1795 – France annexes Southern Netherlands
1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1903 – First Baseball World Series game ever played; Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Americans 7-3 at Huntington Avenue; Jimmy Sebring hits first home run; Deacon Phillippe is winning pitcher and Cy Young the loser
1910 – Regina Rugby Club (to become CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders) plays first game, losing to Moose Jaw Tigers, 16-6
1919 – Infamous ‘Black Sox’ Baseball World Series begins with Cincinnati Reds’ Dutch Ruether pitching a 6-hitter and hitting 3 RBI on 2 triples and a single for a 9-1 rout of White Sox
1933 – New York Giants make no 1st downs, but still beat the Green Bay Packers, 10-7 in a week 3 NFL matchup at Borchert Field, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1965 – Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia
1987 – 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA
1992 – “Oba Oba ’93” opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 22 performances
2015 – Mudslide on the outskirts of Guatemala City leaves at least 131 dead and 300 missing
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 30th September 2020
1399 – King Richard II of England’s (supposed) abdication read out in the House of Commons by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In reality deposed by his cousin and successor Henry IV
1857 – US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland and Jarvis Island, south of Hawaii
1864 – Black soldiers given US Medal of Honor
1915 – Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
1927 – Yankees slugger Babe Ruth smacks his MLB record 60th home run off Tom Zachary in 8th inning of New York’s 4-2 win over Washington Senators at Yankee Stadium
1935 – The Boulder Dam (later the Hoover Dam), astride the border of U.S. states Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
1942 – Admiral Chester Nimitz’s B-17 finds Guadalcanal using National Geographic map
1950 – Radio’s “Grand Ole Opry” is broadcast on TV for 1st time
1977 – Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns
2012 – Ryder Cup Golf, Medinah CC: Europe retains Cup 14½-13½; win 8 and tie 1 of the 12 singles matches after trailing 10-6
Historical Events for 29th September 2020
1918 – WWI: Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line
1920 – Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10
1953 – US government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China
1973 – Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
1976 – SF Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0
1979 – Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
1979 – “Girls Talk” by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65
1980 – Malcolm McDowell wed Mary Steenburgen
1995 – Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead over 2nd-place team (KC) (27½ games)
2007 – Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, the magnox reactor and Calder hall was demolished in a controlled explosion.
Historical Events for 28th September 2020
1652 – English-Dutch sea battle at Kentish Knock
1850 – US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
1937 – FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1945 – Robert T Duncan appears as Tonio in “I Pagliacci”
1967 – Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, D.C.
1968 – “Noël Coward’s Sweet Potato” opens at Barrymore NYC for 17 performances
1974 – California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
1984 – 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi)
2015 – DNA controllers for the age women go into menopause announced in “Nature Genetics” by research team from Exeter and Cambridge universities
2017 – Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus reveals she has breast cancer
Historical Events for 27th September 2020
1881 – Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small “crowd” of 12
1912 – W. C. Handy publishes “Memphis Blues”, considered the 1st blues song
1921 – American swimmer Johnny Weismuller sets his first 2 world records in the 100m and 150yd freestyle events the A.A.U. Nationals meet in Brighton Beach, NY
1938 – Jewish lawyers forbidden to practise in Germany
1940 – Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces
1963 – At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at 190,000,000
1979 – Elton John, sick with flu, collapses in the Hollywood Universal Amphitheater
1996 – The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
2015 – “Junts per Si” pro-independence alliance win parliamentary majority in Catalonia
2018 – India’s Supreme Court rules overturns 158-year old rule, section 497, decriminalizing adultery because it was discriminatory against women
Historical Events for 26th September 2020
1629 – Sweden and Poland signs Peace of Altmark
1887 – Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
1890 – US stops minting $1 and $3 gold coin and 3 cent piece
1892 – 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa’s band (NJ)
1918 – Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI
1945 – All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
1954 – KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1977 – Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate “Skytrain” service, London to NY
1992 – 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates
2019 – WHO announces 800,000 children in DR Congo will be vaccinated in nine days in worlds’s largest measles epidemic that has taken over 3,500 lives
Historical Events for 25th September 2020
1396 – Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies
1820 – French Physicist François Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself
1829 – Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar
1861 – Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1911 – French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed
1980 – Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show, a lawsuit follows
1985 – Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
1988 – Hungarian swimmer Tamás Darnyi wins the 200m individual medley gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in world record 2:00.17; wraps up medley double at the Games
1989 – Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
1991 – Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens
Historical Events for 24th September 2020
1908 – Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1
1940 – Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton
1941 – Nine Allied governments pledge adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the Atlantic Charter
1952 – Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
1960 – International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares independence from Portugal
1980 – Iraqi troops cross Iran’s border, encircling Abadan
1988 – American heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets new world record 7,291 points to win the gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; East Germans Sabine John and Anke Behmer take the minor medals
1992 – Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in NJ Devils history
2013 – “The Goldbergs” by Adam F. Goldberg premieres in the US on ABC
Historical Events for 23rd September 2020
1868 – Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico’s independence (crushed by Spain)
1908 – University of Alberta opens
1922 – Gdynia Seaport Construction Act passed by the Polish parliament.
1923 – 80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law
1941 – German air raid on Soviet naval base at Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)
1942 – Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad
1949 – US President Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR’s 1st nuclear device detonation
1961 – Ernie Banks ends 717 consecutive-games-played streak
1967 – Greek Colonels’ regime frees ex-Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou
1992 – 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning – gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period
Historical Events for 22nd September 2020
530 – Discorus begins his reign as Catholic anti-Pope
1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 19 hanged overall, with six other deaths during Salem witch trials
1911 – Boston Rustlers’ future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young beats Pittsburgh Pirates, 1-0 at Forbes Field for his final career victory, number 511
1914 – 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die
1927 – “The long count” – in a famous boxing rematch, Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey by 10-round unanimous decision at Soldiers Field, Chicago to retain world heavyweight title; crowd 104,943; gate $2,858,660
1958 – KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 – Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager
1983 – Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years (Royal Albert Hall, London))
1991 – Harry Gant wins NSACAR Goody’s 500
1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia