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- S09011772 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in California
- B09011854 Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer
- S09011859 Carrington & Hodgson make first observation of a solar flare.
- B09011875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist, Ah-ee-ah-ee-ah!
- S09011807 Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire.
- S09011849 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey.
- S09011878 1st woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston).
- S09011905 Alberta and Saskatchewan become 8th and 9th Canadian provinces.
- B09011935 Seiji Ozawa, conductor
- S09011939 Germany invades Poland, starting World War II.
- S09011939 PHYSICAL REVIEW publishes first paper to deal with "black holes"
- S09011969 Moammar Gadhafi deposes Libya's King Idris
- S09011977 First TRS-80 Model I computer is sold.
- S09011979 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
- S09011983 A Korean Boeing 747, carrying 269 passengers, strays into Soviet air space and is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter.
- S09011985 SS Titanic, sunk in 1912, is found by French & American scientists
- S0901 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
- S0902 31 BC At the Battle of Actium; Octavian defeats Antony, and becomes the Emporer Augustus.
- S0902 490 BC Phidippides runs the first marathon, seeking aid from Sparta against the Persians.
- S09021666 Great Fire of London starts; destroys St. Paul's Church
- S09021789 US Treasury Department established by Congress
- S09021804 Harding discovers Juno, the 3rd known asteroid
- B09021838 Queen Liliuokalani (last queen of Hawaii).
- B09021839 Henry George, land reformer, writer (Progress & Poverty)
- B09021853 Wilhelm Ostwald, German physical chemist (Nobel 1909)
- B09021866 Hiram Johnson, Calif governor, Progressive.
- S09021898 Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
- S09021945 V-J Day; Japan formally surrenders aboard the USS Missouri.
- S09021945 Vietnam declares independence from France (National Day)
- B09021952 Jimmy Connors, tennis brat
- S09021963 CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
- S0902 Great Britain adopts Gregorian calendar (1752)
- S0902 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
- B09031596 Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker
- B09031856 Louis Sullivan, father of modern US architecture.
- S09031783 Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, is signed.
- S09031849 California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
- S09031900 British annex Natal (South Africa)
- B09031907 Andrew Brewin, Canadian lawyer, cofounder of New Democratic Party
- B09031913 Alan Ladd, actor
- S09031935 First automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell
- S09031939 Britain declared war on Germany. France followed six hours later, quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada
- S09031940 First showing of high definition color television
- S09031940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for military bases
- S09031976 US Viking 2 lands on Mars at Utopia
- S09031978 Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
- S09031985 20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 returns to Earth
- S0903 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
- S0904 476 Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in the west, is deposed.
- S09041609 Navigator Henry Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan.
- B09041768 François René de Chateaubriand, French poet, novelist, statesman
- S09041781 Los Angeles is founded in the Valley of Smokes (Indian Name).
- B09041810 Donald McKay, US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships.
- B09041824 Anton Bruckner, Wagner disciple
- S09041833 1st newsboy in the US hired (Barney Flaherty), by the NY Sun
- B09041846 Daniel Burnham, American architect, built skyscrapers
- S09041870 French republic proclaimed
- B09041872 Darius Milhaud, composer
- S09041882 First district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)
- S09041886 Geronimo is captured, ending last major US-Indian war
- S09041888 George Eastman patents 1st rollfilm camera & registers "Kodak".
- B09041908 Richard Wright, American author (Native Son)
- S09041911 Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
- B09041917 Henry Ford II, businessman
- B09041918 Paul Harvey, radio news commentator, "Goooood Day!"
- S09041918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
- B09041920 Craig Claiborne, gastronome
- S09041933 First airplane to exceed 300 mph, JR Wendell, Glenview, Illinois
- S09041950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.
- S09041951 First transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman
- S09041954 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed
- S09041957 Ford introduces the Edsel.
- S09041964 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
- S09041972 US swimmer Mark Spitz is 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
- S09041980 Iraqi troops seize Iranian territory in a border dispute.
- S0904 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
- B09051735 Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach (English Bach)
- S09051774 First Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia
- S09051781 Battle of Virginia Capes, where the French Fleet defeats the British rescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown.
- B09051847 Jesse James in Missouri, outlaw
- S09051885 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer.
