1625 – 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem
1743 – Great Britain, Austria and Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
1800 – Curacao in British hands (until Jan 1803)
1933 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first New Zealand female Member of Parliament
1936 – 17 year old Cleveland Indians future Baseball HOF pitcher Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 Philadelphia A’s in 5-2 win at League Park, Cleveland
1942 – Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of US Congress
1966 – Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa
1983 – Oakland’s Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season
1983 – US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 12th September 2022
1792 – Court martial begins for instigators of the mutiny on the Bounty on board HMS Duke in Portsmouth harbour, presided over by Vice-Admiral Samuel Hood
1857 – 423 die when “Central America” sinks off Cape Romain SC
1911 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers dual for final time; Boston Rustlers’ Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of the Giants; NY wins, 11-2
1912 – Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC)
1914 – Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
1932 – German government of Papen falls/Reichstag dissolved
1981 – “The Smurfs” animated cartoon series by Hanna-Barbera first broadcasts in North America
1983 – USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
2001 – Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for the first and only time in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America.
2020 – Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” starring Frances McDormand wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
Historical Events for 11th September 2022
1773 – Benjamin Franklin writes “There never was a good war or bad peace”
1912 – Philadelphia second baseman Eddie Collins steals MLB record 6 bases in the Athletics’ 9-7 win over Detroit Tigers at Navin Field
1942 – Transport #31 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
1943 – US and Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea
1944 – A reconnaissance squadron of the US 5th Armored Division “Victory Division” is 1st allied force to enter Nazi-Germany
1955 – Juan Manuel Fango in a Mercedes wins season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza to take his third Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 17 points from Englishman Stirling Moss
1968 – Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
1970 – The Ford Pinto is introduced.
1970 – 88 of the hostages from the Dawson’s Field hijackings are released. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
2001 – Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board
Historical Events for 10th September 2022
1510 – Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal
1785 – Prussia signs trade agreement with US
1845 – King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange
1913 – George W. Buckner, named minister to Liberia
1955 – “Gunsmoke” premieres on CBS TV starring James Arness
1960 – Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia runs WR 2:15:16.2 barefoot to take out the men’s marathon at the Rome Olympics; Africa’s first ever Olympic gold medal
1962 – WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 – WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (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
2015 – New human-like species – Homo Naledi announced by Scientists and a team of female archaeologists, found deep in caves in South Africa
Historical Events for 9th September 2022
1850 – Territories of New Mexico and Utah created
1926 – Train disaster at Wassenaar, Netherlands, 4 die
1958 – Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London
1962 – WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1965 – Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
1969 – US Open Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Rod Laver beats fellow Australian Tony Roche 7-9, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 to claim his record second Grand Slam
1983 – Vitas Gerulaitis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can’t beat 100th ranked male tennis player
1987 – Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016
2018 – Russian police detain over 1000 people amide nationwide protests against pension reform
2020 – San Francisco Bay area blanketed by dark orange skies and smoke due to California wildfires
Historical Events for 8th September 2022
1276 – John XXI [Peter Juliani] elected Pope, only Portuguese Pope
1449 – Battle of Tumu Fortress – Mongolians capture the Chinese Emperor Yingzong of Ming
1915 – Association of Negro Life and History founded in the US (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History)
1948 – British De Havilland DH108-fighter flies faster than sound
1960 – Nationwide release (US) of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
1960 – German 4 x 100m relay team equal world record 39.5 to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf and Martin Lauer
1966 – The Severn Bridge between England and Wales is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II
1975 – Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal
1986 – Westinghouse sells background music company Muzak to the Fields Company of Chicago
1999 – “American Beauty”, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, and Thora Birch, premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 2000)
Historical Events for 7th September 2022
1596 – Dutch fleet bombards Banten, Java
1871 – Bay of Biscay: British warship HMS Captain capsizes, 500 killed
1880 – Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters
1907 – Ocean liner RMS Lusitania begins her maiden voyage sailing from Liverpool to New York City
1942 – First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator
1948 – 1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh
1978 – 1st game of Boston Massacre, NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 15-3
1988 – 5th MTV Video Music Awards: INXS wins
1993 – St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Mark Whiten hits 4 HRs and 12 RBIs in 15-2 win at Cincinnati Reds
2019 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Bianca Andreescu becomes first Canadian to win a Grand Slam singles title; stuns Serena Williams 6-2, 7-5
Historical Events for 6th September 2022
1715 – Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland
1870 – Ship sinks in Gulf of Biscay; 483 die
1913 – Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club
1930 – Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
1946 – Terence Rattigan’s “The Winslow Boy” premieres in London
1952 – Canadian TV begins in Montreal
1982 – Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1987 – Saskatchewan’s Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
1990 – 7th MTV Video Music Awards: Sinead O’Connor wins
2018 – World Surf League announces from 2019 there would be equal prize money for men and women across elite tour events; first US-based global sports league with gender pay parity
Historical Events for 5th September 2022
1634 – -6] Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants
1786 – Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium
1844 – Iron ore discovered in Minnesota’s Mesabi Mountains
1906 – St. Louis University quarterback Bradbury Robinson throws first legal forward pass in the history of American football for a TD to Jack Schneider at Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin; St. Louis wins, 22-0
1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger
1939 – FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe
1946 – Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game, in his hometown of St. Louis; 2 RBI’s in Cardinals’ win over Chicago Cubs
1971 – NY Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet
1979 – American Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve and upsets top-seed Björn Borg 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 in the US Open Tennis quarterfinals
1988 – CFL’s Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return and 58-yd pass reception
Historical Events for 4th September 2022
1260 – Battle at Montaperti, Tuscany, between rival factions the Guelphs and Ghibellines
1864 – Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama
1888 – George Eastman patents the first roll-film camera and registers “Kodak”
1953 – WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 – Peter B. Cortese of US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania
1957 – Ford Motor Co. introduces Edsel automobile range
1967 – Train crash at Arnhem, Netherlands, kills 5
1976 – Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus
1995 – Chicago White Sox third baseman Robin Ventura hits grand slams in consecutive innings, the 4th and 5th, of a 14-3 rout of the Texas Rangers
1997 – 14th MTV Video Music Awards: Jamiroquai, Jewel and Beck win