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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 4th September 2023
1950 – “Beetle Bailey” comic strip debuts in twelve newspapers
1957 – Ford Motor Co. introduces Edsel automobile range
1964 – Eduardo Frei Montalva elected President of Chile
1964 – NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
1972 – Kenyan legend Kipchoge Keino follows his 1,500m gold in Mexico City with an Olympic record 8:23.64 to win the 3,000m steeplechase at the Munich Olympics
1988 – The relocated Phoenix Cardinals play first regular-season NFL game; lose 21-14 v Bengals at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati
2002 – Kelly Clarkson is crowned the winner of the first series of “American Idol” TV singing competition series
2006 – Tiger Woods matches the lowest final round of his career (8-under 63) in the Deutsche Bank C’ship at Norton, MA to win for the 5th straight time and 7th time this PGA Tour season
2010 – Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.
2019 – YouTube fined $170 million for illegally collecting data on children’s viewing habits by US Federal Trade Commission
Historical Events for 3rd September 2023
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson set out on a tour of the USA to rouse public opinion behind the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations
1940 – US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease
1941 – KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1941 – 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)
1943 – British 8th Army lands in Southern Italy (Messina)
1943 – General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily
1954 – The People’s Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy and Amoy
1973 – Jerry Lewis’ 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
2001 – In just his 11th start, St. Louis Cardinals’ rookie pitcher Bud Smith no-hits the San Diego Padres, 4-0
2019 – Walmart says it will stop selling handguns and some ammunition and ask customers not to openly carry firearms in response to El Paso shootings
Historical Events for 2nd September 2023
1519 – 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
1882 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Richard Sears beats Clarence M. Clark 6-1, 6-4, 6-0
1930 – 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
1944 – US leaders meet in Belgium
1957 – Milwaukee 1st baseman Frank Torre scores 6 runs to tie the MLB record; Braves rout Chicago Cubs 23-10
1960 – New Zealand middle distance runner Peter Snell claims first of 3 career Olympic gold medals when he wins the 800m in Rome
1963 – CBS expands “CBS Evening News” program, anchored by Walter Conkrite, from 15 to 30 minutes
1968 – Jerry Lewis’ 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
2018 – Major fire at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro destroys most of its 20 million artifacts
2019 – Diving boat catches fire at night killing 34 asleep on board off Santa Cruz Island, California
Historical Events for 1st September 2023
1255 – Königsberg (modern day Kaliningrad) founded by Teutonic Knights and named in honor of the Bohemian King Ottokar II
1906 – New York Highlanders win their 6th consecutive MLB game in 3 days from Washington Senators; sweep AL record 3 straight double headers
1911 – Anthony Fokker famously flies his aircraft “Spin” around the tower of the Grote Kerk in Haarlem
1971 – Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein
1972 – Welshman Richard Meade representing Great Britain and riding Laurieston grabs the equestrian individual and team 3-day event gold medals at the Munich Olympics
1979 – LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
1986 – Henri Debehogne discovers asteroid #8265 La Silla
1989 – Chris Evert becomes the first player ever to win 100 matches in the US National/Open Tennis Championship by beating Patricia Tarabinia 6-2, 6-4
2007 – In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans see Appalachian State’s Corey Lynch block a Jason Gingell 37-yard field goal attempt with 6 seconds remaining to inspire an epic 34-32 win v Michigan at Ann Arbor
2021 – South America’s second-longest river, the Paraná, at its lowest levels for 77 years due to drought
Historical Events for 31st August 2023
1903 – New York Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader of month, beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-1 and 9-2 at the Polo Grounds
1920 – Detroit radio station 8MK (now WWJ, 950AM) is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air
1923 – Italian troops occupy Corfu
1954 – Indians beat Yanks 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A’s)
1979 – Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as US UN ambassador
1983 – 40th Venice Film Festival: “First Name: Carmen” directed by Jean-Luc Godard wins Golden Lion
1983 – Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
1985 – “Prakas” sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Illinois
1990 – East and West Germany sign a treaty to join legal and political systems
2015 – Violent protests in Kiev after Ukraine parliament vote leave 1 national guard dead, 100 injured
Historical Events for 30th August 2023
1757 – Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [OS=Aug 19]
1800 – Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1862 – Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
1932 – Hermann Goering elected President of the German Reichstag
1939 – General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
1961 – Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
1982 – PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
1984 – 12th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41D): Discovery 1 launches for a 6-day excursion
1991 – Dan O’Brien sets US decathlon record with 8,812 points
1993 – “Late Show with David Letterman” debuts on CBS, from the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC; Bill Murray is his first guest, Billy Joel performs
Historical Events for 29th August 2023
1854 – Self-governing windmill patented by American inventor Daniel Halladay
1920 – An American sweep of the medals in the women’s 3m springboard diving event at the Antwerp Olympics; Aileen Riggin wins gold ahead of teammates Helen Wainwright and Thelma Payne
1937 – MLB Philadelphia A’s Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1944 – 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1958 – Cliff Richard and the Drifters release single “Move It”, Richards debut single. Credited as 1st British Rock n Roll song.
1972 – SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row
1992 – Largest wrestling crowd outside US – 75,000 at Wembley Stadium, London
1997 – Netflix is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hasting in Scotts Valley, California as an online DVD rental business
2004 – Athens Olympic marathon is run on same route as 1896 Games, start at site of the Battle of Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens: Stefano Baldini of Italy wins men’s gold in 2:10:55
2014 – Riots break out in Guinea following rumours that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals