1589 – Battle at Arques: French King Henry IV beats Catholic League
1794 – French National Convention orders the remains of Comte de Mirabeau be removed from the Panthéon after his double-dealings with court revealed
1904 – The general strike called by the Socialist Party that spread throughout Italy ends
1915 – Cecil Chubb buys English prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600
1931 – Britain abandons gold standard; pound devalues 20%
1942 – 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris
1951 – Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec
1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world’s first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California
1968 – Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 lands in the Indian ocean after a six-day flight – first successful circumlunar mission with two onboard tortoises surviving the trip
1989 – Poland’s Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 20th September 2021
1835 – Farroupilha’s Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
1850 – Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
1870 – Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury
1945 – German rocket engineers begin work in US
1954 – 1st FORTRAN computer program run
1980 – “Blizzard of Ozz”, the debut solo album by English rock musician Ozzy Osbourne, is released in the United Kingdom
1981 – Ryder Cup Golf, Walton Heath GC: US wins 18½-9½; 6th and final Ryder Cup for Jack Nicklaus as a player; wins all 4 of his matches
2017 – Hurricane Maria makes landfall on Puerto Rico as a category 4 hurricane, knocking out all power and killing 25
2018 – Woman shoots seven people, killing three and herself at a Rite Aid distribution center near Baltimore, Maryland
2019 – Researchers for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) propose that aliens may have bugged earths co-orbitals (nearby orbiting rocks) in “The Astronomical Journal”
Historical Events for 19th September 2021
1559 – Five Spanish ships sink in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
1896 – Beginning of the Bombay plague epidemic when Dr.Acacio Gabriel Viegas detects the first case in Mandvi. Goes on to spread and kill 12 million in India.
1931 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Wannamoisett CC: 20 year old American Tom Creavy beats Denny Shute, 2 and 1 in the final for his lone major title
1931 – Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1
1993 – Parliamentary election in Poland
1995 – Andres Galarraga is 4th to hit 30 HRs for Rockies in 1995
2004 – NFL Oakland Raider wide receiver Jerry Rice ends NFL streak of 274 consecutive games with a reception in a 13-10 victory over Buffalo Bills
2006 – Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
2007 – MS Dhoni named Captain of Indian Cricket team for the 1st time for the ICC World Twenty20
2017 – US President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations vowing to “totally destroy North Korea” if threatens the US
Historical Events for 18th September 2021
1851 – New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)
1885 – Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1926 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis: Frenchman René Lacoste wins first of 2 straight US titles; beats countryman Jean Borotra 6-4, 6-0, 6-4
1947 – The Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July
1968 – “Funny Girl” biopic film based on life of Fanny Brice premieres, directed by William Wyler, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
1975 – Heiress-turned-bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco
1983 – Kiss’ first “unmasked” (no make up) appearance on MTV
1995 – Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands
2004 – 29th Toronto International Film Festival: “Hotel Rwanda” directed by Terry George wins the People’s Choice Award
2005 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Paris, France: Russian pair Elena Dementieva and Dinara Safina win deciding doubles rubber 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 over Amélie Mauresmo and Mary Pierce of France; clinches Russia’s 2nd consecutive title, 3-2
Historical Events for 17th September 2021
1644 – French troops occupy Mainz
1849 – Harriet Tubman 1st escapes slavery in Maryland with two of her brothers
1939 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Reigning Wimbledon champion Bobby Riggs beats fellow American Welby van Horn 6-4, 6-2, 6-4
1957 – Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for 1st powered flight
1958 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 – US space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts
1979 – Royals’ George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/HRs in a season
2006 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Charleroi, Belgium: Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium withdraws with an injured knee with decisive doubles match level at 1-set all; Italy wins first ever title, 3-2
2016 – Terror bomb in Chelsea, New York injures 29
2019 – Indonesia raises the female marriage age to 19, in line with males, to curb child marriages
Historical Events for 16th September 2021
1873 – German troops leave France
1919 – Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant
1920 – The “Wall Street bombing” occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York, killing 38 and injuring 143
1928 – Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die
1962 – Gerda Kroon runs European record 800 m in 2:02.8
1964 – “Shindig” premieres on ABC-TV
1971 – West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev
1996 – 1st one-day international in Canada, India v Pakistan at Toronto
2012 – Anti-Japanese protesters set fire to Panasonic plant in Qingdao, China
2018 – Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes sets an NFL record of 10 touchdowns in first 2 weeks of a season, torching Pittsburgh’s secondary with 6 TD passes; leads Chiefs to 42-37 victory on the road
Historical Events for 15th September 2021
1777 – George Washington on authorisation of Congress appoints Casimire Pulaski brigadier general in Continental Army cavalry
1914 – First Battle of Aisne finishes, Germans vs. French and British during WWI
1957 – US TV series “Bachelor Father” with John Forsythe premieres
1960 – Maurice Richard announces his retirement. He finishes his career with 544 goals, an NHL record at the time.
1967 – KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1994 – Muslim fundamentalists kidnap and behead 16 citizens in Algeria
2013 – 27 people are killed after a coal mine collapses in Afghanistan
2013 – Japan switches off its last working nuclear reactor
2018 – Archaeologists find the oldest-known brewery and remains of 13,000-year-old beer in Haifa cave, Israel, belonging to nomadic Natufian people
2018 – Swimmer killed by shark at Newcomb Hollow Beach, first fatal shark attack in Massachusetts in 80 years
Historical Events for 14th September 2021
1515 – Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory
1923 – Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain
1930 – Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
1942 – Yanks clinch pennant #13
1944 – US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall
1964 – Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House
1977 – Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robben Island, South Africa
2007 – Restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass are officially removed in the Roman Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum takes effect.
2014 – Evian Championship Women’s Golf, Evian Resort GC: 19 year old South Korean Kim Hyo-joo wins by 1 stroke ahead of Australian runner-up Karrie Webb
2017 – Fire at a religious school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, kills 23
Historical Events for 13th September 2021
1850 – The main-belt asteroid “12 Victoria” is discovered by J R Hind
1910 – Regina Rugby Club forms
1960 – Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
1970 – Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania
1980 – 1st United Negro College Fund
1983 – US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
2012 – 19 people are killed after a freight elevator crashes from 100 meters in Wuhan, China
2013 – 30 people are killed by a mosque bombing attack in Baghdad, Iraq
2013 – Jim Furyk fires 12-under-par 59 in the 2nd round of the BMW Championship at Conway Farms GC in Lake Forest, Illinois, becoming just the 6th player to shoot sub-60 in a PGA Tour event
2017 – Actress Rebel Wilson awarded $4.56 million in damages in libel case against Bauer Media in Melbourne, largest defamation payout in Australia
Historical Events for 12th September 2021
1848 – Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
1922 – Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4)
1957 – Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits US
1959 – “Bonanza” premieres on NBC-TV
1966 – Gemini XI with Charles “Pete” Conrad and Richard F. Gordon aboard launched for 71-hour flight
1972 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as President International Olympic Committee
1984 – Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident
1993 – STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit
2007 – Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
2015 – 12 tourists mistaken for militants, are killed by Egyptian forces in Egypts Western Desert