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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 1st September 2019
1255 – Königsberg (modern day Kaliningrad) founded by Teutonic Knights and named in honor of the Bohemian King Ottokar II
1862 – Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)
1906 – Philadelphia beats the Red Sox 4-1 in 24 innings in Boston in the longest game in AL baseball history; both starters go the distance as A’s hurler Jack Coombs overcomes Boston’s Joe Harris
1916 – US Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1954 – “Rear Window”, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, is released
1962 – United Nations announces Earth’s population has hit 3 billion
1981 – Fast bowler Terry Alderman takes his 42nd wicket of the series on the last day of the 5th cricket Test vs England at The Oval; haul remains record by an Australian bowler in England; England wins series 3-1
1990 – “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway” closes at Imperial NYC after 634 performances
2006 – Roger Goodell begins his tenure as NFL Commissioner
2012 – Two suicide bombings kill 12 people and wound 50 in a NATO base in Afghanistan’s Sayed Abad district
Historical Events for 31st August 2019
1907 – Britain and Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia and Tibet
1923 – Mussolini orders the Greek Government to apologize for the deaths of an Italian general and his staff on the Greco-Albanian border
1939 – Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
1944 – French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
1968 – 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
1972 – Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
1980 – Poland’s Solidarity trade union federations forms and is offically recognised by the Polish government
1986 – Aeromexico DC-9 and small plane collide in LA, killing 82 (15 on the ground)
1993 – Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
1997 – Eddie George runs for 216 yards on 35 carries and scores a touchdown as the Oilers, playing their first NFL game in Tennessee, beat Oakland 24-21 in overtime at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis
Historical Events for 30th August 2019
1791 – HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day, on her return from her search for the Bounty and the mutineers who had taken her
1892 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport, R.I.: Three straight US singles titles to Oliver Campbell; beats Fred Hovey 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5
1901 – Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
1933 – Air France forms from five French airlines
1944 – 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
1961 – Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
1963 – Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the “red telephone” no phones were ever used, relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines and most recently secure email.
1972 – Amidst Olga Korbut mania at the Munich Olympics, Soviet team mate Ludmilla Tourischeva wins the gymnastics individual all-round competition, her 2nd gold medal of the Games
1974 – Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
1987 – Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100m in world record 9.83 sec
Historical Events for 29th August 2019
1882 – Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match v England (7-46 and 7-44)
1883 – Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion
1914 – 4th day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): Russian Narev-army panics, General Martos caught
1924 – Germany’s Reichstag approves the Dawes Plan, which sought to solve the WWI reparations problem
1940 – 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)
1966 – The Beatles’ last public concert (Candlestick Park, San Francisco)
1974 – USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1993 – 93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
2004 – German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher clinches his 5th straight F1 World Drivers Championship with a 2nd place in the Belgian F1 Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
2018 – Germany hands back human remains of Namibian Herero and Nama people murdered during 1904-08 genocide at church service in Berlin