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Today in History for 13th September 2025

Historical Events

1800 – Curacao in British hands (until Jan 1803)
1918 – Train accident at Weesp Netherlands, kills 42
1969 – San Francisco Giant Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player
1973 – ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics
1999 – Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia, killing at least 119 people

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Famous Birthdays

1893 – Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (Original Dixieland Jazz Band), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1953)
1903 – Claudette Colbert, French-born American actress (It Happened One Night, Texas Lady), born in Paris (d. 1996)
1980 – Evangelos Nastos, Greek footballer, born in Thessaloniki, Greece
1982 – Nenê, Brazilian basketball player (Houston Rockets), born in São Carlos, Brazil
1996 – Playboi Carti [Jordan Carter], American rapper (Whole Lotta Red), born in Riverdale, Georgia

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Famous Deaths

1759 – James Wolfe, British Army officer who defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec, dies in battle at 32
1902 – John Horace Forney, American engineer and Major General in Confederate Army, dies at 73
1906 – Georges Jacobi, German violinist, composer (The Black Crook), and conductor (Alhambra Theatre, London, 1872-98), dies at 66
1971 – Paul Blackburn, American poet, and editor (Black Mountain Review), dies of esophageal cancer at 44
2001 – Jaroslav Drobný, Czech ice hockey player (Olympic silver 1948) and tennis player (Wimbledon 1954, French Open 1951-52), dies of a stroke at 79

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Famous Deaths for 12th September 2025

413 – Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint, executed for participating in a rebellion (later exonerated)
1015 – Lambert I with the Beard, Count of Leuven, dies in battle at about 65
1362 – Innocent VI [Etienne Aubert], Pope (1352-62), dies
1732 – Jean Philippe Eugène de Mérode, Belgian nobleman (Marquis of Westerloo), dies at 58
1779 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, dies at 67
1947 – Harry Rowe Shelley, American hymn composer, dies at 89
1955 – Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary figure (La Gazette), dies at 86
1988 – (Carlos) “Charlie” Palmieri, American salsa and charanga music bandleader, musical director, and piano player (Tito Puente; Alegre All-Stars), dies after a heart attack at 60
2011 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)
2023 – Roy Kidd, American College Football HOF coach (Eastern Kentucky University 1964-2002, record 314–124–8), dies at 91

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Historical Events for 12th September 2025

1857 – 423 die when steamship SS Central America, the “Ship of Gold,” sinks in a hurricane off Cape Romain, South Carolina, carrying tons of gold coins and bricks from the California Gold Rush (rediscovered in 1988)
1901 – Arabs attack Gadara, Palestine
1925 – George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin’s first collaborative musical “Lady, Be Good!,” featuring siblings Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire as a brother and sister dance team, closes at the Liberty Theatre, NYC, after 330 performances
1958 – US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 – Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana, killing 75 people
1982 – European Championship marathon won by Gerard Nijboer of the Netherlands (2:15:16) and Rosa Mota of Portugal (2:36:04)
2001 – Ansett Australia, Australia’s first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed
2018 – According to a leaked report, more than 3,600 children were abused by Catholic priests in Germany between 1946 and 2014

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Today in History for 12th September 2025

Historical Events

2001 – Ansett Australia, Australia’s first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed
2004 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Roger Federer of Switzerland wins his first US title, outclassing Australian Lleyton Hewitt 6-0, 7-6, 6-0
2017 – A monster fatberg, 250 meters long, the size of 11 buses, and weighing 130 tons, is found in sewers under East London
2021 – 40th MTV Video Music Awards: Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber, and Olivia Rodrigo win
2024 – Crew of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission takes the first commercial spacewalk during a five-day journey through Earth’s orbit, traveling the farthest in space of any human since NASA’s Apollo program

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Famous Birthdays

1894 – Billy Gilbert, American actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1971)
1934 – Edward Wistenberg, Dutch concert harpist and pedagogue, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
1961 – Christiane Jolissaint, Swiss tennis star, born in Vevey, Switzerland
1968 – Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian and actor (BoJack Horseman, Mr. Show with Bob and David), born in Mount Airy, Pennsylvania
1969 – Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer (3 PGA Tour titles; Presidents Cup 1998, 2000), born in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture

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Famous Deaths

1591 – Richard Grenville, English privateer, explorer, politician and vice-admiral (established Roanoke colony), dies fighting a rearguard action as a result of the naval Battle of Flores at 49
1732 – Jean Philippe Eugène de Mérode, Belgian nobleman (Marquis of Westerloo), dies at 58
1806 – Christian Gottfried Thomas, German composer, publisher, and musicologist, dies at 58
1869 – Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (Roget’s Thesaurus) and inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard), dies at 90
1977 – Steven Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist, dies in police custody at 30

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Famous Deaths for 11th September 2025

1161 – Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
1709 – Spaar, Dutch General, dies in the Battle of Malplaquet
1888 – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, President of Argentina (1868-74) after whom Panamerican Teacher’s Day is chosen, dies at 77
1939 – Konstantin Korovin, leading Russian impressionist painter, dies at 77
1949 – Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (L’ete), dies at 75
1966 – Collett E. Woolman, American airline founder (Delta Air Service), dies at 76
1993 – Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian-American conductor (Boston Symphony, 1962-69), dies of cancer at 81
2001 – John P. O’Neill, American anti-terrorism expert and FBI agent, dies as Head of Security in the terror attack on the World Trade Center at 49
2003 – John Ritter, American actor and comedian (Three’s Company, It, 8 Simple Rules), dies of an aortic dissection at 54
2016 – Alexis Arquette, American transgender performer (Last Exit to Brooklyn), dies at 47

