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This Day in History for 8th September


Famous Deaths

 
Founder of the Shakers
Ann Lee (1784)


394 - Arbogast, French general, commits suicide
701 - Sergius I, Syrian/Italian Pope (687-701), dies
780 - Leo IV de Chazaar, Byzantine Emperor (775-80), dies
876 - Lodewijk de Duitser, king of East French Republic (833-76), dies at 72
1100 - Clement III, [Wibert van Ravenna], 1st anti-pope (1084-1100), dies
1397 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
1425 - King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
1539 - John Stokesley, English churchman
1550 - Hans [Johann] Vischer, German count of Johann Cicero, dies
1555 - Thomas Villanova, Spanish saint/archbishop of Valencia, dies
1560 - Amy Robsart, wife of English premier Robert Dudley, dies by accident
1603 - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
1613 - Don Carlo Gesauldo, composer, dies
1633 - Carlo Caraffa, Ital jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72
1637 - Robert Fludd, composer, dies at 63
1644 - Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies
1645 - Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author/poet, dies at 64
1645 - John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
1654 - Peter Claver, Spanish saint (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies
1656 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574)
1660 - Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54
1675 - Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels, dies at 73
1682 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
1706 - Romanus Weichlein, composer, dies at 53
1721 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
1739 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
1755 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (b. 1715)
1761 - Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
1780 - Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736)
1784 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
1811 - Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist, dies at 69
1819 - Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer, dies at 56
1831 - John Aitken, Scottish-born music publisher (b. 1745)
1838 - Pietro Rovelli, composer, dies at 45
1840 - John H van de Palm, theologist/literature/speaker, dies at 77
1853 - Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
1871 - Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57
1879 - Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 58
1881 - W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, dies at 84
1882 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies
1894 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
1895 - Adam Opel, German manufacturer (motorcars), dies at 58
1899 - Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer, dies at 78
1914 - William E Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74
1917 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74
1933 - Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria, dies at 50
1935 - Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Sen Huey Long, shot down
1935 - Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building
1944 - Jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63
1948 - Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)
1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85
1951 - Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed
1951 - Maria Montez, actress (Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 33
1955 - John de Young, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69
1956 - Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-4.), dies at 84
1956 - Vital Celen, Flemish writer ('t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69
1962 - Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84
1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (Island in the Sun), dies of accidental overdose at 42
1969 - Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61
1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (b. 1868)
1970 - Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894)
1974 - Robert Cox, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79
1975 - John Mylong, actor (Robot Monster), dies at 82
1976 - Assen Karastoyanov, composer, dies at 83
1976 - Joaquin Zamacois Soler, composer, dies at 81
1977 - Zero [Samuel J] Mostel, US actor (Fiddler on the Roof), dies at 62
1978 - Pancho Vladigerov, composer, dies at 79
1979 - Jean Seberg, actress (Breathless, Airport), commits suicide at 40
1980 - Bruce Dooland, cricketer (prolific leggie for Notts), dies
1980 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, dies at 84
1981 - Hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74
1981 - Roy Wilkins, longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80
1981 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
1983 - Antonin Magne, French bicylist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies
1983 - Willem C "Wim" Kan, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 72
1984 - Frank Lowson, cricketer (England opener 1951-55), dies
1984 - Rene Bernier, composer, dies at 79
1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
           (b. 1887)
1991 - Alex North, music composer (Spartacus), dies at 80 of cancer
1991 - Brad Davis, US, actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41
1991 - Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies
1991 - Jo Budie, Dutch orchestra leader (KRO), dies
1992 - Quentin N Burdick, (Sen-D-ND, 1960-91), dies at 84
1993 - Hall Bartlett, US director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70
1993 - Lorin "Whitey" Harrison, surfer, dies at 80 of a heart attack
1993 - Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88
1994 - Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator, dies at 93
1994 - Deborah Bear, Engl still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44
1994 - Dennis Morgan, actor (Cattle Town, Canyon Pass), dies at 83
1994 - Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies at 70 of cancer
1994 - Michael Peters, choreographer, dies
1994 - Rex Alston, cricketer (distinguished BBC commentator), dies
1995 - Eileen Zhang Ailing Chang, writer, dies at 73
1995 - Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of Boris Pasternak, dies of cancer at 83
1995 - Safa Khulusi, writer, dies at 78
1996 - Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102
1999 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
2002 - Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (b. 1968)
2003 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
2004 - Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913)
2005 - Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)
2006 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
2006 - Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver (b. 1945)
2006 - Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919)
2006 - Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
2007 - Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (b. 1917)
2008 - Evan Tanner, UFC Champion
2009 - Mike Bongiorno, Italian television host (b. 1924)
2009 - Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1922)
2012 - Bill Moggridge [William], British designer, dies from cancer at 69

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This Day in History for 9th September


Historical Events

                                   
Queen of Scotland Mary Stuart                Aviator Orville Wright                     Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley

                                   
Baseball Player                                        36th US President                                    Musician and Beatle                                 
Roberto Clemente                                    Lyndon B. Johnson                                   John Lennon 

                                   
Tennis Player John McEnroe                    NBA Legend Larry Bird                           Radio shock jock Howard Stern


701 - St Sergius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert
           III and Leopold III.
1493 - Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman
           Empire invasion.
1513 - Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland
1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of
           Stirling.
1556 - Pope Paul IV refuses to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor
1561 - Sermon of Poissy
1567 - Lomaraal van Egmond & Philip van Hoorne captured
1591 - -10] Battle at Flores Azores: Spanish beat English
1675 - New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians
1683 - Expelled Polish & Lotharings reach Wienerwald
1739 - Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed)
1753 - 1st steam engine arrives in US colonies
1776 - Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United
           Colonies)
1817 - Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree
           at Middlebury College
1830 - Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ
1839 - John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph
1841 - Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300
1850 - Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state
1861 - Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer
1862 - Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry
1863 - Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN
1867 - Luxembourg gains independence
1875 - Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated
1880 - President Hayes visits SF
1881 - Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid"
1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
1892 - E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon
1895 - American Bowling Congress forms (NYC)
1898 - Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders
1899 - French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds
1903 - 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated
1904 - Mounted police 1st used in NYC
1904 - Boston Herald again refers to NY baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2,"
           Yankee name not official till 1913
1908 - Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1908 - Russia takes part of Poland
1909 - Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title
1911 - 1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England)
1912 - J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph)
1913 - Association for Study of Negro Life & History organizes in Chicago
1914 - -12] Belgian offensive from Antwerp
1914 - Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved)
1914 - Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0
1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully
           mechanized unit in the British Army.
1915 - Association for study of Negro Life & History forms by Carter G Woodson
1918 - Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
1919 - Boston's police force forms strike
1922 - St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0
1922 - Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens
1922 - William T Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins
1923 - Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2)
1924 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
1926 - National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America
1926 - Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die
1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
1927 - Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium
1928 - Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets then long jump record at 26' ½"
1932 - Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning
1932 - Mine strikes at Belgian Borinage ended
1932 - Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy
1932 - Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River (71 killed)
1933 - 53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Jack Crawford (63 1113 46 60 61)
1934 - Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0)
1934 - G Kaufman & M Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premieres in NYC
1936 - Yankees sweep Indians, NY clinches pennant on earliest date in history
1939 - Nazi army reaches Warsaw
1940 - 28 German aircraft shot down above England
1940 - 60th US Mens Tennis: W D McNeill beats Robert L Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)
1942 - 1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon (WW II)
1942 - Compulsory work for women, children & old males in Batavia
1942 - Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon
1943 - 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome
1943 - Lt-Gen Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick
1943 - Red Army occupies Bachmatsj
1943 - US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)
1944 - Allied forces liberate Luxembourg
1944 - Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
1944 - Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Neth
1944 - US 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders
1944 - Very strong hurricane hits Netherland
1945 - Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies
1945 - Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th & final HR
1945 - Phila A's Dick Fowler no-hits St Louis Brown, 1-0
1945 - 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with
           tweasers from a relay & taped into the log
1948 - "Hilarities (of 1949)" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 14 perfs
1948 - Bkln Dodger Rex Barney no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
1948 - People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed
1950 - "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 293 perfs
1950 - "Where's Chartev?" closes at St James Theater NYC after 792 perfs
1950 - 1st use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune
1950 - Mass arrests of communists in France
1951 - 1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV
1951 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open
1953 - KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Earthquake strikes Orleansville Algeria: 1,400 killed
1954 - Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season
1955 - Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run
1955 - Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan's Show
1955 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1956 - 70th US Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64)
1956 - 76th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Lewis Hoad (46 62 63 63)
1956 - African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde forms
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the 1st time
1957 - "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1
1957 - Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited
1957 - Pres Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
1958 - Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game
1958 - Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London
1960 - 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10)
1961 - Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962
1962 - 76th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64)
1962 - 82nd US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64)
1962 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open
1962 - Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses
1962 - WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 - Alabama Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar
           black students from enrolling in white schools
1964 - German DR government allows short visits to West Germany
1964 - John Osborne's "Inadmissable Evidence," premieres in London
1965 - Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency
1965 - Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0)
1965 - Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon
           B. Johnson.
1967 - 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V
1967 - Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968
1967 - Uganda declares independence from Great Britain
1968 - 1st US Open, held as an "open" (Arthur Ashe-wins)
1968 - Arthur Ashe defeats Tom Okker to win US Tennis Open
1968 - WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82
1969 - Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83
1969 - Smallest US Tennis Open single session-131 (men's doubles final only)
1969 - WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun
1970 - Feyenoord wins soccer's World Cup
1971 - 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison
1971 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV)
1971 - John Lennon releases "Imagine" album
1971 - NHL great Gordie Howe retires
1972 - 86th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats K Melville (63 75)
1972 - Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973
1973 - 93rd US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Jan Kodes (64 16 46 62 62)
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1974 - 88th US Womens Tennis: B J M King beats E Goolagong Cawley (36 63 75)
1975 - Viking 2 Mars probe launch
1977 - 1st TRS-80 computer sold
1977 - Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker & Allan Trammell debut together & will play together for 19 years
1978 - 3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0
1978 - 92nd US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver (75 64)
1978 - Balt Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto)
1978 - Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army
1978 - Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979
1979 - 31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman & Ruth Gordon
1979 - 93rd US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats C E Lloyd Mills (64 63)
1979 - 99th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis (75 63 63)
1979 - Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1979 - Sid Bernstein offers $½ billion for a Beatle reunion
1981 - Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League
1982 - "Your Arms are Too Short..." opens at Alvin NYC for 69 performances
1982 - Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank in preparation for STS-5
1982 - Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight
1983 - Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas
1983 - Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)
1983 - Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis
           player
1984 - 104th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl (63 64 61)
1984 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship
1985 - President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
1985 - Race riot in Birmingham, England
1986 - Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7)
1986 - NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying
1987 - Gary Hart admits on "Nightline," to cheating on his wife
1987 - Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016
1987 - Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59
1987 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter
1988 - Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers & Gossage to save 300 games
1988 - Chris Evert defaults at US Open due to a stomach flu
1988 - US swamps NZ at 27th America`s Cup: NZ set to appeal
1989 - 103rd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (36 75 61)
1990 - 110th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 62)
1990 - Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr Johnson's forces
1990 - Oakland beats NY 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year
1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship
1990 - George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
1991 - Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington
1991 - Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland
1992 - 1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home
1992 - 9th MTV Awards: Howard Stern appears as Fartman
1992 - Robin Yount, is 17th to get 3,000 hits
1993 - Croupier of casino in Bristol ,England, shoots a 4 a record eight times
1993 - PLO recognizes state of Israel
1993 - Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, (Kuchma) resigns
1994 - Space shuttle STS 64 (Discovery 20), launches into orbit
1994 - Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed
1995 - "Broadway Limited" last train ride (began in 1902)
1995 - 109th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (76 06 63)
1995 - Dean St Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904
1997 - Sinn Fein accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmament
2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.
2002 - Pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his
           major league record
2004 - 2004 A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
2012 - 17 people are killed and at least 40 injured after two car bombs explode in Aleppo, Syria
2012 - 100 people are killed and 350 injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq
2012 - Armenia wins the 40th FIDE Chess Olympiad
2012 - Serena Williams wins her fourth women's tennis singles at the US Open

