This Day in History for 14th September

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 188

81 - Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus.
786 - Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother Al-Hadi.
891 - Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1163 - Pastor Frederik forms convent at Mariengaarde Friesland
1180 - Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
1515 - Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory
1607 - Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.
1629 - Spanish garrison surrenders to prince Frederik Henry
1662 - Netherlands & England sign peace treaty
1682 - Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, founded.
1716 - 1st lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor)
1741 - George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days
1752 - US & England adopts Gregorian calender (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
1759 - Austrian troops occupy Dresden
1807 - Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
1812 - Napoleon occupies Moscow & fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th)
1814 - Francis Scott Key inspired to write "Star-Spangled Banner"
1829 - Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
1834 - Charles Darwins company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1847 - US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)
1848 - Alexander Stewart opens 1st US dept store
1852 - 18th Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Conn takes office
1854 - Allied armies, including those of Britain & France, land in Crimea
1856 - Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders
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 KY
1862 - Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia
1862 - Skirmish at Fox's Gap, US Civil War
1868 - Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole)
1872 - Britain pays US$15½m for damages during Civil War
1876 - Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda
1876 - Leopold II closes Congo-conference
1882 - British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
1886 - George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon
1891 - "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M
1894 - Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails
1899 - Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality in the US (NY)
1903 - NY Giant Red Ames no-hits St Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game
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
1913 - 27th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (62 75)
1913 - Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0)
1914 - German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn
1914 - German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches
1916 - Christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game
1917 - Kerenski regime declares Russian republic
1917 - Provisional government of Russia forms, Republic proclaimed
1919 - British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dáil
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey 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
1924 - Walter Johnson elected AL MVP
1926 - Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens
1929 - 49th US 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
1930 - Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
1930 - Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
1932 - Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri
1933 - 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
1933 - Schaduwproces-Rijksdagbrand opens in London
1936 - Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times
1938 - Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight
1939 - British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
British war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1939 - Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow
1940 - Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
1940 - German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die
1942 - Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942 - German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1
1942 - Yanks clinch pennant #13
1943 - Yanks clinch pennant #14
1944 - 6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru
1944 - Gulpen, Meerssen & Maastricht freed
1944 - Hurricane hits New England: 389 die
1944 - US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid
1944 - US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall
1947 - 61st US Womens Tennis: A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (86 46 61)
1947 - 67th US Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Frank A Parker (46 26 61 60 63)
1948 - Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary
1948 - Ground breaking ceremony for UN world headquarters
1948 - Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
1950 - Western allies rearm West Germany
1951 - Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1953 - Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians
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 NYC, $50 million damage
1954 - USSR performs nuclear test
1955 - Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245)
1956 - 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1957 - UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open
1958 - WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - Yankees win 24th pennant, & 9th under Casey Stengel
1958 - Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.
1959 - Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 199

