September Events Through History

September Events

9:All-American Breakfast Month
9:Baby Safety Month
9:Be Kind to Writers and Editors Month
9:Board and Care Recognition Month (New Jersey)
9:Cable TV Month
9:Hispanic Awareness Month.
9:International Cooperation in Learning Month
9:International Gay Square Dance Month
9:Library Card Sign-up Month
9:National Cat Health Month
9:National Chicken Month
9:National Cholesterol Education and Awareness Month
9:National Clock Month
9:National Courtesy Month
9:National Honey Month
9:National Mind Mapping Month
9:National Month (Chile)
9:National Piano Month
9:National Rice Month
9:Sea Cadet Month
Events depending on weekdays
M(9/7) :Labor Day (first Monday).
M(9/7) :Settler’s Day (Republic of South Africa) (first Monday).
S(9/7) :Braemar Highland Gathering (Scotland) (first Saturday).
U(9/7) :Historical Regatta (Italy) (first Sunday).
U(9/7) :Joust of the Saracen (Italy) (first Sunday).
U(9/11):Historical Procession (Belgium) (Sunday nearest 9/8).
S(9/12):Federal Lands Cleanup Day (Monday after Labor Day).
U(9/13):National Grandparents Day (Sunday after Labor Day).
M(9/14):National Boss/Employee Exchange Day (Monday after Labor Day).
U(9/14):Giostra Della Quintana (Italy) (second Sunday).
U(9/14):National Pet Memorial Day (second Sunday).
S(9/19):Cherokee Strip Celebration (Oklahoma) (Saturday nearest 9/16).
T(9/21):International Day of Peace (UN) (third Tuesday).
T(9/21):Prinsjesdag (Netherlands) (third Tuesday).
F(9/21):National Laundry Workers Day (third Friday).
F(9/28):Native American Day (fourth Friday).
S(9/28):Kiwanis Kids’ Day (fourth Saturday).
S(9/28):National Hunting and Fishing Day (fourth Saturday).
U(9/28):National Good Neighbor Day (fourth Sunday).
U(9/30):Daylight Savings Time Ends (Europe) (last Sunday).
U(9/30):Gold Star Mother’s Day (last Sunday).
: Normal events
9/1 :Army Day (Chile). (9/19?)
9/1 :Revolution Day (Libyan Arab Republic).
9/1/-5598:Grecian Mundane Era began.
9/1/1422 :Henry VI became English Sovereign.
9/1/1557 :Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer, died.
9/1/1635 :First grand jury convened (Newe Towne, Massachusetts).
9/1/1689 :Graduated Tax on Beards imposed in Russia.
9/1/1729 :Sir Richard Steele, English essayist, died.
9/1/1772 :Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded.
9/1/1807 :Aaron Burr acquitted of conspiracy to commit treason.
9/1/1859 :Joshua A. Norton proclaimed himself ‘Emperor Norton I’.
9/1/1859 :Pullman sleeping car debuted.
9/1/1862 :First US Federal tax on tobacco.
9/1/1869 :Prohibition Party formed.
9/1/1878 :First female telephone operator (Emma M. Nutt).
9/1/1914 :Passenger pigeon became extinct.
9/1/1916 :Keating-Owen Act (goods made with child labor banned from US
:interstate commerce).
9/1/1923 :Earthquake hit Japan (74,000 killed).
9/1/1939 :Germany invaded Poland.
9/1/1940 :Lillian D. Wald, sociologist, died.
9/1/1948 :Charles A. Beard, US historian, died.
9/1/1969 :Colonel Moammar Gadhafi came to power.
9/1/1972 :Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky in World Chess Match.
9/1/1977 :Lead in paint ruled to be illegal.
9/1/1979 :Pioneer 11 (US) made first flyby of Saturn.
9/1/1980 :Terrence Stanley Fox had to end his run across Canada for cancer.
9/1/1982 :Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 miles per hour.
9/1/1983 :Korean Air Lines flight 007 shot down by Russian fighter planes.
9/1/1985 :RMS Titanic found.
9/1/1989 :A. Bartlett Giamatti, major league baseball commissioner, died.
9/2 :Bison-Ten-Yell Day.
9/2 :Independence Day (Vietnam).
9/2/-490 :Phidippides ran from Marathon to Sparta.
9/2/1666 :Great Fire of London began (13,000 homes destroyed, four days).
9/2/1752 :Gregorian Calendar adopted by Britain and her colonies (9/3
:became 9/14).
9/2/1789 :US Treasury Department established.
9/2/1864 :General Sherman and troops entered Atlanta, Georgia.
9/2/1880 :First night baseball game played (Jordan Marsh vs. R.H. White –
:Hull, Massachusetts).
9/2/1901 :Theodore Roosevelt said “Speak Softly and carry a big stick.”
9/2/1914 :War risk insurance bureau established.
9/2/1924 :Rudolf Friml’s “Rose-Marie” opened on Broadway.
9/2/1938 :”Carefree,” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, released.
9/2/1945 :Democratic Republic of Vietnam proclaimed.
9/2/1945 :Japan signed unconditional surrender.
9/2/1946 :”The Iceman Cometh” premiered.
9/2/1963 :Governor Wallace had police surround Tuskegee High School to stop
:integration.
9/2/1964 :Sgt. Alvin York, WWI hero, died.
9/2/1968 :Series of earthquakes hit Iran (12000 killed).
9/2/1973 :Last episode of “The Bullwinkle Show” aired.
9/2/1983 :Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Senator, died.
9/2/1984 :Typhoon Ike hit the Philippines.
9/2/1985 :Passaic, New Jersey fire, set by 2 boys ($400 million damage, 500
:homeless).
9/3 :Anniversary Day of the Founding of the Republic (San Marino).
9/3 :Independence Day (Qatar).
9/3 :Memorial Day (Tunisia).
9/3/1189 :Richard I became the English Sovereign.
9/3/1697 :King William’s War ended.
9/3/1783 :Treaty of Paris signed (ending the US Revolutionary War).
9/3/1833 :New York Sun debuted.
9/3/1881 :Lorenzo Delmonico, famed restaurateur, died.
9/3/1894 :Labor Day first observed as a legal holiday.
9/3/1898 :First municipal subway opened to North Station, Boston,
:Massachusetts.
