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September 14th
1737 ~ Birthday of Michael Haydn, Austrian composer.
1752 ~ The British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (September 2 was followed directly by September 14 that year). 1760 ~ Birthday of Luigi Cherubini, Composer. 1814 ~ Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner. 1959 ~ Birthday of Ashlyn Gere, former Porn actress. 1959 ~ The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashed onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it. 1982 ~ Death of Princess Grace of Monaco. 1994 ~ The Major League Baseball season was canceled because of a players’ strike. 1996 ~ Death of Juliet Prowse, British actress & dancer. 2005 ~ A federal judge in San Francisco ruled the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional. |
September 15th
1789 ~ Birthday of James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist.
1928 ~ Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. 1929 ~ Birthday of Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1969. 1935 ~ The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany. 1940 ~ Birthday of Norman Spinrad, Science Fiction author. 1950 ~ The U.N. staged its fist offensive operation in the Korean War; an amphibious assault at Inchon. 1963 ~ The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing kills four children in Birmingham, Alabama. 1975 ~ Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia. 1977 ~ Death of Maria Callas, Opera Diva. 1981 ~ The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court. |
September 16th
1736 ~ Death of Gabriel Fahrenheit, German Physicist.
1956 ~ Play-Doh was first introduced. 1968 ~ Candidate Richard Nixon appeared on Laugh-in. 1974 ~ U.S. President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders. 1975 ~ Papua New Guinea gained its independence from Australia. 1981 ~ Birthday of Ava Addams, Gibraltarian-born Porn Actress. 1987 ~ The Montreal Protocol was signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion. 1993 ~ Death of Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet and campaigner for Aboriginal rights. 1996 ~ The Howard Stern Radio Show premiered. 2009 ~ Death of Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary). |
September 17th
1394 ~ King Charles VI of France ordered all Jews expelled from France.
1862 ~ Union forces repelled a Confederate invasion of Maryland in the Civil War Battle of Antietam. 1908 ~ Death of Lt. Thomas Selfridge, first to die in an airplane crash. 1929 ~ Birthday of Sir Stirling Moss, Formula One racer. 1939 ~ The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. 1970 ~ Civil war broke out in Jordan. 1978 ~ The Camp David Accords were signed by Israeli and Egyptian representatives. 1979 ~ Birthday of Julie Robbins, a former Porn actress. 1994 ~ Death of Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher. 2011 ~ Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zuccotti Park, New York City. |
September 18th
1709 ~ Birthday of Samuel Johnson, Essayist & Critic.
1759 ~ The British capture Quebec City. 1819 ~ Birthday of Leon Foucault, Physicist. 1927 ~ Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) went on the air. 1947 ~ The U.S. Air Force became an independent service. 1961 ~ Death of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN. 1970 ~ Death of Jimi Hendrix, Rock Musician. 1976 ~ Birthday of Kikki Daire, Porn actress. 1997 ~ Ted Turner donated $1 billion to the United Nations. 1998 ~ ICANN was formed. |
September 19th
1737 ~ Birthday of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Declaration of Independence Signer, Senator.
1796 ~ George Washington made his farewell address. 1900 ~ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid robbed the First National Bank of $32,640. 1934 ~ Bruno Hauptmann was arrested for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Junior. 1935 ~ Death of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, rocket scientist, physicist. 1941 ~ Birthday of Mama Cass Elliott, musician. 1984 ~ Birthday of Amber Rayne, Porn actress. 1989 ~ A terrorist bomb exploded in a UTA DC-10 above Niger killing 171. 1991 ~ Ötzi the Iceman ws discovered by German tourists. 2004 ~ Death of Skeeter Davis, Country Music star. |
September 20th
1934 ~ Birthday of Sophia Loren, Italian actress.
1948 ~ Birthday of George R. R. Martin, Science Fiction Writer. 1970 ~ The Soviet probe Luna 16 collected moon soil samples for return to earth. 1973 ~ Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a $100,000 winner-take-all “Battle of the Sexes“ tennis match. 1984 ~ A suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy annex in north Beirut, killing 20 people. 1993 ~ Death of Erich Hartmann, German, world's most successful fighter pilot (352 'kills') . 2000 ~ After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Jr took a day off. 2000 ~ Death of Gherman Titov, cosmonaut. 2004 ~ CBS News apologized for a "mistake in judgment" in its story questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service, saying it could not vouch for the authenticity of documents featured in the report. 2005 ~ Death of Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter. |
September 21st
1756 ~ Birthday of John MacAdam, road builder.
1780 ~ Benedict Arnold gave the British the plans to West Point. 1874 ~ Birthday of Gustav Holst, Composer. 1896 ~ British force under Horatio Kitchener took Dongola in the Sudan. 1897 ~ The Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus letter was published in the New York Sun. 1937 ~ J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit. 1947 ~ Birthday of Stephen King, Author. 1981 ~ Sandra Day O'Connor was unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice. 1981 ~ Birthday of Phoenix Marie, Porn Actress and "Penthouse Pet". 2003 ~ The Galileo mission was terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere. |
September 22nd
1828 ~ Death of Shaka Zulu, Zulu leader.
