~ On This Day in History ~

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This Day in History for 23rd September


Historical Events

                                   
US Defector General                              Heavyweight Boxing Champion                Dictator of Nazi Germany
Benedict Arnold                                     Jack Dempsey                                                Adolf Hitler

                                   
Singer Buddy Holly                                  Hall of Fame MLB shortstop                    Actress Jane Fonda
                                                                Ernie Banks


951 - Otto I the Great becomes king of Italy
1122 - Concord of Worms
1408 - Battle of Othee
1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at
           Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
1513 - King Henry III & Emperor Maximilian conquer Doornik
1561 - King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida
1642 - Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement
1719 - Liechtenstein declares independence from German empire
1739 - Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade
1746 - Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor
1779 - John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats HMS Serepis
1780 - Brit Maj John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Pt
1795 - Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris
1803 - Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army
1806 - Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest
1818 - Border demarcation markers for Moresnet formally installed.
1821 - Fall of Tripolitsa, Greece, massacre of 30.000 Turks.
1830 - Dutch troops occupy Brussels
1835 - HMS Beagle sails to Charles Island in Galapagos archipelago
1845 - 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
1845 - Hunger strike in Hague
1846 - Johann Gottfried Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
1857 - Russian warship Leffort disappears in Finland Gulf in storm; 826 die
1862 - Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
1863 - Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins
1864 - Battle of Athens VA
1868 - Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain)
1873 - Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title
1876 - Ottawa Rough Riders play their 1st game
1877 - Hurricane strikes Curacao & Bonaire kills 200
1879 - Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia
1879 - Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone
1880 - Jules Ferry forms French government
1884 - Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
1889 - Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to
           produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1890 - Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning
1895 - French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms
1897 - 1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)
1904 - Francis Younghusbands leaves Lhasa Tibet
1905 - Mbunga-siege of Fort Mahenge German East-Africa broken
1907 - Proclamation sets fineness & weight of silver & bronze coins of Canada
1908 - Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th & disallows winning
           run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay & pennant)
1908 - University of Alberta opens
1911 - Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot
1912 - 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released
1912 - Mark Sennet presents 1st Keystone Cops film (Cohen Collects a Debt)
1913 - Roland Garros is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea
1913 - Serbian troops march into Albania
1914 - Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves
1920 - Alexander Millerand elected president of France
1922 - B Brechts "Drum in the Night," premieres in Germany
1922 - Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
1923 - 80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law
1925 - George Kaufman's "Butter & Egg Man," premieres in NYC
1925 - Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP
1926 - Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1932 - Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1933 - Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12
1936 - Giants Carl Hubbell notches his 16th en route to 24 consecutive wins
1937 - Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit
1938 - British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich
1938 - Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a
           woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm)
1939 - Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4
1940 - -27] French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees
1940 - Dutch nazi collaborator Mussert's 1st meeting with Hitler
1941 - General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London
1941 - German air raid on Russ naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)
1941 - The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
1942 - Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions
1942 - Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad
1942 - Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1948 - Braves clinch NL pennant
1949 - Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant
1949 - Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation
1950 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Sunset Hills Golf Open
1950 - Phila A's Joe Astroth is 4th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
1950 - US Mustangs accidentally bombs British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed
1952 - 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
1952 - Dodgers clinch NL pennant
1952 - Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
1952 - Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1953 - KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Pakistan signs Pact of Baghdad
1955 - Yanks clinch pennant by beating Red Sox, 3-2
1957 - "That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly & Crickets reaches #1
1957 - Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2
1957 - WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS/FOX) begins broadcasting
1957 - White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to
           withdraw
1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 - Stravinsky's "Thieni," premieres in Venetië
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - 1959 The M/S Princess of Tasmania Australia's first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry makes
           maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
1961 - 1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire
1961 - Ernie Banks ends 717 consecutive-games-played streak
1962 - ABC's 1st color TV series-Jetsons
1962 - LA Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104
1962 - Martin Walser's "Esche und Angora," premieres in Berlin
1962 - Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open
1962 - NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center
           for Performing Arts
1963 - Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State
1963 - WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in NYC
1967 - Greek Colonels regime frees ex-premier Georgios Papandreou
1967 - Radio Malta stops testing
1968 - WKAS TV channel 25 in Ashland, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - 1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV
1969 - Northern Star and Illinois Univ newspaper start rumors that Paul McCartney is dead
1970 - Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia
1970 - Gary Muhrcke wins 1st NY Marathon
1971 - John Vermeers painting "The liefdesbrief" stolen
1972 - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law
1972 - President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines
1973 - Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power
1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Open
1973 - Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049-1, is discovered
1974 - "Gypsy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 120 performances
1974 - BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service
1976 - Ford-Carter TV debate
1976 - South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them
1976 - Soyuz 22 returns to Earth
1977 - 3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise
1977 - Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
1978 - 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit
1979 - Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC
1979 - Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic
1979 - Somali constitution approved by president
1979 - St Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th & final base of his career
1980 - Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens
1982 - "Doll's Life" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 5 performances
1982 - Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon
1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 - Argentina milt regime gives amnesty to military/political assassins
1983 - Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9
1983 - Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 - Heavyweight Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in Ohio
1983 - Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game (beating Cards)
1984 - 36th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Cheers, John Ritter & Tyne Daly
1984 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic
1984 - SF 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games
1984 - Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues
1986 - Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10)
1986 - Congress selects the rose as US national flower
1988 - Fiji's new constitution is proposed
1988 - Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases & hit 40 HRs
1988 - Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39)
1989 - Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning
1990 - Nancy Lopez wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic
1990 - PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War
1990 - Saddam says he will destroy Israel
1992 - Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL
1992 - Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's dept stores in NYC
1992 - Jackson Browne reportedly beats girlfriend Daryl Hannah
1992 - Mud storm kills 30 in South France
1992 - 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning
           - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period
1993 - "Les Miserables," opens at Playhouse, Edinburgh
1993 - Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123°C (record high)
1996 - Howard Stern radio show premieres in Wilkes-Barre PA (WZMT 97.9 FM)
1996 - Howard Stern radio show premieres in West Palm Beach FL (WCLB 95.5 FM)
1997 - Seattle Mariners break record for most HRs in a year (258)
1999 - NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
1999 - Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. While some passengers only
           received minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas's history to date.
2002 - The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
2004 - At least 1,070 in Haiti reported killed by floods due to Hurricane Jeanne
2005 - FBI killing of Filiberto Ojeda on Plan Bonito Hormigueros, Puerto Rico.
2012 - Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine
2012 - 20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN
           general assembly meeting in New York
2012 - Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer

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This Day in History for 23rd September


Famous Weddings

1666 - Princess Maria of Orange-Nassau marries Mauritius earl of Simmeren
1862 - Russian writer ("War and peace") Leo Tolstoy (34) marries Sophia Andreevna Behrs (18)
           daughter of a physician
1996 - Actor-comedian Jim Carrey (35) weds "Dumb and Dumber" actress Lauren Holly (33) in Malibu
1996 - Oscar-nominated actor of "The Buddy Holly Story" Gary Busey (52) weds former stuntwoman
           from Dallas Tiani Warden (29) at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas
2012 - Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. (40) weds singer-songwriter Cheryl Moana Marie at a private Anini
           Beach estate on the island of Kauai

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This Day in History for 23rd September


Famous Divorces

2011 - Actress Lisa Linde (39) divorces "Xmen" actor James Marsden (38) due to irreconcilable
           differences after 11 years of marriage

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This Day in History for 23rd September


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Roman Emperor                                      Italian Prime Minister                             Musician Ray Charles (1930)
Augustus Caesar (63 BC)                           Aldo Moro (1916)

 
Jazz Musician John Coltrane (1926)


