- 1400 Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers
- 1575 King Johan Casimir of Palts promises military aid to the Huguenots
- 1597 French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria
The Mayflower
1620 The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England, with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World [O.S. 6 Sept]
Music Premiere
1810 Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Silvana", starring his future wife Carone Brandt in the title role, premieres at the Nationaltheater in Frankfurt, Confederation of the Rhine (now Germany)
- 1810 Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, calling for the end of Spanish rule (Mexican Independence Day)
- 1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes writes poem "Old Ironsides" as tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution
Historic Event
1847 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust buys bard's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon
Historic Event
1859 Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania & Mozambique discovered by British explorer David Livingstone
- 1861 Battle of Princeton, West Virginia
- 1861 British Post Office Savings Banks opens
- 1862 Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, KY
- 1863 Robert College of Istanbul, Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
- 1864 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris Sr. wins third title; beats fellow Scot Andrew Strath by 2 strokes
- 1864 US Civil War: Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid)
- 1867 Ottawa Rough Riders & Senators play Canadian Football game
- 1869 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: At just 18 years of age, Tom Morris Jr. retains his title; beats fellow Scot Bob Kirk by 11 strokes
- 1869 Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one by Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole, Scotland
- 1873 German troops leave France
- 1885 5th America's Cup: Puritan (NY Yacht Club) beats Genesta (Royal Yacht Squadron, Isle of Wight, UK) by 1:38 for 2-0 series win
- 1887 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Jr wins first of 2 Open titles by 1 stroke from fellow Scot Bob Martin
- 1892 Amsterdam swimming club renamed "The Y"
- 1893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma, opens white settlement homesteaders
- 1901 Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County.
Historic Event
1901 French painter Paul Gauguin settles in Atuona in the Marquesas Islands
Historic Discovery
1906 Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David and Alistair Mackay claim to have discovered the Magnetic South Pole in Antarctica
Historic Event
1915 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia adjourns 4th Duma
- 1915 US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
- 1919 American Legion incorporated by an act of US Congress
- 1919 Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant
Wall Street Bombing
1920 The "Wall Street bombing" occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York, killing 38 and injuring 143
- 1922 Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia
US Men's Tennis Open
1922 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Germantown CC, Philadelphia: Bill Tilden wins third straight US singles title; beats fellow American Bill Johnston 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4
Sports History
1924 St. Cardinals future Baseball HOF first baseman Jim Bottomley sets MLB all-time single game RBI record of 12 in a 17-3 rout of Brooklyn Robins at Ebbets Field
- 1926 -22] Hurricane in Florida & Alabama, kills 372
- 1926 Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed
- 1926 Philip Dunning & George Abbott's "Broadway" premieres in NYC
- 1926 St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3
- 1928 San Felipe Segundo/Okeechobee hurricane crosses through the Bahamas as a category 4 storm, killing 18, as it travels from Puerto Rico to Florida
- 1929 Police shoot at strikers in Maastricht, 2 killed
- 1930 Phillies trailing 10-5, score 5 in 9th, then Pirates score 4 in top of 10th, so Phillies score 5 in bottom of 10th to win 15-14
- 1931 Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (NYC)
- 1931 St Louis Cards repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies
- 1932 30.8 cm rainfall at Westerly, Rhode Island (state record)
Sports History
1937 Redskins NFL franchise play first game in Washington at Griffith Stadium; defeat the New York Giants in season opener, 13–3
Sports History
1940 Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"
- 1940 Luftwaffe attacks central London
- 1940 Samuel Rayburn of Texas elected speaker of US House of Representatives
- 1940 St Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to HR from each side of plate
Historic Event
1941 Adolf Hitler orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed
- 1941 German armoured troops surround Kyiv, Ukraine
- 1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto
- 1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled
- 1943 Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno
- 1943 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny
- 1945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
- 1947 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH
- 1947 Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, killing at least 1,930
- 1948 "Heaven on Earth" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 performances
- 1948 "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" closes at Century NYC after 12 performances
- 1949 KABC TV channel 7 in Los Angeles, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1950 Cleveland Browns (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Philadelphia 35-10)
- 1950 Viet Minh offensive against French bases in Vietnam
- 1951 US National League umpire Frank Dascoli clears the Dodgers bench, ejecting 15 players
US Women's Golf Open
1951 US Open Women's Golf, Druid Hills GC: Betsy Rawls wins first of her 8 major titles, 5 strokes ahead of runner-up Louise Suggs
Film Premiere
1953 1st movie in Cinemascope "The Robe" based on the book by Lloyd C. Douglas, directed by Henry Koster and starring Richard Burton and Jean Simmons premieres
Sports History
1955 Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt
- 1957 Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed)
- 1957 LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers
Historic Event
1959 French President Charles de Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination
- 1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
Sports History
1960 Milwaukee Braves' future HOF pitcher Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0 at County Stadium
- 1961 CDU loses West German election
- 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1961 WLKY TV channel 32 in Louisville, Kentucky (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1962 Brian Kilby wins marathon: (2:23:18.8)
- 1962 Gerda Kroon runs European record 800 m in 2:02.8
- 1962 Public TV channel 13 begins in NYC
- 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1963 "The Outer Limits" premieres on ABC-TV
Historic Event
1963 Federation of Malaysia formed by Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak
Music History
1965 British singer Davie Jones changes his stage name to "David Bowie" to avoid confusion with the Monkee of the same name
- 1965 Sobibor trial opens in Hagen, West Germany
Music History
1966 Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center, New York with Leontyne Price as Cleopatra in "Antony and Cleopatra" by Samuel Barber
Historic Event
1968 Richard Nixon appears on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in"
Meeting of Interest
1971 West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev
- 1972 1st TV series about mixed marriage, "Bridget Loves Bernie" premieres
TV Show Appearance
1972 Penny Marshall appears on "The Bob Newhart Show" in "Fly Unfriendly Skies"
- 1973 "Desert Song" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 15 performances
NFL Record
1973 Buffalo's O.J. Simpson rushes for a then NFL record 250 yards in Buffalo's 31-13 win at New England
- 1974 Bay Area Rapid transit (BART) begins regular rail service crossing the San Francisco Bay, through in the Transbay Tube
Historic Event
1974 US General Alexander Haig Jr. becomes NATO supreme commander in Europe
Vietnam War
1974 US President Gerald Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters
- 1975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
- 1975 Pittsburgh second baseman Rennie Stennett is second to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning MLB game as Pirates rout Chicago Cubs, 22-0 at Wrigley Field
- 1975 The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
- 1976 American Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
- 1976 Egyptian president Sadat re-elected
- 1976 Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
- 1977 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV
Music Single
1977 Ringo Starr releases single "Drowning in Sea of Love" in the UK
- 1977 Seattle beats Royals, 4-1, to end KC's winning streak at 16 games
- 1978 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar, Iran
Film & TV History
1978 Filming begins for "Monty Python's Life of Brian", on location in Monastir, Tunisia
- 1978 Grateful Dead perform in Cairo, Egypt
- 1978 New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox, 3-2; at Yankee Stadium; Blue Bombers 6th win over arch rivals in 2 weeks
- 1979 Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
- 1979 Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin
- 1979 KC's Willie Wilson hits 5th inside-the-park HR (most since 1925)
- 1979 Russian Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect to US in Los Angeles, California
- 1979 Ryder Cup Golf, The Greenbrier: US wins, 17-11; new Team Europe replaces Great Britain & Ireland as official opposition to the United States
- 1979 The families of Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel arrive in West Germany from Communist East Germany in a hot air balloon
- 1979 USSR performs nuclear test
- 1982 Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins
Film & TV History
1983 Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen
Historic Event
1987 Pope John Paul II's ends his Los Angeles tour with an interfaith meeting at Dodger Stadium with leaders of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism
- 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1988 Cincinnati Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats LA Dodgers, 1-0
- 1988 Fish leaves rock group Marillion
- 1988 Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, v Australia
- 1988 Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series
Toronto Film Festival
1989 14th Toronto International Film Festival: "Roger & Me" directed by Michael Moore wins the People's Choice Award
- 1989 Debbye Turner (Mont), 23, crowned 63rd Miss America 1990
- 1990 42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk & Patricia Wettig win
Historic Event
1990 Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George H. W. Bush
- 1990 Pirate Radio NY International begins transmissions on WWCR
- 1991 Atlanta's Otis Nixon suspended for rest of 1991 due to cocaine
- 1991 Norm Charlton suspended for 7 days for intentionally hitting Steve Scioscia with a pitch
Historic Event
1991 US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins
- 1992 "Black Wednesday" UK government is forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism after unable keep it above agreed lowest limit
- 1992 "Les Miserables" opens at Nuevo Apolo, Madrid
- 1992 900 die in flood in Pakistan
- 1992 FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service
Television Premiere
1993 "Frasier" starring Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce premieres on NBC
Baseball Record
1993 Minnesota Twins Dave Winfield is 19th to get 3,000 hits
Baseball Record
1995 Greg Maddux of Braves sets record of 17 consecutive road victories
- 1995 Shawntel Smith (Okla), 24, crowned 69th Miss America 1996
- 1996 1st one-day international in Canada, India v Pakistan at Toronto
Film & TV History
1996 Courtroom reality show "Judge Judy" with Judge Judith Sheindlin premieres in the US
- 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Panama City, Florida on WTBB 97.7 FM
Baseball Record
1996 MLB Minnesota Twins' Paul Molitor becomes 21st player to reach 3,000 hits
- 1996 NASA launches Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17)
- 1997 ABL MVP Nikki McCray signs with WNBA
Appointment of Interest
1997 Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs interim CEO
Sports History
1997 Mark McGwire signs with the St Louis Cardinals for $26M
- 1999 14.8 inches (37.6 cm) rainfall from Hurricane Floyd at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (state record)
- 1999 1st ever season of "Big Brother" reality show begins on the Veronica channel in The Netherlands
Toronto Film Festival
2000 25th Toronto International Film Festival: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Ang Lee wins the People's Choice Award
Baseball Record
2000 Sammy Sosa becomes the second player to hit 50 or more home runs in three consecutive years, joining Mark McGwire
Television Debut
2002 Talk show "Dr. Phil" with Phil McGraw and co-created by Oprah Winfrey debuts on syndicated US TV
Emmy Awards
2007 59th Emmy Awards: The Sopranos, 30 Rock, James Spader & Sally Field win
- 2007 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Moscow, Russia: Svetlana Kuznetsova beats Francesca Schiavonea of Italy 4-6, 7-6, 7-5 to give Russia an unassailable 3-0 lead (ends, 4-0)
- 2007 One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
- 2007 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Halmstad GK, Sweden: US retains Cup 16-12; after trailing by a point US dominates singles 8½-3½
- 2008 Rentrer en soi announces that they would be breaking up.
Film Release
2011 The critically acclaimed "Drive", starring Ryan Gosling, is released
