This day in history.....

August 25th


1718: French colonists in Louisiana establish a settlement named for the Duc d'Orléans, regent of France, which will become the city of New Orleans.


1825: Uruguay declares itself independent of Brazil.


1900: Ten years after suffering a mental breakdown from which he never recovered, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche dies in Weimar, Germany, at the age of 55.


1944: American troops, along with Free French and French Resistance forces, liberate Paris from German occupation.


1964: Members of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party are refused in their attempt to be seated at the Democratic National Convention in place of their state's all-white delegation.


325: The first Council of Nicaea ends, at which leaders of the Christian church adopted the Nicaean Creed, affirming the Holy Trinity, and fixed the schedule of the yearly celebration of Easter.
 
Sept. 1st



1443: The Japanese dramatist Zeami Motokiyo, perhaps the greatest of the No dramatists, dies. Motokiyo wrote nearly half of the classic No repertoire, as well as essays on the theater.


1807: Former American vice president Aaron Burr is acquitted on charges of treason, in his alleged attempt to set up an independent republic in Spanish territory in the Southwest.


1923: A major earthquake nearly destroys the city of Yokohama, Japan, as well as much of nearby Tokyo. More than 100,000 people die in the quake.


1939: Nazi Germany begins World War II with its invasion of Poland. The invasion will lead Britain and France to declare war on Germany two days later.


1972: Bobby Fischer becomes the first American to win the world chess championship when he defeats Soviet champion Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland.


1983: In one of the last major incidents of the Cold War, a Soviet fighter plane shoots down Korean Air Lines flight 007, killing all 269 on board, after it strays into Soviet air space.
 
September 2nd

R.I.P Mike Memorial Service in NJ


1666: The Great Fire of London starts in a baker's shop. The fire devastates the city, destroying many buildings, including Saint Paul's Cathedral and the Guildhall.

1864: Union armies led by General William Tecumseh Sherman occupy Atlanta, Georgia. They will burn much of the city before beginning their march to the Atlantic Ocean.


1945: On board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japanese officials make their formal surrender to the United States, ending the conflict between the two countries in World War II.


1945: Viet Minh forces, led by Ho Chi Minh, declare the independence of Vietnam from France, beginning an eight-year colonial war that will result in a partitioned country.


1969: Ho Chi Minh, leader of North Vietnam and architect of Vietnamese independence, dies at the age of 79.


31 BC: The forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra are decisively defeated near Actium by the Roman army of Octavian (later known as Augustus), allowing Octavian to consolidate his rule of the Roman empire.
 
September 3rd


1658: Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, leader of the English Revolution of Parliament against the monarchy, dies on the anniversary of his greatest military victories, at Dunbar in 1650 and Worcester in 1651.


1783: The Treaty of Paris is signed between Britain on one side and France, Spain, and the United States on the other, ending the American Revolution.


1838: Disguised as a sailor, Frederick Bailey escapes from slavery on a train bound from Baltimore to Philadelphia. After settling in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he takes the free name Frederick Douglass.


1939: Two days after Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, France and Britain enter World War II by declaring war on Germany.


1967: Voters in South Vietnam elect military leader Nguyen Van Thieu as president under a new constitution. He will remain in power until the last days before the Communist takeover of South Vietnam in 1975.


1976: The U.S. Viking 2 spacecraft lands on the surface of Mars, where it analyzes the soil and climate and sends back some of the first close-up photographs of the planet.
 
Mare said:
August 3rd


1658: Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, leader of the English Revolution of Parliament against the monarchy, dies on the anniversary of his greatest military victories, at Dunbar in 1650 and Worcester in 1651.

later a band called new model army were formed. Good ol' oliver's army heh? Bit of a vandal to churches and suchlike tho


1783: The Treaty of Paris is signed between Britain on one side and France, Spain, and the United States on the other, ending the American Revolution.

shhh ...Southern and Proud may hear you ...



1939: Two days after Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, France and Britain enter World War II by declaring war on Germany.

