1960 – Coup under Colonel Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo
1973 – Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
1975 – Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint by Pope Paul VI
1986 – Saskatchewan and Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game
1986 – Bo Jackson’s 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium)
1990 – Ken Griffey, Sr and Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning
1996 – Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas), 23, crowned 70th Miss America 1997
1999 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
2009 – David Attenborough and Prince William officially open the Darwin Centre at the National History Museum London, in what is the Museum’s most significant expansion since 1881
2015 – Malcolm Turnbull ousts Tony Abbott as Australian Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Party
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 13th September 2020
1847 – American-Mexican war: US General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
1922 – The Straw Hat Riot begins in New York City as people protest the right to wear straw hats beyond the accepted end date of September 15
1932 – NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant
1944 – Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen
1953 – Pitcher Bob Trice becomes the first black player for Philadelphia Athletics
1956 – Stravinsky’s “Canticum Sacrum,” premieres in Venice
1964 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Roy Emerson beats fellow Australian Fred Stolle 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 for his 3rd Grand Slam title of the year
1974 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 – US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
2015 – EU Migrant Crisis: Germany introduces temporary border controls to cope with huge migrant numbers
Historical Events for 12th September 2020
1217 – French prince Louis and English King Henry III sign peace treaty
1751 – Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto
1876 – King Leopold II opens Congo-conference
1943 – Free French lands on Corsica
1952 – Noël Coward’s “Quadrille,” premieres in London
1991 – Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched
1992 – Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii
1999 – Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
2005 – Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip.
2012 – Apple unveils its iPhone 5 and iOS 6
Historical Events for 11th September 2020
1903 – The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
1933 – Antwerps Sportpaleis, the largest indoor arena in Europe opens; renovated 2010-13
1945 – Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of World War II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal but fails – later he is hanged
1951 – Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes
1966 – Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat
1967 – A’s drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley
1998 – 16th Commonwealth Games open in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia making Malaysia the first Asian country to host the games
2002 – Through extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
2007 – Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.
2018 – James Anderson takes his 564th Test wicket to become the most prolific fast bowler in cricket history as England beats India by 118 runs in the 5th Test at The Oval for a 4-1 series victory; Alistair Cook’s final Test
Historical Events for 10th September 2020
1847 – 1st theater opens in Hawaii
1870 – Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms
1882 – 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
1884 – Congressman John R. Lynch presides over Republican National Convention
1902 – Utrecht soccer team UVV forms
1932 – Dodgers’ Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season
1940 – Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
1961 – American Ferrari driver Phil Hill wins Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch F1 World Drivers Championship; first American F1 world champion
1983 – Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
2019 – Malaysia’s National Disaster Management Agency deliver half a million face masks to Sarawak state, after more than 930,000 hectares (about 2.3 million acres) burnt in Indonesia cause hazardous levels of air pollution
Historical Events for 9th September 2020
1513 – Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland
1886 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized
1934 – Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0)
1944 – Red Army supports coup in Bulgaria, instituting new Communist government (1946-1990) during the “National Uprising”
1958 – Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London
1967 – 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V
1981 – Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League
1993 – Croupier of casino in Bristol, England, shoots a 4 a record eight times
2011 – 58th National Film Awards (India): “Adaminte Makan Abu” wins the Golden Lotus
2018 – Arirang Mass Games begins in North Korea to mark country’s 70th anniversary featuring tens of thousands performing
Historical Events for 8th September 2020
1771 – Mission San Gabriel Archangel forms in California
1883 – NY Giants score 13 runs in an inning against Phillies
1914 – HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, sister ship of RMS Titanic, sinks off Scotland
1923 – Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.
1941 – Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins
1944 – 1st V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp
1975 – Boston begins court-ordered bussing of public schools
1985 – 7 die in a car and train crash in San Jose, California
1990 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Gabriela Sabatini becomes only Argentine woman to win a Grand Slam singles event; beats Steffi Graf 6-2, 7-6
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 2020
1596 – Dutch fleet bombards Banten, Java
1907 – Adolph Sutro’s ornate Cliff House in San Francisco destroyed by fire
1939 – Radio NY Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission
1940 – Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England
1958 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard 3-6, 6-1, 6-2
1972 – American athletes Vincent Matthews and Wayne Collett finish 1-2 in 400m at the Munich Olympics; acted casually on the medal stand, did not face the flag during anthem; banned from the Olympics for life
1980 – Oakland A’s pitch record 78th complete game of season
1980 – 32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner and Barbara Bel Geddes win. Notable for going ahead despite 51 of the 52 nominated performers boycotting the event due to a strike by members of the Screen Actors Guild.
1995 – 12th MTV Video Music Awards: TLC, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, and Madonna win
2005 – First presidential election was held in Egypt.
Historical Events for 6th September 2020
1839 – Cherokee Nation unites and ratifies constitution at Tahlequah, Oklahoma
1941 – Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto
1954 – WINS NYC begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show
1963 – The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
1984 – Lanford Wilson’s “Balm in Gilead” premieres in NYC
1986 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her 3rd US singles title; beats Czech star Helena Suková 6-3, 6-2
1988 – Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
1991 – USSR recognizes the independence of the 3 Baltic republics (Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania)
1993 – Jerry Lewis’ 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922
1995 – Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig’s record, plays in 2,131 straight games
Historical Events for 5th September 2020
1839 – The First Opium War begins in China
1927 – Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings
1939 – FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe
1960 – A. J. Foyt wins the first of 67 Indy car victories at Du Quoin, Illinois. State Fairgrounds
1976 – “Rex” closes at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC after 48 performances
1980 – World’s longest road tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
1994 – Kirgizia government resigns
2017 – Hurricane Irma becomes the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region with winds of 185mph (280km/h)
2019 – New theory the Loss Ness monster may be a giant eel after DNA study reveals no plesiosaur or sturgeon DNA found
2019 – South African women march on parliament to protest violence against women after month where 30 killed by their spouses