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Today in History ~ September 9
DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea ) Founding Day: North Korea
Admission Day, a California Holiday
Events1087 - King William I of England, better known as William the Conqueror, died in Rouen, France, from an injury he had suffered while riding his horse five weeks earlier.
1513 - Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland
1556 - Pope Paul IV refuses to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor
1567 - Lomaraal, Count van Egmont & Philip van Hoorne arrested by Alba
1675 - New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians
1739 - Slave revolt in Stono SC led by Jemmy (25 whites killed)
1753 - 1st steam engine arrives in US colonies
1776 - Continental Congress officially changed the new American nation's name from "United Colonies" to "United States."
1839 - John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph
1841 - Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300
1850 - California becomes 31st state, only two years after the discovery of gold in the territory set off a population boom. [H]
1850 - Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
1861 - Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer
1862 - Lee splits his army & sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry
1863 - Battle of Cumberland Gap, TN
1867 - Luxembourg gains independence
1893 - Frances Folsom Cleveland, the wife of President Grover Cleveland, gave birth to a daughter, Esther, the first child of a president to be born in the White House. [H]
1899 - French Capt Alfred Dreyfus sentenced to Devil's Island on trumped-up grounds
1904 - Mounted police 1st used in NYC
1908 - Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1908 - Russia grabs part of Poland
1914 - Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved)
1919 - Boston's police force strike [H]
1922 - Turkish troops conquer Smyrna/murder Greek citizens
1922 - William T Cosgrave replaces assassinated Irish leader Michael Collins
1926 - National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America
1932 - The Spanish government and the Catalonian government agreed to a Statute of Autonomy
1932 - Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River (71 killed)
1934 - G Kaufman & M Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premieres in NYC
1939 - Nazi army reaches Warsaw
1940 - 28 German aircraft shot down above England
1942 - Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon in an attempt to set fire to the forests of the Northwest. The forests failed to ignite, but Pacific Coast citizens stepped-up their blackout drills in preparation for future Japanese raids.
1943 - US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)
1945 - Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies
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 - People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed
1950 - "Where's Charley?" closes at St James Theater NYC after 792 performances
1950 - Massive arrests of communists in France
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on national TV for 1st time (Ed Sullivan). He first became a national sensation after appearing, by his third and final appearance on the Sullivan show, due to a number of viewers, who were outraged at his suggestive gyrations, Elvis was filmed from only the waist-up.
1957 - Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited
1957 - Pres Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
1963 - Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)
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 - John Osborne's "Inadmissable Evidence," premieres in London
1965 - Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency
1965 - Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
1965 - French President Charles de Gaulle announced that France was withdrawing from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in protest of U.S. domination of NATO
1969 - Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82
1971 - 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison. Nine prison guards were held hostage, and perished along with 31 of their captors on Sept 13, when 1,500 state police and other law-enforcement officers stormed the complex in a hail of indiscriminate gunfire. [H]
1971 - Hockey legend Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National Hockey League (NHL)
1977 - 1st TRS-80 computer sold
1978 - Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army
1979 - Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
1979 - 31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman & Ruth Gordon
1982 - "Conestoga I", 1st private rocket, is launched.
1984 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown's combined yardage record by reaching 15,517 yards.
1985 - President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
1985 - Race riot in Birmingham England
1986 - NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying
1990 - Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
1990 - Liberian President Samuel Doe was captured and later killed by Prince Johnson's rebels after visiting the headquarters of West African peacekeeping forces in Monrovia. In 1985, he was elected president, but Charles Taylor and followers overthrew his government in 1989, which sparked a civil war.
1991 - Iraq grounded foreign helicopters carrying U.N. weapons-plant inspectors.
1993 - In a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the PLO recognized the right of the state of Israel to exist in peace and security. In turn, Rabin declared the PLO the representative of the Palestinian people.
1994 - The United States and Cuba reached an agreement aimed at discouraging Cubans from trying to flee to the U.S. by rafts or other vessels.
1995 - Steffi Graf of Germany defeated Monica Seles to win her fourth U.S. Open women's singles title. Seles' appearance at the tournament was her first in a Grand Slam event since being stabbed by a fan in 1993.
1995 - "Broadway Limited" last train ride (began in 1902)
1996 - Susan McDougal was jailed for contempt after she refused to appear before the Whitewater grand jury on the grounds that she thought the special counsel was out to get the Clintons.
1997 - Sinn Fein accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmament
1998 - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sent to the U.S. House his report on his investigation into President Clinton. He said it contained "substantial and credible information that may constitute grounds" for impeachment.
1999 - More than 90 people died in the bombing of a Moscow apartment building. The blast was blamed on terrorists from the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
2001 - Venus Williams defeated her sister Serena for the U.S. Open tennis championship, 6-2, 6-4, the first time since 1884 that sisters had met in a Grand Slam finale and first ever for two African-Americans
Birthdays Today
0384 - Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423)
1583 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer
1585 - Armand-Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, premier of France (1624-42)
1754 - William Bligh, legendary captain of HMS Bounty
1822 - Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention
1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist (War & Peace, Anna Karenina)
1877 - Frank (Leroy) Chance ('Husk', 'The Peerless Leader': Baseball Hall of Famer: Chicago Orphans, Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1906, 1907, 1908, 1910], NY Yankees; manager: NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox; minor-league team owner; subject of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double play; passed away Sep 15, 1924)
1887 - Alfred M Landon, (R-Ks) pres candidate (1932, 1936)
1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders (businessman, cook, restaurateur: developed Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) chain; passed away Dec 16, 1980)
1893 - Esther Cleveland (daughter of U.S. President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland; first child of a U.S. President to be born at the White House; passed away June 25, 1980) [H]
1898 - Frankie (Francis) Frisch ('The Fordham Flash': baseball: NY Giants [World Series: 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924], SL Cardinals [World Series: 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934/Baseball Writers' Award: 1931/all-star: 1933, 1934, 1935]; passed away Mar 12, 1973)
1899 - Louis Cheslock, composer/author (Mencken on Music)
1899 - Waite (Charles) Hoyt ('Schoolboy': Baseball Hall of Famer: pitcher: NY Giants, Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees [World Series: 1921, 1922, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1928], Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics [World Series: 1931], Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates; radio sportscaster; passed away Aug 25, 1984)
1900 - James Hilton, English novelist (Goodbye Mr Chips, Lost Horizon)
1905 - Joseph E. Levine (movie producer: The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge, The Lion in Winter; passed away July 31, 1987)
1909 - Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana (1960-66)
1912 - Kurt Sanderling, Arys Germany, conductor (E Berlin Symph 1960-77)
1923 - Jimmy 'The Greek' Snyder (Demetrios Georgios Synodinos) (oddsmaker, broadcaster: The NFL Today; passed away Apr 21, 1996)
1925 - Cliff Robertson (Academy Award-winning actor: Charly [1968]; PT 109, Days of Wine and Roses, The Devil's Brigade, Midway, Gidget, Picnic, Three Days of the Condor, Brainstorm, Falcon Crest; AT&T commercials)
1928 - Julian E "Cannonball" Adderley, US, jazz musician (Black Messiah) Adderley was a member of the Miles Davis ensemble of the 1950s, and in the 1960s scored a hit of his own with 'Mercy, Mercy, Mercy'.
1941 - Otis Redding (musician, singer: [Sittin' on] The Dock of the Bay; killed in plane crash Dec 10, 1967)
1949 - Joe Theismann (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Washington Redskins QB: Bert Bell Award [1982], AP Player of the Year [1983], Super Bowl XVII, XVIII;, Toronto Argonauts; ESPN sportscaster)
1951 - Michael Keaton (Douglas) (actor: Batman, Beetlejuice, Mr. Mom, Dream Team, Much Ado about Nothing, Report to Murphy)
1951 - Tom Wopat (actor: Cybill, The Dukes of Hazzard, A Peaceable Kingdom, Blue Skies; singer: The Rock and Roll of Love)
1952 - Angela Cartwright (actress: Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space)
1952 - David Stewart (musician: guitar, keyboard: duo: Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams, Who's That Girl, Right by Your Side, Here Comes the Rain Again; Tourists: Loneliest Man in the World)
1952 - Jerry (Wayne) Mumphrey (baseball: SL Cardinals, SD Padres, NY Yankees [World Series: 1981], Houston Astros [all-star: 1984], Chicago Cubs)
1960 - Hugh Grant (actor: Sense and Sensibility, Nine Months, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Remains of the Day, Impromptu, The Dawning, Maurice, Extreme Measures, Notting Hill, Mickey Blue Eyes)
1966 - Adam Sandler (comedian: The Cosby Show, Saturday Night Live [opera man]; actor: Happy Gilmore, Mixed Nuts, Airheads, Coneheads, Shakes the Clown, Going Overboard, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Big Daddy)
1971 - Henry Thomas (actor: Riders of the Purple Sage, Legends of the Fall, Fire in the Sky, A Taste for Killing, Psycho 4: The Beginning, The Quest, Cloak & Dagger, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Raggedy Man)
Famous deaths
1087 - William I, The Conqueror, King of England/Duke of Normandy, dies
1513 - James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513), dies in battle at 40
1683 - Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded
1815 - John Singleton Copley, artist, dies at 77
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36
1976 - Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist party chairman (1949-76), dies at 83. Mao proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949, with himself as both chairman of the Communist Party and president of the Republic. In 1965, he launched the controversial Cultural Revolution, an often-brutal campaign to reform Chinese society.
1978 - Jack L Warner, US movie production (Warner Bros), dies at 86)
1990 - Liberian President Samuel K. Doe was captured and killed
1982 - Frederic Dannay, [Ellery Queen], US, detective writer, dies at 76
1997 - Richie Ashburn, HOF baseball player (Phillies, Mets), dies at 70
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