1515 – Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory
1807 – Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge
1862 – Battle at South Mountain: Union troops defeat an outnumbered Confederate force
1882 – British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
1911 – Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin is assassinated in Kiev; his regime has been characterized by harsh measures to control dissidents
1939 – British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
1950 – Western allies rearm West Germany
1981 – Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV
2009 – David Attenborough and Prince William officially open the Darwin Centre at the National History Museum London, in what is the Museum’s most significant expansion since 1881
2011 – Elizabeth Warren announces she intends to run for the Democratic nomination for the 2012 Massachusetts Senatorial election
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 13th September 2018
1224 – Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata after a vision praying on Mount Verna
1556 – Charles V and Maria of Hungary march into Spain
1922 – The Straw Hat Riot begins in New York City as people protest the right to wear straw hats beyond the accepted end date of September 15
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress
1951 – St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0
1965 – Willie Mays’s 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win
1965 – Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964
1981 – Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1993 – Queens NY begins required recycling
2013 – Jim Furyk fires 12-under-par 59 in the 2nd round of the BMW Championship at Conway Farms GC in Lake Forest, Illinois, becoming just the 6th player to shoot sub-60 in a PGA Tour event
Historical Events for 12th September 2018
1635 – Sweden and Poland sign ceasefire Treaty of Stuhmsdorf
1907 – Lusitania arrives in NYC after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record)
1932 – Bkln Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit HR
1935 – 55th U.S. Men’s National Championship: Wilmer Allison beats Sidney Wood (6-2, 6-2, 6-3)
1959 – Janos Kádár becomes premier of Hungary
1966 – Gemini XI (Charles Conrad and R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight
1976 – US Open Men’s Tennis : Jimmy Connors wins his second US title; beats Björn Borg of Sweden 6-4, 3-6, 7-6, 6-4
1977 – Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody from his injuries after being beaten and tortured by police
1981 – Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yanks for 8 innings before Rick Cerone and Dave Winfield lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles
1982 – Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
Historical Events for 11th September 2018
1708 – Great Northern war: Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the war
1881 – Triple landslides bury Elm, Switzerland
1922 – One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia’s predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
1940 – Hitler begins operation Seelöwe (Sealion – aborted invasion England)
1974 – Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Félix Millán and John Milner come to bat 12 times each
1982 – Chris Evert wins her 6th and final US Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY
1983 – Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards
1995 – Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423
2012 – 50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army
2013 – 12 Alawite sect members are killed by rebel fighters in central Syria
Historical Events for 10th September 2018
1894 – London taxi driver George Smith is the first to be fined for drunk driving
1919 – China becomes a member of the League of Nations
1922 – Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive HRs
1932 – Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC
1953 – Swanson sells its 1st “TV dinner”
1956 – WSYE (now WETM) TV channel 18 in Elmira-Corning, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast
1965 – Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 – American long distance runner Frank Shorter scores a famous win in the men’s marathon in 2:12:19.8 at the Munich Olympics
1973 – NY Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis
1978 – 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit ’em 67-21; score 42-9
Historical Events for 9th September 2018
1830 – Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ
1898 – Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders
1955 – Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools
1979 – Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1982 – Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank in preparation for STS-5
1987 – Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016
1990 – US Open Men’s Tennis: 19 year old Pete Sampras wins his first Grand Slam title; beats Andre Agassi 6-4, 6-3, 6-2; Sampras youngest male US Open winner
2004 – Bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people
2010 – A court in the Philippines orders Imelda Marcos to repay the government almost $280,000 for funds taken from the National Food Authority by Ferdinand Marcos in 1983
Historical Events for 8th September 2018
1504 – Michelangelo’s statue of David is unveiled in Florence
1689 – China and Russia signs Treaty of Nertsjinsk (Nierchul)
1939 – Gen Von Reichenau’s panzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw
1957 – Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV
1967 – Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10
1968 – Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant
1985 – Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits
1991 – Buffalo Bill Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pitts (52-34)
1993 – Baseball’s proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL
1996 – 48th Emmy Awards: ER, Dennis Franz and Kathy Baker win
Historical Events for 7th September 2018
1599 – Earl of Essex and Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty
1822 – Pedro I, son of King Joao VI declares Brazil’s independence from Portugal (National Day)
1940 – Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
1940 – Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England
1960 – Japan wins the men’s gymnastics teams combined exercises gold for the first of 5 consecutive Olympics at the Rome Games; beats Soviet Union by just 2.5 points
1980 – Earnest Gray becomes 2nd NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St Louis)
1983 – Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)
1985 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Hana Mandlíková beats Martina Navratilova 7-6, 1-6, 7-6 for her first US title
1988 – Security and Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws
1988 – 5th MTV Video Music Awards: INXS wins
Historical Events for 6th September 2018
1683 – Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance
1888 – Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnon’s Imperial British East Africa Company political and commercial rights
1899 – Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk
1900 – British General Buller occupies Lydenburg, South Africa
1903 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Creeping Man” (BG)
1905 – Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms
1955 – “Catch a Star” opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
1980 – Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14
1986 – Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
1990 – US citizen is shot in Kuwait; oil markets surge on aggressive US statements toward Iraq
Historical Events for 5th September 2018
1900 – France proclaims a protectorate over Chad
1939 – J. B. M. Hertzog resigns as South African Prime Minister after losing a vote in parliament on neutrality in WWII
1944 – “Mad Tuesday” 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany
1949 – 69th U.S. Men’s National Championship: Pancho Gonzales beats Ted Schroeder (16-18, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4)
1951 – US National Men’s Tennis Championship: Australian Frank Sedgman beats Vic Seixas of the United States 6-4, 6-1, 6-1
1952 – General Carlos Ibáñez elected president of Chile
1959 – Wash Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
1991 – 8th MTV Video Music Awards: REM wins
1995 – Cal Ripken Jr ties Gehrig’s record of playing in 2,130 straight games
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.