1213 – Chinese general Chih-Chung assassinates Emperor Wei Shao Wang (former Prince of Wei) in Peking and proclaims himself Regent
1814 – Battle of Lake Champlain: The American navy defeats the Royal Navy at Plattsburgh, New York, ending the British invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812
1853 – First electric telegraph used between Merchant’s Exchange, San Francisco, and Point Lobos, California
1939 – Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on Nazi Germany
1951 – Florence Chadwick becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France, taking 16 hours and 19 minutes
1953 – KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1995 – Eastern Tennessee begins using 423 as the new area code
2015 – Former Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, becomes the first candidate to drop out of the race for the Republican nomination
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Today in History for 11th September 2025
Historical Events
1950 – First typesetting machine to dispense with metal type is exhibited
1956 – Vladimir Kuts runs a world record 10,000 m in 28:42.8
1971 – Egypt adopts its constitution
2005 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Roger Federer retains his title, beating Andre Agassi 6-3, 2-6, 7-6, 6-1; Agassi’s last appearance in a Grand Slam final
2018 – Imprisoned Brazilian Ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva abandons his presidential campaign
Famous Birthdays
1862 – Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, British army officer, born in Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire, England (d. 1935)
1937 – Paola Ruffo di Calabria, Italian princess and Queen of Belgium (1993-2013), born in Villa Claudia, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
1969 – Eduardo Perez, American baseball player, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1972 – Kip Simons, American gymnast (Olympic 5th 1996), born in Media, Pennsylvania
1980 – Antônio Pizzonia, Brazilian race car driver, born in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Famous Deaths
1987 – Lorne Greene [Lyon Chaim Green], Canadian actor (Bonanza – “Ben Cartwright”; Battlestar Galactica), dies of pneumonia following heart surgery at 72
1987 – Ludovic Feldman, Romanian violinist and composer, dies at 94
2001 – Tom Burnett, American businessman and passenger aboard United 93, dies thwarting terrorist attempts to crash the plane into a Washington monument at 38
2005 – Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (ABC Wide World of Sports), dies of emphysema at 82
2022 – Alain Tanner, Swiss film director (Charles, Dead or Alive), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 10th September 2025
1382 – Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary (1342-82) and Poland (1370-82), dies at 56
1759 – Ferdinand Konščak (aka Fernando Consag), Croatian explorer, cartographer (Baja California), and Jesuit missionary, dies at 55
1868 – Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, German composer and harpist, dies at 79
1931 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (differential geometry and mathematical analysis), dies at 61
1934 – George Henschel, German-British baritone, pianist, conductor, and composer, dies at 84
1971 – Pier Angeli [Anna Maria Pierangeli], Italian actress (Sodom and Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge), dies of barbiturate overdose at 39
1995 – Charles Denner, French actor (The Bride Wore Black, The Man Who Loved Women), dies at 69
1996 – Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor, dies at 100
2007 – Ted Stepien, American businessman and basketball team owner, dies at 82
2015 – Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (I Vitelloni, Ulysses, Sciuscià), dies at 83
Historical Events for 10th September 2025
1960 – New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits a 643-foot home run over the right field roof in Detroit
1961 – The USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
1961 – Mickey Mantle becomes the seventh player to hit home run number 400
1962 – KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 – WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1974 – Controversial TV drama “Born Innocent” premieres on NBC TV, starring Linda Blair as an abused teen in a juvenile detention home
1977 – Susan Perkins (Ohio) is crowned the 50th Miss America 1978
1985 – U.S. 7th Circuit Court rules Soviet defector Walter Polovchak can’t be forcibly returned to parents’ country if it’s deemed “not in the best interests” of underage defectors
Today in History for 10th September 2025
Historical Events
1849 – Famous American actor Edwin Booth makes his stage debut at age 15 in Richard III in Boston
1937 – Second American Football League plays first game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)
1962 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian Margaret Smith beats defending champion Darlene Hard 9-7, 6-4 for her first US singles crown
1980 – Expos’ Bill Gullickson sets a rookie record by striking out 18
1995 – 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Frasier, and Candice Bergen win
Famous Birthdays
1645 – Romeyn de Hooghe, Dutch painter and goldsmith, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1708)
1753 – John Soane, English architect (Bank of England, Soane Museum), born in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England (d. 1837)
1786 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier, born in Chilpancingo, Mexico (d. 1854)
1919 – Lex van Delden [Alexander Zwaap], Dutch composer (The Bird of Freedom), and writer (Canto della Guerra), born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (d. 1988)
1976 – Greg Henderson, New Zealand track cyclist (World C’ship gold scratch race 2004), born in Dunedin, New Zealand
Famous Deaths
1676 – Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
1765 – Jacob Gilles, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at about 74
1961 – Wolfgang von Trips, German auto racer (29 x F1 GP, 2 wins), dies in 1961 Italian Grand Prix (with 15 spectators) at 33
