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Today in History ~ September 18
Independence Day (National Day), celebrated in Chile.
The start of the Jewish New Year.
Events1437 - Farmers revolt in Transylvania
1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th & last voyage
1544 - English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne
1634 - Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in American colonies, arrived at the Massachusetts Bay Colony [H]
1679 - New Hampshire becomes a county Massachusetts Bay Colony
1739 - Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks
1755 - Ft Ticonderoga, NY opens
1759 - Battle of Quebec ends, French formally surrendered Quebec to the British. after their defeat on the Plains of Abraham
1769 - John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (US)
1777 - American forces win first battle of Saratoga
1793 - President Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
1809 - Royal Opera House in London opens
1810 - Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1812 - Fire in Moscow (set by Napoleon's troops) destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churchs
1846 - The struggling Donner Party sends ahead to California for food
1850 - Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slave owners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states.
1851 - The first edition of "The New York Times" "All the News That's Fit to Print" goes on sale, at 2 cents a copy.
1864 - Battle of Martinsburg WV
1871 - President Abraham Lincoln's body interred at Springfield, IL.
1881 - Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment
1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four"
1891 - Harriet Maxwell Converse is became the first white woman to be made a Native-American chief.
1895 - D D Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, founds 1st "college" of chiropractic near a duck farm in Iowa
1900 - The first direct primary in the U.S. took place in Hennepin County, Minnesota,
1911 - Russian prime minister Piotr Stolypin died four days after being shot at the Kiev opera house by Socialist lawyer Dimitri Bogroff.
1914 - Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1914 - Gen von Hindenburg named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
1914 - Irish home rule bill receive Royal assent
1927 - The Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) made its debut with a basic network of 16 radio stations.
1928 - A hurricane that lashed Florida and the West Indies for five days left an estimated 4,000 people dead and $30 million in damage.
1929 - Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in NYC
1931 - Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo
1940 - 19 German aircrafts shot down above England
1943 - Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful)
1944 - British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed
1945 - 1000 white children walk out of Gary, Indiana schools to protest integration
1945 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo
1947 - USAF (US Air Force) forms
1947 - The National Security Act, which unified the Army, Navy and newly formed Air Force into a National Military Establishment, went into effect.
1948 - Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine
1957 - "Wagon Train" premieres
1959 - Serial killer Harvey Glatman is executed in a California gas chamber for murdering three young women in Los Angeles. [H]
1961 - United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia. [H]
1963 - USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
1965 - "Get Smart" premieres
1969 - “March Against Death” to be held in Washington
1969 - Tiny Tim & Miss Vicky get engaged
1970 - US rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix died in London
1974 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
1975 - FBI agents in San Francisco captured heiress Patricia Hearst and two of her Symbionese Liberation Army comrades, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. [H]
1976 - Rev Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention
1979 - Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect
1979 - Steven Lachs, appointed Calif's 1st admittedly gay judge
1979 - The Who opens NYC concerts at MSG
1980 - Cuban Cosmonaut Arnoldo Tamayo Mendez became the first person of color and the first Latin American sent into space.
1981 - A museum honoring former President Ford was dedicated in Grand Rapids, Mich.
1982 - Christian militia begin massacre of 600 Palestinians in Lebanon
1983 - British adventurer George Meegan finished a 19,021 mile, six-year walk from the tip of South America to the Arctic Ocean at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
1985 - Earthquake collapses hundreds of buildings and kills seven-thousand people in Mexico City's worst disaster.
1988 - Coup in Haiti
1988 - U-S swimmer Greg Louganis takes the gold medal
1990 - Winnie Mandela, wife of South African black leader Nelson Mandela, was charged with assault and kidnapping in the 1988 abduction and murder of a 14-year-old boy by her chief bodyguard.
1990 - The International Olympic Committee awarded the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta.
1990 - 500 lb 6' Hershey Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, NYC
1991 - Saying he was "pretty fed up," President Bush said he would send warplanes to escort U.N. helicopters searching for hidden Iraqi weapons if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein continued to impede weapons inspectors.
1991 - The space shuttle Discovery landed in California, ending a five-day mission.
1994 - A U.S. delegation headed by former President Carter persuaded Haiti's military leaders to step aside in favor of the democratically elected president after learning U.S. troops were en route to the Caribbean nation.
1996 - Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole fell off a stage during a campaign rally in Chico, Calif., after a railing gave way; he was not seriously hurt.
1996 - The Food and Drug Administration declared the French abortion pill RU-486 safe and effective, but withheld final approval until later.
1996 - The shuttle Atlantis docked with the Mir space station to pick up U.S. astronaut Dr. Shannon Lucid, who'd set an American record for time spent in space.
1996 - The doctors of Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed he'd had a heart attack during his re-election campaign.
1996 - The O.J. Simpson civil trial opened in Santa Monica, Calif.
1997 - Ted Turner gives $1 billion to UN
1998 - The Senate failed to overturn President Clinton's veto of a bill prohibiting a late-term abortion procedure sometimes called a partial-birth abortion.
2000 - The first working day of a transit strike that began over the weekend forced nearly a half-million Southern California commuters to scrounge for rides or get behind the wheel themselves.
2000 - Workers began rebuilding a railway line between the capitals of North and South Korea.
2001 - Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat and Prime Minister Arial Sharon of Israel both ordered a halt of offensive actions and Israeli troops and tanks began pulling out of the areas around Jericho and Jenin.
Birthdays Today
1636 - Pietro Sanmartini, composer
1709 - Samuel Johnson (writer: created the first true dictionary of the English language in 1755 poet; essayist; novelist: Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia)
1752 - Adrien-Marie Lagendre, mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals
1895 - John G Diefenbaker, Neustadt Ontario, 13th Canadian PM (C) (1957-63)
1898 - George Uhle (baseball)
1903 - Bun (Frederick) Cook (hockey)
1905 - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (actor: Jack Benny Show, Birth of the Blues, Gone with the Wind, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,Mad World)
1905 - Greta Garbo (Gustafsson) (actress: Camille, Grand Hotel, Ninotchka, Mata Hari, The Painted Veil, Anna Christie)
1908 - Satchel Leroy Paige (baseball's oldest player: pitcher for Kansas City A's at age 59 and 80 days [1965])
1910 - Ray Geiger (editor: The Farmer's Almanac [1934-1993]; the longest-held position of any almanac editor in America)
1911 - Syd Howe (hockey)
1915 - Rossano Brazzi (actor: South Pacific, Three Coins in the Fountain, The Barefoot Contessa, Formula for a Murder)
1918 - Nelson Mandela
1920 - Jack Warden (Emmy Award-winning actor: Brian's Song [1971-72], N.Y.P.D., Bad News Bears, Crazy like a Fox, Shampoo, From Here to Eternity, All the President's Men, Problem Child, Used Cars)
1921 - John Glenn
1925 - Harvey Haddix, Jr. (baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher: lost a 12-inning perfect game to Milwaukee Braves in 13th inning [5-26-1959])
1926 - Phyllis Kirk (Kirkegaard) (actress: The Red Buttons Show, The Thin Man, House of Wax)
1927 - Bob Toski (golf)
1929 - Teddi King (singer: Mr. Wonderful)
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers (singer: Honeycomb, Kisses Sweeter than Wine, Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again, Secretly, Are You Really Mine; TV host: The Jimmie Rodgers Show)
1938 - Robert Blake (Michel Gubitosi) (Emmy Award-winning actor: Baretta [1974-75], In Cold Blood, Pork Chop Hill, PT 109, Our Gang, Little Beaver & Red Ryder series)
1939 - Frankie (Frances) Avalon (Avellone) (singer: Venus, Bobby Sox to Stockings, A Boy Without a Girl, Just Ask Your Heart, Why, Dede Dinah; actor: Disc Jockey Jamboree, Guns of the Timberland, The Carpetbaggers, Beach Party series, Back to the Beach)
1948 - Ken Brett (baseball: Kansas City Royals; broadcaster: California Angels)
1949 - Kerry Livgren (musician: guitar, keyboards: group: Kansas: Dust in the Wind)
1951 - Daryl Stingley (football)
1951 - Tony Scott (baseball)
1952 - Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) (musician: drums: group: The Ramones: Howling at the Moon, Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio)
1959 - Ryne Sandberg (baseball: Baseball Writers' Award [1984])
1964 - Holly Robinson (actress: 21 Jump Street, Hanging with Mr. Cooper)
Famous deaths
0031 - Sejanus, Roman head of praetorian guard, executed
0096 - Domitian, Roman emperor, dies
1426 - Hubert [Huybrecht] van Eyck, painter, dies
1759 - James Wolfe & French commander Louis Montcalm, both killed at Battle of Quebec
1911 - Piotr Stolypin (Russian Prime Minister)
1949 - Frank Morgan, actor (Annie Get Your Gun, Wizard of Oz), dies at 59
1959 - Serial killer Harvey Glatman is executed in a California gas chamber [H]
1961 - Dag Hammarskjold, UN Sect Gen, [H]
1964 - Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (Playboy of Western World), dies at 84
1970 - Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Hayes), dies of an overdose at 27
1996 - Spiro Theodore Agnew, US VP (1969-73), dies in Berlin, Md., at age 77.
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