This Day in History for 1st September

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 266

69 - Traditional date of destruction of Jerusalem
462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
891 - Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
1067 - Baldwin VI becomes Count of Flanders
1181 - Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III
1267 - Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem
1355 - Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.
1482 - Krim-Tataren plunders Kiev
1511 - Council to Pisa opens
1535 - French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal)
1547 - Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state)
1598 - Spanish king Philip II receives sacraments
1609 - Pieter Both sworn in as 1st gov-gen of East Indies
1614 - Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
1632 - Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses
1638 - -4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam
1647 - French cardinal Mazarin & duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan
1661 - 1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James
1689 - Russia began taxing men's beards
1695 - Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names
The Sun King Louis XIV 1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
1739 - 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal
1752 - Liberty Bell arrives in Phila
1763 - Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California
1785 - Mozart publishes 6 string quartet opus 10 in Vienna
1797 - 2nd National Meeting in Hague
1798 - England signs treaty with nizam of Hyderabad, India
1799 - Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1807 - Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
1821 - 1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail
1831 - Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle
1836 - Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem
1836 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1849 - California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
1858 - 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month
1859 - 1st Pullman sleeping car in service
1859 - R C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare
1859 - A solar superstorm affects electrical telegraph service.
1861 - Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI
1861 - Skirmish at Boone Court House WV & Blue Creek WV
1862 - Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)
1862 - Federal tax levied on tobacco
1863 - 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia
1863 - Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas
1863 - RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated
1864 - 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties
1864 - Battle of Petersburg VA
1864 - Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA
1866 - Last Navaho chief Manuelito, turns self in at Fort Wingate
1867 - Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School
1870 - Napoleon III captured at Sedan
1873 - Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1874 - 28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Conn takes office
1874 - Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
1878 - 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
1886 - Neth's New Code of Criminal law enforced
1887 - Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established
1888 - Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens
1890 - 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh
1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1898 - Dutch soccer team Receiver forms
1898 - Lord Kitcheners army bombs Omdurman Sudan
1901 - Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange
1902 - Tinker, Evers, & Chance appear together for 1st time
1905 - Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
1906 - Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time
1906 - British New Guinea becomes Australian Papua New Guinea
1906 - Joseph Harris (Boston) & Jack Coombs (A's) pitch complete 24 inn game
1906 - NY Highlanders win 6th game in 3 days from Wash (3 straight DHs)
1906 - Papua placed under Australian administration
1906 - The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
1911 - M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
Playwright George Bernard Shaw 1913 - George Bernard Shaws "Androcles & the Lion," premieres in London
1913 - Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution"
1914 - 34th US Mens Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (63 86 10-8)
1914 - Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris
1914 - St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd
1914 - Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army
1914 - The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1916 - Bulgaria declares war on Romania
1916 - Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1918 - Baseball season ends due to WW I
1918 - Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns
1918 - US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920
1919 - Frank Wedekind's "Herakles," premieres in Munich
1920 - France creates Lebanon
1920 - New townhall of Rotterdam opens
1921 - Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St NYC (Billy Rose, Trafalgar)
1922 - NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"
1923 - 18th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1923 - 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 142,000
1923 - US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup
1924 - Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake
1925 - Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of Intl Olympic Committee
1926 - British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms
1926 - Turkey allows civil marriage
1928 - Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 227

1286 - Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1335)
1453 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
1529 - Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter
1549 - Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, etc
1566 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
1588 - Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646)
1608 - Giacomo Torelli, Fano, Italy, stage designer, engineer and architect
1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
1653 - Johann Pachelbel, Nuremberg, composer (Canon in D), (d. 1706)
1689 - Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Bavarian master builder (Prague)
1711 - Willem IV KH Friso, Dutch prince of Orange-Nassau
1712 - Simon Fokke, Dutch book illustrator
1724 - John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder (Society of It General)
1732 - Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer
1732 - Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer
1751 - Emmanuel Johann Joseph Schikaneder, composer [or Apr 9]
1758 - Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch Staatscourant
1768 - Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
1787 - John Bake, classical composer
Composer Johann Pachelbel (1653) 1789 - Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
1791 - Lydia Sigourney, US, religious author (How to Be Happy)
1795 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
1798 - Richard Delafield, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1873
1803 - Jacobus T Abels, Dutch painter
1816 - Gustav Schmidt, composer
1824 - Isaac Hardin Duval, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1827 - Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Overbetuwsche Novellen)
1829 - James Conner, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
1845 - Paul S Methuen, English fieldmarshal/governor of Natal/Malta
1848 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
1849 - Elizabeth Harrison, US, educator (Natl Congress of Parents & Teachers)
1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer (Parisfal)
1855 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
1856 - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter (Laodania)
1856 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)
1862 - Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist
1862 - Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer [or Sept 2]
1864 - Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916)
1866 - James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97)
1868 - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
1870 - Timotei Popovici, composer
1871 - J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
1873 - Guy Standing, English actor (Cradle Song)
1874 - Heinrich Otto Ludwig, composer
1874 - Ismar Elbogen, German/US rabbi (Encyclopedia Judaica)
1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, US, sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga)
1876 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)
1877 - Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1878 - Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
1883 - Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)
1884 - Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (d. 1947)
1886 - Othmar Schoeck, composer
1887 - Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet/writer
1887 - Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar
1888 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
1889 - Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
1892 - Leverett Saltonstall, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
1893 - Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher/lithographer
1895 - Edit Angold, Germany, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel)
1895 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
1896 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977)
1897 - Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
1898 - Marilyn Miller, [Renolds], US actress (Sunny)/wife of Jack Pickford
1900 - Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht)
1900 - Kazimierz Wilkomirski, composer
1900 - Richard Arlen, Virginia, actor (Alice in Wonderland, Crawling Hand)
1904 - Johnny Mack Brown, Dothan AL, actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail)
1904 - Ray Flaherty, AFL/NFL/AAFC coach (NY Giants)
1905 - Gervase Hughes, composer
1905 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
1906 - Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
1907 - Joaquin Balaguer, president Dominican Republic
1907 - Walter Reuther, labor leader/president (UAW & CIO)
1908 - Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist
1908 - Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)
1909 - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
1910 - Jack Hawkins, London, actor (Ben-Four Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story)
1911 - Komei Abe, composer
1911 - Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman (CNV)/trade union leader
1913 - Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
1916 - Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner
1919 - Roy John Britten, Washington, molecular biologist (repeated DNA sequences in eukaryotic genomes), (d. 2012)
1920 - Hubert Lampo, Flemish writer/essayist (Coming of Joachim Stiller)
1920 - Richard Farnsworth, LA California, actor (Misery, Havana, Sylvester)
1921 - Matt Higgins Doran, composer
1921 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (Mandarins on Sulfuric Acid)
1922 - Melvin R Laird, (Rep-R-Mich), US Secretary of Defense (1969-73)
1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Genoa Italy, actor (War & Peace)
1922 - Yvonne De Carlo, Vancouver BC, actress (10 Commandments, Munsters)
Heavyweight Champion Boxer Rocky Marciano (1923) 1923 - Rocky Marciano, Brockton, Massachusetts, heavyweight champion boxer (1952-56), (d. 1969)
1923 - Theo H Joekes, journalist/Dutch MP (VVD)
1925 - Art[hur E] Pepper, US, alto saxophonist
1925 - Ruth S White, composer
1925 - Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)
1926 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
1927 - Tommy Evans, rocker (Drifters)
1928 - George Maharis, actor (Rich Man, Poor Man, Route 66)
1928 - Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician
1929 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1931 - "Boxcar" Willie, singer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 13 of 13

1730 - US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin establishes a common-law marriage with Deborah Read
1970 - "The Bee Gees" singer Barry Gibb (24) weds former Miss Edinburgh Linda Ann Gray
1996 - Presidential daughter Amy Carter (29), the only child of former U.S President Jimmy Carter weds computer consultant Jim Wentzel (28) in Plains, Georgia
2001 - "The Accidental Tourist" actress Geena Davis (45) weds Iranian American plastic surgeon Dr. Reza Jarrahy
2001 - "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" actor Nicholas Brendon (30) weds Tressa Di Figlia in Carlsbad
2001 - "Six Days Seven Nights" actress Anne Heche (32) weds cameraman Coleman Laffoon in Los Angeles, California
2002 - Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar (35) weds actor Freddie Prinze Jr. (36) at El Careyes Resort in Mexico
2002 - "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" actress Terry Farrell (38) weds actor Brian Baker (35) at Paris Las Vegas in in Paradise, Nevada
2007 - Singer-songwriter Usher (28) weds hair stylist and wardrobe stylist Tameka Foster (37) at Chateau Elan Winery and Resort in Georgia
2007 - The first Apprentice winner Bill Rancic (36) weds E! News anchor Giuliana DePandi (32) at the Church of Santa Sofia in Capri, Italy
2007 - "Grey's Anatomy" actress Kate Walsh (39) weds movie executive Alex Young (35) at the Ojai Presbyterian Church in Ojai, California
2007 - "Dancing with the Stars" tv personality Alec Mazo (29) weds fellow dancer Edyta Sliwinska (28) in San Francisco, California
2012 - "Grey's Anatomy" actor Jesse Williams (31) weds real estate broker Aryn Drake-Lee (32) in Los Angeles

