Today in History for 24th September 2015

Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 205

312 - Start of Imperial Indication

366 - Liberius ends his reign as Catholic
Pope
673 - Synod of Hertford opens; canons made
for English Church
787 - 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical
council) opens in Asia Minor
1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire
slips into terminal decline.
1493 - Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World
1537 - Uprising in Lubeck fails
1625 - Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1629 - Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies
1657 - First autopsy & coroner's jury verdict is recorded in Maryland
1664 - Dutch Fort Orange (New Netherland) in present day Albany NY surrenders to the English
1683 - King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America
1688 - France declares war on Germany
1706 - Treaty of Altranstdt: Charles XII of Sweden & August II of Saksen
1742 - Faneuil Hall, Boston, opens to public
1776 - First St Leger horesrace held at Doncaster
The Sun King of France Louis XIV1786 - American American slave Jupiter Hammon makes his
"Address to the Negroes of the State of New York" speech advocating emancipation at meeting of
African Society in NY
1789 - US Congress establishes Post Office Department following the new constitution

1789 - US Federal Judiciary Act is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court
1789 - President George Washington nominates John Jay the 1st Chief Justice
1789 - US Attorney General Office is created
1829 - Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
1838 - Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1841 - British adventurer James Brooke obtains lands around the Sarawak river from the Sultan of
Brunei
1850 - Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England
1852 - Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st engine powered dirigible/airship flight with
steam power
1st White Rajah of Sarawak James Brooke1853 - 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius
Vanderbilt)
1853 - France annexes New Caledonia
1853 - Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London
1862 - Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1865 - James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
1869 - Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1872 - Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg" premieres in Vienna
1877 - Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma
Rebellion
1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
1883 - National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky
1884 - Dixey, Rice & Gill's musical "Adonis" premieres in NYC
1885 - Five German warships depart to Zanzibar
1889 - Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder
1890 - President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that
teaching & practice of polygamy should be abandoned
1895 - 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)

1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle" (BG)

1903 - Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Barton as Australia premier
1903 - Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle
1906 - St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
1906 - V Herbert & H Blossom's musical "Red Mill" premieres in NYC
1906 - Prince George of Greece, convinced that he can no longer serve the cause of Crete, resigns as
High Commissioner
1908 - Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game,
Cleveland 2, Boston 1
1916 - Indians' Marty Kavanaugh, hits AL's 1st pinch-hit grand slam

Baseball Legend Babe Ruth1919 - Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at
28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
1922 - Nuremberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky
1922 - Roger Hornsby sets NL HR mark at 42
1923 - Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin)
1924 - Boston, Massachusetts, opens its airport
1926 - Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4
1927 - NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs
1927 - Yanks set record of 106 victories
1928 - Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great" premieres in NYC
1929 - Lt James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st allinstrument flight

1929 - Yanks Tom Zachary ends season 12-0

1930 - G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime" premieres in NY
Aviation Pioneer Jimmy Doolittle1930 - Noel Coward's "Private Lives" premieres in London
1930 - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
1931 - Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed,
concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks
1932 - NY Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt visits LA
1934 - 2,500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
1934 - Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0
1935 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric
lights at Columbia, Mississippi
1938 - Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title
1938 - 58th U.S. Men's National Championship: Don Budge beats Gene Mako (6-3, 6-8, 6-2, 6-1) and
becomes 1st tennis player to win a grand slam
1938 - 52nd U.S. Women's National Championship: Alice Marble beats Nancye Wynne Bolton (6-0, 63)
Tennis Champion Alice Marble1940 - Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton
1941 - Nine Allied governments pledge adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the
Atlantic Charter
1941 - Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk
1946 - Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs
1948 - Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi
Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight chargs of treason
in Washington, D.C.
1948 - Yanks, Boston & Cleveland are tied for 1st place in AL (91-56)
1948 - The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1950 - "Operation Magic Carpet" - all Jews from Yemen move to Israel

