1854 – French fishing vessel SS Vesta collides with American passenger paddle-wheel ship SS Arctic off Newfoundland in heavy fog, sinking the larger passenger ship; 322 killed, most of the survivors were crew members
1916 – 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians
1919 – British troops withdraw from the North Russian town of Archangelsk after fighting Bolsheviks/Soviets
1937 – 1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)
1942 – Heavy German assault in Stalingrad
1988 – Canadian Finn class sailor Lawrence Lemieux abandons race 5 to assist injured competitor after being in 2nd place; selfless act is awarded with the Pierre de Coubertin medal
1989 – Oakland wins AL West and SF wins NL West title
1992 – Pittsburgh Pirates win their 3rd straight NL East title
2014 – Hawthorn Football Club defeats the Sydney Swans in the 2014 AFL Grand Final 137-74
2016 – American “boy band” pop music group ‘Why Don’t We’ (WDW) forms in Los Angeles
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 26th September 2023
1404 – Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established
1792 – Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France
1887 – Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
1926 – JB Fagan’s stage drama “And So to Bed”, based on the life of Samuel Pepys, premieres in London
1940 – Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Woolston, Southampton for second time, 30 killed
1949 – Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign torn down, reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood
1963 – 1st edition of NYC Review of Books
1964 – Braves (25) and Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn
1999 – Ryder Cup Golf, The Country Club, Brookline: US wins 14½-13½ after trailing 10-6 going into the singles; win first 6 matches to set up victory; poor American crowd and team behaviour heavily criticised
2021 – German election: center-left Social Democrats win most seats but not a majority over ruling conservative Christian Democratic Union without its retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel
Historical Events for 25th September 2023
1639 – First printing press in America set up in Cambridge under the guaranty of Harvard College
1867 – Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Washington, D.C.
1929 – Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
1947 – 2nd Cannes Film Festival ends with six different awards presented including Best Musical for Vincente Minnelli’s” Ziegfeld Follies” and Walt Disney’s “Dumbo” Best Animation
1970 – Ringo Starr releases his 2nd solo album “Beaucoups of Blues”, a collection of country music recorded in Nashville, Tennessee
1973 – 3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
1987 – Major General Sitiveni Rabuka stages a second Fijian coup and declares Fiji a republic
1989 – Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits and 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons
2008 – The “Celtic Tiger” slides into recession for the first time in over two decades, recording a 0.5% fall in second quarter GDP, following a 0.3% decline in the first quarter
2019 – Australia’s Capital Territory becomes the 1st state in Australia to legalize recreational marijuana
Historical Events for 24th September 2023
1529 – Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman troops arrive in Vienna, beginning of the siege
1929 – James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Air Force Base in NY in the first flight to use only instrument guidance to take off, fly a set course and land
1932 – NY Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Los Angeles
1940 – Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
1957 – “Jailhouse Rock” single released by Elvis Presley (Billboard Song of the Year 1957)
1962 – US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Mississippi
1973 – West African nation of Portuguese Guinea declares independence from Portugal as the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
1981 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 – West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
1990 – Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
Historical Events for 23rd September 2023
1795 – Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris
1845 – 1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code
1846 – Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d’Arrest find Neptune
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 youngest Open champion
1972 – Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos announces state of emergency and declares martial law
1973 – Argentine General Elections – former Argentine President Juan Perón returns to power
1982 – “Doll’s Life” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 5 performances
2012 – Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer
2022 – US President Joe Biden awards British singer Elton John with National Humanities Medal
2022 – British PM Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng release “the mini-budget that broke Britain” containing largest tax cuts. Leads to an economic crisis and the downfall of both.
Historical Events for 22nd September 2023
1866 – War of the Triple Alliance: Decisive battle of Curupayty results in a Paraguayan victory and heavy losses for Argentinian and Brazilian forces
1905 – US Open Men’s Golf, Myopia Hunt GC: Willie Anderson wins his 3rd consecutive Open title, and his record 4th overall, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Alex Smith
1913 – George M. Cohan’s play “Seven Keys to Baldpate” premieres in NYC
1919 – -Jan 20] Steel strike in the US
1943 – British dwarf submarines attack German battleship Tirpitz
1961 – Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) completes 1st “double” crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hrs 10 min at 42.
1964 – “Man from U.N.C.L.E.” premieres starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum on NBC-TV: open channel D
1985 – St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man
1990 – Andre Dawson steals his 300th base and is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs, 300 steals and 2,000 hits
2019 – “Howdy, Modi!” US President Donald Trump holds a mass rally for Indian PM Narendra Modi in Houston, Texas
Historical Events for 21st September 2023
1915 – Cecil Chubb buys English prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600
1944 – Operation Market Garden: Last British paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge surrender after several days of fighting
1961 – Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook military transport helicopter
1964 – Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1993 – Ukraine government of Kutshma resigns
2003 – Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes
2004 – Green Day release their album “American Idiot” in the US
2013 – 59 people are killed and 175 wounded in a shopping mall gun battle in Nairobi, Kenya
2015 – 67th Emmy Awards: hosted by Andy Samberg, “Game of Thrones”, Viola Davis, John Hamm win
2019 – “Queer Eye” star Jonathan Van Ness reveals he is living with HIV and is a sexual abuse survivor, ahead of the publication of his autobiography
Historical Events for 20th September 2023
1596 – Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
1830 – 1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods
1833 – Charles Darwin arrives in Buenos Aires after travelling through the Argentine interior with guachos
1877 – Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
1913 – US Open Men’s Golf, The Country Club: 20-year old amateur Francis Ouimet wins his only Open title in an 18-hole playoff, 5 strokes ahead of Britons Harry Vardon and Ted Ray
1917 – British assault on Polygon Forest, France
1964 – Günter Grass’ play “Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand,” premieres in Berlin
1977 – Russell Means addresses the UNHCR in Geneva: criticizes the United States, describing Native Americans as “people who live in the belly of the monster”
1985 – Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
2000 – Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends
Historical Events for 19th September 2023
335 – Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I
1865 – Atlanta University founded
1929 – Latvia dictator A Woldemaras chased out
1940 – Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance
1953 – “Hazel Flagg” closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 190 performances
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
1989 – “Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814” 4th studio album by Janet Jackson is released (Grammy Award Best Long Form Music Video 1990, Billboard Album of the Year 1990)
2017 – US President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations vowing to “totally destroy North Korea” if threatens the US
2017 – New MLB record for most home runs in a season, no. 5,694 hit by Alex Gordon of the Kansas City Royals
2022 – Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes western Mexico on exact anniversary of two previous temblors in 1985 and 2017, killing at least two people,
Historical Events for 18th September 2023
1929 – Pirates loss to Braves and clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
1934 – St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1
1934 – USSR admitted to League of Nations
1938 – Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0
1938 – Despite losing a double header (4-3, 8-7) to the St. Louis Browns at Sportsman’s Park III, the New York Yankees clinch their 10th AL pennant
1965 – Mel Brooks and Buck Henry’s spy spoof sitcom “Get Smart” starring Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt, debuts on NBC-TV
1997 – Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame
1998 – “Rush Hour” directed by Brett Ratner, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker released – Jackie Chan’s Hollywood breakthrough
2005 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Paris, France: Russian pair Elena Dementieva and Dinara Safina win deciding doubles rubber 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 over Amélie Mauresmo and Mary Pierce of France; clinches Russia’s 2nd consecutive title, 3-2
2019 – Boarding school fire kills at least 27 in Monrovia, Liberia