1862 – Battle at Crampton’s Gap: Union troops win a tactical victory over Confederate forces
1913 – Route for the Lincoln Highway is announced, the first paved coast-to-coast highway across the United States, with terminal points in New York City and San Francisco
1923 – Jack Dempsey recovers after being knocked through the ropes in the first round to knock out Argentine challenger Luis Firpo in the second round in front of 83,000 at the Polo Grounds in NYC
1951 – St. Louis Browns’ Bob Nieman homers on his 1st two career at-bats
1973 – Israeli Air Force shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
1992 – First subway car is completed for export from the US to Taiwan
1996 – Tara Dawn Holland (23) of Kansas is crowned 70th Miss America 1997
1999 – Polyvinyl Record Co. releases debut album by the Midwest emo trio American Football; the eponymous record, later known as LP1, becomes a cult favorite and influential within the music genre
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 13th September 2026
1858 – Hamburg-America steamship, SS Austria, catches fire and sinks, killing 449 passengers and crew
1944 – Amon Göth removed as head of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp by the SS for stealing state property
1954 – MLB Cincinnati Reds first baseman Ted Kluszewski scores a run in his record 17th consecutive game in 5-4 road loss to Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field
1982 – Jim LeFebvre reaches 6 hits in one baseball game
1985 – Composer John Williams introduces the Today Show’s new theme song, “The Mission”
2005 – The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City premieres the exhibition “Rara Avis (Rare Bird): The Irreverent Iris Apfel”
2017 – Actress Rebel Wilson awarded $4.56 million in damages in libel case against Bauer Media in Melbourne, largest defamation payout in Australia
2019 – US actress Felicity Huffman sentenced to 14 days in prison for her role in the college admissions scandal
Historical Events for 12th September 2026
1789 – Jean-Paul Marat publishes the first issue of his radical newspaper Le Publiciste Parisien, later called L’Ami du Peuple (The Friend of the People) in Paris
1931 – Inaugural Bledisloe Cup rugby match played between Australia and New Zealand at Eden Park, Auckland – NZ win 20-13
1954 – WLBZ TV Channel 2 in Bangor, Maine (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 – Washington Senator Tom Cheney strikes out a record 21 Orioles in a 16-inning game
1979 – Boston Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski gets his 3,000th hit off NY Yankee Jim Beattie
1991 – Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) is launched
1999 – Farm Aid 12 held in Bristow, Virginia; performers include Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews Band, Susan Tedeschi, Keb’ Mo’, Deana Carter, and Barenaked Ladies
2021 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Russia’s Daniil Medvedev wins his first major title by shattering Novak Đoković’s hopes of completing a Grand Slam in one-sided 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 final
Historical Events for 11th September 2026
1649 – Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland: Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 Royalists
1937 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Anita Lizana of Chile becomes first Latin American to win a major; beats Jadwiga Jędrzejowska of Poland 6-4, 6-2
1951 – Igor Stravinsky’s opera “The Rake’s Progress,” with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, premieres at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
1966 – Johnny Miller becomes the first New York Yankee to hit a home run in his first MLB at-bat; his second home run comes in his final MLB at-bat in 1969
1967 – US Surveyor 5 makes the first chemical analysis of lunar material
1971 – US Open Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-American final, Billie Jean King beats doubles partner Rosemary Casals 6-4, 7-6
1994 – 46th Emmy Awards: Frasier, Picket Fences, and Kelsey Grammer win
2019 – Water is detected for the first time on a planet outside our solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b, 110 light-years away; findings are published in “Nature Astronomy”
Historical Events for 10th September 2026
422 – St. Celestine I begins his reign as the Catholic Pope
1798 – British Honduras defeats Spain in the Battle of St. George’s Caye
1961 – Italian F1 Grand Prix, Monza: A crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari
1973 – NFL New York Jets trade pro football’s leading receiver Don Maynard to St. Louis Cardinals
1974 – Portugal recognizes the independence of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, its former West African colony
1977 – US Open Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Chris Evert wins her third consecutive US singles title, beating Wendy Turnbull of Australia 7-6, 6-2; final time event played at West Side Tennis Club
