This day in history.....

2001: Millions of americans lost their lives. And we will remember.
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Not to belittle the loss, but perhaps we should check our facts??????

People will argue all day about the exact figure but it was quite likely less than three thousand, and they weren't all Americans. I'm sure the terrorists want you to believe it was "millions" but it wasn't. :shrug:
 
September 13th


1692: French writer Michel de Montaigne, who introduced the essay as a literary form, dies in France at the age of 59.


1759: British general James Wolfe and French general Joseph de Montcalm are both fatally wounded at the battle of Québec. The British victory there ends the French empire in North America.


1922: The highest temperature ever recorded, 58° C (136° F), is measured at Al Aziziyah, Libya.

1942: The German seige of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the Soviet Union begins. Their failure to take the city during the four-month battle will halt their drive toward Moscow.


1943: Chiang Kai-Shek, the longtime military leader of Nationalist China, is elected president of the country.
 
September 14th


1741: Composer George Frideric Handel completes his Messiah after 23 consecutive days of work.


1752: Britain shifts from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, which has been in use through much of Europe since 1582. The change requires the calendar to make a one-time leap from September 2 to September 14.

1814: Inspired by the defense of Baltimore's Fort McHenry during a British attack in the War of 1812, lawyer Francis Scott Key writes the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner."


1939: After many years of experimentation, Russian-born aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky flies his first successful helicopter, the VS-300.


1982: Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly American film actor Grace Kelly, dies of injuries she received in an automobile accident the previous day.
 
September 15th


1821: The colony of Guatemala, including the present-day nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, declares its independence from Spain.


1830: The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens. The first railroad to carry both passengers and freight, its success sparks widespread railroad building in Britain and the United States.


1928: Scottish bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory. The mold will later be developed into penicillin, a revolutionary antibiotic.


1935: At its annual convention in Nürnberg, Germany, the National Socialist (or Nazi) party enacts the Nürnberg Laws, which deprive Jews of basic civil rights.


1963: Four black girls are killed in the Ku Klux Klan bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, a center of civil rights activity in Birmingham, Alabama.


1978: American boxer Muhammad Ali becomes the first man to win the world heavyweight title three times when he defeats Leon Spinks, who had taken his title earlier in the year.
 
September 17th

1620: A group of 102 Pilgrims, most of them religious dissenters known as Separatists, depart for North America from Plymouth, England, aboard the Mayflower.


1804: French physicist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac ascends to a record height of 7,016 m (23,018 ft) in a hydrogen balloon. He measures of the earth's magnetism, temperature, air pressure, and chemical composition.
1620: A group of 102 Pilgrims, most of them religious dissenters known as Separatists, depart for North America from Plymouth, England, aboard the Mayflower.


1804: French physicist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac ascends to a record height of 7,016 m (23,018 ft) in a hydrogen balloon. He measures of the earth's magnetism, temperature, air pressure, and chemical composition.


1810: Father Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla begins a revolt for Mexican independence from Spain, which will be formally granted ten years later after a long revolutionary war.
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1940: Texas congressman Sam Rayburn is elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, a position he will hold during Democratic majorities in the House until his death in 1961.


1966: The new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York opens, with the debut performance of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, starring Leontyne Price.


1976: The Episcopal Church allows the ordination of women as priests and bishops.


1810: Father Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla begins a revolt for Mexican independence from Spain, which will be formally granted ten years later after a long revolutionary war.
Learn more about Mexico.
 
September 18th


1630: English Puritans led by John Winthrop establish a settlement on the Shawmut peninsula in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The settlement is later named Boston, after the town of Boston in Lincolnshire, England.


1787: At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the delegates sign the new Constitution of the United States.


1796: U.S. president George Washington gives his Farewell Address, in which he declines to stand for a third term as president and warns the new nation to avoid entanglements with foreign governments.


1862: At Antietam, one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, Union troops led by General George McClellan halt the northward drive of General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army.


1978: Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat, Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, and United States president Jimmy Carter agreed on the Camp David Accords.

2003: New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso resigns his post due to controversy surrounding his compensation, estimated at $140 million.
 
September 19th


1850: As part of the Compromise of 1850, the United States Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law, which requires officials in the North to help return runaway slaves to their owners in the South.


1851: The first issue of the New York Daily Times appears. The word "Daily" will be dropped from the newspaper's title six years later.