480 BC - Euripides, Salamís, Greek playwright (Medea), (d. 406 BC)
63 BC - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
1158 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)
1434 - Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478)
1555 - Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange
1591 - Michael Lohr, composer
1596 - Joan Blaeu, cartographer/publisher
1598 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
1605 - Daniel von Czepko, German poet
1641 - Adrian "Aart" van Wijck, theologist (against jansenisme)
1642 - Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer
1647 - Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
1650 - Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726)
1684 - Johann Theodor Romhild, composer
1703 - Jean-Marie Leclair, composer
1712 - Ferdinand VI, the wise, King of Spain (1746-59)
1740 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
1745 - John Sevier, Tennessee, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn)
1768 - William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (Rights of Wallace)
1771 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
1781 - Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)
1782 - Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer
1791 - Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Encke Comet)
1791 - Karl T Korner, German poet (Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt)
1800 - William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers)
1804 - David Van de Kellen, coin engraver
1805 - Matthew Adams Stickney, Rowley Mass, numismatist
1816 - Elihu Benjamin Washburne, MC (Union), died in 1887
1816 - Julius White, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1817 - Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer
1819 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
1820 - Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1838 - Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, Ohio US, feminist/reformer
1842 - Karl Munzinger, composer
1849 - Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer
1852 - William Stewart Halsted, established 1st US surgical school
1853 - Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar
1854 - Cornelis W Lely, Dutch engineer/gov of Suriname (1902-05)
1856 - William Archer, Scotland, writer (Green Goddess)
1861 - Edmond H H Allenby, English fieldmarshal/high director (Egypt)
1861 - Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
1863 - Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist (bacteria plague)
1863 - Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist
1864 - Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)
1865 - Emmuska Orczy, Tarnaörs Hungary, Hungarian-born British writer (Scarlet Pimpernel)
1866 - Edouard Combe, composer
1870 - John Lomax, Miss, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist
1871 - Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer
1880 - John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO (Nobel 1949)
1888 - Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semitic theologist (Die Oden Salomons)
1889 - Walter Lippmann, NYC, journalist/political writer (Men of Dystany)
1890 - Arthur Walter Kramer, composer
1890 - Friedrich Paulus, German Generalfieldmarshal (Stalingrad). Dies 1957.
1894 - Kornelis H Miskotte, theologist (Edda & Thora)
1895 - Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
1895 - Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1897 - Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (surrealist)
1897 - Walter Pidgeon, New Brunswick Can, actor (Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie)
1899 - Louise Nevelson, Kiev, Russia, sculptor (Sky Cathedral)
1899 - Marcel Dalio, [Israel Blauschild], Paris France, actor (China Gate)
1899 - William Levi Dawson, composer
1900 - Bill Stone, British serviceman; one of the last surviving veterans of World War I
1901 - Adrian Pitlo, lawyer
1901 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel 1984)
1902 - Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
1904 - Meyer Schapiro, art historian
1904 - Wallace "Scotty" Scott, rock vocalist (Whispers)
1905 - Jeno Kenessey, composer
1906 - Willard F McMurry, musician
1907 - Jarmila Novotna, soprano (Met Opera)/pres of Czechoslovakia (1957-68)
1907 - Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998)
1907 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)
1909 - Marianne Straub, weaver
1910 - Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR/writer (Murder in the Oval Office)
1910 - Soulima Stravinsky, Lausanne Switz, Russian pianist (Igor's son)
1911 - Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)
1912 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist (d. 2005)
1912 - Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)
1913 - Alexey Davidovich Machavariani, composer
1914 - Norman Cazden, composer
1914 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
1915 - Finn Arnestad, composer
1915 - Ian Dawson-Shepherd, campaigner
1916 - Aldo Moro, Maglie Italy, Italian politician (d. 1978)
1917 - Imry Nemeth, Hungary, hammer thrower (Olympic-gold-1948)
1920 - Alexander Arutiunian, composer, (d. 2012)
1920 - Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon
1920 - Jiri Jaroch, composer
1920 - Mickey Rooney, American actor
1922 - Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator
1925 - Barry Linehan, actor (Bullseye, Dark Places, Witchcraft)
1925 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
1925 - Eleonora Rossi Drago, Italian actress
1926 - John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist (Round Midnight)
1928 - Robert Helps, composer
1929 - Wally Whyton, musician/broadcaster
1930 - Colin Blakely, Bangor N Ireland, actor (Shattered, Equus, King Lear)
1930 - Pyotr Ivanovich Kolodin, cosmonaut (Soyuyz 7, 10, 11 backup)
1930 - Ray Charles [Robinson], Albany Ga, singer/pianist (Georgia), (Georgia on My Mind, Mess
           Around) (d. 2004)
1930 - Sehba Akhtar,poet of Pakistan (d.1996)
1931 - Ruud van den Hende, sports reporter
1931 - Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d. 2004)
1934 - Per Olov Enquist, Swedish writer (Hour of the Lynx)
1935 - Pierre Marietan, composer
1936 - Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician
1938 - Clifford Ann Creed, LPGA golfer
1938 - Romy Schneider, Vienna Austria, actress (Bloodline, Death Watch)
1938 - Tom Lester, American actor
1939 - Roy Buchanan, Ozark Ark, rocker
1939 - Henry Blofeld, English cricket commentator
1939 - Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)
1939 - Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
1940 - Tim Rose, rocker
1941 - Simon Nolet, French-Canadian ice hockey player
1942 - Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican politician
1943 - Bob Clement, (Rep-D-Tennessee)
1943 - Julio Iglesias, Spain, singer (Of All the Girls I Loved Before)
1943 - Walter Scott, rock vocalist (Whispers)
1943 - Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach
1944 - Loren J Shriver, Iowa, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51-C, STS 31, STS 46)
1945 - Paul Petersen, Glendale California, actor (Jeff Stone-Donna Reed Show)
1945 - Ronald Bushy, Washington DC, rock drummer (Iron Butterfly)
1945 - Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
1946 - Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
1947 - Don Grolnick, jazz musician
1947 - Mary Kay Place, Tulsa Oklahoma, actress/country singer (Mary Hartman!)
1948 - Rob van Koningsbruggen, sculptor
1949 - Bruce Springsteen, [Boss], Asbury NJ, rock musician (Born in the USA)
1951 - Ron Klink, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1954 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)
1955 - Patti Weaver, WV, actress (Days of our Life, Gina-Young & Restless)
1956 - June Forester, Chattanooga Tn, country singer (Forester Sister-Men)
1956 - Lili Carati, Varese Italy, Miss Italy (1975)/actress (Alcove)
1956 - Maren Jensen, Arcadia California, actress (Athena-Battlestar Galactica)
1956 - Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
1956 - Peter David, American writer
1957 - Sylvie Garant, Montmagny Quebec, playmate (Nov, 1979)
1957 - Tony Fossas, Cuba, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1957 - Rosalind Chao, American actress
1957 - Kumar Sanu, Indian playback singer
1958 - Larry Hogan Mize, Augusta GA, PGA golfer (1987 Masters)
1958 - Danielle Dax, British musician
1958 - Marvin Lewis, American football coach
1959 - Heather Drew, St Louis MO, LPGA golfer (1987 Henredon Classic-5th)
1959 - Jason Alexander, [Greenspan], Newark NJ, actor (George-Seinfeld)
1960 - John Rocca, English funk singer (Southern Freeze)
1961 - Elizabeth Peña, Elizabeth, New Jersey, American actress (La Bamba, Jacob's Ladder)
1961 - Phyllis Hines, Nashville TN, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1961 - William C McCool, San Diego California, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1961 - Chi McBride, American actor
1962 - Jack Warren Pierce, Cherry Hill NJ, hurdler
1963 - Gabriele Reinsch, German DR, discus thrower (world record 1988)
1964 - Diane Dixon, Brooklyn New York, American 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1964 - Leon Meijs, soccer player (Willem II)
1964 - Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer
1964 - Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z)
1965 - Ian Leggatt, Cambridge Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Canadian Tour)
1965 - Mark Woodforde, Adelaide Australia, tennis star (1993 Wimbledon mixed)
1966 - Doug Widell, NFL guard (Detroit Lions)
1966 - Pete Harnisch, Commack NY, pitcher (NY Mets)
1966 - LisaRaye, American actress
1968 - Yvette Fielding, English television presenter
1969 - Jeff Cirillo, Pasadena CA, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Patrick Fiori, French singer
1969 - Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver
1970 - Brian Wells, Carmel California, pairs skater (& Lyons-1995 Midwest champ)
1970 - Georgios Koltsidas, Greek footballer
1970 - Ani DiFranco, American musician
1971 - Eric Montross, NBA center (Detroit Pistons)
1971 - Marcel Boudesteyn, soccer player (Excelsior/FC Groningen)
1971 - Osamu Nishimura, wrestler (NJPW)
1971 - Taunya Harris, Miss USA-New Mexico (1997)
1971 - Willie Greene, Milledgville GA, infielder (Cin Reds)
1972 - Karl Pilkington, British radio personality
1973 - Grant McDonald, Australian baseball outfielder (Olympics-1996)
1973 - Michelle Tolson, Manchester NH, Miss America-NH (1997)
1973 - Ingrid Fliter, Argentinian pianist
1974 - Doris Glenn Easterly, Richmond Va, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
1974 - Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model
1975 - Vitaliy Yeremeyev, hockey goalie (Team Kazkhstan 1998)
1975 - Jaime Bergman, American model and actress
1975 - Layzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1975 - Chris Hawkins, British radio personality
1976 - Faune A. Chambers, American actress
1976 - Kip Pardue, American actor and model
1977 - Rachael Yamagata, American singer and songwriter
1977 - Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2008)
1978 - Worm Miller, American filmmaker
1978 - Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress
1979 - Red, Los Angeles California, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1979 - Ricky Davis, American basketball player
1980 - Cameron Litvack, American television producer
1981 - Robert Doornbos, Dutch race car driver
1981 - Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)
1981 - Misti Traya, American actress
1984 - Anneliese van der Pol, American actress
1984 - Louie Stephens, American musician (Rooney)
1984 - Nathan Jendrick, American author
1984 - Matt Kemp, American baseball player
1985 - Maki Goto, Japanese pop singer
1985 - Jared High, American victim of bullying (d. 1998)
1985 - Brian Brohm, American football player
1985 - Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player
1985 - Hossein Ka'abi, Iranian footballer
1985 - Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
1986 - Martin Cranie, English footballer
1989 - Brandon Jennings, American basketball player

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This Day in History for 23rd September


Famous Deaths

Father of Psychology
Sigmund Freud (1939)


