1180 – Minamoto no Yoritomo led force of 300 defeated at Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan
1856 – Battle of San Jacinto at Hacienda San Jacinto, Nicaraguan forces defeat American filibusters
1900 – There are now 62,000 foreign troops in Peking and nearby cities, still defeating Boxer Rebels.
1933 – 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
1942 – US Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz presents the 1st Medal of Honor of WWII, for courage and valor beyond the call of duty during the attack on Pearl Harbor, to sailor John William Finn; ceremony took place in Pearl Harbor aboard USS Enterprise
1958 – Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere.
1972 – Jason Miller’s “That Championship Season,” premieres in NYC
1973 – Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
1985 – “The Golden Girls”, starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, debuts on NBC
2021 – California Governor Gavin Newsom defeats a state vote to recall him from office
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 13th September 2023
122 – Building begins on Hadrian’s Wall, Northern England
1553 – English bishop Hugh Latimer arrested
1845 – English chemist Michael Faraday discovers the ‘Faraday effect’, the influence of a magnetic field on polarized light
1966 – Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa
1970 – New York City Marathon: inaugural event won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38
1987 – Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro
1989 – Fay Vincent elected baseball’s 8th commissioner
1997 – Elton John releases single “Something About the Way You Look Tonight” in the UK
2008 – New Zealand beats Australia, 28-24 in Brisbane to clinch their 4th straight Tri Nations Rugby Series; flyhalf Dan Carter scores a try and lands 4 conversions for the All Blacks
2017 – UN Secretary-General António Guterres says Rohingya refugee crisis now “catastrophic” as 370,000 confirmed to have fled Myanmar
Historical Events for 12th September 2023
1639 – Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England
1776 – Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission
1940 – 49 die and 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes (NJ)
1962 – Wash Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game
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
1986 – “Blue Velvet” directed by David Lynch, Starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan and Dennis Hopper debuts in Toronto
1987 – Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year
1988 – 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card
2007 – Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
2018 – More than 3,600 children reported abused by Catholic priests in Germany (1946-2014) in leaked report
Historical Events for 11th September 2023
1877 – Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen
1883 – American architect James Cutler patents postal mail chute for Elwood Building, Rochester, New York
1893 – Bronx Gas and Electric Company opens on Frisby and Tremont Ave
1926 – Spain leaves the League of Nations due to Germany joining
1964 – Gillette’s 20 year contract with Madison Square Garden and ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleve Auditorium
1983 – Pittsburgh running back Franco Harris runs for 118 yards in Steelers 25-21 win at Green Bay to become the only the third player in NFL history to rush for 11,000 yards
1994 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Andre Agassi wins first US title; beats Michael Stich of Germany 6-1, 7-6, 7-5
2009 – Sweden emerges from the recession after witnessing GDP growth of 0.2% in the second quarter
2009 – The Brazilian economy technically leaves the recession when GDP grew 1.9% in the second quarter of 2009 after having fallen in the first quarter of 2009 and last quarter of 2008
2022 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz defeats Casper Ruud of Norway 6–4, 2–6, 7–6, 6–3 for his first major title
Historical Events for 10th September 2023
1869 – Baptist minister supposedly invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
1937 – Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0
1954 – Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm’s knuckleball catcher, Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls
1960 – Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia runs WR 2:15:16.2 barefoot to take out the men’s marathon at the Rome Olympics; Africa’s first ever Olympic gold medal
1962 – KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1978 – 4th game of Boston Massacre; NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 7-4 to tie for AL East 1st place; Yanks out hit arch rivals, 67-21; score 42-9
1994 – Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke
2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations
2016 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Angelique Kerber beats Karolína Plíšková 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 to become first German player to win the event since Steffi Graf in 1996
2020 – California’s August Complex wildfire becomes largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)
Historical Events for 9th September 2023
1919 – Boston’s police force goes on strike
1932 – Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy
1942 – 1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes
1944 – US 113th cavalry passes Belgian-Dutch borders
1950 – 1st use of TV laugh track by “The Hank McCune Show” in the US
1964 – German DR government allows short visits to West Germany
1970 – Feyenoord wins soccer’s Club World Cup
1972 – West German equestrian rider Liselott Linsenhoff follows her dressage teams gold in Mexico City with the individual dressage title at her home Olympics in Munich
2013 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Spaniard Rafael Nadal wins his second US title; beats Novak Đoković 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1
2016 – North Korea conducts its fifth nuclear test at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, at the time its largest ever test at 10 kilotons but superseded by the 2017 test
Historical Events for 8th September 2023
1914 – HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, two weeks into its service with the Royal Navy, runs aground off, Foula, Shetland, Scotland in good weather and eventually sinks
1960 – American sprinter Wilma Rudolph wins her third gold medal of the Rome Olympics anchoring the US 4 x 100m relay team; earlier won 100/200m double
1966 – The Severn Bridge between England and Wales is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II
1967 – The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
1973 – Billy Martin named manager of the Texas Rangers
1974 – American motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempts to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho but fails, escaping with minor injuries
1979 – Cheryl Prewitt (Miss), 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980
1984 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova retains her title; beats Chris Evert-Lloyd 4-6, 6-4, 6-4
1985 – “USA Weekend’s” 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers
2018 – Egypt sentences over 700 people, including 75 death sentences for 2013 pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya square
Historical Events for 7th September 2023
1652 – Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English
1800 – Zion AME Church dedicated (NYC)
1897 – George Davis (Giants) HR off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH
1916 – Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch NY’s record 26-game winning streak
1923 – Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Philadelphia A’s, 4-0
1987 – Netherlands sends 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf
1990 – New York City Opera’s production of Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes’ “Street Scene” opens at NY State Theater, NYC; runs for 6 performances
1993 – St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Mark Whiten hits 4 HRs and 12 RBIs in 15-2 win at Cincinnati Reds
2015 – British archaeologists announce the discovery of a Neolithic “superhenge” under 3ft of earth at Durrington Walls
2019 – US Open Women’s Tennis: Bianca Andreescu becomes first Canadian to win a Grand Slam singles title; stuns Serena Williams 6-2, 7-5
Historical Events for 6th September 2023
1869 – Mine fire kills 110 at Avondale, Pennsylvania
1912 – NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia, 3-0
1939 – South Africa declares war on Nazi-Germany
1941 – All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1953 – Konrad Adenauer’s CDU wins elections in German Federal Republic
1953 – Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38
1954 – Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 – Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell’s #8
1995 – Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood
Historical Events for 5th September 2023
1666 – Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead
1901 – National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, better known as Minor League Baseball is formed at the Leland Hotel in Chicago
1949 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Margaret Osborne duPont beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-4, 6-1
1962 – Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 and consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th
1979 – Earl of Mountbatten’s Ceremonial Funeral held in Westminster Abbey, London
1986 – NASA launches DoD-1 (classified Department of Defense satellite)
1986 – 3rd MTV Video Music Awards: Whitney Houston wins
1997 – Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game
2012 – 54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Nadu
2019 – South African women march on parliament to protest violence against women after a month when 30 were killed by their spouses