History of September

During the month of September the following events have happened in our world's history.

September 01, 1159 - Adrian IV only English pope (1154-59) dies (birth date unknown)
September 01, 1557 - Jacques Cartier French explorer dies (birth date unknown)
September 01, 1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in California
September 01, 1807 - Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
September 01, 1849 - California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
September 01, 1859 - 1st pullman sleeping car in service
September 01, 1859 - R.C.Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare
September 01, 1863 - RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated
September 01, 1864 - Sherman's march through Georgia
September 01, 1870 - Napoleon III captured at Sedan
September 01, 1878 - 1st woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
September 01, 1890 - 1st baseball tripleheader - Boston vs Pittsburgh
September 01, 1905 - Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
September 01, 1906 - Jack Combs pitches 24 inninings beating Red Sox
September 01, 1911 - M. Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
September 01, 1914 - Martha last known passenger pigeon dies at Cincinnati Zoo
September 01, 1918 - US troops land in Vladivostok Siberia stay until 1920
September 01, 1923 - Earthquake struck Tokyo estimated 74 000 people died
September 01, 1939 - PHYSICAL REVIEW publishes paper 1st to deal with "black holes."
September 01, 1939 - Germany invades Poland starting WW II
September 01, 1949 - 1st network dective series - Private Eyes premeirs
September 01, 1952 - Sutro Baths SF purchased by George Whitney
September 01, 1969 - Col Moammar Gadhafi rose to power deposed Libya's King Idris
September 01, 1969 - Libyan revolution (National Day)
September 01, 1976 - NJ Meadowlands racetrack opens
September 01, 1977 - 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
September 01, 1979 - Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn discovers new moon rings
September 01, 1983 - Korean Boeing 747 strayed into Soviet air space & was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter. All 269 people aboard died
September 01, 1985 - Titanic sunk in 1912 found by French & American scientists
September 02, 0031 - BC Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Antony becomes Emp Augustus
September 02, 0490 - BC Phidippides runs 1st marathon seeking aid from Sparta vs. Persia
September 02, 1620 - Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims
September 02, 1666 - Great Fire of London starts; destroys St. Paul's Church
September 02, 1752 - Last day of Julian calendar in Britain British colonies
September 02, 1789 - US Treasury Department established by Congress
September 02, 1804 - K L Harding discovers Juno 3rd known asteroid
September 02, 1859 - Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
September 02, 1898 - Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
September 02, 1927 - Rumour starts that Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
September 02, 1936 - 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
September 02, 1945 - Vietnam declares independence from France (National Day)
September 02, 1945 - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri
September 02, 1946 - Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
September 02, 1956 - Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
September 02, 1957 - Milwaukee Brave's Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game
September 02, 1963 - CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
September 02, 1973 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers
September 02, 1978 - Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
September 03, 1783 - Treaty of Paris ending Revolutionary War is signed
September 03, 1849 - Cal State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
September 03, 1900 - British annex Natal (South Africa)
September 03, 1906 - Yanks win second game on a forfeit over A's 2nd forfeit win
September 03, 1916 - Allies turned back Germans in World War I's Battle of Verdun
September 03, 1935 - 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph Sir Malcolm Campbell
September 03, 1939 - Yanks beat Red Sox on a forfeit 4th forfeit win
September 03, 1939 - Britain declared war on Germany. France followed six hours later quickly joined by Australia New Zealand South Africa & Canada
September 03, 1940 - US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for military bases
September 03, 1940 - 1st showing of high definition color TV
September 03, 1943 - Allied troops invade Italy
September 03, 1976 - US Viking 2 lands on Mars at Utopia
September 03, 1978 - Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
September 03, 1979 - Hurricane David a strong Atlantic storms kills over 1 000
September 03, 1984 - 28 year old Chicagoan won $40 million in Illinois state lottery
September 03, 1985 - 20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 returns to Earth
September 04, 0476 - Romulus Augustulus last Roman emperor in west is deposed
September 04, 1609 - Navigator Henry Hudson discovered island of Manhattan
September 04, 1781 - LA founded in Valley of Smokes (Indian Name)
September 04, 1833 - 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty-NY Sun)
September 04, 1862 - North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in S.F
September 04, 1866 - 1st daily newspaper in Hawaii published
September 04, 1870 - French republic proclaimed
September 04, 1882 - 1st district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)
September 04, 1886 - Geronimo is captured ending last major US-Indian war
September 04, 1888 - George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak."
