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September 15th
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.
1929 ~ Birthday of Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1969.
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.
1978 ~ Death of Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer.
1981 ~ The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2008 ~ Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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09-16-2011, 10:22 PM
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September 17th
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.
1976 ~ Birthday of Daniella Rush, former Czech Porn Actress.
1978 ~ The Camp David Accords were signed by Israeli and Egyptian representatives.
1980 ~ The first independent Polish trade union, Solidarity, was established after weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk.
1994 ~ Death of Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher.
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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.
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.
2000 ~ Death of Gherman Titov, cosmonaut.
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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September 21st
19 BC ~ Death of Virgil, Roman poet. (Aeneid, etc.)
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.
1897 ~ The Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus letter was published in the New York Sun.
1937 ~ The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien first published.
1947 ~ Birthday of Stephen King, Author.
2003 ~ The Galileo mission was terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere.
2008 ~ And then there were none: The last two independent Wall Street investment banks, Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley, became bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.
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Kind of a neat variety of things that happened on Tuesday (yesterday).
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September 24th
622 ~ Muhammad completed his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
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.
1957 ~ President Eisenhower sent Army troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1976 ~ The Rhodesian Government agreed to introduce black majority rule to the country within two years.
1979 ~ Birthday of Sabrine Maui, Filipina Porn Actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Katja Kassin, German Porn Actress.
1988 ~ Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson beat Carl Lewis in the 100 Meters sprint at the Seoul Olympics. Mr. Johnson was later disqualified for using performance enhancing drugs.
1991 ~ Death of Dr. Seuss, Writer.
1996 ~ President Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
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September 25th
1683 ~ Birthday of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer.
1890 ~ Yosemite National Park established.
1897 ~ Birthday of William Faulkner, American writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1932 ~ Birthday of Glenn Gould, Pianist.
1950 ~ UN forces recaptured Seoul, the South Korean capital.
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.
2002 ~ The Vitim event, a possible NEO impact in Siberia, Russia.
2008 ~ China launched its third human spaceflight, Shenzhou 7.
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