This Day in History for 24th September

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 197

312 - Start of Imperial Indication
366 - Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
673 - Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
787 - 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor
1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
1493 - Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World
1537 - Uprising in Lubeck fails
1625 - Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1629 - Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies
1657 - 1st autopsy & coroner's jury verdict is recorded in state of Maryland
1664 - Dutch Fort Orange (New Netherland) in present day Albany NY surrenders to the English
1683 - King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America
1688 - France declares war on German
1706 - Treaty of Altranstädt: Charles XII of Sweden & August II of Saksen
1742 - Faneuil Hall opens to public
1776 - 1st St Leger horesrace held at Doncaster
1789 - US Congress creates Post Office
1789 - US Federal Judiciary Act is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court
1789 - President George Washington appointed John Jay the 1st Chief Justice
First US President George Washington 1789 - US Attorney General Office is created
1829 - Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
1838 - Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1841 - Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei (James Brooke appointed Rajah)
1850 - Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England
1852 - Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st engine powered dirigible/airship flight with steam power
1853 - 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
1853 - France annexes Caledonia
1853 - Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London
1862 - Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1865 - James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
1869 - Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1872 - Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg," premieres in Vienna
1877 - Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
1883 - National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky
1884 - Dixey, Rice & Gill's musical "Adonis," premieres in NYC
1885 - 5 German warships depart to Zanzibar
1889 - Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder
1890 - Pres of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching & practice of polygamy should be abandoned
1895 - 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle" (BG)
1903 - Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia premier
1903 - Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle
1906 - St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
1906 - V Herbert & H Blossom's musical "Red Mill," premieres in NYC
1908 - Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1
1916 - Indians Marty Kavanaugh, hits AL's 1st pinch-hit grand slam
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1919 - Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
1922 - Neurenberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky
1922 - Roger Hornsby sets NL HR mark at 42
1923 - Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin)
1924 - Boston, Massachusetts opens its airport
1926 - Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4
1927 - NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs
1927 - Yanks set record of 106 victories
1928 - Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great," premieres in NYC
1929 - Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-instrument flight
1929 - Yanks Tom Zachary ends season 12-0
1930 - G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premieres in NY
1930 - Noel Coward's "Private Lives," premieres in London
1930 - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
1931 - Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks
1932 - NY Gov Franklin D Roosevelt visits LA
1934 - 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
1934 - Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0
1935 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
1938 - Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title
1938 - Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam
1940 - Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton
1941 - Nine Allied governments pledge adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the Atlantic Charter
1941 - Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk
1946 - Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs
1948 - Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Wash DC
1948 - Yanks, Boston & Cleveland are tied for 1st place in AL (91-56)
1948 - The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1950 - "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel
1951 - Industrial estate at Harlow New Town UK opens
1951 - USSR performs nuclear test
1952 - Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death
1952 - Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
1953 - "Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway
Heavyweight Champion Boxer Rocky Marciano 1953 - Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1954 - Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
1954 - Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
1955 - "Catch a Star" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances
1955 - Pres Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
1955 - Washington Senators lose their 99th & 100th games of season
1956 - 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland)
1957 - Bkln Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
1957 - Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
1957 - Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
1958 - 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia
1960 - 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise)
1960 - International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
1960 - USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sacramento Valley Golf Open
1962 - KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 - US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to U of Miss

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 220

15 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1301 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)
1501 - Girolamo Cardano, Italy, mathematician/astrologer (Ars Magna-1545)
1513 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1535)
1534 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
1564 - William Adams, British navigator (d. 1620)
1583 - Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, German general
1625 - Johan de Witt, statesman/advisor of Holland
1667 - Jean-Louis Lully, composer
1705 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
1717 - Horace Walpole, England, British horror writer (Castle of Otranto)
1725 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1739 - Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris/friend of Catherine II
1748 - Philipp Meissner, composer
1755 - John Marshall, Va, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1801-35)
1762 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets)
1773 - Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer
1801 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
1802 - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
1806 - George Alexander Osborne, composer
1817 - Ramon de Campoamor Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Doloras)
1821 - Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda)
1824 - Truman Seymour, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
1825 - Frances E W Harper, famous African
1827 - Henry Warner Slocum, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1829 - James St Clair Morton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1829 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
1833 - Henry Alanson Barnum, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1848 - Pieter Louis Tak, literary (The Chronicle)
1858 - Eugene Foss, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)
1859 - Julius Klengel, cellist/composer
1860 - Samuel Rutherford Crockett, novelist
1870 - Georges Claude, inventor (neon light)
1871 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
1878 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
1884 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
1884 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
1885 - Herman Bouber, Dutch actor/playwright (Sailor's Wives)
1886 - James Burke, NYC, actor (Mystery Theater, Great Guy)
1890 - Alan Herbert, England, journalist/writer (Punch, Helen)
1890 - Mike González, baseball player (d. 1977)
1892 - Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Wandering Jew)
1892 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Québec (d. 1956)
1893 - Julia Faye, Richmond VA, actress (10 Commandments, Samson & Delilah)
1894 - Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
1895 - Andre Cournand, physician
Author F Scott Fitzgerald (1896) 1896 - F Scott Fitzgerald, St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby), (d. 1940)
1898 - Charlotte D baroness of Pallandt, Dutch sculptress
1898 - Howard Florey, Adelaide Aust, pathologist/phamacologist; purified penicillin (Nobel '45), (d. 1968)
1899 - Eduardo Hernandez Moncada, composer
1899 - Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
1900 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
1902 - Cheryl Crawford, producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon)
1902 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian politician, religious figure, and political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution (d. 1989)
1904 - Cemal Resit Rey, composer
1904 - Owen Saunders, mechanical engineer
1905 - Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
1906 - Victor Wong, LA Cal, actor (Mission to Moscow, Son of Kong, King Kong)
1907 - Pierre Moulaert, composer
1909 - Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
1910 - Cao Yu, dramatist
Pathologist and Nobel Laureate Howard Florey (1898) 1910 - Frank Pelleg, composer
1910 - Jean Servais, Angers Belgium, actor (Every Man is My Enemy)
1910 - Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder (LSE)
1911 - Konstantin Chernenko, USSR leader
1912 - Don Porter, Miami Oklahoma, actor (Russ Lawrence-Gidget, Ann Sothern Show)
1912 - Ian Serraillier, children author
1914 - Andrzej Panufnik, Warsaw Poland, composer (Tragic Overture)
1914 - Hein J M Jordans, Dutch conductor
1914 - Herb Jeffries, Detroit Mich, actor (Where's Huddles)
1914 - Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
1915 - Larry Gates, St Paul Minn, actor (Guiding Light, Body Snatchers)
1915 - Margarita J Aliger, Russian poetess (Zoja) [OS]
1915 - Seymour Egerton, CEO (Coutis Bank)
1916 - John Lapsley, British air marshal
1917 - Colin Cowe, senior bursar (Magdalen College Oxford)
1917 - William Putnam Bundy, London, editor (Lvaggerier & Vagaries)
1918 - Audra Lindley, LA California, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers)
1918 - Richard Hoggart, author/warden (Goldsmith's College London)
1919 - Dayton Allen, NYC, comedian (Steve Allen Show)
1919 - Vaclav Nelhybel, Polanka Czechoslovakia, composer (Everyman)
1921 - Jim McKay, Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
1921 - Leonard Overton, British glider pilot (Arnhem 1944)
1921 - Leonardo Lopez Salzedo, composer
1922 - Cornell MacNeil, US, singer/actor (La Traviata)
1922 - David Lane, CEO (Commission for Racial Equality)
1922 - Theresa Merritt, Newport News Va, actress (Mama-That's My Mama)
1923 - Ladislav Fuks, writer
1923 - Mervyn Brown, diplomat
1923 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
1924 - Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge
1924 - Sheila MacRae, London England, actress (Jackie Gleason Show)
1924 - Simpson Guillen, cricketer (wicket-keeper for West Indies & NZ)
1924 - Walter Fufido, Bronx NY, Iwo Jima casualty (WW II)
1924 - Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
1924 - Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
1925 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
1927 - Richard Swift, composer
1929 - George McNicol, principal (Aberdeen University)
1929 - Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 11 of 10

1948 - American Major League Baseball outfielder Ty Cobb (61) weds Frances Cass (40)
1953 - Singer Dick Haymes (35) weds Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth (34) at The Sands hotel-casino in Las Vegas
1964 - Actress Jayne Mansfield (31) weds film producer and director Matt Cimber in Mulege, Baja California Sur, Mexico
1993 - Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty (Brenda) weds Ashley Hamilton
2004 - Former "Baywatch" actor Michael Bergin (35) weds makeup artist Joy Tilk (34) at Hanalei Bay Resort in Kauai, Hawaii
2005 - Actor Ashton Kutcher (34) weds actress Demi Moore (49) in Beverly Hills, California
2005 - Actor Ashton Kutcher (34) weds actress Demi Moore (49) in Beverly Hills, California
2005 - "30 Minute Meals" TV host Rachael Ray (37) weds "The Cringe" lead singer John Cusimano in Montalcino, Italy
2005 - "King of Queens" actor-comedian Patton Oswalt (36) weds writer Michelle McNamara in Los Angeles
2011 - Model and actress Molly Sims (38) weds film producer Scott Stuber at Frank Caferatta Vineyards in Napa, California
2012 - "Sugar Ray" singer Mark McGrath (44) weds longtime love Carin Kingsland (39) at San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 97 of 97

