In 1979, former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the
United States, established the National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
Since its inception, the third Friday in September has served as a
day to honor our nation’s military veterans who were once held as prisoners of war and those who remain listed as missing in action.
James Earl Carter Jr.
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Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959)
DeMille is acknowledged as a founding father of American
cinema and the most commercially successful producer-
director in film history.
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The musician, actor, film producer and Rolling Stones front
man Mick Jagger was born in Dartford, Kent, England on
July 26, 1943. He’s 81 years old today.
His career has spanned over six decades, and he has been widely described as one of the most popular and influential
front men in the history of rock music.
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At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, a woman’s
rights convention—the first ever held in the United States—
convened with almost 200 women in attendance.
The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-
Slavery Convention in London.
As women, Mott and Stanton were barred from the convention
floor, and the common indignation that this aroused in both of
them was the impetus for their founding of the women’s rights
movement in the United States.
Birdseye view of San Francisco from 1846 showing the
harbor and streets of early San Francisco.
An American naval captain, John Montgomery led a party of
marines and sailors ashore. They met no resistance and
claimed the settlement of Yerba Buena for the United States,
raising the American flag in the central plaza. They occupied
the small settlement that would later be called San Francisco.
John Berrien Montgomery
(1794 – March 25, 1872)
The 1847 Battle of Santa Clara, the only major engagement
to take place in the Bay Area.