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This Day in History for 9th September


Famous Weddings

1979 - Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
1995 - Chynna Phillips weds William Baldwin
1995 - Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41)
2004 - 'N Sync singer Joey Fatone (27) weds Kelly Baldwin (27) at Oheka Castle in Huntington, New
           York
2007 - Country music artist Joe Nichols (30) weds Heather Singleton (30) at Whitfield Chapel in
           Savannah, Georgia
2012 - "Gossip Girl" actress Blake Lively (25) weds "Green Lantern" actor Ryan Reynolds (35) at
            Boone Hall in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

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This Day in History for 9th September


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Kentucky Fried Chicken Founder              Actor Adam Sandler (1966)                   Actress Michelle Williams (1980)
Colonel Sanders (1890) 


214 - Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)
384 - Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423)
1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
1583 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer
1585 - Armand-Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, premier of France (1624-42)
1618 - Joan Cererols, composer
1629 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch lt-adm-gen/son of Maarten Tromp
1646 - Zeger B van Espen, Flemish theologist
1664 - Johann Christoph Pez, composer
1687 - Jean-Baptiste Maurice Quinault, composer
1700 - Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
1711 - Thomas Hutchinson, American politician (d. 1780)
1731 - Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer (d. 1787)
1752 - Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer
1754 - William Bligh, nasty ship's captain (HMS Bounty)
1755 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)
1769 - Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch minister of Justice (1807..42)
1789 - William Cranch Bond, US, astronomer (codiscovered Hyperion)
1809 - William Radford, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890
1817 - Speed Smith Fry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1819 - Martin Luther Smith, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1822 - Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention
1826 - Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907)
1826 - Thomas John Lucas, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
1828 - Leo Tolstoi, Russian writer (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) [OS]
1834 - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant)
1834 - William MacRae, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1882
1840 - Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer
1850 - Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi
1850 - Leopoldo Miguez, composer
1853 - Frederick R Spofforth, Australia, cricketer (Demon)
1855 - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist
1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
1858 - Benjamin Kidel, English Sudan (Control of the Tropics)
1865 - Edwin Lehare, composer
1868 - Mary Austin, Ill, feminist/nature writer (Land of Little Rain)
1872 - Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Negro trail-blazers)
1872 - Josef Stransky, composer
1873 - Edward Burlingame Hill, composer
1877 - Frank Chance, baseball player/manager, Tinkers to Evers to Chance
1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
1878 - Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
1880 - Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker (Diagonal Symphony)
1882 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
1887 - Alf (Alfred) Landon, (R-Ks) American politician and Presidential candidate (1932, 1936). Dies
          1987
1887 - Raymond Walburn, Plymouth In, actor (Christmas in July)
1890 - Harland Sanders, Henryville Ind, colonel/CEO (Kentucky Fried Chicken), (d. 1980)
1892 - Bruno Sturmer, composer
1892 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
1894 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
1896 - Fritz Reuter, composer
1898 - Frank "Fordham Flash" Frisch, NYC, baseball player (NL MVP 1931)
1899 - Louis Cheslock, composer
1899 - Neil Hamilton, Lynn Mass, actor (Commisioner Gordon-Batman)
1899 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1900 - James Hilton, English novelist (Goodbye Mr Chips)
1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
1905 - Hussain Sha - Indian Saint, Philosopher ,Pithapuram
1907 - Leon Edel, biographer
1907 - Pinky Tomlin, Eureka Springs Ark, singer/actor (Tip-Waterfront)
1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (La belle estate)
1908 - John Haeton, US, bobsled (Olympic-silver-1928, 48)
1909 - Jane Baxter, [Feodora Forde], Bremen Germany, actress (We Live Again)
1909 - Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana (1960-66)
1911 - John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)
1911 - Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
1912 - Kurt Sanderling, Arys Germany, conductor (E Berlin Symph 1960-77)
1917 - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (d. 1942)
1918 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Novara, Italy, politician (Italian President, 1992-1999), (d. 2012)
1919 - Jacques Marin, Paris, actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo)
1919 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, gambler/sportscaster (lay you 5 to 1)
1919 - Richard Webb, Bloomington IL, actor (Invisible Monster, Git)
1919 - Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
1920 - Michael Aldridge, Glastonbury England, actor (Murder in Cathedral)
1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
1920 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
1921 - Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer
1922 - Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat
1922 - MacKenzie John, pipe major
1922 - Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
1922 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
1923 - Cliff Robertson, La Jolla, California, American actor (Charly) and spokesman for AT&T
1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine
1924 - Jane Greer, Wash DC, actress (Prisoner of Zenda, Clown)
1924 - Nino Bibbia, Italy, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1948)
1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
1926 - Annie nee Becker Kriegel, historian
1926 - Jake Carey, US R&B-singer (Flamingos-I Know Better)
1926 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
1927 - Elvin Jones, rocker
1928 - Julian E "Cannonball" Adderley, US, jazz musician (Black Messiah)
1929 - Stan Parris, (Rep-R-VA, 1973-74, 81- )
1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
1930 - Paolo Castaldi, composer
1930 - Frank Lucas, Drug Lord
1932 - Ali Doelman-Pel, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1932 - Sylvia Miles, NYC, actress (Midnight Cowboy, Farewell My Lovely)
1934 - Sonia Sanchez, US playwright/poet (The Bronx is Next)
1935 - [Chaim] Topol, Tel Aviv Israel, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1935 - Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author
1936 - Augustinius Franz Kropfreiter, composer
1937 - Mikhail N Tai, Latvia, World chess champion (1960-61)
1938 - Richard Sharpe, English rugby player
1939 - Howard P McKeon, (Rep-R-California)
1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
1940 - Joe Negroni, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers)
1941 - Curtis Otto Bismark Curtis-Smith, composer
1941 - Les Braid, England, bass (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
1941 - Otis Redding, Dawson Ga, rock bassist (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay)
1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
1942 - Inez Foxx, Greensboro NC, rocker (Mockingbird, Hi Diddle Diddle)
1942 - John Linder, (Rep-R-Georgia)
1942 - Luther Simmons, rocker (Main Ingredient
1943 - Art LaFleur, American actor
1944 - Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina
1945 - Omukama Patrick David Matthew Olimi Kaboyo II, king of Toro
1945 - Dee Dee Sharp [Dione Larue], Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American R&B singer (I Love You
           Anyway)
1946 - Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author
1946 - Doug Ingle, Omaha Nebraska, rock vocalist/keyboards (Iron Butterfly)
1946 - Pete Gavin, rocker
1946 - Hayato Tani, Japanese actor
1947 - David Rosenboom, composer
1947 - Freddy Weller, Georgia, rocker (Paul Revers & The Raiders)
1947 - Lynn Fitzgerald, marathoner (ran 133 miles 939 yards in 24 hrs)
1949 - Joe Theismann, NFL QB (Redskins)/sportscaster
1949 - John Curry, England, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1976)
1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician
1951 - Corry Konings, Dutch singer
1951 - Robert Desiderio, Bronx NY, actor (Det Kennedy-Heart of the City)
1951 - Tom Wopat, Lodi, Wisconsin, American actor and singer (The Dukes of Hazzard, One Life to
           Live)
1951 - Alexander Downer, Australian politician
1952 - Angela Cartwright, England (Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space)
1952 - Bonnie Large, Glendale CA, playmate (March 1973)
1952 - David Stewart, rock guitarist (Eurtyhmics-Here Comes the Rain Again)
1952 - Lee M Morin, Manchester NH, cmdr USN/astronaut
1952 - Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel)
1954 - Walter Paul Davis, Pineville NC, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor
1955 - John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator
1956 - Anatoli Pavlovich Artsebarsky, Russia, colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12)
1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
1957 - Gabriele Tredozi, Italian engineer
1959 - Eric Serra, French composer
1960 - Christopher Sherratt White, Hamilton NZ, rower (Olympics-96)
1960 - Hugh Grant, London England (4 Weddings & a Funeral, 9 Months)
1960 - Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur
1960 - Bob Stoops, American football coach
1961 - Jim Corsi, Newtonville MA, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1962 - Aleta Rzepecki Sill, Detroit Mich, bowler (1983 WIBC single)
1962 - Derek Kennard, NFL guard (Dallas Cowboys)
1962 - Jack Trudeau, NFL quarterback (Carolina Panthers)
1963 - Leslie Thompson, Burlington Vt, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1964 - Brett Hull, NHL right wing (MVP 1991, 86 goals)
1964 - Skip [Jules I] Kendall, Milwaukee WI, PGA golfer (1993 Intl-8th)
1964 - Willie Broughton, NFL defensive tackle (NO Saints)
1965 - Brenda Epperson, actress (Ashley Abbott-Young & Restless)
1965 - Dan Majerle, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1965 - Marc Dunn, Kingston Ontario, volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1965 - Todd Zeile, Van Nuys CA, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1966 - Adam Sandler, Brooklyn New York, actor/comedian (Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Saturday
           Night Live)
1966 - Alison Sydor, Edmonton Alberta, x-ctry cyclist (Olympics-silver-96)
1966 - David Bennent, Lausanne, actor (Tin Drum, Legend)
1966 - Kevin Hatcher, Detroit MI, NHL defenseman (Team USA, Dallas, Pitts)
1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger
1967 - B J Armstrong, NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets)
1967 - Laurence Tremolet, Rodez France, actress (Cyclo, Metisse,)
1967 - Akshay Kumar, Indian Actor
1968 - Jonathan A Drummond Jr, Phila, 4X400m runner (Olympics-silver-96)
1968 - Julia Sawalha, actress (Saffron-Abfab, Chrissy-Buddy's Song)
1968 - Thomas P Auth, Orange NJ, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Jon Drummond, American former sprinter
1968 - Clive Mendonca, English Footballer
1969 - Divine Brown, [Estelle Marie Thompson], SF, prostitute (Hugh Grant)
1969 - Christine Smith, Darien Conn, rower (Olympics-96)
1969 - Scott DeFreitas, Newton Mass, actor (Andy Dixon-As the World Turns)
1969 - Sean Rooks, NBA center (LA Lakers)
1969 - Constance Marie, American actress
1970 - Dan Miceli, Newark NJ, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1970 - Joey Hamilton, Statesboro GA, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1970 - Mike Faulkerson, NFL fullback (Chic Bears)
1970 - Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress
1971 - Jill Sudduth, Balt MD, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1972 - Ben Bronson, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Mike Hampton, Brooksville FL, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1972 - Miriam Oremans, Berlicum Neth, tennis star
1972 - James Farmer, American educator and artist
1972 - Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader
1972 - Goran Višnjić, Croatian actor
1973 - Mike Schlegel, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Peter Scott, Newcastle Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1973 - Todd McMillon, CFL cornerback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1973 - Troy Rudolph, production asst (Suburbanators, Viper)
1973 - Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
1974 - Jennie Kwan, Glendale California, actress (Samantha Woo-California Dreams)
1974 - Leah O'Brien, Garden Grove California, softball infielder (Olympic-gold-96)
1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
1974 - Vikram Batra, Officer of the Indian Army
1974 - Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician
1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian singer and actor
1976 - Mattias Ohlund, NHL goaltender (Vancouver Canucks, Team Sweden 1998)
1976 - Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, ex-Borknagar)
1976 - Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
1976 - Emma de Caunes, French film actress
1976 - Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer
1976 - Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor
1977 - Chae Jung-an, South Korean actress and singer
1977 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
1977 - Kyle Snyder, Major League Baseball pitcher
1978 - Jhane Landwier, Miss Bonaire Universe (1997)
1978 - Kurt Ainsworth, Major League Baseball pitcher
1978 - Shane Battier, American basketball player
1978 - Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
1980 - Todd Coffey, American baseball player
1980 - Michelle Williams, Kalispell, Montana, actress (Dawson's Creek)
1981 - Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress
1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
1983 - Kyle Davies, American baseball player
1983 - Edwin Jackson, Major League Baseball pitcher
1983 - Sam Hollenbach, National Football League quarterback
1983 - Cleveland Taylor, International footballer
1984 - James Hildreth, English Cricketer
1985 - Luka Modrić, Croatian footballer
1985 - J.R. Smith, American basketball player
1986 - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 - Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player
1986 - Michael Bowden, American baseball player
1987 - Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer
1987 - Joshua Herdman, English actor
1990 - Melody Klaver, Dutch actress
2000 - Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón, granddaughter of king Juan Carlos I of Spain