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Historical Events for 11th September 2025

1213 – Chinese general Chih-Chung assassinates Emperor Wei Shao Wang (former Prince of Wei) in Peking and proclaims himself Regent
1814 – Battle of Lake Champlain: The American navy defeats the Royal Navy at Plattsburgh, New York, ending the British invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812
1853 – First electric telegraph used between Merchant’s Exchange, San Francisco, and Point Lobos, California
1939 – Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on Nazi Germany
1951 – Florence Chadwick becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France, taking 16 hours and 19 minutes
1953 – KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1995 – Eastern Tennessee begins using 423 as the new area code
2015 – Former Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, becomes the first candidate to drop out of the race for the Republican nomination

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Today in History for 11th September 2025

Historical Events

1950 – First typesetting machine to dispense with metal type is exhibited
1956 – Vladimir Kuts runs a world record 10,000 m in 28:42.8
1971 – Egypt adopts its constitution
2005 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Roger Federer retains his title, beating Andre Agassi 6-3, 2-6, 7-6, 6-1; Agassi’s last appearance in a Grand Slam final
2018 – Imprisoned Brazilian Ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva abandons his presidential campaign

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Famous Birthdays

1862 – Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, British army officer, born in Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire, England (d. 1935)
1937 – Paola Ruffo di Calabria, Italian princess and Queen of Belgium (1993-2013), born in Villa Claudia, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
1969 – Eduardo Perez, American baseball player, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1972 – Kip Simons, American gymnast (Olympic 5th 1996), born in Media, Pennsylvania
1980 – Antônio Pizzonia, Brazilian race car driver, born in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

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Famous Deaths

1987 – Lorne Greene [Lyon Chaim Green], Canadian actor (Bonanza – “Ben Cartwright”; Battlestar Galactica), dies of pneumonia following heart surgery at 72
1987 – Ludovic Feldman, Romanian violinist and composer, dies at 94
2001 – Tom Burnett, American businessman and passenger aboard United 93, dies thwarting terrorist attempts to crash the plane into a Washington monument at 38
2005 – Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (ABC Wide World of Sports), dies of emphysema at 82
2022 – Alain Tanner, Swiss film director (Charles, Dead or Alive), dies at 92

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Famous Deaths for 10th September 2025

1382 – Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary (1342-82) and Poland (1370-82), dies at 56
1759 – Ferdinand Konščak (aka Fernando Consag), Croatian explorer, cartographer (Baja California), and Jesuit missionary, dies at 55
1868 – Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, German composer and harpist, dies at 79
1931 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (differential geometry and mathematical analysis), dies at 61
1934 – George Henschel, German-British baritone, pianist, conductor, and composer, dies at 84
1971 – Pier Angeli [Anna Maria Pierangeli], Italian actress (Sodom and Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge), dies of barbiturate overdose at 39
1995 – Charles Denner, French actor (The Bride Wore Black, The Man Who Loved Women), dies at 69
1996 – Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor, dies at 100
2007 – Ted Stepien, American businessman and basketball team owner, dies at 82
2015 – Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (I Vitelloni, Ulysses, Sciuscià), dies at 83

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Historical Events for 10th September 2025

1960 – New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits a 643-foot home run over the right field roof in Detroit
1961 – The USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
1961 – Mickey Mantle becomes the seventh player to hit home run number 400
1962 – KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 – WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1974 – Controversial TV drama “Born Innocent” premieres on NBC TV, starring Linda Blair as an abused teen in a juvenile detention home
1977 – Susan Perkins (Ohio) is crowned the 50th Miss America 1978
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

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Today in History for 10th September 2025

Historical Events

1849 – Famous American actor Edwin Booth makes his stage debut at age 15 in Richard III in Boston
1937 – Second American Football League plays first game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0)
1962 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian Margaret Smith beats defending champion Darlene Hard 9-7, 6-4 for her first US singles crown
1980 – Expos’ Bill Gullickson sets a rookie record by striking out 18
1995 – 47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Frasier, and Candice Bergen win

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Famous Birthdays

1645 – Romeyn de Hooghe, Dutch painter and goldsmith, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1708)
1753 – John Soane, English architect (Bank of England, Soane Museum), born in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England (d. 1837)
1786 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier, born in Chilpancingo, Mexico (d. 1854)
1919 – Lex van Delden [Alexander Zwaap], Dutch composer (The Bird of Freedom), and writer (Canto della Guerra), born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (d. 1988)
1976 – Greg Henderson, New Zealand track cyclist (World C’ship gold scratch race 2004), born in Dunedin, New Zealand

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Famous Deaths

1676 – Gerrard Winstanley, English religious reformer (b. 1609)
1765 – Jacob Gilles, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at about 74
1961 – Wolfgang von Trips, German auto racer (29 x F1 GP, 2 wins), dies in 1961 Italian Grand Prix (with 15 spectators) at 33
1993 – Janice Carroll, American actress (End, April Fools), dies of cancer at 61
2007 – Anita Roddick, English businesswoman and cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop), dies at 64

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