Notable Historical Events on September 8th
September 8th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1024 |
Duke Koenraad II chosen German king |
1141 |
-9] Battle of Samarkand: Yelutashi defeats Islams |
1156 |
Henry II Jasormigott leaves Bavaria |
1264 |
The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland. |
1276 |
John XXI elected Pope |
1303 |
Anagni: French King Philip IV captures Pope Boniface VIII |
1331 |
Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia |
1380 |
Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri beats Mongols beginning the decline of the Tatars |
1449 |
Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor. |
1504 |
Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence. |
1514 |
Battle of Orsha: Polish/Lithuania army defeat the Russian army |
1522 |
Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completing 1st circumnavigation of the globe (expedition began under Ferdinand Magellan) |
1536 |
Earl of Nassau disbands siege of Peronne |
1545 |
English Earl of Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland |
1553 |
City of Lichfield, England forms |
1563 |
Maximilian chosen king of Hungary |
1565 |
1st permanent settlement in US forms (St Augustine, Florida) |
1565 |
Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St John |
1628 |
Bay of Matanzas Cuba: Piet Heyn captures Spanish silver fleet |
1664 |
Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers |
1689 |
China & Russia signs Treaty of Nertsjinsk (Nierchul) |
1713 |
Pope Clemens XI publishes degree "Unigenitus" against Jansenism" |
1727 |
A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children. |
1755 |
Battle of Lake George in the Province of New York: British army beats French |
1756 |
French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition. |
1760 |
French army surrenders Montreal to General Jeffrey Amherst |
1771 |
Mission San Gabriel Archangel forms in California |
1796 |
Battle of Bassano-French beat Austrians |
1831 |
William IV is crowned King of Great Britain. |
1833 |
Charles Darwin departs to Buenos Aires |
1847 |
US under Gen Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey |
1855 |
Crimean war - assault of Malakof Tower under Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta |
1858 |
Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time" |
1860 |
Loss of steamer, "Lady Elgin" |
1863 |
-10] Federal troops reconquer the Cumperland Gap, Tennessee |
1863 |
Battle of Sabine Pass TX: 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces |
1863 |
Battle of Telford's Depot TN |
1868 |
New York Athletic Club forms |
1870 |
Netherlands & Britain sign "Koelietraktaat" Br-Indian contract work in Suriname |
1883 |
NY Giants score 13 runs in an inning against Phillies |
1883 |
Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont |
1888 |
In England the first six Football League matches ever are played. |
1892 |
1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion) |
1899 |
British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa |
1900 |
6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas |
1905 |
Pittsburgh Pirates strand NL record 18 men on base & lose to Reds 8-3 |
1907 |
Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism) |
1914 |
HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, sister ship of RMS Titantic, sinks off Scotland |
1914 |
Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during WW1 |
1915 |
Association of Negro Life & History founded |
1916 |
US President Wilson signs the Emergency Revenue Act, doubling the rate of income tax and adding inheritance and munitions profits tax |
1919 |
Babe Ruth hits his 26th HR off Jack Quinn in NY, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 HR mark of 25 |
1920 |
US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF) |
1921 |
1st Miss America crowned in Atlantic City - Margaret Gorman (16) of Washington DC |
1923 |
Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost. |
1924 |
Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador |
1926 |
League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany |
1930 |
1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie" |
1930 |
NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew |
1930 |
Richard Drew creates Scotch tape |
1933 |
Spain's 2nd government of Azaña forms |
1934 |
54th US Men's Tennis: Fred Perry beats Wilmer L Allison (6-4 6-3 1-6 8-6) |
1934 |
Bradman scores 132 v Leveson-Gower XI, 90 mins, 24 fours 1 six |
1934 |
Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle bound for NJ catches fire, 133 die |
1935 |
Willy de Supervise swims runs world record 200 m freestyle (2:25.2) |
1936 |
Princess Juliana of The Netherlands & German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld become engaged |
1937 |
Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens |
1937 |
Yankees trailing 6-1 in 9th, score 8 to beat Boston 9-6 |
1939 |
FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe |
1939 |
Gen Von Reichenau's panzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw |
1939 |
Indians Bob Feller, 20, is youngest pitcher to win 20 games |
1939 |
Yanks beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called because of lightning |
1941 |
Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins |
1941 |
Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated |
1943 |
Italy surrenders to Allies in WWII |
1943 |
Lt-Gen Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers Sicily |
