Today in History

7th September

1665 The death of George Viccars the first plague victim to die in the village of Eyam in Derbyshire. The plague raged for 14 months. Out of a population of 350 people, only 80 survived.

1907 The Lusitania set sail from Liverpool for New York on her maiden voyage. She set a record, crossing the Atlantic in five days at an average speed of 23 knots.

1978 While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated by a Bulgarian secret police agent using a ricin pellet fired from a specially designed umbrella.

2013 New Yorker Marin Alsop became the first woman to lead the Last Night of the Proms in its 118 year history.
 

This day in History September 8th

1915 Zeppelin Used For Bombing
German success using the Zeppelin to terrorize the skies over Britain includes an attack on Aldergate in central London, killing 22 people and causing £500,000 worth of damage.

1935 State Senator Huey P. Long
In retaliation for slandering his father, Dr Carl Austin Weiss, Jr. fatally shot State Senator Huey P. Long in the state capital building in Louisiana.

1941 Russia Siege of Leningrad
Germany begins the 900-day Siege of Leningrad by German forces during World War II, the siege led to the death of at least one million Russians from starvation and disease.

1943 Italy Surrenders
Following the deposing of Mussolini from power in July General Dwight Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.
 
1565
The 1st U.S. permanent English settlement founded in St. Augustine,Fla
1860
an excursion steamer'Lady Elgin' with 300 people aboard sinks into Lake Michigan during a storm,all were lost.It was the worst loss of life on the Great Lakes
1930
American inventor,Richard Gurley Drew creates Scotch Tape
1965
small ads in entertainment papers,'Daily Variety',Hollywood Reporter' attract 437 young men vying to become the world's 1st manufactured 'boy band,'The Monkees'.Davy Jones had already been cast,the 3 lucky ones were Peter Tork,Mickey Dolenz,Mike Nesmith
1974
Pres. Gerald Ford pardons ex Pres Richard Nixon of all federal crimes
 

1776
Congress offically renames country United States of America from "The United Colonies'
1942
during WWII,Japanese planes bomb for the 1st time on U.S. soil at Mount Emily,Oregon
1971
John Lennon releases his 2nd studio album'Imagine' which was a critical/commerical success
2015
Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest reigning monarch at 63 yrs, 7 months. She surpassed her great,great, grandmother,Queen Victoria
 
This day in history September 10th

1922 Amount Of Money In Circulation
The Treasury in Washington has released new figures the per capita circulation of money is now $39.93 per person down from $42.99 one year ago.

1927 Laws for Novice Fliers
As the number of Trans Atlantic stunt fliers increases with a larger number lost each month, currently the odds of completing the trip are about 1 in 2 but as more fliers with less experience attempting to cross the Atlantic, the number of casualties will continue to grow. It is believed the Governments around the world including the US will put laws in place to stop this foolhardiness. Maybe they will include a pilots license needed to fly a plane.

1930 U.S.A. "Scarface" Al Capone
"Scarface" Al Capone has taken former rivals into partnership with him to form a giant Co-Operative organization to control the Beer, Vice and Gambling Industries in Chicago. The Syndicate will be run by a cabinet with each member controlling different areas of the business.

1939 Canada Declares War On Germany
Canada joins England and France by declaring war on Germany.

1942 U.S.A. Gas Rationing
Following similar moves in Europe and the rest of the world, President Franklin D. Roosevelt starts gasoline rationing in the U.S. as part of the country's wartime efforts.
 
10th September

1224 The Franciscans, founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi, first arrived in England. They were originally called Grey Friars because of their grey 'habits'.

1813 The first unqualified defeat of a British naval squadron in history took palace when US Captain Oliver Hazard Perry led a fleet of nine American ships to victory over a squadron of six British warships at the Battle of Lake Erie.

1897 George Smith, a London cab driver, became the first person to be convicted for drunken driving. He was fined £1.

1963 American Express opened a credit card service in Britain.

1967 Almost 100 per cent of the voters of Gibraltar rejected Spanish rule in favour of retaining British sovereignty.
 
1846
Elias Howe receives U. S. patent for lockstitch sewing machine
1919
China becomes member of the League of Nations
1953
Swanson Company introduces the 1st frozen 'TV Dinner' which was an oven ready turkey dinner in a alumium tray with 2 side dishes,a vegetable,mashed potatoes. The 1st yr,5,000 units were sold,the following yr 10 million.chicken &beef dinners eventually came out.By 1956,the company was selling annually 13 million units
2008
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN which was described as the biggest scientific experiment in history of mankind was powered up in Geneva, Switerzerland
2015
a new human like species,'Homo Naledi" was found deep in South African caves by a team of female archeologists
 
This day in History September 11th

2001 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
The 911 attacks carried out on September 11, 2001, were a series of terrorist attacks upon the United States of America. Four commercial passenger jet airliners were hijacked on that morning and two of the planes were crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower, causing the collapse of both towers within two hours. The third aircraft was crashed into the Pentagon. Passengers on the fourth hijacked aircraft attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers, which crashed into a field in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania killing all on board but in the process saving many other lives. Approximately 3,000 people died in these attacks. including a number of firefighters and rescue workers.

