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September 21st
1756 ~ Birthday of John MacAdam, road builder.
1780 ~ Benedict Arnold gave the British the plans to West Point. 1866 ~ Birthday of H. G. Wells, science fiction author. 1874 ~ Birthday of Gustav Holst, Composer. 1896 ~ British force under Horatio Kitchener took Dongola in the Sudan. 1897 ~ The Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus letter is published in the New York Sun. 1937 ~ J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit. 1947 ~ Birthday of Stephen King, Author. 1964 ~ Malta became independent from the U.K. 2003 ~ Galileo mission was terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere |
September 22nd
1784 ~ Russia established a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
1791 ~ Birthday of Michael Faraday, Scientist. 1828 ~ Death of Shaka Zulu, Zulu leader. 1869 ~ Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold opened in Munich. 1949 ~ Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear weapon. 1960 ~ Mali gained independence from France. 1975 ~ Sara Jane Moore’s assassination attempt on U.S. President Gerald Ford was foiled by Oliver Sipple. 1980 ~ Iraq invaded Iran. 1999 ~ Death of George C. Scott, Actor. 2001 ~ Death of Isaac Stern, Violinist. |
September 23rd
1642 ~ First commencement at Harvard College.
1779 ~ USS Bonhomme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, won a battle against the HMS Serapis and HMS Countess of Scarborough off the coast of England. 1806 ~ Discovery of Neptune by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier. 1884 ~ Herman Hollerith patented his mechanical adding machine. 1920 ~ Birthday of Mickey Rooney, actor. 1930 ~ Birthday of Ray Charles, U.S. R&B and jazz musician, singer. 1932 ~ The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 1949 ~ Birthday of Bruce Springsteen, Singer & Songwriter. 1962 ~ The Jetsons premiered. 1983 ~ Saint Kitts and Nevis joined the United Nations. |
September 24th
622 ~ Muhammad completed his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
1664 ~ Netherlands surrendered New Amsterdam to England. 1755 ~ Birthday of John Marshall, the longest-serving Chief Justice of the American Supreme Court. The principle of judicial review: "A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law." 1890 ~ As a pre-condition to Utah being admitted to the United States, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) officially renounced polygamy. 1896 ~ Birthday of F Scott Fitzgerald, Novelist. 1936 ~ Birthday of Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets. 1957 ~ President Eisenhower sent National Guard troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce desegregation. 1988 ~ Summer Olympics: Ben Johnson beat Carl Lewis in the 100 Meters sprint. Mr. Johnson was later disqualified using performance enhancing dugs. 1991 ~ Death of Dr. Seuss, Writer. 1993 ~ Broderbund released the computer game Myst. |
September 25th
1066 ~ Battle of Stamford Bridge, which marked the end of the Viking era.
1683 ~ Birthday of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer. 1890 ~ Yosemite National Park established. 1906 ~ Birthday of Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer. 1932 ~ Birthday of Glenn Gould, Pianist. 1950 ~ UN forces recaptured the South Korean capital Seoul 1981 ~ Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the 102nd Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first woman to hold the office. 1983 ~ Soviet Officer Stanislav Petrov averts World War III by refusing to accept that the U.S. had launched missiles against the USSR, despite the indications given by his early warning systems. 1996 ~ The last of the Magdalen Asylums was closed. 2002 ~ The Vitim event. |
September 25th
1687 ~ The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed after an explosion caused by the bombing from the Venetian forces besieging the Ottoman Turks.
1820 ~ Death of Daniel Boone, American icon. 1888 ~ Birthday of T. S. Eliot, Poet. 1898 ~ Birthday of George Gershwin, Composer. 1907 ~ New Zealand and Newfoundland became dominions. 1944 ~ Allied troops began a retreat from Arnhem. 1945 ~ Death of Béla Bartók, Composer. 1948 ~ Birthday of Olivia Newton-John, Singer. 1957 ~ West Side Story opened on Broadway. 1983 ~ Australia II won the “Americas Cup”. |
September 27th
1389 ~ Birthday of Cosimo de Medici, Florentine ruler.
1540 ~ Jesuit Order received its charter from Pope Paul III. 1722 ~ Birthday of Samuel Adams, Patriot & Brewer. 1840 ~ Birthday of Thomas Nast, political cartoonist. 1917 ~ Death of Edgar Degas, Impressionist painter. 1921 ~ Death of Engelbert Humperdinck, Composer. 1964 ~ The Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy. 1968 ~ The Hippy Musical "Hair" opened in London. 1996 ~ In Afghanistan, the Taliban captured Kabul. They then dragged former leader Mohammad Najibullah out of the U.N. compound and hanged him from a traffic light pole. 2002 ~ East Timor joins the United Nations. |
September 28th
1066 ~ William the Conqueror invaded England, landing at Pevensey, Sussex.
