Sophia Loren is an Italian actress whose beauty and acting
in films like "Two Women" won her both popularity and an
Oscar.
With a career spanning over 70 years, she is one of the last
surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood
cinema.
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On September 6, 1995, Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken Jr.
played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking “Iron Horse” Lou Gehrig’s record for most consecutive games played.
“The Iron Man” was credited with reviving interest in baseball after
a 1994 work stoppage forced the cancellation of the World Series
and soured fans on the national pastime.
Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr. (65)
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford became
the first African American to travel into space when the space
shuttle Challenger lifted off on its third mission.
It was the first night launch of a space shuttle, and many people
stayed up late to watch the spacecraft roar up from Cape
Canaveral, Florida, at 2:32 a.m.
The Challenger spent six days in space, during which time
Bluford and his crew members launched a communications
satellite for the government of India, made contact with an
errant communications satellite, conducted various scientific experiments, and tested the shuttle’s robotic arm.
Just before dawn on September 5, the shuttle landed at Edwards
Air Force Base in California, bringing an end to the most flawless
shuttle mission to that date.
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. (82)
On August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United
States and England, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and
burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on
the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1813.
When the British arrived at the White House, they found that
President James Madison and his first lady Dolley had already
fled to safety in Maryland.
Soldiers reportedly sat down to eat a meal made of leftover food
from the White House scullery using White House dishes and
silver before ransacking the presidential mansion and setting
it ablaze.
Although President Madison and his wife were able to return
to Washington only three days later when British troops had
moved on, they never again lived in the White House.
Madison served the rest of his term residing at the city’s Octagon
House. It was not until 1817 that newly elected president James
Monroe moved back into the reconstructed building.
James Madison (1751 – 1836)
James Monroe (1758 – 1831)
