Today in History for 20th September 2015

Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 219
368 - Emperor Valentinianus visits Nijmegen
451 - Roman General Flavius Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at The Battle of the Catalaunian Plainsat
(Chalons-sur-Marne) halting Hun invasion of Roman Gaul
622 - Islamic Prophet Muhammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina)
1066 - Battle of Fulford, Yorkshire: Harald III Hardrada of Norway defeats Northern Saxon Earls
Edwin and Morcar
1187 - Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
1258 - Salisbury Cathedral inaugurated
1378 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva starts term as anti-pope Clemens VII
1378 - Robert de Geneve, "butcher of Cesena" crowned anti-pope Clemens VII
1519 - Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of the world
1530 - Luther advises protestant monarch compromise
1565 - Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla & massacre the French
1596 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
1604 - Spanish army under Spinola recaptures Oostende
1620 - Battle at Jassy: Turks beat king Sigismund III of Poland

King Charles I1643 - First Battle of Newbury (English civil war): King
Charles I's forces beaten by a parliamentary army led by the Earl of Essex and Philip Stapleton

1664 - Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women & black
men
1674 - 2nd West Indies Company forms
1688 - French troops occupies Palts
1697 - Peace of Saki (ends 9 years war)
1737 - Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession
of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland
1777 - Battle of Paoli; British forces under Major General Charles Grey attacked Brigadier General
Anthony Wayne's encampment. Claims that the British gave no quarter led to the engagement
becoming known (from an American perspective) as the "Paoli Massacre."
1787 - Prince Willem V returns to Hague
1792 - French defeat Prussians at Valmy
1793 - British troops under Major-general Williamson lands on (French) Haiti
1797 - US frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
1814 - "Star Spangled Banner" published as a song, lyrics by Francis Scott Key, tune by John
Stafford Smith
1830 - 1st Negro Convention of Free Men agree to boycott slave-produced goods
Naturalist Charles Darwin1833 - Charles Darwin rides horse to Buenos Aires
1835 - Farroupilha's Revolution begins in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
1839 - 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)
1848 - The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
1850 - Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
1854 - Battle of the Alma: first major battle of Crimean War. British and French alliance defeat the
Russians
1859 - George Simpson patents electric range
1860 - First British royalty to visit US, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII)
1861 - Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union
1863 - Battle of Shepardstown VA

1863 - Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, near Chattanooga Tenn, ends

King of Sardinia and Italy Victor Emmanuel II1870 - Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes
Rome from the French
1870 - Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury
1870 - Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel
1871 - Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island
now in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands. He was the first bishop of Melanesia.
1873 - Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) NY shut banks for 10
days due to a bank scandal
1876 - Ottawa Football Club forms
1877 - Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
1879 - Ulysses S. Grant and family go to SF for elaborate extended visit
1881 - Chester A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president
1884 - 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
1884 - Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for Pres & VP

21st US President Chester A. Arthur1891 - The first gasoline-powered car

debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
1902 - Chicago White Sox Jim Callahan no-hits Detroit Tigers, 3-0
1904 - George Ade's "College Widow," premieres in NYC
1904 - Orville & Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II
1905 - Cleveland makes AL record 7 errors in an inning
1906 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson
shipyard in Newcastle, England.

1907 - Pitts Nick Maddox no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-1

1908 - Chicago White Sox Frank Smith 2nd no-hitter, beats Phila 1-0
1909 - The British Parliament passes the South Africa Act; it calls for union of Cape Colony, Natal,
Orange River Colony, and Transvaal; and both English and Dutch as official languages
1911 - Yanks set team record 12 errors in a double header
Aviator Wilbur Wright1913 - 19th US Golf Open: Francis Ouimet shoots a 304 at The Country Club
MA
1914 - John Redmond urges Irish Volunteers to enlist in the British Army
1917 - British assault on Polygon Forest, France
1917 - Paraguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1918 - Royal Dutch Blast furnace & Steel factory opens in Hague
1919 - 2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY
1919 - Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 HRs
1919 - Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in NYC
1920 - Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
1922 - Goodman & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC
1922 - Rogers Hornsby ends hitting streak of 33 games
1922 - Franco Ventriglia, Fairfield, Connecticut, opera singer, (d. 2012)
1924 - Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams

Baseball Legend Babe Ruth1924 - Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander

beats NY Giants to win 300th game
1926 - Bugs Moran attempts to assassinate Al Capone in a drive-by shooting but fails

1930 - Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.