79 - Pope Linus
775 - Constantine V Copronymus, Emperor of Byzantium (720-75), dies
918 - Koenraad I, German duke/king (911-18), dies at 42
965 - Aboe a-Taia-H al-Moetanabbi, Arabic royal poet (Diwan), murdered
1241 - Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)
1390 - John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
1535 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1513)
1571 - John Jewel, English bishop (b. 1522)
1573 - Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)
1605 - Pontus de Tyard, French poet
1624 - Willem Pietersz Buytewech, painter/etcher, dies at about 32
1675 - Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française (b. 1603)
1694 - Francesco Passarini, composer, dies at 57
1700 - Nicolaus Adam Strungk, composer, dies at 59
1728 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)
1738 - Hermannus Boerhaave, medical/botanist, dies at 69
1764 - Robert Dodsley, English writer (b. 1703)
1773 - Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
1778 - Balthazar Huydecoper, translator/historian, dies at 83
1780 - John Andre, hanged as a British spy at 29
1789 - John Rogers, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1797 - Johann Georg Roser, composer, dies at 57
1835 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (Norma), dies at 33
1837 - Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80
1844 - Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783)
1846 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (b. 1818)
1847 - Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgium revolutionary (Souvenirs), dies at 65)
1850 - José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan hero (b. 1764)
1870 - Prosper Mérimée, French author (b. 1803)
1871 - Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45
1873 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823)
1877 - Urbain JJ Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies
1889 - Wilkie (William) Collins, English writer (Moonstone), dies (b. 1824)
1896 - Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet, dies at 83
1896 - Louis-Gilbert Duprez, composer, dies at 89
1900 - William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)
1902 - John Wesley Powell, US geologist (Grand Canyon), dies at 68
1906 - Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor of Antwerp, dies
1910 - H J H "Tup" Scott, cricketer (Australian Test captain 1886), dies
1917 - Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (b. 1897)
1929 - Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64
1930 - Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62
1937 - Caro Roma, composer, dies at 68
1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and creator of psychoanalysis, dies at 83
1943 - Elinor Glyn, English author (b. 1864)
1944 - Colijn, Neth PM, buried
1947 - Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged
1950 - Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
1956 - Earl Godwin, newscaster (Meet the Veep), dies at 75
1960 - Kathlyn Williams, actress (Single Man), dies of heart attack at 72
1961 - Billy House, actor (Imitation of Life, Bedlam, Egg & I), dies at 71
1961 - Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol), dies at 65
1968 - Francesco Forgione, "Padre Pio", Catholic saint (b. 1887)
1970 - Bourvil, French actor and singer (b. 1917)
1971 - Billy Gilbert, actor (Paradise Alley, Safari, Rio), dies at 77
1971 - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (b. 1888)
1972 - Carl Frank, actor (Uncle Gunnar-Mama), dies at 63
1973 - A S Neill, British headmaster, dies at at 89
1973 - Manuel Borguno, composer, dies at 87
1973 - Pablo Neruda, [N R R Basoalto], poet (100 Love Sonnets), dies at 69
1974 - Cliff Arquette, comedian (Charlie Weaver), dies at 68
1974 - Gerhard Nebel, writer, dies at 70
1974 - Robbie Mcintosh, drummer (Average White Band), overdoses at 24
1975 - Ian Hunter, actor/writer (Rockets Galore, Ziegfield Girl), dies at 75
1978 - Jay Adler, actor (Macon County Line, Illegal, Big Combo), dies at 79
1978 - Lyman Bostock, outfielder (Angels), shot & killed at 27
1979 - Catherine Lacey, actress (October Man, Carnival), dies at 75
1981 - Chief Dan George, actor (Harry & Tonto, Little Big Man), dies at 82
1982 - Jimmy Wakely, country western singer, dies of heart failure at 68
1984 - Anatoly Grigor'yevich Novikov, composer, dies at 87
1985 - Mickey Simpson, actor (Wagonmaster), dies of a heart attack at 72
1987 - Bob Fosse, choreographer (All the Jazz), dies at 62
1987 - O B McClinton, US country singer (Man needs a woman), dies at 47
1988 - Arwel Hughes, composer, dies at 79
1988 - Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (b. 1912)
1991 - Chuck Vincent, Adult film director, dies of heart attack at 51
1991 - Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer & Eddie), dies
1992 - Bernice Gera, 1st female basball ump (1969 NY-Penn League) dies at 61
1992 - James A Van Fleet, US general (D-Day, Battle of Bulge), dies at 100
1992 - Martin Arsenault, actor (Guilty by Suspicion), dies of an ulcer
1992 - Paul E Garber, 1st curator (Natl Air & Space Museum), dies at 93
1993 - William Cort, actor/producer (Ghost, Dear Heart), dies of cancer at 53
1994 - Alec Dickson, founder of VSO, dies at 80
1994 - Ali Kouider Benyahia, [sheik Boualem], Alg Moslem leader, shot at 26
1994 - Cherif Gousmi, [kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed], Alger Moslem leader, shot
1994 - Dalton Reed, singer, dies at 42
1994 - Georgi, Tsar Nicholas II's brother, buried
1994 - John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59
1994 - Madeleine Renaud, French actress (Longest Day)/director, dies at 94
1994 - Robert Bloch, screenwriter (Psycho), dies of cancer at 77
1994 - Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)
1995 - Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist, dies at 81
1995 - Odut Joseph Olutola Oluola Oguntala, soho club owner, dies at 74
1996 - Denis Dowling, baritone, dies at 86
1996 - Jack Newman, cricketer (NZ left-arm pacer 1932-33), dies at 94
1996 - Stuart Pigott, archaeologist, dies at 86
1996 - Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
1997 - Abe Gibron, head coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 72
1997 - Murray Burnett, writer (Everybody Goes to Rick-Casablanca), dies at 86
1997 - Shirley Clarke, actress (Cool World), dies at 78
1998 - Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
1999 - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)
2000 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)
2000 - Carl Rowan, American journalist (b. 1925)
2001 - Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)
2002 - Veteran BBC/Radio Ceylon Broadcaster, Vernon Corea died in New Malden, Surrey, UK at 75
2002 - Lord Abinger [James Richard Scarlett], English Conservative peer, campaigned for reform of
          the ancient law on treasure trove, dies at 87
2003 - Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly musician (b. 1939)
2003 - Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman (b. 1937)
2004 - André Hazes, Dutch singer (b. 1951)
2004 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
2005 - Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)
2005 - Filiberto Ojeda, Puerto Rican revolutionary (b. 1933)
2006 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter (b. 1921)
2006 - Etta Baker, American blues guitarist (b.1913)
2008 - Peter Leonard, Australian journalist (b. 1942)
2009 - Paul B. Fay, American businessman and cabinet member in the Kennedy administration (b.
           1918)
2010 - Malcolm Douglas, Australian conservationist (b. 1941)
2010 - Teresa Lewis, American murderer (b. 1969)
2012 - Corrie Sanders, South African boxer, shot dead at 46

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This Day in History for 24th September


Historical Events

                                   
Ist US Chief Justice John Jay                     Baseball Great Babe Ruth                        32nd US President
                                                                                                                               Franklin D. Roosevelt

                                   
Heavyweight Boxing Champion          Musician & member of the Beatles        Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper
Rocky Marciano                                             Paul McCartney                                            Carl Lewis


King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk


312 - Start of Imperial Indication
366 - Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
673 - Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
787 - 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor
1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire
           slips into terminal decline.
1493 - Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World
1537 - Uprising in Lubeck fails
1625 - Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1629 - Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies
1657 - 1st autopsy & coroner's jury verdict is recorded in state of Maryland
1664 - Dutch Fort Orange (New Netherland) in present day Albany NY surrenders to the English
1683 - King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America
1688 - France declares war on German
1706 - Treaty of Altranstädt: Charles XII of Sweden & August II of Saksen
1742 - Faneuil Hall opens to public
1776 - 1st St Leger horesrace held at Doncaster
1789 - US Congress creates Post Office
1789 - US Federal Judiciary Act is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court
1789 - President George Washington nominates John Jay the 1st Chief Justice
1789 - US Attorney General Office is created
1829 - Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
1838 - Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1841 - Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei (James Brooke appointed Rajah)
1850 - Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England
1852 - Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st engine powered dirigible/airship flight with steam
           power
1853 - 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
1853 - France annexes Caledonia
1853 - Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London
1862 - Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1865 - James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
1869 - Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1872 - Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg," premieres in Vienna
1877 - Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma
           Rebellion
1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
1883 - National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky
1884 - Dixey, Rice & Gill's musical "Adonis," premieres in NYC
1885 - 5 German warships depart to Zanzibar
1889 - Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder
1890 - Pres of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching &
           practice of polygamy should be abandoned
1895 - 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle" (BG)
1903 - Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia premier
1903 - Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle
1906 - St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
1906 - V Herbert & H Blossom's musical "Red Mill," premieres in NYC
1908 - Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game,
           Cleveland 2, Boston 1
1916 - Indians Marty Kavanaugh, hits AL's 1st pinch-hit grand slam
1919 - Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
1922 - Neurenberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky
1922 - Roger Hornsby sets NL HR mark at 42
1923 - Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin)
1924 - Boston, Massachusetts opens its airport
1926 - Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4
1927 - NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs
1927 - Yanks set record of 106 victories
1928 - Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great," premieres in NYC
1929 - Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-
           instrument flight
1929 - Yanks Tom Zachary ends season 12-0
1930 - G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premieres in NY
1930 - Noel Coward's "Private Lives," premieres in London
1930 - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
1931 - Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed,
           concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks
1932 - NY Gov Franklin D. Roosevelt visits LA
1934 - 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
1934 - Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0
1935 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric
           lights at Columbia, Mississippi
1938 - Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title
1938 - Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam
1940 - Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton
1941 - Nine Allied governments pledge adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the
           Atlantic Charter
1941 - Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk
1946 - Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs
1948 - Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Wash DC
1948 - Yanks, Boston & Cleveland are tied for 1st place in AL (91-56)
1948 - The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1950 - "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel
1951 - Industrial estate at Harlow New Town UK opens
1951 - USSR performs nuclear test
1952 - Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death
1952 - Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
1953 - "Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway
1953 - Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1954 - Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
1954 - Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
1955 - "Catch a Star" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances
1955 - Pres Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
1955 - Washington Senators lose their 99th & 100th games of season
1956 - 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland)
1957 - Bkln Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
1957 - Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
1957 - Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
1958 - 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia
1960 - 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise)
1960 - International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
1960 - USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sacramento Valley Golf Open
1962 - KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to U of Miss
1963 - Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards
1963 - Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
1964 - "Munsters" premieres on TV
1964 - 1st Minuteman II ICBM was tested
1964 - Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd
1964 - Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of German DR
1965 - Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament
1965 - Saudi-Arabian & Egyptian accord about Yemen
1965 - Stefan Stefanopoulos forms Greek government
1966 - -30] Hurricane Inez, kills 293 in Caribbean, Florida & Mexico
1966 - France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1967 - Cards Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals vs Steelers
1967 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1968 - "60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV
1968 - "That's Life" premieres-A Broadway musical type TV show
1968 - NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - 1st Elvis convention, 2500 fans attend in Cincinnati
1969 - NY Mets clinch NL East pennant
1969 - Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam
1969 - Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins
1970 - 1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16
1970 - Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon
1971 - 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying
1971 - Eyskens-Cools disbands Belgium parliament
1971 - Houston Astros beat SD Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings
1972 - Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22
1972 - Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yds vs Green Bay (rec)
1972 - NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34)
1973 - Guinea-Bissau declares independence
1973 - St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals
1974 - Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits
1974 - Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title
1976 - "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 5959 performances
1976 - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery.
           Released after 22 months by Pres Carter
1977 - "Estrada" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 7 performances
1977 - 1st broadcast of "Love Boat" on ABC-TV
1977 - Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards
1978 - Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ping Team Golf Classic
1978 - Dutch women hockey team wins world championship
1978 - Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74
1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 - CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service
1979 - Ghana adopts constitution
1979 - Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time
1979 - Russian ice skaters Protopopov & Beloussova ask for asylum in Switz
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1980 - Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season
1980 - Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan
1981 - Enterprise Radio (all sports) resigns air
1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26
1982 - US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
1983 - Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season
1983 - Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of Hanif, v India Jullundur
1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1984 - Cubs clinch NL East title
1984 - Paul McCartney release "No More Lonely Nights"
1985 - Apollo Computer Inc lays off 300 employees
1985 - Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)
1985 - Expos Andre Dawson joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice
1985 - Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop
1988 - Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec
1988 - Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)
1988 - Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th
1988 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets heptathlon woman's record (7,291)
1989 - 28th Ryder Cup: US & Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England
1989 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Nippon Travel-MBS Golf Classic
1990 - East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact
1990 - South African president F W de Klerk meets Pres Bush in Wash DC
1990 - Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
1990 - West German Pres Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
1990 - Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
1991 - "Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premieres on ABC TV
1991 - After 3 year reign as AL champs, A's are eliminated from AL West
1991 - Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns
1991 - Doogie Howser loses his virginity
1991 - Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles
1992 - John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers)
1992 - Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in NJ Devils history
1992 - Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI
1993 - 1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord
1993 - Norodom Sihanouk again installed as King of Cambodia
1994 - Parliamentary election in Ukraine
1994 - National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help
           fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
1995 - 31st Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 14½-13½ at Oak Hill County Club (Rochester, New York,
           US)
1995 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic
1995 - Emillio & Gloria Estefan's boat hits & kills a jet skiier
1995 - Mt Ruapehu Volcano (North Island, NZ) erupts
1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United
           Nations.
1997 - 31st Country Music Association Award:
1997 - Drug kingpin Ramon Arellano Felix placed on FBI's 10 most-wanted
2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions
           of southwestern Louisiana.
2007 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of
           Columbia University.
2012 - Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores

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This Day in History for 24th September


Famous Weddings

1948 - American Major League Baseball outfielder Ty Cobb (61) weds Frances Cass (40)
1953 - Singer Dick Haymes (35) weds Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth (34) at The Sands hotel-
           casino in Las Vegas
1964 - Actress Jayne Mansfield (31) weds film producer and director Matt Cimber in Mulege, Baja
           California Sur, Mexico
1993 - Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty (Brenda) weds Ashley Hamilton
2004 - Former "Baywatch" actor Michael Bergin (35) weds makeup artist Joy Tilk (34) at Hanalei Bay
           Resort in Kauai, Hawaii
2005 - Actor Ashton Kutcher (34) weds actress Demi Moore (49) in Beverly Hills, California
2005 - "30 Minute Meals" TV host Rachael Ray (37) weds "The Cringe" lead singer John Cusimano in
            Montalcino, Italy
2005 - "King of Queens" actor-comedian Patton Oswalt (36) weds writer Michelle McNamara in Los
            Angeles
2011 - Model and actress Molly Sims (38) weds film producer Scott Stuber at Frank Caferatta
           Vineyards in Napa, California
2012 - "Sugar Ray" singer Mark McGrath (44) weds longtime love Carin Kingsland (39) at San Ysidro
            Ranch in Santa Barbara, California

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This Day in History for 24th September


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896)             Pathologist and Nobel Laureate            Muppeteer Jim Henson (1936)
                                                               Howard Florey (1898)


15 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1301 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)
1501 - Girolamo Cardano, Italy, mathematician/astrologer (Ars Magna-1545)
1513 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1535)
1534 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
1564 - William Adams, British navigator (d. 1620)
1583 - Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, German general
1625 - Johan de Witt, statesman/advisor of Holland
1667 - Jean-Louis Lully, composer
1705 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
1717 - Horace Walpole, England, British horror writer (Castle of Otranto)
1725 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1739 - Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris/friend of Catherine II
1748 - Philipp Meissner, composer
1755 - John Marshall, Va, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1801-35)
1762 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets)
1773 - Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer
1801 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
1802 - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
1806 - George Alexander Osborne, composer
1817 - Ramon de Campoamor Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Doloras)
1821 - Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda)
1824 - Truman Seymour, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
1825 - Frances E W Harper, famous African
1827 - Henry Warner Slocum, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1829 - James St Clair Morton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1829 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
1833 - Henry Alanson Barnum, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1848 - Pieter Louis Tak, literary (The Chronicle)
1858 - Eugene Foss, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)
1859 - Julius Klengel, cellist/composer
1860 - Samuel Rutherford Crockett, novelist
1870 - Georges Claude, inventor (neon light)
1871 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
1878 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
1884 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
1884 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
1885 - Herman Bouber, Dutch actor/playwright (Sailor's Wives)
1886 - James Burke, NYC, actor (Mystery Theater, Great Guy)
1890 - Alan Herbert, England, journalist/writer (Punch, Helen)
1890 - Mike González, baseball player (d. 1977)
1892 - Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Wandering Jew)
1892 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Québec (d. 1956)
1893 - Blind Lemon Jefferson, Coutchman, Texas, blues singer and guitarist, (d. 1929)
1893 - Julia Faye, Richmond VA, actress (10 Commandments, Samson & Delilah)
1894 - Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
1895 - Andre Cournand, physician
1896 - F Scott Fitzgerald, St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby), (d. 1940)
1898 - Charlotte D baroness of Pallandt, Dutch sculptress
1898 - Howard Florey, Adelaide Aust, pathologist/phamacologist; purified penicillin (Nobel '45), (d.
           1968)
1899 - Eduardo Hernandez Moncada, composer
1899 - Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
1900 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
1902 - Cheryl Crawford, producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon)
1902 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian politician, religious figure, and political leader of the 1979 Iranian
           Revolution (d. 1989)
1904 - Cemal Resit Rey, composer
1904 - Owen Saunders, mechanical engineer
1905 - Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
1906 - Victor Wong, LA Cal, actor (Mission to Moscow, Son of Kong, King Kong)
1907 - Pierre Moulaert, composer
1909 - Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
1910 - Cao Yu, dramatist
1910 - Frank Pelleg, composer
1910 - Jean Servais, Angers Belgium, actor (Every Man is My Enemy)
1910 - Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder (LSE)
1911 - Konstantin Chernenko, USSR leader
1912 - Don Porter, Miami Oklahoma, actor (Russ Lawrence-Gidget, Ann Sothern Show)
1912 - Ian Serraillier, children author
1914 - Andrzej Panufnik, Warsaw Poland, composer (Tragic Overture)
1914 - Hein J M Jordans, Dutch conductor
1914 - Herb Jeffries, Detroit Mich, actor (Where's Huddles)
1914 - Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
1915 - Larry Gates, St Paul Minn, actor (Guiding Light, Body Snatchers)
1915 - Margarita J Aliger, Russian poetess (Zoja) [OS]
1915 - Seymour Egerton, CEO (Coutis Bank)
1916 - John Lapsley, British air marshal
1917 - Colin Cowe, senior bursar (Magdalen College Oxford)
1917 - William Putnam Bundy, London, editor (Lvaggerier & Vagaries)
1918 - Audra Lindley, Los Angeles California, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers)
1918 - Richard Hoggart, author/warden (Goldsmith's College London)
1919 - Dayton Allen, NYC, comedian (Steve Allen Show)
1919 - Vaclav Nelhybel, Polanka Czechoslovakia, composer (Everyman)
1921 - Jim McKay, Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
1921 - Leonard Overton, British glider pilot (Arnhem 1944)
1921 - Leonardo Lopez Salzedo, composer
1922 - Cornell MacNeil, US, singer/actor (La Traviata)
1922 - David Lane, CEO (Commission for Racial Equality)
1922 - Theresa Merritt, Newport News Va, actress (Mama-That's My Mama)
1923 - Ladislav Fuks, writer
1923 - Mervyn Brown, diplomat
1923 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
1924 - Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge
1924 - Sheila MacRae, London England, actress (Jackie Gleason Show)
1924 - Simpson Guillen, cricketer (wicket-keeper for West Indies & NZ)
1924 - Walter Fufido, Bronx NY, Iwo Jima casualty (WW II)
1924 - Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
1924 - Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
1925 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
1927 - Richard Swift, composer
1929 - George McNicol, principal (Aberdeen University)
1929 - Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician
1930 - John Watts Young, SF California, astronaut (Gem 3 10, Apol 10 16, STS 1 9)
1930 - Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (d. 1998)
1930 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
1931 - Anthony Newley, England, actor (Dr Doolitte, Garbage Pail Kids)/composer
1931 - Brian Glanville, author/journalist
1931 - Cardiss Collins, (Rep-D-Illinois, 1973-97), (d. 2013)
1932 - Svetlana Beriozova, ballerina
1932 - Dominique Michel, French Canadian comedian
1933 - Catherine Pestell, principal (Somerville College Oxford)
1934 - Bernard Nevill, textile designer
1934 - John Brunner, [Kilian Houston], UK, sci-fi author (100th Millennium)
1934 - Manfred Worner, German general/sect-gen (NATO, 1988-94)
1934 - Robert Lang, actor (Night Watch)/director
1934 - Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
1935 - Barbara Brilliant, TV host/producer
1935 - Lawrence Urquhart, CEO (Burmah Castrol)
1935 - Sean McCann, Canadian actor
1936 - Jim Henson, Greenville Miss, muppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), (d. 1990)
1937 - Alan Grose, British vice-admiral
1940 - Barbara Allbut, Orange NJ, rock vocalist (Angels)
1940 - Yves Navarre, French writer (d. 1994)
1941 - John Mackey, NFL tight end (Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers)
1941 - Linda Eastman McCartney, NYC, photographer and musician (Wings-Ram) and wife of Paul
           McCartney
1942 - Gerry Marsden, rock vocalist (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry crossed Mersey)
1942 - Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut Meister, Orange NJ, rocker (Angels)
1943 - Lee Aaker, Los Angeles California, actor (Rusty-Rin Tin Tin)
1944 - Diana Körner, German actress
1945 - Catherine Burns, NYC, actress (Last Summer, One Life to Live, Catcher)
1945 - David A[llen] Drake, US, sci-fi author (Cross the Stars, Rolling Hot)
1945 - Lou Dobbs, American journalist
1946 - "Mean" Joe Greene, NFL tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers), Coke spokesman
1946 - Carson Van Osten, rocker
1946 - Jacqueline Courtney, NJ, actress (Another World, One Life to Live)
1946 - Jerry Donahue, rocker (Fairport Convention)
1946 - Marc Edward Neikrug, composer
1946 - Pat Pocock, cricketer (intermittent England off-spinner 1968-85)
1946 - Richard Spring, British MP
1946 - Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service
1947 - Erik Hivju, Norwegian actor
1948 - Bernadette Hingley, British priest
1948 - Gordon Clapp, North Conway NH, actor (Greg Medavoy-NYPD Blue)
1948 - Phil Hartman, Brantford Ontario, actor (SNL, Peewee's Playhouse)
1948 - Heinz Chur, German composer
1950 - Mohinder Amarnath, cricketer (son of Lala Indian batsman of 70's/80's)
1950 - Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
1951 - Terry Metcalf, Seattle, NFL, CFL running back (St Louis, Toronto)
1951 - Douglas Kmiec, American legal scholar
1952 - Joseph P Kennedy II, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
1952 - Mark Sandman, American musician (Morphine), (d. 1999)
1954 - Stephen Jones, art historian
1955 - Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
1956 - Ilona Briesenick-Slupianek, German DR, shot-putter (Olympic-gold-1980)
1958 - Kevin Sorbo, actor (Hercules Legendary Journeys, Kull The Conquerer)
1959 - Steve Whitmire, American voice actor
1961 - Dillard Pruitt, Greenville SC, PGA golfer (1991 Chattanooga Classic)
1961 - Allen Bestwick, Nascar broadcaster
1961 - John Logan, American screenwriter
1962 - Arden Knoll, Saskatoon Sask, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Klondike-2nd)
1962 - Jack Dee, British comedian
1962 - Mike Phelan, English former footballer
1962 - Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress
1964 - Gene Watkins, Waco Tx, actor (James Walsh-As the World Turns)
1964 - Rafael Palmeiro, Havana Cuba, 1st baseman (Baltimore Orioles)
1965 - Sean McNabb, American bassist (Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords)
1966 - Atul Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman 1994- )
1966 - Bernard Gilkey, St Louis MO, outfielder (NY Mets)
1966 - Kevin Koslofski, Decatur Ill, outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1966 - Paul Michael Valley, actor (Ryan Harrison-Another World)
1966 - Michael J. Varhola, American author
1967 - Chris Swan, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 - Frank Cornish, NFL center/guard (Jacksonville Jaguars, Philadelphia Eagles)
1967 - Roland Jansen, soccer player (Willem II)
1969 - Andrew Greene, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins, Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1969 - Gene Hunt, R&B musician (Acid Man)
1969 - John Morton, WLAF WR (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 - Lisa Matthews, Peoria Ill, playmate (Apr, 1990)
1969 - Megan Ward, Los Angeles California, actress (Kimberly Sayers-Dark Skies)
1969 - Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
1969 - Donald DeGrate, Jr., American music producer
1969 - Goya Toledo, Spanish actress and model
1970 - Jeanette Kollasch, Evanston Ill, WPVA volleyballer (Pismo-17th-1995)
1970 - Kristin Talbot, Schuylerville NY, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1970 - Mario Cristobal, WLAF guard (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Paul Spoljaric, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1970 - Winfred Tubbs, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
1971 - Shane Conrad, actress (Cody-High Mountain Rangers)
1971 - Peter Salisbury, English drummer (The Verve)
1972 - Jeff Hill, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1973 - Rodrick Rhodes, NBA forward (Houston Rockets)
1973 - Eddie George, American football player
1974 - Kiwane Garris, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1974 - Matt McKeon, Florissant MO, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 - Kyle Turley, former National Football League offensive lineman
1976 - Carlos Almeida, Angolan basketball player
1976 - Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American professional wrestler
1977 - Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer
1978 - Tarek Saab, American TV show contestant
1978 - Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
1979 - Fábio Aurélio, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Ross Mathews, American television personality and comedian
1979 - Justin Bruening, American actor
1980 - Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
1980 - John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
1980 - Daniele Bennati, Italian professional road racing cyclist
1980 - Dean Canto, Australian racing driver
1981 - Drew Gooden, National Basketball Association player
1981 - Ryan Briscoe, Australian racing driver
1982 - Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
1982 - Paul Hamm, American gymnast
1982 - Jeff Karstens, American baseball player
1983 - Randy Foye, American basketball player
1984 - Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer
1986 - Leah Dizon, model, singer and Japanese television
1987 - Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
1987 - Matthew Connolly, English footballer
1988 - Karl Alzner, Canadian hockey player
1988 - Kyle Sullivan, American actor
1988 - Lisa Wang, American gymnast