- B09051902 Darryl F. Zanuck, Hollywood producer & motion picture executive
- B09051923 Arthur C. Nielsen, market researcher (or 1897)
- B09051929 Andrian G. Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 3, Soyuz 9)
- B09051929 Bob Newhart, comedian, actor
- B09051940 Raquel Welch in Chicago Ill (Myra Breckenridge, 100 Rifles)
- S09051953 First privately operated atomic reactor - Raleigh NC
- S09051958 First color video recording on mag. tape shown, Charlotte NC
- S09051977 Voyager II launched towards Jupiter and Saturn.
- S09051978 Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md.
- S09051980 World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens.
- S0905 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
- S09061628 Puritans land at Salem, form Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- S09061716 First lighthouse in US built, in Boston
- B09061757 Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary
- B09061766 John Dalton, developed the atomic theory of matter
- B09061811 James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington
- B09061860 Jane Addams, American pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931)
- S09061869 First westbound train arrives in San Francisco.
- B09061888 Joseph P. Kennedy Financier-diplomat
- S09061909 Word received: Peary discovered the North Pole five months ago.
- S09061966 Star Trek appears on TV for the 1st time, on NBC. Beam me up!
- S0906 The National Holiday of Swaziland.
- S0906 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
- B09071533 Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), daughter of Henry VIII
- B09071707 George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history
- B09071726 François-André Philidor of France, chess champion & musician
- S09071822 Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day).
- B09071829 August von Stradonitz, discovered structure of the benzene ring.
- B09071860 Grandma Moses, artist
- S09071907 Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF is destroyed by fire.
- B09071908 Dr. Michael E. De Bakey, artificial heart pioneer
- B09071913 Anthony Quayle, actor (Anne of 1000 Days, Lawrence of Arabia)
- B09071914 James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts.
- B09071936 Buddy Holly, singer (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day)
- S09071948 First use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron OH
- S09071956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000+
- S0907 1National Grandparents' Day.
- S0907 2Labor Day, a legal holiday
- S0907 Independence Day, celebrated in Brazil.
- B09081157 King Richard I of England, "The Lionhearted", crusader,
- S09081380 Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars.
- S09081565 Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St. John.
- S09081565 1st permanent settlement in US founded at St Augustine, Florida
- S09081664 Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to English.
- S09081771 Mission San Gabriel Archangel founded in California.
- B09081830 Frédéric Mistral, Provençal poet (Nobel 1904)
- B09081841 Antonín Dvorák, Czech composer, (From The New World)
- S09081858 Lincoln makes a speech describing when you can fool people.
- S09081883 Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mo
- S09081920 1st US Air Mail service begins.
- B09081922 Sid Caesar, comedian
- B09081925 Peter Sellers, (not now, Kato)
- S09081943 Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II
- S09081945 US invades Japanese-held Korea.
- S0908 1National Grandparents' Day.
- S0908 International Literacy Day
- S09091513 Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland.
- B09091585 Cardinal de Richelieu, chief minister to Louis XIII of France
- B09091754 William Bligh, nasty ship's captain
- S09091776 Continental Congress authorizes the name "United States".
- B09091789 William Cranch Bond, American astronomer, codiscover of Hyperion
- S09091839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph
- B09091850 Harishchandra, Indian poet, dramatist, father of modern Hindi
- S09091850 California becomes the 31st state.
- S09091867 Luxembourg gains independence.
- S09091892 E.E.Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th moon of Jupiter.
- B09091925 Cliff Robertson, actor (Charly)
- S09091926 NBC created by the Radio Corporation of America.
- S09091942 First bombing of the continental US, at Mount Emily Oregon by a Japanese plane launched from a submarine.
- S09091967 First successful test flight of a Saturn V rocket.
- S09091975 Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing.
- S09091982 "Conestoga I", the world's first private rocket, is launched.
- S0909 1National Grandparents' Day.
- S0909 Admission Day, a California Holiday.
- B09101487 Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55)
- S09101608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va.
- S09101813 Oliver H. Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie
- B09101839 Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (Funk & Wagnalls)
- S09101846 Elias Howe receives patent for his sewing machine.
- B09101872 Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Indian cricketer, politician
- B09101907 Fay Wray, in Alberta Canada, King Kong fell for her.
