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September 20th
1908 ~ Death of Pablo de Sarasate, Violinist.
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 sample 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.
1979 ~ A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrew Emperor Bokasa I.
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.
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.
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09-23-2006, 06:11 AM
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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 LeVerrier.
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.
1932 ~ The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd were renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1949 ~ Birthday of Bruce Springsteen, Singer & Songwriter.
1962 ~ The Jetsons premiered.
1983 ~ Saint Kitts and Nevis joined the United Nations.
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09-24-2006, 05:29 AM
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September 24th
622 ~ Muhammad completed his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
1664 ~ The Netherlands surrendered New Amsterdam to England.
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.
1896 ~ Birthday of F Scott Fitzgerald, Novelist (This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby,…)
1936 ~ Birthday of Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets.
1957 ~ The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.
1988 ~ Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson beat American Carl Lewis for the gold at the Seoul Olympics in the 100 Meters sprint. Mr. Johnson was later disqualified for using anabolic steroids.
1991 ~ Death of Dr. Seuss, Writer.
1993 ~ Broderbund released the computer game Myst.
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09-26-2006, 05:36 AM
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September 26th
1687 ~ The Parthenon in Athens is 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.
1907 ~ New Zealand and Newfoundland became dominions.
1944 ~ Allied troops began a retreat from Arnhem.
1945 ~ Death of Béla Bartók, Composer.
1948 ~ Birthday of Olivia Newton-John, Singer.
1960 ~ Presidential candidates Kennedy and Nixon in first TV debate.
1983 ~ Australia II won the “Americas Cup”.
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September 29th
1547 ~ Birthday of Miguel de Cervantes, Author (Don Quixote).
1714 ~ George, Elector of Hanover, arrived in Greenwich to assume the British throne as King George I. (Thanks dm383!)
1758 ~ Birthday of Horatio Nelson, English icon.
1901 ~ Birthday of Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist.
1954 ~ CERN opened for business.
1960 ~ Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a meeting of the UN General Assembly.
1962 ~ Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite was launched.
1978 ~ Death of Pope John Paul, who reigned just 33 days.
2004 ~ The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passed within 964,000 miles of Earth.
2004 ~ The Montreal Expos played their last game at Olympic Stadium.
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September 30th
1882 ~ Birthday of Hans Geiger, German physicist & co-inventor of the Geiger counter.
1896 ~ Madagascar became a French protectorate.
1913 ~ Death of Rudolf Diesel, German inventor.
1924 ~ Birthday of Truman Capote, Author (In Cold Blood).
1938 ~ British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1954 ~ The submarine USS Nautilus was commissioned as the first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 ~ Death of James Dean, American actor.
1960 ~ The last episode of The Howdy Doody Show aired.
1991 ~ President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was forced from office.
1999 ~ Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
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October 1st
1903 ~ The visiting Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Americans 7-3 in the first World Series game.
1905 ~ The Julliard School of Music was founded in New York City.
1908 ~ The Model T automobile was introduced by Henry Ford - it sold for $825.
1939 ~ British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast described the Soviet Union as ''a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma''.
1943 ~ The International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremburg sentenced 12 Nazi leaders to death.
1949 ~ The People's Republic of China was formed with Mao Zedong as its head.
1968 ~ The cult horror movie "Night of the Living Dead" had its world premiere in Pittsburgh.
1971 ~ Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida. Eventually it would become the largest artificial tourist attraction in the world.
1986 ~ Former President Jimmy Carter's presidential library and museum were dedicated in Atlanta.
2001 ~ The Supreme Court suspended former President Bill Clinton from practicing before the high court.
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October 2nd
1187 ~ Saladin captured Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1800 ~ Birthday of Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising.
1836 ~ Charles Darwin returned to England after a 5-year journey aboard the HMS Beagle collecting data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
1852 ~ Birthday of William Ramsay, Scottish chemist.
1869 ~ Birthday of Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian political leader.
1890 ~ Birthday of Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor.
1935 ~ Italy invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
1950 ~ The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in US newspapers.
1967 ~ Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
1985 ~ Death of Rock Hudson, Actor.
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October 3rd
1873 ~ Birthday of Emily Post, etiquette advisor.
1900 ~ Birthday of Thomas Wolfe, American novelist.
1916 ~ Birthday of James Herriot, veterinarian, author.
1922 ~ Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to be seated in the U.S. Senate.
1925 ~ Birthday of Gore Vidal, author.
1929 ~ The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1967 ~ Death of Woody Guthrie, folk musician.
1973 ~ Frank Robinson was named major league baseball's first black manager as he was put in charge of the Cleveland Indians.
1990 ~ The re-unification of Germany. East Germany ceased to exist.
1995 ~ O. J. Simpson found not guilty of murder.
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October 4th
1880 ~ Birthday of Damon Runyon, Writer.
1903 ~ Birthday of John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor of the digital electronic computer.
1924 ~ Birthday of Charlton Heston, Actor.
1941 ~ Birthday of Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer.
1943 ~ Birthday of H. Rap Brown, civil rights activist & murderer.
1957 ~ Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1983 ~ The first Hooters restaurant opens in Clearwater, Florida.
1993 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the army to begin storming the Russian parliament building.
2002 ~ John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban”, received a 20-year sentence.
2004 ~ The SpaceShipOne rocket plane broke through Earth's atmosphere for the second time in five days to capture a $10 million prize.
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