September 21 Events

2010 President Obama's economic advisor Lawrence Summers announces he will leave his post as head of the U.S. Economic Council
2010 In the Atlantic Ocean, tropical storm Lisa forms off the Cape Verde Islands
1999 Earthquake kills 2,295 in central Taiwan
1997 Brickyard Crossing Senior Golf Championhsip
1997 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA PING Welch's Championship
1997 Mike Piazza is 2nd to hit a home run out of Dodger Stadium
1997 New York Yankee Cecil Fielder hits his 300th home run
1997 Tim Herron wins Texas Golf Open shooting a 271
1996 Christie Brinkey gets married for 4th time, she marries Peter Cook
1996 John F. Kennedy, Jr. marries Caroline Bisset
1994 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft. Lauderdale / Miami, Florida on WBGG 105.9 FM
1993 Ukraine government of Kutshma resigns
1991 Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union
1991 USA Basketball announces "Dream Team" for the 1992 Olympics
1990 Oakland A's Bob Welch becomes 1st 25 game winner in 10 years
1990 Pirate Bobby Bond is 2nd to hit 30 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season (so he can play in 6 decades) because it is a publicity stunt
1990 Faye Vincent turns down White Sox bid to reinstate Minnie Minoso, 68,
1989 Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki
1988 Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville New Jersey home
1987 3 Belgian minesweepers depart to Persians Gulf
1986 38th Emmy Awards: Golden Girls, Cagney and Lacey and Michael J Fox win
1986 Miami Dan Marino passes for 6 touchdowns vs New York Jets (51-45)
1986 New York Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards
1986 New Orleans Saints Mel Gray returns kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown
1986 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1986 San Diego Padre Jimmy Jones pitchs 1-hitter in his major league debut
1985 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1984 NASA launches Galaxy-C
1983 11 killed in anti Marcos demonstrations in Manila
1983 David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross," premieres in London
1983 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 2,251 turn out to see Expos play New York Mets at Shea Stadium
1982 Devils beat Rangers 3-2 in exhibition; 1st hockey in Meadowlands, New Jersey
1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1982 STS-5 vehicle moves to launch pad
1981 Belize (British Honduras) gains independence from U.K.
1981 Sandra Day O'Conner becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice
1981 Steve Carlton strikes out NL record 3,118th (Andre Dawson)
1980 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic
1980 LA Ram Johnnie Johnson scores a 99 yard interception
1980 Richard Todd of New York Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record)
1977 U.S. minister of Foreign affairs Cyrus Vance dismissed
1976 Wings performs in Zagreb Yugoslavia
1975 Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic
1974 U.S. Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury
1973 Jackson Pollocks painting "Blue Poles" sold for $2,000,000
1973 New York Mets go into 1st place (at .500) after trailing 12 games
1973 Nate Archibald signs 7 yr contract with NBA Kansas City Kings for $450,000
1972 Marcos declares martial law in Philippines
1972 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1971 AL OKs Washington Senator move to Arlington (Texas Rangers)
1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono are Dick Cavett's only guest
1970 "Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21
1970 KAPP TV channel 35 in Yakima, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 Luna 16 leaves Moon
1970 Oakland A's Vida Blue no-hits Minnesota Twins, 6-0
1969 58th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Cleveland (5-0)
1969 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1969 New York Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos
1969 Ron Hill wins European marathon (2:16:47.8)
1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 5" of rain falls on New York City
1966 Jimmy Hendrix changes spelling of his name to Jimi
1965 O Kommissarova (U.S.S.R.) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250')
1964 Constellation (U.S.) beats Sovereign (England) in 20th America's Cup
1964 Malta gains independence from Britain
1964 Reds Chico Ruiz steals home, beats Phillies 1-0. Phillies start a 10 game losing streak that gives Cards the pennant
1961 Antonio Abertondo swims English Channel round trip (44 miles)
1959 600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US
1958 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas, Texas
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 "Perry Mason" with Raymond Burr premieres on CBS-TV
1957 German sailing school ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean
1957 Olav V, becomes king of Norway
1957 Pote Sarasin forms government in Thailand
1956 Yankees set dubious record, stranding 20 men on base Mantle hits a 500' plus homer but Red Sox win 13-9 in Fenway
1955 Last allied occupying troops leave Austria
1955 Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1955 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1954 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned
1954 Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting U.N.
1953 Allied forces form West Germany
1953 KRDO TV channel 13 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (ABC) 1st broadcast
1951 Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec
1949 Chinese Communist leaders proclaims People's Republic of China
1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under 3-power occupation
1948 "Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle premieres on NBC-TV
1946 Indians play their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year stay
1944 Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrenders
1943 Arundel (Solomon Island) in U.S. hands
1943 Lynch Triangle (Square) in Bronx named
1943 Russian 13th/61st Army reconquer Chyernigov
1943 Soviet forces reach Dnjepr
1942 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris
1942 Transport nr 35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1941 U.S. launches its 1st Liberty-ship, "Patrick Henry"
1939 Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews
1938 Hurricane (183 MPH winds) in New England kills 700
1938 Winston Churchill condemns Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia
1937 J R R Tolkien, publishes "Hobbit"
1936 Spanish fascist junta names Franco to generalissimo/supreme commander
1934 St. Louis Card Paul Dean no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 3-0
1934 Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000
1933 Trial against Marinus der Lubbe opens
1931 Britain abandons gold standard/pound devalues 20%
1930 Johann Ostermeyer patents flashbulb
1929 1st legal pass in Canada was thrown by Gerry Seiberling and 1st reception by Ralph Losie of Calgary Altomah-Tigers against Edmonton
1928 "My Weekly Reader" magazine made its debut
1922 President Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine
1921 Gas explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany, 565 die
1921 Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians
1919 33rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Zinderstein (61 62)
1915 CH Chubb buys Stonehenge for 6,600 pounds
1915 Emanuel Querido ("Kerido") begins publishing Querido
1913 1st aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France
1913 Turkey and Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople
1906 Yankee 1st baseman Hal Chase's 22 put-outs ties record
1903 1st cowboy film "Kit Carson," premieres in U.S.
1898 China's empress-mother Ci Xi and emperor De Zong arrested
1897 New York Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial
1896 General Kitcheners army occupies Dongola Sudan
1895 1st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company
1893 Frank Duryea drives 1st U.S. made gas propelled vehicle (car)
1885 Dutch demonstrate for general voting right
1883 1st direct U.S. - Brazil telegraph connection
1872 John Henry Conyers of South Carolina becomes 1st black student at Annapolis
1863 Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga
1837 Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry and china stores
1823 Moroni 1st appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith
1815 King Willem I takes oath in Brussels
1814 "Star Spangled Banner" published as a poem
1792 1st French Republic forms
1792 Proposal by Collot D'Herbois, to abolish the monarchy in France
1784 1st daily newspaper in America (Penns Packet and General Advertiser)
1784 Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser 1st success U.S. daily newspaper
1780 Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andre plans to West Point
1776 Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested
1746 French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais and Dupleix Madras
1745 Battle at Preston Pans: Bonnie Prince Charles beats English army
1677 John and Nicolaas van der Heyden patents fire extinguisher
1676 Benedetto Odescalchi elected as Pope Innocent XI
1648 Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir
1621 King James of England gives Canada to Sir Alexander Sterling
1591 French bishops recognize Henri IV as king of France
1589 Battle at Arques: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League
1451 Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge
1435 Treaty of Atrecht: Philip of Bourgondy vs French king Charles II
1348 Jews in Zurich Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells
1192 English king Richard I the Lion hearted, captured
1066 Battle at Fulford: Norway king Harald III Hardrada beats British militia

