1596 – Dutch fleet bombards Banten, Java
1907 – Adolph Sutro’s ornate Cliff House in San Francisco destroyed by fire
1939 – Radio NY Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission
1940 – Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England
1958 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
1972 – American athletes Vincent Matthews and Wayne Collett finish 1-2 in 400m at the Munich Olympics; acted casually on the medal stand, did not face the flag during anthem; banned from the Olympics for life
1980 – Oakland A’s pitch record 78th complete game of season
1980 – 32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner and Barbara Bel Geddes win. Notable for going ahead despite 51 of the 52 nominated performers boycotting the event due to a strike by members of the Screen Actors Guild.
1995 – 12th MTV Video Music Awards: TLC, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, and Madonna win
2005 – First presidential election was held in Egypt.
Author: gil7
Today in History for 7th September 2020
Historical Events
1813 – “Uncle Sam” 1st used to refer to the US, by Troy Post of New York
1923 – Interpol forms in Vienna
1941 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: 1939 champion Bobby Riggs beats Frank Kovacs 5-7, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3
1960 – Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)
1970 – Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053′ Royal George Bridge in Colorado
2008 – 25th MTV Video Music Awards: Britney Spears and Chris Brown win
Famous Birthdays
1726 – François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess champion, born in Dreux, France (d. 1795)
1864 – Ernest Halliwell, South African cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests), born in Ealing, England (d. 1919)
1914 – Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer, born in Richmond, Victoria, Australia (d. 2012)
1921 – Arthur Ferrante, American pianist and composer (Ferrante and Teicher – Exodus), born in NYC, New York (d. 2009)
1943 – Beverley McLachlin, Canadian jurist (17th Chief Justice of Canada), born in Pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada
1987 – Evan Rachel Wood, American actress (Thirteen), born in Raleigh, North Carolina
Famous Deaths
1951 – María Montez [Vidal], Dominican actress known as The Queen of Technicolor (Cobra Woman, Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 39
1954 – Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff), dies at 69
1959 – Maurice Duplessis, 16th Premier of Quebec, dies at 69
1962 – Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen-Finecke], Danish baroness and writer (Out of Africa), dies at 77
1991 – John Crosby, American columnist/detective writer dies at 79
1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (1965-97), dies at 66
Famous Deaths for 6th September 2020
1276 – Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (b. ca. 1215)
1808 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (b. 1723)
1919 – Pier Pander, Dutch sculptor, dies at 55
1945 – John S. Mccain Snr., US admiral, (WW II-Pacific Ocean), dies of a heart attack at 61
1952 – Jose Forns y Cuadras, composer, dies at 54
1952 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (Mimi, Rembrandt) and musical performer, dies of liver and abdominal cancer at 54
1974 – Olga Baclanova, actress (Freaks, Docks of NY), dies at 75
1985 – Jane Frazee [Mary Jane Frehse], American actress, singer, and dancer (Beautiful But Broke, Beulah), dies at 70 of pneumonia
1994 – Max Kaminsky, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (Max Kaminsky Orchestra), dies at 85
2008 – Sören Nordin, Swedish harness racing driver and trainer (b. 1917)
Historical Events for 6th September 2020
1839 – Cherokee Nation unites and ratifies constitution at Tahlequah, Oklahoma
1941 – Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto
1954 – WINS NYC begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show
1963 – The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
1984 – Lanford Wilson’s “Balm in Gilead” premieres in NYC
1986 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her 3rd US singles title; beats Czech star Helena Suková 6-3, 6-2
1988 – Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
1991 – USSR recognizes the independence of the 3 Baltic republics (Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania)
1993 – Jerry Lewis’ 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922
1995 – Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig’s record, plays in 2,131 straight games
Today in History for 6th September 2020
Historical Events
1863 – -7] After 59 day siege Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties)
1876 – Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina
1939 – World War II: The Battle of Barking Creek.