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 9th September


Famous Deaths

                 
Chinese Communist Revolutionary               Father of the H-bomb
and Politician                                                Edward Teller (2003)
Mao Tse-Tung (1976)


546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop
1000 - Olaf I of Norway
1087 - William I, The Conqueror, King of England/Duke of Normandy, dies
1398 - King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
1438 - Eduard [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/writer, dies
1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
1513 - James IV, King of Scots (1488-1513), dies in battle at 40
1573 - Andre de Resende, Portuguese dominican/humanist, dies
1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
1683 - Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded
1713 - Giovanni A di Bartlommeo Viscardi, Swiss architect, dies
1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
1770 - Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73
1770 - Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist, dies at 62
1803 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer, dies at 32
1806 - William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
1810 - Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78
1815 - John Singleton Copley, British painter, dies at 77
1817 - Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58
1832 - Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer, dies at 39
1841 - Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63
1866 - Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czech poet/translator, dies at 65
1876 - American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle
1878 - Jacobo Ficher, composer, dies at 18
1888 - John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71
1891 - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36
1901 - Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies
1902 - Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, gov of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53
1907 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
1913 - Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician, dies
1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
1926 - David Lobo, Dutch actor, dies in railway accident
1926 - Greta Lobo-Braakensiek, Dutch actress in railway accident
1931 - Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist dies at 86
1939 - S M Tretjakow, writer, dies at 47 [or Aug 9]
1941 - Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist, dies at 85
1946 - Mynona, writer, dies at 74
1948 - James Baskett, dies
1951 - Cecil Gray, composer, dies at 56
1951 - Gibson Gowland, actor (Greed), dies at 74
1952 - Joseph Allen Sr, dies
1954 - Alfred Gradstein, composer, dies at 49
1957 - Ettore Pozzoli, composer, dies at 84
1958 - Charles Macartney, cricket (35 Tests 1907-26, 2131 runs 45 wkts), dies
1959 - Max d' Ollone, composer, dies at 84
1959 - O'Neil Gordon Collie Smith, WI cricket all-rounder, dies in car crash
1960 - Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer, dies at 75
1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
1962 - Pat Rooney, vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82
1963 - Ernst Kantorowicz, German/US historian, dies at 68
1963 - Jan Schouten, Dutch founder (illegal Trouw)/chairman (ARP), dies
1964 - Charles O'Neill, composer, dies at 82
1965 - Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer, dies at 90
1966 - Antonio Massana, composer, dies at 76
1966 - Leon de Smet, Flemish painter, dies at 85
1966 - Nestor Paiva, actor (3 Stooges in Orbit), dies of cancer at 61
1967 - Helen Flint, actress (Sea Devils), dies after being hit by a car at 69
1969 - Cecil Dixon, cricketer (S Afr 1913-14, dismissed Hobbs twice), dies
1969 - Katherine Singleton, actress/Miss Universe (1926), dies at 65
1969 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
1971 - Billy Gilbert, US actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), dies at 76
1973 - Samuel N Behrman, US stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80
1974 - Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 55
1975 - Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds), dies at 97
1975 - John McGiver, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show), dies at 61
1975 - Minta Durfee, actress (Keystone Comedies, Mickey), dies at 85
1976 - Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82
1977 - John Breeden, actor (Madame Racketeer, Salute), dies at 73
1978 - Jack L Warner, US movie production (Warner Bros), dies at 86)
1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
1979 - Solon Michaelides, composer, dies at 73
1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
1981 - Phiroz Edulji Palia, cricket (2 Tests for India, 29 runs & 0-13), dies
1982 - Frederic Dannay, [Ellery Queen], US, detective writer, dies at 76
1984 - Walter Kaufmann, composer, dies at 77
1984 - Yilmaz Gueney, director (Yol, Arkadas, Baba, Agit), dies at 47
1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1987 - Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered
1989 - Tim Hovey, actor (Slim Carter, Man Afraid), dies of a drug overdose
1990 - Rimantas Antanas Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46
1990 - Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
1991 - Edwin M McMillan, US, chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies
1991 - John Lawrence, doctor, dies
1991 - Joop H Zwart, Spanish fighter/publicist (Black Widow), dies
1991 - Paul Michael Lombardi, actor, dies of AIDS at 31
1993 - David Tendlar, animator (Betty Boop), dies
1993 - Helen O'Connell, singer (Green Eyes), dies of cancer at 74
1994 - Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85
1994 - Patrick O'Neal, US actor (King Rat, Night of the Iguana), dies at 66
1994 - Roy Castle, actor (Dr Who & the Daleks), dies of lung Cancer
1995 - Ida Carroll, musician, dies at 89
1996 - Bill Monroe, bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), dies at 84
1996 - Edward Greenall, businessman/sportsman, dies at 67
1996 - Jack Pepys, immunologist, dies at 82
1996 - Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor, dies at 66
1996 - William Smith Monroe, bluegrass musician, dies at 84
1997 - Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator, dies at 48
1997 - Richie Ashburn, HOF baseball player (Phillies, Mets), dies at 70
1998 - Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
1999 - Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
1999 - Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
1999 - Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925)
2000 - Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)
2003 - Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist, dies at 95
2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
2005 - John Wayne Glover, English serial killer (b. 1932)
2006 - Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
2006 - Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
2006 - Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
2007 - Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952)
2008 - Warith Deen Muhammad, American religious leader (b. 1933)
2012 - Ron Taylor, Australian shark expert and cinematographer, dies from myeloid leukemia at 78
2012 - Verghese Kurien, Indian engineer, dies from kidney failure at 90

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 10th September


Historical Events

                                   
Military and Political Leader                   Communist Philosopher                         US WW1 Commander
Simon Bolivar                                                   Karl Marx                                      John J. Pershing

                                   
Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio               Heavyweight Boxing Champion                    Tennis Player Steffi Graf
                                                                      Muhammad Ali


Tennis Player Pete Sampras


422 - St Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
918 - Arnulf I the Old becomes landsheer of Flanders
1349 - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1510 - Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal
1547 - Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots
1547 - English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5
1608 - John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
1776 - George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
1785 - Prussia signs trade agreement with US
1798 - British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St George
1813 - Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie
1823 - Simon Bolivar named president of Peru
1838 - Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris
1845 - King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange
1846 - Elias Howe patents sewing machine
1847 - 1st theater opens in Hawaii
1849 - 1st performance by US actor Edwin Booth (Richard III)
1858 - John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Bkln vs NY)
1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1861 - -15] Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia
1861 - Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities
1863 - George Bizet's opera "Les Pêcheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris
1869 - Baptist minister supposedly invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
1870 - Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms
1872 - Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam
1880 - Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo
1882 - 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for
           Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
1884 - Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention
1894 - London taxi driver George Smith is first fined for drunk driving
1897 - Lattimer Massacre - a sheriff's posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania,
           United States.
1898 - Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda
1898 - Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1899 - 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska
1900 - 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record)
1902 - Utrecht soccer team UVV forms
1905 - Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes
1910 - Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
1913 - Cleveland Call & Post forms
1913 - George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia
1913 - Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
1918 - Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500
           to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers
1919 - Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0
1919 - NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers
1919 - Treaty of St Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany
1922 - Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs
1923 - Irish Free state joins League of Nations
1924 - Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out
1924 - Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder
1926 - Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn
1926 - Germany joins League of Nations
1927 - 22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2)
1927 - France had its first Davis Cup win, though it had competed since 1905.
1930 - Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
1931 - Lord Cecil of British government says War was never so improbable
1932 - 52nd US Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (64 64 64)
1932 - Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season
1932 - Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC
1933 - 1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park)
1933 - 53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J H Crawford (63 11-13 46 60 61)
1937 - 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)
1937 - Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0
1939 - Canada declares war on Germany
1940 - Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
1942 - British troops lands on Madagascar
1942 - RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf
1943 - British 8th army occupies Tarente
1943 - German troops occupied Rome & took over the protection of Vatican City
1943 - Italian fleet anchors at Malta
1943 - Lt-Gen Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London
1944 - Lt-gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge
           too far"
1945 - KLS-AM in Oakland Ca changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA)
1945 - Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis
1945 - Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated; he survives for another 18 months before choking
           to death.
1948 - Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life
1948 - Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England
1949 - "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" closes at Broadway NYC after 76 perfs
1950 - Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium
1951 - British begin economic boycott of Iran
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open
1953 - Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner"
1954 - 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria
1954 - WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, WI (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major
           league record with 4 passed balls
1955 - "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia
1956 - Louisville Ky public schools integrates
1956 - WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
1957 - "Mask & Gown" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 39 performances
1958 - WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2)
1960 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit
1961 - 75th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (63 64)
1961 - 81st US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (75 63 62)
1961 - Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 - Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13
           spectators hit by his Ferrari.
1962 - 82nd US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64)
1962 - KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
1963 - Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0
1963 - Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather
1964 - Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms
1964 - Rod Steward records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"
1965 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards
1965 - WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1966 - Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry)
1967 - 81st US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (119 64)
1967 - 87th US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86)
1967 - Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0
1967 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic
1967 - Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish
1967 - Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win
1967 - KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado
1971 - KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 - 20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR
1972 - 92nd US Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe (36 63 67 64 63)
1972 - Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship
1972 - Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8 )
1972 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1972 - US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed)
1972 - WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton
1973 - NY Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis
1974 - Lou Brock ties (104) & then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark
1974 - NY Dolls disband
1974 - Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau
1974 - Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs
1976 - 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard
1976 - 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, NY
1977 - 91st US Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (76 62)
1977 - Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits
1977 - Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5)
1977 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1977 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1977 - Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978
1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by
           Guillotine in France.
1978 - "Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 243 perfs
1978 - 98th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 62 62)
1978 - Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30")
1978 - Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win US Open on 3 different surfaces
1978 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1978 - 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks
           out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9
1979 - 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed
1980 - Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18
1980 - Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick
1981 - "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso returns to Spain
1982 - Decca releases Beatle audition "Complete Silver Beatles" album
1983 - 97th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63)
1983 - Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1984 - Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla
1984 - Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
1986 - Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
1988 - -18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan
1988 - 102nd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (63 36 61)
1988 - Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989
1989 - 109th US Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76)
1989 - 5 days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners
1989 - Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record
1989 - East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czechoslovakia)
1989 - Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1989 - Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown
1990 - 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win US Open
1990 - 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different
1990 - Ellis Island reopens as a museum
1990 - Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada
1990 - Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq
1990 - Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning
1990 - 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat
           them 12 games to 0
1991 - Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination
1991 - Yolanda Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs)
1992 - Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball
1992 - Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents
1993 - 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced
1993 - Israel & PLO sign joint recognition statements
1994 - 108th US Womens Tennis: Aranxta S Vicario beats Steffi Graf (16 76 64)
1994 - Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke
1995 - 115th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75)
1995 - 35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10
1995 - 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser & Candice Bergen wins
1995 - Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1995 - Browns & Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleve for only time, Browns 22-
           6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles
1997 - Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million
1997 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1997 - Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 HRs in 2 consec yrs
2000 - The musical Cats closes on Broadway.
2002 - Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
2007 - Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile,
           following a military coup in October 1999.
2008 - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the
           history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
2012 - 16 people are killed by a suicide bombing n Kunduz, Afghanistan
2012 - Teachers in Chicago strike effecting 350,000 students
2012 - 10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South Africa
2012 - 29 people are killed by floods and heavy rain in Vietnam
2012 - A left over bazooka grenade in Cambodia explodes and kills three children