Canada Quebec Bridge
As the final part of the Quebec Bridge (the central span) was being raised into position from pontoons in the river it collapsed when it was 15 feet up in mid-air it plunged back into the river killing 90 construction workers.

U.S.A. Woman Flogged
A woman was in hospital following a flogging by four masked women who are members of "Ladies of The Invisible Eye " from Dallas in Texas, they administered 100 lashes for ruining her own daughter's life.

1930 Number of Farms Decreasing
A new government report highlights the fact that the number of farms is decreasing across the states with an overall 10% reduction of farms.

1930 U.S.A. Still Explodes
A house was blown up today in Madison, Wisconsin when a still exploded in the basement. The fire which accompanied the explosion destroyed the house and a barn.
 
1883
James Cutler patents mail chute
1941
construction of Pentagon begins in Arlington County,Maryland completed in 1943
1951
Florence Chadwick becomes the 1st woman to swim the English Channel from England-France.It took her 16 hrs,19 min
1977
The Atari 2600 Computer System is released in North America revolutionizing the video game industry
 
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This day in History September 11th

2001 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
The 911 attacks carried out on September 11, 2001, were a series of terrorist attacks upon the United States of America. Four commercial passenger jet airliners were hijacked on that morning and two of the planes were crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower, causing the collapse of both towers within two hours. The third aircraft was crashed into the Pentagon. Passengers on the fourth hijacked aircraft attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers, which crashed into a field in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania killing all on board but in the process saving many other lives. Approximately 3,000 people died in these attacks. including a number of firefighters and rescue workers.

Canada Quebec Bridge
As the final part of the Quebec Bridge (the central span) was being raised into position from pontoons in the river it collapsed when it was 15 feet up in mid-air it plunged back into the river killing 90 construction workers.

U.S.A. Woman Flogged
A woman was in hospital following a flogging by four masked women who are members of "Ladies of The Invisible Eye " from Dallas in Texas, they administered 100 lashes for ruining her own daughter's life.

1930 Number of Farms Decreasing
A new government report highlights the fact that the number of farms is decreasing across the states with an overall 10% reduction of farms.

1930 U.S.A. Still Explodes
A house was blown up today in Madison, Wisconsin when a still exploded in the basement. The fire which accompanied the explosion destroyed the house and a barn.
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Curiosity got me with "USA Woman Flogged". The incident was in 1922 apparently and the 'Ladies of the Invisible Eye' were one of several KKK women's Auxiliary groups, which makes me suspect details newspaper did not print.

And that last one. Headline could have been more precise: "Still in USA Explodes" or "Still Explodes in USA". i grew up in a place where 'stills' were fairly common that wording made my mind go 'yeah and 91 years later it continues, we've always been a violent country'. Then i read the details and thought 'yeah, over the years, meth labs and homegrown terrorist Bombings (OK City) became more common'.
 
This day in History September 12th

1940 Lascaux Prehistoric Cave Paintings Discovered In France

1953 John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier

1953 Nikita Khrushchev Takes Over In Soviet Union

1960 Hurricane Donna Strikes Long Island

1977 Steve Biko Killed In South Africa

1988 Hurricane Gilbert Strikes Jamaica
 
12th September

1440 Eton College was founded by Henry VI. Prefects were warned to look out for "ill-kempt heads and unwashed faces."

1878 Cleopatra's Needle, the obelisk of Thothmes II, was erected on London's Embankment.

1936 Britain’s Fred Perry won the US Tennis Championships against Donald Budge. Britain had to wait a further 76 years for a male singles champion and on 11th September 2012 Andy Murray won the US Open, beating Novak Djokovic.

1970 The supersonic Concorde passenger jet landed at Heathrow Airport for the first time to a barrage of complaints from nearby residents about noise.

