622 – Islamic Prophet Muhammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina)
1602 – Spanish held city of Grave surrenders to Maurice of Orange during Eighty Years’ War
1911 – Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header
1944 – Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth
1948 – Mexican Baseball league disbanded
1964 – Günter Grass’ play “Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand,” premieres in Berlin
1972 – The Social Democratic and Labour Party issues a document entitled “Towards a New Ireland”, proposing that the British and Irish governments should have joint sovereignty over Northern Ireland
2000 – The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile.
2005 – Model Kate Moss is dropped by clothing chain HandM after allegations of drug taking
2015 – Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, confirms raising the price of toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim by 5,000%
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 19th September 2020
1912 – Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda
1923 – Ernst Tollers “Hinkemann,” premieres in Leipzig
1971 – 2nd NYC Marathon won by Norman Higgins in 2:22:54
1974 – The KGB begin a large-scale operation to discredit Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and cut his communications with Soviet dissidents
1982 – New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chicago Bears 10-0
1986 – Australian cricketer Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras
1994 – Swedish government of Bildt resigns
1995 – Andres Galarraga is 4th to hit 30 HRs for Rockies in 1995
1999 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Stanford, California: Lindsay Davenport beats Elena Likhovtseva of Russia 6-4, 6-4 to give US an unassailable 3-0 lead (ends, 4-1) and their record extending 16th title
2012 – 9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan
Historical Events for 18th September 2020
1437 – Peasant uprising in Transsylvania
1809 – Royal Opera House in London opens
1882 – Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)
1929 – Pirates loss to Braves and clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
1959 – Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
1961 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1965 – “I Dream of Jeannie”, starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, premieres on NBC
1965 – Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
1993 – Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, and Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3
2012 – The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike.
Historical Events for 17th September 2020
1584 – Gent surrenders to Duke of Parma
1691 – Massachusetts Bay Colony granted new charter
1745 – Edinburgh occupied by Jacobites under Charles Edward Stuart (aka the Young Pretender or Bonny Prince Charlie)
1849 – Harriet Tubman 1st escapes slavery in Maryland with two of her brothers
1862 – Battle of Antietam [Battle of Sharpsburg], bloodiest day in the American Civil War: 22,000 dead, wounded or missing in first battle on Union soil
1928 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis: Frenchman Henri Cochet wins his only US title; beats American Frank Hunter 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3
1957 – Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for 1st powered flight
1976 – NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California, named after Star Trek Enterprise with cast attending
2001 – Despite suffering from lung cancer and Parkinson’s disease, Jack Buck stirs emotions by reading a patriotic-themed poem during the pregame ceremonies on baseball’s first night back after the September 11th terrorist attacks
2019 – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg tells US Congress “I know you are trying but just not hard enough. Sorry.”
Historical Events for 16th September 2020
1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers
1859 – Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi’s boundary with Tanzania and Mozambique discovered by British explorer David Livingstone
1941 – German armoured troops surround Kiev, Ukraine
1955 – Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt
1990 – Pirate Radio NY International begins transmissions on WWCR
1990 – Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George H. W. Bush
1999 – 1st ever season of “Big Brother” reality show begins on the Veronica channel in The Netherlands
2006 – 31st Toronto International Film Festival: “Bella” directed by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde wins the People’s Choice Award
2013 – 21 people are killed by Hurricane Ingrid in Mexico
2015 – Oil tanker explosion kills 170 in Maridi, South Sudan
Historical Events for 15th September 2020
1590 – Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII
1913 – 1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY
1928 – Alfred “Tich” Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season.
1930 – 1st international bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
1935 – Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany
1938 – John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
1966 – Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth
1970 – Rotterdam dock strikes end
1978 – Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title
1998 – With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.
Historical Events for 14th September 2020
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
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