Today's Historical Events
Event of Interest
324 Chrysopolis Emperor Constantine beats Emperor Licinius
Constantine the Great
Historic Discovery
1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th & last voyage
Christopher Columbus
Event of Interest
1544 English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne
Henry VIII
Event of Interest
1544 Peace of Crépy signed by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & French King Francis I ending the Fourth Hapsburg-Valois War
Francis I of France
Charles V
- 1635 Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France
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1670 French bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet appointed tutor to the dauphin, son of Louis XIV
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
Louis XIV
- 1679 New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 1739 Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
- 1755 Fort Ticonderoga in New York opens
- 1759 Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British who capture Quebec City
- 1769 John Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, builds 1st spinet piano
- 1789 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress
Event of Interest
1793 US President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
George Washington
Victory in Battle
1811 British East India Company force led by Baron Minto conquers Java, part of the Dutch East Indies, Stamford Raffles appointed lieutenant governor
Stamford Raffles
Great Fire of Moscow
1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed
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Event of Interest
1837 Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young co-found a "stationery and fancy goods emporium" in New York City, later renamed in 1853 as "Tiffany & Co."
Charles Lewis Tiffany
Event of Interest
1846 Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning exchange their last letters before they move to Italy
Compromise of 1850
1850 US Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850
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- 1851 New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)
- 1862 Confederate armies officially divide into corps
- 1862 General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia
- 1863 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park, Sr. wins his 2nd title; beats rival Tom Morris Sr. by 2 strokes
- 1864 Battle of Martinsburg, Virginia
- 1864 Hood's Tennessee campaign begins (also called The Franklin–Nashville Campaign), American Civil War
- 1872 King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway
- 1873 Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the panic of 1873 and the Long depression
- 1881 Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment
- 1882 Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board)
- 1885 Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
- 1891 Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief
Event of Interest
1895 Booker T. Washington delivers 'Atlanta Compromise' address
Booker T. Washington
Event of Interest
1898 Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan
Horatio Kitchener
Event of Interest
1899 Scott Joplin granted copyright for his "Maple Leaf Rag", the most famous ragtime composition, by the US Copyright Office
Scott Joplin
- 1903 Phillies' Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs, 10-0
- 1905 Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam
- 1906 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong
- 1908 Cleveland Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1
- 1909 Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det
- 1910 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage
- 1911 Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown
Benjamin Disraeli
- 1914 Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
Event of Interest
1914 General Paul von Hindenburg named commander of German armies on the Eastern Front
Paul von Hindenburg
- 1914 Irish Home Rule bill receives Royal assent
- 1914 South African troops land in German South West Africa
- 1915 Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1
- 1919 Dutch second chamber accepts female suffrage
- 1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drowns 280 along Gulf Coast
- 1922 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
- 1922 Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by NY's Joe Bush
- 1922 Hungary admitted to League of Nations
- 1924 Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking
- 1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250
- 1926 US National Championship Men's Tennis: Frenchman René Lacoste wins first of 2 straight US titles; beats countryman Jean Borotra 6-4, 6-0, 6-4
- 1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. with 18 stations (and WOR as NYC affiliate)
- 1928 Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928
- 1928 Juan de la Cierva flies 1st helicopter above Channel
- 1929 Pirates loss to Braves & clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
- 1929 Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable" premieres in NYC
- 1930 Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (UK) in 15th America's Cup
- 1930 NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6
- 1930 Philadelphia A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
- 1931 To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese
- 1932 Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign
- 1934 St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1
- 1934 USSR admitted to League of Nations
- 1937 The first New Zealand State house opens in Miramar
- 1938 Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0
- 1938 Despite losing a double header (4-3, 8-7) to the St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park III, the New York Yankees clinch their 10th AL pennant
- 1939 Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
- 1939 William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast
- 1940 19 German aircraft shot down above England
- 1940 Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda" premieres in NYC
- 1940 Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani
- 1942 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service
- 1942 The order for "extermination of asocials through labour" is approved by Nazi Minister of Justice, Otto Thierack
- 1943 Cardinals clinch NL pennant
Event of Interest
1943 Adolf Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful)
Adolf Hitler
- 1944 British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed, including 1,377 allied POWs and 4,200 Javanese slave labourers.
- 1944 Eindhoven freed by American and British trrops (Lightly Day)
- 1944 US 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne
- 1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana, schools to protest integration
Event of Interest
1947 The Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July
Harry Truman
Appointment of Interest
1948 Ralph Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine
Ralph Bunche
Film Release
1951 "A Streetcar Named Desire", directed by Elia Kazan and based on Tennessee Williams' 1947 play of the same name, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, is released
Baseball Record
1955 Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock)
Willie Mays
Baseball Record
1956 Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon
Mickey Mantle
- 1957 US Western TV drama "Wagon Train" premieres
- 1957 Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels
- 1958 The Fresno Drop: Bank of America mails out 60,000 BankAmericards in Fresco, California, the first credit card (later renamed VISA)
- 1959 Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit
- 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1962 Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games
- 1962 Charlie Finley is denied permission to move As to Dallas-Fort Worth
- 1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN
- 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1963 Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1
- 1963 USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
- 1964 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Film Premier
1964 "The Addams Family", starring John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy, and Jackie Coogan, premieres on ABC
Ted Cassidy
Jackie Coogan
Television Premiere
1965 TV comedy "Get Smart" created by Mel Brooks and starring Don Adams premieres
Mel Brooks
- 1965 Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
Film Premier
1965 "I Dream of Jeannie", starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, premieres on NBC
Barbara Eden
Event of Interest
1966 Baltimore quarterback Johnny Unitas throws 4 touchdown passes in 38-23 win at Minnesota to surpass Y.A. Tittle as NFL's career leader with 212; finishes career with 290 TD passes
Johnny Unitas
Film Premier
1968 "Funny Girl" biopic film based on life of Fanny Brice premieres, directed by William Wyler, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
Barbra Streisand
Event of Interest
1971 Momofuku Ando markets the first Cup Noodle, packaging it in a waterproof polystyrene container
Momofuku Ando
- 1972 1st black NL umpire is Art Williams for Los Angeles vs San Diego
- 1973 German FR & German DR admitted to UN
- 1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
- 1975 Heiress-turned-bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in San Francisco
- 1976 Cleve manager Frank Robinson last game as a player
- 1976 Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election
- 1976 Rev Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention
Event of Interest
1976 Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing
Mao Zedong
- 1977 Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore
- 1977 Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup
- 1977 US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together
- 1977 2nd Toronto International Film Festival opens
- 1978 All four Kiss members release solo albums
- 1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect
- 1979 Steven Lachs, appointed as California's first openly gay judge
- 1979 The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden
- 1980 'Les Miserables' opens at Palais des Sports, Paris
- 1980 Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base
- 1980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
- 1981 Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
- 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres - Christian militia massacre at least 700 Palestinians in retaliation for assassination of Bachir Gemayel
- 1982 7th Toronto International Film Festival: "Tempest" directed by Paul Mazursky wins the People's Choice Award
- 1983 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere
- 1983 Lebanese & Syrian army battle
- 1983 New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chicago Bears 34-31
- 1983 Kiss' first "unmasked" (no make up) appearance on MTV
- 1983 Action series "Hardcastle and McCormick" premieres on ABC in the US
- 1984 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
- 1984 Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
Event of Interest
1984 Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons
Tim Raines
- 1985 "Song & Dance" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances
- 1985 BBC Radio reports prime # 2^216091-1 found in Houston
- 1985 "The Equalizer" TV spy/crime drama debuts in the US on CBS (starring Edward Woodward)
- 1986 David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras
- 1987 Detroit first baseman Darrell Evans hits home run #30 off Bill Wegman in 5th inning of Tigers' 7-6 win over the Milwaukee Brewers; first 40 year old to hit 30 MLB HRs in a season
- 1987 US & USSR sign accord to remove mid range missiles
- 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1988 Coup in Haiti: General Prosper Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees
- 1988 Burma suspends its constitution
- 1989 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
- 1990 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC
- 1990 Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
- 1990 Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 1990 Crude prices outpace increases in product prices and there is talk of cutting refinery runs
- 1991 American Major League Baseball executive John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians
- 1991 NCAA places Tennessee on 2 years probation for football recruiting violations
- 1991 Robert Helmick resigns as president of US Olympic Committee
- 1991 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands
- 1991 Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
- 1993 Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994
- 1993 LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins
- 1993 Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, & Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3
- 1993 18th Toronto International Film Festival: "The Snapper" directed by Stephen Frears wins the People's Choice Award
- 1994 1st Presidents Cup Golf, Robert Trent Jones GC: Davis Love III is undefeated as US beats International team, 20-12 in inaugural event
- 1994 Austrian conservative FVP wins election; extreme right gets 18.5%
- 1994 Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS
- 1994 Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
- 1995 Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Balt to move Browns
- 1995 Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands
Baseball Record
1996 Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts
Roger Clemens
Hall of Fame
1997 Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame
Seve Ballesteros
Nick Faldo
United Nations
1997 Ted Turner gives $1 billion to the United Nations, creating the public charity, the United Nations Foundation
Ted Turner
Film Release
1998 "Rush Hour" directed by Brett Ratner, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker released - Jackie Chan's Hollywood breakthrough
Jackie Chan
Event of Interest
1999 24th Toronto International Film Festival: "American Beauty" directed by Sam Mendes wins the People's Choice Award
Sam Mendes
- 2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
- 2003 The United Kingdom's Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, receives Royal Assent
- 2004 29th Toronto International Film Festival: "Hotel Rwanda" directed by Terry George wins the People's Choice Award
- 2005 57th Emmy Awards: Lost, Everybody Loves Raymond, James Spader & Patricia Arquette win
Federation Cup
2005 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Paris, France: Russian pair Elena Dementieva & Dinara Safina win deciding doubles rubber 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 over Amélie Mauresmo & Mary Pierce of France; clinches Russia's 2nd consecutive title, 3-2
Mary Pierce
- 2006 Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape was made public, in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections.
- 2006 "Watching You" single released by Rodney Atkins (Billboard Song of the Year 2007)
- 2007 Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
- 2007 Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
- 2009 The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
Emmy Awards
2011 63rd Emmy Awards: Mad Men, Modern Family, Kyle Chandler & Julianna Margulies win
Julianna Margulies
- 2011 36th Toronto International Film Festival: "Where Do We Go Now?" directed by Nadine Labaki wins the People's Choice Award (Drama)
- 2012 10 Turkish soldiers are killed and 70 injured in missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
- 2012 26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico
- 2012 The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike.
- 2012 World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg
- 2014 Scotland votes to stay a member of the United Kingdom in an independence referendum
Event of Interest
2014 Emma Watson delivers an address to a standing ovation at UN Headquarters in New York City, helping launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate for gender equality
Emma Watson
Election of Interest
2016 In Russian elections Putin-backed United Russia party wins 54% of Parliamentary seats led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
- 2016 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: Chun In-gee of South Korea wins her 2nd major title by 4 strokes from Ryu So-yeon & Park Sung-hyun; 21-under-par score a record for all women's majors
Emmy Awards
2017 69th Emmy Awards: hosted by Stephen Colbert, "The Handmaid's Tale", Elisabeth Moss, Sterling K Brown, Julia Dreyfus, Donald Glover win
Event of Interest
2017 England footballer Wayne Rooney pleads guilty to drunk driving and is banned for driving for 2 years
Wayne Rooney
- 2017 Hurricane Maria passes over the Caribbean island of Dominica as a category 5 hurricane, destroying 90% of structures and killing 27
Emmy Awards
2018 70th Emmy Awards: "Games of Thrones". "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", Rachel Brosnahan, Matthew Rhys, Claire Foy, Bill Hader win
Rachel Brosnahan
- 2018 China announces new $60 billion tariffs on US imports, a day after the US imposes $200 billion worth of new tariffs on Chinese goods
- 2018 Amnesty International says 400 civilians have been killed in conflicts between Cameroon soldiers and Anglophone separatists in 2018
- 2018 South Africa's Constitutional court legalizes cannabis use by adults in private places
Election of Interest
2019 Photo of Canadian PM Justin Trudeau wearing brownface in 2001 emerges during Canadian election campiagn
Justin Trudeau
Election of Interest
2019 Second Israel General Election in five months results in another deadlock between Benny Gantz's Blue and White Party and Likud Party under Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu
- 2019 Saudi Arabia's Defense Ministry says Iran was to blame for drone attack on Saudi oil facilities
Articles on Events in September
Mad Monk Burns 2,000 At The Stake
With convictions similar to the Nazis 500 years later, Spain's 15th Century Grand Inquisitor wanted to drive the Jews from his country.
September 16, 1498The Diary of a Dead Officer
Mud and blood were features of the First World War trenches, and soldier Arthur Graeme West’s vivid descriptions of it all were captured in his diaries.
September 17, 1916Arc Lamps Light the Way to World-Beating Display
"Artificial sunshine" came to a Northern England holiday resort in 1879, dazzling the visitors and showing the world the possibilities of outside electricity.
September 18, 1879The Story of the First Country to Grant Women the Vote
In the late 19th century the women's suffrage movement was widespread in Europe, America, Britain and its colonies. But who was first to grant women the vote?
September 19, 1893
