366 – Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1786 – African American slave and poet Jupiter Hammon delivers his “Address to the Negroes of the State of New York” speech advocating emancipation at a meeting of the African Society in New York
1941 – Bomb explodes in German headquarters at Hotel Continental in Kiev
1971 – Houston Astros beat San Diego Padres 2-1 in 21 innings
1978 – Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 with an ERA of 1.74
1985 – A relay swim team completes the fastest English Channel crossing in 15 hours and 30 minutes
1991 – Robin Yount is the 37th player to hit 2,000 singles
2022 – Post-tropical storm remnant of Hurricane Fiona makes landfall near Whitehead, Nova Scotia, with sustained wind speeds of 165 km/h (103 mph); the strongest low-pressure system in Canadian history affects the four provinces of Atlantic Canada, as well as Quebec, causing major flooding and knocking out power to 80% of Nova Scotia and 95% of Prince Edward Island
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 23rd September 2026
1459 – Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire: an inferior Yorkist force defeats a larger Lancastrian force in a major battle of the English Wars of the Roses
1912 – First Mack Sennett “Keystone Comedy” movie releases “Cohen Collects a Debt”
1926 – “Upset of the Decade”: Gene Tunney defeats defending champion Jack Dempsey by 10-round unanimous decision at Sesquicentennial Stadium (later known as JFK Stadium) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the world heavyweight boxing title
1962 – Dave Brubeck and Louis Armstrong debut songs from “The Real Ambassadors”, a jazz musical loosely based on their experiences touring for the US State Department, at the Monterey Jazz Festival in California; libretto written by Iola Brubeck, Dave’s wife
1962 – ABC’s first color TV series, “The Jetsons,” created by Hanna-Barbera, premieres
1967 – Greek Colonels’ regime frees former Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou
2019 – Haitian Senator Jean-Marie Ralph Féthière opens fire, hitting a journalist while leaving parliament in Port-au-Prince
2022 – Tennis great Roger Federer plays his final professional match during Laver Cup in London; teams with friend and rival Rafael Nadal but loses 6–4, 6–7 [9–11] to Americans Jack Sock and Frances Tiafoe
Historical Events for 22nd September 2026
1851 – City of Des Moines, Iowa, incorporated as Fort Des Moines
1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill delivers a speech in Ulster opposing Home Rule, stating, “Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right”
1919 – Steel strike begins in the US and continues for four months
1937 – Date celebrated as the first International Hobbit Day and the birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins
1959 – Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant
1973 – Henry Kissinger is sworn in as America’s first Jewish Secretary of State, succeeding William Rogers
1979 – Montreal Expo Larry Parrish hits home runs off Phillies’ Rawly Eastwick in a doubleheader
2018 – Singer Rihanna is appointed as an ambassador for Barbados
Historical Events for 21st September 2026
1746 – French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais and Dupleix Madras
1904 – The general strike called by the Socialist Party that spread throughout Italy ends
1955 – USSR performs nuclear test
1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world’s first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California
1972 – Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law in the Philippines (not publicly announced until 23rd Sep)
1981 – MLB Philadelphia Phillies lefthander Steve Carlton strikes out NL record 3,118th (Andre Dawson)
1997 – NY Yankee Cecil Fielder hits his 300th HR
2022 – Russian authorities claim 5,397 Russian soldiers have died fighting in Ukraine, Westerns sources put the figure at 25,000 to over 80,000 (NY Times)
Historical Events for 20th September 2026
1859 – George Simpson patents the electric range
1861 – Battle of Lexington, MO, is captured by Union
1938 – Emlyn Williams’ semi-autobiographical comedic play “The Corn is Green” premieres in London and runs for 600 performances
1943 – Liberator bomber sinks U-338
1970 – Jim Morrison is found guilty of “open profanity and indecent exposure” after allegedly exposing himself at a concert in Miami in 1969
1989 – Musical “Miss Saigon,” created by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, premieres in London
2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, US President George W. Bush declares a “war on terror”
2018 – Woman shoots seven people, killing three and herself, at a Rite Aid distribution center near Baltimore, Maryland
Historical Events for 19th September 2026
634 – Muslim forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus, 1st major city of Eastern Roman Empire taken by the Rashidun Caliphate
1559 – Five Spanish ships sink in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
1854 – Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car
1870 – Siege of Paris by Prussian forces begins (lasts until January 28, 1871)
1893 – New Zealand becomes the first country to grant all women the right to vote
1945 – Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London
1995 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber’s manifesto
1997 – Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria leaves 53 people dead
Historical Events for 18th September 2026
1919 – Hurricane tides reach 16 feet above normal drowning 280 people along US Gulf Coast
1930 – Philadelphia A’s win AL Championship for the second year in a row
1948 – Communist Madiun Uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin)
1954 – Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beating Tigers (3-2)
1962 – Charlie Finley is denied permission to move the A’s to Dallas-Fort Worth
1976 – Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong’s funeral takes place in Beijing, China
1979 – Briitish rock band “The Who” plays first of five concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York City
2024 – Tupperware Brands, maker of plastic kitchenware since 1948, files for bankruptcy in Florida
Historical Events for 17th September 2026
1906 – Playing as “Sullivan,” Columbia University junior Eddie Collins debuts with the A’s
1944 – Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
1956 – Yankees clinch pennant number 22 with Mantle’s 50th home run of the year
1958 – US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 – Cleveland pitchers set an AL record by striking out 19 batters in the first 9 innings
2003 – Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins presents his poetry at the Art Institute of Chicago’s Rubloff Auditorium
2015 – US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports 2015 Northern Hemisphere summer hottest on record
2024 – Al-Qaeda jihadists attack the international airport complex outside Mali’s capital, Bamako, leaving at least 60 people dead
Historical Events for 16th September 2026
1597 – Albert VII Archduke of Austria’s Spanish forces lose control of the city of Amiens to French King Henry VI
1955 – US Auto Club forms to oversee four major auto racing categories
1955 – Bauer and Berra hit home runs in the 9th, beating the Red Sox 5-4 and taking over first
1962 – Brian Kilby wins the marathon in 2:23:18.8 at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games
1988 – Javed Miandad completes 211, his fifth Test cricket double century, against Australia
1992 – FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service
2007 – Solheim Cup Women’s Golf, Halmstad GK, Sweden: US retains Cup 16-12; after trailing by a point, the US dominates the singles 8½-3½
2016 – Chris Sharma free solos Alasha in Mallorca, Spain, the world’s first 9a+ (5.15a) deep-water solo route
Historical Events for 15th September 2026
1590 – Giambattista Castagna is elected as Pope Urban VII
1916 – First use of tanks in warfare, Britain’s Mark I “Little Willies” at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Battle of the Somme
1943 – Benito Mussolini forms a rival anti-monarchist fascist government in Italy and soon returns to power as a German puppet state
1970 – Officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland vote narrowly in favour of remaining unarmed
1991 – Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Vancouver GC: Nancy Scranton wins by 3 shots from Debbie Massey
2005 – Marc Quinn’s controversial statue “Alison Lapper Pregnant” is unveiled in Trafalgar Square in England
2015 – EU Migrant Crisis: Hungary seals its border with Serbia with a razor-wire fence, stranding thousands of migrants
2021 – US gymnasts, including Simone Biles, testify against former team doctor Larry Nassar at a Senate Committee hearing, criticizing a system that allowed it to happen