9/3/1918 :”Slacker Raids” began (soldiers and sailors stop draft age men at
:bayonet point and demand to see their draft papers – 13,000 in
:3 days found in New Jersey).
9/3/1928 :Ty Cobb got his final hit.
9/3/1939 :World War II began.
9/3/1943 :Allied forces invaded Italy.
9/3/1951 :”Search for Tomorrow” debuted.
9/3/1962 :e.e. cummings, American poet, died.
9/3/1969 :Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Tat Thanh), Vietnamese revolutionary, died.
9/3/1976 :Viking 2 (US) softlanded on Mars.
9/3/1979 :Hurricane David hit the eastern US seaboard (1,000 killed).
9/3/1985 :Johnny Marks, songwriter (“Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”), died.
9/3/1991 :Frank Capra, director, died.
9/4 :Animal’s Day (Curacao).
9/4 :Los Angeles Day.
9/4 :Newspaper Carrier Day.
9/4/1609 :Island of Manhattan discovered (Henry Hudson).
9/4/1781 :Los Angeles (El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles
:de Porciuncula) founded.
9/4/1833 :First “newsboy” in US hired (Barney Flaherty, ten years old).
9/4/1882 :Electric lights introduced to New York (Thomas Edison).
9/4/1886 :Geronimo (Goyathlay) surrendered.
9/4/1888 :Kodak camera patented (George Eastman).
9/4/1907 :Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg, Norwegian composer, died.
9/4/1910 :Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French painter, died.
9/4/1936 :First preliminary model of the Citroen Deux Chevaux was unveiled.
9/4/1936 :”Swing Time,” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, released.
9/4/1954 :First passage of the McClure Strait (Nortwest Passage).
9/4/1957 :Ford Motor Co. introduced the Edsel.
9/4/1965 :Dr. Albert Schweitzer, missionary, died.
9/4/1970 :Natalia Makarova, ballerina, defected from Russia to England.
9/4/1972 :First athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals (Mark Spitz).
9/4/1977 :First parade with marching music supplied by transistor radios
:(Streamwood, Illinois).
9/4/1979 :IMSAI closed their doors.
9/4/1980 :Abbie Hoffman, radical activist, surrendered to New York
:authorities.
9/4/1988 :Gert Frobe (Karl-Gerhard Frobe), actor, died.
9/4/1990 :Irene Marie Dunne (Dunn), actress (“I Remember Mama”), died.
9/4/1993 :Descendants of 1918 world champion Red Sox finally receive World
:Series “medals.”
9/4/1993 :Herve Villechaize, actor, died.
9/5 :Be Late for Something Day.
9/5 :National Holiday (Western Samoa).
9/5/1774 :First Continental Congress convened (Philadelphia).
9/5/1795 :Treaty with the Dey of Algiers (US to pay tribute to the Barbary
:Pirates).
9/5/1836 :Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas.
9/5/1881 :Michigan’s Great Fire (125 killed).
9/5/1882 :First Labor Day parade (New York).
9/5/1902 :Rudolf Virchow, German “founder of cellular pathology,” died.
9/5/1905 :Treaty of Portsmouth signed (ended Russo-Japanese War).
9/5/1914 :First Battle of the Marne began.
9/5/1925 :Rapid aerial photography made (finished and dropped in 27
:minutes).
9/5/1961 :Kennedy ordered resumption of underground nuclear tests.
9/5/1972 :11 Israeli athletes and 6 others killed by Palestinian terrorists
:(Munich).
9/5/1975 :Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme attempted to shoot US president Ford.
9/5/1977 :Voyager 1 (US) launched.
9/5/1979 :UFO sighting, Dresser, Wisconsin.
9/5/1980 :Saint Gotthard Auto Tunnel (Switzerland), longest underground
:motorway in the world (ten miles), opened.
9/5/1982 :Janet Gaynor, winner of the first best actress Oscar, involved in
:a car crash which would later prove fatal.
9/5/1984 :US space shuttle Discovery ended its inaugural flight.
9/5/1985 :Two E.F. Hutton officials resigned after disclosure that the
:brokerage firm engaged in a check-kiting scheme.
9/5/1991 :Soviet Union restructured.
9/6 :Defense of Pakistan Day (Pakistan).
9/6 :Independence Day (Swaziland).
9/6 :Settlers Day (South Africa).
9/6/1667 :”Dreadful Hurry Cane,” (Virginia).
9/6/1776 :First submarine attack.
9/6/1782 :Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson, died.
9/6/1847 :Henry David Thoreau ended his stay at Walden Pond.
9/6/1853 :Women’s Right’s Convention met (New York).
9/6/1853 :World’s Temperance Convention met (New York).
9/6/1883 :First major league team to score 18 runs in an inning (Chicago).
9/6/1901 :William McKinley, 25th president, shot (Buffalo, New York).
9/6/1909 :Word received that Robert Peary had reached the North Pole and
:died.
9/6/1932 :”Ballyhoo” opened (New York).
9/6/1935 :”Top Hat,” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, released.
9/6/1954 :Groundbreaking for world’s first nuclear power plant
:(Shippingport, Pennsylvania).
9/6/1966 :Hendrik Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister stabbed to death.
9/6/1966 :Margaret (Higgins) Sanger, founder of US birth control movement,
:died.
9/6/1968 :Swaziland attained national independence.
9/6/1975 :Martina Navratilova, Czechoslovakian tennis star requested US
:political asylum.
9/6/1978 :First Americans reached the summit of K2 (James Wickwire and
:Louis Reichardt).
9/6/1983 :The Soviet Union admitted shooting down KAL flight 007.
9/6/1984 :Ernest Tubb died.
9/6/1991 :Baltic States’ independence recognized by the Soviet government.
9/7 :Independence Day (Brazil).
9/7 :Pioneer Florida Day.
9/7/1630 :First settlement at Boston.
9/7/1822 :Brazil declared independence from Portugal.
9/7/1881 :Michigan forest fires caused a “Yellow Day” in the Northeast.
9/7/1892 :James J. Corbett beat John L. Sullivan and became the first World
:Heavyweight champ.
9/7/1892 :John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet, died.
9/7/1896 :America’s first motor vehicle track races run (Narragansett
:Park, Rhode Island).
9/7/1901 :Boxer Protocol signed, officially ending Boxer Rebellion.
9/7/1908 :Walter Johnson pitched a third consecutive shutout in four days.
9/7/1909 :Sigmund Freud began a series of lectures at Clark University.
9/7/1914 :New York Post Office Building opened to the public.
9/7/1918 :F. Scott Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre.
9/7/1940 :London blitz launched.
9/7/1953 :First female tennis grand slam winner (Maureen Connolly).
9/7/1963 :US Football Hall of Fame dedicated.
9/7/1970 :Willie Shoemaker broke the all time horse racing win record
:(6033).
9/7/1974 :Nolan Ryan became the first pitcher officially clocked over 100
:MPH.
9/7/1977 :G. Gordon Liddy released from prison.
9/7/1978 :Keith Moon died.
9/7/1979 :ESPN debuted.
9/7/1979 :Ivor Armstrong Richards, author and critic, died.
9/7/1986 :Desmond Tutu installed as first black leader of Anglican Church
:in southern Africa.
9/8 :International Literacy Day (UN).
9/8/1522 :First circumnavigation of the globe completed (Juan de Elcano,
:Spain).
9/8/1565 :Malta defeated the Turks.
9/8/1565 :First permanent European settlement in North America (Saint
:Augustine, Florida).
9/8/1664 :Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to British (later renamed New
:York).
9/8/1771 :Mission San Gabriel Archangel founded.
9/8/1784 :Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker sect, died.
9/8/1875 :Theosophical Society founded.
9/8/1892 :An early version of “The Pledge of Allegiance” appeared in print.
9/8/1900 :Hurricane and tidal wave struck Galveston, Texas (10,000 killed).
9/8/1921 :First Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman).
9/8/1930 :”Blondie” (comic strip) first appeared.
9/8/1935 :Huey Pierce Long, Louisiana Governor, shot.
9/8/1944 :First German V-2 rocket hit Britain.
9/8/1949 :Richard Georg Strauss, German composer, died.
9/8/1951 :Japan signed a formal peace treaty.
9/8/1965 :Bert Campaneris (Kansas City) played all nine positions in one
:baseball game.
9/8/1966 :”Star Trek” debuted (NBC).
9/8/1974 :Gerald R. Ford pardoned Richard M. Nixon.
9/8/1980 :Willard Frank Libby, inventor of “carbon dating,” died.
9/8/1981 :Roy Wilkins, ex NAACP executive director, died.
9/8/1985 :USA WEEKEND, weekly newspaper feature, debuted.
9/9 :Bonza Bottler Day.
9/9 :Choyo, Chrysanthemum Festival (Japan).
9/9 :Liberation Day (Luxembourg).
9/9 :National Day (North Korea).
9/9 :Socialist Revolution Anniversary (Bulgaria).
9/9/1087 :William I, The Conqueror, King of England, and Duke of Normandy,
:died.
9/9/1776 :United Colonies renamed the United States.
9/9/1781 :Battle of Eutau Springs, South Carolina.
9/9/1815 :J.S. Copley died.
9/9/1850 :California became the 31st US state.
9/9/1851 :Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the first school for the
:deaf, died.
9/9/1919 :Boston Police force went on strike.
9/9/1926 :NBC created (by RCA).
9/9/1932 :”Family Circle” first published.
9/9/1934 :First rocket to reach 700 miles per hour launched (Staten Island).
9/9/1956 :Elvis Presley first appeared on US national TV (“The Ed Sullivan
:Show”).
9/9/1965 :Sandy Koufax pitched a no-hitter vs. Chicago Cubs.
9/9/1971 :Prisoners’ rebellion at Attica state prison.
9/9/1975 :Viking 2 (US) launched.
9/9/1976 :Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist Party Chairman, died.
9/9/1977 :Ethel Waters, singer and actress, died.
9/9/1980 :John Howard Griffin, US author and photographer, died.
9/9/1984 :Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit Canada.
9/10 :Admission Day (California).
9/10 :Chusuk, Korean Thanksgiving Day (South Korea).
9/10 :Moon Festival (Taiwan).
9/10 :Saint George’s Caye Day (Belize).
9/10 :Swap Ideas Day.
9/10/1623:First cargo from Plymouth shipped back to England (lumber and
:furs).
9/10/1794:First nondenominational college chartered (Blount College,
:Tennessee).
9/10/1797:Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, English writer, died.
9/10/1813:Admiral Perry said “We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
9/10/1813:Battle of Lake Erie.
9/10/1823:Simon Bolivar named president of Peru.
9/10/1842:Letitia Christian Tyler, first wife of John Tyler, died.
9/10/1845:Joseph Story, US Supreme Court Justice, died.
9/10/1846:Sewing machine patent granted (Elias Howe).
9/10/1857:Mountain Meadows Massacre (Mormons attacked Gentile wagon train).
9/10/1900:Douglas Fairbanks Sr made his professional debut (“The Duke’s
:Jester”).
9/10/1935:Huey Long, Louisiana governor, died.
9/10/1948:Mildred Gillars (a.k.a. “Axis Sally”) indicted in Washington DC.
9/10/1963:Twenty black students entered schools in Alabama after a standoff
:between federal authorities and Governor Wallace.
9/11 :Ethiopian New Year (Ethiopia).
9/11 :Founder’s Death Anniversary (Pakistan).
9/11 :National Holiday (Chile).
9/11 :911 Day (celebration of emergency number).
9/11 :No News is Good News Day.
9/11/1723:First honorary Yale medical degree received (D. Turner).
9/11/1777:Battle of Brandywine (Pennsylvania).
9/11/1814:Battle of Lake Champlain.
9/11/1841:All of US President John Tyler’s cabinet resigned except
:Secretary of State Daniel Webster.
9/11/1850:Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano, debuted in US.
9/11/1857:Frederick Law Olmsted appointed superintendent of New York
:Central Park.
9/11/1948:Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, died.
9/11/1949:New York Yankees drew 11 walks (third inning).
9/11/1958:Robert William Service, Canadian poet (“The Shooting of Dan
:McGrew”), died.
9/11/1973:Military coup in Chile.
9/11/1985:Pete Rose broke Ty Cobb’s all time hitting record (4,192).
9/11/1986:DOW Jones Industrial Avg. plunged 86.61 points.
9/12 :Defender’s Day (Maryland).
9/12 :Independence Day (Cape Verde).
9/12 :National Holiday (Guinea-Bissau).
9/12 :National Revolution Day (Ethiopia).
9/12/1609:Hudson River discovered (Henry Hudson).
9/12/1764:Jean Phillippe Rameau, French composer and musical theorist, died.
9/12/1814:Battle of North Point (Maryland).
9/12/1846:Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, English poets, secretly
:married.
9/12/1869:Peter Mark Roget, English physician and author of the thesaurus,
:died.
9/12/1889:Charles Leroux made his last parachute jump.
9/12/1913:First US policewoman (A.S. Wells, Los Angeles Police Department).
9/12/1938:Germany annexed Sudentenland.
9/12/1943:German paratroopers kidnapped Benito Mussolini.
9/12/1953:Jacqueline Bouvier married John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
9/12/1958:Little Rock High School in Arkansas ordered to admit blacks.
9/12/1959:Luna 2 (USSR), first spacecraft to land on the moon, launched.
9/12/1963:Last episode of “Leave It to Beaver” aired.
9/12/1966:First episode of “The Monkees” aired. (1967?)
9/12/1969:Heavy bombing of Vietnam resumed.
9/12/1970:Luna 16 (USSR), first unmanned spacecraft to go to moon and back,
:launched.
9/12/1974:Haile Selassie, Ethiopian Emperor, deposed.
9/12/1974:Saint Louis Cards and New York Mets played a seven hour night
:baseball game.
9/12/1975:Karen Ann Quinlan’s parents petitioned the court to turn off her
:respirator.
9/12/1979:Yaz’s 3000th hit.
9/12/1982:Princess Grace of Monaco was in an auto accident.
9/12/1992:Anthony Perkins, actor, died.
9/12/1993:Raymond Burr, actor, died.
9/13/122 :Building of Hadrian’s Wall began.
9/13/1592:Michel de Montaigne, French essayist, died.
9/13/1759:James Wolfe, British General, died.
9/13/1759:British defeated French at Abraham near Quebec City.
9/13/1788:US Congress authorized the first US national election.
9/13/1788:New York City selected as the location of the new US government.
9/13/1789:US received its first loan.
9/13/1803:Commodore John Barry, first US commodore, died.
9/13/1814:Battle over Fort McHenry which inspired “The Star Spangled
:Banner.”
9/13/1826:Rhinoceros first seen in New York.
9/13/1845:Knickerbocker Baseball Club founded (New York).
9/13/1847:Battle of Chapultepec.
9/13/1899:First automobile fatality.
9/13/1943:Chiang Kai-Shek became president of China.
9/13/1946:Ted Williams hit his only inside-the-park homer.
9/13/1950:70,000 UN troops landed at Inchon harbor (Korea).
9/13/1971:Attica State Prizon stormed.
9/13/1983:Menachem Begin resigned as Israeli Prime Minister.
9/13/1988:Hurricane Gilbert hit the Caribbean.
9/14 :Battle of San Jacinto (Nicaragua).
9/14 :National Anthem Day (Maryland).
9/14/1321:Dante Alighiere, Italian poet and author (“Divine Comedy”), died.
9/14/1629:Salem, Massachusetts founded.
9/14/1778:Benjamin Franklin sent to France as US minister.
9/14/1788:John Penn, signer of the US Declaration of Independence, died.
9/14/1814:”Star Spangled Banner” written.
9/14/1836:Aaron Burr, third US vice president, died.
9/14/1851:James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (“The Last of the
:Mohicans”), died.
9/14/1886:Typewriter ribbon patented, (George Anderson).
9/14/1901:William McKinley, 25th US president, died.
9/14/1927:Isadora Duncan, US interpretive dancer, died.
9/14/1939:First successful helicopter flight.
9/14/1940:US Selective Service Act established the first peacetime draft.
:(9/16?)
9/14/1944:”Great Atlantic Hurricane.”
9/14/1957:Little Rock, Arkansas, school crisis.
9/14/1968:Denny McLain won his 30th major league baseball game of the
:season.
9/14/1975:First US-born saint canonized (Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton).
9/14/1982:Bashir Gemayel, president-elect of Lebanon, assassinated.
9/14/1982:John Gardner, American novelist (“Nickel Mountain”), died.
9/14/1982:Princess Grace of Monaco (Grace Patricia Kelly) died.
9/14/1984:Janet Gaynor, winner of the first best actress Oscar died.
9/14/1986:Bo Jackson hit his first major league home run (475 feet).
9/15 :Foundation of Panama (Panama).
9/15 :Independence Day (Costa Rica).
9/15 :Independence Day (El Salvadore).
9/15 :Independence Day (Guatemala).
9/15 :Independence Day (Honduras).
9/15 :Independence Day (Nicaragua).
9/15 :Respect for the Aged Day (Japan).
9/15/-490:Battle of Marathon. (9/28?)
9/15/1752:Hurricane in Charleston, South Carolina.
9/15/1776:Manhattan recaptured by British.
9/15/1789:Congress declared Great Seal of the US the official seal of US.
9/15/1789:US Foreign Affairs Department created.
9/15/1794:Abraham Clark, signer of US Declaration of Independence, died.
9/15/1821:Costa Rica gained independence from Spain.
9/15/1821:El Salvador gained independence from Spain.
9/15/1821:Guatemala gained independence from Spain.
9/15/1821:Honduras gained independence from Spain.
9/15/1821:Nicaragua gained independence from Spain.
9/15/1830:First national convention for blacks held (Philadelphia).
9/15/1853:First female US minister ordained (Antoinette Brown).
9/15/1862:Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia captured (General Stonewall
:Jackson).
9/15/1938:Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (“Look Homeward, Angel”), died.
9/15/1940:Battle of Britain.
9/15/1947:Association for Computing Machinery founded.
9/15/1949:TV debut of “The Lone Ranger.”
9/15/1959:Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev began his tour of the US.
9/15/1962:New York Mets lost a record 117th game in one season.
9/15/1963:Alou brothers play all three outfields at the same time.
9/15/1976:Soyuz 22 (USSR) launched.
9/15/1978:Dodgers became the first baseball club to draw 3 million fans.
9/15/1978:Muhammad Ali became heavyweight champion (third time) (beat
:Spinks).
9/15/1982:”USA Today” first hit newsstands.
9/15/1984:World’s largest weather vane dedicated (Montague, Michigan) (48
:feet high).
9/15/1987:Ariane-3 (ESA) launched.
9/16 :Independence Day (Mexico).
9/16 :Independence Day (Papua New Guinea).
9/16 :Stay Away from Seattle Day.
9/16/1186:Conjunction of all planets in Libra (sunrise).
9/16/1498:Tomas de Torquemada, Inquisitor-General of Spain, died.
9/16/1620:Mayflower departed Plymouth, England.
9/16/1630:Village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, became the city of Boston.
9/16/1672:Anne Bradstreet, first woman poet of the American colonies, died.
9/16/1736:Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Prussian physicist (introduced the
:mercury thermometer), died.
9/16/1782:Great Seal of the US first used.
9/16/1819:John Jeffries, first US weatherman, died.
9/16/1853:First US-made Steinweg (now Steinway) sold.
9/16/1893:Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma opened to homesteading.
9/16/1908:Clark University instituted a course in Esperanto.
9/16/1908:General Motors founded (William Crapo “Billy” Durant).
9/16/1919:American Legion incorporated by an act of US Congress.
9/16/1919:Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralytic stroke.
9/16/1924:Jim Bottomly (Saint Louis) went 6 for 6 with a record 12 RBI.
9/16/1925:Vincent Youmans’ “No, No, Nanette” opened on Broadway.
9/16/1940:US Selective Service and Training Act introduced. (9/14?)
9/16/1963:Malaysia created.
9/16/1968:Last episode of “The Andy Griffith Show” aired.
9/16/1972:Mike Schmidt hit his first major league home run (vs. Moore –
:Expos).
9/16/1974:Amnesty offered to Vietnam draft dodgers by Gerald Ford.
9/16/1977:Marc Bolan, singer, died.
9/16/1977:Maria Callas, American opera singer, died.
9/16/1982:Palestinian Massacre (Beirut).
9/16/1983:First black Miss America crowned (Vanessa Williams – New York).
9/16/1989:Richard Ramirez, “The Night Stalker,” convicted.
9/17 :Citizenship Day.
9/17 :National Heroes Day (Angola).
9/17/1574:Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Spanish explorer, died.
9/17/1771:Tobias Smollett, British novelist (“Humphrey Clinker”), died.
9/17/1775:John Parker, captain of the minutemen, died.
9/17/1787:US Constitution signed.
9/17/1796:President George Washington gave his farewell address.
9/17/1862:The Battle of Antietam, “America’s bloodiest day”.
9/17/1908:First airplane fatality (Thomas E. Selfridge, Fort Myer,
:Virginia).
9/17/1922:First public presentation of sound on film (Berlin, Germany).
9/17/1934:First 33-1/3 rpm recording released (Beethoven’s Fifth).
9/17/1939:Russia invaded Poland.
9/17/1964:”Bewitched” premiered.
9/17/1972:MAS*H premiered.
9/17/1978:Pegasus I (US) broke up and fell to earth.
9/17/1980:Anatasio Somoza, deposed Nicaraguan president, assassinated.
9/18 :Chiropractic Assistant’s Day.
9/18 :Independence Day (Chile).
9/18 :Victory of Uprona (Burundi).
9/18/1769:First spinet piano constructed in America.
9/18/1790:US government began negotiations for its first loan.
9/18/1818:Chile gained independence from Spain.
9/18/1830:Locomotive outraced by a horse.
9/18/1830:William Hazlitt, English essayist and critic, died.
9/18/1850:Fugitive Slave Act passed by US Congress.
9/18/1851:First issue of The New York Times published.
9/18/1889:Jane Addams moved into Hull House, Chicago.
9/18/1891:A white woman (Harriet Maxwell Converse) became Chief of the
:Tonawanda Reservation, New York.
9/18/1928:Hurricane hit Florida and West Indies (4,000 killed).
9/18/1947:US Air Force became a separate military service.
9/18/1961:UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold died.
9/18/1964:Last episode of “The Twilight Zone” aired.
9/18/1964:Sean O’Casey, Irish playwright, died.
9/18/1970:Jimi Hendrix, rock ‘n’ roll guitarist, died.
9/18/1975:Patricia Hearst and two comrades captured.
9/18/1977:Cosmos 954 (Soviet) launched.
9/18/1980:Katherine Anne Porter, American writer (“Ship of Fools”), died.
9/18/1980:Soyuz 38 (USSR) launched.
9/18/1983:George Meegan, British adventurer, finished a 19,021 mile, 6 year
:walk (tip of South America to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska).
9/18/1984:First solo transatlantic balloon crossing completed (Joe
:Kittinger).
9/19 :Army Day (Chile). (9/1?)
9/19 :National Day (Saint Christopher (Saint Kitts) and Nevis).
9/19/1676:Bacon’s Rebellion (Jamestown, Virginia).
9/19/1777:First Battle of Bemis Heights (aka The Battle of Freeman’s Farm).
9/19/1777:First Battle of Saratoga.
9/19/1819:John Keats wrote his ode “To Autumn.”
9/19/1844:Mesabi iron range near Lake Superior discovered.
9/19/1864:Battle of Winchester (Virginia).
9/19/1876:Carpet sweeper patented (Melvin R. Bissell, Grand Rapids,
:Michigan).
9/19/1881:James Abram Garfield, 20th US president, died.
9/19/1926:Hurricane swept Florida (372 killed).
9/19/1934:Bruno Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the Lindbergh
:kidnapping and killing.
9/19/1945:William Joyce (a.k.a. Lord Haw-Haw), Nazi propagandist, was
:sentenced to death.
9/19/1955:Juan Peron ousted as Argentine leader.
9/19/1957:US conducted its first underground nuclear test.
9/19/1959:Nikita Khrushchev was told that he wouldn’t be allowed to visit
:Disneyland.
9/19/1966:Timothy Leary proclaimed LSD as a sacrament of his new religion.
9/19/1980:Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, Arkansas).
9/19/1981:Simon and Garfunkel reunited in Central Park, New York.
9/19/1985:Earthquke hit Mexico City (8.1 on Richter Scale – 7,000 killed).
9/20/1519:Ferdinand Magellan left Spain on the first round-the-world
:passage.
9/20/1811:Pyotr Simon Pallas, natural historian, died.
9/20/1839:News of daguerreotype photography first brought to US.
9/20/1848:First meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
:Science.
9/20/1853:Elisha Otis demonstrated “safety elevator” (won’t fall even when
:its cable is cut).
9/20/1860:Prince of Wales visited Detroit.
9/20/1863:Battle of Chickamauga (Tennessee).
9/20/1863:Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, folklore and fairy tale collector, died.
9/20/1873:New York Stock Exchange closed for ten days.
9/20/1884:Equal Rights Party formed (nominated Belva Lockwood for US
:president).
9/20/1916:First meeting of the US National Research Council.
9/20/1921:Radio KDKA (Pittsburgh) began daily news program.
9/20/1927:First person to hit 60 homeruns in a season (Babe Ruth).
9/20/1947:Fiorello Henry La Guardia, former New York mayor, died.
9/20/1950:Clara Ford, wife of Henry Ford, died.
9/20/1954:First FORTRAN program run (Harlan Herrick).
9/20/1964:Malta gained independence from Britain.
9/20/1966:George Harrison visited India for the first time.
9/20/1966:QEII launched.
9/20/1969:Jim Morrison convicted of indecent exposure during a Miami show.
9/20/1973:Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs (6-4, 6-3, 6-3).
9/20/1973:Jim Croce, singer, died.
9/20/1973:Roxy Theater (Los Angeles) opened.
9/20/1976:Jimmy Carter admitted he’d “looked on a lot of women with lust.”
9/20/1987:Mike Schmidt hit 526th home run (vs. Saint Claire – Expos).
9/20/1987:Walter Payton got his record 107th rushing touchdown.
9/21 :Independence Day (Belize).
9/21 :Independence Day (Malta).
9/21 :World Gratitude Day.
9/21/-19 :Vergil, Roman poet, died.
9/21/1792:France proclaimed a republic.
9/21/1798:George Read, signer of US Declaration of Independence, died.
9/21/1814:”The Star-Spangled Banner” printed in the Baltimore American.
9/21/1832:Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, died.
9/21/1846:A.T. Stewart opened a dry goods store in Manhattan.
9/21/1860:Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, died.
9/21/1893:First successful, US made, gas-operated motor car demonstrated
:(Springfield by Charles E. and Frank Duryea).
9/21/1897:”Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” editorial ran (New York
:Sun).
9/21/1925:Rudolf Friml’s “The Vagabond King” opened on Broadway.
9/21/1928:First edition of “Weekly Reader” published.
9/21/1938:Hurricane hit New England coast (600 killed).
9/21/1953:Allied forces form West Germany. (9/22?)
9/21/1964:Independence for Malta.
9/21/1969:Last episode of “The Prisoner” aired.
9/21/1970:”Monday Night Football” debuted.
9/21/1976:Orlando Letelier, former Chilean foreign minister, killed.
9/21/1977:Resignation of Bert Lance announced.
9/21/1980:Richard Todd set an NFL record 42 complete passes for 447 yards.
9/21/1984:Brunei became the UN’s 159th member.
9/22 :American Business Women’s Day.
9/22 :Independence Day (Mali).
9/22 :National Sovereignty Day (Haiti).
9/22/1598:Ben Jonson, poet and playwright, indicted for manslaughter after
:killing another actor in a duel.
9/22/1656:First all-woman jury in the colonies empowered.
9/22/1711:Tuscarora Indian War began.
9/22/1776:Nathan Hale, US Revolutionary War hero and patriot, hanged.
9/22/1777:Tacy Richardson’s ride to warn Washington of approaching British
:troops.
9/22/1784:Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
9/22/1785:First survey of national lands began.
9/22/1789:US Congress established the office of postmaster general.
9/22/1862:Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
9/22/1862:Otto von Bismarck, statesman and military theoretician, became
:premier of Prussia.
9/22/1890:First US business high school opened (Washington, DC).
9/22/1903:Patent for ice cream cone mold filed for (Italo Marchiony).
9/22/1908:Fred Merkle fails to touch second base, costing Giants the
:pennant.
9/22/1911:Cy Young got his 511th and final major league win.
9/22/1927:Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney championship fight.
9/22/1935:Largest crowd ever in Fenway Park (47,627 for a double header vs
:New York Yankees).
9/22/1953:West Germany formed by Allied forces. (9/21?)
9/22/1956:Last episode of “The Honeymooners” aired.
9/22/1960:Proclamation of the Republic of Mali.
9/22/1964:Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s “Fiddler on the Roof” opened on
:Broadway.
9/22/1969:Willie Mays hit his 600th home run (Jack Murphy Stadium, San
:Diego).
9/22/1974:President Nixon subpoenaed.
9/22/1975:Sara Jane Moore attempted to kill President Gerald Ford.
9/22/1979:Lou Brock broke the career stolen base record (938).
9/22/1989:Irving Berlin died.
9/23 :Autumn Equinox (Japan).
9/23 :Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico).
9/23 :Kingdom Unification (Saudi Arabia).
9/23 :Shuki Korei Sai, Autumnal Equinox Festival for Imperial Ancestors
:(Japan).
9/23/1642:Harvard College held its first commencement. (8/9?)
9/23/1779:John Paul Jones said “I have not yet begun to fight.”.
9/23/1779:USS Bonhomme Richard defeated the British frigate Serapis.
9/23/1806:Lewis and Clark expedition returned to Saint Louis.
9/23/1830:Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, wife of James Monroe, died.
9/23/1845:Baseball rule code adopted.
9/23/1846:Neptune discovered (Johann Gottfried Galle).
9/23/1862:Count Leo Tolstoy married Sophie Andreyevna Behrs.
9/23/1889:William Wilkie Collins, English novelist (“The Moonstone”), died.
9/23/1902:John Wesley Powell, US geologist and explorer, died.
9/23/1908:”Merkle’s Boner” (caused Cubs to win pennant rather than Giants).
9/23/1932:Kingdom of Saudi Arabia became unified.
9/23/1938:Time capsule buried at site of New York World’s Fair (to be
:opened 6939).
9/23/1950:US Internal Security Act adopted (registration of communists).
9/23/1952:Rocky Marciano K-O’ed Jersey Joe Walcott.
9/23/1952:VP candidate Richard Nixon delivered “Checkers” speech.
9/23/1961:Last episode of “Rocky and His Friends” aired.
9/23/1965:First episode of “Lost in Space” aired.
9/23/1972:Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law.
9/23/1973:Juan Peron re-elected president of Argentina.
9/23/1987:Bob Fosse, director and choreographer, died.
9/23/1992:Paul E. Garber, Smithsonian Air Museum curator, died.
9/24 :”Fete Nautique de Robert” (French West Indies).
9/24 :Anniversary of Third Republic (Ghana).
9/24 :Independence Day (Guinea-Bissau).
9/24 :National Day (Saudi Arabia).
9/24 :Our Lady of Mercedes (Dominican Republic).
9/24 :Republic Day (Trinidad and Tobago).
9/24/1638:John Harvard, founder of Harvard College, died.
9/24/1657:First autopsy (Maryland).
9/24/1742:Faneuil Hall (Boston, Massachusetts) opened to the public.
9/24/1789:US Attorney General’s office established.
9/24/1789:US Supreme Court established.
9/24/1869:Black Friday (bullion price plummeted).
9/24/1929:First “blind” takeoff and landing demonstrated (James Doolittle).
9/24/1948:Mildred Gillars (a.k.a. Axis Sally) pleaded innocent to treason.
9/24/1955:US President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack.
9/24/1956:First transatlantic telephone cable completed.
9/24/1956:”Peyton Place” published.
9/24/1957:Final Brooklyn Dodgers game (Dodgers 2 – Pirates 0).
9/24/1960:USS Enterprise launched.
9/24/1961:First episode of “The Bullwinkle Show” aired.
9/24/1967:Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary passed for the last time in the
:mid-Atlantic.
9/24/1968:”60 Minutes” premiered.
9/24/1976:Patricia Hearst sentenced to seven years in prison for armed
:robbery.
9/24/1986:US Congress adopted the rose as the US national flower.
9/24/1988:Jose Canseco becomes the first 40 home run, 40 stolen base player.
9/24/1989:Pope John Paul II declared Galileo was right after all.
9/25 :Army Day (Mozambique).
9/25 :Referendum Day (Rwanda).
9/25/1493:Columbus set sail on second voyage.
9/25/1513:Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed Isthmus of Panama.
9/25/1544:Valerius Corsus died.
9/25/1690:First newspaper published in US (“Publick Occurrences, Both
:Foreign and Domestic” – Boston).
9/25/1775:Ethan Allen captured by the British.
9/25/1789:US Bill of Rights submitted to states for vote.
9/25/1890:Yosemite National Park created.
9/25/1919:Charles Lang Freer, US art collector, died.
9/25/1933:Ring Lardner Sr died.
9/25/1956:First telephone conversation over trans-oceanic cable took place.
9/25/1965:Oldest man to pitch professional baseball (Satchel Page, 59?).
9/25/1974:William Sloane, publishing executive and writer (“The Edge of
:Running Water”), died.
9/25/1980:John Bonham died.
9/25/1981:Sandra Day O’Connor became first woman on US Supreme Court.
9/25/1984:Walter Pidgeon died.
9/25/1991:Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), children’s author, died.
9/26 :National Holiday (Maldives and Yemen Arab Republic).
9/26/1087:William II became the English Sovereign.
9/26/1480:First Inquisitors appointed to serve in Spain.
9/26/1687:A bomb falls on the Parthenon.
9/26/1772:Became illegal to practice medicine in New Jersey without a
:license.
9/26/1777:British troops occupied Philadelphia.
9/26/1789:First US Attorney General appointed (Edmund Jennings Randolph).
9/26/1789:First US Postmaster General appointed (Samual Osgood).
9/26/1789:First US Secretary of State appointed (Thomas Jefferson).
9/26/1789:First US Supreme Justice confirmed (John Jay).
9/26/1820:Daniel Boone, frontiersman, died.
9/26/1868:August Ferdinand Mobius, German astronomer and mathematician,
:died.
9/26/1892:John Philip Sousa and band first performed in public (New Jersey).
9/26/1901:John George Nicolay, private secretary to Lincoln, died.
9/26/1904:Lafcadio Hearn, multinational author, died.
9/26/1914:US Federal Trade Commission replaced Bureau of Corporations.
9/26/1917:Edgar Degas, French painter, died.
9/26/1918:Meuse-Argonne offensive began.
9/26/1934:RMS Queen Mary launched.
9/26/1936:Harriet Monroe, founder of “Poetry” magazine, died.
9/26/1937:Edward Albert Filene, credit union founder, died.
9/26/1945:Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer, died.
9/26/1950:UN troops took Seoul, South Korea from North Korean forces.
9/26/1952:George Santayana, Spanish philosopher and author, died.
9/26/1957:Dag Hammarskjold named to second five year term as UN
:secretary-general.
9/26/1957:”West Side Story” opened on Broadway.
9/26/1960:First Kennedy-Nixon debate.
9/26/1960:Emily Post, etiquette authority, died.
9/26/1960:Longest speech in UN history (4 hours, 29 minutes, by Fidel
:Castro).
9/26/1960:Ted Williams’ final swing.
9/26/1962:M.M. Wills stole his 100th base of the season.
9/26/1962:Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed.
9/26/1965:Clara Bow died.
9/26/1969:”Abbey Road” by The Beatles released in the United Kingdom.
9/26/1977:Transatlantic flight on Laker Airways cost $102.
9/26/1983:Australia II won the America’s cup from the US.
9/26/1991:Eight men and women entered Biosphere II in Arizona.
9/26/1993:Eight men and women left Biosphere II.
9/27 :Ancestor Appreciation Day.
9/27 :Colonial Court Day.
9/27 :Cosme e Damiao (Brazil).
9/27 :Feast of Finding the True Cross (Ethiopia).
9/27/1660:Saint Vincent de Paul, founder of the Vincentian Congregation and
:Sisters of Charity, died.
9/27/1715:Thomas Burnet, author (“The Theory of the Earth”), died.
9/27/1779:John Adams was named to negotiate peace terms with Britain.
9/27/1825:First passenger hauled in a locomotive (England – George
:Stephenson).
9/27/1854:Arctic collided with a French steamship.
9/27/1892:Book matches patented.
9/27/1894:Aqueduct race track opened.
9/27/1904:A woman in a car was arrested for smoking (5th Ave, New York).
9/27/1912:First published blues music, “Memphis Blues,” by W.C. Handy.
9/27/1919:Democratic National Committee voted to admit women.
9/27/1923:Lou Gehrig hit his first home run.
9/27/1930:Bobby Jones won the US Amateur golf championship.
9/27/1938:Lou Gehrig hit his last (493) home run.
9/27/1938:Queen Elizabeth launched.
9/27/1939:Poland surrendered to Germany.
9/27/1954:”The Tonight Show” made its TV debut (Steve Allen – host).
9/27/1959:A typhoon battered Honshu (nearly 5000 killed).
9/27/1964:Warren Commission report released.
9/27/1973:Soyuz 12 (USSR) launched.
9/27/1982:First day of shooting on “Never Say Never Again.”
9/27/1986:Reagan tax overhaul approved by Senate.
9/27/1988:Ben Johnson, Canadian sprinter, stripped of an Olympic gold medal.
9/27/1993:James H. Doolittle, retired US General, died.
9/28 :Krakow Day (Pennsylvania).
9/28 :Teacher’s Day (Taiwan).
9/28/-490:Battle of Marathon. (9/15?)
9/28/-480:Battle of Salamis.
9/28/1066:William the Conqueror invaded England.
9/28/1542:Joao Rodrigues Cabrillo discovered California.
9/28/1678:”Pilgrim’s Progress” published. (2/18?)
9/28/1701:Divorce legalized in Maryland.
9/28/1787:US Congress voted to send the Constitution to the state
:legislatures for approval.
9/28/1850:Flogging in US Navy and on merchant vessels abolished.
9/28/1891:Herman Melville, author (“Moby Dick”), died.
9/28/1895:Louis Pasteur, French chemist and bacteriologist, died.
9/28/1902:Emile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola, French novelist, died.
9/28/1920:Grand jury indicted eight White Sox players for “throwing” 1919
:World Series.
9/28/1924:First around the world flight completed (175 days).
9/28/1941:Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting average.
9/28/1950:Indonesia joined UN.
9/28/1951:554 passing yards in a 1 game (Norm Van Brocklin, Rams vs. New
:York Yanks).
9/28/1953:Edwin Powell Hubble, astronomer, died.
9/28/1955:First World Series color TV broadcast.
9/28/1962:Alouette (Canada), first Canadian satellite, launched.
9/28/1973:Wystan Hugh Auden, US poet and author, died.
9/28/1976:Muhammad Ali beat Ken Norton to remain heavyweight champion.
9/28/1978:Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani), 263rd Catholic Pope, died.
9/28/1989:Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, exiled former Philippine president,
:died.
9/28/1991:Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter, died.
9/29 :Battle of Boqueron (Paraguay).
9/29 :Xenophobe Understanding Day.
9/29 :Francis Willard Day (Wisconsin).
9/29/1690:First US paper mill began being constructed.
9/29/1789:First US government pension paid.
9/29/1789:First standing US army (700 troops total) organized.
9/29/1829:First appearance of Greater London’s Metropolitan Police
:(“Scotland Yard”).
9/29/1910:Winslow Homer, US painter, died.
9/29/1913:Rudolph Diesel, German engineer and inventor of diesel engine,
:drowned.
9/29/1918:Allied forces break through the Hindenburg Line.
9/29/1923:Britain began to govern Palestine.
9/29/1936:Radio used for the first time for a US presidential campaign.
9/29/1943:US and Italy signed an armistice.
9/29/1948:Premiere of Olivier’s version of “Hamlet” (Broadway).
9/29/1953:”Make Room for Daddy” premiered.
9/29/1957:Nuclear waste container exploded at Chelyabinsk-65.
9/29/1963:Second session of the ecumenical council Vatican II opened.
9/29/1966:Sandy Koufax struck out over 300 in a season for the third time.
9/29/1977:Salyut 6 (USSR) launched.
9/29/1982:First of seven deaths from cyanide laced Tylenol.
9/29/1986:Two brothers faced each other as rookie starting pitchers (Greg
:Maddux of Cubs vs. Mike of Phillies).
9/29/1987:Don Mattingly hit his sixth grand slam of the season (a new
:record).
9/29/1988:Discovery (US), first manned flight since the Challenger
:explosion, launched.
9/30 :Ask a “Stupid” Question Day.
9/30 :Botswanna Day (Botswanna).
9/30 :Independence Day (Botswana).
9/30/1399:Henry IV became English Sovereign.
9/30/1630:First criminal to be executed in American colonies (John
:Billington).
9/30/1641:First annual fair in America (Fort Amsterdam).
9/30/1659:First mention of tennis in America.
9/30/1787:First circumnavigation of globe by a US ship began (Captain
:Robert Gray).
9/30/1811:Exports from the US equaled imports for the first time.
9/30/1846:First tooth extracted under anesthesia – ether (Charleston,
:Massachusetts).
9/30/1880:Orion Nebula first photographed.
9/30/1927:Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run of the season (breaking his own
:record).
9/30/1934:Dizzy Dean won his 30th game of the season (the last NL pitcher
:to win 30).
9/30/1939:Germany and Russia agreed to partition Poland.
9/30/1946:Verdicts of the Nuremberg trials were announced.
9/30/1947:First televised World Series.
9/30/1948:Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, second wife of Theodore Roosevelt,
:died.
9/30/1949:Berlin Airlift ended.
9/30/1954:USS Nautilus commissioned.
9/30/1955:James Dean, actor (“Rebel Without a Cause”), died.
9/30/1960:”The Flintstones” debuted.
9/30/1962:First black enrolled in the University of Mississippi (James
:Howard Meredith).
9/30/1966:Bechuanaland became the independent Republic of Botswana.
9/30/1972:Roberto Clemente got the final hit of his baseball career (number
:3,000).
9/30/1978:Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist, died.
9/30/1980:First Apollo Domain prototypes began running.
9/30/1982:”Cheers” premiered.
9/30/1985:Charles Francis Richter, developer of the Richter scale, died.