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This Day in History for 10th September


Famous Weddings

1961 - Nigerian novelist,critic and academic ('Things Fall Apart') Chinua Achebe marries Christie Okoli
1966 - Actor John Lithgow (20) weds Jean Taynton
1993 - Actress Loretta Young, 80, weds costume designer Jean Louis, 85
2005 - Glamour model Katie Price (27) weds '90s pop sensation singer Peter Andre (32) in Highclere
           Castle, Hampshire
2005 - Fashion model Jodie Kidd (26) weds entrepreneur Aidan Butler at St. Peter's Church in
           Twineham, West Sussex, England
2005 - "The Yardbirds" rock guitarist Jeff Beck (61) weds Sandra Cash in Tunbridge Wells, England
2005 - "Coronation Street" actress Samia Ghadie (23) weds property developer Matthew Smith at St
           Philip's Church in Alderley Edge, Cheshire
2005 - British television presenter Kate Garraway (38) weds former political lobbyist Derek Draper
           (38) at St. Mary The Virgin parish church in London, England
2005 - Camilla Parker-Bowles's son Tom Parker Bowles (30) weds "Harpers & Queen" fashion
           features editor Sara Buys at St. Nicholas' Church in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, England
2011 - Actress Amy Smart (36) weds TV personality and model Carter Oosterhouse (35) in Traverse
           City, Michigan

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This Day in History for 10th September


Famous Birthdays 

                                   
Queen of Louis XIV                                 American Baseball Player                       Actor Colin Firth (1960)
 Maria Theresa of Spain (1638)                Roger Maris (1934)


1169 - Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1183)
1487 - Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55)
1550 - Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish Armada commander (d.
           1615)
1561 - Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634)
1585 - Ercole Porta, composer
1588 - Nicholas Lanier, composer
1624 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689)
1638 - Maria Theresa of Spain, El Escorial, Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
1645 - Romeyn de Hooghe, Haarlem Neth, painter/goldsmith
1714 - Niccolo Jommelli, Italy, composer
1736 - Carter Braxton, US farmer/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1751 - Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Italian violinist/composer/conductor
1753 - John Soane, English architect (Bank of England, Soane Museum)
1758 - Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
1779 - Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer
1786 - Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854)
1786 - William Mason, American politician (d. 1860)
1787 - John Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863
1788 - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
1801 - Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
1810 - Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1815 - Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1823 - Adolf von Doss, composer
1832 - Randall Lee Gibson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1836 - Joseph Wheeler II, Maj Gen (Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee)
1836 - Karl Merz, composer
1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, US, publisher (Funk & Wagnalls)
1839 - Charles Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914)
1844 - Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
1848 - William M Harnett, US painter (Old Violin)
1852 - Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935)
1854 - Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth manufacturer (Vroom & Dreesman)
1857 - James E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn)
1861 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)
1866 - Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer
1866 - Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930)
1869 - Caro Roma, composer
1871 - Charles Collett, British mechanical engineer (d. 1952)
1872 - Josephina "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Verdoold Sheep)
1872 - Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, India, cricketer/politician
1875 - Paul Scheinpflug, composer
1877 - Georgia B D Camp Johnson, US, poet/playwright (Autumn Love Cycle)
1882 - Paul Harvey, IL, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree)
1883 - Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist
1885 - Berthold Altaner, German church historian (Patrologie)
1885 - Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (9th Wave)
1885 - Johannes de Jong, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht (Handbook)
1886 - Hilda Doolittle, US, poetess (imagisten)
1887 - Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy
1889 - Vilem Petrzelka, composer
1890 - Franz Werfel, Austria, author (40 Days of Musa Dagh)
1890 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French couturiere (d. 1973)
1892 - Arthur H Compton, US physicist (X-rays)
1893 - Al "Fuzzy" St John, Santa Ana California, actor (Lash of the West)
1893 - Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian
1895 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976).
1896 - Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946)
1896 - Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981)
1896 - Robert Taschereau, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970)
1897 - Nancy Keene Lancaster, designer/Collector
1897 - Georges Bataille, French writer (d. 1962)
1897 - Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976)
1898 - Adele Marie Astaire, Omaha NE, sister of Fred Astaire, entertainer
1898 - Bessie Love, Midland TX, actress (Broadway Melody, Children of Damned)
1898 - Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999)
1902 - Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Wegwerkers)
1904 - Max Shachtman, American politician (d. 1972)
1906 - Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre, composer/conductor (Hooglied)
1907 - Alva R. Fitch, American army officer (d. 1989)
1908 - Raymond Harry Warnow Scott, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Your Hit
           Parade)
1908 - Waldo Wedel, American Archaeologist (d. 1996)
1912 - Brother William Oliver Antoninus Everson, poet
1912 - Mary Walter, Filipina actress (d. 1993)
1913 - Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, pres South Afr Pan-African Congress (1986- )
1914 - Robert Wise, director (Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story)
1915 - Edmond O'Brien, NYC, actor (Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight)
1916 - Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician
1917 - Franfo Fortini, poet
1917 - Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat
1918 - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
1919 - John Noorda, resistance fighter
1919 - Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer
1920 - Egbert van Paridon, Dutch actor/director (Assault)
1920 - Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001)
1921 - Cornelis A H Wagtho, student/resistance fighter
1924 - Boyd K. Packer, LDS apostle
1924 - Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1925 - Roy James Brown, New Orleans, boxer/soul singer (Good Rockin' Tonight)
1926 - Beryl Cook, British painter
1927 - Gwen Watford, British actress (Body in the Library, Ghoul)
1928 - Leo P[atrick] Kelley, US, sci-fi author (Dead Moon, Vacation in Space)
1928 - Jean Vanier, Canadian disabilities advocate
1928 - Walter Martin, American Christian apologist (d. 1989)
1929 - Akio Yashiro, composer
1929 - Arnold Daniel Palmer, Latrobe PA, PGA golfer (1964 Masters)
1929 - Pentti Siimes, [Pentti Kalevi Siimes], Helsinki Finland
1930 - Kenneth Kweku Sinaman Dadzie, diplomat
1931 - Philip Baker Hall, American actor
1932 - Bo Goldman, American screenwriter
1933 - David Rowland, English real estate developer/broker/multi-millionaire
1933 - Yevgeny Vassilyevich Khrunov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5)
1933 - Karl Lagerfeld, Hamburg Germany, German fashion designer (Chanel)
1934 - Charles Kuralt, Wilmington NC, newscaster (On the Road)
1934 - James L Oberstar, (Rep-D-Minnesota, 1975- )
1934 - Larry Sitsky, composer
1934 - Roger Maris, Hibbing, Minnesota, Yankee, HR champ (61 in 1961, AL MVP 1960, 1961), (d.
          1985)
1934 - Vasil Kazandzhiev, composer
1935 - John Palmer, Kingsport Tenn, news anchor (NBC Weekend News)
1935 - Paul van Vliet, Dutch cabaret performer
1935 - Mary Oliver, American poet
1937 - Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International
1937 - Paul Martin Palombo, composer
1937 - Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
1939 - Artie Tripp, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1939 - Greg Mullavey, Buffalo NY, actor (Tom-Mary Hartman, Rituals)
1939 - Topham Brinton, English carpet magnate/multi-millionaire
1940 - Roy Ayers, LA, disco jazz artist (Fever, You Send Me)
1940 - Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1941 - Pyotr I Klimuk, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18B, 30)
1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
1941 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
1942 - Danny Hutton, Ireland, rock vocalist (Three Dog Night)
1943 - Garrett List, composer
1943 - Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham), American professional wrestler
1943 - Daniel Truhitte, American actor
1943 - Neale Donald Walsch, American author
1944 - Thomas Allen, British opera singer
1945 - Jose Feliciano, Lares, Puerto Rican singer/songwriter (Light my Fire)
1945 - Rein van den Broek, Dutch trumpeteer (Ekseption)
1945 - Richard M Mullane, Tx, USAF/astro (STS 41-D, STS-27, STS-36)
1945 - Tom Ligon, New Orleans, actor (Joyride)
1946 - James R Hines, Dumas Ark, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1946 - Jim Hines, American athlete
1946 - Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician
1947 - Larry Gene Nelson, Ft Payne AL, PGA golfer (1980 Atlanta Classic)
1948 - Bob Lanier, NBA center (Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks)
1948 - Judy Geeson, Arundei Sussex England, actress (To Sir With Love, Berserk)
1948 - Margaret Trudeau, Vancouver BC, former Canadian 1st lady
1948 - Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director
1948 - Bob Lanier, American basketball player
1948 - Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese writer
1948 - Charlie Waters, American football player
1949 - Barriemore Barlow, rocker (Jethro Tull)
1949 - Don Muraco, professional wrestler
1949 - Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and commentator
1950 - Don Powell, England, rock drummer (Slade)
1950 - Joe Perry, Lawrence, Massachusetts, American rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Walk this Way)
1951 - Albert R Wynn, (Rep-D-Maryland)
1951 - Alder Taylor, rocker
1951 - Peter Tolson, rocker
1952 - Gerry Conway, Marvel comics writer (Punisher)
1952 - Vic Toews, Canadian politician
1953 - Amy Irving, Palo Alto, Cal, actress (Yentl, Carrie, Crossing Delancy)
1954 - Martha Nause, Sheboygan WI, LPGA golfer (1994 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1955 - Charlotte Lewis, Chicago Illinois, basketball player (Olympic-silver-1976)
1955 - Giannina Facio Franco, San Jose Costa Rica, Mrs Phillipe Junot
1955 - Pat Mastelotto, rock drummer (Mr Mister, King Crimson)
1956 - Johnny Fingers, rocker (Boomtown Rats)
1956 - Johnny Hickman, American musician
1957 - Brian Fitzpatrick, Upper Darby Pa, actor (Rick Alden-Loving)
1957 - Kate Burton, Geneva Switzerland, actress (Ice Storm, August)
1957 - Siobhan Fahey, Dublin, rocker (Bananarama-Venus, Shakespear's Sister)
1957 - Carol Decker, UK singer (T'Pau-Heart & Soul)
1958 - Chris Columbus, writer/director (Mrs Doubtfire, Nine Months)
1959 - Peter Nelson, American actor
1960 - Colin Firth, Hampshire England, actor (Femme Fatale, Hostages)
1960 - Miranda Wilson, Nebraska, actress (Sandra-Santa Barbara)
1960 - Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist
1960 - David Lowery, American musician
1962 - Esteban Toledo, Mexicali Mexico, Nike golfer (1991 Ben Hogan Reno-2nd)
1963 - David Titlow, rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous)
1963 - Susan Gautier-Smith, TV producer
1963 - Bill Stevenson, American music producer and musician
1964 - Karl Wilson, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1964 - Peter Vogler, Australian baseball outfielder (Olympics-1996)
1964 - Tim Harris, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1964 - John E. Sununu, American politician
1965 - Allison Daughtry, actress (Guilding Light)
1965 - Brian Washington, NFL safety (KC Chiefs)
1966 - Joe Nieuwendyk, NHL forward (Dallas Stars, Team Canada 1998)
1966 - Kimble Anders, NFL fullback (KC Chiefs)
1966 - Ted Popson, NFL tight end (SF 49ers)
1968 - Yvo Joordens, soccer player (MVV)
1968 - Big Daddy Kane, American rapper
1968 - Guy Ritchie, British film director
1969 - Bob Spitulski, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1969 - Matt Geiger, NBA center (Charlotte Hornets)
1969 - Jonathon Schaech, American actor
1970 - Julie Halard, Versailles France, tennis star (1995 Prague)
1970 - Robert Green, NFL running back (Chic Bears)
1970 - Paula Kelley, musician
1971 - Brandon Harrison, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1971 - Brian Earley, Fresno California, diver (Olympics-96)
1971 - Chris Oeding, Santa Ana California, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1972 - James Duval, American actor
1973 - Ghada Shouaa, Syria, heptatlete (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
1974 - Ben Wallace, NBA forward (Wash Wizards)
1974 - Jill Chartier, Miss Oregon USA (1996)
1974 - Sandra Cacic, Joliet Ill, tennis star
1974 - Ryan Phillippe, American actor
1975 - Temple Taggart, Miss USA-Utah (1997, top 6)
1975 - Jonathan Hoenig, American investment advisor
1976 - Gregory Robert Henderson, Dunedin NZ, 4k pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1979 - Jacob Young, American actor and singer
1980 - Timothy Goebel, Evanston Ill, figure skater (1996 National Jr champ)
1986 - Hiroki Uchi, Japanese Idol
1988 - Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player