1943 |
NY Giants' pitcher Ace Adams sets record by working in his 62nd game |
1944 |
1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp |
1944 |
Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany |
1945 |
US invades Japanese-held Korea |
1945 |
Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged |
1946 |
60th US Women's Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (11-9 6-3) |
1946 |
66th US Men's Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom Brown Jr (9-7 6-3 6-0) |
1946 |
Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minors record 456 |
1946 |
Bulgaria ends monarchy |
1946 |
Jack Kramer wins US Tennis Open |
1946 |
SF 49ers play 1st AAFC game, lose to NY Yankees 21-7 |
1947 |
British government sails "Exodus" with fugitives from Nazis |
1948 |
British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound |
1951 |
Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF) |
1951 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sempiternus Rex |
1952 |
Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man & the Sea" published |
1953 |
"Carnival in Flanders" opens at New Century Theater NY for 6 performances |
1953 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgeno corona |
1954 |
With a 3-2 count, Phillies Richie Ashburn fouls next 14, then walks |
1954 |
Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to NYC for WINS radio |
1954 |
SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communist spread in SE Asia |
1955 |
Earliest clinching of an NL pennant (Brooklyn Dodgers) |
1956 |
Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks |
1957 |
77th US Men's Tennis: M J Anderson beats Ashley J Cooper (10-8 7-5 6-4) |
1957 |
Jackie Wilson, releases his 1st solo single "Reet Petite" |
1957 |
Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV |
1958 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open |
1958 |
Oman turns over Gwadur (on Baluchistan coast) to Pakistan |
1958 |
Paul Anka opens Asian tour in Tokyo |
1959 |
The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established. |
1960 |
German Democratic Republic limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners |
1962 |
Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary) |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962 |
Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 'Evening Star' |
1963 |
77th US Women's Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court (75 64) |
1963 |
83rd US Men's Tennis: R H Osuna beats Frank Froehling III (75 64 62) |
1963 |
Algerian population accepts constitution |
1963 |
Braves Warren Spahn ties Christy Mathewson with 13 20-win seasons |
1963 |
Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys |
1963 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open |
1965 |
Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana & Florida |
1965 |
KC A's Bert Campaneris plays all 9 positions in a game |
1966 |
"Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV |
1966 |
"That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV |
1966 |
The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II |
1967 |
Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10 |
1967 |
Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic |
1967 |
The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways. |
1968 |
"Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand premieres |
1968 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1968 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pacific Ladies Golf Classic |
1968 |
Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant |
1969 |
2nd US Tennis Open: Rod Laver wins, completing his 2nd grand slam. The men's singles final also featured the smallest recorded session of 3,708 due to rain. |
1969 |
89th US Men's Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Tony Roche (79 61 62 62) |
1969 |
Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya |
1969 |
US amateur Men's Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz (97 63 61) |
1970 |
Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as Black September |
1971 |
John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington DC |
1972 |
Chic Cub Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th game for 6th straight year |
1972 |
Jim Ryan (US) & Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide & fall in qualifying competitions for 1,500m finals, ending Ryan's chances for gold |
1973 |
87th US Women's Tennis: M S Court beats E Goolagong Cawley (76 57 62) |
1973 |
Billy Martin named manager of Texas Rangers |
1973 |
Hank Aaron sets record of most HRs in 1 league (709) |
1973 |
Rebecca Ann King (Colo), 23, crowned 46th Miss America 1974 |
1973 |
"Star Trek - Animated Series" premieres on TV |
1974 |
88th US Women's Tennis: Billie J King beats Evonne Goolagong (36 63 75) |
1974 |
94th US Men's Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ken Rosewall (61 60 61) |
1974 |
Ian Thompson wins marathon (2:13:18.8) |
1974 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
1974 |
President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes |
1975 |
Boston begins court-ordered bussing of public schools |
1975 |
Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal |
1976 |
Fons Rademakers' film "Max Havelaar" premieres in Amsterdam |
1977 |
Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy |
1977 |
Jimmy McCullough quits Wings |
1978 |
2nd game of Boston Massacre; Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2 |
