This Day in History for 19th September

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 161

335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
1356 - English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers
1523 - Emperor Charles I & England sign anti-French covenant
1559 - 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
1580 - Treaty of Plessis-lez-Tours (Anjou/Dutch States-General)
1602 - Grave surrenders to earl Mauritius
1642 - Perpignan surrenders to French troops
1656 - Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg
1657 - Brandenburg & Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau
1668 - Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France
1676 - Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Va on fire
1755 - England & Russia sign military agreement
1777 - Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga
1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
1795 - Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned
1796 - George Washington's farewell address as president
1799 - English & Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver
1833 - Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina
1838 - Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1848 - Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England)
1849 - 1st commercial laundry established, in Oaklan, California
1854 - Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car
1862 - -20] Battle at Blackford's Ford Virginia
1862 - Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties)
1863 - Battle of Chickamauga GA (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat
1864 - 3rd Battle of Winchester Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester)
1865 - Atlanta University forms
1870 - Siege of Paris begins
1873 - Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic
1876 - 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich)
1876 - Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa
1879 - Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2½" at age 17 years & 198 days
1888 - World's 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium)
1890 - Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540
1893 - NZ is 1st country to grant all its women the right to vote
1901 - 11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of Pres William McKinley
1903 - King Leopold II deny Belgian cruelty in Congo
1904 - Gen Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties
1908 - Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony, premieres in Prague
1910 - George Cohan's "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," premieres in NYC
1911 - Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights
1912 - Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions
1912 - Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda
1914 - Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2
1916 - 1st landing on Schiphol (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg)
1916 - Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa
1921 - 41st US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 63 61)
1922 - Queen Wilhelmina's takes Dutch throne with 119 word speech
1923 - Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann," premieres in Leipzig
1925 - 45th US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (46 119 63 46 63)
1926 - 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague
1926 - The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.
1928 - Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)
1929 - Latvia dictator A Woldemaras chased out
1931 - 14th PGA Championship: Tom Creavy at Wannamoisett CC Rumford RI
1931 - Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria
1931 - Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1
1933 - NY Giants clinch the pennant
1934 - Bruno Haptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby
1939 - British Expeditionary Force reaches France
1939 - Lord Haw-Haw becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin
1939 - Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland
1940 - Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes
1940 - Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance.
1941 - 1st meeting of partizans Tito & Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia
1941 - German army conquerors Kiev
1941 - Nazi's force German Jews, 6 & over to wear Jewish stars
1943 - Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record
1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-341
1944 - Finland & Russia agree to cease fire
1944 - Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed
1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
1945 - Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea
1945 - Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London
1947 - Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year"
1948 - 62nd US Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats A L Brough (46 64 15-13)
1948 - 68th US Mens Tennis: "Pancho" Gonzales beats E Sturgess (62 63 14-12)
1948 - Richard A Gonzales wins US Tennis Open
1950 - European Payment Union forms in Paris
1950 - Great Three acknowledge Bond government as only German government
1950 - UN reject membership of China's People Republic
1951 - 1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV
1951 - Italian civil servants strike for pay increase
Comedian Charlie Chaplin 1952 - The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
1953 - "Hazel Flagg" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 190 perfs
1954 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Wichita Golf Open
1955 - Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns & flees
1955 - Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season
1955 - Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico
1956 - 1st intl conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne)
1957 - 1st underground nuclear explosion at Las Vegas Nevada
1957 - First American underground nuclear bomb test.
1957 - Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300,000 sales of "Bambino".