1915 ~ Birthday of Ethel Rosenberg, Spy. 1925 ~ Birthday of Seymour Cray, Computer Scientist. 1939 ~ Germany and the Soviet Union agreed on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II. 1953 ~ Death of Edwin Hubble, Astronomer. 1958 ~ France ratified a new constitution; the Fifth (and current) Republic of France was formed. 1961 ~ A military coup in Damascus, Syria brought an end to the United Arab Republic. 1976 ~ Stevie Wonder released Songs in the Key of Life. 1988 ~ Death of Charles Addams, Cartoonist, creator of The Adams Family. 2000 ~ Death of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada |
September 29th
1547 ~ Birthday of Miguel de Cervantes, Author (Don Quixote).
1714 ~ George, Elector of Hanover, arrived in Greenwich to assume the British throne as King George I. (Thanks dm383!) 1758 ~ Birthday of Horatio Nelson, British admiral. 1901 ~ Birthday of Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist. 1954 ~ CERN opened for business. 1960 ~ Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. 1962 ~ Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite was launched. 1978 ~ Death of Pope John Paul, who reigned just 33 days. 2004 ~ The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passed within 964,000 miles of Earth. 2004 ~ Baseball: The Montreal Expos played their last game at Olympic Stadium. |
September 30th
1882 ~ Birthday of Hans Geiger, German physicist & the inventor of the Geiger counter.
1896 ~ Madagascar became a French protectorate. 1913 ~ Death of Rudolf Diesel, German inventor. 1924 ~ Birthday of Truman Capote, Author (In Cold Blood). 1938 ~ The League of Nations unanimously outlawed "intentional bombings of civilian populations". 1954 ~ The submarine USS Nautilus was commissioned as the first nuclear reactor powered vessel. 1960 ~ The last episode of The Howdy Doody Show aired. 1982 ~ Cheers premiered. 1991 ~ President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was forced from office. 1999 ~ Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo. |
October 7th
1571 ~ Ottoman Empire defeated at the battle of Lepanto, the last major naval battle to take place between exclusively oared galleys.
1582 ~ Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1849 ~ Death of Edgar Allan Poe, American writer. 1885 ~ Birthday of Niels Bohr, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922. 1886 ~ Spain abolished slavery in Cuba. 1913 ~ Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line. 1919 ~ KLM founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name. 1900 ~ Birthday of Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official and leader of the SS. 1931 ~ Birthday of Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop, The Nobel Peace Prize 1984. 1955 ~ Birthday of Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist. |
October 8th
1871 ~ The Great Chicago Fire destroyed about 17,450 buildings, killed about 250 people and left another 90,000 homeless.
1895 ~ Birthday of Juan Perón, former president of Argentina. 1920 ~ Birthday of Frank Herbert, Science Fiction writer. 1949 ~ Birthday of Sigourney Weaver, Actress. 1961 ~ In London, the Post Office Tower opened. 1967 ~ Guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured in Bolivia. 1982 ~ All labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned. 1992 ~ Death of Willy Brandt, German politician. 2003 ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California. 2004 ~ Martha Stewart went to jail. |
October 9th
1776 ~ Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1835 ~ Birthday of Camille Saint-Saëns, Composer. 1859 ~ Birthday of Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer. 1897 ~ Henry Sturmey became the 1st man to drive from Land's End, Cornwall to John O'Groats, Scotland. 1940 ~ Birthday of John Lennon, Musician & Songwriter. 1942 ~ Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalizes Australian autonomy. 1948 ~ Birthday of Jackson Browne (Doctor My Eyes, The Pretender, Running On Empty) 1961 ~ Ray Charles' Hit the Road Jack reached No. 1. 1970 ~ The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia. 1974 ~ Death of Oskar Schindler, businessman. |
October 10th
1813 ~ Birthday of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer.
1845 ~ In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opened with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors. 1875 ~ Death of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Novelist & Poet. 1961 ~ Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 published. 1966 ~ Simon and Garfunkel released the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. 1970 ~ A crisis hit Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier Pierre Laporte became the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. 1975 ~ Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor remarried. 1980 ~ UK PM Margaret Thatcher gave a defiant speech at the Tory party conference "…I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning!" 1985 ~ U.S. Navy F-14 fightess intercepted the Egyptian plane carrying the “Achille Lauro” cruise ship hijackers and forced it to land at a NATO base in Sicily where they were arrested. 1985 ~ Death of Yul Brynner, Actor and Orson Welles, Director & Actor. |
October 11th
1779 ~ Death of Casimir Pulaski, Polish fighter for American independence.
1809 ~ Death of Meriwether Lewis, explorer. 1844 ~ Birthday of Henry Heinz, food manufacturer. 1896 ~ Death of Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer. 1899 ~ Boer War: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State began. 1961 ~ Death of Chico Marx, comedian. 1962 ~ Pope John XXIII convenes the Second Vatican Council. 1968 ~ Launch of Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission. 1975 ~ Saturday Night Live premiered with George Carlin as the guest host. 1987 ~ Operation Deepscan: An exploration of Loch Ness using sonar ended without finding Nessie. |
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