1895: African American educator Booker T. Washington makes his Atlanta Compromise speech, in which he encourages blacks to accept their inferior social position while working for economic self-reliance.


1961: United Nations secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash in Africa while attempting to arrange a cease-fire in the Republic of the Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).


1970: Rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix dies of drug-related causes at the age of 27 in London, England.


1996: Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens matches his own record for strikeouts in a single game when he fans 20 batters, ten years after accomplishing the feat the first time.
 
September 19th

1846: English poets Elizabeth Barrett and Richard Browning elope to Italy after marrying, against Barrett's father's wishes, in England.


1914: The Reims Cathedral in France, built in the 13th century, is severely damaged by German shells during a World War I bombardment.

1928: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in the animated short Plane Crazy. Later that year, he will star in Steamboat Willie, the first animated film with synchronized sound.


1934: Carpenter Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnapping and murder two years before of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh.


1959: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, on a tour of the United States, denounces the security restrictions that prevent him from visiting California's Disneyland.


1994: Twenty thousand U.S. troops land in Haiti to oversee the return to power of elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
 
September 20th


1519: Five vessels commanded by Ferdinand Magellan sail from Spain to attempt a circumnavigation of the world. Although Magellan is killed in the Philippines, one of the ships completes the voyage in 1522.


1830: The first National Negro Convention opens, organized by clergyman Richard Allen at his Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1884: At its convention in San Francisco, California, the Equal Rights Party, formed to advocate for women's rights, nominates Belva Ann Lockwood for president of the United States.


1962: Mississippi governor Ross Barnett personally blocks an attempt by James Meredith to become the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi.


1973: In a $100,000 tennis match at the Houston Astrodome, billed as the Battle of the Sexes, Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.

1998: Ending a record streak of 2,632 consecutive games played, which lasted almost 17 seasons, baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr., of the Baltimore Orioles asks to be removed from the starting lineup.
 
September 21st


Catmare's MOM's 76th Birthday!

1897: In response to a child's letter, the New York Sun publishes an editorial that begins, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." :grinyes:


1904: Chief Joseph, the Nez Perce Native American chief who led his people on a 1,600 km (1,000 mi) journey to escape the U.S. Army, dies on the Colville Reservation in Washington at about the age of 64.


1937: The Hobbit, Oxford University professor J. R. R. Tolkien's tale of Middle Earth, is published.


1976: In an assassination widely credited to the secret police of Chile, Chilean opposition leader Orlando Letelier and his American secretary are killed by a car bomb in Washington, D.C.


1989: The U.S. Senate confirms President George Bush's appointment of General Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
 
September 22nd


1586: English poet and courtier Sir Philip Sidney, author of the sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella, is fatally wounded in a raid against Spanish forces in Zutphen, the Netherlands.


1862: U.S. president Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, warning that on January 1, 1863, he will declare all slaves in rebel states to be free.


1927: In the famous "long count" fight, boxer Jack Dempsey's delay in returning to his corner after knocking down Gene Tunney allows Tunney to recover and knock Dempsey out, retaining his heavyweight title.


1961: The U.S. Congress formally authorizes the Peace Corps, which were created in March by an executive order of U.S. president John F. Kennedy.


1969: San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays hits his 600th career home run, becoming the first National League player to do so.


1989: American songwriter Irving Berlin, born in Russia in 1888, dies at the age of 101, having written about 1,500 songs.
 
September 23rd


1642: Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the oldest college in the United States, holds its first commencement exercises.


1780: British agent John André is captured while carrying documents that reveal the treason of American general Benedict Arnold, who has agreed to hand over the American fort at West Point to the British.


1846: German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovers the eight planet, Neptune, on the basis of French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier's calculations of its position.


1912: After leaving the Biograph company to start his own film studio, director Mack Sennett releases the first Keystone comedy short, starring Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, and Fred Mace.

1939: Sigmund Freud, the Austrian founder of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, dies in London at the age of 83, having fled the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938.


1952: U.S. senator Richard Nixon, a candidate for vice president, answers charges that he used an improper expense fund in the nationally televised "Checkers" speech, in which he mentions his dog, Checkers.
 
Mare said:
1952: U.S. senator Richard Nixon, a candidate for vice president, answers charges that he used an improper expense fund in the nationally televised "Checkers" speech, in which he mentions his dog, Checkers.
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For some reason I thought this was in 1971...
 
September 24th


1869: In the financial crisis known as Black Friday, American speculators James Fisk and Jay Gould attempt to corner the U.S. market in gold, causing the stock and commodity exchanges to fluctuate wildly.


1896: In one of his final speeches before his death two years later, former British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone urges Britain to intervene in the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire.


1957: Playing their last game at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field before moving to Los Angeles, the Brooklyn Dodgers defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-0.

1969: The trial of the Chicago Eight (later the Chicago Seven), anti-Vietnam War activists charged with inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, begins.

1988: American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee wins the gold medal in the heptathalon at the Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, setting a new world record of 7,291 points in the event.


1991: Theodor Seuss Geisel, writer of children's books under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss, dies in La Jolla, California, at the age of 87.
 
september 25th


1513: The members of a Spanish expedition under Vasco Núñez de Balboa cross the Panamanian isthmus, becoming the first Europeans to see the Pacific Ocean.


1690: Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper in the American colonies, publishes its only issue before being suppressed by the government.

1789: Led by James Madison, the U.S. Congress approves 12 amendments to the Constitutition. Ten of these amendments, which will be ratified by the states in 1791, are known as the Bill of Rights.


1957: After prolonged resistance by local leaders, nine African American students enter Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, under the protection of the National Guard.


1965: Satchel Paige becomes the oldest pitcher in major league baseball history when he throws three scoreless innings for the Kansas City Athletics at the age of 59.
 
september 26th


1580: The British ship the Golden Hind, commanded by Sir Francis Drake, returns from its around-the-world journey bearing a cargo of spices and captured Spanish treasure.


1789: U.S. president George Washington appoints John Jay the nation's first chief justice of the Supreme Court, and Thomas Jefferson its first Secretary of State.


1907: New Zealand, formerly a British colony, becomes a dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations.


1957: West Side Story, the stage musical by Arthur Laurents and Jerome Robbins with songs by Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein, makes its Broadway debut.

1960: In Chicago, Illinois, Democratic senator John F. Kennedy and Republican vice president Richard Nixon stage the first televised debate between U.S. presidential candidates.
 
September 27th


1660: Saint Vincent de Paul, founder of the Congregation of the Mission, which preaches to and cares for the poor, dies in Paris, France, at the age of 79.


1940: In the so-called Berlin Pact, the three Axis powers in World War II, Germany, Italy, and Japan, agree to a ten-year military and economic alliance.


1942: American bandleader Glenn Miller makes his last performance with his orchestra in Passaic, New Jersey, before enlisting in the U.S. Army, where he will lead an all-star band until his death in 1944.


1964: The Warren Commission, named to investigate the assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, releases its report, which finds that Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, acted alone.

1994: The Contract with America, a ten-point legislative agenda prepared by Republican congressman Newt Gingrich, is signed by more than 350 Republican candidates for Congress.


1996: The Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan, captures the country's capital, Kabul.
 
Spetember 27th


1066: The Norman conquest of England begins, as an army led by William the Conqueror lands at Pevensey, England. William will be crowned king of England by the year's end.

1829: African American abolitionist David Walker publishes his radical antislavery pamphlet, David Walker's Appeal, which urges slaves to take up arms for their freedom.


1864: The First International, a revolutionary workers' group, meets for the first time in London, England, with political theorist Karl Marx in attendance.


1941: Choosing not to sit out the season's final doubleheader to protect his .400 batting average, Boston Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams gets six hits in eight at bats to finish the season with a .406 average.


1951: Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin of the Los Angeles Rams sets the National Football League record for passing yardage in a single game when he throws for 554 yards.


1960: In Boston's Fenway Park, 42-year-old Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams hits his 521st home run in the final swing of his career.
 
September 29th

1829: Legislation introduced by Sir Robert Peel reorganizes the London police force. Thereafter, London police will be known as "bobbies," named after Peel.


1862: Otto von Bismarck, the newly appointed premier of Prussia who will leads its wars of unification in the next decade, declares that "the great questions of the day" will be settled "by blood and iron."


1938: In the Munich Pact, France and Britain agree to Adolf Hitler's demand that the Sudetenland, a German-speaking region in Czechoslavakia, be ceded to Germany, in exchange for Hitler's assurance of peace.


1988: The United States space shuttle Discovery is launched, the first space shuttle launch since the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger over two years before.
 
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