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 - Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland
1960 - Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1
1961 - Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev 1963 - Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
1965 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 226

86 - Antoninus Pius, 15th Roman emperor (138-161)
866 - Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912)/writer (Problematica)
1377 - Albert IV, Duke of Austria (d. 1404)
1551 - Henry III, duke of Anjou/king of Poland/France (1573/4-89)
1655 - Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1705 - Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/band master
1714 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1786)
1737 - Charles Carroll, signed Decl of Ind
1749 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (The History of Astronomy), (d. 1822)
1754 - John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
1759 - William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
1769 - Joseph Comb, missionary to Molukkas
1770 - Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker
1778 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
1796 - Hartley Coleridge, English poet (d. 1849)
1799 - René Caillé, French explorer (d. 1838)
1800 - William Wister McKean, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1865
1802 - Louis Kossuth, Hungary, President of Hungary (1849)
1803 - Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1884)
Mathematician/Astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749) 1811 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (d. 1881)
1822 - Joseph Rodman West, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer
1828 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1880)
1837 - Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer
1862 - Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Benton County IA, actress (Son of Dracula)
1867 - Arthur Rackham, England, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
1871 - Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis)
1882 - Paul-Marie Masson, composer
1882 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
1887 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (d. 1972)
1887 - Lynne Overman, American actor (d. 1943)
1888 - Porter Hall, Cincinnati OH, actor (Half-Breed, Double Indenity)
1888 - J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1889 - Ernest Truex, KC Mo, actor (Pop-Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers)
1889 - Ricardo Cortez, [Jack Krantz], Vienna Austria, actor/dir (Blackmail)
1889 - Sarah Delany, author/teacher
1894 - Cornelis Rijnsdorp, writer (Kings Children)
1898 - Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71)
1900 - Solomon Pimsleur, composer
1901 - Joseph Pasternak, film producer (Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy)
1902 - James Van Alen, created Simplified Scoring System for tennis
1902 - Pieter John Bouman, sociologist/historian
1904 - Bergen Evans, Ohio, English professor ($64,000 Question)
1904 - Karen Aabye, Danish author (Less bedstemor there jomfru)
1905 - Betty Garde, Phila, actress (Aggie-Real McCoys)
1905 - James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser
1905 - Leon Jaworski, American Watergate scandal special prosecutor (d. 1982)
1906 - Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer
1906 - Massimo Freccia, composer
1907 - Lewis F Powell Jr, Va, Supreme Court justice (1972-87)
1908 - Mika Waltari, novelist (Egyptian)
1908 - Tatsuo Shimabuku, founder of Isshinryu Karate (d. 1975)
1909 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
1910 - Margaret Lindsay, Dubuque Iowa, actress (Take a Guess)
1911 - Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer
1911 - Weldon Hart, composer
Nobel Laureate and Novelist William Golding (1911) 1911 - William Golding, Cornwall England, novelist (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983), (d. 1993)
1912 - Emma "Nono" Batenburg, actress (Noah)
1914 - Frances Farmer, Seattle WA, actress (Son of Fury, Among the Living)
1914 - Rogers Morton, Louisville Ky, US Secretary of Interior (1968-75)
1915 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer and comedian (d. 1973)
1917 - Joe Pasternak, Transylvania Hungary, producer (Spinout, Big City)
1919 - Blanche Thebom, Monessen Penn, mezzo-soprano (Amneris-Aida)
1919 - Harry Shorto, linguist
1920 - Karen Khachiturian, composer
1921 - Billy Ward, US songwriter/singer/pianist/arranger (Dominoes)
1921 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator & writer (d. 1997)
