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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 4th September 2020
1885 – 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
1886 – Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
1894 – In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops
1904 – Dalai Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
1920 – Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
1923 – New York Yankees pitcher ‘Sad Sam’ Jones no-hits Philadelphia A’s, 2-0
1936 – Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier
1950 – Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250
1998 – NY Yankees beat Chicago WS, 11-6, to win their 100th game on the earliest date in MLB history besting the 1906 Chicago Cubs and 1954 Cleveland Indians by 5 days
1998 – 1st ever “Who wants to be a Millionaire?” hosted by Chris Tarrant debuts on ITV in Britain
Historical Events for 3rd September 2020
1650 – Battle of Dunbar; Oliver Cromwell’s English New Model Army defeats Scottish force in surprise attack
1901 – Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony
1914 – British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attack the Marne
1943 – British 8th Army lands in Southern Italy (Messina)
1944 – Tank division of British Guards free Brussels
1945 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills: American Frank Parker successfully defends title; beats William Talbert 14-12, 6-1, 6-2
1989 – Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die
1990 – Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego)
1995 – eBay (Electronic Bay) founded by Pierre Omidyar
2005 – After beating South Africa the previous weekend, New Zealand clinch their 6th Tri Nations Rugby Series with a 34-24 win over Australia in Auckland; All Blacks winger Doug Howlett crosses for 3 tries
Historical Events for 2nd September 2020
1859 – Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
1952 – Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
1954 – WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 – Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
1958 – KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1962 – St. Louis 1st baseman Stan Musial’s records his 3,516th hit in Cards’ 4-3 loss v NY Mets; jumps him over Tris Speaker into 2nd place behind Ty Cobb on the MLB all-time list
1972 – East German swimmer Roland Matthes wraps up the Olympic backstroke double with a world record 2:02.82 in the 200m in Munich, having already won the 100m in Olympic record time
1973 – Netherlands win their first men’s hockey World Cup, 4-2 on penalties over India in Amstelveen, Netherlands
1995 – Southern California begins using new area code 562
2008 – 54th National Film Awards (India): “Pulijanmam” wins the Golden Lotus
Historical Events for 1st September 2020
1598 – Spanish King Philip II receives sacraments
1821 – 1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail
1859 – 1st Pullman sleeping car in service
1873 – Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1946 – 1st US Open Women’s Golf, Spokane CC: Patty Berg wins inaugural Open and only one played in match play format; takes 36-hole final 5 and 4 over Betty Jameson
1950 – 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines
1972 – Egypt and Libya form federation
1981 – Fiona Brothers sets women’s propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH)
1991 – Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA
1995 – New York reinstates the death penalty