1881 – Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small “crowd” of 12
1912 – W. C. Handy publishes “Memphis Blues”, considered the 1st blues song
1921 – American swimmer Johnny Weismuller sets his first 2 world records in the 100m and 150yd freestyle events the A.A.U. Nationals meet in Brighton Beach, NY
1938 – Jewish lawyers forbidden to practise in Germany
1940 – Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces
1963 – At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at 190,000,000
1979 – Elton John, sick with flu, collapses in the Hollywood Universal Amphitheater
1996 – The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
2015 – “Junts per Si” pro-independence alliance win parliamentary majority in Catalonia
2018 – India’s Supreme Court rules overturns 158-year old rule, section 497, decriminalizing adultery because it was discriminatory against women
Author: gil7
Today in History for 27th September 2020
Historical Events
1921 – American swimmer Johnny Weismuller sets his first 2 world records in the 100m and 150yd freestyle events the A.A.U. Nationals meet in Brighton Beach, NY
1946 – King George II of Greece returns from exile to Athens
1953 – KOLO TV channel 8 in Reno, NV (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1996 – The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
1996 – Baltimore Oriole Roberto Alomar spits in face of umpire John Hirschbeck
2014 – Hawthorn Football Club defeats the Sydney Swans in the 2014 AFL Grand Final 137-74
Famous Birthdays
1919 – Jayne Meadows, American actress (Dark Delusion, David and Bathsheba) and wife of Steve Allen, born in Wuchang, Hubei, China (d. 2015)
1932 – Mario Bertoncini, Italian composer, born in Rome, Italy (d. 2019)
1935 – John Stanford, American college baseball coach/administrator (Middle Tennessee), born in Opelousas, Louisiana (d. 2013)
1948 – Tom Braidwood, Canadian actor
1949 – Graham Richardson, Australian politician
1976 – Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
Famous Deaths
1808 – Gaétan Vestris, French ballet dancer, dies at 79
1868 – Alexander Walewski, French earl and Foreign Minister, dies at 58
1943 – Willoughby Hamilton, Irish tennis, soccer player (Wimbledon 1890; Ireland 1 cap), dies at 78
2005 – Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian and actor (A Família Trapo), dies at 76
2012 – R. B. Greaves, American singer, dies from prostate cancer at 68
2015 – Frank Tyson, England Test cricket fast bowler/broadcaster (17 Tests, 76 wickets @ 18.56), dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 26th September 2020
1023 – Godfried I, duke of Neth-Lutherans, dies
1345 – Willem IV, earl of Henegouwen/Holland/Zealand, dies at about 27
1940 – William Henry Davies, Welsh poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp), dies at 69
1945 – Béla Bartok, Hungarian pianist and composer (Concerto for Orchestra), dies at 64
1983 – Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (Destins, Belle Menuniere), dies at 76
1990 – Alberto Moravia [Pincherle], Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82
1994 – Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi, dies at 22
1994 – Maurice Ashley, historian and editor (The Listener), dies at 87
1994 – Jessie Kesson, Scottish writer and radio producer, dies at 77
2004 – Marianna Komlos, professional wrestling valet (b. 1969)
Historical Events for 26th September 2020
1629 – Sweden and Poland signs Peace of Altmark
1887 – Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
1890 – US stops minting $1 and $3 gold coin and 3 cent piece
1892 – 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa’s band (NJ)
1918 – Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI
1945 – All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
1954 – KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1977 – Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate “Skytrain” service, London to NY
1992 – 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates
2019 – WHO announces 800,000 children in DR Congo will be vaccinated in nine days in worlds’s largest measles epidemic that has taken over 3,500 lives
Today in History for 26th September 2020
Historical Events
1629 – Sweden and Poland signs Peace of Altmark
1783 – Fayette County, Pennsylvania created
1917 – British assault on Menin-street, France
1948 – Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914
1953 – KERO TV channel 23 in Bakersfield, CA (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1997 – Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr hits his 56th HR of 1997
Famous Birthdays
1774 – Johnny Appleseed [John Chapman], American pioneer nurseryman (introduced apple trees to Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois), born in Leominster, Massachusetts (d. 1845)
1821 – Alvin Peterson Hovey, American judge, 21st Governor of Indiana (1889-1891), andBrevet Major General (Union Army), born in Mount Vernon, Indiana (d. 1891)
1907 – Anthony Blunt, British art historian and spy for USSR, born in Bournemouth, Hampshire, England (d. 1983)
1934 – Dick Heckstall-Smith, English jazz-blues saxophonist, born in Ludlow, Shropshire (d. 2004)
1940 – Frank Maloney, American football coach (Syracuse University 1974-1980), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2020)
1972 – Beto O’Rourke, American politician (Rep (D) Texas 2013-19), born in El Paso, Texas
Famous Deaths
1871 – Cipriani Potter, English pianist and composer, dies at 78
