Historical Events on this Day in History for Tuesday 9th September 2014 701 - St Sergius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea. King Olaf on board the Long Serpent defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age. 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III. 1493 - Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion. 1513 - Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned Queen of Scots in the central Scottish town of Stirling. 1556 - Pope Paul IV refuses to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor 1561 - Sermon of Poissy 1567 - Lomaraal van Egmond & Philip van Hoorne captured 1591 - -10] Battle at Flores Azores: Spanish beat English Queen of Scotland Mary StuartQueen of Scotland Mary Stuart 1675 - New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians 1683 - Expelled Polish & Lotharings reach Wienerwald 1739 - Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed) 1753 - 1st steam engine arrives in US colonies 1776 - Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies) 1817 - Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College 1830 - Charles Durant, 1st US aeronaut, flies a balloon from Castle Garden, NYC to Perth Amboy, NJ 1839 - John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph 1841 - Great Lakes steamer Erie sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300 1850 - Territories of New Mexico & Utah created 1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state 1861 - Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer Confederate General Robert E. LeeConfederate General Robert E. Lee 1862 - Robert E. Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry 1863 - Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN 1867 - Luxembourg gains independence 1875 - Lottas Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated 1880 - President Hayes visits SF 1881 - Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab El Wahid 1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized. 1892 - E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon 1895 - American Bowling Congress forms (NYC) 1898 - Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders 1899 - French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced on unjust grounds 1903 - 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated 1904 - Mounted police 1st used in NYC 1904 - Boston Herald again refers to NY baseball club as Yankees, when it reports Yankees take 2, Yankee name not official till 1913 Aviator Orville WrightAviator Orville Wright 1908 - Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va 1908 - Russia takes part of Poland 1909 - Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title 1911 - 1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England) 1912 - J Verdrines becomes 1st to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph) 1913 - Association for Study of Negro Life & History organizes in Chicago 1914 - -12] Belgian offensive from Antwerp 1914 - Boston Brave George Davis no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0 1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army. 1914 - Meeting held at Gaelic League headquarters between Irish Republican Brotherhood and other extreme republicans; initial decision made to stage an uprising while Britain is at war 1915 - Association for study of Negro Life & History forms by Carter G Woodson 1918 - Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms 1919 - Bostons police force forms strike 1922 - St Louis Brown Baby Doll Jacobson hits 3 triples beating Tigers 16-0 1922 - Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens 1922 - William T Cosgrave replaces Irish premier Collins 1923 - Albin Stenroos runs world record 20 km (1:07:11.2) 1924 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii. 1926 - National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America 1926 - Train disaster at Wassenaar Neth, 4 die 1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed. 1927 - Tony Lazzeri Day at Yankee Stadium 1928 - Silvio Cator of Haiti, sets then long jump record at 26 ½ 1932 - Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning 1932 - Mine strikes at Belgian Borinage ended 1932 - Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy 1932 - Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River (71 killed) 1933 - 53rd US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Jack Crawford (6-3 11-13 4-6 6-0 6-1) 1934 - Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0) 1934 - G Kaufman & M Harts Merrily We Roll Along, premieres in NYC 1936 - Yankees sweep Indians, NY clinches pennant on earliest date in history 1939 - Nazi army reaches Warsaw 1940 - 28 German aircraft shot down above England 1942 - 1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon (WW II) 1942 - Compulsory work for women, children & old males in Batavia 1942 - Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon 1943 - 15 German JU-88s sink Italian flag ship Rome 1943 - Lt-Gen Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick 1943 - Red Army occupies Bachmatsj 1943 - US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) 1944 - Allied forces liberate Luxembourg 1944 - Bulgaria liberated from Nazi control (National Day) 1944 - Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal Neth 1944 - US 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders 1944 - Very strong hurricane hits Netherland 1945 - Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies 1945 - Jimmie Foxx hits his 534th & final HR 1945 - Phila As Dick Fowler no-hits St Louis Brown, 1-0 1945 - 1st bug in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay & taped into the log 1948 - Hilarities (of 1949) opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 14 perfs 1948 - Bkln Dodger Rex Barney no-hits NY Giants, 2-0 1948 - Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed 1950 - Texas, Lil Darlin closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 293 perfs 1950 - Wheres Chartev? closes at St James Theater NYC after 792 perfs 1950 - 1st use of TV laugh track-Hank McCune 1950 - Mass arrests of communists in France 1951 - 1st broadcast of Love of Life on CBS-TV 1951 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open 1953 - KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 1953 - WFIE TV channel 14 in Evansville, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting 1954 - Earthquake strikes Orleansville Algeria: 1,400 killed 1954 - Indians becomes 1st Cleveland team to win 100 games in a season 1955 - Don Zimmer, hits 4,000th Dodger home run Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis PresleySinger & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1955 - Elvis Presleys 1st appearance on Ed Sullivans Show 1955 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open 1956 - 70th US Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64) 1956 - 76th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Lewis Hoad (46 62 63 63) 1956 - African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde forms 1956 - Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the 1st time 1957 - Diana by Paul Anka reaches #1 1957 - Nashvilles new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited 1957 - Pres Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction Baseball Player Roberto ClementeBaseball Player Roberto Clemente 1958 - Pirate Roberto Clemente ties record of 3 triples in a game 1958 - Race riots in Notting Hill Gate, London 1960 - 4th American Football League plays 1st game (Denver 13, Boston 10) 1961 - Maria Beale Fletcher (NC), 19, crowned 34th Miss America 1962 1962 - 76th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64) 1962 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open 1962 - Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses 1962 - WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting 1963 - Alabama Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools 1964 - German DR government allows short visits to West Germany 1964 - John Osbornes Inadmissable Evidence, premieres in London 1965 - Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency 1965 - Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0) 1965 - Tibet is made an autonomous region of China 36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson 1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. 1967 - 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V 1967 - Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968 1967 - Uganda declares independence from Great Britain 1968 - 1st US Open, held as an open, Arthur Ashe wins, defeating Tom Okker 1968 - WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting 1968 - WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1969 - Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82 Tennis Player Arthur AsheTennis Player Arthur Ashe 1969 - Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83 1969 - Smallest US Tennis Open single session-131 (mens doubles final only) 1969 - WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting 1970 - Bowie Kuhn suspends Denny McLain for carrying a gun 1970 - Feyenoord wins soccers World Cup 1971 - 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison 1971 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV) 1971 - John Lennon releases Imagine album 1971 - NHL great Gordie Howe retires 1972 - 86th US Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats K Melville (63 75) Musician and Beatle John LennonMusician and Beatle John Lennon 1972 - Terry Anne Meeuwsen (Wisc), 23, crowned 45th Miss America 1973 1973 - 93rd US Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Jan Kodes (64 16 46 62 62) 1973 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open 1974 - 88th US Womens Tennis: B J M King beats E Goolagong Cawley (36 63 75) 1975 - Viking 2 Mars probe launch 1976 - New Zealand government establishes the country’s first centralised electronic database through the Wanganui Computer Act, raising questions about the state’s ability to gather information on its citizens 1977 - 1st TRS-80 computer sold 1977 - Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker & Allan Trammell debut together & will play together for 19 years 1978 - 3rd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 7-0 1978 - 92nd US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats Pam Shriver (75 64) 1978 - Balt Orioles pull their 7th triple play (5-4-3 vs Toronto) 1978 - Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army 1978 - Kylene Barker (Virginia), crowned 51st Miss America 1979 1979 - 31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman & Ruth Gordon win 1979 - 93rd US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats C E Lloyd Mills (64 63) Tennis Player John McEnroeTennis Player John McEnroe 1979 - 99th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis (7-5 6-3 6-3) 1979 - Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic 1979 - Sid Bernstein offers $½ billion for a Beatle reunion 1981 - Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League 1982 - Your Arms are Too Short... opens at Alvin NYC for 69 performances 1982 - Columbia mated with SRBs & external tank in preparation for STS-5 1982 - Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight 1983 - Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas 1983 - Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2) Tennis Player Martina NavratilovaTennis Player Martina Navratilova 1983 - Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova cant beat 100th ranked male tennis player 1984 - 104th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl (6-3 6-4 6-1) 1984 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship 1985 - President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa 1985 - Race riot in Birmingham, England 1986 - Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7) 1986 - NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying 1987 - Gary Hart admits on Nightline, to cheating on his wife 1987 - Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016 NBA Legend Larry BirdNBA Legend Larry Bird 1987 - Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59 1987 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter 1988 - Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers & Gossage to save 300 games 1988 - Chris Evert defaults at US Open due to a stomach flu 1988 - US Stars & Stripes H3 defeats NZs KZ-1 at the 27th Americas Cup: NZ appeal in court but eventually lose 1989 - 103rd US Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (3-6 7-5 6-1) 1990 - 110th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 62) 1990 - Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr Johnsons forces Tennis Player Pete SamprasTennis Player Pete Sampras 1990 - Oakland beats NY 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year 1990 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship 1990 - George H W Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait 1991 - Mike Tyson indicted for rape of Desiree Washington 1991 - Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland 1992 - 1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home 1992 - 9th MTV Awards: Howard Stern appears as Fartman 1992 - Robin Yount, is 17th to get 3,000 hits 1993 - Croupier of casino in Bristol, England, shoots a 4 a record eight times Radio shock jock Howard SternRadio shock jock Howard Stern 1993 - PLO recognizes state of Israel 1993 - Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, (Kuchma) resigns 1994 - Space shuttle STS 64 (Discovery 20), launches into orbit 1994 - Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed 1995 - Broadway Limited last train ride (began in 1902) 1995 - 109th US Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (7-6 0-6 6-3) 1995 - Dean St Station in Brooklyn, is 6th MTA station to close since 1904 1997 - Sinn Fein accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmament Singer-Songwriter Lauryn HillSinger-Songwriter Lauryn Hill 1999 - 16th MTV Awards: Lauryn Hill & Will Smith wins 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan. 2002 - Pitcher Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record 2004 - 2004 A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people. 2007 - 24th MTV Awards: Rihanna f/ Jay-Z, Fergie & Justin Timberlake wins 2012 - 17 people are killed and at least 40 injured after two car bombs explode in Aleppo, Syria 2012 - 100 people are killed and 350 injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq Singer RihannaSinger Rihanna 2012 - Armenia wins the 40th FIDE Chess Olympiad 2012 - Serena Williams wins her fourth womens tennis singles at the US Open 2013 - 60 people are killed in conflict between rebels and loyalists in the Central African Republic 2013 - 18 people are killed in conflict between government and Boko Harem troops in Borno State, Nigeria 2013 - 44 people are killed and 45 are injured after a bus crashes into a ravine in Northern Guatemala 2013 - Erna Solberg is elected Prime Minister of Norway after a centre-right coalition wins a majority in their elections 2013 - Rafael Nadal defeats Novak Djokovic to win the 2013 US Tennis Open
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