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September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years) ... 1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1712 - Death of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (b. 1625) 1713 - Birth of Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781) 1752 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2) 1769 - Birth of Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1859
Famous Birthdays is an American website based in Santa Monica, California, [1] which is dedicated to cataloging the birthdays of famous people and compiling other facts about them. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Background
The following is a list of living centenarians (living people who have attained the age of at least 100 years) known for reasons other than just their longevity. For more specific lists of people (living or deceased) who are known for these reasons, see lists of centenarians .
A less scientific metric is the sheer volume of famous people born on this date. Celebrities born on September 9. Four-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams (1980) and three-time Razzie winner Adam ...
Carolyn Porco (born 1953) – planetary scientist; leader of the Cassini space observatory team at the Colorado Space Science Institute, studying Saturn [16] Allan Pred (1936–2007) – geographer at University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley [17] Howard Raiffa (1924–2016) – economist; negotiation scientist [18]
27 September 1905 - E=mc 2--- Annalen der Physik publishes the Mass–Energy equivalence; 9 September 1934: The American Rocket Society (ARS) launched Rocket No. 4 to 400 feet. 17 September 1959 - The first powered X-15 flight. 9 September 1959 - The Atlas 10-D rocket is launched. 1 September 1974 - Pioneer 11 sends polar images of Jupiter.
Born in Los Angeles in 1980 as Carrie Nile, this July 4 baby is most famous for such shows as "Bravo After Hours with Carrie Keagan," "Big Morning Buzz Live," and appeared on "The Apprentice" in 2004.