This Day in History for 16th September

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Events 1 - 100 of 199

1400 - Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
1575 - King Johan Casimir of Palts promises military aid to hugenots
1597 - French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria
1630 - Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston
1652 - Spanish troops occupy Dunkerk
1654 - Russian troops occupy Smolensk on Poland
1662 - Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation
1666 - "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi becomes Islamiet
1668 - King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France
1701 - James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
1702 - Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne & Bavaria
1729 - Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Groningen
1741 - George Frederick Handel's "The Messiah," premieres in Dublin
1747 - French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom
1782 - Great Seal of US used for 1st time
1795 - British capture Capetown South Africa
1810 - Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule Mexican Independence Day celebrates this event
1812 - Fire of Moscow
1830 - Oliver Wendell Holmes writes "Old Ironsides"
Composer George Friedrich Handel 1847 - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust buys bard's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon
1848 - Slavery abolished in all French territories
1857 - Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX)
1857 - Typesetting machine patent
1858 - 1st overland mail for California
1859 - Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania & Mozambique discovered by British explorer David Livingstone
1861 - Battle of Princeton WV
1861 - British Post Office Savings Banks opens
1862 - Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, KY
1863 - Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
1864 - Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid)
1867 - Ottawa Rough Riders & Senators play Canadian Football game
1873 - German troops leave France
1885 - Puritan (US) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup
1890 - Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team Packers
Physician and Explorer David Livingstone 1892 - Amsterdam swim club renamed "The Y"
1893 - Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opens white settlement homesteaders
1901 - Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County.
1906 - Kaarlo Nieminen wins 1st Finnish marathon
1906 - Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole
1908 - Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp
1908 - William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in Janesville Wisc
1913 - 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
1915 - Czar Nicolas II adjourns 4th Duma
1915 - US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
1919 - American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
1919 - Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant
1920 - Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30
1922 - 42nd US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W M Johnston (46 36 62 63 64)
1922 - Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia
1924 - Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game
1926 - -22] Hurricane in Florida & Alabama, kills 372
1926 - Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed
1926 - Philip Dunning & George Abbott's "Broadway," premieres in NYC
1926 - St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3
1927 - Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for US Lawn Tennis Association title
1928 - Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die
1929 - Police shoots at strikers at Maastricht, 2 killed
1930 - Phillies trailing 10-5, score 5 in 9th, then Pirates score 4 in top of 10th, so Phillies score 5 in bottom of 10th to win 15-14
1931 - Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (NYC)
1931 - St Louis Cards repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies
1932 - 30.8 cm rainfall at Westerly, Rhode Island (state record)
1938 - George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH
1939 - 53rd US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (60 810 64)
1939 - 59th US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats S Welby van Horn (64 62 64)
1939 - NY Yankees clinch their 11th & 4th successive pennant
1940 - Dutch SS forms
1940 - FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
1940 - Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"
1940 - Luftwaffe attacks center of London
1940 - Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of House
1940 - St Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to HR from each side of plate
1941 - German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine
1941 - Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed
1941 - Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto
1942 - Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled
1943 - Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno
1943 - Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny
1945 - Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
1947 - John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH
1947 - Typhoon Kathleen hit Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River erea, at least 1,930 killed.
1948 - "Heaven on Earth" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 performances
1948 - "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" closes at Century NYC after 12 perfs
1949 - KABC TV channel 7 in Los Angeles, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 - Cleveland Browns (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Phila 35-10)
1950 - Viet Minh-offensive against French bases in Vietnam
1951 - 6th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1951 - NL ump Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers bench ejecting 15 players
1953 - AL approves St Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles
1954 - CKLW TV channel 9 in Windsor, ON (CBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Bauer & Berra homer in 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st
1955 - US Auto Club forms to oversee 4 major auto reacing categories
1955 - Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt
1956 - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
1957 - Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed)
1957 - LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers
1959 - President De Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination
1960 - Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
1960 - Mil Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0
1961 - CDU loses West German election
1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 249

16 - Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38)
1098 - Hildegard of Bingen, German magistra and the first composer whose biography is known (d. 1179)
1386 - Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist//sciencist/general
1387 - Henry V, king of England (1413-22)
1507 - Jiajing, Emperor of China (d. 1567)
1547 - Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East Indies poet
1557 - Jacques Mauduit, composer
1574 - Samuel Coster, Dutch physician/playwright (Polyxena)
1584 - Matthias Gallas, Austria earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna/general-major
1651 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716)
1666 - Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716)
1678 - Henry St John, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751)
1685 - John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera)
1722 - Gabriel Christie, British general (d. 1799)
1725 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
1736 - Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician
1745 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
1762 - Charles G G, earl of Merode/mayor of Brussels/French senator
1782 - Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
1797 - Anthony Panizzi, Librarian at British Museum
1800 - Jozef Nowakowski, composer
1818 - Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist
1822 - Charles S Crocker, Pres of Central & South Pacific Railroad
1823 - Francis Parkman, American historian/author (Oregon Trail)
1823 - Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Serbia
1827 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908)
1832 - George Washington Custis Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
1837 - Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61)
1838 - James J Hill, Canada, RR entrepreneur (Great Northern Railroad)
1847 - Albert Ross Parsons, composer
1853 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
1858 - Andrew Bonar Law, British PM (C, 1922-23)
1872 - Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, Dutch/Flemish actress (Rose Kate)
Department Store Founder James Cash Penney (1875) 1875 - James Cash Penney, Hamilton Missouri, department store founder (J C Penney), (d. 1971)
1877 - James J Jeans, cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe)
1877 - Willem H Rassers, Dutch cultural anthropologist (Panji)
1878 - Karl Albiker, German sculptor (German Art, female nudes)
1880 - Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Loom of Years, Highwayman)
1881 - Clive Bell, English art critic (d. 1964)
1882 - Mart Saar, composer
1883 - T. E. Hulme, English writer (d. 1917)
1885 - Karen Horney, German/US, neo-freudian psychoanalyst
1887 - Hans/Jean Arp, French/Swiss painter/poet/sculptor
1888 - Almira Sessions, Washington DC, actress (Oklahoma Annie)
1889 - Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press)
1890 - Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Prague Czech, actor (Moon is Down, 3rd Man)
1891 - Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer
1891 - Isabel Jeans, London England, actress (Easy Virtue, Heavens Above)
1891 - Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German spy (d. 1972)
1891 - Karl Dönitz, German naval leader (d. 1980)
1893 - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungary, biochemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937)
1893 - Alexander Korda, British movie producer (3rd man)
1894 - Clarence R Hennecke, Omaha NE, actor (Keystone Kops)
1895 - Charles W Bidwill Sr, Chicago, NFL hall of famer (Chicago Cardinals)
1895 - Karol Rathaus, composer
1896 - Andre Cheron, French chess/bridge theorist
1898 - H.A. Rey, American children's author, creator of "Curious George" (d. 1977)
1899 - Hans Swarowsky, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Graz Opera 1947-50)
1901 - Andree Joly Bunet, France, figure skater pair (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
1901 - CFH "Freddie" Gough, British major scout (WW II, Arnhem)
1903 - Richard Hall, composer
1905 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980)
1906 - Annie Hermes, Dutch singer
1906 - Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, commando
1908 - Beecher Moore, sailor
1908 - Jacobus "Ko" van de Bosch, actor/cabaret performer/director (Nemo)
1908 - James "Jimmy" Johnson, English Labor MP (1950-59, 64-83)
1909 - John Megaw, British Lord Justice of Appeal
1909 - [Hans JM] Fernand Lodewick, literature historian
1910 - Joan Alice Chetwode Ramsey nee Hamilton, lady Ramsey of Canterbury
1910 - Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
1910 - Erich Kempka, Adolf Hitler's chauffeur (d. 1975)
1911 - Wilfred Burchett, Australia, communist/writer (Catapult to Freedom)
1912 - Jerry Wald, NYC, producer (Mildred Pierce, Johnny Belinda)
1914 - Allen Funt, Bkln NY, TV host & creator (Candid Camera)
1915 - Cy Walter, Minneapolis Mn, pianist (3's Company)
1916 - Lord Ryder of Eaton hastings, CEO (Intl Publishing House)
1916 - Willem Noordhoek, photographer
1916 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (d. 2004)
1916 - Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999)
1918 - Baroness Pike, MP
1919 - Andy Russell, LA California, singer (Andy & Della Russell Show)
1919 - Milan Harasta, composer
1919 - Laurence J. Peter, Canadian born educator and writer (d. 1990)
1920 - Franco Pandolfini, Italy, water polo (Olympic-gold-1948)
1920 - Hannie [Jannetje J] Schaft, "Girl with red hair"
1920 - Sheila Quinn, adviser (British Red Cross)
1921 - Dusty Hughers, playwright
1921 - Fritz Geissler, composer
1921 - John Hendricks, lyricist singer (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
1921 - William Johnston, Chaplain to Queen of Scotland
1922 - Janis Paige, Tacoma Wash, actress (Lanigan's Rabbi, Trapper John MD)
1922 - Marcel Mouloudji, singer
1923 - Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister, Senior Minister and Minister Mentor of Singapore
1924 - Lauren Bacall, Staten Island, actress (Dark Passage, Key Largo)
1924 - Paddy Stone, Winnipeg Manitoba, choreographer (Piccadilly Palace)
1925 - B[lues] B[oy] King, Itta Bena Miss, blues singer (Thrill is Gone)
1925 - Charles Haughey, Irish president (1979-81, 82, 87-92)
1925 - Charlie Byrd, guitarist (Desfinado)
1926 - John Knowles, US writer (Morning in Antibes)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 7 of 7

1862 - Liliuokalani, queen of Hawaii (1891-93) marries John Owen Dominis
1989 - Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher
1990 - 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle NY
1993 - Singer Karen Akers (48) weds businessman Kevin Powers (41)
1995 - Stephen Hawkins (53) weds Elaine Mason
2006 - Aga Khan's son Prince Hussain weds Kristin White on the grounds of Chateau de Chantilly in France
2006 - Blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd (29) weds Mel Gibson's daughter Hannah Gibson at the altar of The Holy Family Church in Malibu

