490 B.C. – The Battle of Marathon took place between the invading Persian army and the Athenian Army. The marathon race was derived from the events that occurred surrounding this battle.
1776 – The second Continental Congress officially made the term “United States“, replacing the previous term “United Colonies.”
1836 – Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law.
1850 California became the 31st state of the union.
1890 – Harland Sanders was born. He was the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
1893 President Grover Cleveland’s wife, Frances, gave birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House.
1904 – Mounted police were used for the first time in the City of New York.
1919 – The majority of Boston’s police force went on strike. The force was made up of 1,500 men.
1926 The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) was created as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
1943 Allied forces landed at Salerno and Taranto during World War II.
1948 The People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.
1950 – Sal Maglie of the New York Giants pitched a fourth consecutive shutout. Only four other pitchers in the National League had ever accomplished this feat.
1956 Elvis Presley made the first of three appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.
1965 Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
1971 Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives.
1976, Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung died in Beijing at age 82.
1984 – Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown’s combined yardage record when he reached 15,517 yards.
1986 – Ted Turner presented the first of his colorized films on WTBS in Atlanta, GA.
1990 – Liberian President Samuel K. Doe was captured and killed by rebels.
1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel’s right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
1997 Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army’s political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland’s future.
1998 – Four tourists who had paid $32,500 each were taken in submarine to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The ship is 2 miles below the Atlantic off Newfoundland.
2001 Afghanistan’s military opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood was fatally wounded in a suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists.
2003 The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.
2005 Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command.
Famous Birthday
86 Cliff Robertson, Actor
74 Topol,Actor, (”Fiddler on the Roof”)
67 Inez Foxx, Singer
67 Luther Simmons, R&B singer
64 Alphonso Jackson, Former secretary of Housing and Urban Development
64 Dee Dee Sharp, R&B singer
63 Doug Ingle, Rock singer, musician (Iron Butterfly)
62 Freddy Weller, Country singer
60 Joe Theismann, Football player, sportscaster
59 John McFee, Rock musician (The Doobie Brothers)
58 Tom Wopat, Actor (”Dukes of Hazzard”)
57 Angela Cartwright, Actress (”The Danny Thomas Show,” “Lost in Space”)
57 Dave Stewart, Rock musician, producer (Eurythmics)
49 Hugh Grant. Actor
44 Constance Marie, Actress
43 David Bennent, Actor
43 Adam Sandler, Actor, comedian
41 Paul Durham, Rock singer (Black Lab)
40 Rachel Hunter, Model
37 Goran Visnjic, Actor (”ER”)
34 Michael Buble, Singer
34 Joey Martin, Country singer
32 Maria Rita. Singer
31 Shane Battier, Houston Rockets forward
Price of Goods 30-years Ago
Milk: $1.50/gal
Eggs: $1.32/doz
Car: $6,847
Gas: $0.88/gal
House: $71,800
Stamp: $0.15/ea
Avg Income: $22,316/yr
Min Wage: $2.90/hr
DOW Avg: 839
Prices of Goods 20-Years Ago
Bread: $0.67/loaf
Milk: $2.14/gal
Eggs: $1.43/doz
Car: $14,645
Gas: $1.06/gal
House: $148,800
Stamp: $0.25/ea
Avg Income: $41,506/yr
Min Wage: $3.35/hr
DOW Avg: 2,753
Quote of the Day
Walter Cronkite’s influence on the news is still felt today, in that news anchors still wear ties. Other parts of his legacy have become obsolete. For instance, dispassionate reporting is fine for covering the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, but not for an issue as complex as Octomom. Sadly, Cronkite’s passing is not getting the kind of cable news attention I believe it deserves. I watched the coverage this weekend and I didn’t see one helicopter shot of his home. I don’t even think his family has booked the Staples Center yet.
~ Stephen Colbert
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