Events489 -
Odoacer attacks
Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.1331 - the
Battle of Plowce between the
Kingdom of Poland and the
Teutonic Order took place.1540 - The
Society of Jesus (the
Jesuits) receives its
charter from
Pope Paul III.1590 -
Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the
Pope, making his reign
the shortest papacy in history.
1605 - The armies of
Sweden are utterly defeated by the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the
Battle of Kircholm.
1777 -
Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the
United States, for one day.
1787 - The
United States Constitution is delivered to the
states for
ratification.
1821 -
Mexico gains its independence from
Spain.
1822 -
Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the
Rosetta stone.
1825 - The
Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of
locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
1854 - The
steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the
Atlantic Ocean.
1886 -
Mormon prophet
John Taylor receives a controversial revelation on
plural marriage that now divides factions of
Mormonism.
1903 -
Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
1905 - The physics journal
Annalen der Physik published
Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation
E=mc².
1922 -
King Constantine I of
Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son,
King George II.
1928 - The
Republic of China is recognised by the
United States.
1930 -
Bobby Jones wins the
U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the
Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was
The U.S Open,
The British Open, and The Amateur Championships.
1937 -
Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
1938 -
Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in
Glasgow.
1940 -
World War II: The
Tripartite Pact is signed in
Berlin by
Germany,
Japan and
Italy.
1941 - The
SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700
Liberty ships.
1941 - Foundation of
EAM (National Liberation Front) in Greece.
1942 -
Glenn Miller and his
Orchestra perform for the last time before Miller enters the
US Army.1942 - Last day of the September
Matanikau action on
Guadalcanal as
United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by
Japanese forces near the
Matanikau River.
1949 - The first
Plenary Session of the
National People's Congress approves the design of the
Flag of the People's Republic of China.
1953 -
TV Record,
Brazilian TV Network, debuts.
1954 - The nationwide debut of
Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by
Steve Allen on
NBC.
1956 -
USAF Captain
Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed
Mach 3 while flying the
Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
1959 - Nearly 5000 people die on the main
Japanese island of
Honshū as the result of a
typhoon.
1964 - The
Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that
Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated
President John F. Kennedy.
1968 - The stage
musical Hair opened at the
Shaftesbury Theatre in
London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof's collapsing in
July 1973.
1977 - The 300 metre tall
CKVR-TV transmission tower in
Barrie,
Ontario,
Canada is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
1979 - The
United States Department of Education receives final approval from the
U.S. Congress to become the 13th US
Cabinet agency.
1980 -
Marvin Hagler defeats
Alan Minter to claim
boxing's world
Middleweight championship in
London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.
1983 -
Richard Stallman announces the
GNU project to develop a free
Unix-like operating system.
1985 -
Hurricane Gloria hits
Long Island,
New York.
1988 - The
National League for Democracy, led by
Aung San Suu Kyi is founded.
1992 - The Great Alex Haynes is born in Corbin, Kentucky and now lives in Calhoun, Georgia and plays High School Football # 91.
1993 - The
Sukhumi massacre takes place in
Abkhazia.
1995 - The
Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of
Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.
1996 - In
Afghanistan, the
Taliban capture the
capital city Kabul after driving out
President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader
Mohammad Najibullah.
1997 - Communications are suddenly lost with the
Mars Pathfinder space probe.
1998 -
Google is launched.
1999 - The last professional
baseball game is played at historic
Tiger Stadium in
Detroit,
Michigan.
2002 -
Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the
United Nations.
2003 -
Smart 1 satellite is launched.
2007 -
Van Halen begins the
Van Halen North American Tour 2007, their first concert with
David Lee Roth in 22 years.
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