1951 – Hans Cloos, German geologist and pioneer in the study of granite tectonics (the deformation of crystalline rocks), dies at 65
1966 – Helen Kane, actress (Heads Up, Pointed Heels), dies of cancer at 62
1976 – Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 89
1979 – Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (El Dorado, Big Sky, Apache Uprising), dies from mouth cancer at 69
1983 – Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (Destins, Belle Menuniere), dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 25th September 2020
1333 – Prince Morikuni, 9th shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan, dies at 32
1396 – Philip of Bar, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1774 – John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
1825 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
1840 – Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier
1917 – Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
1926 – Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
1995 – Dave Bowen, Welsh soccer wing-half (19 caps; Arsenal) and manager (Wales 1964-74; Northampton Town), dies at 67
2003 – Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
2010 – Art Gilmore, American actor (b. 1912)
Historical Events for 25th September 2020
1396 – Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies
1820 – French Physicist François Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself
1829 – Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar
1861 – Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1911 – French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed
1980 – Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show, a lawsuit follows
1985 – Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
1988 – Hungarian swimmer Tamás Darnyi wins the 200m individual medley gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in world record 2:00.17; wraps up medley double at the Games
1989 – Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
1991 – Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens
Today in History for 25th September 2020
Historical Events
1639 – Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening
1867 – Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Washington, D.C.
1934 – Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1997 – Britain’s Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph)
2012 – Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands
2019 – Bulgarian economist Kristalina Georgieva named as the new head of the IMF
Famous Birthdays
1830 – Karl Klindworth, German pianist and conductor, born in Hanover, Germany (d. 1916)
1835 – Harry Wright, English Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder and manager (established baseball’s first fully professional team, Cincinnati Red Stockings 1869), born in Sheffield, England (d. 1895)
1932 – Terry Medwin, Welsh footballer (Tottenham Hotspur), born in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales
1935 – Harv Schmidt, American college basketball coach (University of Illinois 1967-74), born in Kankakee, Illinois (d. 2020)
1954 – Sylvester Croom, American college football coach, born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
1981 – Jason Bergmann, American baseball player, born in Neptune City, New Jersey
Famous Deaths
1914 – Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter, dies at 76
1967 – Hezekiah “Stuff” Smith, American jazz violinist and composer (It’s Wonderful), dies at 58
1986 – Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99
1995 – Bessie [Annie Elizabeth] Delany, American dentist and civil rights pioneer, dies at 104
1999 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer, dies at 69
2010 – Art Gilmore, American actor (b. 1912)
Famous Deaths for 24th September 2020
786 – Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies
1213 – Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)
1230 – Alfonso IX, King of León and Galicia (1188-1230), dies at 59
1568 – Antoon van Stralen, Flemish mayor of Antwerp, beheaded at about 47
1868 – Jan Albert van Eijken, Dutch composer and organist, dies at 45
1996 – Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, egyptologist, dies at 87
2008 – Bengt Anderberg, Swedish poet and writer (Kain), dies at 88
2014 – Stephen Sykes, Church of England bishop, dies at 75
2014 – Deborah “Debs” Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire and the Chatsworth estate, one of the Mitford sisters, dies at 94
2016 – Buckwheat Zydeco [Stantley Dural Jr] US accordionist (On Track), dies at 68
Historical Events for 24th September 2020
1908 – Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1
1940 – Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton
1941 – Nine Allied governments pledge adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the Atlantic Charter
1952 – Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
1960 – International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares independence from Portugal
1980 – Iraqi troops cross Iran’s border, encircling Abadan
1988 – American heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets new world record 7,291 points to win the gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; East Germans Sabine John and Anke Behmer take the minor medals
1992 – Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in NJ Devils history
2013 – “The Goldbergs” by Adam F. Goldberg premieres in the US on ABC