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This Day in History for 16th September


Historical Events

                                   
Physician and Explorer                            Absolute monarch Nicholas II                32nd US President
David Livingstone                                                                                                 Franklin D. Roosevelt

                                   
Dictator of Nazi Germany                             NFL Running Back and                     Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan
Adolf Hitler                                           Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson

                                   
Actor/Body Builder/Politician                US President George H. W. Bush                       Actress Meg Ryan
Arnold Schwarzenegger 


1400 - Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
1575 - King Johan Casimir of Palts promises military aid to hugenots
1597 - French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria
1630 - Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston
1652 - Spanish troops occupy Dunkerk
1654 - Russian troops occupy Smolensk on Poland
1662 - Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation
1666 - "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi becomes Islamiet
1668 - King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France
1701 - James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite
           claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
1702 - Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne & Bavaria
1729 - Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Groningen
1747 - French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom
1782 - Great Seal of US used for 1st time
1795 - British capture Capetown South Africa
1810 - Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule Mexican
           Independence Day celebrates this event
1812 - Fire of Moscow
1830 - Oliver Wendell Holmes writes "Old Ironsides"
1847 - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust buys bard's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon
1848 - Slavery abolished in all French territories
1857 - Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX)
1857 - Typesetting machine patent
1858 - 1st overland mail for California
1859 - Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania & Mozambique discovered by
           British explorer David Livingstone
1861 - Battle of Princeton WV
1861 - British Post Office Savings Banks opens
1862 - Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, KY
1863 - Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the
           United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
1864 - Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid)
1867 - Ottawa Rough Riders & Senators play Canadian Football game
1873 - German troops leave France
1885 - Puritan (US) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup
1890 - Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team Packers
1892 - Amsterdam swim club renamed "The Y"
1893 - Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opens white settlement homesteaders
1901 - Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County.
1906 - Kaarlo Nieminen wins 1st Finnish marathon
1906 - Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole
1908 - Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp
1908 - William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in Janesville Wisc
1913 - 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
1915 - Czar Nicolas II adjourns 4th Duma
1915 - US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
1919 - American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
1919 - Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant
1920 - Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30
1922 - 42nd US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W M Johnston (46 36 62 63 64)
1922 - Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia
1924 - Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game
1926 - -22] Hurricane in Florida & Alabama, kills 372
1926 - Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed
1926 - Philip Dunning & George Abbott's "Broadway," premieres in NYC
1926 - St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3
1927 - Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for US Lawn Tennis Association title
1928 - Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die
1929 - Police shoots at strikers at Maastricht, 2 killed
1930 - Phillies trailing 10-5, score 5 in 9th, then Pirates score 4 in top of 10th, so Phillies score 5 in
           bottom of 10th to win 15-14
1931 - Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (NYC)
1931 - St Louis Cards repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies
1932 - 30.8 cm rainfall at Westerly, Rhode Island (state record)
1938 - George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH
1939 - 53rd US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (60 810 64)
1939 - 59th US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats S Welby van Horn (64 62 64)
1939 - NY Yankees clinch their 11th & 4th successive pennant
1940 - Dutch SS forms
1940 - FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
1940 - Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"
1940 - Luftwaffe attacks center of London
1940 - Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of House
1940 - St Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to HR from each side of plate
1941 - German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine
1941 - Hitler orders for every dead German 100 Yugoslavians to be killed
1941 - Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto
1942 - Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled
1943 - Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno
1943 - Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny
1945 - Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
1947 - John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH
1947 - Typhoon Kathleen hit Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River erea, at least 1,930 killed.
1948 - "Heaven on Earth" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 performances
1948 - "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" closes at Century NYC after 12 perfs
1949 - KABC TV channel 7 in Los Angeles, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 - Cleveland Browns (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Phila 35-10)
1950 - Viet Minh-offensive against French bases in Vietnam
1951 - 6th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1951 - NL umpire Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers bench ejecting 15 players
1953 - AL approves St Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles
1954 - CKLW TV channel 9 in Windsor, ON (CBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Bauer & Berra homer in 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st
1955 - US Auto Club forms to oversee 4 major auto reacing categories
1955 - Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt
1956 - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
1957 - Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed)
1957 - LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers
1959 - French President Charles de Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination
1960 - Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
1960 - Mil Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0
1961 - CDU loses West German election
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 - WLKY TV channel 32 in Louisville, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 - Brian Kilby wins marathon: (2:23:18.8 )
1962 - Gerda Kroon runs European record 800 m in 2:02.8
1962 - Public TV channel 13 begins in NYC
1962 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC-TV
1963 - Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, Br No Borneo & Sarawak
1963 - WVAN TV channel 9 in Savannah, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - "Shindig" premieres on ABC-TV
1965 - Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0
1965 - Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany
1966 - Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center
1967 - Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26)
1967 - KPAZ TV channel 21 in Phoenix, AZ (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins
1968 - Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in"
1970 - King Hussein of Jordan forms military government
1971 - 6 Ku Klux Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
1971 - West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with Soviet president Brezhnev
1972 - 1st TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie
1972 - Penny Marshall appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Fly Unfriendly Skies"
1973 - "Desert Song" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 15 performances
1973 - Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1974 - BART begins regular transbay service
1974 - Bob Dylan records Blood on the Tracks
1974 - Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters
1974 - US General Haig becomes NATO supreme commander in Europe
1975 - Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
1975 - Pirates beat Cubs 22-0, Rennie Stennett is 3rd to go 7 for 7
1975 - Rennie Stennett is 2nd to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game
1975 - The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
1976 - Egypt president Sadat re-elected
1976 - American Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
1976 - Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan
           reservoir.
1977 - 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV
1977 - Ringo releases "Drowning in Sea of Love"
1977 - Seattle beats Royals, 4-1, to end KC's winning streak at 16 games
1978 - 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar Iran
1978 - Filming on Monty Python's Life of Brian, begins
1978 - Grateful Dead perform in Cairo Egypt
1978 - Yanks beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks, 3-2
1979 - 23rd Ryder Cup: US wins, 17-11 at The Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia,
           US)
1979 - Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
1979 - Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin
1979 - KC's Willie Wilson hits 5th inside-the-park HR (most since 1925)
1979 - Nancy Lopez/JoAnn Washam wins Portland- Ping Team Golf Championship
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test
1981 - 1st broadcast of "Miami Vice" on NBC-TV
1982 - Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins
1983 - Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen
1984 - "Miami Vice" premieres
1984 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1984 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1986 - Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed
1987 - Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game
1987 - NASA launches space vehicle S-209
1987 - NY's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round clock broadcasting
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - Cin Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats Dodgers, 1-0
1988 - Fish leaves rock group Marillion
1988 - Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, v Australia
1988 - Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series
1988 - Tom Browning of Cincinnati Reds pitches a perfect game against LA
1989 - Debbye Turner (Mont), 23, crowned 63rd Miss America 1990
1990 - 42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk & Patricia Wettig
1990 - Dennis Quaid & Meg Ryan wed
1990 - Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush
1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1990 - Pirate Radio NY International begins transmissions on WWCR
1991 - Atlanta's Otis Nixon suspended for rest of 1991 due to cocaine
1991 - US trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins
1991 - Norm Charlton suspended for 7 days for intentionally hitting Steve Scioscia with a pitch
1992 - "Les Miserables," opens at Nuevo Apolo, Madrid
1992 - 900 die in flood in Pakistan
1992 - FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service
1993 - Minnesota Twins Dave Winfield, is 19th to get 3,000 hits
1994 - Fire Dept puts out smokey electrical fire in White House
1995 - Greg Maddux of Braves sets record of 17 consecutive road victory
1995 - Shawntel Smith (Okla), 24, crowned 69th Miss America 1996
1996 - 1st one-day international in Canada, India v Pakistan at Toronto
1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Panama City FL on WTBB 97.7 FM
1996 - Paul Molitor of Twins is 21st player to reach 3,000 hits
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), launches into space
1997 - ABL MVP Nikki McCray signs with WNBA
1997 - Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs temporary CEO
1997 - Mark McGwire signs with the St Louis Cards for $26M
2000 - Sammy Sosa's becomes the second player to hit 50 or more home runs in three consecutive
           years, joining Mark McGwire
2005 - Camorra boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples.
2007 - One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing
           89 people.
2008 - Rentrer en soi announces that they would be breaking up.
2012 - 8 female civilians are killed by a NATO airstrike in Laghman, Afghanistan
2012 - 8 police officers are killed by a roadside bombing by Kurdistan Workers' Party militants in
           Turkey
2012 - 14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, Turkey
2012 - Anti-Japanese protesters set fire to Panasonic plant in Qingdao, China
2012 - Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, seeks a court order to resolve a week long teachers strike
2012 - NHL locks out its players after the expiry of the collective bargaining agreement

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This Day in History for 16th September


Famous Weddings

1862 - Liliuokalani, queen of Hawaii (1891-93) marries John Owen Dominis
1989 - Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher
1990 - 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle NY
1993 - Singer Karen Akers (48) weds businessman Kevin Powers (41)
1995 - Stephen Hawkins (53) weds Elaine Mason
2006 - Aga Khan's son Prince Hussain weds Kristin White on the grounds of Chateau de Chantilly in
           France
2006 - Blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd (29) weds Mel Gibson's daughter Hannah Gibson at
           the altar of The Holy Family Church in Malibu

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This Day in History for 16th September


Famous Birthdays

                 
Department Store Founder                    Magician David Copperfield (1956)
James Cash Penney (1875)


