This day in history.....

[Mare]

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.

 

[Mare]

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.


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: Terrorists hijack airplanes and deliberately crash them into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing thousands.

 

[Mare]

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.


1993: Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin meet at the White House signing of a peace accord, which calls for limited Palestinian self-rule in Israeli-occupied territories.

 

[Inkara1]

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

Good fucking riddance, too. Anyone who's gone to college will agree with me. Leave it to a Frog to burden us with that, too.

 

[Lopan]

edit: September 12th

England win the Ashes for the first time in 16 years. Everyone pretends to understand cricket

 

[Mare]

September 14th


1321: Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, prose writer, moral philosopher, and political theorist, author of La Divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), dies in Ravenna, Italy, at the age of 56.


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.

 

[Mare]

September 16th


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.


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.

 

[Mare]

September 17th


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.

 

[Mare]

September 18th


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.

 

[Mare]

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.


Mare's divorce!

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

September 18th


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.

1964: Two young mountain adults are married in a small ceremony in the living room of a friend. A scant two years and two plus months later, their union would yield one of the most blessed events known to OTC...the birth of SnP.

Happy anniversary y'all. Git 'er done!

 

[Inkara1]

I thought they already got 'er done 40 weeks before two years and two plus months after Sept. 18, 1964.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

It's a Southern thing; you wouldn't have a clue.

 

[Luis G]

At 07:19 on Thursday, September 19, 1985, Mexico City was struck by an earthquake of magnitude 8.1 on the Richter scale which resulted in the deaths of between 5,000 (government estimate) to 20,000 people and left between about 150,000 people homeless. One hundred thousand housing units were destroyed, together with many government buildings. Up to USD $4 billion of damage was caused in three minutes. There was an additional magnitude 7.5 aftershock 36 hours later (the evening of September 20).

 

[Mare]

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.

 

[Mare]

September 21st


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


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.


Mare's Mommies B-day.......75 yrs. old

 

[Mare]

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.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

September 22nd


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.

So much for the myth that the bastard freed ALL slaves. Just the ones his buddies didn't own. What a peach.

 

[Gato_Solo]

So much for the myth that the bastard freed ALL slaves. Just the ones his buddies didn't own. What a peach.

And how is that any different from any other politician who gets elected?

 

[Mare]

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.