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{{PAGENAME}} is the 260th day of the year (261st in
leap years). There are 105 days remaining.
Events
*
1176 - The
Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
*
1394 - King
Charles VI of France orders all
Jews expelled from
France.
*
1462 - The
Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during
Thirteen Years' War
*
1577 - Peace of Bergerac signed between
Henry III of France and the
Huguenots.
*
1630 - The city of
Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
*
1776 - The
Presidio of San Francisco is founded in
New Spain.
*
1787 - The
United States Constitution is adopted by the
History of the United States Constitution#Constitutional Convention Constitutional Convention in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
*
1809 - Peace between
Sweden and
Russia in the
Finnish War. The territory to become
Finland is ceded to Russia by the
Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
*
1859 -
Joshua A. Norton declares himself Emperor Norton I of the
United States.
*
1862 -
American Civil War:
George McClellan halts the northward drive of
Robert E. Lee's
Confederate army in the
Battle of Antietam.
*
1894 -
Battle of Yalu River (1894) Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the
First Sino-Japanese War.
*
1900 -
Philippine-American War: Filipinos under
Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at
Mabitac.
*
1908 -
Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge crashes a
Wright Brothers airplane and becomes the first
airplane fatality.
*
1914 -
Andrew Fisher becomes
Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
*
1920 -
National Football League is organized in
Canton, Ohio,
United States.
*
1924 - The
Border Defence Corps was established in the
Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
*
1928 - The
1928 Okeechobee Hurricane Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern
Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in US history, behind the
Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the
1906 San Francisco earthquake.
*
1939 - The
Soviet Union joined
Nazi Germany's invasion of
Poland during the
Polish Defence War of 1939.
* 1939 - Taisto Mäki of Finland. New world record on 10.000m. 29.52.6. First time under 30 min. In Helsinki Olympic stadium in Finland. The stadium was built for the 1940 Olympic games after the games were moved there from Tokyo Japan. The games never took place.
*
1943 - Russian city of
Bryansk liberated from
Nazis.
*
1944 -
Allies of World War II Allied Airborne troops parachute into
Holland as the "Market" half of
Operation Market Garden.
*
1947 -
James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the
United States Secretary of Defense first Secretary of Defense of United States.
*
1948 - Lehi (also know as the
Stern gang) assassinates Count
Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the
Arabs and
Jews.
*
1949 - The Canadian steamship
SS Noronic SS ''Noronic'' burns in
Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
*
1951 -
Robert A. Lovett was sworn in as the
United States Secretary of Defense 4th Secretary of Defense of United States.
*
1961 - The
Minnesota Vikings play their first
National Football League NFL game, defeating the
Chicago Bears 37-13, with
Fran Tarkenton throwing 4 touchdowns and running for 1 touchdown.
*
1967 -
Jim Morrison and
The Doors defy
CBS censors on
The Ed Sullivan Show. Morrison sang the lyrics, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" from the song,
Light My Fire when asked not to.
*
1976 - The first
Space Shuttle, ''
Space Shuttle Enterprise Enterprise,'' was unveiled by
NASA
*
1978 - The
Camp David Accords (1978) Camp David Accords were signed by
Israel and
Egypt.
*
1983 -
Vanessa Lynn Williams Vanessa Williams becomes first
African American Miss America.
*
1984 -
Brian Mulroney is sworn in as
Prime Minister of Canada.
* 1984 -
Baseball:
Reggie Jackson becomes the 13th member of the
500 home run club with a
Home run home run at
Angel Stadium Anaheim Stadium in
Anaheim, California.
*
1988 - Opening ceremony of the
1988 Summer Olympics Games of the XXIV Olympiad in
Seoul,
South Korea.
*
1991 -
North Korea,
South Korea,
Estonia,
Latvia,
Lithuania, the
Marshall Islands and
Federated States of Micronesia Micronesia join the
United Nations.
* 1991 - The first version of the
Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
*
2001 -
The Late Show with David Letterman is the first TV talk show to return to the airwaves six days after terrorists attack the United States in New York City and Washington D.C.
* 2001 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average opens for the first time after the
September 11 attacks. The stocks plummet throughout the trading session and posts its biggest point drop in its history closing down 684.81 points to 8920.70.
*
2004 -
Tamil language Tamil is declared first
classical language in India.
* 2004 -
Barry Bonds becomes only the third
Major League Baseball player to hit 700 or more home runs.
*
2005 - The
British Columbia Lions B.C. Lions make
Canadian Football League CFL history by winning 11 straight games, become the first team ever to do so in the CFL. This day was also the premiere for three new shows on
Kids WB:
Loonatics Unleashed,
Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island, and
Johnny Test.
Births
*
64 -
Julia Flavia, daughter of
Roman Emperor Titus, lover of his brother
Domitian.
*
879 - King
Charles III of France (d.
929)
*
1192 -
Minamoto no Sanetomo Japanese shogun (d.
1219)
*
1271 - King
Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d.
1305)
*
1550 -
Pope Paul V (d.
1621)
*
1580 -
Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d.
1645)
*
1630 -
Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d.
1694)
*
1639 -
Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (d.
1725)
*
1657 -
Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russian (d.
1704)
*
1677 -
Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d.
1761)
*
1687 -
Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d.
1772)
*
1730 -
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d.
1794)
*
1743 -
Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (d.
1794)
*
1819 -
Thomas A. Hendricks Thomas Hendricks,
Vice President of the United States (d.
1885)
*
1820 -
Émile Augier, French dramatist (d.
1889)
*
1826 -
Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d.
1866)
*
1857 -
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist and inventor (d.
1935)
*
1869 -
Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1938)
*
1881 -
Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d.
1955)
*
1883 -
William Carlos Williams, American physician and writer (d.
1963)
*
1884 -
Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d.
1920)
*
1890 -
Gabriel Heatter, famous American radio commentator
*
1897 -
Earl Webb, baseball player (d.
1965)
*
1900 -
John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d.
1985)
*
1903 -
Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d.
1984)
*
1907 -
Warren Burger, 15th
Chief Justice of the United States (d.
1995)
*
1918 -
Chaim Herzog,
President of Israel (d.
1997)
*
1922 -
Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d.
1979)
*
1923 -
Hank Williams, American musician (d.
1953)
*
1927 -
George Blanda, American football player
*
1928 -
Roddy McDowall, English actor (d.
1998)
*
1929 - Sir
Stirling Moss, English race car driver
*
1930 -
Edgar Mitchell, astronaut
*
1931 -
Anne Bancroft, American actress (d.
2005)
*
1933 -
Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d.
2003)
*
1934 -
Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d.
1969)
*
1935 -
Ken Kesey, American author (d.
2001)
*
1937 -
Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican
Major League Baseball player
*
1938 -
Bobby Wine, American
Major League Baseball player
*
1939 -
David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice
*
1941 -
Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman from California (d.
2005)
*
1942 -
Des Lynam, English television presenter
*
1944 -
Reinhold Messner, Austrian mountain climber
*
1947 -
Tessa Jowell, British politician
* 1947 -
Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist
*
1948 -
John Ritter, American actor (d.
2003)
*
1950 -
Narendra Modi, Indian politician
*
1951 -
Cassandra Peterson, American actress
*
1956 -
Rita Rudner, American comedian
*
1959 -
Charles Lawson, Northern Irish actor
*
1960 -
Damon Hill, English race car driver
* 1960 -
John Franco, baseball player
*
1962 -
Baz Luhrmann, Australian-born film director and producer
*
1965 -
Bryan Singer, American director
* 1965 -
Gore Verbinski, American director
*
1965 -
Yuji Naka, Japanese video game programmer, Head of Sonic Team (Creators of Sonic the Hedgehog)
*
1969 -
Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
*
1970 -
James E. Acs, American writer
*
1973 -
Anastacia (singer) Anastacia, American singer
*
1974 -
Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
*
1975 -
Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
*
1975 -
Austin St. John, American actor
*
1979 -
Akin Ayodele, American football player
*
1983 -
Jennifer Peña, American singer
*
1985 -
Alex Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
*
1991 -
Jordan McCoy, American singer
Deaths
*
1179 -
Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess, mystic writer, and composer (b.
1098)
*
1322 -
Robert III of Flanders (b.
1249)
*
1563 -
Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
*
1574 -
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b.
1519)
*
1575 -
Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b.
1504)
*
1621 -
Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b.
1542)
*
1630 -
Thomas Lake, English statesman (b.
1567)
*
1665 - King
Philip IV of Spain (b.
1605)
*
1679 -
John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b.
1629)
*
1727 -
Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman and diarist (b.
1647)
*
1762 -
Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (b.
1687)
*
1771 -
Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b.
1721)
*
1808 -
Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b.
1755)
*
1836 -
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b.
1748)
*
1863 -
Alfred de Vigny, French author (b.
1797)
*
1873 -
Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer and settler in Australia (b.
1781)
*
1879 -
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b.
1814)
*
1894 -
Deng Shichang, Chinese admiral (b.
1849)
*
1907 -
Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (b.
1846)
*
1933 -
Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b.
1877)
*
1936 -
Ettie Annie Rout Ettie Rout, New Zealand activist (b.
1877)
*
1938 -
Bruno Jasienski Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b.
1901)
*
1966 -
Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b.
1930)
*
1972 -
Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b.
1899)
*
1973 -
Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b.
1909)
*
1979 -
Chuck Comeau Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
*
1980 -
Anastasio Somoza Debayle,
President of Nicaragua (b.
1925)
*
1984 -
Richard Basehart, American actor (b.
1914)
*
1991 -
Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b.
1902)
*
1993 -
Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b.
1913)
*
1996 -
Spiro Agnew,
Vice President of the United States (b.
1918)
*
1997 -
Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b.
1913)
*
2003 -
Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b.
1951)
* 2003 -
Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (b.
1921)
*
2005 -
Alfred Reed, American composer (b.
1921)
Holidays and observances
*The fourth day of the
Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient
Greek mythology, when the initiates sacrificed a pig.
*
Calendar of Saints RC Saints - Feasts of
Saint Lambert (martyr),
Hildegard of Bingen
*Also see
September 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*
Angola - National Heroes' Day
*
Netherlands -
Operation Market Garden is still remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day.
*
United States -
Constitution Day (United States) Constitution Day (observed on the previous Friday if it falls in a weekend),
Citizenship Day,
Von Steuben Day
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
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