16 - Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38)
1098 - Hildegard of Bingen, German magistra and the first composer whose biography is known (d.
           1179)
1386 - Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist//sciencist/general
1387 - Henry V, king of England (1413-22)
1507 - Jiajing, Emperor of China (d. 1567)
1547 - Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East Indies poet
1557 - Jacques Mauduit, composer
1574 - Samuel Coster, Dutch physician/playwright (Polyxena)
1584 - Matthias Gallas, Austria earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna/general-major
1651 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716)
1666 - Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716)
1678 - Henry St John, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751)
1685 - John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera)
1722 - Gabriel Christie, British general (d. 1799)
1725 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
1736 - Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician
1745 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
1762 - Charles G G, earl of Merode/mayor of Brussels/French senator
1782 - Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
1797 - Anthony Panizzi, Librarian at British Museum
1800 - Jozef Nowakowski, composer
1818 - Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist
1822 - Charles S Crocker, Pres of Central & South Pacific Railroad
1823 - Francis Parkman, American historian/author (Oregon Trail)
1823 - Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Serbia
1827 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908)
1832 - George Washington Custis Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
1837 - Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61)
1838 - James J Hill, Canada, RR entrepreneur (Great Northern Railroad)
1847 - Albert Ross Parsons, composer
1853 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
1858 - Andrew Bonar Law, British PM (C, 1922-23)
1872 - Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, Dutch/Flemish actress (Rose Kate)
1875 - James Cash Penney, Hamilton Missouri, department store founder (J C Penney), (d. 1971)
1877 - James J Jeans, cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe)
1877 - Willem H Rassers, Dutch cultural anthropologist (Panji)
1878 - Karl Albiker, German sculptor (German Art, female nudes)
1880 - Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Loom of Years, Highwayman)
1881 - Clive Bell, English art critic (d. 1964)
1882 - Mart Saar, composer
1883 - T. E. Hulme, English writer (d. 1917)
1885 - Karen Horney, German/US, neo-freudian psychoanalyst
1887 - Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor
1888 - Almira Sessions, Washington DC, actress (Oklahoma Annie)
1889 - Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press)
1890 - Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Prague Czech, actor (Moon is Down, 3rd Man)
1891 - Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer
1891 - Isabel Jeans, London England, actress (Easy Virtue, Heavens Above)
1891 - Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German spy (d. 1972)
1891 - Karl Dönitz, German naval leader (d. 1980)
1893 - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungary, biochemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937)
1893 - Alexander Korda, British movie producer (3rd man)
1894 - Clarence R Hennecke, Omaha NE, actor (Keystone Kops)
1895 - Charles W Bidwill Sr, Chicago, NFL hall of famer (Chicago Cardinals)
1895 - Karol Rathaus, composer
1896 - Andre Cheron, French chess/bridge theorist
1898 - H.A. Rey, American children's author, creator of "Curious George" (d. 1977)
1899 - Hans Swarowsky, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Graz Opera 1947-50)
1901 - Andree Joly Bunet, France, figure skater pair (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
1901 - CFH "Freddie" Gough, British major scout (WW II, Arnhem)
1903 - Richard Hall, composer
1905 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980)
1906 - Annie Hermes, Dutch singer
1906 - Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, commando
1908 - Beecher Moore, sailor
1908 - Jacobus "Ko" van de Bosch, actor/cabaret performer/director (Nemo)
1908 - James "Jimmy" Johnson, English Labor MP (1950-59, 64-83)
1909 - John Megaw, British Lord Justice of Appeal
1909 - [Hans JM] Fernand Lodewick, literature historian
1910 - Joan Alice Chetwode Ramsey nee Hamilton, lady Ramsey of Canterbury
1910 - Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
1910 - Erich Kempka, Adolf Hitler's chauffeur (d. 1975)
1911 - Wilfred Burchett, Australia, communist/writer (Catapult to Freedom)
1912 - Jerry Wald, NYC, producer (Mildred Pierce, Johnny Belinda)
1914 - Allen Funt, Brooklyn New York, American TV host & creator (Candid Camera)
1915 - Cy Walter, Minneapolis Mn, pianist (3's Company)
1916 - Lord Ryder of Eaton hastings, CEO (Intl Publishing House)
1916 - Willem Noordhoek, photographer
1916 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (d. 2004)
1916 - Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999)
1918 - Baroness Pike, MP
1919 - Andy Russell, Los Angeles California, singer (Andy & Della Russell Show)
1919 - Milan Harasta, composer
1919 - Laurence J. Peter, Canadian born educator and writer (d. 1990)
1920 - Franco Pandolfini, Italy, water polo (Olympic-gold-1948)
1920 - Hannie [Jannetje J] Schaft, "Girl with red hair"
1920 - Sheila Quinn, adviser (British Red Cross)
1921 - Dusty Hughers, playwright
1921 - Fritz Geissler, composer
1921 - John Hendricks, lyricist singer (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
1921 - William Johnston, Chaplain to Queen of Scotland
1922 - Janis Paige, Tacoma Wash, actress (Lanigan's Rabbi, Trapper John MD)
1922 - Marcel Mouloudji, singer
1923 - Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister, Senior Minister and Minister Mentor of Singapore
1924 - Lauren Bacall, Staten Island, actress (Dark Passage, Key Largo)
1924 - Paddy Stone, Winnipeg Manitoba, choreographer (Piccadilly Palace)
1925 - B[lues] B[oy] King, Itta Bena Miss, blues singer (Thrill is Gone)
1925 - Charles Haughey, Irish president (1979-81, 82, 87-92)
1925 - Charlie Byrd, guitarist (Desfinado)
1926 - John Knowles, US writer (Morning in Antibes)
1926 - Robert Schuller, televangelist (Glass Cathedral, Hour of Power)
1926 - Tommy "Butch" Bond, actor (Butch-Our Gang)
1927 - Jack Kelly, Astoria Queens, actor (Bart-Maverick, Get Christie Love)
1927 - Peter Falk, Ossining NY, actor (Colombo, Scared Straight)
1929 - Dale E Kildee, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1977- )
1930 - Ken Coates, MEP (Labour)
1930 - Anne Francis, Ossining NY, actress (Honey West, Pancho Villa)
1931 - Jan Johansson, composer
1932 - Mickey Stewart, manager (England Cricket Team)
1933 - George Chakiris, Norwood Ohio, actor (West Side Story)
1933 - Jim Gilbert, artist
1934 - Elgin Baylor, NBA star (1958-59 Rookie of Year-Lakers)
1934 - Eva Clayton, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
1934 - Ronnie Drew, Ex-Singer of The Dubliners and Solo Artist (d.2008)
1935 - Carl Andre, US sculptor (minimal/conceptual art)
1935 - Bob Kiley, American public transit specialist
1936 - Frits Niessen, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1937 - Aleksandr Medved, USSR, super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1964 68, 72)
1937 - Vincent J Naimoli, Paterson NJ, owner (SF Giants)
1941 - Jim McBride, NYC, director/actor (Hot Times, Breathless, Big Easy)
1941 - Joe Butler, Glen Cove NY, rock vocalist/drummer (Lovin' Spoonful)
1941 - Tommy Carberry, jockey
1941 - Richard Perle, American political advisor
1942 - Amos Tom Wargo, Marlette MI, PGA golfer (1993 PGA Seniors Champion)
1942 - Bernie Calvert, rock bassist (Hollies)
1942 - Linda G Miller, NYC, actress (Night of the Juggler, Mississippi)
1943 - David Wilshire, British MP (C)
1943 - Dennis W Conner, yachting pro (4-time America's Cup-winning skipper)
1943 - James Alan McPherson, American writer
1944 - Ard Schenk, Holland 1500m, 5K, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1944 - Betty Kelly, Detroit, rocker (Martha Reeves & Vandellas)
1946 - Lord Walton of Detchant, physician (Warden of Green College Oxford)
1946 - Cathee Dahmen, American fashion model
1946 - Mike Reynolds, Australian politician
1946 - Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer
1947 - Aleksandr V Rutskoi, Ukrainian Hero of USSR/VP (1991- )
1947 - Andy Irvine, rugby player
1947 - Ilona Gusenbauer, Austria, high jumper (Olympic-bronze-1972)
1947 - Lucius Allen, NBA star (Milwaukee Bucks)
1947 - Michael R McNulty, (Rep-D-NY)
1947 - Russ Abbott, British TV comedian (September Song)
1947 - Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian and writer
1948 - Kenny Jones, London, rock drummer/vocalist (Small Faces)
1948 - Rosemary Casals, tennis star (US Open doubles 1967,71,74) [or Oct 10]
1948 - Ron Blair, San Diego, California, American rock bassist (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
1949 - Ed Begley Jr, LA Cal, actor (Eating Raoul, St Elsewhere, Parenthood)
1949 - Susan Ruttan, Oregon City Ore, actress (Roxanne Melman-LA Law)
1950 - David Bellamy, Darby Fla, singer (Bellamy Bros-Let Your Love Flow))
1950 - Loyd Grossman, American television presenter
1953 - Earl Klugh, Jazz pianist/guitarist
1953 - Gene Taylor, (Rep-D-Mississippi)
1953 - Jerry Pate, Macon Ga, PGA golfer (US Open 1976, Canadian Open 1976)
1953 - Lenny Clarke, Boston, actor (Officer Hampton-John Larroquette Show)
1953 - Alan Barton, English musician (Black Lace, Smokie) (d. 1995)
1953 - Nancy Huston, Canadian-born novelist and essayist
1954 - Colin Newman, English musician (Wire)
1954 - Frank Reed, American singer (Chi-Lites)
1955 - Liz Knights, publisher
1955 - Robin Yount, baseballer (Milwaukee Brewers, MVP 1982, 1989, 3,142 hits)
1955 - Vicki Tabor, LPGA golfer
1955 - Yolandita Monge, Puerto Rican singer
1956 - Anatoly Beloglazov, USSR, 52 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympic-gold-1980)
1956 - Charles Fearing, rock guitarist (Raydio)
1956 - David Copperfield, [Kotkin], Metuchen, New Jersey, magician
1956 - Kevin R Kregel, NYC NY, Pilot/astronaut (STS 70, 78, 87)
1956 - Mark Daniel Gearan, Gardner Mass, campaign manager (Al Gore)
1956 - Nick Banton, founder (Body Positive)
1956 - Peter Zaremba, rocker (Fleshtones)
1956 - Sergei Beloglazov, USSR, 57 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympic-gold-1980)
1956 - Mickey Rourke, American boxer/actor (Wild Orchid, Barfly)
1957 - Keith Connor, Anguilla, British triple jumper (Olympic-bronze-1984)
1957 - David McCreery, Irish footballer
1958 - Jennifer Tilly, Los Angeles California, actress (Let it Ride, Off Beat, Psycho II)
1958 - Orel Hershiser, pitcher (LA Dodgers, Cleveland Indians)
1958 - Terry McBride, Austin Tx, singer (McBride & Ride-Can I Count on You)
1958 - Neville Southall, Welsh footballer
1959 - Tim Raines, American baseball player
1960 - Mickey Tettleton, Oklahoma City OK, catcher (Texas Rangers)
1960 - Kurt Busiek, American comic book writer
1961 - Alessandro Cecchi Paone, Italian entertainer
1961 - Mark Parent, Ashland OR, catcher (Detroit Tigers)
1961 - William M "Bill" Hicks, comedian
1961 - Bilinda Butcher, British singer (My Bloody Valentine)
1962 - Julie Larsen Piers, Westchester NY, LPGA golfer (1995 Edina Realty)
1962 - Kimberly McArthur, Fort Worth Texas, playmate (January, 1982)
1963 - Garth Jax, NFL middle linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1963 - Richard Marx, Chicago Ill, rocker (Hold on to the Night)
1964 - David Michael Sabo, Perth Amboy NJ, rocker (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1964 - Molly Shannon, American actress
1964 - Mary Coustas, Austalian entertainer
1964 - Rossy de Palma, Spanish actress
1965 - Katy Kurtzman, Wash DC, actress (Lindsay-Dynasty)
1966 - Kevin Curtis Young, Los Angeles California, 400m hurdler
1967 - Bernie Parmalee, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Dana Dormann, Oxnard CA, LPGA golfer (1993 McCall's LPGA Classic
1967 - Michael Smith, Kenora Ontario, decathlete (Olympics-96)
1967 - Hiroya Oku, Japanese Manga-ka
1968 - Charles McRae, NFL guard/tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1968 - Tara Cross-Battle, Houston Texas, volleyball hitter (Oly-br-92, 96)
1968 - Marc Anthony, American singer
1968 - Walt Becker, American director and writer
1969 - Andrew Borodow, Montreal, 130 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-5-92, 96)
1969 - Chester McGlockton, NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1969 - Kathi Wolfgram, Minneapolis, rocker (Jets-You Got it All)
1969 - Marthijn Pothoven, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1969 - Justine Frischmann, English musician (Elastica)
1970 - Anthony Marshall, NFL safety (Chic Bears)
1970 - Paul Shuey, Lima OH, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1970 - Mark Schultz, American musician
1971 - Charlie Fields, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Shannon)
1971 - Derrell Mitchell, NFL/CFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons, Argonauts)
1971 - Shawntel Smith, Oklahoma, Miss America (1996)
1971 - Amy Poehler, American comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1972 - Don Sasa, NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Mark Bruener, NFL tight end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Ramon van Haaren, soccer player (RKC)
1972 - Shalane McCall, actor (Charlie Wade-Dallas)
1972 - Steve Russ, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1973 - Clint Peay, Columbia Md, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Alexander Vinokourov, Kazakh cyclist
1973 - Justin Haythe, American writer
1973 - George Corrie, English Footballer
1974 - Justin Whalin, SF California, actor (Jimmy Olsen-Lois & Clark)
1975 - Kip Harkrider, Carthage TX, baseball infielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 - Andres Javier Blazquez, PR, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1976 - Tina Barrett, British singer (S Club)
1977 - Greg Ball, American politician
1978 - Dan Dickau, American basketball player
1978 - Matthew Rogers, American singer
1979 - Bobby Korecky, American baseball player
1980 - Patrik Stefan, Czech hockey player
1981 - Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress
1981 - Alexis Bledel, American actress (Gilmore Girls)
1982 - Leon Knight, English footballer
1982 - Michael McCall, Irish chemist
1983 - Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer
1984 - Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer
1984 - Katie Melua, Georgian-British singer
1985 - Madeline Zima, New Haven, Connecticut, American actress (The Nanny, Californication)
1986 - Kyla Pratt, American actress
1987 - Louis Clement Ngwat-Mahop, Cameroonian football player
1987 - Travis Wall, American Dancer/Dance Instructor
1987 - Daren Kagasoff, American actor
1988 - Teddy Geiger, American singer
1988 - Sarah Steele, American actress
1992 - Nick Jonas, American singer, member of The Jonas Brothers
2005 - Princess Jalilah bint Ali, of Jordan

