Men Who Made History…TODAY

Men who made History1031        Sep 2, In Hungary Emeric (b.1007), the son of King Stephen, was killed by a boar while hunting. On Nov 5, 1083, King Ladislaus I unearthed Emeric’s bones in a large ceremony. Emeric was canonized for his pious life and purity along with his father and Bishop Gerhard by Pope Gregory VII.1192        Sep 2, Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lion Hearted signed a cease fire.1842        Sep 2, A letter by Abraham Lincoln (31) in the Sangamon Journal satirized the Illinois State Auditor’s call for state taxes to be paid in silver or gold. This in part led auditor James Shields to challenge Lincoln to a duel.1865        Sep 2, William Rowan Hamilton, Ireland’s greatest man of science who made contributions in the study of optics and applications of algebra to geometry, died.1957        Sep 2, Pres. Eisenhower signed the Price-Anderson Act, which limited firms’ liability in commercial nuclear disasters. The Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act, a United States federal law, has since been renewed several times since its passage. 1972        Sep 2, Dave Wottle of the United States won the men’s 800-meter race at the Munich Summer Olympics. 1975        Sep 2, Joseph W. Hatcher of Tallahassee, Florida, became the state’s first African-American supreme court justice since Reconstruction.1979        Sep 2, Charles Burton (1942-2002) led a small group down the Thames on a 3-year journey to follow the meridian line connecting Greenwich to the North and South Poles. Sir Ranulph Fiennes (b.1944) and his wife Ginnie also took part. Burton and Fiennes returned to Greenwich Aug 29, 1982.1991        Sep 2, President Bush formally recognized the independence of the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.1998        Sep 2, President Clinton concluded his Moscow summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.2003        Sep 2, Ptolemy Alexander Reid (85), former Guyanese Prime Minister, died after suffering a stroke. Reid was named prime minister under President Forbes Burnham, and held the post from 1980 to 1984.2004        Sep 2, Anwar Ibrahim was set free after his sodomy conviction was overturned by Malaysia’s highest court. This was six years to the day after the one-time heir apparent to the country’s premiership plunged into a divisive fight with his political mentor. 2005        Sep 2, Former Nepali PM Girija Prasad Koirala vowed to intensify anti-king protests, a day after he won a 3rd term as chief of Nepal’s oldest political party, the Nepali Congress. 2006        Sep 2, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Iran would defend the aims of its nuclear program during any negotiations as the EU gave Tehran extra time to show it was serious about talks. Iran offered to help support the cease-fire in Lebanon in talks with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and insisted that diplomacy is the only way to resolve Tehran’s nuclear dispute with the West.2010        Sep 2, The US Justice Dept. sued Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa county, for failing to turn over documents in an investigation of his aggressive operations against illegal immigrants.2011        Sep 2, President Barack Obama scrapped his administration’s controversial plans to tighten smog rules, bowing to the demands of congressional Republicans and some business leaders.2012        Sep 2, In Gaza Ehab Abu al-Nada (17) died four days after setting himself alight in desperation over financial problems.2014        Sep 2, In Ohio Donald Hoffman (41) was taken into custody as a person of interest in the deaths of 4 men in Bucyrus. He was being held on a probation violation.