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********************************************************************* *                                                                   * *             THE KALENDAR - REASONS TO CELEBRATE                   * *                                                                   * *             Compiled for C18-L by Kevin Berland                   * *                       This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it                            * *                       This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it                           * *********************************************************************                           SEPTEMBER 28      BIRTHDAYS:  Confucius, Chinese philosopher;  Caravaggio, Italian painter (1573-1610);  Sir William Jones, English scholar of oriental languages & culture (1746);      LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Prosper Merimee, French writer, translator, senator (1803-70);  Frances Willard, U.S. social reformer, 1st oresident of World Women's Temperance Movement (1839-98);  Georges Clemenceau, le Tigre, French statesman, premier (1841-1929);  Henri Moissan, French chemist, inventor (1852-1907); Kate Douglas Wiggin, U.S. educator, founder of 1st free kindergartren in U.S., author of best-selling children's book Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1856-1923);  Avery Brundage, U.S. sportsman, Olympics official (1887-1975);  Herman Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, British novelist, author of the Bulldog Drummond books (1888-1937);  Elmer Rice, U.S. playwright (1892-1967);  Marshall Field III, U.S. publisher & philantropist (1893-1956);  Wallace Kirkman Harrison, U.S. architect, designer of Rockefeller Center, UN Headquarters, Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center (1895-1981);  Ed Sullivam, U.S. journalist, TV variety host (1902-74);  Max Schmeling, German boxer (1905);  Al Capp, U.S. cartoonist, deviser of Li'l' Abner, set in Dogpatch (1909-79);  Stephen Spender, English poet (1909);  Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of espionage and executed (1915-53);  Michael Somes, British ballet dancer, director (1917);  Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (1924);  Brigitte Bardot, French actress (1934)      DEATHS:  Jean Baptiste Massillon (1742);  Thomas Day (1789);      ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1810, Madame de Stael wrote to Napoleon protesting the suppression of her book D'Allemagne;      MISCELLANEA:  Taiwan celebrates the Birthday of Confucius today. It is also the Feast of St. Wenceslas of Bohemia, patron of Czechoslovakia.  On this day in 1958, the Fifth Republic was established in France; **********************************************************************                 SEPTEMBER 29