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This Day in History for 16th September


Famous Deaths

Folk Singer Mary Travers (2009)


96 - Titus Flavius Domitianus, emperor of Rome (81-96), murdered at 45
655 - Martinus I, bannished Pope (649-53), dies
827 - Pope Valentine
1087 - Victor III, [Dauferio/Desiderius], Italian Pope (1086-87), dies
1100 - Bernold of Constance, German chronicler (b. 1054)
1345 - John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)
1380 - Charles V, the Wise, King of France (1364-80), dies
1394 - Clement VII, [Robert de Geneve], Pope (1378-94), dies
1406 - Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336)
1498 - Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10,000 people, dies
1542 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish captain-general of Peru, beheaded
1589 - Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
1652 - Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer, dies at 61
1672 - Anne Bradstreet, New England's first published poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1696 - Lambert Pietkin, composer, dies at 83
1701 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633)
1736 - Daniel G Fahrenheit, Prussian/Neth physicist (thermometer), dies at 50
1775 - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)
1798 - Damasus Brosmann, composer, dies at 67
1803 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754)
1824 - Louis XVIII SX, earl of Province/king of France (1814-24), dies
1829 - Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (b. 1771)
1834 - Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer (Guillaume the Nassau), dies
1837 - Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies
1845 - John Kinker, translator/philosopher/poet, dies at 81
1864 - John Hanning Speke, English explorer (b. 1827)
1865 - Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)
1896 - Carlos Gomez, composer, dies at 60
1898 - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827)
1911 - Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (Ascent of Matterhorn), dies
1920 - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Polar History), dies at 32
1925 - Leo Fall, Austria operetta composer (That Pink von Stambul), dies
1925 - Leopold Fall, composer, dies at 52
1925 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
1926 - Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80
1932 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
1933 - George Gore, baseball player (b. 1857)
1936 - Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM), dies
1936 - Karl Buresch, Austrian politician, dies
1944 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
1945 - John "Pa" van de Steur, philanthropist (Java), dies at 80
1945 - John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies
1946 - James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 69
1948 - Ferdinand I MKLM, prince of Saxony-Coburg/tsar of Bulgaria, dies
1950 - Pedro De Cordoba, actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire), dies at 68
1953 - Colin G Fink, US chemist (electro-chemistry), dies
1955 - Leopold C M S Amery, Brit minister of Colonies (India), dies at 81
1957 - Ch'i Pai-shih, traditional Chinese painter, dies at 93
1961 - A P F Chapman, cricketer (26 Tests for England), dies
1961 - Yme C Schuitmaker, potato farmer/dramatist, dies
1962 - Saif al-Islam Achmad, monarch of Yemen, dies at about 71
1964 - Leo Weismantel, German writer (Das Totenliebespar), dies at 76
1965 - Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (b. 1906)
1971 - Ferdinand LR Sassen, priest/philosopher (Descartes), dies at 77
1973 - Frederic Meyer, actor (Faraway Hill), dies at 63
1975 - Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b. 1896)
1977 - Marc Bolan, rock vocalist/guitarist (T Rex), dies in a car crash at 29
1977 - Maria Callas, American-born prima donna, dies in Paris at 53
1979 - Nur Mohammed Taraki, president of Afghanistan (1978-79), killed
1982 - Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mr Beasley-Burns & Allen Show), dies at 86
1987 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922)
1990 - Loretta Tupper, radio/TV entertainer, dies of cancer at 84
1990 - Steve Condos, tap dancer, dies of heart attack at 71
1991 - Carol White, actress (Prehistoric Women, Dulcima), dies at 47
1992 - Duke Robbins, entertainer, dies of pneumonia at 71
1992 - Lee Tully, entertainer, dies
1992 - Millicent Fenwick, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82), dies at 82
1993 - Johanna F Zandstra-Giezen, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 111
1993 - Willie Mosconi, world billiards champ, dies of heart attack at 80
1994 - Alain Bernardin, impressario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78
1994 - Albert de Courtray, French archbishop of Lyon/cardinal, dies at 71
1994 - Bernie Lazaroff Leighton, pianist, dies at 73
1994 - Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84
1994 - Jack Dodson, actor (Howard Sprague-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 63
1995 - Michael Balfour, historian, dies at 86
1995 - Pierre Olaf, cabaret artist/clown, dies at 67
1996 - Andrew MacElhone, bar owner, dies at 73
1996 - Gene Nelson, actor/dancer (SOB, Purple Hills, Starlift), dies at 76
1996 - McGeorge Bundy, US national security advisor (1961-66), dies at 77
1997 - Antony Kearey, television producer, dies at 77
2000 - Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
2001 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (b. 1918)
2002 - James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)
2003 - Sheb Wooley, singer and actor (b. 1921)
2005 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (b. 1920)
2006 - Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)
2006 - Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2007 - Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series (b. 1948)
2008 - Norman Whitfield, associated with the Temptations (b. 1940)
2009 - Myles Brand, NCAA President (b. 1942)
2009 - Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary) (b. 1936)
2012 - John Ingle, American actor, dies from cancer at 84

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This Day in History for 17th September


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                       Abolitionist Harriet Tubman                   Pilot The Red Baron

                                   
Aviator Charles Lindbergh                       Politician Neville Chamberlain       Soldier, author, journalist, politician
                                                                                                                                    Winston Churchill

                                   
Heavyweight Boxing Champion                     Actress Sophia Loren                        Actress/Singer Bette Midler
Rocky Marciano 


