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Labor leader Walter Reuther born 1907
 
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Teacher and astronaut Christa McAuliffe born 1948
Former baseball commissioner, Olympic coordinator and businessman Peter Ueberroth born 1937
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Architect Louis H. Sullivan born 1856
Labor Day
Flight 93 hero Jeremy Glick born 1970.
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Thomas Edison's first electrical power station begins operation in 1882
Golfer Tom Watson born 1949
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First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia in 1774
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Social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams born 1860
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National Grandparents Day
2012 MY HERO Short Film Festival ~ deadline for submissions today
Folk painter Grandma Moses born 1860
Heart surgeon Michael DeBakey born 1908
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UN International Literacy Day
Composer Antonin Dvorak born 1841
Freedom Hero Ruby Bridges born 1954
 
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Novelist Leo Tolstoy born 1828
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Filmmaker Robert Wise born 1914
Golfer Arnold Palmer born 1929
Canadian activist for the mentally disabled Jean Vanier born in 1928.
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Short-story writer O. Henry born 1862
Novelist D. H. Lawrence born 1885
Remembering 9/11
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Track and field Olympic champion Jesse Owens born 1913
Children's rights activist and social reformer Florence Kelley born 1859
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Children's author Roald Dahl born 1916
"Chocolate King" Milton Hershey born 1857
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Federal judge Constance Baker Motley born 1921
Photojournalist Lucien Aigner born 1901
Physiologist Ivan Pavlov born 1849

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September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Novelist and historian James Fenimore Cooper born 1789
 
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UN International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
Blues singer B. B. King born 1924
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Space Shuttle unveiled 1976
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Champion bicycle racer Lance Armstrong born 1971
Dancer and choreographer Agnes de Mille born 1905
Doctor Ben Carson born 1951
Dan Eldon's Birthday.
 myhero.com/Eldon
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New Zealand first in women's vote 1893
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Novelist Upton Sinclair born 1878
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Novelist H. G. Wells born 1866
UN International Day of Peace
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Chemist and physicist Michael Faraday born 1791
 
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Singer and songwriter Ray Charles born 1930
First woman to run for president Victoria Woodhull born 1838
Little Rock Nine 1957
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Muppet creator Jim Henson born 1936
African American poet/suffragist/abolitionist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper born 1825
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Actor and disabled rights activist Christopher Reeve born 1952
Children's author Shel Silverstein born 1930
Abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko born 1903
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Poet and playwright T. S. Eliot born 1888
Composer George Gershwin born 1898
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Patriot and statesman Samuel Adams born 1722
Cambodian journalist Dith Pran born 1942
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Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio born 1573
Native American Day is celebrated on the 4th Friday of September
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Polish labor leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Lech Walesa born 1943
Novelist Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra born 1547
 
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Author and scholar Elie Wiesel born 1928
 		            
 
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