1657 – Treaty of Raalte: Willem II no longer viceroy of Overijssel
1931 – Philadelphia Athletics seek 3rd straight World Series baseball title; beat St. Louis Cardinals, 6-2 in opener at Sportsman’s Park; lose series, 4-3
1932 – Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists
1932 – Babe Ruth’s legendary call; sledged by Cubs dugout, points to center-field before homering into the Wrigley Field bleachers in 5th inning, Game 3 of the World Series; NY Yankees win, 7-5
1943 – Averell Harriman named US ambassador to Moscow
1963 – Nigeria enacts a new constitution and becomes a republic
1979 – US returns Canal Zone (but not the canal) to Panama after 75 years
1985 – Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed
2015 – Cargo ship El Faro goes missing with 33 crew during Hurricane Joaquin near the Bahamas
2017 – Former NFL star, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson is released from Nevada’s Lovelock Prison after 10 years detention for armed robbery and kidnapping
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 30th September 2019
1787 – 1st US voyage around the world – Columbia leaves Boston
1936 – Pinewood Studios opens in Buckinghamshire England
1954 – 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned by the US Navy
1955 – American actor and cultural icon James Dean is killed in a car crash aged 24
1957 – French government of Mauroy resigns due to Algeria
1962 – NY Mets lose record 120th game as Cubs turn triple play and beat NY 5-1
1969 – Atlanta’s 10th straight win, clinches NL West pennant
1971 – Last Washington Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit game Yanks trailing 4-2 in 9th with 2 outs, fans rush field
1988 – Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6’8″ to win Olympic gold medal
2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo
Historical Events for 29th September 2019
1364 – Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French in Brittany
1915 – Herbert/Blossoms musical “Princess Pat” premieres in NYC
1923 – Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
1928 – Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 win at Boston
1953 – Balt Mayor D’Alesandro buys Veeck’s interest in Browns for $2,475,000
1961 – “Detectives” TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV
1967 – Gladys Knight and Pips releases “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”
1975 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1991 – Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic at the Los Coyotes CC; her third LPGA title of the month
1996 – Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan)
Historical Events for 28th September 2019
1528 – Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane; about 380 die
1760 – Russian and Austrian army occupies Berlin
1938 – Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message “No war coming”
1963 – “Surfer Joe” by Surfaris peaks at #62
1969 – Joe Kapp (Minnesota Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (52-14)
1971 – UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
1973 – ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT’s involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d’état in Chile.
1974 – “Surfin’ USA” by Beach Boys reenters chart and peaks at #36
1995 – Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign accord to transfer West Bank to the PLO
1996 – Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas and Alabama)
Historical Events for 27th September 2019
1540 – Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola confirmed by Pope Paul III in Rome
1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
1894 – Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY
1923 – NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs
1940 – Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis)
1967 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 – “The Way We Were” single released by Barbra Streisand (Billboard Song of the Year 1974)
2005 – Atlanta Braves clinch their 14th straight division title thanks to Philadelphia’s loss to the New York Mets
2012 – The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars
2017 – Researchers confirm existence of giant tree rat “Vika” in the Solomon Islands that can crack open coconuts
Historical Events for 26th September 2019
1655 – Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from Swedish in Delaware
1789 – 4th US Postmaster General: Samuel Osgood of Mass takes office
1904 – Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada
1925 – Italian sub “Sebastiano Veniero” lost off Sicily with 54 dead
1944 – World War II: Battle of Arnhem ends in Allied failure as German forces link up on both sides of the Lower Rhine river and mop up last British resistance
1955 – NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929
1966 – “Staten Island” 1st icebreaker to enter San Francisco Bay
1977 – Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate “Skytrain” service, London to NY
1984 – Britain and China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1999 – Ryder Cup Golf, The Country Club, Brookline: US wins 14½-13½ after trailing 10-6 going into the singles; win first 6 matches to set up victory; poor American crowd and team behaviour heavily criticised
Historical Events for 25th September 2019
1597 – Amiens surrenders to French King Henry IV
1867 – Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Washington, D.C.
1919 – US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a breakdown in Colorado, his health never recovers
1926 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Salisbury GC: Walter Hagen defeats Leo Diegel, 5 and 3 in the final to win his 3rd consecutive PGA C’ship title
1957 – Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced
1965 – “Do I Hear a Waltz?” closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 220 performances
1981 – Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first female US Supreme Court Justice
1989 – Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.
2008 – The “Celtic Tiger” slides into recession for the first time in over two decades, recording a 0.5% fall in second quarter GDP, following a 0.3% decline in the first quarter
Historical Events for 24th September 2019
1869 – Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould and Fisk attempt to corner gold
1877 – Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
1884 – Dixey, Rice and Gill’s musical “Adonis” premieres in NYC
1955 – “Catch a Star” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances
1969 – Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam
1979 – Russian ice skaters Protopopov and Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland
1988 – Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th
1991 – Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles
1994 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar
2017 – Plastic polystyrene rubbish discovered for first time only 1,000 miles from the north pole by international team of scientists
Historical Events for 23rd September 2019
1779 – John Paul Jones’ “Bon Homme Richard” defeats HMS Serepis
1857 – Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die
1904 – Francis Younghusbands leaves Lhasa, Tibet
1938 – Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World’s Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman’s hat, man’s pipe and 1,100′ of microfilm)
1941 – General de Gaulle forms government in exile in London
1952 – Undefeated Rocky Marciano KOs defending champion Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round at Municipal Stadium, Philadelphia for the world heavyweight boxing title
1968 – WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 – Gary Muhrcke wins 1st NY Marathon
1982 – Amin Gemayel sworn in as President of Lebanon
1988 – Premiere of director Paul Schrader’s crime biopic “Patty Hearst”
Historical Events for 22nd September 2019
1529 – Cardinal Thomas Wolsey stripped of office as Lord Chancellor of England
1869 – Richard Wagner’s opera “Rhine Gold” premieres in Munich
1965 – India and Pakistan cease-fire goes into effect, ending the Indo-Pakistani War
1968 – Twins’ Cesar Tovar pitched a hitless inning and plays all 9 positions
1985 – 37th Emmy Awards: “Cagney and Lacey”, “The Cosby Show” and Tyne Daly win
1999 – “The West Wing” created by Alan Sorkin and starring Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe and Richard Schiff, debuts on NBC
2004 – SF Giants outfielder Barry Bonds was intentionally walked 4 times in a 9-inning game (MLB record) for the second time (1 May 2004)
2004 – “Lost” created by J.J. Abrams and starring Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly debuts on ABC in the US
2013 – Angela Merkel and the Christian Democrats win a third term with their best result since 1990 in German Federal elections
2015 – Palangkaraya in Indonesian Borneo records the highest air pollutant index (API) value ever recorded of 1,986 due to haze caused by forest fires deliberately lit to clear land for palm oil plantations