Wikileaks founder Julian Assange


335 - Church of Holy Sepulchre initiated in Jerusalem
642 - Arabs conquer Alexandria, library destroyed
1156 - Markgraafschap Austria becomes a temple (Privilegium minus)
1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
1394 - Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI
1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
1562 - Council of Trente takes ecclesiastical canon
1584 - Gent surrenders to Duke of Parma
1595 - Pope Clemens VIII recognizes Henri IV as king of France
1598 - Netherland sailors discover Mauritius
1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1631 - Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustaaf Adolf defeats Gen Tilly
1644 - French troops occupy Mainz
1678 - France & Spain signs peace treaty
1683 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek reports existence of bacteria
1691 - Massachusetts Bay Colony granted new charter
1697 - Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen of Savoye beats Turks
1730 - Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees
1737 - Georg-August University opens in Göttingen
1745 - Edinburgh occupied by Jacobites under Young Pretender
1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1778 - 1st treaty between the US & Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt)
1787 - Prussian troops conquer Gorinchem
1787 - US constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention
1789 - William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn
1809 - Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is
           ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
1819 - First whaling ship arrives in Hawaii
1835 - Charles Darwins lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago
1849 - Harriet Tubman 1st escapes slavery in Maryland with two of her brothers
1850 - Great fire in San Francisco
1859 - Man in SF claims himself Norton I, emperor of America
1861 - First class for escaped slaves taught by Mary Peake at Fortress Monroe Virginia (now
           Hampton University).
1862 - Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md), 23, 110 die
1862 - Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals
1862 - Battle of Mumfordville, KY-US Col J Wilder surrenders city
1862 - American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian
           disaster during the war.
1863 - Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada
1864 - Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign
1871 - Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens
1872 - Phillip W Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires
1873 - 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University
1876 - Race riots in SC
1897 - 3rd US Golf Open: Joe Lloyd shoots a 162 at Chicago GC in Wheaton Ill
1899 - 1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa
1900 - Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed
1900 - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin
           F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
1901 - Battle at Blood River Port: Boer Gen Botha beats mjr Goughs cavalry
1901 - Battle at Elands River Port: Boer Gen Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers
1902 - US protests anti-semitism in Romania
1903 - Boston Pilgrims clinch AL pennant, beating Cleveland, 14-3
1906 - Playing as "Sullivan," Columbia U jr Eddie Collins debuts with A's
1908 - Thomas Selfridge becomes first fatality of powered flight
1911 - 1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min
1911 - 25th US Women's Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats F Sutton (8-10 61 97)
1912 - Center fielder Casey Stengel breaks in with Brooklyn & hits 4 singles
1914 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1916 - 40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right
1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], a flying ace of the German
           Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1920 - Cards set a record of 12 consecutive hits in 4th (10) & 5th (2) innings
1920 - National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American
           Prof Football Association
1922 - Bicyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ
1922 - Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
1923 - Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound," premieres in London
1924 - Italy signs treaty of Rapallo
1926 - Hurricane hits Miami & Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die
1927 - 47th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats William T Tilden (119 63 119)
1927 - Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco
1928 - 48th US Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats F T Hunter (46 64 36 75 63)
1928 - Henri Cochet wins US Tennis Open
1928 - Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500
1928 - Pitcher Ray Boggs hits 3 batters in 1 inning
1929 - British troops begin evacuating
1931 - 1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, NYC), venture failed
1931 - Operetta "Victoria & Her Husband," premieres in London
1931 - Red Sox Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 doubles
1934 - RCA Victor re leases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven's 5th)
1934 - USSR joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switz & Portugal vote no)
1935 - Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina chosen 1st president of Philippines
1937 - 1st NFL game in Washington, DC; Redskins beat NY Giants 13-3
1938 - 52nd US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Nancye Wynne Bolton (60 63)
1938 - 58th US Mens Tennis: J Donald Budge beats C Gene Mako (63 68 62 61)
1938 - British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich
1938 - Don Budge wins US Tennis open & completes Grand Slam
1939 - German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die
1939 - Poland's president Moscicki & PM Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania
1939 - Russia invades Eastern Poland, takes 217,000 Poles prisoner
1939 - Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II
1939 - Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of
           29:52.6
1940 - Nazis deprive Jews of possessions
1941 - Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4
1941 - World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the
           face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued
1943 - Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
1943 - Red Army recaptures Brjansk
1943 - World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis.
1944 - British Premier Winston Churchill travels to US
1944 - Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
1944 - Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem Neth
1946 - "Gypsy Lady," opens at Century Theater NYC for 79 performances
1946 - "If the Shoe Fits," opens at Century Theater NYC for 20 performances
1947 - Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of Year by Sporting News
1947 - James Forrestal sworn in as 1st US secretary of defense
1947 - US Department of Defense forms
1948 - KCOP TV channel 13 in Los Angeles/Hollywood, CA (IND) begins
1948 - WLS TV channel 7 in Chicago, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - 128 die as fire guts Canadian passenger steamer Noronic in Toronto
1949 - 8th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 7-5 at Ganton GC, England
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time
1949 - WFAA TV channel 8 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 - San Francisco 49ers (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, lose 21-17
1951 - "Borscht Capades" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 90 performances
1951 - Romanian bishop A Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years
1952 - "I am an American Day" & "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day"
1953 - 1st successful separation of Siamese twins
1953 - Ernie Banks becomes Chicago Cubs 1st black player
1954 - Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1955 - "Ankles Aweigh" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 176 perfs
1955 - Future Hall of Famer Oriole Brooks Robinson goes 2-4 in his 1st game
1956 - Black students enter Clay Ky elementary school
1956 - Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of year
1956 - Television is first broadcast in Australia.
1957 - KETV TV channel 7 in Omaha, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 - Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for 1st powered flight
1957 - Thailand military coup under marshal Sarit Thanarat
1957 - Two male attorneys "stand in" as actress Sophia Loren & producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy
           in Juarez, Mexico
1957 - The North East Humanists group is founded in Newcastle upon Tyne.
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - 59th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
1959 - Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit
1959 - Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan & Korea
1960 - "Vintage '60" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1960 - Cuba nationalizes US banks
1961 - Minnesota Vikings' 1st NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13)
1961 - Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," premieres in NYC
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1962 - Justice Dept files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools
1962 - US space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts
1963 - "Fugitive" premieres on ABC TV
1963 - Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32
1964 - "Bewitched" premieres on ABC TV
1964 - Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas)
1964 - Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000 & 2001 & his 450th HR
1964 - Supremes release "Baby Love"
1965 - WPHL TV channel 17 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1966 - Cleve pitchers set AL record striking out 19 batters in 1st 9 innings
1967 - "Mission Impossible" premieres on CBS-TV
1967 - Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 (NH)
1967 - New Orleans Saints 1st NFL game, they lose to LA Rams 27-13
1967 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1968 - Gaylord Perry (Giants) no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 1-0
1968 - Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon
1970 - Jordan launches offensive against guerrilla army
1970 - WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - "M*A*S*H," premieres on NBC TV
1972 - BART begins passenger service in SF
1972 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Quality First Golf Classic
1972 - Tanzania troops march in to Uganda
1974 - Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Aust) in 23rd America's Cup
1975 - Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)
1976 - Amnesty International receives Erasmus-prize
1976 - NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, Calif
1976 - Ringo Starr releases "Ringo's Rotogravure" album
1977 - 22nd Ryder Cup: US, 12½-13½ at Royal Lytham & St Annes England
1977 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1977 - Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more
1977 - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" is #1 for 19th straight week
1978 - 30th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Ed Asner & Sada Thompson win
1978 - Begin, Sadat & Carter sign Camp David accord
1978 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1978 - Red Sox finally beat Yanks in Sept 1978, 7-3
1979 - Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72")
1979 - Royals' George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/HRs in a season
1980 - "Divine Madness" starring Bette Midler, premieres
1980 - Iraq under Saddam Hussein signs accord with Algeria
1980 - Solidarity labor union in Poland forms
1980 - South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death
1980 - Oak A's Rick Langford is removed with 2 outs in 9th inning ending his consecutive complete-
           game streak at 22
1981 - Fernando Valenzuela sets NL rookie record with 8th shutout of season
1982 - NJ Devils 1st exhibition game, beating Caps 3-1 in Hershey Pa
1983 - Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship
1983 - Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black
1984 - Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th PM succeeding John Turner
1984 - Dwight Gooden ties record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games
1984 - Reggie Jackson is 13th to hit 500 HRs
1984 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1985 - Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1986 - Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed
1986 - Marina Stepanova of USSR sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94)
1986 - Mets clinch NL East Championship
1986 - US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice
1987 - Phila celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution
1988 - 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea
1988 - Jeff Reardon becomes 1st to record 40 or more saves in both AL & NL
1988 - Military coup in Haiti: Lt Gen Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees
1989 - -21] Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston SC
1989 - 41st Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Dana Delany & Candice Bergen win
1989 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1989 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1989 - Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62
1989 - NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision & returns America's Cup back to US
           (from NZ)
1990 - Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep NY Post publishing
1990 - Soviet Union & Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties
1991 - 4,355 turn out to see Expos play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1991 - UN admits Estonia, Latvia, Lithuiania, North & South Korea, Marshall Islands & Micronesia
1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
1992 - Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ8.8 billion
1992 - House votes 280 to 128 to give FCC control of cable TV rates
1992 - NFL decides to suspend World League Football
1993 - Last Russian troops leave Poland.
1994 - Andy Waller out handled the ball for Mashonaland CD v Mash U24
1994 - Heather Whitestone, 21, (Ala), crowned 68th Miss America 1995
1995 - "Love! Valor! Compassion!" closes at Walter Kerr NYC after 276 perfs
1995 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1996 - Dodger Hideo Nomo no-hits Colo Rockies, 9-0 at Coors Field
1997 - Dr Sam Sheppard's body (Fugitive) is exhumed for DNA test
2004 - Tamil is declared the first classical language in India.
2007 - AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an
           advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New
           York, New York.
2008 - The IAU named another dwarf planet, Haumea
2010 - The 54 year run of the soap opera As the World Turns ends as its final episode is broadcast.
2011 - Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zucotti Park, New York City.
2012 - Panasonic suspends operations at its three factories in China
2012 - China dispatches 1,000 fishing boats to Senkaku Islands
2012 - 13 people are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia
2012 - Swedish forensic scientists find no conclusive evidence of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's
           DNA in a torn condom
2012 - United States and Japanese government officials agree to put a second missile defence
           system in Japan

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This Day in History for 17th September


Famous Weddings

1918 - Abbott and Costello's Bud Abbott (22) weds Betty Smith
1954 - Film and theater actress Shirley MacLaine (20) weds Steve Parker in New York City
1957 - Italian actress Sophia Loren (22) weds Carlo Ponti
1973 - "The Osmonds" lead singer and bassist Merrill Osmond (20) weds Mary Carlson
1994 - "L.A. Law" actor Blair Underwood (30) weds freelance talent coordinator Desiree DaCosta (29)
           at his outdoor Southern California
1994 - "Stone Temple Pilots" lead singer Scott Weiland 26) weds Janina Castenada
2005 - Fashion designer Cynthia Rowley (47) weds Bill Powers in Montauk, New York
2005 - Country music singer Terri Clark (37) weds her tour manager Greg Kaczor at a resort on Lake
           Louise in Calgary, Canada
2011 - Actor and film producer David Clayton Rogers (34) weds actress/dancer Sally Pressman (31)
           at Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, California
2011 - Actress Sally Pressman (30) weds actor David Clayton Rogers (33) at Bacara Resort and Spa
           in Santa Barbara, California

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This Day in History for 17th September


Famous Divorces

1994 - Princess Christina separates

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This Day in History for 17th September


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Enlightenment Philosopher             Choreographer Frederick Ashton (1904)         Actress Anne Bancroft (1931)
Marquis de Condorcet (1743) 


