We have catalogued significant historical events, with special emphasis on weddings and anniversaries. Today’s events special events are:
- Birthdays
- 1870 Maria Montessori was born.
- 1903 Arthur Godfrey was born.
- 1908 William Saroyan was born.
- 1918 Alan Jay Lerner was born.
- 1924 Buddy Hackett was born.
- 1928 James Coburn was born.
- 1935 Eldridge Cleaver was born.
- 1945 Van Morrison was born.
- 1945 Itzhak Perlman was born.
- 1949 Richard Gere was born.
- 1970 Debbie Gibson was born.
- Name Days
- 1000 Ray, from the Old German, 'strong or wise defence'
- 1000 Raymond, from the Old German, 'strong or wise defence'
- 1000 Raymonda, from the Old German, 'strong or wise defence'
- 1000 Raymonde, from the Old German, 'strong or wise defence'
- 1000 Raymund, from the Old German, 'strong or wise defence'
- 2000 Feast Day of Raymond, from the Old German, 'strong or wise defence'. St Raymond of Penafort and St Peter Nolasco co-founded the Order of Our Lady of Ransom or the 'Mercedarians' in the early thirteenth century. This was a Spanish Order dedicated to rescuing Christians who had been taken prisoner by the Moorish occupation. St Raymond Nonnatus joined the Order and went to Algeria with ransom money for prisoners. When the money ran out, he offered himself in exchange for another man. This was agreed, but the Moors had not per haps reckoned with Raymond's determination to preach the Gospel, even in their own territory. Threatened by the flow of converts and determined to stop him, they found an effective but crude method: they put a padlock through his lips and put him into prison. His guards were either kinder or greedier. They kept Raymond alive, at any rate, until he was himself ransomed by the Order and was able to make the journey home, where he died in 1240. His nickname means 'not born', which refers to the story that his mother died in childbirth. Raymond was delivered from her body by a doctor, and he is thought to have a special concern for 'all women labouring of child'
Tomorrow’s notable events
Below are the events we have shown for tomorrow:
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 01-09-1000 | Aegidius, from the Greek, 'a kid' |
| 01-09-1000 | Egidia, from the Greek, 'a kid' |
| 01-09-1000 | Egidius, from the Greek, 'a kid' |
| 01-09-1000 | Giles, from the Greek, 'a kid' |
| 01-09-1000 | Gyles, from the Greek, 'a kid' |
| 01-09-1875 | Edgar Rice Burroughs was born. |
| 01-09-1922 | Yvonne DeCarlo was born. |
| 01-09-1933 | Conway Twitty was born. |
| 01-09-1935 | Seiji Ozawa was born. |
| 01-09-1939 | Lily Tomlin was born. |
| 01-09-1946 | Barry Gibb was born. |
| 01-09-1996 | Kim Wilde marries Hal fouler |
| 01-09-1999 | Nicholas Lyndhurst marries Lucy Smith |
| 01-09-2000 | Feast Day of Giles, from the Greek, 'a kid'. St Giles, a much-loved saint in Britain, is one of the medieval saints who are particularly associated with animals. The story goes that he was a French hermit living in Saint-Gilles, near Aries, before the ninth century. He used to be fed by a deer, who gave him her milk. One day, however, King Wamba of the Visigoths came crashing through the forest on a hunt; the deer sought refuge with Giles and sheltered in the saint's arms; the king tried to shoot the deer but found he had shot and wounded St Giles instead. Perhaps out of remorse, Wamba gave Giles land on which he subsequently built a monastery. |
| 01-09-2002 | Sarah Michelle Gellar marries Freddie Prinze Jr. in Mexico |
