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Today in History ~ September 10
Events1349 - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1547 - Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots
1547 - English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5
1608 - John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council. Smith - the Indiana Jones of his generation - later had his skin saved by the Indian princess Pocahontas when her father Powhatan was about to execute him. [H]
1776 - George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
1797 - The Anglo-Irish feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft died in London a few days after giving birth to her second daughter (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein). Wollstonecraft's most famous work, "A Vindication on the Rights of Woman," published in 1792, argued that women should be free to educate themselves to gain economic independence.
1813 - An American naval force commanded by Oliver H. Perry defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. Reporting on the outcome of the battle, Perry said - "We have met the enemy and they are ours."
1823 - Simon Bolivar - who led the wars for independence from Spain in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia - is named president of Peru. He assumed the presidency with dictatorial powers.
1838 - Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris
1846 - Elias Howe receives a patent for the sewing machine. Isaac Singer patented one five years later. Howe sued Singer for infringement and won...but by that time Singer was well ahead in the sewing machine business.
1847 - 1st theater opens in Hawaii.
1849 - 1st performance by US actor Edwin (brother of Lincoln Assassinator John Wilkes Booth) Booth (Richard III) [T]
1861 - Battle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities
1862 - Four months after the U.S. Congress amended its law requiring all Army chaplains to be Christians, Rabbi Jacob Frankel of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became the first Jewish Army chaplain.
1863 - George Bizet's opera "Les Pecheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris
1869 - Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
1882 - 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
1894 - London taxi driver George ("Mac") Smith is 1st to be fined for drunk driving (no horse to take him home)
1897 - Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, killing 20
1910 - Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
1913 - Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
1919 - Indian's Ray Caldwell no hits Yankees 3-0
1919 - New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who'd served in the U.S. First Division during World War I.
1922 - Largest Polo Grounds crowd Meusel Ruth & Gehrig consecutive HRs
1923 - Irish Free state joins League of Nations
1924 - Leopold and Loeb found guilty of deliberate, casual murder in Chicago
1932 - Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC
1937 - 2nd American Football League plays 1st game (LA 21 Pittsburgh 0).
1939 - Canada declares war on Germany
1940 - Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
1942 - British troops lands on Madagascar
1942 - RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf
1943 - German troops occupy Rome & take over protection of Vatican City
1944 - Lt Gen Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"
1945 - Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis. [H] [T]
1948 - Mildred Gillars, a Nazi radio propagandist during World War II, was indicted for treason in Washington, D.C.
1950 - Joe DiMaggio hits 3 homers
1953 - Swanson sells it's 1st "TV dinner"
1954 - 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria
1955 - "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV
1956 - Louisville Ky public schools integrates
1962 - Mickey Mantle hits HR # 400
1962 - US Supreme Court ruled James Meredith should be admitted to the University of Mississippi.
1963 - At the end of a standoff between Alabama governor George C. Wallace and federal authorities, twenty African-American students entered public schools in Tuskegee, Mobile, and Birmingham, Alabama, after President Kennedy federalized the state's National Guard..
1964 - Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms
1966 - Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1967 - Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish
1972 - 20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR
1972 - Muhammad Ali defeated Ken Norton in a heavyweight boxing match and avenged a loss to Norton the previous March.
1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1976 - 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia killing all 176 people
1976 - 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, NY
1977 - Blue Jays beat Yankees 19-3 with 20 hits
1977 - Charlene Williams meets Gerald Gallego at a poker club in Sacramento, California, resulting in one of the worst serial killing teams in American history. Before they were finally caught, the Gallegos killed and sexually assaulted at least 10 people over a two-year period.
1977 - Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi last to die in the guillotine [H]
1978 - The 4th game of the Boston Massacre Yanks beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yanks outhit em 67-21 and outscore 42-9
1979 -Four Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representatives and a 1950 attempt on the life of President Truman were granted clemency by President Carter.
1981 - "Guernica" of Pablo Picasso returns to Spain
1982 - Pete Rose played in his 3,077th baseball game, breaking Hank Aarons's record for the most games played in the National League.
1987 - Pope John Paul II arrived in Miami, where he was welcomed by President Reagan and the first lady as he began a 10-day tour of the United States.
1988 - -18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan
1989 - East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czech)
1990 - Ellis Island reopens as a museum
1991 - The Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1992 - Survey finds birth control pills to be the most popular form of contraception among American women.
1995 - Pete Sampras won his third U.S. Open men's singles title by defeating Andre Agassi.
1996 - The Senate dealt a double defeat to gay-rights activists, voting to reject same-sex marriage in federal law and killing a separate bill that would have barred job discrimination against gays.
1996 - Hurricane Hortense pounded Puerto Rico, causing at least 21 deaths and destroying thousands of homes.
1996 - Reform Party presidential candidate Ross Perot choose author Pat Choate as his running mate.
1996 - The United Nations approved the new nuclear test ban treaty, 158-3.
1997 - Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million
1998 - Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams held face-to-face talks with David Trimble, leader of Northern Ireland's Protestant Unionists, for the first time.
2000 - The U.S. government agreed to drop virtually all charges against Chinese-American scientist Wen Ho Lee, who'd been accused of stealing nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Three days later, Lee pleaded guilty to mishandling nuclear secrets and left court a free man.