September 04, 1911 - Garros sets world altitude record of 4 250 m (13 944 ft)
September 04, 1918 - US troops land in Archangel Russia stay 10 months
September 04, 1920 - last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
September 04, 1923 - Yankee Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia Athletics
September 04, 1933 - 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph JR Wendell Glenview Il
September 04, 1941 - Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 & clinch their 12th & earliest pennant
September 04, 1950 - 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
September 04, 1951 - NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network
September 04, 1951 - 1st transcontinental TV broadcast by Pres. Truman
September 04, 1954 - 1st passage of McClure Strait fabled Northwest Passage completed
September 04, 1957 - Ford Motor Co. introduced Edsel
September 04, 1964 - NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
September 04, 1970 - George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
September 04, 1972 - American swimmer Mark Spitz 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
September 04, 1978 - Ron Guidry wins his 20th
September 04, 1980 - Iraqi troops seized Iranian territory in a border dispute
September 04, 1986 - 189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
September 05, 1774 - 1st Continental Congress assembles in Phila
September 05, 1781 - Battle of Virginia Capes French defeat Britain trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown.
September 05, 1882 - 10 000 workers marched in the 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
September 05, 1885 - 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer
September 05, 1922 - Yankees final game at the Polo Grounds after 7 years
September 05, 1923 - Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously.
September 05, 1927 - Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings
September 05, 1936 - Red Sox turn a triple play on the Yankees
September 05, 1953 - 1st privately operated atomic reactor - Raleigh NC
September 05, 1958 - 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented Charlotte NC
September 05, 1972 - 11 Israeli athletes are slained at the Munich Olympics
September 05, 1977 - Voyager 1 launched toward fly-by of Jupiter Saturn.
September 05, 1977 - Cleveland Indians stage 1st I hate the Yankee Hanky Night
September 05, 1978 - Sadat Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David Md.
September 05, 1980 - World's longest auto tunnel St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps opens.
September 05, 1983 - 8th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 returns to Earth
September 05, 1984 - 12th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 returns to Earth
September 06, 1620 - 149 Pilgrims set sail from England aboard the Mayflower
September 06, 1628 - Puritans land at Salem form Massachusetts Bay Colony.
September 06, 1716 - 1st lighthouse in US built in Boston
September 06, 1839 - Great fire in NY.
September 06, 1869 - 1st westbound train arrives in SF.
September 06, 1873 - Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
September 06, 1876 - Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to SF completed
September 06, 1883 - Cub's Burns (extra bases) Williamson & Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn
September 06, 1901 - Pres William McKinley assassinated in Buffalo N.Y.
September 06, 1909 - Word received Adm. Peary discovered the North Pole five months ago
September 06, 1910 - Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughriders formed.
September 06, 1914 - Battle of the Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris.
September 06, 1946 - All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev. 44 Miami 0).
September 06, 1954 - Yankees record a record with 10 pinch hitters
September 06, 1966 - Star Trek appears on TV for the 1st time (on NBC)
September 06, 1968 - Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day).
September 06, 1972 - John & Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
September 06, 1981 - Bob Lemon named Yankee manager
September 06, 1982 - Polish dissidents seized the Polish Embassy in Bern Switzerland
September 07, 1822 - Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day).
September 07, 1892 - James J. Corbett kayos John L. Sullivan in round 21 at New Orleans.
September 07, 1896 - 1st closed-circuit auto race at Cranston R.I.
September 07, 1907 - Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire.
September 07, 1948 - 1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete Akron Oh
September 07, 1952 - Whitey Ford becomes the 5th pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters
September 07, 1956 - Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126 000+ ft
September 07, 1978 - The 1st game of the Boston Massacre Yanks beat Red Sox 15-3
September 07, 1980 - 32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott
September 08, 1100 - Clement III 1st antipope (1084-1100) dies (birth date unknown).
September 08, 1380 - Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo beginning decline of Tatars.
September 08, 1565 - 1st permanent settlement in US founded at St Augustine Florida
September 08, 1565 - Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St. John.
September 08, 1664 - Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to English.
September 08, 1771 - Mission San Gabriel Archangel founded in California.
September 08, 1858 - Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people
September 08, 1860 - Loss of steamer Lady Elgin.
September 08, 1883 - Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek Mont.
September 08, 1920 - 1st US Air Mail service begins
September 08, 1935 - Senator Huey P. Long assassinated at Baton Rouge.
September 08, 1937 - Yankees trail 6-1 come up with 8 in the 9th beat Boston 9-6
September 08, 1939 - Yanks beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7 game called because of lightning
September 08, 1943 - Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II
September 08, 1945 - US invades Japanese-held Korea.
September 08, 1973 - Billy Martin named manager of the Texas Rangers
September 08, 1974 - Pres Gerald Ford pardons former Pres Richard Nixon
September 08, 1977 - Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy
September 08, 1978 - The 2nd game of the Boston Massacre Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2
September 08, 1979 - Jean Seberg dies at age 40
September 09, 1513 - Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland.
September 09, 1776 - Continental Congress authorizes the name "US"
September 09, 1839 - John Herschel takes the 1st glass plate photograph
September 09, 1850 - Territory of New Mexico Territory of Utah created.
