Today in History

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On This Day In History, September 15th

2008 Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection. This was the largest bankruptcy in US history.

1981 John Bull becomes the oldest operable locomotive
The steam locomotive manufactured by the British and operated in New Jersey, US became the world's oldest and still operable locomotive when the Smithsonian operated it on this day. It was first put to use on September 15, 1831.

1963 A Ku Klux Klan bomb kills 4 young African-American girls
4 members of the white supremacy group, set off a timed bomb at the 16th Street Baptist Church, a predominantly black church in Birmingham, Alabama. The bombings marked a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement in America.

1935 Nuremberg laws instituted by the Nazi party are put into force
The laws revoked citizenship for Jews, forbade them from having relationships with people of non-Jewish origin, and made the swastika the official symbol of Germany.

1894 Battle of Pyongyang ended with a decisive Japanese victory
The battle was a major land battle that took place between the forces of Meiji Japan and Qing China during the First Sino-Japanese War.

 

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Births On This Day, September 15th

1955 Renzo Rosso
Italian fashion designer, businessman, co-founded Diesel Clothing

1954 Hrant Dink
Turkish/Armenian journalist

1946 Oliver Stone
American director, screenwriter, producer

1890 Agatha Christie
English author

1254 Marco Polo
Italian explorer

Deaths On This Day, September 15th

2007 Colin McRae
Scottish race car driver

1980 Bill Evans
American pianist, composer

1938 Thomas Wolfe
American author

1859 Isambard Kingdom Brunel
English engineer, designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge

1842 Francisco Morazán
Guatemalan lawyer, politician

 

[Pam]

15th September

1830 George Stephenson's Manchester and Liverpool railway opened. During the ceremony, William Huskisson, MP, became the first person to be killed by a train when he crossed the track to shake hands with the Duke of Wellington. Unbeknown to Huskisson, the Rocket, driven by Joseph Locke, was approaching on the adjacent track. "An engine is approaching. Take care, gentlemen!" was heard. Others managed to move out of the way and on to the embankment or back into their carriages, but Huskisson panicked and, clinging to the duke’s carriage door, found himself in the path of the oncoming train.

1916 Military tanks, designed by Ernest Swinton, were first used by the British Army, in the Somme offensive.

1966 The launch at Barrow-in-Furness of HMS Resolution, the first of a class of four nuclear ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) built for the Royal Navy as part of the UK Polaris programme. Her long period of sea trials culminated in the test firing of a Polaris missile from the USAF Eastern Test Range off Cape Kennedy at 11:15 on 15th February 1968. The class was part of the 10th Submarine Squadron, all based at Faslane Naval Base in Scotland.

1971 Prince Charles joined the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, under the graduate entry scheme, as Acting Sub-Lieutenant. The Duke of Edinburgh, and his great-uncle, Lord Mountbatten, had both been at Dartmouth.

 

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On This Day In History, September 16th

1982 Members of a right-wing Lebanese militia massacre 1500-3000 people in two Beirut-area refugee camps
The killings took over three days in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila and were led by the Lebanese Christian Phalangist militia.

1978 An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale rocks the city of Tabas in Iran
More than 11,000 people were killed during the natural disaster.

1963 Malaysia was created
The Federation of Malaya united with Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore to create Malaysia. Singapore left the arrangement two years later.

1920 A bomb explodes on Wall Street, New York killing 38 people
The Wall Street Bombing, as the incident is known, was the deadliest such act on American soil to that date. It is still not known who was responsible for the bombing.

1908 General Motors Corporation was founded in Flint, Michigan by William C. Durant and Charles Stewart Mott
The company, also known as GM, was one of the world's largest manufacturers of cars and trucks. Most notably, the company manufactured Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Pontiac, and Hummer brand cars.

 

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Births On This Day, September 16th

1963 Richard Marx
American singer-songwriter, producer

1956 David Copperfield
American magician

1952 Mickey Rourke
American boxer, actor, screenwriter

1925 B.B. King
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1858 Bonar Law
Canadian/Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Deaths On This Day, September 16

1980 Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist

1977 Maria Callas
Greek soprano

1898 Ramón Emeterio Betances
Puerto Rican doctor, politician

1824 Louis XVIII of France

1701 James II of England

 

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1620
The Mayflower departs PLymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and a crew of 30 for the New World
1795
British captures Capetown, South Africa from the Dutch
1908
William C Durant ,a carriage maker founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan
1968
Richard Nixon{ then a Presidential candidate} briefly appears on NBC"s sketch comedy' Rowan &Martin's Laugh-In He says the signature catch phrase' Sock It To Me',but it took him 6 takes to get it right,because he sounded angry or offended
1976
American Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests&bishops
2021
Acc to Guiness World Records, Britian's Kew Gardens sets world record for largest living plant collection 16,900 on a single site

 

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On This Day In History, September 17th

1978 Camp David Accords are signed
The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The accords were the precursor to the 1974 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty

1939 Man runs 10,000 meters in less than 30 minutes for the first time in recorded history
Finnish runner, Taisto Mäki, broke his previous record by running the distance in 29 minutes 52 seconds.

1894 A day after Japan wins the Battle of Pyongyang it defeats China in the Battle of the Yalu River
Also known as the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the conflict was fought between Japan and China during the First Sino-Japanese War.

1862 Bloodiest Single Day of the American Civil War takes place
The Battle of Antietam was fought near Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Thought to be the deadliest single day of the American Civil War – at least 4,000 soldiers on both sides died – the battle ended Confederate General Robert E. Lee's incursion into the North. While there were no clear victors, many believed that the withdrawal of Confederate soldiers from the battlefield before the Union Army did mean that the Union had won the battle.

1809 Treaty of Fredrikshamn was signed between Sweden and Russia
Also known as the Treaty of Hamina, it concluded the Finnish War and ceded Swedish territories, which later formed Finland to Russia.

 

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Births On This Day, September 17th

1985 Tomáš Berdych
Czech tennis player

1975 Jimmie Johnson
American race car driver

1923 Hank Williams
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1915 M. F. Husain
Indian painter, director

1879 Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Indian businessman, politician, activist

Deaths On This Day, September 17th

1997 Red Skelton
American actor, comedian

1996 Spiro Agnew
American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States

1994 Karl Popper
Austrian/English philosopher

1948 Ruth Benedict
American anthropologist

1179 Hildegard of Bingen
German saint, philosopher, composer

 

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On This Day In History, September 18th

1998 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was founded
Author Esther Dyson became the first chairperson of the now non-profit organization, which was initially under the oversight of the U.S. Department of Commerce. In 2009, the Department of Commerce gave up its control over ICANN, which is responsible for maintaining the Domain Name System (DNS) on the Internet.

1973 West Germany adopts the Deutsche Mark
This action replaced the East German Mark and helped complete the economic reunification part of the union between East and West Germany.

1959 Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth's orbit
The geocentric satellite was launched into Earth's orbit by a Vanguard rocket, built by Glenn L. Martin Company, which is now known as Lockheed-Martin.

1934 USSR joins the League of Nations
It was expelled just a few years later for its aggressive actions towards Finland.

1872 Oscar II becomes King of Norway and Sweden
He succeeded his brother Charles XV and IV

 

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Births On This Day, September 18th

1976 Ronaldo
Brazilian footballer

1971 Jada Pinkett Smith
American model, actress

1961 James Gandolfini
American actor

1905 Greta Garbo
Swedish actress

1709 Samuel Johnson
English author, lexicographer

Deaths On This Day, September 18th

1970 Jimi Hendrix
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1961 Dag Hammarskjöld
Swedish diplomat, economist, author, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate

1830 William Hazlitt
English critic, painter

1783 Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist

96 Domitian
Roman Emperor

 

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18 September 1851
New York Times founded under the name New York Daily Times.

 

[Bretrick]

18 September 1973
Future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), claiming he had seen an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) in October.

 

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1789
The 1st loan is made to pay slaries of presidents&members of Congress
1837
jeweller, Charles Lewis Tiffany&John B. Young co-founded a stationary&fancy emporium in NYC,its name is changed in 1853 to Tiffany&Co
1899
ragtime composer, Scott Joplin granted copyright for his' Maple Leaf Rag' most famous ragtime compostion by U.S Copyright Office
1958
Bank of America mails out 60,000 BankAmericards in Fresno,Calif known as 'Fresno Drop'. The credit card was later renamed to VIsa
1997
businessman, Ted Turner gives $1billion to the United Nations, creating public charity' United Nations Foundation'
2014
Scotland votes to stay a member of the United Kingdom in a independece referendum

 

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18 September 1973
Future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), claiming he had seen an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) in October.

Wow, that's amazing, I wonder what happened to it.

 

[Tish]

On This Day In History, September 19th

2010 Oil rig Deepwater Horizon is declared sealed after a 5-month-long spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Thought to be one of the biggest accidents in the oil and gas industry, the Deepwater Horizon spill or the BP oil spill began on April 20, 2010, when an explosion destroyed the rig and killed 11 people.

2006 A Military coup overthrows the elected government in Thailand
Forces loyal to General Sonthi Boonyaratglin overthrew the elected government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and dissolved the parliament and the constitution.

1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis gained their Independence from the British Crown
The first Europeans set foot on the Island country in the West Indies in the late 15th century during an expedition led by Columbus. In 1713, the control over the islands was passed from the French to the British.