September 20 Events

2010 In Parana, Brazil, a stadium collapses during a car race, injuring 110 people
2010 The brightest object in the night sky next to the Moon is the planet Jupiter, as it makes its closest approach to Earth since 1963
2004 Tropical Storm Jeanne kills more than 550 during flooding in Haiti
2000 Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends
1997 Yankees clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive
1995 Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central
1994 Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands
1992 Colleen Walker wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1992 Frances votes in favor of Maastricht treaty
1992 Leanza Cornett (Florida), 21, crowned 66th Miss America 1993
1992 Phils' Mickey Moradini makes an unassisted triple play
1992 Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands
1991 Lion's Terry Taylor reinstated after 1 year drug related suspension
1990 Both Germanys ratify reunification
1990 Saddam Hussein demands U.S. networks broadcast his message
1990 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa
1989 Musical "Miss Saigon," premieres in London
1989 U.S. Air overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, 2 people die
1988 Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run
1988 Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving
1988 Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons
1987 "Big River" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 1005 performances
1987 39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis and Sharon Gless wins
1987 Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race
1987 Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
1987 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1987 Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown
1986 Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State
1985 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
1985 Walt Disney World receives its 200-millionth guest
1984 "Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV
1984 Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time
1984 Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23
1983 3,112 turn out to see Pirates play New York Mets at Shea Stadium
1983 Cryptographic Communications System and Method (RSA) patented
1982 Jalaluddin takes a one-day hat-trick Pakistan vs. Australia
1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1981 24th Ryder Cup: U.S., 18 -9 at Walton Heath GC, England
1981 Belize declares independence
1981 Joe Danelo kicks then New York Giant record 55 yard field goal
1981 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1980 Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium
1980 George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good
1980 Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium
1980 Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out
1979 Coup in Central African Rep: David Dacko overthrows emperor Bokassa I
1979 Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola
1979 NASA launches HEAO
1978 "Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 439 performances
1978 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany
1977 "Estrada" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 7 performances
1977 Vietnam and Djibouti ask for membership in U.N.
1977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
1976 Metroliner official opens in Brussels
1976 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women
1976 Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion
1975 21st Ryder Cup: U.S., 21-11 at Laurel Valley Golf Club Pennsylvania
1975 David Bowie's 'Fame' single goes #1 for 2 weeks
1975 Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28" draw
1973 Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
1973 Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season
1972 Police find cannabis growing on Paul and Linda McCartney's farm
1970 Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior
1970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
1969 18th Ryder Cup: Draw, 16-16 at Royal Birkdale, England
1969 Archies' "Sugar Sugar" hits #1
1969 Pittsburgh Pirate Bob Moose no-hits New York Mets, 4-0
1968 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
1967 Benin separates from Nigeria
1967 British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank, Scotland
1967 Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38
1967 WCAE TV channel 50 in St. John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 WCIX TV channel 6 in Miami, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting
1966 U.S. Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23
1965 WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Gunter Grass' "Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand," premieres in Berlin
1964 Paramount Theater (New York City) presented the Beatles with Steve and Eydie
1962 Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria
1962 Governor R. Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Universe (James Meredith)
1961 After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
1961 James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 Roger Maris hits home run # 59 and barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yankees clinch pennant #26
1960 U.N. General Assembly admit 13 African countries and Cyprus (96 nations)
1960 WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open
1958 Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits New York Yankees 1-0
1958 Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian government in exile (Cairo)
1958 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1955 Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH
1955 Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 home runs in a season
1954 1st FORTRAN computer program run
1954 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
1954 KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles
1954 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy
1953 Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league home run
1952 KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
1951 1st North Pole jet crossing
1951 NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball
1951 Swiss males votes against female suffrage
1949 Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3%
1949 Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional
1948 "Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 48 performances
1948 Mexican Baseball league disbanded
1946 Churchill argues for a "US of Europe"
1945 German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.
1944 Polish forces free Terneuzen, Netherlands
1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-338
1942 Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m
1939 British fleet takes German U-27 boat
1939 Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1938 Dmitri Shostakovich's Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres
1938 Emlyn Williams' "Corn is Green," premieres in London
1933 Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2
1932 Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant
1932 Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer
1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables
1931 Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184
1927 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th home run of season off Tom Zachry
1924 Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams
1924 Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats New York Giants to win 300th game
1922 Goodman and Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in New York City
1922 Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games
1919 2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY
1919 Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 home runs
1919 Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in New York City
1918 Royal Dutch Blast furnace and Steel factory opens in Hague
1917 British assault on Polygon-forest, France
1913 19th U.S. Golf Open: Francis Ouimet shoots a 304 at The Country Club MA
1911 Yankees set team record 12 errors in a double header
1908 Chicago White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Philadelphia 1-0
1905 Cleveland makes AL record 7 errors in an inning
1904 George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in New York City
1904 Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II
1902 Chicago White Sox Jim Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
1896 John Mcdermott wins 1st U.S. marathon (New York City)
1884 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and Vice President
1881 Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president
1879 U.S. Grants come to San Francisco for elaborate extended visit
1877 Chase National Bank opens in New York City (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
1876 Ottawa Football Club forms
1873 Panic sweeps New York Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) New York shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal
1870 Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French
1870 Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing New York treasury
1870 Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel
1863 Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tennessee, ends
1861 Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union
1860 1st British royalty to visit U.S., Prince of Wales (King Edward VII)
1859 George Simpson patents electric range
1854 Battle at Alma Krim: 1,000 British soldiers died
1854 British and French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea
1850 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
1839 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)
1833 Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires
1828 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory," premieres in Paris
1797 U.S. frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
1793 British troops under major-general Williamson lands on (French) Haiti
1792 French defeat Prussians at Valmy
1787 Prince Willem V returns to Hague
1777 Paoli massacre
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland
1697 Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war)
1688 French troops occupies Palts
1674 2nd West Indie Company forms
1664 Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women and black men
1643 1st battle at Newbury: King Charles I vs Robert Devereux' armies
1620 Battle at Jassy: Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland
1604 Spanish army under Spinola recaptures Oostende
1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Florida and massacre the French
1530 Luther advises protestant monarch compromise
1519 Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of world
1378 Robert de Geneve, "butcher of Cesena" crowned anti-pope Clemens VII
1258 Cathedral of Salisbury inaugurated
622 Prophet Mohammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina)
451 General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne
368 Emperor Valentinianus visits Nijmegen