September 09, 1850 - California becomes the 31st state
September 09, 1867 - Luxembourg gains independence.
September 09, 1875 - Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated
September 09, 1880 - President Hayes visits SF
September 09, 1892 - E.E.Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea 5th Jupiter moon
September 09, 1926 - NBC created by RCA
September 09, 1927 - Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium
September 09, 1932 - Frank Crosetti ties record strikes out twice in 1 inning
September 09, 1936 - Yanks clinch 8th pennant
September 09, 1942 - 1st bombing on continental US soil Mount Emily Or (WW2)
September 09, 1943 - Italy surrenders to the Allies
September 09, 1944 - Allied forces liberate Luxembourg.
September 09, 1944 - Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day).
September 09, 1950 - 1st use of TV laugh track - Hank McCune
September 09, 1960 - 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13 Boston 10).
September 09, 1965 - Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter a perfect game vs Cubs
September 09, 1967 - 1st successful test flight of a Saturn V.s
September 09, 1971 - John Lennon releases the "Imagine" album
September 09, 1975 - Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars soft landing.
September 09, 1976 - Chinese communist party chairman Mao TseTung dies at 82
September 09, 1977 - 1st TRS-80 computer sold.
September 09, 1978 - The 3rd game of the Boston Massacre Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0
September 09, 1982 - Conestoga I 1st private rocket is launched
September 10, 1608 - John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council Va.
September 10, 1813 - Comm Oliver H. Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie
September 10, 1846 - Elias Howe patents the sewing machine.
September 10, 1847 - 1st theater opens in Hawaii
September 10, 1913 - Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
September 10, 1919 - NYC welcomes home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25 000 WW I soldiers
September 10, 1919 - Indian's Ray Caldwell no hits Yankees 3-0
September 10, 1922 - Largest Polo Grounds crowd Meusel Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs
September 10, 1924 - Leopold and Loeb found guilty of murder
September 10, 1937 - 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21 Pittsburgh 0).
September 10, 1939 - Canada declares war on Germany
September 10, 1945 - Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.
September 10, 1950 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 homers
September 10, 1953 - Swanson sells it's 1st "TV Dinner"
September 10, 1955 - Gunsmoke premieres on CBS television
September 10, 1962 - Mickey Mantle hits HR # 400
September 10, 1963 - 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
September 10, 1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
September 10, 1976 - 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia killing all 176 people
September 10, 1977 - Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits
September 10, 1977 - Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi last to die in the guillotine
September 10, 1978 - The 4th game of the Boston Massacre Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks outhit em 67-21 and outscore 42-9
September 11, 1609 - Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan island
September 11, 1709 - English Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet.
September 11, 1712 - French astronomer G.D Cassini dies
September 11, 1777 - Battle of Brandywine Pa.; Americans lose to British.
September 11, 1789 - Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury.
September 11, 1814 - Battle of Lake Champlain N.Y.; Americans defeat British.
September 11, 1850 - Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind 1st US concert
September 11, 1852 - Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R.
September 11, 1853 - 1st electric telegraph in use Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos
September 11, 1910 - 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens in Hollywood.
September 11, 1919 - US marines invade Honduras.
September 11, 1923 - After a single Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 Yanks
September 11, 1926 - Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu.
September 11, 1926 - Yanks Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
September 11, 1927 - Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
September 11, 1928 - 1st TV drama - WGY's The Queens Messenger
September 11, 1929 - Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
September 11, 1936 - FDR dedicates Boulder Dam now known as Hoover Dam
September 11, 1941 - Charles Lindbergh charges `the British the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration' were trying to get the US into WW II
September 11, 1944 - FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the second Quebec Conference
September 11, 1946 - 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
September 11, 1947 - US Defense Department formed
September 11, 1950 - 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
September 11, 1950 - Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
September 11, 1954 - 1st Miss America TV broadcast
September 11, 1966 - Johnny Miller became the 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat
September 11, 1967 - US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
September 11, 1971 - Nikita Khrushchev dies of a heart attack at age 77
September 11, 1972 - BART begins service with a 26 mile line from Oakland to Fremont
September 11, 1973 - Chile's President Salvador Allende deposed in a military coup
September 11, 1977 - TV's Rhoda gets divorced
September 11, 1985 - Pete Rose of the Cin Reds got career hit 4 192 off Eric Show of the San Diego Padres eclipsing the record held by Ty Cobb.
September 11, 1986 - Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered biggest one-day decline ever plummeting 86.61 points to 1 792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
September 11, 1987 - Lorne Green dies at 72
September 12, 0490 - BC Athenians defeat 2nd Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon.
September 12, 1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Hudson River.
September 12, 1649 - Drogheda Ireland falls to Puritan troops; inhabitants massacred.