1951 - Industrial estate opens at Harlow New Town, England

1951 - USSR performs nuclear test
1952 - Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death
1952 - Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
1953 - "Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Rocky Marciano1953 - Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in
11 for heavyweight boxing title
1954 - Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
1954 - Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
1955 - "Catch a Star" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances
1955 - US President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
1955 - Washington Senators lose their 99th & 100th games of season
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
1957 - President Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
1957 - Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
1958 - Donna Reed Show premieres on ABC
1958 - 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia
1960 - International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
1960 - USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launched
1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sacramento Valley Golf Open
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 218
15 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1301 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)
Mathematician Girolamo Cardano (1501)1501 - Girolamo Cardano, Italy, mathematician/astrologer
(Ars Magna-1545)
1513 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1535)

1534 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)

1564 - William Adams, English navigator and 1st ever Western Samurai (d. 1620)
1583 - Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, German general
1625 - Johan de Witt, statesman/advisor of Holland
1667 - Jean-Louis Lully, Paris France, composer
1705 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
1717 - Horace Walpole, England, British horror writer (Castle of Otranto)
1725 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1748 - Philipp Meissner, composer
1755 - John Marshall, Germantown Virginia, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1801-35)
1762 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets)

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States John Marshall
(1755)1773 - Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer
1801 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
1802 - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
1806 - George Alexander Osborne, composer
1817 - Ramon de Campoamor Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Doloras)
1821 - Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda)
1824 - Truman Seymour, Bvt Major General (Union Army), (d. 1891)
1825 - Frances E W Harper, famous African
1827 - Henry Warner Slocum, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1894)

1829 - James St Clair Morton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1864)
1829 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
1833 - Henry Alanson Barnum, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1848 - Pieter Louis Tak, literary (The Chronicle)
1858 - Eugene Foss, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)
1859 - Julius Klengel, cellist/composer
1860 - Samuel Rutherford Crockett, novelist
1870 - Georges Claude, inventor (neon light)
1871 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
1878 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
1884 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
1884 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
1885 - Herman Bouber, Dutch actor/playwright (Sailor's Wives)
1886 - James Burke, actor (Mystery Theater, Great Guy), born in NYC, New York
1890 - Alan Herbert, England, journalist/writer (Punch, Helen)
1890 - Mike Gonzlez, baseball player (d. 1977)
1892 - Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Wandering Jew)
1892 - Adlard Godbout, premier of Qubec (d. 1956)
1893 - Blind Lemon Jefferson, Coutchman, Texas, blues singer and guitarist, (d. 1929)
1893 - Julia Faye, Richmond VA, actress (10 Commandments, Samson & Delilah)
1894 - Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
1895 - Andre Cournand, physician
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896)1896 - F Scott Fitzgerald, St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby),
(d. 1940)
1898 - Charlotte D baroness of Pallandt, Dutch sculptress
1898 - Howard Florey, Adelaide Aust, pathologist/phamacologist; purified penicillin (Nobel '45), (d.
1968)

1899 - Eduardo Hernandez Moncada, composer

1899 - Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
1900 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
1902 - Cheryl Crawford, producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon)
1902 - Ayatollah Khomeini [Ruhollah Khomeini], Supreme leader of Iran (1979-89), religious figure,
and political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution (d. 1989)
1904 - Cemal Resit Rey, composer
1904 - Owen Saunders, mechanical engineer
1905 - Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini (1902)1906 - Victor Wong, LA Cal, actor (Mission to
Moscow, Son of Kong, King Kong)
1907 - Pierre Moulaert, composer
1909 - Gerard Cioek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
1910 - Cao Yu, dramatist
1910 - Frank Pelleg, composer
1910 - Jean Servais, Angers Belgium, actor (Every Man is My Enemy)
1910 - Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder (LSE)
1911 - Konstantin Chernenko, USSR leader
1912 - Don Porter, Miami Oklahoma, actor (Russ Lawrence-Gidget, Ann Sothern Show)
1912 - Ian Serraillier, children author
1914 - Andrzej Panufnik, Warsaw Poland, composer (Tragic Overture)
1914 - Hein J M Jordans, Dutch conductor
1914 - Herb Jeffries, actor (Where's Huddles), born in Detroit, Michigan
1914 - Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia, who dismissed Whitlam government (d.
1991)
1915 - Larry Gates, St Paul Minn, actor (Guiding Light, Body Snatchers)
1915 - Margarita J Aliger, Russian poetess (Zoja) [OS]