September 18 Events

2010 In New Zealand, 100,000 people are left without water after a large storm; the storm took the roof off of Stadium Southland in Invercargill
2010 Chileans celebrate the 200-year anniversary of their independence
1997 Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame
1997 Ted Turner gives $1 billion to the United Nations
1996 Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts
1995 Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Baltimore to move Browns
1995 Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands
1994 1st Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va
1994 Austrian conservative Vice President wins elections/extreme right gets 18.5%
1994 Deb Richard wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1994 Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS
1994 Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
1993 Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994
1993 LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins
1993 Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, and Yankees rally to beat Boston 4-3
1991 John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians
1991 NCAA places Tenn on 2 years probation for football recruting violations
1991 Robert Helmick resigns as President of U.S. Olympic Committee
1991 Space shuttle STS-48 (Discovery 14) lands
1990 500 pound Hershey Kiss is displayed in Times Square
1990 Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
1989 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
1988 Burma suspends its constitution
1988 Coup in Haiti
1988 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1987 Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 home runs
1987 U.S. and Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles
1987 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1986 David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 vs. India at Madras
1985 "Song and Dance" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 474 performances
1984 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
1984 Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
1984 Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons
1983 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
1983 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1983 Lebanese and Syrian army battle
1983 New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chicago Bears 34-31
1982 Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon
1980 "Les Miserables," opens at Palais des Sports, Paris
1980 Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base
1980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid and Valentina Kozlov defect
1979 Steven Lachs, appointed California's 1st admittedly gay judge
1979 The Who opens New York City concerts at MSG
1977 All 4 Kiss members release solo albums
1977 Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore
1977 Courageous (U.S.) sweeps Australia (Australia) in 24th America's Cup
1977 Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship
1977 U.S. Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth and Moon together
1976 Cleveland manager Frank Robinson last game as a player
1976 Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election
1976 Reverend Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention
1975 Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF
1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
1973 West Germany and East Germany admitted to UN
1972 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego)
1971 19th Ryder Cup: U.S. beats Europe, 18 -13 at Old Warson CC Mo
1969 Tiny Tim and Miss Vicky get engaged
1968 Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits San Francisco Giants 2-0
1967 Intrepid (U.S.) beats Dame Pattie (Australia) in 21st America's Cup
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1965 "Get Smart" premieres
1965 Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
1964 Greek king Constantine II marries Danish princess Anne-Marie
1964 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1963 Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1
1963 U.S.S.R. orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
1962 Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games
1962 Charlie Finley is denied permission to move A's to Dallas-Ft. Worth
1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
1959 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
1957 "Wagon Train" premieres
1957 Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels
1956 Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 home runs in a seaon
1955 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open
1955 Willie Mays hits record tying 9th home run at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock)
1954 Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2)
1954 KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 WLOS TV channel 13 in G'ville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (ABC) 1st broadcast
1950 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission
1949 Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit
1948 "Hilarities (of 1949)" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 14 performances
1948 Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin)
1948 Ralph J. Bunche confirmed as acting United Nations mediator in Palestine
1947 National Security Act, passes
1947 USAF (U.S. Air Force) forms
1946 Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana schools to protest integration
1944 British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed
1944 Eindhoven free (Lightly Day)
1944 U.S. 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne
1943 Cardinals clinch NL pennant
1943 Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful)
1942 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
1940 19 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda," premieres in New York City
1940 Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani
1939 Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
1938 Despite losing a double header, Yankees clinch pennant #10
1934 St. Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1
1934 U.S.S.R. admitted to League of Nations
1931 Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo
1930 Enterprise (U.S.) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup
1930 New York Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 home runs to beat St. Louis Browns, 7-6
1930 Philadelphia A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
1929 Pirates loss to Braves and clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
1929 Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in New York City
1928 Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928
1928 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro flight over English Channel
1927 18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is New York City affiliate)
1926 46th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64)
1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
1926 Jean Rene Lacoste wins U.S. Tennis Open
1925 Bill Tilden wins 6th straight U.S. tennis championship
1924 Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking
1922 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
1922 Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by New York's Joe Bush
1922 Hungary admitted to League of Nations
1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage
1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
1918 Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts
1915 Boston Braves trounce St. Louis Cardinals 20-1
1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1914 General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
1914 Irish home rule bill receive Royal assent
1914 South African troops land in German South West Africa
1911 Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown
1911 Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in New York City
1910 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage
1909 Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det
1908 Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1
1905 Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam
1903 Phillie's Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs, 10-0
1898 Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan
1897 Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of New York City," premieres in New York City
1895 Booker T. Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address
1895 D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes 1st chiropractor
1891 Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four"
1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)
1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke and Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St
1862 Confederate armies officially divide into corps
1862 General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia
1851 New York Times starts publishing at 2 cents a copy
1850 Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850
1849 De Kempenaer's Dutch government resigns
1848 Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner
1846 Elizabeth Barrett and R Browning exchange last letters before eloping
1842 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published
1838 Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden
1830 Horse beats 1st U.S. made locomotive (near Baltimore)
1812 Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churchs
1811 English expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies
1810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1809 Royal Opera House in London opens
1793 President Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
1789 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents and Congress
1769 John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (U.S.)
1759 Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British
1755 Ft. Ticonderoga, New York opens
1739 Turkey and Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1679 New Hampshire becomes a county Massachusetts Bay Colony
1635 Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France
1573 Spanish attack Alkmaar
1544 Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign Peace of Crepy
1544 English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne
1544 Peace of Crepy: German emperor Charles V and French king Francois I
1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th and last voyage
1437 Farmer uprising in Transsylvania
324 Chrysopolis emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius

September 18 Events

2010 In New Zealand, 100,000 people are left without water after a large storm; the storm took the roof off of Stadium Southland in Invercargill
2010 Chileans celebrate the 200-year anniversary of their independence
1997 Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame
1997 Ted Turner gives $1 billion to the United Nations
1996 Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts
1995 Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Baltimore to move Browns
1995 Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands
1994 1st Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va
1994 Austrian conservative Vice President wins elections/extreme right gets 18.5%
1994 Deb Richard wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1994 Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS
1994 Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
1993 Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994
1993 LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins
1993 Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, and Yankees rally to beat Boston 4-3
1991 John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians
1991 NCAA places Tenn on 2 years probation for football recruting violations
1991 Robert Helmick resigns as President of U.S. Olympic Committee
1991 Space shuttle STS-48 (Discovery 14) lands
1990 500 pound Hershey Kiss is displayed in Times Square
1990 Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
1989 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
1988 Burma suspends its constitution
1988 Coup in Haiti
1988 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1987 Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 home runs
1987 U.S. and Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles
1987 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1986 David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 vs. India at Madras
1985 "Song and Dance" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 474 performances
1984 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
1984 Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
1984 Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons
1983 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
1983 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1983 Lebanese and Syrian army battle
1983 New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chicago Bears 34-31
1982 Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon
1980 "Les Miserables," opens at Palais des Sports, Paris
1980 Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base
1980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid and Valentina Kozlov defect
1979 Steven Lachs, appointed California's 1st admittedly gay judge
1979 The Who opens New York City concerts at MSG
1977 All 4 Kiss members release solo albums
1977 Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore
1977 Courageous (U.S.) sweeps Australia (Australia) in 24th America's Cup
1977 Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship
1977 U.S. Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth and Moon together
1976 Cleveland manager Frank Robinson last game as a player
1976 Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election
1976 Reverend Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention
1975 Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF
1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
1973 West Germany and East Germany admitted to UN
1972 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego)
1971 19th Ryder Cup: U.S. beats Europe, 18 -13 at Old Warson CC Mo
1969 Tiny Tim and Miss Vicky get engaged
1968 Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits San Francisco Giants 2-0
1967 Intrepid (U.S.) beats Dame Pattie (Australia) in 21st America's Cup
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1965 "Get Smart" premieres
1965 Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
1964 Greek king Constantine II marries Danish princess Anne-Marie
1964 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1963 Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1
1963 U.S.S.R. orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
1962 Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games
1962 Charlie Finley is denied permission to move A's to Dallas-Ft. Worth
1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
1959 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
1957 "Wagon Train" premieres
1957 Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels
1956 Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 home runs in a seaon
1955 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open
1955 Willie Mays hits record tying 9th home run at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock)
1954 Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2)
1954 KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 WLOS TV channel 13 in G'ville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (ABC) 1st broadcast
1950 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission
1949 Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit
1948 "Hilarities (of 1949)" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 14 performances
1948 Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin)
1948 Ralph J. Bunche confirmed as acting United Nations mediator in Palestine
1947 National Security Act, passes
1947 USAF (U.S. Air Force) forms
1946 Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana schools to protest integration
1944 British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed
1944 Eindhoven free (Lightly Day)
1944 U.S. 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne
1943 Cardinals clinch NL pennant
1943 Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful)
1942 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
1940 19 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda," premieres in New York City
1940 Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani
1939 Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
1938 Despite losing a double header, Yankees clinch pennant #10
1934 St. Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1
1934 U.S.S.R. admitted to League of Nations
1931 Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo
1930 Enterprise (U.S.) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup
1930 New York Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 home runs to beat St. Louis Browns, 7-6
1930 Philadelphia A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
1929 Pirates loss to Braves and clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
1929 Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in New York City
1928 Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928
1928 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro flight over English Channel
1927 18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is New York City affiliate)
1926 46th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64)
1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
1926 Jean Rene Lacoste wins U.S. Tennis Open
1925 Bill Tilden wins 6th straight U.S. tennis championship
1924 Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking
1922 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
1922 Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by New York's Joe Bush
1922 Hungary admitted to League of Nations
1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage
1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
1918 Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts
1915 Boston Braves trounce St. Louis Cardinals 20-1
1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1914 General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
1914 Irish home rule bill receive Royal assent
1914 South African troops land in German South West Africa
1911 Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown
1911 Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in New York City
1910 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage
1909 Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det
1908 Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1
1905 Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam
1903 Phillie's Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs, 10-0
1898 Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan
1897 Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of New York City," premieres in New York City
1895 Booker T. Washington delivers "Atlanta Compromise" address
1895 D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes 1st chiropractor
1891 Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief
1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four"
1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)
1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke and Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St
1862 Confederate armies officially divide into corps
1862 General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia
1851 New York Times starts publishing at 2 cents a copy
1850 Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850
1849 De Kempenaer's Dutch government resigns
1848 Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner
1846 Elizabeth Barrett and R Browning exchange last letters before eloping
1842 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published
1838 Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden
1830 Horse beats 1st U.S. made locomotive (near Baltimore)
1812 Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churchs
1811 English expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies
1810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1809 Royal Opera House in London opens
1793 President Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
1789 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents and Congress
1769 John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (U.S.)
1759 Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British
1755 Ft. Ticonderoga, New York opens
1739 Turkey and Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1679 New Hampshire becomes a county Massachusetts Bay Colony
1635 Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France
1573 Spanish attack Alkmaar
1544 Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign Peace of Crepy
1544 English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne
1544 Peace of Crepy: German emperor Charles V and French king Francois I
1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th and last voyage
1437 Farmer uprising in Transsylvania
324 Chrysopolis emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius

September 17 Events

2010 The world's biggest airline is created when United Airlines shareholders approve a deal to merge with Continental Airlines
2010 A drill reaches 33 Chilean miners who remain trapped underground after the 2010 Copiapo mining accident August 5, 2010
1997 Dr. Sam Sheppard's body (Fugitive) is exhumed for DNA test
1996 Dodger Hideo Nomo no-hits Colorado Rockies, 9-0 at Coors Field
1995 "Love! Valor! Compassion!" closes at Walter Kerr New York City after 276 performances
1995 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1994 Andy Waller out handled the ball for Mashonaland CD vs. Mash U24
1994 Heather Whitestone, 21, (Ala), crowned 68th Miss America 1995
1994 Princess Christina separates
1992 House votes 280 to 128 to give FCC control of cable TV rates
1992 NFL decides to suspend World League Football
1991 4,355 turn out to see Expos play New York Mets at Shea Stadium
1991 U.N. admits Estonia, Latvia, Lithuiania, North and South Korea, Marshall Islands and Micronesia
1990 Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep New York Post publishing
1990 Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties
1989 Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston, South Carolina
1989 41st Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Dana Delany and Candice Bergen win
1989 Beth Daniel wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1989 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1989 Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62
1989 New York City court of appeals overturns lower court decision and returns America's Cup back to U.S. (from New Zealand)
1988 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea
1988 Jeff Reardon becomes 1st to record 40 or more saves in both AL and NL
1988 Military coup in Haiti: Lieutenant General Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees
1987 Philadelphia celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution
1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed
1986 Marina Stepanova of U.S.S.R. sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94)
1986 Mets clinch NL East Championship
1986 U.S. Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice
1985 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1984 Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime Minister succeeding John Turner
1984 Dwight Gooden ties record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games
1984 Reggie Jackson is 13th to hit 500 home runs
1984 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1983 Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship,
1983 Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black
1982 New Jersey Devils 1st exhibition game, beating Caps 3-1 in Hershey Pa
1981 Fernando Valenzuela sets NL rookie record with 8th shutout of season
1980 "Divine Madness" starring Bette Midler, premieres
1980 Iraq (Saddam Hussein) signs accord with Algeria
1980 Solidarity labor union in Poland forms
1980 South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death
1980 Oak A's Rick Langford is removed with 2 outs in 9th inning ending his consecutive complete-game streak at 22
1979 Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72")
1979 Royals George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/home runs in a season
1978 30th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Ed Asner and Sada Thompson win
1978 Begin, Sadat and Carter sign Camp David accord
1978 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1978 Red Sox finally beat Yankees in Sept 1978, 7-3
1977 22nd Ryder Cup: U.S., 12 -13 at Royal Lytham and St. Annes England
1977 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1977 Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more
1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" is #1 for 19th straight week
1976 Amnesty International receives Erasmus-prize
1976 NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California
1976 Ringo releases "Ringo's Rotogravure" album
1975 Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)
1974 Courageous (U.S.) beats Southern Cross (Australia) in 23rd America's Cup
1972 "M*A*S*H," premieres on NBC TV
1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Quality First Golf Classic
1972 Tanzania troops march in to Uganda
1970 Jordanian King Hussein moves against PLO guerrillas
1970 WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Gaylord Perry (Giants) no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0
1968 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon
1967 "Mission Impossible" premieres on CBS-TV
1967 Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 in New Hampshire
1967 New Orleans Saints 1st NFL game, they lose to Los Angeles Rams 27-13
1967 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1966 Cleveland pitchers set AL record striking out 19 batters in 1st 9 innings
1965 WPHL TV channel 17 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 "Bewitched" premieres on ABC TV
1964 Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas)
1964 Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000 and 2001 and his 450th home run
1964 Supremes release "Baby Love"
1963 "Fugitive" premieres on ABC TV
1963 Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32
1962 Justice Department files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools
1962 U.S. space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts
1961 Minnesota Vikings' 1st NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13)
1961 Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," premieres in New York City
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1960 "Vintage '60" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 8 performances
1960 Cuba nationalizes U.S. banks
1959 59th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
1959 Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit
1959 Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Korea
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 KETV TV channel 7 in Omaha, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for 1st powered flight
1957 Thailand military coup under marshal Sarit Thanarat
1957 2 male attorneys "stand in" as actress Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy in Juarez, Mexico
1956 Black students enter Clay Kentucky elementary school
1956 Yankees clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of year
1955 "Ankles Aweigh" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 176 performances
1955 Future Hall of Famer Oriole Brooks Robinson goes 2-4 in his 1st game
1954 Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1953 1st successful separation of Siamese twins
1953 Ernie Banks becomes Chicago Cubs 1st black player
1952 "I am an American Day" and "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day"
1951 "Borscht Capades" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 90 performances
1951 Romanian bishop A Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years
1950 San Francisco 49ers (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, lose 21-17
1949 128 die as fire guts Canadian passenger steamer Noronic in Toronto
1949 8th Ryder Cup: U.S. beats Europe, 7-5 at Ganton GC, England
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time
1949 WFAA TV channel 8 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
1948 KCOP TV channel 13 in Los Angeles/Hollywood, California (IND) begins
1948 WLS TV channel 7 in Chicago, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1947 Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of Year by Sporting News
1947 James Forrestal sworn in as 1st U.S. Secretary of Defense
1947 U.S. Department of Defense forms
1946 "Gypsy Lady," opens at Century Theater New York City for 79 performances
1946 "If the Shoe Fits," opens at Century Theater New York City for 20 performances
1944 British Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S.
1944 Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
1944 Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem, Netherlands
1943 Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
1943 Red Army recaptures Brjansk
1941 Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4
1940 Hitler begins invasion of England (operation Seelowe)
1940 Nazis deprive Jews of possessions
1939 German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die
1939 Poland's president Moscicki and Prime Minister Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania
1939 Russia invades Eastern Poland, takes 217,000 Poles prisoner
1939 Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II
1938 52nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Nancye Wynne Bolton (60 63)
1938 58th U.S. Mens Tennis: J Donald Budge beats C Gene Mako (63 68 62 61)
1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich
1938 Don Budge wins U.S. Tennis open and completes Grand Slam
1937 1st NFL game in Washington, D.C.; Redskins beat New York Giants 13-3
1935 Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina chosen 1st president of Philippines
1934 RCA Victor re leases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven's 5th)
1934 U.S.S.R. joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switzerland and Portugal vote no)
1931 1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, New York City), venture failed
1931 Operetta "Victoria and Her Husband," premieres in London
1931 Red Sox Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 doubles
1929 British troops begin evacuating
1928 48th U.S. Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats F T Hunter (46 64 36 75 63)
1928 Henri Cochet wins U.S. Tennis Open
1928 Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500
1928 Pitcher Ray Boggs hits 3 batters in 1 inning
1927 47th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats William T Tilden (119 63 119)
1927 Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco
1926 Hurricane hits Miami and Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die
1924 Italy signs treaty of Rapallo
1923 Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound," premieres in London
1922 Bicyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ
1922 Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
1920 Cards set a record of 12 consecutive hits in 4th (10) and 5th (2) innings
1920 National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association
1916 40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right
1912 Center fielder Casey Stengel breaks in with Brooklyn and hits 4 singles
1911 25th U.S. Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats F Sutton (8-10 61 97)
1908 Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight
1906 Playing as "Sullivan," Columbia U jr Eddie Collins debuts with A's
1903 Boston Pilgrims clinch AL pennant, beating Cleveland, 14-3
1902 U.S. protests anti-semitism in Romania
1901 Battle at Blood River Port: Boer General Botha beats Major Goughs cavalry
1901 Battle at Elands River Port: Boer General Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers
1900 Queen Victoria disbands British parliament
1899 1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa
1897 3rd U.S. Golf Open: Joe Lloyd shoots a 162 at Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Illinois
1873 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University
1872 Phillip W Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires
1871 Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens
1864 Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign
1863 Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada
1862 Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals
1862 Battle of Mumfordville, Kentucky-U.S. Col J Wilder surrenders city
1862 Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of Civil War, 23,110 die
1861 1st day school for freedmen forms at Fortress Monroe Virginia
1861 Hampton Institute forms
1859 Man in San Francisco claims himself Norton I, emperor of America
1850 Great fire in San Francisco
1835 Charles Darwin lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago
1819 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii
1789 William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn
1787 Prussian troops conquer Gorinchem
1787 U.S. constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention
1778 1st treaty between the U.S. and Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt)
1776 Presidio of San Francisco forms as a Spanish fort
1745 Edinburg occupied by Jacobites under Young Pretenders
1737 Georg-August University opens in Gottingen
1730 Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees
1697 Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen of Savoye beats Turks
1691 Colony Massachusetts Bay gets new charter
1683 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek reports existence of bacteria
1678 France and Spain signs peace treaty
1644 French troops occupy Mainz
1631 Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustaaf Adolf defeats General Tilly
1598 Netherland sailors discover Mauritius
1595 Pope Clemens VIII recognizes Henri IV as king of France
1584 Gent surrenders to duke of Parma
1562 Council of Trente takes ecclesiastical canon
1394 Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI
1156 Markgraafschap Austria becomes a temple (Privilegium minus)
642 Arabs conquer Alexandria, library destroyed
335 Church of Heilig Grave initiated in Jerusalem

