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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1.9.891 | "Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France" |
| 1.9.1067 | Boudouin VI becomes earl of Flanders |
| 1.9.1181 | Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III |
| 1.9.1267 | Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem |
| 1.9.1482 | Krim-Tataren plunders Kiev |
| 1.9.1511 | Council to Pisa opens |
| 1.9.1535 | French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal) |
| 1.9.1547 | Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state) |
| 1.9.1598 | Spanish king Philip II receives sacraments |
| 1.9.1609 | Pieter Both sworn in as 1st Governor-General of East Indies |
| 1.9.1614 | "Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany" |
| 1.9.1632 | Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses |
| 1.9.1638 | French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam |
| 1.9.1647 | French cardinal Mazarin and duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan |
| 1.9.1661 | "1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James" |
| 1.9.1666 | Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed |
| 1.9.1689 | Russia began taxing men's beards |
| 1.9.1695 | Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names |
| 1.9.1730 | Benjamin Franklin marries Miss Read |
| 1.9.1739 | 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal |
| 1.9.1752 | Liberty Bell arrives in Phila |
| 1.9.1772 | Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California |
| 1.9.1785 | Mozart publishes 6 string quartet opus 10 in Vienna |
| 1.9.1797 | 2nd National Meeting in Hague |
| 1.9.1798 | "England signs treaty with nizam of Hyderabad, India" |
| 1.9.1799 | Bank of Manhattan Company opens in New York City (forerunner to Chase Manhattan) |
| 1.9.1821 | 1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail |
| 1.9.1831 | Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle |
| 1.9.1836 | Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem |
| 1.9.1849 | California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey |
| 1.9.1858 | 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month |
| 1.9.1859 | 1st Pullman sleeping car in service |
| 1.9.1859 | R C Carrington and R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare |
| 1.9.1861 | Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI |
| 1.9.1861 | Skirmish at Boone Court House WV and Blue Creek WV |
| 1.9.1862 | Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties) |
| 1.9.1862 | Federal tax levied on tobacco |
| 1.9.1863 | 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia |
| 1.9.1863 | Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas |
| 1.9.1863 | RR and ferry connection between San Francisco and Oakland inaugurated |
| 1.9.1864 | "2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties" |
| 1.9.1864 | Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA |
| 1.9.1865 | Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery |
| 1.9.1866 | "Last Navaho chief Manuelito, turns self in at Fort Wingate" |
| 1.9.1867 | Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School |
| 1.9.1870 | Napoleon III captured at Sedan |
| 1.9.1874 | 28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Connecticut takes office |
| 1.9.1874 | Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia |
| 1.9.1878 | 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) |
| 1.9.1886 | Netherlands New Code of Criminal law enforced |
| 1.9.1887 | Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established |
| 1.9.1888 | Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens |
| 1.9.1890 | 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh |
| 1.9.1898 | Dutch soccer team Receiver forms |
| 1.9.1898 | Lord Kitcheners army bombs Omdurman Sudan |
| 1.9.1901 | Construction begins on New York Stock Exchange |
| 1.9.1902 | "Tinker, Evers, and Chance appear together for 1st time" |
| 1.9.1905 | Alberta and Saskatchewan become 8th and 9th Canadian provinces |
| 1.9.1906 | Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time |
| 1.9.1906 | British New Guinea becomes Australian Papua New Guinea |
| 1.9.1906 | Joseph Harris (Boston) and Jack Coombs (A's) pitch complete 24 inn game |
| 1.9.1906 | New York Highlanders win 6th game in 3 days from Washington (3 straight DHs) |
| 1.9.1906 | Papua placed under Australian administration |
| 1.9.1911 | M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km |
| 1.9.1913 | "George Bernard Shaws ""Androcles and the Lion,"" premieres in London" |
| 1.9.1913 | "Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing ""2nd Chinese revolution""" |
| 1.9.1914 | 34th U.S. Mens Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (63 86 10-8) |
| 1.9.1914 | Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris |
| 1.9.1914 | "St. Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd" |
| 1.9.1914 | Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army |
| 1.9.1916 | Bulgaria declares war on Romania |
| 1.9.1916 | Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce) |
| 1.9.1918 | Baseball season ends due to WW I |
| 1.9.1918 | Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns |
| 1.9.1918 | "U.S. troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920" |
| 1.9.1919 | "Frank Wedekind's ""Herakles,"" premieres in Munich" |
| 1.9.1920 | France creates Lebanon |
| 1.9.1920 | New townhall of Rotterdam opens |
| 1.9.1921 | "Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St. New York City (Billy Rose, Trafalgar)" |
| 1.9.1922 | "New York City law requires all ""pool"" rooms to change name to ""billiards""" |
| 1.9.1923 | 18th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1) |
| 1.9.1923 | "7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama, kills 142,000" |
| 1.9.1923 | "U.S. beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup" |
| 1.9.1924 | "Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake" |
| 1.9.1925 | Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee |
| 1.9.1926 | British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms |
| 1.9.1926 | Turkey allows civil marriage |
| 1.9.1928 | "Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king" |
| 1.9.1930 | NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater |
| 1.9.1931 | Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days and his 6th HR in consec games |
| 1.9.1932 | "New York City Mayor James J ""Gentleman Jimmy"" Walker resigns (graft charges)" |
| 1.9.1933 | Soccer team DVS '33 forms |
| 1.9.1934 | Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced |
| 1.9.1936 | Middleweight Staff Roth KOs Heinz Lazek |
| 1.9.1937 | "4th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 6, Green Bay 0 (84,560)" |
| 1.9.1937 | Battle of Gijon in Spain begins |
| 1.9.1938 | Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews |
| 1.9.1939 | Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill |
| 1.9.1939 | Last day of 1st-class cricket in England for 6 years |
| 1.9.1939 | "Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with ""black holes""" |
| 1.9.1939 | Switzerland proclaims neutrality |
| 1.9.1939 | "WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig" |
| 1.9.1940 | Gen George Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of U.S. army |
| 1.9.1941 | Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star |
| 1.9.1942 | Fed judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans |
| 1.9.1942 | German troops land on Taman peninsula |
| 1.9.1944 | "Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns" |
| 1.9.1944 | King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal |
| 1.9.1945 | "Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan)" |
| 1.9.1945 | Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season |
| 1.9.1946 | 1st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Berg |
| 1.9.1946 | Greece votes for monarchy |
| 1.9.1947 | New York Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936 |
| 1.9.1948 | "Bradman scores 143 Aust vs. South of England, 17 fours 1 six" |
| 1.9.1948 | Communist form North China People's Republic |
| 1.9.1948 | U.N.'s World Health Organization forms |
| 1.9.1949 | 1st network detective series-Private Eyes-premieres |
| 1.9.1949 | "KMTV TV channel 3 in Omaha, NB (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.9.1949 | Viljo Heino runs world record 10k (29:27.2) |
| 1.9.1950 | 13 North Korean divisions open assault on United Nations lines |
| 1.9.1950 | West Berlin granted a constitution |
| 1.9.1951 | PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad |
| 1.9.1951 | "U.S., Australia and New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty" |
| 1.9.1952 | "Sutro Baths, San Francisco purchased by George Whitney" |
| 1.9.1952 | Willem Drees forms new Dutch government |
| 1.9.1953 | 101 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept |
| 1.9.1953 | Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship |
| 1.9.1953 | "WNOK (now WLTX) TV channel 19 in Columbia, South Carolina (CBS) 1st broadcast" |
| 1.9.1953 | "WTCN (now KARE) TV channel 11 in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN (MET) begins" |
| 1.9.1954 | "Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island/New England, kills 68" |
| 1.9.1954 | Ted Kluszewski is 1st Cincinnati Red to hit 40 home runs en route to 49 |
| 1.9.1955 | 2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel |
| 1.9.1955 | "KARD (now KSNW) TV channel 3 in Wichita, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.9.1956 | Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory |
| 1.9.1956 | "KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.9.1957 | "Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400" |
| 1.9.1957 | "WAVY TV channel 10 in Portsmouth-Norfolk, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.9.1957 | "WHC (now WPXI) TV channel 11 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (NBC) 1st broadcast" |
| 1.9.1957 | "WTLV TV channel 12 in Jacksonville, Florida (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.9.1958 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open |
| 1.9.1958 | St. Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout |
| 1.9.1960 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
| 1.9.1960 | "Robert Bolt's ""Man For All Seasons,"" premieres in London" |
| 1.9.1961 | 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade |
| 1.9.1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 1.9.1962 | "12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran" |
| 1.9.1962 | "KATC TV channel 3 in Lafayette, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.9.1962 | U.N. announces Earth population has hit 3 billion |
| 1.9.1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1.9.1963 | Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot |
| 1.9.1963 | St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate |
| 1.9.1963 | "WCTI TV channel 12 in New Bern, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.9.1964 | Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (New York Mets) |
| 1.9.1965 | India and Pakistan border fights |
| 1.9.1966 | "KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.9.1967 | "KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.9.1967 | "San Francisco Giants beat Cincinnati Reds, 1-0, in 21 innings" |
| 1.9.1967 | "WIRT TV channel 13 in Hibbing, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.9.1967 | "WJRJ (WTCG, WTBS) TV channel 17 in Atlanta, Georgia (IND) begins" |
| 1.9.1968 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Willow Park Ladies Golf Invitational |
| 1.9.1968 | "Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed" |
| 1.9.1969 | Jerry Lewis' 4th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| 1.9.1969 | "Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris" |
| 1.9.1970 | Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain |
| 1.9.1970 | Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador |
| 1.9.1971 | John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of U.S. Open |
| 1.9.1971 | Qatar declares independence from Britain |
| 1.9.1971 | Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein |
| 1.9.1972 | Bobby Fischer (U.S.) defeats Boris Spassky (U.S.S.R.) for world chess title |
| 1.9.1972 | Egypt and Libya form federation |
| 1.9.1973 | "74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)" |
| 1.9.1973 | "George Foreman KOs Jose ""King"" Roman in 1 for heavyweight boxing title" |
| 1.9.1974 | Jane Blalock/Sue Roberts wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
| 1.9.1974 | "Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed" |
| 1.9.1975 | All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh |
| 1.9.1975 | Gunsmoke resigns the air |
| 1.9.1975 | Jerry Lewis' 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| 1.9.1975 | KOL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KMPS |
| 1.9.1975 | New York City transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents |
| 1.9.1975 | New York Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons |
| 1.9.1976 | NASA launches space vehicle S-197 |
| 1.9.1976 | New Jersey Meadowlands racetrack opens |
| 1.9.1976 | "Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray)" |
| 1.9.1977 | 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold |
| 1.9.1977 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1.9.1978 | "#4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid and #8064" |
| 1.9.1978 | Indians' Sammy Stewart tosses 7 consecutive strikeouts (vs Balt) |
| 1.9.1978 | "Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4"" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia" |
| 1.9.1978 | "Last broadcast of ""Columbo"" on NBC TV" |
| 1.9.1979 | Debbie Boone and Gabriel Ferrer wed in Los Angeles |
| 1.9.1979 | L.A. Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask |
| 1.9.1979 | "Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings" |
| 1.9.1980 | Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv |
| 1.9.1980 | "Jerry Lewis' 15th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,103,787" |
| 1.9.1980 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 1.9.1981 | Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH) |
| 1.9.1981 | "Milt coup under general Kolingba in Cent Afr Rep, President Dacko flees" |
| 1.9.1981 | RKO radio network is 1st to offer 2 separate overnight services |
| 1.9.1981 | RKO radio network premieres America Overnight talk show |
| 1.9.1982 | "Caryl Churchill's ""Top Girls,"" premieres in London" |
| 1.9.1982 | Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH |
| 1.9.1982 | Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks |
| 1.9.1982 | Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon |
| 1.9.1983 | Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet |
| 1.9.1983 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1.9.1983 | WGH-AM in Newport News Virginia changes call letters to WNSY |
| 1.9.1985 | Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion |
| 1.9.1985 | U.S. - French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland |
| 1.9.1986 | Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 1.9.1986 | "Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733" |
| 1.9.1986 | "Paul McCartney releases ""Press to Play"" album" |
| 1.9.1986 | Texas Rangers O McDowell and Porter are 7th to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
| 1.9.1987 | 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win U.S. Tennis Open match |
| 1.9.1987 | Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium |
| 1.9.1988 | "Timberlake Westenbaker's ""Our Country's Good,"" premieres in London" |
| 1.9.1989 | """Anything Goes"" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 804 performances" |
| 1.9.1989 | Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announce their separation |
| 1.9.1990 | Gelindo Bordin sets European marathon record (2:14:02) |
| 1.9.1990 | """Heidi Chronicles"" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 621 performances" |
| 1.9.1990 | "Highest combined CFL score (111), Toronto Argonauts beat BC 68-43" |
| 1.9.1990 | """Jerome Robbins' Broadway"" closes at Imperial New York City after 634 performances" |
| 1.9.1991 | Hiromi Taniguchi wins 3rd world championship marathon (2:14:57) |
| 1.9.1991 | "Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA" |
| 1.9.1992 | New York City police commisioner Brown resigns |
| 1.9.1992 | Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery |
| 1.9.1993 | Goran Ivanisevic and Daniel Nestor play longest tie-break in U.S. Tennis |
| 1.9.1993 | """White Liars/Black Comedy"" opens at Criterion New York City for 38 performances" |
| 1.9.1995 | Infinity Radio agrees to voluntarily pay $1.7 million to U.S. Treasury |
| 1.9.1995 | New York City reinstates the death penalty |
| 1.9.1995 | "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio" |
| 1.9.1996 | "Balt Ravens (Cleveland Browns) 1st NFL game, beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14" |
| 1.9.1997 | Cartoon Channel premieres in Japan |
| 1.9.1997 | Cindy Figg-Currier wins LPGA State Farm Rail Classic |
| 1.9.1997 | """Doll's House,"" closes at Belasco Theater" |
| 1.9.1997 | "Jerry Lewis' 32nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $50,500,000" |
| 2.9.911 | Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines |
| 2.9.1192 | Sultan Saladin and king Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire |
| 2.9.1519 | "1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico" |
| 2.9.1537 | "King Christian III publishes ""Ordinance on the Danish Church""" |
| 2.9.1644 | Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders |
| 2.9.1666 | "Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses and kills 8" |
| 2.9.1666 | "Great Fire in London ends, kills 8" |
| 2.9.1686 | Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks |
| 2.9.1732 | Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome |
| 2.9.1743 | England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms |
| 2.9.1752 | "Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies" |
| 2.9.1752 | Last Julian calender day in U.S. and England (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) |
| 2.9.1789 | U.S. Treasury Department established by Congress |
| 2.9.1792 | Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails and slaughter them |
| 2.9.1796 | Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated |
| 2.9.1806 | "A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500" |
| 2.9.1839 | Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam |
| 2.9.1859 | Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii |
| 2.9.1864 | Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta |
| 2.9.1867 | 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Neth |
| 2.9.1870 | Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies |
| 2.9.1894 | Amsterdam Municipal theater opens |
| 2.9.1894 | Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die |
| 2.9.1898 | Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain |
| 2.9.1898 | Machine gun 1st used in battle |
| 2.9.1900 | Telegraph use between Germany and U.S. begins |
| 2.9.1901 | "VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, ""Speak softly and carry a big stick""" |
| 2.9.1908 | Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 2.9.1909 | English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill |
| 2.9.1911 | Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government |
| 2.9.1913 | Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas |
| 2.9.1914 | Gen von Hausen and countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux |
| 2.9.1917 | Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by Admiral Tirpitz) |
| 2.9.1919 | Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago |
| 2.9.1919 | Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation |
| 2.9.1919 | National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series |
| 2.9.1920 | "W Somerset Maugham's ""East of Suez,"" premieres in London" |
| 2.9.1922 | "President Ebert declares ""Deutschland uber alas"" as German national anthem" |
| 2.9.1924 | 44th U.S. Mens Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (61 97 62) |
| 2.9.1924 | "Rudolf Friml's ""Rose Marie"" opens to rave reviews in New York City" |
| 2.9.1926 | Italy signs treaty with Yemen |
| 2.9.1927 | Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers |
| 2.9.1929 | Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union and Lever Bros |
| 2.9.1929 | WOR (New York City) ends affiliation with CBS radio network |
| 2.9.1930 | 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to U.S. (37 hrs) |
| 2.9.1935 | A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423 |
| 2.9.1936 | 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight |
| 2.9.1937 | U.S. Housing Authority created by National Housing Act |
| 2.9.1940 | 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa |
| 2.9.1940 | Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated |
| 2.9.1941 | Academy copyrights Oscar statuette |
| 2.9.1942 | German troops enter Stalingrad |
| 2.9.1944 | Belgium's Emissie bank closes |
| 2.9.1944 | "During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane" |
| 2.9.1944 | Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz |
| 2.9.1944 | U.S. leaders meet in Belgium |
| 2.9.1945 | 59th U.S. Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64) |
| 2.9.1945 | Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day) |
| 2.9.1945 | V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends) |
| 2.9.1946 | Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager |
| 2.9.1946 | Nehru forms government in India |
| 2.9.1949 | "Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)" |
| 2.9.1951 | "Australia, NZ and U.S. sign ANZUS-pact" |
| 2.9.1952 | Dr. Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery |
| 2.9.1954 | "Hurricane Edna batters NE U.S., killing 20" |
| 2.9.1954 | "WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 2.9.1955 | "KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, California (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 2.9.1956 | Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India) |
| 2.9.1956 | Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings |
| 2.9.1956 | Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service |
| 2.9.1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 2.9.1957 | "1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die" |
| 2.9.1957 | Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game |
| 2.9.1958 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 2.9.1958 | Henry Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa |
| 2.9.1958 | "KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 2.9.1958 | Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium |
| 2.9.1958 | National Defense Education Act was signed |
| 2.9.1959 | U.S. President Eisenhower arrives in Paris |
| 2.9.1960 | Tamara and Irina Press (U.S.S.R.) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold |
| 2.9.1960 | "William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres" |
| 2.9.1962 | "Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place" |
| 2.9.1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 2.9.1963 | Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS |
| 2.9.1963 | CBS and NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes |
| 2.9.1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament |
| 2.9.1964 | Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia |
| 2.9.1964 | "Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal" |
| 2.9.1965 | Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons) |
| 2.9.1965 | Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends |
| 2.9.1966 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf |
| 2.9.1967 | "KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 2.9.1968 | Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| 2.9.1969 | New York Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated |
| 2.9.1969 | "Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season" |
| 2.9.1970 | 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (U.S. Open) (9 pt sudden death) |
| 2.9.1971 | Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer |
| 2.9.1971 | Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors win their 1st U.S. Open tennis matches |
| 2.9.1971 | New York's Electric Circus Club goes out of business |
| 2.9.1972 | "Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits San Diego Padres, 1-0" |
| 2.9.1972 | Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec) |
| 2.9.1972 | Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well) |
| 2.9.1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 2.9.1973 | Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers |
| 2.9.1973 | Netherlands wins hockey world's championship |
| 2.9.1973 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic |
| 2.9.1974 | Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| 2.9.1974 | Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
| 2.9.1978 | George Harrison marries Olivia |
| 2.9.1978 | Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine) |
| 2.9.1978 | Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man |
