- 1141 Battle of Qatwan [Samarkand]: Seljuqs are defeated by a Kara-Khitan army, signaling the beginning of the end of the Great Seljuk Empire
- 1156 Henry II, Duke of Austria, leaves Bavaria
- 1264 Statute of Kalisz is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and granting battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters
- 1276 John XXI [Peter Juliani] is elected Pope, the only Portuguese Pope
- 1514 Battle of Orsha: Polish-Lithuanian army defeats the Russian army
- 1664 Dutch surrender colony of New Netherland, including New York, to 300 English soldiers
- 1689 China and Russia sign the Treaty of Nerchinsk, checking Russian expansion but opening trade further between the two countries
- 1713 Pope Clement XI publishes the decree “Unigenitus” against Jansenism
- 1727 A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England, kills 78 people, many of whom are children
- 1755 Battle of Lake George in the Province of New York: British army defeats French
- 1756 Kittanning Expedition: 30-40 Lenape Indians are killed by Pennsylvania Provincial troops during the French and Indian War
- 1760 French army surrenders Montreal to British commander General Jeffrey Amherst
- 1771 Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is founded in California, just east of modern downtown Los Aangeles [1]
Battle of Bassano
1796 Battle of Bassano: Napoleon Bonaparte‘s French army defeats the Austrian forces during the French Revolutionary Wars
- 1831 William IV is crowned King of Great Britain at the age of 64, becoming the oldest person to assume the British throne
- 1847 The US under General Scott defeats the Mexicans at the Battle of Molino del Rey
- 1855 British and French troops capture Sevastopol from the Russians, effectively ending the Crimean War
- 1855 French forces successfully assault the Malakoff Line during the Crimean War
You May Fool…
1858 Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech “You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time”
- 1860 Excursion steamer “Lady Elgin” sinks after being rammed in a storm on Lake Michigan, drowning about 300, the largest loss of life on the Great Lakes
- 1863 Battle of Sabine Pass, Texas: 47 Texas volunteers repel federal forces
- 1863 Battle of Telford Depot, Tennessee
- 1863 Federal troops reconquer the Cumberland Gap, Tennessee
- 1868 New York Athletic Club forms
- 1870 Netherlands and Britain sign “Koelietraktaat,” an agreement allowing Indian contract workers from Calcutta to work on sugar plantations in Suriname
- 1883 New York Gothams score 13 runs in an inning in a 16-6 win over Philadelphia Quakers at Recreation Park, Philadelphia; MLB record (18) set two days earlier
- 1883 Northern Pacific Railroad’s last spike is driven at Independence Creek, Montana
- 1888 The first six Football League matches are played in England
- 1892 First appearance of “Pledge of Allegiance” in Youth’s Companion
1st Boxing Match Film
1894 Employed by Thomas Edison, William K.L. Dickson films the first boxing match in West Orange, New Jersey, an exhibition between world heavyweight champion James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney
- 1899 British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal, South Africa
- 1900 6,000 people are killed when a hurricane and tidal wave strike Galveston, Texas
- 1905 Pittsburgh Pirates strand National League record 18 men on base in 8-3 defeat to Cincinnati Reds at Exposition Park, Pittsburgh
- 1907 Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (anti-modernism)
- 1914 HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, two weeks into its service with the Royal Navy, runs aground off Foula, Shetland, Scotland, in good weather and eventually sinks
- 1914 Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during World War I
- 1915 Association of Negro Life and History is founded in the US (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History)
Emergency Revenue Act
1916 US President Woodrow Wilson signs the Emergency Revenue Act, doubling the rate of income tax and adding inheritance and munitions profits taxes
- 1920 US Air Mail service begins (NYC to San Francisco)
- 1923 Honda Point Disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast, and seven are lost
- 1924 Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes the first woman ambassador
- 1926 League of Nations Assembly votes unanimously to admit Germany
- 1930 American inventor Richard Gurley Drew creates Scotch tape
- 1930 First appearance of the comic strip “Blondie,” created by American cartoonist Chic Young
- 1930 New York City public schools begin teaching Hebrew
Dutch Princess Engaged
1936 Princess Juliana of the Netherlands and German Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld become engaged