September 16 Events

2010 Poverty rates in the United States hit a 15-year high of 14.3 percent, or 43.6 million people
2010 Mexico celebrates its 200-year anniversary marking its independence from Spain
2009 An Australian navy ship intercepts a boat carrying 60 suspected asylum seekers
2003 WNBA Championships, Detroit Shock beat Los Angeles Sparks 2 games to 1
2000 27th Olympic games open at Sydney, Australia (sched)
1997 ABL MVP Nikki McCray signs with WNBA
1997 Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs temporary CEO
1997 Mark McGwire signs with the St. Louis Cardinals for $26M
1996 1st one-day international in Canada, India vs. Pakistan at Toronto
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Panama City, Florida on WTBB 97.7 FM
1996 Paul Molitor of Twins is 21st player to reach 3,000 hits
1996 Space Shuttle STS-79 (Atlantis 17), launches into space
1995 Greg Maddux of Braves sets record of 17 consecutive road victory
1995 Shawntel Smith (Okla), 24, crowned 69th Miss America 1996
1995 Stephen Hawkins (53) weds Elaine Mason
1994 Fire Department puts out smokey electrical fire in White House
1993 Minn Twins Dave Winfield, is 19th to get 3,000 hits
1993 Singer Karen Akers (48) weds businessman Kevin Powers (41)
1992 "Les Miserables," opens at Nuevo Apolo, Madrid
1992 900 die in flood in Pakistan
1992 FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service
1992 Vanna White suffers a miscarriage
1991 Atlanta's Otis Nixon suspended for rest of 1991 due to cocaine
1991 U.S. trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins
1991 Norm Charlton suspended for 7 days for intentionally hitting Steve Scioscia with a pitch
1990 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle, New York
1990 42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk and Patricia Wettig
1990 Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan wed
1990 Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush
1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1989 Debbye Turner (Mont), 23, crowned 63rd Miss America 1990
1989 Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher
1988 Cincinnati Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats Dodgers, 1-0
1988 Fish leaves rock group Marillion
1988 Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, vs. Australia
1988 Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series
1988 Tom Browning of Cincinnati Reds pitches a perfect game against LA
1987 Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game
1987 NASA launches space vehicle S-209
1987 New York's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round clock broadcasting
1987 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1986 Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed
1984 "Miami Vice" premieres
1984 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1984 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1983 Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a U.S. citizen
1982 Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila and Sabra begins
1981 1st broadcast of "Miami Vice" on NBC-TV
1979 23rd Ryder Cup: U.S., 17-11 at Greenbrier
1979 Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
1979 Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin
1979 KC's Willie Wilson hits 5th inside-the-park home run (most since 1925)
1979 Nancy Lopez/JoAnn Washam wins Portland- Ping Team Golf Championship
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1978 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar Iran
1978 Filming on Monty Python's Life of Brian, begins
1978 Grateful Dead perform in Cairo, Egypt
1978 Yankees beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks, 3-2
1977 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV
1977 Ringo releases "Drowning in Sea of Love"
1977 Seattle beats Royals, 4-1, to end KC's winning streak at 16 games
1976 Egypt president Sadat re-elected
1976 Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests and bishop
1975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
1975 Pirates beat Cubs 22-0, Rennie Stennett is 3rd to go 7 for 7
1975 Rennie Stennett is 2nd to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game
1974 BART begins regular transbay service
1974 Bob Dylan records 'Blood on the Tracks'
1974 President Ford announces conditional amnesty for U.S., Vietnam War deserters
1974 U.S. General Haig becomes NATO-supreme commander in Europe
1973 "Desert Song" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 15 performances
1973 Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13
1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1972 1st TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie
1972 Penny Marshall appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Fly Unfriendly Skies"
1971 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
1971 West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with soviet President Brezhnev
1970 Jordan king Hussein forms military government
1968 KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins
1968 Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in"
1967 Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26)
1967 KPAZ TV channel 21 in Phoenix, Arizona (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1966 Metropolitan Opera opens at New York's Lincoln Center
1965 Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0
1965 Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany
1964 "Shindig" premieres on ABC-TV
1963 "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC-TV
1963 Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, Br No Borneo and Sarawak
1963 WVAN TV channel 9 in Savannah, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 Brian Kilby wins marathon: (2:23:18.8)
1962 Gerda Kroon runs European record 800 m in 2:02.8
1962 Public TV channel 13 begins in New York City
1962 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 CDU loses West German election
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 WLKY TV channel 32 in Louisville, Kentucky (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
1960 Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0
1959 President De Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination
1957 Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed)
1957 LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers
1956 Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
1955 Bauer and Berra homer in 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st
1955 U.S. Auto Club forms to oversee 4 major auto reacing categories
1955 Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt
1954 CKLW TV channel 9 in Windsor, ON (CBC) begins broadcasting
1953 AL approves St. Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles
1951 6th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1951 NL ump Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers bench ejecting 15 players
1950 Cleveland Rams (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Philadelphia 35-10)
1950 Viet Minh-offensive against French bases in Vietnam
1949 KABC TV channel 7 in Los Angeles, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
1948 "Heaven on Earth" opens at Century Theater New York City for 12 performances
1947 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH
1945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
1943 Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno
1943 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny
1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled
1941 German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine
1941 Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed
1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
1940 Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"
1940 Luftwaffe attacks center of London
1940 Samuel T. Rayburn of Texas elected speaker of House
1940 St. Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to home run from each side of plate
1939 53rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (60 810 64)
1939 59th U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats S Welby van Horn (64 62 64)
1939 New York Yankees clinch their 11th and 4th successive pennant
1938 George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH
1932 30.8 cm rainfall at Westerly, Rhode Island (state record)
1931 Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (New York City)
1931 St. Louis Cardinals repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies
1930 Phillies trailing 10-5, score 5 in 9th, then Pirates score 4 in top of 10th, so Phillies score 5 in bottom of 10th to win 15-14
1929 Police shoots at strikers at Maastricht, 2 killed
1928 Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die
1927 Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for U.S. Lawn Tennis Association title
1926 Hurricane in Florida and Alabama, kills 372
1926 Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed
1926 Philip Dunning and George Abbott's "Broadway," premieres in New York City
1926 St. Louis Cardinals beat Phillies 23-3
1924 Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game
1922 42nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W M Johnston (46 36 62 63 64)
1922 Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia
1920 Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30
1919 American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
1919 Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant
1915 Czar Nicolas II adjourns 4th Duma
1915 U.S. takes control of customs and finances of Haiti for 10 years
1913 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
1908 Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp
1908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in Janesville Wisc
1906 Kaarlo Nieminen wins 1st Finnish marathon
1906 Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole
1893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opens white settlement homesteaders
1892 Amsterdam swim club renamed "The Y"
1890 Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team Packers
1885 Puritan (U.S.) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup
1873 German troops leave France
1867 Ottawa Rough Riders and Senators play Canadian Football game
1864 Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid)
1862 Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md)
1862 General Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, Kentucky
1862 Liliuokalani, queen of Hawaii (1891-93) marries John Owen Dominis
1861 British Post Office Savings Banks opens
1859 Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania and Mozambique discovered by British explorer David Livingstone
1858 1st overland mail for California
1857 Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX)
1848 Slavery abolished in all French territories
1847 United Shakespeare Company buys his home in Stratford-upon-Avon
1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes writes "Old Ironsides"
1812 Fire of Moscow
1810 Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule Mexican Independence Day celebrates this event
1795 British capture Capetown South Africa
1782 Great Seal of U.S. used for 1st time
1747 French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom
1741 George Frederick Handel's "The Messiah," premieres in Dublin
1729 Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Groningen
1702 Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne and Bavaria
1668 King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France
1666 "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi becomes Islamiet
1662 Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation
1654 Russian troops occupy Smolensk on Poland
1652 Spanish troops occupy Dunkerk
1630 Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston
1597 French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria
1575 King Johan Casimir of Palts promises military aid to hugenots

