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September 20th
1908 ~ Death of Pablo de Sarasate, Violinist.
1934 ~ Birthday of Sophia Loren, Italian actress. 1948 ~ Birthday of George R. R. Martin, Science Fiction Writer. 1970 ~ The Soviet probe Luna 16 collected moon soil sample for return to earth. 1973 ~ Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a $100,000 winner-take-all “Battle of the Sexes“ tennis match. 1979 ~ A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrew Emperor Bokasa I. 1984 ~ A suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy annex in north Beirut, killing 20 people. 2000 ~ After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Jr took a day off. 2004 ~ CBS News apologized for a ''mistake in judgment'' in its story questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service, saying it could not vouch for the authenticity of documents featured in the report. 2005 ~ Death of Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter. |
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 was 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 UK 2003 ~ The 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. 1862 ~ President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. 1869 ~ Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold opened in Munich. 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
63 B.C. ~ Birthday of Caesar Augustus, 1st Roman Emperor.
1642 ~ First commencement at Harvard College. 1806 ~ Discovery of Neptune by French astronomer Urbain LeVerrier. 1884 ~ Herman Hollerith applied for a patent on 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 were renamed the 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 ~ The Netherlands surrendered New Amsterdam to England. 1755 ~ Birthday of John Marshall, the fourth and longest-serving Chief Justice of the American Supreme Court. 1890 ~ As a pre-condition to Utah being admitted to the U.S., the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) officially renounced polygamy. 1896 ~ Birthday of F Scott Fitzgerald, Novelist (This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby,…) 1936 ~ Birthday of Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets. 1957 ~ The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0. 1988 ~ Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson beat American Carl Lewis for the gold at the Seoul Olympics in the 100 Meters sprint. Mr. Johnson was later disqualified for using anabolic steroids. 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 ~ The South Korean capital, Seoul, recaptured by UN forces. 1957 ~ U.S. Army paratroopers ended the Little Rock school crisis. 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 ~ Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov averted World War III by refusing to accept - despite the (erroneous) alert given by the Soviet early warning system - that the U.S. had launched missiles against the USSR. 1996 ~ The last of the Magdalen Asylums was closed. |
September 26th
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. 1960 ~ Presidential candidates Kennedy and Nixon in first TV debate. 1983 ~ Australia II won the “Americas Cup”. |
September 27th
1389 ~ Birthday of Cosimo de Medici, Florentine ruler.
1540 ~ The 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 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. 2001 ~ An armed man went on a shooting rampage in Zug, Switzerland, killing 14 people before taking his own life. |
September 28th
1066 ~ William the Conqueror invaded England, landing at Pevensey, Sussex.
1915 ~ Birthday of Ethel Rosenberg, Spy. 1924 ~ The first round-the-world flight completed. It took 175 days. 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. 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, English icon. 1901 ~ Birthday of Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist. 1954 ~ CERN opened for business. 1960 ~ Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a meeting of the UN 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 ~ The Montreal Expos played their last game at Olympic Stadium. |
September 30th
1882 ~ Birthday of Hans Geiger, German physicist & co-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 ~ British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. 1954 ~ The submarine USS Nautilus was commissioned as the first nuclear reactor powered vessel. 1955 ~ Death of James Dean, American actor. 1960 ~ The last episode of The Howdy Doody Show aired. 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 1st
1903 ~ The visiting Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Americans 7-3 in the first World Series game.
1905 ~ The Julliard School of Music was founded in New York City. 1908 ~ The Model T automobile was introduced by Henry Ford - it sold for $825. 1939 ~ British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast described the Soviet Union as ''a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma''. 1943 ~ The International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremburg sentenced 12 Nazi leaders to death. 1949 ~ The People's Republic of China was formed with Mao Zedong as its head. 1968 ~ The cult horror movie "Night of the Living Dead" had its world premiere in Pittsburgh. 1971 ~ Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida. Eventually it would become the largest artificial tourist attraction in the world. 1986 ~ Former President Jimmy Carter's presidential library and museum were dedicated in Atlanta. 2001 ~ The Supreme Court suspended former President Bill Clinton from practicing before the high court. |
October 2nd
1187 ~ Saladin captured Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1800 ~ Birthday of Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising. 1836 ~ Charles Darwin returned to England after a 5-year journey aboard the HMS Beagle collecting data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution. 1852 ~ Birthday of William Ramsay, Scottish chemist. 1869 ~ Birthday of Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian political leader. 1890 ~ Birthday of Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor. 1935 ~ Italy invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia). 1950 ~ The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in US newspapers. 1967 ~ Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court. 1985 ~ Death of Rock Hudson, Actor. |
October 3rd
1873 ~ Birthday of Emily Post, etiquette advisor.
1900 ~ Birthday of Thomas Wolfe, American novelist. 1916 ~ Birthday of James Herriot, veterinarian, author. 1922 ~ Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to be seated in the U.S. Senate. 1925 ~ Birthday of Gore Vidal, author. 1929 ~ The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia. 1967 ~ Death of Woody Guthrie, folk musician. 1973 ~ Frank Robinson was named major league baseball's first black manager as he was put in charge of the Cleveland Indians. 1990 ~ The re-unification of Germany. East Germany ceased to exist. 1995 ~ O. J. Simpson found not guilty of murder. |
October 4th
1880 ~ Birthday of Damon Runyon, Writer.
1903 ~ Birthday of John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor of the digital electronic computer. 1924 ~ Birthday of Charlton Heston, Actor. 1941 ~ Birthday of Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer. 1943 ~ Birthday of H. Rap Brown, civil rights activist & murderer. 1957 ~ Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. 1983 ~ The first Hooters restaurant opens in Clearwater, Florida. 1993 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the army to begin storming the Russian parliament building. 2002 ~ John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban”, received a 20-year sentence. 2004 ~ The SpaceShipOne rocket plane broke through Earth's atmosphere for the second time in five days to capture a $10 million prize. |
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