2005 England took the Ashes from Australia for the first time since 1987.
 
1909
world's first patent for synthetic rubber was given to German chemist,Fritz Hofmann
1958
U. S. Supreme Court orders the all white Central High School in little Rock,Arkansas to intergrate
1990
U.S,United Kingdom,France, USSR,East&West Germany sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge
2017
Apple debuts iphoneX costing $999 along with iphone 8
 
This day in History September 13th

1959 First Man-Made Object ( Luna 2 )Reaches The Moon

1960 OPEC Created

1966 Minimum Wage Raised To $1.40 in the US

1982 Princess Grace of Monaco Dies

2001 Osama bin Laden Named As Prime Suspect

2006 E. Coli Breakout U.S.
 
1501
Michelanglo begins work on his statue of David which would become a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture
1881
Lewis Howard Latemer invented&patents electric lamp with carbon filament
1948
Margaret Chase Smith{R,Maine} is elected Senator,she would become the 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress
1965
Beatles win their 1st Grammy-Best Group of 1964
 
14th September

1752 The 3rd of September became the 14th as the Gregorian Calendar was introduced into Britain. Crowds of people rioted on the streets demanding, 'Give us back our 11 days.'

1759 The earliest dated board game in England was sold on this day by its inventor John Jeffreys, from his house in Chapel Street, Westminster. The game was called 'A Journey Through Europe', or 'The play of Geography'.

1981 A teenage boy who fired blank shots at the Queen during a Trooping of the Colour ceremony pleaded guilty to a charge under the 1848 Treason Act and was jailed for five years.
 
1716
The 1st lighthouse in American colonies lit at Boston Harbor
1814
Francis Scott Key who was aboard a ship in Baltimore Harbor witnessed the bombing of Fort McHenry.He wrote a poem about it, became U.S. national anthem'Star Spangled Banner'
1956
IBM introduces RAMAC 305,1st commerical computer with hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage.It weighed over a ton
1987
Baltimore Oriole baseball player,Cal Ripken Jr's streak of playing in 908 games,8,243 innings is broken
 
This day in History September 15th

1963 Four Young Black Girls Murdered By Klan
Members of the Ku Klux Klan plant 19 sticks of dynamite with a delayed-time release outside the basement of the 16th St. Baptist Church which was a rallying point for civil-rights activities through the spring of 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. Four young black girls (Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Collins, and Cynthia Wesley) were killed in the bombing as they prepared their Sunday school lesson on "The love that forgives." The bombers identities were Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas Blanton, Herman Cash, and Robert "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss. The bombing, which was targeted at children attending church, provided the impetus for increased support for people working for civil rights. Public outrage, it marked a turning point in the U.S. civil rights movement of the mid-20th century and contributed to support for the passage of civil rights legislation in 1964.

1916 France Battle of the Somme
The British launch a major offensive against the Germans at the Battle of the Somme, using 40 primitive tanks for the first time in history.

1926 U.S.A. Flooding Midwest
As heavy rains continue to fall across the Midwest many towns and cities are only accessible by boat and with rain continuing to fall more and more rivers are overflowing making the situation worse each day, forecasters are predicting further rain for the next 7 days.

1931 UK Mahatma Gandhi
A conference between the British government and the emissary for India Mahatma Gandhi continue in London with the figure of Gandhi sat cross-legged on a chair with his loincloth admitting that Britain has the power of force to control India but would like the two countries to work together as an honourable and equal partnership in India, during his speech to the conference he said he was a poor humble agent acting on behalf of the Indian National Congress.

1935 German Jews Stripped of Citizenship
German Jews are stripped of their citizenship, reducing them to subjects of the state, this was only part of Hitler changes to Jews as they were disqualified from public office and professions, and also not allowed to marry Aryans. Finally throughout the German State signs appeared in shops and Hotels with the words "Jews Not Welcome."

1940 Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain turns in British favour when the Royal Air Force (RAF) flying the new Spitfires down 56 German aircraft in two dogfights lasting less than an hour.
 
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.

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.
 
Sept 15th
1857
Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine
1928
Scottish bacteriologist,Alexander Fleming discovers pencillin while studying influenza
1982
debut of USA Today daily middle market newspaper by Gannett Company. The cost was 25 cents now its $2,printed in 37 U.S. sites with 5 international editions, Asia,Canada, Europe,Pacific Islands
1997
Google.com is registered as a domain name
2018
archelogists find oldest known brewery,with remains of a 13,000yr old beer in Hafa Cave,Israel
 
This day in History September 16th

1810 Mexico Independence
Mexico declared its independence from Spain after 300 years of Spanish Rule.

1920 Wall Street Bombing
A bomb believed to be planted by radical anarchists rocked Wall Street killing 38 people and wounded over 400. It was never solved but was widely attributed to radical anarchists.

1928 Okeechobee Hurricane
The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes Lake Okeechobee, Florida with winds of around 140 mph a major levee broke with the resulting flood covering an area of hundreds of square miles with water that in some places was over 20 ft (6 m) deep and some 2,500 people drowned.

1932 India Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi begins his hunger strike in opposition to Britain's new Caste Separation Laws.

1940 Selective Training and Service Act
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, requiring all men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register with local draft boards (later changed to between 18 and 45), becoming the first peacetime military draft in United States history.
 

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