Yes, against the Might of the third reich , The Luftwaffe and the Panzer divisions, the brave polish cavalry were polishing their leather riding boots, the french were smugly hiding behind a big concrete walls, almost without end ;) ... with an eighty year old general with a fond penchant for trenches and ...

... in England Dad's army was being formed .... elderly Butcher's and bank clerks were getting their spades and pick axes outta da shed all ready fer any sneaky gerry moves like an attack... (the rotters)




1967: Voters in South Vietnam elect military leader Nguyen Van Thieu as president under a new constitution. He will remain in power until the last days before the Communist takeover of South Vietnam in 1975.


1976: The U.S. Viking 2 spacecraft lands on the surface of Mars, where it analyzes the soil and climate and sends back some of the first close-up photographs of the planet.
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I checked ...and confirm it was a month ago ...however all that above happened on this day sep 3 so...Mare was right - just wrong in any accurate date sense:tomato:
 
September 4th

Happy Memorial day ALL!


1781: Spanish colonists found a settlement in southern California known as El Pueblo Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula, later shortened to Los Angeles.


1881: American electrical engineer Thomas Alva Edison supplies electricity to the first customers of the Edison Electrical Illuminating Company in New York City.


1886: Geronimo, the Chiricahua Apache who had led raids on white settlers for ten years after the U.S. government attempted to move the Apache to a reservation, surrenders to U.S. general Nelson A. Miles.


1957: Arkansas governor Orval Faubus uses the Arkansas National Guard to block the entry of nine African American students into Little Rock's segregated Central High School.


1972: At the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, American swimmer Mark Spitz wins his seventh gold medal of the Games, as part of the U.S. 400-m relay team.
 
1966-2006 Michael J Abruzzese passed away.8-28-06


Mare said:
Sept. 1st
1443: The Japanese dramatist Zeami Motokiyo, perhaps the greatest of the No dramatists, dies. Motokiyo wrote nearly half of the classic No repertoire, as well as essays on the theater.


1807: Former American vice president Aaron Burr is acquitted on charges of treason, in his alleged attempt to set up an independent republic in Spanish territory in the Southwest.


1923: A major earthquake nearly destroys the city of Yokohama, Japan, as well as much of nearby Tokyo. More than 100,000 people die in the quake.


1939: Nazi Germany begins World War II with its invasion of Poland. The invasion will lead Britain and France to declare war on Germany two days later.


1972: Bobby Fischer becomes the first American to win the world chess championship when he defeats Soviet champion Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, Iceland.


1983: In one of the last major incidents of the Cold War, a Soviet fighter plane shoots down Korean Air Lines flight 007, killing all 269 on board, after it strays into Soviet air space.
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September 5th


Memrial Service for Michael J. Abruzzese Sr., for the sake of Michael jr. and Matthew


1774: Delegates from all of the 13 American colonies except Georgia meet as the First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


1877: Oglala Sioux leader Crazy Horse is killed by a U.S. soldier while in custody, allegedly after he resists his confinement.


1905: Russia and Japan sign the Treaty of Portsmouth in New Hampshire, ending the Russo-Japanese War. The treaty gives the victorious Japanese a territorial stake on the Asian mainland.


1916: D. W. Griffith's epic motion picture Intolerance opens in New York City.


1957: Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, based on Kerouac's friendship with Neal Cassidy, is published. The novel becomes one of the best known works of the Beat Generation.


1972: At the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, Palestinian terrorists murder 11 members of the Israeli Olympic delegation in a hostage-taking attempt that ends in a firefight with German police.
 
September 6th


1837: Already one of the few U.S. colleges to admit African Americans, the Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Ohio becomes the first U.S. college to admit women to its regular college program.

1899: U.S. secretary of state John Hay circulates a letter arguing for an Open Door policy with regard to trade with China, rather than one that would carve up China into European spheres of influence.


1901: Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. president William McKinley at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies eight days later.


1926: The Kuomintang Chinese nationalist forces led by Chiang Kai-shek reach Hankou at the confluence of the Han and the Yangtze rivers; Hankou becomes the Kuomintang capital.

1941: The Nazi government requires that all Jews in German-occupied territories wear the yellow star of David for identification.

1998: Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who often adapted Western literary works and forms to Japanese subjects, dies at the age of 88.
 
September 7th

1822: Brazil declares independence from Portugal.


1860: Red Shirt troops led by Italian nationalist Guiseppe Garibaldi take Naples, one of the final steps leading to the unification of Italy under King Victor Emmanuel II the following year.


1892: Gentleman Jim Corbett knocks out James L. Sullivan in the first heavyweight championship bout fought under the Marquess of Queensbury rules, which require the fighters to wear gloves.

1901: The Peace of Beijing formally ends the Boxer Uprising in China. Under the agreement, China pays an indemnity to the European powers and lowers trade barriers.


1977: U.S. president Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos sign the Panama Canal treaties, which return the Panama Canal to Panamanian control in 2000.

1979: ESPN, the first all-sports cable network in the United States, begins broadcasting.


1986: Two years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, South African clergyman Desmond Tutu is named Archbishop of Cape Town, becoming the first black leader of South Africa's Anglican church.
 
September 8th


1565: Spanish colonists led by explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilés establish the first permanent European settlement in North America at Saint Augustine, Florida.


1900: An unexpected hurricane devastates Galveston, Texas, killing 6,000 people.


1954: The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is founded by the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and France.


1971: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C., with the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.


1974: U.S. president Gerald Ford, who took office after Richard Nixon's resignation the month before, pardons Nixon for any "crimes he committed or may have committed."


1998: St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire hits his 62nd home run of the season, breaking Roger Maris's single-season record. Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs will hit his 62nd five days later.
 
September 9th


1850: Under the Compromise of 1850, California enters the United States as a free state, in which slavery is illegal. California is the 31st state in the Union.


1914: The First Battle of the Marne ends, in which German troops in World War I are decisively halted in their drive toward Paris, France.


1968: Amateur Arthur Ashe wins the U.S. Open tennis tournament in the first year it is open to both professionals and amateurs.

1971: Inmates at the state prison in Attica, New York, take 30 guards hostage in a revolt over prison conditions. Forty-three prisoners and guards will die in the revolt, which is violently suppressed four days later.


1976: Mao Zedong, the leader of the People's Republic of China since its founding in 1949, dies of Parkinson's disease at the age of 82.


1997: As part of the peace process in Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist political party associated with the Irish Republican Army, formally renounces violence.
 
September 10th


1608: The colony of Jamestown in Virginia, after a troubled first year, elects John Smith as its president.


1846: American inventor Elias Howe patents his sewing machine.


1935: Two days after being wounded by an assassin, U.S. senator Huey Long, the dominant political figure in Louisiana during the Depression, dies in Baton Rouge.


1963: Twenty African American schoolchildren enter public high schools in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee, Alabama, after Governor George Wallace yields to federal pressure to desegregate.


1981: The mural Guernica (1937), painted by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in reaction to the German bombing of the town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, returns to Spain for the first time.


1988: German tennis player Steffi Graf completes the sport's first Grand Slam since 1970 by winning her fourth major title of the year, the U.S. Open.
 
September 11th


1777: The British army, led by generals William Howe and Charles Cornwallis, defeats the American forces led by General George Washington at the Battle of the Brandywine in Pennsylvania.


1847: Stephen Foster's song “Oh! Susanna” is performed for the first time at a concert in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; it is the first of his many popular folk tunes to gain widespread success.
Learn more about Stephen Foster.

1962: The Beatles record their first songs for the music label EMI: "Love Me Do" and "P.S., I Love You."


1973: Chile's Socialist president Salvador Allende dies during a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet and supported by the United States.


1985: Baseball player Pete Rose gets his 4,192nd career hit, breaking Ty Cobb's career record, which had lasted over 50 years.


1998: The U.S. Congress releases the report of special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, which details President Bill Clinton's alleged sexual misconduct and accuses the president of perjury and obstruction of justice.

2001: Millions of americans lost their lives. And we will remember.
 
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