1958 – US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1992 – Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86)
2012 – 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey
Famous Birthdays
1876 – Willem Adriaan Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race and Crime), born in Amsterdam (d. 1940)
1908 – Anthony Wagner, Officer of Arms at the College of Arms in London (d. 1995)
1917 – George Mann, English cricketer, born in Byfleet, Surrey, England (d. 2001)
1926 – Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, born in Hitzacker, Germany (d. 2002)
1955 – Carl E. Walz, American NASA astronaut (STS 51, 65, 79), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1970 – Torrance Small, American NFL wide receiver (New Orleans Saints), born in Tampa, Florida
Famous Deaths
1780 – William Allen, Mayor of Philadelphia, dies at 76
1962 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
1966 – Luigi Perrachio, Italian composer, dies at 83
1997 – Philippe Rossillon, administrator, dies at 66
1999 – René Lecavalier, French Canadian sportscaster (b. 1918)
2019 – Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean revolutionary, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (1980-87) and 1st black President of Zimbabwe (1988-2017), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 5th September 2020
1607 – Pomponne de Bellièvre, chancellor of France (b. 1529)
1930 – Carl Panzram, American serial killer and rapist, dies at 38
1931 – John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1932 – Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
1976 – A E R Gilligan, cricketer (11 Tests for England 1922-25), dies
1988 – Lawrence Brown, American trombonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra), dies at 81
1990 – Beppo Brem, actor (Frontgockel), dies of heart failure at 84
1996 – Leonard Katzman, TV producer, dies at 69
2002 – John “Jackie” Kelk, American actor and stand-up comedian (The Aldrich Family, The Adventures of Superman), dies of a lung infection at 79
2016 – Hugh O’Brian, American actor (Wyatt Earp, Search), dies at 91
Historical Events for 5th September 2020
1839 – The First Opium War begins in China
1927 – Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings
1939 – FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe
1960 – A. J. Foyt wins the first of 67 Indy car victories at Du Quoin, Illinois. State Fairgrounds
1976 – “Rex” closes at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC after 48 performances
1980 – World’s longest road tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
1994 – Kirgizia government resigns
2017 – Hurricane Irma becomes the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region with winds of 185mph (280km/h)
2019 – New theory the Loss Ness monster may be a giant eel after DNA study reveals no plesiosaur or sturgeon DNA found
2019 – South African women march on parliament to protest violence against women after month where 30 killed by their spouses
Today in History for 5th September 2020
Historical Events
1877 – Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
1915 – Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
1955 – WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 – 11 Israeli athletes taken hostage and later killed by Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics
1996 – Following US cruise missile strikes on Iraq, crude oil prices rise as the market speculates when Iraq will begin exporting oil under UN Resolution 986
1997 – Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game
Famous Birthdays
1809 – Manuel Montt Torres, President of Chile (851-61), born in Petorca, Chile (d. 1880)
1826 – John Wisden, England cricketer (prominent Sussex player), born in Brighton, Sussex, England (d. 1884)
1827 – Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and writer, born in Genoa, Italy (d. 1849)
1912 – John Cage, American composer (Imaginary Landscape No 1/O’O), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1992)
1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress and singer (Myra Breckenridge; 1,000,000 BC; 100 Rifles), born in Chicago, Illinois
1954 – Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive, born in Utah
Famous Deaths
1910 – Julian Edwards, American composer, dies at 54
1926 – Karl Harrer, German journalist and politician, founding member of the “DAP”, which would become the Nazi Party (b. 1890)
1969 – Mitchell Ayres, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
1999 – Katie Webster [Kathyrne Jewel Thorne], American boogie pianist (The Swamp Boogie Queen), dies of a heart attack at 63
2015 – [Frederick] Dennis Greene, American singer (Sha Na Na), dies from cancer at 66
2017 – Holger Czukay [Holger Schüring], German musician (Can), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 4th September 2020
1063 – Toghrül, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad
1085 – Irmgarde van Keulen, German countress of Aspel/saint, dies
1644 – John Wtenbogaert, theologist (Kerckelicke history), dies at 87
1864 – John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825)
1937 – Giovanni Salviucci, Italian composer, dies at 29
1977 – Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher, dies at 82
1979 – Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (b. 1904)
2002 – Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-French pianist, dies at 98
2004 – Alphonso Ford, American basketball player, dies at 32
2006 – Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
Historical Events for 4th September 2020
1885 – 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
1886 – Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
1894 – In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops
1904 – Dalai Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
1920 – Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
1923 – New York Yankees pitcher ‘Sad Sam’ Jones no-hits Philadelphia A’s, 2-0
1936 – Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier
1950 – Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250
1998 – NY Yankees beat Chicago WS, 11-6, to win their 100th game on the earliest date in MLB history besting the 1906 Chicago Cubs and 1954 Cleveland Indians by 5 days
1998 – 1st ever “Who wants to be a Millionaire?” hosted by Chris Tarrant debuts on ITV in Britain