| 2.9.1978 | John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston |
| 2.9.1978 | Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years |
| 2.9.1979 | 79th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara |
| 2.9.1979 | """I Remember Mama"" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 108 performances" |
| 2.9.1980 | "John Arlott calls his last game, England vs. Australia at Lord's" |
| 2.9.1981 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 2.9.1982 | Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down |
| 2.9.1983 | Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM |
| 2.9.1984 | """Zorba"" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 362 performances" |
| 2.9.1985 | Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 2.9.1985 | "Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000" |
| 2.9.1986 | Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi |
| 2.9.1987 | Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times ad lambasting Japan |
| 2.9.1987 | Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit home runs in a game twice in 1 season |
| 2.9.1987 | Philips introduces CD-video |
| 2.9.1987 | "West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia" |
| 2.9.1988 | Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley |
| 2.9.1989 | Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst |
| 2.9.1990 | """Grapes of Wrath"" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 188 performances" |
| 2.9.1990 | "Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St. Zen Center, SF" |
| 2.9.1991 | "Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657" |
| 2.9.1991 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 2.9.1991 | "U.S. officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania" |
| 2.9.1992 | Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die |
| 2.9.1992 | U.S. dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record) |
| 2.9.1993 | "10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins" |
| 2.9.1993 | Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed |
| 2.9.1993 | Day of Peace in South Africa |
| 2.9.1994 | "Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km)" |
| 2.9.1995 | Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25) |
| 2.9.1995 | Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 2.9.1995 | Southern California begins using new area code 562 |
| 2.9.1996 | "Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000" |
| 2.9.1996 | Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
| 2.9.1996 | "Soyuz TM-24, lands" |
| 2.9.1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM |
| 2.9.1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM |
| 3.9.590 | St. Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 3.9.1189 | 30 Jews are mnassacred at King Richard I (lion hearted) coronation |
| 3.9.1189 | England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster |
| 3.9.1260 | "Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army" |
| 3.9.1483 | Utrecht surrenders to Habsburgs army |
| 3.9.1543 | Cardinal Beaton replaces earl Arran as regent for Mary of Scotland |
| 3.9.1632 | Battle at Nurnberg: Duke wallenstein beats Sweden |
| 3.9.1650 | Battle at Dunbar: England vs Scotland |
| 3.9.1651 | Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists |
| 3.9.1658 | Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector |
| 3.9.1683 | Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna |
| 3.9.1697 | King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick |
| 3.9.1709 | 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC |
| 3.9.1725 | "England, France, Hannover and Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover" |
| 3.9.1731 | Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland |
| 3.9.1752 | This day never happened nor next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives |
| 3.9.1752 | U.S. adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Sept 14) |
| 3.9.1779 | Earl d'orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest |
| 3.9.1783 | Treaty of Paris signed (ending U.S. Revolutionary War) |
| 3.9.1791 | French Constitution passed by French National Assembly |
| 3.9.1826 | USS Vincennes leaves New York to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe |
| 3.9.1832 | Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname |
| 3.9.1833 | NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) |
| 3.9.1838 | Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor |
| 3.9.1849 | California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey |
| 3.9.1852 | Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm |
| 3.9.1861 | "Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality" |
| 3.9.1864 | "U.S., British, French and Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki" |
| 3.9.1865 | Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land |
| 3.9.1878 | England's Princess Alice sinks; 645 die |
| 3.9.1881 | 1st U.S. Mens Tennis: Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (60 63 62) |
| 3.9.1881 | Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony |
| 3.9.1882 | "French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die" |
| 3.9.1888 | East Africa Company political and commercial rights |
| 3.9.1888 | Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British |
| 3.9.1890 | Oliver S. Campbell wins U.S. Tennis Open |
| 3.9.1891 | 11th U.S. Mens Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (26 75 79 61 62) |
| 3.9.1891 | Cotton pickers organize union and staged strike in Texas |
| 3.9.1891 | "John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti" |
| 3.9.1895 | "1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn)" |
| 3.9.1900 | British annex Natal (South Africa) |
| 3.9.1901 | Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony |
| 3.9.1902 | "Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season)" |
| 3.9.1902 | "Start of Sherlock Holmes ""Adventure of Illustrious Client""" |
| 3.9.1903 | Resolute beats Shamrock III (England) in 13th America's Cup |
| 3.9.1904 | St. Louis Olympics closes |
| 3.9.1906 | "Philadelphia Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Philadelphia before 10,000 fans" |
| 3.9.1906 | Yanks win 2nd game on a forfeit over A's; 2nd forfeit win |
| 3.9.1908 | "James Barries ""What Every Woman Knows,"" premieres in London" |
| 3.9.1911 | 31st U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62) |
| 3.9.1912 | "Arnold Schoenberg's ""Funf Orchesterstucke,"" premieres" |
| 3.9.1912 | World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy |
| 3.9.1914 | British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne |
| 3.9.1914 | Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV |
| 3.9.1914 | French troops vacate Reims |
| 3.9.1914 | Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania |
| 3.9.1916 | Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun |
| 3.9.1917 | 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes |
| 3.9.1917 | German troops over run Riga Latvia |
| 3.9.1917 | Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader |
| 3.9.1917 | Utrecht soccer team Holland forms |
| 3.9.1918 | 38th U.S. Mens Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (63 61 75) |
| 3.9.1918 | 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917 |
| 3.9.1918 | Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line |
| 3.9.1921 | 16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0) |
| 3.9.1921 | "KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms" |
| 3.9.1923 | "Dorothys Donelly's ""Poppy,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 3.9.1924 | Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai) |
| 3.9.1924 | "L Stallings and M Anderson's ""What Price Glory?,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 3.9.1925 | 1st international handball match held |
| 3.9.1925 | "Dirigible ""Shenandoah"" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die" |
| 3.9.1928 | "Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th and final career hit" |
| 3.9.1929 | Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17 |
| 3.9.1930 | "Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)" |
| 3.9.1932 | Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for U.S. Tennis title |
| 3.9.1932 | Jimmie Foxx of A's hits 50th and 51st home runs to become 3rd to hit 50 |
| 3.9.1934 | Tunisia began its move for independence |
| 3.9.1935 | "1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph)" |
| 3.9.1935 | "Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games" |
| 3.9.1936 | "3rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit 7 (76,000)" |
| 3.9.1938 | 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland |
| 3.9.1939 | "Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, NZ, South Africa and Canada" |
| 3.9.1939 | German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia |
| 3.9.1939 | Great Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland |
| 3.9.1939 | "Yanks beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th forfeit win" |
| 3.9.1940 | 1st showing of color TV |
| 3.9.1940 | 39.4 CM rainfall at Sapulpa Oklahoma (state record) |
| 3.9.1940 | Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation-Seelowe) |
| 3.9.1940 | Netherlands government in exile of Gerbrandy forms London |
| 3.9.1940 | "Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary and Red Cross" |
| 3.9.1940 | U.S. gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease |
| 3.9.1941 | 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war) |
| 3.9.1941 | "KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 3.9.1943 | British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina) |
| 3.9.1943 | General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily |
| 3.9.1944 | 58th U.S. Womens Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (63 86) |
| 3.9.1944 | 68th and last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz |
| 3.9.1944 | "Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France" |
| 3.9.1944 | Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for U.S. Tennis title |
| 3.9.1944 | French troops liberate Lyon |
| 3.9.1944 | Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz |
| 3.9.1944 | Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Netherlands Domestic Arm Force |
| 3.9.1944 | Tank division of British Guards free Brussels |
| 3.9.1945 | 65th U.S. Mens Tennis: Sgt Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert (14-12 61 62) |
| 3.9.1945 | Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies |
| 3.9.1947 | "Philadelphia A's Bill McCahan no-hits Washington Senators, 3-0" |
| 3.9.1947 | Yanks get 18 singles to beat Red Soxs 11-2 |
| 3.9.1948 | W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party |
| 3.9.1949 | "Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives" |
| 3.9.1951 | "TV soap opera ""Search for Tomorrow"" debuts on CBS" |
| 3.9.1953 | "French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy" |
| 3.9.1954 | China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy and Amoy |
| 3.9.1954 | Espionage and Sabotage Act of 1954 signed |
| 3.9.1954 | Pope Pius X canonized a saint |
| 3.9.1955 | "KTBS TV channel 3 in Shreveport, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 3.9.1956 | "Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee" |
| 3.9.1957 | Dodgers play last game in Jersey City (11-4 in NJ) |
| 3.9.1957 | "KTCA TV channel 2 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 3.9.1957 | Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out |
| 3.9.1962 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open |
| 3.9.1964 | U.S. attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns |
| 3.9.1964 | Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson |
| 3.9.1965 | Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins |
| 3.9.1965 | Garcia Godoy forms government in Dominican Republic |
| 3.9.1965 | Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit 3 home runs in a game |
| 3.9.1965 | Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei |
| 3.9.1965 | "Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to California" |
| 3.9.1966 | 24th World San Francisco Convention honors Gene Roddenberry |
| 3.9.1966 | "Donovan hits #1 with ""Sunshine Superman""" |
| 3.9.1967 | "Final episode of ""What's My Line?,"" hosted by John Charles Daly" |
| 3.9.1967 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf |
| 3.9.1967 | "Last broadcast of ""What's My Line"" on CBS TV" |
| 3.9.1967 | Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution |
| 3.9.1967 | Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road |
| 3.9.1967 | "WJPM TV channel 33 in Florence, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 3.9.1968 | Chicago White Sox set AL record of 39 loses by 1 run |
| 3.9.1970 | "After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out" |
| 3.9.1970 | "Bill Halley and Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia" |
| 3.9.1970 | Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands |
| 3.9.1971 | "John Lennon leaves U.K. for New York City, never to return" |
| 3.9.1971 | Manlio Brosio resigns as Secretary-General of NATO |
| 3.9.1971 | Qatar regains complete independence from Britain |
| 3.9.1971 | Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office |
| 3.9.1973 | "General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA" |
| 3.9.1973 | Jerry Lewis' 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| 3.9.1974 | Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut |
| 3.9.1974 | NBA guard Oscar Robinson retires |
| 3.9.1974 | U.S. and German DR establish diplomatic relations |
| 3.9.1975 | "Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die" |
| 3.9.1975 | "Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak" |
| 3.9.1976 | Viking 2 soft lands on Mars and returns photos |
| 3.9.1977 | Japan's Sadaharu Oh hits 756th HR to surpass Hank Aaron's total |
| 3.9.1977 | "Last broadcast of ""Mary Tyler Moore Show"" on NBC-TV" |
| 3.9.1978 | Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29 |
| 3.9.1978 | Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5) |
| 3.9.1978 | Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff |
| 3.9.1979 | "Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000" |
| 3.9.1979 | Iran army conquerors Mahabad |
| 3.9.1979 | "Jerry Lewis' 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000" |
| 3.9.1979 | Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 3.9.1981 | Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game |
| 3.9.1981 | "Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7" |
| 3.9.1982 | Jorgensen government in Denmark resigns |
| 3.9.1984 | 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery |
| 3.9.1984 | Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th |
| 3.9.1984 | Cindy Hill wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 3.9.1984 | "Jerry Lewis' 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566" |
| 3.9.1984 | South Africa adopts constitution |
| 3.9.1985 | 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth |
| 3.9.1985 | England regain Cricket Ashes by beating Australia at The Oval |
| 3.9.1985 | New York Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive home runs in a game |
| 3.9.1986 | "Alan Ayckbourn's ""Woman in Mind,"" premieres in London" |
| 3.9.1986 | Astros and Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game |
| 3.9.1987 | Coup in Burundi suspends constitution |
| 3.9.1988 | Dennis Eckersley sets A's record with his 37th save en route to 45 |
| 3.9.1989 | Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st and last U.S. Tennis Open singles victory |
| 3.9.1989 | "Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die" |
| 3.9.1989 | """Into the Woods"" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 764 performances" |
| 3.9.1990 | 9th no-hitter of 1990: Blue Jay Dave Steib beats Cleveland 3-0 |
| 3.9.1990 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 3.9.1990 | Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego) |
| 3.9.1990 | "Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186" |
| 3.9.1990 | White Sox reliever Bobby Thigpen sets save record at 47 en route to 57 |
| 3.9.1992 | "Jerry Lewis' 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368" |
| 3.9.1994 | "Circulation of Netherlands Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000" |
| 3.9.1995 | Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT) |
| 3.9.1995 | "Jacksonville Jaguars lose their 1st NFL game (Houston-10, Jaguars-3)" |
| 3.9.1995 | New York Yankee Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle |
| 3.9.1995 | "Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit" |
| 3.9.1996 | Slowinski and Gage discovers 2^1257787-1 (34th known Mersenne prime) |
| 4.9.422 | St. Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 4.9.476 | "Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed" |
| 4.9.1024 | Conrad II the Sailor chosen German king |
| 4.9.1260 | Battle at Montaperti-Guelfen vs Ghibellijnen |
| 4.9.1282 | King Pedro III of Aragonorth annexes Sicily |
| 4.9.1414 | Peace of Atrecht: John the fearless and Armagnacs |
| 4.9.1479 | King Alfonso I of Portugal recognizes Isabella as queen of Castilie |
| 4.9.1571 | Catholic coup in Scotland |
| 4.9.1618 | """Rodi"" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed" |
| 4.9.1682 | English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet |
| 4.9.1695 | French garrison of castle Names surrenders for Willem III |
| 4.9.1778 | City Amsterdam signs trade agreement with U.S. rebels |
| 4.9.1781 | "Los Angeles founded by 44 in Bahia de las Fumas, (Valley of Smokes)" |
| 4.9.1786 | Orange troops plunder Hattem/Elburg |
| 4.9.1805 | 1st edition of Batavian State-Current published |
| 4.9.1807 | Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat |
| 4.9.1813 | 1st U.S. relig newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer)) |
| 4.9.1833 | "1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)" |
| 4.9.1842 | Work on Koln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus |
| 4.9.1854 | English/French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka |
| 4.9.1862 | "Gen Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops" |
| 4.9.1862 | North Beach and Mission Railway Company organized in SF |
| 4.9.1864 | "Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama" |
| 4.9.1866 | 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published |
| 4.9.1870 | 3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king |
| 4.9.1882 | 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station) |
| 4.9.1885 | 1st cafeteria opens (New York City) |
| 4.9.1886 | Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war |
| 4.9.1888 | "George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera and registers ""Kodak""" |
| 4.9.1893 | English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit |
| 4.9.1894 | "In New York City, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops" |
| 4.9.1894 | Soccer team Veendam 1894 forms |
| 4.9.1899 | "8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay, Alaska" |
| 4.9.1904 | Dali Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet |
| 4.9.1906 | New York Highlanders win 5th straight doubleheader |
| 4.9.1908 | Caledonia and Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship |
| 4.9.1911 | "Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)" |
| 4.9.1912 | 1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground: 22 injured person |
| 4.9.1914 | "British, French and Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany" |
| 4.9.1914 | General von Moltke ceases German advance in France |
| 4.9.1916 | Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown final baseball game |
| 4.9.1918 | Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier |
| 4.9.1918 | "U.S. troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months" |
| 4.9.1919 | 39th U.S. Mens Tennis: William M Johnston beats Wm T Tilden (64 64 63) |
| 4.9.1919 | British intervene in Petrograd |
| 4.9.1920 | Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria) |
| 4.9.1922 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m (5:26.3) |
| 4.9.1923 | "A Charlot and N Cowards revue ""London Calling,"" premieres in London" |
| 4.9.1923 | "New York Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A's, 2-0" |
| 4.9.1927 | "Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour" |
| 4.9.1930 | Cambridge Theater opens in London |
| 4.9.1932 | 15th PGA Championship: Olin Dutra at Keller GC St. Paul Minn |
| 4.9.1933 | "1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il" |
| 4.9.1933 | Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista |
| 4.9.1934 | "Bradman scores 149* Aust vs. Eng XI, 104 mins, 17 fours 4 sixes" |
| 4.9.1936 | Franco troops conquer Irun and Talavera de la Reina Spain |
| 4.9.1936 | Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier |
| 4.9.1937 | "Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4)" |
| 4.9.1938 | Vainio Muinonen wins 2nd European marathoner (2:37:28.8) |
| 4.9.1939 | Dutch 2nd Chamber affirms Netherlands in a State of War |
| 4.9.1939 | German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia |
| 4.9.1939 | German troops move into Danzig |
| 4.9.1939 | Netherlands and Belgium declare neutrality |
| 4.9.1939 | Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated |
| 4.9.1939 | RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen |
| 4.9.1940 | CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB |
| 4.9.1940 | Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch government in exile |
| 4.9.1940 | "Mussert sends telegram, that Hitler has captured the Dutch" |
| 4.9.1940 | Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands |
| 4.9.1941 | "New York Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season)" |
| 4.9.1941 | U.S. destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652 |
| 4.9.1941 | Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 and clinch their 12th and earliest pennant |
| 4.9.1942 | Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 4.9.1943 | British 8th army lands at Taranto South Italy |
| 4.9.1944 | "2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt" |
| 4.9.1944 | 64th U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank Parker beats Wm F Talbert (64 36 63 63) |
| 4.9.1944 | British 2nd Armoured pantzer division frees Antwerp |
| 4.9.1944 | Finland breaks diplomatic contact with nazi-Germany |
| 4.9.1944 | U.S. 1st Army frees Namen |
| 4.9.1945 | Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded |
| 4.9.1945 | U.S. regains possession of Wake Island from Japan |
| 4.9.1948 | """Angel in the Wings"" closes at Coronet Theater New York City after 308 performances" |
| 4.9.1948 | Queen Wilhelmina abdicates Dutch throne |
| 4.9.1949 | Marie Robie sinks 393 yd hole-in-one (1st hole in Furnace Brook) |
| 4.9.1950 | "Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250" |
| 4.9.1950 | 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines |
| 4.9.1950 | "D McI Hodgson of St. Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna" |
| 4.9.1951 | "1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman" |
| 4.9.1951 | "71st U.S. Mens Tennis: F A Sedgman beats Elias V Seixas, Jr. (64 61 61)" |
| 4.9.1951 | NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network |
| 4.9.1951 | President Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference |
| 4.9.1953 | "WATR (now WTXX) TV channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (NBC) begins" |
| 4.9.1953 | "WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 4.9.1953 | Yanks become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championship |
| 4.9.1954 | "1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed" |
| 4.9.1954 | "Peter B Cortese of U.S. achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania" |
| 4.9.1957 | Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel |
| 4.9.1957 | "Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school" |
| 4.9.1960 | "Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in Caribbean and US" |
| 4.9.1961 | Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio |
| 4.9.1961 | U.S. authorizes Agency for International Development |
| 4.9.1962 | "Beatles record ""How Do You Do It"" at EMI" |
| 4.9.1962 | French president De Gaulle visits German FR |
| 4.9.1964 | Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile |
| 4.9.1964 | Longest bridge in Europe opens (Scottish 4th Road Bridge) |
| 4.9.1964 | NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1) |
| 4.9.1965 | "Beatles' ""Help!,"" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks" |
| 4.9.1965 | "KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 4.9.1965 | "Rock group Who's wan is vandalized with $10,000 in equipment stolen" |
| 4.9.1966 | Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7 |
| 4.9.1966 | Jim Hogan wins Europe marathon (2:20:04.6) |
| 4.9.1967 | "6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200" |
| 4.9.1967 | Jerry Lewis' 2nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| 4.9.1967 | "Train crash at Arnhem Neth, kills 5" |
| 4.9.1968 | Nigerian troops conquer Aba Biafra |
| 4.9.1970 | "George Harrison releases ""My Sweet Lord"" single" |
| 4.9.1970 | Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum |
| 4.9.1970 | Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile |
| 4.9.1971 | "Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)" |
| 4.9.1972 | U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals |
| 4.9.1972 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 4.9.1973 | "William E. Colby, becomes 10th director of CIA" |
| 4.9.1974 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 4.9.1976 | Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus |
| 4.9.1977 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Rail Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic |
| 4.9.1977 | """Godspell"" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 527 performances" |
| 4.9.1978 | "Jerry Lewis' 13th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $29,074,405" |
| 4.9.1978 | New York Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season) |
| 4.9.1978 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 4.9.1979 | "India need 438 to win vs. England, game ends at 8-429" |
| 4.9.1979 | Iran army conquerors Baneh |
| 4.9.1980 | Yes performs its last concert (MSG) |
| 4.9.1981 | "Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7" |
| 4.9.1981 | Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC |
| 4.9.1981 | "Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7, in 20 inn (started 9/3)" |
| 4.9.1981 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 4.9.1982 | "Arson fire engulfs apt-hotel in LA, 25 die" |
| 4.9.1982 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 4.9.1983 | 83rd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel |
| 4.9.1983 | Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship |
| 4.9.1983 | """Joseph and the Amazing Dreamcoat"" closes at Royale New York City after 747 performances" |
| 4.9.1983 | Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph) |
| 4.9.1984 | Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years |
| 4.9.1985 | Igor Paklin of U.S.S.R. set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12 |
| 4.9.1985 | New York Mets Gary Carter's 2 home runs ties record of 5 home runs in 2 games |
| 4.9.1986 | 189.42 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 4.9.1986 | Claude Brochu becomes CEO of Montreal Expos |
| 4.9.1988 | Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY |
| 4.9.1988 | Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game |
| 4.9.1989 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 4.9.1989 | "Jerry Lewis' 24th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $42,737,219" |
| 4.9.1991 | """Most Happy Fella"" opens at New York State Theater New York City" |
| 4.9.1991 | Panel of 8 baseball experts vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris HR record and determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings |
| 4.9.1991 | "Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, last drive-in in NJ, closes" |
| 4.9.1992 | """Scared Silent"" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC and PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah" |
| 4.9.1993 | "Jim Abbott pitches 4-0, no-hit win over Indians at Yankee Stadium" |
| 4.9.1993 | "Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in 4 hours 1 min U.S. Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM" |
| 4.9.1993 | Miklos Horthy appointed Hungarian admiral |
| 4.9.1994 | Bulgarian government of Berov falls |
| 4.9.1994 | Cleveland Browns is 1st team in NFL to score a 2-point conversion |
| 4.9.1994 | Kansai International airport officially opens |
| 4.9.1995 | "Jerry Lewis' 30th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,800,000" |
| 4.9.1995 | Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
| 4.9.1996 | 13th MTV Awards: Alanis Morrisett and Smashing Pumpkins wins |
| 4.9.1997 | 14th MTV Awards |
| 4.9.1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Louisville Kentucky on WTFX 100.5 FM |
| 5.9.1198 | Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany |
| 5.9.1519 | "2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs Tlascala Aztecs" |
| 5.9.1550 | William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs |
| 5.9.1596 | Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java |
| 5.9.1622 | Richelieu becomes cardinal |
| 5.9.1634 | Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants |
| 5.9.1644 | Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sas of Gent |
| 5.9.1661 | French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested |
| 5.9.1698 | Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards |
| 5.9.1725 | French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski |
| 5.9.1750 | "Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or ""doubtful"" goods" |
| 5.9.1774 | "1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia" |
| 5.9.1781 | "Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis" |
| 5.9.1786 | Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium |
| 5.9.1793 | "In the French Revolution, the ""Reign of Terror"" begins" |
| 5.9.1795 | U.S. - Algiers sign peace treaty |
| 5.9.1796 | General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy |
| 5.9.1798 | New conscription law goes into effect in France |
| 5.9.1800 | Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops |
| 5.9.1814 | Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russ out of E Prussia |
| 5.9.1836 | Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas |
| 5.9.1838 | Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands |
| 5.9.1844 | Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Mountains |
| 5.9.1862 | Lee crosses Potomac and enters Maryland |
| 5.9.1863 | Bread revolt in Mobile Alabama |
| 5.9.1864 | "British, French and Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits" |
| 5.9.1877 | Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas |
| 5.9.1882 | "10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in New York City" |
| 5.9.1885 | "1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft. Wayne, Ind)" |
| 5.9.1887 | Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200 |
| 5.9.1895 | George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC |
| 5.9.1900 | France proclaims a protectorate over Chad |
| 5.9.1901 | National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms |
| 5.9.1905 | "Lillian Mortimer's ""No Mother to Guide,"" premieres in Detroit" |
| 5.9.1905 | "Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War" |
| 5.9.1906 | 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider) |
| 5.9.1908 | "Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0" |
| 5.9.1910 | Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings |
| 5.9.1913 | "Phillies and Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th" |
| 5.9.1914 | Battle of Marne (WW I) begins: Germans chase out Russians |
| 5.9.1914 | French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine |
| 5.9.1914 | Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London |
| 5.9.1914 | Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins |
| 5.9.1915 | 35th U.S. Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats McLoughlin (16 60 75 108) |
| 5.9.1915 | "Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland" |
| 5.9.1916 | 36th U.S. Mens Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (46 64 06 62 64) |
| 5.9.1918 | "Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early" |
| 5.9.1920 | "Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders" |
| 5.9.1921 | "Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287" |
| 5.9.1922 | 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1) |
| 5.9.1922 | Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years) |
| 5.9.1923 | Flyweights Gene LaRue and Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously |
| 5.9.1925 | "112 F (44 degrees C), Centerville, Alabama (state record)" |
| 5.9.1925 | 29th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones |
| 5.9.1927 | Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings |
| 5.9.1929 | French premier A Briand requests a U.S. of Europe |
| 5.9.1936 | Red Sox turn a triple-play on Yankees |
| 5.9.1939 | 34th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Haverford (3-2) |
| 5.9.1939 | Franklin D. Roosevelt declares U.S. neutrality at start of WW II in Europe |
| 5.9.1942 | Battle at Alam Halfa ends |
| 5.9.1942 | British and U.S. bomb Le Havre and Bremen |
| 5.9.1943 | 57th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (63 57 63) |
| 5.9.1943 | "U.S. airland at Nadzab, New-Guinea" |
| 5.9.1944 | 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen |
| 5.9.1944 | Allies liberate Brussels |
| 5.9.1944 | "Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands sign unity treaty" |
| 5.9.1944 | British premier Churchill travels to Scotland |
| 5.9.1944 | "Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard" |
| 5.9.1944 | """Mad Tuesday"" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany" |
| 5.9.1946 | Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game |
| 5.9.1946 | """Yours Is My Heart"" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 36 performances" |
| 5.9.1949 | 63rd U.S. Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart (64 61) |
| 5.9.1949 | 69th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beat Schroeder (1618 26 61 62 64) |
| 5.9.1950 | 64th U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont beats D Hart (63 63) |
| 5.9.1950 | 70th U.S. Mens Tennis: Art Larsen beats Herbert Flam (63 46 57 64 63) |
| 5.9.1950 | "98.3 cm rainfall at Yankeetown, Florida (state record)" |
| 5.9.1951 | 65th U.S. Womens Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (63 16 64) |
| 5.9.1951 | "71st U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Elias Seixas, Jr. (64 61 61)" |
| 5.9.1952 | General Carlos Ibanez elected president of Chile |
| 5.9.1953 | "1st privately operated atomic reactor, Raleigh NC" |
| 5.9.1953 | U.S. give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid |
| 5.9.1954 | "Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die" |
| 5.9.1955 | "WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.9.1955 | Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician |
| 5.9.1955 | Phillies Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th HR of season |
| 5.9.1955 | "WKRG TV channel 5 in Mobile, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.9.1956 | 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM |
| 5.9.1957 | Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising |
| 5.9.1957 | "Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book ""new class marine officers""" |
| 5.9.1958 | 1st color video recording on magnetic tape |
| 5.9.1958 | """Doctor Zhivago"" by Boris Pasternak published in US" |
| 5.9.1958 | "WKPC TV channel 15 in Louisville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.9.1959 | Washington Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd) |
| 5.9.1960 | Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal |
| 5.9.1960 | President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo |
| 5.9.1960 | Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal |
| 5.9.1961 | John F. Kennedy begins underground nuclear testing |
| 5.9.1961 | President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty) |
| 5.9.1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 5.9.1962 | Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II |
| 5.9.1962 | "Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 and consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th" |
| 5.9.1966 | "Jerry Lewis' 1st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $15,000" |
| 5.9.1966 | "WRLK TV channel 35 in Columbia, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.9.1967 | "Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico and Texas" |
| 5.9.1967 | "KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.9.1967 | "WEBA TV channel 14 in Allendale, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.9.1968 | 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan |
| 5.9.1968 | 82nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats Billie Jean King (64 64) |
| 5.9.1968 | 88th U.S. Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats Tom Okker (1412 57 63 36 63) |
| 5.9.1968 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 5.9.1969 | Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections |
| 5.9.1970 | "Estimated 15 cm (6"") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)" |
| 5.9.1971 | "Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win" |
| 5.9.1971 | New York Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet |
| 5.9.1972 | 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by terrorists |
| 5.9.1972 | Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium |
| 5.9.1972 | "Jerry Lewis' 7th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, John and Yoko appear" |
| 5.9.1973 | 1st one-day Cricket international for WI (v Eng) - lose by 1 wicket |
| 5.9.1973 | """Desert Song"" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 15 performances" |
| 5.9.1975 | Czech tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in New York City |
| 5.9.1975 | "Lynette ""Squeaky"" Fromme attempts to assassinate Ford in Sacramento" |
| 5.9.1975 | Portugal premier Goncalvez resigns |
| 5.9.1975 | "Wings release ""Letting Go""" |
| 5.9.1976 | """Rex"" closes at Lunt-Fontaine Theater New York City after 48 performances" |
| 5.9.1976 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic |
| 5.9.1976 | """Very Good Eddie"" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 307 performances" |
| 5.9.1977 | "Cleveland Indians stage 1st ""I hate the Yankee Hanky Night""" |
| 5.9.1977 | Jerry Lewis' 12th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| 5.9.1977 | RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer |
| 5.9.1977 | "Voyager 1 (U.S.) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn" |
| 5.9.1978 | "Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md" |
| 5.9.1979 | "A's Matt Keough A's beats Brewers 6-1 for 1st win after 14 straight losses, ended 1978 with 4 loses (1 shy of the record 19)" |
| 5.9.1979 | Canada puts its 1st gold bullion coin on sale |
| 5.9.1979 | Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Burma |
| 5.9.1979 | Iran army occupies Piranshahr |
| 5.9.1979 | "Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve and upsets top-seeded Bjorn Borg in U.S. Tennis Open quarterfinals" |
| 5.9.1980 | Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns |
| 5.9.1980 | "World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens" |
| 5.9.1982 | 82nd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel |
| 5.9.1982 | Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph |
| 5.9.1983 | 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB |
| 5.9.1983 | Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph |
| 5.9.1983 | "Jerry Lewis' 18th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,691,627" |
| 5.9.1983 | Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 5.9.1984 | 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB |
| 5.9.1986 | 3rd MTV Awards: Whitney Houston wins |
| 5.9.1986 | "Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked U.S. B-747, 19 killed" |
| 5.9.1986 | "MTV Music Awards - Dire Straits ""Money For Nothing"" wins" |
| 5.9.1986 | NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms |
| 5.9.1986 | NASA launches DOD-1 |
| 5.9.1987 | Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career HR off Danny Jackson |
| 5.9.1987 | "John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at U.S. Tennis Open" |
| 5.9.1988 | Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 5.9.1988 | "CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return and 58-yd pass reception" |
| 5.9.1988 | "Jerry Lewis' 23rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $41,132,113" |
| 5.9.1989 | "Chris Evert last U.S. Open match, she is defeated by Zina Garrison" |
| 5.9.1989 | Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show |
| 5.9.1990 | Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West |
| 5.9.1990 | Pete Sampras ends Ivan Lendl's bid for 9th straight U.S. Open final |
| 5.9.1991 | 8th MTV Awards: REM |
| 5.9.1991 | Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston |
| 5.9.1991 | Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC |
| 5.9.1991 | U.S. trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins |
| 5.9.1992 | "Andrew ""Dice"" Clay marries his longtime live-in lover Trinie" |
| 5.9.1992 | Dan O'Brien sets world record decathlon (8891 pts) |
| 5.9.1993 | F Murray Abraham released from hospital after car accident |
| 5.9.1993 | """Fool Moon"" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City after 207 performances" |
| 5.9.1993 | """Jelly's Last Jam"" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 569 performances" |
| 5.9.1993 | "Largest U.S. Tennis Open 2 sessions (total) daily gate (43,502)" |
| 5.9.1993 | "Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44,39)" |
| 5.9.1993 | Robocop Richard Eden (36) weds actress Shannon Hile (30) |
| 5.9.1993 | """Will Rogers Follies"" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 983 performances" |
| 5.9.1994 | SF 49'er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 127th touchdown pass |
| 5.9.1994 | Barb Mucha wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
| 5.9.1994 | "Jerry Lewis' 29th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,100,000" |
| 5.9.1994 | Jingyi Le swims world record 100m women's freestyle (54.01 sec) |
| 5.9.1994 | Kirgizie government resigns |
| 5.9.1995 | "Cal Ripken, Jr. ties Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 straight games" |
| 5.9.1996 | MTV Video Music Awards |
| 5.9.1996 | """Summer and Smoke"" opens at Criterion Theater New York City" |
| 5.9.1997 | Athen's Greece selected for 2004 Olympics |
| 5.9.1997 | Larry King weds Shawn Southwick |
| 5.9.1997 | Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game |
| 5.9.1998 | Women's championship at U.S. Tennis Open |
| 5.9.1999 | Men's championship at U.S. Tennis Open |
| 6.9.394 | Battle of Frigidus North-Italy |
| 6.9.1492 | "Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands" |
| 6.9.1522 | "Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip" |
| 6.9.1543 | French and Turkish fleet occupies Nice |
| 6.9.1620 | 1st stones layed in Western Tower |
| 6.9.1622 | "Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die" |
| 6.9.1628 | "Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle" |
| 6.9.1634 | Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat |
| 6.9.1672 | Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden on France |
| 6.9.1675 | Swedish Admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships |
| 6.9.1683 | Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance |
| 6.9.1688 | Austrian armies occupy Belgrade |
| 6.9.1690 | King Willem III escapes back to England |
| 6.9.1715 | Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland |
| 6.9.1716 | 1st U.S. lighthouse built (Boston) |
| 6.9.1732 | VOC fires Neth-Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare |
| 6.9.1776 | "1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's ""Turtle"" attacks British sailboat ""Eagle"" in Bay of New York)" |
| 6.9.1776 | Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sinks; 600 die |
| 6.9.1791 | "Mozarts opera ""La Clemenza di Tito,"" premieres in Prague" |
| 6.9.1819 | Thomas Blanchard patents lathe |
| 6.9.1837 | "Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)" |
| 6.9.1839 | Cherokee Nation forms |
| 6.9.1839 | Great fire in NY |
| 6.9.1848 | National Black Convention meets (Cleveland) |
| 6.9.1853 | Women's Right's Convention met (New York City) |
| 6.9.1861 | General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky |
| 6.9.1862 | "Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland" |
| 6.9.1863 | "After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft. Wagner, SC" |
| 6.9.1863 | Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner South Carolina (1700 casualties) |
| 6.9.1866 | Frederick Douglass is 1st U.S. black delegate to a national convention |
| 6.9.1869 | 1st westbound train arrives in SF |
| 6.9.1869 | Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania |
| 6.9.1870 | Ship sinks in Gulf of Biskaje; 483 die |
| 6.9.1873 | Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street |
| 6.9.1876 | Race riot in Charleston SC |
| 6.9.1876 | Southern Pacific line from LA to San Francisco completed |
| 6.9.1880 | "Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, vs. Australia at The Oval" |
| 6.9.1880 | "W G Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, vs. Aust The Oval" |
| 6.9.1883 | "Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson and Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn" |
| 6.9.1886 | Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award |
| 6.9.1889 | King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns |
| 6.9.1898 | Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman |
| 6.9.1899 | Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk |
| 6.9.1899 | "U.S. min of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his ""Open Through Note""" |
| 6.9.1900 | British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa |
| 6.9.1901 | "President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later" |
| 6.9.1903 | "Start of Sherlock Holmes ""Adventure of Creeping Man""" |
| 6.9.1904 | Soccer team Rheden forms |
| 6.9.1905 | Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms |
| 6.9.1905 | "Chicago White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0" |
| 6.9.1905 | General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident) |
| 6.9.1909 | "Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier" |
| 6.9.1910 | Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed |
| 6.9.1912 | "New York Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia, 3-0" |
| 6.9.1913 | 19th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers |
| 6.9.1913 | 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pegoud-France) |
| 6.9.1913 | "Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club" |
| 6.9.1914 | Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris |
| 6.9.1917 | French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft |
| 6.9.1920 | 40th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63) |
| 6.9.1920 | Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight |
| 6.9.1922 | 42nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64) |
| 6.9.1923 | Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee |
| 6.9.1924 | Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails |
| 6.9.1924 | Charles Paddock captures 100 and 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships |
| 6.9.1927 | "B. G. DeSylva/Lew Brown's musical ""Good News,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 6.9.1927 | Red Sox beat New York Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park |
| 6.9.1928 | U.S.S.R. signs Briand-Kellogg-pact |
| 6.9.1930 | Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8 |
| 6.9.1938 | Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch queen |
| 6.9.1939 | South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany |
| 6.9.1939 | 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II |
| 6.9.1940 | Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania |
| 6.9.1940 | Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France |
| 6.9.1941 | 55th U.S. Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62) |
| 6.9.1941 | 61st U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63) |
| 6.9.1941 | All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star |
| 6.9.1941 | Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto |
| 6.9.1942 | 56th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64) |
| 6.9.1942 | Czech marathon runner Oskar Hˆks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| 6.9.1943 | 63rd U.S. Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60) |
| 6.9.1943 | Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's |
| 6.9.1943 | """Congressional Limited"" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79" |
| 6.9.1944 | Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand |
| 6.9.1945 | A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended |
| 6.9.1946 | "All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)" |
| 6.9.1946 | "Terence Rattigan's ""Winslow Boy,"" premieres in London" |
| 6.9.1948 | 37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0) |
| 6.9.1948 | Juliana becomes queen of Netherlands |
| 6.9.1948 | """Mr Strauss Goes to Boston"" opens at Century Theater New York City for 12 performances" |
| 6.9.1949 | Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes |
| 6.9.1952 | Canadian TV begins in Montreal |
| 6.9.1953 | Adenauers CDU wins elections in German FR |
| 6.9.1953 | Roy Campanella sets record for home runs by a catcher at 38 |
| 6.9.1954 | 68th U.S. Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86) |
| 6.9.1954 | "74th U.S. Mens Tennis: E V Seixas, Jr. beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64)" |
| 6.9.1954 | U.S. plane shot down above Siberia |
| 6.9.1954 | WINS New York City begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show |
| 6.9.1954 | Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters |
| 6.9.1955 | """Catch a Star"" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 23 performances" |
| 6.9.1955 | J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname |
| 6.9.1957 | "Elvis records ""White Xmas,"" ""Silent Night"" and ""Here Comes Santa Claus""" |
| 6.9.1958 | "Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959" |
| 6.9.1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean |
| 6.9.1959 | Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
| 6.9.1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar U.S.S.R. |
| 6.9.1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 6.9.1963 | "Church bombed in Birmingham, Alabama, kills 4 African-American girls" |
| 6.9.1963 | "Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history" |
| 6.9.1963 | Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records |
| 6.9.1963 | "Major league baseballs 100,000th game" |
| 6.9.1965 | India invades West Pakistan |
| 6.9.1965 | "KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 6.9.1966 | "Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia" |
| 6.9.1968 | Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 6.9.1969 | """Cabaret"" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 1166 performances" |
| 6.9.1970 | New York Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle |
| 6.9.1970 | Palestinians seize 3 jetliners |
| 6.9.1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 6.9.1971 | Jerry Lewis' 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises |
| 6.9.1972 | John and Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon |
| 6.9.1972 | Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre |
| 6.9.1973 | "New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed" |
| 6.9.1975 | "6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey" |
| 6.9.1975 | 89th U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62) |
| 6.9.1975 | "Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed" |
| 6.9.1975 | "Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976" |
| 6.9.1975 | Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests U.S. political asylum |
| 6.9.1975 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 6.9.1976 | "Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears" |
| 6.9.1976 | Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet |
| 6.9.1977 | Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977 |
| 6.9.1978 | Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace |
| 6.9.1978 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 6.9.1979 | """Peter Pan"" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 578 performances" |
| 6.9.1980 | 94th U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61) |
| 6.9.1980 | Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s) |
| 6.9.1980 | College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for |
| 6.9.1980 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 6.9.1980 | "Macalaster University of St. Paul, Minnesota beating Mount Senario 17-14" |
| 6.9.1980 | "Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981" |
| 6.9.1981 | Bob Lemon named New York Yankee manager for 2nd time |
| 6.9.1981 | """They're Playing Our Song"" closes at Imperial New York City after 1082 performances" |
| 6.9.1982 | Dutch Internal minister Mr. M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists |
| 6.9.1982 | "Jerry Lewis' 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000" |
| 6.9.1982 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 6.9.1982 | "Paul McCartney releases ""Tug of War""" |
| 6.9.1982 | Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell's number |
| 6.9.1982 | "Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland" |
| 6.9.1983 | Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in NY |
| 6.9.1983 | U.S.S.R. admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 |
| 6.9.1984 | "Lanford Wilson's ""Balm in Gilead,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 6.9.1984 | Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow |
| 6.9.1986 | "300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand's benefit concert" |
| 6.9.1986 | "Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed" |
| 6.9.1986 | "Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k)" |
| 6.9.1986 | Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 6.9.1986 | U.S.S.R. charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying |
| 6.9.1987 | Benjamin and Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital |
| 6.9.1987 | Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48) |
| 6.9.1987 | Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal |
| 6.9.1988 | Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard |
| 6.9.1988 | Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal |
| 6.9.1988 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 6.9.1989 | 6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins |
| 6.9.1989 | Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records |
| 6.9.1989 | "Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution" |
| 6.9.1990 | 7th MTV Awards: Sinead O'Connor wins |
| 6.9.1991 | "33rd Walker Cup: U.S., 14-10" |
| 6.9.1991 | Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname |
| 6.9.1991 | Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence |
| 6.9.1991 | U.S.S.R. recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic republics |
| 6.9.1992 | Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86) |
| 6.9.1993 | Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
| 6.9.1993 | "Jerry Lewis' 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922" |
| 6.9.1994 | "11th MTV Awards: Aerosmith, Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson win" |
| 6.9.1994 | "Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of ""Cyborg""" |
| 6.9.1994 | Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78) |
| 6.9.1994 | Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30) |
| 6.9.1995 | "Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games" |
| 6.9.1995 | Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood |
| 6.9.1996 | Baltimore Orioles' Eddie Murray's 500th career HR |
| 6.9.1997 | Princess Diana's funeral |
| 6.9.1997 | Women's championship at U.S. Tennis Open |
| 6.9.1998 | Men's championship at U.S. Tennis Open |
| 6.9.1998 | Safeway LPGA Golf Championship |
| 7.9.70 | Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem |
| 7.9.1159 | Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope |
| 7.9.1497 | Sailor Perkin Warbeck becomes English King Richard IV |
| 7.9.1525 | "Trial against ""heretic"" John Pistorius ends in the Hague" |
| 7.9.1543 | Duke Willem of Gulik surrenders to emperor Charles V |
| 7.9.1596 | Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java |
| 7.9.1599 | Earl van Essex and Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty |
| 7.9.1652 | Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English |
| 7.9.1701 | "Germany, England and Netherlands sign anti-French covenant" |
| 7.9.1714 | "Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine" |
| 7.9.1800 | Zion AME Church dedicated (New York City) |
| 7.9.1812 | Battle at Borodino: Napoleon-Kutuzov |
| 7.9.1813 | """Uncle Sam"" was 1st used to refer to U.S. (Troy Post of New York)" |
| 7.9.1822 | Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day) |
| 7.9.1822 | "Pedro I, son of king Joao VI, declares Brazil independence" |
| 7.9.1860 | "Excursion steamer ""Lady Elgin"" drowns 340 in Lake Michigan" |
| 7.9.1863 | Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass |
| 7.9.1871 | "Bay of Biskaje: English warship HMS Captain fired on, 500 killed" |
| 7.9.1876 | Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested) |
| 7.9.1880 | Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters |
| 7.9.1888 | Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby place in an incubator |
| 7.9.1889 | "Start of Sherlock Holmes ""Adventure of Engineer's Thumb""" |
| 7.9.1891 | Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria |
| 7.9.1892 | James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 7.9.1896 | "1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, RI" |
| 7.9.1896 | "A. H. Whiting wins 1st automobile race held on a track in Cranston, Rhode Island" |
| 7.9.1897 | George Davis (Giants) HR off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH |
| 7.9.1901 | Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China |
| 7.9.1903 | Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY |
| 7.9.1907 | Sutro's ornate Cliff House in San Francisco destroyed by fire |
| 7.9.1912 | Eddie Collins steals record 6 bases in 9-7 Athletics win over Detroit |
| 7.9.1914 | New York Post Office Building opens to public |
| 7.9.1915 | 35th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm Johnston beats M E McLoughlin (16 60 75 108) |
| 7.9.1915 | John Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll |
| 7.9.1915 | "St. Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0" |
| 7.9.1916 | "Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch New York's record 26-game winning streak" |
| 7.9.1916 | Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress |
| 7.9.1923 | "Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Philadelphia A's, 4-0" |
| 7.9.1923 | Interpol forms in Vienna |
| 7.9.1923 | "Mary Katherine Campbell (Ohio), 16, crowned 2nd Miss America 1922-23" |
| 7.9.1927 | Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in SF |
| 7.9.1928 | "Sophie Treadwell's ""Machinal,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 7.9.1932 | "Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games" |
| 7.9.1934 | "Luxury liner ""Morro Castle"" burns off NJ, killing 134" |
| 7.9.1936 | "Boulder Dam, now Hoover Dam, begins operation" |
| 7.9.1939 | Radio New York Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission |
| 7.9.1940 | 54th U.S. Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 63) |
| 7.9.1940 | 60th U.S. Mens Tennis: McNeill beats Robert Riggs (46 68 63 63 75) |
| 7.9.1940 | German Air Force blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights |
| 7.9.1940 | Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England |
| 7.9.1941 | 61st U.S. Mens Tennis: R L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63) |
| 7.9.1942 | "62nd U.S. Mens Tennis: F Schroeder, Jr. beats F Parker (86 75 36 46 62)" |
| 7.9.1942 | German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle |
| 7.9.1942 | Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 7.9.1943 | 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
| 7.9.1943 | Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston Texas) |
| 7.9.1944 | SS-general Kurt Meyer takes Durnal Belgium |
| 7.9.1944 | Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12) |
| 7.9.1945 | Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender |
| 7.9.1945 | "Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park HR, only HR hit by a Senator all season at Washington's Griffith Stadium" |
| 7.9.1947 | Battles between Hindus and Moslems in New Delhi |
| 7.9.1948 | "1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron, Ohio" |
| 7.9.1950 | Monasteries shut down in Hungary |
| 7.9.1952 | 66th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (63 75) |
| 7.9.1952 | 72nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63) |
| 7.9.1952 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Tournament |
| 7.9.1952 | General Naguib forms Egyptian government/becomes premier |
| 7.9.1952 | New York Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington He has now HRed in all 15 major league parks |
| 7.9.1952 | "Outfielder Don Grate throws a baseball a record 434'1"" (Tenn)" |
| 7.9.1952 | Whitey Ford becomes 5th pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters |
| 7.9.1953 | 67th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64) |
| 7.9.1953 | "73rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Elias V Seixas, Jr. (63 62 63)" |
| 7.9.1953 | Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs |
| 7.9.1954 | Integration begins in Washington D.C. and Balt MD public schools |
| 7.9.1955 | "Yankees Whitey Ford is 5th to throw consecutive 1-hitters, beats A's" |
| 7.9.1956 | "Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+" |
| 7.9.1957 | 71st U.S. Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Louise Brough (63 62) |
| 7.9.1957 | "WWL TV channel 4 in New Orleans, Louisiana (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 7.9.1958 | 72nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene R Hard (36 61 62) |
| 7.9.1958 | 78th U.S. Mens Tennis: A J Cooper beats M J Anderson (62 36 46 108 86) |
| 7.9.1960 | Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3) |
| 7.9.1963 | 1st U.S. TV appearance of Beatles (Big Night Out-ABC) |
| 7.9.1963 | "American Bandstand moves to California, and airs once a week on Saturday" |
| 7.9.1963 | "Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated in Canton, Ohio" |
| 7.9.1964 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Valhalla Golf Open |
| 7.9.1965 | "Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Miss and La" |
| 7.9.1966 | "KTNE TV channel 13 in Alliance, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 7.9.1966 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 7.9.1969 | 83rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Nancy Richey (62 62) |
| 7.9.1969 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Molson's Canadian Golf Open |
| 7.9.1969 | Rod Laver completes his 2nd grand slam winning U.S. Tennis Open |
| 7.9.1969 | U.S. amateur Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60) |
| 7.9.1970 | "Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado" |
| 7.9.1970 | Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| 7.9.1970 | PLO hijacks 4 planes |
| 7.9.1970 | White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader and lose both games |
| 7.9.1973 | Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion |
| 7.9.1973 | Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Assn's 4th commissioner |
| 7.9.1974 | """Irene"" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 605 performances" |
| 7.9.1974 | "Shirley Cothran (Texas), 21, crowned 47th Miss America 1975" |
| 7.9.1975 | 95th U.S. Mens Tennis: Manuel Orantes beats Jimmy Connors (64 63 63) |
| 7.9.1975 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 7.9.1975 | "Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title" |
| 7.9.1975 | Last day of 1st-class cricket for Hanif Mohammad |
| 7.9.1975 | Manuel Orantes upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors to win U.S. Open |
| 7.9.1976 | U.S. courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine) |
| 7.9.1977 | Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia |
| 7.9.1977 | President Carter and Gen Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties |
| 7.9.1978 | "1st game of Boston Massacre, Yanks beat Red Sox 15-3" |
| 7.9.1979 | "5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at MSG, New York" |
| 7.9.1980 | 100th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (76 61 67 57 64) |
| 7.9.1980 | 32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott |
| 7.9.1980 | "32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner and Barbara Bel Geddes" |
| 7.9.1980 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Series of Women's Golf |
| 7.9.1980 | Cape Verde adopts its constitution |
| 7.9.1980 | Earnest Gray becomes 2nd New York Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St. Louis) |
| 7.9.1980 | John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest U.S. Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title |
| 7.9.1980 | Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season |
| 7.9.1980 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic |
| 7.9.1981 | Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 57 pass attempts |
| 7.9.1981 | "Jerry Lewis' 16th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,500,000" |
| 7.9.1981 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 7.9.1981 | Judge Wapner and People's Court premier on TV |
| 7.9.1981 | "West Tampa Florida defeats Richmand Virgina, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series" |
| 7.9.1983 | Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s) |
| 7.9.1984 | Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236 |
| 7.9.1985 | 99th U.S. Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats M Navratilova (76 16 76) |
| 7.9.1985 | Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs U.S. 3K female record (8:25.83) |
| 7.9.1986 | 100th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Helena Sukova (63 62) |
| 7.9.1986 | 106th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (64 62 60) |
| 7.9.1986 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
| 7.9.1986 | "Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31" |
| 7.9.1986 | Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of Capetown |
| 7.9.1986 | "Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Pinochet, 5 killed" |
| 7.9.1986 | Ivan Lendl defeats Miloslav Mecir for U.S. Tennis open title |
| 7.9.1987 | "Jerry Lewis' 22nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $39,021,723" |
| 7.9.1987 | Netherlands routes 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf |
| 7.9.1987 | Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 7.9.1987 | South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young |
| 7.9.1988 | 5th MTV Awards |
| 7.9.1988 | "Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito and Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame" |
| 7.9.1988 | New York Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist |
| 7.9.1988 | Security and Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws |
| 7.9.1990 | "Marjorie Judith Vincent (Ill), 25, crowned 64th Miss America 1991" |
| 7.9.1990 | """Street Scene"" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 6 performances" |
| 7.9.1991 | 105th U.S. Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova (76 61) |
| 7.9.1991 | "1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics" |
| 7.9.1991 | Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes |
| 7.9.1991 | Harry Hamlin weds Nicollette Sheridan |
| 7.9.1991 | Monica Seles (17) defeats Martina Navratilova (34) to win U.S. Open |
| 7.9.1991 | "Ty Detmer of Brigham Young passes NCAA record 11,606 yards" |
| 7.9.1992 | Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators |
| 7.9.1992 | Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns |
| 7.9.1992 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 7.9.1993 | Brazil votes over importing monarchy |
| 7.9.1993 | "Cards Mark Whiten, hits 4 home runs and 12 RBIs in 2nd game of doubleheader" |
| 7.9.1994 | Jingyi Le/Ying Shan/Ying Le/Bin Lu swimming 4x100 freestyle (3:37.91) |
| 7.9.1995 | 12th MTV Awards |
| 7.9.1995 | Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion |
| 7.9.1995 | "STS 69 (Endeavour 9), launches into orbit" |
| 7.9.1996 | Women's championship at U.S. Tennis Open |
| 7.9.1997 | 111th U.S. Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Venus Williams (60 64) |
| 7.9.1997 | 117th U.S. Mens Tennis: Patrick Rafter beats Greg Rusedski (63 62 46 75) |
| 7.9.1997 | Boone Valley Senior Golf Classic |
| 7.9.1997 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 7.9.1997 | Karrie Webb wins Safeway LPGA Golf Championship |
| 7.9.1997 | Men's championship at U.S. Tennis Open |
| 7.9.1997 | Steve Jones wins Canadian Golf Open with a 275 |
| 7.9.1998 | Jerry Lewis' 33rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises |
| 8.9.1024 | Duke Koenraad II chosen German king |
| 8.9.1141 | Battle of Samarkand: Yelutashi defeats Islams |
| 8.9.1156 | Henry II Jasormigott leaves Bavaria |
| 8.9.1276 | John XXI elected Pope |
| 8.9.1303 | Anagni: French king Philip IV captures Pope Boniface VIII |
| 8.9.1380 | Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri beats Mongols |
| 8.9.1380 | "Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars" |
| 8.9.1514 | Battle at Ozra: Polish/Latvia army beats Russians |
| 8.9.1522 | "Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe, expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan" |
| 8.9.1536 | Earl of Nassau disbands siege of Peronne |
| 8.9.1545 | English earl Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland |
| 8.9.1553 | "City of Lichfield, England forms" |
| 8.9.1563 | Maximilian chosen king of Hungary |
| 8.9.1565 | "1st permanent settlement in U.S. forms (St. Augustine, Florida)" |
| 8.9.1565 | Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese and Knights of St. John |
| 8.9.1628 | Bay of Matanzas Cuba: Piet Heyn captures Spanish silver fleet |
| 8.9.1655 | Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw |
| 8.9.1664 | Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers |
| 8.9.1689 | China and Russia signs Treaty of Nertsjinsk (Nierchul) |
| 8.9.1713 | "Pope Clemens XI publishes degree ""Unigenitus"" against Jansenism""" |
| 8.9.1755 | Battle at Lake George: English army beats France |
| 8.9.1760 | French army gives Montreal to Gen Jeffrey Amherst |
| 8.9.1771 | Mission San Gabriel Archangel forms in California |
| 8.9.1796 | Battle of Bassano-French beat Austrians |
| 8.9.1833 | Charles Darwin departs to Buenos Aires |
| 8.9.1847 | U.S. under Gen Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey |
| 8.9.1854 | "With a 3-2 count, Phillies Richie Ashburn fouls next 14, then walks" |
| 8.9.1855 | Crimean war - assault of Malakof Tower under Mac-Mahon) |
| 8.9.1858 | Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people |
| 8.9.1860 | "Loss of steamer, ""Lady Elgin""" |
| 8.9.1863 | Battle of Sabine Pass TX: 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces |
| 8.9.1863 | "Federal troops reconquer the Cumperland Gap, Tennessee" |
| 8.9.1868 | New York Athletic Club forms |
| 8.9.1870 | "Netherlands and Engl sign ""Koelietraktaat"" Br-Indian contract work in Suriname" |
| 8.9.1883 | New York Giants score 13 runs in an inning against Phillies |
| 8.9.1883 | "Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont" |
| 8.9.1892 | "1st appearance of ""Pledge of Allegiance"" (Youth's Companion)" |
| 8.9.1899 | "British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa" |
| 8.9.1900 | "6,000 killed when a hurricane and tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas" |
| 8.9.1905 | Pittsburgh Pirates strand NL record 18 men on base and lose to Reds 8-3 |
| 8.9.1907 | Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism) |
| 8.9.1914 | British trader Oceanic sinks off Scotland |
| 8.9.1915 | Assn of Negro Life and History founded |
| 8.9.1919 | "Babe Ruth hits his 26th HR off Jack Quinn in NY, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 HR mark of 25" |
| 8.9.1920 | US Air Mail service begins (New York City to SF) |
| 8.9.1921 | 1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of Washington D.C.) |
| 8.9.1924 | Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador |
| 8.9.1926 | League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany |
| 8.9.1930 | "1st appearance of comic strip ""Blondie""" |
| 8.9.1930 | New York City public schools begin teaching Hebrew |
| 8.9.1930 | Richard Drew creates Scotch tape |
| 8.9.1933 | Spain's 2nd government of Azana forms |
| 8.9.1934 | 54th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Wilmer L Allison (64 63 16 86) |
| 8.9.1934 | "Bradman scores 132 vs. Leveson-Gower XI, 90 mins, 24 fours 1 six" |
| 8.9.1934 | "Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle for New Jersey catches fire, 133 die" |
| 8.9.1935 | Willy de Supervise swims runs world record 200 m freestyle (2:25.2) |
| 8.9.1936 | Princess Juliana and German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld get engaged |
| 8.9.1937 | Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens |
| 8.9.1937 | "Yankees trailing 6-1 in 9th, score 8 to beat Boston 9-6" |
| 8.9.1939 | "Franklin D. Roosevelt declares ""limited national emergency"" due to war in Europe" |
| 8.9.1939 | Gen Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw |
| 8.9.1939 | "Indians Bob Feller, 20, is youngest pitcher to win 20 games" |
| 8.9.1939 | "Yanks beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called because of lightning" |
| 8.9.1941 | Blockade of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by Germany begins |
| 8.9.1941 | "Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated" |
| 8.9.1943 | General Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II |
| 8.9.1943 | Lt-Gen Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers Sicily |
| 8.9.1943 | New York Giants' pitcher Ace Adams sets record by working in his 62nd game |
| 8.9.1944 | 1st V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp |
| 8.9.1944 | Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany |
| 8.9.1945 | "Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged" |
| 8.9.1945 | U.S. invades Japanese-held Korea |
| 8.9.1946 | 60th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (119 63) |
| 8.9.1946 | "66th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom Brown, Jr. (97 63 60)" |
| 8.9.1946 | Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minors record 456 |
| 8.9.1946 | Bulgaria ends monarchy |
| 8.9.1946 | Jack Kramer wins U.S. Tennis Open |
| 8.9.1946 | "San Francisco 49ers play 1st AAFC game, lose to New York Yankees 21-7" |