2000 - Controversial basketball coach Bob Knight was fired by Indiana University for what was called a pattern of unacceptable behavior.
2000 - Marat Safin beat Pete Sampras 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 to become the first Russian to win the U.S. Open.
2000 - The space shuttle Atlantis docked with the international space station.
2002 - Switzerland and East Timor joined the United Nations, expanding the membership roll to 191.
Birthdays Today
1487 - Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55)
1588 - Nicholas Lanier, composer
1736 - Carter Braxton, US farmer/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1779 - Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer
1836 - Joseph Wheeler II, Maj Gen (Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee)
1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk (publisher: the Funk of Funk and Wagnalls dictionary; passed away Apr 4, 1912)
1872 - Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Indian cricketer politician
1885 - Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (9th Wave)
1888 - Ian Fleming, Melbourne Australia, British spy master/author (James Bond)
1890 - Franz Werfel, Austrian author (40 Days of Musa Dagh)
1892 - Arthur H Compton, US physicist (X-rays)
1896 - Elsa Schiaparelli, French fashion designer
1907 - Fay Wray, in Alberta Canada - King Kong's main squeeze
1914 - Robert Wise (Academy Award-winning director: The Sound of Music [1965], West Side Story [1961]; Two for the Seesaw, The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
1915 - Edmond O'Brien (Academy Award-winning actor: The Barefoot Contessa [1954]; Seven Days in May, Birdman of Alcatraz, Fantastic Voyage, Pete Kelly's Blues, The Long Hot Summer; passed away May 9, 1985)
1924 - Ted (Theodore Bernard) Kluszewski ('Big Klu': baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Redlegs [all-star: 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956], Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox [World Series: 1959], LA Angels; passed away Mar 29, 1988)
1927 - Yma Sumac, [Chavarri], Ichocan Peru, 5 octave soprano (Omar Khayyam)
1929 - Arnold Palmer (golf champion: 1st million $ winner; Masters Champion: [1958, 1960, 1962, 1964], U.S. Open [1960], British Open [1961, 1962])
1933 - Yevgeni V. Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 5)
1934 - Charles Kuralt (journalist: CBS News, On the Road with Charles Kuralt, Sunday Morning; passed away July 4, 1997)
1934 - Roger (Eugene) Maris (Maras) (baseball: Cleveland Indians, KC Athletics, NY Yankees [all-star: 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962/World Series: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964/Baseball Writers' Award: 1960, 1961/AP Male Athlete of the Year: 1961], SL Cardinals [World Series: 1967, 1968; passed away Dec 14, 1985)
1939 - Greg Mullavey, Actor
1940 - Buck (Junious) Buchanan (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle: Super Bowl I, IV; asst. coach: New Orleans Saints, Cleveland Browns; director: Kansas Special Olympics)
1944 - Thomas Allen, British opera singer1945 - Jose Feliciano (Grammy Award-winning singer: Best New Artist [1968]; Light My Fire, Feliz Navidad, musician: guitar, songwriter: theme for Chico and the Man)
1946 - James Hines (National Track & Field Hall of Famer: 1968 Olympic Gold Medalist: [100 meters-9.9; 4x100 relay anchor-38.2]; football: Miami Dolphins)
1947 - Larry Nelson (golf champion: U.S. Open [1983], PGA [1981, 1987])
1948 - Bob Lanier (Basketball Hall of Famer: Detroit Pistons: 8 time NBA All-Star; Milwaukee Bucks; heads ad agency, Bob Lanier Enterprises)
1948 - Charlie Waters (football: Dallas Cowboys safety: Super Bowl V, VI, X, XII, XIII)
1948 - Judy Geeson, in England
1948 - Margaret Trudeau (Sinclair) (author: Beyond Reason; Canada's 1st Lady - wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau [1968-1979])
1950 - Joe Perry (musician: guitar: group: Joe Perry Project; Aerosmith: LPs: Toys in the Attic, Rocks)
1953 - Amy Irving (actress: Yentl, Crossing Delancy, The Competition, Benefit of the Doubt, Carrie, Honeysuckle Rose; singing voice of Jessica Rabbit: Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
1958 - Chris Columbus (director: Nine Months, Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone series, Only the Lonely, Heartbreak Hotel, Adventures in Babysitting)
1960 - Colin Firth (actor: Pride and Prejudice, Circle of Friends, Hostages, The Advocate, Valmont, Apartment Zero, The Secret Garden, Another Country)
1968 - Big Daddy Kane (rap artist, songwriter: Long Live the Kane)
Famous deaths
1382 - Louis I, the Great, King of Hungary/Poland, dies
1419 - John the Fearless, Burgundy/French warrior, murdered at 48
1547 - Pierlugi Faranese, Italian son of Pope Paul III, murdered
1797: Mary Wollstonecraft, mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.
1954 - Peter Anders, German opera singer, dies
1976 - Dalton Trumbo, US writer/director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at 70
1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, convicted murderer, last to die by guillotine [H]
1983 -, John Vorster, prime minister of white-ruled South Africa from 1966 to 1978, died in Cape Town at age 67.
1991 - Yves Montand, actor (Lets Make Love, Z), dies at 70
1997 - Burgess Meredith, actor (Penguin-Batman, Rocky), dies at 88
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