1404 – Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established
1792 – Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France
1887 – Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
1926 – JB Fagan’s stage drama “And So to Bed”, based on the life of Samuel Pepys, premieres in London
1940 – Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Woolston, Southampton for second time, 30 killed
1949 – Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign torn down, reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood
1963 – 1st edition of NYC Review of Books
1964 – Braves (25) and Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn
1999 – Ryder Cup Golf, The Country Club, Brookline: US wins 14½-13½ after trailing 10-6 going into the singles; win first 6 matches to set up victory; poor American crowd and team behaviour heavily criticised
2021 – German election: center-left Social Democrats win most seats but not a majority over ruling conservative Christian Democratic Union without its retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel
Author: gil7
Today in History for 26th September 2023
Historical Events
1949 – Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign torn down, reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood
1968 – 1st broadcast of “Hawaii Five-O” on CBS-TV
1983 – Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns
1987 – Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games
1995 – Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld v Western Prov)
2002 – Overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000
Famous Birthdays
1903 – Gerhard Nebel, German writer, born in Dessau (d. 1974)
1926 – Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European philologist (Indo-Iranian languages), born in Linz, Austria (d. 2011)
1927 – Joyce Jameson, American comedienne and actress (Spike Jones Show, The Outlaw Josey Wales), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1987)
1937 – Valentin Pavlov, Russian politician and Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (1991), born in Moscow, Soviet Union (d. 2003)
1983 – Zoe Perry, American stage and screen actress (Young Sheldon), born in Chicago, Illinois
1994 – Marcell Jacobs, Italian track athlete (Olympic gold – men’s 100m 2020; first Italian to win the event), born in El Paso, Texas
Famous Deaths
1952 – George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher and poet (Last Puritan), dies at 88
1961 – Juanita Hansen, actress (Fast Company), dies of heart ailment at 67
1966 – Helen Kane, American actress and singer (Heads Up, Pointed Heels), dies of cancer at 62
1983 – Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (Destins, Belle Menuniere), dies at 76
1996 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist (1973 Nobel Prize – organometallic compounds), dies at 75
2017 – Robert Delpire, French publisher, editor and photographer, dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 25th September 2023
1602 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1792 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman, dies at 81
1808 – Richard Porson, English classical scholar (Porson’s Law), dies at about 48
1900 – John M. Palmer, American politician (U.S. Senator from Illinois) and American Civil War General (Union), dies at 83
1926 – Herbert Booth, English Salvation Army Officer and son of William and Catherine Booth, dies at 64
1933 – Ring Lardner, American sports writer (Chicago Examiner, Chicago Tribune; “Pullman Pastimes”-The Sporting News; “You Know Me”; the Boston American), dies from a heart attack at 48
1944 – Leo Justinus Kauffmann, Alsatian composer, dies at 43
1960 – Emily Post, American authority on social behaviour and writer (Etiquette), dies at 86
2005 – George Archer, American golfer (US Masters 1969), dies of Burkitt’s lymphoma at 65
2016 – Rod Temperton, British pop musician and songwriter (“Boogie Nights”; “Thriller”; “Give Me the Night”; “Yah Mo B There”), dies of cancer at 66
Historical Events for 25th September 2023
1639 – First printing press in America set up in Cambridge under the guaranty of Harvard College
1867 – Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Washington, D.C.
1929 – Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
1947 – 2nd Cannes Film Festival ends with six different awards presented including Best Musical for Vincente Minnelli’s” Ziegfeld Follies” and Walt Disney’s “Dumbo” Best Animation
1970 – Ringo Starr releases his 2nd solo album “Beaucoups of Blues”, a collection of country music recorded in Nashville, Tennessee
1973 – 3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
1987 – Major General Sitiveni Rabuka stages a second Fijian coup and declares Fiji a republic
1989 – Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits and 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons
2008 – The “Celtic Tiger” slides into recession for the first time in over two decades, recording a 0.5% fall in second quarter GDP, following a 0.3% decline in the first quarter
2019 – Australia’s Capital Territory becomes the 1st state in Australia to legalize recreational marijuana
Today in History for 25th September 2023
Historical Events
1866 – (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing
1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia
1957 – 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central High School in Arkansas
1980 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
2002 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
2012 – Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands
Famous Birthdays
1612 – Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, Dutch historian, born in Bergen-op-Zoom, The Netherlands (d. 1653)
1816 – Anton de Kontski [Antoni Kątski], Polish-American pianist and composer (Awakening Of The Lion), born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1899) [some sources cite birth as 1817-10-27]
1846 – Wladimir Köppen [Vladimir Köppen], German meteorologist and climatologist who developed the Köppen climate classification system for the regions of the world, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1940)
1896 – Roberto Gerhard, Spanish Catalan composer (the Plague), born in Valls, Catalonia, Spain (d. 1970)
1952 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time), born in New York City (d. 2004)
1981 – Jason Bergmann, American baseball player, born in Neptune City, New Jersey
Famous Deaths
1066 – Harald III Hardrada, King of Norway (1047-66), dies at the Battle of Stamford Bridge at 51 – his death often considered the end of the Viking Age
1716 – Johann Christoph Pez, German Baroque composer, dies at 52
1914 – Alfred Lichtenstein, German writer, dies at 25
1970 – Efim Golishev, Ukrainian painter and composer, dies at 73
1986 – Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician and former president of the Canadian Labour Congress (1967-74), dies at 77
1995 – Bessie [Annie Elizabeth] Delany, American dentist and civil rights pioneer, dies at 104
Famous Deaths for 24th September 2023
1054 – Hermann of Reichenau [Hermannus Contractus], German Benedictine monk and scholar, dies at 41
1621 – Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
1732 – Emperor Reigen, 112th Emperor of Japan, dies at 78
1949 – Pierre de Bréville, French composer, author and professor (Une histoire du théâtre lyrique en France), dies at 88
1953 – Berthold Viertel, Austrian screenwriter, dies at 68
1995 – Lauri Saikkola, Finnish violinist (Viipuri Philharmonic, 1923–34); Helsinki Philharmonic, 1934–65), and composer (Laulusarja; Unen kaivo), dies at 89
1999 – Torsten Nilsson, Swedish organist, choral director, composer (Out of the Night of the Earth; Septem improvisationes), and pedagogue, dies at 79
2002 – Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
2014 – Stephen Sykes, Church of England bishop, dies at 75
2021 – Emmanuel Agassi, Iranian boxer and tennis coach (father of Andre Agassi), dies at 90
Historical Events for 24th September 2023
1529 – Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman troops arrive in Vienna, beginning of the siege
1929 – James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Air Force Base in NY in the first flight to use only instrument guidance to take off, fly a set course and land
1932 – NY Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Los Angeles
1940 – Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
1957 – “Jailhouse Rock” single released by Elvis Presley (Billboard Song of the Year 1957)
1962 – US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Mississippi
1973 – West African nation of Portuguese Guinea declares independence from Portugal as the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
1981 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 – West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
1990 – Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
Today in History for 24th September 2023
Historical Events
1688 – France declares war on Germany
1948 – Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight chargs of treason in Washington, D.C.
1958 – 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Iowa
1980 – Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season
1990 – Saddam Hussein states his willingness to strike first and his intention to damage oil fields in the region if Iraq does strike
2018 – Real Madrid midfielder and Croatian World Cup captain Luka Modrić is named world’s best male player at the FIFA Awards in London; Brazil and Orlando Pride forward Marta best female player; France’s Didier Deschamps best men’s coach
Famous Birthdays
1885 – Artur Lemba, Estonian concert pianist, composer (Sabina), and piano teacher (St. Petersburg Conservatory, 1908-20), born in Revel, Russian Empire (now Tallinn, Estonia) (d. 1963)
1898 – Charlotte van Pallandt, Dutch sculptress, born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1997)
1934 – Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer (Stockport County), born in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland
1936 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, artist, screenwriter and filmmaker, best known as the creator of ‘the Muppets” (Sesame Street, The Muppet Show), born in Greenville, Mississippi (d. 1990)
1962 – Jake Phelps, American skateboarder, journalist (editor Thrasher magazine), born in San Francisco, CA (d. 2019)
1966 – Atul Bedade, Indian cricketer (ODI batsman), born in Bombay, India
Famous Deaths
1494 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
1802 – Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow), commits suicide by drinking poison at 53
1982 – Paulus Akkerman, Dutch-Frisian baker, writer (Each om Each), and translator, dies at 74
1994 – Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher, dies at 65
1994 – David Napley, English solicitor, dies at 79
1996 – Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, egyptologist, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 23rd September 2023
1797 – Johann Georg Roser, Austrian composer and kapellmeister, dies at 57
1902 – John Wesley Powell, American geologist, explorer (Grand Canyon) and ethnologist, dies at 68
1982 – Jimmy Wakely, American country music vocalist (5 Star Jubilee), dies of heart failure at 68
1991 – Patrick Hamilton, English author and playwright (Gas Light, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 58
1994 – Robert Bloch, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho), dies of cancer at 77
1994 – Jerry Barber, American golfer (PGA C’ship 1961), dies of mitral valve prolapse and stroke at 78
1994 – Dalton Reed, American soul singer, dies of heart failure at 42
1997 – Abe Gibron, head coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 72
2006 – Sir Malcolm Arnold, British trumpeter, and classical and film score composer (The Bridge On The River Kwai), dies at 84
2020 – Bobby Wilson, English tennis player (Wimbledon doubles 1960 runner-up), dies at 84
Historical Events for 23rd September 2023
1795 – Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris
1845 – 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
1846 – Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d’Arrest find Neptune
1868 – British Open Men’s Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Jr. beats his father, Tom Morris Sr. by 3 strokes; at 17 young Morris remains youngest Open champion
1972 – Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos announces state of emergency and declares martial law
1973 – Argentine General Elections – former Argentine President Juan Perón returns to power
1982 – “Doll’s Life” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 5 performances
2012 – Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer
2022 – US President Joe Biden awards British singer Elton John with National Humanities Medal
2022 – British PM Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng release “the mini-budget that broke Britain” containing largest tax cuts. Leads to an economic crisis and the downfall of both.