64 - Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian.
879 - Charles III, [The Simple], king of France (893-923)
1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1271 - Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305)
1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
1552 - Paul V, [Camillo Borghese], Italy, Pope (1605-21)
1580 - Charlotte Brabantia, countess of Nassau/daughter of Willem of Orange
1605 - Francesco Sacrati, composer
1619 - John Lambert, English general-major/parliament leader
1630 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
1639 - Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
1643 - Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury/author
1677 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
1687 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
1688 - Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714)
1711 - Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer
1714 - Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Vom Misbrauch of the Satire)
1730 - Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prus/US inspector-gen of Washington's army
1739 - John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
1743 - Jean-Marie Caritat, France, mathematician
1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, Aisn France, enlightenment philosopher (Condorcet Method), (d. 1794)
1748 - Robert Wainwright, composer
1764 - John Goodricke, English astronomer/member Royal Society
1765 - Gregory XVI, [Bartolomeo A Cappellari/Mauro], Italy, Pope
1767 - Henri-Montan Berton, composer
1771 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
1774 - Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti, Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages)
1783 - Samuel Prout, water-color painter
1795 - Giuseppi Saverio Rafaele Mercadante, composer
1798 - Antonia M B Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat
1800 - Franklin Buchanan, Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1874
1801 - Edward William Lane, translator (Thousand & 1 Nights)
1814 - Stefano Ronchetti-Molnteviti, composer
1818 - Halfdan Kjeruif, composer (Kjerulf)
1819 - Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist (pendulum proved Earth rotates)
1819 - Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president (Republic South Africa)
1819 - Thomas Andrews Hendricks, (D) 21st US VP; died in office
1820 - Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1820 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
1821 - Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer
1825 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, MC (Confederacy), died in 1893
1826 - G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function)
1834 - Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer
1849 - Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer
1853 - Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie)
1854 - Hans Muller, music historian
1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket & space research
1859 - Frank D Adams, Canada geologist/educator
1859 - Richard Henry Warren, composer
1861 - Owen Seaman, poet/editor (Punch)
1868 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
1869 - Christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist (Nobel 1921)
1874 - Ben[jamin] Turpin, US, comic (Uncle Tom Without the Cabin)
1875 - Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, composer
1877 - Jean Hure, composer
1878 - Vincenzo Tommasini, composer
1879 - Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
1879 - Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian Social Reformer (d. 1973)
1881 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
1882 - Anton H Blaauw, Dutch botanist (Perception of Light)
1883 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson Berners, 14th baron/composer
1883 - William Carlos Williams, American poet
1884 - Bastiaan de Gaay Fortman, Dutch historian/Justice of Curacao
1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Elmira NY, composer (White Peacock)
1885 - George Cleveland, Sydney Nova Scotia, actor (Courage of Lassie)
1885 - Uzeir Abdul Huseyn Hajibeyov, composer
1890 - Lubov Tchernicheva, Russian ballerina
1891 - Leslie Lincoln Henson, actor (Lady Luck, Funny Face, Harvey)
1892 - Hendrik F Andriessen, Dutch organist/composer (Ballade of Merel)
1893 - Abel J Herzberg, Russ/Dutch writer (Persecution of Jews)
1894 - Fay Compton, [Virginia Lillian Emeline Compton], actress (Haunting)
1896 - Denise Grey, [Edouardine Verthuy], Turin Italy, actress (Julietta)
1899 - Winnie Lightner, Greenport NY, comedienne (Sit Tight, Side Show)
1900 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
1900 - Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
1901 - Francis Chichester, Barnstaple, Devon, English aviator and sailor (Knight Commander of the
           Order of the British Empire)
1902 - Esther Ralston, Bar Harbor ME, American Venus/actress (Old Ironsides)
1903 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
1904 - Frederick Ashton, Ecuador, British choreographer (Cinderella), (d. 1988)
1904 - Jerry Colonna, Boston MA, actor (Road to Morocco, Road to Singapore)
1905 - Dolores Costello, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Little Lord Fauntleroy)
1905 - Hans Freudenthal, Dutch mathematician/director (OW&OC)
1905 - Jorge Urrutia Blondel, composer
1906 - Junius Richard Jayawardene, president (Sri Lanka, 1978-89)
1906 - Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
1907 - Desmond Heap, authority on British planning law
1907 - Helen Vinson, TX, actress (Transatlantic Tunnel, In Name Only)
1907 - Warren E Burger, Minn, Supreme Court chief justice (1969-86)
1908 - Franz J A Grothe, German composer
1909 - Elizabeth Wilkinson, professor German University College London
1909 - Kenneth Darling, Commander-in-chief Allied Forces, Northern Europe
1910 - Vernon Thompson, thoracic surgeon
1912 - Pauline Parsons, matron in chief (PMRAFNS)
1912 - Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian
1913 - Jorgen Jersild, composer
1914 - Shin Kanemaru, politician
1916 - Mary [Florence Elinor] Stewart, UK, sci-fi author (Crystal Cave)
1916 - Ove J Abildgaard, Danish poet (Uglegylp)
1917 - Isang Yun, composer
1917 - Lawrence Jacob, Atlantic City NJ, artist (Sanitarium)
1917 - Peter Bennett, London, actor (Leonides-Adv of Sir Lancelot)
1918 - Chaim Herzog, Israeli president (1983-93), (d. 1997)
1920 - Dinah Sheridan, actress (Genevieve, Railway Children), (d. 2012)
1920 - Marjorie S Holt, (Rep-R-MD, 1973- )
1921 - Virgilio Barco Vargas, president of Colombia (1986-90)
1922 - Agostinho Neto, poet/president Angola [or Dec 27]
1922 - Naomi Datta, geneticist
1922 - Ursula Howells, London, actress (Girly, Murder is Announced)
1923 - Hank Williams, country singer (Cold, Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin')
1923 - John Hale, linguist
1925 - Dorothy Loudon, Boston, Massachusetts, American actress and singer (Garry Moore Show,
           Annie)
1926 - Bill Black, rocker
1926 - Donald Acheson, England's chief medical officer
1926 - Reginald Marsh, actor (Sicilians, It Happened Here)
1927 - George Blanda, Penn, NFL kicker/quarterback (Bears, Oilers, Raiders)
1927 - Ted Weiss, (Rep-D-NY, 1977-92)
1928 - Brian Matthew, British disc jockey
1928 - Roddy McDowall, London England, actor (Planet of Apes, Lord Love a Duck)
1929 - John Stewart-Clark, MEP (C)
1929 - Lord Craig of Radley, marshal (RAF)
1929 - Stirling Moss, London England, race car driver
1929 - Pat Crowley, American actress
1930 - David Huddleston, Vinton Va, actor (How the West Was Won)
1930 - Edgar Dean Mitchell, Hereford Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Apollo 14)
1930 - Gwyn Francis, British Forestry commissioner
1930 - Thomas P Stafford, Weatherford Ok, USAF/astronaut (Gem 6 9, Ap 10 18)
1930 - Jim Rohn, American business philosopher
1930 - Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
1931 - Anne Bancroft, Bronx, actr (Graduate, Miracle Worker), (d. 2005)
1933 - Charles E Grassley, (Sen-R-Iowa, 1981- )
1933 - D A Fenner, British headmaster (Alleyn's School)
1933 - Desmond Fennell, British high court judge
1933 - Patricia Crowley, Olyphant Pa, actress (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1934 - Little Milton [Campbell], rocker
1934 - Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, Ca, tennis, 1st woman grand slam (1953)
1934 - Orlando Cepeda, Giants player (NL MVP 1967)
1935 - Ken Kesey, author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1935 - Timothy Bavin, Bishop of Portsmouth
1936 - Jennifer Dickson, artist/photographer
1936 - Mischa de Vreede, poetess (Our Eternal Hunger)
1936 - Richard Gaskell, solicitor/president (Law Society)
1937 - Albertine Sarrazin, French author (L'astragale, La Cavale)
1937 - Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1938 - Alec Broers, master (Churchill College Cambridge)
1938 - Paul Benedict, Silver City NM, actor (Harry-Jeffersons)
1939 - David H Souter, Weir NH, 107th Supreme Court Justice (1990- )
1939 - Joseph Mosikili, South African actor/singer
1939 - Lamonte McLemore, St Louis Mo, rock vocalist (5th Dimension)
1939 - Shelby Flint, American singer
1940 - Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat
1940 - Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (d. 2007)
1941 - Robert T Matsui, (Rep-D-California, 1979- )
1941 - William Grut, Sweden, penthalete (Olympic-gold-1948), (d. 2012)
1942 - Beverly Aadland, Hollywood Cal, Errol Flynns last girlfriend
1942 - Desmond Lynam, British sportscaster
1942 - Doris Brown-Heritage, US, 800m track star (Olympic-gold-1968)
1942 - Robert Graysmith, Zodiac killer researcher
1943 - Samuel T Durrance, Tallahassee Fl, PhD/astronaut (STS 35, STS 67)
1943 - Sarah Lucas, theatre administrator
1944 - Mary Lou Crocker, LPGA golfer
1944 - Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber (Mount Everest)
1945 - Phil Jackson, Deer Lodge Montana, NBA star (Knicks)/coach (Bulls)
1945 - Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor
1946 - Billy Bonds, British soccer player
1946 - Michael Jack, British minister of state-home office
1947 - Jeff MacNelly, Puliter Prize-winning cartoonist (Shoe)
1947 - Robert Kidd, marine geoscientist
1947 - Tessa Jowell, British MP
1948 - John Ritter, Burbank California, actor (Jack-3's Company, Hearts Afire)
1948 - Patricia Kluge, Baghdad Iraq, wife of Billionaire John Kluge
1950 - Fee Waybill, Ohaha Neb, rocker (Tubes)
1950 - Narendra Modi, Indian politician
1950 - Chris Heister, Swedish politician
1950 - Lawrence Anthony, Johannesberg, South Africa, conservationist and author, (d. 2012)
1951 - Cassandra Peterson, [Elvira], KS, actress (Echo Park, Elvira)
1952 - Steve Sanders, Richland Ga, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1953 - Altaf Hussain, Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
1954 - Joël-François Durand, French composer
1955 - Rita Rudner, comedienne (Funny People)
1955 - Scott William Simpson, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1987 US Open)
1955 - Koralia Karanti, Greek actress
1955 - Charles Martinet, American actor
1956 - Thad Bosley. American major league baseball player
1956 - Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher
1957 - David Bintley, choreographer
1958 - Daniel Nunez, Cuba, weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1980)
1959 - Hank Ilesic, Edmonton, CFL punter, place kicker (Edmonton, Toronto)
1960 - Hank Baran, San Diego California, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 Won Mexican)
1960 - John Franco, Brooklyn NY, pitcher (NY Mets)
1960 - Terry Nihen, Concord Mass, playmate (December, 1983)
1961 - Pamela Ann Melroy, Palo Alto California, Major USAF/astronaut (sk:STS 92)
1961 - Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
1962 - Dustin Nguyen, Saigon Vietnam, actor (Harry-21 Jump Street)
1962 - Wayne Riley, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1962 - Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
1963 - Masahiro Chono, wrestler (NJPW)
1963 - Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator
1963 - Michael Adler, American businessman
1963 - Steven Dye, English musician (Scarlet Party), (The Alan Parsons Project)
1963 - Wendy Northcutt, Author of the Darwin Awards
1963 - Amy Roloff, American reality star
1963 - James Urbaniak, American actor
1964 - Christian Conrad, actor (Charley Hannah, High Mountain Rangers)
1964 - Karen Straker, horse show jumper
1965 - Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer
1965 - Guy Picciotto, American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi)
1965 - Bryan Singer, American director
1966 - Fred Childress, CFL guard (Calgary Stampeders)
1967 - Dan Dupuis, Ashcroft BC, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Canadian Golf)
1967 - Derek Ware, NFL tight end (Cin Bengals)
1967 - Malik Yoba, actor (NY Undercover-Det JC Williams)
1967 - Maurice Hurst, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1968 - Lord Jammer, rocker (Brand Nubian)
1968 - Stacey Dillard, NFL defensive tackle (NY Giants)
1968 - Suzy Cote, Santa Barbara California, actress (Samantha-Guiding Light)
1968 - Valeri Zelepukin, NHL forward (NJ Devils, Team Russia Oly-Sil-98)
1968 - Anastacia, American singer
1968 - Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
1969 - Keith Flint, singer/musician (Prodigy)
1969 - Rob Zamuner, NHL forward (Tampa Bay Lightning, Team Canada 1998)
1969 - Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
1970 - Al Fontenot, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears)
1970 - Ashley Ambrose, NFL cornerback (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 - Mark Brunell, NFL quarterback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Wolfgang Kromp, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1971 - Annika Duckmark, Miss Universe-Sweden (1996)
1971 - David Hynes, Australian baseball outfielder (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Octus Polk, NFL guard (Chic Bears)
1971 - Paul Janssen, soccer player (Fortuna S, NAC)
1972 - Allen Williams, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
1972 - Darrius Johnson, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
1972 - Bobby Lee, American comedian
1973 - David Reid, Phila, light middleweight boxer (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer
1973 - Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
1974 - Bas Leferink, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1974 - Jason Hewitt, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
1974 - Rasheed Wallace, NBA forward (Portland Trailblazers)
1974 - Tormod Granheim, Norwegian adventurer
1974 - Mirah, American musician
1975 - Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
1975 - Austin St. John, American actor
1975 - Constantine Maroulis, American singer
1976 - Jonathan Nichols, Wilmington Del, dance skater (& Tami Tyler)
1976 - Trincy Low, Miss Malaysia Universe (1997)
1977 - Becky Turner, Marietta Ga, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1977 - Latoya Warning, Suriname 4th Miss Teenager (1993)
1977 - Tony Goskowicz, Wauwautosa Wis, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1977 - Simone Perrotta, Italian football player
1978 - Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Steffen Algreen, Danish footballer
1979 - Akin Ayodele, American football player
1979 - Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1980 - Asashoryu Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler (born as Dolgorsuren Dagvador)
1980 - Danny Haren, American baseball player
1981 - Bakari Koné, Ivorian footballer
1981 - Casey Janssen, American baseball player
1981 - Francis Manioru, Solomon Islander sprinter
1981 - Jonathan Radtke, American musician (Kill Hannah)
1982 - Hope Larson, American illustrator and cartoonist
1982 - Garth Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 - Jennifer Peña, American singer
1984 - Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel
1985 - Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
1985 - Brendan Clarke, Irish Soccer Player with St. Patrick's Athletic
1985 - Jon Walker, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
1985 - Tomáš Berdych, Czech tennis player
1985 - Mason Raymond, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 - Landry Mulemo, Belgian footballer
1986 - Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
1987 - Paul Huntington, English footballer
1991 - Jordan McCoy, American entertainer
1994 - Taylor Ware, American yodeler

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 17th September


Famous Deaths

                   
US Slave Dred Scott (1858)                      Photography Pioneer
                                                               William Henry Fox Talbot (1877)


1179 - Hildegard van Bingen, mystic/composer (Ordo Virtutum), dies at 81
1312 - Ferdinand V, king of Castile/Leon, dies at 26
1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria
1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
1574 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles, soldier/navigator, dies
1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
1604 - Lucas Osiander, composer, dies at 69
1621 - Roberto Bellarmino, Italian saint (Doctor of the Church), dies at 78
1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
1652 - Bonaventura Elsevier, book publisher/merchant, dies at about 69
1665 - Philip IV, King of Spain (1621-55), dies
1676 - Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement
           (b. 1626)
1679 - Juan Jose of Austrian, Spanish general/govenor of Netherlands, dies at 50
1702 - Olof Rudbeck, composer, dies at 71
1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
1732 - Josef Antonin Planicky, composer, dies at 40
1762 - Francesco Xaverio Geminiani, composer, dies at 74
1771 - Tobias George Smollett, novelist (Adv of Roderick Random), dies at 50
1803 - Franz Xaver Sussmayr, composer, dies
1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
1820 - Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76
1823 - Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker, dies at 76
1824 - Giacomo Tritto, composer, dies at 91
1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
1839 - Ethel Mary Dell, [Mrs G T Savage], romantic novelist, dies
1846 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer, dies at 84
1858 - Dred Scott, US slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies
1862 - Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, (Rep-D)/Confederate brig-general, dies at 41
1862 - William Edwin Starke, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at about 48
1863 - Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies
1863 - Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny, poet, dies
1864 - Walter Savage Landor, author, dies
1868 - Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies
1869 - Peter M Roget, England, lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus), dies
1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
1877 - William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, dies at 77
1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
1884 - Louis Schubert, composer, dies at 56
1892 - Ignaz V Zingerle Edler von Simmersberg, Austrian, dies
1894 - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
1895 - Auguste Toulet, Belgian balloonist, dies
1899 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
1907 - Ignaz Brull, composer, dies at 60
1908 - Thomas E Selfridge, earlier US aviator, 1st to die in an air crash
1926 - August Sauer, Austria literature historian, dies at 70
1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
1934 - Edmund van der Straeten, composer, dies at 79
1936 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
1938 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
1943 - Dick Tyldesley, cricketer (7 Tests for England), dies
1944 - ... Kussin, German gen-maj/commanding Arnhem, dies in battle
1946 - Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1948 - Count Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator for Palestine, assassinated
1948 - Lillian Brainthwaite, Brit actress (Man About the House), dies at 75
1948 - Ruth Benedict, anthropoligst, dies
1951 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
1953 - Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature critic, dies at 80
1953 - Henry Holden Huss, composer, dies at 91
1956 - Mildred E "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, (Olympic-gold-1932), dies at 42
1957 - John W "John" Eisenloeffel, goldsmith, dies at 81
1958 - Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi, dies at 70
1958 - Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist, dies at 71
1959 - Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director, dies at 39
1960 - Jose Sancho Marraco, composer, dies at 81
1961 - Adnan Menderes, PM of Turkey (1950-60), dies at 62
1961 - Simon Delmonte, actor/director (Bleke Bet), dies at 68
1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), dies at 35
1972 - Akim Tamiroff, actor (Hotel Paradisio, Lord Jim), dies at 72
1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, composer, dies at 63
1979 - Miloslav Kabelac, composer, dies at 71
1980 - Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan Pres, assassinated in Paraguay
1980 - Katherine A Porter, US author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90
1982 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
1983 - Humberto Madeiros, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 67
1984 - Richard Basehart, actor (Rage), dies following several strokes at 70
1985 - Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, dies by accident
1986 - Patricia Phoenix, English actress (Coronation Street), dies at 62
1987 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
1989 - Jay Stewart, annoucer on Lets Make a Deal, commits suicide
1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
1992 - Feodor Chaliapin Jr, actor (King's Whore), dies after illness at 87
1992 - William A Swanberg, biographer (Henry Luce, Pulitzer 1973), dies at 84
1993 - Christian Nyby, US director (Big Sleep, Thing), dies at 80
1994 - Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46
1994 - John DeLaFose, zydeco musician, dies at 55
1994 - Karl R Popper, philosopher (Poverty of Historianism), dies at 92
1994 - Paul Nicholas Young, architect, dies at 47
1995 - Grady Sutton, actor (Come Blow Your Horn, Flying Blind), dies at 87
1995 - Yehuda Meir Getz, rabbi/soldier/religious leader, dies at 71
1995 - Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
1996 - Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician, dies at 63
1997 - Jan Peder Syse, PM of Norway (1989-90), dies
1997 - John Seldon Whale, theologian, dies at 100
1997 - Red Skelton, comedian (Red Skelton Show), dies at 84
1998 - Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)
1999 - Frankie Vaughan, British singer (b. 1928)
2000 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)
2001 - Lou Dog, Sublime mascot.
2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
2009 - Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (b. 1968)
2011 - Colin Madigan, Australian architect (b. 1921)
2012 - Russell E. Train, American environmentalist, dies at 92

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 18th September


Historical Events

                                   
Explorer of the New World                      Education Pioneer                                 Dictator of Nazi Germany
Christopher Columbus                             Booker T. Washington                                     Adolf Hitler


Chinese Communist Revolutionary
and Politician Mao Tse-Tung


96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
324 - Chrysopolis Emperor Constantine beats Emperor Licinius
1180 - Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
1437 - Peasant uprising in Transsylvania
1454 - In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the
          Thirteen Years' War.
1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th & last voyage
1544 - English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne
1544 - Peace of Crépy: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & French King Francis I
1573 - Spain attacks Alkmaar
1635 - Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France
1679 - New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony
1739 - Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1755 - Fort Ticonderoga, New York opens
1759 - Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British who capture Quebec City
1769 - John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (US)
1789 - 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress
1793 - President George Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
1809 - Royal Opera House in London opens
1810 - Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1811 - British expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies
1812 - Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses & 1,000 churchs
1838 - Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden
1842 - 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published
1846 - Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning exchange last letters before eloping
1848 - Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner
1849 - De Kempenae's Dutch government resigns
1850 - Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850
1851 - New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)
1862 - Confederate armies officially divide into corps
1862 - General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia
1864 - Battle of Martinsburg WV
1864 - Hood's Tennessee campaign begins (also called The Franklin–Nashville Campaign), American
           Civil War
1872 - King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1873 - Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the
           panic of 1873
1879 - The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
1881 - Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment
1882 - Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)
1885 - Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four" (BG)
1891 - Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief
1895 - Booker T. Washington delivers 'Atlanta Compromise' address
1895 - Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa gives the first chiropractic adjustment
1897 - Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of NYC," premieres in NYC
1898 - Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan
1903 - Phillies' Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs, 10-0
1905 - Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam
1906 - A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1908 - Cleve Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1
1909 - Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det
1910 - 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage
1911 - Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown
1911 - Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in NYC
1914 - Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1914 - Gen von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
1914 - Irish Home Rule bill receives Royal assent
1914 - South African troops land in German South West Africa
1915 - Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1
1918 - Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts
1919 - Dutch second chamber accepts female suffrage
1919 - Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
1922 - 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
1922 - Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by NY's Joe Bush
1922 - Hungary admitted to League of Nations
1924 - Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking
1925 - Bill Tilden wins 6th straight US tennis championship
1926 - 46th US Men's Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64)
1926 - Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
1926 - Jean Rene Lacoste wins US Tennis Open
1927 - The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. with 18 stations (and WOR as NYC
           affiliate)
1928 - Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928
1928 - Juan de la Cierva flies 1st helicopter above Channel
1929 - Pirates loss to Braves & clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
1929 - Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in NYC
1930 - Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup
1930 - NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6
1930 - Phila A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
1931 - Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo
1932 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign.
1934 - St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1
1934 - USSR admitted to League of Nations
1938 - Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0
1938 - Despite losing a double header, Yanks clinch pennant #10
1939 - Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
1939 - William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast.
1940 - 19 German aircraft shot down above England
1940 - Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda," premieres in NYC
1940 - Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani
1942 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
1943 - Cardinals clinch NL pennant
1943 - Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful)
1944 - British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed
1944 - Eindhoven free (Lightly Day)
1944 - US 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne
1945 - 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration
1946 - Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1947 - National Security Act passes
1947 - US Air Force forms
1948 - "Hilarities (of 1949)" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 14 perfs
1948 - Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin)
1948 - Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine
1949 - Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit
1950 - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission
1954 - Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2)
1954 - KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - WLOS TV channel 13 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (ABC) 1st broadcast
1955 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open
1955 - Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock)
1956 - Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon
1957 - "Wagon Train" premieres
1957 - Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels
1959 - Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games
1962 - Charlie Finley is denied permission to move As to Dallas-Fort Worth
1962 - Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1
1963 - USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1965 - "Get Smart" premieres
1965 - Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1967 - Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st America's Cup
1968 - Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0
1969 - Tiny Tim & Miss Vicky get engaged
1971 - 19th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 18½-13½ at Old Warson Country Club (St. Louis,
           Missouri, US)
1972 - 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego)
1973 - German FR & German DR admitted to UN
1974 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
1975 - Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF
1976 - Cleve manager Frank Robinson last game as a player
1976 - Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election
1976 - Rev Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention
1976 - Rock Music Award
1976 - Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing.
1977 - Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore
1977 - Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup
1977 - Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship
1977 - US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together
1978 - All 4 Kiss members release solo albums
1979 - Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect
1979 - Steven Lachs, appointed Calif's 1st admittedly gay judge
1979 - The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden
1980 - "Les Miserables" opens at Palais des Sports, Paris
1980 - Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base
1980 - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
1981 - Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1982 - Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon
1983 - George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
1983 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1983 - Lebanese & Syrian army battle
1983 - New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chic Bears 34-31
1984 - Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
1984 - Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
1984 - Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons
1985 - "Song & Dance" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances
1985 - BBC Radio reports prime # 2^216091-1 found in Houston
1986 - David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras
1987 - Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs
1987 - US & Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 - Burma suspends its constitution
1988 - Coup in Haiti
1988 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1989 - Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
1990 - 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC
1990 - Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
1990 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1991 - John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians
1991 - NCAA places Tenn on 2 yrs probation for football recruting violations
1991 - Robert Helmick resigns as pres of US Olympic Committee
1991 - Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands
1991 - Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
1993 - Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994
1993 - LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins
1993 - Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance,
           & Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3
1994 - 1st Presidents Golf Cup: US beats Intl team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va
1994 - Austrian conservative FVP wins election; extreme right gets 18.5%
1994 - Deb Richard wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1994 - Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS
1994 - Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
1995 - Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Balt to move Browns
1995 - Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands
1996 - Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts
1997 - Seve Ballesteros & Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame
1997 - Ted Turner gives $1 billion to UN
1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) in a referendum on Welsh autonomy.
1998 - ICANN is formed.
2001 - First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2003 - The United Kingdom's Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial Section 28 of the
           Local Government Act 1988, receives Royal Assent.
2006 - Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one
           day after an audio tape was made public, in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted
           he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
2007 - Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to
           Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
2007 - Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the
           Saffron Revolution.
2009 - The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
2012 - 10 soliders are killed and 70 injured by a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
2012 - 26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico
2012 - The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day
           strike.
2012 - World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of
          Gothenburg

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This Day in History for 18th September


Famous Weddings

1955 - Actress-singer Debbie Reynolds (23) weds singer Eddie Fisher (27)
1955 - Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara (27) weds Peruvian economist Hilda Gadea (34)
           in Mexico
1964 - Greek king Constantine II marries Danish princess Anne-Marie
1985 - Comedian Jeff Foxworthy (27) weds Pamela Gregg at New York City's Central Park
2004 - Pop star Britney Spears (22) weds rapper-dancer Kevin Federline (26) in Studio City,
          California
2006 - Chinese movie actor Nicholas Tse (26) weds HK actress and cantopop singer Cecilia Cheung
           (26) at Palawan island in the Philippines
2009 - Grammy-winning rock-folk singer Lucinda Williams (56) weds manager Tom Overby at First
           Avenue in Minneapolis
2010 - Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder (45) weds model Jill McCormick (32) in Hawaii

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This Day in History for 18th September


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Roman Emperor Trajan (53)                     Actress Greta Garbo (1905)                     Professional Road Cyclist and
                                                                                                                             Testicular Cancer Survivor 
                                                                                                                             Lance Armstrong (1971)                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                       


