1776 – First St Leger horse race held at Doncaster
1862 – Confederate Congress adopts Confederacy seal
1948 – MLB’s New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and Cleveland Indians are tied for first place in the AL (91-56)
1968 – “That’s Life,” a Broadway musical-type TV show, premieres
1988 – Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson breaks his own 100m world record with a time of 9.79 at the Seoul Olympics but is disqualified 3 days later for the use of the drug stanozolol; Carl Lewis is awarded gold and the world record with a time of 9.92
1995 – Volcano Mount Ruapehu (North Island, New Zealand) erupts
2007 – ICC Men’s Cricket T20 World Cup, Johannesburg: India wins the inaugural tournament with a 5-run victory over Pakistan; Player of the Series: Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi (91 runs, 12 wickets)
2022 – Post-tropical storm remnant of Hurricane Fiona makes landfall near Whitehead, Nova Scotia, with sustained wind speeds of 165 km/h (103 mph); the strongest low-pressure system in Canadian history affects the four provinces of Atlantic Canada, as well as Quebec, causing major flooding and knocking out power to 80% of Nova Scotia and 95% of Prince Edward Island
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 23rd September 2025
1492 – John I Albert (32) becomes King of Poland, succeeding his father, Casimir IV
1868 – British Open Men’s Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Jr. beats his father Tom Morris Sr. by 3 strokes; at 17, young Morris remains the youngest Open champion
1913 – French aviator Roland Garros (24) is the first to fly over the Mediterranean Sea from Fréjus, France, to Bizerte, Tunisia, completing the non-stop flight in 7 hours and 53 minutes
1930 – German inventor Johann Ostermeyer receives a US patent for the flashbulb, initially marketed under the brand name Vacublitz
1952 – Undefeated Rocky Marciano knocks out defending champion Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round at Municipal Stadium, Philadelphia, for the world heavyweight boxing title
1977 – Third test of Space Shuttle Enterprise
1978 – 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Anwar Sadat home from Camp David peace summit
2018 – Tour Championship Men’s Golf, East Lake GC: Tiger Woods wins by 2 strokes over Billy Horschel; Woods’ 80th PGA Tour win and first in 5 years; Justin Rose wins FedEx Cup crown and $10 million bonus
Historical Events for 22nd September 2025
530 – St Felix IV reign as Catholic Pope ends
1947 – Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant as Chicago defeats St. Louis Cardinals in the second game of a doubleheader
1955 – Commercial television begins in the UK with the launch of ITV, which soon airs the first advert on UK TV for Gibbs SR toothpaste
1977 – West German Red Army Faction terrorist kills a policeman in Utrecht
1987 – Dow Jones Industrial Average rises a record 75.23 points
1999 – 33rd Country Music Association Awards: Shania Twain, Martina McBride, and Tim McGraw win
2002 – Solheim Cup Women’s Golf, Interlachen CC: US regains Cup 15½-12½; Rosie Jones gains winning point in her 3 and 2 victory over Karine Icher
2013 – 65th Prime time Emmy Awards: “Breaking Bad” and “Modern Family” win
Historical Events for 21st September 2025
1677 – Jan and Nicolaas van der Heyden patent the fire hose
1746 – French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais and Dupleix Madras
1913 – Turkey and Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople
1952 – MLB Boston Braves play what turns out to be their last home game at Braves Field in Boston, losing to the Brooklyn Dodgers 8–2 before crowd of 8,822; team relocates to Milwaukee before start of next season
1965 – Singapore admitted as part of the United Nations
1986 – NY Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards
2008 – Last two remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis
2016 – Genomic study finds Australian Aboriginals as the oldest known civilization on Earth published in “Nature”
Historical Events for 20th September 2025
1793 – British troops under Major-General Williamson land on French Haiti
1830 – First Negro Convention of Free Men agrees to boycott goods produced by slaves
1930 – Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios
1951 – Swiss men vote against female suffrage
1969 – Ryder Cup Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: US, Great Britain tie, 16-16; great sporting gesture, America’s Jack Nicklaus concedes missable 3-foot putt to Tony Jacklin at the 18th hole for the draw
1988 – “Loving Proof,” the second studio album by Ricky Van Shelton, is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1989)
2001 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, US President George W. Bush declares a “war on terror”
2011 – “Call Me Maybe,” a single by Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen, is released
Historical Events for 19th September 2025
1559 – Five Spanish ships sink in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
1914 – Brooklyn Tip-Tops’ Ed Lafitte no-hits Kansas City Packers (Federal League), 6-2
1947 – Jackie Robinson is named 1947 “Rookie of the Year”
1949 – “Late Spring”, Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara and Haruko Sugimura, is released in Japan
1970 – 1st Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Tyrannosaurus Rex headlines; other performs include: Wayne Fontana, Steamhammer, Duster Bennett, Al Stewart, Amazing Blondel, Keith Christmas, Quintessence, and Stackridge
1980 – “Ordinary People” film directed by Robert Redford and starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore and Judd Hirsch premieres (Academy Award – Best Picture, 1981)
1988 – Israel launches first satellite for secret military reconnaissance
2017 – President Hassan Rouhani of Iran in his UN speech criticizes US President Donald Trump for his comments about Iran in his own UN speech
Historical Events for 18th September 2025
1881 – Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment
1922 – Second government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
1931 – Mukden Incident: To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, the Japanese detonate a small quantity of dynamite close to a railway line owned by Japan’s South Manchuria Railway
1962 – Bob Aspromonte sets a National League third baseman record of 57 consecutive errorless games
1976 – Rev Sun Myung Moon holds “God Bless America” convention at Yankee Stadium in New York City
1980 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts, including one Cuban, to the Salyut 6 space station
1990 – Atlanta is chosen to host the 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
1994 – Ken Burns’ documentary miniseries “Baseball” premieres on PBS (wins an Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series)
Historical Events for 17th September 2025
1849 – Harriet Tubman is the first to escape slavery in Maryland with two of her brothers
1926 – Hurricane hits Miami and Palm Beach, Florida, killing approximately 450
1934 – RCA Victor releases the first 33 1/3 rpm recording: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Leopold Stokowski at the Philadelphia Academy of Music
1966 – “Mission Impossible” premieres on CBS-TV
1984 – USSR performs an underground nuclear test
1986 – US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th Chief Justice
2010 – Documentary film “Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him)?” is released theatrically
2023 – British comedian Russell Brand is accused of rape, sexual assaults, and emotional abuse by four women in investigation by “The Sunday Times” and Channel 4
Historical Events for 16th September 2025
1869 – Golf’s first recorded hole-in-one is scored by Tom Morris at Prestwick’s 8th hole in Scotland
1893 – Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma, opens white settlement homesteaders
1908 – Carriage maker William C. Durant founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan
1926 – Italian-Romanian peace treaty is signed
1945 – Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55″) off Okinawa (record low)
1979 – Ryder Cup Golf, The Greenbrier: US wins, 17-11; new Team Europe replaces Great Britain and Ireland as official opposition to the United States
1992 – FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service
1999 – First-ever season of “Big Brother” reality show begins on the Veronica channel in the Netherlands
Historical Events for 15th September 2025
1830 – First National Negro Convention begins in Philadelphia
1931 – Philadelphia A’s clinch pennant, beating Cleveland
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit Tone River, Saitama and Tokyo area, killing at least 1,930 and injuring 1,750
1957 – SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game
1966 – Dutch political party (D’66) forms
1966 – First British nuclear ballistic missile submarine HMS Resolution launched
1966 – Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth
2001 – 26th Toronto International Film Festival: “Amelie” directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet wins the People’s Choice Award