- S09101919 NYC welcomes home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers
- B09101927 Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer
- B09101934 Charles Kuralt, "On the road..." for CBS.
- S09101945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.
- S09101953 Swanson sells its first "TV Dinner".
- S09101955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS television.
- S09101963 Twenty black students enter public schools in Alabama.
- S09101974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
- S0910 1National Grandparents' Day.
- S09111777 Battle of Brandywine, PA - Americans lose to British.
- S09111814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY - British lose to Americans
- S09111850 Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale", makes first US concert.
- B09111862 O Henry, pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer.
- B09111885 D.H. Lawrence, writer, (Lady Chatterly's Lover)
- S09111910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens, in Hollywood
- B09111913 Bear Bryant, keeps the Crimson Tide winning...
- B09111935 Gherman Titov, first man to spend a day in space (Vostok 2)
- S09111936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
- B09111937 Robert L. Crippen, astronaut (STS-1, 7, 41C, 41G)
- B09111940 Brian De Palma, director (Dressed to Kill)
- S09111944 FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the second Quebec Conference
- S09111946 First mobile long-distance, car-to-car telephone conversation.
- S09111947 US Department of Defense is formed.
- S09111950 First typesetting machine without metal type is exhibited.
- S09111954 First Miss America TV broadcast
- S09111967 US Surveyor 5 makes first chemical analysis of lunar material.
- S09111972 BART begins service with a 26 mile line from Oakland to Fremont
- S09111985 Pete Rose, Cincinnati Reds, gets hit 4,192 - eclipsing Ty Cobb.
- S0911 1National Grandparents' Day.
- S0912 490 BC Athenians defeat 2nd Persian invasion of Greece at Marathon.
- S09121609 Henry Hudson discovers what is now called the Hudson River.
- S09121758 Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula and begins catalog.
- B09121818 Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of hand-cranked machine gun
- B09121880 H.L. Mencken, newspaperman, Baltimore's son.
- B09121888 Maurice Chevalier, thanked heaven for little girls.
- B09121892 Alfred A. Knopf, US publisher
- B09121902 Margaret Hamilton, "Wicked Witch of the West"
- B09121913 Jesse Owens, spoiled Hitler's Olympic plans in 1936.
- B09121921 Stanislaw Lem, Polish science-fiction writer
- S09121941 First German ship in WW II is captured by US ship (Busko)
- S09121953 Khrushchev becomes First Secretary of the Communist Party
- S09121959 Bonanza, horse opera, premiers on television
- S09121959 Luna 1 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the moon.
- S09121966 Gemini XI launched
- S09121970 Luna 16 launched; returns samples from Mare Fecunditatis
- S09121974 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia overthrown.
- S0912 1National Grandparents' Day.
- B09131755 Oliver Evans, pioneered the high-pressure steam engine.
- S09131788 New York City becomes the capitol of the United States.
- B09131851 Walter Reed, who proved mosquitos transmit yellow fever.
- B09131857 Milton S. Hershey, US chocolate manufacturer, philanthropist
- B09131860 Gen. John J. (Blackjack) Pershing, US commander in World War I
- B09131874 Arnold Schoenberg, composer
- S09131906 First airplane flight in Europe.
- B09131938 Judith Martin, Miss Manners
- B09131946 Jacqueline Bisset in England, actress (The Deep)
- S09131959 Soviet Lunik 2 becomes 1st human-made object to crash on moon.
- S09131963 The Outer Limits premiers
- S0913 1National Grandparents' Day.
- S0913 6Friday the 13th! Beware!
- B09141883 Margaret Sanger, feminist.
- S09141716 1st lighthouse in US is lit (in Boston Harbor).
- S09141752 England and colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear.
- S09141812 Napoleon occupies Moscow.
- S09141814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write 'The Star-Spangled Banner'.
- S09141847 US troops capture Mexico City.
- B09141849 Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, pioneer in psychology
- B09141864 Lord Cecil of Chelwood, helped form League of Nations, Nobel 1937
- B09141867 Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl"
- B09141879 Margaret Sanger, feminist, nurse, birth control proponent
- S09141886 The typewriter ribbon is patented.
- S09141899 While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality
- B09141905 Clayton Moore, (Lone Ranger)
- S09141940 Congress passes 1st peace time draft law.