53 - Trajan, ancient Hispania, XIII Roman Emperor, (Trajan's Forum), (d. 117)
1344 - Marie Valois, Princess of France (d. 1404)
1434 - Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1467)
1574 - Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer/poet
1587 - Francesca Caccini, Italian composer (d. circa 1640)
1636 - Pietro Sanmartini, composer
1676 - Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1733)
1684 - Johann Gottfried Walther, Erfurt Germany, composer/Musicographer
1709 - Samuel Johnson, Lichfield Staffordshire, England, lexicographer/writer (Boswell's Tour Guide)
1713 - Jean Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher
1733 - George Read, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1750 - Tomas de Iriarte, Spanish writer (Fabulas Literarias)
1752 - Adrien-Marie Lagendre, mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals
1752 - Johann Anton Sulzer, composer
1765 - Oliver Holden, composer
1772 - Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer
1779 - Joseph Story, Mass, 19th Supreme Court justice (1812-45)
1786 - Justinus AC Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer
1787 - Johann D Passavant, German historian/painter/graphic artist
1805 - Robert Cowdin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1812 - Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (d. 1880)
1815 - Henry Constantine Wayne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1818 - Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1837 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
1838 - Anton Mauve, painter/graphic artist/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh
1859 - John L. Bates, 41st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1946)
1859 - Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (d. 1940)
1860 - Alberto Franchetti, composer
1863 - Hermann Kutter, Swiss Christ-social theologist
1870 - Clark Wissler, anthropologist (American Indian)
1874 - Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Vises Sten)
1875 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (d.1945)
1876 - Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Pesme)
1876 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
1877 - Jozef de Voght, Flemish priest/songwriter (Under the Snow)
1883 - Lord Berners, [Gerald Tyrwhitt], England, composer (1st Childhood)
1885 - Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer
1889 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (d. 1970)
1890 - Vladimir Ambros, composer
1893 - Arthur Benjamin, Sydney Australia, composer (Jamaican Rumba)
1893 - William March, [Campbell], US, writer (Company K)
1895 - John G Diefenbaker, Neustadt Ontario, 13th Canadian PM (C) (1957-63)
1895 - Tomoji Tanabe, the oldest man in the world as of June 2007
1897 - John Mens, writer (People Without Money)
1897 - Pablo Sorozabal Marialcurrena, composer
1901 - Harold Clurman, producer/director (Deadline at Dawn)
1905 - Agnes De Mille, NYC, choreographer (Oklahoma)
1905 - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Oakland California, actor (Jack Benny Show)
1905 - Greta Garbo, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Ninotchka, Grand Hotel, Camille), (d. 1990)
1906 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli) [OS=Sept 5]
1907 - Edwin M McMillan, US, physicist/discoverer plutonium (Nobel prize)
1908 - Viktor A Ambartsoemjan, Russian astronomer (Stalin Prize 1946, 50)
1910 - Henri A Cornelis, gov-general Belgian Congo/Rwanda-Urundi
1910 - Josef Tal, composer
1910 - Leon Stein, composer
1911 - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
1912 - Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (d. 2005)
1914 - Jack Cardiff, British film director
1915 - Hetta Empson, artist
1915 - Ronald Ogden, engineer
1916 - John J Rhodes, (Rep-R-Az)
1916 - Rossano Brazzi, Bolognia Italy, actor/director (Antaeus-Survivors)
1916 - Frank Bell, British educator (d. 1989)
1917 - Alan Ande Anderson, opera director
1917 - Gerrit Borgers, literature
1918 - John Berger, politician
1920 - Jack Warden, Newark NJ, actor (NYPD, Crazy Like a Fox, Norby)
1922 - Grayson Hall, American actress (d. 1985)
1922 - Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer
1923 - J T Mellema, Boer politician (CHU)
1923 - Peter Smithson, English architect (d. 2003)
1923 - Queen Anne of Romania
1924 - Zelda Fichandler, Boston, theater director/producer (Raisin, K2)
1925 - Harvey Haddix, baseball pitcher (pitched perfect game into 12th)
1926 - Bud Greenspan, documentary maker (Olympic Games)
1926 - Bob Toski, American golfer
1927 - Gerlando Alberti, Palermo, Italy, Sicilian Mafioso (Ciaculli massacre, 1963, 'Mafia! What is that?
           A kind of cheese'), (d. 2012)
1928 - Adam Walacinski, composer
1928 - Phyllis Kirk, Syracuse NY, actress (Thin Man, Red Button's Show)
1929 - June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist
1929 - Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player
1932 - Jack Mullaney, Pitts Pa, actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time)
1932 - Nikolai N Rukavishnikov, Siberia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 10, 16, 33)
1932 - Valery Viktorovich Ryumin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32/34, 35/37)
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, WA, singer/guitarist (Jimmie Rodgers Show, Honey Comb)
1933 - Manfred Niehaus, composer
1933 - Robert Blake, Nutley NJ, (Baretta, Little Rascals, Coast to Coast)
1933 - Robert F Bennett, (Sen-R Utah)
1933 - Scotty Bowman, NHL player/coach (Mont Canadians)
1933 - Valentina Ponomaryova, Moscow, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 6 backup)
1937 - Norman Dinnerstein, composer
1939 - Bob Whittaker, (Rep-R-KS, 1979- )
1939 - Fred Willard, Ohio, comedian (Fernwood 2 Night, Real People)
1939 - Naresh Kumar Sohal, composer
1939 - Jorge Sampaio, President of Portugal
1940 - Frankie Avalon, Phila, actor (Beach movies)/singer (Venus)
1941 - Clive Burton, neuropathologist
1941 - Haflidi Magnus Hallgrimmson, composer
1941 - Mariangela Melato, Milan Italy, actress (Flash Gordon, Summer Night)
1942 - Koos van den Berg, Dutch MP (SGP)
1942 - Alex Stepney, English football goalkeeper
1943 - Michael Vetter, composer
1944 - Charles Lacy Veach, Chicago Illinois, astronaut (STS 39, STS 52)
1944 - Michael Franks, rocker
1944 - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
1946 - Alan "Bam" King, rocker
1946 - Nicholas Clay, English actor (d. 2000)
1946 - Otis Sistrunk, American football player
1947 - Hans Vermeulen, singer/guitarist (Sandy Coast)
1947 - Giancarlo Minardi, Italian motor racing team boss
1948 - Ken Brett, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1949 - Jim McCrery, (Rep-R-Louisiana)
1949 - Kerry Livgren, Kansas, rock guitarist (Kansas)
1949 - Mo Mowlam, British politician (d. 2005)
1949 - Peter Shilton, English footballer
1949 - Billy Drago, American actor
1950 - Helene Weijel, author (In the Street Without a Coat)
1950 - Mike Hossack, Patterson NJ, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers), (d. 2012)
1950 - Shabana Azmi, Indian actress
1950 - Darryl Sittler, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 - Dee Dee Ramone, Virg, [Douglas Colvin], rock bassist (Ramones)
1951 - Benjamin Carson, American neurosurgeon
1951 - Marc Surer, Swiss motor racing driver
1952 - Rick Pitino, American basketball coach
1953 - Betsy Boze née: Vogel, American academic
1954 - Murtaza Bhutto, politician
1954 - Takao Doi, Tokyo Japan, astronaut (STS 87)
1954 - Tommy Tuberville, American football coach
1955 - Jeana Tomasino, Milwaukee Wis, playmate (Nov, 1980)
1955 - Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (d. 2006)
1956 - Peter Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player
1956 - Chris Hedges, American journalist and author
1958 - John Aldridge, Irish footballer
1958 - Don Geronimo, American radio personality
1959 - Ryne Sandberg, Spokane WA, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1959 - Ian Arkwright, English footballer
1959 - Mark Romanek, American filmmaker
1960 - Karim Rashid, Egyptian/English industrial designer
1961 - Jensen Buchanan, Montgomery Ala, actress (Vicky/Marley-Another World)
1961 - Sharon Barrett, San Diego, LPGA golfer (1993 Nabisco Dinah Shore-22nd)
1961 - James Gandolfini, American actor, (d. 2013)
1962 - Joanne Catherall, Sheffield England, rock vocalist (Human League)
1962 - John Fashanu, English footballer
1963 - Rich Weiss, Munich Germany, US slalom single kayak (Olympics-6th-96)
1963 - Rob Brettle, British historian
1963 - Jim Pocklington, British racing driver
1964 - Holly Robinson, Phila, actress (21 Jump Street)
1964 - Marco Masini, Italian entertainer
1966 - Isabelle Demongeot, Gassin France, tennis star
1966 - Spike, guitarist (Ian Spice Breathe, Flash Cadillac) [or Feb 4]
1967 - Ricky Bell, Boston Mass, rock vocalist (New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe)
1967 - Tara Fitzgerald, Sussex England, actress (Siren)
1968 - Toni Kukoc, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
1968 - Cappadonna, American rapper
1969 - Robert Coons, NFL tight end (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Everett Lindsay, NFL guard/center (Minnesota Vikings)
1970 - Gary Rogers, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 - Michela Rocco, Udine Italy, Miss Italy (1987)
1970 - Mike Compton, NFL center/guard (Detroit Lions)
1970 - Dan Eldon, British photojournalist (d. 1993)
1970 - Aisha Tyler, American actress and comedian
1971 - Jada Pinkett, actress (Jason's Lyric, Menace II Society)
1971 - Kate Starre, Armadale Australia, field hockey utility (Olympics-96)
1971 - Lance Armstrong, Plano Texas, American road cyclist (7 Tour de France wins) barred from
           sport for using banned drugs
1971 - Oleg Ladik, Kiev Ukraine, Canadian 100 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1971 - Ron Childs, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1971 - Anna Netrebko, Russian opera singer
1972 - Francois Gesthuizen, soccer player (PSV, NAC)
1972 - Michael Landes, actor (American Summer)
1972 - Richard Huntley, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 - Brigitte Becue, Belgian swimmer
1972 - David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
1973 - Paul Brousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - James Marsden, American actor
1973 - Ami Onuki, Japanese singer (Puffy AmiYumi)
1973 - Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur
1974 - Sol Campbell, English footballer
1974 - Ticha Penicheiro, Portuguese basketball player
1974 - Xzibit, American rapper
1975 - Kanstantsin Lukashyk, Belarusian pistol shooter
1975 - Jason Sudeikis, American actor and comedian
1975 - "Habacuc" Guillermo Vargas, Costa Rican artist
1976 - Gabriel Gervais, Canadian football player
1977 - Li Tie, Chinese footballer
1977 - Kieran West, British oarsman
1978 - Shelly Moore, Miss Teen USA (Tennessee, 1997)
1978 - Augustine Simo, Cameroonian footballer
1978 - Pilar López de Ayala, Spanish actress
1979 - Alison Lohman, American actress
1979 - Daniel Aranzubia, Spanish footballer
1980 - Avi Strool, Israeli footballer
1980 - Charles Hedger - British musician (Cradle of Filth)
1980 - Chris Tarrant, Australian football player
1981 - Jennifer Tisdale, American actress and model
1983 - Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
1984 - Anthony Gonzalez, American football player
1986 - Keeley Hazell, British model
1988 - Annette Obrestad, Norwegian poker player

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This Day in History for 18th September


Famous Deaths

 
Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix (1970)


