00690901::Traditional date of destruction of Jerusalem 08910901::Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France 10670901::Boudouin VI becomes earl of Flanders 11810901::Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III 12670901::Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem 14820901::Krim-Tataren plunders Kiev 15110901::Council to Pisa opens 15350901::French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal) 15470901::Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state) 15980901::Spanish king Philip II receives sacraments 16090901::Pieter Both sworn in as 1st gov-gen of East Indies 16140901::Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany 16320901::Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses 16380901::-4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam 16470901::French cardinal Mazarin & duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan 16610901::1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James 16660901::Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed 16890901::Russia began taxing men's beards 16950901::Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names 17300901::Benjamin Franklin marries Miss Read 17390901::35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal 17520901::Liberty Bell arrives in Phila 17720901::Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California 17850901::Mozart publishes 6 string quartet opus 10 in Vienna 17970901::2nd National Meeting in Hague 17980901::England signs treaty with nizam of Hyderabad, India 17990901::Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan) 18070901::Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire 18210901::1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail 18310901::Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle 18360901::Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem 18490901::California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey 18580901::1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month 18590901::1st Pullman sleeping car in service 18590901::R C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare 18610901::Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI 18610901::Skirmish at Boone Court House WV & Blue Creek WV 18620901::Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties) 18620901::Federal tax levied on tobacco 18630901::6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia 18630901::Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas 18630901::RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated 18640901::2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties 18640901::Battle of Petersburg VA 18640901::Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA 18650901::Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery 18660901::Last Navaho chief Manuelito, turns self in at Fort Wingate 18670901::Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School 18700901::Napoleon III captured at Sedan 18740901::28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Conn takes office 18740901::Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia 18780901::1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) 18860901::Neth's New Code of Criminal law enforced 18870901::Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established 18880901::Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens 18900901::1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh 18980901::Dutch soccer team Receiver forms 18980901::Lord Kitcheners army bombs Omdurman Sudan 19010901::Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange 19020901::Tinker, Evers, & Chance appear together for 1st time 19050901::Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces 19060901::Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time 19060901::British New Guinea becomes Australian Papua New Guinea 19060901::Joseph Harris (Boston) & Jack Coombs (A's) pitch complete 24 inn game 19060901::NY Highlanders win 6th game in 3 days from Wash (3 straight DHs) 19060901::Papua placed under Australian administration 19110901::M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km 19130901::George Bernard Shaws "Androcles & the Lion," premieres in London 19130901::Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution" 19140901::34th US Mens Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (63 86 10-8) 19140901::Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris 19140901::St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd 19140901::Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army 19160901::Bulgaria declares war on Romania 19160901::Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce) 19180901::Baseball season ends due to WW I 19180901::Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns 19180901::US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920 19190901::Frank Wedekind's "Herakles," premieres in Munich 19200901::France creates Lebanon 19200901::New townhall of Rotterdam opens 19210901::Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St NYC (Billy Rose, Trafalgar) 19220901::NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards" 19230901::18th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1) 19230901::7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 142,000 19230901::US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup 19240901::Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake 19250901::Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of Intl Olympic Committee 19260901::British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms 19260901::Turkey allows civil marriage 19280901::Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king 19300901::NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater 19310901::Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days & his 6th HR in consec games 19320901::NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges) 19330901::Soccer team DVS '33 forms 19340901::Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced 19360901::Middleweight Staff Roth KOs Heinz Lazek 19370901::4th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 6, Green Bay 0 (84,560) 19370901::Battle of Gijon in Spain begins 19380901::Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews 19390901::Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill 19390901::Last day of 1st-class cricket in England for 6 years 19390901::Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes" 19390901::Switzerland proclaims neutrality 19390901::WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig 19400901::Gen George Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of US army 19410901::Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star 19420901::Fed judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans 19420901::German troops land on Taman peninsula 19440901::Bulgaria govt of Bagrjanow, resigns 19440901::King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal 19450901::Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan) 19450901::Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season 19460901::1st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Berg 19460901::Greece votes for monarchy 19470901::NY Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936 19480901::Bradman scores 143 Aust v South of England, 17 fours 1 six 19480901::Communist form North China People's Republic 19480901::UN's World Health Organization forms 19490901::1st network detective series-Private Eyes-premieres 19490901::KMTV TV channel 3 in Omaha, NB (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting 19490901::Viljo Heino runs world record 10k (29:27.2) 19500901::13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines 19500901::West Berlin granted a constitution 19510901::PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad 19510901::US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty 19520901::Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney 19520901::Willem Drees forms new Dutch govt 19530901::101øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept 19530901::Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship 19530901::WNOK (now WLTX) TV channel 19 in Columbia, SC (CBS) 1st broadcast 19530901::WTCN (now KARE) TV channel 11 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (MET) begins 19540901::Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island/New England, kills 68 19540901::Ted Kluszewski is 1st Cin Red to hit 40 HRs en route to 49 19550901::2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel 19550901::KARD (now KSNW) TV channel 3 in Wichita, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting 19560901::Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory 19560901::KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting 19570901::Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400 19570901::WAVY TV channel 10 in Portsmouth-Norfolk, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting 19570901::WHC (now WPXI) TV channel 11 in Pittsburgh, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast 19570901::WTLV TV channel 12 in Jacksonville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 19580901::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open 19580901::St Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout 19600901::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open 19600901::Robert Bolt's "Man For All Seasons," premieres in London 19610901::1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade 19610901::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19620901::12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran 19620901::KATC TV channel 3 in Lafayette, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting 19620901::UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion 19620901::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19630901::Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot 19630901::St Louis Cards pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate 19630901::WCTI TV channel 12 in New Bern, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting 19640901::Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (NY Mets) 19650901::India & Pakistan border fights 19660901::KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting 19670901::KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting 19670901::SF Giants beat Cincinnati Reds, 1-0, in 21 innings 19670901::WIRT TV channel 13 in Hibbing, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting 19670901::WJRJ (WTCG, WTBS) TV channel 17 in Atlanta, GA (IND) begins 19680901::Carol Mann wins LPGA Willow Park Ladies Golf Invitational 19680901::Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed 19680901::Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting 19690901::Jerry Lewis' 4th Muscular Dystrophy telethon 19690901::Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris 19700901::Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain 19700901::Jos‚ Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador 19710901::John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of US Open 19710901::Qatar declares independence from Britain 19710901::Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein 19720901::Bobby Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title 19720901::Egypt & Libya form federation 19730901::74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark) 19730901::George Foreman KOs Jose "King" Roman in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 19740901::Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect 19740901::Jane Blalock/Sue Roberts wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open 19740901::Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed 19750901::All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh 19750901::Gunsmoke resigns the air 19750901::Jerry Lewis' 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon 19750901::KOL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KMPS 19750901::NY Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons 19750901::NYC transit fare rises from 35› to 50› 19760901::NASA launches space vehicle S-197 19760901::NJ Meadowlands racetrack opens 19760901::Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray) 19770901::1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold 19770901::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19780901::Indians' Sammy Stewart tosses 7 consecutive strikeouts (vs Balt) 19780901::Last broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC TV 19780901::Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia 19780901::#4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid & #8064 19790901::Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA 19790901::LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask 19790901::Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings 19800901::Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv 19800901::Jerry Lewis' 15th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,103,787 19800901::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19810901::Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH) 19810901::Milt coup under general Kolingba in Cent Afr Rep, Pres Dacko flees 19810901::RKO radio network is 1st to offer 2 separate overnight services 19810901::RKO radio network premieres America Overnight talk show 19820901::Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls," premieres in London 19820901::Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH 19820901::Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks 19820901::Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon 19830901::Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet 19830901::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19830901::WGH-AM in Newport News VA changes call letters to WNSY 19850901::Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion 19850901::US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland 19860901::Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19860901::Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733 19860901::Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album 19860901::Texas Rangers O McDowell & Porter are 7th to hit consecutive pinch HRs 19870901::15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match 19870901::Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium 19880901::Timberlake Westenbaker's "Our Country's Good," premieres in London 19890901::"Anything Goes" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 804 performances 19890901::Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation 19900901::"Heidi Chronicles" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 621 perfs 19900901::"Jerome Robbins' Broadway" closes at Imperial NYC after 634 perfs 19900901::Gelindo Bordin sets European marathon record (2:14:02) 19900901::Highest combined CFL score (111), Toronto Argonauts beat BC 68-43 19910901::Hiromi Taniguchi wins 3rd world championship marathon (2:14:57) 19910901::Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA 19920901::NYC police commisioner Brown resigns 19920901::Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery 19930901::"White Liars/Black Comedy" opens at Criterion NYC for 38 perfs 19930901::Goran Ivanisevic & Daniel Nestor play longest tie-break in US Tennis 19950901::Infinity Radio agrees to voluntarily pay $1.7 million to US Treasury 19950901::NYC reinstates the death penalty 19950901::Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland Ohio 19960901::Balt Ravens (Cleve Browns) 1st NFL game, beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14 19970901::"Doll's House," closes at Belasco Theater 19970901::Cartoon Channel premieres in Japan 19970901::Cindy Figg-Currier wins LPGA State Farm Rail Classic 19970901::Jerry Lewis' 32nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $50,500,000 09110902::Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines 11920902::Sultan Saladin & king Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire 15190902::1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico 15370902::King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church" 16440902::Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders 16660902::-06] Great Fire in London ends, kills 8 [NS=Sept 12] 16660902::Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses & kills 8 16860902::Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks 17320902::Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome 17430902::England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms 17520902::Last Julian calender day in US & England (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) 17520902::Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies 17890902::US Treasury Department established by Congress 17920902::Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails & slaughter them 17960902::Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated 18060902::A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500 18390902::Salon of Vari‚t‚s opens in Amsterdam 18590902::Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii 18640902::Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta 18670902::1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Neth 18700902::Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies 18940902::-3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens 18940902::Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die 18970902::"McCall-magazine 1st published 18980902::Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain 18980902::Machine gun 1st used in battle 19000902::Telegraph use between Germany & US begins 19010902::VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick" 19080902::Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title 19090902::English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill 19110902::Joao Chagas forms Portuguese govt 19130902::Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas 19140902::-3] Gen von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux 19170902::Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz) 19190902::Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago 19190902::Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation 19190902::National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series 19200902::W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London 19220902::Pres Ebert declares "Deutschland ber alas" as German national anthem 19240902::44th US Mens Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (61 97 62) 19240902::Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in NYC 19260902::Italy signs treaty with Yemen 19270902::Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers 19290902::Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros 19290902::WOR (NYC) ends affiliation with CBS radio network 19300902::1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs) 19350902::A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423 19360902::1st transatlantic round-trip air flight 19370902::US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act 19400902::23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa 19400902::Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated 19410902::Academy copyrights Oscar statuette 19420902::German troops enter Stalingrad 19440902::Belgium's Emissie bank closes 19440902::During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane 19440902::Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz 19440902::US leaders meet in Belgium 19450902::59th US Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64) 19450902::Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day) 19450902::V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends) 19460902::Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager 19460902::Nehru forms govt in India 19490902::Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China) 19510902::Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact 19520902::Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery 19540902::Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20 19540902::WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting 19550902::KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting 19560902::Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India) 19560902::Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings 19560902::Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service 19570902::1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die 19570902::Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game 19570902::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19580902::Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 19580902::Henry Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa 19580902::KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting 19580902::Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium 19580902::National Defense Education Act was signed 19590902::US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris 19600902::Tamara & Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold 19600902::William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres 19620902::Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place 19620902::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19630902::Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS 19630902::CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes 19630902::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament 19640902::Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia 19640902::Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal 19650902::Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons) 19650902::Treblinka trial in Dsseldorf ends 19660902::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf 19670902::KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting 19680902::Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon 19690902::NY Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated 19690902::Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season 19700902::1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death) 19710902::Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer 19710902::Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches 19710902::NY's Electric Circus Club goes out of business 19720902::Chic White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0 19720902::Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec) 19720902::Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well) 19720902::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19730902::Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers 19730902::Netherlands wins hockey world's championship 19730902::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic 19740902::Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon 19740902::Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act 19780902::George Harrison marries Olivia 19780902::Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine) 19780902::Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man 19780902::John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston 19780902::Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years 19790902::"I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 perfs 19790902::79th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara 19800902::John Arlott calls his last game, England v Australia at Lord's 19810902::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19820902::Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down 19830902::Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM 19840902::"Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances 19850902::Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19850902::Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000 19860902::Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi 19870902::Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan 19870902::Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season 19870902::Philips introduces CD-video 19870902::West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia 19880902::Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley 19890902::Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst 19900902::"Grapes of Wrath" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 188 performances 19900902::Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, SF 19910902::Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657 19910902::Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19910902::US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania 19920902::Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die 19920902::US dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record) 19930902::10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins 19930902::Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed 19930902::Day of Peace in South Africa 19940902::Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km) 19950902::Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25) 19950902::Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title 19950902::Southern California begins using new area code 562 19960902::Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000 19960902::Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic 19960902::Soyuz TM-24, lands 19970902::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM 19970902::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM 05900903::St Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 11890903::30 Jews are mnassacred at King Richard I (lion hearted) coronation 11890903::England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster 12600903::Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army 14830903::Utrecht surrenders to Habsburgs army 15430903::Cardinal Beaton replaces earl Arran as regent for Mary of Scotland 16320903::Battle at Nrnberg: Duke wallenstein beats Sweden 16500903::Battle at Dunbar: England vs Scotland 16510903::Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists 16580903::Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector 16830903::Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna 16970903::King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick 17090903::1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC 17250903::England, France, Hannover & Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover 17310903::Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland 17520903::This day never happened nor next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the govt stole 11 days of their lives 17520903::US adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Sept 14) 17790903::Earl d'orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest 17830903::Treaty of Paris signed (ending US Revolutionary War) 17910903::French Constitution passed by French National Assembly 18260903::USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe 18320903::Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname 18330903::NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) 18380903::Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor 18490903::Calif State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey 18520903::Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm 18610903::Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality 18640903::Battle of Berryville, VA 18640903::US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki 18650903::Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land 18780903::England's Princess Alice sinks; 645 die 18810903::1st US Mens Tennis: Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (60 63 62) 18810903::Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony 18820903::French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die 18880903::East Africa Company political & commercial rights 18880903::Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British 18900903::Oliver S Campbell wins US Tennis Open 18910903::11th US Mens Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (26 75 79 61 62) 18910903::Cotton pickers organize union & staged strike in Texas 18910903::John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti 18950903::1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn) 19000903::British annex Natal (South Africa) 19010903::Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony 19020903::Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season) 19020903::Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Illustrious Client" 19030903::Resolute beats Shamrock III (England) in 13th America's Cup 19040903::St Louis Olympics closes 19060903::Phila Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Phila before 10,000 fans 19060903::Yanks win 2nd game on a forfeit over A's; 2nd forfeit win 19080903::James Barries "What Every Woman Knows," premieres in London 19110903::31st US Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62) 19120903::Arnold Schoenberg's "Fnf Orchesterstcke," premieres 19120903::World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy 19140903::British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne 19140903::Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV 19140903::French troops vacate Reims 19140903::Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania 19160903::Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun 19170903::1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes 19170903::German troops over run Riga Latvia 19170903::Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader 19170903::Utrecht soccer team Holland forms 19180903::38th US Mens Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (63 61 75) 19180903::5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917 19180903::Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line 19210903::16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0) 19210903::KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms 19230903::Dorothys Donelly's "Poppy," premieres in NYC 19240903::Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai) 19240903::L Stallings & M Anderson's "What Price Glory?," premieres in NYC 19250903::1st international handball match held 19250903::Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die 19280903::Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th & final career hit 19290903::Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17 19300903::Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic) 19320903::Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for US Tennis title 19320903::Jimmie Foxx of A's hits 50th & 51st HRs to become 3rd to hit 50 19340903::Tunisia began its move for independence 19350903::1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph) 19350903::Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games 19360903::3rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit 7 (76,000) 19380903::1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland 19390903::German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia 19390903::Great Britain & France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland 19390903::Yanks beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th forfeit win 19390903::Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, NZ, South Africa & Canada 19400903::1st showing of high definition color TV 19400903::39.4 CM rainfall at Sapulpa Oklahoma (state record) 19400903::Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation-Seel”we) 19400903::Neth govt in exile of Gerbrandy forms London 19400903::Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary & Red Cross 19400903::US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease 19410903::1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war) 19410903::KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting 19430903::British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina) 19430903::General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily 19440903::58th US Womens Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (63 86) 19440903::68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz 19440903::Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France 19440903::Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US Tennis title 19440903::French troops liberate Lyon 19440903::Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz 19440903::Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Neth Domestic Arm Force 19440903::Tank division of British Guards free Brussels 19450903::65th US Mens Tennis: Sgt Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert (14-12 61 62) 19450903::Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies 19470903::Phila A's Bill McCahan no-hits Wash Senators, 3-0 19470903::Yanks get 18 singles to beat Red Soxs 11-2 19480903::W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party 19490903::Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives 19510903::TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS 19530903::French minister Fran‡ois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy 19540903::China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy & Amoy 19540903::Espionage & Sabotage Act of 1954 signed 19540903::Pope Pius X canonized a saint 19550903::KTBS TV channel 3 in Shreveport, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting 19560903::Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee 19570903::Dodgers play last game in Jersey City (11-4 in NJ) 19570903::KTCA TV channel 2 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting 19570903::Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out 19620903::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open 19640903::US attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns 19640903::Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson 19650903::Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins 19650903::Garcia Godoy forms govt in Dominican Republic 19650903::Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit 3 HRs in a game 19650903::Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei 19650903::Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to Calif 19660903::24th World SF Convention honors Gene Roddenberry 19660903::Donovan hits #1 with "Sunshine Superman" 19670903::Final episode of "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly 19670903::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf 19670903::Last broadcast of "What's My Line" on CBS TV 19670903::Nguyen Van Thieu elected pres of S Vietnam under a new constitution 19670903::Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road 19670903::WJPM TV channel 33 in Florence, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting 19680903::Chicago White Sox set AL record of 39 loses by 1 run 19700903::After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out 19700903::Bill Halley & Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia 19700903::Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands 19710903::John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return 19710903::Manlio Brosio resigns as sect-gen of NATO 19710903::Qatar regains complete independence from Britain 19710903::Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office 19730903::General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA 19730903::Jerry Lewis' 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon 19740903::Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut 19740903::NBA guard Oscar Robinson retires 19740903::US & German DR establish diplomatic relations 19750903::Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die 19750903::Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak 19760903::Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos 19770903::Japan's Sadaharu Oh hits 756th HR to surpass Hank Aaron's total 19770903::Last broadcast of "Mary Tyler Moore Show" on NBC-TV 19780903::Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29 19780903::Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5) 19780903::Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff 19790903::Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000 19790903::Iran army conquerors Mahabad 19790903::Jerry Lewis' 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000 19790903::Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19810903::Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game 19810903::Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7 19820903::J”rgensen govt in Denmark resigns 19840903::28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery 19840903::Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th 19840903::Cindy Hill wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19840903::Jerry Lewis' 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566 19840903::South Africa adopts constitution 19850903::20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth 19850903::England regain Cricket Ashes by beating Australia at The Oval 19850903::NY Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive HRs in a game 19860903::Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind," premieres in London 19860903::Astros & Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game 19870903::Coup in Burundi suspends constitution 19880903::Dennis Eckersley sets A's record with his 37th save en route to 45 19890903::"Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 764 perfs 19890903::Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die 19890903::Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st & last US Tennis Open singles victory 19900903::9th no-hitter of 1990: Blue Jay Dave Steib beats Cleve 3-0 19900903::Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19900903::Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego) 19900903::Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186 19900903::White Sox reliever Bobby Thigpen sets save record at 47 en route to 57 19920903::Jerry Lewis' 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368 19940903::Circulation of Neth Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000 19950903::Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT) 19950903::Jacksonville Jaguars lose their 1st NFL game (Houston-10, Jaguars-3) 19950903::NY Yankee Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle 19950903::Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit 19960903::Slowinski & Gage discovers 2^1257787-1 (34th known Mersenne prime) 04220904::St Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 04760904::Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed 10240904::Conrad II the Sailor chosen German king 12600904::Battle at Montaperti-Guelfen vs Ghibellijnen 12820904::King Pedro III of Arag¢north annexes Sicily 14140904::Peace of Atrecht: John the fearless & Armagnacs 14790904::King Alfonso I of Portugal recognizes Isabella as queen of Castili‰ 15710904::Catholic coup in Scotland 16090904::Navigator Henry Hudson discovers island of Manhattan [or Sep 11] 16180904::"Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed 16820904::English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet 16950904::French garrison of castle Names surrenders for Willem III 17780904::City Amsterdam signs trade agreement with US rebels 17810904::Los Angeles founded by 44 in Bahia de las Fumas, (Valley of Smokes) 17860904::-5] Orange troops plunder Hattem/Elburg 18050904::1st edition of Batavian State-Current published 18070904::Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat 18130904::1st US relig newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer)) 18330904::1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun) 18420904::Work on K”ln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus 18540904::English/French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka 18620904::Gen Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops 18620904::North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in SF 18640904::Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama 18660904::1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published 18700904::3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king 18820904::1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station) 18850904::1st cafeteria opens (NYC) 18860904::Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war 18880904::George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak" 18930904::English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit 18940904::In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops 18940904::Soccer team Veendam 1894 forms 18990904::8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay Alaska 19040904::Dali Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet 19060904::NY Highlanders win 5th straight doubleheader 19080904::Caledonia & Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship 19110904::Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft) 19120904::1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground: 22 injured person 19140904::British, French & Russian govt sign Pact of London, against Germany 19140904::General von Moltke ceases German advance in France 19160904::Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game 19180904::Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier 19180904::US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months 19190904::39th US Mens Tennis: William M Johnston beats Wm T Tilden (64 64 63) 19190904::British intervene in Petrograd 19200904::Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria) 19220904::Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m (5:26.3) 19230904::A Charlot & N Cowards revue "London Calling," premieres in London 19230904::NY Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Phila A's, 2-0 19270904::Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour 19300904::Cambridge Theater opens in London 19320904::15th PGA Championship: Olin Dutra at Keller GC St Paul Minn 19330904::1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il 19330904::Coup on Cuban president De C‚spedes by Fulgencio Batista 19340904::Bradman scores 149* Aust v Eng XI, 104 mins, 17 fours 4 sixes 19360904::Franco troops conquer Irun & Talavera de la Reina Spain 19360904::Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier 19370904::Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4) 19380904::Vainio Muinonen wins 2nd European marathoner (2:37:28.8) 19390904::Dutch 2nd Chamber affirms Neth's in a State of War 19390904::German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia 19390904::German troops move into Danzig 19390904::Netherlands & Belgium declare neutrality 19390904::Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated 19390904::RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen 19400904::CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB 19400904::Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch govt in exile 19400904::Mussert sends telegram, that Hitler has captured the Dutch 19400904::Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Neth in Hitler's hands 19410904::NY Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season) 19410904::US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652 19410904::Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 & clinch their 12th & earliest pennant 19420904::Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 19430904::British 8th army lands at T ranto South Italy 19440904::2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt 19440904::64th US Mens Tennis: Frank Parker beats Wm F Talbert (64 36 63 63) 19440904::British 2nd Armoured pantzer division frees Antwerp 19440904::Finland breaks diplomatic contact with nazi-Germany 19440904::US 1st Army frees Namen 19450904::Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded 19450904::US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan 19480904::"Angel in the Wings" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 308 perfs 19480904::Queen Wilhelmina abdicates Dutch throne 19490904::Marie Robie sinks 393 yd hole-in-one (1st hole in Furnace Brook) 19500904::1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines 19500904::D McI Hodgson of St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna 19500904::Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250 19510904::1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by Pres Truman 19510904::71st US Mens Tennis: F A Sedgman beats Elias V Seixas Jr (64 61 61) 19510904::NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network 19510904::Pres Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference 19530904::WATR (now WTXX) TV channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (NBC) begins 19530904::WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting 19530904::Yanks become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championship 19540904::1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed 19540904::Peter B Cortese of US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania 19570904::Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel 19570904::Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school 19600904::-12] Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in Caribbean & US 19610904::Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio 19610904::US authorizes Agency for International Development 19620904::Beatles record "How Do You Do It" at EMI 19620904::French president De Gaulle visits German FR 19640904::Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile 19640904::Longest bridge in Europe opens (Scottish 4th Road Bridge) 19640904::NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1) 19650904::Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks 19650904::KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting 19650904::Rock group Who's wan is vandalized with $10,000 in equipment stolen 19660904::Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7 19660904::Jim Hogan wins Europe marathon (2:20:04.6) 19670904::6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200 19670904::Jerry Lewis' 2nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon 19670904::Train crash at Arnhem Neth, kills 5 19680904::Nigerian troops conquer Aba Biafra 19700904::-5) 29.0 cm rainfall at Workman Creek, Arizona (state record) 19700904::George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single 19700904::Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum 19700904::Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile 19710904::Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska) 19720904::US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals 19720904::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19730904::William E Colby, becomes 10th director of CIA 19740904::Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation 19760904::Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus 19770904::"Godspell" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 527 performances 19770904::Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Rail Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic 19780904::Jerry Lewis' 13th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $29,074,405 19780904::NY Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season) 19780904::Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19790904::India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429 19790904::Iran army conquerors Baneh 19800904::Yes performs its last concert (MSG) 19810904::Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7 19810904::Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC 19810904::Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7, in 20 inn (started 9/3) 19810904::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19820904::Arson fire engulfs apt-hotel in LA, 25 die 19820904::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19830904::"Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Royale NYC after 747 perfs 19830904::83rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel 19830904::Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship 19830904::Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph) 19840904::Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years 19850904::Igor Paklin of USSR set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12 19850904::NY Mets