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 109

1067 - Baldwin V, Count of Flanders/guardian of King of France, dies
1159 - Adrian IV, [Nicole Breakspear], only English pope (1154-59), dies
1215 - Otto van Gelre, son of Otto I/earl-elect of Utrecht
1256 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
1406 - Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry), dies at 84
1414 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer, dies (birth date unknown)
1581 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
1600 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
1615 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)
1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59
1666 - French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86
1671 - Hugues de Lionne marquis de Berny, French ambassador to Rome, dies
1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)
1687 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
1715 - Louis XIV, the sun king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76
1715 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
1731 - Pierre Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 50
1777 - Johann Ernst Bach, composer, dies at 55
The Sun King Louis XIV (1715) 1780 - Reynier de Klerk, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1777-1800), dies at 69
1801 - Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies
1814 - Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer, dies at 53
1838 - William Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 68
1862 - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44
1862 - Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia
1862 - Philip "Phil" Kearny, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 48
1867 - Edward Hodges, composer, dies at 71
1880 - Antoon Jurgens, margarine maker, dies at 75
1896 - Johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62
1903 - Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies
1912 - Sam[uel E] van Beem, actor (Dollar Princess), dies at 62
1912 - Samuel Coleridge Taylor, African-British composer, dies at 37
1914 - Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo
1941 - Benjamin Dwight, US tennis championship umpire, dies
1943 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
1945 - Jacobus W G Balfoort, Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On), dies at 57
1947 - Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
1951 - Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German drawer/painter, dies at 38
1953 - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
1955 - Philip Loeb, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 61
1957 - Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83
1957 - Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
1961 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (Dulles Airport), dies at 51
1961 - William S Foster, chairman (US Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80
1963 - Guy Burgess, British spy for the USSR
1963 - Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor, dies at 73
1964 - George Georgescu, composer, dies at 76
1967 - Ilja Ehrenburg, writer, dies at 76
1967 - Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet/writer (Counterattack), dies at 80
1967 - James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), dies at 61
1967 - Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)
1968 - Granville English, composer, dies at 69
1969 - Drew Pearson, newscaster (Drew Pearson), dies at 71
1969 - William Flanagan, composer, dies at 46
1970 - Francois Mauriac, writer, dies
1972 - May Aufderheide, composer, dies at 84
1977 - Ethel Waters, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather), dies at 76
1978 - Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina, dies at 33
1979 - Doris Kenyon, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton), dies at 81
1981 - Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army at 76
1981 - Ann Harding, actress (When Ladies Meet, Devotion), dies
1981 - Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut, dies in Mig-21 crash at 32
1982 - Clifford M Curzon, England, pianist, dies at 75
1982 - Wladislaw Gomulka, Polish partisan/party leader, dies at 76
1982 - Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
1983 - Henry "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash), dies at 71
1983 - Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies
1983 - Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)
1984 - Howland Chamberlin, actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at 73
1985 - Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
1985 - Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)
1986 - Murray Hamilton, actor (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 63
1988 - Leonor Sullivan, (Rep-D-Missouri, 1955-77), dies at 86
1989 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51
1989 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)
1991 - Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30
1991 - Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies
1992 - Morris Carnovsky, US actor (Dead Reckoning), dies at 94
1993 - Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80
1993 - Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86
1993 - Jacqueline Wijchers, film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant), dies at 89
1994 - Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop, dies at 88
1994 - Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71
1994 - Wallis Mathias, cricketer (scored 783 in 21 Tests for Pakistan), dies
1994 - Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1995 - Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer, dies at 32
1995 - Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club Owner, dies at 93
1996 - Brother Adam Kehrle, benedictine monk/beekeeper, dies at 98
1996 - Charles Daniels, archaeologist, dies at 63
1996 - George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner, dies at 69
1996 - Vagn Holmboe, composer, dies at 86
1998 - Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (b. 1930)
1998 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
1999 - W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
2001 - Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
2003 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
2005 - R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)
2005 - Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2006 - Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)