This Day in History for 9th September

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 207

701 - St Sergius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
1493 - Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion.
1513 - Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland
1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1556 - Pope Paul IV refuses to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor
1561 - Sermon of Poissy
1567 - Lomaraal van Egmond & Philip van Hoorne captured
1591 - -10] Battle at Flores Azores: Spanish beat English
1675 - New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians
1683 - Expelled Polish & Lotharings reach Wienerwald
1739 - Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed)
1753 - 1st steam engine arrives in US colonies
1776 - Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "US"
1817 - Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
1830 - Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ
1839 - John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph
1841 - Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300
Queen of Scotland Mary Stuart 1850 - Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state
1861 - Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer
1862 - Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry
1863 - Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN
1867 - Luxembourg gains independence
1875 - Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated
1880 - President Hayes visits SF
1881 - Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid"
1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
1892 - E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon
1895 - American Bowling Congress forms (NYC)
1898 - Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders
1899 - French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds
1903 - 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated
1904 - Mounted police 1st used in NYC
1904 - Boston Herald again refers to NY baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2," Yankee name not official till 1913
Aviator Orville Wright 1908 - Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1908 - Russia takes part of Poland
1909 - Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title
1911 - 1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England)
1912 - J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph)
1913 - Association for Study of Negro Life & History organizes in Chicago
1914 - -12] Belgian offensive from Antwerp
1914 - Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved)
1914 - Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0
1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
1915 - Association for study of Negro Life & History forms by Carter G Woodson
1918 - Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
1919 - Boston's police force forms strike
1922 - St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0
1922 - Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens
1922 - William T Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins
1923 - Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2)
1924 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
1926 - National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America
1926 - Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die
1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
1927 - Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium
1928 - Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets then long jump record at 26' ½"
1932 - Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning
1932 - Mine strikes at Belgian Borinage ended
1932 - Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy
1932 - Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River (71 killed)
1933 - 53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Jack Crawford (63 1113 46 60 61)
1934 - Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0)
1934 - G Kaufman & M Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premieres in NYC
1936 - Yankees sweep Indians, NY clinches pennant on earliest date in history
1939 - Nazi army reaches Warsaw
1940 - 28 German aircraft shot down above England
1940 - 60th US Mens Tennis: W D McNeill beats Robert L Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)
1942 - 1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon (WW II)
1942 - Compulsory work for women, children & old males in Batavia
1942 - Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon
1943 - 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome
1943 - Lt-Gen Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick
1943 - Red Army occupies Bachmatsj
1943 - US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)
1944 - Allied forces liberate Luxembourg
1944 - Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day)
1944 - Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Neth
1944 - US 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders
1944 - Very strong hurricane hits Netherland
1945 - Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies
1945 - Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th & final HR
1945 - Phila A's Dick Fowler no-hits St Louis Brown, 1-0
1945 - 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay & taped into the log
1948 - "Hilarities (of 1949)" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 14 perfs
1948 - Bkln Dodger Rex Barney no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
1948 - People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed
1950 - "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 293 perfs
1950 - "Where's Chartev?" closes at St James Theater NYC after 792 perfs
1950 - 1st use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune
1950 - Massive arrests of communists in France
1951 - 1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV
1951 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open
1953 - KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - Earthquake strikes Orleansville Algeria: 1,400 killed
1954 - Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season
1955 - Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 236