1993 – Janice Carroll, American actress (End, April Fools), dies of cancer at 61
2007 – Anita Roddick, English businesswoman and cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop), dies at 64
Famous Deaths for 9th September 2025
1810 – Johann Baptiste Hagenauer, Austrian sculptor, dies at 78
1832 – Bernhard Klein, German composer, mainly of vocal works, dies at 39
1964 – Charles O’Neill, Irish-Canadian composer, organist, cornetist, and bandmaster, dies at 82
1975 – Minta Durfee, actress (Keystone Comedies, Mickey), dies at 85
2002 – Geoffrey Dummer, British electronics engineer who built the first integrated circuit (microchip) and worked on radar systems, dies at 93
2006 – Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (The Name of the Rose), dies at 79
2007 – Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian soccer forward (18 caps; Sturm Graz, First Vienna, Real Betis, Wacker Innsbruck) and manager (Austria, Athletic Bilbao, AEK), dies at 73
2012 – Ron Taylor, Australian shark expert and cinematographer, dies from myeloid leukemia at 78
2014 – Denny Miller, American actor, dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 80
2016 – James Stacy [Maurice William Elias], American actor (Lancer), dies at 79
Historical Events for 9th September 2025
1493 – Battle of Krbava Field: Ottoman Empire decisively defeats an army of the Kingdom of Croatia
1914 – First fully mechanized unit in the British Army is created: the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI)
1932 – Mine strike at Belgian Borinage ends
1944 – The Red Army supports a coup in Bulgaria, instituting a new Communist government (1946-1990) during the “National Uprising”
1964 – German Democratic Republic government allows short visits to West Germany
2006 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Maria Sharapova of Russia wins her first US title; overpowers Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne 6-4, 6-4
2012 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams wins her fourth US title, beating Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-2, 2-6, 7-5
2015 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain’s longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria
Today in History for 9th September 2025
Historical Events
1683 – Expelled Polish and Lotharingians reach Wienerwald
1939 – Nazi Army reaches Warsaw
1944 – US 113th cavalry passes Belgian-Dutch borders
1981 – Vernon E. Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League in the US
1987 – Gary Hart admits on “Nightline” to cheating on his wife
Famous Birthdays
1908 – John Heaton, American sledder (Olympic silver skeleton 1928, 48, bronze bobsled 1932; American team’s flag bearer 1948), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1976)
1931 – Bill Persky, American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (The Dick Van Dyke Show), producer (That Girl), and television director, born in New York City
1943 – Larry Hosford, American folk singer-songwriter (The King Takes The Queen), born in Salinas, California (d. 2016)
1956 – Avi Wigderson, Israeli mathematician and computer scientist (2023 Turing Prize for randomness), born in Haifa, Israel
1962 – Aleta Rzepecki Sill, American bowler (1983 WIBC single), born in Detroit, Michigan
Famous Deaths
1974 – Soltan Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer and People’s Artist of the USSR, dies at 55
1975 – Ethel Griffies, English actress (Billy Liar, Birds), dies at 97
1997 – Burgess Meredith, American stage and screen actor (Mr Novak; Of Mice and Men; Batman (TV) – “The Penguin”; Rocky), dies at 88
2011 – Jean-Paul Jeannotte, Canadian operatic tenor, educator (Lavall, 1964-79), and artistic director (Opéra de Montréal, 1980-89), dies at 95
2024 – Cecília Gáspár, Hungarian soccer midfielder and captain (28 caps; TSV Crailsheim, SGS Essen), dies at 39
Famous Deaths for 8th September 2025
1858 – Jacopo Foroni, Italian opera composer (I gladiatori; Advokathen Panthelin), and conductor, dies during cholera epidemic at 34
1871 – Etienne-Joseph Soubre, Belgian composer, dies at 57
1895 – Adam Opel, German entrepreneur, sewing machine and bicycle pioneer who founded Adam Opel AG, dies at 58
1917 – Charles-Édouard Lefebvre, French composer, dies at 74
1944 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer (Frau Helga von Staveren; Thijl), conductor, and anti-Nazi resistance fighter, dies of pneumonia at 63
1976 – Asen Karastoyanov, Bulgarian composer, dies at 83
1980 – Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram), dies at 101
2006 – Hilda Bernstein, British-South African author, artist, and activist, dies at 91
2014 – Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter, arranger (Jimmie Lunceford; Duke Ellington), orchestra leader, and teacher dies at 96
2020 – Simeon Coxe, American songwriter, singer and psychedelic synthesizer player (Silver Apples), dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 82
Historical Events for 8th September 2025
1831 – William IV is crowned King of Great Britain at the age of 64, becoming the oldest person to assume the British throne
1960 – German 4 x 100 m relay team equals world record 39.5 to win the gold medal at Rome Olympics; Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf, and Martin Lauer
1963 – Algerian population accepts the constitution
1973 – US Open Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Margaret Court wins her 24th and final Grand Slam singles title, beating fellow Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley 7-6, 5-7, 6-2
1980 – Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely after being arrested in Toronto for possession of drugs
1991 – NFL Buffalo Bills QB Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns against the Pittsburgh Steelers (52-34)
1994 – USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pittsburgh Airport, killing all 132 on board
1997 – TV series “Ally McBeal,” starring Calista Flockhart and created by David E. Kelley, premieres on Fox in the US