1708 – Great Northern war: Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the war
1893 – Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)
1921 – Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
1931 – Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano’s hitmen.
1946 – 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1982 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Chris Evert wins her 6th and final US title, beating Hana Mandlíková 6-3, 6-1
1988 – Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world
1999 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams wins her first Grand Slam title; beats World #1 Martina Hingis 6-3, 7-6
2005 – The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
2013 – 12 Alawite sect members are killed by rebel fighters in central Syria
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 10th September 2019
1872 – Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam
1933 – 1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park)
1943 – German troops occupy Rome and take took over the protection of Vatican City
1964 – Rod Stewart records his 1st single “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl”
1969 – NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time
1974 – Controversial TV drama “Born Innocent” premieres on NBC TV, starring Linda Blair as an abused teen in a juvenile detention home
1982 – Decca releases Beatle audition “Complete Silver Beatles” album
1988 – -18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas and Yucatan
2005 – 125th US Open Women’s Tennis: Belgian Kim Clijsters wins her first of 4 Grand Slam titles; beats Mary Pierce of France 6-3, 6-1
2015 – Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson resigns in wake of IRA supposed killing of Kevin McGuigan
Historical Events for 9th September 2019
1898 – Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders
1899 – French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds
1923 – Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2)
1940 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Donald McNeill beats fellow American Bobby Riggs 4-6, 6-8, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 for his second major singles title
1950 – “Where’s Chartev?” closes at St James Theater NYC after 792 performances
1956 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-Australian final Ken Rosewall wins his first US singles title, beating Lew Hoad 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3
1965 – Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0)
2002 – Pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record
2007 – 24th MTV Video Music Awards: Rihanna f/ Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake and Fergie win
2018 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Novak Đoković wins his third US title; beats ’09 champion Juan Martín del Potro 6-4, 7-6, 6-3; equals Pete Sampras’ 14 Grand Slams
Historical Events for 8th September 2019
1264 – The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
1276 – John XXI [ Peter Juliani] elected Pope, only Portuguese Pope
1755 – Battle of Lake George in the Province of New York: British army beats French
1952 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Maureen Connolly beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-3, 7-5
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1969 – US Open Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Australian Margaret Court wins her third US singles title and 16th Grand Slam singles event; beats Nancy Richey 6-2, 6-2
1969 – US amateur Men’s Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz (97 63 61)
1984 – Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41G mission
1995 – Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title
2015 – Pope Francis announces moves to streamline the annulment process within the Catholic Church
Historical Events for 7th September 2019
1910 – In the Hague, the International Court arbitrates a fishing-rights dispute between the US and Newfoundland (still separate from Canada)
1914 – NY Post Office Building opens to public
1957 – WWL TV channel 4 in New Orleans, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 – American weightlifter Charles Vinci wins 2nd consecutive bantamweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics with world-record equalling 3-lift (snatch, clean and jerk, overhead press) total of 345.0 kilograms
1975 – US Open Men’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Manuel Orantes of Spain wins his only Grand Slam title; upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors 6-4, 6-3, 6-4; played on green Har-Tru clay surface
1983 – Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)
1986 – US Open Men’s Tennis: In an all-Czech final Ivan Lendl retains his title; beats Miloslav Mečíř 6-4, 6-2, 6-0
1995 – STS 69 (Endeavour 9), launches into orbit
2008 – US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
2014 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams wins her 3rd straight US title; beats Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 6-3, 6-3
Historical Events for 6th September 2019
1634 – Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat
1880 – W. G. Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, v Aust The Oval
1905 – General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)
1912 – NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia, 3-0
1913 – 19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
1943 – Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in American League history at 16years, 8 months
1955 – J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname
1965 – India invades West Pakistan – official beginning of the Indo-Pakistani War
2017 – Catalonia’s parliament passes law to allow referendum on independence from Spain
2017 – Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Sint Maartens and British Virgin Islands. Prime Minister Gaston Browne reports 95% of buildings in Barbuda damaged.
Historical Events for 5th September 2019
1198 – Philips of Zwabia, Prince of Hohenstaufen, crowned King of Germany and King of the Romans
1634 – -6] Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III and Spain beat Sweden and German protestants
1914 – French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine
1922 – 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger
1960 – Future world middleweight boxing champion Nino Benvenuti of Italy beats Yuri Radonyak of the Soviet Union to win welterweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics
1967 – KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1968 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 – 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB
2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
Historical Events for 4th September 2019
1805 – 1st edition of Batavian State Courier published
1933 – 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il
1933 – Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista
1948 – Queen Wilhelmina abdicates Dutch throne
1965 – Rock group Who’s van is vandalized with $10,000 in equipment stolen
1976 – Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus
1980 – Yes performs its last concert (Madison Square Garden)
1983 – Californian skier Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed record; 119.36 mph
2010 – Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.
2014 – Monsoon rains begin and cause flooding over a sustained period that kills over 400 people in India and Pakistan
Historical Events for 3rd September 2019
1864 – Battle of Berryville, Virginia
1917 – Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader
1940 – Dutch government in exile of Gerbrandy forms in London
1945 – US Women’s National Tennis Championship, Forest Hills: Sarah Palfrey Cooke wins second US title; beats Pauline Betz Addie 3-6, 8-6, 6-4
1972 – Finnish runner Lasse Virén scores a famous victory in the 10,000m at the Munich Olympics in world record 27:38.35
1975 – England cricket batsman Bob Woolmer scores 149 on the final day to save the 4th Test v Australia at The Oval; longest first-class match ever played in England; 32 hours 17 minutes
1984 – St. Louis Cardinals closer Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th in 7-3 win v NY Mets
1992 – Jerry Lewis’ 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368
2004 – The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children.
2012 – New Zealand announces withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan
Historical Events for 2nd September 2019
1519 – 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
1882 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Richard Sears beats Clarence M. Clark 6-1, 6-4, 6-0
1898 – Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
1931 – Bing Crosby makes his solo radio debut
1958 – National Defense Education Act was signed
1982 – Rolling Stone Keith Richard’s house burns down
1985 – Jerry Lewis’ 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000
1993 – Day of Peace in South Africa
1996 – Soyuz TM-24, lands
2018 – About 400 prisoners escape a jail near Tripoli in Libya during militia fighting