September 12, 1758 - Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula and begins catalog.
September 12, 1941 - 1st German ship in WW2 captured by US ship (Busko)
September 12, 1953 - Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of the Communist Party
September 12, 1954 - Indians sweep Yanks at Municipal Largest AL crowd 86 563
September 12, 1959 - Luna 1 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the moon.
September 12, 1959 - Bonanza premiers
September 12, 1966 - The Monkees premiers
September 12, 1966 - Gemini XI launched
September 12, 1970 - USSR launches Luna 16; returns samples from lunar Sea of Fertility.
September 12, 1974 - coup overthrows Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia (National Day).
September 12, 1986 - 240.49 million shares traded in the NY Stock Exchange
September 13, 1321 - death of Dante Alighieri author of the Divine Comedy.
September 13, 1583 - Dante Alighieri Day
September 13, 1759 - Wolfe defeats Montcalm on Plains of Abraham; Canada becomes English.
September 13, 1788 - NYC becomes the capitol of the US
September 13, 1882 - Britain invades Egypt.
September 13, 1906 - 1st airplane flight in Europe.
September 13, 1927 - Waite Hoyt became the only 20 game winner of the '27 Yankees
September 13, 1932 - Yanks clinch their 7th pennant
September 13, 1959 - Soviet Lunik 2 becomes 1st human-made object to crash on moon.
September 13, 1961 - Car 54 Where are You? premiers
September 13, 1963 - The Outer Limits premiers
September 13, 1963 - Yanks clinch their 28th pennant
September 13, 1965 - Beatles release "Yesterday"
September 13, 1970 - IBM announces System 370 computer.
September 13, 1971 - 9 hostages and 28 prisoners die in take over a Attica State Prison
September 13, 1977 - 1st TV viewer discretion warning - Soap
September 13, 1977 - 2nd test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
September 13, 1979 - According to South Africa Venda gains independence. Not recognized as an independent country outside of South Africa.
September 13, 1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco dies at 52 in a car crash
September 14, 1628 - Salem Mass. is founded.
September 14, 1716 - 1st lighthouse in US is lit (in Boston Harbor)
September 14, 1752 - England and colonies adopt Gregorian calendar 11 days disappear.
September 14, 1812 - Napoleon occupies Moscow.
September 14, 1814 - Francis Scott Key inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner."
September 14, 1847 - US troops capture Mexico City.
September 14, 1886 - Typewriter ribbon patented
September 14, 1892 - AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo
September 14, 1899 - Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY)
September 14, 1940 - Congress passes 1st peace time draft law
September 14, 1942 - Yanks clinch pennant #13
September 14, 1943 - Yanks clinch pennant #14
September 14, 1948 - Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
September 14, 1951 - Giant's Bob Niemans 1st 2 at bats are homers
September 14, 1956 - 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed Washington DC
September 14, 1964 - Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House
September 14, 1965 - F-Troop premiers
September 14, 1968 - Denny McLain 30th victory of the season
September 14, 1968 - USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circum lunar flight
September 14, 1974 - Charles Kowal discovers Leda 13th satellite of Jupiter.
September 14, 1981 - Entertainment Tonight premiers
September 15, 1776 - British forces occupy NYC during the American Revolution
September 15, 1789 - Dept of Foreign Affairs renamed the Dept of State
September 15, 1821 - Costa Rica El Salvador Guatamala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ
September 15, 1894 - Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang.
September 15, 1917 - Russia was proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
September 15, 1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
September 15, 1937 - WPA extends the L-Taraval streetcar to the Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)
September 15, 1940 - Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II RAF beats Luftwaffe.
September 15, 1940 - 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw. 14 Columbus 2).
September 15, 1947 - 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested Columbus Oh
September 15, 1947 - Yanks clinch pennant #15
September 15, 1950 - During Korean conflict UN forces land at Inchon in the south
September 15, 1950 - Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 homers (6th time he has done that)
September 15, 1957 - Bachelor Father with John Forsythe premiers
September 15, 1957 - SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game.
September 15, 1959 - Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
September 15, 1963 - 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
September 15, 1965 - Lost in Space premiers
September 15, 1966 - Gemini XI returns to Earth
September 15, 1976 - Soyuz 22 carries two cosmonauts into earth orbit for 8 days.
September 15, 1978 - Yanks beat Boston 4-0 Guidry wins # 22 Yanks lead 2 1/2 games
September 15, 1981 - Intl Peace Day
September 15, 1984 - Morocco Showcase opens
September 16, 1498 - Death of Tomas de Torquemada inquisitor who burned 10 000 people
September 16, 1620 - Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims
September 16, 1630 - Mass village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston
September 16, 1662 - Flamsteed sees solar eclipse 1st known astronomical observation
September 16, 1782 - Great Seal of US used for 1st time
September 16, 1795 - British capture Capetown
September 16, 1810 - Mexico 1st declares independence from Spain (National Day)
September 16, 1812 - Fire of Moscow
September 16, 1857 - Typesetting machine patent
September 16, 1858 - 1st overland mail for California
September 16, 1893 - Cherokee Strip Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders
September 16, 1908 - William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors
September 16, 1915 - US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
September 16, 1919 - American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
September 16, 1924 - Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game
September 16, 1939 - Yanks clinch pennant #11
September 16, 1940 - Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of the House
September 16, 1940 - 1st US peace-time draft in US enacted
September 16, 1945 - Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
September 16, 1946 - James Jeans dies
September 16, 1947 - 1st automobile to exceed 400 mph John Cobb Bonneville Salt Flats
September 16, 1955 - Bauer & Berra homer in the 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st
September 16, 1964 - Shindig premiers
September 16, 1966 - Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center
September 16, 1968 - Richard Nixon appears on Laugh-in
September 16, 1972 - 1st TV series about mixed marriage - Bridgit Loves Bernie
September 16, 1974 - Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for Vietnam deserters
September 16, 1974 - BART begins regular transbay service
September 16, 1975 - Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
September 16, 1976 - Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
September 16, 1977 - Maria Callas American-born prima donna dies in Paris at 53
September 16, 1978 - Yanks beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks 3-2
September 16, 1979 - Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
September 16, 1982 - massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins
September 16, 1984 - Miami Vice premiers
September 17, 1630 - Boston founded
September 17, 1776 - Presidio of SF founded as Spanish fort
September 17, 1787 - US Constitution is adopted & formally signed
September 17, 1789 - William Herschel discovers Mimas satellite of Saturn
September 17, 1819 - 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii
September 17, 1862 - Battle of Antietam Md; Confederate forces retreat
September 17, 1908 - Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight
September 17, 1911 - 1st transcontinental airplane flight NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min
September 17, 1920 - National Football League formed in Canton Ohio
September 17, 1927 - Charles Lindbergh in SF
September 17, 1953 - 1st succesSFul separation of Siamese twins
September 17, 1956 - Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of the year
September 17, 1963 - The Fugitive premiers
September 17, 1964 - Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999 2000 & 2001
September 17, 1964 - Bewitched premiers
September 17, 1967 - Mission Impossible premiers
September 17, 1968 - Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon
September 17, 1972 - BART begins passenger service
September 17, 1977 - Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer Reggie hits 2 more
September 17, 1978 - Red Sox finally beat Yanks in Sept 1978 7-3
September 17, 1978 - Begin Sadat & Carter sign the Camp David accord
September 17, 1985 - Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
September 18, 1755 - Fort Ticonderoga NY opened
September 18, 1793 - Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
September 18, 1810 - Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
September 18, 1851 - NY Times starts publishing at 2› a copy
September 18, 1882 - Pacific Stock Exchange opens (as the Local Security Board)
September 18, 1927 - the Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air
September 18, 1938 - Even though they lost a double header Yanks clinch pennant #10
September 18, 1957 - Wagon Train premiers
September 18, 1965 - Get Smart premiers
September 18, 1966 - Gemini X is launched
September 18, 1977 - US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of earth & moon together
September 18, 1980 - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
September 18, 1984 - Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
September 19, 1356 - English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers
September 19, 1796 - George Washington's farewell address as president
September 19, 1812 - Napoleon's retreat from Russia begins
September 19, 1848 - Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion
September 19, 1849 - 1st commercial laundry established in Oakland California
September 19, 1863 - Battle of Chickamauga Tenn; Union forces retreat
September 19, 1873 - Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co fails causing a securities panic
September 19, 1881 - Pres Garfield dies of gunshot wound
September 19, 1966 - Mike Burke named Yankees president
September 19, 1968 - Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!)