1931 - Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184
1932 - Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant
1932 - Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer
1932 - Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables
1933 - Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2
1935 - Pitts Crawfords beat NY Cubans to win Negro NL Championship, 3-0
1938 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's Suite for jazz orchestra, premieres
1938 - Emlyn Williams' "Corn is Green," premieres in London
1939 - British navy captures German U-27 boat
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis1939 - Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for
heavyweight boxing title
1942 - Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m
1943 - Liberator bomber sinks U-338
1944 - Nijmegen is liberated from German occupation
1944 - Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth
1945 - German rocket engineers begin work in US
1946 - Churchill argues for a 'United States of Europe'
1948 - "Magdalena" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 48 performances
1948 - Mexican Baseball league disbanded
1949 - Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3%
1949 - Tennis player Pancho Gonzales turns professional
1951 - 1st North Pole jet crossing
1951 - NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball
1951 - Swiss males votes against female suffrage
1952 - KPTV TV channel 12 in Portland, OR (IND) begins broadcasting

Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 207

1486 - Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
1593 - Gottfried Scheidt, composer
1599 - Christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)
1653 - Benedict Schultheiss, composer
1663 - Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli, composer
1665 - Johannes van der Hagen, vicar/genealogist/chronologer
1706 - Franz Habermann, composer
1744 - Giacomo Quarenghi, Ital/Russian master builder (Hermitage Theater)
1744 - Thomas Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War hero (d. 1825)
1746 - Mric Beovsk, Slovak officer and explorer, King of Madagascar (d. 1786)
1767 - Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer
1771 - Mungo Park, Scotish explorer (Africa)
1777 - Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer
1790 - Francisco Acuna the Figueroa, Uruguayan poet (Toraidas)
1791 - Sergei T Aksakov, Russian writer (Semejnaja chronika)
1795 - Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer
1795 - Peter of Limburg Brouwer, physician/classical/author
1809 - Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General (Confederate Army)
1810 - Alpheus Starkey Williams, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1820 - George Washington Morgan, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1820 - John Fulton Reynolds, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1863)
1832 - Johann Joseph Abert, composer
Italian Pacifist Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1833)1833 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Milan, Italy,

journalist/soldier/pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907), (d. 1918)

1842 - James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet)
1844 - William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)
1846 - Agnes Tyrrell, composer
1847 - Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist (Catechism Revolutionary)
1852 - Edouard baron Empain, Belgian railway builder (Paris Metro)
1853 - Rama V, King of Thailand (d. 1910)
1859 - Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator
1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (d. 1955)
1865 - Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist
1866 - Gustave Doret, composer
1869 - George Robey, [George Edward Wade], comic
1869 - Marcel Cachin, co-founder (French Communistic Party)
1872 - Maurice Gamelin, French generalissimo
1873 - Robert D Wrenn, tennis champ (US Open - 1893)
1873 - Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (d. 1949)
1873 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (d. 1944)
1877 - Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer
Author Upton Sinclair (1878)1878 - Upton Beall Sinclair, US writer (Jungle), born in Baltimore,
Maryland (d. 1968)
1879 - Jacobo Conrad, [Coco Lepol/Elias Martinus], Curacaos composer
1879 - Victor Seastrom, Silbodal Sweden, director (Wind, Under the Red Robe)
1880 - Ildebrando Pizzetti, composer
1880 - Louise Peete, American murderess (d. 1947)
1881 - Walter Kingsford, Redhill England, actor (My Favorite Blonde)
1883 - John G van Dillen, historian (Of Wealth & Oligarchists)

1883 - Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator

1884 - Piotr Rytel, composer
1884 - Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher (d. 1947)
1886 - Charles Walter Stansby Williams, songwriter
1889 - Charles Reidpath, American athlete (d. 1975)
1892 - Patricia Collinge, actress (Tender Comrade), born in Dublin, Ireland
Editor Maxwell Perkins (1884)1893 - Hans H B Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic)
1896 - Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga) [NS=Oct 2]
1897 - Efim Golishev, composer
1899 - Elliot Nugent, director (And so They were Married)
1899 - Leo Strauss, German-born philosopher (d. 1973)
1900 - Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Brazil general/pres (1964-67)
1900 - Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer
1900 - Wilhelm Weismann, composer
1901 - Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer
1902 - Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Ladri di Biciclette)
1902 - Kermit Maynard, Vevey Ind, cowboy actor (Saturday Roundup)
1902 - Stevie [Florence Margaret] Smith, Kingston upon Hull, English poet and novelist (Not Waving
but Drowning)
1906 - David Sheinfeld, composer
1908 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist
1908 - Levon-Karapet His Holiness Vasken Baidjian, patriach of Etchmiadzin
1910 - Jacques-Baptise LeBrun, France, finn yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1932)
1911 - Frank Devol, Moundsville WV, orchestra leader (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
1911 - Jan Mul, composer
1911 - Shriram Sharma Acharya, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1991)

1912 - Marianne Kunvari, writer

1914 - Kenneth More, England, actor (39 Steps, Doctor in the House)
NBA Head Coach Red Auerbach (1917)1917 - [Arnold] Red Auerbach, NBA coach/GM (Boston
Celtic), born in Brooklyn, New York
1917 - Fernando Rey, [Arambillet], La Coruna Spain, actor (Matter of Time)
1918 - Peg Phillips, actress (Ruth Ann-Northern Exposure)
1921 - Melvin "Slappy" White, comedian
1922 - David Nicolson, British businessman and politician (Chairman of BTR Industries-1969)
1922 - Frank Comstock, SD California, orchestra leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
1922 - William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)
1923 - Frances Heflin, actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1923 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-born poet (d. 1997)
1924 - Gogi Grant, [Audrey Brown], rock vocalist
1924 - James Galanos, Phila, fashion designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1959)
1924 - John Vassall, spy/civil servant
1925 - Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (d. 1946)
1925 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 1986)
1927 - Clarice Taylor, Va, actress (Nurse Bailey-Nurse)
1927 - Rachel Roberts, Llanelly Wales, actress (Foul Play, Doctor's Wife)
1927 - Johnny Dankworth, English musician and composer
1928 - Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (d. 2000)
1928 - Donald Hall, American poet and US Poet Laureate
1929 - Anne Meara, Brooklyn New York comedian/actress (Stiller & Meara, Archie's Place)
1931 - Cherd Songsri, Thai filmmaker (d. 2006)
1933 - Bob Banas, choreographer (Malibu U, Jonathan Winters Show), born in NYC, New York
1933 - Dennis Viollet, English former footballer (d. 1999)

Actress Sophia Loren (1934)1934 - Sophia Loren, Rome, actress (Desire Under the Elms, Black
Orchid)
1935 - Keith J Roberts, England, writer (Irish Encounter, Ladies from Hell)
1935 - Lubos Fiser, composer
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 5 of 5

1997 - "CHIPs" actor Erik Estrada (48) weds Nanette Mirkovich

2002 - "Matrix" actor Laurence Fishburne (41) weds actress Gina Torres (33) at The Cloisters
museum in New York City
2002 - "The Monkees" lead vocalist Micky Dolenz (57) weds Donna Quinter in Calabasas, California
2003 - "Will & Grace" actress Megan Mullally (44) weds actor Nick Offerman (32) in Los Angeles
2012 - Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's daughter Princess Hajah Hafizah Sururul Bolkiah (32) weds
Pengiran Haji Muhammad Ruzaini (29) at the Throne Hall of Istana Nurul Iman palace in Brunei
Famous Divorces
Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

Actor Jackie Coogan (1951)1951 - Actor Jackie Coogan (36) divorces Ann
McCormack after 5 years of marriage
1983 - Actor James Woods (36) divorces costume designer Kathryn Morrison after 3 years of
marriage
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 100 of 105
1168 - Paschal III, [Guido di Crema], Italian anti-Pope, dies

1246 - Mikhail of Chernigov, ruler of Kiev

1384 - Louis, duke of Anjou/wife of Marie of Bretagne
1460 - Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer
1493 - Philippe Pot, governor/viceroy of Burgundy, dies
1586 - Anthony Babington, page/conspirator to Mary Stuart, executed at 24
1590 - Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
1613 - Willem H van Est (Estius), theologist, dies
1624 - Isaac Le Maire, Amsterdam ship owner, dies at about 66
1625 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and critic (b. 1555)
1627 - Jan Gruter, Dutch critic (b. 1560)
1630 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (b. 1586)
1639 - John Meursius, [van Meurs], historian, dies at 60
1643 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English politician and writer
1647 - Giovanni Del Turco, composer, dies at 70
1648 - Marco Ivan Lukacic, composer, dies at 61
1679 - Cornelis Evertsen the Young, vice-admiral of Zealand, dies at 51
1703 - Archibald Campbell, Scot milt man (blood bath of Glencoe), dies at 52
1706 - Pierre Verdier, composer, dies at 79
1721 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor
1731 - Sicco van Goslinga, Fries diplomat/sect of High Council, dies at 67
1773 - Pieter de Swart, architect (Delfts Port Rotterdam), dies at 63
1803 - Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed
1806 - Utamaro Kitagawa, painter, dies
1810 - Wouter J van Troostwijk, painter, dies at 28
1823 - Daniel Steibelt, composer, dies at 57
1839 - Jose Gaspar de Francia, dictator of Paraguay (1816-39), dies at 74

1852 - Philander Chase, American university founder (b. 1775)

1863 - Benjamin Hardin Helm, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies at 33

Author Jacob Grimm (1863)1863 - Jakob Grimm, writer, dies at 78

1865 - William H Revere Jr, US Union brig-general, dies
1873 - Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poetess/writer, dies
1884 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (b.1802)
1886 - John Liptrot Hatton, composer, dies at 77
1896 - Gottfried Conradi, composer, dies at 76
1897 - Karel Bendl, composer, dies at 59
1898 - Theodor Fontane, German author (Der Stechlin), dies at 78
1906 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)
1908 - Pablo Martin Melitou de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer, dies at 64
1908 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist/composer (Spanish Dancer), dies at 64
1917 - Herbert Morris, Jamaican deserter in France, executed at 17
1927 - George Nichols, actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder), dies at 62
1931 - Sam Morris, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1884), dies
1932 - Max Slevogt, German painter, dies at 63
1932 - Wovoka, Paiute visionary
1933 - Annie Besant, English theosophy (Esoteric Christianity), dies
1939 - Paul Bruchsi, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1855)

1944 - John Grayburn, English (Victoria Cross), dies in battle in Arnhem

1945 - William Buehler Seabrook, Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer (b. 1884)
1945 - Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian president (b. 1869)
Nazi Physician Eduard Wirths (1945)1945 - Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician at Auschwitz, commits
suicide at 36
1946 - Raimu, French actor (b. 1883)
1947 - Fiorello H La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45), dies
1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer, dies at 45
1949 - Richard Dix, actor (Tombstone, Ghost Ship, 13th Hour), dies at 56
1957 - Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, Fin composer (Finlandia), dies at 91
1959 - Olin Howlin, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy), dies at 63
1960 - Lee Duncan, owner/trainer (Rin Tin Tin), dies of heart attack at 67
1960 - Michel Brusselmans, composer, dies at 74
1967 - Henri Mulet, composer, dies at 88
1968 - Frank Pelleg, composer, dies at 57
1971 - James Westerfield, actor (Travels of Jaime McPheeters), dies at 59
1971 - William F Albright, US archaeologist, dies at 80
1973 - Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist, dies
1973 - Glenn Strange, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
1973 - Jim Croce, vocalist (Time in a Bottle), dies in a plane crash at 30
1974 - Carlyle Blackwell Jr, entertainer, dies at 61
1974 - Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer (La Chanson d'Eve), dies at 88
1975 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78
1976 - Johan Boskamp, opera singer/actor, dies at 83
1979 - Ludvik Svoboda, Czech general/politician, dies at 83
1980 - Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)

1984 - Steve Goodman, folk singer/guitarist, dies at 36

1987 - Michael Stewart
1988 - Roy Kinnear, actor (Casanova, Pirates, Scrooge, Help!), dies at 54
1989 - Richie Ginther, American racing driver (b. 1930)
1990 - Jackie Moran, actor (Janie, Barefoot Boy), dies of cancer at 65
1992 - K W Stackpole, cricketer (good Victorian batsman), dies
1993 - Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN), dies at 64
1993 - Loan Volkerijk, Dutch baseball coach (ADO), dies at 65
1994 - Jimmy Hamilton, saxophonist, dies at 77
1994 - Jule Styne, Broadway composer (Gypsy, Funny Girl), dies at 88
1995 - Monica Maurice, industrialist, dies at 87
1996 - Max Manus, resistance fighter, dies at 82
1996 - Murtaza Bhutto, politician, dies at 42
1996 - Paul Draper, dancer, dies at 87
1996 - Paul Erdos, mathematician, dies of heart attack at 83
1996 - Paul Weston, bandleader, dies at 84
1997 - Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist/probation officer, dies at 59
1999 - Raisa Gorbachyova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
1999 - Robert Lebel, Quebec ice hockey administrator (b. 1905)
2000 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (b. 1935)
2003 - Lord Williams of Mostyn, British politician (b. 1941)
2003 - Gordon Mitchell, American actor (b. 1923)
2003 - Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (b. 1922)
2004 - Townsend Hoopes, American politician (b. 1922)
2004 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)
2005 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 1908)

2005 - Tobias Schneebaum, American writer, anthropologist and explorer dies at 83

2006 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
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