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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 11th September 2019
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
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