1388 - Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer
1486 - Agrippa von Nettesheim, German occultist/alchemist/royal astrologer
1531 - Philipp Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German geography/cartographer
1543 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (d. 1615)
1547 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch Grand Pensionary
1580 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
1644 - Gijsbert Cuper, Dutch classicist/regent
1656 - Thomas Baker, British antiquarian (d. 1746)
1713 - Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781)
1721 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (d. 1807)
1722 - Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer
1737 - Johann Michael Haydn, composer
1742 - James Wilson, Scot/US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1748 - Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer
1760 - M Luigi CZS Cherubini, Italian prodigy/composer
1761 - Pavel Lambert Masek, composer
1768 - Georg Johann Schinn, composer
1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin, German naturalist and explorer ( Kosmos), (d. 1859)
1771 - Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (d. 1829)
Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769) 1792 - Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane
1804 - John Gould, British ornithologist (d. 1881)
1804 - Louis Desiré Maigret, French Catholic prelate (d. 1882)
1817 - Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Imense China)
1819 - Henry Jackson Hunt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889
1835 - J A de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands (Died 1940)
1835 - Joseph Hayes, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
1835 - YES de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands (Died 5/30/1940)
1836 - Abraham PC Van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister (Liberal, 1918-27)
1837 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
1838 - John Pelham, Major (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1840 - George Elbridge Whiting, composer
1849 - Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology (Nobel 1904)
1860 - Hamlin Garland, American writer (d. 1940)
1864 - Lord Robert Cecil, Viscount of Chelwood, UK, helps form League of Nations (Nobel 1937)
1867 - Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl"
1869 - Kid Nichols, American baseball player (d. 1953)
1879 - Margaret Sanger, feminist/nurse/birth control proponent
1880 - Paul Fechter, German writer (Der Zauberer Gottes)
1880 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer (d. 1961)
1880 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (d. 1955)
1882 - Harald Fryklof, composer
1883 - Martin Dibelius, German theologist (Die Lade Jahwes)
1885 - Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor/composer (Batture d'aspetto)
1886 - Jan Garrique Masaryk, Czech, statesman/minister to London (1918-35)
1887 - Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist
1887 - Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ (1908-10)
1891 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (d. 1983)
1898 - Ernest Nash, German-born archaeologist (d. 1974)
1899 - Hal Wallis, movie producer (Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park)
1900 - Sidney Marion, MA, entertainer
1902 - Giorgos Papasideris Greek musician (d. 1977)
1904 - Anton Zischka, Austrian writer (Lebendiges Europa)
1904 - Gaston Vandermeulen, Flemish actor (Heilig Experiment)
1904 - Richard Mohaupt, Breslau Germany, composer (Bucolica)
1907 - A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico
1907 - Cecil Brown, news correspondent (CBS)
1908 - Bernie Green, NYC, orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey Show, Garry Moore Show)
1909 - Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer (d. 1989)
1910 - Gaston Deferre, French politician
1910 - Lehman Engel, Jackson Miss, conductor/comp (Streetcar Named Desire)
1910 - Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (d. 2003)
1913 - Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA
1914 - Kay Medford, NYC, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love)
1914 - Michael Spisak, composer
1914 - Pietro Germi, Genoa Italy, actor/director (Divorce Italian Style)
1914 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (d. 2000)
1914 - Clayton Moore, Chicago Illinois, American actor (d. 1999)
1914 - Robert McCloskey, American author (d. 2003)
1915 - Douglas Kennedy, NY, actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold)
1916 - Eric Bentley, England, critic/writer (In Search of Theater)
1918 - Jack Somack, Chic Ill, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show)
1918 - Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (d. 1967)
1919 - Deryck Victor Cooke, composer
1920 - Bud Palmer, Hollywood California, NBAer (NY Knicks)/sportscaster
1920 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998)
1921 - Hughes Rudd, TV newscaster (CBS/ABC)
1922 - Michel Auclair, [Vujovic], Germany, actor (Story of a Love Story)
1924 - Jerry Coleman, 2nd baseman/sportscaster (NY Yankees, SD Padres)
1924 - John Michael Grimes, set Designer
1924 - Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (d. 1994)
1925 - M L de Braauw, Dutch minister (DS'70)
1925 - Ruth Mompati, S Afr sec of Nelson Mandela/W Sisulu
1926 - Hovhannes Gorgeni Ter-T'at'evosyan, composer
1926 - Richard Elsasser, composer
1927 - Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (d. 1997)
1928 - Albert Shanker, American labor leader (Amer Fed of Teachers)
1928 - Sir Angus Ogilvy, London, United Kingdom, husband of English princess Alexandra
1928 - John Reginald "Nat" Allen, planning enforcement officer/climber
1929 - John Gutfreund
1929 - Mel Hancock, (Rep-R-Missouri)
1929 - Larry Collins, American writer (d. 2005)
1929 - Maurice Vachon, French Canadian professional wrestler
1930 - Allan Bloom, American academic (d. 1992)
1932 - Harry Sinden, NHL player/coach (Team Canada)
1932 - Joshua Culbreath, Penn, 400m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1932 - John Tembo, Malawian politician
1933 - Harve Presnell, Modesto California, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown)
1933 - Zoe Caldwell, Australia, actress (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1934 - Hans Faverey, Dutch poet
1934 - Kate Millett, St Paul Minn, feminist/author (Sexual Politics)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 13 of 13

1830 - Princess WFLC Marianne marries Albrecht of Prussia
1835 - American leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson (33) marries 2nd wife Lydia (Lidian) Jackson in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1892 - AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo
1954 - Comedians Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara marry
1956 - British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (26) marries 1st wife actress Vivien Merchant (27)
1970 - Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright, [Syreeta]
1984 - Figure skater Marina Klimova (18) weds her partner Sergei Ponomarenko (23)
1984 - Stage and screen actor Gene Wilder (51) weds "Saturday Night Live" actress-comedian Gilda Radner (38) in France
1996 - Actress Liz Keifer (33) weds Robert Convertino (41) at Rihga Royal Hotel in New York City
2002 - No Doubt lead vocalist Gwen Stefani (42) weds lead singer and rhythm guitarist "Bush" Gavin Rossdale (46) at St. Paul's Church in London, England
2006 - Former B*Witched member Lindsay Armaou weds former "911" member Lee Brennan at St. Mary's Parish Church in County Wicklow, Ireland
2007 - "Fantastic Four" actor Ioan Gruffudd (33) weds actress Alice Evans (36) in a small ceremony at the One and Only Palmilla Hotel in Los Cabos, Mexico
2008 - Former Star Trek actor (71) weds his partner of two decades Brad Altman (54) in a Buddhist ceremony