- 1937 Pan-Arab conference on Palestine opens
Baseball Record
1939 Cleveland Indians’ Bob Feller, 20, is the youngest pitcher to win 20 games
- 1939 General von Reichenau’s Panzer division reaches the suburbs of Warsaw
- 1939 Yankees beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7 innings; the game is called because of lightning
- 1941 Blockade of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by German forces begins
- 1941 Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated
1941 Siege of Leningrad, World War II, by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins; battle lasts over 28 months as Soviets repel the invasion; well over a million lives are lost
Bradley to Algiers
1943 Lieutenant-General Omar Bradley flies to Carthage, Tunisia, and then Algiers from Sicily to meet with Eisenhower and other senior Allied leaders
- 1943 NY Giants’ pitcher Ace Adams sets a record by working in his 62nd game
Italian Surrender
1943 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal and head of government Pietro Badoglio give separate radio speeches announcing Italy’s surrender to the Allies on September 3 in the Armistice of Cassibile
- 1944 First V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp, Belgium
- 1944 Russians march into Bulgaria, and Bulgaria declares war on Germany
- 1945 US invades Japanese-held Korea
- 1946 Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minor league record 456
- 1946 Bulgaria ends its monarchy
- 1946 San Francisco 49ers play their first AAFC game and lose to the New York Yankees 21-7
- 1948 The British de Havilland DH 108 fighter flies faster than the speed of sound
- 1951 Japan signs a peace treaty with 48 countries in San Francisco
Sports History
1954 With a 3-2 count, Phillies’ Richie Ashburn fouls off the next 14 pitches, then walks
- 1955 Earliest clinching of an NL pennant by the Brooklyn Dodgers
1957 Juan Manuel Fangio confirms his F1 World Drivers’ Championship, finishing 2nd in the season-ending Italian GP at Monza; takes a record 5th title by 15 points from Stirling Moss
- 1959 The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established
Wilma Rudolph 3 Golds
1960 American sprinter Wilma Rudolph wins her third gold medal of the Rome Olympics, anchoring the US 4 x 100 m relay team; she earlier won the 100/200 m double
- 1960 German 4 x 100 m relay team equals world record 39.5 to win the gold medal at Rome Olympics; Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf, and Martin Lauer
- 1960 German Democratic Republic limits access to East Berlin for West Berliners
- 1960 US 4 x 400 m relay team of Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis, and Otis Davis run a world record 3:02.2 to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics
- 1961 Nashville-based guitar wizard Hank Garland sustains career-ending injuries in a single vehicle accident near Springfield, Tennessee
- 1962 Chinese troops exceed the McMahon Line (Tibet-India boundary)
- 1962 Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly uses the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 “Evening Star”
- 1962 The USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
- 1963 Algerian population accepts the constitution
- 1963 Inés Cuervo de Prieto, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys, in Venezuela
- 1965 Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana and Florida
1965 Small ads in Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter attract 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first manufactured boy band, “The Monkees.” Three are chosen, with British actor-singer Davy Jones already cast
- 1966 “That Girl,” an American sitcom starring Marlo Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV
- 1966 Star Trek premieres on television with the episode “The Man Trap”
Severn Bridge Opens
1966 The Severn Bridge between England and Wales is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II
- 1967 Surveyor 5 launches and makes a soft landing on the Moon on September 10
- 1967 The formal end of steam traction in the northeast of England by British Railways
- 1967 Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms and becomes a republic
- 1968 France performs a nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
- 1968 Saundra Williams wins the first Miss Black America pageant
- 1969 Suleiman Maghrabi is appointed premier of Libya
Tennis Tournament
1969 US amateur Men’s Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz 9-7, 6-3, 6-1
- 1970 Black September hijackings begin as three airliners are hijacked and destroyed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- 1971 John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C.
