Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!
Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
On this day in 96, Nerva was proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian was assassinated. In 324 on this day, Chrysopolis Emperor Constantine defeated Emperor Licinius. Philip Augustus became the King of France on this day in 1180. On this day in 1437, there was a farmer uprising in Transylvania. On this day in 1454 during the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army was defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War. On this day in 1502, Christopher Columbus landed at Costa Rica on his 4th & final voyage to the Americas. In 1544 on this day, English King Henry VIII's troops occupied Boulogne. Also on this day in 1544, the Peace of Crépy was reached between Holy Roman Emperor Charles V & French King Francis I. Spain attacked Alkmaar on this day in 1573. Emperor Ferdinand II declared war on France on this day in 1635. On this day in 1679, New Hampshire became a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1739 on this day, the Ottoman Empire & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks Fort Ticonderoga, New York, opened on this day in 1755.
Picture of a monument on the Plains of Abraham in Québec City commemorating the death of General Montcalm during the Battle of Québec 13 September 13, 1759. Both French General Montcalm and English General Wolff died during this short yet decisive battle.
The Battle of Québec officially came to an end on this day in 1759 when Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay., George Townshend and Sir Charles Saunders signed the Articles of Capitulation of Québec, which officially turned the city over to the British.
1769 - John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (US) 1789 - 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress 1793 - Pres Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building 1809 - Royal Opera House in London opens 1810 - Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1811 - British expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies 1812 - Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses & 1,000 churchs 1838 - Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden 1842 - 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published 1846 - Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning exchange last letters before eloping 1848 - Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner 1849 - De Kempenaer's Dutch government resigns 1850 - Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850 1851 - New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy) 1862 - Confederate armies officially divide into corps 1862 - General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia 1864 - Battle of Martinsburg WV 1864 - Hood's Tennessee campaign begins (also called The Franklin–Nashville Campaign), American Civil War 1872 - King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway. 1873 - Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall St, the start of the panic of 1873 1879 - The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time. 1881 - Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment 1882 - Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as Local Security Board) 1885 - Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination. 1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four" (BG) 1891 - Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indian chief Education Pioneer Booker T. WashingtonEducation Pioneer Booker T. Washington 1895 - Booker T. Washington delivera "Atlanta Compromise" address 1895 - Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa gives the first chiropractic adjustment 1897 - Gustave Kecker/Hugh Martin's musical "Belle of NYC," premieres in NYC 1898 - Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan 1903 - Phillie's Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago Cubs, 10-0 1905 - Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam 1906 - A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong. 1908 - Cleve Indian Bob "Dusty" Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1 1909 - Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det 1910 - 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage 1911 - Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown 1911 - Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in NYC 1914 - Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I 1914 - Gen von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front 1914 - Irish Home Rule bill receives Royal assent 1914 - South African troops land in German South West Africa 1915 - Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1 1918 - Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts 1919 - Dutch second chamber accepts female suffrage 1919 - Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast 1922 - 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands 1922 - Browns George Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by NY's Joe Bush 1922 - Hungary admitted to League of Nations 1924 - Government routes 7 Provinces to Peking 1925 - Bill Tilden wins 6th straight US tennis championship 1926 - 46th US Mens Tennis: Rene Lacoste beats Jean Borotra (64 60 64) 1926 - Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250 1926 - Jean Rene Lacoste wins US Tennis Open 1927 - 18 station CBS radio network begins, (WOR is NYC affiliate) 1927 - The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air. 1928 - Cards beat Phillies for 20th of 22 games in 1928 1928 - Juan de la Cierva flies 1st helicopter above Channel 1929 - Pirates loss to Braves & clinch NL pennant for the Cubs 1929 - Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in NYC 1930 - Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup 1930 - NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6 1930 - Phila A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row 1931 - Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo 1932 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign. 1934 - St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1 1934 - USSR admitted to League of Nations 1938 - Chicago Bears beat Green Bay Packers 2-0 1938 - Despite losing a double header, Yanks clinch pennant #10 1939 - Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania 1939 - William Joyce's first Nazi propaganda broadcast. 1940 - 19 German aircraft shot down above England 1940 - Elmer Harris' "Johnny Belinda," premieres in NYC 1940 - Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani 1942 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation authorized for radio service 1943 - Cardinals clinch NL pennant Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1943 - Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful) 1944 - British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed 1944 - Eindhoven free (Lightly Day) 1944 - US 266th division occupiers Brest Bretagne 1945 - 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration 1946 - Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1947 - National Security Act passes 1947 - US Air Force forms 1948 - "Hilarities (of 1949)" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 14 perfs 1948 - Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin) 1948 - Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine 1949 - Baseball major league record 4 grand slams hit 1950 - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission 1954 - Cleveland Indians clinch AL pennant, beat Tigers (3-2) 1954 - KTUL TV channel 8 in Tulsa, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting 1954 - WLOS TV channel 13 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (ABC) 1st broadcast 1955 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Mile High Golf Open 1955 - Willie Mays hits record tying 9th HR at Ebbets Field (ties Joe Adcock) 1956 - Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a seaon 1957 - "Wagon Train" premieres 1957 - Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels 1959 - Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit 1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open 1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1962 - Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games 1962 - Charlie Finley is denied permission to move A's to Dallas-Fort Worth 1962 - Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN 1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1963 - Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1 1963 - USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia 1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1965 - "Get Smart" premieres 1965 - Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game 1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational 1967 - Intrepid (US) beats Dame Pattie (Aust) in 21st America's Cup 1968 - Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0 1969 - Tiny Tim & Miss Vicky get engaged 1971 - 19th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 18½-13½ at Old Warson Country Club (St. Louis, Missouri, US) 1972 - 1st black NL umpire (Art Williams-Los Angeles vs San Diego) 1973 - German FR & German DR admitted to UN 1974 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die 1975 - Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF 1976 - Cleve manager Frank Robinson last game as a player 1976 - Dom Mintoff's Labour Party wins Malta election 1976 - Rev Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention 1976 - Rock Music Award Chinese Communist Revolutionary and Politician Mao Tse-TungChinese Communist Revolutionary and Politician Mao Tse-Tung 1976 - Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing. 1977 - Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore 1977 - Courageous (US) sweeps Australia (Aust) in 24th America's Cup 1977 - Joanne Carner/Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Team Golf Championship 1977 - US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth & Moon together 1978 - All 4 Kiss members release solo albums 1979 - Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect 1979 - Steven Lachs, appointed Calif's 1st admittedly gay judge 1979 - The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden 1980 - "Les Miserables," opens at Palais des Sports, Paris 1980 - Royals Willie Wilson steals AL-record 28 consecutive base 1980 - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station 1981 - Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France. 1982 - Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon 1983 - George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere 1983 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 1983 - Lebanese & Syrian army battle 1983 - New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chic Bears 34-31 1984 - Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic 1984 - Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place) 1984 - Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons 1985 - "Song & Dance" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 474 performances 1985 - BBC Radio reports prime # 2^216091-1 found in Houston 1986 - David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras 1987 - Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs 1987 - US & Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles 1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1988 - Burma suspends its constitution 1988 - Coup in Haiti 1988 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 1989 - Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico 1990 - 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC 1990 - Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics 1990 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations. 1991 - John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians 1991 - NCAA places Tenn on 2 yrs probation for football recruting violations 1991 - Robert Helmick resigns as pres of US Olympic Committee 1991 - Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands 1991 - Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities. 1993 - Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994 1993 - LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins 1993 - Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, & Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3 1994 - 1st Presidents Golf Cup: US beats Intl team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va 1994 - Austrian conservative FVP wins elections/extreme right gets 18.5% 1994 - Deb Richard wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic 1994 - Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS 1994 - Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election 1995 - Art Modell 1st meets (he claims) with Balt to move Browns 1995 - Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands 1996 - Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts 1997 - Seve Ballesteros & Nick Faldo elected to World Golf Hall of Fame 1997 - Ted Turner gives $1 billion to UN 1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) in a referendum on Welsh autonomy. 1998 - ICANN is formed. 2001 - First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. 2003 - The United Kingdom's Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, receives Royal Assent. 2006 - Right wing protesters riot the building of the Hungarian Television in Budapest, Hungary, one day after an audio tape was made public, in which Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted he and his party lied during the 2006 general elections. 2007 - Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president. 2007 - Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution. 2009 - The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast. 2012 - 10 soliders are killed and 70 injured by a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey 2012 - 26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico 2012 - The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike. 2012 - World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg
1709 - The creator of the first dictionary of the English language, Samuel Johnson, was born in England. 1759 - The French formally surrendered Quebec to the British. 1763 - It was reported, by the Boston Gazette, that the first piano had been built in the United States. The instrument was named the spinet and was made by John Harris. 1789 - Alexander Hamilton negotiated and secured the first loan for the United States. The Temporary Loan of 1789 was repaid on June 8, 1790 at the sum of $191,608.81. 1793 - U.S. President George Washington laid the actual cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol. 1810 - Chile declared its independence from Spain. 1830 - The "Tom Thumb", the first locomotive built in America, raced a horse on a nine-mile course. The horse won when the locomotive had some mechanical difficulties. 1850 - The Fugitive Slave Act was declared by the U.S. Congress. The act allowed slave owners to claim slaves that had escaped into other states. 1851 - The first issue of "The New York Times" was published. 1891 - Harriet Maxwell Converse became the first white woman to ever be named chief of an Indian tribe. The tribe was the Six Nations Tribe at Towanda Reservation in New York. 1895 - Daniel David Palmer gave the first chiropractic adjustment. 1927 - Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System made its debut with its network broadcast over 16 radio stations. The name was later changed to CBS. 1940 - "You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe was published by Harper and Brothers. 1947 - The U.S. Air Force was established as a separate military branch by the National Security Act. 1955 - The "Ed Sullivan Show" began on CBS-TV. The show had been "The Toast of the Town" since 1948. 1963 - "The Patty Duke Show" premiered on ABC-TV. 1965 - The first episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" was shown on NBC-TV. The last show was televised on September 1, 1970. 1981 - A museum honoring former U.S. President Ford was dedicated in Grand Rapids, MI. 1984 - The 39th session of the U.N. General Assembly was opened with an appeal to the U.S. and Soviet Union to resume arms negotiations. 1991 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush said that he would send warplanes to escort U.N. helicopters that were searching for hidden Iraqi weapons if it became necessary. 1994 - Haiti's military leaders agreed to depart on October 15th. This action averted a U.S.-led invasion to force them out of power. 1997 - Ted Turner, U.S. Media magnate, announced that over the next ten years he would give $1 billion to the United Nations. 1998 - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted to release to videotape of President Clinton's grand jury testimony from August 17. 1998 - The FDA approved a once-a-day easier-to-swallow medication for AIDS patients. 2003 - Robert Duvall received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1759 French Quebec surrendered to the British after the Sept. 13 battle on the Plains of Abraham, the last battle of the French and Indian Wars. French general Montcalm and British general Wolfe died in the fray. 1810 Chile declared its independence from Spain. 1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which required the return of escaped slaves to their owners. 1851 The first edition of The New York Daily Times, which later became The New York Times, was published. 1947 The National Security Act, which unified the Army, Navy, and Air Force, was passed. 1961 Secretary-General of the UN Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia). 1970 27-year-old rock star, Jimi Hendrix, died in London. 1999 Sammy Sosa became the first player in major league baseball history to hit 60 homers in two seasons.
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