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This Day in History for 10th September


Famous Deaths

 
Actor Burgess Meredith (1997)


210 BC - Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China.
918 - Baldwin II, Count of Flanders, dies at about 53
954 - Louis IV, of overseas, King of France, dies
1167 - Empress Matilda, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1102)
1197 - Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
1217 - William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon
1279 - Robert Kilwardby/Anglicus, English philosopher/Cardinal, dies
1305 - Nicholas van Tolentino, Italian saint, dies
1308 - Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
1382 - Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary/Poland, dies
1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future
           Charles VII of France
1482 - Federico da Montefeltro, Italian Renaissance condottiero and arts patron
1519 - John Colet, English churchman and educator
1547 - Pierlugi Faraese, Italian son of Pope Paul III, murdered
1559 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1501)
1600 - John Bruhesius, [Bruhesen], bishop of Groningen, dies
1604 - William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
1607 - Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian composer and organist (b. 1545)
1623 - John I Van de Velde, calligrapher (Mirror of Write-Konste), dies
1669 - Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
1676 - Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
1680 - Marco Uccellini, composer, dies
1680 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (b. 1610)
1748 - Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of the
           Virgin Mary (b. 1663)
1749 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
1759 - Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
1765 - Jacob Gilles, pension advisor, dies at about 74
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759)
1801 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (b. 1780)
1806 - Johann C Adelung, German translator/librarian, dies at 74
1828 - Count d'Andreossi, French general/parliament leader, dies at 67
1831 - George Guest, composer, dies at 60
1839 - Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter, dies at 66
1842 - Letitia Tyler, US President Tyler's (1841-45) wife, dies at 51
1845 - Karl August von Lichtenstein, composer, dies at 78
1851 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (b. 1787)
1858 - Henry Wellington Greatorex, composer, dies at 44
1862 - Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62), dies at 71
1867 - Simon Sechter, composer, dies at 78
1868 - Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer, dies at 79
1895 - Harrison Millard, composer, dies at 64
1898 - Elisabeth AE, empress of Austria/wife of Franz Joseph I, dies at 60
1905 - Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
1915 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
1916 - Friedrich Gernsheim, composer, dies at 77
1922 - Arpad Szendy, composer, dies at 59
1924 - Walter Lees, cricketer (26 wkts on 5 Tests Eng v SA 1905-06), dies
1930 - G A Faulkner, cricketer (S Afr googly all-rounder), commits suicide
1931 - Alfonso Randano, composer, dies at 78
1931 - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
1932 - Percy Fletcher, composer, dies at 52
1934 - George Henschel, composer, dies at 84
1937 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1942 - Nachman N "Neddy" Bamberg, actor, dies in Auschwitz at 63
1944 - Jaap P Musch, Dutch resistance fighter, murdered by Nazis
1945 - Vaino Raitio, composer, dies at 54
1951 - Giuseppe Mule, composer, dies at 66
1952 - Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese civil engineer and architect (b. 1866)
1954 - Peter Anders, German opera singer, dies
1955 - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70
1960 - Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga - matushka-reka), dies at 63
1961 - Leo Carrillo, actor (Pancho-Cisco Kid), dies at 81
1961 - Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (b. 1928)
1965 - Bobby Jordan, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of sclerosis of liver at 42
1965 - Father Divine, American religious leader (b. 1880)
1966 - James Langridge, cricketer (242 runs & 19 wkts for England), dies
1966 - Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist (b. 1891)
1971 - Bella Darvi, actress (Racers), commits suicide at 42
1971 - Pier Angeli, actress (Octaman), dies of barbiturate overdose at 39
1972 - Sidney Pegler, cricket leg spinner (leading S Afr prior to WWI), dies
1976 - Dalton Trumbo, US writer/director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at 70
1976 - Dorothy Devore, actress (Newscast, Senor Daredevil), dies at 77
1976 - George Baxter, actor (Flying Saucer, Lili, Caged), dies at 71
1976 - Mordecai Johnson, 1st black president of Howard U, dies at 86
1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, convicted murderer last to, die by guillotine
1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1944)
1979 - Agostinho Neto, poet/1st pres of Angola, dies at 56
1979 - Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych, composer, dies at 99
1982 - Max Winders Maximilien, brought Belgium gold reserve to England, dies
1983 - Balthasar J "John" Vorster, South African premier (1966-78), dies at 67
1983 - Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1985 - Alexa Kenin, actress (Mousie-Coed Fever), dies at 23
1989 - Jeff Stollmeyer, cricketer (32 Tests for WI), murdered
1990 - Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated
1991 - Sarah Sally Lawrence, entertainer, dies at 61
1991 - Yves Montand, actor (Lets Make Love, Z), dies at 70
1991 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
1993 - Janice Carroll, actress (End, April Fools), dies of cancer at 61
1993 - Rita Karin, Polish-Latvia/US actress (Sophie's Choice), dies at 73
1994 - Amy Clampitt, British poet (Silence Opens), dies at 74
1995 - Charles Denner, actor (Mado, Stella, Z, Landru), dies at 69
1995 - Derek Meddings, special Effects technician, dies at 64
1995 - Molly Mary Hyde, cricketer, dies at 81
1996 - Ray Coleman, journalist, dies at 59
1996 - Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
1997 - Burgess Meredith, actor (Penguin-Batman, Rocky), dies at 88
1997 - Jack Adkisson, professional wrestler (b. 1929)
1998 - Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
1999 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
2000 - Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist and writer. (b. 1921)
2001 - DJ Uncle Al (b.1969)
2004 - Brock Adams, American politician (b. 1927)
2005 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (b. 1924)
2006 - Patty Berg, American golf player (b. 1918)
2006 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918)
2007 - Jane Wyman, American actress (b.1917)
2007 - Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b.1942)
2007 - Ted Stepien, former basketball team owner (b. 1925)
2011 - Cliff Robertson, American actor (Charly), dies at 88
2012 - Steven Springer, American guitarist, dies from lung cancer at 60
2012 - Lance LeGault, American actor, dies at 75

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 11th September


Historical Events

                                   
Scottish Patriot                                        Naturalist Charles Darwin                      Pacifist and Spiritual Leader
William Wallace                                                                                                      Mahatma Gandhi

                                   
Baseball Great Babe Ruth                         32nd US President                                    Aviator Charles Lindbergh
William Wallace                                       Franklin D. Roosevelt

                                   
Swimmer Florence Chadwick                   Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr                      Actress Mary Tyler Moore

