This Day in History for 13th September

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 211

509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
122 - Building begins on Hadrian's Wall
533 - General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
604 - Sabinian begins his reign as Pope replacing Pope Gregory the Great
1125 - Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III
1224 - Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata.
1440 - Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1504 - Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
1515 - -14] Battle at Marignano: France beats Habsburgers & Pope Leo X
1549 - Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna
1553 - English Hugh Latimer arrested
1556 - Charles V & Maria of Hungary march into Spain
1574 - Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis
1579 - Breda forms Union of Utrecht
1625 - 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem
1631 - Admiral Tholen conquerors 30+ Spanish frigates
1663 - 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)
1743 - England, Austria & Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
Pope Leo X Pope Leo X 1751 - England signs Austrian & Russian alliance
1759 - British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec)
1775 - Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main
1787 - Prussian army moves into Netherlands
1788 - NY City becomes 1st capital of US
1789 - 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks)
1791 - France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution
1800 - Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803)
1808 - Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
1847 - American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
1849 - 1st US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy)
1858 - Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die
1861 - 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla
1867 - Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors
1869 - Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market
1881 - Lewis Latimer invents & patents electric lamp with a carbon filament
1882 - Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt
1883 - Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia
1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland & Salisbury
1898 - 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
1898 - Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1899 - Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
1900 - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
1906 - 1st airplane flight in Europe
1907 - Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders & Montreal Foot Ball
1909 - Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park)
1910 - Regina Rugby Club forms
1918 - Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42
1919 - Guy Bolton & George Middleton's "Adam & Eve," premieres in NYC
1922 - 136.4°F (58°C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record)
1923 - With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera
1924 - 19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0)
1925 - 1st US University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans
1925 - Bkln Dodger Dazzy Vance no-hits Phillies, 10-1
1927 - Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 HRs (52 en route to 60)
1927 - Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees
1928 - KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions
1930 - 50th US Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 16 64 16-14)
1930 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)
1930 - Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament
1930 - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
1931 - Capt G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph)
1931 - Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria
1932 - NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant
1934 - Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000
1935 - Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway.
1936 - Cleve Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (vs Phila A's)
1938 - Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1939 - First (tethered) flight of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, one of the first viable American helicopters
1940 - Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs
1940 - Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt
1942 - Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942 - Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning
1942 - German forces attack Stalingrad
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek became president of China
1943 - German counter attack at Salerno
1943 - Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres
1943 - The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe.
1944 - 30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten
1944 - Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen
1944 - US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall
1946 - Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant
1947 - WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1948 - Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress
1949 - Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC
1951 - St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0
1952 - Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico
1953 - Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Phila A's
1954 - Reds Ted Kluszewski scores a run in record 17 consecutive games
1954 - WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes
1956 - Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice
1956 - IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
1958 - Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times
1958 - Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam
1959 - 73rd US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64)
1959 - 79th US Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64)
1959 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
1959 - USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body
1960 - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
1961 - "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 213

1087 - John II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143)
1157 - Alexander Neckum/de Sancto Albano, English theologist/encyclopedist
1475 - Cesare Borgia, Italian aristocrat (d. 1507)
1502 - John Leland, English antiquarian (d. 1552)
1520 - William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier
1551 - Pandolfo Zallamella, composer
1594 - Francesco Manelli, composer
1604 - William Brereton, English soldier and politician (d. 1661)
1673 - Hercule Brehy, composer
1676 - Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1741)
1682 - Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer
1688 - Luca Antonio Praedieri, composer
1694 - Yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1776)
1739 - Giuseppe Sigismondo, composer
1739 - Grigory Potemkin, army officer, statesman, Catherine II's lover, OS
1751 - Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist
1755 - Oliver Evans, pioneered high-pressure steam engine
1766 - Samuel Wilson, possible namesake of Uncle Sam (d. 1854)
1775 - Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (d. 1868)
1802 - Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880)
1806 - Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), die in 1862
1806 - Moritz Ganz, composer
1813 - John Sedgwick, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1814 - Nicolas Beets, [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura=
1817 - John McAuley Palmer, US Union msj-gen/(Gov-Ill, 1868-72)
1818 - Olivier Gloux, [Aimard], Fren world explorer/writer (Grande Flibuste)
1819 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)
1830 - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916)
1836 - John McCausland, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1927
1841 - Johannes de Koo, Dutch journalist/stage writer
1842 - Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer
1842 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920)
1846 - Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa)
1847 - Charles Dupee Blake, composer
1851 - Walter Reed, US Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever
Chocolate Tycoon Milton S. Hershey (1857) 1857 - Milton S. Hershey, Derry Township, Pennsylvania, American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey Chocolate Company) and philanthropist, (d. 1945)
1857 - Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (d. 1937)
1858 - Catherinus Elling, composer
1860 - John J. Pershing (Blackjack), Laclede, Missouri, US commander (WW I), (d. 1948)
1862 - Dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament
1863 - Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel 1934)
1866 - Adolf Meyer, US, psychiatrist/neurologist (pioneered mental hygiene)
1871 - Alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other)
1874 - Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Vienna Austria, composer (2nd Quartet). Died 1951.
1874 - Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962)
1876 - Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, author/publisher (Winesburg)
1877 - Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (d. 1957)
1877 - Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (d. 1962)
1882 - Henri Potiron, composer
1882 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969)
US WW1 Commander John J. Pershing (1860) 1885 - Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian geometer (d. 1962)
1886 - Alain LeRoy Locke, African American writer and philosopher “Father of the Harlem Renaissance”
1887 - Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1893 - Larry Shields, American musician (d. 1953)
1894 - Anton Roosjen, Dutch politician/NCRV-chairman
1894 - John B[oynton] Priestly, author (Good Companions)/wed Jessica Hawkes
1894 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d. 1953)
1895 - Ruth McDevitt, Coldwater Mich, actress (Jo-All in the Family)
1896 - Morris Kirksey, US, 4 X 100m (Olympic-gold-1920)
1897 - Gaspar Cassado Moreu, composer
1899 - Anton Constandse, Dutch anarchist/writer
1899 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938)
1901 - Philip Dorn, Scheveningen Netherlands, actor (I Remember Mama)
1902 - Hermine Heijermans, Dutch actress/author
1902 - Leland Hayward, US producer (Spirit of St Louis)
1903 - Claudette Colbert, [Lily Chauchoin], Paris, actress (Texas Lady)
1904 - Gladys George, Patten Maine, actress (Roaring Twenties)
1907 - Victor Reinganum, artist
1908 - Ray Burns Green, composer
1909 - Herbert Berghof, Vienna Austria, actor (Belarus File)
1911 - Bill Monroe, Rosine Ky, country singer (Blue Moon of Kentucky)
1912 - Reta Shaw, South Paris Maine, actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1913 - Roy Engle, Mo, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian)
1914 - Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician
1915 - Peter Guy Wykeham-Barnes, fighter Pilot
Author Roald Dahl (1916) 1916 - Roald Dahl, Llandaff, Cardiff, author (Over to You, Taste, 2 Fables), (d. 1990).
1916 - Dick Haymes, Argentine vocalist (d. 1980)
1917 - Jon Thorarinsson, composer
1917 - Robert Eugene Ward, Cleveland Ohio, composer (Pantaloon)
1918 - Ray Charles, Chicago, orchestra leader (Perry Como)
1919 - Mary Midgley, American philosopher
1920 - Carole Mathews, Montgomery Ill, actress (Wilma-Californians)
1922 - Yma Sumac, [Chavarri], Ichocan Peru, 5 octave soprano (Omar Khayyam)
1922 - Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (d. 1999)
1923 - Reninca, [Renée Lauwers], Flemish author (Seed in the Wind)
1923 - Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999)
1924 - Maurice Jarre, Lyons France, composer (Dr Zhivago-Acad Award 1966)
1924 - Norman Alden, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Pilaski-Hennesey, Al-Fay), (d. 2012)
1924 - Scott Brady, Bkln NY, actor (China Syndrome, Gremlins, Johnny Guitar)
1924 - Harold Blair, Australian tenor, Aboriginal activist (d. 1976)
1925 - Gabriel Charpentier, composer
1925 - Mel Tormé, American singer (d. 1999)
1926 - Emile Francis, NHL player/coach/GM (Rangers, Blues, Whalers)
1928 - Ernest L Boyer, educator/chancellor (NY's State Universities-SUNY)
1929 - Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 2004)
1930 - James McLane, US, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1930 - Robert Gavron, English publisher/multi-millionaire (St Ives)
1931 - Barbara Bain, Chic, actress (Cinnamon-Mission Impossible, Space 1999)
1931 - Marjorie Jackson, Australia, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1952) [or Feb 13]
1932 - Bengt Hallberg, composer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

1963 - Singer Barbra Striesand & actor Elliot Gould marry
1998 - "Spice Girls" pop singer Melanie Brown (23) weds Jimmy Gulzar in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire
2000 - Wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (35) weds WWE Diva Debra Marshall (40) at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas
2008 - "Curb Your Enthusiasm" comedian actress Susie Essman (53) weds real-estate broker Jim Harder (51) at the Friars Club in Manhattan

