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09-10-2007, 06:56 PM
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September 10th
1846 ~ Elias Howe of Spencer, Mass., received a patent for the sewing machine.
1939 ~ World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley was sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Trition off the coast of Norway and became the first loss of the Royal Navy.
1942 ~ Birthday of Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist.
1943 ~ World War II: German forces began their occupation of Rome.
1945 ~ Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany.
1960 ~ Birthday of Colin Firth, Actor (Shakespeare in Love, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually).
1971 ~ Death of Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union.
1977 ~ Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of murder, became the last person to be executed by the guillotine in France.
1990 ~ The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world, consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
2000 ~ British paratroopers rescued six held hostage by the "West Side Boys".
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September 11th
1297 ~ William Wallace led a Scottish army to defeat the English in the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
1711 ~ Birthday of William Boyce, Composer.
1914 ~ In one of the earlier military engagements of WWI, Australian forces defeat Germans in New Britain.
1922 ~ British Mandate of Palestine began.
1948 ~ Death of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan.
1973 ~ A military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet toppled elected Marxist President Salvador Allende.
1987 ~ CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, angry over being preempted for a tennis match, marched off the set, leaving affiliates with six minutes of an empty news desk.
1997 ~ Scotland voted to re-establish its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England and the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
2001 ~ The September 11 terrorist attacks destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City, part of The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and crashed a passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 were killed.
2002 ~ Death of Johnny Unitas, Football Hall of Famer.
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September 12th
490 B.C. ~ The Athenians defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
1683 ~ The Ottoman Empire was defeated in the Battle of Vienna.
1814 ~ War of 1812: An American detachment halted the British land advance to Baltimore in the Battle of North Point.
1880 ~ Birthday of H.L. Mencken, Journalist, Author.
1913 ~ Birthday of Jesse Owens, American track and field athlete.
1940 ~ Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France.
1959 ~ First episode of Bonanza. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
1977 ~ Death of Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist.
2003 ~ The U.N. Security Council lifted sanctions against Libya after Libya agreed to accept responsibility and make payment of US $2.7 billion to the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
2003 ~ Death of Johnny Cash, Country Music Great.
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September 13th
1321 ~ Death of Dante Alighieri, writer (The Divine Comedy)
1819 ~ Birthday of Clara Schumann, Pianist, Composer.
1857 ~ Birthday of Milton S. Hershey, chocolate entrepreneur and founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company.
1874 ~ Birthday of Arnold Schoenberg, Composer.
1948 ~ Margaret Chase Smith was elected senator, and became the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
1971 ~ Frank Robinson became the 11th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland.
1977 ~ Death of Leopold Stokowski, Conductor.
1993 ~ Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands on a peace deal.
1999 ~ A bomb exploded in Moscow, killing some 119 people.
2006 ~ Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others at Dawson College in Montreal.
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09-15-2007, 04:40 AM
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September 15th
1254 ~ Birthday of Marco Polo, Italian explorer.
1789 ~ Birthday of James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist.
1928 ~ Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1935 ~ The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
1950 ~ The U.N. staged its fist offensive operation in the Korean War; an amphibious assault at Inchon.
1963 ~ The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing kills four children in Birmingham, Alabama.
1975 ~ Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia.
1977 ~ Death of Maria Callas, Opera Diva.
1981 ~ The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1982 ~ The first issue of USA Today was published.
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September 17th
1394 ~ King Charles VI of France ordered all Jews expelled from France.
1640 ~ Boston, Massachusetts was incorporated.
1787 ~ The text of the U.S. Constitution was completed in Philadelphia.
1862 ~ Union forces repelled a Confederate invasion of Maryland in the Civil War Battle of Antietam.
1908 ~ Death of Lt. Thomas Selfridge, first to die in an airplane crash.
1929 ~ Birthday of Sir Stirling Moss, Formula One racer.
1939 ~ The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland.
1970 ~ Civil war broke out in Jordan.
1972 ~ "M.A.S.H." premiered on CBS.
1978 ~ The Camp David Accords were signed by Israeli and Egyptian representatives.
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Thomas Selfridge, an unfortunate trendsetter.
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September 20th
1519 ~ Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia.
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 samples 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.
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.
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