1915 - Seymour Egerton, CEO (Coutis Bank)

1916 - John Lapsley, British air marshal
1917 - Colin Cowe, senior bursar (Magdalen College Oxford)
1917 - William Putnam Bundy, editor (Lvaggerier & Vagaries), born in London, England
1918 - Audra Lindley, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers), born in Los Angeles, California
1918 - Richard Hoggart, author/warden (Goldsmith's College London)
1919 - Dayton Allen, comedian (Steve Allen Show), born in NYC, New York
1919 - Vaclav Nelhybel, Polanka Czechoslovakia, composer (Everyman)
1921 - Jim McKay, Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports)
1921 - Leonard Overton, British glider pilot (Arnhem 1944)
1921 - Leonard Lopes-Salzedo, British composer, born in London, England
1922 - Cornell MacNeil, US, singer/actor (La Traviata)
1922 - David Lane, CEO (Commission for Racial Equality)
1922 - Theresa Merritt, Newport News Va, actress (Mama-That's My Mama)
1923 - Ladislav Fuks, writer
1923 - Mervyn Brown, diplomat
1923 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
1924 - Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge
1924 - Sheila MacRae, actress (Jackie Gleason Show), born in London, England (d. 2014)
1924 - Simpson Guillen, cricketer (wicket-keeper for West Indies & NZ)
1924 - Walter Fufido, Iwo Jima casualty (WW II), born in The Bronx, New York
1924 - Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
1924 - Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
1925 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
1927 - Richard Swift, composer
1929 - George McNicol, principal (Aberdeen University)

1929 - Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician

Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 11 of 11
Founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak (1487)1487 - Founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak marries Mata
Sulakkhani in Batala
1948 - American Major League Baseball outfielder Ty Cobb (61) weds Frances Cass (40)
1953 - Singer Dick Haymes (35) weds Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth (34) at The Sands hotelcasino in Las Vegas
1964 - Actress Jayne Mansfield (31) weds film producer and director Matt Cimber in Mulege, Baja
California Sur, Mexico
1993 - Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty (Brenda) weds Ashley Hamilton
2004 - Former "Baywatch" actor Michael Bergin (35) weds makeup artist Joy Tilk (34) at Hanalei Bay
Resort in Kauai, Hawaii
2005 - Actor Ashton Kutcher (34) weds actress Demi Moore (49) in Beverly Hills, California
2005 - "30 Minute Meals" TV host Rachael Ray (37) weds "The Cringe" lead singer John Cusimano in
Montalcino, Italy

Actor Ashton Kutcher (2005)2005 - "King of Queens" actor-comedian

Patton Oswalt (36) weds writer Michelle McNamara in Los Angeles
2011 - Model and actress Molly Sims (38) weds film producer Scott Stuber at Frank Caferatta
Vineyards in Napa, California
2012 - "Sugar Ray" singer Mark McGrath (44) weds longtime love Carin Kingsland (39) at San Ysidro
Ranch in Santa Barbara, California
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 97 of 97

366 - Liberius, Italian Pope (352-66), dies

768 - Pippin III, the short, King of France, dies at 53
786 - Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies
911 - Ludwig III, the child, last Carolingian German King (899-911), dies
1054 - Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)
1118 - Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
1120 - Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
1143 - Innocent II, [Gregorio de' Papareschi], Ital Pope (1130-43), dies
1143 - Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072)
1180 - Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1143-80), dies
1213 - Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)
1228 - Stefanus I Nemanjic de Eerstgekroonde, king of Serbia (1217-28), dies
1230 - Alfonso IX, king of Leon/Castile, dies
1275 - Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b. 1208)
1435 - Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen and wife of Charles VI of France (bc. 1370)
1494 - Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
1517 - Frederik IV, of Baden, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1536 - Janus Secundus, neo latin poet (Basia), dies at 24
Physician/Alchemist Paracelsus (1541)1541 - Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist,
dies at 47
1545 - Albrecht von Brandenburg, archbishop/monarch of Mainz, dies at 55
1568 - Antoon van Stralen, Flemish mayor of Antwerp, beheaded at about 47
1605 - Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (bc. 1547)
1621 - Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
1646 - Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (bc. 1565)
1707 - Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)