- S09141956 First prefrontal lobotomy performed in Washington DC. Common now.
- S09141964 Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House
- S09141968 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on first circum lunar flight
- S09141974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter.
- S0914 National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
- S09151776 British forces occupy New York during the American Revolution.
- B09151789 James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major American novelist.
- S09151789 Department of Foreign Affairs is renamed the Department of State
- B09151830 Porfirio Díaz, soldier, president of Mexico (1877-1911)
- B09151857 William Howard Taft, 27th President (1909-1913)
- B09151876 Bruno Walter, conductor
- B09151881 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder
- B09151890 Dame Agatha Christie, mysterious
- B09151894 Jean Renoir, cineaste.
- S09151821 Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras & Nicaragua all gain their independence.
- B09151904 Umberto II, king of Italy (1946)
- S09151917 Russia is proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
- B09151929 Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks
- B09151941 Miroslaw Hermaszewski, 1st Polish space traveler (Soyuz 30)
- S09151947 First 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
- S09151950 UN forces land at Inchon during Korean conflict.
- S09151959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
- S09151976 Soyuz 22 carries two cosmonauts into earth orbit for 8 days.
- B09151984 Prince Henry of Wales
- S0915 Battle of Britain Day.
- S0915 Felt Hat Day, when men of fashion put away their straw hats.
- S09161620 The Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims.
- S09161630 Massachusets village of Shawmut changes its name to Boston
- S09161662 Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation
- S09161795 British capture Capetown
- B09161822 Charles S. Crocker, of Southern Pacific fame.
- B09161888 Frans Sillanpää, Finnish writer (Meek Heritage) (Nobel 1939)
- B09161893 Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian biochemist (Nobel 1937)
- S09161893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders
- S09161908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors
- B09161914 Allen Funt "Candid Camera" creator
- B09161924 Lauren Bacall, whistler.
- B09161925 B.B. King, singer, musician
- S09161945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
- S09161857 Patent is issued for the typesetting machine.
- S09161919 The American Legion is incorporated.
- S09161966 Metropolitan Opera opens at New York's Lincoln Center
- S09161968 Richard Nixon appears on Laugh-in
- S09161972 First TV series about mixed marriage - Bridgit Loves Bernie.
- S09161974 BART begins regular transbay service.
- S09161974 Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for Vietnam deserters
- S09161975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
- S09161976 Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
- S0916 Independence Day, celebrated in Mexico.
- B0917 879 Charles III (The Simple), king of France (893-923)
- B09171271 Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305)
- B09171730 Baron Frederick von Steuben, made the Continental Army winners.
- S09171776 The Presidio of San Francisco was founded as Spanish fort.
- S09171787 The Constitution of The United States is adopted.
- S09171789 William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn
- S09171819 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii.
- B09171857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket & space research
- S09171908 Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight
- B09171928 Roddy McDowall, actor (Planet of the Apes)
- B09171930 Edgar Dean Mitchell, astronaut (Apollo 14)
- B09171930 Thomas P Stafford, astronaut (Gemini 6, 9, Apollo 10)
- S09171953 First successful separation of Siamese twins
- S09171968 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon
- S09171972 BART begins passenger service
- S09171978 Begin, Sadat and Carter sign the Camp David accord.
- S09171985 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
- S0917 Citizenship Day
- S0917 Constitution Day
- B09181709 Samuel Johnson, Boswell's tour guide.
- S09181755 Fort Ticonderoga, New York opened
- S09181793 Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building
- S09181810 Chile gains its independence.
- B09181819 Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault; his pendulum proved earth rotates
- S09181851 New York Times starts publishing, at 2¢ a copy
- S09181851 "The New York Times" goes on sale, at 2 cents a copy.
- B09181905 Claudette Colbert, in Paris, (Cleopatra)
- B09181905 Greta Garbo, in Stockholm (Ninotchka, Blue Angel)
- S09181927 Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
- S09181966 Gemini X is launched
- S09181977 US Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of earth & moon together
- S09181980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station
- S09181984 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
- S0918 Independence Day, celebrated in Chile.
- S0918 The start of the Jewish New Year.
