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Birthdates which occurred on September 06:

1711 Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg founder of US Lutheran church
1757 Marquis de Lafayette American patriot, French revolutionary
1766 John Dalton chemist, developed atomic theory of matter
1805 Horatio Greenough US, neoclassical sculptor/writer
1811 James Melville Gilliss founded Naval Observatory in Washington
1814 Sir George Cartier (C) Canadian co-PM (1858-62)
1817 Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt a Canadian founding father
1860 Jane Addams US, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931)
1881 Leo Carrillo LA Calif, actor (Pancho-Cisco Kid)
1883 Lord Birkett England, judge (N�remburg Trials)
1885 Otto Kruger Toledo Ohio, actor (Lux Video Theater, High Noon)
1888 Joseph P Kennedy financier/diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy
1899 Billy Rose theatrical producer (Diamond Horse Show)
19-- Elizabeth Lawrence actress (Myra Sloane-All My Children)
19-- Keone Young Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Kay O'Brien)
19-- Rennie Roker NYC, actor (Nobody's Perfect)
1902 Morgan Beatty Little Rock Ark, news anchor (Du Mont Evening News)
1904 Maxie Rosenbloom light heavyweight boxing champ (1930-34)
1908 Paul Lavalle Beacon NY, bandleader (Cities Service Band of America)
1912 Vincent DiMaggio baseball player (Giants, Phils, Reds, Braves)
1915 Franz Josef Strauss Germany, minister of defense (1956-62)
1923 William Kraft Chicago, Ill, composer/percussionist
1925 Jimmy Reed Mississippi, blues singer (Soulin', Big Boss Man)
1928 Evgeny Svetlanov Moscow Russia, conductor (Siberian Fantasy)
1928 Rudolph Plukfelder USSR, light heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1934 Jody McCrea LA Calif, actor (Ben Matheson-Wichita Town)
1937 Jo Anne Worley Lowell Indiana, comedienne (Laugh-in)
1938 Joan Tower New Rochelle NY, composer (Breakfast Rhythms)
1939 David Allan Coe country musician (Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy)
1944 Linda Kaye Henning Cal, actress (Betty Joe-Petticoat Junction)
1944 Swoosie Kurtz Omaha Nebraska, actress (Slap Shot, Garp)
1946 Bryan D O'Connor Orange Cal, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 61B, STS 40)
1947 Jane Curtin Cambridge Mass, actress (SNL, Allie Lowell-Kate & Allie)
1947 Roger Waters singer (Pink Floyd)
1953 Katherine Cannon Hartford Ct, actress (Father Murphy, The Survivors)
1954 Jon Erikson US, 1st to triple cross English Channel (1981)
1955 Anne Henning US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1960 Michael Winslow actor/comedian (Police Academy)
1961 Peggy MacIntaggart Midland Ontario, playmate (January, 1990)
1974 Justin Whalin LA, actor (Charles in Charge)

On this day............

1620 Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth England to the New World
1628 Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1839 Great fire in NY
1848 National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
1853 Women's Rights Convention met (NYC)
1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Fredrick, Maryland
1863 After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC
1869 1st westbound train arrives in SF
1869 Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
1876 Race riot in Charleston SC
1876 Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed
1883 Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson & Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn
1899 Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Creeping Man" (BG)
1905 Atlanta Life Insurance Company established
1905 Chic White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
1909 Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier
1910 Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughriders football club formed
1912 NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Phila, 3-0
1913 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe P�goud-France)
1914 Battle of the Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1920 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
1924 Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships
1930 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1941 Jews of Vilna Poland are confined to a ghetto
1943 "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
1946 All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)
1948 Juliana becomes queen of the Netherlands
1949 Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1954 Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
1963 Major league baseballs 100,000th game
1966 "Star Trek" premiers on NBC TV
1966 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia
1968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1972 John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
1973 NY Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
1975 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
1976 Russian pilot defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1978 Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
1980 Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s)
1980 College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
1981 Bob Lemon named Yankee manager
1982 Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"
1982 Polish dissidents seize the Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1983 USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1984 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
1986 Barbra Streisand's 1st live concert in 20 years
1986 USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
1987 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
1988 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
1989 Amateur Atheletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records

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Site News:

Were will the Scarlett Queen take us Next??

And can Tracy solve the crime?

Tune in tomorrow for the next installments in the Saturday Serials!!!!!

NIGHT AT THE DRIVE IN IS COMING BACK!!!!!!

Keep your Eyes and Ears Open!!!

We are still working out the bugs but it should be up and running soon!!
Get your Movie requests in!!!! PM Gandalf or airlanes

OTR TRADE wants you!!! We are looking for a few good listeners to help us out, What would you like to see us add or get rid on this site? And if you can help us in any way PM Gandalf. We are looking for help in any area--News, articles, Series/show logs, Blue Plate Special, NIght At The Drive-In, Saturday Serials, etc................

NEWS

Birthdates which occurred (today) on August 29:

1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes Cambridge, MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides)
1815 Anna Ella Carroll US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)
1862 Maurice Maeterlinck Belgium, Symbolist poet (Nobel 1911)
1876 Charles F Kettering Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)
1881 Valery Nicolas Larbaud France, novelist/translator (Enfantines)
1897 Charles Boyer Figeac France, actor (The Rogues)
1899 George Macready Providence RI, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place)
1899 Lyman L Lemnitzer US Army General (WW II), Chief of Staff, US Army and Nato Commander
19-- Dick O'Neill Bronx NY, actor (Kaz, Empire, Better Days)
19-- Ellen Geer West Nyack NY, actress (Wendy-Jimmy Stewart Show)
1912 Barry Sullivan NYC, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Man Called X, Tall Man)
1915 Ingrid Bergman Sweden, actress (Casablanca, Cactus Flower)
1916 George Montgomery Brady Mont, actor (Battle of Bulge, Hallucination)
1917 Isabel Sanford NYC, actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family)
1920 Charlie "Bird" Parker famous African-American jazzman
1922 Charles White Perth Amboy NJ, actor (Troublemaker)
1923 Sir Richard Attenborough actor/director (Gandhi, Young Winston)
1924 Dinah Washington Chicago, singer (What a Difference a Day Makes)
1925 Donald O'Connor Chicago Ill, dancer/actor (Singing in the Rain)
1928 Charles Gray Bournemouth England, actor (Clay-Rawhide)
1928 Thomas Stewart San Saba Texas, baritone (La Roche Capriccio)
1929 Thom Gunn Kent England, poet (The Wound)
1934 David Pryor (Sen-D-Ark)
1938 Elliott Gould Queens NY, actor (M*A*S*H, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
1938 Peter Jennings Canada, news anchor (ABC TV)
1939 William Friedkin US, dir (Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection)
1940 Wilhelm Ruska Holland, judo champ (Olympic-gold-1972)
1941 Robin Leach TV host (Life Styles of Rich & Famous)
1945 Wyomia Tyus US, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1964, 6 Cool

1948 Charles D Walker astronaut (STS 41D, STS 51D, STS 61B)
1954 Chet Catallo guitarist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1958 Michael Jackson Gary Indiana, singer (Thriller, Bad)
1962 Carl Banks NFL line backer (NY Giants)
1962 Rebecca De Mornay actress (And God Created Women)

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Things That Happened today in History!

1885 Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0
1885 Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey
1889 1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
1896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
1904 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis
1908 NY gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London
1909 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
1909 World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtis (USA) wins
1914 Arizonan is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal
1916 Steamer 'Hsin Iu' sinks off China coast, 1,000 drown
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1937 Phila A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1949 USSR explodes its 1st atomic bomb
1950 Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany & Japan in '52
1953 USSR explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
1954 SF International Airport (SFO) opens
1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
1958 Air Force Academy opens
1964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
1965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
1966 Beatles last public concert, (Candlestick Park, SF)
1967 Final TV episode of "The Fugitive"
1967 Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes
1970 Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)
1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1977 St Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3
1985 Atlantis moves to launch pad for the 51-J mission
1986 Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
1988 Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record
1988 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1990 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
1990 Seattle Mariners become 1st team to have father-son teammates, signing Ken Griffey to play with son Ken Griffey Jr
1991 John F Kennedy Jr wins his 1st law case

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We will also be doing some house cleaning over the next few months. If you haven't posted at least 2 times you may be deleted during my house cleaning so to stay a member Please post at least 2 times. We want feedback from YOU! Let us know what you want to see more of here and what we could do without. PM myself or any off my staff. Or if you would like to help or volunteer in any way let us know!!!

Thanks Again for being a great community!!!!!!We could not do it without any of you!!!!

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Sorry All for not being very up to date with the news lately.....I have many new things planned for the site and will be rolling them out as they become ready.

NIGHT AT THE DRIVE IN IS COMING BACK!!!!!!

Keep your Eyes and Ears Open!!!

We are still working out the bugs but it should be up and running soon!!
Get your Movie requests in!!!! PM Gandalf or airlanes

Saturday Serials are BACK!!!!!!

Hurry join in on our New series of Adventures and Crime!!!!

We will also be doing some house cleaning over the next few months. But we want feedback from YOU! Let us know what you want to see more of here and what we could do without. PM myself or any off my staff. Or if you would like to help or volunteer in any way let us know!!!

Thanks Again for being a great community!!!!!!We could not do it without any of you!!!!

Gandalf....................

SITE NEWS

Sorry All for not being very up to date with the news lately.....I have many new things planned for the site and will be rolling them out as they become ready.

NIGHT AT THE DRIVE IN IS COMING BACK!!!!!!

We are still working out the bugs but it should be up and running soon!!
Get your Movie requests in!!!! PM Gandalf

Saturday Serials will be back soon........Get your requests for upcoming serials in now!!!! PM Gandalf

We will also be doing some house cleaning over the next few months. But we want feedback from YOU! Let us know what you want to see more of here and what we could do without. PM myself or any off my staff. Or if you would like to help or volunteer in any way let us know!!!

Thanks Again for being a great community!!!!!!We could not do it without any of you!!!!

Gandalf....................

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The Strange Tales and Adventures Continue in the Saturday Serials!

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Gandalf...........................