This Day in History for 17th September

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 225

335 - Church of Heilig Grave initiated in Jerusalem
642 - Arabs conquer Alexandria, library destroyed
1156 - Markgraafschap Austria becomes a temple (Privilegium minus)
1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
1394 - Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI
1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
1562 - Council of Trente takes ecclesiastical canon
1584 - Gent surrenders to duke of Parma
1595 - Pope Clemens VIII recognizes Henri IV as king of France
1598 - Netherland sailors discover Mauritius
1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1631 - Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustaaf Adolf defeats Gen Tilly
1644 - French troops occupy Mainz
1678 - France & Spain signs peace treaty
1683 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek reports existence of bacteria
1691 - Colony Massachusetts Bay gets new charter
1697 - Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen of Savoye beats Turks
1730 - Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees
1737 - Georg-August University opens in Göttingen
1745 - Edinburg occupied by Jacobites under Young Pretenders
1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1778 - 1st treaty between the US & Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt)
1787 - Prussian troops conquer Gorinchem
1787 - US constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention
1789 - William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn
1809 - Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
1819 - 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1835 - Charles Darwins lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago
1850 - Great fire in San Francisco
1859 - Man in SF claims himself Norton I, emperor of America
1861 - 1st class for escaped slaves taught by Mary Peake at Fortress Monroe Virginia (now Hampton University).
1862 - Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md), 23, 110 die
1862 - Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals
1862 - Battle of Mumfordville, KY-US Col J Wilder surrenders city
1862 - American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
1863 - Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada
1864 - Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign
1871 - Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens
1872 - Phillip W Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires
1873 - 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University
1876 - Race riots in SC
1897 - 3rd US Golf Open: Joe Lloyd shoots a 162 at Chicago GC in Wheaton Ill
1899 - 1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa
1900 - Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed
1900 - Queen Victoria disbands British parliament
1900 - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
1901 - Battle at Blood River Port: Boer Gen Botha beats mjr Goughs cavalry
1901 - Battle at Elands River Port: Boer Gen Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers
1902 - US protests anti-semitism in Romania
1903 - Boston Pilgrims clinch AL pennant, beating Cleveland, 14-3
1906 - Playing as "Sullivan," Columbia U jr Eddie Collins debuts with A's
1908 - Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight
1911 - 1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min
1911 - 25th US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats F Sutton (8-10 61 97)
1912 - Center fielder Casey Stengel breaks in with Brooklyn & hits 4 singles
1914 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1916 - 40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right
Fighter Ace The Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen) 1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1920 - Cards set a record of 12 consecutive hits in 4th (10) & 5th (2) innings
1920 - National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Prof Football Association
1922 - Bicyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ
1922 - Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
1923 - Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound," premieres in London
1924 - Italy signs treaty of Rapallo
1926 - Hurricane hits Miami & Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die
1927 - 47th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats William T Tilden (119 63 119)
1927 - Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco
1928 - 48th US Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats F T Hunter (46 64 36 75 63)
1928 - Henri Cochet wins US Tennis Open
1928 - Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500
1928 - Pitcher Ray Boggs hits 3 batters in 1 inning
1929 - British troops begin evacuating
1931 - 1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, NYC), venture failed
1931 - Operetta "Victoria & Her Husband," premieres in London
1931 - Red Sox Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 doubles
1934 - RCA Victor re leases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven's 5th)
1934 - USSR joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switz & Portugal vote no)
1935 - Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina chosen 1st president of Philippines
1937 - 1st NFL game in Washington, DC; Redskins beat NY Giants 13-3
1938 - 52nd US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Nancye Wynne Bolton (60 63)
1938 - 58th US Mens Tennis: J Donald Budge beats C Gene Mako (63 68 62 61)
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain 1938 - British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich
1938 - Don Budge wins US Tennis open & completes Grand Slam
1939 - German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die
1939 - Poland's president Moscicki & PM Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania
1939 - Russia invades Eastern Poland, takes 217,000 Poles prisoner
1939 - Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II
1939 - Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6
1940 - Nazis deprive Jews of possessions
1941 - Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4
1941 - World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued
1943 - Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
1943 - Red Army recaptures Brjansk
1943 - World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis.
1944 - British Premier Winston Churchill travels to US
1944 - Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
British war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1944 - Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem Neth
1946 - "Gypsy Lady," opens at Century Theater NYC for 79 performances
1946 - "If the Shoe Fits," opens at Century Theater NYC for 20 performances
1947 - Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of Year by Sporting News

