1669 – Henrietta Maria, French-born daughter of Henry IV of France and queen of Charles I of England (b. 1609)
1748 – Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, Filipino Religious Sister of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 85
1806 – Johann C Adelung, German translator/librarian, dies at 74
1839 – Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter, dies at 66
1915 – Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Premier of Quebec, dies at 93
1930 – G A Faulkner, cricketer (South African googly all-rounder), commits suicide
1960 – Fjodor Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga – matushka-reka), dies at 63
1966 – James Langridge, cricketer (242 runs and 19 wkts for England), dies
1985 – Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager, dies at 62
1996 – Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor, dies at 100
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Historical Events for 10th September 2020
1847 – 1st theater opens in Hawaii
1870 – Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms
1882 – 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
1884 – Congressman John R. Lynch presides over Republican National Convention
1902 – Utrecht soccer team UVV forms
1932 – Dodgers’ Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season
1940 – Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
1961 – American Ferrari driver Phil Hill wins Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch F1 World Drivers Championship; first American F1 world champion
1983 – Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
2019 – Malaysia’s National Disaster Management Agency deliver half a million face masks to Sarawak state, after more than 930,000 hectares (about 2.3 million acres) burnt in Indonesia cause hazardous levels of air pollution
Today in History for 10th September 2020
Historical Events
1931 – Lord Cecil of British government says War was never so improbable
1949 – “Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)” closes at Broadway NYC after 76 performances
1966 – Neil Diamond has his first Billboard chart success with single “Cherry Cherry”
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
2012 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Andy Murray of Scotland wins his first Grand Slam event; beats defending champion Novak Đoković 7-6, 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2
2019 – Novelist Margaret Atwood publishes “The Testaments”, her follow-up to “The Handmaid’s Tale”
Famous Birthdays
1869 – Caro Roma [Carrie Northey], American composer and singer, born in California (d. 1937)
1898 – Bessie Love, American actress (Broadway Melody, Children of Damned), born in Midland, Texas (d. 1986)
1930 – Kenneth Kweku Sinaman Dadzie, Ghanian diplomat (first African Secretary-General of UNCTAD), born in Gold Coast (d. 1995),
1932 – Bo Goldman, American screenwriter (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), born in New York City
1937 – Alun Pask, Welsh rugby union flanker (26 caps; British Lions 8 caps; Abertillery), born in Blackwood, Monmouthshire (d. 1995)
1944 – Thomas Allen, British operatic baritone singer, born in Seaham Harbour, England
Famous Deaths
1197 – Henry II of Champagne (b. 1166)
1868 – Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, German composer and harpist, dies at 79
1916 – Friedrich Gernsheim, German composer, dies at 77
1932 – Percy Fletcher, British composer, dies at 52
1983 – Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (1966-77), dies at 67
1999 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
Famous Deaths for 9th September 2020
1841 – Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63
1888 – Jan van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71
1898 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
1902 – Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, Governor of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53
1964 – Charles O’Neill, Canadian composer, dies at 82
1966 – Nestor Paiva, American-Portuguese actor (Zorro, The Creature from the Black Lagoon), dies of cancer at 61
1969 – Cecil Dixon, South African cricket off-spinner (1913-14, dismissed Hobbs twice), dies at 78
1976 – Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-76), dies of a heart attack at 82
1995 – Ida Carroll, English musician and administrator, dies at 89
2003 – Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
Historical Events for 9th September 2020
1513 – Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland
1886 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized
1934 – Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0)
1944 – Red Army supports coup in Bulgaria, instituting new Communist government (1946-1990) during the “National Uprising”
1958 – Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London
1967 – 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V
1981 – Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League
1993 – Croupier of casino in Bristol, England, shoots a 4 a record eight times
2011 – 58th National Film Awards (India): “Adaminte Makan Abu” wins the Golden Lotus
2018 – Arirang Mass Games begins in North Korea to mark country’s 70th anniversary featuring tens of thousands performing
Today in History for 9th September 2020
Historical Events
1967 – Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968
1972 – US Open Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Billie Jean King retains her title; beats Kerry Melville Reid of Australia 6-3, 7-5
1985 – Race riot in Birmingham, England
