Today is Monday, Sept. 7, the 250th day of 2009. There are 115 days left in the year. This is Labor Day.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Sept. 7, 1940, Nazi Germany began its eight-month blitz of Britain during World War II with the first air attack on London.
On this date:
In 1533, England’s Queen Elizabeth I was born in Greenwich.
In 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, bade farewell to President John Quincy Adams at the White House.
In 1907, the British liner RMS Lusitania set out from Liverpool, England, on its maiden voyage, arriving six days later in New York.
In 1909, film and theater director Elia Kazan was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul).
In 1927, American television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth, 21, succeeded in transmitting the image of a line through purely electronic means with a device called an “image dissector.”
In 1968, feminists protesting outside the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, N.J., tossed items including bras into a trash can ostensibly for burning, although nothing was actually set on fire. (The winner of the pageant was Miss Illinois Judith Ford.)
In 1969, Senate Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen died at age 73.
In 1977, the Panama Canal treaties, calling for the U.S. to eventually turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington by President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos.
In 1979, cable TV’s Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) made its debut.
In 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot on the Las Vegas Strip; he died six days later.
Ten years ago: Indonesia imposed martial law in East Timor, promising to crack down on rampaging pro-Indonesian militias after the territory’s vote for independence. A 5.9 earthquake in Athens, Greece, claimed 143 lives. It was announced that Viacom Inc. was buying CBS Corp. for $36 billion.
Five years ago: An Associated Press tally showed that U.S. military deaths in the Iraq campaign had passed the 1,000 mark. Former Mississippi Gov. Kirk Fordice died in Jackson at age 70.
One year ago: Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed in government conservatorship. Hurricane Ike roared across low-lying islands in the Atlantic as a Category 4 storm. Serena Williams outlasted Jelena Jankovic 6-4, 7-5 to win her third U.S. Open championship and ninth Grand Slam title. Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Haskins died in El Paso Texas, at age 78. Mystery author Gregory Mcdonald died in Pulaski, Tenn., at age 71. Astroland, New York City’s world famous amusement park at Coney Island, closed after 46 years. Britney Spears won three MTV Video Music Awards, including video of the year for “Piece of Me.”
Today’s Birthdays: Pianist Arthur Ferrante is 88. Senator Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, is 85. Jazz musician Sonny Rollins is 79. Singer Alfa Anderson (Chic) is 63. Singer Gloria Gaynor is 60. Rock singer Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) is 58. Actress Julie Kavner is 58. Rock musician Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 56. Actor Corbin Bernsen is 55. Actor Michael Emerson (TV’s “Lost”) is 55. Pianist Michael Feinstein is 53. Singer Margot Chapman is 52. Actor W. Earl Brown is 46. Actor Toby Jones is 43. Model-actress Angie Everhart is 40. Actor Tom Everett Scott is 39. Rock musician Chad Sexton (311) is 39. Actress Diane Farr is 38. Actress Shannon Elizabeth is 36. Actor Oliver Hudson is 33. Actor Devon Sawa is 31. Singer-musician Wes Willis (Rush of Fools) is 23. Actress Evan Rachel Wood is 22.
Thought for Today: “People do not live in the present always, at one with it. They live at all kinds of and manners of distance from it, as difficult to measure as the course of planets. Fears and traumas make their journeys slanted, peripheral, uneven, evasive.
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