1922 - Catherine Mary Hall, nurse
1922 - Damon [Francis] Knight, US, sci-fi author (CV, Beyond the Barrier)
1922 - Dana Zatopek, Czechoslavakia, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1952)
1922 - Emil Zatopek, Czechoslavakia, 5K/10K/marathon (Olympic-gold-1952)
1924 - Ernest Tomlinson, composer
1926 - Arthur Wills, composer
1926 - Edwin "Duke" Snider, Bkln Dodger centerfielder (406 HRs)
1926 - Lurieen Wallace, (Gov-D-Ala, 1966-68)
1926 - Pierre Janssen, art museum director
1926 - James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio
1927 - Rosemary Harris, English actress
1928 - Adam West, Walla Walla Wash, actor (Batman, Last Precinct)
1928 - William Hickey, actor (Prizzi's Honor)
1929 - 10th duke of Richmond, English large landowner/art collector
1929 - Margaret S Roukema, (Rep-R-New Jersey, 1981- )
1929 - Timothy Colman, Engl manufacturer/multi-millionaire (Reckitt & Colman)
1930 - Muhal Richard Abrams, composer
1930 - Rosemary Harris, Ashby Suffolk England, actress (Holocaust)
1930 - Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker (d. 2002)
1931 - Brook Benton, soul vocalist (Rainy Night in Georgia)
1931 - Ray Danton, NYC, actor/director (Longest Day, Psychic Killer)
1931 - Jean-Claude Carrière, French screenwriter and actor
1932 - Mike Royko, Chicago, journalist (Chic Daily News)/author (Boss)
1933 - David McCallum, Glasgow Scot, actor (Ilyla Kuryakin-Man From UNCLE)
1934 - Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles)
1935 - Esmond Bulmer, English cider brewer/Conservative Lower house leader
1935 - Nick Massi, Newark NJ, rocker (4 Seasons-Sherry)
1935 - Robert Kruger, (Sen-D Texas)
1935 - Thomas W Ewing, (Rep-R-Illinois)
1935 - Benjamin Hacker, American naval aviator (d. 2003)
1936 - Al Oerter, Astoria NY, discus thrower (Olympics-gold-56, 60, 64, 68)
1937 - Abner Haynes, American football player
1938 - Zygmunt Krauze, composer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

1945 - Actress Shirley Temple (17) weds actor John Agar (24) in an Episcopal ceremony at Wilshire Methodist Church
1964 - Author Peter Benchley (24) weds Winifred B. Wesson
1998 - "Full House" actor John Stamos (35) weds supermodel Rebecca Romijn (25) at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California
1999 - Chinese martial artist Jet Li (36) weds actress Nina Li Chi (37) in Los Angeles
2008 - NBC's The Biggest Loser contestant Matt Hoover (30) weds Suzy Preston (30) at the Grand Lido Negril resort in Jamaica
2009 - "500 Days of Summer" actress Zooey Deschanel (29) weds "Death Cab for Cutie" singer Ben Gibbard (33) in Seattle, Washington

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 105

690 - Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 602)
1180 - Louis VII, the Younger, King of France (1137-80), dies at 59
1339 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (b. 1288)
1356 - Gautier de Brienne, duke of Athens/French supreme commander, dies
1356 - Geoffroy de Charny, French nobleman, dies in battle
1356 - Jean de Clermont, French marshal, dies in battle
1356 - Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, killed at the Battle of Poitiers (b. 1311)
1668 - William Waller, English soldier
1693 - Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (b. 1641)
1710 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (b. 1644)
1719 - Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/lord of the manor, executed at 59
1719 - Jan Weenix, Dutch painter, buried
1756 - Josef Antonin Sehling, composer, dies at 46
1761 - Peter Musschenbroek, physician/physicist (Leidse Bottle), dies at 69
1830 - Stanislas Champein, composer, dies at 76
1836 - Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer, dies at 66
1843 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (b. 1792)
1862 - [Lewis] Henry Little, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
1863 - Preston Smith, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 39
1864 - Archibald Campbell Godwin, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1864 - David Allen Russell, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 43
1864 - Robert Emmet Rodes, US Confederate gen-major, dies in battle at 35
1868 - William Sprague, American minister and politician from (b. 1809)
1881 - James A Garfield, 20th president (1881), dies of gunshot wound at 49
1882 - Andreas I Schaepman, archbishop of Utrecht (1868-82), dies at 67
1893 - Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian politician, a father of Canadian Confederation (b. 1817)
1902 - Maria Hendrika, Queen of the Belgians, dies
1905 - Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist (b. 1845)
