This Day in History for 15th September

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 233

608 - St Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
1514 - Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York
1556 - Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain
1584 - San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished
1590 - Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII
1600 - Battle of Sekigahara.
1616 - The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.
1619 - Prince Bethlen Gabors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary
1620 - Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims [OS May 8]
1621 - Swedish troops occupy Riga
1644 - Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X
1656 - England & France sign peace treaty
1683 - Germantown Pa founded by 13 immigrant families
1707 - Rákóczi II & Czar Peter the Great sign social security agreement
1733 - King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons
1762 - Battle of Signal Hill.
1774 - Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured
Russian Tsar Peter the Great 1776 - British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution
1787 - -16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam
1789 - Dept of Foreign Affairs, renamed Dept of State
1795 - Cape Colony surrenders to England
1812 - French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow
1820 - Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.
1821 - Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ
1830 - 1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila
1830 - 1st person to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
1830 - Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool & Manchester Railway
1831 - The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands
1846 - Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
1851 - Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1853 - 1st US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1857 - Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine
1862 - Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV
1870 - Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18)
1873 - Last German troops leave France
1879 - Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club"
1882 - British general Wolseley occupies Cairo
1887 - Phila celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution
1894 - Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang
1898 - National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
1899 - 5th US Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD
1903 - Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals"
1904 - Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
1910 - Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa
1912 - Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins
1912 - War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania
1913 - 1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY
1914 - Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I
1914 - US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico
1916 - 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France
1916 - Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme)
1917 - Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
1918 - CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state
1921 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus
1921 - WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
1922 - Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897
1923 - 43rd US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64)
1923 - Bill Tilden wins US Lawn Tennis Open
1923 - Gov Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of KKK terror
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini 1926 - Failed attempt on Benito Mussolini
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 & Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in NYC
1928 - Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season.
1930 - 1st intl bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
1931 - British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
1931 - Phila A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland
1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany
1937 - WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to SF Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)
1938 - British PM 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 HRs (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pitts)
1940 - 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
Penicillin Discoverer Alexander Fleming 1940 - Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company
1940 - PM Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group
1940 - Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe
1941 - Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania
1942 - US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal
1943 - Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy
1943 - Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens
1943 - Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens
1944 - British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
1944 - Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria
1944 - US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall
1944 - US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid
1944 - US troops lands on Palau & Morotai
1945 - A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
1946 - Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats
1947 - 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
1947 - Yanks clinch pennant #15
1947 - RCA releases the 12AX7 vacuum tube.
1947 - Typhoon Kathleen hit Tone River, Saitama and Tokyo area, killing at least 1,930 and injuring 1,750..
1948 - "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances
1948 - F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph
1948 - WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WMGM

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 228

973 - Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)
1254 - Marco Polo, Venice, Italian explorer (Il Milione), (d. 1324)
1505 - Maria, queen of Hungary/wife of Louis II/governess of Neth (1531-55)
1533 - Catherine of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
1572 - Erasmus Widmann, composer
1580 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
1586 - Cristobal de Isla Diego, composer
1613 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
1649 - Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)
1666 - Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)
1685 - Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer
1690 - Ignazio Prota, composer
1736 - Jean-Sylvain, French historian (History of France)
1744 - Georg Ritschel, composer
1760 - Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars (d. 1824)
1764 - Friedrich Heine, composer
1764 - Paolo Francesco Parenti, composer
1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major US novelist (Last of Mohicans)
1808 - Louis Clapisson, composer
Italian Explorer Marco Polo (1254) 1811 - Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer
1811 - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author
1816 - Edward Wolff, composer
1828 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
1830 - Jose de la Cruz Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico (1877-1911)
1834 - Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member
1837 - Leo van Gheluwe, composer
1843 - Willem F Mauritius HK, prince of Orange/son of king Willem III
1851 - Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish countess/writer (Sirena Negra)
1851 - Josif Marinkovic, composer
1852 - Jan E Matzeliger, Surinamese inventor (shoe lacing machine)
1852 - Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
1857 - William Howard Taft, Cin, (R) 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice
1858 - Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer/hermit
1858 - Jeno Hubay, composer
1860 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya, Indian engineer (d. 1962)
1863 - Horatio William Parker, composer
1865 - Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer (Loi Falcidie)
1865 - Nicolaus Adriani, linguist (Middle-Celebes languages)
1868 - Dirk B Nanninga, Dutch painter
1876 - Bruno Walter, [B W Schlesinger], Berlin Germany, conductor (NY Phil)
1876 - Frank E Gannett, Rochester, newspaper publisher (Gannett)
1876 - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (d. 1938)
1877 - Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (d. 1938)
1879 - Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
1881 - Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, Milan, race car builder (Amaz Bugattis)
1883 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
1884 - Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer
1887 - Jean/Hans Arp, French/Swiss sculptor, artist and poet
1887 - Carlos Dávila, former President of Chile (d. 1955)
1888 - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
1889 - Robert Benchley, Worcester MA, humorist (My 10 Years in a Quandary)
Mystery Writer Agatha Christie (1890) 1890 - Agatha Christie, Torquay, Devon, mystery writer (Murder on Orient Express), (d. 1976)
1890 - Claude McKaye, Jamaica/US author (Songs of Jamaica, Banjo)
1890 - Frank Martin, Geneva Switzerland, composer (In Terra Fax)
1892 - Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (d. 1962)
1894 - Jean Renoir, French director (Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion)
1894 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (d. 1977)
1895 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
1895 - Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
1896 - Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer
1898 - John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet (El Dorado)
1899 - Milton S Eisenhower, Dwight's brother/pres (Pennsylvania State)
1900 - Larry Kent, CA, director (High Stakes)
1901 - Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
1902 - Magda [Helena] Lupescu, wife of King Carol II of Romania
1903 - Roy Acuff, Maynardville Tenn, country musician (Hee Haw)
1904 - Tom Conway, Russia, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show)
1904 - Umberto II, van Piemonte, king of Italy (1946)
1906 - Kathryn Murray, Jersey City NJ, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1906 - Penny Singleton, Phila Pa, voice (Jane Jetsons)/actress (Blondie)
1907 - Fay Wray, Alberta Canada, actress-King Kong's main squeeze
1907 - Jack Bailey, Hampton Iowa, TV host (Queen for a Day)
1908 - Gerd Gaiser, German writer (Ship in the Mountain)
1908 - Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003)
1909 - Carlos Estrada, composer
1909 - Jean Batten, NZ air pioneer (1st woman to fly solo Australia-
1909 - Phil Arnold, NJ, actor (Errand Boy, Stud Lonigan, Damn Yankees)
1909 - C.N.Annadurai, Former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu
1910 - George D Kilpatrick, Canadian/British bible scholar
1910 - Richard Baerlein, racing writer
1911 - Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist
1911 - Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1912 - Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer
1913 - Hans Filbinger, German politician (CDU)
1913 - Henry Dreyfus Brant, Montreal Canada, composer (Great American Goot)
1913 - John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail
1913 - Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz pianist/composer
1914 - Creighton Abrams, US, army general (Vietnam War)
1914 - Jens Otto Krag, premier of Denmark (1962-68, 71-72)
1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
1915 - Helmut Schoen, football coach
1915 - John Conte, Plamer Mass, actor (Mantovani)
1915 - Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (d. 1972)
1916 - Margaret Lockwood, Karachi India, actress (Lady Vanishes)
1917 - Richard Arnell, composer
1918 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (d. 2005)
1919 - Fausto Coppi, Italian bicylist (world record 45,798 km)
1919 - Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
1921 - Jackie Cooper, LA California, actor/director (Hennesey, People's Choice)
1921 - Jan Frank Fischer, composer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 5

1949 - Figure skater and actress Sonja Henie (36) weds Winthrop Gardner Jr
1957 - Country music legend Patsy Cline (25) weds linotype operator Charles Dick (23) in Winchester, England
1991 - NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly
2012 - "The Black Keys" drummer Patrick Carney (32) weds Emily Ward in Nashville, Tennessee
2012 - Singer Annie Lennox (57) weds Harvard-educated gynecologist Mitch Besser (57) on a private boat on the Thames River in London