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 92 of 92

96 - Titus Flavius Domitianus, emperor of Rome (81-96), murdered at 45
655 - Martinus I, bannished Pope (649-53), dies
827 - Pope Valentine
1087 - Victor III, [Dauferio/Desiderius], Italian Pope (1086-87), dies
1100 - Bernold of Constance, German chronicler (b. 1054)
1345 - John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)
1380 - Charles V, the Wise, King of France (1364-80), dies
1394 - Clement VII, [Robert de Geneve], Pope (1378-94), dies
1406 - Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336)
1498 - Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10,000 people, dies
1542 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish captain-general of Peru, beheaded
1589 - Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
1652 - Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer, dies at 61
1672 - Anne Bradstreet, New England's first published poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1696 - Lambert Pietkin, composer, dies at 83
1701 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633)
1736 - Daniel G Fahrenheit, Prussian/Neth physicist (thermometer), dies at 50
1775 - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)
1798 - Damasus Brosmann, composer, dies at 67
1803 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754)
1824 - Louis XVIII SX, earl of Province/king of France (1814-24), dies
1829 - Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (b. 1771)
1834 - Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer (Guillaume the Nassau), dies
1837 - Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies
1845 - John Kinker, translator/philosopher/poet, dies at 81
1864 - John Hanning Speke, English explorer (b. 1827)
1865 - Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)
1896 - Carlos Gomez, composer, dies at 60
1898 - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827)
1911 - Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (Ascent of Matterhorn), dies
1920 - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Polar History), dies at 32
1925 - Leo Fall, Austria operetta composer (That Pink von Stambul), dies
1925 - Leopold Fall, composer, dies at 52
1925 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
1926 - Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80
1932 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
1933 - George Gore, baseball player (b. 1857)
1936 - Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM), dies
1936 - Karl Buresch, Austrian politician, dies
1944 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
1945 - John "Pa" van de Steur, philanthropist (Java), dies at 80
1945 - John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies
1946 - James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 69
1948 - Ferdinand I MKLM, prince of Saxony-Coburg/tsar of Bulgaria, dies
1950 - Pedro De Cordoba, actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire), dies at 68
1953 - Colin G Fink, US chemist (electro-chemistry), dies
1955 - Leopold C M S Amery, Brit minister of Colonies (India), dies at 81
1957 - Ch'i Pai-shih, traditional Chinese painter, dies at 93
1961 - A P F Chapman, cricketer (26 Tests for England), dies
1961 - Yme C Schuitmaker, potato farmer/dramatist, dies
1962 - Saif al-Islam Achmad, monarch of Yemen, dies at about 71
1964 - Leo Weismantel, German writer (Das Totenliebespar), dies at 76
1965 - Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (b. 1906)
1971 - Ferdinand LR Sassen, priest/philosopher (Descartes), dies at 77
1973 - Frederic Meyer, actor (Faraway Hill), dies at 63
1975 - Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b. 1896)
1977 - Marc Bolan, rock vocalist/guitarist (T Rex), dies in a car crash at 29
1977 - Maria Callas, American-born prima donna, dies in Paris at 53
1979 - Nur Mohammed Taraki, president of Afghanistan (1978-79), killed
1982 - Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mr Beasley-Burns & Allen Show), dies at 86
1987 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922)
1990 - Loretta Tupper, radio/TV entertainer, dies of cancer at 84
1990 - Steve Condos, tap dancer, dies of heart attack at 71
1991 - Carol White, actress (Prehistoric Women, Dulcima), dies at 47
1992 - Duke Robbins, entertainer, dies of pneumonia at 71
1992 - Lee Tully, entertainer, dies
1992 - Millicent Fenwick, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82), dies at 82
1993 - Johanna F Zandstra-Giezen, oldest person in Netherland, dies at 111
1993 - Willie Mosconi, world billiards champ, dies of heart attack at 80
1994 - Alain Bernardin, impressario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78
1994 - Albert de Courtray, French archbishop of Lyon/cardinal, dies at 71
1994 - Bernie Lazaroff Leighton, pianist, dies at 73
1994 - Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84
1994 - Jack Dodson, actor (Howard Sprague-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 63
1995 - Michael Balfour, historian, dies at 86
1995 - Pierre Olaf, cabaret artist/clown, dies at 67
1996 - Andrew MacElhone, bar owner, dies at 73
1996 - Gene Nelson, actor/dancer (SOB, Purple Hills, Starlift), dies at 76
1996 - McGeorge Bundy, US national security advisor (1961-66), dies at 77
1997 - Antony Kearey, television producer, dies at 77
2000 - Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
2001 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (b. 1918)
2002 - James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)
2003 - Sheb Wooley, singer and actor (b. 1921)
2005 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (b. 1920)
2006 - Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)
2006 - Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2007 - Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series (b. 1948)
2008 - Norman Whitfield, associated with the Temptations (b. 1940)
2009 - Myles Brand, NCAA President (b. 1942)
2009 - Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary) (b. 1936)
2012 - John Ingle, American actor, dies from cancer at 84