Events
1251 BC - A
solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary
Heracles at
Thebes, Greece.
70 - A
Roman army under
General Titus occupies and plunders
Jerusalem.1191 -
Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf -
Richard I of England defeats
Saladin at
Arsuf.
1776 - World's first
submarine attack: the
American submersible craft
Turtle attempts to attach a
time bomb to the hull of
British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship
HMS Eagle in
New York Harbor.
1812 -
Napoleonic Wars:
Battle of Borodino -
Napoleon defeats the
Russian army of
Alexander I near the village of
Borodino.
1818 -
Carl III of
Sweden-Norway is crowned king of
Norway, in
Trondheim.
1821 - The
Republic of Gran Colombia (a
federation covering much of present day
Venezuela,
Colombia,
Panama, and
Ecuador) was established, with
Simón Bolívar as the founding
President and
Francisco de Paula Santander as
vice president.
1822 -
Dom Pedro I declares
Brazil independent from
Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga river in
São Paulo.
1860 -
Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on
Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1876 - In
Northfield, Minnesota,
Jesse James and the
James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an
angry mob and are nearly killed.
1893 - The
Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become the first Italian
football club, is established by British expats.
1901 - The
Boxer Rebellion in
China officially ends with the signing of the
Boxer Protocol.
1906 -
Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his
14-bis aircraft at
Bagatelle,
France for the first time successfully.
1907 -
Cunard Line's
RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from
Liverpool, England to
New York City.
1909 - Eugene Lefebvre (
1878-
1909), while test piloting a new
French-built
Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first '
pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered-heavier-than-air-craft.
1911 -
French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the
Mona Lisa from the
Louvre museum.
1915 - Former
cartoonist Johnny Gruelle is given a patent for his
Raggedy Ann doll.
1921 - In
Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first
Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
1922 - In
Aydin,
Turkey, independence of
Aydin, from
Greek occupation.
1927 - The
University of Minas Gerais is founded in
Belo Horizonte,
Brazil, by
GovernorAntônio Carlos.1927 - The first fully electronic
television system is achieved by
Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
1929 -
Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake
Näsijärvi near
Tampere in
Finland. 136 lives were lost.
1936 - The last surviving member of the
thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in
Tasmania.
1940 -
World War II:
The Blitz -
Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on
London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.1940 -
Treaty of Craiova:
Romania loses
Southern Dobrudja to
Bulgaria.
1942 -
Holocaust: 8,700
Jews of
Kolomyia (western
Ukraine) sent by German
Gestapo to death camp in
Belzec.1942 - First flight of the
Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
1943 - A fire at the Gulf Hotel in
Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
1945 -
Japanese forces on
Wake Island, which they had held since December of
1941, surrender to
U.S. Marines.
1950 -
Coal mine collapses in
New Cumnock,
Scotland - 13 miners dead. 116 rescued.
1953 -
Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the
Soviet Central Committee.
1963 - The
Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in
Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
1965 -
China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the
Indian border.1965 -
Vietnam War: In a follow-up to
August's Operation Starlight,
United States Marines and
South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna on the Batangan Peninsula.
1970 - An anti-war rally is held at
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by
John Kerry,
Jane Fonda and
Donald Sutherland.1970 - Fighting between
Arabic guerillas and government forces in
Amman,
Jordan.1970 - Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).
1977 - The
Torrijos-Carter Treaties between
Panama and the
United States on the status of the
Panama Canal are signed. The
US agrees to transfer control of the canal to
Panama at the end of the
20th century.
1978 - While walking across
Waterloo Bridge in
London,
Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by
Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a
ricin pellet fired from in a specially-designed umbrella.
1979 - The
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (
ESPN) makes its debut. 1979 - The
Chrysler Corporation asks the
United States government for
USD $1 billion to avoid
bankruptcy.
1986 -
Desmond Tutu becomes the first
black man to lead the
Anglican Church in
South Africa.1986 -
Gen. Augusto Pinochet,
president of
Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
1988 -
Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first
Afghan in
space, returns aboard the
Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the
Mir space station.
1997 - The first test flight of the
F-22 Raptor takes place.
1998 -
Google is founded by
Larry Page and
Sergey Brin, two students at
Stanford University1998 - Two
derecho events referred to as the Labor Day storms race across Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Vermont
1999 - A 5.9 magnitude
earthquake rocks
Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
2004 - The
Serbian government backs a decision by Minister of Education and Sport
Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both
creationism and
evolution in schools.2004 -
Hurricane Ivan, a force 4 storm hits Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.
2005 - First
presidential election was held in
Egypt.
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