1906 - Maria Georgina Grey, British writer and founder of the Girls' Day School Trust (b. 1816)
1918 - Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer, dies at 56
1924 - Alick Bannerman, cricketer (28 Tests for Australia, 1108 runs), dies
1927 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1849)
1935 - Jules M Cambron, French gov-gen to Algeria/ambassador, dies
1935 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)
1936 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)
1938 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (b. 1883)
1942 - Condé Nast, American publisher (b. 1873)
1944 - David Lord, British lieutenant/Dakota-pilot DFC/VC, dies in battle
1944 - Hilary Barlow, British colonel, dies
1944 - John AC Fitch, British lt-colonel, dies in battle in Arnhem
1949 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (b. 1884)
1949 - George Shiels, Irish dramatist (b. 1886)
1952 - Giuseppe Zoppi, Swiss writer (Presento il mio Ticino), dies
1954 - Tibor Harsanyi, composer, dies at 56
1955 - John D. Dingell, Sr., U.S. Congressman from Michigan (b. 1894)
1961 - Helen Kimble, fictional wife of Dr Richard Kimble (Fugitive)
1961 - Pieter Tesch, mine engineer/geology (Pedestal of Netherlands), dies
1962 - Pogodin, writer, dies
1967 - Martin Block, TV announcer (Chesterfield Supper Club), dies at 64
1967 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian painter (b. 1884)
1967 - Monica Proietti, Canadian criminal (b. 1940)
1968 - Chester F Carlson, inventor (photocopying), dies at 62
1968 - Red Foley, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 58
1969 - Bert [Lambertus] Bakker, director Free Netherland/inventor, dies
1969 - Rex Ingram, actor/director (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 73
1970 - Greville Stevens, cricketer (10 Tests for England 1922-29), dies
1972 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899)
1973 - Bob Gilbert, actor (Never the Twain Shall Meet), dies of hepatitis 75
1973 - Gram Parsons, rocker (Byrds), dies of OD at 26
1974 - Eve March, actress (Adam's Rib, Danny Boy), dies at 63
1978 - Rolf Gunther, East German priest, self imolation
1978 - Étienne Gilson, French philosopher and historian (b. 1884)
1981 - Joke Kool-Smit, Dutch feminist, dies
1982 - Fred Badcock, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ 1930-33, 16 wkts), dies
1982 - Samuel L M Barlow, composer, dies at 90
1984 - June Preisser, dancer/actress (Babes in Arms), dies in car crash at 61
1985 - Italo Calvino, sci-fi author (T-Zero, Mr Palomar), dies at 61
1986 - Vivian Duncan, entertainer (Duncan Sisters), dies
1987 - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
1988 - Oren Lee Staley, 1st pres of Natl Farmers Org (1955-79), dies at 65
1989 - Guido de Moor, actor (Flanagan, Because of the Cats), dies
1989 - Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (b. 1923)
1990 - Werner Janssen, US composer (New Years Eve in NY), dies at 91
1992 - Frederick Combs, playwright/director, dies of AIDS at 57
1992 - Jacques Pic, french restaurant owner, dies
1993 - Bruce Ferden, US conductor (NY, Washington, Amsterdam), dies at 44
1993 - Richard Landau, US screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies at 79
1994 - Frankie Kennedy, flute player, dies at 38
1994 - Sandra Fisher, painter, dies at 47
1995 - Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger, dies at 63
1995 - Orville Reddenbacher, popcorn magnate, drowns in bathtub at 88
1995 - Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist, dies at 83
1995 - Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 55
1995 - Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman (b. 1907)
1996 - Douglas Hyde, socialist/Christian, dies at 85
1996 - Timothy Nicholson, journalist, dies at 32
1997 - Clive Brain, educationalist, dies at 57
1997 - Kathy Keeton Guccione, CEO (General Media Intl), dies at 58
1997 - Malcolm Hughes, artist, dies at 77
1997 - Rich Mullins, American singer (b. 1955)
2000 - Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)
2002 - Robert Guéï, ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1941)
2003 - Slim Dusty, Australian singer (b. 1927)
2004 - Eddie Adams, American photographer (b. 1933)
2004 - Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian-born American civil servant (b. 1919)
2004 - Skeeter Davis, American singer (b. 1931)
2004 - Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman, musician, and activist
2006 - Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
2006 - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
2006 - Chuck Rio, American singer and saxophonist (The Champs) (b. 1929)