1993 – Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization exchange letters of mutual recognition
2018 – Arirang Mass Games begins in North Korea to mark country’s 70th anniversary featuring tens of thousands performing
2018 – Swedish General Election: no party wins a majority with far-right Sweden Democrats making gains
Famous Birthdays
1858 – Benjamin Kidel, English Sudan (Control of the Tropics)
1908 – Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (La belle estate)
1921 – Andrzej Dobrowolski, Polish classical and experimental composer, born in Lwów, Poland (now Ukraine) (d. 1990)
1922 – Hans Dehmelt, German-born American physicist (Nobel Prize 1989), born in Gorlitz (d. 2017)
1938 – Don Hogan Charles, American photographer and first African-American photographer hired by The New York Times, born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)
1942 – Luther Simmons, American RandB singer, songwriter and producer (The Main Ingredient – “Everybody Plays The Fool”), born in New York City (d. 2016)
Famous Deaths
1902 – Titus AJ van Asch van Wijck, Governor of Suriname (1891-97), dies at 53
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
1964 – Charles O’Neill, Canadian composer, dies at 82
1965 – Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer, dies at 90
1991 – Joop Zwart, Dutch political activist and resistance fighter, dies at 78
2006 – Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
Famous Deaths for 8th September 2020
1603 – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
1645 – Francisco Gómez de Quevedo, Spanish author and poet, dies at 64
1645 – John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
1656 – Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (Virgidemiarum: Six Books), dies at 82
1706 – Romanus Weichlein, Austrian composer, dies at 53
1814 – Maria Carolina of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies, dies at 62
1893 – Luke Short, American Old West gunslinger and saloon owner, dies of dropsy at 39
1956 – Vital Celen, Flemish writer (‘t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69
1980 – Willard Libby, American chemist who developed radiocarbon dating (Nobel 1960), dies of pneumonia at 71
2007 – Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (b. 1917)
Historical Events for 8th September 2020
1771 – Mission San Gabriel Archangel forms in California
1883 – NY Giants score 13 runs in an inning against Phillies
1914 – HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, sister ship of RMS Titanic, sinks off Scotland
1923 – Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.
1941 – Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins
1944 – 1st V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp
1975 – Boston begins court-ordered bussing of public schools
1985 – 7 die in a car and train crash in San Jose, California
1990 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Gabriela Sabatini becomes only Argentine woman to win a Grand Slam singles event; beats Steffi Graf 6-2, 7-6
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 2020
Historical Events
1553 – City of Lichfield, England, founded
1953 – “Carnival in Flanders” opens at New Century Theater NY for 6 performances
1968 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1973 – Hank Aaron sets record of most HRs in 1 league (709)
2015 – Comedian Stephen Colbert debuts as the new host of CBS’s “The Late Show”
2015 – Pope Francis announces moves to streamline the annulment process within the Catholic Church
Famous Birthdays
1857 – Ida Henrietta Hyde, American physiologist who invented the micro-electrode and the first woman allowed to do research at Harvard Medical School and to be elected to the American Physiology Society, born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1945)
1912 – Leo Cherne, American economist and commentator (All Star News), born in NYC, New York (d. 1999)
1946 – Dean Daughtry, American rock keyboardist (Atlanta Rhythm Section), born in Kinston, Alabama
1959 – Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer and actor, born in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR
1972 – Phil Laak, Irish-American professional poker player, born in Dublin
1975 – John Thomas, American NBA forward (Boston Celtics), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Famous Deaths
1637 – Robert Fludd, composer, dies at 63
1871 – Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57
1955 – John de Young, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69
1969 – Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and writer, dies at 100
1980 – Bruce Dooland, Australian cricket all-rounder (3 Tests; Nottinghamshire; Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1955), dies at 56
1993 – Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 7th September 2020
1151 – Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, conquered Normandy, dies at 38
1362 – Joan of The Tower, Queen consort of Scotland, dies at 41
1719 – John Harris, English writer
1799 – Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, dies at 82
1948 – Henricus Andreas Poels, Dutch Roman Catholic theologist and social foreman, dies at 80
1966 – Al Kelly, double talk comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 67
1991 – Ben Piazza, American actor (Santa Barbara; The Blues Brothers; Dallas), dies of cancer at 58
1992 – Indra Kamadjojo, [Broekveld], Indon/Dutch dancer (Stille Kracht), dies
1994 – Terence Young, British film director (Dr No, Thunderball), dies of at 79
2005 – Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer Marianne), dies at 72