| 8.9.1947 | "British government sails ""Exodus"" with fugitives from Nazis" |
| 8.9.1948 | British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound |
| 8.9.1951 | Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF) |
| 8.9.1951 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sempiternus Rex |
| 8.9.1952 | 72nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63) |
| 8.9.1952 | "Ernest Hemmingway's ""Old Man and Sea"" published" |
| 8.9.1953 | """Carnival in Flanders"" opens at New Century Theater New York for 6 performances" |
| 8.9.1953 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgeno corona |
| 8.9.1954 | Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to New York City for WINS radio |
| 8.9.1954 | SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communists in Asia |
| 8.9.1955 | Earliest clinching of an NL pennant (Brooklyn Dodgers) |
| 8.9.1956 | "Harry Belafonte's album ""Calypso,"" goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks" |
| 8.9.1957 | 77th U.S. Mens Tennis: M J Anderson beats Ashley J Cooper (108 75 64) |
| 8.9.1957 | "Jackie Wilson, releases his 1st solo single ""Reet Petite""" |
| 8.9.1957 | "Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV" |
| 8.9.1958 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open |
| 8.9.1958 | Oman turns over Gwadur (on Baluchistan coast) to Pakistan |
| 8.9.1958 | Paul Anka opens Asian tour in Tokyo |
| 8.9.1960 | German DR limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners |
| 8.9.1962 | Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary) |
| 8.9.1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 8.9.1963 | 77th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court (75 64) |
| 8.9.1963 | 83rd U.S. Mens Tennis: R H Osuna beats Frank Froehling III (75 64 62) |
| 8.9.1963 | Algerian population accepts constitution |
| 8.9.1963 | Braves Warren Spahn ties Christy Mathewson with 13 20-win seasons |
| 8.9.1963 | "Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys" |
| 8.9.1963 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open |
| 8.9.1965 | Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana and Florida |
| 8.9.1965 | KC A's Bert Campaneris plays all 9 positions in a game |
| 8.9.1966 | Star Trek premieres on NBC-TV |
| 8.9.1966 | """That Girl"" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV" |
| 8.9.1967 | Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10 |
| 8.9.1967 | "Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic" |
| 8.9.1968 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 8.9.1968 | """Funny Girl"" with Barbra Striesand premieres" |
| 8.9.1968 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pacific Ladies Golf Classic |
| 8.9.1968 | Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant |
| 8.9.1969 | 2nd U.S. Tennis Open smallest session - 3708 (men's singles final-rain) |
| 8.9.1969 | 89th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Tony Roche (79 61 62 62) |
| 8.9.1969 | U.S. amateur Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz (97 63 61) |
| 8.9.1971 | John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington D.C. |
| 8.9.1972 | Chic Cub Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th game for 6th straight year |
| 8.9.1972 | "Jim Ryan (U.S.) and Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide and fall in qualifying competitions for 1,500m finals, ending Ryan's chances for gold" |
| 8.9.1973 | 87th U.S. Womens Tennis: M S Court beats E Goolagong Cawley (76 57 62) |
| 8.9.1973 | Billy Martin named manager of Texas Rangers |
| 8.9.1973 | Hank Aaron sets record of most home runs in 1 league (709) |
| 8.9.1973 | "Rebecca Ann King (Colo), 23, crowned 46th Miss America 1974" |
| 8.9.1974 | 88th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Evonne Goolagong (36 63 75) |
| 8.9.1974 | 94th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ken Rosewall (61 60 61) |
| 8.9.1974 | Ian Thompson wins marathon (2:13:18.8) |
| 8.9.1974 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 8.9.1974 | President Gerald Ford pardons former President R Nixon of all federal crimes |
| 8.9.1975 | Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools |
| 8.9.1975 | Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal |
| 8.9.1976 | "Fons Rademakers' film ""Max Havelaar"" premieres in Amsterdam" |
| 8.9.1977 | Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy |
| 8.9.1977 | Jimmy McCullough quits Wings |
| 8.9.1978 | 2nd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2 |
| 8.9.1978 | "Irani army shoots on Khomeini followers in Teheran, 100s killed" |
| 8.9.1979 | "Cheryl Prewitt (Miss), 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980" |
| 8.9.1979 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 8.9.1980 | Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest |
| 8.9.1982 | "Dutch social dem party wins elections, fascist enters Dutch parliament" |
| 8.9.1983 | NASA launches RCA-6 |
| 8.9.1984 | 98th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris E L Mills (46 64 64) |
| 8.9.1984 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41G mission |
| 8.9.1985 | 105th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (76 63 64) |
| 8.9.1985 | "7 die in a car and train crash in San Jose, California" |
| 8.9.1985 | Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hr women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool |
| 8.9.1985 | Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
| 8.9.1985 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
| 8.9.1985 | "Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits" |
| 8.9.1985 | """USA Weekend's"" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers" |
| 8.9.1986 | Westinghouse sells Muzak |
| 8.9.1987 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 8.9.1988 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 8.9.1988 | "Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43 m (7' 11 "")" |
| 8.9.1988 | NL President Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commish |
| 8.9.1989 | "George Brett gets his 2,500th hit" |
| 8.9.1989 | Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk Belgium |
| 8.9.1989 | Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder) |
| 8.9.1990 | 104th U.S. Womens Tennis: Gabriela Sabatini beats Steffi Graf (62 76) |
| 8.9.1991 | 111th U.S. Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Jim Courier (62 64 60) |
| 8.9.1991 | Buffalo Bill Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pitts (52-34) |
| 8.9.1991 | Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia |
| 8.9.1991 | Michelle Estill wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| 8.9.1992 | Danny Tartabull has 9 RBIs as Yanks beat Orioles 16-4 |
| 8.9.1992 | Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting in Dallas (KGEL-FM 97.1) |
| 8.9.1993 | Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL |
| 8.9.1993 | Cheek Junxia wins world record ladies 10 km (29:31.78) |
| 8.9.1993 | Houston's Darryl Kile throws 3rd no-hitter of season in 7-1 over Mets |
| 8.9.1994 | "Last U.S., British and French troops leave West-Berlin" |
| 8.9.1994 | Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station |
| 8.9.1994 | MTV awards feature newlyweds Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley |
| 8.9.1994 | """Philadelphia, Here I Come"" opens at Criterion New York City for 52 performances" |
| 8.9.1994 | "U.S. Air Boeing 737 crashes at Pittsburgh Airport, killing all 132 on board" |
| 8.9.1995 | Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title |
| 8.9.1996 | 110th U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (75 64) |
| 8.9.1996 | 116th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Michael Chang (61 64 76) |
| 8.9.1996 | "48th Emmy Awards: ER, Dennis Franz and Kathy Baker wins" |
| 8.9.1996 | """7 Guitars"" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City" |
| 8.9.1996 | Dottie Pepper wins Safeway LPGA title |
| 8.9.1996 | Men's championship at U.S. Tennis Open |
| 8.9.1996 | Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| 8.9.1996 | Sri Lanka defeat Australia to win Singer World Series at Colombo |
| 9.9.701 | St. Sergius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 9.9.1492 | Columbus' fleet sets sail west |
| 9.9.1513 | Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland |
| 9.9.1556 | Pope Paul IV refuses to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor |
| 9.9.1561 | Sermon of Poissy |
| 9.9.1567 | Lomaraal van Egmond and Philip van Hoorne captured |
| 9.9.1591 | Battle at Flores Azores: Spanish beat English |
| 9.9.1675 | New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians |
| 9.9.1683 | Expelled Polish and Lotharings reach Wienerwald |
| 9.9.1739 | Slave revolt in Stono South Carolina led by Jemmy (25 whites killed) |
| 9.9.1753 | 1st steam engine arrives in U.S. colonies |
| 9.9.1776 | "Continental Congress renames ""United Colonies,"" ""US""" |
| 9.9.1817 | "Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from U.S. college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College" |
| 9.9.1830 | "Charles Durant, 1st U.S. aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, New York City to Perth Amboy, NJ" |
| 9.9.1839 | John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph |
| 9.9.1841 | "Great Lakes steamer ""Erie"" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300" |
| 9.9.1850 | California becomes 31st state |
| 9.9.1850 | Territories of New Mexico and Utah created |
| 9.9.1861 | Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer |
| 9.9.1862 | Lee splits his army and sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry |
| 9.9.1863 | "Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN" |
| 9.9.1867 | Luxembourg gains independence |
| 9.9.1875 | Lotta's Fountain (Kearny and Market) dedicated |
| 9.9.1881 | "Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab ""El Wahid""" |
| 9.9.1892 | "E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon" |
| 9.9.1895 | American Bowling Congress forms (New York City) |
| 9.9.1898 | Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders |
| 9.9.1899 | French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds |
| 9.9.1903 | 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated |
| 9.9.1904 | "Boston Herald again refers to New York baseball club as Yankees, when it reports ""Yankees take 2,"" Yankee name not official till 1913" |
| 9.9.1904 | Mounted police 1st used in New York City |
| 9.9.1908 | "Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va" |
| 9.9.1908 | Russia takes part of Poland |
| 9.9.1909 | Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title |
| 9.9.1911 | "1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England)" |
| 9.9.1912 | J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph) |
| 9.9.1913 | Assn for Study of Negro Life and History organizes in Chicago |
| 9.9.1914 | "Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved)" |
| 9.9.1914 | Belgian offensive from Antwerp |
| 9.9.1914 | "Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0" |
| 9.9.1915 | Assn for study of Negro Life and History forms by Carter G Woodson |
| 9.9.1918 | Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms |
| 9.9.1919 | Boston's police force forms strike |
| 9.9.1922 | "St. Louis Brown ""Baby Doll"" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0" |
| 9.9.1922 | Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens |
| 9.9.1922 | William T. Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins |
| 9.9.1923 | Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2) |
| 9.9.1926 | National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America |
| 9.9.1926 | "Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die" |
| 9.9.1927 | Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium |
| 9.9.1928 | "Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets then long jump record at 26' """ |
| 9.9.1932 | "Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning" |
| 9.9.1932 | Mine strikes at Belgian Borinage ended |
| 9.9.1932 | Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy |
| 9.9.1932 | Steamboat SS Observation explodes in New York City East River (71 killed) |
| 9.9.1933 | 53rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Jack Crawford (63 1113 46 60 61) |
| 9.9.1934 | Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0) |
| 9.9.1934 | "G Kaufman and M Hart's ""Merrily We Roll Along,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 9.9.1936 | "Yankees sweep Indians, New York clinches pennant on earliest date in history" |
| 9.9.1939 | Nazi army reaches Warsaw |
| 9.9.1940 | 28 German aircraft shot down above England |
| 9.9.1940 | 60th U.S. Mens Tennis: W D McNeill beats Robert L Riggs (46 68 63 63 75) |
| 9.9.1942 | "Compulsory work for women, children and old males in Batavia" |
| 9.9.1942 | Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon |
| 9.9.1943 | 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome |
| 9.9.1943 | Lt-Gen Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick |
| 9.9.1943 | Red Army occupies Bachmatsj |
| 9.9.1943 | "U.S., British and French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)" |
| 9.9.1944 | Allied forces liberate Luxembourg |
| 9.9.1944 | Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day) |
| 9.9.1944 | Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Neth |
| 9.9.1944 | U.S. 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders |
| 9.9.1944 | Very strong hurricane hits Netherland |
| 9.9.1945 | "1st ""bug"" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log" |
| 9.9.1945 | "Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies" |
| 9.9.1945 | Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th and final HR |
| 9.9.1945 | "Philadelphia A's Dick Fowler no-hits St. Louis Brown, 1-0" |
| 9.9.1948 | "Bkln Dodger Rex Barney no-hits New York Giants, 2-0" |
| 9.9.1948 | """Hilarities (of 1949)"" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 14 performances" |
| 9.9.1948 | People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed |
| 9.9.1950 | 1st use of TV laugh track - Hank McCune |
| 9.9.1950 | Massive arrests of communists in France |
| 9.9.1950 | """Texas, Li'l Darlin'"" closes at Mark Hellinger New York City after 293 performances" |
| 9.9.1950 | """Where's Chartev?"" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 792 performances" |
| 9.9.1951 | "1st broadcast of ""Love of Life"" on CBS-TV" |
| 9.9.1951 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open |
| 9.9.1953 | "KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, California (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 9.9.1953 | "WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 9.9.1954 | "Earthquake strikes Orleansville, Algeria: 1,400 killed" |
| 9.9.1954 | Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season |
| 9.9.1955 | "Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run" |
| 9.9.1955 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open |
| 9.9.1956 | 70th U.S. Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64) |
| 9.9.1956 | 76th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Lewis Hoad (46 62 63 63) |
| 9.9.1956 | African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde forms |
| 9.9.1956 | Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan's Show |
| 9.9.1957 | """Diana"" by Paul Anka reaches #1" |
| 9.9.1957 | Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited |
| 9.9.1957 | President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction |
| 9.9.1958 | Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game |
| 9.9.1958 | "Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London" |
| 9.9.1960 | "4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10)" |
| 9.9.1961 | "Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962" |
| 9.9.1962 | 76th U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64) |
| 9.9.1962 | 82nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64) |
| 9.9.1962 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open |
| 9.9.1962 | Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses |
| 9.9.1962 | "WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 9.9.1963 | Alabama Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools |
| 9.9.1963 | "Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)" |
| 9.9.1964 | German DR government allows short visits to West Germany |
| 9.9.1964 | "John Osborne's ""Inadmissable Evidence,"" premieres in London" |
| 9.9.1965 | Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency |
| 9.9.1965 | "Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0)" |
| 9.9.1965 | Tibet is made an autonomous region of China |
| 9.9.1966 | John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition |
| 9.9.1967 | 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V |
| 9.9.1967 | "Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968" |
| 9.9.1967 | Uganda declares independence from Great Britain |
| 9.9.1968 | "1st U.S. Open, held as an ""open"" (Arthur Ashe-wins)" |
| 9.9.1968 | Arthur Ashe defeats Tom Okker to win U.S. Tennis Open |
| 9.9.1968 | Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7) |
| 9.9.1968 | "WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 9.9.1968 | "WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 9.9.1969 | "Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82" |
| 9.9.1969 | "Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83" |
| 9.9.1969 | Smallest U.S. Tennis Open single session-131 (men's doubles final only) |
| 9.9.1969 | "WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 9.9.1970 | Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun |
| 9.9.1970 | Feyenoord wins soccer's World Cup |
| 9.9.1971 | "1,000 convicts riot and seize Attica, New York prison" |
| 9.9.1971 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV) |
| 9.9.1971 | "John Lennon releases ""Imagine"" album" |
| 9.9.1971 | NHL great Gordie Howe retires |
| 9.9.1972 | 86th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats K Melville (63 75) |
| 9.9.1972 | "Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973" |
| 9.9.1973 | 93rd U.S. Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Jan Kodes (64 16 46 62 62) |
| 9.9.1973 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 9.9.1974 | 88th U.S. Womens Tennis: B J M King beats E Goolagong Cawley (36 63 75) |
| 9.9.1975 | Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova (18) asks for political asylum |
| 9.9.1975 | Viking 2 Mars probe launch |
| 9.9.1977 | 1st TRS-80 computer sold |
| 9.9.1977 | Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker and Allan Trammell debut together and will play together for 19 years |
| 9.9.1978 | 3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0 |
| 9.9.1978 | 92nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver (75 64) |
| 9.9.1978 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto) |
| 9.9.1978 | Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army |
| 9.9.1978 | "Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979" |
| 9.9.1979 | "31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman and Ruth Gordon" |
| 9.9.1979 | 93rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats C E Lloyd Mills (64 63) |
| 9.9.1979 | 99th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis (75 63 63) |
| 9.9.1979 | Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
| 9.9.1979 | Sid Bernstein offers $ billion for a Beatle reunion |
| 9.9.1979 | Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque |
| 9.9.1981 | Vernon Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League |
| 9.9.1982 | Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank in preparation for STS-5 |
| 9.9.1982 | "Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight" |
| 9.9.1982 | """Your Arms are Too Short..."" opens at Alvin New York City for 69 performances" |
| 9.9.1983 | "Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas" |
| 9.9.1983 | Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2) |
| 9.9.1983 | Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis player |
| 9.9.1984 | 104th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl (63 64 61) |
| 9.9.1984 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
| 9.9.1984 | California Angel Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game |
| 9.9.1985 | President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa |
| 9.9.1985 | Race riot in Birmingham England |
| 9.9.1986 | New York City jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet United Nations employee) of spying |
| 9.9.1987 | "Gary Hart admits on ""Nightline,"" to cheating on his wife" |
| 9.9.1987 | "Largest U.S. Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016" |
| 9.9.1987 | "Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59" |
| 9.9.1987 | "Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter" |
| 9.9.1988 | Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers and Gossage to save 300 games |
| 9.9.1988 | Chris Evert defaults at U.S. Open due to a stomach flu |
| 9.9.1988 | U.S. swamps NZ at 27th America's Cup: NZ set to appeal |
| 9.9.1989 | 103rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (36 75 61) |
| 9.9.1990 | 110th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 62) |
| 9.9.1990 | Bush and Gorbachev meet in Helsinki and urge Iraq to leave Kuwait |
| 9.9.1990 | Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr. Johnson's forces |
| 9.9.1990 | Oakland beats New York 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year |
| 9.9.1990 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship |
| 9.9.1991 | Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington |
| 9.9.1991 | "Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland" |
| 9.9.1992 | 1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home |
| 9.9.1992 | 9th MTV Awards: Howard Stern appears as Fartman |
| 9.9.1992 | "Robin Yount, is 17th to get 3,000 hits" |
| 9.9.1993 | "Croupier of casino in Bristol England, shoots a 4, a record 8 times" |
| 9.9.1993 | PLO recognizes state of Israel |
| 9.9.1993 | "Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, resigns" |
| 9.9.1994 | "Space shuttle STS 64 (Discovery 20), launches into orbit" |
| 9.9.1994 | "Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed" |
| 9.9.1995 | 109th U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (76 06 63) |
| 9.9.1995 | """Broadway Limited"" last train ride (began in 1902)" |
| 9.9.1995 | Chynna Phillips weds William Baldwin |
| 9.9.1995 | "Dean St. Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904" |
| 9.9.1995 | Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41) |
| 9.9.1997 | Sinn Fein accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmamen |
| 9.9.2001 | 115th U.S. Womens Tennis |
| 9.9.2001 | 121st U.S. Mens Tennis |
| 10.9.422 | St. Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 10.9.918 | Arnulf I the Old becomes landsheer of Flanders |
| 10.9.1349 | Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death |
| 10.9.1510 | Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal |
| 10.9.1547 | "Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots" |
| 10.9.1547 | "English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5" |
| 10.9.1608 | "John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va" |
| 10.9.1776 | "George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers" |
| 10.9.1785 | Prussia signs trade agreement with US |
| 10.9.1798 | British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St. George |
| 10.9.1813 | Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie |
| 10.9.1823 | Simon Bolivar named president of Peru |
| 10.9.1838 | "Hector Berlioz' opera ""Benvenuto Cellini,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 10.9.1845 | King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange |
| 10.9.1846 | Elias Howe patents sewing machine |
| 10.9.1846 | Japan invents the rickshaw |
| 10.9.1847 | 1st theater opens in Hawaii |
| 10.9.1849 | 1st performance by U.S. actor Edwin Booth (Richard III) |
| 10.9.1858 | John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Brooklyn vs New York) |
| 10.9.1861 | "Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia" |
| 10.9.1861 | "Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities" |
| 10.9.1863 | "George Bizets opera ""Les Pˆcheurs de Perles,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 10.9.1869 | "Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan" |
| 10.9.1870 | Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms |
| 10.9.1872 | Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam |
| 10.9.1880 | Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo |
| 10.9.1882 | 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) |
| 10.9.1884 | Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention |
| 10.9.1897 | "Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20" |
| 10.9.1898 | Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda |
| 10.9.1899 | 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska |
| 10.9.1900 | "20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record)" |
| 10.9.1902 | Utrecht soccer team UVV forms |
| 10.9.1905 | Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes |
| 10.9.1910 | Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber |
| 10.9.1913 | "1st U.S. paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens" |
| 10.9.1913 | Cleveland Call and Post forms |
| 10.9.1913 | "George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia" |
| 10.9.1913 | Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway |
| 10.9.1918 | "Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers" |
| 10.9.1919 | Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0 |
| 10.9.1919 | "New York City welcomes home Gen John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers" |
| 10.9.1919 | Treaty of St. Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany |
| 10.9.1922 | "Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive HRs" |
| 10.9.1923 | Irish Free state joins League of Nations |
| 10.9.1924 | "Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out" |
| 10.9.1924 | Leopold and Loeb found guilty of murder |
| 10.9.1926 | Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn |
| 10.9.1926 | Germany joins League of Nations |
| 10.9.1927 | 22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2) |
| 10.9.1930 | "Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia" |
| 10.9.1931 | Lord Cecil of British Government says War was never so improbable |
| 10.9.1932 | 52nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (64 64 64) |
| 10.9.1932 | Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season |
| 10.9.1932 | Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in New York City |
| 10.9.1933 | "1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park)" |
| 10.9.1933 | 53rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J H Crawford (63 11-13 46 60 61) |
| 10.9.1937 | "2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)" |
| 10.9.1937 | "Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0" |
| 10.9.1939 | Canada declares war on Germany |
| 10.9.1939 | "In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany" |
| 10.9.1942 | British troops lands on Madagascar |
| 10.9.1942 | "RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf" |
| 10.9.1943 | British 8th army occupies Tarente |
| 10.9.1943 | German troops occupied Rome and took over the protection of Vatican City |
| 10.9.1943 | Italian fleet anchors at Malta |
| 10.9.1943 | Lt-Gen Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London |
| 10.9.1944 | "Lt-gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery ""But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far""" |
| 10.9.1945 | KLS-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA) |
| 10.9.1945 | Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis |
| 10.9.1948 | Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life |
| 10.9.1948 | Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England |
| 10.9.1949 | """Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)"" closes at Broadway New York City after 76 performances" |
| 10.9.1950 | Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium |
| 10.9.1951 | British begins economic boycott of Iran |
| 10.9.1952 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open |
| 10.9.1953 | "Swanson sells it's 1st ""TV dinner""" |
| 10.9.1954 | "12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria" |
| 10.9.1954 | Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls |
| 10.9.1954 | "WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.9.1955 | """Gunsmoke"" premieres on CBS TV" |
| 10.9.1956 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| 10.9.1956 | Louisville Kentucky public schools integrates |
| 10.9.1956 | "WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, New York (NBC) 1st broadcast" |
| 10.9.1957 | """Mask and Gown"" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 39 performances" |
| 10.9.1958 | "WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.9.1960 | Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2) |
| 10.9.1960 | New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit |
| 10.9.1961 | 75th U.S. Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (63 64) |
| 10.9.1961 | 81st U.S. Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (75 63 62) |
| 10.9.1961 | Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400 |
| 10.9.1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 10.9.1962 | 82nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64) |
| 10.9.1962 | "KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.9.1962 | Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign) |
| 10.9.1962 | "WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.9.1963 | 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama |
| 10.9.1963 | "Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0" |
| 10.9.1963 | Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather |
| 10.9.1964 | Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms |
| 10.9.1964 | "Rod Steward records his 1st single ""Good Morning Little Schoolgirl""" |
| 10.9.1965 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 10.9.1965 | "Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards" |
| 10.9.1965 | "WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.9.1966 | "Beatles' ""Revolver,"" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks" |
| 10.9.1966 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 10.9.1966 | Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry) |
| 10.9.1967 | 81st U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (119 64) |
| 10.9.1967 | 87th U.S. Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86) |
| 10.9.1967 | "Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0" |
| 10.9.1967 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic |
| 10.9.1967 | "Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish" |
| 10.9.1967 | Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win |
| 10.9.1967 | "KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.9.1969 | New York Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time |
| 10.9.1969 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado |
| 10.9.1971 | "KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.9.1972 | "20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR" |
| 10.9.1972 | 92nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe (36 63 67 64 63) |
| 10.9.1972 | Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship |
| 10.9.1972 | Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8) |
| 10.9.1972 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 10.9.1972 | "U.S. Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to U.S.S.R. (disputed)" |
| 10.9.1972 | "WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.9.1973 | Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton |
| 10.9.1973 | New York Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St. Louis |
| 10.9.1974 | New York Dolls disband |
| 10.9.1974 | Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau |
| 10.9.1974 | Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs |
| 10.9.1974 | Lou Brock ties (104) and then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark |
| 10.9.1976 | "2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard" |
| 10.9.1976 | "5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, New York" |
| 10.9.1977 | 91st U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (76 62) |
| 10.9.1977 | Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits |
| 10.9.1977 | Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5) |
| 10.9.1977 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 10.9.1977 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 10.9.1977 | "Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978" |
| 10.9.1978 | 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9 |
| 10.9.1978 | 98th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 62 62) |
| 10.9.1978 | "Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds and 30"")" |
| 10.9.1978 | Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win U.S. Open on 3 different surfaces |
| 10.9.1978 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| 10.9.1978 | """Timbuktu!"" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 243 performances" |
| 10.9.1979 | 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed |
| 10.9.1980 | "Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18" |
| 10.9.1980 | Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick |
| 10.9.1981 | """Guernica"" of Pablo Picasso returns to Spain" |
| 10.9.1982 | "Decca releases Beatle audition ""Complete Silver Beatles"" album" |
| 10.9.1983 | 97th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63) |
| 10.9.1983 | Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 10.9.1984 | "Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla" |
| 10.9.1984 | Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across U.S. (24 days) |
| 10.9.1986 | Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel |
| 10.9.1988 | 102nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (63 36 61) |
| 10.9.1988 | "Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989" |
| 10.9.1988 | "Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas and Yucatan" |
| 10.9.1989 | 109th U.S. Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76) |
| 10.9.1989 | "5 days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners," |
| 10.9.1989 | "Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record" |
| 10.9.1989 | Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown |
| 10.9.1989 | East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary and Czech) |
| 10.9.1989 | Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
| 10.9.1990 | 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win U.S. Open |
| 10.9.1990 | "1st time in New York Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0" |
| 10.9.1990 | 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different |
| 10.9.1990 | Ellis Island reopens as a museum |
| 10.9.1990 | George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki |
| 10.9.1990 | "Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas, Nevada" |
| 10.9.1990 | Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq |
| 10.9.1990 | Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning |
| 10.9.1991 | Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination |
| 10.9.1991 | Yolanda Gail Devers runs U.S. female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs) |
| 10.9.1992 | Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball |
| 10.9.1992 | Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents |
| 10.9.1992 | "MTV Video Music Awards, Howard Stern appears as fartman" |
| 10.9.1993 | "1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo planes produced" |
| 10.9.1993 | "Actress Loretta Young, 80, weds costume designer Jean Louis, 85" |
| 10.9.1993 | Israel and PLO sign joint recognition statements |
| 10.9.1994 | 108th U.S. Womens Tennis: Aranxta S Vicario beats Steffi Graf (16 76 64) |
| 10.9.1994 | Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke |
| 10.9.1995 | 115th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75) |
| 10.9.1995 | "35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats U.S., 14-10" |
| 10.9.1995 | "47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser and Candice Bergen wins" |
| 10.9.1995 | Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| 10.9.1995 | "Browns and Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleveland for only time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles" |
| 10.9.1997 | Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million |
| 10.9.1997 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 10.9.1997 | Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 home runs in 2 consec yrs |
| 11.9.813 | Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor |
| 11.9.1297 | "Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English" |
| 11.9.1304 | Willem III becomes earl of Holland |
| 11.9.1557 | Catholic and Lutheran theology debated in Worm |
| 11.9.1645 | Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol |
| 11.9.1648 | Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir |
| 11.9.1649 | "Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists" |
| 11.9.1649 | "Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda Ireland, most inhabitants massacred" |
| 11.9.1697 | Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power |
| 11.9.1709 | Battle at Malplaquet: Engl/Aust/Dutch Great Alliance beat France |
| 11.9.1714 | French and Spanish troops under duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona |
| 11.9.1741 | Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament |
| 11.9.1773 | "Benjamin Franklin writes ""There never was a good war or bad peace""" |
| 11.9.1777 | "Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British" |
| 11.9.1786 | Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce |
| 11.9.1789 | Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury |
| 11.9.1814 | "Battle of Lake Champlain, New York; American Navy defeats British" |
| 11.9.1831 | Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth |
| 11.9.1839 | 1st Canadian track and field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds) |
| 11.9.1847 | "1st singing of Stephen Fosters ""Susanna"" (in Pittsburgh)" |
| 11.9.1850 | """Swedish Nightingale"" Jenny Lind gives 1st U.S. concert" |
| 11.9.1852 | Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R |
| 11.9.1853 | 1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos) |
| 11.9.1857 | Mountain Meadows Massacre-120 colonists killed by indians in Utah |
| 11.9.1875 | 1st newspaper cartoon strip |
| 11.9.1877 | Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen |
| 11.9.1881 | Triple landslides bury Elm Switz |
| 11.9.1883 | James Cutler patents postal mail chute |
| 11.9.1885 | "Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia" |
| 11.9.1886 | Mayflower (U.S.) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup |
| 11.9.1889 | "Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure ""Crooked Man""" |
| 11.9.1893 | Bronx Gas and Electric Company opens on Frisby and Tremont Ave |
| 11.9.1893 | Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago) |
| 11.9.1895 | FA Cup stolen in Birmingham |
| 11.9.1900 | President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique |
| 11.9.1909 | Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet |
| 11.9.1910 | 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood) |
| 11.9.1912 | Netherland Olympic Committee forms |
| 11.9.1912 | Philadelphia A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game |
| 11.9.1914 | "T Handy publishes ""St. Louis Blues""" |
| 11.9.1916 | German troops conquer Kavalla Greece |
| 11.9.1918 | "Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series" |
| 11.9.1919 | U.S. Marines invade Honduras |
| 11.9.1922 | British mandate of Palestine begins |
| 11.9.1922 | Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader |
| 11.9.1923 | "After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks" |
| 11.9.1923 | "Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run" |
| 11.9.1923 | "ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over New York's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower" |
| 11.9.1926 | 21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1) |
| 11.9.1926 | Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu |
| 11.9.1926 | Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining |
| 11.9.1926 | U.S. defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship |
| 11.9.1926 | Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies |
| 11.9.1927 | "After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2" |
| 11.9.1927 | Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers |
| 11.9.1928 | 1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger |
| 11.9.1928 | "Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees" |
| 11.9.1929 | SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system |
| 11.9.1930 | Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles |
| 11.9.1933 | Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at U.S. Tennis championship |
| 11.9.1935 | 49th U.S. Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (62 64) |
| 11.9.1935 | U.S. captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year |
| 11.9.1936 | A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game |
| 11.9.1936 | "Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam" |
| 11.9.1937 | 51st U.S. Womens Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (64 62) |
| 11.9.1937 | 57th U.S. Mens Tennis: J D Budge beats G vs. Cramm (61 79 61 36 61) |
| 11.9.1939 | Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw |
| 11.9.1939 | British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley |
| 11.9.1939 | Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany |
| 11.9.1940 | 54th Postmaster General: Frank C. Walker of Pennsylvania takes office |
| 11.9.1940 | Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS |
| 11.9.1940 | Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs |
| 11.9.1940 | Hitler begins operation-Seelowe (invasion England) |
| 11.9.1941 | Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels |
| 11.9.1941 | "Charles Lindbergh, charges ""British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration"" are trying to get U.S. into WW II" |
| 11.9.1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight |
| 11.9.1942 | Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 11.9.1943 | Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno |
| 11.9.1943 | Jewish ghettos of Minsk and Lida Belorussia liquidated |
| 11.9.1943 | Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island |
| 11.9.1943 | "U.S. and Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea" |
| 11.9.1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference |
| 11.9.1944 | U.S. 5th pantzer division is 1st to enter nazi-Germany |
| 11.9.1946 | 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation |
| 11.9.1950 | 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited |
| 11.9.1950 | "33 die in a train crash in Coshocton, Ohio" |
| 11.9.1950 | """Beetle Bailey"" comic strip debuts" |
| 11.9.1950 | Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence |
| 11.9.1951 | Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes |
| 11.9.1951 | "Stravinsky's opera ""Rake's Progress,"" premieres in Venice" |
| 11.9.1952 | West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews |
| 11.9.1953 | "KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, California (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 11.9.1953 | "WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 11.9.1954 | "20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record)" |
| 11.9.1954 | KXJB TV channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 11.9.1954 | "Lee Meriwether (Calif), 19, crowned 27th Miss America 1955 (1st on TV)" |
| 11.9.1954 | 1st Miss America TV broadcast |
| 11.9.1955 | 69th U.S. Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward (64 62) |
| 11.9.1955 | 75th U.S. Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Ken Rosewall beats (97 63 63) |
| 11.9.1955 | "KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 11.9.1956 | Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR |
| 11.9.1956 | Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8) |
| 11.9.1956 | Yanks Yogi Berra ties career record for home runs (236) by a catcher |
| 11.9.1958 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 11.9.1959 | Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans |
| 11.9.1959 | """Duke"" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements" |
| 11.9.1959 | Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4 |
| 11.9.1959 | Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0 |
| 11.9.1960 | "17th Olympic games close in Rome, Italy" |
| 11.9.1960 | 74th U.S. Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64) |
| 11.9.1960 | 80th U.S. Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97) |
| 11.9.1961 | Bob Dylan's 1st New York performance |
| 11.9.1962 | "Beatles cut ""Love Me Do"" and ""PS I Love You"" with Andy White on drums" |
| 11.9.1962 | Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles |
| 11.9.1962 | "KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, California (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 11.9.1964 | George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company |
| 11.9.1964 | Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG and ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleveland Auditorium |
| 11.9.1965 | "Beatles' ""Help!,"" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks" |
| 11.9.1965 | Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets |
| 11.9.1966 | 80th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61) |
| 11.9.1966 | 86th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64) |
| 11.9.1966 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 11.9.1966 | Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat |
| 11.9.1966 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pacific Ladies' Golf Classic |
| 11.9.1966 | Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show |
| 11.9.1967 | A's drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley |
| 11.9.1967 | Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England |
| 11.9.1967 | French president De Gaulle visits Poland |
| 11.9.1967 | Indian/Chinese border fights |
| 11.9.1967 | U.S. Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material |
| 11.9.1967 | "WSRE TV channel 23 in Pensacola, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 11.9.1967 | "WUNE TV channel 17 in Linville, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 11.9.1967 | "WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 11.9.1967 | "WUNG TV channel 58 in Concord, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 11.9.1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 11.9.1971 | """2 by 2"" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 343 performances" |
| 11.9.1971 | Egypt adopts its constitution |
| 11.9.1971 | "Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972" |
| 11.9.1972 | BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont |
| 11.9.1973 | "Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup" |
| 11.9.1974 | "Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan and John Milner come to bat 12 times each" |
| 11.9.1976 | 90th U.S. Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight U.S. Open Final (Evert wins) |
| 11.9.1976 | "Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977" |
| 11.9.1976 | Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless) |
| 11.9.1977 | "29th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carroll O'Conner and Bea Arthur" |
| 11.9.1977 | 97th U.S. Mens Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors (26 63 75 60) |
| 11.9.1977 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
| 11.9.1980 | Chile adopts its constitution |
| 11.9.1980 | "Ron LeFlore (91st) and Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record" |
| 11.9.1981 | 2nd government of Agt forms |
| 11.9.1982 | 96th U.S. Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats Hana Mandlikova (63 61) |
| 11.9.1982 | Chris Evert wins her 6th and final U.S. Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY |
| 11.9.1982 | "Debbie Maffett (Calif), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983" |
| 11.9.1983 | 103rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60) |
| 11.9.1983 | Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss |
| 11.9.1983 | "Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards" |
| 11.9.1983 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
| 11.9.1983 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 11.9.1985 | Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner |
| 11.9.1985 | International Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km |
| 11.9.1985 | "Pete Rose of Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record" |
| 11.9.1985 | "Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs vs. India" |
| 11.9.1986 | "Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded" |
| 11.9.1986 | President Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres |
| 11.9.1986 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 11.9.1987 | 4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins |
| 11.9.1987 | "Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die" |
| 11.9.1988 | 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy |
| 11.9.1988 | 108th U.S. Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) |
| 11.9.1988 | 108th U.S. Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4hrs 55 min - longest men's final in U.S. Open history |
| 11.9.1988 | Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
| 11.9.1988 | Sports Aid - jogging to feed the world |
| 11.9.1989 | Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud |
| 11.9.1989 | KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO |
| 11.9.1991 | 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston |
| 11.9.1991 | "Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers and Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0" |
| 11.9.1991 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 11.9.1991 | """La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family"" goes on sale" |