1973 Carl XVI Gustaf succeeds his grandfather King Gustaf VI Adolf as the King of Sweden
Sweden is a constitutional monarchy, where the monarch is the ceremonial head of state. In 1980, Swedish law was changed to allow the firstborn of a monarch to become the crown's heir apparent, irrespective of their gender.

1944 The Moscow Armistice ends the Continuation War
The peace treaty was signed between the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and Finland. It put an end to the conflict between the USSR and Finland between 1941 and 1944.

 

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Births On This Day, September 19th

1972 Ashot Nadanian
Armenian chess player, coach

1964 Trisha Yearwood
American singer-songwriter, actress

1934 Brian Epstein
English talent manager

1911 William Golding
English author, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate

1802 Lajos Kossuth
Hungarian journalist, lawyer, politician

Deaths On This Day, September 19th

1995 Orville Redenbacher
American farmer, businessman

1985 Italo Calvino
Italian journalist, author

1968 Chester Carlson
American physicist invented Xerography

1944 Guy Gibson
English aviator, Victoria Cross recipient

1881 James A. Garfield
American politician, 20th President of the United States

 

[Bretrick]

Wow, that's amazing, I wonder what happened to it.

According to an investigation carried out in 1976, some seven years after the event, most of those present at the meeting either did not recall the event, or did not recall it as being anything important. According to Fred Hart, the only guest contacted who remembered seeing the object: "It seems like there was a little—like a blue light or something or other in the sky that night—like some kind of weather balloon they send out or something ... it had been pretty far back in my mind."

While puzzled by the object and its origins, Carter himself later said that, while he had considered the object to be a UFO—on the grounds it was unexplained—his knowledge of physics had meant he had not believed himself to be witnessing an alien spacecraft.

 

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According to an investigation carried out in 1976, some seven years after the event, most of those present at the meeting either did not recall the event, or did not recall it as being anything important. According to Fred Hart, the only guest contacted who remembered seeing the object: "It seems like there was a little—like a blue light or something or other in the sky that night—like some kind of weather balloon they send out or something ... it had been pretty far back in my mind."

While puzzled by the object and its origins, Carter himself later said that, while he had considered the object to be a UFO—on the grounds it was unexplained—his knowledge of physics had meant he had not believed himself to be witnessing an alien spacecraft.

Well, I guess anything you can't identify is one.
Thank you @Bretrick.

 

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On This Day In History, September 20th

2011 The official US military policy of "don't ask, don't tell" ends
The policy was instituted by the administration of Bill Clinton in 1994. Under the policy, openly gay personnel were not allowed to serve in the United States military, but they could serve as long as they did not reveal their LGBT status.

2001 American President, George W. Bush Declares War on Terror
The global military campaign against terrorism was first declared in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the United States. The phrase was used by President Bush in a speech given to the United States Congress.

1984 The Cosby Show Airs for the First Time
The popular television sitcom followed the lives of a Brooklyn-based African-American family called the Huxtables. The show ran for 8 years on NBC and was largely based on the stand-up comedy of Bill Cosby, who played the role of Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable, the father in the show.

1973 Billie Jean King Wins the Battle of the Sexes
The mixed-gender tennis match between top tennis player Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King was held in Houston, Texas after Riggs won another mixed-gender match against Margaret Court earlier in the year. The matches were prompted by Riggs’ comments that even at the age of 55, he could beat any female tennis player. King beat Riggs and took home the $100,000 prize money. The match was and still is one of the most viewed tennis matches on television - it was watched by about 90 million people around the world.

1904 Wilbur Wright Makes the First Circular Flight
Wright, who with his brother Orville, is credited for inventing the first airplane, made a complete circle in 1 minute and 16 seconds on the Wright Flyer II.

 

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Births On This Day, September 20th

1984 Brian Joubert
French figure skater

1975 Juan Pablo Montoya
Colombian race car driver

1948 George R. R. Martin
American screenwriter, author

1934 Sophia Loren
Italian actress

1899 Leo Strauss
German/American philosopher

Deaths On This Day, September 20th

2005 Simon Wiesenthal
Austrian Holocaust survivor

2004 Brian Clough
English footballer, manager

1973 Jim Croce
American singer-songwriter

1933 Annie Besant
English activist, author

1930 Gombojab Tsybikov
Russian explorer

 

[Pam]

20th September

1258 The consecration of Salisbury Cathedral. The cathedral has the tallest church spire in the United Kingdom at 123m/404 ft. It also has the largest cloister and the largest cathedral close in Britain, the world's oldest modern working clock (from AD 1386) and the best surviving of the four original copies of Magna Carta.