214 - Aurelian, Roman Emperor (d. 275)
384 - Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423)
1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
1583 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer
1585 - Armand-Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, premier of France (1624-42)
1618 - Joan Cererols, composer
1629 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch lt-adm-gen/son of Maarten Tromp
1646 - Zeger B van Espen, Flemish theologist
1664 - Johann Christoph Pez, composer
1687 - Jean-Baptiste Maurice Quinault, composer
1700 - Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1780)
1711 - Thomas Hutchinson, American politician (d. 1780)
1731 - Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer (d. 1787)
1752 - Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer
1754 - William Bligh, nasty ship's captain (HMS Bounty)
1755 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)
1769 - Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch minister of Justice (1807..42)
1789 - William Cranch Bond, US, astronomer (codiscovered Hyperion)
1809 - William Radford, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890
1817 - Speed Smith Fry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1819 - Martin Luther Smith, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
1822 - Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention
1826 - Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907)
1826 - Thomas John Lucas, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
1828 - Leo Tolstoi, Russian writer (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) [OS]
1834 - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant)
1834 - William MacRae, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1882
1840 - Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer
1850 - Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi
1850 - Leopoldo Miguez, composer
1853 - Frederick R Spofforth, Australia, cricketer (Demon)
1855 - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist
1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
1858 - Benjamin Kidel, English Sudan (Control of the Tropics)
1865 - Edwin Lehare, composer
1868 - Mary Austin, Ill, feminist/nature writer (Land of Little Rain)
1872 - Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Negro trail-blazers)
1872 - Josef Stransky, composer
1873 - Edward Burlingame Hill, composer
1877 - Frank Chance, baseball player/manager, Tinkers to Evers to Chance
1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
1878 - Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines (d. 1961)
1880 - Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker (Diagonal Symphony)
1882 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
1887 - Alf (Alfred) Landon, (R-Ks) American politician and Presidential candidate (1932, 1936). Dies 1987
1887 - Raymond Walburn, Plymouth In, actor (Christmas in July)
Kentucky Fried Chicken Founder Colonel Sanders (1890) 1890 - Harland Sanders, Henryville Ind, colonel/CEO (Kentucky Fried Chicken), (d. 1980)
1892 - Bruno Sturmer, composer
1892 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
1894 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
1896 - Fritz Reuter, composer
1898 - Frank "Fordham Flash" Frisch, NYC, baseball player (NL MVP 1931)
1899 - Louis Cheslock, composer
1899 - Neil Hamilton, Lynn Mass, actor (Commisioner Gordon-Batman)
1899 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1900 - James Hilton, English novelist (Goodbye Mr Chips)
1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
1905 - Hussain Sha - Indian Saint, Philosopher ,Pithapuram
1907 - Leon Edel, biographer
1907 - Pinky Tomlin, Eureka Springs Ark, singer/actor (Tip-Waterfront)
1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (La belle estate)
1908 - John Haeton, US, bobsled (Olympic-silver-1928, 48)
1909 - Jane Baxter, [Feodora Forde], Bremen Germany, actress (We Live Again)
1909 - Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana (1960-66)
1911 - John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)
1911 - Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
1912 - Kurt Sanderling, Arys Germany, conductor (E Berlin Symph 1960-77)
1917 - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (d. 1942)
1918 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Novara, Italy, politician (Italian President, 1992-1999), (d. 2012)
1919 - Jacques Marin, Paris, actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo)
1919 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, gambler/sportscaster (lay you 5 to 1)
1919 - Richard Webb, Bloomington IL, actor (Invisible Monster, Git)
1919 - Gottfried Dienst, Swiss football referee (d. 1998)
1920 - Michael Aldridge, Glastonbury England, actor (Murder in Cathedral)
1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
1920 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
1921 - Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer
1922 - Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat
1922 - MacKenzie John, pipe major
1922 - Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
1922 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1924 - Jane Greer, Wash DC, actress (Prisoner of Zenda, Clown)
1924 - Nino Bibbia, Italy, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1948)
1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
1925 - Cliff Robertson, La Jolla California, actor (Charly)/spokesman for AT&T
1926 - Annie nee Becker Kriegel, historian
1926 - Jake Carey, US R&B-singer (Flamingos-I Know Better)
1926 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
1927 - Elvin Jones, rocker
1928 - Julian E "Cannonball" Adderley, US, jazz musician (Black Messiah)
1929 - Stan Parris, (Rep-R-VA, 1973-74, 81- )
1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
1930 - Paolo Castaldi, composer
1930 - Frank Lucas, Drug Lord

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

1979 - Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
1995 - Chynna Phillips weds William Baldwin
1995 - Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41)
2004 - 'N Sync singer Joey Fatone (27) weds Kelly Baldwin (27) at Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York
2007 - Country music artist Joe Nichols (30) weds Heather Singleton (30) at Whitfield Chapel in Savannah, Georgia
2012 - "Gossip Girl" actress Blake Lively (25) weds "Green Lantern" actor Ryan Reynolds (35) at Boone Hall in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 123

