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"Damn the torpedoes! Captain Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed!"
--David Glasgow Farragut At Mobile Bay [August 5, 1864]

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Salvation Army Day

    On this date in 1865, William Booth founded the Salvation Army in London, England.

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 Happy Birthday ......
    In 1794, Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker.
    In 1801, David G. Farragut, American naval hero, in Knoxville, Tenn.
    In 1810, P.T. Barnum, businessman who was a master salesman, selling Lottery tickets at the age of 12. When Barnum was 25, he hired a woman that claimed to be the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington, and created an exhibit around her. People flocked from all over the nation to see this spectacle, and Barnum made quite a profit. After purchasing Shudder’s American Museum in 1841, he displayed odd artifacts collected from around the world, and had an exhibit of an embalmed mermaid called "The Feejee Mermaid." Barnum’s name is forever linked with the circus due to his desire to create "The Greatest Show On Earth."
    In 1891, John Northrop, US biochemist, (Nobel 1946).
    In 1909, Andrei Gromyko, diplomat.
    In 1926, Janós Starker, Hungarian cellist.
    In 1933, Katherine Helmond, actress who was the sexy grandmother, Mona Robinson, on the 80s hit sitcom, "Who’s The Boss" (1984-92) and who currently appears in a guest role as Debra's mother, Lois, on "Everybody Loves Raymond." Helmond began her career on the New York stage and earned a Tony nomination in 1973, for her performance in "The Great God Brown." While Helmond may be best known for her role as Jessica Tate on the sitcom, "Soap" (1977-81), she has also appeared in TV movies such as "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" (1974), "Getting Married" (1978), "Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story" (1982), "Deception: A Mother’s Secret" (1991), "Mr. St. Nick" (2002), "Beethoven's 5th" (2003) and the film, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, in 1998.
    In 1948, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
    In 1951, Baseball pitcher Rich Gossage, baseball player who is best known by the nickname "Goose Gossage." Gossage began his baseball career in 1974 with the White Sox, and went on to make nine wins and 26 saves in 1975. A few years later, Gossage signed as a free agent with the New York Yankees and went on to be one of the first and greatest relief pitchers of all time. Gossage was pitching when the Yankees won a World Series Title, and upon leaving the team, helped the Padres reach the World Series in 1984. His 115 relief victories are the 3rd best in the history of baseball.

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 On this day...
    In 1687, Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society.
    In 1776, The Declaration of Independence was first printed by John Dunlop in Philadelphia.
    In 1809, Napoleon defeats Austrians in Battle of Wagram.
    In 1811, Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
    In 1841, world's first train excursion organized by Thos. Cook Travel. "Take the Cook's tour!"
    In 1859, Captain N.C. Brooks discovers the Midway Islands.
    In 1865, William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
    In 1889, Jean Cocteau, a major figure in French culture, born. A poet, film director, novelist and artist, he made the films "Orpheus" and "Beauty and the Beast."
    In 1912, Capt. Charles deForest Chandler and Army Lts. T.D. Milling and Henry H. "Hap" Arnold become the first fliers to qualify as "Military Aviators."
    In 1916, Adelina and August Van Buren started on the first successful transcontinental motorcycle tour to be attempted by two women. They started in New York City and arrived in San Diego, California, on September 12, 1916.
    In 1932, Salazar becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
    In 1933, the German Catholic party is dissolved.
    In 1935, first Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast.
    In 1938, Herb Caen gets his first column in the S.F. Chronicle.
    In 1944, the Northrop MX-324, the first US rocket-powered airplane, is flown for the first time by company pilot Harry Crosby.
    In 1945, General Douglas MacArthur announced the liberation of the whole of the Philippines. "I have returned! (along with a jillion other people; most of which will die.")
    In 1946, serious beach girl watching began when skimpy bikini swimsuit first revealed at Paris fashion show by designer Louis Reard.
    In 1947, Larry Doby signed a contract with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black American player in the American League.
    In 1948, British National Health Service begins.
    In 1950, Law of Return passes allowing all Jews rights to live in Israel. The first U.S. Soldier dies in combat in Korea.
    In 1965, Maria Callas gave her last stage performance, singing Puccini's opera "Tosca" at London's Covent Garden.
    In 1969, Rod Laver became the first man to win four Wimbledon tennis titles.
    In 1971, 26th Amendment comes into force legislating the lowering of the voting age to 18. (...starting the dumbing down of American voters.)
    In 1975, Cape Verde Islands independent after 500 years under Portuguese rule.
American Arthur Ashe beat fellow-American Jimmy Connors to become the first black tennis player to win the Wimbledon men's singles title.
    In 1978, Soyuz 30 is launched.
    In 1980, Bjorn Borg of Sweden won the Wimbledon men's singles title for the fifth consecutive year.
    In 1984, Joseph Mallard William Turner's painting "Seascape, Folkestone" sells for $10 million in London.
    In 1989, former National Security Council aide Oliver North received a $150,000 fine and a suspended prison term for his part in Iran-Contra. The convictions were later overturned.
    In 1994, in an attempt to halt a surge of Haitian refugees, the Clinton administration announced it was refusing entry to new Haitian boat people. President Clinton set out on a four-nation European trip that included a Group of Seven summit in Naples, Italy.
    In 1995, the U.S. Justice Department decided not to take antitrust action against Ticketmaster.
    In 1998,British security forces in Northern Ireland blocked a group of Protestants from parading through the main Catholic neighborhood of Portadown.
Japan joined the U.S. and Russia in space exploration with the launching of the Planet-B Probe to Mars.
    In 2000, Jordanian security agents shot and killed a Syrian hijacker after he threw a grenade that exploded and wounded 15 passengers aboard a Royal Jordanian airliner.
    In 2002, in Algeria, 35 people were killed in violent attacks on the day that the country celebrated its 40 years of independence from France.
Former Nazi SS officer Friedrich Engel was convicted of 59 counts of murder stemming from massacre of Italian resistance fighters on May 19, 1944.

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