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 120

9 - Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman viceroy of Syria, suicide at 59
668 - Constans II, Byzantine emperor (b. 630)
866 - Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria
921 - Ludmilla, wife of 1st christian Bohemian king Borijov I/saint, dies
928 - Louis III, the Blind Proveneaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48
1231 - Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach, dies
1352 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)
1500 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury
1525 - John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake
1596 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535 or 1540)
1598 - Hidejoshi, [Hijoshi], Japanese general strategist/kampaku, dies
1613 - Thomas Overbury, English writer (b. 1581)
1643 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)
1649 - John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher (b. 1572)
1654 - Cornelis Bicker, merchant/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 61
1700 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (b. 1613)
1701 - Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
1707 - George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
1747 - Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer, dies at 59
1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer, dies at 59
1794 - Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1725)
1803 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1719)
1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
1835 - Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis (b. 1814)
1840 - Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer, dies at 47
1841 - Alessandro Rolla, composer, dies at 84
1842 - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer, dies at 70
1842 - José Francisco Morazán Quezada, President of The Federal Republic of Central America (b. 1792)
1859 - John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, dies at 72
1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
1864 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
1875 - Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer, dies at 71
1880 - William Hauser, composer, dies at 67
1883 - Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium physicist (Blue Moon), dies
1885 - Juliusz Zarebski, composer, dies at 31
1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)
1893 - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (b. 1807)
1895 - Jan Kleczynski, composer, dies at 58
1914 - Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, [Uncle Chose], Boer general, dies at 66
1916 - Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer, dies at 82
1921 - Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russ baron/general, dies
1923 - Sayed Darwish, composer, dies at 31
1924 - Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer, dies at 66
1927 - Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62
1929 - Sara Amsel, Indon/Dutch actress/wife of Carel van Hoisted, dies at 58
1930 - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
1932 - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer, dies at 76
1934 - David Vaughan Thomas, composer, dies at 61
1936 - Bela Anton Szabados, composer, dies at 69
1937 - Clifford Heatherley, actress (For Love or Money, Cash), dies at 48
1938 - Thomas Wolfe, US writer (Enigma), dies at 62
1940 - Dick Ket, painter/cartoonist, dies at 37
1942 - Jack Singer, US war reporter (Wasp), dies
1942 - Joe Travers, cricketer (Australian SLA, in only Test innings), dies
1943 - Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer, dies at 2
1945 - Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Austrian composer, dies at 61
1945 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
1950 - Vojtech Rihovsky, composer, dies at 79
1951 - Jacinto Guerrero, composer, dies at 56
1953 - Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, dies
1956 - Henry Clough-Leiter, composer, dies at 82
1963 - Fred Hillebrand, actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69
1964 - Robert Dower, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies
1965 - Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
1967 - Eva McKenzie, sister of Ida Mae/actress (Virtuous Husband), dies at 78
1967 - Hans Haug, composer, dies at 67
1972 - Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer, dies at 66
1972 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
1973 - Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
1973 - Victor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1941)
1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80
1978 - Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge (b. 1921)
1979 - Tommy Leonetti, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50
1980 - Bill Evans, US jazz pianist, dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51
1981 - Sara Haden, actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83
1981 - Harold Bennett, English actor (b. 1899)
1982 - Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran
1983 - LeRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at 88
1983 - Willie Bobo, jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49
1983 - Prince Far I, reggae toaster and producer
1984 - Jack Ikin, cricketer (England opener 1946-55), dies
1986 - Virginia Gregg, actress (Little Women), dies at 69
1987 - Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75
1987 - Steven Tuomi, murder victim of Jeffery Dahmer (b. 1963)
1989 - Harry Cave, cricketer (New Zealand captain 1955-56), dies
1989 - Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
1990 - G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA), dies
1990 - Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 60
1991 - Allan Sobek, dancer, dies
1991 - Andre Baruch, Radio/TV announcer dies at 83
1991 - John Hoyt, actor (My Favorite Brunette), dies of lung cancer at 87
1992 - Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92), dies at 79
1993 - Frits Noske, musicologist (Tie Musikwerk), dies at 72
1993 - Herman Meyer, Germanist (Deutsche Dichtung), dies at 82
1994 - Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78
1994 - Haywood Frank Henry, sax player, dies at 81
1994 - Michael Joyce, stage Manager, dies at 48
1995 - Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator, dies at 83
1995 - Michio Watanabe, politician, dies at 72
1995 - Sam McCluskie, trade unionist, dies at 63