- S09191356 English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers
- B09191655 Jan Luyts, Dutch scholar, physicist, mathematician, astronomer
- S09191796 George Washington's presidential farewell address
- S09191812 Napoleon's retreat from Russia begins
- S09191848 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion
- S09191849 First commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California.
- S09191873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co. fails, causing a securities panic
- B09191901 Joseph Pasternak, film producer
- S09191968 Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!).
- S09191982 Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service
- B0920 86 Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor
- B0920 357 Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia, emperor
- B09201878 Upton Sinclair, writer
- S09201519 Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world.
- S09201797 US frigate "Constitution" (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston.
- S09201859 Patent granted on the electric range.
- S09201884 Equal Rights Party founding convention in San Francisco, nominated female candidates for President, Vice President.
- B09201934 Sophia Loren, Rome (Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid)
- S09201945 German rocket engineers begin work in US
- S09201951 First North Pole jet crossing
- S09201954 First FORTRAN computer program is run
- S09201970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
- B09211756 John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt)
- B09211866 H.G. Wells, futurist, writer, (War of the Worlds).
- B09211874 Gustav Holst, composer, (The Planets)
- S09211784 1st daily newspaper in US begins publication in Pennsylvania.
- S09211895 1st auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company.
- S09211930 Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention, the flashbulb.
- B09211947 Stephen King, suspense writer (Shining, Kujo)
- S09211954 The nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned.
- S09211958 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands at Dallas Texas
- S09211964 Malta gains independence from Britain
- S09211974 US Mariner 10 makes second fly-by of Mercury
- S09211981 Sandra Day O'Conner becomes the 1st female Supreme Court Justice
- S09211982 SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs
- S0922 Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
- B09221694 Lord Chesterfield brings Gregorian calendar to England (1752)
- B09221791 Michael Faraday, discovered principle of the electric motor.
- B09221885 Erich von Stroheim, early film director
- S09221789 The US Post Office was established.
- S09221863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech.
- S09221893 1st auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield
- S09221903 Italo Marchiony granted a patent for the ice cream cone
- B09221922 Chen Ning Yang, Chinese physicist, disproved parity (Nobel 1957)
- S09221980 War between Iran and Iraq begins, lasts eight years. No winner.
- S0922 The Autumn Harvest Festival in Wheaton, Illinois.
- B0923 63 Octavian (Augustus Cæsar), 1st Roman emperor
- B0923 484 Euripides, ancient Greek playwright (Trojan Women) (or 480 BC)
- B09231713 Ferdinand VI, king of Spain (1746-59)
- S09231780 John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point.
- S09231779 Naval engagement between 'Bonhomme Richard' and 'HMS Serepis'.
- B09231800 William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers)
- S09231846 Johann Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
- B09231852 William Stewart Halsted, established 1st surgical school in US
- B09231880 John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO (Nobel 1949)
- B09231898 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Madame Curie, Forbidden Planet)
- S09231912 First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released.
- B09231920 Mickey Rooney, actor
- B09231926 John Coltrane, saxophonist
- B09231930 Ray Charles
- S09231932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia formed, (National Day)
- S09231952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
- S09231952 First closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event.
- S09231973 Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049 - 1, is calculated.
- S0923 The first day of Fall.
- B09241717 Horace Walpole, English writer
- B09241755 John Marshall Supreme Court Chief Justice
- B09241870 Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light.
- B09241936 Jim Hensen, who made Kermit & Miss Piggy what they are today.
- S09241789 Congress creates the Post Office.
- S09241845 1st baseball team is organized.
- S09241852 A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated.
- S09241853 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt).
- S09241869 Black Friday: crashing gold prices causes stock market panic.
- S09241895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months
- S09241929 Lt James H Doolittle guided a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the 1st all-instrument flight
- B09241930 John W Young, astronaut (Gemini 3, 10, Apollo 10, 16, STS-1, 9)
- S09241934 Babe Ruth makes his farewell appearance as a baseball player
- S09241941 Nine Allied govts pledged adherence to the Atlantic Charter
- S09241954 "The Tonight Show" premieres.
- S09241957 Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
- S09241960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launched
- S09241963 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
- S09241979 CompuServe system starts, first public computer info service.
- S09251493 Columbus sails on his second voyage to America
- S09251639 First printing press in America goes to work.
