Today in History for September 1936

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 27 of 27

1st - Middleweight Staff Roth KOs Heinz Lazek
2nd - 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
3rd - 3rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit 7 (76,000)
4th - Franco troops conquer Irun & Talavera de la Reina Spain
4th - Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier
5th - Red Sox turn a triple-play on Yankees
7th - Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation
7th - The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
8th - Princess Juliana & German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld get engaged
9th - Yankees sweep Indians, NY clinches pennant on earliest date in history
11th - A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
11th - FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
12th - 50th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (46 63 62)
12th - 56th US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Donald Budge (26 62 86 16 108)
13th - Cleve Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (vs Phila A's)
14th - Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times
21st - Spanish fascist junta names Franco to generalissimo/supreme commander
23rd - Giants Carl Hubbell notches his 16th en route to 24 consecutive wins
25th - Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double
Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco 27th - 1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game
27th - Franco troops conquer Toledo
27th - Netherlands leave Gold Standard/devaluate guilder
28th - Bachelor's Children debuts on CBS radio (at 9:45 am)
28th - Brooklyn & Boston play a penalty free NFL game
29th - Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
30th - Intl Commission of Straits (Dardanelles & Bosphorus) ends
30th - Pinewood Studios opens in Buckinghamshire England

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 50 of 50

2nd - David Leonard Blake, composer
2nd - Joan Kennedy, 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted
2nd - Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
3rd - John W Olver, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
3rd - Zine al-Abidine Ben Ami, general/president of Tunisia (1987- )
5th - Alcee Hastings, (Rep-D-Florida)
5th - Bill Mazeroski, MLB 2nd baseman (won 1960 World Series for Pitts)
5th - Cornelius Boyson, bassist
5th - John C Danforth, (Sen-R-Missouri, 1977- )
5th - Jonathan Kozol, American writer, sociologist
7th - Buddy Holly, Lubbock Tx, singer (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day), (d. 1959)
7th - Romualds Kalsons, composer
7th - Apostolos Kaklamanis, Greek politician
9th - Augustinius Franz Kropfreiter, composer
11th - Charles Dierkop, LaCrosse Wisc, actor (Det Pete Royster-Police Woman)
11th - Ian Abercrombie, English actor
13th - Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian neo-Nazi
14th - Stan Williams, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees, LA Dodgers)
14th - Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer
Singer Buddy Holly (7th) 14th - Walter Koenig, Chicago Ill, actor (Checkov-Star Trek)
14th - Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
14th - Harry Danielsen, Norwegian politician
15th - Ashley J Cooper, tennis champ (US Open-1957)
16th - Frits Niessen, Dutch MP (PvdA)
17th - Jennifer Dickson, artist/photographer
17th - Mischa de Vreede, poetess (Our Eternal Hunger)
17th - Richard Gaskell, solicitor/president (Law Society)
19th - Al Oerter, Astoria NY, discus thrower (Olympics-gold-56, 60, 64, 68)
20th - Dany Carrel, Touraine Indo-china, actress (Passionate Summer)
21st - Yuriy Luzhkov, Russian politician, mayor of Moscow
21st - Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter
22nd - Art Metrano, Bkln NY, comedian (Amy Prentiss, Joanie Loves Chachi)
22nd - Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
23rd - Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician
Muppeteer Jim Henson (24th) 24th - Jim Henson, Greenville Miss, muppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), (d. 1990)
25th - Edward Jones, UK military rep to NATO
25th - Juliet Prowse, Bombay India, actress/dancer (Who Killed Teddy Bear)
25th - Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, bluesman
26th - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician
27th - Gordon Honeycombe, broadcaster/author
27th - Yuri Nikolayevich Stepanov, Russian cosmonaut
27th - Don Cornelius, American television host (Soul Train), (d. 2012)
28th - Robert Hogan, NYC, actor (Peyton Place, Operation Petticoat)
28th - Robert Wolders, Rotterdam Holland, actor (Erik Hunter-Laredo)
28th - Sherwood L Boehlert, (Rep-R-NY, 1983- )
29th - Michael Partridge, British civil servant
29th - Mylene Demongeot, Nice France, actress (3 Murderesses)
29th - Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy
30th - Butler Derrick, (Rep-D-SC, 1974- )
30th - James R Sasser, (Sen-D-Tenn, 1977- )

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

12th - "first Irish movie star" actress Maureen O'Sullivan (25) weds film director John Farrow (32)
28th - "Marx Brothers" comedian Harpo Marx (47) weds "Million Dollar Legs" actress Susan Fleming (28)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 10 of 10

3rd - Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impressario (b. 1876 or 1877)
5th - Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
12th - Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70
14th - Ossip Gabrilovich, composer, dies at 58
15th - Bela Anton Szabados, composer, dies at 69
16th - Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM), dies
16th - Karl Buresch, Austrian politician, dies
17th - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
19th - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)
26th - Harriet Monroe, US poet (Poet's Life), dies at 75