1567 – War of Religion breaks out in France – Huguenots try to kidnap King Charles IX
1789 – US War Department establishes a regular army
1941 – Nazi massacre at Babi Yar ravine (near Kiev) Ukraine begins, 33,771 mostly Jews murdered
1946 – Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10 secs
1970 – “NET Festival” last aired
1976 – Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon
1990 – “Street Scene” closes at NY State Theater NYC after 6 performances
2009 – An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami
2018 – Rapper Kanye West announces on Twitter he is changing his name to Ye
2018 – NY Yankees Venezuelan 2nd baseman Gleyber Torres smashes a 2-run homer in 8-5 win v Boston at Fenway Park; Yankees MLB record 265th homer of the season; Giancarlo Stanton adds #266 in 7th
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 28th September 2021
1785 – Napoléon Bonaparte, aged 16, graduates from the elite École Militaire in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)
1928 – US acknowledge Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek
1934 – “Judge Priest” film directed by John Ford, starring Will Rogers is released
1937 – FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1960 – “Millionaire” last airs on CBS-TV
1961 – “Doctor Kildare” debuts on NBC-TV
1964 – Suriname governor A Currie resigns
1968 – “Noël Coward’s Sweet Potato” opens at Barrymore NYC for 17 performances
1974 – “Live It Up Part 1” by Isley Brothers peaks at #52
1974 – California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
Historical Events for 27th September 2021
1941 – US President Roosevelt launches the 1st Liberty ship, freighter SS Patrick Henry
1953 – Baltimore Colt Bert Rechichar kicks a 56-yard field goal
1961 – Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cubans consulate in Mexico
1968 – Cardinals’ super pitcher Bob Gibson’s 13th shutout of year
1971 – Tripartite talks involving the prime ministers of Northern Ireland, Britain, and the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) of the Republic of Ireland take place at Chequers, England
1974 – Australian National Gallery buys W de Kooning’s “Woman V” for $850,000
1982 – Cards clinching NL East title
1990 – Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter’s Supreme Court
2009 – German Federal elections return Angela Merkel for her second term as Chancellor at head of centre-right coalition government
Historical Events for 26th September 2021
1665 – Height of the Great Plague of London as 7,165 people die throughout the previous week
1917 – British assault on Menin-street, France
1955 – NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1968 – “Oliver!” directed by Carol Reed and starring Mark Lester and Ron Moody premieres in London (Best Picture 1969)
1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
1988 – Soviet throwers sweep the medals in the hammer throw at the Seoul Olympics; Sergey Litvinov wins gold with an Olympic record 84.80m ahead of teammates Yuriy Sedykh and Jüri Tamm
1992 – 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates
1995 – “George” magazine premieres, published by John F. Kennedy Jr
2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turned violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
2007 – Shinzō Abe formally ends his first term as Prime Minister of Japan
Historical Events for 25th September 2021
1492 – Crewman on Pinta sights “land”-a few weeks early
1911 – French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed
1926 – International slavery convention signed by 20 states
1941 – Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years
1959 – Hammer horror film “The Mummy” starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing is first released in the UK
1961 – KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1981 – Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Philadelphia)
1992 – “Barry Manilow’s Showstoppers” opens at Paramount NYC
2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.
2020 – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the 1st woman to lie in state in the US Capitol in Washington D.C.
Historical Events for 24th September 2021
1688 – France declares war on Germany
1838 – Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1951 – USSR performs nuclear test
1952 – American fast food restaurant chain “KFC” [Kentucky Fried Chicken] opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah
1962 – US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Mississippi
1976 – Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by US President Jimmy Carter
1983 – Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs and steal 30 bases in season
1983 – Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of champion Pakistan batsman Hanif Mohammad; scores 6 in drawn 2nd Test v India in Jullundur; goes on to play 45 Tests
1988 – Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)
1990 – Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
Historical Events for 23rd September 2021
1845 – Hunger strike in Hague
1908 – Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th and disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay and pennant)
1938 – British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich
1940 – Dutch artist Piet Mondrian leaves Europe for New York, where he lives for the rest of his life
1942 – Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad
1957 – “That’ll Be the Day” by Buddy Holly and the Crickets reaches #1
1968 – WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1982 – “Doll’s Life” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 5 performances
1988 – Jose Canseco is baseball’s 1st to steal 40 bases and hit 40 HRs
1996 – Howard Stern radio show premieres in Wilkes-Barre PA (WZMT 97.9 FM) and in West Palm Beach FL (WCLB 95.5 FM)
Historical Events for 22nd September 2021
1772 – 1st Partition of Poland is ratified by Austria, Prussia and Russia
1912 – Philadelphia second baseman Eddie Collins becomes only player in MLB history to steal 6 bases in one game for a second time as A’s beat St. Louis Browns, 8-2
1922 – US Congress passes the Cable Act, under which an American women who marries an ‘alien’ will not lose citizenship; neither will a women marrying an American automatically become a citizen
1931 – Coalition Government forms in New Zealand to combat the Depression (their lack of success led to the election of the First Labour Government in 1935)
1941 – British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro
1957 – Duke Snider’s 39th and 40th home runs are last hit at Ebbets Field
1966 – Surveyor 2 crashes on the Moon, and all contact with it is lost
1977 – Preston Jones’ “Texas Trilogy” premieres in NYC
1983 – The Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years apart in concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London
1991 – Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career NFL victory
Historical Events for 21st September 2021
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
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”