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 24th September


Famous Deaths

                     
Physician/Alchemist                             Children's Author Dr. Seuss (1991)
Paracelsus (1541)


366 - Liberius, Italian Pope (352-66), dies
768 - Pippin III, the short, King of France, dies at 53
786 - Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies
911 - Ludwig III, the child, last Carolingian German King (899-911), dies
1054 - Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)
1118 - Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
1120 - Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
1143 - Innocent II, [Gregorio de' Papareschi], Ital Pope (1130-43), dies
1143 - Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072)
1180 - Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1143-80), dies
1213 - Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)
1228 - Stefanus I Nemanjic de Eerstgekroonde, king of Serbia (1217-28), dies
1230 - Alfonso IX, king of Leon/Castile, dies
1275 - Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b. 1208)
1435 - Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen and wife of Charles VI of France (bc. 1370)
1494 - Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
1517 - Frederik IV, of Baden, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1536 - Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia), dies at 24
1541 - Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist, dies at 47
1545 - Albrecht von Brandenburg, archbishop/monarch of Mainz, dies at 55
1568 - Antoon van Stralen, Flemish mayor of Antwerp, beheaded at about 47
1605 - Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (bc. 1547)
1621 - Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
1646 - Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (bc. 1565)
1707 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
1732 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
1742 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)
1755 - Georg Gebel, composer, dies at 45
1790 - John Keyse Sherwin, engraver/painter, dies
1802 - Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749)
1813 - Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer, dies at 72
1815 - John Sevier, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), dies at 70
1834 - A J Pedro I van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1822-31), dies
1855 - Alexandre Stievenard, composer, dies at 86
1856 - Henry, 1st viscount Hardinge of Lahore, gov-gen of India, dies
1865 - Frantiszek Soltyk, composer, dies at 81
1875 - William Walker, composer, dies at 66
1881 - Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer, dies at 74
1892 - Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Suriname, dies at 69
1892 - Patrick S Gilmore, composer, dies at 62
1894 - Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book publisher (Van Dale), dies
1896 - Percy McDonnell, cricketer (19 Tests 1880-88, 3 centuries), dies
1896 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)
1898 - Bartel Wilton, ship builder, dies at 70
1910 - Rudolf Dellinger, composer, dies at 53
1919 - Frank Laver, cricketer (15 Tests for Aust 1899-1909), dies
1930 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
1933 - Mike Donlin, baseball player (b. 1878)
1933 - Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)
1934 - Edwin Lehare, composer, dies at 69
1938 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1939 - Carl Laenmie, film producer, dies
1948 - Warren William, actor (Fear, Wolf Man, Madame X), dies at 53
1949 - Pierre Breville, composer, dies at 88
1951 - Georges Rency, Belgian poet/literature, dies at 75
1953 - Berthold Viertel, writer, dies at 68
1954 - Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)
1960 - Matyas Seiber, composer, dies at 55
1960 - Melanie Klein, [Reizes], child psycho-analyst, dies
1961 - Sumner Welles, US diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy), dies at 68
1967 - Orville Caldwell, Deputy Major (LA-1940), dies at 71
1967 - Robert H van Gulik, diplomat/writer (Judge Tie), dies
1968 - Harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67
1968 - Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47
1975 - Clive Morton, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker), dies at 71
1975 - Ian Hunter, actor (Sir Richard-Robin Hood), dies at 75
1975 - Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
1976 - Bruno VeSota, actor/director (Chopper, Teenage Doll), dies at 54
1976 - Romney Brent, actor/writer (Dinner at the Ritz), dies at 74
1978 - Ruth Etting, US dancer/singer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 80
1981 - Patsy Kelly, actress (Brigid Murphy-Cop & the Kid), dies at 71
1982 - Sarah Churchill, actress (Royal Wedding, Spring Meeting), dies at 67
1983 - Isobel Baillie, oratorio singer, dies
1984 - Neil Hamilton, actor (Com Gordon-Batman), dies of asthma at 85
1990 - Jay Currin, stuntman/actor (Back to the Beach, Serial), dies at 34
1991 - Mary Lawrence, actress (Best Man), dies of respiratory failure at 73
1991 - Theodore Geisel, children's author (Dr. Seuss), dies of cancer at 87
1991 - Peter Bellamy, folk singer (b. 1944)
1993 - Zita Johann, Hungarian/US actress (Mummy), dies at 89
1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
1993 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
1994 - Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher, dies at 65
1994 - David Napley, solicitor, dies at 79
1994 - Otto F Walther, Swiss publisher/author (Der Stumme), dies at 66
1996 - Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, egyptologist, dies at 87
1996 - Mark Frankel, actor (Solitaire for 2, Simon-Sisters), dies at 34
1996 - Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov, spy, dies at 89
1997 - Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron, dies at 47
2002 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
2002 - Mike Webster, National Football League player (b. 1952)
2003 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
2003 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
2005 - Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)
2008 - Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2009 - Susan Atkins, American murderer (b. 1948)
2010 - Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (b. 1937)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th September


Historical Events

                                   
Explorer of the New World                      Military and Political Leader                 US President Woodrow Wilson
Christopher Columbus                             Simon Bolivar

                                   
Ford Motor Company Founder                 Iraqi President                                     Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Henry Ford                                               Saddam Hussein                                            Lennox Lewis