| 11.9.1991 | New York Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium |
| 11.9.1992 | "Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die and 8,000 injured" |
| 11.9.1993 | 107th U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (63 63) |
| 11.9.1993 | Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies world record (3:50.46) |
| 11.9.1994 | 114th U.S. Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Michael Stich (61 76 75) |
| 11.9.1994 | "46th Emmy Awards: Fraiser, Picket Fences and Kelsey Grammer wins" |
| 11.9.1994 | Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle |
| 11.9.1994 | Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| 11.9.1995 | Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423 |
| 11.9.1995 | "Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims ""Cleveland Indians Day""" |
| 11.9.1995 | "Soyuz TM-22, lands" |
| 12.9.1015 | Henry I becomes earl of Leuven |
| 12.9.1213 | Battle at Muret: Crusade of Simon de Montfort beat Pedro II of Aragon |
| 12.9.1217 | French prince Louis and English king Henry III sign peace treaty |
| 12.9.1396 | Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis |
| 12.9.1543 | Treaty of Venlo: Duke Willem of Gulik and Emperor Charles V |
| 12.9.1556 | "Emperor Charles resigns, his brother Ferdinand van Austria takes over" |
| 12.9.1624 | 1st submarine tested (London) |
| 12.9.1635 | Sweden and Poland sign ceasefire Treaty of Stuhmsdorf |
| 12.9.1639 | Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England |
| 12.9.1666 | "Great Fire in London ends, kills 8" |
| 12.9.1673 | Prince Willem III occupies Naarden |
| 12.9.1683 | Turkish troops attacks Vienna overthrows by Polish king Sobieski |
| 12.9.1695 | New York Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties |
| 12.9.1703 | Emperor Leopold I ends contacts on Spanish heritage |
| 12.9.1703 | English army under arch duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal |
| 12.9.1720 | Isaak of Hoornbeek elected Dutch pension advisor |
| 12.9.1722 | Russian troops occupy Baku and Derbent on Persia |
| 12.9.1733 | Polish Landowners select Stanislaw Lesczynski king |
| 12.9.1745 | Duke of Toscane chosen German emperor Frans I Stefanus |
| 12.9.1751 | Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto |
| 12.9.1758 | Charles Messier observes Crab Nebula and begins catalog |
| 12.9.1776 | Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission |
| 12.9.1787 | Black Masons form 1st lodge |
| 12.9.1814 | Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812 |
| 12.9.1840 | Composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck |
| 12.9.1857 | "423 die when ""Central America"" sinks off Cape Romain SC" |
| 12.9.1862 | Battle of Harpers Ferry VA |
| 12.9.1867 | "2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated" |
| 12.9.1876 | King Leopold II opens Congo-conference |
| 12.9.1878 | Cleopatra Needle installed in London |
| 12.9.1882 | Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza |
| 12.9.1885 | Highest score (35) recorded in any 1st-class soccer match is set |
| 12.9.1888 | "Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure ""Greek Interpreter""" |
| 12.9.1890 | Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Ft. Salisbury) |
| 12.9.1895 | Defender (U.S.) beats Valkyrie III (England) in 10th America's Cup |
| 12.9.1901 | "Arabs attack Gedara, Palestine" |
| 12.9.1907 | Lusitania arrives in New York City after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record) |
| 12.9.1908 | Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier |
| 12.9.1910 | Gustav Mahlers 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians |
| 12.9.1910 | "World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD)" |
| 12.9.1911 | "Boston's Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of Giants, Giants win 9-0" |
| 12.9.1912 | Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC) |
| 12.9.1914 | "Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager" |
| 12.9.1918 | "During WW I, U.S. forces launch an attack on German-occupied St. Mihiel" |
| 12.9.1920 | 7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium |
| 12.9.1922 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4) |
| 12.9.1923 | Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co |
| 12.9.1925 | 20th Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (5-0) |
| 12.9.1927 | "Sigmund Romberg's musical ""My Maryland,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 12.9.1928 | "Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000" |
| 12.9.1928 | "Katharine Hepburn's New York stage debut in ""Night Hostess""" |
| 12.9.1930 | Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR |
| 12.9.1931 | "51st U.S. Mens Tennis: H E Vines beats George M Lott, Jr. (79 63 97 75)" |
| 12.9.1932 | Bkln Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit HR |
| 12.9.1932 | German government of Papen falls/Reichstag dissolved |
| 12.9.1933 | Alejandro Lerroux forms new Spanish government |
| 12.9.1933 | Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms |
| 12.9.1934 | "Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against U.S.S.R." |
| 12.9.1935 | 55th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wilmer L Allison beats Sidney B Wood (62 62 63) |
| 12.9.1935 | Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph |
| 12.9.1936 | 50th U.S. Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (46 63 62) |
| 12.9.1936 | 56th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Donald Budge (26 62 86 16 108) |
| 12.9.1938 | Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech |
| 12.9.1940 | "4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings" |
| 12.9.1940 | 49 die and 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes (NJ) |
| 12.9.1940 | Italian troops enter Egypt |
| 12.9.1941 | 1st German ship in WW II captured by U.S. ship (Busko) |
| 12.9.1942 | Battle of Edson's Ridge begins at Guadalcanal |
| 12.9.1942 | Free-Poland and Belgium asks pope to condemn nazi-war crimes |
| 12.9.1943 | Free French lands on Corsica |
| 12.9.1943 | "German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government" |
| 12.9.1943 | Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Mussolini at Gran Sasso |
| 12.9.1944 | "Hurricane, kills 389 in NC" |
| 12.9.1944 | Noorbeek and Mheer freed |
| 12.9.1944 | U.S. Army troops entered Germany for 1st time |
| 12.9.1946 | "Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels" |
| 12.9.1947 | Pirate Ralph Kiner hits his record 8th HR in 4 games |
| 12.9.1949 | Theodor Heuss elected 1st pres/Conrad Adenauer 1st PM of German FR |
| 12.9.1950 | Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants |
| 12.9.1952 | "Noel Coward's ""Quadrille,"" premieres in London" |
| 12.9.1953 | "Brooklyn Dodgers, clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team" |
| 12.9.1953 | """Carnival in Flanders"" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 6 performances" |
| 12.9.1953 | Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R. Communist Party |
| 12.9.1953 | "Sen John F. Kennedy, 36, marries Jacqueline Bouvier, 24" |
| 12.9.1954 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open |
| 12.9.1954 | "Indians sweep Yanks at Municipal Stadium; largest AL crowd (86,563)" |
| 12.9.1954 | "White Sox win 90th game, 1st time they win this many since 1920" |
| 12.9.1954 | "WLBZ TV channel 2 in Bangor, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 12.9.1955 | "KNTV TV channel 11 in San Jose, California (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 12.9.1956 | Black students enter and are barred from Clay Kentucky elementary school |
| 12.9.1957 | Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits U.S. |
| 12.9.1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 12.9.1958 | U.S. Supreme Court orders Little Rock Arkansas high school to integrate |
| 12.9.1959 | """Bonanza"" premieres on NBC-TV" |
| 12.9.1959 | Janos Kadar becomes premier of Hungary |
| 12.9.1959 | Luna 2 launched by U.S.S.R.; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon |
| 12.9.1960 | """Vintage '60"" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 8 performances" |
| 12.9.1961 | "NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m" |
| 12.9.1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 12.9.1962 | Washington Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game |
| 12.9.1963 | "WHYY TV channel 12 in Wilmington, DE (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 12.9.1964 | "1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6" |
| 12.9.1964 | "Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' 4 """ |
| 12.9.1964 | "Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage" |
| 12.9.1965 | 79th U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King (86 75) |
| 12.9.1965 | 85th U.S. Mens Tennis: Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale (62 79 75 61) |
| 12.9.1965 | Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana kills 75 |
| 12.9.1965 | Manuel Santana wins U.S. Tennis Open |
| 12.9.1965 | Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open |
| 12.9.1965 | "WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 12.9.1966 | Gemini XI (Charles Conrad and R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight |
| 12.9.1966 | "KPNE TV channel 9 in North Platte, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 12.9.1966 | """Monkees"" premieres on NBC-TV" |
| 12.9.1966 | Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich begins teaching |
| 12.9.1966 | "WCES TV channel 20 in Wrens, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 12.9.1966 | "WUSF TV channel 16 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (PBS) 1st broadcast" |
| 12.9.1968 | Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact |
| 12.9.1970 | 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport |
| 12.9.1970 | Luna 16 Launch (Moon Sample Return) |
| 12.9.1970 | "Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971" |
| 12.9.1970 | Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport |
| 12.9.1970 | U.S. LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from California jail |
| 12.9.1970 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility |
| 12.9.1971 | 85th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Rosemary Casals (64 76) |
| 12.9.1971 | 91st U.S. Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Jan Kodes (36 63 62 76) |
| 12.9.1972 | Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics |
| 12.9.1973 | "2 bettors win largest U.S. Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit)" |
| 12.9.1973 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 12.9.1974 | Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day) |
| 12.9.1974 | "Jeff ""Skunk"" Baxter joins Doobie Brothers" |
| 12.9.1976 | 96th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bjorn Borg (64 36 76 64) |
| 12.9.1976 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| 12.9.1976 | "Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St. L 30, Sea 24)" |
| 12.9.1976 | "White Sox Minnie Minoso, 53, is oldest to get a hit in majors" |
| 12.9.1978 | Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba |
| 12.9.1978 | "Situation comedy ""Taxi"" premieres on ABC television" |
| 12.9.1979 | "Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits" |
| 12.9.1979 | Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die and $23 million damage |
| 12.9.1979 | "Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club" |
| 12.9.1980 | Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey |
| 12.9.1981 | 95th U.S. Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats M Navratilova (16 76 76) |
| 12.9.1981 | "Elizabeth Ward (Arkansas), 20, crowned 54th Miss America 1982" |
| 12.9.1981 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 12.9.1981 | Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yanks for 8 innings before Rick Cerone and Dave Winfield lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles |
| 12.9.1982 | 102nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 62 46 64) |
| 12.9.1982 | Gerard Nijboer (2:15:16) and Rosa Mota (2:36:04) win marathon |
| 12.9.1982 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
| 12.9.1983 | Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes |
| 12.9.1983 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 12.9.1983 | Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million |
| 12.9.1983 | U.S.S.R. vetoes United Nations resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane |
| 12.9.1984 | Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident |
| 12.9.1984 | "Cyndi Lauper sings ""She-Bop"" on Tonight Show" |
| 12.9.1984 | Ethiopia forms socialist republic |
| 12.9.1984 | New York Met Dwight Goodin sets rookie strike out record at 251 |
| 12.9.1985 | Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds |
| 12.9.1986 | 240.49 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 12.9.1986 | Twins fire manager Ray Miller and replace him with coach Tom Kelly |
| 12.9.1986 | U.S. professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut |
| 12.9.1987 | 101st U.S. Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (76 61) |
| 12.9.1987 | Ethiopia adopts constitution |
| 12.9.1987 | Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year |
| 12.9.1988 | 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card |
| 12.9.1988 | "Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica" |
| 12.9.1989 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 12.9.1990 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 12.9.1990 | """Les Miserables,"" opens at Cirkus Theater, Stockholm" |
| 12.9.1990 | "US, England, France, U.S.S.R., East and West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge" |
| 12.9.1991 | Nolan Ryan's 4-3 victory over Twins is his 312th career win |
| 12.9.1991 | Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched |
| 12.9.1992 | 106th U.S. Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A Sanchez Vicario (63 63) |
| 12.9.1992 | Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii |
| 12.9.1992 | Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in U.S. Open history (5hr 26min) |
| 12.9.1992 | STS-47 (Endeavour 2) launches |
| 12.9.1993 | 113rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Cedric Pioline (64 64 63) |
| 12.9.1993 | Donna Andrews wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| 12.9.1993 | Junxia Cheek runs 3000 m ladies world record (8:12.29) |
| 12.9.1993 | Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career |
| 12.9.1993 | STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit |
| 12.9.1994 | Cessna crashes in White House front yard |
| 12.9.1994 | Country singer George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery |
| 12.9.1994 | Parti Quebecois wins parliamentary election |
| 12.9.1995 | INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer |
| 12.9.1997 | New York Met John Olerud hits for the cycle |
| 13.9.122 | Building begins on Hadrian's Wall |
| 13.9.604 | Sabinian begins his reign as Pope replacing Pope Gregory the Great |
| 13.9.1125 | Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III |
| 13.9.1515 | Battle at Marignano: France beats Habsburgers and Pope Leo X |
| 13.9.1549 | Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna |
| 13.9.1553 | English Hugh Latimer arrested |
| 13.9.1556 | Charles V and Maria of Hungary march into Spain |
| 13.9.1574 | Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis |
| 13.9.1579 | Breda forms Union of Utrecht |
| 13.9.1625 | 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem |
| 13.9.1631 | Admiral Tholen conquerors 30+ Spanish frigates |
| 13.9.1663 | 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia) |
| 13.9.1743 | "England, Austria and Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms" |
| 13.9.1751 | England signs Austrian and Russian alliance |
| 13.9.1759 | British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec) |
| 13.9.1775 | "Gotthold Lessing's ""Die Juden,"" premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main" |
| 13.9.1787 | Prussian army moves into Netherlands |
| 13.9.1788 | New York City becomes 1st capital of US |
| 13.9.1789 | 1st loan to U.S. Government (from New York City banks) |
| 13.9.1791 | France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution |
| 13.9.1800 | Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803) |
| 13.9.1847 | American-Mexican war: U.S. Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City |
| 13.9.1849 | 1st U.S. prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy) |
| 13.9.1858 | "Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire and sinks, 471 die" |
| 13.9.1861 | "1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate ""Colorado"" sinks privateer ""Judah"" off Pensacola, Fla" |
| 13.9.1867 | Gen E R S Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors |
| 13.9.1869 | Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to control U.S. gold market |
| 13.9.1881 | Lewis Latimer invents and patents electric lamp with a carbon filament |
| 13.9.1882 | Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt |
| 13.9.1883 | Cleveland Hugh Daily no-hits Philadelphia 1-0 |
| 13.9.1883 | "Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Phila" |
| 13.9.1890 | Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland and Salisbury |
| 13.9.1898 | "20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike" |
| 13.9.1898 | Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film |
| 13.9.1906 | 1st airplane flight in Europe |
| 13.9.1907 | "Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Foot Ball" |
| 13.9.1909 | Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park) |
| 13.9.1910 | Regina Rugby Club forms |
| 13.9.1918 | "Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42" |
| 13.9.1919 | "Guy Bolton and George Middleton's ""Adam and Eve,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 13.9.1922 | "136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record)" |
| 13.9.1923 | "With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera" |
| 13.9.1924 | 19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0) |
| 13.9.1925 | "1st U.S. University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans" |
| 13.9.1925 | "Bkln Dodger Dazzy Vance no-hits Phillies, 10-1" |
| 13.9.1927 | Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees |
| 13.9.1927 | "Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 home runs (52 en route to 60)" |
| 13.9.1928 | KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions |
| 13.9.1930 | 50th U.S. Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 16 64 16-14) |
| 13.9.1930 | "Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)" |
| 13.9.1930 | Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament |
| 13.9.1930 | "Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St. John's Rugby, 7-3" |
| 13.9.1931 | Capt G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph) |
| 13.9.1931 | Right-radical coup of Dr. Pfrimer fails in Austria |
| 13.9.1932 | New York Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant |
| 13.9.1934 | "Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000" |
| 13.9.1936 | Cleve Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (vs Philadelphia A's) |
| 13.9.1938 | Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 13.9.1940 | Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt |
| 13.9.1942 | Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal |
| 13.9.1942 | Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning |
| 13.9.1942 | German forces attack Stalingrad |
| 13.9.1943 | Chiang Kai-shek became president of China |
| 13.9.1943 | German counter attack at Salerno |
| 13.9.1943 | "Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres" |
| 13.9.1944 | 30th Infantry division of U.S. 1st Army frees Margraten |
| 13.9.1944 | Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen |
| 13.9.1944 | U.S. 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall |
| 13.9.1946 | Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant |
| 13.9.1947 | "WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 13.9.1948 | "Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress" |
| 13.9.1949 | Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in New York City |
| 13.9.1951 | St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0 |
| 13.9.1952 | Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico |
| 13.9.1953 | Nikita Khrushchev appointed 1st Secretary-General of U.S.S.R. |
| 13.9.1953 | Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Philadelphia A's |
| 13.9.1954 | Reds Ted Kluszewski scores a run in record 17 consecutive games |
| 13.9.1954 | "WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 13.9.1956 | Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes |
| 13.9.1956 | "Stravinsky's ""Canticum Sacrum,"" premieres in Venice" |
| 13.9.1958 | Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times |
| 13.9.1958 | Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam |
| 13.9.1959 | 73rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64) |
| 13.9.1959 | 79th U.S. Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64) |
| 13.9.1959 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open |
| 13.9.1959 | U.S.S.R.'s Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body |
| 13.9.1960 | Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law |
| 13.9.1961 | Battles between United Nations and Katanga troops in Congo |
| 13.9.1961 | """Car 54 Where are You?"" premieres on TV" |
| 13.9.1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 13.9.1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 13.9.1961 | Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit |
| 13.9.1963 | Barbra Striesand and Elliot Gould marry |
| 13.9.1963 | Jim Bouton's 20th win clinches Yanks 28th pennant |
| 13.9.1963 | """Outer Limits"" premieres on ABC TV" |
| 13.9.1963 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 13.9.1964 | 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome |
| 13.9.1964 | 78th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Carole Graebner (61 60) |
| 13.9.1964 | 84th U.S. Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Frederick S Stolle (64 62 64) |
| 13.9.1964 | Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open |
| 13.9.1964 | "St. Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2" |
| 13.9.1964 | "WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 13.9.1965 | "Beatles release ""Yesterday""" |
| 13.9.1965 | "Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964" |
| 13.9.1965 | Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast |
| 13.9.1965 | "Willie Mays's 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win" |
| 13.9.1966 | Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa |
| 13.9.1968 | Albania leaves Warsaw pact |
| 13.9.1969 | "Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title" |
| 13.9.1969 | "Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player" |
| 13.9.1969 | "Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko and Eric Clapton) 1st live performance" |
| 13.9.1970 | 1st New York City Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38 |
| 13.9.1970 | 84th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61) |
| 13.9.1970 | 90th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63) |
| 13.9.1970 | IBM announces System 370 computer |
| 13.9.1970 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open |
| 13.9.1970 | Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania |
| 13.9.1971 | 11 guards and 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison |
| 13.9.1971 | Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR |
| 13.9.1971 | "Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow" |
| 13.9.1971 | "WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 13.9.1971 | World Hockey Association forms |
| 13.9.1972 | "1st TV broadcast of ""Waltons"" on CBS" |
| 13.9.1973 | ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics |
| 13.9.1973 | Congress passes and sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout |
| 13.9.1973 | Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea |
| 13.9.1974 | "1st broadcast of ""Rockford Files"" on NBC-TV" |
| 13.9.1974 | 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague |
| 13.9.1974 | "Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St. Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17" |
| 13.9.1974 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 13.9.1975 | "Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean and U.S." |
| 13.9.1976 | "2nd Enterprise, approach and lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s)" |
| 13.9.1977 | 1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap |
| 13.9.1977 | General Motors introduces 1st U.S. diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88) |
| 13.9.1978 | 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet |
| 13.9.1978 | New York Yankees win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back |
| 13.9.1979 | South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of South Africa) |
| 13.9.1979 | China PR performs nuclear test |
| 13.9.1980 | 1st United Negro College Fund |
| 13.9.1981 | 101st U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (46 62 64 63) |
| 13.9.1981 | "33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St. Blue, Judd Hirsh and Isabel Sanford wins" |
| 13.9.1981 | "April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yds and 13""" |
| 13.9.1981 | Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay) |
| 13.9.1981 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| 13.9.1981 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 13.9.1982 | "50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain" |
| 13.9.1982 | Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game |
| 13.9.1983 | Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save |
| 13.9.1983 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| 13.9.1983 | Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season |
| 13.9.1983 | "Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 mins, Lancs vs. Leics" |
| 13.9.1983 | U.S. Mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle) |
| 13.9.1984 | Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed |
| 13.9.1984 | STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 13.9.1985 | 2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen |
| 13.9.1985 | John Williams introduces new Today Show theme |
| 13.9.1986 | Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 home runs in a season |
| 13.9.1986 | "Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987" |
| 13.9.1987 | Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro |
| 13.9.1987 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
| 13.9.1987 | "Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours" |
| 13.9.1988 | "10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams" |
| 13.9.1988 | 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York |
| 13.9.1988 | Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere |
| 13.9.1989 | Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa |
| 13.9.1989 | Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner |
| 13.9.1989 | """Les Miserables,"" opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit" |
| 13.9.1990 | "Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die" |
| 13.9.1990 | Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait |
| 13.9.1990 | Robert E. Nederlander appointed New York Yankee managing general partner |
| 13.9.1990 | Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter |
| 13.9.1991 | 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium |
| 13.9.1991 | Joe Carter is 1st to have 3 consec 100-RBI seasons with 3 differ teams |
| 13.9.1991 | "Joe Coleman 3rd 100 RBI season in a row 3 teams (Cleve, SD and Toronto)" |
| 13.9.1991 | "Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts" |
| 13.9.1992 | 112th U.S. Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Pete Sampras (36 64 76 62) |
| 13.9.1992 | Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| 13.9.1992 | "New York Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28" |
| 13.9.1992 | Steffan Edberg beats Pete Sampress to win U.S. Open |
| 13.9.1993 | Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord |
| 13.9.1993 | Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11) |
| 13.9.1993 | Queens New York begins required recycling |
| 13.9.1994 | "George Burns, undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain" |
| 13.9.1994 | Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun |
| 13.9.1996 | Phil Simmons scores 171 and takes 6-14 for Leics vs. Durham |
| 13.9.1997 | Carolina Hurricane's 1st exhibition game beat New York Islanders 4-1 |
| 13.9.1997 | "Katherine Shindle (Ill), 24, crowned 71st Miss America 1998" |
| 13.9.1998 | SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 14.9.891 | Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 14.9.1163 | Pastor Frederik forms convent at Mariengaarde Friesland |
| 14.9.1515 | Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory |
| 14.9.1544 | Charles and Francois I sign Peace of Crepy |
| 14.9.1629 | Spanish garrison surrenders to prince Frederik Henry |
| 14.9.1662 | Netherlands and England sign peace treaty |
| 14.9.1666 | St. Paul's in London destroyed by fire |
| 14.9.1716 | 1st lighthouse in U.S. lit (Boston Harbor) |
| 14.9.1741 | "George Frederick Handel finishes ""Messiah"" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days" |
| 14.9.1752 | U.S. and England adopts Gregorian calender (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) |
| 14.9.1759 | Austrian troops occupy Dresden |
| 14.9.1807 | Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge |
| 14.9.1812 | Napoleon occupies Moscow and fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th) |
| 14.9.1814 | "Francis Scott Key inspired to write ""Star-Spangled Banner""" |
| 14.9.1829 | Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war |
| 14.9.1830 | Princess WFLC Marianne marries Albrecht of Prussia |
| 14.9.1834 | Charles Darwins company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile |
| 14.9.1847 | U.S. Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma) |
| 14.9.1848 | Alexander Stewart opens 1st U.S. department store |
| 14.9.1852 | 18th Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Connecticut takes office |
| 14.9.1854 | "Allied armies, including those of Britain and France, land in Crimea" |
| 14.9.1856 | "Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders" |
| 14.9.1862 | Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates |
| 14.9.1862 | Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates |
| 14.9.1862 | Battle of Munfordsville KY |
| 14.9.1862 | Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia |
| 14.9.1862 | "Skirmish at Mountain MD (Boonesboro, Crampton's Gap, Fox's Gap)" |
| 14.9.1868 | Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole) |
| 14.9.1872 | Britain pays U.S. $15 M for damages during Civil War |
| 14.9.1876 | Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda |
| 14.9.1876 | Leopold II closes Congo-conference |
| 14.9.1882 | British General Wolseley reaches Cairo |
| 14.9.1886 | "George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon" |
| 14.9.1891 | """Empire State Express"" train goes from New York City to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M" |
| 14.9.1892 | AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo |
| 14.9.1894 | Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails |
| 14.9.1899 | Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY) |
| 14.9.1903 | "New York Giant Red Ames no-hits St. Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game" |
| 14.9.1905 | Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated |
| 14.9.1905 | Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname |
| 14.9.1905 | "RAC Tourist Trophy, 1st run, on Isle of Man" |
| 14.9.1913 | 27th U.S. Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (62 75) |
| 14.9.1913 | Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0) |
| 14.9.1914 | German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn |
| 14.9.1914 | German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches |
| 14.9.1916 | Christy Mathewson pitches and wins his final game |
| 14.9.1917 | Kerenski regime declares Russian republic |
| 14.9.1917 | "Provisional government of Russia forms, Republic proclaimed" |
| 14.9.1919 | British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dail |
| 14.9.1923 | Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 14.9.1923 | Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain |
| 14.9.1923 | Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play |
| 14.9.1924 | Walter Johnson elected AL MVP |
| 14.9.1926 | Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens |
| 14.9.1929 | 49th U.S. Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (36 63 46 62 64) |
| 14.9.1929 | A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox |
| 14.9.1930 | "Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6" |
| 14.9.1930 | Nazis gain 107 seats in German election |
| 14.9.1932 | Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri |
| 14.9.1933 | 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire |
| 14.9.1933 | Schaduwproces-Rijksdagbrand opens in London |
| 14.9.1936 | Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times |
| 14.9.1938 | "Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight" |
| 14.9.1939 | British fleet attacks German U-39 boat |
| 14.9.1939 | Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow |
| 14.9.1940 | Congress passes 1st peace-time draft law |
| 14.9.1940 | German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die |
| 14.9.1942 | Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal |
| 14.9.1942 | German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1 |
| 14.9.1942 | Yanks clinch pennant #13 |
| 14.9.1943 | Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marries |
| 14.9.1943 | Yanks clinch pennant #14 |
| 14.9.1944 | "6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru" |
| 14.9.1944 | "Gulpen, Meerssen and Maastricht freed" |
| 14.9.1944 | Hurricane hits New England: 389 die |
| 14.9.1944 | U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid |
| 14.9.1944 | U.S. 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall |
| 14.9.1947 | 61st U.S. Womens Tennis: A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (86 46 61) |
| 14.9.1947 | 67th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Frank A Parker (46 26 61 60 63) |
| 14.9.1948 | Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary |
| 14.9.1948 | Ground breaking ceremony for United Nations world headquarters |
| 14.9.1948 | Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater |
| 14.9.1950 | Western allies rearm West Germany |
| 14.9.1951 | Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats |
| 14.9.1953 | Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marry |
| 14.9.1953 | Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians |
| 14.9.1954 | "B Britten's opera ""Turn of the Screw,"" premieres in Venice" |
| 14.9.1954 | "Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record" |
| 14.9.1954 | "Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits New York City, $50 million damage" |
| 14.9.1954 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 14.9.1955 | Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245) |
| 14.9.1956 | "1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington D.C." |
| 14.9.1957 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| 14.9.1957 | U.N. resolution deplores and condemns U.S.S.R. invasion of Hungary |
| 14.9.1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 14.9.1958 | Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open |
| 14.9.1958 | "WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 14.9.1958 | "Yankees win 24th pennant, and 9th under Casey Stengel" |
| 14.9.1959 | Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon |
| 14.9.1959 | "WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 14.9.1960 | "Chubby Checker's ""Twist"" hits #1" |
| 14.9.1960 | Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo |
| 14.9.1960 | "Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form OPEC" |
| 14.9.1960 | "KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 14.9.1961 | Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of CP of U.S.S.R. |
| 14.9.1961 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 14.9.1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 14.9.1963 | "Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, South Dakota, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls and a boy" |
| 14.9.1964 | Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House |
| 14.9.1964 | "WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 14.9.1965 | 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened |
| 14.9.1965 | """F-Troop"" premieres" |
| 14.9.1967 | Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named |
| 14.9.1967 | Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge and Sanctuary opens in Bronx |
| 14.9.1968 | 1st broadcast of 60 Minutes on CBS-TV |
| 14.9.1968 | Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season |
| 14.9.1968 | "Dmitri Shostakovitch' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow" |
| 14.9.1968 | U.S.S.R.'s Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight |
| 14.9.1969 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open |
| 14.9.1969 | Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage |
| 14.9.1970 | "Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright, [Syreeta]" |
| 14.9.1971 | "Cleveland Indians and Washington Senators, play 20 innings" |
| 14.9.1972 | "Jason Miller's ""That Championship Season,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 14.9.1972 | """Waltons"" TV program premieres" |
| 14.9.1972 | West Germany and Poland establish diplomatic relations |
| 14.9.1973 | Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise |
| 14.9.1973 | Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s |
| 14.9.1973 | President Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout |
| 14.9.1974 | "Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter" |
| 14.9.1975 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open |
| 14.9.1975 | Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st U.S. saint |
| 14.9.1975 | "Rembrandts ""Nightwatch"" slashed and damaged in Amsterdam" |
| 14.9.1975 | "Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 games as a teen" |
| 14.9.1977 | Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robbeneiland South Africa |
| 14.9.1978 | "Braves' Jim Bouton, 38, beats Giants, his 1st win since 1970" |
| 14.9.1978 | Portugal government of Da Costa falls |
| 14.9.1979 | "Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City and back to Yates Center, Ks" |
| 14.9.1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 14.9.1980 | """Charlie and Algernon"" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 17 performances" |
| 14.9.1980 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| 14.9.1980 | Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions |
| 14.9.1981 | Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV |
| 14.9.1982 | "36"" snow (Red Lodge, MT)" |
| 14.9.1982 | Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel |
| 14.9.1982 | "Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7""" |
| 14.9.1983 | "U.S. House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner" |
| 14.9.1984 | 1st MTV awards-Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd host |
| 14.9.1985 | "Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986" |
| 14.9.1986 | Bo Jackson's 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium) |
| 14.9.1986 | "Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed" |
| 14.9.1986 | "Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed" |
| 14.9.1986 | Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| 14.9.1986 | Saskatchewan and Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game |
| 14.9.1987 | 107th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64) |
| 14.9.1987 | "Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken" |
| 14.9.1987 | Ivan Lendl defeat Mats Wilander to win U.S. Tennis Open in 4 hours 47 mins |
| 14.9.1987 | """Les Miserables,"" opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest" |
| 14.9.1987 | Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 home runs vs Baltimore Orioles |
| 14.9.1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 14.9.1989 | "Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in U.S.S.R., win 4-2" |
| 14.9.1989 | Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons |
| 14.9.1989 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 14.9.1990 | "Ken Griffey, Sr and Jr, hit back-to-back home runs in 1st inning" |
| 14.9.1991 | Freshman Marshall Faulk of San Diego State rushed for NCAA record |
| 14.9.1991 | "Magic Johnson weds Erieatha ""Cookie"" Kelly" |
| 14.9.1991 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 14.9.1991 | 386 yards and scored 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific 55-34 |
| 14.9.1991 | "Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992" |
| 14.9.1992 | 1st subway car completed to be exported from U.S. (to Taiwan) |
| 14.9.1994 | All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season |
| 14.9.1996 | A's Mark McGwire is 13th player to hit 50-HRs in a season |
| 14.9.1996 | "Dean Headley takes 3rd cricket hat-trick of season, Kent vs. Hampshire" |
| 14.9.1996 | New York Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 home runs by a catcher |
| 14.9.1996 | "Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas), 23, crowned 70th Miss America 1997" |
| 14.9.1997 | 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards |
| 14.9.1997 | Bank One Senior Golf Classic |
| 14.9.1997 | "Chicago Whites Sox retire Carlton Fisk's number, 72" |
| 14.9.1997 | Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Classic |
| 14.9.1997 | Loren Roberts wins CVS Charity Golf Classic with a 266 |
| 14.9.1998 | Week of Fed Cup |
| 15.9.608 | St. Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 15.9.1514 | Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York |
| 15.9.1556 | Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain |
| 15.9.1584 | San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished |
| 15.9.1590 | Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII |
| 15.9.1619 | Prince Bethlen Gabors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary |
| 15.9.1620 | Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims [OS May 8] |
| 15.9.1621 | Swedish troops occupy Riga |
| 15.9.1644 | Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X |
| 15.9.1656 | England and France sign peace treaty |
| 15.9.1683 | Germantown Pennsylvania founded by 13 immigrant families |
| 15.9.1707 | Rakoczi II and Czar Peter the Great sign social security agreement |
| 15.9.1733 | King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons |
| 15.9.1774 | Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured |
| 15.9.1776 | British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution |
| 15.9.1787 | Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam |
| 15.9.1789 | "Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State" |
| 15.9.1795 | Cape Colony surrenders to England |
| 15.9.1812 | "French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow" |
| 15.9.1821 | Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua gain independ |
| 15.9.1830 | 1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila |
| 15.9.1830 | "1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)" |
| 15.9.1830 | Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool and Manchester Railway |
| 15.9.1835 | HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands |
| 15.9.1846 | Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal |
| 15.9.1853 | "1st U.S. woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell" |
| 15.9.1857 | Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine |
| 15.9.1862 | Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV |
| 15.9.1870 | Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18) |
| 15.9.1873 | Last German troops leave France |
| 15.9.1879 | "Pim Mulier forms ""Haarlem Football Club""" |
| 15.9.1882 | British general Wolseley occupies Cairo |
| 15.9.1887 | Philadelphia celebrates 100th anniversary of U.S. Constitution |
| 15.9.1894 | Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang |
| 15.9.1898 | National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY |
| 15.9.1899 | 5th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD |
| 15.9.1903 | "Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers ""criminals""" |
| 15.9.1904 | Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight |
| 15.9.1910 | Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa |
| 15.9.1912 | Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins |
| 15.9.1912 | War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania |
| 15.9.1913 | "1st U.S. milch goat show held, Rochester, New York" |
| 15.9.1914 | Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I |
| 15.9.1914 | "U.S. Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico" |
| 15.9.1915 | Boston Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals 20-1 |
| 15.9.1916 | "1st tank used in war, ""Little Willies"" at Battle of Flors, France" |
| 15.9.1916 | Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme) |
| 15.9.1917 | Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky |
| 15.9.1918 | CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state |
| 15.9.1921 | Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus |
| 15.9.1921 | WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions |
| 15.9.1922 | Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 home runs in a game since 1897 |
| 15.9.1923 | 43rd U.S. Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64) |
| 15.9.1923 | Bill Tilden wins U.S. Lawn Tennis Open |
| 15.9.1923 | Gov Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of KKK terror |
| 15.9.1928 | 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva |
| 15.9.1928 | Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin |
| 15.9.1928 | Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6 |
| 15.9.1928 | "Stothard, Kalmar and Ruby's musical ""Good Boy,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 15.9.1930 | 1st International bridge match is held in London. U.S. team defeats England |
| 15.9.1931 | British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts |
| 15.9.1931 | "Philadelphia A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland" |
| 15.9.1935 | Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany |
| 15.9.1937 | WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to San Francisco Zoo (at Sloat Blvd) |
| 15.9.1938 | "Only time brothers hit back-to-back home runs (Lloyd and Paul Waner, Pitts)" |
| 15.9.1938 | British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden |
| 15.9.1938 | John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day) |
| 15.9.1940 | "3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)" |
| 15.9.1940 | Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher) |
| 15.9.1940 | Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company |
| 15.9.1940 | PM Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group |
| 15.9.1940 | "Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe" |
| 15.9.1941 | Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania |
| 15.9.1942 | U.S. aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal |
| 15.9.1943 | Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy |
| 15.9.1943 | Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens |
| 15.9.1943 | Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens |
| 15.9.1944 | British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs |
| 15.9.1944 | Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria |
| 15.9.1944 | U.S. 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall |
| 15.9.1944 | U.S. troops lands on Palau and Morotai |
| 15.9.1944 | US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid |
| 15.9.1946 | "Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats" |
| 15.9.1947 | "1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh" |
| 15.9.1947 | Yanks clinch pennant #15 |
| 15.9.1948 | F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph |
| 15.9.1948 | """Small Wonder"" opens at Coronet Theater New York City for 134 performances" |
| 15.9.1948 | WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WMGM |
| 15.9.1949 | """Lone Ranger"" premieres on ABC-TV" |
| 15.9.1949 | "WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.9.1949 | "WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.9.1950 | "During Korean conflict, United Nations forces land at Inchon in South Korea" |
| 15.9.1950 | East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification |
| 15.9.1950 | "For a record 6th time, New York Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 home runs in one game" |
| 15.9.1950 | "Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19" |
| 15.9.1950 | U.N. lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south |
| 15.9.1950 | U.S. troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul |
| 15.9.1951 | Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8) |
| 15.9.1951 | """Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" closes at Ziegfeld New York City after 740 performances" |
| 15.9.1951 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum |
| 15.9.1952 | Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee |
| 15.9.1952 | European Parliament forms in Strasbourg |
| 15.9.1952 | U.N. turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia |
| 15.9.1953 | Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner) |
| 15.9.1953 | "KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, Arizona (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.9.1953 | "WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.9.1955 | "WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, Florida (CBS) begins" |
| 15.9.1957 | Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany |
| 15.9.1957 | """Bachelor Father"" with John Forsythe premieres" |
| 15.9.1957 | SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game |
| 15.9.1958 | 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ |