642 – Arab forces under Amr ibn al-‘As conquer Alexandria
1873 – 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University
1901 – Battle of Blood River Port: Boer commandos led by Louis Botha defeat a British Mounted Infantry force commanded by Major Hubert Gough
1955 – Future MLB Hall of Famer Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson goes 2-4 in his 1st game
1956 – Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle’s 50th homer of year
1963 – “The Fugitive” starring David Janssen premieres on ABC TV
1980 – Bette Midler’s concert film “Divine Madness”, directed by Michael Ritchie, premieres
1980 – Oak A’s Rick Langford is removed with 2 outs in 9th inning ending his consecutive complete-game streak at 22
1992 – NFL decides to suspend World League Football
2018 – US border control agent confesses to the murder of four women and assault of another in Laredo, Texas
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 16th September 2023
1915 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia adjourns 4th Duma
1920 – The “Wall Street bombing” occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York, killing 38 and injuring 143
1940 – US President FDR signs Selective Training and Service Act – 1st US peacetime draft
1941 – Jews of Vilna, Poland, confined to the Ghetto
1954 – CKLW TV channel 9 in Windsor, ON (CBC) begins broadcasting
1961 – CDU loses West German election
1965 – Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0
1965 – Sobibor trial opens in Hagen, West Germany
1974 – US President Gerald Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters
1997 – Mark McGwire signs with the St Louis Cardinals for $26M
Historical Events for 15th September 2023
608 – Saint Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1777 – George Washington, on authorization of Congress, appoints Casimir Pulaski as brigadier general in Continental Army cavalry
1795 – “Lyrical Ballads” published by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth – 1st work of English Romantic movement (probable date)
1921 – WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
1931 – British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
1943 – Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens
1963 – Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria
1968 – Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
1975 – 1st College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 17-3 in Foxborough
2019 – “Jojo Rabbit” directed by “Taika Waititi and starring Scarlett Johansson wins the top award at the Toronto Film Festival
Historical Events for 14th September 2023
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
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