Today in History

7 September 1940
Germany starts it's Blitz on London with 300 German bombers in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. The Blitz caused the deaths of over 40,000 men women and children and left a million homes destroyed in the city.
 

On This Day In History, September 7th

1978 Georgi Markov is murdered
The Bulgarian writer and dissenter had left Bulgaria in 1969 and was working at BBC in London during the time of his murder. His murder, which is popularly known as the Umbrella Murder took place while he was crossing the Waterloo Bridge in London. The assassin, nicknamed Piccadilly, used a modified umbrella to shoot a pellet full of ricin into Markov’s leg. Markov died 4 days later, on September 11 of ricin poisoning.

1977 Treaty giving the Panama Canal to Panama is Signed
The Torrijos–Carter Treaties were two treaties signed between the heads of state of the US and Panama. The treaties gave control of the canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean to Panama. The canal was constructed by and had been in the control of, the United States since 1904.

1940 Germans Begin the Blitz over London
The Germans began strategically bombing the United Kingdom and London on this day. For 57 days, the German Luftwaffe aerially bombed London, killing over 20,000 people and destroying over a million homes in the city. The strategy lasted until May 1941 but did not succeed in breaking British resolve. By 1941, German attention was diverted to the Soviet Union.

1936 The Tasmanian Tiger Becomes Extinct
The last surviving Tasmanian Tiger – a carnivorous marsupial, died in captivity at the Hobart Zoo, Tasmania, Australia. Called Benjamin, the thylacine, as the species was called, is believed to have died due to neglect. Thylacines were natives of Australia and New Guinea and went extinct due to overhunting and the introduction of invasive species like dingos. 😞
 
Births On This Day, September 7th 🎂

1984 Vera Zvonareva
Russian tennis player

1940 Abdurrahman Wahid
Indonesian politician, 4th President of Indonesia

1909 Elia Kazan
Greek/American actor, director, producer, writer

1908 Paul Brown
American football coach, executive

1533 Elizabeth I of England

Deaths On This Day, September 7th 🪦

2011 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster
Victims of the

1997 Mobutu Sese Seko
Congolese politician, President of Zaire

1984 Don Tallon
Australian cricketer

1978 Keith Moon
English drummer, songwriter, producer

1566 Suleiman the Magnificent
Ottoman sultan
 
7th September

1533 - Elizabeth I - the last Tudor monarch - was born at Greenwich on 7 September 1533, the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn.

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. It's hard to imagine that the quiet village of Eyam, off the A623 in Derbyshire, could have such a fascinating, yet tragic story to tell. But .... at the end of August 1665 bubonic plague arrived at the house of the village tailor George Viccars, via a parcel of cloth from London. The cloth was damp and was hung out in front of the fire to dry, thus releasing the plague infested fleas. On 7th September 1665, George Viccars, the first plague victim, died of a raging fever.

1838 Grace Darling and her father rescued the crew of the Forfarshire, a steamer wrecked off the Northumberland coast, close to the Longstone Lighthouse. She became a national heroine.

2013 New Yorker Marin Alsop becoame the first woman to lead the Last Night of the Proms in its 118-year history.
 
Sept 7th:
1630
city of Boston, Mass was founded
1915
JOhnny Gruelle patents his 'Raggedy Ann' doll
1963
American Bandstand moves from Philadelphia to Los Angeles airs once/wk on Sat
1979
ESPN{Entertainment&Sports Programing} makes its TV debut
1996
rapper, Tupac Shakur is shot mulitple times in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas, dies 6 days later. His killer has never been caught
2022
in an article published in'Nature' the earliest evidence of surgery from a 31,000 yr old skeleton with amputated lower leg found in a cave in East Kalimanian, Boreno
 
On This Day In History, September 8th

2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Makes its Debut
The comedian was a correspondent for The Daily Show and the host of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central before he took over David Letterman as the host of The Late Show on CBS. The first show featured Presidential hopeful and former Governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, and actor George Clooney.

1991 The Republic of Macedonia Declares its Independence From Yugoslavia
The landlocked Balkan country became independent after a referendum for independence from Yugoslavia was approved by about 96% of the voting public.

1986 Oprah Winfrey Show Airs For the First Time
The widely popular daytime talk show hosted and produced by Oprah Winfrey ran for 25 years and won over 45 Daytime Emmy Awards. The topic for the first episode of the show was titled “How to Marry the Man or Woman of Your Choice”.

1974 President Ford Pardons Nixon
Gerald R. Ford, the 38th President of the United States, issued Proclamation 4311, which pardoned his predecessor Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed in his role as the U.S. President. In August 1974, Nixon resigned from the office of the President - the only President to do so in the history of the United States after impeachment proceedings against him were started in the House of Representatives because of his connection to the Watergate Scandal. The pardon was controversial. Many experts believe that it was a contributing factor to Ford’s inability to get elected as President 2 years later.

1966 Star Trek Makes its Television Debut
The popular science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry was about the adventures of the crew of the starship USS Enterprise. The starship was commanded by Captain James T. Kirk, who was assisted by Science Officer Spock and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Leonard McCoy. The first episode of the series, which is now known as The Original Series (TOS), was called the Man Trap and aired on NBC.
 
Births On This Day, September 8th 🎂

1979 Pink
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1970 Neko Case
American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1932 Patsy Cline
American singer-songwriter, pianist

1925 Peter Sellers
English film actor, comedian, singer

1922 Lyndon LaRouche
American politician, activist, founded the LaRouc

Deaths On This Day, September 8th

2006 Peter Brock
Australian race car driver

2003 Leni Riefenstahl
German director

1949 Richard Strauss
German composer, conductor

1916 Friedrich Baumfelder
German pianist, composer, conductor

2022 Queen Elizabeth II ( Rest in Peace Ma'am, forever in our hearts.)

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On This Day In History, September 9th

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes longest reigning British monarch
She broke the record set by Queen Victoria, who ascended to the throne on June 20, 1837, and reigned for 63 years, 7 months and 2 days.

2007 Manuel Noriega's sentence in the United States ends
Manuel Noriega, former military ruler of Panama, was released after 17 years of imprisonment in the US. He was imprisoned on charges of drug trafficking, money laundering, and racketeering.

2001 Unix Billennium is Celebrated
Unix time or Unix epoch, POSIX time or Unix timestamp, is a time system that measures the number of seconds since midnight UTC of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds. At 01:46:40 UTC on September 9, 2001, Unix time reached the billionth-second timestamp.

1991 Tajikistan Declares its Independence from the Soviet Union
The Central Asian country had been conquered by Russia in the late 19th century. In 1929, the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic was created as a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. Independence in 1991 came after the collapse of the USSR.

1948 Kim Il-sung Establishes North Korea
After the Second World War, the Korean peninsula had been divided across the 38th parallel. The northern part was occupied by the Soviets while the south was occupied by the Americans. The Cold War impeded unification and on October 9, 1948, Kim Il-sung declared the creation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with the support of the USSR.
 
Births On This Day, September 9th 🎂

1975 Michael Bublé
Canadian singer-songwriter, actor

1960 Hugh Grant
English actor, producer

1941 Otis Redding
American singer-songwriter, producer

1890 Colonel Sanders
American businessman founded KFC

1828 Leo Tolstoy
Russian author

Deaths On This Day, September 9th 🪦

2003 Edward Teller
Hungarian/American physicist

2001 Ahmad Shah Massoud
Afghan commander

1978 Jack Warner
Canadian/American film producer

1976 Mao Zedong
Chinese military leader, politician

1087 William the Conqueror
King of England, Duke of Normandy
 
12th September

1846 Poet Elizabeth Barrett eloped to Italy with poet Robert Browning to escape Elizabeth's domineering father who disapproved of marriage for any of his children. Mr. Barrett then disinherited Elizabeth, as he did for each of his children who married.

1878 Cleopatra's Needle, the obelisk of Thothmose II, was erected on London's Embankment. Cleopatra’s Needle is an ancient Egyptian obelisk that now stands on the Thames Embankment in London. It is one of a pair of obelisks, the other of which stands in New York’s Central Park.

1908 The marriage of Winston Churchill to Clementine Hozier.

1970 Hijacked jets destroyed by guerrillas. Palestinian militants blew up the three planes they had been holding at an airfield in the Jordanian desert.The 40 hostages were taken from the planes minutes before the explosions destroyed the grounded jets.Two of the planes had been captured by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

1977 Steve Biko died in custody. The leader of the black consciousness movement in South Africa, Steve Biko, died in police custody.The 30-year-old's death was confirmed by the commissioner of police, General Gert Prinsloo. Steve Biko's death caused outrage in South Africa and almost immediately doubt was cast over the alleged cause of his death.
Newspaper editor Donald Woods, and close friend of Biko's, accused the Minister of Justice and Police James Kruger of being directly responsible for the death.Two weeks later preliminary results from a post mortem examination revealed Biko had died from severe brain damage.
 
1857
423 people aboard steamship 'SS Central America' sunk in hurricane off Cape Romain,South Carolina. The ship was dubbed' Ship of Gold' because it was carrying gold coins&bricks from Calif Gold Rush
1909
German chemist, Fritz Hofman receives 1st patent for synethetic rubber
1940
4 teenagers followed their dog down hole near Lascaux, France,they discovered 17,000yr old drawings known now as Lascaux Cave Paintings
1958
U.S. Supreme Court orders all white Central High School in Little Rock,Arkansas to integrate
1990
U.S,U.K.,France,&USSR sign agreements for East&West Germany to merge together
2017
Apple unveils Iphone X with Iphone 8 cost $999
 
On This Day In History, September 13th

1993 Oslo Accords are signed
Also known as the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, the Accords helped create the Palestinian interim self-government or the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and called for the withdrawal of the Israeli Defence Forces from the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

1974 French Ambassador is Kidnapped in the Hague
3 members of the Japanese Red Army (JRA), a communist militant group that was formed in Lebanon, stormed the French Embassy in the Hague and took 10 hostages, including the French Ambassador. The siege ended after the militants’ demands for the release of another JRA member, cash, and a plane were met.

