Almanac - Monday September 30, 2024

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation or Orange Shirt Day is a Canadian day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and multi-generational effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system.

If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share your special day with….

1207 – Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)

1832 – Ann Jarvis, American activist, co-founded Mother's Day (d. 1905)

1861 – William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company (d. 1932)

1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic (d. 1945)

1908 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 1974)

1915 – Lester Maddox, American businessman and politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)

1917 – Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (d. 2014)

1917 – Buddy Rich, American drummer, bandleader, and actor (d. 1987)

1921 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish-English actress (d. 2007)

1924 – Truman Capote, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1984)

1927 – W. S. Merwin, American poet and translator (d. 2019)

1928 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)

1931 – Angie Dickinson, American actress

1935 – Johnny Mathis, American singer and actor

1942 – Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (d. 1968)

1943 – Marilyn McCoo, American singer

1946 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (d. 1993)

1947 – Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)

1950 – Laura Esquivel, Mexican author and screenwriter

1950 – Victoria Tennant, English actress and dancer

1954 – Patrice Rushen, American singer-songwriter and producer

1954 – Barry Williams, American actor

1955 – Frankie Kennedy, Northern Irish flute player (d. 1994)

1957 – Fran Drescher, American actress, producer, and screenwriter

1958 – Marty Stuart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1975 – Ta-Nehisi Coates, American author and journalist

1982 – Kieran Culkin, American actor

….and on this day in history….

1791 – The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.

1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.

1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations"..

1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.

1947 – The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.

1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

2016 – Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.