1977 – Susan Perkins (Ohio) is crowned the 50th Miss America 1978
2018 – Australian newspaper “Herald Sun” is criticized for “racist” cartoon of American tennis star Serena Williams
Historical Events for 9th September 2026
701 – St Sergius I reign as Catholic Pope ends
1493 – Battle of Krbava Field: Ottoman Empire decisively defeats an army of the Kingdom of Croatia
1944 – US 113th cavalry passes Belgian-Dutch borders
1990 – US Open Men’s Tennis: 19-year-old Pete Sampras wins his first Grand Slam title, beating fellow American Andre Agassi 6-4, 6-3, 6-2, becoming the youngest male US Open winner
2018 – Green Bay Packers start their 100th season with a historic 24-23 comeback win over the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field; it is the first Packers recovery from a 17+ point deficit at three-quarter time (20-3)
2019 – Australia experiences its earliest and most severe start to the fire season, fighting dozens of bushfires in Queensland and New South Wales
2019 – Nigerian government says it will repatriate 600 people from South Africa after two people are killed in a wave of xenophobic violence in Johannesburg
2021 – Tom Brady becomes the first player in NFL history to start 300 regular-season games as he guides the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an opening day 31-29 win at home against the Dallas Cowboys
Historical Events for 8th September 2026
1930 – First appearance of the comic strip “Blondie,” created by American cartoonist Chic Young
1945 – US invades Japanese-held Korea
1960 – US 4 x 400 m relay team of Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis, and Otis Davis run a world record 3:02.2 to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics
1991 – Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia
2014 – Haider al-Abadi becomes the 75th Prime Minister of Iraq
2018 – Egypt sentences over 700 people, including 75 to death, for the 2013 pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square
2022 – NFL football playing brothers Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce launch their sports and pop-culture “New Heights” podcast
2024 – Fifty-nine people die in a crash between an oil tanker and a lorry carrying passengers in Niger State, Nigeria
Historical Events for 7th September 2026
1812 – Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Bonaparte wins a Pyrrhic victory against Russian General Mikhail Kutuzov in the most ferocious battle of the Napoleonic era; 70,000 are killed
1942 – First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator
1952 – Outfielder Don Grate of Tennessee throws a baseball a record 434 ft 1 in (132.3 m)
1954 – Integration begins in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, public schools
1966 – KTNE TV Channel 13 in Alliance, NE (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 – East German sprinter Renate Stecher runs a world record-equaling 22.40 in the 200 m final to repeat her 100 m win over Australia’s Raelene Boyle at the Munich Olympics
1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa
1991 – Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes
Historical Events for 6th September 2026
1669 – Siege of Candia on Crete ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans, the second-longest siege in history (began 1648)
1819 – American inventor Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
1944 – Gen. von Zangen’s 15th Army escapes from Zeeland
1961 – USSR performs a nuclear test at Kapustin Yar, USSR
1963 – Historian Lee Allen says the Cleveland Indians-Washington Senators game is the 100,000th in Major League Baseball history
1982 – Dutch Internal Minister Mr. M. Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
1982 – Jerry Lewis’s 17th annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,415,339
1986 – Jozef Pribilinec sets a speed walking world record time (15,447 km)
Historical Events for 5th September 2026
1907 – King Edward VII of Great Britain meets Russia’s Foreign Minister Alexander Izvolsky in an attempt to strengthen Russia’s relationship with Britain
1914 – Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins
1922 – 17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1)
1938 – International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: US retains title as Don Budge beats Australian Adrian Quist 8-6, 6-1, 6-2 for an unbeatable 3-1 lead; ends 3-2
1955 – WKRG TV channel 5 in Mobile, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 – Dodger Don Newcombe hits a National League pitcher record seventh home run of the season
1972 – Eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and later killed by the Palestinian group Black September at the Munich Olympics
2024 – China confirms it is ending its foreign adoption program following a suspension that began with the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020