Birthdays: Hawaiian Queen Lydia Liliuokalani, Yang Tsu Ching leader of the Taiping Rebellion, Cleveland Amory, Alfred Spaulding 1850, founder of Spaulding sports equipment, Martha Mitchell, Mark Harmon is 70, Marge Champion, Terry Bradshaw, Chrysta McAuliffe, Jimmy Connors, Norm Ferguson, Selma Hayek is 54, Keanu Reeves is 57
1752 - Last Julian or Old-Style calendar day in Britain and her colonies, including the
US and Canada. You went to sleep the evening of Sept. 2nd and awoke on the morning of Sept. 14th. The Gregorian Calendar had been promulgated in Rome in 1582, but it took this long for the Protestant countries to get on board with the new system.
1924- Harold Lloyd’s comedy short "Why Worry?" released.
1931-Young new singer Bing Crosby sang for the first time on CBS radio.
1942- At the Changi POW Camp in Malaysia, Japanese authorities were having difficulty convincing their British prisoners to be slave labor to build the Bridge on the River Quai. At Selarang Barracks they herded 15,000 prisoners into a building only meant to house 1,000. In the morning the surviving prisoners agreed to work. Artist Ronald Searle survived and was there to record the incident.
1946- "The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O’Neill premiered at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway.
1963 - CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes. CBS names a new reporter to star in their broadcast with the title "news anchor"- Walter Cronkite.
J.R.R. Tolkein died at age 81. He once said of his trilogy The Lord of the Rings- “I should have written more.”
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