- 1972 East German Annelie Ehrhardt sets a world record of 12.59 seconds to win the 100 m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics, beating Romanian Valeria Bufanu by 0.25 seconds
Baseball History
1972 Ferguson “Chic” Jenkins wins his 20th game for the sixth consecutive year
- 1972 Mykola Avilov, representing the Soviet Union, scores a world record 8,454 points to win the decathlon gold medal at the Munich Olympics, beating teammate Leonid Lytvynenko by 419 points
- 1972 Runners Jim Ryun (US) and Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide and fall in qualifying competitions for 1500 m finals, ending Ryun’s chances for gold
- 1973 “Star Trek: The Animated Series” premieres on TV
Baseball Record
1973 Hank Aaron sets a record for the most home runs in one league (733)
Knievel Attempts Canyon Jump
1974 American motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempts to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho but fails, escaping with minor injuries
- 1974 England’s Ian Thompson wins European Championship marathon in 2:13:18.8 in Rome, Italy
- 1979 The US performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site
- 1981 British TV comedy “Only Fools and Horses,” created by John Sullivan and starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, and Lennard Pearce, premieres on BBC One
- 1982 Dutch Social Democratic Party wins elections: far-right politician enters Dutch Parliament
- 1983 NASA launches RCA-6
- 1984 Challenger moves to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the mating of the STS-41G mission
- 1985 Alayson Gibbons sets a 24-hour women’s swim record of 42.05 miles in a 25-meter pool
- 1985 Seven die in a car and train crash in San Jose, California
- 1985 Shuttle Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base
- 1985 USA Weekend’s first issue appears in 255 newspapers
- 1986 Westinghouse sells the background music company Muzak to the Field Company of Chicago
- 1988 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba high jumps a world record of 2.43 m
Election of Interest
1988 NL president A. Bartlett Giamatti is unanimously elected Major League Baseball’s seventh Commissioner
Baseball Record
1989 American MLB player George Brett records his 2,500th hit for the Kansas City Royals against the Minnesota Twins
- 1989 Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) is discovered in Kortrijk, Belgium
- 1989 Norwegian Convair 580 crashes into the sea off Jutland, killing 55
- 1990 Ellis Island Historical Site opens on Ellis Island, New York City
- 1991 Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia
- 1991 NFL Buffalo Bills QB Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns against the Pittsburgh Steelers (52-34)
- 1992 Danny Tartabull has nine RBIs as the Yankees beat the Orioles 16-4
- 1992 Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting in Dallas, Texas, on KEGL-FM 97.1
- 1993 Baseball’s proposed switch to a three-division format is approved in the AL
- 1993 Houston’s Darryl Kile throws the third MLB no-hitter of the season in the Astros’ 7-1 win over the New York Mets
- 1993 Wang Junxia sets a women’s world record 10,000 m (29:31.78) at the Chinese National Games
- 1994 Last US, British, and French troops leave West Berlin
- 1994 USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pittsburgh Airport, killing all 132 on board
- 1995 Cleveland Indians clinch first AL Central Division title
- 1996 48th Emmy Awards: “ER,” Dennis Franz, and Kathy Baker win
- 1996 American children’s program “Blue’s Clues” debuts on Nickelodeon cable channel
- 1999 US Attorney General Janet Reno names former Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian church near Waco, Texas, in response to revelations in the film “Waco The Rules of Engagement”
I Just Can’t Get You Out of My Head
2001 Kylie Minogue releases her single “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” the biggest hit of her career
- 2002 Rookie quarterback David Carr throws for 2 TDs as the Houston Texans beat the Dallas Cowboys 19-10 to become only the second expansion team, after the 1961 Minnesota Vikings, to win their inaugural game
- 2002 Texas Rangers set a Major League record by hitting a home run in their 26th consecutive game as Texas falls to Tampa Bay
- 2004 The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open
- 2005 Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; it is the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America
- 2008 Latvia joins its northern neighbor Estonia in recession as GDP falls 0.2% in the second quarter from the first quarter, when it fell 0.3%; property markets and construction have suffered in both Baltic states
