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Today in History ~ September 13
Events0122 - Building begins on Hadrian's Wall
1515 - -14] Battle at Marignano: France beats Habsburgers & Pope Leo X
1556 - Charles V & Maria of Hungary march into Spain
1625 - 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem
1663 - 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)
1743 - England, Austria & Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
1759 - British under James Wolfe defeat French forces under Marquis de Montcalm at Plains of Abraham (Quebec), permanently ceding autonomy over Canada to British [H]
1775 - Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main
1788 - The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election, to be held "the first Wednesday in January next (Jan 7, 1789)." and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
1789 - Start of the National Debt as the US Government takes out its first loan, borrowed from the Bank of North America at 6 percent interest.
1791 - France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution
1847 - American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Chapultepec fortress at the edge of Mexico City [H]
1861 - 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla
1862 - Union soldiers find a copy of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's orders [H]
1867 - Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors
1869 - Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market
1881 - Lewis Latimer invents & patents electric lamp with a carbon filament
1882 - Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt
1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland & Salisbury
1898 - 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
1898 - Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1899 - Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality (NY) [T]
1922 - The mercury climbed to 136 degrees (Fahrenheit) in El Azizia, Libya, generally accepted as the world's highest recorded atmospheric temperature.
1934 - Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000
1939 - Igor Sikorsky invents 1st helicopter
1940 - Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs
1940 - Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt
1942 - Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942 - German forces attack Stalingrad
1943 - German counter attack at Salerno
1943 - Having been "Generalissimo" since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected president of China
1944 - US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall
1947 - WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1948 - Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
1949 - The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America was formed in New York City, with Patty Berg as its first president.
1950 - "Dick Tracy" Debuted on TV
1956 - Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice
1960 - The US Federal Communications Commission banned payola. The scandal included Alan Freed a popular DJ at WABC, he lost his job for allegedly accepting gifts and money for playing certain records. There was substantial evidence uncovered to prove that the payola practice was widespread.
1961 - "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV
1961 - Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo
1963 - "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV
1964 - 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome
1965 - Beatles release "Yesterday"
1968 - Albania leaves Warsaw pact
1969 - John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, presented the Plastic Ono Band in concert for the first time at the Toronto Peace Festival (Lennon's first in four years). First hit by the new group, "Give Peace a Chance", made it to number 14 on the charts.
1970 - IBM announces System 370 computer
1971 - Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1971 - The four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 42 lives. [H]
1972 - 1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS
1973 - Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea
1974 - 1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV
1977 - General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)
1978 - 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
1981 - 33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St Blue, Judd Hirsh & Isabel Sanford wins
1984 - Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likud
1989 - Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in S Africa
1990 - Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
1991 - 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium
1991 - President Bush, who had suffered an irregular heartbeat because of a thyroid condition, was pronounced in "incredible physical condition" after a checkup by his doctors.
1991 - Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1991 - The United States and Soviet Union declared they would cease arms sales to Afghanistan.
1992 - Comedian Bill Cosby topped Forbes magazine's sixth annual list of the world's highest-paid entertainers.
1993 - In a dramatic ceremony at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat signed a declaration of principles for Palestinian self-rule. The next day, representatives of Israel and Jordan signed an agenda for peace."
1994 - Former Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry won the Democratic nomination for mayor. He would win his old job back that November.
1996 - The Dow closed above 5,838, a new record high.
1999 - At least 118 people were killed in the bombing of a Moscow apartment building. The blast was the latest in a series of explosions blamed on terrorists from the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
2000 - With the government all but abandoning its case against him, former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee pleaded guilty in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to a single count of mishandling nuclear secrets; he was then set free with an apology from U.S. District Judge James Parker, who said the government's actions had "embarrassed our entire nation."
2001 - Airports that wer closed after the terrorist attacks on 9-11 began reopening, but Logan Airport in Boston, where two of the hijacked planes took off, and Reagan National in Washington remained closed.
Birthdays Today
1739 - Grigory Potemkin, army officer, statesman, Catherine II's lover,
1751 - Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist
1755 - Bertrand Barere, in Tarbes, French Revolutionist
1755 - Oliver Evans, pioneered the high-pressure steam engine.
