Daily History Blog

September 12

Happy Birthday RIP Maurice Chevalier(1888–1972) James “Jesse” Owens(1913–1980) “Barry White”(Barrence Carter 1944–2003) Paul Walker IV(1973–2013) ; Ian Holm Cuthbert–86 Linda Gray–77 Joseph Pantoliano–66 Peter Scolari–62 Louis Szekely(“CK”)–50 William Joshua Hopkins–47 Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan–39 Jennifer Hudson–36 Alfie Allen31 ; 1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit

September 11

Happy Birthday RIP Herbert Lom(Schluderpacheru 1917–2012) ; Henry Earl Holliman–89 Brian De Palma–77 Amy Madigan–67 Roxann Dawson(Caballero)–59 John Hawkes(Perkins)–58 Virginia Madsen–56 Christina “Kristy” McNichol–55 Richard “Moby” Hall–52 Joseph Harry Connick Jr.–50 Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges–40 ; 2001 – Al Qaida suicide hijackers crashed two jet airliners into the World Trade Center in New York City causing both 110-story twin towers to collapse killing nearly 3,000 people. #NeverForget

September 10

Happy Birthday Arnold Palmer(1929–2016) ; Karl Lagerfeldt–84 Jose Feliciano Garcia–72 Anthony Joseph Pereira(“Joe Perry”)–67 Harold “Harry” Groener–66 Amy Irving–64 Colin Firth–57 Guy Ritchie–49 James Duval–45 Matthew Ryan Phillippe–43 ; 1955 – “Gunsmoke” premiered on CBS (the second of the Western genre for Television, first being the “Lone Ranger”)

September 9

Happy Birthday RIP Otis Redding, Jr(1941–1967) Clifford Robertson III(1923–2011) ; Chaim Topol–82 Joseph Theismann–68 Thomas Wopat–66 Hugh Grant–57 Adam Sandler–51 Goran Višnjić–45 Michael Bublé–42 ; 1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington ; 1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph ; 1926 – The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) was created as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

September 8

Happy Birthday RIP May McAvoy(1899–1984) Richard “Peter” Sellers(1925–1980) Virginia Hensley(“Patsy Cline” 1932–1963) Isaac “Sid” Caesar(1922–2014) ; Bernard “Bernie” Sanders–76 Julian Richings–62 Aimee Mann–57 David Lee Smith–54 Kimberly Peirce–50 Martin Freeman–46 David Arquette–46 Alecia “Pink” Moore–38 Jonathan Taylor Thomas(Weiss)–36 Steven “Jake” Sandvig–31 ; 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape ; 1966 – The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC television

September 7

Happy Birthday RIP John Pierpont “Jack” Morgan, Jr.(1867–1943) Charles Holley(“Buddy Holly” 1936–1959) William Jermaine Stewart(1957–1997) ; Gloria Gaynor(Fowles)–68 Julie Kavner–67 Christine “Chrissie” Hynde–66 Michael Emerson–63 Corbin Bernsen–63 Diane Farr–48 Thomas Everett Scott–47 Oliver Hudson–41 Devon Sawa–39 ; 1916 – US federal employees win the right to Workers’ compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)

September 6

Happy Birthday Jo Anne Worley–80 George Roger Waters–64 Swoosie Kurtz–73 Jane Curtin–70 Patricia “Patti” Yasutake–64 Anne Lockhart(Maloney)–64 Jeffrey Foxworthy–59 Rosa “Rosie” Perez–53 Natalie McIntyre(“Macy Gray”)–50 Cecilia “CeCe” Peniston–48 Idrissa Elba–45 ; 1916 – The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tennessee, by Clarence Saunders

September 3

Happy Birthday RIP Alan Ladd(1913–1964) Verla Eileen Brennan(1932–2013) “Kitty Carlisle”(Catherine Conn 1910–2007) Anna “Anne” Jackson(1925–2016) ; Valerie Perrine–74 Adam Curry–53 “Charlie Sheen”(Carlos Estevez)–51 Trevor St John–46 Samuel “Nick” Wechsler–39 David Moretti–36 Garrett Hedlund–33 ; 1951 – The first long-running American soap opera, “Search for Tomorrow”, airs its first episode on the CBS television network

September 1

Happy Birthday RIP “Yvonne De Carlo”(Margaret Middleton 1922–2007) Richard Farnsworth(1920–2000) Conway Twitty(Harold Jenkins 1933–1993) ; George Maharias–89 Mary Jean “Lily” Tomlin–78 Barry Gibb–71 Dr. Phillip McGraw–67 Gloria Estefan(Garcia)–60 Burn Gorman–43 Robert Scott Speedman–42 Robert Boyd Holbrook–36 ; 1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world’s first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company ; 1897 – The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America

August 31

Happy Birthday RIP James Coburn Jr(1928–2002) “Buddy Hackett”(Leonard Hacker 1924–2003) ; Lee Bryant–72 Isaac Perlman–72 Sir George Ivan Morrison–72 Richard Gere–68 Julie Brown–63 Jonathan LaPaglia–48 Deborah Gibson–47 Christopher Tucker–45 ; 1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan ; 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris France