today.nukz.net: Almanac September 1 :: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.

Events

462 – Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
1270 – King Stephen V of Hungary writes his walk to the antiquum castellum near Miholjanec, where the Sword of Attila was recently discovered.
1355 – King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the old town of Visoki.
1529 – The Spanish fort Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
1604 – Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib.
1644 – Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years – the longest of any major European monarch.
1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
1774 – Massachusetts colonists rise up in bloodless Powder Alarm.
1804 – Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly – Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
1894 – More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
1897 – The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1902 – A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
1906 – The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
1911 – The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
1914 – St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1920 – The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
1923 – The Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
1928 – Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
1934 – SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany, Slovakia and the Soviet Union invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
1939 – George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1939 – The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date.
1939 – Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
1961 – The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
1969 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
1969 – Tran Thien Khiem became Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu.
1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.
1972 – In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).
1979 – The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi).
1980 – Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends near Thunder Bay, Ontario.
1980 – Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
1981 – A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1991 – Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
2004 – The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.

Births

1145 – Ibn Jubayr, Muslim geographer, traveler, and poet (d. 1217)
1286 – Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (d. 1335)
1453 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
1566 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
1588 – Henry II, Prince of Condé (d. 1646)
1651 – Natalya Naryshkina, Russian wife of Alexis of Russia (d. 1694)
1653 – Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)
1689 – Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Bohemian architect, designed Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral (d. 1751)
1711 – William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
1726 – Johann Becker, German organist, teacher, and composer (d. 1803)
1789 – Ferencz Gyulai Hungarian nobleman (d. 1868)
1795 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American publisher, founded the New York Herald (d. 1872)
1799 – Ferenc Gyulay, Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician (d. 1868)
1818 – José María Castro Madriz, Costa Rican lawyer, academic, diplomat, and politician, 1st President of Costa Rica (d. 1892)
1848 – Auguste Forel, Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, and psychiatrist (d. 1931)
1851 – John Clum, American journalist and Indian agent (d. 1932)
1854 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
1855 – Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
1856 – Sergei Winogradsky, Ukrainian-Russian scientist (d. 1953)
1866 – James J. Corbett, American boxer (d. 1933)
1867 – John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, English sailor and politician (d. 1947)
1868 – Henri Bourassa, Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
1871 – J. Reuben Clark, American attorney, civil servant, and religious leader (d. 1961)
1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (d. 1950)
1876 – Arthur F. Andrews, American cyclist (d. 1930)
1876 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English activist (d. 1961)
1877 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
1877 – Rex Beach, American novelist, playwright and water polo player (d. 1949)
1878 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
1878 – J. F. C. Fuller, English army officer and historian (d. 1966)
1883 – Didier Pitre, Canadian ice-hockey player (d. 1934)
1884 – Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and director (d. 1947)
1886 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1957)
1887 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss author and poet (d. 1961)
1888 – Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
1892 – Leverett Saltonstall, American politician, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
1895 – Chembai, Indian singer (d. 1974)
1895 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer, designer, and inventor, invented the Human-powered aircraft (d. 1955)
1896 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (d. 1977)
1897 – Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
1899 – Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
1902 – Kazimierz Dabrowski, Polish psychiatrist and psychologist (d. 1980)
1904 – Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (d. 1974)
1905 – Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
1906 – Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican politician, 49th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
1906 – Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
1906 – Eleanor Hibbert English author (d. 1993)
1907 – Walter Reuther, American labor union leader, founded United Auto Workers (d. 1970)
1907 – Miriam Seegar, American actress (d. 2011)
1908 – Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)
1909 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat and historian (d. 1957)
1913 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1979)
1913 – Christian Nyby, American director (d. 1993)
1916 – Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player
1919 – Ossie Dawson, South African cricketer (d. 2008)
1920 – Liz Carpenter, American activist, author, and journalist (d. 2010)
1920 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
1921 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch author (d. 1995)
1921 – Madhav Mantri, Indian cricketer
1922 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1922 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
1923 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
1923 – Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (d. 2006)
1925 – Art Pepper, American saxophonist (d. 1982)
1926 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, Bangladeshi politician, 10th President of Bangladesh
1926 – Gene Colan, American illustrator (d. 2011)
1927 – Wyatt Cooper, American author and screenwriter (d. 1978)
1928 – Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician
1928 – George Maharis, American actor
1931 – Cecil Parkinson, English politician
1931 – Sunny von Bülow, American socialite (d. 2008)
1931 – Boxcar Willie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
1932 – Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (d. 2008)
1933 – Ann Richards, American politician, 45th Governor of Texas (d. 2006)
1933 – Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
1935 – Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
1937 – Al Geiberger, American golfer
1937 – Ron O'Neal, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1938 – Alan Dershowitz, American attorney and author
1938 – Per Kirkeby, Danish painter, sculptor, and poet
1939 – Lily Tomlin, American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
1941 – Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby player
1942 – C. J. Cherryh, American author
1943 – Don Stroud, American actor
1944 – Archie Bell, American singer-songwriter (Archie Bell & the Drells)
1944 – Leonard Slatkin, American conductor and composer
1945 – Mustafa Balel, Turkish author
1946 – Greg Errico, American drummer and producer (Sly & the Family Stone and Weather Report)
1946 – Barry Gibb, English singer-songwriter and producer (Bee Gees)
1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean politician, 16th President of South Korea (d. 2009)
1947 – Al Green, American politician
1948 – James Rebhorn, American actor
1948 – Józef Zycinski, Polish archbishop and philosopher
1949 – P. A. Sangma, Indian politician
1950 – Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
1950 – Phil McGraw, American psychologist, author, and talk show host
1951 – David Bairstow, English cricketer (d. 1998)
1951 – Nicu Ceau?escu, Romanian politician (d. 1996)
1952 – Phil Hendrie, American radio host and actor
1953 – Beau Billingslea, American actor
1953 – Rocco Rock, American wrestler (d. 2002)
1954 – Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Billy Blanks, American martial artist
1955 – Bruce Foxton, English bass player (The Jam, Stiff Little Fingers, and Casbah Club)
1956 – Vinnie Johnson, American basketball player
1956 – Philece Sampler, American actress
1956 – Bernie Wagenblast, American publisher and editor, founded the Transportation Communications Newsletter
1957 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress
1957 – Duško Ivanovic, Montenegrin basketball player and coach
1958 – Armi Aavikko, Finnish model and singer, Miss Finland 1977 (d. 2002)
1959 – Kenny Mayne, American journalist
1959 – Joe Jusko, American illustrator and painter
1960 – Ralf Außem, German footballer
1960 – Karl Mecklenburg, American football player
1960 – Joseph Williams, American singer and composer (Toto)
1961 – Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (d. 2007)
1961 – Christopher Ferguson, American astronaut
1962 – Tony Cascarino, Irish footballer
1962 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
1962 – Michelle Meyrink, Canadian actress
1963 – Stephen Kernahan, Australian footballer
1963 – Carola Smit, Dutch singer (BZN)
1964 – Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 – Ray D'Arcy, Irish radio and television host
1964 – Holly Golightly, American illustrator and writer
1964 – Nabeel Rajab, Bahraini activist
1964 – Cécilia Rodhe, Swedish model, Miss Sweden 1978
1964 – Charlie Robison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Ludovít Kaník, Slovak politician
1965 – Tibor Simon, Hungarian footballer
1966 – Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
1967 – Sparky Marcus, American actor
1967 – David Whissell, Canadian politician and engineer
1968 – Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
1969 – Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
1970 – Mitsou, Canadian singer and actress
1970 – Vanna, Croatian singer
1970 – Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
1970 – Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress
1971 – Lââm, French singer
1971 – Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
1971 – Joe Enochs, American soccer player
1971 – Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese composer
1971 – Jimmy Reiher, Jr., American wrestler
1971 – Hakan Sükür, Turkish footballer
1972 – Doug Williams, English wrestler
1973 – J.D. Fortune, Canadian singer-songwriter (INXS)
1973 – Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
1973 – Zach Thomas, American football player
1974 – Burn Gorman, American-English actor
1974 – Jason Taylor, American football player
1974 – Jhonen Vasquez, American writer, illustrator, voice actor, and director
1974 – Yutaka Yamamoto, Japanese cartoonist and director, founded Ordet animation studio
1975 – R. Kan Albay, Flemish actor and director
1975 – Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (Rogue Traders)
1975 – Nomy Lamm, American singer-songwriter and activist
1975 – Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player
1975 – Omar Rodríguez-López, Puerto Rican-American musician, songwriter, producer, and actor (The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, and De Facto)
1975 – Scott Speedman, English-Canadian actor
1976 – Babydaddy, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Scissor Sisters)
1976 – Marcos Ambrose, Australian race car driver
1976 – Clare Connor, English cricketer
1976 – Erik Morales, Mexican boxer
1976 – Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
1976 – Polly Shannon, Canadian actress
1977 – David Albelda, Spanish footballer
1977 – Aamir Ali, Indian actor
1977 – Shoshana Bean, American actress and singer
1977 – Raffaele Giammaria, Italian race car driver
1977 – Arsalan Iftikhar, American attorney
1977 – Aaron Schobel, American football player
1978 – Adam Yahiye Gadahn, American terrorist
1978 – Max Vieri, Australian-Italian footballer
1979 – Neg Dupree, English comedian, writer, and actor
1979 – James O'Connor, Irish footballer
1980 – Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
1980 – Nigar Jamal, Azerbaijani singer (Ell & Nikki)
1980 – Chris Riggott, English footballer
1980 – Sean Stewart, American singer-songwriter and model
1981 – Michael Adamthwaite, Canadian voice actor
1981 – Boyd Holbrook, American model and actor
1981 – Matthew McGuire, Australian rower
1981 – Clinton Portis, American football player
1981 – Adam Quick, Australian basketball player
1982 – Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
1982 – Paul Dumbrell, Australian race car driver
1982 – Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
1983 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
1983 – Jeff Woywitka, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – László Köteles, Hungarian footballer
1984 – Nick Noble, American football player
1984 – Rod Pelley, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Joe Trohman, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Fall Out Boy, The Damned Things, and Arma Angelus)
1985 – Larsen Jensen, American swimmer
1985 – Camile Velasco, Filipino-American singer
1986 – Anthony Allen, English rugby player
1986 – Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
1986 – Stella Mwangi, Norwegian-Kenyan singer-songwriter and rapper
1986 – Shahar Tzuberi, Israeli windsurfer
1987 – Dann Hume, New Zealand singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (Evermore)
1987 – Leonel Suárez, Cuban decathlete
1988 – Gabriel Ferrari, American footballer
1988 – Vaneza Pitynski, American actress and singer
1988 – Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
1988 – Simona de Silvestro, Swiss race car driver
1989 – Bill Kaulitz, German singer-songwriter and voice actor (Tokio Hotel)
1989 – Tom Kaulitz, German guitarist (Tokio Hotel)
1989 – Juliana Lohmann, Brazilian actress
1989 – Daniel Sturridge, English footballer
1990 – Aisling Loftus, English actress
1992 – Cristiano Biraghi, Italian footballer
1992 – Kirani James, Grenadian sprinter
1993 – Alexander Conti, Canadian actor
1993 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
1994 – Bianca Ryan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1996 – Zendaya, American actress, singer, and dancer

Deaths

1067 – Baldwin V, Count of Flanders (b. 1012)
1159 – Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)
1256 – Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
1414 – William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, English lord treasurer (b. 1369)
1557 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
1581 – Guru Ram Das, Pakistani 4th of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism (b. 1534)
1600 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
1615 – Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)
1648 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
1678 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1601)
1685 – Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer and politician (b. 1625)
1687 – Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
1715 – Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1715 – François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
1818 – Robert Calder, Scottish-English naval officer (b. 1745)
1838 – William Clark, American explorer, part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (b. 1770)
1839 – Izidor Guzmics, Hungarian theologian (b. 1786)
1868 – Ferenc Gyulay, Hungarian-Austrian commander and politician (b. 1798)
1922 – Samu Pecz, Hungarian architect and academic (b. 1854)
1928 – Elemér Bokor, Hungarian entomologist (b. 1887)
1930 – Peeter Põld, Estonian scientist and politician (b. 1878)
1943 – Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
1947 – Frederick Russell Burnham, American scout and adventurer (b. 1861)
1953 – Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
1957 – Dennis Brain, English horn player (b. 1921)
1964 – Ferenc Joachim, Hungarian painter (b. 1882)
1967 – Ilse Koch, German nazi war criminal (b. 1906)
1967 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886)
1969 – Drew Pearson, American journalist (b. 1897)
1970 – François Mauriac, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
1977 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896)
1981 – Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)
1981 – Albert Speer, German architect (b. 1905)
1982 – Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
1982 – Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish politician (b. 1905)
1983 – Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)
1983 – Larry McDonald, American physician and politician (b. 1935)
1985 – Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
1986 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
1988 – Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American academic and businessman (b. 1938)
1989 – Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish engineer and inventor (b. 1894)
1990 – Seub Nakhasathien, Thai environmentalist (b. 1949)
1991 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer (b. 1922)
1994 – Boris Malenko, American wrestler (b. 1933)
1997 – Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
1998 – Józef Krupinski, Polish poet (b. 1930)
1998 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
1999 – W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist and author (b. 1951)
2001 – Brian Moore English sportscaster (b. 1932)
2003 – Terry Frost, English artist (b. 1915)
2004 – Ahmed Kuftaro, Syrian religious leader, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
2005 – R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1926)
2005 – Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2006 – Nellie Connally, American wife of John Connally (b. 1919)
2006 – György Faludy, Hungarian author and translator (b. 1910)
2006 – Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
2006 – Bob O'Connor, American politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1944)
2006 – Kyffin Williams, Welsh painter (b. 1918)
2007 – Roy McKenzie, New Zealand horse breeder, racer, and philanthropist (b. 1922)
2008 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
2008 – Jerry Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1937)
2008 – Oded Schramm, Israeli-American mathematician (b. 1961)
2009 – Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (b. 1974)
2010 – Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (b. 1928)
2012 – Hal David, American songwriter and composer (b. 1921)
2012 – Sat Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1927)
2012 – Smarck Michel, Haitian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1937)
2012 – William Petzäll, Swedish politician (b. 1988)