• Re: Today in History for 4th September 2022

    From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 5 07:11:54 2022
    XPost: alt.history

    On Sun, 4 Sep 2022 06:20:47 +0000, "Today in History | OnThisDay.com" <today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@bbs.alt119.net> wrote:



    Historical Events

    1282 - King of Aragon Pedro III annexes Sicily

    1940 - CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB

    1957 - Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to
    prevent 9 black students from entering a Little Rock's Central High
    School

    1993 - Mats Wilander beats fellow Swede Mikael Pernfors in a US Open
    marathon 7-6, 3-6, 1-6, 7-6, 6-4 in 4 hours, 1 minute; match ends at
    2:26am

    1994 - Bulgarian government of Lyuben Berov falls

    1995 - Cult TV series "Xena: Warrior Princess" starring Lucy Lawless
    and Renee O'Connor debuts in the US

    More Historical Events ¯
    Famous Birthdays

    1853 - Hermann Wissmann, German African explorer and governor of
    East-Africa, born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1905)

    1913 - Stanford Moore, American biochemist (Nobel 1977), born in
    Chicago, Illinois (d. 1982)

    1916 - Robert A. W. Lowndes, American sci-fi author (Puzzle Planet)
    (d. 1988)

    1949 - Dado Topić, Croatian musician (Time; Dragonfly), born in Nova Gradiška, Croatia

    1967 - Darrin Murray, New Zealand cricket batsman (8 Tests), born in Christchurch, Canterbury

    1970 - Luis Lopez, Puerto Rican baseball infielder (San Diego Padres),
    born in Cidra, Puerto Rico

    More Famous Birthdays ¯
    Famous Deaths

    1916 - José Echegaray, Spanish politician and dramatist (Nobel Prize
    for Literature 1904), dies at 84

    1994 - Louis Myers, American blues guitarist and harmonica player,
    dies at 64

    1997 - Natko DevÄ楳ić, Croatian composer, dies at 83

    2007 - John Scott, Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish peer, then largest
    landowner in Scotland, 1st MP in a wheelchair, dies at 83

    2009 - Iain Cuthbertson, Scottish actor (Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger
    UXB), dies at 79

    2020 - Gary Peacock, American jazz bassist (Keith Jarrett Trio), dies
    at 85

    More Famous Deaths ¯

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