The Rachel Maddow Show
2008 TV news show “The Rachel Maddow Show,” hosted by Rachel Maddow and based on her radio show, premieres on MSNBC
- 2010 Egypt’s Minister of Finance, Dr. Youssef Boutros Ghali, states that Egypt is emerging from the recession, as indicated by increased total revenue from sales taxes and customs duties
- 2011 Fashion designer John Galliano is found guilty of making anti-Semitic remarks in a Paris court and is fined €6,000
- 2012 A train hits a tractor in Romania, killing eight people
- 2012 Six people are killed by a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan
- 2013 11 people are killed and 18 are injured in a gunfire attack in Guatemala City
- 2013 A minibus collides with a car in Jakarta, Indonesia, killing six people and injuring nine
- 2013 A minibus collides with a train in Iasi, Romania, killing 11 people
Colbert on The Late Show
2015 Comedian Stephen Colbert debuts as the new host of CBS’s “The Late Show”
Catholic History
2015 Pope Francis announces moves to streamline the annulment process within the Catholic Church
- 2016 Giraffe DNA study published in “Current Biology” reveals there are four species, not just one as previously assumed
- 2016 NASA launches the OSIRIS-REx probe to retrieve a rock sample from the 500-meter-wide Bennu asteroid
Billy Corgan Album
2016 Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan announces a new solo album, “Ogilala,” recorded with producer Rick Rubin via a Facebook Live video; it is released on October 13, 2017
- 2018 75th Venice International Film Festival: a Netflix film, “Roma,” wins the Golden Lion for the first time
- 2018 Archaeologists uncover more than 300 gold coins from the late imperial period in a theatre in Como, Italy
- 2018 Egypt sentences over 700 people, including 75 to death, for the 2013 pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square
- 2019 An estimated 1 million people attend a mass held by Pope Francis near Antananarivo, Madagascar
- 2019 Brazil’s Supreme Court rules that a Marvel comic depicting two men kissing can be sold after the mayor of Rio de Janeiro attempts to ban it
- 2019 Cargo ship Golden Ray catches fire and capsizes in St. Simons Sound off the coast of Georgia, trapping four crew members inside
- 2019 Typhoon Faxai makes landfall near Tokyo, Japan, with winds of up to 210 km/h (130 mph)
- 2020 Moria refugee camp, Europe’s largest migrant camp, burns down on the Greek island of Lesbos, leaving 13,000 without shelter
- 2020 Two former Myanmar soldiers testify they were ordered to rape and kill Muslim Rohingya villagers, the first public confession of army-directed crimes against the Rohingya [1]
2021 Derek Jeter, Ted Simmons, Larry Walker, and Marvin Miller are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York; elected in 2020, the ceremony was postponed due to the pandemic
- 2021 Forty-one prisoners die in a fire at Tangerang prison, near Jakarta, Indonesia
Richmond Lee Statue Removed
2021 Large statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee removed from plinth on Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia
- 2021 Wildfire in Spain’s Sierra Bermeja mountains in AndalucÃa erupts, forcing the evacuation of 2,600 people
- 2022 Australian government passes its first climate change legislation in a decade, including cutting emissions by at least 43% by 2030 [1]
- 2022 Australian Stephanie Gilmore wins her eighth world surfing title at Lower Trestles, California, making her the most successful women’s champion in history
- 2022 Europe has the warmest summer ever recorded, 0.4 degrees warmer, with August 0.8 degrees warmer, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service [1]
FBI on Aretha Franklin
2022 FBI declassifies 270 pages of their surveillance files of American singer Aretha Franklin
- 2022 Ireland launches the Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) pilot scheme, providing €325 weekly payments to 2,000 randomly selected artists and creative arts workers to help the creative arts sector recover from the COVID-19 pandemic [1]
- 2022 Queen Elizabeth II dies at Balmoral Castle after ruling for 70 years as the UK’s longest-serving monarch; her eldest son inherits the throne as King Charles III [1]
- 2023 6.8 magnitude earthquake hits central Morocco, its epicenter in the Atlas Mountains near Marrakesh, killing around 3,000 people and causing catastrophic damage affecting over 6 million people [1]
- 2024 Fifty-nine people die in a crash between an oil tanker and a lorry carrying passengers in Niger State, Nigeria [1]
- 2024 Pope Francis celebrates mass in the remote jungle town of Vanimo during his visit to Papua New Guinea [1]
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