                 
Tennis Player Steffi Graf                        42nd US President Bill Clinton


9 - The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends.
506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
813 - Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor
1185 - Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people,
           resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne
           of the Byzantine Empire.
1226 - The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass
           spreads from monasteries to parishes.
1297 - Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace beats English
1304 - Willem III becomes earl of Holland
1390 - Lithuanian Civil War (1389-1392): the Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius.
1541 - Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, lead by Michimalonko.
1557 - Catholic & Lutheran theology debated in Worm
1609 - Expulsion order announced against the Moriscos of Valencia; beginning of the expulsion of all
           Spain's Moriscos.
1645 - Thomas Fairfax's 'New Model Army' occupies Bristol
1648 - -13] Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir [OS]
1649 - Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland - Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
1697 - Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power
1708 - Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the
           turning point in the Great Northern War. The army is defeated nine months later in the Battle
           of Poltava, and the Swedish empire is no longer a major power.
1709 - Battle at Malplaquet during War of the Spanish Succession: Engl/Aust/Dutch Great Alliance
           beat France
1714 - French & Spanish troops under duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona
1741 - Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament
1758 - Battle of Saint Cast France repels British invasion during the Seven Year's War.
1773 - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
1777 - Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British
1786 - Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce
1789 - Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury
1792 - The Hope Diamond is stolen with other crown jewels when six men break into house used to
           store the jewels.
1802 - France annexes the Kingdom of Piedmont.
1814 - Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British
1831 - Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth
1839 - 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
1847 - 1st singing of Stephen Fosters "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)
1850 - "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
1852 - Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R
1853 - 1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos)
1857 - Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
1875 - 1st newspaper cartoon strip
1877 - Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen
1881 - Triple landslides bury Elm Switz
1883 - James Cutler patents postal mail chute
1885 - Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
1886 - Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup
1888 - Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American
           Teacher's Day is chosen.
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" (BG)
1891 - The Jewish Colonization Association is established by Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
1893 - Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave
1893 - Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)
1893 - First conference of the World Parliament of Religions is held.
1895 - FA Cup stolen in Birmingham
1897 - After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last
           king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
1900 - President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique
1903 - The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major
           speedway in the world.
1906 - Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in
           South Africa.
1909 - Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet
1910 - 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1912 - Netherland Olympic Committee forms
1912 - Phila A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game
1914 - William Christopher Handy publishes "St Louis Blues"
1914 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
1916 - German troops conquer Kavalla Greece
1916 - The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in
           toto on August 29, 1907.
1918 - Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
1919 - US marines invade Honduras
1921 - Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
1922 - British mandate of Palestine begins
1922 - Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader
1922 - The Treaty of Kars is ratified in Yerevan, Armenia.
1922 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is
           founded.
1923 - After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks
1923 - Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run
1923 - ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower
1926 - 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1)
1926 - Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
1926 - Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining
1926 - US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship
1926 - Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
1927 - After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
1928 - 1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger
1928 - Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees
1929 - SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
1930 - Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
1931 - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
1932 - Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed in a plane
           crash when their RWD 6 crashes into the ground during a storm.
1933 - Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him
           at US Tennis championship
1935 - 49th US Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (62 64)
1935 - US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year
1936 - A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
1936 - FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1937 - 51st US Womens Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (64 62)
1937 - 57th US Mens Tennis: J D Budge beats G v Cramm (61 79 61 36 61)
1939 - Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw
1939 - British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley
1939 - Iraq & Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany
1940 - -12] Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs
1940 - 54th Postmaster General: Frank C Walker of Pa takes office
1940 - Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS
1940 - Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs
1940 - Hitler begins operation-Seelöwe (aborted invasion England)
1940 - George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
1941 - FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight
1941 - Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish & Roosevelt administration" are trying to get US
           into WW II
1941 - World War II: The U.S. Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats.
1941 - Construction of the Pentagon begins (completed 15 Jan 1943)
1942 - Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno
1943 - Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated
1943 - Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island
1943 - US & Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea
1944 - FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference
1944 - US 5th Armored Division is 1st allied force to enter nazi-Germany
1946 - 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1950 - "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts
1950 - 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1950 - 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio
1950 - Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
1951 - Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice
1951 - Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It 
           takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
1952 - West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
1953 - KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - 1st Miss America TV broadcast
1954 - 20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record)
1954 - KXJB TV channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Lee Meriwether (California), 19, crowned 27th Miss America 1955 (1st on TV)
1955 - 69th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward (64 62)
1955 - 75th US Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Ken Rosewall beats (97 63 63)
1955 - KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1955 - Dedication of the first Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe,
           the Bern Switzerland Temple.
1956 - Cin Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR
1956 - Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8 )
1956 - Yanks Yogi Berra ties career record for HRs (236) by a catcher
1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1959 - "Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements
1959 - Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
1959 - Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4
1959 - Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0
1960 - 17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy
1960 - 74th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64)
1960 - 80th US Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97)
1960 - The Young Americans for Freedom, meeting at home of William F. Buckley, Jr., promulgate the
           Sharon Statement.
1961 - Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1962 - Beatles cut "Love Me Do" & "PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums
1962 - Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles
1962 - KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 - Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage
1964 - George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company
1964 - Gillette's 20 year contract with Madison Square Garden & ABC to televise fights for free ends
           as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleve Auditorium
1965 - Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1965 - Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets
1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
1966 - 80th US Womens Tennis: M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61)
1966 - 86th US Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64)
1966 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1966 - Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pacific Ladies' Golf Classic
1966 - Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show
1967 - A's drop grievance filed with Natl Labor Relations against C Finley
1967 - Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England
1967 - French president De Gaulle visits Poland
1967 - Indian/Chinese border fights
1967 - US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
1967 - WSRE TV channel 23 in Pensacola, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - WUNE TV channel 17 in Linville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 - WUNG TV channel 58 in Concord, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - 88 of the hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages,
           mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
1971 - "2 by 2" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 343 performances
1971 - Egypt adopts its constitution
1971 - Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972
1971 - The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
1972 - BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont
1973 - Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup
1974 - Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Félix Millán & John Milner
           come to bat 12 times each
1976 - Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977
1976 - Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless)
1976 - 90th US Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong
           loses her 4th straight US Open Final (Evert wins)
1977 - 29th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carroll O'Conner & Bea Arthur
1977 - 97th US Mens Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors (26 63 75 60)
1977 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1977 - TV's Rhoda gets divorced
1980 - Chile adopts its constitution
1980 - Ron LeFlore (91st) & Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record
1981 - 2nd government of Agt forms
1982 - 96th US Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats Hana Mandlikova (63 61)
1982 - Debbie Maffett (California), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983
1982 - Chris Evert wins her 6th & final US Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest
           Hills NY
1983 - 103rd US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60)
1983 - Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards
1983 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner
1985 - Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km
1985 - Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India
1985 - Pete Rose of Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty
           Cobb's record
1986 - Pres Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to
           1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
1987 - 4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins
1987 - Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die
1988 - 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy
1988 - Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1988 - Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world
1988 - 108th US Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4hrs 55 min -
           longest men's final in US Open history
1989 - Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
1989 - KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO
1991 - "La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family" goes on sale
1991 - 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston
1991 - Air crash at Djeddah, Saudi-Arabia, 263 die
1991 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1991 - NY Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium
1991 - Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers & Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter
           in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0
1992 - Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die & 8,000 injured
1993 - 107th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (63 63)
1993 - Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies world record (3:50.46)
1994 - 114th US Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Michael Stich (61 76 75)
1994 - 46th Emmy Awards: Fraiser, Picket Fences & Kelsey Grammer wins
1994 - Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle
1994 - Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1995 - Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423
1995 - Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day"
1995 - Soyuz TM-22, lands
1996 - Union Pacific Railroad purchases Southern Pacific Railroad.
1997 - After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the
           United Kingdom.
1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President
           Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
1998 - Opening ceremony for the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia is
           the first Asian country to host the games.
2000 - Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia.
2001 - Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crashes into New York's World Trade Towers
           causing the collapse of both & death of 2,752 people
2001 - Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125
           people
2001 - Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked
           plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people onboard
2002 - Through extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are
           completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
2003 - Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on
           September 10.
2003 - The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into effect.
2004 - All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea. Passengers include
           Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and 16 others (including journalists and bishops of the Greek
           Orthodox Church of Alexandria).
2005 - The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
2007 - Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.
2012 - 50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army
2012 - The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people,
           including the US ambassador
2012 - The US is warned by Moody's that its AAA credit rating is at risk if lawmakers fail to
           produce a long-term debt reduction plan
2012 - 29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in Nepal
2012 - Japan nationalizes three of the disputed Senkaku Islands

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This Day in History for 11th September


Famous Weddings

1930 - Mystery writer Agatha Christie (39) weds archaeologist Max Mallowan (26)
1941 - Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels
1983 - Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss
1999 - Actress Jenny McCarthy (26) weds actor-director John Mallory Asher (28) in the Crystal
           Gardens at the Beverly Hills Hotel

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 11th September


Famous Divorces

1977 - TV's Rhoda gets divorced

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 11th September


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Writer D. H. Lawrence (1885)                  Comedian Tom Dreesen (1942)               Singer Harry Connick Jr (1967)


1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (d. 1204)
1458 - Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia)
1476 - Louise of Savoye, French mother/regentes of king Francois I
1522 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical
1523 - Pierre de Ronsard, poet
1525 - Johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91)
1584 - Thomas Erpenius, [van Erpe], Dutch orientalist/arabist (grammar)
1611 - Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (d. 1675)
1614 - Philipp Buchner, composer
1681 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741)
1700 - James Thomson, songwriter (Rule Britannia)
1723 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790)
1741 - Johann J Angel, German author (Herr Lorenz Stark)
1753 - Friedrich August Baumbach, composer
1764 - Valentino Fioravanti, composer
1786 - Friedrich Kuhlau, composer
1798 - Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/mathematician/physicist
1800 - Daniel S. Dickinson, New York senator (d. 1866)
1804 - Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka) [NS]
1806 - Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1807 - Ignaz Lachner, composer
1813 - Conrad Feger Jackson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1816 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
1825 - Eduard Hanslick, German music critic (d. 1904)
1835 - William Wirt Allen, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1836 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870)
1838 - John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul
1844 - George Clement Martin, composer
1859 - Vjenceslav Novak, Croatian writer (d. 1905)
1860 - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [NS]
1860 - James Allan, former All Black (d. 1934)
1861 - Juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio)
1862 - O Henry, [William Sydney Porter], American short story writer (d. 1910)
1862 - Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935)
1865 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (d. 1929)
1874 - Heinrich Kaspar Schmid, composer
1876 - Alfonso Broqua, composer
1877 - Felix Dzerzhinsky [Iron Felix, Bloody Felix], Ivyanets, Lithuania, Soviet statesman, established
           and developed Soviet secret police (Cheka, forerunner to the KGB)
1877 - James Jeans, England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1881 - Asta Nielsen, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (Joyless Street)
1883 - Grogorij J Zinovjev, [Gerson Radomyslski], Russian
1885 - David Herbert Lawrence (DH), Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover)
          (d. 1930)
1885 - Eratstus Flaval Beadle, publisher (Beadle's Dime Novels)
1885 - Herbert Stothart, composer
1890 - Marius Moaritz Ulfrstad, composer
1891 - Noel Gallon, composer
1891 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (d. 1949)
1892 - Pinto Colvig, OR, animation voice (Goofy, Pluto)
1892 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (d. 1980)
1893 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (d. 1974)
1895 - Harry Tobias, songwriter
1899 - Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Driestuivers Opera)
1899 - Jimmie Davis, Quitman, Louisiana, American singer and songwriter (You Are My Sunshine)
1900 - D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman (d. 1999)
1902 - Alice Tully, Corning, NY, singer/patroness (Carnegie Hall)
1903 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist
1906 - Roye England, modeller/museum curator
1908 - Everhardus J van Romondt, physician/Dutch Antillean minister of Eco
1909 - Anne Seymour, England, actress (Gemini Affair, Empire, Tim Conway Show)
1909 - William H Natcher, (Rep-D-Kentucky, 1953- )
1911 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban pianist (d. 1971)
1913 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, US football coach (Alabama Crimson Tide)
1915 - Athena Lorde, NY, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek)
1915 - Jack Fascinato, Bevier Mo, pianist/orchestra leader (Kukla Fran & Ollie)
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines Pres (1965-86)
1917 - Henderson Forsythe, Macon MO, actor (Crisis at Central High)
1917 - Jessica Lucy Mitford, author (American Way of Death)
1917 - Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and racehorse owner (d. 2001)
1918 - Donald Blakeslee, American aviator (d. 2008)
1921 - Edwin Richfield, British Actor (d. 1990)
1922 - Charles Evers, civil rights leader (Amazing Grace)
1923 - Alan Badel, Manchester England, actor (Shogun)
1923 - Betsy Drake, fitness expert/actress (Every Girl Should be Married)
1924 - Daniel Kahikina Akaka, (Rep-D-HI, 1977- /Sen-D Hawaii)
1924 - Tom Landry, NFL player (NY Giants)/coach (Dallas Cowboys)
1924 - Rudolf Vrba, Jewish Canadian professor, Holocaust survivor (d. 2006)
1925 - Ashley Heenan, composer
1925 - Harry Stuart Somers, composer
1926 - Alfred Slote, author (Love & Tennis, Omega Station)
1926 - Gerrit van Niekerk Viljoen, South African minister of Legislation
1926 - Lee Richardson, Chicago, actor (Sweet Lorraine, Fly 2, Tiger Warsaw)
1926 - Eddie Miksis, baseball player (d. 2005)
1927 - David Schine, businessman
1927 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (d. 2002)
1928 - Earl Holliman, Delhi La, actor (Police Woman, Tribes, Cry Panic)
1928 - Reubin Askew, (Gov-Fla)
1929 - David S Broder, Chicago Hgts Ill, journalist (Pulitzer 1973)
1930 - Cathryn Damon, Seattle Wash, actress (Mary-Soap, She's Having a Baby)
1930 - Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
1931 - Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian
1932 - Herbert "Sonny" Leon Callahan, (Rep-R-Alabama, 1985- )
1932 - Robert W "Bob" Packwood, (Sen-R-OR, 1969- )
1932 - Peter Anderson, English footballer
1933 - William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (d. 2002)
1934 - Oliver Jones, Canadian jazz pianist
1934 - Norma Croker, Australian sprinter
1934 - Ian Abercrombie, Grays, Essex, English actor (Birds of Prey, Desperate Housewives)
1935 - Arvo Part, composer
1935 - Gherman Stepanovich Titov, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok II)
1936 - Charles Dierkop, LaCrosse Wisc, actor (Det Pete Royster-Police Woman)
1937 - Paola Ruffo di Calabria, Ital princess/queen of Belgium (1993- )
1937 - Robert L Crippen, Beaumont Tx, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 1, 7, 41C, 41G)
1937 - Iosif Kobzon, Soviet singer and Russian businessman
1938 - Charles Patrick, rocker (Monotones)
1939 - Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
1940 - Bernie Dwyer, rock drummer (Freddie & The Dreamers)
1940 - Brian DePalma, Newark NJ, film director (Body Double, Dressed to Kill)
1940 - Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General
1940 - Robert Palmer, last CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation
1942 - Tom Dreesen, Harvey, Illinois, comedian (Tim Ried's partner)
1942 - Lola Falana [Loletha Elayne], Camden, New Jersey, American singer and actress (Golden Boy,
           A Man Called Adam)
1942 - Gerome Ragni American Playwright
1943 - Mickey Hart, drummer (Grateful Dead)
1943 - Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
1944 - Everaldo, Brazilian footballer
1944 - Freddy Thielemans, mayor of Brussels
1945 - Leo Kottke, Athens Ga, guitarist (Ice Water, Greenhouse)
1945 - Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer
1946 - Dennis Tufano, Chicago, rock guitarist/vocalist (Buckinghams)
1948 - John Martyn, English musician
1949 - Marty Liquori, US, runner (AAU 3 mile-1979 (13:14.7))
1949 - Roger Uttley, English rugby player
1949 - Bill Whittington, race car driver
1950 - Amy Madigan, Chicago Ill, actress (Uncle Buck, Twice in a Lifetime)
1950 - Barry Sheene, British auto maker
1951 - Richard D. Gill, British-Dutch mathematician
1951 - Miroslav Dvořák, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (d. 2008)
1953 - Tommy Shaw, American musician and singer (Styx)
1953 - Jani Allan, South African journalist and media personality
1954 - Reed Birney, Alexandria Va, actor (Greatest Man in the World)
1956 - Tony Gilroy, American screenwriter and director
1957 - Jeffrey George Sluman, Rochester NY, PGA golfer (1988 PGA Champ)
1957 - Jon Moss, rock drummerer (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)
1957 - Brad Bird, American director and animator
1958 - Don Slaught, Long Beach CA, catcher (California Angels, NY Yankees)
1958 - Mick Talbot, rock keyboardist (Style Council-You're the Best Thing)
1958 - Scott Patterson, American actor
1958 - Roxann Dawson, American actress
1958 - Phoef Sutton, American television writer and producer
1959 - David Laurence Frost, Cape Town South Africa, PGA golfer (1988 Southern Open)
1959 - Robert Wrenn, Richmond VA, Nike golfer (1987 Buick Open)
1960 - Neal X, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1961 - Virginia Madsen, Chicago Ill, actress (Dune, Hot Spot, Class)
1961 - Elizabeth Daily, Los Angeles, California, American actress and singer (Buttercup-The
           Powerpuff Girls)
1961 - Philip Ardagh, British writer
1962 - Kristy McNichol, Los Angeles California, actress (Buddy-Family, Barbara-Empty Nest)
1962 - Filip Dewinter Belgian politician
1962 - Julio Salinas, Spanish footballer
1963 - Bonnie Gadusek, Pittsburgh, tennis player (French Juniors 1981)
1963 - Gerald Wilkins, NBA guard (Orlando Magic)
1963 - Dr Patrick McWilliams, Irish author
1963 - Colin Wells, English actor
1964 - Ellis Burks, Vicksburg MS, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
1964 - Eric Thomas, NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos)
1964 - Jean-Phil LeMoine, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1964 - Roxanne Biggs-Dawson, actress (B'Elanna Torres-Star Trek Voyager)
1964 - Victor Wooten, American musician
1965 - John Schofield, journalist
1965 - Tony Woods, NFL defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1965 - Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria
1965 - Paul Heyman, American wrestling manager
1965 - Moby, American musician
1966 - Richard Harvey, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1966 - Stewart Carr, Indianapolis Ind, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1966 - Princess Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family
1967 - Kendra Lee Ruwe, Madison Idaho, Miss Idaho-America (1991)
1967 - Simon Burgess, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1967 - Harry Connick Jr, New Orleans Louisiana, singer (We Are in Love)
1967 - Maria Bartiromo, financial broadcast journalist
1968 - Konstantin Shafranov, hockey forward (Team Kazkhstan 1998)
1968 - Kay Hanley, American musician
1968 - Paul Mayeda Berges, American film writer and director
1969 - Laura Sisk, Maryland, actress (Allison Rescott-Loving)
1969 - Tracy Scroggins, NFLer (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Eduardo Perez, American baseball player
1969 - Gidget Gein, American musician
1970 - Berry Richter, Madison Wis, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Dan Hackett, Syracuse NY, water polo goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1970 - Chris Garver, tattoo artist
1970 - Taraji P. Henson, American actress and singer
1970 - William Joppy, American boxer
1970 - Ted Leo, American musician
1971 - Mack Strong, NFL fullback (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Todd Norman, NFL guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 - Richard Ashcroft, British singer
1971 - Markos Moulitsas, American blogger and author
1971 - Johnny Vegas, English comedian
1971 - Shelton Quarles, American football player
1972 - Kip Simons, Media Pa, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1972 - Mark Pope, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1972 - Matthew Gilmore, Belgian cyclist
1973 - Fred Thomas, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1974 - Lucian Sahetapy, soccer player (FC Groningen)
1975 - Juliette Spier, Miss North Dakota USA (1996)
1975 - Tiffany Parks, Miss Arkansas USA (1996)
1975 - Juan Cobián, former Argentine footballer
1975 - Mark Klepaski, American musician
1976 - Elephant Man, Jamaican musician
1976 - Flora Redoumi, Greek hurdler
1976 - Tomáš Enge, Czech racing driver
1977 - Ludacris, American rapper
1977 - Matthew Stevens, Welsh snooker player
1977 - Jon Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay)
1978 - Dejan Stanković, Serbian footballer
1978 - Ed Reed, American football player
1978 - Ben Lee, Australian musician and singer
1979 - Ariana Richards, Healdsburg CA, actress (Spaced Invaders, Prancer)
1979 - Nathan Gale, American murderer (d. 2004)
1979 - Frank Francisco, Major League Baseball pitcher
1979 - Steve Hofstetter, comedian & radio personality
1979 - David Pizarro, Chilean footballer
1980 - Antônio Pizzonia, Brazilian race car driver
1980 - Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Andrea Dossena, Italian footballer
1981 - Dylan Klebold, Columbine High School Massacre co-perpetrator (d. 1999)
1982 - Shriya Saran, South Indian actress
1983 - Jacoby Ellsbury, American baseball player
1983 - Ike Diogu, American basketball player
1985 - Shaun Livingston, American basketball player
1985 - Zack Stortini, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby player
1986 - Dwayne Jarrett, American football player
1987 - Tyler Hoechlin, American actor

