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September 14th
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. 1927 ~ Death of Isadora Duncan, Dancer. 1959 ~ The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashed onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it. 1967 ~ Birthday of Ashlyn Gere, Porn actress. 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. 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. 1978 ~ Death of Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer. 1981 ~ The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court. 2008 ~ Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. |
September 16th
1736 ~ Death of Gabriel Fahrenheit, German Physicist.
1810 ~ Fr. Miguel Hidalgo proclaimed Mexico's independence from Spain. 1940 ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act. 1959 ~ French President De Gaulle recognized Algerian right of self determination. 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. 1987 ~ The Montreal Protocol was signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion. 1991 ~ The trial of Manuel Noriega began. 1992 ~ The Pound Sterling was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and devalued against the Deutschmark. 1996 ~ The Howard Stern Radio Show premiered. |
September 17th
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. 1972 ~ "M.A.S.H." premiered on CBS. 1976 ~ Birthday of Daniella Rush, former Czech Porn Actress. 1978 ~ The Camp David Accords were signed by Israeli and Egyptian representatives. 1980 ~ The first independent Polish trade union, Solidarity, was established after weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk. 1994 ~ Death of Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher. |
September 18th
1709 ~ Birthday of Samuel Johnson, Essayist & Critic.
1733 ~ Birthday of George Read, signer of the American Declaration of Independence. 1759 ~ The British capture Quebec City. 1927 ~ Columbia Broadcasting System 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. 1971 ~ Birthday of Lance Armstrong, Cyclist Extraordinaire. 1976 ~ Birthday of Kikki Daire, Porn Actress. 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. 1935 ~ Death of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, rocket scientist, physicist. 1941 ~ Birthday of Mama Cass Elliott, musician. 1945 ~ Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London. 1949 ~ Birthday of Twiggy, English model. 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. |
September 20th
1519 ~ Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia.
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. 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
19 BC ~ Death of Virgil, Roman poet. (Aeneid, etc.)
1756 ~ Birthday of John MacAdam, road builder. 1780 ~ Benedict Arnold gave the British the plans to West Point. 1866 ~ Birthday of H. G. Wells, science fiction author. 1874 ~ Birthday of Gustav Holst, Composer. 1897 ~ The Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus letter was published in the New York Sun. 1937 ~ The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien first published. 1947 ~ Birthday of Stephen King, Author. 2003 ~ The Galileo mission was terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere. 2008 ~ And then there were none: The last two independent Wall Street investment banks, Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley, became bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis. |
Kind of a neat variety of things that happened on Tuesday (yesterday).
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September 22nd
1791 ~ Birthday of Michael Faraday, Scientist.
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. 1910 ~ The Duke of York's Cinema, the oldest continually operating cinema in the UK, opened in Brighton. 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. 1980 ~ Iraq invaded Iran. 1972 ~ Birthday of Dana Vespoli, porn actress. 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. 1920 ~ Birthday of Mickey Rooney, actor. 1930 ~ Birthday of Ray Charles, U.S. R&B and jazz musician, singer. 1952 ~ Richard Nixon made his “Checkers speech". 1972 ~ Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos introduced a dictatorial government. 1982 ~ Birthday of Shyla Stylez, Porn Actress. 2002 ~ The first public version of the Firefox web browser was released. |
September 24th
622 ~ Muhammad completed his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
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. 1957 ~ President Eisenhower sent Army troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. 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 ~ 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
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. 2008 ~ China launched its third human spaceflight, Shenzhou 7. |
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.
1888 ~ Birthday of T. S. Eliot, Poet. 1898 ~ Birthday of George Gershwin, Composer. 1944 ~ Allied troops began a retreat from Arnhem. 1948 ~ Birthday of Olivia Newton-John, Singer. 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. 1977 ~ Birthday of Kaylynn, Porn Actress. 1980 ~ Birthday of Jane Darling, Porn Actress 1983 ~ Australia II won the “America’s Cup”. |
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, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1974 . 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. |
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