Day Calendar

The 309th day of the year; 56 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

James the Apostle, the Lord’s brother according to the flesh and the first Bishop of Jerusalem (c. 63); Ignatius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (877–878).

Born:

1549 – Philippe du Plessis, French writer; died in 1623.

1735 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer and pianist; died in 1782.

1827 – Nikolai Severtsov, Russian zoologist, zoogeographer, and traveler; died in 1885.

1878 – Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter; died in 1939.

1888 – Alexandre Janelidze, one of the founders of the Georgian school of geology; died in 1975.

1904 – Svetoslav Roerich, Russian painter; died in 1993. 1908 – Serapion Paghava, Georgian meteorologist and synoptician, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences; died in 1976.

1913 – Vivien Leigh, English actress; died in 1967.

1947 – Manana Doijashvili, pianist, professor.

Died:

1803 – Choderlos de Laclos, French writer; born in 1741.

1887 – Dimitri Kipiani, public figure, publicist.

1914 – August Weismann, German zoologist; born in 1834.

1947 – Simon Janashia, historian, academician; born in 1900.

1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French painter; born in 1883.

1968 – Franz Dölger, German Byzantinist; born in 1891.

1969 – Petre Buachidze, dermatologist-venereologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences; born in 1893. 1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, an American pianist (born 1904), died.

Events:

1492 – Christopher Columbus discovered the islands of Cuba and Haiti.

1794 – Alexander Suvorov suppressed the Polish uprising.

1912 – Democrat Woodrow Wilson won the U.S. presidential election.

1913 – Ludwig III was proclaimed King of Bavaria.

1914 – France and Great Britain declared war on Turkey.

1917 – The Patriarchate was restored in Russia after 200 years.

1933 – The Institute of Geophysics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences was founded.

1933 – The Geological Society of Georgia was founded.

1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the United States for a third term.

1953 – Dutch physicist Frits Zernike was awarded the Nobel Prize.

1955 – The Vienna State Opera was opened. 1964 – The American spacecraft "Mariner 3" was launched toward Mars.

1968 – Richard Nixon won the U.S. presidential election.

1967 – The United States launched the spacecraft ATS-3 to capture full images of the Earth.

1991 – Kiichi Miyazawa was elected Prime Minister of Japan.

1995 – Spanish Foreign Minister Javier Solana was appointed Secretary General of NATO.