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 124

258 - Thascius C Cyprian, Saint/Bishop of Carthage, dies at 58
407 - Johannes Chrysostomus, patriarch, dies
585 - Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538)
775 - Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)
786 - Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph
891 - Stephen V, [VI], Italian Pope (885-91), dies
1146 - Imad ad-Din Zengi, gov of Basra, murdered
1164 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
1214 - Albert Avogadro, Italian patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 1149)
1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divine Commedy), dies at 56
1404 - Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377)
1435 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389)
1523 - Adrian VI, [Adriaan F Bieyens], only Dutch Pope (1522-23), dies at 64
1538 - Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg & Dietz, viceroy of Holland, dies
1605 - Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Krakow (b. 1550)
1637 - Pierre Vernier [Peter Werner], French mathematician, dies
1638 - John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)
1645 - Heinrich Steuccius, composer, dies at 65
1646 - Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, dies
1646 - Thomas H Earl of Arundel, English art collector (Marbles), dies
1693 - Aert Jansz van Nes, [Young boer Jaep], lt-admiral, dies at 67
1712 - Jean [Giovanni] D Cassini, Italian/French astronomer, dies
1743 - Johann Michael Muller, composer, dies at 59
1743 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)
1749 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (b. 1675)
1750 - Carl T Pachelbel, US organist/composer
1759 - Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47
1763 - Johann Philipp Sack, composer, dies at 40
1788 - John Penn, US attorney, signed (Decl of Independence), dies at 47
1788 - Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer, dies at 56
1807 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724)
1819 - Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist, dies
1836 - Aaron Burr, 3rd VP, dies
1836 - Vincenzo Lavigna, composer, dies at 60
1844 - Oliver Holden, composer, dies at 78
1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, American author (b. 1789)
1st Duke of Wellington & British Prime Minister Arthur Wellesley (1852) 1852 - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and British Prime Minister (Tory) (1828-30) dies at 83
1852 - James F Cooper, writer, dies at 62
1852 - Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)
1861 - Fortunato Santini, composer, dies at 83
1862 - Jesse Lee Reno, Union general-major (Reno Nevada), dies at 39
1862 - Samuel Garland Jr, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle
1872 - Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer, dies at 48
1879 - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808)
1886 - Hubert Reis, composer, dies at 84
1887 - Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer), dies
1895 - Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter, dies at 57
1898 - Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies
1898 - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
1899 - Henry Bliss, 1st auto death (NYC)
1901 - Pres William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted at 58
25th US President William McKinley (1901) 1902 - Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer, dies at 76
1905 - Pietro/Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, 1st French Congo gov (1890-98), die
1910 - Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist
1916 - Josiah Royce, US philosopher (Conception of Immortality), dies
1926 - Johan LE Dreyer, Danish astronomer (Catalog of Nebulae), dies at 74
1927 - Isadora Duncan, dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel
1932 - Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer, dies at 53
1936 - Ossip Gabrilovich, composer, dies at 58
1937 - Tomés G Masaryk, philosopher/pres of Czech (1918-35), dies at 87)
1937 - Tomáš Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)
1942 - E.S. Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855)
1951 - Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890)
1955 - F C Weiskopf, writer, dies
1959 - Wayne Morris, actor (Kid Galahad), dies of heart attack at 45
1960 - M. Karagatsis, Greek author (b. 1908)
1962 - Marcel Delannoy, composer, dies at 64
1964 - Mary Howe, composer, dies at 82
1965 - Jack Hearne, cricketer (806 runs in 24 Tests for England), dies
1966 - Gertrude Berg, actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs), dies at 66
1966 - Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (Ivan the Terrible), dies at 63
1967 - Mohammed Abdul Hakim Amer, Egyptian vice-PM, commits suicide at 47
1969 - James Anderson, actor (Connection, Five), dies at 48
1970 - Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79
1971 - Bill Copson, cricketer (England pace bowler before & after WW2), dies
1972 - Kornelis Posthumus, chemist, dies at 70
1974 - Barbara Jo Allen, actress (Girl Rush, Melody Ranch), dies at 66
1974 - Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95
1974 - Vera Vague, [Barbara Jo Allen], actr (Follow the Leader), dies at 70
1974 - Warren Hull, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World), dies at 71
1975 - Walter Herbert, German conductor and impresario (b. 1902)
1979 - Raymond Loucheur, composer, dies at 80
1981 - Yasuji Kiyose, composer, dies at 81
1981 - [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of blues, dies at 88 of a heart attack
1982 - Bashir Gemayel, falangist Lebanon's president-elect, killed by a bomb
Actress Grace Kelly (1982) 1982 - Grace Kelly, princess of Monaco, dies in a car crash at 52
1982 - John C Gardner, US, writer (Life & Times of Chaucer High), dies at 49
1982 - Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)
1984 - Janet Gaynor, actress (Sunrise), dies at 77 from a traffic accident
1988 - Louis Quinn, actor (Unholy Rollers), dies at 73 of cancer
1989 - Edwin McLeod, cricketer (one Test for NZ), dies
1989 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916)
1990 - Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer, dies
1991 - Julie Bovasso, actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 61 of cancer
1991 - Russell Lynes, American art historian and magazine editor (b. 1910)
1992 - David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76
1992 - S A Banerjee, cricketer (1 Test for India 1948, no runs, 5 wkts), dies
1992 - Ted Weiss, (Rep-NY, 1977-92), dies at 64
1992 - Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
1994 - David van Cup, sculptor/painter, dies at 57