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 11th September


Famous Deaths

First Secretary of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev (1971)


1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
1185 - Stephanus Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier
1297 - Hugh de Cressingham, English treasurer, dies in battle
1298 - Philip of Artois, French soldier (b. 1269)
1349 - Bonne of Luxembourg, wife of John II of France (b. 1315)
1599 - Cornelis de Houtman, navigator (1st Dutch trip to Java), murder at 35
1599 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman executed for planned fratricide (b. 1577)
1630 - John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide
1646 - Johann Stobaeus, composer, dies at 66
1677 - James Harrington, English political philosopher (b. 1611)
1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
1680 - Roger Crab, English Puritan political writer (b. 1621)
1709 - Oxenstiern, Dutch general, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet
1709 - Spaar, Dutch General, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet
1712 - Giovanni D Cassini, French astronomer, dies
1713 - John Foot, lawyer, dies at 65
1721 - Rudolph J Camerarius, German physician (sexuality plans), dies
1733 - Francois Couperin, French composer (Le Grand), dies at 64
1760 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (b. 1704)
1789 - Luca Sorkocevic, composer, dies at 55
1822 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (b. 1777)
1823 - David Ricardo, economist (b. 1772)
1843 - Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and explorer (b. 1786)
1848 - Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer, dies at 87
1851 - Sylvester Graham, American nutritionist (b. 1794)
1858 - Alexander L'vovich Gurilyov, composer, dies at 55
1865 - Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de Lamoricière, French general (b. 1806)
1870 - Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet, dies at about 46
1888 - Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74), dies at 77
1892 - Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer, dies at 84
1896 - Anton Joseph Bruckner, Austrian composer, dies at 72
1896 - Francis James Child, American ballad collector (b. 1825)
1898 - Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer, dies at 74
1911 - Louis Henri Boussenard, French novelist (b. 1847)
1915 - William Sprague IV, American politician (b. 1830)
1915 - William Cornelius Van Horne, American railway executive (b. 1843)
1917 - Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22
1921 - Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet (b. 1882)
1922 - Louis Coerne, composer, dies at 52
1924 - Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer, dies at 57
1926 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
1931 - Salvatore Maranzano, American crime boss (b. 1868)
1932 - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilots (Żwirko b. 1895 Wigura b. 1901)
1946 - Arthur van Schendel, writer (Holland Drama), dies at 72)
1948 - Albert Powell, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1898-99), dies
1948 - Mohammed Ali Jinnah, 1st governor of Pakistan (1947-48), dies at 71
1949 - Henri Rabaud, French composer/conductor (L'ete), dies at 75
1950 - John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African PM (1919..48), dies at 80
1950 - S M H Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's 1st 2 tests 1932-33), dies
1954 - Licinio Refice, composer, dies at 69
1956 - Billy Bishop, Canadian pilot in World War I (b. 1894)
1957 - Petar Stojanovic, composer, dies at 80
1958 - Robert Lach, composer, dies at 84
1958 - Robert W. Service, Scottish-born Canadian poet (b. 1874)
1958 - Camillien Houde, French Canadian politician (b. 1889)
1959 - Paul Douglas, actor (Adventure Theater), dies at 52
1965 - Ralph C. Smedley, Founder of Toastmasters International (b. 1878)
1966 - Charlie Cantor, actor (Artie-Ray Bolger Show), dies at 68
1966 - C. E. Woolman, American airline magnate (b. 1889)
1967 - Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
1968 - René Cogny, French General (b. 1904)
1970 - Chester Morris, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), dies at 69
1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, dies of a heart attack at 77
1971 - Percy Helton, actor (Homer-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 77
1972 - Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883)
1973 - Salvador Allende Gossens, president Chile (1970-73), dies at 65
1973 - Neem Karoli Baba, Indian guru
1974 - Víctor Olea Alegría, Chilean Socialist Party member
1976 - Jan Kunc, composer, dies at 93
1977 - Don Blackman, actor (Old Man & Sea, Desert Legion), dies at 65
1977 - Leonard Carey, actor (Laughter), dies at 90
1978 - Mike Gazella, American baseball player (b. 1895)
1978 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (b. 1929)
1978 - Janet Parker, medical photographer (b. c. 1938)
1978 - Ronnie Peterson, Swedish F1 driver (b. 1944)
1980 - Jose Antonio Calcano, composer, dies at 80
1981 - Frank McHugh, actor (Dawn Patrol, Going My Way), dies at 83
1982 - Albert Soboult, French historian, dies at 68
1984 - Hilding Hallnas, composer, dies at 81
1984 - Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
1985 - William Alwyn, composer, dies at 79
1985 - Andrew C. Thornton II, American drug smuggler (b. 1945)
1987 - Lorne Greene, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), dies at 72
1987 - Peter Tosh, reggae singer shot dead in Jamacia at 42
1988 - George Alpert, railroad executive, dies at 90
1988 - Luis W Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968), dies at 77
1988 - John Sylvester White, American actor (b. 1919)
1990 - Ben Frank, actor (Don't Answer the Phone), dies of heart attack at 56
1990 - Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist (b. 1949)
1991 - Ernst Herbeck, German Poet (b. 1920)
1992 - Erik Terpstra, director (Versier de leegte, De ander, Daniel), dies
1992 - Frank Singuineau, actor (Firepower, Pressure, Mummy), dies
1992 - Paul Storken, Dutch priest (Away Backing), dies
1993 - Antoine Izmery, Haitian businessman/advisor to pres Aristide, murdered
1993 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austria/US conductor/author (Cadenza), dies at 81
1994 - Frederick Rand Weissman, philanthropist, dies at 82
1994 - Jessica Tandy, actress (Driving Miss Daisy), dies of cancer at 85
1994 - Sara Taylor, mother of Elizabeth, dies at 62
1994 - William Obanheim, actor (Officer Obie-Alice's Restaurant), dies at 69
1995 - Charles William Hutton, architect, dies at 90
1995 - Jerome Theisen, benedioctine, dies at 64
1995 - Keith Odor, racing Driver, dies at 33
1995 - Anita Harding, neurologist (b. 1952)
1996 - Guido Aristarco, film critic, dies at 77
1996 - JoAnne Dru, actress (Sylvia, Drango), dies of lymphedema at 73
1996 - Peter Phillips, printer, dies at 61
1997 - Camille Henry, National Hockey League player (b. 1933)
1997 - Hannah Weiner American experimental poet (b. 1928)
1998 - Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Belkis Ayón, Cuban artist (b. 1967)
1999 - Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan auto racing driver (b. 1972)
2001 - Alice Stewart Trillin, American author (b. 1938)
2001 - Marwan Al-Shehhi, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1978)
2001 - David Angell, American sitcom creator (b. 1946)
2001 - Mohamed Atta, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1968)
2001 - Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player and scout (b. 1948)
2001 - Todd Beamer, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1968)
2001 - Berry Berenson, widow of Anthony Perkins (b. 1948)
2001 - Mark Bingham, passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 (b. 1970)
2001 - Tom Burnett, American businessman (b. 1963)
2001 - Peter J. Ganci, Jr., Chief of Department, FDNY (b. 1946)
2001 - Hani Hanjour, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1972)
2001 - Ziad Jarrah, 9/11 terrorist (b. 1975)
2001 - Father Mychal F. Judge, Chaplain, FDNY (b. 1933)
2001 - Angel L. Juarbe, Jr., American firefighter (b. 1966)
2001 - John P. O'Neill, American anti-terrorism FBI agent (b. 1952)
2001 - John Ogonowski, pilot for American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1951)
2001 - Barbara Olson, American political commentator (b. 1955)
2001 - Daniel M. Lewin, founder of Akamai Technologies (b. 1970)
2002 - Kim Hunter, American actress (b. 1922)
2002 - Johnny Unitas, American football player (b. 1933)
2003 - Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1957)
2003 - John Ritter, American actor (b. 1948)
2004 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (b. 1949)
2004 - Fred Ebb, American lyricist (b. 1933)
2004 - David Mann, U.S. artist (b. 1939)
2005 - Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
2006 - William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto (b. 1924)
2006 - Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930)
2006 - Joachim Fest, German journalist and author (b. 1926)
2006 - Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
2007 - Ian Porterfield, Manager of Armenia National Football Club (b. 1946)
2007 - Gene Savoy, American author and cleric (b. 1927)
2007 - Joe Zawinul, Austrian musician (b. 1932)
2009 - Gertrude Baines, world's oldest living person (b. 1894)
2011 - Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor (b. 1972)
2011 - Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver (b. 1984)
2011 - Ralph Gubbins, English footballer (b. 1932)
2011 - Anjali Gupta, Indian Air Force officer (b. 1975)
2012 - Sergio Livingstone, Chilean football player and journalist, dies from natural causes at 92

