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
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 14th September 2025
1852 – Samuel D Hubbard of Conn takes office as 18th US Postmaster General
1862 – Battle at Crampton’s Gap: Union troops win a tactical victory over Confederate forces
1876 – Belgian King Leopold II closes the Brussels Geographic Conference, establishes the International African Association, forerunner of Leopold’s privately controlled Congo Free State
1894 – Hottentotten uprising in Southwest Africa fails
1930 – Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
1943 – Yanks clinch pennant #14
1958 – Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere
1985 – 10th Toronto International Film Festival: “The Official Story” directed by Luis Puenzo wins the People’s Choice Award
Historical Events for 13th September 2025
1922 – Straw Hat Riot begins in New York City as youths aggressively taunt men wearing straw hats, getting an early jump on the unofficial season’s end date of September 15; confrontations continue longer than usual, lasting eight days
1958 – Queen Juliana in a gala ceremony christens passenger ship SS Rotterdam, the last ‘ship of state’
1963 – Jim Bouton’s 20th win clinches New York Yankees’ 28th pennant
1969 – Plastic Ono Band’s 1st live performance, featuring John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Eric Clapton, at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival
1974 – OPEC instructs its Secretary General to “carry out a study of supply and demand in relation to possible production controls”
1999 – Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia, killing at least 119 people
2015 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Novak Đoković beats Roger Federer 6–4, 5–7, 6–4, 6–4; third man to reach all 4 Grand Slam finals in the same year in Open Era after Rod Laver and Federer
2017 – International Olympic Committee announces Paris (2024) and Los Angeles (2028) will host the Olympic games
Historical Events for 12th September 2025
1857 – 423 die when steamship SS Central America, the “Ship of Gold,” sinks in a hurricane off Cape Romain, South Carolina, carrying tons of gold coins and bricks from the California Gold Rush (rediscovered in 1988)
1901 – Arabs attack Gadara, Palestine
1925 – George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin’s first collaborative musical “Lady, Be Good!,” featuring siblings Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire as a brother and sister dance team, closes at the Liberty Theatre, NYC, after 330 performances
1958 – US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 – Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana, killing 75 people
1982 – European Championship marathon won by Gerard Nijboer of the Netherlands (2:15:16) and Rosa Mota of Portugal (2:36:04)
2001 – Ansett Australia, Australia’s first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed
2018 – According to a leaked report, more than 3,600 children were abused by Catholic priests in Germany between 1946 and 2014
Historical Events for 11th September 2025
1213 – Chinese general Chih-Chung assassinates Emperor Wei Shao Wang (former Prince of Wei) in Peking and proclaims himself Regent
1814 – Battle of Lake Champlain: The American navy defeats the Royal Navy at Plattsburgh, New York, ending the British invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812
1853 – First electric telegraph used between Merchant’s Exchange, San Francisco, and Point Lobos, California
1939 – Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on Nazi Germany
1951 – Florence Chadwick becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France, taking 16 hours and 19 minutes
1953 – KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1995 – Eastern Tennessee begins using 423 as the new area code
2015 – Former Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, becomes the first candidate to drop out of the race for the Republican nomination
Historical Events for 10th September 2025
1960 – New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits a 643-foot home run over the right field roof in Detroit
1961 – The USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
1961 – Mickey Mantle becomes the seventh player to hit home run number 400
1962 – KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 – WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1974 – Controversial TV drama “Born Innocent” premieres on NBC TV, starring Linda Blair as an abused teen in a juvenile detention home
1977 – Susan Perkins (Ohio) is crowned the 50th Miss America 1978
1985 – U.S. 7th Circuit Court rules Soviet defector Walter Polovchak can’t be forcibly returned to parents’ country if it’s deemed “not in the best interests” of underage defectors
Historical Events for 9th September 2025
1493 – Battle of Krbava Field: Ottoman Empire decisively defeats an army of the Kingdom of Croatia
1914 – First fully mechanized unit in the British Army is created: the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI)
1932 – Mine strike at Belgian Borinage ends
1944 – The Red Army supports a coup in Bulgaria, instituting a new Communist government (1946-1990) during the “National Uprising”
1964 – German Democratic Republic government allows short visits to West Germany
2006 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Maria Sharapova of Russia wins her first US title; overpowers Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne 6-4, 6-4
2012 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams wins her fourth US title, beating Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-2, 2-6, 7-5
2015 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain’s longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria
Historical Events for 8th September 2025
1831 – William IV is crowned King of Great Britain at the age of 64, becoming the oldest person to assume the British throne
1960 – German 4 x 100 m relay team equals world record 39.5 to win the gold medal at Rome Olympics; Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf, and Martin Lauer
1963 – Algerian population accepts the constitution
1973 – US Open Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Margaret Court wins her 24th and final Grand Slam singles title, beating fellow Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley 7-6, 5-7, 6-2
1980 – Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely after being arrested in Toronto for possession of drugs
1991 – NFL Buffalo Bills QB Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns against the Pittsburgh Steelers (52-34)
1994 – USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pittsburgh Airport, killing all 132 on board
1997 – TV series “Ally McBeal,” starring Calista Flockhart and created by David E. Kelley, premieres on Fox in the US
Historical Events for 7th September 2025
70 – Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem
1159 – Ottaviano de Montecello is elected Antipope Victor IV
1909 – Eugene Lefebvre becomes the first pilot to die in an aircraft while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy
1927 – University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by Governor Antônio Carlos
1936 – The last surviving member of the marsupial thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in his cage at Hobart Zoo, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1940 – Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria
1972 – American athletes Vincent Matthews and Wayne Collett finish 1-2 in the 400 m at the Munich Olympics, act casually on the medal stand, and do not face the flag during the anthem, resulting in a lifetime ban from the Olympics
1981 – Cleveland Browns’ Brian Sipe sets a club record with 57 pass attempts
Historical Events for 6th September 2025
1032 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy, succeeding Rudolf III
1543 – French and Ottoman fleets occupy Nice
1634 – Battle of Nördlingen: Imperial-Spanish forces led by Ferdinand of Hungary and Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand heavily defeat a combined Swedish and German Protestant army led by Gustav Horn and Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
1954 – “La Strada,” directed by Federico Fellini and starring Anthony Quinn, premieres at the Venice Film Festival
1982 – Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell’s #8
1986 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her third US singles title, beating Czech star Helena Suková 6-3, 6-2
1991 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia’s second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924
2010 – “The King’s Speech,” directed by Tom Hooper and starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, premieres at the Telluride Film Festival (Best Picture 2011)