366 - Liberius, Italian Pope (352-66), dies
768 - Pippin III, the short, King of France, dies at 53
786 - Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies
911 - Ludwig III, the child, last Carolingian German King (899-911), dies
1054 - Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)
1118 - Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
1120 - Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
1143 - Innocent II, [Gregorio de' Papareschi], Ital Pope (1130-43), dies
1143 - Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072)
1180 - Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1143-80), dies
1213 - Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)
1228 - Stefanus I Nemanjic de Eerstgekroonde, king of Serbia (1217-28), dies
1230 - Alfonso IX, king of Leon/Castile, dies
1275 - Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b. 1208)
1435 - Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen and wife of Charles VI of France (bc. 1370)
1494 - Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
1517 - Frederik IV, of Baden, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1536 - Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia), dies at 24
1541 - Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist, dies at 47
Physician/Alchemist Paracelsus (1541) 1545 - Albrecht von Brandenburg, archbishop/monarch of Mainz, dies at 55
1568 - Antoon van Stralen, Flemish mayor of Antwerp, beheaded at about 47
1605 - Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (bc. 1547)
1621 - Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
1646 - Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (bc. 1565)
1707 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
1732 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
1742 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)
1755 - Georg Gebel, composer, dies at 45
1790 - John Keyse Sherwin, engraver/painter, dies
1802 - Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749)
1813 - Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer, dies at 72
1815 - John Sevier, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), dies at 70
1834 - A J Pedro I van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1822-31), dies
1855 - Alexandre Stievenard, composer, dies at 86
1856 - Henry, 1st viscount Hardinge of Lahore, gov-gen of India, dies
1865 - Frantiszek Soltyk, composer, dies at 81
1875 - William Walker, composer, dies at 66
1881 - Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer, dies at 74
1892 - Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Suriname, dies at 69
1892 - Patrick S Gilmore, composer, dies at 62
1894 - Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book publisher (Van Dale), dies
1896 - Percy McDonnell, cricketer (19 Tests 1880-88, 3 centuries), dies
1896 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)
1898 - Bartel Wilton, ship builder, dies at 70
1910 - Rudolf Dellinger, composer, dies at 53
1919 - Frank Laver, cricketer (15 Tests for Aust 1899-1909), dies
1930 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
1933 - Mike Donlin, baseball player (b. 1878)
1933 - Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)
1934 - Edwin Lehare, composer, dies at 69
1938 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1939 - Carl Laenmie, film producer, dies
1948 - Warren William, actor (Fear, Wolf Man, Madame X), dies at 53
1949 - Pierre Breville, composer, dies at 88
1951 - Georges Rency, Belgian poet/literature, dies at 75
1953 - Berthold Viertel, writer, dies at 68
1954 - Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)
1960 - Matyas Seiber, composer, dies at 55
1960 - Melanie Klein, [Reizes], child psycho-analyst, dies
1961 - Sumner Welles, US diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy), dies at 68
1967 - Orville Caldwell, Deputy Major (LA-1940), dies at 71
1967 - Robert H van Gulik, diplomat/writer (Judge Tie), dies
1968 - Harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67
1968 - Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47
1975 - Clive Morton, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker), dies at 71
1975 - Ian Hunter, actor (Sir Richard-Robin Hood), dies at 75
1975 - Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
1976 - Bruno VeSota, actor/director (Chopper, Teenage Doll), dies at 54
1976 - Romney Brent, actor/writer (Dinner at the Ritz), dies at 74
1978 - Ruth Etting, US dancer/singer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 80
1981 - Patsy Kelly, actress (Brigid Murphy-Cop & the Kid), dies at 71
1982 - Sarah Churchill, actress (Royal Wedding, Spring Meeting), dies at 67
1983 - Isobel Baillie, oratorio singer, dies
1984 - Neil Hamilton, actor (Com Gordon-Batman), dies of asthma at 85
1990 - Jay Currin, stuntman/actor (Back to the Beach, Serial), dies at 34
1991 - Mary Lawrence, actress (Best Man), dies of respiratory failure at 73
Children's Author Dr Seuss (1991) 1991 - Theodore Geisel, children's author (Dr Seuss), dies of cancer at 87
1991 - Peter Bellamy, folk singer (b. 1944)
1993 - Zita Johann, Hungarian/US actress (Mummy), dies at 89
1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
1993 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
1994 - Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher, dies at 65
1994 - David Napley, solicitor, dies at 79
1994 - Otto F Walther, Swiss publisher/author (Der Stumme), dies at 66
1996 - Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, egyptologist, dies at 87
1996 - Mark Frankel, actor (Solitaire for 2, Simon-Sisters), dies at 34
1996 - Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov, spy, dies at 89
1997 - Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron, dies at 47
2002 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
2002 - Mike Webster, National Football League player (b. 1952)
2003 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
2003 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
2005 - Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)
2008 - Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2009 - Susan Atkins, American murderer (b. 1948)
2010 - Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (b. 1937)