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Emperor Domitian

81 Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus

  • 786 Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother Al-Hadi
  • 891 Stephen V's reign as Catholic Pope end with his death, succeeded a few weeks later by Pope Formosus
  • 1163 Pastor Frederik forms convent at Mariengaarde Friesland
  • 1180 Minamoto no Yoritomo led force of 300 defeated at Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan
  • 1515 Battle at Marignano ends after two days in a French and Venetian victory over a Swiss army
  • 1607 Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland

Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch

1629 Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch: Spanish garrison surrenders to Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange

  • 1662 Netherlands & England sign peace treaty
  • 1682 Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, founded
  • 1687 French officer Louis-Armand de Lom d’Arce, baron Lahontan arrives at Fort Saint-Joseph (modern Detroit) as its new commander (a year later abandons and razes to the ground) [1]
  • 1716 1st lighthouse in American colonies lit at Boston Harbor

Messiah

1741 George Frideric Handel finishes his "Messiah" oratorio after working on it non-stop for 23 days

Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar

1752 Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar (no Sept 3 - Sept 13)

  • 1759 Austrian troops occupy Dresden

Aaron Burr Acquitted

1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge

Great Fire of Moscow

1812 Great Fire of Moscow begins as Napoleon approaches the city and retreating Russians burn it - fire continues to burn for five days

Fiery Birth for Star Spangled Banner

1814 Francis Scott Key pens the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", later known as "The Star-Spangled Banner" while witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry from a ship in Baltimore harbor

  • 1829 Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
  • 1847 US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)
  • 1848 Alexander Stewart opens the 1st US department store, “The Marble Palace” in downtown New York City
  • 1852 Samuel D Hubbard of Conn takes office as 18th US Postmaster General
  • 1854 British and French forces land at Calamita Bay on the Crimean Peninsula, during the Crimean War
  • 1856 Battle of San Jacinto at Hacienda San Jacinto, Nicaraguan forces defeat American filibusters
  • 1862 Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops win a tactical victory over Confederate forces
  • 1862 Battle at South Mountain: Union troops defeat an outnumbered Confederate force
  • 1862 Battle of Munfordville, Kentucky, begins
  • 1862 Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
  • 1862 Skirmish at Fox's Gap, American Civil War

Das Kapital

1867 Karl Marx publishes "Das Kapital" Volume 1, his theory of the Capitalist system and how it is doomed to destroy itself

  • 1872 Britain pays US$15½m for damages during Civil War

Brussels Geographic Conference

1876 Belgian King Leopold II closes the Brussels Geographic Conference, establishes the International African Association, forerunner of Leopold's privately controlled Congo Free State

Stanley Leaves Rwanda

1876 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda

  • 1882 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
  • 1886 George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee, patents typewriter ribbon
  • 1891 "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M
  • 1894 Hottentotten uprising in Southwest Africa fails
  • 1899 Henry Bliss becomes 1st recorded US death from an auto accident when he is hit by a taxicab in New York City
  • 1900 There are now 62,000 foreign troops in Peking and nearby cities, still defeating Boxer Rebels.

Inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt

1901 Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the youngest man to serve as US President, after William McKinley finally dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo

  • 1905 Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated
  • 1905 Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname
  • 1905 RAC Tourist Trophy first run on Isle of Man
  • 1911 Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin is assassinated in Kiev; his regime had been characterized by harsh measures to control dissidents
  • 1913 Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0)
  • 1914 German staff-of-chief Helmut von Moltke replaced by Erich von Falkenhayn
  • 1914 German troops withdraw from Aisne

Your Country Needs You

1914 Lord Kitchener: "Your country needs you" appears as front cover design for the London Opinion magazine

  • 1916 Christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game
  • 1918 WWI: Austria-Hungary sends a note to the Allies requesting peace discussions, but the Allies reject the offer
  • 1919 British regime forbids Sinn Féin Dáil
  • 1920 The Trial of Sacco & Vanzetti: Sacco and Vanzetti indicted for murder

Dempsey KOs Firpo

1923 In his 4th heavyweight boxing title defence Jack Dempsey recovers after being sent through the ropes to KO Argentine challenger Luis Firpo in the 2nd round at the Polo Grounds, NYC

  • 1923 Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play

American League MVP

1924 Walter Johnson selected as the American League MVP

  • 1929 A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox
  • 1930 Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
  • 1930 Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
  • 1932 Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri
  • 1933 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
  • 1936 1st prefrontal lobotomy in America performed by Walter Freeman and James W. Watts at George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C.

Baseball Record

1936 Pittsburgh Pirates' future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 MLB hits for 7th time

Neutrality Act of 1937

1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans US ships from trading arms with China or Japan

  • 1939 British fleet attacks German U-39 boat

Churchill Visits Scapa Flow

1939 First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill visits British naval base Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands

1st Helicopter Takes Off

1939 World’s 1st practical helicopter, the VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky takes (tethered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut

  • 1940 German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; hundreds die
  • 1940 US Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
  • 1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
  • 1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1

Attack on Pearl Harbor

1942 US Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz presents the 1st Medal of Honor of WWII, for courage and valor beyond the call of duty during the attack on Pearl Harbor, to sailor John William Finn; ceremony took place in Pearl Harbor aboard USS Enterprise

  • 1942 Yanks clinch pennant #13
  • 1943 Yanks clinch pennant #14
  • 1944 6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru
  • 1944 Great Atlantic hurricane hits New England, 300-400 die along the US East Coast
  • 1944 Gulpen, Meerssen & Maastricht freed
  • 1944 US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid
  • 1944 US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall

Event of Interest

1948 Gerald Ford upsets Representative Bartel J Jonkman in Michigan 5th Dist Republican primary

  • 1948 Groundbreaking ceremony for initial buildings of United Nations Headquarters is held in New York City
  • 1948 Groundbreaking ceremony for UN world headquarters in New York
  • 1949 India's Constituent Assembly adopts Hindi as an official language. Celebrated today as Hindi Day.
  • 1950 Western allies rearm West Germany
  • 1951 Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats

Appointment of Interest

1953 Nikita Khrushchev appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, succeeding Malenkov

  • 1953 Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians

Turn of the Screw

1954 Benjamin Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw" premieres in Venice

Baseball Record

1954 Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record

  • 1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage
  • 1954 USSR performs nuclear test
  • 1955 Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245)

Tutti Frutti

1955 Little Richard records "Tutti Frutti" at J & M Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana

IBM 305 RAMAC

1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton

  • 1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia
  • 1957 UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
  • 1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  • 1958 Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.
  • 1958 WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting

Sports History

1958 Yankees win 24th pennant, & 9th under Casey Stengel

  • 1959 Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon
  • 1959 WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting

Music History

1960 Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of Communist Party of USSR

  • 1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Event of Interest

1960 Joseph-Desiré Mobutu launches a bloodless coup d'état in the Congo, declaring President Joseph Kasa-Vubu and Patrice Lumumba to be "neutralised" and establishing a new government of university graduates

  • 1960 KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
  • 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  • 1963 Mary Ann Fischer of Aberdeen, South Dakota, gives birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a boy

Presidential Medal of Freedom

1964 President Lyndon Johnson presents Walter Lippmann with the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Film & TV History

1964 Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House

  • 1964 WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1965 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened
  • 1965 Western sitcom "F-Troop" premieres in the US on ABC
  • 1967 Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named
  • 1967 Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in The Bronx, NYC

Sports History

1968 Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season

Boxing Title Fight

1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

  • 1968 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight

Music History

1968 While on tour in England, a fire at singer Roy Orbison's Henderson, Tennessee home kills the two eldest of his three sons

  • 1969 Male voters of Swiss Canton Schaffhausen reject female suffrage
  • 1970 Economic Council for Northern Ireland holds its first meeting
  • 1971 Cleveland Indians & Washington Senators, play 20 innings
  • 1971 Two British soldiers are killed in separate shooting incidents in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
  • 1972 "The Waltons" TV program premieres on CBS starring Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, and Will Geer
  • 1972 2 people are killed and 1 mortally wounded in a Ulster Volunteer Force bomb attack on the Imperial Hotel, Belfast
  • 1972 Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in NYC
  • 1972 West Germany & Poland establish diplomatic relations
  • 1973 Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise
  • 1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s

Event of Interest

1973 US President Richard Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout

  • 1974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
  • 1975 Milwaulkee Brewer Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 MLB games as a teen
  • 1975 Rembrandt's oil painting "The Night Watch" slashed & damaged by an unemployed school teacher, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
  • 1977 Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robben Island, South Africa

Sports History

1978 MLB Atlanta Braves' Jim Bouton (38) beats San Francisco Giants, his 1st win since 1970

  • 1978 Portugal government of Da Costa falls
  • 1978 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode over 50 bombs in towns across Northern Ireland over the next 5 days, injuring 37 people
  • 1979 The film "Quadrophenia", loosely based on The Who's 1973 rock opera of the same name, is released.
  • 1979 Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC & back to Yates Center, Ks
  • 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
  • 1980 Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
  • 1981 Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV
  • 1981 Judge Wapner & People's Court premiere on TV
  • 1982 36" snow (Red Lodge, MT)
  • 1982 Bomb at Lebanese Phalange party HQ kills President-elect Bachir Gemayel and 26 others
  • 1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel
  • 1982 Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"
  • 1983 Texan San Jacinto county sheriff James "Humpy" Parker convicted of violating inmates civil rights and of torture
  • 1983 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner

The Golden Girls

1985 "The Golden Girls", starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, debuts on NBC

Baseball History

1986 Bo Jackson's 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium)

  • 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed
  • 1986 Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed
  • 1986 CBS premiere of true life "The Last Days of Patton"

Sports History

1986 NFL Bears running back Walter Payton scores his 100th career rushing touchdown, and gains 177 yards, surpassing 15,000-yard career plateau in 13-10 overtime win over visiting Philadelphia Eagles, at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois

  • 1986 Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game

Sports History

1987 Cal Ripken Jr.'s record streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is finally broken

  • 1987 Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles
  • 1988 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
  • 1989 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
  • 1989 Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons
  • 1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  • 1990 Ken Griffey, Sr & Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning
  • 1991 San Diego State freshman running back Marshall Faulk rushes for NCAA record 386 yards and scores 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific, 55-34
  • 1991 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  • 1992 1st subway car completed to be exported from US (to Taiwan)
  • 1995 Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan

Baseball Record

1996 As' Mark McGwire is 13th player to hit 50-HRs in a season

  • 1996 England Test cricket fast bowler Dean Headley equals WR by taking his 3rd hat-trick of the English County season for Kent v Hampshire at Canterbury
  • 1996 NY Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 HRs by a catcher
  • 1997 49th Emmy Awards: Law & Order, Frasier, Dennis Franz & Gillian Anderson win
  • 1997 Chicago Whites Sox retire Carlton Fisk's #72
  • 1998 British TV show "The Royle Family" written and starring Caroline Adherne and Craig Cash, also starring Ricky Tomlinson and Sue Johnston premieres on BBC Two
  • 1998 Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
  • 1999 Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.

9/11 Attack on NY's World Trade Towers

2001 Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

  • 2003 Baltimore running back Jamal Lewis sets the NFL single-game rushing record when he runs for 295 yards and 2 touchdowns on 30 carries in the Ravens 33-13 victory over Cleveland
  • 2003 Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum.
  • 2003 Sweden rejects adopting the Euro in a referendum

Event of Interest

2007 Restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass are officially removed in the Roman Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum takes effect.

Darwin Centre Opens

2009 David Attenborough and Prince William officially open the Darwin Centre at the National History Museum London, in what is the Museum's most significant expansion since 1881

Election of Interest

2011 Elizabeth Warren announces she intends to run for the Democratic nomination for the 2012 Massachusetts Senatorial election

  • 2012 Ferry sinks amid 10 foot waves off Indonesia's Sumatra Island, killing 21 people

Golf Major

2014 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: 19-year-old South Korean Kim Hyo-joo wins by 1 stroke ahead of Australian runner-up Karrie Webb

  • 2014 The United States defeats Serbia 129-92 to win the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup

Event of Interest

2015 14 yr old Texan Ahmed Mohamed arrested at school when home-made clock assumed to be a bomb - Mark Zuckerberg and US President Barack Obama send supportive tweets

Event of Interest

2015 Malcolm Turnbull ousts Tony Abbott as Australian Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Party

  • 2017 19 people die when a boat capsizes on Yamun River in Uttar Pradesh, India
  • 2017 Bodleian Library reveals earliest evidence of the zero symbol in 3rd or 4th Century Bakhshali (Pakistan) manuscript, through carbon dating
  • 2017 Fire at a religious school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, kills 23

Music History

2017 Selena Gomez reveals she had a kidney transplant, because of lupus, donated by her friend Francia Rais

  • 2017 Two Islamic State terrorist attacks in Dhiqar province, Southern Iraq, kill at least 60
  • 2018 Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort pleads guilty to conspiracy charges and agrees to co-operative with Government investigations
  • 2018 Hurricane Florence makes landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, as a category 1 hurricane
  • 2019 Drone attack on Abqaiq oil plant in Saudi Arabia takes out half of country's oil production and 5% of the world's. Yemen Houthi rebels claim responsibility.
  • 2019 Former Welsh rugby union and league player Gareth Thomas reveals he is HIV positive
  • 2020 Astronomers report possible sign of life on Venus, after detecting phosphine in planets's atmosphere by telescope [1]