1978 |
Iranian army fires on Khomeini followers in Teheran, 100s killed |
1979 |
Cheryl Prewitt (Miss), 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980 |
1979 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1980 |
Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely due to drug arrest |
1982 |
Dutch social democratic party wins elections, fascist enters Dutch parliament |
1983 |
NASA launches RCA-6 |
1984 |
98th US Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris E L Mills (46 64 64) |
1984 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41G mission |
1985 |
"USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers |
1985 |
105th US Men's Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (7-6 6-3 6-4) |
1985 |
7 die in a car & train crash in San Jose, Calif |
1985 |
Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hr women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool |
1985 |
Shuttle Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
1985 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
1985 |
Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits |
1986 |
Westinghouse sells Muzak |
1986 |
'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is first broadcast nationally. |
1987 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
1988 |
Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43m |
1988 |
NL pres Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commissioner |
1989 |
George Brett gets his 2,500th hit |
1989 |
Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk, Belgium |
1989 |
Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder) |
1990 |
104th US Womens Tennis Open: Gabriela Sabatini beats Steffi Graf (6-2 7-6) |
1990 |
Ellis Island Historical Site opens on Ellis Island NYC |
1991 |
111th US Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Jim Courier (62 64 60) |
1991 |
Buffalo Bill Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pitts (52-34) |
1991 |
Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia |
1991 |
Michelle Estill wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
1992 |
Danny Tartabull has 9 RBIs as Yanks beat Orioles 16-4 |
1992 |
Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting in Dallas (KGEL-FM 97.1) |
1993 |
Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL |
1993 |
Cheek Junxia wins world record ladies 10 km (29:31.78) |
1993 |
Houston's Darryl Kile throws 3rd no-hitter of season in 7-1 over Mets |
1994 |
"Philadelphia, Here I Come" opens at Criterion NYC for 52 perfs |
1994 |
Last US, British & French troops leave West Berlin |
1994 |
MTV awards feature newlyweds Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley |
1994 |
Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station |
1994 |
USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pitts Airport, killing all 132 on board |
1995 |
Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title |
1996 |
"7 Guitars" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC |
1996 |
110th US Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (7-5 6-4) |
1996 |
116th US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Michael Chang (61 64 76) |
1996 |
48th Emmy Awards: ER, Dennis Franz & Kathy Baker win |
1996 |
Dottie Pepper wins Safeway LPGA title |
1996 |
Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
1996 |
Sri Lanka defeat Australia to win Singer World Series at Colombo |
1999 |
United States Attorney General Janet Reno names former Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian church near Waco, Texas in response to revelations in the film Waco: The Rules of Engagement contradicting the official government stories. |
1999 |
"American Beauty", starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, and Thora Birch, premieres in Los Angeles |
2002 |
Texas Rangers set a major league record by homering in their 26th consecutive game as Texas falls to the Tampa Bay |
2004 |
The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. |
2005 |
Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America. |
2008 |
Latvia joins its northern neighbor Estonia in recession as GDP falls 0.2% in the second quarter from the first quarter, when it fell 0.3%; property markets and construction have suffered in both Baltic states |
2010 |
Egypt's Minister of Finance, Dr. Youssef Butros Ghali, states that Egypt is emerging from the recession as indicated by increased total revenue from sales taxes and customs revenues |
2012 |
6 people are killed by a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan |
2012 |
8 people are killed after a tractor is hit by a train in Romania |
2013 |
11 people are killed and 18 are injured after a gunfire attack in Guatemala City |
2013 |
11 people are killed after a minibus collides with a train in Lasi, Romania |
2013 |
6 people are killed and 9 are injured after a minibus collides with a car in Jakarta, Indonesia |
2013 |
Sebastian Vettel wins the 2013 Italian Formula One Grand Prix |
2013 |
Serena Williams wins her fifth Women's Singles US Open title |
2014 |
Marin Čilić wins the US Open men's tennis singles |
2017 |
Hurricane Irma kills 5 as it sweeps through island of Saint Martin |
2017 |
Trump says hopes to avoid use of military action on North Korea |
2017 |
At least 5 dead as magnitude-8.1 earthquake rocks southern Mexico, felt in capital |
2017 |
US not disputing NKorea's claim to have tested H-bomb |
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