1732 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)

1742 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)
1755 - Georg Gebel, composer, dies at 45
1790 - John Keyse Sherwin, engraver/painter, dies
1802 - Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749)
1813 - Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer, dies at 72
1815 - John Sevier, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), dies at 70
1834 - A J Pedro I van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1822-31), dies
1855 - Alexandre Stievenard, composer, dies at 86
1856 - Henry, 1st viscount Hardinge of Lahore, gov-gen of India, dies
1865 - Frantiszek Soltyk, composer, dies at 81
1875 - William Walker, composer, dies at 66
1881 - Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer, dies at 74
1892 - Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Suriname, dies at 69
1892 - Patrick S Gilmore, composer, dies at 62
1894 - Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book publisher (Van Dale), dies
1896 - Percy McDonnell, cricketer (19 Tests 1880-88, 3 centuries), dies
1896 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)
1898 - Bartel Wilton, ship builder, dies at 70
1910 - Rudolf Dellinger, composer, dies at 53
1919 - Frank Laver, cricketer (15 Tests for Aust 1899-1909), dies
1930 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
1933 - Mike Donlin, baseball player (b. 1878)
1933 - Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)
1934 - Edwin Lehare, composer, dies at 69
1938 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)

1939 - Carl Laenmie, film producer, dies

1948 - Warren William, actor (Fear, Wolf Man, Madame X), dies at 53
1949 - Pierre Breville, composer, dies at 88
1951 - Georges Rency, Belgian poet/literature, dies at 75
1953 - Berthold Viertel, writer, dies at 68
1954 - Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)
1960 - Matyas Seiber, composer, dies at 55
1960 - Melanie Klein, [Reizes], child psycho-analyst, dies
1961 - Sumner Welles, US diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy), dies at 68
1967 - Orville Caldwell, Deputy Major (LA-1940), dies at 71
1967 - Robert H van Gulik, diplomat/writer (Judge Tie), dies
1968 - Harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67
1968 - Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47
1975 - Clive Morton, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker), dies at 71
1975 - Ian Hunter, actor (Sir Richard-Robin Hood), dies at 75
1975 - Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
1976 - Bruno VeSota, actor/director (Chopper, Teenage Doll), dies at 54
1976 - Romney Brent, actor/writer (Dinner at the Ritz), dies at 74
1978 - Ruth Etting, US dancer/singer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 80
1981 - Patsy Kelly, actress (Brigid Murphy-Cop & the Kid), dies at 71
1982 - Sarah Churchill, actress (Royal Wedding, Spring Meeting), dies at 67
1983 - Isobel Baillie, oratorio singer, dies
1984 - Neil Hamilton, actor (Com Gordon-Batman), dies of asthma at 85
1990 - Jay Currin, stuntman/actor (Back to the Beach, Serial), dies at 34
1991 - Mary Lawrence, actress (Best Man), dies of respiratory failure at 73
Children's Author Dr. Seuss (1991)1991 - Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), children's author, dies of

cancer at 87
1991 - Peter Bellamy, folk singer (b. 1944)
1993 - Zita Johann, Hungarian/US actress (Mummy), dies at 89
1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
1993 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
1994 - Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher, dies at 65
1994 - David Napley, solicitor, dies at 79
1994 - Otto F Walther, Swiss publisher/author (Der Stumme), dies at 66
1996 - Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, egyptologist, dies at 87
1996 - Mark Frankel, actor (Solitaire for 2, Simon-Sisters), dies at 34
1996 - Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov, spy, dies at 89
1997 - Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron, dies at 47
2002 - Youssouf Togomi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
2002 - Mike Webster, National Football League player (b. 1952)
2003 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
2003 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 - Franoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
2005 - Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)
2008 - Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2009 - Susan Atkins, American murderer (b. 1948)
2010 - Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (b. 1937)

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