303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
953 - Ratherius becomes bishop of Luik
955 - Bishop Ratherius of Luik flees
1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge; an English army under King Harold Godwinson beat the
           invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who were both
           killed. Three weeks later Harold died fighting the Normans at Hastings.
1212 - Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia)
1340 - England & France sign disarmament treaty
1396 - Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies
1492 - Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early
1493 - Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to the Americas
1513 - Vasco Nunez de Balboa is first European to see Pacific Ocean
1555 - Freedom of Religion in Augsburg
1560 - Spanish king Philip II names Frederik Schenck of Toutenburg, 1st archbishop of Utrecht
1597 - Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV
1639 - First printing press in America
1639 - Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening
1654 - England & Denmark sign trade agreement
1663 - Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to invading Turkish army
1690 - Publick Occurrences, first newspaper in the American colonies (Boston), publishes first & last
           edition
1775 - American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
1777 - British general William Howe conquers Philadelphia
1780 - Benedict Arnold joins the British
1781 - -26] Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets
1789 - US Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)
1804 - 12th amendment to US constitution, regulating judicial power
1829 - Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar
1836 - HMS Beagle anchors at St Michael
1844 - Canada defeats USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international
1846 - US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico
1857 - Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram begins
1861 - Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1862 - Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee
1866 - (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing
1867 - Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Wash DC
1868 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying
           Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
1882 - 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
1886 - Comedy opera "Dorothy," 1st produced in London
1888 - Royal Court Theatre, London, opens
1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles" (BG)
1890 - Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California)
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG)
1897 - 1st British bus service opens
1904 - Charles Follis is 1st black to play pro football
1906 - John Galsworthy's "Silver Box," premieres in London
1906 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully
           demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the
           shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control.
1907 - Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony, premieres
1908 - Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout
1909 - Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY
1911 - French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed
1911 - Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park
1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
1915 - -26] Battle at Loos: 8,246 British & 0 German casualties
1915 - The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1919 - President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke
1920 - 34th US Womens Tennis: M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61)
1920 - Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
1922 - Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant
1924 - Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH
1926 - 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury GC Westbury NY
1926 - Canadian government of MacKenzie King forms
1926 - Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week
1926 - International slavery convention signed by 20 states
1926 - NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
1926 - Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
1926 - Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant
1929 - Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
1930 - Austrian government of Vaugoin forms
1930 - Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager
1930 - Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in NYC
1932 - Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season
1933 - 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
1933 - 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China
1934 - John Van Druten's "Distaff Side," premieres in NYC
1934 - Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1934 - Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup
1935 - Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," premieres in NYC
1936 - Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double
1937 - "il duce" visits Berlin/named "the Fuhrer" to corporal 1st class
1937 - Battle of of P'ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain
1939 - German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs
1939 - Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official
           treaty ending WW I
1940 - German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton
1941 - Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years
1943 - Russian troops liberate Smolensk
1948 - "Heaven on Earth" closes at Century Theater NYC after 12 performances
1949 - 4th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs
1949 - Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie
           for 1st place
1952 - Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game
1954 - Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election
1954 - Indians win AL record 111 games
1954 - WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ
1955 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1956 - First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Newfoundland-Oban)
1956 - Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0
1957 - 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark
1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1957 - Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced
1959 - Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) & David Brown (43) wed
1960 - First nuclear powered aircraft carrier (Enterprise) launched (US)
1960 - Chubby Checker's "Twist," hits #1
1960 - For 1st time since 1927, Pirates clinch NL pennant
1960 - NY Yankees clinch AL pennant
1960 - Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses
1961 - KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
1962 - Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup
1962 - Yankees clinch AL pennant
1964 - Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark
1965 - "Do I Hear a Waltz?" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 220 perfs
1965 - 60 year old Satchel Paige of KC A's pitches 3 scoreless innings
1965 - Beatle cartoon show begins in US
1965 - Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal
1966 - 12th LPGA Championship won by Gloria Ehret
1966 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Cello Concert premieres in Moscow
1966 - Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1
1967 - WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - Ringo Starr releases his album "Beaucoups of Blues"
1972 - Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
1972 - KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - Norway votes to join European common market
1972 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1973 - 3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
1973 - Mets beat Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - Jackie Wilson, suffers heart attack & lapse into a 9 yr terminal coma
1976 - "Porgy & Bess" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 122 performances
1976 - Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park
1977 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1978 - PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die
1979 - "Evita" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances
1979 - California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant
1980 - Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows)
1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith, & Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres
1980 - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
1981 - Nolan Ryan's 5th career no-hitter as Astros beat Dodgers 5-0
1981 - Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Phila)
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice
1982 - Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Ill 31-6
1982 - Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - 35th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Cheers, Ed Flanders & Shelley Long
1983 - Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1984 - "Quilters" opens at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC for 24 performances
1984 - 1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented
1984 - Egypt & Jordan regain diplomatic relations
1984 - NY Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit HRs as a teen & in 40s
1985 - Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
1985 - Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
1985 - Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season
1986 - Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court
1986 - Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0
1987 - 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka
1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s
1988 - Kathy Guadagnino wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1988 - Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter & Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m
           freestyle (3:16.53)
1989 - Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
1989 - Ronald Harwood's "Another Time," premieres in London
1989 - Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits & 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila
1990 - 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Balt Orioles to tie record
1990 - Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title
1990 - Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience
1990 - UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
1991 - "Good & Evil" premieres on ABC TV
1991 - Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens
1992 - "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" opens at Paramount NYC
1992 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1992 - Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea)
1992 - Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit's winningest manager
1992 - US Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle
1992 - Gregory Kingsley, 12, wins right to divorce his parents & live with his foster parents, he takes
           name Shawn Russ
1994 - Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.
1997 - "ER" is performed live on TV
1997 - Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph)
1997 - Marv Albert plea bargains in assault case
1997 - STS 86 (Atlantis 20) launches into orbit
1997 - WNBA announces it will add Detroit & Wash DC franchises
2002 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
2003 - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.
2005 - E1 Train Disaster
2008 - China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
2012 - 50 Taiwanese ships clash with the Japan Coast Guard in waters off the Senkaku Islands
2012 - Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the
           Netherlands

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th September


Famous Weddings

1940 - "Sullivan's Travels" actress Veronica Lake (18) weds American motion picture art director and
           set designer John S. Detlie (31)
1954 - "Roman Holiday" actress Audrey Hepburn (25) weds actor Mel Ferrer (37) in Burgenstock
1959 - Cosmopolitan founder Helen Gurley Brown and film (37) weds theatre producer David Brown
           (43)
2003 - Prince of Venice and Piedmont Emanuele Filiberto (31) weds French actress Clotilde Courau
           (34) at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome
2004 - Academy Award winning actor Kevin Costner (49) weds model and handbag designer
           Christine Baumgartner (30) at his 165-acre ranch in Aspen, Colorado
2005 - "Gremlins" actor Zach Galligan (41) weds Ling-Ling Hu Ingerick at New York City's Yale Club in
           New York City
2010 - Actress Emily Deschanel (33) weds writer-actor David Hornsby (34) in the Pacific Palisades
           area of Los Angeles
2010 - PayPal founder Elon Musk (39) weds actress Talulah Riley (24) at Dornoch Cathedral in
           Scotland
2010 - Charlie Sheen's daughter Cassandra Estevez (25) weds Casey Huffman (27) in Santa Barbara,
           California

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th September


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Author and Nobel Laureate                     Actor Michael Douglas (1944)                Actor Will Smith (1968)
William Faulkner (1897)


