Welcome to Today in History for Saturday, September 6, 2008.
Historical Events for Tomorrow in History ...
0394 - Battle of Frigidus North-Italy 1492 - Columbus' fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands 1522 - Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip 1543 - French and Turkish fleet occupies Nice 1620 - 1st stones layed in Western Tower 1622 - Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die 1628 - Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle 1634 - Battle at N”rdlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat 1672 - Willem III's troops reconquer Naarden on France 1675 - Swedish admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships 1683 - Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance 1688 - Austrian armies occupy Belgrade 1690 - King Willem III escapes back to England 1715 - Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland 1716 - 1st US lighthouse built (Boston) 1732 - VOC fires Neth-Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare 1776 - 1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of NY) 1776 - Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sinks; 600 die 1791 - Mozarts opera "La Clemenza di Tito," premieres in Prague 1819 - Thomas Blanchard patents lathe 1837 - Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men) 1839 - Cherokee Nation forms 1839 - Great fire in NY 1848 - National Black Convention meets (Cleveland) 1853 - Women's Right's Convention met (NYC) 1861 - General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky 1862 - Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland 1863 - -7] Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner SC (1700 casualties) 1863 - After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft Wagner, SC 1866 - Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention 1869 - 1st westbound train arrives in SF 1869 - Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania 1870 - Ship sinks in Gulf of Biskaje; 483 die 1873 - Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street 1876 - Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed 1876 - Race riot in Charleston SC 1880 - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, v Australia at The Oval 1880 - W G Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, v Aust The Oval 1883 - Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson and Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn 1886 - Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award 1889 - King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns 1898 - Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman 1899 - Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk 1899 - US min of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note" 1900 - British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa 1901 - Pres William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later 1903 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Creeping Man" (BG) 1904 - Soccer team Rheden forms 1905 - Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms 1905 - Chic White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0 1905 - General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident) 1909 - Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier 1910 - Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed 1912 - NY Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Phila, 3-0 1913 - 19th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers 1913 - 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe P‚goud-France) 1913 - Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club 1914 - Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris 1917 - French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft 1920 - Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight 1920 - 40th US Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63) 1922 - 42nd US Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64) 1923 - Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee 1924 - Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails 1924 - Charles Paddock captures 100 and 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships 1927 - Red Sox beat NY Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park 1927 - B G DeSylva/Lew Brown's musical "Good News," premieres in NYC 1928 - USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact 1930 - Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8 1938 - Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch queen 1939 - South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany 1939 - 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II 1940 - Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania 1940 - Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France 1941 - Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto 1941 - All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star 1941 - 61st US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63) 1941 - 55th US Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62) 1942 - 56th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64) 1942 - Czech marathon runner Oskar Hˆks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau 1943 - Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A's 1943 - 63rd US Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60) 1943 - "Congressional Limited" train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79 1944 - Gen Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand 1945 - A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended 1946 - All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0) 1946 - Terence Rattigan's "Winslow Boy," premieres in London 1948 - Juliana becomes queen of Netherlands 1948 - 37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0) 1948 - "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 perfs 1949 - Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes 1952 - Canadian TV begins in Montreal 1953 - Roy Campanella sets record for HRs by a catcher at 38 1953 - Adenauers CDU wins elections in German FR 1954 - Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters 1954 - WINS NYC begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show 1954 - US plane shot down above Siberia 1954 - 74th US Mens Tennis: E V Seixas Jr beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64) 1954 - 68th US Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86) 1955 - "Catch a Star" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances 1955 - J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname 1957 - Elvis records "White Xmas," "Silent Night" and "Here Comes Santa Claus" 1958 - Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959 1958 - US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean 1959 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open 1961 - USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1963 - Major league baseballs 100,000th game 1963 - Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records 1963 - Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history 1963 - Church bombed in Birmingham AL, kills 4 African-American girls 1965 - India invades West Pakistan 1965 - KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting 1966 - "Star Trek" premieres on NBC TV 1966 - Race riot in Atlanta Georgia 1968 - Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1969 - "Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances 1970 - NY Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle 1970 - Palestinians seize 3 jetliners 1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1971 - Jerry Lewis' 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises 1972 - Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre 1972 - John and Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon 1973 - NY Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1975 - Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests US political asylum 1975 - Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976 1975 - Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed 1975 - 89th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62) 1975 - 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey 1976 - Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears 1976 - Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet 1977 - Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977 1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test 1978 - Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace 1979 - "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances 1980 - Macalaster U of St Paul, Minn beating Mount Senario 17-14 1980 - Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981 1980 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1980 - College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for 1980 - Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s) 1980 - 94th US Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61) 1981 - "They're Playing Our Song" closes at Imperial NYC after 1082 perfs 1981 - Bob Lemon named NY Yankee manager for 2nd time 1982 - Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland 1982 - Pitts Pirates retire Willie Stargell's # 1982 - Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War" 1982 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 1982 - Jerry Lewis' 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000 1982 - Dutch Internal minister Mr M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists 1983 - USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 1983 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in NY 1984 - Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead," premieres in NYC 1984 - Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow 1986 - USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying 1986 - Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1986 - Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k) 1986 - Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed 1986 - 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand's benefit concert 1987 - Benjamin and Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital 1987 - Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48) 1987 - Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal 1988 - USSR performs underground nuclear test 1988 - Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal 1988 - Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard 1989 - 6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins 1989 - Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records 1989 - Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution 1990 - 7th MTV Awards: Sinead O'Connor wins 1991 - USSR recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic republics 1991 - Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence 1991 - Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname 1991 - 33rd Walker Cup: US, 14-10 1992 - Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86) 1993 - Jerry Lewis' 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922 1993 - Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic 1994 - 11th MTV Awards: Aerosmith, Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson win 1994 - Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg" 1994 - Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78) 1994 - Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30) 1995 - Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood 1995 - Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games 1996 - Balt Orioles' Eddie Murray's 500th career HR 1997 - Princess Diana's funeral 1997 - Women's championship at US Tennis Open 1998 - Men's championship at US Tennis Open 1998 - Safeway LPGA Golf Championship