Gary Carter's 2 HRs ties record of 5 HRs in 2 games 19860904::189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange 19860904::Claude Brochu becomes CEO of Montreal Expos 19880904::Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY 19880904::Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game 19890904::Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19890904::Jerry Lewis' 24th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $42,737,219 19910904::"Most Happy Fella" opens at NY State Theater NYC 19910904::Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, last drive-in in NJ, closes 19910904::Panel of 8 baseball experts vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris HR record & determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings 19920904::"Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC & PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah 19930904::Jim Abbott pitches 4-0, no-hit win over Indians at Yankee Stadium 19930904::Miklos Horthy appointed Hungarian admiral 19930904::Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in 4 hrs 1 min US Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM 19940904::Bulgarian govt of Berov falls 19940904::Cleveland Browns is 1st team in NFL to score a 2-point conversion 19940904::Kansai International airport officially opens 19950904::Jerry Lewis' 30th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,800,000 19950904::Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic 19960904::13th MTV Awards: Alanis Morrisett & Smashing Pumpkins wins 19970904::14th MTV Awards 19970904::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Louisville KY on WTFX 100.5 FM 19990904::Women's championship at US Tennis Open 11980905::Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany 15190905::2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs Tlascala Aztecs 15500905::William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs 15960905::Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java 16220905::Richelieu becomes cardinal 16340905::-6] Battle at N”rdlingen: King Ferdinand III & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants 16440905::Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sas of Gent 16610905::French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested 16980905::Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards 17250905::French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski 17500905::Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods 17740905::1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia 17810905::Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis 17860905::Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium 17930905::In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins 17950905::US-Algiers sign peace treaty 17960905::General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy 17980905::New conscription law goes into effect in France 18000905::Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops 18140905::-15] Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russ out of E Prussia 18360905::Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas 18380905::Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands 18440905::Iron ore discovered in Minnesota's Mesabi Mountains 18620905::Lee crosses Potomac & enters Maryland 18630905::Bread revolt in Mobile Alabama 18640905::British, French & Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits 18770905::Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas 18820905::10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC 18850905::1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind) 18870905::Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200 18950905::George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC 19000905::France proclaims a protectorate over Chad 19010905::National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms 19050905::Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide," premieres in Detroit 19050905::Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War 19060905::1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider) 19080905::Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 19100905::Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings 19130905::Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th 19140905::Battle of Marne (WW I) begins: Germans chase out Russians 19140905::French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine 19140905::Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London 19140905::Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins 19150905::35th US Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats McLoughlin (16 60 75 108) 19150905::Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland 19160905::36th US Mens Tennis: R N Williams III beats Johnston (46 64 06 62 64) 19180905::Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early 19200905::Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders 19210905::Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287 19220905::17th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in New York (4-1) 19220905::Yankees final game at Polo Grounds (played there 7 years) 19230905::Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously 19250905::112 F (44øC), Centerville, Alabama (state record) 19250905::29th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones 19270905::Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings 19290905::French premier A Briand requests a US of Europe 19360905::Red Sox turn a triple-play on Yankees 19390905::34th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Haverford (3-2) 19390905::FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe 19390905::US declare itself neutral 19420905::Battle at Alam Halfa ends 19420905::British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen 19430905::57th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (63 57 63) 19430905::US airland at Nadzab, New-Guinea 19440905::"Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany 19440905::5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen 19440905::Allies liberate Brussels 19440905::Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign unity treaty 19440905::British premier Churchill travels to Scotland 19440905::Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard 19460905::"Yours Is My Heart" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 36 performances 19460905::Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game 19490905::63rd US Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats Doris Hart (64 61) 19490905::69th US Mens Tennis: Pancho Gonzales beat Schroeder (1618 26 61 62 64) 19500905::64th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont beats D Hart (63 63) 19500905::70th US Mens Tennis: Art Larsen beats Herbert Flam (63 46 57 64 63) 19500905::98.3 cm rainfall at Yankeetown, Florida (state record) 19510905::65th US Womens Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (63 16 64) 19510905::71st US Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Elias Seixas Jr (64 61 61) 19520905::General Carlos Iba¤ez elected president of Chile 19530905::1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC 19530905::US give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid 19540905::Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die 19550905::Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician 19550905::Phillies Don Newcombe hits NL pitcher record 7th HR of season 19550905::WKRG TV channel 5 in Mobile, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting 19550905::WTTW TV channel 11 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting 19560905::20 die in a train crash in Springer NM 19570905::Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising 19570905::Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers" 19580905::"Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US 19580905::1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC 19580905::WKPC TV channel 15 in Louisville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 19590905::Wash Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd) 19600905::Cassius Clay captures Olympic light heavyweight gold medal 19600905::President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo 19600905::Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal 19610905::JFK begins underground nuclear testing 19610905::President Kennedy signs law against hijacking (death penalty) 19610905::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19620905::Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II 19620905::Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 & consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th 19660905::Jerry Lewis' 1st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $15,000 19660905::WRLK TV channel 35 in Columbia, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting 19670905::-23] Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico & Texas 19670905::KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting 19670905::WEBA TV channel 14 in Allendale, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting 19680905::21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan 19680905::82nd US Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats Billie Jean King (64 64) 19680905::88th US Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats Tom Okker (1412 57 63 36 63) 19680905::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19690905::Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections 19700905::Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record) 19710905::Astros pitcher J R Richard debut, strikes out 15 Giants in a 5-3 win 19710905::NY Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet 19720905::11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by Black Sept 19720905::Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium 19720905::Jerry Lewis' 7th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, John & Yoko appear 19720905::Palestinian terrorists kill 11 Israelis at 1972 Munich Olympics 19730905::"Desert Song" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 15 performances 19730905::1st one-day Cricket international for WI (v Eng) - lose by 1 wicket 19750905::Czech tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in NYC 19750905::Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate Ford in Sacramento 19750905::Portugal premier Gon‡alvez resigns 19750905::Wings release "Letting Go" 19760905::"Rex" closes at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC after 48 performances 19760905::"Very Good Eddie" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 307 performances 19760905::Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic 19770905::Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night" 19770905::Jerry Lewis' 12th Muscular Dystrophy telethon 19770905::RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer 19770905::Voyager 1 (US) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn 19780905::Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md 19790905::A's Matt Keough A's beats Brewers 6-1 for 1st win after 14 straight losses, ended 1978 with 4 loses (1 shy of the record 19) 19790905::Canada puts its 1st gold bullion coin on sale 19790905::Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Burma 19790905::Iran army occupies Piranshahr 19790905::Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve & upsets top-seeded Bjorn Borg in US Tennis Open quarterfinals 19800905::Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns 19800905::World's longest auto tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens 19820905::82nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel 19820905::Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph 19830905::8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB 19830905::Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph 19830905::Jerry Lewis' 18th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,691,627 19830905::Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19840905::12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB 19860905::3rd MTV Awards: Whitney Houston wins 19860905::Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked US B-747, 19 killed 19860905::MTV Music Awards - Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" wins 19860905::NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms 19860905::NASA launches DOD-1 19870905::Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career HR off Danny Jackson 19870905::John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at US Tennis Open 19880905::Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19880905::Jerry Lewis' 23rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $41,132,113 19880905::CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return & 58-yd pass reception 19890905::Chris Evert last US Open match, she is defeated by Zina Garrison 19890905::Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show 19900905::Iraqi Pres Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West 19900905::Pete Sampras ends Ivan Lendl's bid for 9th straight US Open final 19910905::8th MTV Awards: REM 19910905::Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston 19910905::Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC 19910905::US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins 19920905::Andrew "Dice" Clay marries his longtime live-in lover Trinie 19920905::Dan O'Brien sets world record decathlon (8891 pts) 19930905::"Fool Moon" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 207 perfs 19930905::"Jelly's Last Jam" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 569 perfs 19930905::"Will Rogers Follies" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 983 perfs 19930905::F Murray Abraham released from hospital after car accident 19930905::Largest US Tennis Open 2 sessions (total) daily gate (43,502) 19930905::Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44,39) 19930905::Robocop Richard Eden (36) weds actress Shannon Hile (30) 19940905::Barb Mucha wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic 19940905::Jerry Lewis' 29th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,100,000 19940905::Jingyi Le swims world record 100m women's freestyle (54.01 sec) 19940905::Kirgizi‰ govt resigns 19940905::SF 49'er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 127th touchdown pass 19950905::Cal Ripken Jr ties Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 straight games 19960905::"Summer & Smoke" opens at Criterion Theater NYC 19960905::MTV Video Music Awards 19970905::Athen's Greece selected for 2004 Olympics 19970905::Larry King weds Shawn Southwick 19970905::Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game 19980905::Women's championship at US Tennis Open 19990905::Men's championship at US Tennis Open 03940906::Battle of Frigidus North-Italy 14920906::Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands 15220906::Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip 15430906::French & Turkish fleet occupies Nice 16200906::1st stones layed in Western Tower 16220906::Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die 16280906::Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle 16340906::Battle at N”rdlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat 16720906::Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden on France 16750906::Swedish admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships 16830906::Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance 16880906::Austrian armies occupy Belgrade 16900906::King Willem III escapes back to England 17150906::Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland 17160906::1st US lighthouse built (Boston) 17320906::VOC fires Neth-Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare 17760906::Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French & Dutch ships sinks; 600 die 17760906::1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of NY) 17910906::Mozarts opera "La Clemenza di Tito," premieres in Prague 18190906::Thomas Blanchard patents lathe 18370906::Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men) 18390906::Cherokee Nation forms 18390906::Great fire in NY 18480906::National Black Convention meets (Cleveland) 18530906::Women's Right's Convention met (NYC) 18610906::General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky 18620906::Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland 18630906::-7] Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties) 18630906::After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC 18660906::Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention 18690906::1st westbound train arrives in SF 18690906::Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania 18700906::Ship sinks in Gulf of Biskaje; 483 die 18730906::Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street 18760906::Race riot in Charleston SC 18760906::Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed 18800906::Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, v Australia at The Oval 18800906::W G Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, v Aust The Oval 18830906::Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson & Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn 18860906::Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award 18890906::King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns 18980906::Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman 18990906::Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk 18990906::US min of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note" 19000906::British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa 19010906::Pres William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later 19030906::Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Creeping Man" (BG) 19040906::Soccer team Rheden forms 19050906::Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms 19050906::Chic White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0 19050906::General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident) 19090906::Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier 19100906::Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed 19120906::NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Phila, 3-0 19130906::19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers 19130906::1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe P‚goud-France) 19130906::Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club 19140906::Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris 19170906::French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft 19200906::40th US Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63) 19200906::Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight 19220906::42nd US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64) 19230906::Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee 19240906::Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails 19240906::Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships 19270906::B G DeSylva/Lew Brown's musical "Good News," premieres in NYC 19270906::Red Sox beat NY Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park 19280906::USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact 19300906::Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8 19380906::Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch queen 19390906::1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II 19390906::South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany 19400906::Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania 19400906::Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France 19410906::55th US Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62) 19410906::61st US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63) 19410906::All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star 19410906::Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto 19420906::56th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64) 19420906::Czech marathon runner Oskar Hˆks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau 19430906::"Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79 19430906::63rd US Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60) 19430906::Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's 19440906::Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand 19450906::A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended 19460906::All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0) 19460906::Terence Rattigan's "Winslow Boy," premieres in London 19480906::"Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 perfs 19480906::37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0) 19480906::Juliana becomes queen of Netherlands 19490906::Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes 19520906::Canadian TV begins in Montreal 19530906::Adenauers CDU wins elections in German FR 19530906::Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38 19540906::68th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86) 19540906::74th US Mens Tennis: E V Seixas Jr beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64) 19540906::US plane shot down above Siberia 19540906::WINS NYC begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show 19540906::Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters 19550906::"Catch a Star" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances 19550906::J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname 19570906::Elvis records "White Xmas," "Silent Night" & "Here Comes Santa Claus" 19580906::Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959 19580906::US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean 19590906::Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open 19610906::USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR 19620906::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19630906::Church bombed in Birmingham AL, kills 4 African-American girls 19630906::Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history 19630906::Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records 19630906::Major league baseballs 100,000th game 19650906::India invades West Pakistan 19650906::KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting 19660906::"Star Trek" premieres on NBC TV 19660906::Race riot in Atlanta Georgia 19680906::Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day) 19690906::"Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances 19700906::NY Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle 19700906::Palestinians seize 3 jetliners 19700906::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19710906::Jerry Lewis' 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises 19720906::John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon 19720906::Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre 19730906::NY Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed 19750906::6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey 19750906::89th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62) 19750906::Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed 19750906::Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976 19750906::Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests US political asylum 19750906::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19760906::Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears 19760906::Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet 19770906::Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977 19780906::Begin & Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace 19780906::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19790906::"Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances 19800906::94th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61) 19800906::Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s) 19800906::College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for 19800906::Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 19800906::Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981 19800906::Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14 19810906::"They're Playing Our Song" closes at Imperial NYC after 1082 perfs 19810906::Bob Lemon named NY Yankee manager for 2nd time 19820906::Dutch Internal minister Mr M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists 19820906::Jerry Lewis' 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000 19820906::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19820906::Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War" 19820906::Pitts Pirates retire Willie Stargell's # 19820906::Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland 19830906::Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in NY 19830906::USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 19840906::Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead," premieres in NYC 19840906::Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow 19860906::300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand's benefit concert 19860906::Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed 19860906::Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k) 19860906::Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 19860906::USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying 19870906::Benjamin & Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital 19870906::Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48) 19870906::Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal 19880906::Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard 19880906::Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal 19880906::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19890906::6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins 19890906::Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records 19890906::Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution 19900906::7th MTV Awards: Sinead O'Connor wins 19910906::33rd Walker Cup: US, 14-10 19910906::Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname 19910906::Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence 19910906::USSR recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic republics 19920906::Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86) 19930906::Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic 19930906::Jerry Lewis' 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922 19940906::11th MTV Awards: Aerosmith, Lisa Marie & Michael Jackson win 19940906::Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg" 19940906::Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78) 19940906::Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30) 19950906::Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games 19950906::Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood 19960906::Balt Orioles' Eddie Murray's 500th career HR 19970906::Princess Diana's funeral 19970906::Women's championship at US Tennis Open 19980906::Men's championship at US Tennis Open 19980906::Safeway LPGA Golf Championship 00700907::Roman army under Titus occupies & plunders Jerusalem 11590907::Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope 14970907::Sailor Perkin Warbeck becomes English King Richard IV 15250907::Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague 15430907::Duke Willem of Gulik surrenders to emperor Charles V 15960907::Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java 15990907::Earl van Essex & Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty 16520907::Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English 17010907::Germany, England & Netherlands sign anti-French covenant 17140907::Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI & France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine 18000907::Zion AME Church dedicated (NYC) 18120907::Battle at Borodino: Napoleon-Kutuzov 18130907::"Uncle Sam" was 1st used to refer to US (Troy Post of NY) 18220907::Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day) 18220907::Pedro I, son of king Joao VI, declares Brazil independence 18600907::Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" drowns 340 in Lake Michigan 18630907::Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass 18710907::Bay of Biskaje: English warship HMS Captain fired on, 500 killed 18760907::Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested) 18800907::Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters 18880907::Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby place in an incubator 18890907::Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Engineer's Thumb" (BG) 18910907::Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria 18920907::James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title 18960907::1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, RI 18960907::A H Whiting wins 1st automobile race held on a track in Cranston, RI 18970907::George Davis (Giants) HR off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH 19010907::Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China 19030907::Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY 19070907::Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire 19120907::Eddie Collins steals record 6 bases in 9-7 Athletics win over Detroit 19140907::NY Post Office Building opens to public 19150907::35th US Mens Tennis: Wm Johnston beats M E McLoughlin (16 60 75 108) 19150907::John Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll 19150907::St Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0 19160907::Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch NY's record 26-game winning streak 19160907::Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress 19230907::Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Phila A's, 4-0 19230907::Interpol forms in Vienna 19230907::Mary Katherine Campbell (Ohio), 16, crowned 2nd Miss America 1922-23 19270907::Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in SF 19280907::Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal," premieres in NYC 19320907::Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games 19340907::Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off NJ, killing 134 19360907::Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation 19390907::Radio NY Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission 19400907::54th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 63) 19400907::60th US Mens Tennis: McNeill beats Robert Riggs (46 68 63 63 75) 19400907::German Air Force blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights 19400907::Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England 19410907::61st US Mens Tennis: R L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63) 19420907::62nd US Mens Tennis: F Schroeder Jr beats F Parker (86 75 36 46 62) 19420907::German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle 19420907::Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 19430907::987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp 19430907::Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston Texas) 19440907::SS-general Kurt Meyer takes Durnal Belgium 19440907::Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12) 19450907::Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender 19450907::Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park HR, only HR hit by a Senator all season at Washington's Griffith Stadium 19470907::Battles between Hindus & Moslems in New Delhi 19480907::1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh 19500907::Monasteries shut down in Hungary 19520907::66th US Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (63 75) 19520907::72nd US Mens Tennis: Frank Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63) 19520907::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Tournament 19520907::General Naguib forms Egyptian govt/becomes premier 19520907::Outfielder Don Grate throws a baseball a record 434'1" (Tenn) 19520907::Whitey Ford becomes 5th pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters 19520907::NY Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington He has now HRed in all 15 major league parks 19530907::67th US Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64) 19530907::73rd US Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Elias V Seixas Jr (63 62 63) 19530907::Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs 19540907::Integration begins in Wash DC & Balt MD public schools 19550907::Yankees Whitey Ford is 5th to throw consecutive 1-hitters, beats A's 19560907::Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+ 19570907::71st US Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Louise Brough (63 62) 19570907::WWL TV channel 4 in New Orleans, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting 19580907::72nd US Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene R Hard (36 61 62) 19580907::78th US Mens Tennis: A J Cooper beats M J Anderson (62 36 46 108 86) 19600907::Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3) 19630907::1st US TV appearance of Beatles (Big Night Out-ABC) 19630907::American Bandstand moves to Calif, & airs once a week on Saturday 19630907::Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated in Canton Ohio 19640907::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Valhalla Golf Open 19650907::-10] Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Miss & La 19660907::KTNE TV channel 13 in Alliance, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting 19660907::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19690907::83rd US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Nancy Richey (62 62) 19690907::Carol Mann wins LPGA Molson's Canadian Golf Open 19690907::Rod Laver completes his 2nd grand slam winning US Tennis Open 19690907::US amateur Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60) 19700907::Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon 19700907::PLO hijacks 4 planes 19700907::White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader & lose both games 19700907::Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado 19730907::Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion 19730907::Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Assn's 4th commissioner 19740907::"Irene" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 605 performances 19740907::Shirley Cothran (Texas), 21, crowned 47th Miss America 1975 19750907::95th US Mens Tennis: Manuel Orantes beats Jimmy Connors (64 63 63) 19750907::Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open 19750907::Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title 19750907::Last day of 1st-class cricket for Hanif Mohammad 19750907::Manuel Orantes upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors to win US Open 19760907::US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine) 19770907::Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia 19770907::Pres Carter & Gen Herrera sign Panama Canal treaties 19780907::1st game of Boston Massacre, Yanks beat Red Sox 15-3 19790907::5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at MSG, NY 19800907::100th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bj”rn B”rg (76 61 67 57 64) 19800907::32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott 19800907::32nd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner & Barbara Bel Geddes 19800907::Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Series of Women's Golf 19800907::Cape Verde adopts its constitution 19800907::Earnest Gray becomes 2nd NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St Louis) 19800907::Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season 19800907::Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic 19800907::John McEnroe & Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest US Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title 19810907::Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 57 pass attempts 19810907::Jerry Lewis' 16th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,500,000 19810907::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19810907::Judge Wapner & People's Court premier on TV 19810907::West Tampa Fl defeats Rich Va, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series 19830907::Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s) 19840907::Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236 19850907::99th US Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats M Navratilova (76 16 76) 19850907::Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs US 3K female record (8:25.83) 19860907::100th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Helena Sukova (63 62) 19860907::106th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (64 62 60) 19860907::Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship 19860907::Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of Capetown 19860907::Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Pinochet, 5 killed 19860907::Ivan Lendl defeats Miloslav Mecir for US Tennis open title 19860907::Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31 19870907::Jerry Lewis' 22nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $39,021,723 19870907::Netherlands routes 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf 19870907::Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19870907::South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young 19880907::5th MTV Awards 19880907::Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito & Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame 19880907::NY Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist 19880907::Security & Exchange Comm accuses Drexel of violating security laws 19900907::"Street Scene" opens at NY State Theater NYC for 6 performances 19900907::Marjorie Judith Vincent (Ill), 25, crowned 64th Miss America 1991 19910907::105th US Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova (76 61) 19910907::1st S African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics 19910907::Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes 19910907::Harry Hamlin weds Nicollette Sheridan 19910907::Monica Seles (17) defeats Martina Navratilova (34) to win US Open 19910907::Ty Detmer of Brigham Young passes NCAA record 11,606 yards 19920907::Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators 19920907::Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns 19920907::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 19930907::Brazil votes over importing monarchy 19930907::Cards Mark Whiten, hits 4 HRs & 12 RBIs in 2nd game of doubleheader 19940907::Jingyi Le/Ying Shan/Ying Le/Bin Lu swimming 4x100 freestyle (3:37.91) 19950907::12th MTV Awards 19950907::STS 69 (Endeavour 9), launches into orbit 19950907::Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion 19960907::Women's championship at US Tennis Open 19970907::111th US Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats Venus Williams (60 64) 19970907::117th US Mens Tennis: Patrick Rafter beats Greg Rusedski (63 62 46 75) 19970907::Boone Valley Senior Golf Classic 19970907::Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 19970907::Karrie Webb wins Safeway LPGA Golf Championship 19970907::Men's championship at US Tennis Open 19970907::Steve Jones wins Canadian Golf Open with a 275 19980907::Jerry Lewis' 33rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises 10240908::Duke Koenraad II chosen German king 11410908::-9] Battle of Samarkand: Yelutashi defeats Islams 11560908::Henry II Jasormigott leaves Bavaria 12760908::John XXI elected Pope 13030908::Anagni: French king Philip IV captures Pope Boniface VIII 13800908::Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri beats Mongols 13800908::Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars 15140908::Battle at Ozra: Polish/Latvia army beats Russians 15220908::Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe, expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan 15360908::Earl of Nassau disbands siege of P‚ronne 15450908::English earl Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland 15530908::City of Lichfield, England forms 15630908::Maximilian chosen king of Hungary 15650908::1st permanent settlement in US forms (St Augustine, Florida) 15650908::Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St John 16280908::Bay of Matanzas Cuba: Piet Heyn captures Spanish silver fleet 16550908::Swedish king Karel X Gustaaf occupies Warsaw 16640908::Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers 16890908::China & Russia signs Treaty of Nertsjinsk (Nierchul) 17130908::Pope Clemens XI publishes degree "Unigenitus" against Jansenism" 17550908::Battle at Lake George: English army beats France 17600908::French army gives Montreal to Gen Jeffrey Amherst 17710908::Mission San Gabriel Archangel forms in California 17960908::Battle of Bassano-French beat Austrians 18330908::Charles Darwin departs to Buenos Aires 18470908::US under Gen Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey 18540908::With a 3-2 count, Phillies Richie Ashburn fouls next 14, then walks 18550908::Crimean war - assault of Malakof Tower under Mac-Mahon) 18580908::Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people 18600908::Loss of steamer, "Lady Elgin" 18630908::-10] Federal troops reconquer the Cumperland Gap, Tennessee 18630908::Battle of Sabine Pass TX: 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces 18630908::Battle of Telford's Depot TN 18680908::NY Athletic Club forms 18700908::Neth & Engl sign "Koelietraktaat" Br-Indian contract work in Suriname 18830908::NY Giants score 13 runs in an inning against Phillies 18830908::Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont 18920908::1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion) 18990908::British govt sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa 19000908::6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas 19050908::Pitts Pirates strand NL record 18 men on base & lose to Reds 8-3 19070908::Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism) 19140908::British trader Oceanic sinks off Scotland 19150908::Assn of Negro Life & History founded 19190908::Babe Ruth hits his 26th HR off Jack Quinn in NY, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 HR mark of 25 19200908::US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF) 19210908::1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of Washington DC) 19210908::Mary Gorman (Wash DC), 16, crowned 1st Miss America [or 9/14] 19240908::Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador 19260908::League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany 19300908::1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie" 19300908::NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew 19300908::Richard Drew creates Scotch tape 19330908::Spain's 2nd govt of Aza¤a forms 19340908::54th US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Wilmer L Allison (64 63 16 86) 19340908::Bradman scores 132 v Leveson-Gower XI, 90 mins, 24 fours 1 six 19340908::Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle for NJ catches fire, 133 die 19350908::Willy de Supervise swims runs world record 200 m freestyle (2:25.2) 19360908::Princess Juliana & German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld get engaged 19370908::Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens 19370908::Yankees trailing 6-1 in 9th, score 8 to beat Boston 9-6 19390908::FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe 19390908::Gen Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw 19390908::Indians Bob Feller, 20, is youngest pitcher to win 20 games 19390908::Yanks beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called because of lightning 19410908::Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins 19410908::Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated 19430908::Gen Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II 19430908::Italy surrenders to Allies in WW II 19430908::Lt-Gen Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers Sicily 19430908::NY Giants' pitcher Ace Adams sets record by working in his 62nd game 19440908::1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp 19440908::Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany 19450908::US invades Japanese-held Korea 19450908::Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged 19460908::60th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (119 63) 19460908::66th US Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom Brown Jr (97 63 60) 19460908::Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minors record 456 19460908::Bulgaria ends monarchy 19460908::Jack Kramer wins US Tennis Open 19460908::SF 49ers play 1st AAFC game, lose to NY Yankees 21-7 19470908::British govt sails "Exodus" with fugitives from Nazis 19480908::British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound 19510908::Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF) 19510908::Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sempiternus Rex 19520908::72nd US Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63) 19520908::Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man & Sea" published 19530908::"Carnival in Flanders" opens at New Century Theater NY for 6 perfs 19530908::Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgeno corona 19540908::Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to NYC for WINS radio 19540908::SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communist spread in SE Asia 19550908::Earliest clinching of an NL pennant (Brooklyn Dodgers) 19560908::Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks 19570908::77th US Mens Tennis: M J Anderson beats Ashley J Cooper (108 75 64) 19570908::Jackie Wilson, releases his 1st solo single "Reet Petite" 19570908::Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV 19580908::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open 19580908::Oman turns over Gwadur (on Bal£chist n coast) to Pakistan 19580908::Paul Anka opens Asian tour in Tokyo 19600908::German DR limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners 19620908::Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary) 19620908::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19630908::77th US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court (75 64) 19630908::83rd US Mens Tennis: R H Osuna beats Frank Froehling III (75 64 62) 19630908::Algerian population accepts constitution 19630908::Braves Warren Spahn ties Christy Mathewson with 13 20-win seasons 19630908::Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys 19630908::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open 19650908::Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana & Florida 19650908::KC A's Bert Campaneris plays all 9 positions in a game 19660908::"Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV 19660908::"That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV 19670908::Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10 19670908::Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic 19680908::"Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand premieres 19680908::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 19680908::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pacific Ladies Golf Classic 19680908::Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant 19690908::2nd US Tennis Open smallest session - 3708 (men's singles final-rain) 19690908::89th US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Tony Roche (79 61 62 62) 19690908::Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya 19690908::US amateur Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz (97 63 61) 19710908::John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington DC 19720908::Chic Cub Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th game for 6th straight year 19720908::Jim Ryan (US) & Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide & fall in qualifying competitions for 1,500m finals, ending Ryan's chances for gold 19730908::87th US Womens Tennis: M S Court beats E Goolagong Cawley (76 57 62) 19730908::Billy Martin named manager of Texas Rangers 19730908::Hank Aaron sets record of most HRs in 1 league (709) 19730908::Rebecca Ann King (Colo), 23, crowned 46th Miss America 1974 19740908::88th US Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Evonne Goolagong (36 63 75) 19740908::94th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ken Rosewall (61 60 61) 19740908::Ian Thompson wins marathon (2:13:18.8) 19740908::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open 19740908::Pres Gerald Ford pardons former Pres R Nixon of all federal crimes 19750908::Boston begins court ordered busing of public schools 19750908::Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal 19760908::Fons Rademakers' film "Max Havelaar" premieres in Amsterdam 19770908::Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy 19770908::Jimmy McCullough quits Wings 19780908::2nd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2 19780908::Irani army shoots on Khomeini followers in Teheran, 100s killed 19790908::Cheryl Prewitt (Miss), 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980 19790908::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19800908::Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest 19820908::Dutch social dem party wins elections, fascist enters Dutch parliament 19830908::NASA launches RCA-6 19840908::98th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris E L Mills (46 64 64) 19840908::Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41G mission 19850908::"USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers 19850908::105th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (76 63 64) 19850908::7 die in a car & train crash in San Jose Calif 19850908::Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hr women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool 19850908::Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB 19850908::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship 19850908::Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits 19860908::Westinghouse sells Muzak 19870908::Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation 19880908::Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation 19880908::Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43 m (7' 11«") 19880908::NL pres Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commish 19890908::George Brett gets his 2,500th hit 19890908::Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk Belgium 19890908::Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder) 19900908::104th US Womens Tennis: Gabriela Sabatini beats Steffi Graf (62 76) 19900908::Ellis Island Historical Site opens on Ellis Island NYC 19910908::111th US Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Jim Courier (62 64 60) 19910908::Buffalo Bill Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pitts (52-34) 19910908::Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia 19910908::Michelle Estill wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship 19920908::Danny Tartabull has 9 RBIs as Yanks beat Orioles 16-4 19920908::Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting in Dallas (KGEL-FM 97.1) 19930908::Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL 19930908::Cheek Junxia wins world record ladies 10 km (29:31.78) 19930908::Houston's Darryl Kile throws 3rd no-hitter of season in 7-1 over Mets 19940908::"Philadelphia, Here I Come" opens at Criterion NYC for 52 perfs 19940908::Last US, British & French troops leave West-Berlin 19940908::MTV awards feature newlyweds Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley 19940908::Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station 19940908::USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pitts Airport, killing all 132 on board 19950908::Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title 19960908::"7 Guitars" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC 19960908::110th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (75 64) 19960908::116th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Michael Chang (61 64 76) 19960908::48th Emmy Awards: ER, Dennis Franz & Kathy Baker wins 19960908::Dottie Pepper wins Safeway LPGA title 19960908::Men's championship at US Tennis Open 19960908::Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship 19960908::Sri Lanka defeat Australia to win Singer World Series at Colombo 07010909::St Sergius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 14920909::Columbus' fleet sets sail west 15130909::Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland 15560909::Pope Paul IV refuses to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor 15610909::Sermon of Poissy 15670909::Lomaraal van Egmond & Philip van Hoorne captured 15910909::-10] Battle at Flores Azores: Spanish beat English 16750909::New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians 16830909::Expelled Polish & Lotharings reach Wienerwald 17390909::Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed) 17530909::1st steam engine arrives in US colonies 17760909::Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "US" 18170909::Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College 18300909::Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ 18390909::John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph 18410909::Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300 18500909::California becomes 31st state 18500909::Territories of New Mexico & Utah created 18610909::Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer 18620909::Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry 18630909::Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN 18670909::Luxembourg gains independence 18750909::Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated 18800909::President Hayes visits SF 18810909::Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid" 18920909::E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon 18950909::American Bowling Congress forms (NYC) 18980909::Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders 18990909::French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds 19030909::6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated 19040909::Mounted police 1st used in NYC 19040909::Boston Herald again refers to NY baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2," Yankee name not official till 1913 19080909::Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va 19080909::Russia takes part of Poland 19090909::Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title 19110909::1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England) 19120909::J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph) 19130909::Assn for Study of Negro Life & History organizes in Chicago 19140909::-12] Belgian offensive from Antwerp 19140909::Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved) 19140909::Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Phila Phillies, 7-0 19150909::Assn for study of Negro Life & History forms by Carter G Woodson 19180909::Dutch govt of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms 19190909::Boston's police force forms strike 19220909::St Louis Brown "Baby Doll" Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0 19220909::Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens 19220909::William T Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins 19230909::Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2) 19260909::National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America 19260909::Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die 19270909::Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium 19280909::Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets then long jump record at 26' ¬" 19320909::Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning 19320909::Mine strikes at Belgian Borinage ended 19320909::Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy 19320909::Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River (71 killed) 19330909::53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Jack Crawford (63 1113 46 60 61) 19340909::Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0) 19340909::G Kaufman & M Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premieres in NYC 19360909::Yankees sweep Indians, NY clinches pennant on earliest date in history 19390909::Nazi army reaches Warsaw 19400909::28 German aircraft shot down above England 19400909::60th US Mens Tennis: W D McNeill beats Robert L Riggs (46 68 63 63 75) 19420909::1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon (WW II) 19420909::Compulsory work for women, children & old males in Batavia 19420909::Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon 19430909::15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome 19430909::Italy surrenders to Allies 19430909::Lt-Gen Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick 19430909::Red Army occupies Bachmatsj 19430909::US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) 19440909::Allied forces liberate Luxembourg 19440909::Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day) 19440909::Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Neth 19440909::US 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders 19440909::Very strong hurricane hits Netherland 19450909::Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies 19450909::Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th & final HR 19450909::Phila A's Dick Fowler no-hits St Louis Brown, 1-0 19450909::1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay & taped into the log 19480909::"Hilarities (of 1949)" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 14 perfs 19480909::Bkln Dodger Rex Barney no-hits NY Giants, 2-0 19480909::People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed 19500909::"Texas, Li'l Darlin'" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 293 perfs 19500909::"Where's Chartev?" closes at St James Theater NYC after 792 perfs 19500909::1st use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune 19500909::Massive arrests of communists in France 19510909::1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV 19510909::Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open 19530909::KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 19530909::WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting 19540909::Earthquake strikes Orl‚ansville Algeria: 1,400 killed 19540909::Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season 19550909::Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run 19550909::Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan's Show 19550909::Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open 19560909::70th US Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64) 19560909::76th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Lewis Hoad (46 62 63 63) 19560909::African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde forms 19560909::Elvis Presley appears on national TV for 1st time (Ed Sullivan) 19570909::"Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1 19570909::Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited 19570909::Pres Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction 19580909::Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game 19580909::Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London 19600909::4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10) 19610909::Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962 19620909::76th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64) 19620909::82nd US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64) 19620909::Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open 19620909::Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses 19620909::WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting 19630909::Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy) 19630909::Alabama Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools 19640909::German DR govt allows short visits to West Germany 19640909::John Osborne's "Inadmissable Evidence," premieres in London 19650909::Fran‡ois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency 19650909::Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0) 19650909::Tibet is made an autonomous region of China 19660909::John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition 19670909::1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V 19670909::Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968 19670909::Uganda declares independence from Great Britain 19680909::1st US Open, held as an "open" (Arthur Ashe-wins) 19680909::Arthur Ashe defeats Tom Okker to win US Tennis Open 19680909::Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7) 19680909::WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting 19680909::WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting 19690909::Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82 19690909::Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83 19690909::Smallest US Tennis Open single session-131 (men's doubles final only) 19690909::WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 19700909::Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun 19700909::Feyenoord wins soccer's World Cup 19710909::1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison 19710909::John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV) 19710909::John Lennon releases "Imagine" album 19710909::NHL great Gordie Howe retires 19720909::86th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats K Melville (63 75) 19720909::Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973 19730909::93rd US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Jan Kodes (64 16 46 62 62) 19730909::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open 19740909::88th US Womens Tennis: B J M King beats E Goolagong Cawley (36 63 75) 19750909::Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova (18) asks for political asylum 19750909::Viking 2 Mars probe launch 19770909::1st TRS-80 computer sold 19770909::Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker & Allan Trammell debut together & will play together for 19 years 19780909::3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0 19780909::92nd US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver (75 64) 19780909::Balt Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto) 19780909::Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army 19780909::Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979 19790909::31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman & Ruth Gordon 19790909::93rd US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats C E Lloyd Mills (64 63) 19790909::99th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis (75 63 63) 19790909::Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic 19790909::Sid Bernstein offers $« billion for a Beatle reunion 19790909::Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque 19810909::Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League 19820909::"Your Arms are Too Short..." opens at Alvin NYC for 69 performances 19820909::Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank in preparation for STS-5 19820909::Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight 19830909::Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas 19830909::Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2) 19830909::Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis player 19840909::104th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl (63 64 61) 19840909::Amy Alcott wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship 19840909::Calif Angel Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game 19850909::President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa 19850909::Race riot in Birmingham England 19860909::NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying 19870909::Gary Hart admits on "Nightline," to cheating on his wife 19870909::Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016 19870909::Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59 19870909::Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter 19880909::Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers & Gossage to save 300 games 19880909::Chris Evert defaults at US Open due to a stomach flu 19880909::US swamps NZ at 27th America`s Cup: NZ set to appeal 19890909::103rd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (36 75 61) 19900909::110th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 62) 19900909::Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait 19900909::Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr Johnson's forces 19900909::Oakland beats NY 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year 19900909::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship 19910909::Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington 19910909::Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland 19920909::1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home 19920909::9th MTV Awards: Howard Stern appears as Fartman 19920909::Robin Yount, is 17th to get 3,000 hits 19930909::Croupier of casino in Bristol England, shoots a 4, a record 8 times 19930909::PLO recognizes state of Israel 19930909::Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, resigns 19940909::Space shuttle STS 64 (Discovery 20), launches into orbit 19940909::Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed 19950909::"Broadway Limited" last train ride (began in 1902) 19950909::109th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (76 06 63) 19950909::Chynna Phillips weds William Baldwin 19950909::Dean St Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904 19950909::Ice Skater Nancy Kerrigan (25) weds her agent Jerry Solomon (41) 19970909::Sinn Fein accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmamen 20010909::115th US Womens Tennis 20010909::121st US Mens Tennis 04220910::St Celestine I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 09180910::Arnulf I the Old becomes landsheer of Flanders 13490910::Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death 15100910::Bishop Frederik of Bathe recaptures Oldenzaal 15470910::Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots 15470910::English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5 16080910::John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va 17760910::George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers 17850910::Prussia signs trade agreement with US 17980910::British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St George 18130910::Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie 18230910::Simon Bolivar named president of Peru 18380910::Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris 18450910::King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange 18460910::Elias Howe patents sewing machine 18460910::Japan invents the rickshaw 18470910::1st theater opens in Hawaii 18490910::1st performance by US actor Edwin Booth (Richard III) 18580910::John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Bkln vs NY) 18610910::-15] Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia 18610910::Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities 18630910::George Bizets opera "Les Pˆcheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris 18690910::Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan 18700910::Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms 18720910::Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam 18800910::Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo 18820910::1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests) 18840910::Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention 18940910::Londens taxi driver George Smith is 1st fined for drunk driving (œ1) 18970910::Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20 18980910::Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda 18990910::2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska 19000910::20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record) 19020910::Utrecht soccer team UVV forms 19050910::Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes 19100910::Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber 19130910::1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens 19130910::Cleveland Call & Post forms 19130910::George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia 19130910::Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway 19180910::Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers 19190910::Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0 19190910::NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers 19190910::Treaty of St Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany 19220910::Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs 19230910::Irish Free state joins League of Nations 19240910::Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out 19240910::Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder 19260910::Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn 19260910::Germany joins League of Nations 19270910::22nd Davis Cup: France beats USA in Philadelphia (3-2) 19300910::Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia 19310910::Lord Cecil of British Govt says War was never so improbable 19320910::52nd US Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (64 64 64) 19320910::Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season 19320910::Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC 19330910::1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park) 19330910::53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J H Crawford (63 11-13 46 60 61) 19370910::2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21, Pittsburgh 0) 19370910::Cleveland (Los Angeles) Rams plays their 1st NFL game, lose 28-0 19390910::Canada declares war on Germany 19390910::In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany 19400910::Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb 19420910::British troops lands on Madagascar 19420910::RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dsseldorf 19430910::British 8th army occupies Tarente 19430910::German troops occupied Rome & took over the protection of Vatican City 19430910::Italian fleet anchors at Malta 19430910::Lt-Gen Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London 19440910::Lt-gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far" 19450910::KLS-AM in Oakland Ca changes call letters to KWBR (now KDIA) 19450910::Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis 19480910::Bijz Criminal division sentences war criminal Jacob Folks to life 19480910::Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England 19490910::"Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" closes at Broadway NYC after 76 perfs 19500910::Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium 19510910::British begins economic boycott of Iran 19520910::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Thomasville Golf Open 19530910::Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner" 19540910::12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria 19540910::WLUK TV channel 11 in Green Bay, WI (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 19540910::Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls 19550910::"Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV 19560910::Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia 19560910::Louisville Ky public schools integrates 19560910::WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast 19570910::"Mask & Gown" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 39 performances 19580910::WJCT TV channel 7 in Jacksonville, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting 19600910::Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:15:16.2) 19600910::NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 643' HR over right field roof in Detroit 19610910::75th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Ann Haydon Jones (63 64) 19610910::81st US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Rodney G Laver (75 63 62) 19610910::Mickey Mantle becomes 7th to hit HR # 400 19610910::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19620910::82nd US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64) 19620910::KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting 19620910::Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign) 19620910::WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting 19630910::20 black students entered public schools in Alabama 19630910::Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0 19630910::Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather 19640910::Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms 19640910::Rod Steward records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" 19650910::Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19650910::Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards 19650910::WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting 19660910::Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks 19660910::Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title 19660910::Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry) 19670910::81st US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (119 64) 19670910::87th US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86) 19670910::Chic White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0 19670910::Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic 19670910::Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish 19670910::Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win 19670910::KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting 19690910::NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time 19690910::US performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado 19710910::KVUE TV channel 24 in Austin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting 19720910::20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR 19720910::92nd US Mens Tennis: Ilie Nastase beats Arthur Ashe (36 63 67 64 63) 19720910::Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship 19720910::Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8) 19720910::Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open 19720910::US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed) 19720910::WKAR TV channel 23 in East Lansing, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting 19730910::Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton 19730910::NY Jets trade pro footballs leading receiver Don Maynard to St Louis 19740910::Lou Brock ties (104) & then sets (105) baseball stolen base mark 19740910::NY Dolls disband 19740910::Portugal recognizes independence of Rep of Guinea-Bissau 19740910::Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs 19760910::2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard 19760910::5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, NY 19770910::91st US Womens Tennis: Chris Evert L Mills beats W Turnbull (76 62) 19770910::Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits 19770910::Christa Vahlensieck runs female world record marathon (2:34:47.5) 19770910::Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 19770910::Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation 19770910::Susan Perkins (Ohio), crowned 50th Miss America 1978 19780910::"Timbuktu!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 243 perfs 19780910::98th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bj”rn B”rg (64 62 62) 19780910::Arlyne Rhode sets female footbow distance record (1,113 yds & 30") 19780910::Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win US Open on 3 different surfaces 19780910::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 19780910::4th game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks out hit 'em 67-21; score 42-9 19790910::3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed 19800910::Expos Bill Gullickson, sets rookie record of striking out 18 19800910::Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick 19810910::"Guernica" of Pablo Picasso returns to Spain 19820910::Decca releases Beatle audition "Complete Silver Beatles" album 19830910::97th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63) 19830910::Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 19840910::Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla 19840910::Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days) 19860910::Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel 19880910::-18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan 19880910::102nd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (63 36 61) 19880910::Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989 19890910::109th US Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76) 19890910::5 days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners, 19890910::Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record 19890910::East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czech) 19890910::Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship 19890910::Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown 19900910::19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win US Open 19900910::1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different 19900910::Ellis Island reopens as a museum 19900910::George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki 19900910::Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada 19900910::Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq 19900910::Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning 19900910::1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0 19910910::Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination 19910910::Yolanda Gail Devers runs US female record 100m hurdles (12.48 secs) 19920910::Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball 19920910::Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5› to 47› 19920910::MTV Video Music Awards, Howard Stern appears as fartman 19930910::1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced 19930910::Actress Loretta Young, 80, weds costume designer Jean Louis, 85 19930910::Israel & PLO sign joint recognition statements 19940910::108th US Womens Tennis: Aranxta S Vicario beats Steffi Graf (16 76 64) 19940910::Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke 19950910::115th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 46 75) 19950910::35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10 19950910::47th Emmy Awards: NYPD Blue, ER, Fraiser & Candice Bergen wins 19950910::Alison Nicholas wins PING-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship 19950910::Browns & Indians, play simultaneous regular season games in Cleve for only time, Browns 22-6 over Tampa, Indians 5-3 over Orioles 19970910::36th Walker Cup: 19970910::Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million 19970910::Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation 19970910::Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 HRs in 2 consec yrs 19990910::37th Walker Cup: 20000910::114th US Womens Tennis: 20000910::120th US Mens Tennis: 20010910::38th Walker Cup: 08130911::Charles the Great crowns Louis I emperor 12970911::Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English 13040911::Willem III becomes earl of Holland 15570911::Catholic & Lutheran theology debated in Worm 16450911::Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Bristol 16480911::-13] Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir [OS] 16490911::Massacre of Drogheda-Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists 16490911::Oliver Cromwell seizes Drogheda Ireland, most inhabitants massacred 16970911::Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen van Savoye beats Turkish superior power 17090911::Battle at Malplaquet: Engl/Aust/Dutch Great Alliance beat France 17140911::French & Spanish troops under duke of Berwick occupy Barcelona 17410911::Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament 17730911::Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace" 17770911::Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British 17860911::Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce 17890911::Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury 18140911::Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British 18310911::Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth 18390911::1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds) 18470911::1st singing of Stephen Fosters "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh) 18500911::"Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert 18520911::Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R 18530911::1st electric telegraph used (Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos) 18570911::Mountain Meadows Massacre-120 colonists killed by indians in Utah 18750911::1st newspaper cartoon strip 18770911::Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen 18810911::Triple landslides bury Elm Switz 18830911::James Cutler patents postal mail chute 18850911::Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia 18860911::Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup 18890911::Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" (BG) 18930911::Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave 18930911::Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago) 18950911::FA Cup stolen in Birmingham 19000911::President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique 19090911::Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet 19100911::1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood) 19120911::Netherland Olympic Committee forms 19120911::Phila A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game 19140911::T Handy publishes "St Louis Blues" 19160911::German troops conquer Kavalla Greece 19180911::Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series 19190911::US marines invade Honduras 19220911::British mandate of Palestine begins 19220911::Yankees play their farewell home game in Polo Grounds win doubleheader 19230911::After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires next 27 Yanks 19230911::Bernie Neis, hits the 1,000th Dodger home run 19230911::ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, Woolworth Tower 19260911::21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1) 19260911::Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu 19260911::Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining 19260911::US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship 19260911::Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies 19270911::After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2 19270911::Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers 19280911::1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger 19280911::Ty Cobb last hitting appearance, pops out against Yankees 19290911::SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system 19300911::Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles 19330911::Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at US Tennis championship 19350911::49th US Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (62 64) 19350911::US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year 19360911::A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game 19360911::FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam 19370911::51st US Womens Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (64 62) 19370911::57th US Mens Tennis: J D Budge beats G v Cramm (61 79 61 36 61) 19390911::Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw 19390911::British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley 19390911::Iraq & Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany 19400911::-12] Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs 19400911::54th Postmaster General: Frank C Walker of Pa takes office 19400911::Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS 19400911::Buckingham Palace in London destroyed by German bombs 19400911::Hitler begins operation-Seel”we (invasion England) 19410911::Belgium King Leopold secretly marries Lilian Baels 19410911::FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight 19410911::Charles Lindbergh, charges "British, Jewish & Roosevelt administration" are trying to get US into WW II 19420911::Transport nr 31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 19430911::Allied arm forces conquerors Salerno 19430911::Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated 19430911::Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island 19430911::US & Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea 19440911::FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at 2nd Quebec Conference 19440911::US 5th pantzer division is 1st to enter nazi-Germany 19460911::1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation 19500911::"Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts 19500911::1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited 19500911::33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio 19500911::Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence 19510911::Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice 19510911::Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes 19520911::West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews 19530911::KSBW TV channel 8 in Salinas-Monterey, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting 19530911::WEHT TV channel 25 in Evansville, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting 19540911::1st Miss America TV broadcast 19540911::20.4 cm rainfall at Brunswick, Maine (state record) 19540911::KXJB TV channel 4 in Valley City (Fargo) (NBC) begins broadcasting 19540911::Lee Meriwether (Calif), 19, crowned 27th Miss America 1955 (1st on TV) 19550911::69th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Patricia Ward (64 62) 19550911::75th US Mens Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Ken Rosewall beats (97 63 63) 19550911::KTVT TV channel 11 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (IND) begins broadcasting 19560911::Cin Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR 19560911::Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8) 19560911::Yanks Yogi Berra ties career record for HRs (236) by a catcher 19580911::Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 19590911::"Duke" Ellington wins Springarn Medal for his musical achievements 19590911::Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans 19590911::Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4 19590911::Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0 19600911::17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy 19600911::74th US Womens Tennis: Darlene R Hard beats Maria Fraser (64 1012 64) 19600911::80th US Mens Tennis: Neale A Fraser beats Rodney G Laver (64 64 97) 19610911::Bob Dylan's 1st NY performance 19620911::Beatles cut "Love Me Do" & "PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums 19620911::Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles 19620911::KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting 19640911::George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company 19640911::Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG & ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleve Auditorium 19650911::Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks 19650911::Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets 19660911::80th US Womens Tennis: M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61) 19660911::86th US Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64) 19660911::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 19660911::Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat 19660911::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pacific Ladies' Golf Classic 19660911::Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show 19670911::A's drop grievance filed with Natl Labor Relations against C Finley 19670911::Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England 19670911::French president De Gaulle visits Poland 19670911::Indian/Chinese border fights 19670911::US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material 19670911::WSRE TV channel 23 in Pensacola, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting 19670911::WUNE TV channel 17 in Linville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting 19670911::WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting 19670911::WUNG TV channel 58 in Concord, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting 19690911::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19710911::"2 by 2" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 343 performances 19710911::Egypt adopts its constitution 19710911::Laurel Lea Schaefer (Ohio), 22, crowned 44th Miss America 1972 19720911::BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont 19730911::Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup 19740911::Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan & John Milner come to bat 12 times each 19760911::Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Minn), 20, crowned 49th Miss America 1977 19760911::Minnie Minoso bats for White Sox after a 12-year hiatus (hitless) 19760911::90th US Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats E Goolagong Cawley (63 60) Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight US Open Final (Evert wins) 19770911::29th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Carroll O'Conner & Bea Arthur 19770911::97th US Mens Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy Connors (26 63 75 60) 19770911::Joanne Carner wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 19770911::TV's Rhoda gets divorced 19800911::Chile adopts its constitution 19800911::Ron LeFlore (91st) & Rodney Scott (58th), set teammate steal record 19810911::2nd govt of Agt forms 19820911::96th US Womens Tennis: C E L Mills beats Hana Mandlikova (63 61) 19820911::Debbie Maffett (Calif), 25, crowned 55th Miss America 1983 19820911::Chris Evert wins her 6th & final US Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY 19830911::103rd US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60) 19830911::Fashion designer Donna Karen marries Stephan Weiss 19830911::Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards 19830911::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship 19830911::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19850911::Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner 19850911::Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km 19850911::Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India 19850911::Pete Rose of Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record 19860911::Pres Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres 19860911::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19860911::Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded 19870911::4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins 19870911::Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die 19880911::1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy 19880911::108th US Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) 19880911::Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship 19880911::Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world 19880911::108th US Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4hrs 55 min - longest men's final in US Open history 19890911::Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud 19890911::KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO 19910911::"La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family" goes on sale 19910911::14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston 19910911::Air crash at Djeddah, Saudi-Arabia, 263 die 19910911::Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation 19910911::NY Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium 19910911::Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers & Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0 19920911::Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die & 8,000 injured 19930911::107th US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (63 63) 19930911::Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies world record (3:50.46) 19940911::114th US Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Michael Stich (61 76 75) 19940911::46th Emmy Awards: Fraiser, Picket Fences & Kelsey Grammer wins 19940911::Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle 19940911::Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship 19950911::Eastern Tennessee begins using new area code 423 19950911::Ohio's Governor Voinovich proclaims "Cleveland Indians Day" 19950911::Soyuz TM-22, lands 10150912::Henry I becomes earl of Leuven 12130912::Battle at Muret: Crusade of Simon de Montfort beat Pedro II of Arag¢n 12170912::French prince Louis & English king Henry III sign peace treaty 13960912::Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis 15430912::Treaty of Venlo: Duke Willem of Gulik & Emperor Charles V 15560912::Emperor Charles resigns, his brother Ferdinand van Austria takes over 16240912::1st submarine tested (London) 16350912::Sweden & Poland sign ceasefire Treaty of Stuhmsdorf 16390912::Viceroy Thomas Wentworth sails back to England 16660912::-16] Great Fire in London ends, kills 8 [OS=Sept 2] 16730912::Prince Willem III occupies Naarden 16830912::Turkish troops attacks Vienna overthrows by Polish king Sobieski 16950912::NY Jews petition governor Dongan for religious liberties 17030912::Emperor Leopold I ends contacts on Spanish heritage 17030912::English army under arch duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal 17200912::Isa„k of Hoornbeek elected Dutch pension advisor 17220912::Russian troops occupy Baku & Derbent on Persia 17330912::Polish Landowners select Stanislaw Lesczynski king 17450912::Duke of Toscane chosen German emperor Frans I Stefanus 17510912::Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto 17580912::Charles Messier observes Crab Nebula & begins catalog 17760912::Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission 17870912::Black Masons form 1st lodge 18140912::Battle of North Point fought near Baltimore during War of 1812 18400912::Composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck 18570912::423 die when "Central America" sinks off Cape Romain SC 18620912::Battle of Harpers Ferry VA 18670912::2nd synagogue in Cura‡ao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated 18760912::King Leopold II opens Congo-conference 18780912::Cleopatra Needle installed in London 18820912::Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza 18850912::Highest score (35) recorded in any 1st-class soccer match is set 18880912::Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Greek Interpreter" (BG) 18900912::Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland (Ft Salisbury) 18950912::Defender (US) beats Valkyrie III (Engld) in 10th America's Cup 19010912::Arabs attack Gedara Palestine 19070912::Lusitania arrives in NYC after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record) 19080912::Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier 19100912::Gustav Mahlers 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians 19100912::World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD) 19110912::Boston's Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of Giants, Giants win 9-0 19120912::Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC) 19140912::Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager 19180912::During WW I, US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel 19200912::7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium 19220912::Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4) 19230912::Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co 19250912::20th Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (5-0) 19270912::Sigmund Romberg's musical "My Maryland," premieres in NYC 19280912::-17] Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000 19280912::Katharine Hepburn's NY stage debut in "Night Hostess" 19300912::Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR 19310912::51st US Mens Tennis: H E Vines beats George M Lott Jr (79 63 97 75) 19320912::Bkln Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit HR 19320912::German govt of Papen falls/Reichstag dissolved 19330912::Alejandro Lerroux forms new Spanish govt 19330912::Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms 19340912::Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against USSR 19350912::55th US Mens Tennis: Wilmer L Allison beats Sidney B Wood (62 62 63) 19350912::Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph 19360912::50th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (46 63 62) 19360912::56th US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Donald Budge (26 62 86 16 108) 19380912::Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech 19400912::49 die & 200 injured when Hercules Powder Co plant explodes (NJ) 19400912::Italian troops enter Egypt 19400912::4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings 19410912::1st German ship in WW II captured by US ship (Busko) 19420912::Battle of Edson's Ridge begins at Guadalcanal 19420912::Free-Poland & Belgium asks pope to condemn nazi-war crimes 19430912::Free French lands on Corsica 19430912::Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Mussolini at Gran Sasso 19430912::German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the govt 19440912::-16] Hurricane, kills 389 in NC 19440912::Noorbeek & Mheer freed 19440912::US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time 19460912::Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels 19470912::Pirate Ralph Kiner hits his record 8th HR in 4 games 19490912::Theodor Heuss elected 1st pres/Conrad Adenauer 1st PM of German FR 19500912::Belgian govt dismisses all communist civil servants 19520912::No‰l Coward's "Quadrille," premieres in London 19530912::"Carnival in Flanders" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 6 perfs 19530912::Brooklyn Dodgers, clinch NL pennant earlier than any other team 19530912::Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of USSR Communist Party 19530912::Sen John F Kennedy, 36, marries Jacqueline Bouvier, 24 19540912::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open 19540912::Indians sweep Yanks at Municipal Stadium; largest AL crowd (86,563) 19540912::WLBZ TV channel 2 in Bangor, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting 19540912::White Sox win 90th game, 1st time they win this many since 1920 19550912::KNTV TV channel 11 in San Jose, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting 19560912::Black students enter & are barred from Clay Ky elementary school 19570912::Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits US 19580912::US Supreme Court orders Little Rock Ark high school to integrate 19580912::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19590912::"Bonanza" premieres on NBC-TV 19590912::J nos K d r becomes premier of Hungary 19590912::Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon 19600912::"Vintage '60" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances 19610912::NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m 19610912::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19620912::Wash Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game 19630912::WHYY TV channel 12 in Wilmington, DE (PBS) begins broadcasting 19640912::1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6 19640912::Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4«" 19640912::Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage 19650912::79th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King (86 75) 19650912::85th US Mens Tennis: Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale (62 79 75 61) 19650912::Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75 19650912::Manuel Santana wins US Tennis Open 19650912::Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open 19650912::WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting 19660912::"Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV 19660912::Gemini XI (Charles Conrad & R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight 19660912::KPNE TV channel 9 in North Platte, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting 19660912::WCES TV channel 20 in Wrens, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting 19660912::WUSF TV channel 16 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (PBS) 1st broadcast 19660912::Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich begins teaching 19680912::Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact 19700912::1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport 19700912::Luna 16 Launch (Moon Sample Return) 19700912::Phyllis Ann George (Texas), 21, crowned 43rd Miss America 1971 19700912::Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport 19700912::US LSD professor Timothy Leary escapes from Calif jail 19700912::USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility 19710912::85th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Rosemary Casals (64 76) 19710912::91st US Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Jan Kodes (36 63 62 76) 19720912::Ciod War: Icelandic gunboats sink 2 British trawlers in North Sea 19720912::Lord Michael Killanin succeeds Avery Brundage as head of Olympics 19730912::2 bettors win largest US Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit) 19730912::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19740912::Coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day) 19740912::Jeff "Skunk" Baxter joins Doobie Brothers 19760912::96th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Bj”rn B”rg (64 36 76 64) 19760912::Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open 19760912::Seattle Seahawks play 1st regular-season game (St L 30, Sea 24) 19760912::White Sox Minnie Minoso, 53, is oldest to get a hit in majors 19780912::Fidel Castro visits Addis Abba 19780912::Situation comedy "Taxi" premieres on ABC television 19790912::Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits 19790912::Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die & $23 million damage 19790912::Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club 19790912::Red Carl Yastrzemski gets his 3,000th hit off Yankee Jim Beattie 19800912::Military coup under General Kenan Evren in Turkey 19810912::95th US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats M Navratilova (16 76 76) 19810912::Elizabeth Ward (Arkansas), 20, crowned 54th Miss America 1982 19810912::Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 19810912::Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits Yanks for 8 innings before Rick Cerone & Dave Winfield lead off 9th with back-to-back doubles 19820912::102nd US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 62 46 64) 19820912::Gerard Nijboer (2:15:16) & Rosa Mota (2:36:04) win marathon 19820912::Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic 19830912::Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes 19830912::Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 19830912::Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million 19830912::USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane 19840912::Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident 19840912::Cyndi Lauper sings "She-Bop" on Tonight Show 19840912::Ethiopia forms socialist republic 19840912::NY Met Dwight Goodin sets rookie strike out record at 251 19850912::Flight readiness firing of Atlantis' main engines; 20 seconds 19860912::240.49 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange 19860912::Twins fire manager Ray Miller & replace him with coach Tom Kelly 19860912::US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut 19870912::101st US Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (76 61) 19870912::Ethiopia adopts constitution 19870912::Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year 19880912::1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card 19880912::Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica 19890912::Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation 19900912::"Les Miserables," opens at Cirkus Theater, Stockholm 19900912::Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation 19900912::US, England, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge 19910912::Nolan Ryan's 4-3 victory over Twins is his 312th career win 19910912::Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) launched 19920912::106th US Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A Sanchez Vicario (63 63) 19920912::Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii 19920912::STS-47 (Endeavour 2) launches 19920912::Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in US Open history (5hr 26min) 19930912::113rd US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Cedric Pioline (64 64 63) 19930912::Donna Andrews wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship 19930912::Junxia Cheek runs 3000 m ladies world record (8:12.29) 19930912::Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career 19930912::STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit 19940912::Cessna crashes in White House front yard 19940912::Country singer George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery 19940912::Parti Qu‚b‚cois wins parliamentary election 19950912::INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer 19970912::NY Met John Olerud hits for the cycle 19990912::113th US Womens Tennis: 19990912::119th US Mens Tennis: 01220913::Building begins on Hadrian's Wall 06040913::Sabinian begins his reign as Pope replacing Pope Gregory the Great 11250913::Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III 15150913::-14] Battle at Marignano: France beats Habsburgers & Pope Leo X 15490913::Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna 15530913::English Hugh Latimer arrested 15560913::Charles V & Maria of Hungary march into Spain 15740913::Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis 15790913::Breda forms Union of Utrecht 16250913::16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem 16310913::Admiral Tholen conquerors 30+ Spanish frigates 16630913::1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia) 17430913::England, Austria & Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms 17510913::England signs Austrian & Russian alliance 17590913::British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec) 17750913::Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main 17870913::Prussian army moves into Netherlands 17880913::NY City becomes 1st capital of US 17890913::1st loan to US Govt (from NYC banks) 17910913::France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution 18000913::Cura‡ao in English hands (until Jan 1803) 18470913::American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City 18490913::1st US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy) 18580913::Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die 18610913::1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla 18670913::Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors 18690913::Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market 18810913::Lewis Latimer invents & patents electric lamp with a carbon filament 18820913::Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt 18830913::Cleveland Hugh Daily no-hits Phila 1-0 18830913::Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Phila 18900913::Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland & Salisbury 18980913::20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike 18980913::Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film 19060913::1st airplane flight in Europe 19070913::Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders & Montreal Foot Ball 19090913::Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park) 19100913::Regina Rugby Club forms 19180913::Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42 19190913::Guy Bolton & George Middleton's "Adam & Eve," premieres in NYC 19220913::136.4øF (58øC), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record) 19230913::With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera 19240913::19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0) 19250913::1st US University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans 19250913::Bkln Dodger Dazzy Vance no-hits Phillies, 10-1 19270913::Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 HRs (52 en route to 60) 19270913::Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees 19280913::KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions 19300913::50th US Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 16 64 16-14) 19300913::Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4) 19300913::Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament 19300913::Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3 19310913::Capt G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph) 19310913::Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria 19320913::NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant 19340913::Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000 19360913::Cleve Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (vs Phila A's) 19380913::Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame 19390913::Igor Stravinsky invents 1st helicopter 19400913::Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs 19400913::Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt 19420913::Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal 19420913::Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning 19420913::German forces attack Stalingrad 19430913::Chiang Kai-shek became president of China 19430913::German counter attack at Salerno 19430913::Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres 19440913::30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten 19440913::Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen 19440913::US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall 19460913::Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant 19470913::WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting 19480913::Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress 19490913::Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC 19510913::St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0 19520913::Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico 19530913::Nikita Khrushchev appointed 1st secretary-general of USSR 19530913::Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Phila A's 19540913::Reds Ted Kluszewski scores a run in record 17 consecutive games 19540913::WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting 19560913::Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes 19560913::Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice 19580913::Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times 19580913::Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam 19590913::73rd US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64) 19590913::79th US Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64) 19590913::Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open 19590913::USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body 19600913::Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law 19610913::"Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV 19610913::Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo 19610913::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19610913::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19610913::Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit 19630913::"Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV 19630913::Barbra Striesand & Elliot Gould marry 19630913::Jim Bouton's 20th win clinches Yanks 28th pennant 19630913::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19640913::3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome 19640913::78th US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Carole Graebner (61 60) 19640913::84th US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Frederick S Stolle (64 62 64) 19640913::Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open 19640913::St Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2 19640913::WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting 19650913::Beatles release "Yesterday" 19650913::Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964 19650913::Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast 19650913::Willie Mays's 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win 19660913::Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa 19680913::Albania leaves Warsaw pact 19690913::Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title 19690913::Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player 19690913::Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko & Eric Clapton) 1st live performance 19700913::1st NYC Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38 19700913::84th US Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61) 19700913::90th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63) 19700913::IBM announces System 370 computer 19700913::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open 19700913::Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania 19710913::11 guards & 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison 19710913::Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR 19710913::Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow 19710913::WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting 19710913::World Hockey Association forms 19720913::1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS 19730913::ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics 19730913::Congress passes & sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout 19730913::Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea 19740913::-17] 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague 19740913::1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV 19740913::Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17 19740913::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19750913::-27] Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean & US 19760913::2nd Enterprise, approach & lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s) 19770913::1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap 19770913::2nd Test Cricket of Space Shuttle Enterprise 19770913::General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88) 19780913::1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet 19780913::NY Yanks win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back 19790913::China PR performs nuclear test 19790913::South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of S Afr) 19800913::1st United Negro College Fund 19810913::101st US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bj”rn B”rg (46 62 64 63) 19810913::33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St Blue, Judd Hirsh & Isabel Sanford wins 19810913::April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yds & 13" 19810913::Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay) 19810913::Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic 19810913::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19820913::50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain 19820913::Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game 19830913::Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save 19830913::Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 19830913::Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season 19830913::Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 mins, Lancs v Leics 19830913::US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle) 19840913::STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad 19840913::Simon Peres forms Israeli govt with Likoed 19850913::2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen 19850913::John Williams introduces new Today Show theme 19860913::Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season 19860913::Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987 19870913::Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro 19870913::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship 19870913::Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours 19880913::10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams 19880913::9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in NY 19880913::Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere 19890913::"Les Miserables," opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit 19890913::Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in S Africa 19890913::Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner 19900913::Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die 19900913::Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait 19900913::Robert E Nederlander appointed NY Yankee managing general partner 19900913::Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter 19910913::55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium 19910913::Joe Carter is 1st to have 3 consec 100-RBI seasons with 3 differ teams 19910913::Joe Coleman 3rd 100 RBI season in a row 3 teams (Cleve, SD & Toronto) 19910913::Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts 19920913::112th US Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Pete Sampras (36 64 76 62) 19920913::NY Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28 19920913::Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship 19920913::Steffan Edberg beats Pete Sampress to win US Open 19930913::Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres & PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord 19930913::Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11) 19930913::Queens NY begins required recycling 19940913::George Burns, undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain 19940913::Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun 19960913::Phil Simmons scores 171 & takes 6-14 for Leics v Durham 19970913::Carolina Hurricane's 1st exhibition game beat NY Islanders 4-1 19970913::Katherine Shindle (Ill), 24, crowned 71st Miss America 1998 19980913::112th US Womens Tennis 19980913::118th US Mens Tennis 19980913::SAFECO Golf Classic 08910914::Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope 11630914::Pastor Frederik forms convent at Mariengaarde Friesland 15150914::Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory 15440914::Charles & Fran‡ois I sign Peace of Cr‚py 16290914::Spanish garrison surrenders to prince Frederik Henry 16620914::Netherlands & England sign peace treaty 16660914::St Paul's in London destroyed by fire 17160914::1st lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor) 17410914::George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days 17520914::US & England adopts Gregorian calender (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) 17590914::Austrian troops occupy Dresden 18070914::Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge 18120914::Napoleon occupies Moscow & fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th) 18140914::Francis Scott Key inspired to write "Star-Spangled Banner" 18290914::Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war 18300914::Princess WFLC Marianne marries Albrecht of Prussia 18340914::Charles Darwins company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile 18470914::US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma) 18480914::Alexander Stewart opens 1st US dept store 18520914::18th Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Conn takes office 18540914::Allied armies, including those of Britain & France, land in Crimea 18560914::Battle of San Jacinto, Nicaragua defeats invaders 18620914::Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates 18620914::Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates 18620914::Battle of Munfordsville KY 18620914::Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia 18620914::Skirmish at Mountain MD (Boonesboro, Crampton's Gap, Fox's Gap) 18680914::Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole) 18720914::Britain pays US $15« M for damages during Civil War 18760914::Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda 18760914::Leopold II closes Congo-conference 18820914::British General Wolseley reaches Cairo 18860914::George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon 18910914::"Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M 18920914::AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo 18940914::Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails 18990914::Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY) 19030914::NY Giant Red Ames no-hits St Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game 19050914::Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated 19050914::Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname 19050914::RAC Tourist Trophy, 1st run, on Isle of Man 19130914::27th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (62 75) 19130914::Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0) 19140914::German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn 19140914::German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches 19160914::Christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game 19170914::Kerenski regime declares Russian republic 19170914::Provisional government of Russia forms, Republic proclaimed 19190914::British regime forbids Sinn Fein D il 19230914::Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title 19230914::Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain 19230914::Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play 19240914::Walter Johnson elected AL MVP 19260914::Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens 19290914::49th US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (36 63 46 62 64) 19290914::A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox 19300914::Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6 19300914::Nazis gain 107 seats in German election 19320914::Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri 19330914::2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire 19330914::Schaduwproces-Rijksdagbrand opens in London 19360914::Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times 19380914::Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight 19390914::British fleet attacks German U-39 boat 19390914::Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow 19400914::Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law) 19400914::German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die 19420914::Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal 19420914::German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1 19420914::Yanks clinch pennant #13 19430914::Comedians Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara marries 19430914::Yanks clinch pennant #14 19440914::6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru 19440914::Gulpen, Meerssen & Maastricht freed 19440914::Hurricane hits New England: 389 die 19440914::US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid 19440914::US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall 19470914::61st US Womens Tennis: A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (86 46 61) 19470914::67th US Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Frank A Parker (46 26 61 60 63) 19480914::Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary 19480914::Ground breaking ceremony for UN world headquarters 19480914::Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater 19500914::Western allies rearm West Germany 19510914::Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats 19530914::Comedians Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara marry 19530914::Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians 19540914::B Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw," premieres in Venice 19540914::Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record 19540914::Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage 19540914::USSR performs nuclear test 19550914::Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245) 19560914::1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC 19570914::Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia 19570914::UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary 19570914::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19580914::Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open 19580914::WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting 19580914::Yankees win 24th pennant, & 9th under Casey Stengel 19590914::Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon 19590914::WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting 19600914::Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1 19600914::Coup under Col Joseph-Desir‚ Mobutu in Congo 19600914::Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form OPEC 19600914::KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting 19600914::Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) forms 19610914::Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of CP of USSR 19610914::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19620914::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19630914::Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, SD, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a boy 19640914::WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting 19640914::Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House 19650914::"F-Troop" premieres 19650914::4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened 19670914::Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named 19670914::Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in Bronx 19680914::1st broadcast of "60 Minutes" on CBS-TV 19680914::Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season 19680914::Dmitri Shostakovitch' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow 19680914::USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight 19690914::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open 19690914::Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage 19700914::Stevie Miracle marries Rita Wright, [Syreeta] 19710914::Cleve Indians & Wash Senators, play 20 innings 19720914::"Waltons" TV program premieres 19720914::Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in NYC 19720914::West Germany & Poland establish diplomatic relations 19730914::Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise 19730914::Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s 19730914::Pres Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout 19740914::Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter 19750914::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open 19750914::Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st US saint 19750914::Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed & damaged in Amsterdam 19750914::Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 games as a teen 19770914::Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robbeneiland South Africa 19780914::Braves' Jim Bouton, 38, beats Giants, his 1st win since 1970 19780914::Portugal govt of Da Costa falls 19790914::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19790914::Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC & back to Yates Center, Ks 19800914::"Charlie & Algernon" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 17 perfs 19800914::Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic 19800914::Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions 19810914::Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV 19820914::36" snow (Red Lodge, MT) 19820914::Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel 19820914::Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7" 19830914::US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner 19840914::1st MTV awards-Bette Midler & Dan Aykroyd host 19850914::Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986 19860914::Bo Jackson's 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium) 19860914::Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed 19860914::Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed 19860914::Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19860914::Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game 19870914::"Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest 19870914::107th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64) 19870914::Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken 19870914::Ivan Lendl defeat Mats Wilander to win US Tennis Open in 4 hrs 47 mins 19870914::Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles 19880914::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19890914::Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2 19890914::Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons 19890914::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19900914::Ken Griffey, Sr & Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning 19910914::Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992 19910914::Freshman Marshall Faulk of San Diego State rushed for NCAA record 19910914::Magic Johnson weds Erieatha "Cookie" Kelly 19910914::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19910914::386 yards & scored 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific 55-34 19920914::1st subway car completed to be exported from US (to Taiwan) 19940914::All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season 19960914::A's Mark McGwire is 13th player to hit 50-HRs in a season 19960914::Dean Headley takes 3rd cricket hat-trick of season, Kent v Hampshire 19960914::NY Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 HRs by a catcher 19960914::Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas), 23, crowned 70th Miss America 1997 19970914::49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 19970914::Bank One Senior Golf Classic 19970914::Chicago Whites Sox retire Carlton Fisk's #72 19970914::Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Classic 19970914::Loren Roberts wins CVS Charity Golf Classic with a 266 19980914::Week of Fed Cup 06080915::St Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope 15140915::Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York 15560915::Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain 15840915::San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished 15900915::Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII 16190915::Prince Bethlen G bors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary 16200915::Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims [OS May 8] 16210915::Swedish troops occupy Riga 16440915::Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X 16560915::England & France sign peace treaty 16830915::Germantown Pa founded by 13 immigrant families 17070915::R k¢czi II & Czar Peter the Great sign social security agreement 17330915::King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons 17740915::Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured 17760915::British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution 17870915::-16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam 17890915::Dept of Foreign Affairs, renamed Dept of State 17950915::Cape Colony surrenders to England 18120915::French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow 18210915::Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ 18300915::1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila 18300915::1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England) 18300915::Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool & Manchester Railway 18350915::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands 18460915::Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal 18530915::1st US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell 18570915::Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine 18620915::Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV 18700915::Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18) 18730915::Last German troops leave France 18790915::Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club" 18820915::British general Wolseley occupies Cairo 18870915::Phila celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution 18940915::Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang 18980915::National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY 18990915::5th US Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD 19030915::Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals" 19040915::Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight 19100915::Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa 19120915::Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins 19120915::War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania 19130915::1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY 19140915::Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I 19140915::US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico 19150915::Boston Braves beat St Louis Cards 20-1 19160915::1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France 19160915::Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme) 19170915::Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky 19180915::CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state 19210915::Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus 19210915::WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions 19220915::Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897 19230915::43rd US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64) 19230915::Bill Tilden wins US Lawn Tennis Open 19230915::Gov Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of KKK terror 19260915::Failed attempt on Mussolini 19280915::400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva 19280915::Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin 19280915::Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6 19280915::Stothard, Kalmar & Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in NYC 19300915::1st intl bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England 19310915::British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts 19310915::Phila A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland 19350915::Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany 19370915::WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to SF Zoo (at Sloat Blvd) 19380915::British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden 19380915::John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day) 19380915::Only time brothers hit back-to-back HRs (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pitts) 19400915::3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2) 19400915::Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher) 19400915::Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company 19400915::PM Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group 19400915::Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe 19410915::Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania 19420915::US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal 19430915::Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy 19430915::Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens 19430915::Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens 19440915::British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs 19440915::Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria 19440915::US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall 19440915::US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid 19440915::US troops lands on Palau & Morotai 19460915::Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats 19470915::1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh 19470915::Yanks clinch pennant #15 19480915::"Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances 19480915::F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph 19480915::WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WMGM 19490915::"Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV 19490915::WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, PA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 19490915::WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting 19500915::During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea 19500915::East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification 19500915::For a record 6th time, NY Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 HRs in one game 19500915::Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19 19500915::UN lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south 19500915::US troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul 19510915::"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld NYC after 740 perfs 19510915::Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8) 19510915::Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum 19520915::Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee 19520915::European Parliament forms in Strasbourg 19520915::UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia 19530915::Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner) 19530915::KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting 19530915::WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (ABC) begins broadcasting 19550915::WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, FL (CBS) begins 19570915::"Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres 19570915::Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany 19570915::SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game 19580915::48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ 19580915::Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ) 19590915::Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit 19600915::France spends 9 billion guilders on atomic experiments 19610915::61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus 19610915::Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph 19620915::"Bravo, Giovanni" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 perfs 19620915::Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins) 19620915::KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk 19620915::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19620915::WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting 19630915::4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham 19630915::Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, & Jesus-appear in SF outfield for 1 inn 19630915::Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria 19630915::Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open 19630915::WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting 19640915::Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland 19640915::Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald" 19650915::"Lost in Space" premieres 19660915::1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched 19660915::Dutch political party (D'66) forms 19660915::Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth 19670915::KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting 19680915::"Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV 19680915::Carol Mann wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational 19680915::Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry 19680915::NY Zendo (Shoboji) was opened by S Nakagawa & D S Harada 19680915::WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting 19680915::WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting 19680915::Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8) 19690915::Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 NY Mets in a game 19700915::Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million 19700915::PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan 19700915::Rotterdam harbor strikes end 19710915::1st broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC-TV 19720915::WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting 19730915::"Star Trek-Animated" premieres on TV 19730915::Dutch Guilder devalued 5% 19730915::Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing 19730915::Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1¬ miles 19740915::Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens 19740915::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic 19750915::Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game 19760915::Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in NYC 19760915::Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days 19770915::"Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 124 performances 19770915::Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when mgr Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound) 19770915::Pres Carter meets with 15 record company execs 19770915::Rock Music Award 19770915::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19780915::Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans 19780915::Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 19780915::Yanks beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yanks lead 2« games 19790915::Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL & NL (Astros) 19790915::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19800915::Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary" 19810915::US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor 19810915::Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism/marxism 19820915::1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc 19820915::Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut 19820915::Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat 19830915::Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting NYC subway 19830915::Israel premier Begin resigns 19840915::Morocco Showcase opens 19840915::Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985 19840915::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19850915::26th Ryder Cup: Europe beat US, 16«-11« at The Belfry, England 19850915::Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19850915::Olof Palme forms Sweden minority govt 19850915::Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings 19850915::Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert 19850915::Yanks trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro 19860915::1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV 19860915::Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead 19880915::"Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna 19880915::Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics 19880915::Museum of Moving Image in London opens 19880915::Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi 19900915::42nd Emmy Awards - LA Law & Murphy Brown win 19900915::Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves 19900915::Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 19900915::Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000 19900915::France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf 19910915::"Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show 19910915::19th du Maurier Golf Classic: Nancy Scranton 19910915::NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly 19910915::SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets NCAA rushing record of 386 yds 19910915::US women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver) 19920915::Ted Weiss, despite dying on 14th, wins congressional NYC seat 19930915::Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament 19940915::"Sound of Motown," premieres in Rotterdam 19940915::Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St Maarten 19940915::Moslem fundamentalists kidnap & behead 16 citizens in Algeria 19950915::Cards shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays 19960915::2nd Presidents Golf Cup: US beats Intl team 16«-15« at Robert Jones Va 19960915::Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final 19960915::Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19960915::Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan's #34 19970915::Edison Intl purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M 19970915::Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000 15750916::King Johan Casimir of Palts promises military aid to hugenots 15970916::French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria 16300916::Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston 16520916::Spanish troops occupy Dunkerk 16540916::Russian troops occupy Smolensk on Poland 16620916::Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation 16660916::"Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi becomes Islamiet 16680916::King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France 17020916::Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne & Bavaria 17290916::Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Groningen 17410916::George Frederick Handel's "The Messiah," premieres in Dublin 17470916::French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom 17820916::Great Seal of US used for 1st time 17950916::British capture Capetown South Africa 18100916::Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule Mexican Independence Day celebrates this event 18120916::Fire of Moscow 18300916::Oliver Wendell Holmes writes "Old Ironsides" 18470916::United Shakespeare Company buys his home in Stratford-upon-Avon 18480916::Slavery abolished in all French territories 18570916::Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX) 18570916::Typesetting machine patent 18580916::1st overland mail for California 18590916::Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania & Mozambique discovered by British explorer David Livingstone 18610916::Battle of Princeton WV 18610916::British Post Office Savings Banks opens 18620916::Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md) 18620916::Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, KY 18620916::Liliuokalani, queen of Hawaii (1891-93) marries John Owen Dominis 18640916::Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid) 18670916::Ottawa Rough Riders & Senators play Canadian Football game 18730916::German troops leave France 18850916::Puritan (US) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup 18900916::Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team Packers 18920916::Amsterdam swim club renamed "The Y" 18930916::Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opens white settlement homesteaders 19060916::Kaarlo Nieminen wins 1st Finnish marathon 19060916::Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole 19080916::Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp 19080916::William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in Janesville Wisc 19130916::1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage 19150916::Czar Nicolas II adjourns 4th Duma 19150916::US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years 19190916::American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress 19190916::Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant 19200916::Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30 19220916::42nd US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W M Johnston (46 36 62 63 64) 19220916::Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia 19240916::Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game 19260916::-22] Hurricane in Florida & Alabama, kills 372 19260916::Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed 19260916::Philip Dunning & George Abbott's "Broadway," premieres in NYC 19260916::St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3 19270916::Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for US Lawn Tennis Assn title 19280916::Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die 19290916::Police shoots at strikers at Maastricht, 2 killed 19300916::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 19310916::Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (NYC) 19310916::St Louis Cards repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies 19320916::30.8 cm rainfall at Westerly, Rhode Island (state record) 19380916::George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH 19390916::53rd US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (60 810 64) 19390916::59th US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats S Welby van Horn (64 62 64) 19390916::NY Yankees clinch their 11th & 4th successive pennant 19400916::Dutch SS forms 19400916::FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft) 19400916::Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot" 19400916::Luftwaffe attacks center of London 19400916::Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of House 19400916::St Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to HR from each side of plate 19410916::German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine 19410916::Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed 19410916::Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto 19420916::Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled 19430916::Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno 19430916::Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny 19450916::Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low) 19470916::John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH 19480916::"Heaven on Earth" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 performances 19480916::"Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" closes at Century NYC after 12 perfs 19490916::KABC TV channel 7 in Los Angeles, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting 19500916::Cleveland Rams (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Phila 35-10) 19500916::Viet Minh-offensive against French bases in Vietnam 19510916::6th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls 19510916::NL ump Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers bench ejecting 15 players 19530916::AL approves St Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles 19540916::CKLW TV channel 9 in Windsor, ON (CBC) begins broadcasting 19550916::Bauer & Berra homer in 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st 19550916::US Auto Club forms to oversee 4 major auto reacing categories 19550916::Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt 19560916::Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Clock Golf Open 19570916::Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed) 19570916::LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers 19590916::President De Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination 19600916::Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98 19600916::Mil Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Phila Phillies, 4-0 19610916::CDU loses West German election 19610916::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19610916::WLKY TV channel 32 in Louisville, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting 19620916::Brian Kilby wins marathon: (2:23:18.8) 19620916::Gerda Kroon runs European record 800 m in 2:02.8 19620916::Public TV channel 13 begins in NYC 19620916::Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open 19620916::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19630916::"Outer Limits" premieres on ABC-TV 19630916::Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, Br No Borneo & Sarawak 19630916::WVAN TV channel 9 in Savannah, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting 19640916::"Shindig" premieres on ABC-TV 19650916::Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 19650916::Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany 19660916::Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center 19670916::Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26) 19670916::KPAZ TV channel 21 in Phoenix, AZ (IND) begins broadcasting 19670916::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19680916::KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins 19680916::Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in" 19700916::Jordan king Hussein forms military govt 19710916::6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses 19710916::West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with soviet pres Brezhnev 19720916::1st TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie 19720916::Penny Marshall appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Fly Unfriendly Skies" 19730916::"Desert Song" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 15 performances 19730916::Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13 19730916::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open 19740916::BART begins regular transbay service 19740916::Bob Dylan records Blood on the Tracks 19740916::Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for US, Vietnam War deserters 19740916::US General Haig becomes NATO-supreme commander in Europe 19750916::Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day) 19750916::Pirates beat Cubs 22-0, Rennie Stennett is 3rd to go 7 for 7 19750916::Rennie Stennett is 2nd to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game 19760916::Egypt president Sadat re-elected 19760916::Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop 19770916::90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV 19770916::Ringo releases "Drowning in Sea of Love" 19770916::Seattle beats Royals, 4-1, to end KC's winning streak at 16 games 19780916::25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar Iran 19780916::Filming on Monty Python's Life of Brian, begins 19780916::Grateful Dead perform in Cairo Egypt 19780916::Yanks beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks, 3-2 19790916::23rd Ryder Cup: US, 17-11 at Greenbrier 19790916::Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium 19790916::Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin 19790916::KC's Willie Wilson hits 5th inside-the-park HR (most since 1925) 19790916::Nancy Lopez/JoAnn Washam wins Portland- Ping Team Golf Championship 19790916::USSR performs nuclear test 19810916::1st broadcast of "Miami Vice" on NBC-TV 19820916::Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins 19830916::Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen 19840916::"Miami Vice" premieres 19840916::Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 19840916::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19860916::Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed 19870916::Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game 19870916::NASA launches space vehicle S-209 19870916::NY's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round clock broadcasting 19870916::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19880916::Cin Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats Dodgers, 1-0 19880916::Fish leaves rock group Marillion 19880916::Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, v Australia 19880916::Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series 19880916::Tom Browning of Cincinnati Reds pitches a perfect game against LA 19890916::Debbye Turner (Mont), 23, crowned 63rd Miss America 1990 19890916::Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher 19900916::101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle NY 19900916::42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk & Patricia Wettig 19900916::Dennis Quaid & Meg Ryan wed 19900916::Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush 19900916::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19900916::Pirate Radio NY International begins transmissions on WWCR 19910916::Atlanta's Otis Nixon suspended for rest of 1991 due to cocaine 19910916::US trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins 19910916::Norm Charlton suspended for 7 days for intentionally hitting Steve Scioscia with a pitch 19920916::"Les Miserables," opens at Nuevo Apolo, Madrid 19920916::900 die in flood in Pakistan 19920916::FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service 19920916::Vanna White suffers a miscarriage 19930916::Minn Twins Dave Winfield, is 19th to get 3,000 hits 19930916::Singer Karen Akers (48) weds businessman Kevin Powers (41) 19940916::Fire Dept puts out smokey electrical fire in White House 19950916::Greg Maddux of Braves sets record of 17 consecutive road victory 19950916::Shawntel Smith (Okla), 24, crowned 69th Miss America 1996 19950916::Stephen Hawkins (53) wets Elaine Mason 19960916::1st one-day international in Canada, India v Pakistan at Toronto 19960916::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Panama City FL on WTBB 97.7 FM 19960916::Paul Molitor of Twins is 21st player to reach 3,000 hits 19960916::Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), launches into space 19970916::ABL MVP Nikki McCray signs with WNBA 19970916::Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs temporary CEO 19970916::Mark McGwire signs with the St Louis Cards for $26M 20000916::27th Olympic games open at Sydney, Australia (sched) 03350917::Church of Heilig Grave initiated in Jerusalem 06420917::Arabs conquer Alexandria, library destroyed 11560917::Markgraafschap Austria becomes a temple (Privilegium minus) 13940917::Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI 15620917::Council of Trente takes ecclesiastical canon 15840917::Gent surrenders to duke of Parma 15950917::Pope Clemens VIII recognizes Henri IV as king of France 15980917::Netherland sailors discover Mauritius 16310917::Battle of Breitenfeld: King Gustaaf Adolf defeats Gen Tilly 16440917::French troops occupy Mainz 16780917::France & Spain signs peace treaty 16830917::Antonie van Leeuwenhoek reports existence of bacteria 16910917::Colony Massachusetts Bay gets new charter 16970917::Battle at Zenta: Prince Eugen of Savoye beats Turks 17300917::Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees 17370917::Georg-August University opens in G”ttingen 17450917::Edinburg occupied by Jacobites under Young Pretenders 17760917::Presidio of SF forms as a Spanish fort 17780917::1st treaty between the US & Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt) 17870917::Prussian troops conquer Gorinchem 17870917::US constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention 17890917::William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn 17960917::Pres George Washington delivers his farewell address 18190917::1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii 18350917::Charles Darwins lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago 18500917::Great fire in San Francisco 18590917::Man in SF claims himself Norton I, emperor of America 18610917::1st day school for freedmen forms at Fortress Monroe Virginia 18610917::Hampton Institute forms 18620917::Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN-evacuted by Federals 18620917::Battle of Mumfordville, KY-US Col J Wilder surrenders city 18620917::Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of Civil War, 23,110 die 18630917::Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada 18640917::Grant approves Sheridan's plan for Shenandoah Valley Campaign 18710917::Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens 18720917::Phillip W Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires 18730917::19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University 18760917::Race riots in SC 18970917::3rd US Golf Open: Joe Lloyd shoots a 162 at Chicago GC in Wheaton Ill 18990917::1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa 19000917::Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed 19000917::Queen Victoria disbands British parliament 19010917::Battle at Blood River Port: Boer Gen Botha beats mjr Goughs cavalry 19010917::Battle at Elands River Port: Boer Gen Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers 19020917::US protests anti-semitism in Romania 19030917::Boston Pilgrims clinch AL pennant, beating Cleveland, 14-3 19060917::Playing as "Sullivan," Columbia U jr Eddie Collins debuts with A's 19080917::Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight 19110917::1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min 19110917::25th US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats F Sutton (8-10 61 97) 19120917::Center fielder Casey Stengel breaks in with Brooklyn & hits 4 singles 19160917::40,000 Amsterdam demonstrators demand general voting right 19200917::Cards set a record of 12 consecutive hits in 4th (10) & 5th (2) innings 19200917::National Football League organizes in Canton Ohio 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Prof Football Assn 19220917::Bicyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world sprint champ 19220917::Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station) 19230917::Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound," premieres in London 19240917::Italy signs treaty of Rapallo 19260917::Hurricane hits Miami & Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die 19270917::47th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats William T Tilden (119 63 119) 19270917::Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco 19280917::48th US Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats F T Hunter (46 64 36 75 63) 19280917::Henri Cochet wins US Tennis Open 19280917::Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500 19280917::Pitcher Ray Boggs hits 3 batters in 1 inning 19290917::British troops begin evacuating 19310917::1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, NYC), venture failed 19310917::Operetta "Victoria & Her Husband," premieres in London 19310917::Red Sox Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 doubles 19340917::RCA Victor re leases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven's 5th) 19340917::USSR joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switz & Portugal vote no) 19350917::Manuel Luis Quez¢n y Molina chosen 1st president of Philippines 19370917::1st NFL game in Washington, DC; Redskins beat NY Giants 13-3 19380917::52nd US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Nancye Wynne Bolton (60 63) 19380917::58th US Mens Tennis: J Donald Budge beats C Gene Mako (63 68 62 61) 19380917::British premier Neville Chamberlain leaves Munich 19380917::Don Budge wins US Tennis open & completes Grand Slam 19390917::German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die 19390917::Poland's president Moscicki & PM Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania 19390917::Russia invades Eastern Poland, takes 217,000 Poles prisoner 19390917::Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II 19400917::Hitler begins invasion of England (operation Seel”we) 19400917::Nazis deprive Jews of possessions 19410917::Cards' Stan Musial makes his major league debut, going 2-for-4 19430917::Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station 19430917::Red Army recaptures Brjansk 19440917::British Premier Winston Churchill travels to US 19440917::Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers 19440917::Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem Neth 19460917::"Gypsy Lady," opens at Century Theater NYC for 79 performances 19460917::"If the Shoe Fits," opens at Century Theater NYC for 20 performances 19470917::Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of Year by Sporting News 19470917::James Forrestal sworn in as 1st US secretary of defense 19470917::US Dept of Defense forms 19480917::KCOP TV channel 13 in Los Angeles/Hollywood, CA (IND) begins 19480917::WLS TV channel 7 in Chicago, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting 19490917::128 die as fire guts Canadian passenger steamer Noronic in Toronto 19490917::8th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 7-5 at Ganton GC, England 19490917::North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time 19490917::WFAA TV channel 8 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting 19500917::San Francisco 49ers (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, lose 21-17 19510917::"Borscht Capades" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 90 performances 19510917::Romanian bishop A Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years 19520917::"I am an American Day" & "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day" 19530917::1st successful separation of Siamese twins 19530917::Ernie Banks becomes Chicago Cubs 1st black player 19540917::Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in 8 for heavyweight boxing title 19550917::"Ankles Aweigh" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 176 perfs 19550917::Future Hall of Famer Oriole Brooks Robinson goes 2-4 in his 1st game 19560917::Black students enter Clay Ky elementary school 19560917::Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of year 19570917::KETV TV channel 7 in Omaha, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting 19570917::Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for 1st powered flight 19570917::Thailand military coup under marshal Sarit Thanarat 19570917::2 male attorneys "stand in" as actress Sophia Loren & producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy in Juarez, Mexico 19580917::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19590917::59th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus 19590917::Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit 19590917::Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan & Korea 19600917::"Vintage '60" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 8 perfs 19600917::Cuba nationalizes US banks 19610917::Minnesota Vikings' 1st NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13) 19610917::Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," premieres in NYC 19610917::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19620917::Justice Dept files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools 19620917::US space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts 19630917::"Fugitive" premieres on ABC TV 19630917::Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32 19640917::"Bewitched" premieres on ABC TV 19640917::Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas) 19640917::Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000 & 2001 & his 450th HR 19640917::Supremes release "Baby Love" 19650917::WPHL TV channel 17 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting 19660917::Cleve pitchers set AL record striking out 19 batters in 1st 9 innings 19670917::"Mission Impossible" premieres on CBS-TV 19670917::Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 (NH) 19670917::New Orleans Saints 1st NFL game, they lose to LA Rams 27-13 19670917::Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational 19680917::Gaylord Perry (Giants) no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 1-0 19680917::Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon 19700917::Jordan launches offensive against guerrilla army 19700917::Jordanian King Hussein moves against PLO guerrillas 19700917::WSWP TV channel 9 in Grandview, WV (PBS) begins broadcasting 19720917::"M*A*S*H," premieres on NBC TV 19720917::BART begins passenger service in SF 19720917::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Quality First Golf Classic 19720917::Tanzania troops march in to Uganda 19740917::Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Aust) in 23rd America's Cup 19750917::Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101) 19760917::Amnesty International receives Erasmus-prize 19760917::NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, Calif 19760917::Ringo releases "Ringo's Rotogravure" album 19770917::22nd Ryder Cup: US, 12«-13« at Royal Lytham & St Annes England 19770917::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 19770917::Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more 19770917::Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" is #1 for 19th straight week 19780917::30th Emmy Awards: All in the Family, Ed Asner & Sada Thompson win 19780917::Begin, Sadat & Carter sign Camp David accord 19780917::Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament 19780917::Red Sox finally beat Yanks in Sept 1978, 7-3 19790917::Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72") 19790917::Royals George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/HRs in a season 19800917::"Divine Madness" starring Bette Midler, premieres 19800917::Iraq (Saddam Hussein) signs accord with Algeria 19800917::Solidarity labor union in Poland forms 19800917::South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death 19800917::Oak A's Rick Langford is removed with 2 outs in 9th inning ending his consecutive complete-game streak at 22 19810917::Fernando Valenzuela sets NL rookie record with 8th shutout of season 19820917::NJ Devils 1st exhibition game, beating Caps 3-1 in Hershey Pa 19830917::Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship, 19830917::Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black 19840917::Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th PM succeeding John Turner 19840917::Dwight Gooden ties record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games 19840917::Reggie Jackson is 13th to hit 500 HRs 19840917::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19850917::Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station 19860917::Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed 19860917::Marina Stepanova of USSR sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94) 19860917::Mets clinch NL East Championship 19860917::US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice 19870917::Phila celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution 19880917::24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea 19880917::Jeff Reardon becomes 1st to record 40 or more saves in both AL & NL 19880917::Military coup in Haiti: Lt Gen Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees 19890917::-21] Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston SC 19890917::41st Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Dana Delany & Candice Bergen win 19890917::Beth Daniel wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19890917::Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 19890917::Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62 19890917::NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision & returns America's Cup back to US (from NZ) 19900917::Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep NY Post publishing 19900917::Soviet Union & Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties 19910917::4,355 turn out to see Expos play NY Mets at Shea Stadium 19910917::UN admits Estonia, Latvia, Lithuiania, North & South Korea, Marshall Islands & Micronesia 19920917::Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ8.8 billion 19920917::House votes 280 to 128 to give FCC control of cable TV rates 19920917::NFL decides to suspend World League Football 19940917::Andy Waller out handled the ball for Mashonaland CD v Mash U24 19940917::Heather Whitestone, 21, (Ala), crowned 68th Miss America 1995 19940917::Princess Christina separates 19950917::"Love! Valor! Compassion!" closes at Walter Kerr NYC after 276 perfs 19950917::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19960917::Dodger Hideo Nomo no-hits Colo Rockies, 9-0 at Coors Field 19970917::Dr Sam Sheppard's body (Fugitive) is exhumed for DNA test 03240918::Chrysopolis emperor Constantine beats emperor Licinius 14370918::Farmer uprising in Transsylvania 15020918::Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th & last voyage 15440918::Charles V of Germany & Francis I of France sign Peace of Crepy 15440918::English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne 15440918::Peace of Cr‚py: German emperor Charles V & French king Fran‡ois I 15730918::Spanish attack Alkmaar 16350918::Emperor Ferdinand II declares war on France 16790918::New Hampshire becomes a county Massachusetts Bay Colony 17390918::Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks 17550918::Ft Ticonderoga, NY opens 17590918::Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British 17690918::John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (US) 17890918::1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress 17930918::Pres Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building 18090918::Royal Opera House in London opens 18100918::Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day) 18110918::English expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies 18120918::Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses & 1,000 churchs 18300918::Horse beats 1st US made locomotive (near Baltimore) 18380918::Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden 18420918::1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published 18460918::Elizabeth Barrett & R Browning exchange last letters before eloping 18480918::Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner 18490918::De Kempenaer's Dutch govt resigns 18500918::Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850 18510918::NY Times starts publishing (2› a copy) 18620918::Confederate armies officially divide into corps 18620918::General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia 18640918::Battle of Martinsburg WV 18730918::Govt bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St 18810918::Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment 18820918::Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board) 18880918::Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four" (BG) 18910918::Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief 18950918::Booker T Washington delivera "Atlanta Compromise" address 18950918::D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, becomes 1st chiropractor 18970918::Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of NYC," premieres in NYC 18980918::Lord Kitcheners ships reach Fashoda Sudan 19030918::Phillie's Chick Fraser no-hits Chic Cubs, 10-0 19050918::Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam 19080918::Cleve Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1 19090918::Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det 19100918::25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage 19110918::Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown 19110918::Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in NYC 19140918::Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I 19140918::Gen von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front 19140918::Irish home rule bill receive Royal assent 19140918::South African troops land in German South West Africa 19150918::Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1 19180918::Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts 19190918::Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage 19190918::Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast 19220918::2nd govt of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Neth 19220918::Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by NY's Joe Bush 19220918::Hungary admitted to League of Nations 19240918::Govt routes 7 Provinces to Peking 19250918::Bill Tilden wins 6th straight US tennis championship 19260918::46th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64) 19260918::Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250 19260918::Jean Rene Lacoste wins US Tennis Open 19270918::18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is NYC affiliate) 19280918::Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928 19280918::Juan de la Cierva flies 1st helicopter above Channel 19290918::Pirates loss to Braves & clinch NL pennant for the Cubs 19290918::Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in NYC 19300918::Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup 19300918::NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6 19300918::Phila A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row 19310918::Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo 19340918::St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1 19340918::USSR admitted to League of Nations 19380918::Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0 19380918::Despite losing a double header, Yanks clinch pennant #10 19390918::Polish govt of Moscicki flees to Romania 19400918::19 German aircrafts shot down above England 19400918::Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda," premieres in NYC 19400918::Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani 19420918::Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service 19430918::Cardinals clinch NL pennant 19430918::Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful) 19440918::British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed 19440918::Eindhoven free (Lightly Day) 19440918::US 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne 19450918::1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration 19460918::Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 19470918::National Security Act, passes 19470918::USAF (US Air Force) forms 19480918::"Hilarities (of 1949)" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 14 perfs 19480918::Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin) 19480918::Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine 19490918::Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit 19500918::Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission 19540918::Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2) 19540918::KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting 19540918::WLOS TV channel 13 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (ABC) 1st broadcast 19550918::Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open 19550918::Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock) 19560918::Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon 19570918::"Wagon Train" premieres 19570918::Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels 19590918::Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit 19600918::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open 19610918::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19620918::Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games 19620918::Charlie Finley is denied permission to move A's to Dallas-Ft Worth 19620918::Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN 19620918::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19630918::Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1 19630918::USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia 19640918::Greek king Constantine II marries Danish princess Anne-Marie 19640918::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19650918::"Get Smart" premieres 19650918::Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game 19660918::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational 19670918::Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st America's Cup 19680918::Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0 19690918::Tiny Tim & Miss Vicky get engaged 19710918::19th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 18«-13« at Old Warson CC Mo 19720918::1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego) 19730918::German FR & German DR admitted to UN 19740918::Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die 19750918::Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF 19760918::Cleve manager Frank Robinson last game as a player 19760918::Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election 19760918::Rev Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention 19760918::Rock Music Award 19770918::All 4 Kiss members release solo albums 19770918::Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore 19770918::Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup 19770918::Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship 19770918::US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together 19790918::Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect 19790918::Steven Lachs, appointed Calif's 1st admittedly gay judge 19790918::The Who opens NYC concerts at MSG 19800918::"Les Miserables," opens at Palais des Sports, Paris 19800918::Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base 19800918::Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station 19820918::Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon 19830918::George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere 19830918::Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19830918::Lebanese & Syrian army battle 19830918::New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chic Bears 34-31 19840918::Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic 19840918::Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place) 19840918::Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons 19850918::"Song & Dance" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances 19850918::BBC Radio reports prime # 2^216091-1 found in Houston 19860918::David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras 19870918::Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs 19870918::US & Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles 19870918::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19880918::Burma suspends its constitution 19880918::Coup in Haiti 19880918::Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19890918::Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico 19900918::500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC 19900918::Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics 19910918::John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians 19910918::NCAA places Tenn on 2 yrs probation for football recruting violations 19910918::Robert Helmick resigns as pres of US Olympic Committee 19910918::Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands 19930918::Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994 19930918::LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins 19930918::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 19940918::1st Presidents Golf Cup: US beats Intl team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va 19940918::Austrian conservative ™VP wins elections/extreme right gets 18.5% 19940918::Deb Richard wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19940918::Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS 19940918::Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election 19950918::Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Balt to move Browns 19950918::Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands 19960918::Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts 19970918::Seve Ballesteros & Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame 19970918::Ted Turner gives $1 billion to UN 13560919::English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers 15230919::Emperor Charles I & England sign anti-French covenant 15590919::5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die 15800919::Treaty of Plessis-lez-Tours (Anjou/Dutch States-General) 16020919::Grave surrenders to earl Mauritius 16420919::Perpignan surrenders to French troops 16560919::Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg 16570919::Brandenburg & Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau 16680919::Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France 16760919::Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Va on fire 17550919::England & Russia sign military agreement 17770919::Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga 17950919::Tula, leader of Cura‡ao slave opposition, imprisoned 17960919::George Washington's farewell address as president 17990919::English & Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver 18330919::Charles Darwin visits Guardia del Monte, Argentina 18380919::Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake 18460919::Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elopes 18480919::Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond (US) & Lassell (England) 18490919::1st commercial laundry established, in Oaklan, California 18540919::Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car 18620919::-20] Battle at Blackford's Ford Virginia 18620919::Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties) 18630919::Battle of Chickamauga GA (near Chattanooga) begins; Union retreat 18640919::3rd Battle of Winchester Virginia (Opequon, 3rd Winchester) 18650919::Atlanta University forms 18700919::Siege of Paris begins 18730919::Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails, causing a securities panic 18760919::1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich) 18760919::Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa 18790919::Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2¬" at age 17 years & 198 days 18880919::World's 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium) 18900919::Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540 18930919::NZ is 1st country to grant all its women the right to vote 19010919::11 baseball games canceled due to funeral of Pres William McKinley 19030919::King Leopold II deny Belgian cruelty in Congo 19040919::Gen Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties 19080919::Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony, premieres in Prague 19100919::George Cohan's "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," premieres in NYC 19110919::Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights 19120919::Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions 19120919::Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda 19140919::Brooklyn's Ed Lafitte no-hits KC (Federal League), 6-2 19160919::1st landing on Schiphol (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg) 19160919::Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa 19210919::41st US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 63 61) 19220919::Queen Wilhelmina's takes Dutch throne with 119 word speech 19230919::Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann," premieres in Leipzig 19250919::45th US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (46 119 63 46 63) 19260919::80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague 19280919::Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC) 19290919::Latvia dictator A Woldemaras chased out 19310919::14th PGA Championship: Tom Creavy at Wannamoisett CC Rumford RI 19310919::Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria 19310919::Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1 19330919::NY Giants clinch the pennant 19340919::Bruno Haptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby 19390919::British Expeditionary Force reaches France 19390919::Lord Haw-Haw becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin 19390919::Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland 19400919::Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes 19410919::1st meeting of partizans Tito & Draza Mihailovic in Yugoslavia 19410919::German army conquerors Kiev 19410919::Nazi's force German Jews, 6 & over to wear Jewish stars 19430919::Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record 19430919::Liberator bombers sinks U-341 19440919::Finland & Russia agree to cease fire 19440919::Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed 19450919::Kim Il Sung arrives in harbor of Wonsan, Korea 19450919::Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London 19470919::Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of Year" 19480919::62nd US Womens Tennis: M Osborne duPont beats A L Brough (46 64 15-13) 19480919::68th US Mens Tennis: "Pancho" Gonzales beats E Sturgess (62 63 14-12) 19480919::Richard A Gonzales wins US Tennis Open 19500919::European Payment Union forms in Paris 19500919::Great Three acknowledge Bond govt as only German govt 19500919::UN reject membership of China's People Republic 19510919::1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV 19510919::Italian civil servants strike for pay increase 19530919::"Hazel Flagg" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 190 perfs 19540919::Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Wichita Golf Open 19550919::Argentine president Juan Per¢n, resigns & flees 19550919::Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season 19550919::Hurricane Hilda, kills 200 in Mexico 19560919::1st intl conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne) 19570919::1st underground nuclear explosion at Las Vegas Nevada 19580919::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19590919::Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland 19600919::Chubby Checkers' "Twist" reaches #1 19620919::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19650919::Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open 19650919::Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections 19660919::Mike Burke named Yankees pres 19670919::Nigeria begins offensive against Biafra 19680919::Denny McLain's 31st win & Mickey Mantle's 535th HR 19700919::"Mary Tyler Moore" show premieres 19710919::1st NYC Women's Marathon won by Beth Bonner in 2:55:22 19710919::2nd NYC Marathon won by Norman Higgins in 2:22:54 19730919::Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden 19730919::Frank Robinson homers in record 32nd ML park (Arlington Tx) 19730919::NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington DC 19730919::Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) forms 19730919::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19740919::-20] Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die 19750919::Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor 19760919::"Going Up" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 49 performances 19760919::Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Portland Golf Classic 19790919::No Nukes Concert at MSG includes Springsteen & Crosby, Stills & Nash 19800919::Titan II missile explosion (Damascus, AR) 19810919::Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel perform a reunion concert in Central Park 19810919::Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket 19810919::Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert 19820919::34th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Barney Miller, Alan Alda & Carol Kane 19820919::New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chic Bears 10-0 19820919::Sandra Haynie/Kathy McMullen wins Portland Ping Team Golf Championship 19820919::Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service 19830919::David Slowinski on 2 CRAY-1 comp's find 2^132049-1 prime # 19830919::St Kitts & Nevis declares independence from UK 19840919::Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997 19850919::12,000 die & 40,000 injured in Mexico's earthquake (8.1) 19860919::"Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres 19860919::Chic White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits Calif Angels, 7-1 19860919::Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras 19860919::Fed health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients 19870919::Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Mich), 24, crowned 61st Miss America 19880919::Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance 19880919::US Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board 19890919::Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens 19890919::French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die 19890919::Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran) 19910919::Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug 19920919::Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m) 19920919::UN Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia 19920919::Barry Bonds joins Willie Mays, Howard Johnson & Ron Gant as having (2) 30-HR/30-steal seasons 19930919::45th Emmy Awards: Seinfeld, Picket Fences & Ted Danson wins 19930919::Actress Michele Phillips (Knots Landing) is robbed at gunpoint 19930919::Brandie Burton wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19930919::Kimberly Clarice Aiken, 18, Miss SC wins 67th Miss America 19930919::Parliamentary election in Poland 19930919::Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years 19940919::3000 US militia lands on Ha‹ti 19940919::Swedish govt of Bildt resigns 19950919::Andres Galarraga is 4th to hit 30 HRs for Rockies in 1995 19950919::Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits HRs in 3rd of 4 games 19960919::"Skylight" opens at Royale Theater NYC 03680920::Emperor Valentinianus visits Nijmegen 04510920::General Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne 06220920::Prophet Mohammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina) 12580920::Cathedral of Salisbury inaugurated 13780920::Robert de GenŠve, "butcher of Cesena" crowned anti-pope Clemens VII 15190920::Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of world 15300920::Luther advises protestant monarch compromise 15650920::Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla & massacre the French 16040920::Spanish army under Spinola recaptures Oostende 16200920::Battle at Jassy: Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland 16430920::1st battle at Newbury: King Charles I vs Robert Devereux' armies 16640920::Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women & black men 16740920::2nd West Indie Company forms 16880920::French troops occupies Palts 16970920::Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war) 17460920::Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland 17770920::Paoli massacre 17870920::Prince Willem V returns to Hague 17920920::French defeat Prussians at Valmy 17930920::British troops under maj-gen Williamson lands on (French) Haiti 17970920::US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston 18280920::Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory," premieres in Paris 18300920::1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods 18330920::Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires 18390920::1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem) 18500920::Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue 18540920::Battle at Alma Krim: 1,000 British soldiers died 18540920::British & French defeat Russians at Alma, in Crimea 18590920::George Simpson patents electric range 18600920::1st British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (King Edward VII) 18610920::Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union 18630920::Battle of Shepardstown VA 18630920::Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tenn, ends 18700920::Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French 18700920::Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury 18700920::Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel 18730920::Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) NY shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal 18760920::Ottawa Football Club forms 18770920::Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan) 18790920::US Grants come to SF for elaborate extended visit 18810920::Chester A Arthur sworn in as 21st president 18840920::6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria 18840920::Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP 18960920::John Mcdermott wins 1st US marathon (NYC) 19020920::Chic White Sox Jim Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0 19040920::George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in NYC 19040920::Orville & Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II 19050920::Cleveland makes AL record 7 errors in an inning 19070920::Pitts Nick Maddox no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-1 19080920::Chic White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Phila 1-0 19110920::Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header 19130920::19th US Golf Open: Francis Ouimet shoots a 304 at The Country Club MA 19170920::British assault on Polygon-forest, France 19180920::Royal Dutch Blast furnace & Steel factory opens in Hague 19190920::2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY 19190920::Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 HRs 19190920::Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in NYC 19220920::Goodman & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC 19220920::Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games 19240920::Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams 19240920::Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats NY Giants to win 300th game 19270920::NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits record 60th HR of season off Tom Zachry 19310920::Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184 19320920::Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant 19320920::Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer 19320920::Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables 19330920::Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2 19350920::Pitts Crawfords beat NY Cubans to win Negro NL Championship, 3-0 19380920::Dmitri Shostakovitch's Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres 19380920::Emlyn Williams' "Corn is Green," premieres in London 19390920::British fleet takes German U-27 boat 19390920::Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title 19420920::Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m 19430920::Liberator bombers sinks U-338 19440920::Nijmegen free 19440920::Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth 19450920::German rocket engineers begin work in US 19460920::Churchill argues for a "US of Europe" 19480920::"Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 48 performances 19480920::Mexican Baseball league disbanded 19490920::Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3% 19490920::Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional 19510920::1st North Pole jet crossing 19510920::NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball 19510920::Swiss males votes against female suffrage 19520920::KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting 19530920::Cubs Ernie Banks hits his 1st major league HR 19540920::1st FORTRAN computer program run 19540920::1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution 19540920::KETC TV channel 9 in Saint Louis, MO (PBS) begins broadcasting 19540920::Los Stravinsky's "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas," premieres in Angeles 19540920::Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy 19550920::Willie Mays (Giants) homers off Vern Law (Pirates) in both ends of DH 19550920::Willie Mays is 7th player to reach 50 HRS in a season 19580920::Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits NY Yankees 1-0 19580920::Ferhat Abbas forms Algerian govt in exile (Cairo) 19580920::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19590920::Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Links Golf Invitation Open 19600920::UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations) 19600920::WFSU TV channel 11 in Tallahassee, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting 19610920::After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls 19610920::James Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi 19610920::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19610920::Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yanks clinch pennant #26 19620920::Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria 19620920::Gov R Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Univ (James Meredith) 19630920::JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon 19640920::Gnter Grass' "Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand," premieres in Berlin 19640920::Paramount Theater (NYC) presented the Beatles with Steve & Eydie 19650920::WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting 19660920::Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth II launched 19660920::US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23 19670920::Benin separates from Nigeria 19670920::British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank Scotland 19670920::Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38 19670920::WCAE TV channel 50 in St John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting 19670920::WCIX TV channel 6 in Miami, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting 19680920::Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536 19690920::18th Ryder Cup: Draw, 16-16 at Royal Birkdale, England 19690920::Archies' "Sugar Sugar" hits #1 19690920::Pitts Pirate Bob Moose no-hits NY Mets, 4-0 19700920::Jim Morrison found not guilty of "lewd" behavior 19700920::Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample 19720920::Police find cannabis growing on Paul & Linda McCartney's farm 19730920::Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match 19730920::Willie Mays announces retirement at end of 1973 season 19750920::21st Ryder Cup: US, 21-11 at Laurel Valley GC Pa 19750920::David Bowie's "Fame," single goes #1 for 2 weeks 19750920::Gary Sentman draws a record 176 lb longbow to a maximum 28¬" draw 19760920::Metroliner official opens in Brussels 19760920::Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women 19760920::Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion 19770920::"Estrada" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 7 performances 19770920::Vietnam & Djibouti ask for membership in UN 19770920::Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune 19780920::"Eubie!" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 439 performances 19780920::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19780920::Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany 19790920::Coup in Central African Rep: David Dacko overthrows emperor Bokassa I 19790920::Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola 19790920::NASA launches HEAO 19800920::Bronze plaque dedicated to memory of Thurman Munson at Yankee Stadium 19800920::George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good 19800920::Plaque dedicated in Thurman Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium 19800920::Spectacular Bid runs in Belmont alone as 3 horses drop out 19810920::24th Ryder Cup: US, 18«-9« at Walton Heath GC, England 19810920::Belize declares independence 19810920::Joe Danelo kicks then NY Giant record 55 yard field goal 19810920::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic 19820920::Jalaluddin takes a one-day hat-trick Pakistan v Australia 19820920::NFL players begin a 57 day strike 19830920::3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium 19830920::Cryptographic Communications System & Method (RSA) patented 19840920::"Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV 19840920::Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time 19840920::Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23 19850920::Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players 19850920::Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest 19860920::Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State 19870920::"Big River" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1005 perfs 19870920::39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis & Sharon Gless wins 19870920::Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race 19870920::Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions 19870920::Jan Stephenson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19870920::Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown 19880920::Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run 19880920::Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving 19880920::Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons 19890920::FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa 19890920::Musical "Miss Saigon," premieres in London 19890920::USAir overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in NYC, 2 people die 19900920::Both Germanys ratify reunification 19900920::Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message 19900920::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19910920::Lion's Terry Taylor reinstated after 1 year drug related suspension 19920920::Colleen Walker wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19920920::Frances votes in favor of Maastricht treaty 19920920::Leanza Cornett (Florida), 21, crowned 66th Miss America 1993 19920920::Phils' Mickey Moradini makes an unassisted triple play 19920920::Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands 19940920::Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands 19950920::Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central 19970920::Yanks clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive 19980920::Solheim Cup 20000920::Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends 10660921::Battle at Fulford: Norway king Harald III Hardrada beats Brit militia 11920921::English king Richard I the Lion hearted, captured 13480921::Jews in Zurich Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells 14350921::Treaty of Atrecht: Philip of Bourgondy vs French king Charles II 14510921::Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge 15890921::Battle at Arques: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League 15910921::French bishops recognize Henri IV as king of France 16210921::King James of England gives Canada to Sir Alexander Sterling 16480921::-23] Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir [NS] 16760921::Benedetto Odescalchi elected as Pope Innocent XI 16770921::John & Nicolaas van der Heyden patents fire extinguisher 17450921::Battle at Preston Pans: Bonnie Prince Charles beats English army 17460921::French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras 17760921::5 days after British take NY, ¬ of city burns down 17760921::Great fire in NY 17760921::Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested 17800921::Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andr‚ plans to West Point 17840921::1st daily newspaper in America (Penns Packet & General Advertiser) 17840921::Pennsylvania Packet & Daily Advertiser 1st success US daily newspaper 17920921::1st French Republic forms 17920921::Proposal by Collot D'Herbois, to abolish the monarchy in France 18140921::"Star Spangled Banner" published as a poem 18150921::King Willem I takes oath in Brussels 18230921::Moroni 1st appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith 18370921::Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry & china stores 18630921::Union forces retreat to Chattanooga after defeat at Chickamauga 18720921::John Henry Conyers of SC becomes 1st black student at Annapolis 18830921::1st direct US-Brazil telegraph connection 18850921::Dutch demonstrate for general voting right 18930921::Frank Duryea drives 1st US made gas propelled vehicle (car) 18950921::1st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company 18960921::General Kitcheners army occupies Dongola Sudan 18970921::NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial 18980921::China's empress-mother Ci Xi & emperor De Zong arrested 19030921::1st cowboy film "Kit Carson," premieres in US 19050921::Atlanta Life Insurance Co forms 19060921::Yankee 1st baseman Hal Chase's 22 put-outs ties record 19130921::1st aerobatic maneuver, sustained inverted flight, performed in France 19130921::Turkey & Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople 19150921::CH Chubb buys Stonehenge for œ6,600 19150921::Emanuel Querido ("Kerido") begins publishing Querido 19190921::33rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Zinderstein (61 62) 19210921::Gas explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany, 565 die 19210921::Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians 19220921::Pres Warren G Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine 19280921::"My Weekly Reader" magazine made its debut 19290921::1st legal pass in Canada was thrown by Gerry Seiberling & 1st reception by Ralph Losie of Calgary Altomah-Tigers against Edmonton 19300921::Johann Ostermeyer patents flashbulb 19310921::Britain abandons gold standard/pound devalues 20% 19330921::Trial against Marinus der Lubbe opens 19340921::St Louis Card Paul Dean no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 3-0 19340921::Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000 19360921::Spanish fascist junta names Franco to generalissimo/supreme commander 19370921::J R R Tolkien, publishes "Hobbit" 19380921::Hurricane (183 MPH winds) in New England kills 700 19380921::Winston Churchill condemns Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia 19390921::Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews 19410921::US launches its 1st Liberty-ship, "Patrick Henry" 19420921::116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris 19420921::Transport nr 35 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 19430921::Arundel (Solomon Island) in US hands 19430921::Lynch Triangle (Square) in Bronx named 19430921::Russian 13th/61st Army reconquer Chyernigov 19430921::Soviet forces reach Dnjepr 19440921::Last British paratroopers at bridge of Arnhem surrenders 19460921::Indians play their final game in League Park, ending a 55-year stay 19480921::"Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle premieres on NBC-TV 19490921::Chinese Communist leaders proclaims People's Republic of China 19490921::Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under 3-power occupation 19510921::Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec 19530921::Allied forces form West Germany 19530921::KRDO TV channel 13 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (ABC) 1st broadcast 19540921::1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned 19540921::Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting UN 19550921::Last allied occupying troops leave Austria 19550921::Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9 for heavyweight boxing title 19550921::USSR performs nuclear test 19560921::Yanks set dubious record, stranding 20 men on base Mantle hits a 500' plus homer but Red Sox win 13-9 in Fenway 19570921::"Perry Mason" with Raymond Burr premieres on CBS-TV 19570921::German sailing school ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean 19570921::Olav V, becomes king of Norway 19570921::Pote Sarasin forms govt in Thailand 19580921::1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas Tx 19580921::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19590921::600 Indian Dutch emigrate to US 19610921::Antonio Abertondo swims English Channel round trip (44 miles) 19640921::Constellation (US) beats Sovereign (England) in 20th America's Cup 19640921::Malta gains independence from Britain 19640921::Reds Chico Ruiz steals home, beats Phillies 1-0. Phillies start a 10 game losing streak that gives Cards the pennant 19650921::O Kommissarova (USSR) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250') 19660921::5" of rain falls on NYC 19660921::Jimmy Hendrix changes spelling of his name to Jimi 19670921::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19690921::58th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Cleveland (5-0) 19690921::Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open 19690921::NY Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos 19690921::Ron Hill wins European marathon (2:16:47.8) 19700921::"Monday Night Football" premieres on ABC - Browns 31, Jets 21 19700921::KAPP TV channel 35 in Yakima, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting 19700921::Luna 16 leaves Moon 19700921::Oakland A's Vida Blue no-hits Minn Twins, 6-0 19710921::AL OKs Washington Senator move to Arlington (Texas Rangers) 19710921::John Lennon & Yoko Ono are Dick Cavett's only guest 19720921::Marcos declares martial law in Philippines 19720921::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19730921::Jackson Pollocks painting "Blue Poles" sold for $2,000,000 19730921::NY Mets go into 1st place (at .500) after trailing 12« games 19730921::Nate Archibald signs 7 yr contract with NBA KC Kings for $450,000 19740921::US Mariner 10 makes 2nd fly-by of Mercury 19750921::Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic 19760921::Wings performs in Zagreb Yugoslavia 19770921::US minister of Foreign affairs Cyrus Vance dismissed 19800921::Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic 19800921::LA Ram Johnnie Johnson scores a 99 yard interception 19800921::Richard Todd of NY Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record) 19810921::Belize (British Honduras) gains independence from UK 19810921::Sandra Day O'Conner becomes 1st female Supreme Court Justice 19810921::Steve Carlton strikes out NL record 3,118th (Andre Dawson) 19820921::2,251 turn out to see Expos play NY Mets at Shea Stadium 19820921::Devils beat Rangers 3-2 in exhibition; 1st hockey in Meadowlands (NJ) 19820921::NFL players begin a 57 day strike 19820921::SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs 19820921::STS-5 vehicle moves to launch pad 19830921::11 killed in anti Marcos demonstrations in Manila 19830921::David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross," premieres in London 19830921::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19840921::NASA launches Galaxy-C 19850921::Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 19860921::38th Emmy Awards: Golden Girls, Cagney & Lacey & Michael J Fox win 19860921::Miami Dan Marino passes for 6 touchdowns vs NY Jets (51-45) 19860921::NY Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards 19860921::New Orleans Saints Mel Gray returns kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown 19860921::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic 19860921::SD Padre Jimmy Jones pitchs 1-hitter in his major league debut 19870921::3 Belgian minesweepers depart to Persians Gulf 19880921::Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville NJ home 19890921::Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki 19900921::Oakland A's Bob Welch becomes 1st 25 game winner in 10 years 19900921::Pirate Bobby Bond is 2nd to hit 30 HRs & steal 50 bases in a season (so he can play in 6 decades) because it is a publicity stunt 19900921::Faye Vincent turns down White Sox bid to reinstate Minnie Minoso, 68, 19910921::Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union 19910921::USA Basketball announces "Dream Team" for the 1992 Olympics 19930921::Ukraine govt of Kutshma resigns 19940921::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft Laud/Miami Fl (WBGG 105.9 FM) 19960921::Christie Brinkey gets married for 4th time, she marries Peter Cook 19960921::John F Kennedy Jr marries Caroline Bisset 19970921::Brickyard Crossing Senior Golf Championhsip 19970921::Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA PING Welch's Championship 19970921::Mike Piazza is 2nd to hit a HR out of Dodger Stadium 19970921::NY Yankee Cecil Fielder hits his 300th HR 19970921::Tim Herron wins Texas Golf Open shooting a 271 05300922::Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope 05300922::St Felix IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope 05300922::[Discorus] begins his reign as Catholic Pope 15040922::Settle engagement of Karel of Luxembourg & Claudia the Beaujeu 15040922::Treaty of Blois: Philip van Bourgondi‰ & Maximilian I & Louis XII 15290922::Cardinal Thomas Wolsey lays-off English Lord Chancellor 15860922::Battle at Zutphen: English vs Dutch army 16560922::All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her) 16650922::MoliŠres "L'amour M‚decin," premieres in Paris 16920922::Last (8) person hanged for witchcraft in US (Salem Mass) 16990922::People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter 17110922::French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro 17330922::Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig 17350922::Robert Walpole is 1st British PM to live at 10 Downing Street 17450922::Bonnie Prince Charlies army returns to Edinburgh 17530922::Pangeran Gusti installed as sultan of Banten 17560922::Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University 17840922::Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK 17890922::Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department 17920922::Origin of French Republican Era 18170922::John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State 18610922::Fort Fauntleroy (Wingate), rapes Navaho Indians 18620922::President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1 18640922::Battle of Fisher's Hill VA-Gen Early Retreats to Brown's Gap 18640922::Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg VA 18680922::Race riots in New Orleans La 18690922::Richard Wagner's opera "Rhine Gold," premieres in Munich 18930922::1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield 19030922::Italo Marchiony granted patent for ice cream cone 19050922::11th US Golf Open: Willie Anderson shoots a 314 at Myopia Club Mass 19050922::Race riot in Atlanta Georgia (10 blacks & 2 whites killed) 19060922::Race riot in Atlanta Georgia, kills 21 19080922::Bulgaria declares independence from Ottoman Empire (Turkey) 19100922::England's 1st aircraft flight 19100922::Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms 19110922::Cy Young beats Pitts 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511 19120922::Eddie Collins repeats record of stealing 6 bases in a game (9/7/12) 19130922::Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico 19130922::George Cohan's "7 Keys to Baldpate," premieres in NYC 19140922::1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die 19150922::Red Sox ask Braves for use of their larger park for World Series 19150922::Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class 19150922::Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA 19190922::-Jan 20] Steel strike in the US 19200922::Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series 19210922::Estonia & Lithuania admitted to League of Nations 19210922::Music Box Theater opens at 239 W 45th St NYC 19250922::Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-homers 19260922::Belgian crown prince Leopold & Swedish princess Astrid get engaged 19270922::Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney) 19270922::Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title 19270922::Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples 19320922::Hungarian govt of K rolyi falls 19350922::Boston Braves lose NL record 110th game of year en route to 115 19370922::Forest fire kills 14 & injures 50 in Cody Wyoming 19410922::British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro 19420922::Meulenberg robs of church bells 19430922::British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz 19430922::Destroyer Itchen torpedoed & sinks 19430922::Destroyer Keppel sinks U-229 19440922::Boulogne reoccupied by Allies 19440922::Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel 19440922::US troops land on Ulithi 19450922::Stan Musial gets 5 hits off 5 pitchers on 5 consecutive pitches 19460922::Evelyn Dick charged with butchering husband 19470922::Dodgers clinch NL pennant 19490922::USSR detonates its 1st atomic bomb 19490922::WFMY TV channel 2 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (CBS) 1st broadcast 19500922::Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner) 19500922::Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general 19530922::Islamic uprising in Atjeh at Indonesia 19540922::Bkln Dodger Karl Spooner strikes out 15 NY Giants in his 1st game 19550922::(ITV) Commercial TV begins in England 19550922::-28] Hurricane Janet, kills 500 in Caribbean 19550922::Commercial TV begins in England 19550922::Heavyweight champ Rocky Mariano KOs Archie Moore in 9 19570922::"Maverick" premieres 19570922::Duke Snider's 39th & 40th home runs are last hit at Ebbets Field 19580922::KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting 19580922::US nuclear sub USS Skate remains 31 days under Pole (record) 19590922::Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant 19600922::Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France 19610922::Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hrs 10 min 19610922::Jim Gentile's ties record of 5 grand slams in a year 19620922::Bob Dylan plays NYC Carnegie Hall 19630922::Czechoslovakian premier Sikory deposed by Josef Lenart) 19630922::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open 19640922::"Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 3242 perfs 19640922::"Man from U.N.C.L.E," premieres on NBC-TV 19650922::India & Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect 19660922::Edward Albee's "Delicate Balance," premieres in NYC 19660922::KMEB TV channel 10 in Wailuku, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting 19660922::Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game 19660922::Orioles beat A's 6-1 to clinch their 1st AL pennant 19660922::Surveyor 2 crashes on Moon 19670922::Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager 19670922::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19680922::Iraq adopts constitution 19680922::KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) 1st broadcast 19680922::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kings River Golf Open 19680922::Twins' Cesar Tovar pitched a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions 19680922::Zond 5 completes flight 19690922::"Music Scene" debuts on ABC-TV 19690922::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 19690922::SF Giant Willie Mays, becomes 2nd player to hit HR # 600 19690922::Willie Mays hits his 600 HR off Mike Corkins 19700922::Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses 19710922::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19720922::Dictator Idi Amin throws 8,000 Asians out of Uganda 19730922::"Little Night Music" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway 19730922::20th Ryder Cup: US, 19-13 at Muirfield, Scotland 19730922::Balt Oriole Al Bumbry hits 3 triples vs Milwaukee Brewers 19730922::Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State 19750922::Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in SF Calif 19750922::World Football League folds 19770922::Minn Twin Bert Blyleven no-hits Calif Angels, 9-0 19770922::Preston Jones' "Texas Trilogy," premieres in NYC 19770922::West German RAF terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht 19780922::Israeli PM Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit 19790922::Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean 19790922::Larry Parrish (Expos) HRs off Rawly Eastwick (Phillies) in DH 19800922::Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to control the Shatt al-Arab waterway 19800922::Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins 19800922::John & Yoko sign a recording contract with Geffin Records 19810922::Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to Supreme Court 19820922::Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka v India 19820922::SF's cable cars made a final run before closing down for 20-month 19830922::Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years (Royal Albert Hall) 19830922::NASA launches Galaxy-B 19830922::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19830922::Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4" 19840922::Brussels princess Astrid marries arch duke Lorenz of Austrian-Este 19850922::37th Emmy Awards: Cagney & Lacey, Cosby Show & Tyne Daly win 19850922::Billy Martin's right arm is broken by pitcher Ed Whitson 19850922::Earthquake strikes Mexico, 2,000 killed 19850922::France premier confesses on attack of Rainbow Warrior 19850922::Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes to become Heavyweight Boxing Champ 19850922::Rock & country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill 19850922::Val Skinner wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic 19850922::St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man 19860922::35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm 19860922::India v Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie 19860922::LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games 19870922::2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins 19870922::Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points 19870922::Janet B Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85) 19870922::NFL players go on strike for 24 days 19870922::Red Sox Wade Boggs ties AL record of 200 hits for 5 straight seasons 19880922::Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin 19880922::South Korean coaches attack NZ referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in 19890922::Cards outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs 19890922::IRA-bomb kills 10 British marines in Kent 19900922::Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys 19900922::Andre Dawson steals his 300th base & is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs, 300 steals & 2,000 hits 19910922::ABN & AMRO Dutch banks merge 19910922::Calif University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public 19910922::Harry Gant wins NSACAR Goody's 500 19910922::Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career NFL victory 19910922::NY MTA yanks 6,000 ads for "Dr Tusch" (Dr Jeffrey Lavigne) 19910922::Pat Bradley wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19920922::Heavy storm in South France, 34 die 19930922::Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game 19930922::STS-51 (Discovery) lands 19930922::Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin 19940922::Rasmussen govt in Denmark, resigns 19960922::4th Solheim Cup: US beats Europe 17-11 at St Pierre Wales 19970922::Elton John releases Diana tribute "Candle in the Wind 1997" 19970922::Marv Albert pleads not guilty to sexual charges 09510923::Otto I the Great becomes king of Italy 11220923::Concord of Worms 14080923::Battle of Oth‚e 15130923::King Henry III & Emperor Maximilian conquer Doornik 15610923::King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida 16420923::Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement 16660923::Princess Maria of Orange-Nassau marries Mauritius earl of Simmeren 17190923::Liechtenstein declares independence from German empire 17390923::Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade 17460923::Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor 17790923::John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats HMS Serepis 17800923::Brit Maj John Andr‚ reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Pt 17950923::Conseil of the Cinq-Cents (Council of 500), forms in Paris 18030923::Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army 18060923::Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest 18300923::Dutch troops occupy Brussels 18350923::HMS Beagle sails to Charles Island in Galapagos archipelago 18450923::1st baseball team, NY Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code 18450923::Hunger strike in Hague 18460923::Johann Gottfried Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune 18570923::Russian warship Leffort disappears in Finland Gulf in storm; 826 die 18620923::Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers 18630923::Confederate siege of Chattanooga begins 18640923::Battle of Athens VA 18680923::Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain) 18730923::Tom Allen beats Mike McCale for Heavyweight Boxing title 18760923::Ottawa Rough Riders play their 1st game 18770923::Hurricane strikes Cura‡ao & Bonaire kills 200 18790923::Baldwin steam motors tram 1st tried in Sydney Australia 18790923::Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone 18800923::Jules Ferry forms French govt 18900923::Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning 18950923::French labor union CGT (Conf‚d‚ration G‚n‚rale du Travail) forms 18970923::1st frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming) 19040923::Francis Younghusbands leaves Lhasa Tibet 19050923::Mbunga-siege of Fort Mahenge German East-Africa broken 19070923::Proclamation sets fineness & weight of silver & bronze coins of Canada 19080923::Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th & disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay & pennant) 19080923::University of Alberta opens 19110923::Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot 19120923::1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie released 19120923::Mark Sennet presents 1st Keystone Cops film (Cohen Collects a Debt) 19130923::Roland Garros is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea 19130923::Serbian troops march into Albania 19140923::Reds drop their 19th straight game, then beat Boston Braves 19200923::Alexander Millerand elected president of France 19220923::B Brechts "Drum in the Night," premieres in Germany 19230923::80,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against Fleet law 19250923::George Kaufman's "Butter & Egg Man," premieres in NYC 19250923::Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP 19260923::Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title 19320923::Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 19330923::Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12 19360923::Giants Carl Hubbell notches his 16th en route to 24 consecutive wins 19370923::Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit 19380923::British premier Neville Chamberlain flies to Munich 19380923::Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm) 19390923::Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits & beat Phillies 22-4 19400923::-27] French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees 19400923::Dutch nazi collaborator Mussert's 1st meeting with Hitler 19410923::General de Gaulle forms govt in exile in London 19410923::German air raid on Russ naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks) 19420923::Auschwitz begins experimental gassing executions 19420923::Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad 19420923::Transport nr 36 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany 19480923::Braves clinch NL pennant 19490923::Indian owner Bill Veeck holds funeral services to bury 1948 pennant 19490923::Truman announces evidence of USSR's 1st nuclear device detonation 19500923::Patty Berg wins LPGA Sunset Hills Golf Open 19500923::Phila A's Joe Astroth is 4th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th) 19500923::US Mustangs accidentally bombs British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed 19520923::1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event 19520923::Dodgers clinch NL pennant 19520923::Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech 19520923::Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 13 for hw boxing title 19530923::KHQA TV channel 7 in Hannibal-Quincy, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting 19550923::Pakistan signs Pact of Baghdad 19550923::Yanks clinch pennant by beating Red Sox, 3-2 19570923::"That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly & Crickets reaches #1 19570923::Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2 19570923::WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS/FOX) begins broadcasting 19570923::White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw 19580923::Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island 19580923::Stravinsky's "Thieni," premieres in Veneti‰ 19580923::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19610923::1st movie to become a TV series-How to Marry a Millionaire 19610923::Ernie Banks ends 717 consecutive-games-played streak 19620923::ABC's 1st color TV series-Jetsons 19620923::LA Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104 19620923::Martin Walser's "Esche und Angora," premieres in Berlin 19620923::Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open 19620923::NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts 19630923::Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State 19630923::WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting 19640923::"Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in NYC 19670923::Greek Colonels regime frees ex-premier Georgios Papandreou 19670923::Radio Malta stops testing 19680923::WKAS TV channel 25 in Ashland, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 19680923::WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 19680923::WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 19680923::WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 19680923::WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 19680923::WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 19680923::WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 19680923::WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 19690923::1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV 19690923::Northern Star starts rumor that Paul McCartney is dead 19690923::"Clues Hint at Beatle's Death," reported in Illinois Univ newspaper, sparking widespread rumours of Paul McCartney's death 19700923::Abdul Razak bin Hussain becomes premier of Malaysia 19700923::Gary Muhrcke wins 1st NY Marathon 19710923::John Vermeers painting "The liefdesbrief" stolen 19720923::Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law 19720923::President Marcos ends emergency crisis in Philippines 19730923::Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power 19730923::Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Open 19730923::Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049-1, is discovered 19740923::"Gypsy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 120 performances 19740923::BBC Ceefax begins 1st teletext service 19760923::Ford-Carter TV debate 19760923::South Africa decides to allow multi-racial teams to represent them 19760923::Soyuz 22 returns to Earth 19770923::3rd test of Space Shuttle Enterprise 19770923::Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels 19780923::100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit 19790923::Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC 19790923::Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic 19790923::Somali constitution approved by president 19790923::St Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th & final base of his career 19800923::Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens 19820923::"Doll's Life" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 5 performances 19820923::Amin Gemayel sworn in as president of Lebanon 19820923::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19830923::Argentina milt regime gives amnesty to military/political assassins 19830923::Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9 19830923::Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title 19830923::Heavyweight Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in Ohio 19830923::Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game (beating Cards) 19840923::36th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Cheers, John Ritter & Tyne Daly 19840923::Amy Alcott wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic 19840923::SF 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games 19840923::Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues 19860923::Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10) 19860923::Congress selects the rose as US national flower 19880923::Fiji's new constitution is proposed 19880923::Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases & hit 40 HRs 19880923::Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39) 19890923::Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning 19900923::Nancy Lopez wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic 19900923::PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War 19900923::Saddam says he will destroy Israel 19910923::NY Islanders Mike Bossy & Denis Potvin inducted into NHL Hall of Fame 19920923::Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL 19920923::Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's dept stores in NYC 19920923::Jackson Browne reportedly beats girlfriend Daryl Hannah 19920923::Mud storm kills 30 in South France 19920923::1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period 19930923::"Les Miserables," opens at Playhouse, Edinburgh 19930923::Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123øC (record high) 19940923::Pinatubo volcano in Philippines erupts, kills at least 14 19960923::Howard Stern radio show premieres in Wilkes-Barre PA (WZMT 97.9 FM) 19960923::Howard Stern radio show premieres in West Palm Beach FL (WCLB 95.5 FM) 19970923::Seattle Mariners break record for most HRs in a year (258) 03120924::Start of Imperial Indication 03660924::Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope 06730924::Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church 07870924::2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor 14930924::Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World 15370924::Uprising in Lbeck fails 16250924::Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico 16290924::Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies 16570924::1st autopsy & coroner's jury verdict is recorded in state of Maryland 16640924::Dutch Fort Orange (Albany NY) surrenders to English 16830924::King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America 16880924::France declares war on German 17060924::Treaty of Altranst„dt: Charles XII of Sweden & August II of Saksen 17320924::21 homosexuality burned in South Horn 17420924::Faneuil Hall opens to public 17760924::1st St Leger horesrace held at Doncaster 17760924::St Leger horse race run for 1st time 17890924::Congress creates Post Office 17890924::Federal Judiciary Act is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court 17890924::President George Washington appointed John Jay the 1st Chief Justice 17890924::US Attorney General Office is created 18290924::Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople 18380924::Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law 18410924::Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei (James Brooke appointed Rajah) 18450924::1st baseball team is organized 18500924::Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England 18520924::Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st dirigible flight 18530924::1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt) 18530924::France annexes Caledonia 18530924::Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London 18620924::Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal 18640924::Battle of Pilot Knob MO 18640924::Invasion of MO by Price 18650924::James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF 18690924::Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold 18720924::Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg," premieres in Vienna 18810924::Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch 18830924::National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky 18840924::Dixey, Rice & Gill's musical "Adonis," premieres in NYC 18850924::5 German warships depart to Zanzibar 18890924::Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder 18900924::Pres of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching & practice of polygamy should be abandoned 18950924::1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months) 19020924::Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle" (BG) 19030924::Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia premier 19030924::Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle 19060924::St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game 19060924::V Herbert & H Blossom's musical "Red Mill," premieres in NYC 19080924::Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1 19160924::Indians Marty Kavanaugh, hits AL's 1st pinch-hit grand slam 19190924::Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey 19220924::Neurenberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky 19220924::Roger Hornsby sets NL HR mark at 42 19230924::Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin) 19240924::Boston, Massachusetts opens its airport 19260924::Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4 19270924::NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs 19270924::Yanks set record of 106 victories 19280924::Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great," premieres in NYC 19290924::Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-instrument flight 19290924::Yanks Tom Zachary ends season 12-0 19300924::G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premieres in NY 19300924::Noel Coward's "Private Lives," premieres in London 19300924::Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights 19310924::Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks 19320924::NY Gov Franklin D Roosevelt visits LA 19340924::2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium 19340924::Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0 19380924::Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title 19380924::Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam 19400924::Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR 19400924::Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton 19410924::9 Allied govts pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter 19410924::Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev 19430924::Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk 19460924::Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs 19480924::Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Wash DC 19480924::Yanks, Boston & Cleveland are tied for 1st place in AL (91-56) 19500924::"Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel 19510924::Industrial estate at Harlow New Town UK opens 19510924::USSR performs nuclear test 19520924::Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death 19520924::Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5 19530924::"Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway 19530924::Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for heavyweight boxing title 19540924::Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later) 19540924::Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning 19550924::"Catch a Star" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances 19550924::Pres Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver 19550924::Washington Senators lose their 99th & 100th games of season 19560924::1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland) 19570924::Bkln Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0 19570924::Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools 19580924::1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia 19600924::1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise) 19600924::International Development Assn (UN agency) comes into existence 19600924::USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches 19610924::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sacramento Valley Golf Open 19620924::KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting 19620924::US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to U of Miss 19630924::Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards 19630924::Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing 19640924::"Munsters" premieres on TV 19640924::1st Minuteman II ICBM was tested 19640924::Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd 19640924::Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of German DR 19650924::Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament 19650924::Saudi-Arabian & Egyptian accord about Yemen 19650924::Stefan Stefanopoulos forms Greek government 19660924::-30] Hurricane Inez, kills 293 in Caribbean, Florida & Mexico 19660924::France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island 19670924::Cards Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals vs Steelers 19670924::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational 19680924::"60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV 19680924::"That's Life" premieres-A Broadway musical type TV show 19680924::NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack 19680924::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19690924::1st Elvis convention, 2500 fans attend in Cincinnati 19690924::NY Mets clinch NL East pennant 19690924::Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam 19690924::Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins 19700924::1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16 19700924::Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon 19710924::90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying 19710924::Eyskens-Cools disbands Belgium parliament 19710924::Houston Astros beat SD Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings 19720924::Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22 19720924::Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yds vs Green Bay (rec) 19720924::NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34) 19730924::Guinea-Bissau declares independence 19730924::St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals 19740924::Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits 19740924::Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title 19760924::"Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 5959 performances 19760924::Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter 19770924::"Estrada" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 7 performances 19770924::1st broadcast of "Love Boat" on ABC-TV 19770924::Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards 19780924::Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ping Team Golf Classic 19780924::Dutch women hockey team wins world championship 19780924::Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74 19780924::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19790924::CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service 19790924::Ghana adopts constitution 19790924::Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time 19790924::Russian ice skaters Protopopov & Beloussova ask for asylum in Switz 19790924::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19800924::Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season 19800924::Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan 19810924::Enterprise Radio (all sports) resigns air 19810924::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19820924::Tennis great Bj”rn B”rg retires at 26 19820924::US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon 19830924::Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season 19830924::Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of Hanif, v India Jullundur 19830924::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19840924::Cubs clinch NL East title 19840924::Paul McCartney release "No More Lonely Nights" 19850924::Apollo Computer Inc lays off 300 employees 19850924::Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m) 19850924::Expos Andre Dawson joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice 19850924::Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th) 19870924::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19880924::Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop 19880924::Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec 19880924::Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec) 19880924::Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th 19880924::Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets heptathlon woman's record (7,291) 19890924::28th Ryder Cup: US & Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England 19890924::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Nippon Travel-MBS Golf Classic 19900924::East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact 19900924::South African president F W de Klerk meets Pres Bush in Wash DC 19900924::Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market 19900924::West German Pres Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty 19910924::"Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premieres on ABC TV 19910924::After 3 year reign as AL champs, A's are eliminated from AL West 19910924::Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns 19910924::Doogie Howser loses his virginity 19910924::Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles 19920924::John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers) 19920924::Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in NJ Devils history 19920924::Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI 19930924::1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord 19930924::Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty (Brenda) weds Ashley Hamilton 19930924::Norodom Sihanouk again installed as king of Cambodia 19940924::Parliamentary election in Ukraine 19950924::31st Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 14«-13« at Oak Hill CC (NY) 19950924::Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic 19950924::Emillio & Gloria Estefan's boat hits & kills a jet skiier 19950924::Mt Ruapehu Volcano (North Island, NZ) erupts 19970924::31st Country Music Assn Award: 19970924::Drug kingpin Ramon Arellano Felix placed on FBI's 10 most-wanted 09530925::Ratherius becomes bishop of Luik 09550925::Bishop Ratherius of Luik flees 10660925::Battle of Stampford Bridge King Harold Godwinson II of England, beaten by his brother King Harold Hardrada of Norway 12120925::Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia) 13400925::England & France sign disarmament treaty 13960925::Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies 14920925::Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early 14930925::Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to America 15130925::Vasco Nu¤ez de Balboa is 1st European to see Pacific Ocean 15550925::Freedom of Religion in Augsburg 15600925::Spanish king Philip II names Frederik Schenck of Toutenburg, 1st archbishop of Utrecht 15970925::Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV 16390925::1st printing press in America 16390925::Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening 16540925::England & Denmark sign trade agreement 16630925::Austrian Fort Neuh„usl surrenders to Turkish invasion army 16900925::Publick Occurrences, 1st US (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st & last ed 17750925::American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured 17770925::English general William Howe conquers Philadelphia 17800925::Benedict Arnold joins the British 17810925::-26] Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets 17890925::Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify) 18040925::12th amendment to US constitution, regulating judicial power 18290925::Failed assassination attempt on Sim¢n Bol¡var 18360925::HMS Beagle anchors at St Michael 18440925::Canada defeat USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international 18460925::US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico 18570925::Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram begins 18610925::Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves 18620925::Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee 18660925::(Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing 18670925::Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Wash DC 18820925::1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester) 18860925::Comedy opera "Dorothy," 1st produced in London 18880925::Royal Court Theatre, London, opens 18880925::Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles" (BG) 18900925::Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (Calif) 18900925::Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG) 18970925::1st British bus service opens 19040925::Charles Follis is 1st black to play pro football 19060925::John Galsworthy's "Silver Box," premieres in London 19070925::Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony, premieres 19080925::Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout 19090925::Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY 19110925::French battleship Libert‚ explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed 19110925::Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park 19110925::Italy declares war on Turkey 19150925::-26] Battle at Loos: 8,246 British & 0 German casualties 19190925::President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke 19200925::34th US Womens Tennis: M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61) 19200925::Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game 19220925::Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant 19240925::Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH 19260925::9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury GC Westbury NY 19260925::Canadian govt of MacKenzie King forms 19260925::Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week 19260925::International slavery convention signed by 20 states 19260925::NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings 19260925::Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament 19260925::Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant 19290925::Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam 19300925::Austrian govt of Vaugoin forms 19300925::Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager 19300925::Zo‰ Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in NYC 19320925::Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season 19330925::1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia 19330925::5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China 19340925::John Van Druten's "Distaff Side," premieres in NYC 19340925::Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game 19340925::Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup 19350925::Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," premieres in NYC 19360925::Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double 19370925::"il duce" visits Berlin/named "the Fhrer" to corporal 1st class 19370925::Battle of of P'ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain 19390925::German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs 19390925::Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I 19400925::German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling govt 19400925::Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton 19410925::Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years 19430925::Russian troops liberate Smolensk 19480925::"Heaven on Earth" closes at Century Theater NYC after 12 performances 19490925::4th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs 19490925::Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place 19520925::Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game 19540925::Fran‡ois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election 19540925::Indians win AL record 111 games 19540925::WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting 19550925::Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ 19550925::Patty Berg wins LPGA Clock Golf Open 19560925::1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada) 19560925::Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Phila Phillies, 5-0 19560925::Transatlantic telephone cable (Newfoundland-Oban) is used 19570925::300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark 19570925::Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia 19570925::Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced 19590925::Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) & David Brown (43) wed 19600925::1st Atomic powered aircraft carrier (Enterprise) launched (US) 19600925::Chubby Checker's "Twist," hits #1 19600925::For 1st time since 1927, Pirates clinch NL pennant 19600925::NY Yankees clinch AL pennant 19600925::Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses 19610925::KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting 19620925::Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia 19620925::Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title 19620925::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19620925::Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup 19620925::Yankees clinch AL pennant 19640925::Jens Otto Krag forms minority govt in Denmark 19650925::"Do I Hear a Waltz?" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 220 perfs 19650925::60 year old Satchel Paige of KC A's pitches 3 scoreless innings 19650925::Beatle cartoon show begins in US 19650925::Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal 19660925::12th LPGA Championship won by Gloria Ehret 19660925::Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Cello Concert premieres in Moscow 19660925::Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1 19670925::WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting 19700925::Ringo releases his "Beaucoups of Blues" album 19720925::Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber 19720925::KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting 19720925::Norway votes to join common market 19720925::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open 19730925::3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days 19730925::Mets beat Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium 19730925::Willie Mays night at Shea Stadium 19740925::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19750925::Jackie Wilson, suffers heart attack & lapse into a 9 yr terminal coma 19760925::"Porgy & Bess" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 122 performances 19760925::Expo's last game at Montreal's Jarry Park 19770925::Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament 19780925::PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die 19790925::"Evita" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances 19790925::Calif Angels win their 1st NL West pennant 19800925::Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows) 19800925::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19800925::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19800925::Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith, & Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres 19810925::Nolan Ryan's 5th career no-hitter as Astros beat Dodgers 5-0 19810925::Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Phila) 19810925::Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice 19820925::Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Ill 31-6 19820925::Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children) 19820925::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19830925::35th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Cheers, Ed Flanders & Shelley Long 19830925::Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0 19830925::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19840925::"Quilters" opens at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC for 24 performances 19840925::1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented 19840925::Egypt & Jordan regain diplomatic relations 19840925::NY Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit HRs as a teen & in 40s 19850925::Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India 19850925::Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus 19850925::Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season 19860925::Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court 19860925::Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0 19870925::2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka 19880925::Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s 19880925::Kathy Guadagnino wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic 19880925::Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter & Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle (3:16.53) 19890925::Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam 19890925::Ronald Harwood's "Another Time," premieres in London 19890925::Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits & 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons 19900925::"Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila 19900925::1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Balt Orioles to tie record 19900925::Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title 19900925::Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience 19900925::UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq 19910925::"Good & Evil" premieres on ABC TV 19910925::Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens 19920925::"Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" opens at Paramount NYC 19920925::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 19920925::Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova 19920925::Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea) 19920925::Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit's winningest manager 19920925::US Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle 19920925::Gregory Kingsley, 12, wins right to divorce his parents & live with his foster parents, he takes name Shawn Russ 19940925::Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2 for heavyweight boxing title 19970925::"ER" is performed live on TV 19970925::Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph) 19970925::Marv Albert plea bargains in assault case 19970925::STS 86 (Atlantis 20) launches into orbit 19970925::WNBA announces it will add Detroit & Wash DC franchises 13710926::Battle of Maritsa: Serbia-Turkey 13960926::Sultan Bajezid I beheads 100s of crusaders 14040926::Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established 15800926::Francis Drake with Spanish treasure returns to England 16290926::Sweden & Poland signs Peace of Altmark 16550926::Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from Swedish in Delaware 16800926::Tax revolt in Gorinchem due to tax on cereal 16870926::Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians 17330926::France, Spain & Sardinia sign anti-German covenant 17710926::Denis Diderot's "Le Fils Naturel," premieres in Paris 17720926::New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practice medicine 17770926::British troops occupy Philadelphia during American Revolution 17860926::England & France sign trade agreement 17890926::4th Postmaster General: Samuel Osgood of Mass takes office 17890926::Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; 17890926::Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney Genl 18150926::Russia, Prussia & Austria sign Holy Alliance 18240926::Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives 18310926::Robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator," premieres in NYC 18350926::Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor," premieres in Naples 18610926::2nd British Golf Open: Tom Morris Sr shoots a 163 at Prestwick Club 18740926::1st Grand International Rifle match held 18760926::1st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux) 18840926::Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed 18870926::Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone 18900926::US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3› piece 18920926::1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ) 18920926::Diamond Match Co patented book matches 18950926::Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea 18980926::Victor Herbert/Harry Smith' musical premieres in NYC 19010926::Boer General Botha captures Fort Itala in Natal 19010926::Great Britain annexes Gold Coast (Ghana) 19040926::Charles Kleins "Music Master," premieres in NYC 19040926::Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada 19040926::GB Shaw's "How He Lied to Her Husband," premieres in NYC 19060926::Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, 8-0 in 6 inning game 19070926::NZ declares independence from UK 19080926::Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader 19140926::Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce 19140926::Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels 19160926::Bishop speak against Catholics in trade unions 19170926::British assault on Menin-street, France 19180926::Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WW I 19190926::US President Wilson hit by a heart attack 19210926::Yankee Ruth hits HRs 57 & 58 to beat Indians 8-7 19230926::Stresemann Govt ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied 19250926::8th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Olympia Fields CC Matteson Ill 19250926::Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead 19260926::JB Fagan's "And So to Bed," premieres in London 19260926::Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant 19270926::St James Theater (Erlanger) opens at 246 W 44th St NYC 19290926::John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria 19310926::Earl Claus von Stauffenberg marries Freiin Nina von Lerchenfeld 19330926::Sidney Kingsley's "Men in White," premieres in NYC 19340926::British liner Queen Mary is launched 19380926::Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land 19390926::German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed) 19400926::Airplane manufacturer in Woolston bombed, 30 killed 19400926::Japanese troops attack French Indo-China 19410926::Nazi's slaughter about 34,000 Jews of Kiev 19440926::British & Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem) 19440926::Soviet forces occupy Estonia 19450926::All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid 19460926::1st edition of Tintin (Kuifje), publishes until June 1993 19470926::Happy Chandler announces Ford & Gillette to sponsor World Series 19480926::Boston Braves win 1st NL championship since 1914 19500926::Australia wins Davis Cup tennis tournament 19500926::Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England 19500926::Phils pitcher Jim Konstanty makes record 71st appearance of year 19500926::UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul 19510926::Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris 19520926::Yanks clinch 4th straight & 19th AL pennant, beating A's 5-2 19530926::Billy Hunter is last St Louis Browns player to homer in a game 19530926::KERO TV channel 23 in Bakersfield, CA (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting 19530926::Polish govt fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski 19530926::US & Spain sign defense treaty (4 US bases in Spain) 19540926::Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru, 1172 die 19540926::KODE TV channel 12 in Joplin, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting 19540926::KUTV TV channel 2 in Salt Lake City, UT (NBC) begins broadcasting 19540926::Patty Berg wins LPGA Ardmore Golf Open 19540926::Typhoon hits Japan - 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600 19540926::WANE TV channel 15 in Fort Wayne, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting 19540926::WCAX TV channel 3 in Burlington, VT (CBS) begins broadcasting 19540926::A's defeats Yanks 8-6 in last game franchise will play in Phila 19540926::Yogi Berra plays his only game at 3rd & Mickey Mantle plays shortstop 19550926::NY Stock Exchange worst price decline since 1929 19570926::"West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 734 perfs 19570926::Bernstein & Sondheim's musical "West Side Story," premieres in NYC 19570926::Dag Hammarskj”ld re-elected secretary-general of UN 19570926::Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway 19570926::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19580926::Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (England) in 18th America's Cup 19580926::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19590926::Japan hit by typhoon Vera; about 5,000 die 19590926::Milwaukee Braves Warren Spahn becomes winningest NL lefty 19590926::SF Giants Sam Jones 2nd no-hitter, beats St Louis Cards, 4-0 19590926::Vera, Japan hit by a typhoon; about 5,000 die 19600926::1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place (Chicago) 19600926::Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro) 19600926::Ted Williams last at bat is his 521st HR (off Jack Fisher) 19610926::"From the Second City" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 87 performances 19610926::Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record 19620926::LA Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104) 19620926::TV comedy series "Beverly Hillbillies" premieres on CBS 19620926::Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day) 19630926::1st edition of NYC Review of Books 19630926::Lee Harvey Oswald travels on Continental Trailways bus to Mexico 19640926::Braves (25) & Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn 19650926::11th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie 19650926::Minnesota gains its 1st AL pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1 19650926::Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of British Empire 19660926::"Staten Island," 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay 19670926::Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Violin concert, premieres in Moscow 19680926::1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV 19680926::Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal 19680926::St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA 19680926::Theatre censorship ends in Britain 19690926::Beatles release "Abbey Road" album 19690926::Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia 19690926::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19700926::Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open 19710926::Jim Palmer is 4th Oriole to win at least 20 games this season 19710926::Pam Higgins wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open 19710926::WGBY TV channel 57 in Springfield, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting 19720926::American Museum of Immigration dedicated 19720926::Norway rejects membership in European Common Market 19730926::Concorde flies from Washington DC to Paris in 3h33m 19730926::Turkey's state of siege ends (after 2« years) 19730926::Wilt Chamberlain signs with ABA San Diego Conquistadors 19740926::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19750926::Phillies & NY Mets play a doubleheader that ends at 3:15 AM 19760926::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 19760926::Denver's Rick Upchurch returns 2 punts for TDs against Cleveland 19760926::Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Carlton Golf 19760926::Phillies clinch their 1st NL East Division title 19770926::Cleveland Browns play their 1st overtime game, beat Patriots 30-27 19770926::Sir Freddie Laker begins cut-rate "Skytrain" service, London to NY 19780926::RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service 19780926::NY District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley rules that women sportswriters cannot be banned from locker rooms 19790926::1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million 19790926::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19800926::Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed 19800926::Cuban govt closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla" 19800926::Soyuz 38 returns to Earth 19810926::Houston Astro Nolan Ryan 5th no-hitter beats LA Dodgers, 5-0 19810926::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19820926::"Doll's Life" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 5 perfs 19820926::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 19830926::Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks NY Giant record 56 yard field goal 19830926::Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner) 19830926::Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10 19830926::Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns 19830926::Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic 19830926::St Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0 19840926::5,251 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium 19840926::Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit 19840926::Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997 19840926::Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University 19840926::Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd 19840926::Pres Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa 19850926::Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya 19860926::Antonin Scalia, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice 19860926::RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit top 10 (Raisin' Hell) 19860926::William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court 19860926::Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season) 19870926::Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games 19880926::Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test 19880926::NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark 19880926::Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM 19880926::US space shuttle STS-26 launched 19890926::Last Vietnamese soldier leaves Cambodia 19890926::Last Vietnamese soldiers leave Cambodia 19890926::MPAA creates NC-17 rating for movies with adult themes 19890926::Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet & US chemical weapons 19900926::Motion Picture Assn of America creates new NC-17 rating 19910926::2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins 19920926::Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova, 7-5, 6-3 19920926::Nigerian Hercules C-130 crashes at Lagos, 163 die 19920926::Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame 19920926::Tsuruhiko Kiuchi discovers comet Swift-Tuttle 19920926::1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates 19930926::30th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 15-13 at The Belfry, England 19930926::Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning 19930926::Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating Brewers 6-4 19930926::Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic 19930926::Seattle's Randy Johnson joins 300-strikeout club 19940926::Estonia government of Laar flees 19940926::Switzerland bans racist propaganda 19950926::"George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr 19950926::Earliest 1st-class cricket in Aust season (Qld v Western Prov) 19950926::Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in Pakistan from 0-1 19960926::SF Giant Bobby Bond is 2nd player to hit 40 HRs & steal 40 bases 19960926::Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), lands 19970926::Seattle Mariner Ken Griffey Jr hits his 56th HR of 1997 00700927::Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Romans 12900927::Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000 13120927::Duke John II of Brabant ends Charter of Kortenberg 15090927::Storm ravages Flemish/Dutch/Friese coast, 1000s killed 15400927::Pope Paul III recognizes Society of Jesus/Order of the Jesuits 15400927::Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola 16940927::Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 Brit ships sink & 3,000 die 17770927::Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British [NS=Oct 6] 17770927::English General William Howe occupies Philadelphia 17790927::John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain 17870927::Constitution submitted to states for ratification 17940927::French troops conquer CrŠvecoeur 18210927::Mexican Empire declares its independence 18210927::Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw 18250927::Railroad transportation is born with 1st track (Stockton-Darlington) 18300927::Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed 18330927::Charles Darwin rides horse to Santa Fe 18340927::Charles Darwin returns to Valparaiso 18520927::George L Aiken's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," premieres in Troy, NY 18540927::Steamship "Arctic" sinks with 300 people on board 18550927::George F Bristow's "Rip Van Winkle," 2nd American opera, opens in NYC 18630927::Jo Shelby's cavalry in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas 18640927::Battle at Pilot Knob (Ft Davidson), Missouri: 1700 killed/injured 18640927::Centralia Massacre (Missouri): "Bloody Bill" Anderson/Frank/ 18640927::Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150 killed 18770927::John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti 18810927::Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12 18920927::Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company 18940927::Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY 19000927::Victory Theater (Republic, Belasco) opens at 207 W 42nd St NYC 19050927::1st published blues composition forms sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues 19050927::Boston's Bill Dinneen no-hits Chic White Sox, 2-0 19090927::29th US Mens Tennis: W A Larned beats W J Clothier (61 62 57 16 61) 19100927::1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France) 19120927::W C Handy publishes "Memphis Blues" 1st Blues Song, 1912 19140927::Cleveland 2nd baseman Nap Lajoie collects his 3,000th hit 19160927::1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians 19160927::Emperor Lidj Jasu of Ethiopia flees 19170927::Broadhurst Theater opens at 235 W 44th St NYC 19170927::EHC soccer team forms in Hoensbroek Neth 19190927::British troops withdraw from Archangelsk 19190927::Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members 19190927::Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs 19190927::Babe Ruth's 29th HR is 1st of year in Wash (1st in every park in league in one season) 19210927::Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds 19220927::King Constantine I of Greece abdicates 19230927::Italian troops leave occupied Korfu 19230927::NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits 1st of his 493 HRs 19240927::Giants clinch their 4th straight pennant, beating Phils 5-1 19280927::US recognizes Nationalist Chinese government 19300927::34th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones 19300927::Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs 19300927::White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns 19310927::Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481) 19310927::Closest NL batting race ends Chick Hafey (.3488) beats Bill Terry's 19350927::Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game & clinch NL pennant 19360927::1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game 19360927::Franco troops conquer Toledo 19360927::Netherlands leave Gold Standard/devaluate guilder 19370927::1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY) 19380927::British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth," launches at Clydebank Scotland 19380927::Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany 19380927::League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China 19380927::Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched at Glasgow 19390927::Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance 19390927::White Sox host 1st "day-night" doubleheader, lose to Cleve, 5-2 & 7-5 19400927::55 German aircrafts shot down above England 19400927::Black leaders protest discrimination in US armed forces 19400927::Floyd Giebells, 1st game, 2-0 pennant clinching beating Bob Feller 19400927::Nazi-Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis) 19400927::Yankees, lose to A's & eliminated from pennant for 1st time since 1935 19410927::1st WW II liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, launched 19420927::Heavy German assault in Stalingrad 19420927::NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down 19420927::Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general 19420927::St Louis Cards win NL pennant on last day of season 19430927::Anti-fascism opposition begins in Naples 19430927::Dutch opposition newspaper "The Slogan" publishes KZ-Lower letter 19440927::Helmond & Oss Neth liberated 19460927::King George II of Greece returns from exile 19470927::"Sweethearts" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 288 performances 19480927::"Carib Song" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 36 performances 19500927::Dr Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize 19500927::Ezzard Charles beats Joe Louis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 19500927::Heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles KOs Joe Louis in NYC 19510927::Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan 19530927::Bert Bechichar, Baltimore Colts, kicks a 56-yard field goal 19530927::KCMO (now KCTV) TV channel 5 in Kansas City, MO (CBS) begins 19530927::KNOE TV channel 8 in Monroe-West Monroe, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting 19530927::KOLO TV channel 8 in Reno, NV (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting 19530927::KQTV TV channel 2 in Saint Joseph, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting 19530927::St Louis Browns play last game in Sportsman's Park, losing 100th game 19530927::Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya Japan 19530927::WHBQ TV channel 13 in Memphis, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting 19530927::WMAZ TV channel 13 in Macon, GA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting 19530927::WTOK TV channel 11 in Meridian, MS (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting 19540927::1st African American Supreme Court page is CV Bush 19540927::School integration begins in Wash DC & Baltimore Md public schools 19540927::Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" premieres 19570927::Giants rent Seals Stadium until Candlestick is built 19590927::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open 19590927::Braves & Dodgers finish in a tie (86-68) 19590927::Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit 19590927::Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, kills nearly 5,000 19600927::Europe's 1st "moving pavement," (travelator), opens at Bank station 19610927::Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269 19610927::Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of UN 19620927::Military uprising under Col Abdullah as-Sallal North Yemen 19620927::US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles 19630927::At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at 190,000,000 19630927::Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cubans consulate in Mexico 19640927::Despite 3 HRs by Johnny Callison, Phils are 14-8 losers to Braves 19640927::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open 19640927::Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place 19640927::Warren Commission released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone 19670927::Phillies Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year 19670927::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19680927::"Hair" opens in London 19680927::Cardinal's super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of year 19680927::France refuses UK entry into common market 19700927::Ken Boswell sets 2nd baseman record of 85 games without an error 19710927::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19720927::1st game at Nassau Coliseum, Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 (exhibition) 19730927::Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 in 11 innings, for record 383 of season 19730927::Soyuz 12 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit (2 days) 19730927::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19740927::-10/26] Rome: 4th bishop synod 19740927::Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000 19750927::Govt De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain 19770927::Phillies clinch 2nd straight NL East Division title 19780927::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19780927::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19790927::Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education 19790927::Elton John, sick with flu, collapse on Hollywood Universal Ampitheater 19790927::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19800927::WHOT (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins on 1620 AM & 92.5 FM 19810927::"Day in Hollywood, A Night..," closes at John Golden NY after 588 perf 19820927::Cards clinching NL East title 19820927::Filming begins on "Never Say Never Again" 19820927::Jan Wolkers awarded but refuses Constantine Huygens-prize 19820927::John Palmer becomes news anchor of Today Show 19830927::S Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years 19830927::Tim Raines is 1st since Ty Cobb to steal 70 & drive in 70 runs 19850927::8 killed as roof collapses in Brussel's supermarket 19850927::Hurricane Gloria's 130 MPH wind hits Atlantic coast 19860927::Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms 19870927::27th Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 15-13 at Muirfield Village GC (Ohio) 19870927::Jan Stephens wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic 19870927::NFL players' strike 19870927::Phil Niekro final appearance & is pounded for 5 runs in 3 innings 19880927::Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story 19880927::Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ`s burial cloth 19880927::Senate votes for major federal tax code changes 19890927::Oakland wins AL West & SF wins NL West title 19890927::Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash 19900927::Dee Dee Ramone arrested on marijuana possession 19900927::Deposed emir of Kuwait address UN General Assembly 19900927::Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley Calif 19900927::Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court 19900927::Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House 19900927::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19910927::"Princesses" premieres on CBS TV 19910927::Pres Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert 19910927::1st scheduled NHL exhibition game in St Petersburg Fla, is cancelled due to poor ice conditions (NY Islanders vs Boston Bruins) 19920927::ASPCA stops Santeria ceremony in Bronx halts sacrifice of 42 animals 19920927::LA Dodgers for 1st time in history clinch last place 19920927::Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163 19920927::Nancy Scranton wins Los Coyotes LPGA Golf Classic 19920927::Pittsburgh Pirates win their 3rd straight NL East title 19920927::Seattle's Randy Johnson ties AL record for lefties with 18 strike outs 19930927::Actor Daniel Day Lewis pleads guilty to speeding charges 19960927::Balt Oriole Roberto Alomar spits in face of umpire John Hirschbeck 19980927::Core States Betsy King Golf Classic 02350928::Bishop of Rome Pontianus steps down 03510928::Battle at Mursa: emperor Constantine II beats emperor Maxentius 03510928::Constantine II beats emperor Maxentius 10660928::William the Conqueror troops sail to England 11060928::Battle at Tinchebrai: English King Henry I beats his brother Robert 13220928::Battle of Mhldorf 13620928::Guillaum de Grimoard elected as Pope Urban V 13940928::Cardinal Pedro de Luna of Arag¢n chosen (anti)pope Benedictus XIII 15210928::Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade 15280928::Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane; about 380 die 15380928::Battle at Preveza: Turkish fleet under Barbarossa beats Spanish 15420928::Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay 16210928::Battle at Chocim Dniester: King Sigismund II beats Turks 16520928::English-Dutch sea battle at Kentish Knock 16780928::"Pilgrim's Progress" published 16870928::Venetians take Athens from the Turks 17010928::Divorce legalized in MD 17040928::Maryland allows divorce if wife mispleases clergyman/preacher 17080928::Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy 17450928::Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes king of Scotland 17600928::Russian & Austrian army occupies Berlin 17670928::Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope 17810928::9,000 American forces & 7,000 French forces begin siege of Yorktown 17850928::Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51) 17870928::Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval 18150928::Joachim Murats fleet sails from Corsica to Naples 18290928::Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston 18500928::US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment 18580928::Donati's comet becomes 1st to be photographed 18640928::-30) Battle of Fort Harrison VA (Chaffin's Farm New Market Heights) 18670928::Toronto becomes capital of Ontario 18680928::Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella 2 of Spain to flee to France 18680928::Opelousas Massacre at St Landry Parish Louisiana (200 blacks killed) 18790928::Sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route 18870928::Gele River (Huang Ho) in China floods, kills about 1.5 million 18890928::Carlos I crowned King of Portugal (1889-1908) 18920928::1st night football game played (Mansfield Pa) 18940928::Simon Marks & Tom Spencer open Penny Bazaar in Manchester 18990928::Transvaal mobilizes 19010928::Guerrilla's assault unarmed US soldiers in Balangiga Phil, 38 killed 19040928::Woman arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, NYC 19060928::US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909 19120928::"Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000 19120928::SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die 19140928::German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I) 19150928::Battle of Kut-el-Amara: Brits defeat Turks in Mesopotamia 19190928::Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1 19200928::8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal) 19200928::Dirk Fock appointed as gov-gen of Neth Indies 19210928::4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood CC Far Rockaway NY 19220928::Mussolini marches on Rome 19230928::Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations 19230928::Radio Times 1st published 19230928::Yanks slaughter Red Sox 24-4 19240928::2 US Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops 19240928::French govt names Gen Serrail gov-gen of Syria 19240928::Gen Plutarco Calles elected president of Mexico 19260928::Russia & Latvia treaty of neutrality signed 19280928::1st recording session in Nashville (Warmack's Gully Jumpers) 19280928::Juan de la Cierva makes 1st helicopter flight over English Channel 19280928::NY Yanks clinch pennant #6 19280928::Prussia forbids speech from Adolf Hitler 19280928::US acknowledge Chinese govt of Chiang Kai-shek 19280928::Valentin Katayev's "Kvadratura Kruga," premieres in Moscow 19290928::1st CF interception return for a touchdown (Joe Hess-U of Alberta) 19300928::Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games 19310928::Peking (200,000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan) 19320928::NY Yankees win World Series The winning pitcher is Babe Ruth beating Red Sox 9-3 19330928::Greer Garson wed Edward Snelson 19330928::Sally Eilers weds Harry Joe Brown 19360928::Bachelor's Children debuts on CBS radio (at 9:45 am) 19360928::Brooklyn & Boston play a penalty free NFL game 19370928::FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon) 19370928::Martha Raye divorces Bud Westmore 19380928::Clare Boothe's "Boys Goodbye," premieres in NYC 19380928::Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming" 19390928::Estonia accepts Soviet military bases 19390928::Final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard on radio 19390928::Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to USSR, last Polish troops surrender 19400928::Michigan's Tom Harmon runs 72, 86 & 94 yard touchdowns 19400928::Nazi occupiers present "New Dutch Culture" in German 19400928::Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands & attempts to tackle Tom Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades Brennan 19410928::Phillies lose club record 111th game 19410928::Ted Williams ended the baseball season with .406 batting avg 19420928::Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad 19420928::NY Americans NHL team folded 19440928::1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise) 19440928::Battle of Arnhem, Germans defeat British airborne in Netherlands 19440928::Nazi murders in Marzabotto, Italy (SS-major Reder) 19450928::"Mildred Price" starring Joan Crawford opens at Strand 19450928::Canadian football's Calgary Bronks changes its name to Stampeders 19450928::Robert T Duncan appears as Tonio in "I Pagliacci" 19460928::Greek king George II back in Athens 19480928::WBAP-TV, (NBC affiliate) Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting 19490928::"My Friend Irma" is 1st of 12 films starring Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis 19500928::Indonesia becomes 60th member of UN 19510928::Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951; Yanks clinch pennant #18 19510928::Franchot Tone wed Barbara Payton 19510928::Norm Van Brocklin of Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards 19530928::"Bob & Ray Show," TV Variety; last air on NBC 19530928::"Juvenile Jury," TV Childrens, last airs on NBC, moved to CBS 19530928::"Racket Squad," TV Crime Drama, last airs on CBS 19530928::Dutch govt proclaims 5% general pay increase on Jan 1, 1954 19530928::KOAT TV channel 7 in Albuquerque, NM (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting 19550928::1st World Series color TV broadcast on NBC-TV (Yanks beat Dodgers) 19550928::WITN TV channel 7 in Washington, NC (NBC) begins broadcasting 19560928::"Johnny Carson Show," TV Variety; last airs on CBS-TV 19560928::RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records 19570928::"Dollar A Second," last airs on NBC-TV 19570928::"Gisele MacKenzie Show," debuts on NBC-TV 19570928::"Honeycomb," by Jimmie Rodgers hits #1 19570928::Dutch Queen Juliana opens Velser Tunnels 19580928::France adopts constitution 19580928::Guinea votes for independence from France 19580928::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19580928::USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's 19590928::"Hennesey," debuts on CBS-TV 19590928::Edward Franklin Albee's "zoo story," premieres in Berlin 19590928::Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around Earth 19600928::"Millionaire," last airs on CBS-TV 19600928::"My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own," by Connie Francis hits #1 19600928::"Queen For A Day," moves to ABC-TV 19600928::"Sunrise at Campobello" premiered at Palace theater 19600928::Ted Williams hits his final homer #521 19610928::"Doctor Kildare," debuts on NBC-TV 19610928::"Hazel," starring Shirley Booth debuts on NBC-TV 19610928::"Purlie Victorious," a farce by Ossie Davis, opens on Broadway 19610928::Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic 19610928::Ted Williams hits a HR on his last at bat 19610928::USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m 19610928::Walt Disney's movie "Grey Friars Bobby" premieres 19620928::"Brighter Day," last airs on CBS-TV daytime 19620928::"I'm Dickens, He's Fenster," debuts on ABC-TV 19620928::"Jan Murray Show," last airs on NBC-TV 19620928::"Tonight Show," last airs on NBC-TV 19620928::"Verdict Is Yours," last airs on CBS-TV 19620928::Alouette (Canada), 1st Canadian satellite, launched 19630928::"King Leonardo," cartoon last airs on NBC-TV 19630928::"Little Deuce Coupe" by The Beach Boys peaks at #15 19630928::"Martian Hop" by The Ran-Dells peaks at #1 19630928::"New Phil Silvers Show," debuts on CBS-TV 19630928::"Nick Teen & Al K Hall" by Rolf Harris peaks at #95 19630928::"Sally, Go 'Round The Roses" by Jaynetts peaks at #2 19630928::"Shari Lewis Show," last airs on NBC-TV 19630928::"Surfer Joe" by Surfaris peaks at #62 19630928::"Tennessee Tuxedo," cartoon debuts on CBS-TV 19630928::Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates record 25.78 mph (415 k) for 440 yds 19630928::Murray The K, a NY DJ plays "She Loves You" on the radio 19640928::53rd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (3-2) 19640928::Suriname governor A Currie resigns 19650928::Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km 19650928::Lava flows kill at least 350 (Taal Philippines) 19650928::Volcano explodes on Luzon Philippines; 500 killed 19670928::Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, DC 19680928::"Happy Time" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 286 performances 19680928::"Hey Jude" by Beatles peaks at #1 19680928::"Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Barrymore NYC for 17 perfs 19680928::Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr 19680928::Atlanta Chiefs beat San Diego Toros 3-0 for NASL championship 19680928::Beatles' "Hey Jude," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks 19680928::Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes 19680928::Janis Joplin announces she's leaving "Big Brother & Holding Co" 19680928::Marisa Danisi of W Germany roller skates record 21,995 miles in 1 hr 19690928::Joe Kapp (Minn Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (52-14) 19690928::Minnesota vs Baltimore, gains 530 yards passing! 19690928::SPD wins West German Parliament elections 19700928::"Words & Music," debuts on NBC-TV 19700928::Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar 19700928::Intrepid (US) beats Gretel II (Aust) in 22nd America's Cup 19700928::Ringo Starr released his "Beaccups of Blues" album 19710928::Cardinal Josef Mindszenty of Hungary took refuge in US Embassy in 19710928::NY Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music 19710928::Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile & flies to Rome 19720928::David Bowie sells out his 1st show in NY Carnegie Hall 19720928::Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations 19730928::Palestinian Terrorists hijack Austrian train 19740928::"Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" by Aretha Franklin peaks at #47 19740928::"I'm A Ramblin' Man" by Waylon Jennings peaks at #75 19740928::"Live It Up Part 1" by Isley Brothers peaks at #52 19740928::"Papa Don't Take No Mess Part 1" by James Brown peaks at #31 19740928::"Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim peaks at #1 19740928::"Surfin' USA" by Beach Boys reenters chart & peaks at #36 19740928::1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy 19740928::Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0 19740928::John Lennon appears as guest dj on WNEW-FM (NYC) 19740928::Mick Ronson joins Mott the Hoople 19750928::5th NYC Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt in 2:46:14 19750928::6th NYC Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:19:27 19750928::Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies 19750928::Oakland A's Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad & Rollie Fingers, no-hits Calif Angels 5-0 19760928::A&M sues George Harrison who fails to meet deadline for LP completion 19760928::Congress passes Toxic Substances Control Act 19760928::Muhammad Ali beats Ken Norton in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 19780928::Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord 19780928::Pieter Botha succeeds Vorster as premier of South Africa 19780928::Syrians & Lebanese engage in heavy fighting in Lebanon 19790928::Larry Holmes TKOs Earnie Shaver in 11 for heavyweight boxing title 19800928::"Charlie & Algernon" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 17 perfs 19800928::Carl Sagan's 13 part "Cosmos" premieres on PBS 19800928::Jaromir Wagner is 1st to fly Atlantic standing on wing 19800928::Jerilyn Britz wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic 19810928::Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City 19820928::1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules 19820928::NASA launches Intelsat V 19830928::STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad 19840928::1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi) 19840928::Cleve Indians down 0-10 to Minn Twins, win 11-10 19850928::"Don't Lose My Number" by Phil Collins peaks at #4 19850928::"Every Step Of The Way" by John Waite peaks at #25 19850928::"Freedom" by Wham! peaks at #3 19850928::"Janet" by Commodores peaks at #87 19850928::NASA launches Intelsat VA 19850928::Race riot in London area of Brixton 19860928::Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City) 19860928::Tight end Brian Foster of RI catches NCAA record 18 passes for 327 yds 19860928::Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21 19870928::"Star Trek: The Next Generation," debuts on syndicated TV 19870928::Gladys Knight & Smokey Robinson on "$10,000 Pyramid" 19880928::Bronx Museum for Arts opens 19880928::Javed Miandad scores his 19th Test Cricket century (v Aus, Faisalabad) 19880928::LA Dodger Orel Hershiser sets record for consecutive scoreless inns 19900928::Exiled emir of Kuwait visits White House 19900928::Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame 19910928::"Commish," debuts on ABC-TV 19910928::"Good Time" by Ziggy Marley & Melody Makers peaks at #85 19910928::"Love Of A Lifetime" by Firehouse peaks at #5 19910928::"Shiny Happy People" by REM peaks to #10 19910928::NY Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game 19910928::UN weapons inspectors ends 5-day standoff with Iraq 19920928::"Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" closes at Paramount Theater NYC 19920928::"Dog City," cartoon debuts on Fox-TV 19920928::Oakland A's win AL West title 19920928::Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies 19930928::Dennis Martinez is 7th to win 100 games in AL & NL 19930928::Gas field in Caracas explodes, 53 killed 19930928::Ron Wood releases "Slide On Live" 19940928::"Baseball" TV Miniseries last airs on PBS 19940928::"Cats" 5,000th Broadway performance (joins Chorus Line & Oh! Calcutta!) 19940928::"Ed Wood" premieres 19940928::909 people died when an Estonian ferry capsized & sank in Baltic sea 19940928::Ferry boat Estonia capsize & sinks in East Sea, 909 killed 19950928::"Batman Forever" released Czech Republic 19950928::Dennis Martinez pitch breaks Kirby Puckett's jaw in Indians 12-4 win 19950928::Mary Tyler Moore returns to series TV in "NY News," on CBS 19950928::Singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in gun battle 19950928::Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld v W Prov 19950928::Yitzhak Rabin & Yasir Arafat, sign accord to transfer West Bank 19960928::1st ODI played in Kenya between home team & Sri Lanka 19960928::Joyce Giraud, crowned 8th Ms Venus Swimwear 19960928::NY Yankee Jim Leyitz is 2nd catcher to wear a hockey mask 19960928::Nebraska & Penn State are 5th & 6th major colleges to win 700 19960928::Orioles' Roberto Alomar suspended 5 games for spitting at ump 19960928::Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas & Alabama) 19970928::32nd Ryder Cup: at Sotogrande Spain 19970928::Emerald Coast Senior Golf Classic 19970928::Newscaster David Brinkley, 74, retires after 54 years in broadcasting 19970928::St Louis Card Mark McGwire hits his 58th HR of 1997 (34 with Oak A's) 19970928::Wendy Ward wins LPGA Fieldcrest Cannon Classic 19980928::Europe beats US in Ryder Cup, 14«-13« 02190929::Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome 02350929::St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope 04400929::Pope Leo I the Great, installed 08550929::Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 10660929::William the Conqueror invade England 11870929::Saladins army marches into Jerusalem 12270929::Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German emperor Frederik II 13490929::People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells 13640929::Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany 15210929::Turkish troops occupy Belgrade 15240929::Emperor Charles V's troops give siege of Marseille 15640929::Robert Dudley becomes earl of Leicester 15670929::War of Religion - Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX 16080929::Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for colonists 16500929::2nd Fronde-uprising ends 16500929::Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England) 16780929::France & Brandenburg signs peace treaty 17850929::Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland 17890929::1st congress adjourns 17890929::US War Dept established a regular army 17930929::Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine 18150929::King Willem I forms Order of Dutch Lion 18290929::London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard) 18490929::1st passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad) 18530929::Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348 18590929::Great auroral display in US 18630929::Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced (Paris) 18640929::Battle of Waynesboro & New Market Heights VA 18720929::"3 Fingers" Mackenzie destroys Kwahadi-Commanche village 18720929::Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree 18750929::US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban rebellion 18790929::NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players 18900929::1st pro baseball game, NY Metropolitans beat Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at Polo Grounds in NYC 18920929::1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn) 18980929::French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught 19020929::Impresario David Belasco opens his 1st Broadway theater 19040929::1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio) 19060929::US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma 19070929::Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral 19080929::Calgary Rugby Football Union forms 19110929::Gun magazine of French battleship Libert‚ explode 19110929::Italy declares war on Turkey 19110929::Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning 19120929::French/British troops lands on Samoa 19130929::Sam S Shubert Theater opens at 225 W 44th St NYC 19130929::Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game 19140929::Boston Braves, who were in last place in mid-July, clinch NL pennant 19150929::1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent 19150929::British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotami‰ 19150929::Dutch Opera's 1st performance 19150929::Herbert/Blossoms musical "Princess Pat," premieres in NYC 19150929::Hurricane claims 275 in Mississippi Delta 19150929::Phila Phillies clinch their 1st pennant 19180929::Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line 19200929::Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54 19200929::Belgium annexes Eupen/Malm‚dy 19200929::Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10 19210929::Pirates drop doubleheader to Cards to allow idle Giants to clinch NL 19220929::Mussolini ask Vatican for support of fascist party program 19230929::6th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Pelham CC Pelham NY 19230929::Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public 19240929::Santo Domingo joins League of Nations 19240929::Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front of Yankees 19250929::French Gen of Morocco, marshal Lyautey, is dismissed 19250929::Greek republican constitution enforced 19260929::Norma Shearer wed Irving Thalberg 19270929::Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games 19270929::Telephone service begins between US & Mexico 19270929::Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri, 85 die 19280929::Cardinals win NL pennant with a 3-1 win at Boston 19280929::Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10 19300929::1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC 19300929::Bing Crosby marries Dixie Lee 19300929::Boquer¢n battle ends Paraguay border dispute 19300929::Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons 19300929::NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising 19320929::"Bill of Divorcement" premieres at the Mayfair 19330929::Little King, Cartoon Character, by Von Beuren, debut 19340929::Rondo Hatton weds Mabel Housh 19350929::5th Ryder Cup: US, 9-3 at Ridgewood CC NJ 19360929::Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign 19370929::Frans Slaats bicycles world record time (45,563 km) 19380929::1st archival course is offered at Columbia University in NYC 19380929::Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier & Chamberlain 19400929::"Double or Nothing," a radio quiz show, 1st heard on Mutual Radio Net 19400929::"Strike Up Band," opens 19400929::1st US merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware 19410929::Joe Louis TKOs Lou Nova in 6 for heavyweight boxing title 19410929::Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade 19410929::Nazi mass murder at Babi Jar, Soviet Union 19420929::32øF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept 19420929::Govt of De Gaulle cancels agreement of Munich 19430929::1st Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel 19430929::Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice 19430929::German riots at Amsterdam Jews 19430929::Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger/Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchug 19440929::Browns last in AL attendance,only 6,172 watch them sweep Yanks in DH 19440929::Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia 19450929::Cubs clinch NL pennant 19460929::"Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio 19460929::1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards & Dodgers) 19460929::Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10« secs 19460929::Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA 19460929::NPS, Nationale Party Suriname, forms 19470929::Dizzy Gillespie presented his 1st Carnegie Hall concert in NY 19470929::Former Yank manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Red Sox 19470929::Record World Series crowd of 73,365 at Yankee Stadium ($325,828) 19480929::Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" opens at Park Avenue Cinema 19480929::WBAP (now KXAS) TV channel 5 in Fort Worth-Dallas, TX (NBC) begins 19480929::WSB TV channel 2 in Atlanta, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting 19490929::"Front Page," debuts on CBS-TV 19490929::"Inside USA With Chevrolet," debuts on CBS-TV 19490929::Elia Kazan's "Pinky" starring Ethel Waters opens at Rivoli 19490929::George Lascelles marries Maria Stein 19500929::"Tin Pan Alley TV," last airs on ABC-TV 19500929::Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories 19500929::Yanks clinch 2nd consecutive pennant under Casey Stengel 19510929::1st color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS) 19510929::Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m & 10 mile 19510929::S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter 19520929::"Lights Out," last airs on NBC-TV 19520929::Stan Musial makes his only major league pitching appearance 19530929::"Buick-Berle Show," debuts on NBC-TV 19530929::"Make Room for Daddy," starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV 19530929::1st dept store to sell insurance is Carson Pirie Scott in Chicago Ill 19530929::Balt Mayor D'Alesandro buys Veeck's interest in Browns for $2,475,000 19530929::Milton Berle Show premieres 19530929::US govt gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China 19540929::"Barefoot Contessa" starring Ava Gardner premieres at the Capitol 19540929::"Masquerade Party," TV game Show; moves to ABC 19540929::"Star is Born" starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres 19540929::Bennekom soccer team forms in Bennekom 19540929::KALB TV channel 5 in Alexandria, LA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 19540929::Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive 19550929::"Sergeant Preston," debuts on CBS 19550929::Ali Sastroamidjojo's PNI wins elections in Indonesia 19550929::Arthur Millers "View From The Bridge," premieres in NYC 19560929::"I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer peaks at #87 19560929::"Oh! Susanna," debuts on CBS-TV 19560929::Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season 19570929::"DuPont Show of the Month," debuts on CBS-TV 19570929::"Paul Winchell Show," debuts on ABC-TV 19570929::300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan) 19570929::Buddy Holly & Crickets released 2nd single "Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away" 19570929::NY Giants play & lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts) 19570929::Passenger train & oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die 19580929::"Studio One," TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV 19580929::"Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran peaks at #8 19580929::"Texan," debuts on CBS-TV 19580929::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19590929::"Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis," debuts on CBS-TV 19590929::"Philip Marlowe," debuts on ABC-TV 19590929::Dodgers win game 2 of playoff, 6-5, & take NL pennant 19590929::Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop" 19590929::Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution 19600929::"Johnny Ringo," TV Western Drama; last airs on CBS-TV 19600929::"My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV 19600929::"Outlaws," TV Western Drama; debuts on NBC-TV 19600929::"Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ricky Valance peaks at #1 in UK 19600929::"lrma La Douce" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 527 performances 19610929::"Detectives," TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV 19610929::Bob Dylan's 1st recording session-backup harmonica for Caroline Hester 19610929::Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria 19620929::"Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric & His Piano peaks at #7 19620929::"Green Onions" by Booker T & MG's peaks at #3 19620929::"My Fair Lady" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 2,715 perfs 19620929::"Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show," debuts on ABC-TV 19620929::"You Can't Judge A Book By Cover" by Bo Diddley peaks at #48 19620929::Algerian govt of Ben Bella forms 19620929::Indians & Angels set AL record of 40 strikeouts in a doubleheader 19620929::JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U of Mississippi 19620929::Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket) 19620929::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19630929::"Judy Garland Show," debuts on CBS-TV 19630929::"My Favorite Martian," starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV 19630929::2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opens in Rome 19630929::Card's Stan Musial's final game, gets his 3,629th & 3,630th hit 19630929::Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game 19630929::Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational 19630929::Pope Paul opens 2nd sitting of 2nd Vatican council 19630929::Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros) 19630929::Stan Musial Day in St Louis 19640929::Greece & Bulgaria close boundaries 19650929::Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4" 19650929::St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleve (49-13) 19650929::WLVT TV channel 39 in Allentown, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting 19650929::Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game & 6 times in one season 19660929::Bechuanaland gains independence from England, becomes Botswana 19660929::Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season 19670929::-Oct 29] Rome: 1st bishop synod 19670929::Gladys Knight & Pips releases "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" 19670929::Intl Monetary Fund reforms world monetary system 19670929::Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead & plays the Straightater 19680929::Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational 19680929::Carl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight batting crown 19680929::Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts) 19690929::"Bright Promise," TV Daytime Soap; debuts on NBC-TV 19690929::"Letters To Laugh-In," debuts on NBC-TV 19690929::"Love American Style," premieres on ABC-TV 19690929::"Name Droppers," debuts on NBC-TV 19690929::"Sale Of Century," debuts on NBC-TV 19690929::7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6 19690929::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 19690929::Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put Little Love in Your Heart" 19690929::Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th HR of season 19690929::Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver 19700929::"NET Festival," last aired 19710929::"McMillan & Wife," debuts on NBC-TV 19710929::Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 19710929::Orbiting Solar Observatory VII launched 19710929::Ron Hunt is hit by a pitch for record 50th time in a season 19710929::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19720929::Japan & People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations 19730929::"Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne" by Looking Glass peaks at #33 19730929::"We're An American Band" by Grand Funk peaks at #1 19730929::Balt Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit) 19730929::Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more highway accidents 19730929::Soyuz 12 returns to Earth 19740929::4th NYC Women's Marathon won by Katherine Switzer in 3:07:29 19740929::5th NYC Marathon won by Norbert Sander in 2:26:30 19740929::Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ladies Golf Classic 19750929::"Three For Money," debuts on NBC-TV 19750929::Jackie Wilson, slips into an irreversible coma; he dies in 1984 19750929::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19750929::WGPR-TV Detroit, 1st Black-owned station in US, began broadcasting 19760929::"Alice," debuts on CBS-TV 19760929::2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social democratic abortion law 19760929::Boy George expelled from school 19760929::SF Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0 19760929::Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon 19760929::Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Dodger manager 19760929::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19760929::Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest 19770929::"Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band," by Meco hits #1 19770929::Eva Shain is 1st woman to referee a heavyweight championship 19770929::James Brown's band walks out claiming they were underpaid & overworked 19770929::Muhammad Ali beats Earnie Shavers in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 19770929::Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini," premieres in Amsterdam 19770929::Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit 19780929::"Flying High," debuts on CBS 19780929::"For Richer, For Poorer," TV Daytime Soap; last airs on NBC-TV 19790929::"Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick peaks at #35 19790929::"Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks at #14 19790929::"Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" by Pat Travers peaks at #56 19790929::"Born To Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez peaks at #16 19790929::"Cruel To Be Kind" by Nick Lowe peaks at #12 19790929::"Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern peaks at #18 19790929::"Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears peaks at #15 19790929::"Girls Talk" by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65 19790929::"Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks at #6 19790929::"Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK 19790929::"What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'" by Stephanie Mills peaks at #22 19790929::Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty record of 313 19790929::Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong 19790929::John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at NY Film Festival 19790929::LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit 19790929::Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland 19800929::Malcolm McDowell wed Mary Steenburgen 19820929::1st broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV 19820929::Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago 19820929::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19830929::"A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Bdwy show 19830929::1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act 19830929::Airport of Beirut reopens 19830929::Congress authorized Pres Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon 19830929::Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0 19840929::"(What) In Name Of Love" by Naked Eyes peaks at #39 19840929::"Cruel Summer" by Bananarama peaks at #9 19840929::"Drive" by Cars peaks at #3 19840929::"Layin' It On Line" by Jefferson Starship peaks at #66 19840929::"Let's Go Crazy" by Prince & Revolution peaks at #1 19840929::"Pretty Mess" by Vanity peaks at #75 19840929::"Torture" by Jacksons peaks at #17 19840929::"When You Close Your Eyes" by Night Ranger peaks at #14 19840929::"Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84 19840929::Elizabeth Taylor, undergoing rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic 19850929::"Alfred Hitchcock Presents," returns to NBC-TV 19850929::"Amazing Stories," by Steven Spielberg, debuts on NBC-TV 19850929::"MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV 19850929::1st of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies 19850929::Deron Cherry, Kansas City vs Seattle, has 4 interceptions! 19850929::Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys) 19860929::"Airwolf," TV Adventure; moves to USA 19860929::"Designing Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS 19860929::Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers) 19860929::Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees 19860929::Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast 19860929::USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges 19870929::"Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1 19870929::"thirtysomething," debuts on ABC-TV 19870929::8th Emmy Sports Award presentation 19870929::NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of year 19880929::26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched 19880929::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC 19880929::Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's record (21.34) 19880929::UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize 19880929::Union Station reopens in Wash DC 19890929::Glenn Frey joins Don Henley on-stage (for 1st time since 1981) 19890929::Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills 19900929::"Love & Affection" by Nelson peaks at #1 on pop singles chart 19900929::"Street Scene" closes at NY State Theater NYC after 6 perfs 19900929::Brook Yeaton weds Traci Lords 19900929::Reds are 1st NL team to clinch title, staying in 1st place all year 19900929::US Sect of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister 19900929::Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years 19900929::"Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book 19910929::"My Own Private Idaho" premieres 19910929::29th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 14«-13« at Ocean Course (SC) 19910929::Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic 19920929::Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title 19920929::Magic Johnson announces return to play basketball (he doesn't) 19920929::Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor 19930929::"Grace Under Fire," starring Brett Butler debuts on ABC-TV 19930929::27th Country Music Assn Award: Vince Gill wins 19940929::1st phase of OJ Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen) 19940929::House votes to end lobbyists buying meals & entertainment for Congress 19940929::Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 19950929::Indians break 1902 Pirates record for largest lead over 2nd-place team (KC) (27« games) 19950929::OJ Simpson trial sent to the jury 19950929::Saleem Elahi scores century on ODI debut, Pakistan v Sri Lanka 19950929::US space probe Ulyssus completes 2nd passage behind Sun 19960929::"Delicate Balance" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC 19960929::34th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Atlantic City USA (5-0) 19960929::Alanis Morissette ends her 1st US tour (Houston Texas) 19960929::Balt Orioles end season with record 257 HRs 19960929::Houston Astro's retire Nolan Ryan's #34 19960929::Nintendo 64 video game system debuts in USA (3 months after Japan) 19960929::Orioles Brady Anderson is 14th to hit 50 HRs 19960929::SD Padres sweep LA Dodgers in race for NL West title 19960929::Trish Johnson wins LPGA Fieldcrest Cannon Golf Classic 19960929::US wins Federation Cup over Spain 19970929::Jury selection in Terry Nichols Okla bombing trial begins 11990930::Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew 13990930::King Richard II of England abdicates throne 14520930::1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible 15200930::Suleiman I succeeds his father SelŒm I as sultan of Turkey 15440930::King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France 15550930::Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic 16190930::Remonstrant Society forms in Antwerp 16260930::Battle between king Bethlen G bor & earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends 16490930::Last Swedish troops vacate Prague 16590930::Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe) 16590930::Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US) 16810930::Netherlands & Sweden sign treaty 17300930::Duke Victor Amadeus XI of Savoye resigns 17770930::Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance 17870930::1st US voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston 17910930::Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna 18050930::Napoleons army draws into the Rhine 18080930::Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire 18180930::Congress of Aken: Russia, Austria, Prussia, France & England 18410930::Samuel Slocum patented the stapler 18460930::Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth) 18570930::US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Is south of Hawaii 18620930::Battle of Newtonia, MS 18640930::Battle of Preble's Farm VA (Poplar Springs Church) 18640930::Black Soldiers given Medal of Honor 18670930::Midway Islands formally declared a US possession 18680930::Spain's Queen Isabella is deposed, flees to France 18770930::1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club) 18780930::1st Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii 18800930::Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of Orion Nebula 18850930::Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate 18870930::Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Five Orange Pips" (BG) 18870930::Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup 18880930::"Jack the Ripper" butchers 2 more women, Liz Stride & Kate Eddowes 18950930::France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar 18980930::City of NY established 19040930::White Sox lefty Doc White, pitches his 5th shutout in 18 days 19070930::Cards Ed Konetchy steals home twice & Joe Delahanty also steals home for record 3 steals of home (vs Boston) 19080930::Maurice Maeterlinck's "L'oiseau Blue," premieres in Moscow 19150930::Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit 19160930::Giants lose to Braves 8-3, ends 26 consecutive win streak 19190930::Avery Hopwood's "Gold Diggers," premieres in NYC 19200930::Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St NYC 19220930::Govt of Alexandros Zaimis forms in Greece 19220930::Yanks clinch pennant #2, beating Boston 3-1 19230930::Canton Bulldogs win 1st on way to 17-0 season 19240930::Allies stop checking on German navy 19250930::General P ngulos disbands Greek parliament 19260930::German/French/Belgian/Luxembourg steel cartel closes 19270930::Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary) 19280930::Le Sifflet publishes 1st precursor of Kuifje (Tintin) 19280930::Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 mi 604 yds in 1 hr 19290930::1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel) 19330930::Berlin/Hart/Heyman/Myers ballet "As Thousands Cheer," premieres in NYC 19340930::Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3 19340930::FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) 19340930::St Louis Card clinch pennant as Dizzy Dean wins his 30th of year 19350930::Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premieres in Boston 19360930::Intl Commission of Straits (Dardanelles & Bosphorus) ends 19360930::Pinewood Studios opens in Buckinghamshire England 19370930::6th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Southport & Ainsdale, England 19380930::British premier Chamberlain arrives in Munich 19380930::Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany 19390930::1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC) 19390930::41 U-boats sunk this month (153,000 ton) 19390930::Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland 19390930::White Sox reliever Clint Brown sets record of 61st relief appearance 19400930::47 German aircrafts shot down above England 19400930::59 U-boats sunk this month (295,000 tons) 19410930::3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine 19410930::53 U-boats sunk this month (202,000 tons) 19410930::German assault on Moscow: operation-Taifun, begins 19420930::98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons) 19420930::Adm Nimitz' B-17 finding Guadalcanal using National Geographic map 19420930::SS exterminates 3,500 Jews in Zelov Lodz Poland in 6 week period 19430930::Pope Pius XII encyclical on Divine spirit 19440930::-Oct 1] Failed attack on German officers near Putten Neth 19440930::Calais reoccupied by Allies 19440930::Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms 19450930::Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins pennant for Tigers 19460930::22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nremberg 19460930::Von Ribbentrop & Goering sentence to death by Nremberg trial 19470930::Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73,365-1st WS televised 19490930::Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights 19490930::Pirates Ralph Kiner hits his 54th HR & NL record 16th in September 19500930::1st congress of International Astronautical Federation opens in Paris 19500930::Radio's "Grand Ole Opry" is broadcasted on TV for 1st time 19500930::WSM TV channel 4 in Nashville, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting 19530930::Auguste/Jacques Piccard dives with bathosphere to 3150 m (record) 19530930::Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 19530930::Robert Anderson's "Tea & Sympathy," premieres in NYC 19530930::WICS TV channel 20 in Springfield, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting 19530930::WMT (now KGAN) TV channel 2 in Cedar Rapids-Waterloo, IA (CBS) begins 19540930::"Boy Friend" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 483 performances 19540930::Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the Navy 19560930::Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR 19560930::White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses) 19570930::French govt of Mauroy, resigns due to Algeria 19570930::WKYT TV channel 27 in Lexington, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting 19580930::French Guin‚e becomes independent republic Guinea 19580930::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19600930::Flintstones premieres (1st prime time animation show) 19600930::On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids" 19600930::West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany 19610930::Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost 19620930::A's Bill Fischer ends 84 1/3 consec innings pitched without a walk 19620930::JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi 19620930::James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi 19620930::KCRL TV channel 4 in Reno, NV (NBC) begins broadcasting 19620930::KMEX TV channel 34 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting 19620930::Mickey Wright wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open 19620930::NY Mets lose record 120th game as Cubs turn triple play & beat NY 5-1 19630930::"Student Gypsy" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 16 performances 19630930::56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office 19640930::"Oh What a Lovely War" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 125 perfs 19650930::Donovan's 1st US TV appearance (Shindig) 19650930::LA Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins 13th straight game, 7 by shutouts 19660930::Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (Natl Day) 19660930::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19670930::BBC starts their own popular music radio station 19670930::Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition) 19670930::USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete 1st automatic docking 19680930::1st Boeing 747 rolls out 19680930::AL & NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires 19680930::Sharon Miller wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational 19680930::Supremes release "Love Child" 19690930::Atlanta's 10th straight win, clinches NL West pennant 19700930::New American Bible published 19710930::-11/6] Rome: 3rd bishop synod 19710930::Last Wash Senator home game, Yanks win career 5th forfeit game Yanks trailing 4-2 in 9th with 2 outs, fans rush field 19720930::Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa) 19720930::Roberto Clemente, is 11th to get 3,000 hits 19730930::3rd NYC Women's Marathon won by Nina Kuscsik in 2:57:07 19730930::4th NYC Marathon won by Tom Fleming in 2:21:54 19730930::Mel Gray begins NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions 19730930::Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cameron Park Golf Open 19730930::USSR performs underground nuclear test 19730930::Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5, Ralph Houk 19730930::resigns as manager 19740930::Gen Francesco da Costa Gomez succeeds Gen Sp¡nola as pres of Portugal 19750930::5 drown in flash flood of sewer & water tunnel (Niagara Falls NY) 19770930::Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns 19770930::Ringo releases "Ringo the 4th" album 19770930::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 19780930::Major Indoor Soccer League grants 1st 6 franchises to Cincinnati, 19780930::Phillies clinch NL East title 19780930::Cleveland, Houston, NY, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Phillies win 3rd consecutive NL East Division title 19790930::Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout 19790930::Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic 19800930::1,754 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium 19800930::A's Rickey Henderson sets AL stolen base record at 98 en route to 100 19800930::Iran rejects a truce call from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein 19800930::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 19810930::Last game at Minn's Metropolitan Stadium, lose to KC 5-2 19810930::Seoul, South Korea is selected to host 1988 Summer Olympics 19820930::National railroad strike in Belgium 19840930::Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner 19840930::Browns set a team record for allowing most sacks (11), KC wins 10-6 19840930::Calif Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0 19840930::NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg 19850930::Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM (NY) 19860930::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 19860930::US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov 19870930::Suriname constitution ratified 19880930::Andrei A Gromyko retires 19880930::Dave Stieb, loses 2nd consecutive no hitter bid with 2 outs in 9th 19880930::IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer 19880930::Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal 19880930::Robin Givens & Mike Tyson appear on Barbara Walter's Show 19880930::LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings 19890930::NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii & Ascension 19890930::Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout 19890930::Senegambia separates back into Gambia & Senegal 19890930::Toronto Blue Jays wins AL East title 19900930::Chic White Sox beat Seattle 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park 19900930::Pitts Pirates wins NL East title 19910930::Rev Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti 19920930::26th Country Music Assn Award: Garth Brooks wins 19920930::KC Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits 19920930::Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars 19930930::6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed 19930930::General Colin Powell retires at 56 19930930::MS Dos 6.2 released 19940930::NHL goes on strike 19940930::Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), launches into orbit 19940930::Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi 19940930::Vladimir Meciars HZDDS wins Slovakia parliamentary election 19950930::Cleve Indian Albert Belle hits his 50th home run of season 19970930::1st time 3 cons HRs in post season-Raines, Jeter, O'Neill (NY Yankees) 19970930::Hooters agrees to pay $2 million in discrimination suits 19970930::Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0 19970930::Yanks Tim Raines, Derek Jeter & Paul O'Neill are 1st to hit 3 consecutively homers in post season (Yanks beat Indians 8-6)