1908 – Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1922 – St Louis Brown “Baby Doll” Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0
1926 – National Broadcasting Company created by Radio Corporation of America
1954 – Earthquake strikes Orleansville, Algeria: 1,400 killed
1960 – Denver Broncos beat Boston Patriots, 13-10 in the American Football League’s first game before 21,597 fans at Nickerson Field in Boston
1973 – US Open Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian John Newcombe wins his second US singles title; beats Jan Kodeš 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki and urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
2007 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Switzerland’s Roger Federer wins 4th consecutive US title; beats Novak Đoković of Serbia 7-6, 7-6, 6-4
2017 – Egyptian archaeologists announce the discovery of a 3,500-year-old tomb of a goldsmith and his family in Draa Abul-Naga, Egypt
2018 – CBS chief Les Moonves departs the company after six more women make allegations of sexual abuse in “The New Yorker”
Author: gil7
Today in History for 9th September 2021
Historical Events
1912 – J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph)
1972 – Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973
1978 – Baltimore Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto)
1978 – US Open Women’s Tennis, Flushing Meadows, NY: Chris Evert wins her 4th straight US singles title; beats fellow American Pam Shriver 7-5, 6-4; first time event played on hard courts
1983 – Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas
2017 – US Open Women’s Tennis: In the first all-American final since 2002 unseeded Sloane Stephens defeats Madison Keys 6-3, 6-0
Famous Birthdays
1887 – Alf (Alfred) Landon, (R-Ks) American politician and Presidential candidate (1932, 1936). Dies 1987
1909 – Jane Baxter [Fedora Kathleen Alice Forde], German actress (We Live Again), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1996)
1962 – Derek Kennard, NFL guard (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 – Sean Rooks, American basketball center (LA Lakers), born in New York City, New York
1969 – Constance Marie, American actress, born in East Los Angeles, California
1981 – Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress, born in Lanús Oeste, Argentina
Famous Deaths
1596 – Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
1713 – Giovanni A di Bartlommeo Viscardi, Swiss architect, dies
1915 – A. G. Spalding, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, manager and executive (NL wins leader 1871–76; co-founder of Spalding sporting goods company), dies at 66
1962 – Pat Rooney, American vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82
1966 – Leon de Smet, Flemish painter, dies at 85
1996 – Bill Monroe, American singer known as the “Father of Bluegrass” (Blue Moon of Kentucky), dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 8th September 2021
1645 – Francisco Gómez de Quevedo, Spanish author and poet, dies at 64
1755 – Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (Williams College), dies at 40
1909 – Frank Crawford Armstrong, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 73
1922 – Léon Bonnat, French painter (Job), dies at 89
1956 – Vital Celen, Flemish writer (‘t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69
1981 – Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist and longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80
1983 – Ibrahim Abboud, 1st President and 4th Prime Minister of Sudan (1958-64), dies at 82
1996 – Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102
2003 – Leni Riefenstahl [Helene Bertha Amalie], German film director (Triumph of the Will) and actress (Tiefland), dies in her sleep at 101
2010 – Rich Cronin, American singer-songwriter (Lyte Funkie Ones) dies of cancer aged 36
Historical Events for 8th September 2021
1855 – French forces successfully assault the Malakoff Line during the Crimean War
1907 – Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism)
1943 – Lieutenant-General Omar Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers from Sicily
1951 – Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries in San Francisco
1962 – Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary)
1972 – Jim Ryan (US) and Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide and fall in qualifying competitions for 1,500m finals, ending Ryan’s chances for gold
1991 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins his first US title; beats American Jim Courier 6-2, 6-4, 6-0
1999 – “American Beauty”, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, and Thora Birch, premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 2000)
2013 – 11 people are killed and 18 are injured after a gunfire attack in Guatemala City
2019 – Brazil’s Supreme Court rules Marvel comic depicting two men kissing can be sold after mayor of Rio de Janeiro attempted to ban it
Today in History for 8th September 2021
Historical Events
1755 – Battle of Lake George in the Province of New York: British army beats French
1921 – 1st Miss America crowned in Atlantic City – Margaret Gorman (16) of Washington, D.C.
1973 – Rebecca Ann King (Colo), 23, crowned 46th Miss America 1974
1974 – US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes
1978 – 2nd game of Boston Massacre; NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 13-2
2019 – Brazil’s Supreme Court rules Marvel comic depicting two men kissing can be sold after mayor of Rio de Janeiro attempted to ban it
Famous Birthdays
1815 – Alexander Ramsey, American politician (1st Governor of Minnesota Territory), born in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania (d. 1903)
1925 – Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson, Icelandic pianist and avant-garde composer, born in Skálar, Iceland (d. 2005)
1950 – Will Lee, American bassist (Late Show with David Letterman), born in San Antonio, Texas
1983 – Diego Benaglio, Swiss-Italian footballer, born in Zürich, Switzerland
1986 – Matt Grothe, American football player, born in Lakeland, Florida
1987 – Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian freestyle skier (Gold in 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics), born in Montreal, Quebec
Famous Deaths
1100 – Clement III [Wibert van Ravenna], 1st anti-pope (1084-1100), dies
1780 – Enoch Poor, American Revolutionary War general, dies at 44
1956 – Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-45), dies at 84
1980 – Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram), dies at 101
2003 – Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
2014 – Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (Adriana Lecouvreur; La Voix Humaine), dies at 104
Famous Deaths for 7th September 2021
1809 – Caroline Schelling [Michaelis], German author and academic dies at 46
1871 – Mehmed E Ali Pasja, Turkish statesman, dies
1872 – Antoni Stolpe, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 21
1893 – Hamilton Fish, American politician (Governor of New York), dies at 85
1920 – Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian politician and 12th Premier of Quebec (1900-05), dies at 64
1921 – Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)
1933 – Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon and Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies at 71
1939 – Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)
1949 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
1966 – Al Kelly, double talk comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 67
Historical Events for 7th September 2021
1159 – Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope
1566 – Sultan Selim II succeeds to the Ottoman throne
1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1876 – Frank James and his gang are involved in a disastrous raid in Northfield, Minnesota, results in the death or capture of multiple gang members (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)
1891 – Captain Frederick Lugard’s army reaches Kavalli, Equatoria
1904 – British forces in Tibet force the 13th Dalai Lama to sign a treaty granting Britain trading posts in Tibet and a guarantee that Tibet will not concede territory to foreign powers
1927 – University of Minas Gerais founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by Governor Antônio Carlos
1960 – Japan wins the men’s gymnastics teams combined exercises gold for the first of 5 consecutive Olympics at the Rome Games; beats Soviet Union by just 2.5 points
1972 – American Rod Milburn with a world record 13.24 wins the 110m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics; just 0.10 seconds ahead of Frenchman Guy Drut
1979 – 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at Madison Square Garden, New York
Today in History for 7th September 2021
Historical Events
1812 – Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Bonapartre wins a pyrrhic victory against Russian General Mikhail Kutuzov in the most ferocious battle of the Napoleonic era, 70,000 are killed
1909 – Eugene Lefebvre becomes first pilot to die in an airplane craft, while test piloting new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy
1956 – Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000’+
1987 – South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc’er Klaas de Young
1991 – Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes
2008 – 25th MTV Video Music Awards: Britney Spears and Chris Brown win
Famous Birthdays
1635 – Paul Esterhazy, Hungarian prince, composer and patron, born in Eisenstadt (d. 1713)
1957 – Melvin Edward Mays, one of FBI’s most wanted
1964 – Eazy-E [Eric Lynn Wright], American rapper (N.W.A.), born in Compton, California (d. 1995)
1965 – Uta Pippig, German long distance runner, born in Leipzig, Germany
1970 – Tom Everett Scott, American actor (Dead Man on Campus), born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
1980 – Gabriel Milito, Argentine soccer defender (42 caps; Independiente, Zaragoza), born in Bernal, Argentina
Famous Deaths
1881 – Sidney Clopton Lanier, composer, dies at 39
1893 – Hamilton Fish, American politician (Governor of New York), dies at 85
1944 – Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, Cuban composer, dies at 70
1965 – Catherine Dale Owen, actress (Behind Office Doors), dies at 62
1992 – Henry Ephron, American screenwriter (Daddy Long Legs), dies at 81
1995 – Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist, dies at 51
Famous Deaths for 6th September 2021
1782 – Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (b. 1748)
1863 – Lucius March Walker, Confederate brigadier general (in duel), dies at 33
1941 – Hugo Loudon, president-director (Royal Oil), dies at 81
1944 – Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered
1950 – Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
1951 – Joe Falcaro, American bowler (National Match Game champion 1929-33), dies at 55
1959 – Kay Kendall [Justine McCarthy], British actress (Genevieve, The Constant Husband, Les Girls), dies of leukaemia at 32
1981 – Joseph Yasser, Russian-American composer, dies at 88
2005 – Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)
2020 – Lou Brock, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (6 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1964, 67; 8 × NL stolen base leader; St Louis Cardinals), dies from multiple myeloma at 81
Historical Events for 6th September 2021
1492 – Christopher Columbus’ fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
1839 – Great fire in New York
1869 – 1st westbound train arrives in San Francisco
1958 – US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1975 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 – Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
1991 – Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname
1994 – Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)
2012 – Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for US President
2017 – Catalonia’s parliament passes law to allow referendum on independence from Spain