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 277

64 - Julia Flavia, daughter of Roman Emperor Titus; lover of Domitian.
879 - Charles III, [The Simple], king of France (893-923)
1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1271 - Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305)
1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
1552 - Paul V, [Camillo Borghese], Italy, Pope (1605-21)
1580 - Charlotte Brabantia, countess of Nassau/daughter of Willem of Orange
1605 - Francesco Sacrati, composer
1619 - John Lambert, English general-major/parliament leader
1630 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
1639 - Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
1643 - Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury/author
1677 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
1687 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
1688 - Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714)
1711 - Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer
1714 - Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Vom Misbrauch of the Satire)
1730 - Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prus/US inspector-gen of Washington's army
1739 - John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
1743 - Jean-Marie Caritat, France, mathematician
Enlightenment Philosopher Marquis de Condorcet (1743) 1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, Aisn France, enlightenment philosopher (Condorcet Method), (d. 1794)
1748 - Robert Wainwright, composer
1764 - John Goodricke, English astronomer/member Royal Society
1765 - Gregory XVI, [Bartolomeo A Cappellari/Mauro], Italy, Pope
1767 - Henri-Montan Berton, composer
1771 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
1774 - Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti, Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages)
1783 - Samuel Prout, water-color painter
1795 - Giuseppi Saverio Rafaele Mercadante, composer
1798 - Antonia M B Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat
1800 - Franklin Buchanan, Admiral (Confederate Navy), died in 1874
1801 - Edward William Lane, translator (Thousand & 1 Nights)
1814 - Stefano Ronchetti-Molnteviti, composer
1818 - Halfdan Kjeruif, composer (Kjerulf)
1819 - Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist (pendulum proved Earth rotates)
1819 - Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president (Republic South Africa)
1819 - Thomas Andrews Hendricks, (D) 21st US VP; died in office
1820 - Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1820 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
1821 - Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer
1825 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, MC (Confederacy), died in 1893
1826 - G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function)
1834 - Edouard Pailleron, French attorney/stage writer
1849 - Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer
1853 - Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie)
1854 - Hans Muller, music historian
1854 - David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d.1929)
1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket & space research
1859 - Frank D Adams, Canada geologist/educator
1859 - Richard Henry Warren, composer
1861 - Owen Seaman, poet/editor (Punch)
1868 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (d. 1956)
1869 - Christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist (Nobel 1921)
1874 - Ben[jamin] Turpin, US, comic (Uncle Tom Without the Cabin)
1875 - Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, composer
1877 - Jean Hure, composer
1878 - Vincenzo Tommasini, composer
1879 - Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
1879 - Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian Social Reformer (d. 1973)
1881 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
1882 - Anton H Blaauw, Dutch botanist (Perception of Light)
1883 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson Berners, 14th baron/composer
1883 - William Carlos Williams, American poet
1884 - Bastiaan de Gaay Fortman, Dutch historian/Justice of Curacao
1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Elmira NY, composer (White Peacock)
1885 - George Cleveland, Sydney Nova Scotia, actor (Courage of Lassie)
1885 - Uzeir Abdul Huseyn Hajibeyov, composer
1890 - Lubov Tchernicheva, Russian ballerina
1891 - Leslie Lincoln Henson, actor (Lady Luck, Funny Face, Harvey)
1892 - Hendrik F Andriessen, Dutch organist/composer (Ballade of Merel)
1893 - Abel J Herzberg, Russ/Dutch writer (Persecution of Jews)
1894 - Fay Compton, [Virginia Lillian Emeline Compton], actress (Haunting)
1896 - Denise Grey, [Edouardine Verthuy], Turin Italy, actress (Julietta)
1899 - Winnie Lightner, Greenport NY, comedienne (Sit Tight, Side Show)
1900 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
1900 - Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
1901 - Francis Charles Chinester, yachtsman/aviator
1901 - Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972)
1902 - Esther Ralston, Bar Harbor ME, American Venus/actress (Old Ironsides)
1903 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
Choreographer Frederick Ashton (1904) 1904 - Frederick Ashton, Ecuador, British choreographer (Cinderella), (d. 1988)
1904 - Jerry Colonna, Boston MA, actor (Road to Morocco, Road to Singapore)
1905 - Dolores Costello, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Little Lord Fauntleroy)
1905 - Hans Freudenthal, Dutch mathematician/director (OW&OC)
1905 - Jorge Urrutia Blondel, composer
1906 - Junius Richard Jayawardene, president (Sri Lanka, 1978-89)
1906 - Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist
1907 - Desmond Heap, authority on British planning law
1907 - Helen Vinson, TX, actress (Transatlantic Tunnel, In Name Only)
1907 - Warren E Burger, Minn, Supreme Court chief justice (1969-86)
1908 - Franz J A Grothe, German composer
1909 - Elizabeth Wilkinson, professor German University College London
1909 - Kenneth Darling, Commander-in-chief Allied Forces, Northern Europe
1910 - Vernon Thompson, thoracic surgeon
1912 - Pauline Parsons, matron in chief (PMRAFNS)
1912 - Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian
1913 - Jorgen Jersild, composer
1914 - Shin Kanemaru, politician
1916 - Mary [Florence Elinor] Stewart, UK, sci-fi author (Crystal Cave)
1916 - Ove J Abildgaard, Danish poet (Uglegylp)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 10 of 10

1918 - Abbott and Costello's Bud Abbott (22) weds Betty Smith
1954 - Film and theater actress Shirley MacLaine (20) weds Steve Parker in New York City
1957 - Italian actress Sophia Loren (22) weds Carlo Ponti
1973 - "The Osmonds" lead singer and bassist Merrill Osmond (20) weds Mary Carlson
1994 - "L.A. Law" actor Blair Underwood (30) weds freelance talent coordinator Desiree DaCosta (29) at his outdoor Southern California
1994 - "Stone Temple Pilots" lead singer Scott Weiland 26) weds Janina Castenada
2005 - Fashion designer Cynthia Rowley (47) weds Bill Powers in Montauk, New York
2005 - Country music singer Terri Clark (37) weds her tour manager Greg Kaczor at a resort on Lake Louise in Calgary, Canada
2011 - Actor and film producer David Clayton Rogers (34) weds actress/dancer Sally Pressman (31) at Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, California
2011 - Actress Sally Pressman (30) weds actor David Clayton Rogers (33) at Bacara Resort and Spa in Santa Barbara, California

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

1994 - Princess Christina separates

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 106

1179 - Hildegard van Bingen, mystic/composer (Ordo Virtutum), dies at 81
1312 - Ferdinand V, king of Castile/Leon, dies at 26
1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria
1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
1574 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles, soldier/navigator, dies
1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
1604 - Lucas Osiander, composer, dies at 69
1621 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
1652 - Bonaventura Elsevier, book publisher/merchant, dies at about 69
1665 - Philip IV, King of Spain (1621-55), dies
1676 - Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b. 1626)
1679 - Juan Jose of Austrian, Spanish general/govenor of Netherlands, dies at 50
1702 - Olof Rudbeck, composer, dies at 71
1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647)
1732 - Josef Antonin Planicky, composer, dies at 40
1762 - Francesco Xaverio Geminiani, composer, dies at 74
1771 - Tobias George Smollett, novelist (Adv of Roderick Random), dies at 50
1803 - Franz Xaver Sussmayr, composer, dies
1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
1820 - Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76
1823 - Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker, dies at 76
1824 - Giacomo Tritto, composer, dies at 91
1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
1839 - Ethel Mary Dell, [Mrs G T Savage], romantic novelist, dies
1846 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer, dies at 84
1858 - Dred Scott, US slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies
1862 - Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, (Rep-D)/Confederate brig-general, dies at 41
1862 - William Edwin Starke, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle at about 48
1863 - Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies
1863 - Alfred Victor Comte de Vigny, poet, dies
1864 - Walter Savage Landor, author, dies
1868 - Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies
1869 - Peter M Roget, England, lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus), dies
1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
1877 - William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, dies at 77
1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
1884 - Louis Schubert, composer, dies at 56
1892 - Ignaz V Zingerle Edler von Simmersberg, Austrian, dies
1894 - Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b. 1849)
1895 - Auguste Toulet, Belgian balloonist, dies