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 86 of 86

81 - Titus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor of Rome (69-81), dies at about 42
867 - Nicholas I, the Great, Italian Pope (858-67), dies
1321 - Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy), dies
1506 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter
1557 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)
1592 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)
1596 - Pieter D Keyzer/Keyser, astronomer/navigator (Java)
1598 - Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98), dies at 71
1632 - Leopold V, regent of the Tyrol (b. 1586)
1650 - Ferdinand, of Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik/archbishop, dies at 72
1657 - Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (Amsterdam Townhall), dies at 62
1759 - James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32
1766 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
1803 - John Barry, 1st American commodore, dies
1806 - Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)
1808 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718)
1813 - Hezqeyas of Ethiopia, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia
1847 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)
1859 - Cornelis J van Axes, lawyer, dies at 71
British Army Officer that Defeated the French in Canada James Wolfe (1759) 1872 - Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68
1881 - Ambrose Everett Burnside, US Union general, dies at 57
1885 - Friedrich Kiel, Austrian composer (b. 1821)
1894 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)
1904 - Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)
1905 - René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)
1906 - Georg Jacobi, composer, dies at 66
1912 - Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)
1913 - Alfred Gaul, composer, dies at 76
1915 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
1921 - Italo Svevo, writer, dies at 59
1921 - Ludwig-Alexander von Battenberg [Mountbatten], adm (WW I), dies at 67
1924 - Pekka Hannikainen, composer, dies at 69
1928 - Italo Svevo, [Ettore Schmitz], Italian writer (Una Vita), dies at 66
1932 - Julius Rontgen, composer, dies at 77
1932 - Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French pres Doumer, beheaded
1938 - Samuel Alexander, Engl philosopher (Space, time & deity), dies at 79
1946 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1948 - Paul Wegener, German actor/director (Golem, Svengali), dies at 73
Zoophysiologist and Nobel Laureate August Krogh (1949) 1949 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, dies at 75
1950 - Sara Allgood, Irish actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56
1953 - Lewis Stone, actor (Just This Once, Key to the City), dies at 73
1959 - Gilbert Adrian, costume designer, dies of heart attack at 56
1960 - Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer (Toldi), dies at 75
1965 - Jean B. Fletcher, American architect (b. 1915)
1967 - Russell L Rogers, USAF/astronaut (X-20), dies in explosion at 38
1969 - Charles Foulkes, Canada gen/honorary citizen of Wageningen, dies at 66
1971 - Lin Piao, Chinese party leader, dies in air crash at 63 [or Sept 13]
1971 - Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress (Silent Waters), dies at 72
1971 - Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1973 - Betty Field, actress (Kings Row), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 60
1976 - Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest, historian and film maker (b. 1895)
1976 - Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
1977 - Arthur Fagg, cricketer (5 Tests for England 1936-39/umpire), dies
1977 - Leopold Stokowski, symphonic conductors, dies in England, at 95
1981 - William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, dies at 75
1982 - Philip Ober, actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 80
1985 - Dane Rudhyar, composer, dies at 90
1987 - Mervyn Leroy, actor/screenwriter/director (Quo Vadis), dies at 86
1989 - Yamada Koun, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies at 82
1991 - Ferry Barendse, trumpeter/composer/arranger (Ramblers), dies
1991 - Joe Pasternak, producer (Spinout, Big City), dies of Parkinson's at 73
1991 - Metin Oktay, Turkish football player (b. 1936)
1992 - Lou Jacobs, US clown (1966 US postage stamp), dies at 89
1994 - John William Stevens, jazz drummer, dies at 54
1994 - Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina, dies at 58
1994 - Pieter Zaanen, architect (Musical Trade scholarship, Amsterdam), dies
1995 - Francesco Messina, sculptor, dies at 94
1995 - Harold Sheperdson, soccer Trainer, dies at 76
1995 - Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter, dies at 83
1996 - Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian, dies at 68
1996 - Cesar Mendoza, general of Military junta of Chile (1973-85), dies
1996 - Jane Baxter, actress (We Live Again, Blossom Time), dies at 87
1996 - Silas Roy Crain, singer/songwriter, dies at 85
Rapper Tupac Shakur (1996) 1996 - Tupac Shakur, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet), killed in drive by at 25
1998 - Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
1998 - George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
1999 - Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)
2001 - Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)
2003 - Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)
2004 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925)
2005 - Toni Fritsch, Austrian football and American football player (b. 1945)
2005 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916)
2006 - Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
2007 - Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand clergyman (b. 1928)
2011 - DJ Mehdi, French hip hop and electro producer (b. 1977)
2011 - Walter Bonatti, Italian climber (b. 1930)