1813 - John Sedgwick, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1819 - Clara Josephine Schumann, [nee Wieck], Leipzig Germ, pianist/composer
1851 - Dr. Walter Reed (army doctor, medical pioneer: yellow fever research; Walter Reed Army Hospital [Bethesda MD] named in his honor; passed away Nov 23, 1902)
1857 - Milton S. (Snavely) Hershey (candy tycoon: founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company, makers of the 'Great American Chocolate Bar' -- or Hershey Bar; passed away Oct 13, 1945)
1860 - John J (Blackjack) Pershing, US commander (WW I) (U.S. General: Pershing tank named for him; passed away July 15, 1948)
1874 - Arnold Franz Walter Schonberg, Vienna Austria, 12-tone composer
1876 - Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, author/publisher (Winesburg)
1903 - Claudette Colbert (Lily Claudette Chauchoin) (Academy Award-winning actress: It Happened One Night [1934]; I Met Him in Paris, Drums Along the Mohawk, Egg and I, Three Came Home; passed away July 30, 1996)
1909 - Herbert Berghof, Vienna Austria, actor (Belarus File)
1911 - Bill Monroe ('Father of Bluegrass Music': Country Music Hall of Famer: singer: Blue Moon of Kentucky; band: The Bluegrass Band; songwriter: Kentucky Waltz, A Letter from My Darling; passed away Sep 9, 1996)
1916 - Roald Dahl (writer: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; screen play: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; passed away Nov 23, 1990)
1924 - Maurice Jarre, Lyons France, composer (Dr Zhivago-Acad Award 1966)
1925 - Mel Torme ('The Velvet Fog': Grammy Award-winning singer: LP: An Evening with George Shearing and Mel Torme [1982]; Comin' Home Baby, Careless Hands, Bewitched; songwriter: The Christmas Song; passed away June 5, 1999)
1932 - Barbara Bain (Millie Fogel) (Emmy Award-winning actress: Mission Impossible [1966-67, 1967-68]; Space 1999, Richard Diamond, Private Detective)
1938 - Judith Martin (columnist: Miss Manners)
1939 - Joyce Arleen Auger, US soprano (Songs of the Auvergne)
1941 - David Clayton-Thomas (singer: group: Blood Sweat and Tears: You Made Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel)
1944 - Jacqueline Bisset (actress: Rich and Famous, The Deep, Airport, Bullitt, Wild Orchid, Murder on the Orient Express, Choices)
1944 - Peter Cetera (musician: bass guitar, singer: solo: Glory of Love, One Good Woman; group: Chicago)
1948 - Curtis Perry (basketball: Phoenix Suns)
1948 - Nell Carter (Tony & Emmy Award-winning actress: Ain't Misbehavin' [1978], [1981-82]; Gimme a Break, Lobo, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper)
1949 - Rick (John Rikard) Dempsey (baseball: catcher: Minnesota Twins, NY Yankees, Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1979, 1983], Cleveland Indians, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1988], Milwaukee Brewers)
1952 - Randy Jones (singer: group: The Village People: Y.M.C.A.)
Famous deaths
0081 - Titus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor of Rome (69-81), dies at 42
1321 - Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy), dies
1592 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French philosopher (L'Amiti^Â), dies at 59
1598 - Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98), dies at 71
1759 - James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32
1803 - Commodore John Barry, considered by many the father of the American Navy, died in Philadelphia.
1881 - Ambrose Everett Burnside, US Union general, dies at 57
1894 - Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, Fr composer (Espana, L'etoile), dies at 53
1921 - Ludwig-Alexander von Battenberg [Mountbatten], adm (WW I), dies at 67
1932 - Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French pres Doumer, beheaded
1960 - Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer (Toldi), dies at 75
1967 - Varian Fry [H]
1977 - Leopold Stokowski, flamboyant symphonic conductor, dies in England, at 95
1981 - William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, dies at 75
1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco, dies at 52 in a car crash
1992 - Lou Jacobs, US clown (1966 US postage stamp), dies
1996 - Rapper Tupac Shakur died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting; he was 25.
1998 - George Wallace, one of the most controversial politicians in U.S. history, dies in Montgomery, Alabama, at the age of 79.
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