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 12th September


Historical Events

                                   
Dictator of Nazi Germany                      Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini             US President John F. Kennedy
Adolf Hitler

                                   
Cuban President Fidel Castro               Tennis Player Martina Navratilova             Tennis Player Pete Sampras


INXS rocker
 Michael Hutchence


1015 - Henry I becomes Count of Leuven
1213 - Battle at Muret: Crusade of Simon de Montfort beat Pedro II of Aragon
1217 - French prince Louis & English king Henry III sign peace treaty
1229 - The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça,
           Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
1396 - Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis
1543 - Treaty of Venlo: Duke Willem of Gulik & Emperor Charles V
1556 - Emperor Charles resigns, his brother Ferdinand van Austria takes over
1624 - 1st submarine tested (London)
1635 - Sweden & Poland sign ceasefire Treaty of Stuhmsdorf
1639 - Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England
1673 - Prince Willem III occupies Naarden
1683 - Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna - several European armies join forces to defeat the
           Ottoman Empire.
1695 - NY Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties
1703 - Emperor Leopold I ends contacts on Spanish heritage
1703 - English army under arch duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal
1720 - Isaak of Hoornbeek elected Dutch pension advisor
1722 - Russian troops occupy Baku & Derbent on Persia
1733 - Polish Landowners select Stanislaw Lesczynski king
1745 - Duke of Toscane chosen German emperor Frans I Stefanus
1751 - Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto
1758 - Charles Messier observes Crab Nebula & begins catalog
1759 - British soldiers capture the town of Quebec.
1776 - Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission
1787 - Black Masons form 1st lodge
1814 - Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812
1847 - Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
1848 - Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
1857 - 423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC
1862 - Battle of Harpers Ferry VA
1867 - 2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated
1874 - 1874 The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
1876 - King Leopold II opens Congo-conference
1878 - Cleopatra Needle installed in London
1882 - Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza
1885 - Highest score (35) recorded in any 1st-class soccer match is set
1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Greek Interpreter" (BG)
1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland and found Fort Salisbury (now Harare, Zimbabwe).
1895 - Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (England) in 10th America's Cup
1897 - Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi
1901 - Arabs attack Gedara Palestine
1906 - The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
1907 - Lusitania arrives in NYC after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record)
1910 - Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians
1910 - World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD)
1911 - Boston's Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of Giants, Giants win 9-0
1912 - Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC)
1914 - Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
1918 - During WW I, US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel
1920 - 7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium
1922 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4)
1923 - Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co
1925 - 20th Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (5-0)
1927 - Sigmund Romberg's musical "My Maryland," premieres in NYC
1928 - -17] Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000
1928 - Katharine Hepburn's NY stage debut in "Night Hostess"
1930 - Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR
1931 - 51st US Mens Tennis: H E Vines beats George M Lott Jr (79 63 97 75)
1932 - Bkln Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit HR
1932 - German government of Papen falls/Reichstag dissolved
1933 - Alejandro Lerroux forms new Spanish government
1933 - Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms
1933 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of
           the nuclear chain reaction.
1934 - Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against USSR
1935 - 55th US Mens Tennis: Wilmer L Allison beats Sidney B Wood (62 62 63)
1935 - Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph
1936 - 50th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (46 63 62)
1936 - 56th US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Donald Budge (26 62 86 16 108)
1938 - Adolf Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech
1940 - 49 die & 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes (NJ)
1940 - Italian troops enter Egypt
1940 - 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old
           drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
1941 - 1st German ship in WW II captured by US ship (Busko)
1942 - Battle of Edson's Ridge begins at Guadalcanal
1942 - Free-Poland & Belgium asks pope to condemn nazi-war crimes
1943 - Free French lands on Corsica
1943 - Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Benito Mussolini at Gran Sasso
1944 - -16] Hurricane, kills 389 in NC
1944 - Noorbeek & Mheer freed
1944 - US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time
1946 - Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels
1947 - Pirate Ralph Kiner hits his record 8th HR in 4 games
1948 - Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader
           Jinnah's death.
1949 - Theodor Heuss elected 1st pres/Conrad Adenauer 1st PM of German FR
1950 - Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants
1952 - Noel Coward's "Quadrille," premieres in London
1953 - "Carnival in Flanders" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 6 perfs
1953 - Brooklyn Dodgers, clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team
1954 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1954 - Indians sweep Yanks at Municipal Stadium; largest AL crowd (86,563)
1954 - WLBZ TV channel 2 in Bangor, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - White Sox win 90th game, 1st time they win this many since 1920
1955 - KNTV TV channel 11 in San Jose, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Black students enter & are barred from Clay Ky elementary school
1957 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits US
1958 - US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - "Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV
1959 - Janos Kádár becomes premier of Hungary
1959 - Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon
1960 - "Vintage '60" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances
1960 - John F. Kennedy avers he does not speak for the Roman Catholic Church, and neither does
           the Church speak for him.
1961 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Wash Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game
1963 - WHYY TV channel 12 in Wilmington, DE (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - 1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6
1964 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4½"
1964 - Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
1965 - 79th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King (86 75)
1965 - 85th US Mens Tennis: Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale (62 79 75 61)
1965 - Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75
1965 - Manuel Santana wins US Tennis Open
1965 - Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open
1965 - WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - "Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV
1966 - Gemini XI (Charles Conrad & R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight
1966 - KPNE TV channel 9 in North Platte, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - WCES TV channel 20 in Wrens, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - WUSF TV channel 16 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (PBS) 1st broadcast
1966 - Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich begins teaching
1968 - Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
1970 - 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport
1970 - Luna 16 Launch (Moon Sample Return)
1970 - Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971
1970 - Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport
1970 - US LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail
1970 - USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility
1970 - Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the
           passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
1971 - 85th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Rosemary Casals (64 76)
1971 - 91st US Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Jan Kodes (36 63 62 76)
1972 - Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics
1973 - 2 bettors win largest US Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit)
1973 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 - Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day)
1974 - Jeff "Skunk" Baxter joins Doobie Brothers
1976 - 96th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 36 76 64)
1976 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1976 - Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St L 30, Sea 24)
1976 - White Sox Minnie Minoso, 53, is oldest to get a hit in majors
1978 - Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba
1978 - Situation comedy "Taxi" premieres on ABC television
1979 - Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits
1979 - Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die & $23 million damage
1979 - Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club
1979 - Red Carl Yastrzemski gets his 3,000th hit off Yankee Jim Beattie
1979 - Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
1980 - Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey
1981 - 95th US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats M Navratilova (16 76 76)
1981 - Elizabeth Ward (Arkansas), 20, crowned 54th Miss America 1982
1981 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1981 - Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yanks for 8 innings before Rick Cerone & Dave Winfield
           lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles
1982 - 102nd US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 62 46 64)
1982 - Gerard Nijboer (2:15:16) & Rosa Mota (2:36:04) win marathon
1982 - Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
1983 - Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes
1983 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1983 - Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million
1983 - USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
1984 - Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident
1984 - Cyndi Lauper sings "She-Bop" on Tonight Show
1984 - Ethiopia forms socialist republic
1984 - NY Met Dwight Gooden sets rookie strike out record at 251
1985 - Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds
1986 - 240.49 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - Twins fire manager Ray Miller & replace him with coach Tom Kelly
1986 - US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut
1987 - 101st US Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (76 61)
1987 - Ethiopia adopts constitution
1987 - Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year
1988 - 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card
1988 - Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica
1989 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Cirkus Theater, Stockholm
1990 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1990 - US, England, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to
           merge
1991 - Nolan Ryan's 4-3 victory over Twins is his 312th career win
1991 - Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched
1992 - 106th US Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A Sanchez Vicario (63 63)
1992 - Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii
1992 - STS-47 (Endeavour 2) launches
1992 - Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in US Open
           history (5hr 26min)
1993 - 113rd US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Cedric Pioline (64 64 63)
1993 - Donna Andrews wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1993 - Junxia Cheek runs 3000 m ladies world record (8:12.29)
1993 - Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career
1993 - STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1994 - Cessna crashes in White House front yard
1994 - Country singer George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery
1994 - Parti Québécois wins parliamentary election
1995 - INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer
1995 - Belarus military shoots down a hydrogen balloon, killing its two American pilots.
1997 - NY Met John Olerud hits for the cycle
1999 - Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
2000 - Holland (the Netherlands) passes law allowing same-gender marriage, adoption and divorce.
2001 - Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for only the second time (the other being in
           Bosnia) in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America.
2001 - Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased
           strain on the international airline industry leaving 10000 people unemployed.
2003 - In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
2003 - The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept
           responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight
           103.
2005 - The red-green coalition, led by Jens Stoltenberg, wins the Norwegian parliamentary election,
           taking 87 of 169 seats in the parliament.
2005 - Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip.
2005 - The bodies of more than 40 patients discovered in a flooded hospital in New Orleans.
2005 - Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
2007 - Shinzo Abe announces his intention to resign as Prime Minister of Japan.
2007 - Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
2009 - The 9-12 Project organized multiple marches and demonstrations across the USA to protest
           government spending.
2012 - 18 soldiers are killed by a rebel car bomb in Syria
2012 - 314 people are killed in factory fire in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan
2012 - Apple unveils its iPhone 5 and iOS 6