1967 Queen Elizabeth 2 took to the waves. The Queen launched the new Cunard cruise liner named after her, the Queen Elizabeth 2, at a ceremony on the Clydebank.

1970 The Russian space probe, Luna 16, landed on the Moon to collect samples from its surface.

1984 A suicide bomber attacked the United States embassy in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The bomber - a member of the extremist group, the Islamic Jihad - drove at high speed up the main drive of the consulate in a truck containing 500 kg (1,102 lb) of high explosive. Guards opened fire on the vehicle but it exploded right in front of the embassy, killing at least 20 people. Dozens more were injured.

2013 The RAF's last Vickers VC10 jetliners completed their final mission after 47 years of service when they took off from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, at 10:00 BST

 

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20th September

1258 The consecration of Salisbury Cathedral. The cathedral has the tallest church spire in the United Kingdom at 123m/404 ft. It also has the largest cloister and the largest cathedral close in Britain, the world's oldest modern working clock (from AD 1386) and the best surviving of the four original copies of Magna Carta.

Salisbury is about a thirty minute drive from where I live, my wife and I often go there. Not only is it famous for it's magnificent cathedral, Salisbury is close to Stonehenge. There is also the ruin of Old Sarum, it is the deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about two miles north of modern Salisbury, the settlement appears in some of the earliest records in the country.

A reconstruction model of Old Sarum in the 12th century, housed at Salisbury Cathedral.


The great stone circle of Stonehenge was erected nearby and indications of prehistoric settlement have been discovered from as early as 3000 BC. An Iron Age hillfort was erected around 400 BC, controlling the intersection of two trade paths and the Hampshire River Avon.

Salisbury Cathedral, or more formally, the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the mother church of the Diocese of Salisbury and is the seat of the Bishop of Salisbury.
The building is regarded as one of the leading examples of Early English Gothic Architecture. Its main body was completed in 38 years, from 1220 to 1258.
The spire was built in 1320. It was heightened to 404 feet and has been the tallest church spire in the United Kingdom since 1561.

 

[Tish]

Salisbury is about a thirty minute drive from where I live, my wife and I often go there. Not only is it famous for it's magnificent cathedral, Salisbury is close to Stonehenge. There is also the ruin of Old Sarum, it is the deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about two miles north of modern Salisbury, the settlement appears in some of the earliest records in the country.
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A reconstruction model of Old Sarum in the 12th century, housed at Salisbury Cathedral.

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The great stone circle of Stonehenge was erected nearby and indications of prehistoric settlement have been discovered from as early as 3000 BC. An Iron Age hillfort was erected around 400 BC, controlling the intersection of two trade paths and the Hampshire River Avon.

Salisbury Cathedral, or more formally, the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the mother church of the Diocese of Salisbury and is the seat of the Bishop of Salisbury.
The building is regarded as one of the leading examples of Early English Gothic Architecture. Its main body was completed in 38 years, from 1220 to 1258.
The spire was built in 1320. It was heightened to 404 feet and has been the tallest church spire in the United Kingdom since 1561.

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Wow, that is amazing! I love the reconstruction, saved the photos and will see what YT has on it.
Thank you

 

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On This Day In History, September 21st

2013 The Westgate Mall is attacked in Nairobi, Kenya
In a daring siege, militants of the extremist group al-Shabaab took over the Mall. 63 shoppers were killed during the attack that lasted a few hours, and before the Kenyan security forces rescued the hostages, 4 terrorists were also killed. Al-Shabaab declared that it had undertaken the attack as retaliation for the presence of Kenyan armed forces in Somalia.

1964 Malta gains its independence from the UK
The southern European island country came under British control in 1814 as part of the Treaty of Paris. The country initially retained the Queen of England as its head of state but declared itself a republic on December 13, 1974.

1961 Boeing CH-47 Chinook takes flight for the first time
The American-made helicopter has been used by the US military in a variety of conflict-related operations including during the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It has also been often used for medical evacuation and search and rescue operations during natural disasters around the world.

1942 Boeing B-29 Superfortress flies for the first time
The bomber was used extensively by the US in World War II and the Korean War. The two planes – Enola Gay and Bockscar – that dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were from the silverplate series of Boeing B-29s.

1937 JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit is published for the first time
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a young adult fantasy novel that follows the adventures of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins as he traverses through Middle Earth to find treasure guarded by a dragon named Smaug.

 

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Births On This Day, September 21st

1957 Kevin Rudd
Australian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Australia

1947 Stephen King
American author

1902 Luis Cernuda
Spanish poet

1867 Henry L. Stimson
American statesman, lawyer, politician

1866 H. G. Wells
English author

Deaths On This Day, September 21st

2011 Troy Davis
American murderer

1982 Ivan Bagramyan
Soviet military leader

1860 Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher

1832 Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet

1558 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor