Major Events
- 1752 Britain and the British Empire, including the American colonies, adopt the Gregorian Calendar after skipping 11 days between September 3 and September 13
- 1922 Burning of Smyrna, the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks: Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor, destroying much of the port city of Smyrna (August 13 OS)
- 1936 First prefrontal lobotomy in America performed by Walter Freeman and James W. Watts at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
- 1939 World’s first practical helicopter, the VS-300, designed by Igor Sikorsky, takes a short tethered flight in Stratford, Connecticut [1]
- 1949 India’s Constituent Assembly adopts Hindi as an official language, celebrated today as Hindi Day
- 1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer with a hard drive featuring magnetic disk storage, which weighs over a ton
- 1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela form the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
- 2020 Astronomers report a possible sign of life on Venus after detecting phosphine in the planet’s atmosphere through a telescope [1]
- 2021 One in 500 Americans has died of COVID-19 as the nation’s known death toll reaches 663,913 (Johns Hopkins) [1]
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- 1987 Cal Ripken Jr.’s record streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is finally broken
Did You Know?
Francis Scott Key pens the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry,” later known as “The Star-Spangled Banner,” while witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry from a ship in Baltimore Harbor
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