1862 ~ President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. 1869 ~ Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold opened in Munich. 1964 ~ ”Fiddler on the Roof”, the first musical to surpass 3,000 performances, opened at the Imperial Theatre. 1975 ~ Sara Jane Moore’s assassination attempt on U.S. President Gerald Ford was foiled by Oliver Sipple. 1979 ~ The Vela Incident was observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test. 1980 ~ Iraq invaded Iran. 1972 ~ Birthday of Dana Vespoli, Porn Actress. 1999 ~ Death of George C. Scott, Actor. 2001 ~ Death of Isaac Stern, Violinist. |
September 23rd
63 B.C. ~ Birthday of Caesar Augustus, 1st Roman Emperor.
1642 ~ First commencement at Harvard College. 1806 ~ Discovery of Neptune by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier. 1884 ~ Herman Hollerith applied for a patent on his mechanical adding machine. 1930 ~ Birthday of Ray Charles, U.S. R&B and jazz musician, singer. 1932 ~ The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd were renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 1949 ~ Birthday of Bruce Springsteen, Singer & Songwriter. 1952 ~ Richard Nixon made his “Checkers speech". 1972 ~ Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos introduced a dictatorial government. 1982 ~ Birthday of Shyla Stylez, Canadian Porn actress. |
September 24th
1755 ~ Birthday of John Marshall, the fourth and longest-serving Chief Justice of the American Supreme Court.
1890 ~ As a pre-condition to Utah being admitted to the U.S., the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) officially renounced polygamy. 1976 ~ The Rhodesian Government agreed to introduce black majority rule to the country within two years. 1979 ~ Birthday of Sabrine Maui, Filipina Porn actress. 1979 ~ CompuServe launched the first consumer internet service, which featured the first public electronic mail service (I used it for several years). 1979 ~ Birthday of Katja Kassin, German Porn actress. 1988 ~ Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson beat Carl Lewis in the 100 Meters sprint at the Seoul Olympics. Mr. Johnson was later disqualified for using performance enhancing drugs. 1991 ~ Death of Dr. Seuss, Writer. 1996 ~ President Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations. |
September 25th
1066 ~ Battle of Stamford Bridge, which marked the end of the Viking era.
1683 ~ Birthday of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer. 1890 ~ Yosemite National Park established. 1897 ~ Birthday of William Faulkner, American writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1932 ~ Birthday of Glenn Gould, Pianist. 1950 ~ UN forces recaptured Seoul, the South Korean capital. 1957 ~ U.S. Army paratroopers ended the Little Rock school crisis. 1981 ~ Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the 102nd Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first woman to hold the office. 1983 ~ Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov averted World War III by refusing to accept - despite the (erroneous) alert given by the Soviet early warning system - that the U.S. had launched missiles against the USSR. 2002 ~ The Vitim event, a possible NEO impact in Siberia, Russia. |
September 26th
1687 ~ The Parthenon in Athens was partially destroyed after an explosion caused by the bombing from the Venetian forces besieging the Ottoman Turks.
1820 ~ Death of Daniel Boone, American icon. 1888 ~ Birthday of T. S. Eliot, Poet. 1898 ~ Birthday of George Gershwin, Composer. 1944 ~ Allied troops began a retreat from Arnhem. 1957 ~ ”West Side Story” opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. 1960 ~ Kennedy and Nixon met in the first nationally televised debate between presidential candidates. 1980 ~ Birthday of Jane Darling, Czech Porn Actress. 1983 ~ Australia II won the “America’s Cup”. 1984 ~ The UK agreed to the handover of Hong Kong to the PRC. |
September 27th
1389 ~ Birthday of Cosimo de Medici, Florentine ruler.
1540 ~ The Jesuit Order received its charter from Pope Paul III. 1722 ~ Birthday of Samuel Adams, Patriot & Brewer. 1917 ~ Death of Edgar Degas, Impressionist painter. 1918 ~ Birthday of Sir Martin Ryle, English physicist and astronomer. 1921 ~ Death of Engelbert Humperdinck, Composer. 1964 ~ The Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy. 1996 ~ The Taliban drove the government of Afghani President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of the capital Kabul. They then dragged former leader Mohammad Najibullah out of the U.N. compound and hanged him from a traffic light pole. 1998 ~ The Google web search engine was launched. 2001 ~ An armed man went on a shooting rampage in Zug, Switzerland, killing 14 people before taking his own life. 2009 ~ Death of William Safire, Wordsmith. |
September 28th
1066 ~ William the Conqueror invaded England, landing at Pevensey, Sussex.
1915 ~ Birthday of Ethel Rosenberg, Spy. 1924 ~ The first round-the-world flight completed. It took 175 days. 1925 ~ Birthday of Seymour Cray, Computer Scientist. 1928 ~ Alexander Fleming discovered what later became known as penicillin, for which he shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine. 1953 ~ Death of Edwin Hubble, Astronomer. 1976 ~ Stevie Wonder released Songs in the Key of Life. 1995 ~ Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents. 1988 ~ Death of Charles Addams, Cartoonist, creator of The Adams Family. 2000 ~ Death of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada. |
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