1908 – Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1922 – St Louis Brown “Baby Doll” Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0
1926 – National Broadcasting Company created by Radio Corporation of America
1954 – Earthquake strikes Orleansville, Algeria: 1,400 killed
1960 – Denver Broncos beat Boston Patriots, 13-10 in the American Football League’s first game before 21,597 fans at Nickerson Field in Boston
1973 – US Open Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian John Newcombe wins his second US singles title; beats Jan Kodeš 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3
1990 – George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki and urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
2007 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Switzerland’s Roger Federer wins 4th consecutive US title; beats Novak Đoković of Serbia 7-6, 7-6, 6-4
2017 – Egyptian archaeologists announce the discovery of a 3,500-year-old tomb of a goldsmith and his family in Draa Abul-Naga, Egypt
2018 – CBS chief Les Moonves departs the company after six more women make allegations of sexual abuse in “The New Yorker”
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 8th September 2021
1855 – French forces successfully assault the Malakoff Line during the Crimean War
1907 – Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism)
1943 – Lieutenant-General Omar Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers from Sicily
1951 – Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries in San Francisco
1962 – Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary)
1972 – Jim Ryan (US) and Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide and fall in qualifying competitions for 1,500m finals, ending Ryan’s chances for gold
1991 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Stefan Edberg of Sweden wins his first US title; beats American Jim Courier 6-2, 6-4, 6-0
1999 – “American Beauty”, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, and Thora Birch, premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 2000)
2013 – 11 people are killed and 18 are injured after a gunfire attack in Guatemala City
2019 – Brazil’s Supreme Court rules Marvel comic depicting two men kissing can be sold after mayor of Rio de Janeiro attempted to ban it
Historical Events for 7th September 2021
1159 – Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope
1566 – Sultan Selim II succeeds to the Ottoman throne
1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1876 – Frank James and his gang are involved in a disastrous raid in Northfield, Minnesota, results in the death or capture of multiple gang members (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)
1891 – Captain Frederick Lugard’s army reaches Kavalli, Equatoria
1904 – British forces in Tibet force the 13th Dalai Lama to sign a treaty granting Britain trading posts in Tibet and a guarantee that Tibet will not concede territory to foreign powers
1927 – University of Minas Gerais founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by Governor Antônio Carlos
1960 – Japan wins the men’s gymnastics teams combined exercises gold for the first of 5 consecutive Olympics at the Rome Games; beats Soviet Union by just 2.5 points
1972 – American Rod Milburn with a world record 13.24 wins the 110m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics; just 0.10 seconds ahead of Frenchman Guy Drut
1979 – 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at Madison Square Garden, New York
Historical Events for 6th September 2021
1492 – Christopher Columbus’ fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
1839 – Great fire in New York
1869 – 1st westbound train arrives in San Francisco
1958 – US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1975 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 – Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
1991 – Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname
1994 – Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)
2012 – Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for US President
2017 – Catalonia’s parliament passes law to allow referendum on independence from Spain
Historical Events for 5th September 2021
1717 – Britain’s King George I issues Proclamation “For Suppressing Pirates in the West Indies”, granting pirates who surrender a pardon (re-issued 1718)
1915 – Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
1922 – 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
1950 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis: American Art Larsen beats countryman Herb Flam 6-3, 4-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 for his only Grand Slam title
1960 – A. J. Foyt wins the first of 67 Indy car victories at Du Quoin, Illinois. State Fairgrounds
1979 – Iranian army occupies Piranshahr
1984 – 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB
1987 – John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at US Tennis Open
1994 – Jerry Lewis’ 29th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,100,000
2018 – UK Prime Minister Theresa May confirms in parliament two Russian military intelligence officers undertook novichok nerve agent attack, prompts international condemnation
Historical Events for 4th September 2021
1813 – First US religious newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))
1870 – The Third French Republic proclaimed as French overthrow Emperor Napoleon III (who ironically was the elected president of the Second French Republic) after his defeat by Prussia at Sedan
1882 – In its 1st large-scale test, Thomas Edison’s light bulb is used to light NY’s Pearl Street Station
1885 – 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
1893 – English author Beatrix Potter first writes the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5 year old boy
1937 – 15 year old cyclist Doris Kopsky becomes 1st Amateur Bicycle League of America woman’s national champion in 4:22.4 in Buffalo, NY
1991 – Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, last drive-in in NJ, closes
1994 – Tom Tupa scores the first 2-point conversion in NFL history, running in a fake extra point attempt for the Cleveland Browns in a 28-20 win at Cincinnati
1998 – 1st ever “Who wants to be a Millionaire?” hosted by Chris Tarrant debuts on ITV in Britain
2014 – Aracheological remains of a Viking fortress from the 900s CE, the Vallø Borgring, is discovered in Denmark
Historical Events for 3rd September 2021
1838 – Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor
1900 – With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa
1914 – British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attack the Marne
1914 – Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV
1918 – Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line
1936 – For the first and only time in the history of the Walker Cup golf event, there is a shutout; the United States routs Great Britain, 9-0 at Pine Valley GC in New Jersey
1944 – Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France
1972 – American swimmer Mark Spitz wins coveted 100m gold medal in world record 51.22 at the Munich Olympics; completes the freestyle sprint double having already won 200m in world record 1:52.78
2013 – Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion
2017 – Governor of California Jerry Brown issues state of emergency due to La Tuna brush fire near Los Angeles
Historical Events for 2nd September 2021
1856 – Tianjing’s struggle Incident in Nanjing, China.
1894 – -3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
1898 – Machine gun 1st used in battle
1924 – Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart’s “Rose Marie” opens to rave reviews in NYC
1929 – Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union and Lever Bros
1941 – Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
1960 – New Zealand middle distance runner Peter Snell claims first of 3 career Olympic gold medals when he wins the 800m in Rome
1972 – French track cyclist Daniel Morelon successfully defends his Olympic sprint title beating Australian John Nicholson for the gold medal in Munich
1984 – “Zorba” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances
1990 – Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, San Francisco
Historical Events for 1st September 2021
1598 – Spanish King Philip II receives sacraments
1772 – Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California
1875 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the “Molly Maguires”, to disband
1911 – M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
1914 – Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris
1916 – Bulgaria declares war on Romania
1932 – NYC Mayor James J “Gentleman Jimmy” Walker resigns (graft charges)
1965 – Indo-Pakistani conflict – Pakistani counter-attack (Operation Grand Slam,)
1982 – Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks
1999 – Ex-Pittsburgh Penguins star Mario Lemieux is approved as new owner of the struggling franchise; Penguins become first club in pro sports history to be owned by a former member of the team
Historical Events for 31st August 2021
1900 – Dodgers’ Brickyard Kennedy walks 6 straight Phillies
1916 – Oscar Asche’s musical “Chu Chin Chow” premieres in London
1919 – Ukrainian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
1923 – League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
1940 – US National Guard assembles
1955 – 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated (Chicago, Illinois)
1968 – 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
1971 – Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
1981 – MLB Kansas City Royals fire manager Jim Frey, replace him with Dick Howser
2011 – 68th Venice Film Festival: “Faust” directed by Alexander Sokurov wins Golden Lion