September 15 Events

2010 Hurricane Julia becomes the fifth hurricane in the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane season
2010 Despite considerable opposition, Christine O'Donnell is elected as the Republican Party candidate for Delaware
2008 Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy
2004 Hurricane Ivan hits Alabama and Florida killing nearly 30
1997 Edison International purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M
1997 Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000
1996 2nd Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 16 -15 at Robert Jones Va
1996 Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final
1996 Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1996 Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan's #34
1995 Cards shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays
1994 "Sound of Motown," premieres in Rotterdam
1994 Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St. Maarten
1994 Moslem fundamentalists kidnap and behead 16 citizens in Algeria
1993 Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament
1992 Ted Weiss, despite dying on 14th, wins congressional New York City seat
1991 "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show
1991 19th du Maurier Golf Classic: Nancy Scranton
1991 NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly
1991 SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets NCAA rushing record of 386 yards
1991 U.S. women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver)
1990 42nd Emmy Awards - LA Law and Murphy Brown win
1990 Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves
1990 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1990 Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000
1990 France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf
1988 "Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna
1988 Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics
1988 Museum of Moving Image in London opens
1988 Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi
1986 1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV
1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead
1985 26th Ryder Cup: Europe beat U.S., 16 -11 at The Belfry, England
1985 Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1985 Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government
1985 Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings
1985 Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert
1985 Yankees trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro
1984 Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985
1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1983 Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting New York City subway
1983 Israel premier Begin resigns
1982 1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc
1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut
1982 Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1981 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor
1981 Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism/marxism
1980 Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary"
1979 Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL and NL (Astros)
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978 Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans
1978 Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 Yankees beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yankees lead 2 games
1977 "Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 124 performances
1977 Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when manager Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound)
1977 President Carter meets with 15 record company executives
1977 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in New York City
1976 Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days
1975 Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game
1974 Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens
1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1973 "Star Trek-Animated" premieres on TV
1973 Dutch Guilder devalued 5%
1973 Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing
1973 Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1 miles
1972 WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 1st broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC-TV
1970 Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million
1970 PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
1970 Rotterdam harbor strikes end
1969 Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 New York Mets in a game
1968 "Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1968 Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
1968 WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8)
1967 KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched
1966 Dutch political party (D'66) forms
1966 Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth
1965 "Lost in Space" premieres
1964 Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland
1964 Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
1963 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
1963 Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, and Jesus-appear in San Francisco outfield for 1 inn
1963 Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria
1963 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open
1963 WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 "Bravo, Giovanni" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 76 performances
1962 Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (U.S. wins)
1962 KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1962 WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 61st U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
1961 Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph
1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in U.S. to begin a 13-day visit
1958 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport, New Jersey
1958 Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 in Newark, New Jersey
1957 "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres
1957 Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany
1957 SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game
1955 WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, Florida (CBS) begins
1953 Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner)
1953 KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, Arizona (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee
1952 European Parliament forms in Strasbourg
1952 U.N. turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia
1951 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld New York City after 740 performances
1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8)
1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum
1950 During Korean conflict, United Nations forces land at Inchon in South Korea
1950 East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification
1950 For a record 6th time, New York Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 home runs in one game
1950 Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phillies beat Reds 8-7 in 19
1950 U.N. lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south
1950 U.S. troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul
1949 "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV
1949 WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting
1948 "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater New York City for 134 performances
1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph
1948 WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WMGM
1947 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
1947 Yankees clinch pennant #15
1946 Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats
1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
1944 Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria
1944 U.S. 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall
1944 U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid
1944 U.S. troops lands on Palau and Morotai
1943 Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy
1943 Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens
1943 Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens
1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal
1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania
1940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
1940 Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)
1940 Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company
1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group
1940 Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe
1938 British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
1938 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
1938 Only time brothers hit back-to-back home runs (Lloyd and Paul Waner, Pitts)
1937 WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to San Francisco Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)
1935 Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany
1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
1931 Philadelphia A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland
1930 1st International bridge match is held in London. U.S. team defeats England
1928 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva
1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1928 Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6
1928 Stothard, Kalmar and Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in New York City
1923 43rd U.S. Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64)
1923 Bill Tilden wins U.S. Lawn Tennis Open
1922 Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 home runs in a game since 1897
1921 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus
1921 WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
1918 CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state
1917 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
1916 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France
1916 Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme)
1915 Boston Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals 20-1
1914 Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I
1914 U.S. Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico
1913 1st U.S. milch goat show held, Rochester, New York
1912 Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins
1912 War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania
1910 Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South Africa
1904 Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
1903 Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals"
1899 5th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD
1898 National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
1894 Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang
1887 Philadelphia celebrates 100th anniversary of U.S. Constitution
1882 British general Wolseley occupies Cairo
1879 Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club"
1873 Last German troops leave France
1870 Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18)
1862 Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV
1857 Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine
1853 1st U.S. woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell
1846 Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
1835 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reache Galapagos Islands
1830 1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
1830 Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool and Manchester Railway
1821 Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua gain independ
1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow
1795 Cape Colony surrenders to England
1789 Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State
1787 Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam
1776 British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution
1774 Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured
1733 King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons
1707 Rakoczi II and Czar Peter the Great sign social security agreement
1683 Germantown Pennsylvania founded by 13 immigrant families
1656 England and France sign peace treaty
1644 Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X
1621 Swedish troops occupy Riga
1620 Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims
1619 Prince Bethlen Gabors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary
1590 Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII
1584 San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished
1556 Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain
1514 Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York
608 St. Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope

September 14 Events

2010 Pfizer sponsors a study of the smoking cessation drug Varenicline, suggest governments would be wise to fund smoking cessation treatments
2010 Ukranian prosecutors claim that in 2000, former Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko ordered the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze
1998 Week of Fed Cup
1997 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
1997 Bank One Senior Golf Classic
1997 Chicago Whites Sox retire Carlton Fisk's number, 72
1997 Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Classic
1997 Loren Roberts wins CVS Charity Golf Classic with a 266
1996 A's Mark McGwire is 13th player to hit 50-home runs in a season
1996 Dean Headley takes 3rd cricket hat-trick of season, Kent vs. Hampshire
1996 New York Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 home runs by a catcher
1996 Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas), 23, crowned 70th Miss America 1997
1994 All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season
1992 1st subway car completed to be exported from U.S. (to Taiwan)
1991 Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992
1991 Freshman Marshall Faulk of San Diego State rushed for NCAA record
1991 Magic Johnson weds Erieatha "Cookie" Kelly
1991 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 386 yards and scored 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific 55-34
1990 Ken Griffey, Sr and, Jr., hit back-to-back home runs in 1st inning
1989 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in U.S.S.R., win 4-2
1989 Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons
1989 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1987 "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest
1987 107th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64)
1987 Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken
1987 Ivan Lendl defeat Mats Wilander to win U.S. Tennis Open in 4 hours 47 minutes
1987 Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 home runs vs Baltimore Orioles
1986 Bo Jackson's 1st home run - a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium)
1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed
1986 Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed
1986 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1986 Saskatchewan and Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game
1985 Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986
1984 1st MTV awards-Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd host
1983 U.S. House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
1982 36" snow Red Lodge, Montana
1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel
1982 Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"
1981 Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV
1980 "Charlie and Algernon" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 17 performances
1980 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1980 Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1979 Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City and back to Yates Center, Ks
1978 Braves' Jim Bouton, 38, beats Giants, his 1st win since 1970
1978 Portugal government of Da Costa falls
1977 Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robbeneiland South Africa
1975 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open
1975 Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st U.S. saint
1975 Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed and damaged in Amsterdam
1975 Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 games as a teen
1974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
1973 Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise
1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
1973 President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout
1972 "Waltons" TV program premieres
1972 Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in New York City
1972 West Germany and Poland establish diplomatic relations
1971 Cleveland Indians and Washington Senators, play 20 innings
1970 Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
1969 Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage
1968 1st broadcast of 60 Minutes on CBS-TV
1968 Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season
1968 Dmitri Shostakovich' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow
1968 U.S.S.R.'s Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight
1967 Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named
1967 Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge and Sanctuary opens in Bronx
1965 "F-Troop" premieres
1965 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened
1964 WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House
1963 Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, South Dakota, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls and a boy
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of CP of U.S.S.R.
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1960 Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1
1960 Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo
1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form OPEC
1960 KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon
1959 WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open
1958 WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 Yankees win 24th pennant, and 9th under Casey Stengel
1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1957 U.N. resolution deplores and condemns U.S.S.R. invasion of Hungary
1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington D.C.
1955 Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245)
1954 B Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw," premieres in Venice
1954 Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record
1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits New York City, $50 million damage
1954 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1953 Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marry
1953 Yankees clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians
1951 Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats
1950 Western allies rearm West Germany
1948 Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Michigan 5th Dist Representative primary
1948 Ground breaking ceremony for United Nations world headquarters
1948 Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
1947 61st U.S. Womens Tennis: A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (86 46 61)
1947 67th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Frank A Parker (46 26 61 60 63)
1944 6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru
1944 Gulpen, Meerssen and Maastricht freed
1944 Hurricane hits New England: 389 die
1944 U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid
1944 U.S. 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall
1943 Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marries
1943 Yankees clinch pennant #14
1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1
1942 Yankees clinch pennant #13
1940 Congress passes 1st peace-time draft law
1940 German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die
1939 British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
1939 Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow
1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
1936 Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times
1933 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
1933 Schaduwproces-Rijksdagbrand opens in London
1932 Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri
1930 Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
1930 Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
1929 49th U.S. Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (36 63 46 62 64)
1929 A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox
1926 Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens
1924 Walter Johnson elected AL MVP
1923 Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1923 Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
1923 Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play
1919 British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dail
1917 Kerenski regime declares Russian republic
1917 Provisional government of Russia forms, Republic proclaimed
1916 Christy Mathewson pitches and wins his final game
1914 German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn
1914 German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches
1913 27th U.S. Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (62 75)
1913 Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0)
1905 Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated
1905 Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname
1905 RAC Tourist Trophy, 1st run, on Isle of Man
1903 New York Giant Red Ames no-hits St. Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game
1899 Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY)
1894 Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails
1892 AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo
1891 "Empire State Express" train goes from New York City to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M
1886 George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon
1882 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
1876 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda
1876 Leopold II closes Congo-conference
1872 Britain pays U.S. $15 M for damages during Civil War
1868 Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole)
1862 Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates
1862 Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates
1862 Battle of Munfordsville, Kentucky
1862 Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia
1862 Skirmish at Mountain MD (Boonesboro, Crampton's Gap, Fox's Gap)
1856 Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders
1854 Allied armies, including those of Britain and France, land in Crimea
1852 18th Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Connecticut takes office
1848 Alexander Stewart opens 1st U.S. department store
1847 U.S. Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)
1834 Charles Darwin's company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile
1830 Princess WFLC Marianne marries Albrecht of Prussia
1829 Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
1814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write "Star-Spangled Banner"
1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow and fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th)
1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
1759 Austrian troops occupy Dresden
1752 U.S. and England adopts Gregorian calender (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
1741 George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days
1716 1st lighthouse in U.S. lit (Boston Harbor)
1666 St. Paul's in London destroyed by fire
1662 Netherlands and England sign peace treaty
1629 Spanish garrison surrenders to prince Frederik Henry
1544 Charles and Francois I sign Peace of Crepy
1515 Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory
1163 Pastor Frederik forms convent at Mariengaarde Friesland
891 Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope