[guide.chat] Fact of the day
- From: "Carol O'Connor" <missbossyboots33@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 23:36:22 +0100
Fact of the Day: chateaubriand
A cut of beef from the center of the tenderloin, about 6 to 8 inches in length,
that is usually cooked whole and then sliced into servings. The chateaubriand
is the most tender part of the tenderloin. The meat is either broiled or
grilled and is often served with a Béarnaise sauce. This dish was named for
François René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768-1848), French writer and
statesman.
Holidays:
United States; Labor day.
Pakistan: Defense of Pakistan Day.
Events:
3114 BCE. - From this day was reckoned the Mayan Long Count end-of-the-world
date: December 21, 2012.
1774 - First Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia. Delegates drafted
a declaration of rights and grievances and elected Virginian Peyton Randolph as
the first president of Congress.
1836 - Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas.
1877 - Sioux chief Crazy Horse was killed in jail by a U.S. Soldier. A year
earlier, Crazy Horse and his followers defeated General George Custer at Little
Bighorn in Montana, killing Custer and 264 others.
1882 - First Labor Day parade was held with 10,000 workers in attendance in New
York City. This first celebration was initiated by Peter J. McGuire, a
carpenter and labor union leader who cofounded the Federation of Organized
Trades and Labor Unions.
1905 - Russo-Japanese War ended with signing of Treaty of Portsmouth in New
Hampshire.
1910 - Marie Curie demonstrated radium's transformation from ore to metal at
the Academy of Sciences in France.
1914 - Battle of Marne began. The British and French fought the Germans for six
days, resulting in 500,000 casualties.
1914 - Babe Ruth hit his first home run as a professional for Providence in the
International League.
1957 - Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was published.
1958 - "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak, was published in the U. S.
1972 - Members of the Black September faction of the Palestinian Liberation
Army attacked the Israeli delegation at the Munich Olympic Games Village.
Seventeen people died in the incident.
1975 - President Gerald R. Ford escaped an assassination attempt by Lynette
"Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, in Sacramento, California.
1980 - Longest tunnel, St. Gotthard Automobile Tunnel in Switzerland, opened.
1983 - "MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour" premiered, the first regularly scheduled daily
hour news show.
1986 - Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi
International Airport by four armed men of the Abu Nidal organization.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants set a new mark for home runs in
a single season, hitting his 71st and 72nd.
Births:
1187 - Louis VIII (Coeur-de-Lion), king of France.
1638 - Louis XIV, king of France who built palace of Versailles.
1842 - Jesse James, outlaw of the American Wild West.
1902 - Darryl F. Zanuck, American motion picture executive and producer.
1905 - Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born British novelist and essayist.
1912 - John Cage, American avant-garde composer, artist, writer, and
philosopher.
1923 - Arthur C. Nielsen, American television market researcher.
1929 - Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor.
1934 - Carol Lawrence, American actress.
1940 - Raquel Welch, American actress.
1950 - Cathy Lee Guisewite, American cartoonist who created the comic strip
"Cathy."
1951 - Michael Keaton (born Michael John Douglas), American film actor.
Deaths:
1997 - Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), Albanian-born Indian nun and
recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace.
1997 - Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian-born British musical conductor and pianist.
1999 - Allen Funt, American television personality, best known as the creator
and host of "Candid Camera."
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