546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop
1000 - Olaf I of Norway
1087 - William I, The Conqueror, King of England/Duke of Normandy, dies
1398 - King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
1438 - Eduard [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/writer, dies
1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1433)
1513 - James IV, King of Scots (1488-1513), dies in battle at 40
1573 - Andre de Resende, Portuguese dominican/humanist, dies
1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer (b. 1612)
1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
1683 - Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded
1713 - Giovanni A di Bartlommeo Viscardi, Swiss architect, dies
1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
1770 - Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73
1770 - Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist, dies at 62
1803 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer, dies at 32
1806 - William Paterson, American jurist and statesman (b. 1745)
1810 - Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78
1815 - John Singleton Copley, British painter, dies at 77
1817 - Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58
1832 - Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer, dies at 39
1841 - Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63
1866 - Gergely Czuczor, Hungarian/Czech poet/translator, dies at 65
1876 - American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle
1878 - Jacobo Ficher, composer, dies at 18
1888 - John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71
1891 - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36
1901 - Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies
1902 - Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, gov of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53
1907 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
1913 - Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician, dies
1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
1926 - David Lobo, Dutch actor, dies in railway accident
1926 - Greta Lobo-Braakensiek, Dutch actress in railway accident
1931 - Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist dies at 86
1939 - S M Tretjakow, writer, dies at 47 [or Aug 9]
1941 - Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist, dies at 85
1946 - Mynona, writer, dies at 74
1948 - James Baskett, dies
1951 - Cecil Gray, composer, dies at 56
1951 - Gibson Gowland, actor (Greed), dies at 74
1952 - Joseph Allen Sr, dies
1954 - Alfred Gradstein, composer, dies at 49
1957 - Ettore Pozzoli, composer, dies at 84
1958 - Charles Macartney, cricket (35 Tests 1907-26, 2131 runs 45 wkts), dies
1959 - Max d' Ollone, composer, dies at 84
1959 - O'Neil Gordon Collie Smith, WI cricket all-rounder, dies in car crash
1960 - Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer, dies at 75
1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
1962 - Pat Rooney, vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82
1963 - Ernst Kantorowicz, German/US historian, dies at 68
1963 - Jan Schouten, Dutch founder (illegal Trouw)/chairman (ARP), dies
1964 - Charles O'Neill, composer, dies at 82
1965 - Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer, dies at 90
1966 - Antonio Massana, composer, dies at 76
1966 - Leon de Smet, Flemish painter, dies at 85
1966 - Nestor Paiva, actor (3 Stooges in Orbit), dies of cancer at 61
1967 - Helen Flint, actress (Sea Devils), dies after being hit by a car at 69
1969 - Cecil Dixon, cricketer (S Afr 1913-14, dismissed Hobbs twice), dies
1969 - Katherine Singleton, actress/Miss Universe (1926), dies at 65
1969 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
1971 - Billy Gilbert, US actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), dies at 76
1973 - Samuel N Behrman, US stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80
1974 - Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 55
1975 - Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds), dies at 97
1975 - John McGiver, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show), dies at 61
1975 - Minta Durfee, actress (Keystone Comedies, Mickey), dies at 85
Chinese Prime Minister Mao Tse-Tung (1976) 1976 - Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82
1977 - John Breeden, actor (Madame Racketeer, Salute), dies at 73
1978 - Jack L Warner, US movie production (Warner Bros), dies at 86)
1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
1979 - Solon Michaelides, composer, dies at 73
1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
1981 - Phiroz Edulji Palia, cricket (2 Tests for India, 29 runs & 0-13), dies
1982 - Frederic Dannay, [Ellery Queen], US, detective writer, dies at 76
1984 - Walter Kaufmann, composer, dies at 77
1984 - Yilmaz Gueney, director (Yol, Arkadas, Baba, Agit), dies at 47
1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1987 - Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered
1989 - Tim Hovey, actor (Slim Carter, Man Afraid), dies of a drug overdose
1990 - Rimantas Antanas Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46
1990 - Samuel Doe, Liberian politician (b. 1951)
1991 - Edwin M McMillan, US, chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies
1991 - John Lawrence, doctor, dies
1991 - Joop H Zwart, Spanish fighter/publicist (Black Widow), dies
1991 - Paul Michael Lombardi, actor, dies of AIDS at 31
1993 - David Tendlar, animator (Betty Boop), dies
1993 - Helen O'Connell, singer (Green Eyes), dies of cancer at 74
1994 - Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85
1994 - Patrick O'Neal, US actor (King Rat, Night of the Iguana), dies at 66
1994 - Roy Castle, actor (Dr Who & the Daleks), dies of lung Cancer
1995 - Ida Carroll, musician, dies at 89
1996 - Bill Monroe, bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), dies at 84
1996 - Edward Greenall, businessman/sportsman, dies at 67