31 - Sejanus, Roman head of praetorian guard, executed
96 - Domitian, Roman emperor, dies
887 - Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle)
993 - Arnulf vanf Gent, Westfries earl (988-93), dies in battle
1137 - Erik II Eimune, [Onvergetelijke], king of Denmark (1134-37), murdered
1180 - Louis VII, King of France, dies
1261 - Koenraad van Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1426 - Hubert [Huybrecht] van Eyck, painter, dies
1598 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
1630 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman (b. 1552)
1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (b. 1603)
1675 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1604)
1684 - Jan A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Ystroom), dies at 37
1721 - Matthew Prior, poet/diplomat, dies
1722 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (b. 1651)
1735 - Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51
1775 - Andrew Foulis, bookseller/printer, dies
1783 - Leonhard Euler, mathematician, dies
1783 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
1792 - Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies
1797 - Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies
1806 - Patrick Cotter O'Brien, first known eight-foot-tall person (b. 1760)
1818 - Olaf Swaertz, botanist, dies
1827 - Robert Pollok, poet, dies
1830 - William Hazlitt, critic/essayist, dies
1831 - Peter Hansel, composer, dies at 60
1857 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer, dies at 72
1860 - Casimiro de Abreu, Brazilians poet (Primaveras), dies
1860 - Joseph Locke, railway engineer, dies
1872 - Charles XV Louis E, king of Sweden/Norway (1859-72), dies
1890 - Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor/playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67
1891 - William Ferrel, American mathematician (b. 1817)
1896 - Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies
1903 - Isidor Vorobchievici, composer, dies at 67
1903 - Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer, dies at 79
1904 - Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto, dies
1905 - George MacDonald, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), dies at 80
1911 - Russian Premier Peter Stolypin (1906-11), shot and murdered at the Kiev Opera House aged
           49
1918 - Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer, dies at 33
1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism), dies
1929 - Hermann Gradener, composer, dies at 85
1931 - Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806)
1934 - Marie Shotwell, actress (Sally of the Sawdust), dies at 54
1939 - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter, and photographer (b. 1885)
1939 - Gwen John, Welsh painter, dies aged 63
1944 - Anthony Stefanich, British boxer/captain, killed in Arnhem
1944 - Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (1933-39), dies at 75
1944 - Hubert Ahaus, chaplin (Godsrijk), dies at 67
1944 - Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem
1944 - Robert Cole, US lt-colonel, dies in battle at Best
1945 - Blind Willie Johnson American blues/spiritual singer and guitarist (b. 1897)
1949 - Frank Morgan, actor (Wizard of Oz), dies at 59
1951 - John Douglas Cockcroft, physicist, dies
1952 - Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Dreamy), dies
1953 - Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (b. 1927)
1956 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Quebec (b. 1892)
1960 - A J Evans, cricketer (only England Test v Aus 1921), dies
1961 - Dag Hammarskjoeld, UN Sect Gen, dies in an air crash over Congo at 56
1962 - Therese Neumann, German stigma, dies at 64
1964 - Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (The Plough and the Stars), dies at 84
1964 - Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881)
1966 - Fernand Lamy, composer, dies at 85
1966 - Jeno Vecsey, composer, dies at 57
1967 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1968 - Franchot Tone, actor (Advise & Consent, Dark Waters), dies at 63
1968 - Francis McDonald, actor (Will-Adv of Champion), dies at 77
1968 - Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 65
1969 - Rudolph Wagner-Regeny, composer, dies at 66
1970 - Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), dies of a drug overdose at 27
1973 - Nora Nicholson, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow), dies at 80
1974 - Edna Best, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape), dies at 74
1975 - Pamela Brown, actress (Cleopatra, Beckett, Night Digger), dies at 58
1977 - Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
1979 - Gene Kelly, sportscaster (Sportsreel), dies at 60
1980 - K A Porter, writer, dies at 90
1994 - Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies at 44
1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis star (Davis Cup 1979), dies at 40
1995 - Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73
1995 - Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London), dies at 64
1995 - Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist, dies at 47
1995 - Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (b. 1969)
1996 - Spiro Theodore Agnew, US VP (1969-73), dies at 77
1997 - Harry Brian Boyne, journalist, dies at 87
1997 - Jimmy Witherspoon, singer, dies at 65
2001 - Ernie Coombs, Canadian entertainer (b. 1927)
2002 - Bob Hayes, American athlete (b. 1942)
2002 - Mauro Ramos, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)
2003 - Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
2003 - Bob Mitchell, British politician (b. 1927)
2004 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
2004 - Russ Meyer, American film director (b. 1922)
2005 - Michael Park, British Rally co-driver (b. 1966)
2006 - Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
2007 - Pepsi Tate Bassist from the glam-rock band, tigertailz (b. 1965)
2012 - Jack Kralick, American MLB pitcher, dies from complications from strokes at 77
2012 - Steve Sabol, American filmmaker, dies from brain cancer at 69

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 19th September


Historical Events

                                   
Naturalist Charles Darwin                        Comedian Charlie Chaplin                  First Secretary of the Communist
                                                                                                                               Party of the Soviet Union
                                                                                                                                     Nikita Khrushchev

                 
Actress Mary Tyler Moore                       Comedian Jerry Seinfeld


335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
1356 - English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers
1523 - Emperor Charles I & England sign anti-French covenant
1559 - 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
1580 - Treaty of Plessis-lez-Tours (Anjou/Dutch States-General)
1602 - Grave surrenders to earl Mauritius
1642 - Perpignan surrenders to French troops
1656 - Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg
1657 - Brandenburg & Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau
1668 - Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France
1676 - Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Va on fire
1755 - Great Britain & Russia sign military agreement
1777 - Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga
1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
1795 - Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned
1796 - George Washington's farewell address as president
1799 - English & Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver
1833 - Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina
1838 - Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake
1848 - Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England)
1849 - 1st commercial laundry established, in Oaklan, California
1854 - Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car
1862 - -20] Battle at Blackford's Ford Virginia
1862 - Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties)
1863 - Battle of Chickamauga GA (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat
1864 - 3rd Battle of Winchester Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester)
1865 - Atlanta University forms
1870 - Siege of Paris begins
1873 - Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic
1876 - 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich)
1876 - Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa
1879 - Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2½" at
           age 17 years & 198 days
1888 - World's 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium)
1890 - Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540
1893 - New Zealand is first country to grant all its women the right to vote
1901 - 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of Pres William McKinley
1903 - King Leopold II denies Belgian cruelty in Congo
1904 - Gen Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties
1908 - Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony premieres in Prague
1910 - George Cohan's "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" premieres in NYC
1911 - Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights
1912 - Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions
1912 - Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda
1914 - Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2
1916 - First landing at Schiphol Airport, Netherlands (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg)
1916 - Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa
1921 - 41st US Men's Tennis: William T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 63 61)
1922 - Queen Wilhelmina assumes Dutch throne with 119 word speech
1923 - Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann," premieres in Leipzig
1925 - 45th US Men's Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (46 119 63 46 63)
1926 - 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague
1926 - The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.
1928 - Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)
1929 - Latvia dictator A Woldemaras chased out
1931 - 14th PGA Championship: Tom Creavy at Wannamoisett CC Rumford RI
1931 - Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria
1931 - Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1
1933 - NY Giants clinch the pennant
1934 - Bruno Haptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby
1939 - British Expeditionary Force reaches France
1939 - Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin
1939 - Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland
1940 - Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes
1940 - Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out
           information and start a resistance.
1941 - 1st meeting of partisan leaders Tito & Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
1941 - German army conquerors Kiev
1941 - Nazis force German Jews, 6 & over to wear Jewish stars
1943 - Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record
1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-341
1944 - Finland & Russia agree to cease fire
1944 - Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed
1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
1945 - Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea
1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London
1947 - Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year"
1948 - 62nd US Women's Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats A L Brough (46 64 15-13)
1948 - 68th US Men's Tennis: "Pancho" Gonzales beats E Sturgess (62 63 14-12)
1948 - Richard A Gonzales wins US Tennis Open
1950 - European Payment Union forms in Paris
1950 - Great Three acknowledge Bond government as only German government
1950 - UN reject membership of China's People Republic
1951 - 1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV
1951 - Italian civil servants strike for pay increase
1952 - The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
1953 - "Hazel Flagg" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 190 perfs
1954 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Wichita Golf Open
1955 - Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns & flees
1955 - Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season
1955 - Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico
1956 - 1st international conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne)
1957 - 1st underground nuclear explosion at Las Vegas Nevada
1957 - Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300,000 sales of "Bambino".
1959 - Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland
1960 - Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1
1961 - Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to
           abduct them.
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 - Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
1965 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open
1965 - Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections
1966 - Mike Burke named Yankees pres
1967 - Nigeria begins offensive against Biafra
1968 - Denny McLain's 31st win & Mickey Mantle's 535th HR
1970 - "Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres
1971 - 1st NYC Women's Marathon won by Beth Bonner in 2:55:22
1971 - 2nd NYC Marathon won by Norman Higgins in 2:22:54
1972 - A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
1973 - Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden
1973 - Frank Robinson homers in record 32nd ML park (Arlington Tx)
1973 - NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington DC
1973 - Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) forms
1973 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 - -20] Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die
1975 - Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor
1976 - "Going Up" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 49 performances
1976 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Portland Golf Classic
1979 - No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden includes Springsteen & Crosby, Stills & Nash
1980 - Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR)
1981 - Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel perform a reunion concert in Central Park
1981 - Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket
1981 - Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert
1982 - 34th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Barney Miller, Alan Alda & Carol Kane
1982 - New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chic Bears 10-0
1982 - Sandra Haynie/Kathy McMullen wins Portland Ping Team Golf Championship
1982 - Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service
1983 - David Slowinski on 2 CRAY-1 comp's find 2^132049-1 prime #
1983 - St Kitts & Nevis declares independence from UK
1984 - Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997
1985 - 12,000 die & 40,000 injured in Mexico's earthquake (8.1)
1986 - "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres
1986 - Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1
1986 - Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras
1986 - Fed health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients
1987 - Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Mich), 24, crowned 61st Miss America
1988 - Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance
1988 - US Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board
1989 - Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens
1989 - French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die
1989 - Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ
           protested US's use of a catamaran)
1991 - Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug
1991 - Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
1992 - Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m)
1992 - UN Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia
1992 - Barry Bonds joins Willie Mays, Howard Johnson & Ron Gant as having (2) 30-HR/30-steal
           seasons
1993 - 45th Emmy Awards: Seinfeld, Picket Fences & Ted Danson wins
1993 - Actress Michele Phillips (Knots Landing) is robbed at gunpoint
1993 - Brandie Burton wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1993 - Kimberly Clarice Aiken, 18, Miss SC wins 67th Miss America
1993 - Parliamentary election in Poland
1993 - Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years
1994 - 3,000 US militia lands on Haiti
1994 - Swedish government of Bildt resigns
1995 - Andres Galarraga is 4th to hit 30 HRs for Rockies in 1995
1995 - Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits HRs in 3rd of 4 games
1995 - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
1996 - "Skylight" opens at Royale Theater NYC
1997 - Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
2000 - Ken Griffey, Jr. pinch-hits his 400th home run. The first major leaguer to reach the mark as a
           pinch-hitter
2006 - The Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is
           declared.
2012 - 9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan

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This Day in History for 19th September


Famous Weddings

1945 - Actress Shirley Temple (17) weds actor John Agar (24) in an Episcopal ceremony at Wilshire
           Methodist Church
1964 - Author Peter Benchley (24) weds Winifred B. Wesson
1998 - "Full House" actor John Stamos (35) weds supermodel Rebecca Romijn (25) at The Beverly
           Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California
1999 - Chinese martial artist Jet Li (36) weds actress Nina Li Chi (37) in Los Angeles
2008 - NBC's The Biggest Loser contestant Matt Hoover (30) weds Suzy Preston (30) at the Grand
           Lido Negril resort in Jamaica
2009 - "500 Days of Summer" actress Zooey Deschanel (29) weds "Death Cab for Cutie" singer Ben
           Gibbard (33) in Seattle, Washington