1899 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
1907 - Ignaz Brull, composer, dies at 60
1908 - Thomas E Selfridge, earlier US aviator, 1st to die in an air crash
1926 - August Sauer, Austria literature historian, dies at 70
1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
1934 - Edmund van der Straeten, composer, dies at 79
1936 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
1938 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
1943 - Dick Tyldesley, cricketer (7 Tests for England), dies
1944 - ... Kussin, German gen-maj/commanding Arnhem, dies in battle
1946 - Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1948 - Count Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator for Palestine, assassinated
1948 - Lillian Brainthwaite, Brit actress (Man About the House), dies at 75
1948 - Ruth Benedict, anthropoligst, dies
1951 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
1953 - Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature critic, dies at 80
1953 - Henry Holden Huss, composer, dies at 91
1956 - Mildred E "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, (Olympic-gold-1932), dies at 42
1957 - John W "John" Eisenloeffel, goldsmith, dies at 81
1958 - Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi, dies at 70
1958 - Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist, dies at 71
1959 - Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director, dies at 39
1960 - Jose Sancho Marraco, composer, dies at 81
1961 - Adnan Menderes, PM of Turkey (1950-60), dies at 62
1961 - Simon Delmonte, actor/director (Bleke Bet), dies at 68
1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), dies at 35
1972 - Akim Tamiroff, actor (Hotel Paradisio, Lord Jim), dies at 72
1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, composer, dies at 63
1979 - Miloslav Kabelac, composer, dies at 71
1980 - Anastasio Somoza, former Nicaraguan Pres, assassinated in Paraguay
1980 - Katherine A Porter, US author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90
1982 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
1983 - Humberto Madeiros, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 67
1984 - Richard Basehart, actor (Rage), dies following several strokes at 70
1985 - Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, dies by accident
1986 - Patricia Phoenix, English actress (Coronation Street), dies at 62
1987 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
1989 - Jay Stewart, annoucer on Lets Make a Deal, commits suicide
1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
1992 - Feodor Chaliapin Jr, actor (King's Whore), dies after illness at 87
1992 - William A Swanberg, biographer (Henry Luce, Pulitzer 1973), dies at 84
1993 - Christian Nyby, US director (Big Sleep, Thing), dies at 80
1994 - Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46
1994 - John DeLaFose, zydeco musician, dies at 55
1994 - Karl R Popper, philosopher (Poverty of Historianism), dies at 92
1994 - Paul Nicholas Young, architect, dies at 47
1995 - Grady Sutton, actor (Come Blow Your Horn, Flying Blind), dies at 87
1995 - Yehuda Meir Getz, rabbi/soldier/religious leader, dies at 71
1995 - Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
1996 - Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician, dies at 63
1997 - Jan Peder Syse, PM of Norway (1989-90), dies
1997 - John Seldon Whale, theologian, dies at 100
1997 - Red Skelton, comedian (Red Skelton Show), dies at 84
1998 - Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)
1999 - Frankie Vaughan, British singer (b. 1928)
2000 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
2000 - Paula Yates, English TV personality (b. 1960)
2001 - Lou Dog, Sublime mascot.