1192 – English King Richard I the Lion hearted, captured by Leopold V, Duke of Austria
1897 – NY Sun runs famous “Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus” editorial
1921 – A storage silo at a BASF fertiliser producing plant explodes in Oppau, Germany, 500—600 killed
1934 – St Louis Card Paul Dean no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 3-0
1955 – Last allied occupying troops leave Austria
1957 – Olav V becomes king of Norway
1968 – Police drama “Adam-12” debuts on NBC in the US
1980 – Kerry GAA beat Roscommon GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 1-9 to 1-6 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row.
2015 – 67th Emmy Awards: hosted by Andy Samberg, “Game of Thrones”, Viola Davis, John Hamm win
2016 – Migrant boat carrying 450-600 people capsizes off the Egyptian coast, only 163 rescued
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 20th September 2019
1565 – Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Florida and massacre the French
1918 – Royal Dutch Blast furnace and Steel factory opens in Hague
1951 – Swiss males votes against female suffrage
1951 – 1st North Pole jet crossing
1953 – Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR
1976 – Metroliner official opens in Brussels
1977 – “Estrada” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 7 performances
1980 – Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium
1985 – Walt Disney World’s 200-millionth guest
2012 – AU Optronics fined $500 million for a LCD screen price-fixing
Historical Events for 19th September 2019
1854 – Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car
1926 – The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.
1933 – NY Giants clinch the pennant
1943 – Liberator bombers sinks U-341
1953 – “Hazel Flagg” closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 190 performances
1980 – “Ordinary People” directed by Robert Redford and starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore and Judd Hirsch is released (Best Picture 1981)
1983 – St Kitts and Nevis declares independence from UK
1993 – Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years
2008 – Greg Maddux pitches his 5,000th career inning against the San Francisco Giants
2015 – Japan beats South Africa 34-32 in Brighton, England in the biggest upset in Rugby World Cup history
Historical Events for 18th September 2019
1437 – Peasant uprising in Transsylvania
1943 – Adolf Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful)
1957 – Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 – Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN
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
1990 – Crude prices outpace increases in product prices and there is talk of cutting refinery runs
1999 – 24th Toronto International Film Festival: “American Beauty” directed by Sam Mendes wins the People’s Choice Award
2006 – Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape was made public, in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
2012 – World’s first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg
Historical Events for 17th September 2019
1562 – Council of Trente takes ecclesiastical canon
1914 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1920 – Cards set a record of 12 consecutive hits in 4th (10) and 5th (2) innings
1929 – British troops begin withdrawal from occupied Germany
1934 – RCA Victor releases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven’s 5th)
1939 – Poland’s President Ignacy Mościck and Prime Minister Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski flee to Romania
1940 – Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain
1988 – 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea
2012 – China dispatches 1,000 fishing boats to Senkaku Islands
2015 – US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports 2015 Northern Hemisphere summer hottest on record
Historical Events for 16th September 2019
1858 – 1st overland mail for California
1915 – US takes control of customs and finances of Haiti for 10 years
1965 – Sobibor trial opens in Hagen, West Germany
1973 – “Desert Song” closes at Uris Theater NYC after 15 performances
1979 – The families of Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel arrive in West Germany from Communist East Germany in a hot air balloon
1992 – 900 die in flood in Pakistan
1996 – Paul Molitor of Twins is 21st player to reach 3,000 hits
2013 – Paul Kagame wins the Rwandan presidency in a landslide
2015 – Oil tanker explosion kills 170 in Maridi, South Sudan
2015 – 8.3 magnitude quake hits off coast of Illapel, Chile killing 11 and prompting evacuation of 1 million
Historical Events for 15th September 2019
1600 – Battle of Sekigahara, rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
1831 – The locomotive “John Bull” operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad
1914 – First Battle of Aisne finishes, Germans vs. French and British during WW I
1921 – WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
1945 – A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.
1953 – WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 – WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, Ohio (IND) begins broadcasting
1983 – Israel premier Menachem Begin resigns
1991 – “Party Machine with Nia Peeples” final show
2005 – “Be Without You” single released by Mary J. Bilge (Billboard Song of the Year 2006, Grammy Award Best RandB Song, Best Female RandB Vocal Performance 2005)
Historical Events for 14th September 2019
1180 – Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
1918 – WWI: Austria-Hungary sends a note to the Allies requesting peace discussions, but the Allies reject the offer
1930 – Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
1975 – Rembrandts “Nightwatch” slashed and damaged in Amsterdam
1982 – 36″ snow (Red Lodge, MT)
1984 – 1st MTV Video Music Awards: The Cars win with “You Might Think”
1988 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1996 – Dean Headley takes 3rd cricket hat-trick of season, Kent v Hampshire
2015 – 14 yr old Texan Ahmed Mohamed arrested at school when home-made clock assumed to be a bomb – Mark Zuckerberg and US President Barack Obama send supportive tweets
Historical Events for 13th September 2019
1789 – 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks)
1923 – With Spain’s king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera
1930 – Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John’s Rugby, 7-3
1931 – Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria
1944 – US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall
1960 – Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
1969 – Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title
1977 – General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)
2010 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Rafael Nadal wins his first US crown; beats Novak Đoković 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2; first Spanish man to win US title since Manuel Orantes 1975
2012 – 33,000 people are evacuated after Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire erupts
Historical Events for 12th September 2019
1733 – Polish Landowners select Stanislaw Lesczynski king
1914 – Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
1928 – Katharine Hepburn’s NYC stage debut in “Night Hostess”
1935 – Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph
1964 – 1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6
1966 – US National Championships Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-Australian final Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe 4-6, 12-10, 6-3, 6-4; his second and final major singles title
1971 – US Open Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: American Stan Smith wins first career Grand Slam event; beats Czech star Jan Kodeš 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-6
1976 – Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St L 30, Sea 24)
1979 – Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
1988 – 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card