- B09251644 Olaus Roemer, first to accurately measured speed of light
- B09251725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile.
- B09251897 William Faulkner, American author
- S09251513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the 1st European to see the Pacific Ocean
- S09251789 Congress proposes the Bill of Rights.
- S09251890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park.
- S09251926 Henry Ford announces the five day work week
- S09251956 First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation
- S09251973 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown after 59 days.
- S09261542 Cabrillo discovers California
- S09261687 Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians
- B09261774 John Chapman, alias Johnny Appleseed
- S09261789 Jefferson appointed 1st Sec of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; Samuel Osgood 1st Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph 1st Attorney Gen
- B09261888 T.S. Eliot, Anglican
- S09261896 John Philip Sousa's Band's first performance in Plainfield, NJ
- B09261898 George Gershwin, composer, "Rhapsody In Blue"
- S09261914 Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
- S09261824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives.
- S09261950 UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul
- S09261966 Japan launches its 1st satellite in to space
- S09261966 The Staten Island is 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay
- S09261983 Australia II wins The America's Cup yacht race
- S09261983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
- S09271540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola
- B09271722 Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser
- S09271787 Constitution submitted to the states for ratification
- B09271840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America.
- S09271825 Railroad transportation is born with 1st track in England.
- B09271875 Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist (Old Man of the Mtn) (Nobel 1926
- S09271941 First WWII liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, is launched
- B09271947 Cheryl Tiegs, in Minnesota - a model figure
- S09271964 Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Ha!
- S09271973 Soyuz 12 launched
- S0927 Ancestor Appreciation Day
- B0928 106 BC Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) in Rome
- B0928 490 BC Greeks defeat Persians at Marathon
- B0928 551 Confucius (as celebrated in Taiwan)
- S09281066 William the Conqueror landed in England
- S09281542 Juan Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay.
- S09281781 Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary War
- B09281820 Freidrich Engels German social philosopher
- B09281839 Frances Willard, founded Women's Christian Temperance Union
- B09281841 Georges Clemenceau French statesman
- B09281852 Henri Moissan, French chemist; isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906)
- S09281858 Donati's comet becomes the 1st to be photographed
- B09281902 Ed Sullivan TV variety show host
- B09281909 Al Capp, put Dogpatch, USA on the map
- S09281920 Baseball's biggest scandal, grand jury indicts 8 White Sox for throwing the 1919 World Series with the Cincinnati Reds
- B09281924 Marcello Mastroianni, actor (8½, La Dolce Vita)
- S09281924 2 US Army planes completed 1st around the world flight
- B09281925 Seymour Cray, inventor of Cray I computer
- B09281934 Brigette Bardot, cute
- B09281952 Sylvia Kristel, in Holland, (Emmanuelle)
- S09281965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km
- S09281970 Anwar Sadat replaces Nassar as President of Egypt
- B09291755 Robert, Lord Clive, founder of British empire in India
- B09291758 Adm Horatio Nelson, British naval hero at Trafalgar
- S09291829 Scotland Yard formed in London
- S09291859 Spectacular auroral display visible over most of the US
- B09291895 Joseph Rhine, parapsychologist
- B09291901 Enrico Fermi, physicist, gone fission.
- B09291912 Gene Autry, singing cowpoke.
- S09291923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public.
- B09291943 Lech Walesa, leader of Polish Solidarity movement (Nobel 1983)
- S09291977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into earth orbit
- S0929 Michaelmas (Feast of St Michael), quarter day in medieval England
- S09301452 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible
- B09301627 Robinson Crusoe, according to Daniel Defoe
- S09301659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe)
- S09301781 siege of Yorktown begins
- S09301846 William Morris 1st tooth extraction under anesthetics Charlestown
- B09301870 Jean Perrin, French physicist, Brownian motion (Nobel 1926)
- S09301880 Henry Draper takes the first photograph of the Orion Nebula
- S09301898 City of New York is established
- B09301921 Deborah Kerr, (King & I, Night of Iguana) in Helensburg Scotland
- B09301924 Truman Capote, a short short story writer.
- S09301939 1st manned rocket flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
- S09301967 Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition)
- S09301967 USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete the 1st automatic docking
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