a the Figueroa Uruguayan poet (Toraidas)
1791 Sergei T Aksakov Russian writer (Semejnaja chronika)
1795 Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner composer
and Peter of Limburg Brouwer physician/classical/author
1809 Sterline "Old Pap" Price Major General (Confederate Army)
1810 Alpheus Starkey Williams Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 George Washington Morgan Brig General (Union volunteers)
and John Fulton Reynolds Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1832 Johann Joseph Abert composer
1833 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Italy, journalist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907)
1842 James Dewar Scottish chemist/physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet)
1846 Agnes Tyrrell composer
1847 Sergei G Netsjajev Russian nihilist (Catechism Revolutionary)
1852 Edouard baron Empain Belgian railway builder (Paris Metro)
1859 Yuan She-k'ai Chinese general/president/dictator
1865 Lubor Niederle Czech archaeologist/slavist
1866 Gustave Doret composer
1869 George Robey [George Edward Wade], comic
and Marcel Cachin co-founder (French Communistic Party)
1872 Maurice Gamelin French generalissimo
1873 Robert D Wrenn tennis champ (US Open - 1893)
1877 Armand Louis Joseph Marsick composer
1878 Upton B Sinclair US writer (Jungle)
1879 Jacobo Conrad [Coco Lepol/Elias Martinus], Cura‡aos composer
and Victor Seastrom Silbodal Sweden, director (Wind, Under the Red Robe)
1880 Ildebrando Pizzetti composer
1881 Walter Kingsford Redhill England, actor (My Favorite Blonde)
1883 Albrecht G Alt German theologist (Der Gott der V„ter)
and John G van Dillen historian (Of Wealth & Oligarchists)
and Maria Baers Flemish social female worker/senator
1884 Piotr Rytel composer
1885 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton New Orleans, jazz pianist/composer
1886 Charles Walter Stansby Williams songwriter
1892 Patricia Collinge Dublin Ireland, actress (Tender Comrade)
1893 Hans H B Scharoun German architect (Berlin Philharmonic)
1896 Fjodor I Panfjorov Russian author (Volga) [NS=Oct 2]
1897 Efim Golishev composer
1899 Elliot Nugent director (And so They were Married)
19-- Ben Shepherd Wash, rock bassist (Soundgarden-Badmotorfinger)
and Frances Heflin Okla City, OK, actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children)
and Yvonne Wilder NYC, actress (Operation Petticoat, Condo)
1900 Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco Brazil general/pres (1964-67)
and Uuno Kalervo Klami composer
and Wilhelm Weismann composer
1901 Leo Justinus Kauffmann composer
1902 Cesare Zavattini Italian screenwriter (Ladri di Biciclette)
and Kermit Maynard Vevey Ind, cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup)
and Steve Smith singer (Lawrence Welk Show)
1906 David Sheinfeld composer
1908 Alexander Mitscherlich German psychotherapist
1910 Jacques-Baptise LeBrun France, finn yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1932)
1911 Frank Devol Moundsville WV, orch leader (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
and Jan Mul composer
1914 Kenneth More England, actor (39 Steps, Doctor in the House)
1917 Arnold "Red" Auerbach NBA coach/GM (Boston Celtic)
and Fernando Rey [Arambillet], La Coruna Spain, actor (Matter of Time)
1918 Peg Phillips actress (Ruth Ann-Northern Exposure)
1920 Alexander Thereat
1922 Frank Comstock SD Calif, orch leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
1924 Gogi Grant [Audrey Brown], rock vocalist
and James Galanos Phila, fashion designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1959)
1927 Clarice Taylor Va, actress (Nurse Bailey-Nurse)
and Rachel Roberts Llanelly Wales, actress (Foul Play, Doctor's Wife)
1928 Joyce Brothers NYC, pop psychiatrist ($64,000 question winner)
1929 Anne Meara Bkln NY comedian/actress (Stiller & Meara, Archie's Place)
1933 Bob Banas NYC, choreographer (Malibu U, Jonathan Winters Show)
1934 Sophia Loren Rome, actress (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid)
1935 Keith J Roberts England, writer (Irish Encounter, Ladies from Hell)
and Lubos Fiser composer
1936 Dany Carrel Touraine Indo-china, actress (Passionate Summer)
1938 Eric Gale US funk guitarist (Blue Horizon)
and George J Hochbrueckner (Rep-D-New York)
and Jane Manning soprano
and Pia Lindstrom entertainment critic (WNBC-TV)
and Tom Tresh NY Yankee (1962 AL Rookie of Year)
1940 Joseph J DioGuardi (Rep-R-NY, 1985- )
1941 Dale Chihuly Tacoma Wash, artist in glass (Louis Tiffany Award 1967)
and John A Wismont Jr Calif, watercolor painter (over 50,000)
1942 Robbe de Deer Flemish director/producer (Fugitive Cinema, Bomb)
1943 Roek Williams [Willemze], Dutch singer
1944 Jeremy Child actor (Privilege, Taffin)
1945 Laurie Spiegel composer
1947 Chuck Panozzo Chicago, rocker (Styx)
and John Panozzo Chicago, rocker (Styx)
1948 George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin US, sci-fi author (Wild Cards)
1949 Jan Hendriks guitarist (Doe Maar)
1950 Debi Morgan Dunn NC, actress (Angie-All My Children, Cry Uncle)
and James P[aul] Blaylock US, sci-fi author (Elfin Ship, Homunculus)
and Loredana Berte Milan Italy, singer/2nd ex wife of Bj”rn B”rg
1951 Guy LaFleur Quebec, NHL right wing (Montreal, NY Rangers)
and JoAnna Cameron Colo, actress (I Love My Wife, Isis)
1953 Jeff Jones Red Rider, rock bassist/vocalist (Red Rider)
1954 Anne Mcintosh British member European parliament
and Brinke Stevens [Charlene Brinkman] Ca, actr (Slumber Party Massacre)
and Silvio Leonard Cienguegos Cuba, 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1980)
1955 Christine Oddy British member European parliament
1957 Arn Anderson [Marty Lunde], wrestler (ECW/SMW/WCW/NWA/WWF)
and Fran Drescher Queens NY, actress (Cadillac Man, Nanny)
and Gary Cole Park Ridge IL, actor (Fatal Vision, Son of Morning Star)
and Vladmir Tkachenko USSR, basketball (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1960 Alice Regina Brown Jackson MS, 4X100 runner (Olympic-gold-1984, 88)
1961 Erwin Koeman soccer player (PSV, FC Groningen)
1965 Robert Rusler actor (Game of Love, Vamp, Thrashin')
1966 Nuno Bettencourt Azores, rock guitarist (Extreme-More Than Words)
1967 Alex Jordan XXX actress (Frat Girls, Jennifer 69)
and Gunnar Nelson rock vocalist (Nelsons-Love & Affection)
and Matthew Nelson rock vocalist (Nelsons-Love & Affection)
1971 Henryk Larsson soccer player (Feyenoord)
Deaths Which Occured September 20:
1168 Paschal III [Guido di Crema], Italian anti-Pope, dies
1384 Louis duke of Anjou/wife of Marie of Bretagne
1493 Philippe Pot governor/viceroy of Burgundy, dies
1586 Anthony Babington page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed at 24
1613 Willem H van Est (Estius) theologist, dies
1624 Isa„c Le Maire Amsterdam ship owner, dies at about 66
1639 John Meursius [van Meurs], historian, dies at 60
1647 Giovanni Del Turco composer, dies at 70
1648 Marco Ivan Lukacic composer, dies at 61
1679 Cornelis Evertsen the Young vice-admiral of Zealand, dies at 51
1703 Archibald Campbell Scot milt man (blood bath of Glencoe), dies at 52
1706 Pierre Verdier composer, dies at 79
1731 Sicco van Goslinga Fries diplomat/sect of High Council, dies at 67
1773 Pieter de Swart architect (Delfts Port Rotterdam), dies at 63
1803 Robert Emmet Irish nationalist, executed
1806 Utamaro Kitagawa painter, dies
1807 Charles G van Brunswick-Wolfenbttel wife of F Louisa W, dies
1810 Wouter J van Troostwijk painter, dies at 28
1823 Daniel Steibelt composer, dies at 57
1839 Jos‚ Gaspar de Francia dictator of Paraguay (1816-39), dies at 74
1863 Benjamin Hardin Helm US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies at 33
1865 William H Revere Jr US Union brig-general
1873 Lulu Strauss und Torney German poetess/writer, dies
1886 John Liptrot Hatton composer, dies at 77
1896 Gottfried Conradi composer, dies at 76
1897 Karel Bendl composer, dies at 59
1898 Theodor Fontane German author (Der Stechlin), dies at 68
1908 Pablo Martin Melitou de Sarasate y Navascuez composer, dies at 64
1917 Herbert Morris Jamaican deserteur in France, executed at 17
1927 George Nichols actor, dies at 62
1932 Max Slevogt German painter, dies at 63
1933 Annie Besant English theosophy (Esoteric Christianity), dies
1944 John Grayburn English (Victoria Cross), dies in battle in Arnhem
1947 Fiorello H La Guardia (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45), dies
1949 Nikolaos Skalkottas composer, dies at 45
Richard Dix actor, dies at 56
1957 Jean Julius Christian Sibelius Fin composer (Finlandia), dies at 91
1959 Olin Howlin actor (Swifty-Circus Boy), dies at 63
1960 Lee Duncan owner/trainer (Rin Tin Tin), dies of heart attack at 67
Michel Brusselmans composer, dies at 74
1967 Henri Mulet composer, dies at 88
1968 Frank Pelleg composer, dies at 57
1971 James Westerfield actor (Travels of Jaime McPheeters), dies at 59
William F Albright US archaeologist, dies at 80
Y¢rgos Sef‚ris [Seferi dis], Greek diplomat/poet (I sterna), dies
1973 Ben[jamin F] Webster US tenor saxophonist, dies
Glenn Strange actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
Jim Croce vocalist (Time in a Bottle), dies in a plane crash at 30
1974 Carlyle Blackwell Jr entertainer, dies at 61
Robert Herberigs Flemish composer (La Chanson d'Eve), dies at 88
1975 Saint-John Perse French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 88
1976 Johan Boskamp opera singer/actor, dies at 83
1979 Ludvik Svoboda Czech general/politician, dies at 83
1987 Michael Stewart
1988 Roy Kinnear actor, dies at 54
1990 Jackie Moran actor, dies of cancer at 65
1993 Leonard Parkin British TV host (ITN), dies at 64
Loan Volkerijk Dutch baseball coach (ADO), dies at 65
1994 Jule Styne Broadway composer (Gypsy, Funny Girl), dies at 88
Holidays Which Occur September 20:
Laos Thanksgiving
Religious Observances on September 20:
RC Agapitus, pope (535-36)
125 RC Commemoration of St Eustace & his companions/martyrs
1867 RC Mem of SS Andrew Kim, Paul Chong & companions, Korean martyrs
1871 Ang St John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia/companions
Things to Remember for September 20:
Bourbon Month
Flowers-morning glory & aster Gem-sapphire
Hot Breakfast Month
2 Days Astrological sign: Virgo
18 Days Harvest Moon Days (full moon closest to equinox)
Highlights in History Which Occur September 20:
368 Emperor Valentinianus visits Nijmegen
451 General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne
622 Prophet Mohammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina)
1258 Cathedral of Salisbury inaugurated
1378 Robert de GenŠve, "butcher of Cesena" crowned anti-pope Clemens VII
1519 Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of world
1530 Luther advises protestant monarch compromise
1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla & massacre the French
1604 Spanish army under Spinola recaptures Oostende
1620 Battle at Jassy: Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland
1643 1st battle at Newbury: King Charles I vs Robert Devereux' armies
1664 Maryland enacts 1st anti-amalgamation law to prevent widespread
intermarriage of English women & black men
1674 2nd West Indie Company forms
1688 French troops occupies Palts
1697 Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war)
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France
1777 Paoli massacre
1787 Prince Willem V returns to Hague
1792 French defeat Prussians at Valmy
1793 British troops under maj-gen Williamson lands on (French) Haiti
1797 US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
1828 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory," premieres in Paris
1830 1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods
1833 Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires
1839 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)
1850 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
1854 Battle at Alma Krim: 1,000 British soldiers died
and British & French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea
1859 Patent granted on electric range
1860 1st British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII)
1861 Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union
1863 Battle of Shepardstown VA
and Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tenn, ends
1870 Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury
and Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel
1873 Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure)
NY shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal
1876 Ottawa Football Club forms
1877 Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
1879 US Grants come to SF for elaborate extended visit
1881 Chester A Arthur sworn in as 21st president
1884 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
and Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP
1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #377 Campania
1896 John Mcdermott wins 1st US marathon (NYC)
1902 Chic White Sox Jim Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
1903 M Wolf discovers asteroids #515 Athalia & #2017 Wesson
and R S Dugan discovers asteroid #516 Amherstia
1904 George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in NYC
and Orville & Wilbur Wright fly their Flyer II
1907 Pitts Nick Maddox no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-1
1908 Chic White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Phila 1-0
and J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #673 Edda
1911 Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header
1916 M Wolf discovers asteroids #831 Stateira, #832 Karin, #833 Monica &
#834 Burnhamia
1917 British assault on Polygon-forest, France
1918 Royal Dutch Blast furnace & Steel factory opens in Hague
1919 Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in NYC
and Jim Barnes wins PGA golf tournament
1922 Goodman & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC
1924 Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats NY Giants to win 300th game
1927 NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry
1930 G Neujmin discovers asteroid 1190 Pelagia, 1269 Rollandia & 1725 CrAO
1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike
and South Seas rebaptized in Ijsselmeer
1933 Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2
1938 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres
and Emlyn Williams' "Corn is Green," premieres in London
1939 British fleet takes German U-27 boat
and Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in Detroit
1942 Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m
1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-338
1944 Nijmegen free
and Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth
1945 German rocket engineers begin work in US
1946 Churchill argues for a "United States of Europe"
1948 Mexican Baseball league disbanded
1949 Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3%
and Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional
1951 1st North Pole jet crossing
and Ford Frick elected commissioner of baseball
and Swiss males votes against female suffrage
1952 KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 1st FORTRAN computer program run
and 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
and KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
and Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles
and Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy
1958 A black woman stabs Martin Luther King Jr in chest in NYC
and Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits NY Yankees 1-0
and Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian govt in exile (Cairo)
and Martin Luther King Jr stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman
and USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1960 UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations)
and WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
and James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi
and USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of
and the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26
1962 Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria
and Gov R Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Univ (James Meredith)
1964 Gnter Grass' "Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand," premieres in Berlin
and Paramount Theater (NYC) presented the Beatles with Steve & Eydie
1965 Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2752
and WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth II launched
and US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23
1967 Benin separates from Nigeria
and Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38
and WCAE TV channel 50 in St John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
and WCIX TV channel 6 in Miami, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
1969 Pitts Pirate Bob Moose no-hits NY Giants, 4-0
1970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm
1973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
and T Gehrels discovers asteroid #1921 Pala
and Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season
1974 L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3260 & #3771
1975 David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks
and Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28¬" draw
1976 Metroliner official opens in Brussels
and Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women
and Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion
1977 Vietnam & Djibouti ask for membership in UN
and Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
and Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany
1979 Coup in Central African Rep: David Dacko overthrows emperor Bokassa I
and Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola
and NASA launches HEAO
1980 Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium
and Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out
1981 Belize declares independence
and Joe Danelo kicks then NY Giant record 55 yard field goal
1982 E F Helin discovers asteroid #3043 San Diego
and NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1983 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
and Cryptographic Communications System & Method (RSA) patented
1984 "Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV
and A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3490
and H Debehogne discovers asteroid #3465
and Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23
1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
and Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest
1986 Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State
1987 Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race
and Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
and Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown
1988 Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons
1989 Musical "Miss Saigon," premieres in London
and USAir overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in NYC, 2 people die
1990 Both Germanys ratify reunification
and Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 Frances votes in favor of Maastricht treaty
and Leanza Cornett (Miss Florida) crowned Miss America 1993
and Mickey Moradini of Phils makes an unassisted triple play
1994 Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands
1995 Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central
2000 Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends
1967 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border producing worst flooding
in Mexican history. Only 38 die.
1997 Scots vote YES for Scottish devolution.
Your Special Reminders for September 20:
1871 44øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1983 93øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
and 263rd day of year with 102 days left (Numerology = 2)
|