1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
1593 - Matthew Merian, the Elder, engraver/bookseller
1599 - Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667)
1612 - Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, Dutch historian
1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized)
1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1714 - Jean-Benoit Leclair, composer
1725 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile
1729 - Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist
1738 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
1741 - Vaclav Pichl, composer
1744 - Frederick Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97)
1752 - Carl Stenborg, composer
1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
1766 - Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21)
1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
1780 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
1782 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
1785 - George Frederic Pinto, composer
1793 - Felicia Dorothea Hermans, poet
1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
1798 - Henri Scheffer, painter
1798 - JBAL Leonce Elie de Beaumont, French mine engineer/geologist
1805 - Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar/founder (Pella colony in Iowa)
1822 - Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brig Gen (Union vol)
1823 - Thomas John Wood, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1829 - William Michael Rossetti, civil servant
1830 - Karl Klindworth, pianist/conductor
1832 - William Le Baron Jenney, US, architect/"father of skyscraper"
1839 - Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya)
1839 - [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist
1852 - Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy (1910-18)
1852 - Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Nietzsche Philosophy)
1862 - Leon Boellmann, French organist/composer (Variations Symphoniques)
1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, US, biologist (Nobel-1933)
1867 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
1872 - Charles Blake Cochran, impresario
1877 - Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)
1879 - Luis da Costa, composer
1879 - Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and
           Grammar (d. 1963)
1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
1884 - Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, Dutch educationalist
1886 - Jesus Guridi, composer
1886 - John Howard Lawson, scriptwriter/playwright
1887 - May Sutton Bundy, US, 1st US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904)
1889 - George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist
1889 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
1896 - Elsa Triolet, writer
1896 - Roberto Gerhard, composer
1896 - Sandro Pertini, president Italy
1897 - Teddy Hart, NYC, actor (3 Men on a Horse)
1897 - William Faulkner, New Albany Mississippi, author (Sound & Fury-Nobel 1949), (d. 1962)
1898 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
1901 - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
1902 - Ernst von Salomon, German writer (Kette Der Tausend Kraniche)
1902 - Jeno Takacs, composer
1903 - John Everett Allen, US businessman
1903 - Mark Rothko, [Marcus Rothkovich], US, painter (Green on Blue)
1905 - Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist (Discovering Jerusalem)
1905 - Red Smith, Green Bay Wisc, sportscaster/columnist (Fight Talk)
1906 - Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St Petersburg Russia, composer [NS]
1906 - Jaroslav Jezek, composer
1906 - Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer
1906 - Phyllis Pearsall, East Dulwich, London, British painter and writer (A to Z Map Company)
1907 - Jan Felderhof, composer
1907 - Robert Bresson, France, director (Pickpocket, Mouchette)
1908 - Eugen Suchon, composer
1909 - Florizel A Glasspole, governor-gen of Jamaica (1973-91)
1911 - Lionel Henry Nowak, composer
1911 - Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
1913 - David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner
1914 - Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist
1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist (d. 1953)
1916 - Tolia Nikiprowetzsy, composer
1917 - Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1918 - Phil Rizzuto, Brooklyn New York, American sportscaster/shortstop (NY Yankees-MVP 1950)
1920 - Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace)
1921 - Remy C, de Kerckhove, Flemish poet
1921 - Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/chairman (IMF)
1922 - John Farr, British MP
1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
1924 - Norman Ayrton, opera director (Royal Shakespearean Acad - UK)
1925 - Silvana Pampanini, Rome Italy, actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner)
1925 - William Edgar Mitchell, physicist
1925 - Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor (1st man-powered aircraft)
1926 - Aldo Ray, Pen Argyl PA, actor (God's Little Acre, Green Beret)
1926 - John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Sam Bolt-Honey West)
1926 - Sergei Filatov, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960)
1926 - Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
1927 - Carl Braun, basketball player (NY Knicks)
1927 - Colin Rex Davis, Weybridge England, conductor (NY Met 1967-71)
1928 - Hendrika G "Tine" de Vries, actress (Seaman's Wife)
1929 - John Rutherford, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1956)
1929 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian (the Two Ronnies)
1929 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
1929 - Kevin White, Boston, Massachusetts, American politicians (Mayor of Boston, 1968-1984), (d.
           2012)
1930 - H Heckmann, writer
1930 - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)
1931 - Barbara Walters, Boston Mass, newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV)
1931 - Patrick WIlliam Walker, British astrologer
1931 - Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (d. 2005)
1932 - Andrew Gardner, British broadcaster
1932 - Daphne Swallow, commandant/director (WRNS)
1932 - Glenn Herbert Gould, Toronto Canada, pianist (sued Steinway Piano)
1932 - Terry Medwin, Welsh retired footballer
1933 - Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez, premier of Spain (1976-81)
1933 - Erik Darling, Baltimore MD, rocker (Rooftop Singers)
1933 - Ian Tyson, rocker
1933 - Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
1934 - John S Bull, Memphis Tennessee, astronaut
1934 - Struther Arnott, professor (St Andrew University)
1934 - Jean Sorel, French actor
1936 - Edward Jones, UK military rep to NATO
1936 - Juliet Prowse, Bombay India, actress/dancer (Who Killed Teddy Bear)
1936 - Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, bluesman
1937 - Michael Gibbs, jazz composer
1937 - Thomas Kessler, composer
1939 - David Mann, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1939 - Joseph "Jesse" Russell, US singer (Slip Sliding Away)
1939 - Leon Britain, British politician, vice president (Commission of European Communities)
1939 - Feroz Khan, Indian actor
1940 - Timothy Severin, author/explorer
1941 - Vivian Stern, director (Nacros)
1942 - John Taylor, jazz pianist
1942 - Michael Stephen, MP
1942 - Peter Petherick, cricketer (NZ slow lefty 1976-77, hat-trick on debut)
1943 - Gary Alexander, TN, rock vocalist/guitarist (Association)
1943 - John Locke, LA Clif, rock keyboardist (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
1943 - Robert Walden, NYC, actor (Joe Rossi-Lou Grant, New Doctors)
1943 - Robert Gates, American Secretary of Defense
1944 - Eugenia Zukerman, Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist (Deceptive Cadence)
1944 - Grayson Shillingford, cricket bowler (WI 1969-71, 7 Tests 15 wickets)
1944 - Michael Douglas, NJ, actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile)
1944 - Doris Matsui, American politician
1945 - Kathleen Brown, state treasurer (D-California, 1991- )
1945 - Owen "Onnie" McIntyre, Scotland, guitarist (Average White Band)
1945 - Reynold Henry Weidenaar, composer
1946 - Bishan Bedi, cricketer (mighty Indian slow left-armer 1966-79)
1946 - Felicity Kendal, Indies/British actress (Shakespeare Wallah)
1946 - Gilmer Bryan Morgan, Wewoka OK, PGA golfer (1977 BC Open)
1947 - Cheryl Tiegs, Minnesota, model (Sports Illustrated)
1947 - John Fiddler, England, rock vocalist/guitarist (British Lions)
1949 - Anson Williams, Los Angeles California, actor (Potsie-Happy Days)
1949 - Inshan Ali, cricketer (big-spinning WI chinaman bowler 1971-77)
1949 - Jerry F Costello, (Rep-D-Illinois)
1949 - Mimi Kennedy, Rochester NY, actress (Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under 1 Roof)
1951 - Bob McAdoo, NBA forward/center (Buffalo Braves, LA Lakers)
1951 - Burleigh Drummond, rocker (Ambrosia)
1951 - Mark Hamill, Oakland California, actor (Luke Skywalker-Star Wars)
1951 - Pedro Almodovar, Spain, director/screenwriter (Kika, Matador)
1952 - Christopher Reeve, NYC, actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time)
1952 - Tommy Norden, NYC, actor (Flipper)
1952 - Gloria Jean Watkins, American scholar
1953 - Richard Harvey, British musician and composer (Gryphon)
1954 - Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
1954 - Juande Ramos, Spanish Football Manager
1955 - Adelmo "Zucchero" Fornaciari, Italian R&B-singer (Senza una Donna)
1955 - Steven Severin, British pop bassist (Siouxsie & Banshees-Wild Thing)
1955 - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
1955 - Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
1956 - Jamie Hyneman, American visual effects technician
1957 - Rupert Haselden, journalist/Screenwriter
1957 - Ian Reddington, English actor
1958 - Michael Madsen, Chicago, actor (Reservoir Dogs, Straight Talk)
1958 - Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist
1959 - Andy Waller, cricketer (big-hitting Zimbabwe batsman-1992 World Cup)
1960 - John Hills, horse trainer
1960 - Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
1960 - Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
1961 - Heather Locklear, LA Ca, actress (Stacy-T J Hooker, Sammy Jo-Dynasty)
1961 - Tim Zoehrer, cricketer (Aussie keeper, & occasional WA leggie)
1962 - Rajiv Kulkarni, cricketer (Indian Test pace bowler 1986-87)
1963 - Keely Shaye Smith, correspondent (Unsolved Mysteries)
1964 - Bryan Tooley, Eugene Ore, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1964 - Anita Barone, American actress
1964 - Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman and sports executive
1964 - Gary Ayles, British racing driver
1964 - Maria Doyle Kennedy, Irish actress and singer
1965 - Scottie Pippen, Hamburg, Arkansas, American NBA forward (Bulls, Oly-2 gold-92, 96)
1966 - Elizabeth "Liz" Tchou, Medford NJ, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1966 - Todd Philcox, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 - Lezlie Lund, Tolna ND, Miss ND-America (1991)
1967 - Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Will Smith [The Fresh Prince], actor/rapper (Men in Black, Independence Day, Fresh Prince)
1968 - Johan Friso, prince of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands
1968 - Reggie Jefferson, Tallahassee FL, 1st baseman (Cin, Cleve, Sea, Bos)
1968 - John Worsfold, Australian rules football coach
1969 - Catherine Zeta Jones, Swansea Wales, actress (Christopher Columbus)
1969 - David Weathers, Lawrencburg TN, pitcher (Florida Marlins, NY Yankees)
1969 - Hansie Cronje, cricket captain (solid South African batsman)
1969 - Michae Wright, WLAF cornerback (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 - Hal Sparks, American actor
1970 - Curtis Buckley, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 - Damon Pieri, NFL safety (Carolina Panthers)
1970 - Doug Pelfrey, NFL kicker (Cin Bengals)
1970 - Kerri Kendall, San Diego Ca, playmate (Sep, 1990)
1970 - Shannon Jones, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1970 - Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)
1971 - John Lynch, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 - Tony Harrison, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Brian Dunkleman, American actor
1972 - Kevin Mason, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 - Nikole Viola, Miss USA-Louisiana (1997)
1973 - Melonie McGarrah, Rogers Arkansas, Miss America-Arkansas (1997)
1973 - Tijani Babangida, soccer player (Roda JC)
1973 - Bridgette Wilson, Gold Beach, Oregon, American actress (Mortal Kombat, Billy Madison)
1973 - Bridget Marquardt, American model
1974 - Daniel Kessler, American musician (Interpol)
1975 - Declan Donnelly, English television presenter (Ant and Dec)
1975 - Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
1975 - Daniel Hyde, British actor
1976 - Chauncey Billups, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1977 - Clea DuVall, American actress
1977 - Mike Krahulik, Illustrator
1977 - Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican baseball player
1978 - Laura Nicholls, Kitchener Ontario, 50m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1978 - Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
1978 - Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
1978 - Jodie Kidd, English model
1978 - Joel Pineiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1980 - T.I., American rapper
1981 - Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
1981 - Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
1981 - Shane Tutmarc, American songwriter and musician
1981 - Van Hansis, American actor
1982 - Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
1983 - Terrance Pennington, National Football League guard
1984 - Matt Carle, American ice hockey player
1990 - Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
1994 - Jansen Panettiere, American actor

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 25th September


Famous Deaths

Gymnast Sofia Muratova (2006)


813 - al-Amin, Arabic kalief of Islam (809-813), murdered
1066 - Harald III Hardrada, King of Norway (1047-66), dies in battle at 51
1066 - Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria, killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1333 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
1392 - Sergius van Radonesj, Russian saint, dies at 78
1396 - Jean de Vienne, French admiral/crusader, dies in battle
1396 - Odard de Chasseron, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1396 - Philip of Bar, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1496 - Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
1501 - Dzore Drzic, Croatish poet, dies
1506 - Felipe I, the handsome, King of Castile (Spain) (1504-06), dies
1525 - Johannes Pistorius, [Bakker], RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26
1534 - Clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italian Pope (1523-34), dies at 56
1602 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1617 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1617)
1617 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548)
1619 - Francesco Soto de Langa, composer, dies
1630 - Ambrogio Spinola, Spanish marquis of Balbases, dies at about 61
1665 - Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
1680 - Samuel Butler, poet/satirist, dies
1716 - Johann Christoph Pez, composer, dies at 52
1727 - Jacques Abbadie, French theologist, dies at about 73
1733 - Georg Motz, composer, dies at 79
1774 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
1777 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, dies at 49
1791 - William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
1792 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
1794 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
1808 - Richard Porson, scholar, dies
1813 - Braz Francisco de Lima, composer, dies at 61
1825 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
1840 - Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier
1849 - Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45
1860 - Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer, dies at 60
1867 - Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
1871 - Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies
1876 - A Glabbrenner, writer, dies at 66
1900 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
1901 - Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
1905 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
1914 - A Lichtenstein, writer, dies at 25
1914 - Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter, dies at 76
1916 - Julius Fucik, composer, dies at 44
1917 - Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
1918 - John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul, dies at 80
1918 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
1920 - William F Sudds, composer, dies at 77
1926 - Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
1928 - Karl Schneider, cricketer (South Aust bat), dies of leukaemia at 23
1929 - Miller Huggins, manager (NY Yankees), dies from blood poisoning at 49
1933 - Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Neth physicist, dies at 53
1933 - Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
1944 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68
1944 - Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer, dies at 43
1945 - Bela Bartok, composer, dies at 64
1945 - Charles A Ellwood, US sociologist/psychologist, dies at 72
1953 - Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies
1954 - Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Spanish essayist/philosopher, dies at 71
1958 - John B Watson, US psychologist/behaviorist, dies
1959 - Ennio Porrino, composer, dies at 49
1959 - Helen Broderick, comedienne/actress (Swing Time, Top Hat), dies
1959 - S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk
1960 - Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86
1961 - Frank Fay, American actor (God's Gift to Women), dies at 69
1970 - Efim Golishev, composer, dies at 73
1970 - Erich M Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72
1971 - TC Jones, female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50
1974 - Coco the Clown, [Nikolai Poliakov], dies
1974 - William Sloane, publisher/writer ("Edge of Running Water"), dies
1975 - Bob Considine, newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at 68
1977 - Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician, dies at 78
1978 - Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80
1979 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete and actor (b. 1915)
1980 - John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32
1980 - Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
1980 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
1980 - Earl Curry, American religious author (b. 1890)
1983 - Leopold III, king of Belgium (1934-51), dies
1984 - Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Mrs Miniver), dies at 87
1985 - Albert Moeschinger, composer, dies at 88
1986 - Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99
1986 - Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
1986 - Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (b.1909)
1987 - Emlyn Williams, actor/director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), dies at 81
1987 - Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81
1988 - Billy Carter, Pres Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51
1991 - Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77
1991 - Max Koot, royal photographer, dies
1991 - Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
1994 - John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73
1994 - Kitty Masters, actress, dies at 92
1994 - Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Germ prince of Prussia, dies at 86
1994 - Mark Alexander Abrams, market Researcher, dies at 88
1995 - Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer, dies at 104
1995 - Dave Bowen, footballer, dies at 67
1995 - Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper), dies at 102
1996 - Betty Phyllis Gathergood, curator, dies at 80
1996 - Nicu Ceausescu, playboy, dies at 45
1997 - Sayed Mutawli ad Imam scholar/broadcaster-Darsh, dies at 66
1997 - Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
1997 - Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (b. 1916)
1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
2000 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
2003 - Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician (b. 1953)
2003 - Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
2003 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (b. 1927)
2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
2003 - Franco Modigliani, Italian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2005 - Don Adams, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)
2005 - George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
2005 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)
2005 - Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist (b. 1917)
2005 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)
2005 - Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
2006 - Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
2006 - John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
2006 - Sofia Muratova, Russian Olympic gold winning Gymnast, dies at 77
2007 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian negotiator (b. 1919)
2009 - Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan pianist (b. 1923)
2010 - Art Gilmore, American actor (b. 1912)
2011 - Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dies from ovarian
           cancer at 71
2012 - Andy Williams, American singer, dies from bladder cancer at 84

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 26th September


Historical Events

                                   
Ist US Chief Justice John Jay                     Composer John Philip Sousa               Dictator of Nazi Germany
                                                                                                                            Adolf Hitler

                                   
Cuban President Fidel Castro                    Ex-soldier, drifter                                 US President & Actor
                                                                Lee Harvey Oswald                                      Ronald Reagan

                 
Tennis Player                                                Publisher and Lawyer 
Martina Navratilova                                       John F. Kennedy Jr.


46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with
            a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
715 - Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
1212 - Golden Bull of Sicily certified hereditary royal title in Bohemia for Přemyslid dynasty.
1371 - Battle of Maritsa: Serbia-Turkey
1396 - Sultan Bajezid I beheads 100s of crusaders
1404 - Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established
1580 - Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the
           Golden Hind
1629 - Sweden & Poland signs Peace of Altmark
1655 - Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from Swedish in Delaware
1680 - Tax revolt in Gorinchem due to tax on cereal
1687 - Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks Parthenon damaged in
           war between Turks & Venetians
1687 - The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England,
           which became the Glorious Revolution.
1733 - France, Spain & Sardinia sign anti-German covenant
1771 - Denis Diderot's "Le Fils Naturel," premieres in Paris
1772 - New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine
1783 - Fayette County, Pennsylvania created
1786 - England & France sign trade agreement
1789 - 4th US Postmaster General: Samuel Osgood of Mass takes office
1789 - Jefferson appointed 1st US Sec of State; John Jay becomes 1st US Chief Justice;
1789 - Edmund J Randolph becomes 1st US Attorney General
1792 - Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for
           France.
1810 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste
           Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1815 - Russia, Prussia & Austria sign Holy Alliance
1824 - Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
1831 - Robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator," premieres in NYC
1835 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor," premieres in Naples
1861 - 2nd British Golf Open: Tom Morris Sr shoots a 163 at Prestwick Club
1872 - The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.
1874 - 1st Grand International Rifle match held
1876 - 1st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux)
1884 - Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed
1887 - Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
1890 - US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3 cent piece
1892 - 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)
1892 - Diamond Match Co patented book matches
1895 - Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea
1898 - Victor Herbert/Harry Smith' musical premieres in NYC
1901 - Boer General Botha fails to capture Fort Itala in Natal
1901 - Great Britain annexes Gold Coast (Ghana)
1904 - Charles Kleins "Music Master," premieres in NYC
1904 - Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada
1904 - GB Shaw's "How He Lied to Her Husband," premieres in NYC
1906 - Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game
1907 - NZ declares independence from UK
1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1908 - Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader
1914 - Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
1914 - Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels
1916 - Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions
1917 - British assault on Menin-street, France
1918 - Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WW I
1918 - World War I: Battle of Meuse.
1919 - US President Wilson hit by a heart attack
1921 - Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 & 58 to beat Indians 8-7
1923 - Stresemann government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied
1925 - 8th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Olympia Fields CC Matteson Ill
1925 - Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead
1926 - JB Fagan's "And So to Bed," premieres in London
1926 - Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to
           Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
1927 - St James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St NYC
1929 - John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria
1933 - Sidney Kingsley's "Men in White," premieres in NYC
1934 - British liner Queen Mary is launched
1938 - Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land
1939 - German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed)
1940 - Airplane manufacturer in Woolston bombed, 30 killed
1940 - Japanese troops attack French Indo-China
1941 - Nazi's slaughter about 34,000 Jews of Kiev
1944 - British & Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem)
1944 - Soviet forces occupy Estonia
1945 - All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
1946 - 1st edition of Tintin (Kuifje), publishes until June 1993
1947 - Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series
1948 - Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
1950 - Australia wins Davis Cup tennis tournament
1950 - Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England
1950 - Phils pitcher Jim Konstanty makes record 71st appearance of year
1950 - UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul
1951 - Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris
1952 - Yanks clinch 4th straight & 19th AL pennant, beating A's 5-2
1953 - Billy Hunter is last St Louis Browns player to homer in a game
1953 - KERO TV channel 23 in Bakersfield, CA (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski
1953 - US & Spain sign defense treaty (4 US bases in Spain)
1954 - Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru, 1172 die
1954 - KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - KUTV TV channel 2 in Salt Lake City, UT (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Ardmore Golf Open
1954 - Typhoon hits Japan - 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600
1954 - WANE TV channel 15 in Fort Wayne, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - WCAX TV channel 3 in Burlington, VT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - A's defeats Yanks 8-6 in last game franchise will play in Phila
1954 - Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd & Mickey Mantle plays shortstop
1955 - NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1957 - "West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 734 perfs
1957 - Bernstein & Sondheim's musical "West Side Story," premieres in NYC
1957 - Dag Hammarskjoeld re-elected secretary-general of UN
1957 - Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway
1957 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1958 - Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty
1959 - SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0
1959 - Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing the deaths of 4,580 people with 658
           missing
1960 - 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago)
1960 - Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
1961 - "From the Second City" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances
1961 - Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record
1962 - LA Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104)
1962 - TV comedy series "Beverly Hillbillies" premieres on CBS
1962 - Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
1963 - 1st edition of NYC Review of Books
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald travels on Continental Trailways bus to Mexico
1964 - Braves (25) & Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn
1965 - 11th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie
1965 - Minnesota gains its 1st AL pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1
1965 - Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of the British Empire
1966 - "Staten Island," 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
1967 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Violin concert, premieres in Moscow
1968 - 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV
1968 - Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal
1968 - St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA
1968 - Theatre censorship ends in Britain
1969 - Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
1969 - Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia
1969 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1970 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
1971 - Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games this season
1971 - Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1971 - WGBY TV channel 57 in Springfield, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 - American Museum of Immigration dedicated
1972 - Norway rejects membership in European Common Market
1973 - Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m
1973 - Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2½ years)
1973 - Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors
1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 - Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM
1976 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1976 - Denver's Rick Upchurch returns 2 punts for TDs against Cleveland
1976 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Carlton Golf
1976 - Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title
1977 - Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27
1977 - Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY
1978 - RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
1978 - NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be
           banned from locker rooms
1979 - 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 - Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed
1980 - Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"
1980 - Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
1981 - Houston Astro Nolan Ryan 5th no-hitter beats LA Dodgers, 5-0
1981 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 - "Doll's Life" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 5 perfs
1982 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1983 - Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1983 - Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner)
1983 - Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
1983 - Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
1983 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1983 - St Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0
1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
1984 - 5,251 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1984 - Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit
1984 - Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1984 - Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University
1984 - Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd
1984 - President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
1985 - Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya
1986 - Antonin Scalia, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1986 - RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit top 10 (Raisin' Hell)
1986 - William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court
1986 - Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream
           (erases all of last season)
1987 - Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games
1988 - Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test
1988 - NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark
1988 - Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM
1988 - US space shuttle STS-26 launched
1989 - Last Vietnamese soldiers leave Cambodia
1989 - MPAA creates NC-17 rating for movies with adult themes
1989 - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet & US
           chemical weapons
1990 - Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating
1991 - 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins
1992 - Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova, 7-5, 6-3
1992 - Nigerian Hercules C-130 crashes at Lagos, 163 die
1992 - Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 - Tsuruhiko Kiuchi discovers comet Swift-Tuttle
1992 - 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates
1993 - 30th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 15-13 at The Belfry, England
1993 - Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning
1993 - Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating Brewers 6-4
1993 - Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1993 - Seattle's Randy Johnson joins 300-strikeout club
1994 - Estonia government of Laar flees
1994 - Switzerland bans racist propaganda
1995 - "George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr
1995 - Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld v Western Prov)
1995 - Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in Pakistan from 0-1
           Publisher and Lawyer John F. Kennedy Jr.Publisher and Lawyer John F. Kennedy Jr. 1996 - SF
           Giant Bobby Bonds is 2nd player to hit 40 HRs & steal 40 bases
1996 - Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), lands
1997 - Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr hits his 56th HR of 1997
1997 - An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the
           Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
2000 - Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turned violent during the IMF
           and World Bank summits.
2000 - M/S Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
2002 - The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than
           1,000.
2007 - Shinzo Abe formally ends his term as Prime Minister of Japan.
2008 - Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing
           across the English Channel.
2009 - Typhoon Ketsana (2009) hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand,
           causing 700 fatalities.
2012 - Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, Damascus
2012 - Greek trade unions call a general strike to protest austerity measures
2012 - Japanese automakers suspend operations in China

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This Day in History for 26th September


Famous Weddings

1931 - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg marries Freiin Nina von Lerchenfeld
1986 - Fashion designer Calvin Klein (43) weds socialite Kelly Rector on a civil ceremony in Italy
1999 - Actress-singer and former beauty queen Vanessa L Williams (36) weds Los Angeles Lakers'
           basketball player Rick Fox (30) at Church of the Holy Trinity in New York
2005 - Country music singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver (66) weds Wanda Lynn Canady in
           Corsicana, Texas
2009 - Actress and model Jaime Pressly (35) weds entertainment lawyer Simran Singh (33) at Dick
           Clark estate in Malibu
2009 - "Half and Half" actress Essence Atkins (37) weds football free safety Jaime Mendez (38) at
            Ambassador Mansion and Gardens in Pasadena, California
2009 - "American Idol" runner-up Justin Guarini (30) weds Reina Capodici (27) at a private estate in
            Doylestown, Pennsylvania