1933 A Woman is Elected to New Zealand Parliament for the first time
Elizabeth McCombs won the by-elections for the parliamentary seat of Lyttelton, which was held by her husband before he died in August 1933. New Zealand extended suffrage to women in 1893.

1899 First Recorded Automobile Fatality in the US took place
Henry H. Bliss was struck by a taxi cab while crossing the street in New York City. He died the next day due to his injuries.

1759 The Battle of Quebec was fought between the British and the French
A key event in the Seven Years’ War that involved the great European powers at the time, the battle took place on the farm of Abraham Martin. Because of this, the battle is also often called the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. British troops under the command of General James Wolfe defeated the French in the very short, 15-minute-long battle and took over Quebec. The Battle resulted in the French giving up their control over areas in present-day Canada and most of North America coming under the control of the British.
 
Births On This Day, September 13th 🎂

1989 Thomas Müller
German footballer

1981 Angelina Love
Canadian wrestler

1969 Shane Warne
Australian cricketer

1916 Roald Dahl
English pilot, author, screenwriter

1819 Clara Schumann
German pianist, composer

Deaths On This Day, September 13th🪦

1996 Tupac Shakur
American rapper, producer, actor

1977 Leopold Stokowski
Polish/English conductor

1971 Lin Biao
Chinese military officer, politician, Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China

1806 Charles James Fox
English politician

1598 Philip II of Spain
 
September 13th

1902 The first conviction in Britain using finger-prints as evidence was in the case against Harry Jackson by the Metropolitan Police at the Old Bailey. He had left his thumbprint in wet paint on a window sill and was tracked down through it. He was sentenced to seven years.

1940 Buckingham Palace was hit by a bomb during 'The Blitz'. An extract from the diary of King George VI ..." “All of a sudden we heard an aircraft making a zooming noise above us, saw 2 bombs falling past the opposite side of the Palace, & then heard 2 resounding crashes as the bombs fell in the quadrangle about 30 yds away. We looked at each other, & then we were out into the passage as fast as we could get there. The whole thing happened in a matter of seconds….

“…6 bombs had been dropped. The aircraft was seem coming straight down the Mall below the clouds having dived through the clouds & had dropped 2 bombs in the forecourt, 2 in the quadrangle, 1 in the Chapel & the other in the garden.”

1980 Hercules, the bear who went missing on Benbecula (in the Outer Hebrides) while being filmed for a Kleenex television commercial, was recaptured after 24 days 'on the run'. A crofter spotted the 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m), half-ton animal swimming. The bear was shot with a tranquiliser dart, captured in a net and flown by helicopter back to his specially built coach where his owner - the wrestler Andy Robin - was waiting anxiously.

1988 Cubans blame shooting on 'CIA plot' A Cuban diplomat opened fire in a crowded London street because of an American plot to make him defect, his government said. The British Government condemned the behaviour of Cuba's commercial attaché, Medina Perez, and expelled him and the ambassador, Oscar Fernandez-Mell.
 
On This Day In History, September 14th

2000 Microsoft Launches Windows ME
The Millennium Edition was the last of the operating systems of the Windows 9x series.

1985 The Golden Girls Make Their Television Debut
The popular American sitcom about 4 single and older women living together in a Miami, Florida house ran for 6 seasons on NBC. The main characters in the show were played by Beatrice Arthur, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White, each of whom won the Emmys for their acting in the show. The series also won 2 Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series and 3 Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series.

1979 The Afghan President is assassinated
Nur Muhammad Taraki had taken office less than a year ago when he was killed by gunfire at the behest of Hafizullah Amin. Amin took the seat of the president after the assassination and ruled for only 3 months before he was killed by the Soviets during Operation Storm-333.

1959 First Man-Made Object Successfully Lands on the Moon
Soviet space probe Luna 2 was also the first man-made spacecraft to land on any celestial object. It was launched on September 12, 1959, and lost communications with Earth as it impacted the Moon’s surface east of Mare Serenitatis near the Aristides, Archimedes, and Autolycus craters.

1956 IBM 305 RAMAC is Released
The 350 RAMAC was the first computer with a disk drive and was primarily targeted towards businesses that did real-time transactions. RAMAC stands for Random Access Method of Accounting and Control. The RAMAC 350, which was one of the last vacuum tube computers manufactured by IBM, was replaced by the IBM 1401 in the early 1960s.

IBM 305
 
Births On This Day, September 14th 🎂

1985 Aya Ueto
Japanese actress, singer

1983 Amy Winehouse
English singer-songwriter

1965 Dmitry

Deaths On This Day, September 14th 🪦

1982 Grace Kelly
American actress

1936 Irving Thalberg
American screenwriter, producer

1901 William McKinley
American politician, 25th President of the United States

1852 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Irish/English field marshal, politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1836 Aaron Burr
American politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States Medvedev
Russian politician, 3rd President of Russia

1879 Margaret Sanger
American activist

1769 Alexander von Humboldt
German geographer, explorer
 
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