Today is Sunday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2015 with 109 to follow.
The moon is new. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Mercury, Neptune and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. They include U.S. Army bacteriologist Walter Reed in 1851; Hershey Co. founder Milton Hershey in 1857; Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing, World War I hero, in 1860; British union leader/Nobel Peace Prize laureate Arthur Henderson in 1863; author Sherwood Anderson in 1876; English author J.B. Priestley in 1894; actor Claudette Colbert in 1903; Bill Monroe, “father of bluegrass” music, in 1911; author Roald Dahl in 1916; singer Mel Torme in 1925; actor Barbara Bain in 1931 (age 84); TV producer Fred Silverman in 1937 (age 78); “Miss Manners” Judith Martin in 1938 (age 77); actor Richard Kiel in 1939; Costa Rican Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oscar Arias in 1940 (age 75); singer David Clayton-Thomas in 1941 (age 74); singer/songwriter Peter Cetera in 1944 (age 71); actor Jacqueline Bisset in 1944 (age 71); singer/actor Nell Carter in 1948; actor Jean Smart in 1951 (age 64); musician Randy Jones (The Village People) in 1952 (age 63); musician Don Was in 1952 (age 63); talk show host Tavis Smiley in 1964 (age 51); Olympic track gold medalist Michael Johnson in 1967 (age 48); entertainment entrepreneur Tyler Perry in 1969 (age 46); fashion designer Stella McCartney in 1971 (age 44); country musician Joe Don Rooney in 1975 (age 40); singer Fiona Apple in 1977 (age 38); actor Ben Savage in 1980 (age 35).
On this date in history:
In 1814, during a British attack on Fort McHenry, Md., Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
In 1922, the temperature at El Azizia, Libya, reached 136 degrees Fahrenheit, generally accepted as the world’s highest recorded atmospheric temperature.
In 1971, New York state forces stormed and regained control of Attica state prison in a riot that killed 43 people.
In 1993, in a ceremony at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat signed a declaration of principles for Palestinian self-rule.
In 1996, the Dow closed at more than 5,838, a record high.
In 1998, George Wallace, former Alabama governor, presidential candidate and one of the most controversial politicians in U.S. history, died in Montgomery, Ala., at the age of 79.
In 1999, at least 118 people were killed in the bombing of a Moscow apartment building. The blast was the latest in a series of explosions blamed on terrorists from the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
In 2001, U.S. carriers were allowed to resume flights and airports were under strict new security requirements in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In 2008, Hurricane Ike battered Galveston and Houston with heavy rain and 110-mph winds, forcing about 1 million people to flee and leaving millions without electricity. (Officials later said deaths caused by Ike included more than 100 in the United States and about 75 in Haiti.)
In 2009, a fire at a clinic for drug addicts in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan killed 38 people. Forty others were rescued.
In 2011, a Census Bureau report indicated the U.S. poverty rate climbed to 15.1 percent in 2010, the highest since 1993 and the third consecutive year it increased. The bureau said that translated to a record 46.2 million people in poverty.
In 2012, turmoil sparked by an amateurish U.S.-made movie disparaging the Prophet Muhammad spread to Sanaa, Yemen, where hundreds of protesters stormed the U.S. Embassy.
In, 2013, a United Nations commission accused the Syrian government of attacking some hospitals and medical personnel “to gain military advantage by depriving the opposition and those perceived to support them of medical assistance for injuries sustained.”
In 2014, rescue teams continued to remove bodies and find survivors at the site of a church building collapse the previous day in Lagos, Nigeria. (Later, authorities reported the death toll was about 115.)
A thought for the day: Baseball’s Casey Stengel said, “The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.”
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