Notable Historical Events on September 14th
September 14th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
81 |
Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. |
786 |
Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother Al-Hadi. |
891 |
Stephen V ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1163 |
Pastor Frederik forms convent at Mariengaarde Friesland |
1180 |
Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan. |
1515 |
Battle at Marignano ends in French/Venetian victory |
1607 |
Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland. |
1629 |
Spanish garrison surrenders to prince Frederik Henry |
1662 |
Netherlands & England sign peace treaty |
1682 |
Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, founded. |
1716 |
1st lighthouse in American colonies lit (Boston Harbor) |
1741 |
George Frideric Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days |
1752 |
Britain (and American colonies) adopt Gregorian calendar (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) |
1759 |
Austrian troops occupy Dresden |
1807 |
Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge |
1812 |
Napoleon occupies Moscow & fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th) |
1814 |
Francis Scott Key inspired to write the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry" words of which later become lyrics of "Star-Spangled Banner" |
1829 |
Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war |
1834 |
Charles Darwin's company passes Tagua-tagua-more Chile |
1847 |
US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma) |
1848 |
Alexander Stewart opens 1st US dept store |
1852 |
18th US Postmaster General: Samuel D Hubbard of Conn takes office |
1854 |
Allied armies, including those of Britain & France, land in Crimea |
1856 |
Battle of San Jacinto at Hacienda San Jacinto, Nicaraguan forces defeat American filibusters |
1862 |
Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops chases away Confederates |
1862 |
Battle at South Mountain: Union troops chases away Confederates |
1862 |
Battle of Munfordsville KY |
1862 |
Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia |
1862 |
Skirmish at Fox's Gap, American Civil War |
1868 |
Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole) |
1872 |
Britain pays US$15½m for damages during Civil War |
1876 |
Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda |
1876 |
Leopold II closes Congo-conference |
1882 |
British General Wolseley reaches Cairo |
1886 |
George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon |
1891 |
"Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M |
1894 |
Hottentotten uprising in Southwest-Africa fails |
1899 |
Henry Bliss becomes 1st automobile fatality in the US (NY) |
1900 |
There are now 62,000 foreign troops in Peking and nearby cities, still defeating Boxer Rebels. |
1901 |
Theodore Roosevelt is sword in as President, the youngest man to serve as President of the US, after William McKinley finally dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo |
1903 |
NY Giant Red Ames no-hits St Louis, 5-0 in a 5 inning game |
1905 |
Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated |
1905 |
Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname |
1905 |
RAC Tourist Trophy first run on Isle of Man |
1911 |
Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin is assassinated in Kiev; his regime has been characterized by harsh measures to control dissidents |
1913 |
27th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Dorothy Green (6-2 7-5) |
1913 |
Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against Giants (7-0) |
1914 |
German staff-of-chief Helmut von Moltke replaced by Erich von Falkenhayn |
1914 |
German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches |
1916 |
Christy Mathewson pitches & wins his final game |
1919 |
British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dáil |
1923 |
Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
1923 |
Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain |
1923 |
Red Sox 1st baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play |
1924 |
Walter Johnson elected AL MVP |
1926 |
Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens |
1929 |
49th US Men's Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (3-6 6-3 4-6 6-2 6-4) |
1929 |
A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox |
1930 |
Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6 |
1930 |
Nazis gain 107 seats in German election |
1932 |
Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri |
1933 |
2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire |
1933 |
Schaduwproces-Rijksdagbrand opens in London |
1936 |
Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times |
1938 |
Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight |
1939 |
British fleet attacks German U-39 boat |
1939 |
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow, Orkney |
1940 |
Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law) |
1940 |
German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; hundreds die |
1942 |
Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal |
1942 |
German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1 |
1942 |
Yanks clinch pennant #13 |
1943 |
Yanks clinch pennant #14 |
1944 |
6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru |
1944 |
Gulpen, Meerssen & Maastricht freed |
1944 |
Hurricane hits New England: 389 die |
1944 |
US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid |
1944 |
US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall |
1947 |
61st US Women's Tennis: A Louise Brough beats M O duPont (8-6 4-6 6-1) |
1947 |
67th US Men's Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Frank A Parker (4-6 2-6 6-1 6-0 6-3) |
1948 |
Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary |
1948 |
Ground breaking ceremony for UN world headquarters |
1948 |
Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater |
1950 |
Western allies rearm West Germany |
1951 |
Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats |
1953 |
Nikita Khrushchev appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, succeeding Malenkov |
1953 |
Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians |
1954 |
Benjamin Britten's opera 'Turn of the Screw' premieres in Venice |
1954 |
Giants' Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record |
1954 |
Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage |
1954 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1955 |
Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts (en route 245) |
1956 |
1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC |
1957 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia |
1957 |
UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary |
1957 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jackson Golf Open |
1958 |
WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
Yankees win 24th pennant, & 9th under Casey Stengel |
1958 |
Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere. |
1959 |
Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon |
1959 |
WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1 |
1960 |
Coup under Col Joseph-Desire Mobutu in Congo |
1960 |
Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) |
1960 |
KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of CP of USSR |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, SD, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a boy |
1964 |
WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1964 |
Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House |
1965 |
"F-Troop" premieres |
1965 |
4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened |
1967 |
Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named |
1967 |
Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in Bronx |
1968 |
Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1968 |
1st broadcast of "60 Minutes" on CBS-TV |
1968 |
Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season |
1968 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow |
1968 |
USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight |
1969 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open |
1969 |
Male voters of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage |
1970 |
Economic Council for Northern Ireland holds its first meeting |
1971 |
Cleve Indians & Wash Senators, play 20 innings |
1971 |
Two British soldiers are killed in separate shooting incidents in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
1972 |
"Waltons" TV program premieres |
1972 |
Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in NYC |
1972 |
West Germany & Poland establish diplomatic relations |
1972 |
2 people are killed and 1 mortally wounded in a Ulster Volunteer Force bomb attack on the Imperial Hotel, Belfast |
1973 |
Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise |
1973 |
Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s |
1973 |
Pres Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout |
1974 |
Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter |
1975 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Golf Open |
1975 |
Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint by Pope Paul VI |
1975 |
Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed & damaged in Amsterdam |
1975 |
Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 games as a teen |
1977 |
Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robben Island, South Africa |
1978 |
Braves' Jim Bouton, 38, beats Giants, his 1st win since 1970 |
1978 |
Portugal government of Da Costa falls |
1978 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode over 50 bombs in towns across Northern Ireland over the next 5 days, injuring 37 people |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979 |
Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC & back to Yates Center, Ks |
1980 |
"Charlie & Algernon" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 17 perfs |
1980 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
1980 |
Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions |
1981 |
Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV |
1982 |
36" snow (Red Lodge, MT) |
1982 |
Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel |
1982 |
Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7" |
1982 |
Bomb at Lebanese Phalange party HQ kills President-elect Bachir Gemayel and 26 others |
1983 |
US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner |
1984 |
1st MTV awards-Bette Midler & Dan Aykroyd host |
1985 |
Susan Akin (Miss), 21, crowned 59th Miss America 1986 |
1985 |
"The Golden Girls", starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, debuts on NBC |
1986 |
Bo Jackson's 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium) |
1986 |
Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed |
1986 |
Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed |
1986 |
Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
1986 |
Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game |
1987 |
'Les Miserables' opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest |
1987 |
107th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64) |
1987 |
Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken |
1987 |
Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles |
1988 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1989 |
Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2 |
1989 |
Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons |
1989 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1990 |
Ken Griffey, Sr & Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning |
1991 |
Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992 |
1991 |
Freshman Marshall Faulk of San Diego State rushed for NCAA record |
1991 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1991 |
386 yards & scored 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific 55-34 |
1992 |
1st subway car completed to be exported from US (to Taiwan) |
1994 |
All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season |
1995 |
Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan |
1996 |
As' Mark McGwire is 13th player to hit 50-HRs in a season |
1996 |
Dean Headley takes 3rd cricket hat-trick of season, Kent v Hampshire |
1996 |
NY Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 HRs by a catcher |
1996 |
Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas), 23, crowned 70th Miss America 1997 |
1997 |
Bank One Senior Golf Classic |
1997 |
Chicago Whites Sox retire Carlton Fisk's #72 |
1997 |
Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Classic |
1997 |
Loren Roberts wins CVS Charity Golf Classic with a 266 |
1997 |
49th Emmy Awards: Law & Order, Frasier, Dennis Franz & Gillian Anderson win |
1998 |
Week of Fed Cup |
1998 |
Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom. |
1999 |
Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations. |
2001 |
Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital. |
2003 |
In a referendum Sweden rejects adopting the Euro. |
2003 |
Estonia approves joining the European Union in a referendum. |
2007 |
Restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass are officially removed in the Roman Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum takes effect. |
2009 |
David Attenborough and Prince William officially open the Darwin Centre at the National History Museum London, in what is the Museum's most significant expansion since 1881 |
2012 |
21 people are killed after a ferry sank in Indonesia |
2014 |
The United States defeats Serbia 129-92 to win the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup |
2017 |
North Korea threatens to 'sink' Japan, reduce US to 'ashes and darkness' |
2017 |
8 die at Florida nursing home in Irma's sweltering aftermath |
2017 |
The wait is on: Los Angeles wins 2028 Olympics |
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