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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 21st September 2019
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
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