September 19, 1970 - Mary Tyler Moore show premiers
September 19, 1982 - Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service
September 19, 1983 - St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
September 19, 1986 - Captain EO permieres
September 20, 1519 - Magellan starts 1st succesSFul circumnavigation of the world
September 20, 1777 - Paoli massacre
September 20, 1797 - US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
September 20, 1850 - Slave trade abolished in DC but slavery allowed to continue
September 20, 1854 - British & French defeat Russians at Alma in the Crimea
September 20, 1859 - Patent granted on the electric range
September 20, 1863 - Civil War Battle of Chickamauga near Chattanooga Tenn ended
September 20, 1879 - US Grants come to SF for elaborate extended visit
September 20, 1884 - Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP
September 20, 1911 - Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header
September 20, 1945 - German rocket engineers begin work in US
September 20, 1951 - 1st North Pole jet crossing
September 20, 1954 - 1st FORTRAN computer program run
September 20, 1961 - After 84 1/3 innings Bill Fischer gives up a base on balls
September 20, 1961 - Roger Maris hits home run # 59 & barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season Yanks clinch pennant #26
September 20, 1968 - Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
September 20, 1970 - Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis drills core sample
September 20, 1973 - Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
September 20, 1980 - Plaque dedicated in Thurmon Munson's memory at Yankee Stadium
September 20, 1985 - WDW's 200-millonth guest
September 21, 1776 - great fire in NY
September 21, 1784 - 1st daily newspaper in US begins publication in Penn
September 21, 1792 - 1st French Republic declared
September 21, 1895 - 1st auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company
September 21, 1906 - Yankee 1st baseman Hal Chase's 22 put outs ties the record
September 21, 1929 - 1st legal forward pass in Canadian senior football thrown (Calgary)
September 21, 1930 - Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention the flashbulb
September 21, 1954 - the nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned
September 21, 1956 - Yanks set dubious record stranding 20 men on base Mantle hits a 500 foot plus homer but Red Sox win 13-9 in Fenway
September 21, 1957 - Perry Mason premiers
September 21, 1958 - 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours landed Dallas Texas
September 21, 1958 - Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no hits Yankees 1-0
September 21, 1964 - Malta gains independence from Britain
September 21, 1970 - Monday Night Football on ABC premiers - Jets vs Browns
September 21, 1971 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono were Dick Cavett's only guest
September 21, 1973 - Diana Sands dies at 39
September 21, 1974 - US Mariner 10 makes second fly-by of Mercury
September 21, 1974 - Jaqueline Susann dies at 53
September 21, 1980 - Richard Todd of the Jets completes 42 passes in a game (NFL record)
September 21, 1981 - Belize gains independence from Britain (National Day)
September 21, 1981 - Sandra Day O'Conner becomes the 1st female Supreme Court Justice
September 21, 1982 - Devils beat Rangers 3-2 in exhibition - 1st hockey in Meadowlands
September 21, 1982 - SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs
September 22, 1756 - Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University
September 22, 1776 - Nathan Hale is executed as a spy by the British
September 22, 1789 - The US Post Office was established
September 22, 1792 - Origin of French Republican Era
September 22, 1863 - President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech
September 22, 1893 - 1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield
September 22, 1903 - Italo Marchiony granted a patent for the ice cream cone
September 22, 1903 - Ice Cream Cone patented
September 22, 1908 - Fred 'Bonehead' Merkle misses 2nd base costing NY Giants the pennant
September 22, 1925 - Yank Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-homers
September 22, 1927 - Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples
September 22, 1927 - Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney)
September 22, 1944 - Boulogne reoccupied by Allies
September 22, 1948 - Stan Musial goes 5 for 5 off 5 different pitchers
September 22, 1960 - Mali gains independence from France (National Day)
September 22, 1964 - The Man from UNCLE premiers
September 22, 1968 - Zond 5 completes flight
September 22, 1980 - War between Iran & Iraq begins
September 22, 1987 - 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins
September 23, 0063 - BC - Augustus 1st Roman Emperor
September 23, 1779 - Naval engagement 'Bonhomme Richard' defeats 'HMS Serepis'
September 23, 1780 - John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point
September 23, 1846 - Johann Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
September 23, 1877 - Urbain J.J. Leverrier codiscoverer of Neptune dies
September 23, 1890 - Ed Cartwright bats in 7 RBIs in 1 inning
September 23, 1912 - 1st Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released
September 23, 1926 - Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title
September 23, 1932 - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia formed (National Day)
September 23, 1933 - Yanks commit 7 errors in 1 game but beat Boston 16-12
September 23, 1952 - 1st closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event
September 23, 1952 - Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
September 23, 1961 - 1st movie to become a TV series - How to Marry a Millionaire
September 23, 1962 - ABC's 1st color TV series - The Jetsons
September 23, 1973 - Largest known prime 2 ^ 132 049 - 1 is discovered
September 23, 1976 - Ford-Carter TV debate
September 23, 1976 - Soyuz 22 returns to Earth
September 23, 1977 - Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
September 23, 1977 - 3rd test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
September 23, 1980 - Big Thunder Mountain Railroad opens
September 24, 1789 - Congress' 1st Judiciary Act for Attorney General & Supreme Court
September 24, 1789 - Congress creates the Post Office
September 24, 1845 - 1st baseball team organized
September 24, 1846 - Battle of Monterey
September 24, 1852 - a new invention the dirigible is demonstrated
September 24, 1853 - 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
September 24, 1865 - James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks SF
September 24, 1869 - Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
September 24, 1895 - 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
September 24, 1919 - Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
September 24, 1927 - Yanks set record of 106 victories
September 24, 1929 - Lt James H Doolittle guided a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the 1st all-instrument flight
September 24, 1930 - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
September 24, 1934 - Babe Ruth made his farewell appearance as a baseball player
September 24, 1939 - Ruth's final Yankee Stadium appearance Less than 2500 on hand
September 24, 1941 - 9 Allied govts pledged adherence to the Atlantic Charter
September 24, 1954 - Tonight Show premieres on NBC
September 24, 1954 - Yanks tie a record 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
September 24, 1955 - Pres Eisenhower suffered a heart attack on vacation in Denver
September 24, 1957 - Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
September 24, 1957 - Bkln Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field defeat Pirates 2-0
September 24, 1958 - 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed Urbandale Ia
September 24, 1960 - USS Enterprise 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier launched
September 24, 1960 - 1st atomic powered aircraft carrier the Enterprise is launched
September 24, 1963 - Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
September 24, 1964 - The Munsters premier
September 24, 1968 - That's Life premiers - A Broadway musical type TV show
September 24, 1968 - 60 Minutes premiers
September 24, 1969 - Trial of `Chicago 8' began
September 24, 1970 - 1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16
September 24, 1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal
September 24, 1976 - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter
September 24, 1978 - Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0 rasing his record to 23-3 ERA 174
September 24, 1979 - CompuServe system started
September 25, 1493 - Columbus sailed on his second voyage to America
September 25, 1513 - Vasco Nu¤ez de Balboa is the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean
September 25, 1639 - 1st printing press in America
September 25, 1690 - Publick Occurrences 1st American newspaper publish 1st & last ed
September 25, 1775 - American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
September 25, 1789 - Congress proposes the Bill of Rights
September 25, 1804 - 12th amendment to the US constitution regulating judicial power
September 25, 1890 - Mormon pres Woodruff issued a Manifesto formally renouncing polygamy
September 25, 1890 - Congress establishes Yosemite National Park
September 25, 1919 - Pres Wilson became seriously ill & collapsed after a speech
September 25, 1926 - Henry Ford announces the five day work week
September 25, 1929 - Yankee manager Miller Huggins dies at 50
September 25, 1934 - Lou Gehrig plays in his 1500th consecutive game
September 25, 1956 - 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation
September 25, 1966 - Smallest Yankee stadium crowd 413 see White Sox win 4-1
September 25, 1973 - 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
September 25, 1978 - Pacific SW Airlines Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide
September 25, 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice
September 25, 1982 - Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
September 26, 1542 - Cabrillo discovers California
September 26, 1687 - Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians
September 26, 1777 - British troops occupied Philadelphia in the American Revolution
September 26, 1789 - Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney Genl
September 26, 1820 - Frontiersman Daniel Boone died in Missouri at the age of 85
September 26, 1824 - Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) & lives
September 26, 1896 - John Philip Sousa led band's 1st performance in Plainfield NJ
September 26, 1914 - Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
September 26, 1918 - Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began during WWI
September 26, 1926 - Shortest double header Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes & lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to the Browns Yanks already clinched pennant
September 26, 1950 - UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul
September 26, 1952 - Yanks clinch pennant #19
September 26, 1957 - Musical West Side Story opened on Broadway
September 26, 1960 - 1st of 4 TV debates Nixon & Kennedy took place in Chicago
September 26, 1961 - Roger Maris hits # 60 off Jack Fisher
September 26, 1962 - Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
September 26, 1962 - TV comedy The Beverly Hillbillies premiered on CBS
September 26, 1966 - Japan launches its 1st satellite in to space
September 26, 1966 - The Staten Island is 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
September 26, 1969 - Beatles release "Abbey Road" album
September 26, 1973 - Anna Magnani dies at age 64
September 26, 1977 - Sir Freddie Laker began cut-rate `Skytrain' service London to NY
September 26, 1980 - Soyuz 38 returns to Earth
September 26, 1983 - Australia II won the America's Cup yacht race
September 26, 1983 - Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
September 27, 1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
September 27, 1777 - Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by the British
September 27, 1787 - Constitution submitted to the states for ratification
September 27, 1825 - Railroad transportation is born with 1st track in England
September 27, 1854 - Steamer Arctic is lost
September 27, 1881 - Chicago Cubs beat Troy 10-8 before record small "crowd" of 12
September 27, 1919 - Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike outs
September 27, 1919 - Democratic National Committee voted to admit women
September 27, 1921 - Yanks beat Indians 21-7 in Polo Grounds
September 27, 1923 - Lou Gehrig's 1st homer
September 27, 1938 - The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was launched at Glasgow
September 27, 1940 - Floyd Giebells 1st game 2-0 pennent clinching beating Bob Feller
September 27, 1941 - 1st WWII liberty ship freighter Patrick Henry launched
September 27, 1942 - NY Giants beat Wash Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down
September 27, 1954 - Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiers
September 27, 1962 - US sells Israel Hawk anti-aircraft missiles
September 27, 1964 - Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
September 27, 1968 - Cardinal's super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of the year
September 27, 1972 - In 1st game at Coliseum Rangers beat Islanders 6-4 - Exhibition
September 27, 1973 - Soyuz 12 launched
September 28, 1066 - William the Conqueror landed in England
September 28, 1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California at San Diego Bay
September 28, 1781 - Siege of Yorktown begins last battle of the the Revolutionary War
September 28, 1858 - Donati's comet becomes the 1st to be photographed
September 28, 1906 - US troops reoccupy Cuba stay until 1909
September 28, 1920 - Baseball's biggest scandal grand jury indicts 8 White Sox for throwing the 1919 World Series with the Cincinnati Reds
September 28, 1923 - Yanks slaughter Red Sox 24-4
September 28, 1924 - End of 1st around-the-world flight Seattle to Seattle 57 stops
September 28, 1924 - 2 US Army planes completed 1st around the world flight
September 28, 1928 - Yanks clinch pennant #6
September 28, 1930 - Lou Gehrig'error ends his errorless streak at 885 consecutive games The winning pitcher was Babe Ruth beating the Red Sox 9-3
September 28, 1941 - Ted Williams assures his 400 avg on last day with 6 hits
September 28, 1942 - NY Americans NHL team folded
September 28, 1944 - 1st TV Musical comedy (The Boys from Boise)
September 28, 1951 - Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards
September 28, 1951 - Allie Reynolds 2nd no hitter of 1951 Yanks clinch pennant #18
September 28, 1953 - Edwin Hubble dies
September 28, 1960 - Ted Williams hits his final homer #521
September 28, 1963 - Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates a record 41.5 kph for 440 yds
September 28, 1965 - Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
September 28, 1970 - Sadat replaces Egyptian Pres Nassar who died of a heart attack at 52
September 28, 1974 - 1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
September 28, 1978 - Pope John Paul I died of a heart attack at 65
September 28, 1982 - 1st reports appeared of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
September 29, 1752 - Michaelmas
September 29, 1829 - Scotland Yard formed in London
September 29, 1859 - great auroral display in US
September 29, 1892 - 1st night football game was played in Mansfield Penn
September 29, 1911 - Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks beating Browns 16-12 a major league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning
September 29, 1923 - Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
September 29, 1927 - Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
September 29, 1928 - Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10
September 29, 1951 - 1st color telecast of football game on network Phila
September 29, 1951 - S Nicholson discovers 4th & 12th satellite of Jupiter
September 29, 1963 - Stan Musial's last game gets hit 3 629 & 3 630
September 29, 1969 - Love American Style premiers
September 29, 1969 - 7th Mayor's Trophy Game Mets beat Yanks 7-6
September 29, 1973 - Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
September 29, 1977 - Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into earth orbit
September 29, 1982 - Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules killed seven in Chicago
September 30, 1452 - 1st book published Johann Guttenberg's Bible
September 30, 1659 - Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
September 30, 1781 - siege of Yorktown begins
September 30, 1846 - William Morris 1st tooth extraction under anesthetics Charlestown
September 30, 1878 - 1st immigrants from Portugal arrive in Hawaii
September 30, 1880 - Henry Draper takes that 1st photograph of the Orion Nebula
September 30, 1898 - City of NY established
September 30, 1916 - Giants lose ending 26 straight winning streak
September 30, 1922 - Yanks clinch pennant #2
September 30, 1927 - Babe Ruth hits 60th HR setting the record off Tom Zachary
September 30, 1934 - FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
September 30, 1934 - Ruth's final game as a Yankee he went 0 for 3
September 30, 1935 - Porgy & Bess premiers in Boston
September 30, 1938 - Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
September 30, 1939 - 1st manned rocket flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
September 30, 1939 - 1st televised College football game - Fordham vs Waynesburg
September 30, 1944 - Calais reoccupied by Allies
September 30, 1945 - Hank Greenberg's final day HR wins the pennent for the Tigers
September 30, 1947 - Yanks beat Dodgers 5-3-largest WS crowd 73 365-1st WS televised
September 30, 1960 - Flintstones premiers
September 30, 1960 - On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"
September 30, 1966 - Botswana gains independence from Britain (National Day)
September 30, 1967 - Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
September 30, 1967 - USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete the 1st automatic docking
September 30, 1971 - Last Wash Senator home game Yanks win carreer 5th forfeit Yanks trailing 4-2 in the 9th with 2 outs fans rush the field
September 30, 1973 - Yanks close 50th year at Yankee Stadium losing 8-5
September 30, 1978 - Tuvalu (Ellice Islands) gains independence from Britain
September 30, 1984 - Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 average