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Events
1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
1744 – France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell Olmo.
1791 – The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart receives its premiere performance at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1791 – The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots.
1813 – Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
1860 – Britain s first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
1882 – The world s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1895 – Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
1901 – Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
1903 – The new Gresham s School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
1906 – Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season
1931 – Start of Die Voortrekkers youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 – At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 – The League of Nations unanimously outlaws intentional bombings of civilian populations.
1939 – General Wladyslaw Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
1945 – Bourne End rail crash, Hertfordshire, England killed 43
1947 – The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joins the United Nations.
1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world s first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 – Film icon James Dean dies in a road accident at age 24.
1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1965 – General Suharto rises to power after an alleged coup by the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto and his army massacre over a million Indonesians suspected of being communists.
1966 – The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
1967 – BBC Radio 1 is launched and Tony Blackburn presents its first show; the BBC s other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1970 – Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson s Field hijackings.
1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1977 – Due to US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1977 – Philippine political prisoners, Eugenio Lopez, Jr. and Sergio Osmeña III successfully escapes from Fort Bonifacio Maximum Security Prison in the Philippines.
1979 – The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982 – Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol murders.
1986 – Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1989 – Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher s speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada s capital city of Ottawa.
1991 – President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
1993 – An earthquake hits India s Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closed upon September 30th, after eighty-eight years of service.
1999 – Japan s worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
2005 – The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, Catalonia is a nation.
2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2006 – the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that proclaimed the new Constitution of Serbia.

Births
1207 – Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
1227 – Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
1530 – Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)
1550 – Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631)
1631 – William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
1700 – Stanislaw Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773)
1710 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771)
1715 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780)
1732 – Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804)
1765 – José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815)
1800 – Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)
1811 – Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, Queen of Prussia and German Empress (d. 1890)
1827 – Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918)
1852 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, resident in England (d. 1924)
1861 – William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932)
1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
1870 – Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948)
1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
1883 – Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945)
1887 – Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress (d. 1980)
1893 – Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964)
1895 – Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980)
1898 – Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933)
1898 – Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
1904 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (d. 1971)
1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1908 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1974)
1912 – Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
1913 – Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (d. 1975)
1915 – Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia (d. 2003)
1917 – Park Chunghee, President of South Korea (d. 1979)
1917 – Buddy Rich, American big band drummer (d. 1987)
1918 – Lewis Nixon, WWII Veteran (d. 1996)
1919 – Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (d. 1992)
1919 – Patricia Neway, American soprano
1920 – Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American musician and cellist
1921 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
1922 – Alan Stretton, Australian general
1924 – Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
1926 – Robin Roberts, American baseball player
1927 – W. S. Merwin, American poet
1928 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1931 – Angie Dickinson, American actress
1932 – Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)
1932 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1933 – Cissy Houston, American gospel/r&b singer
1933 – Barbara Knox, English actress
1934 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer
1934 – Anna Kashfi, Welsh actress
1935 – Johnny Mathis, American singer
1935 – Z. Z. Hill, American blues singer (d. 1984)
1937 – Valentin Silvestrov, Ukrainian composer
1939 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 – Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968)
1943 – Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 – Marilyn McCoo, American singer (The Fifth Dimension)
1943 – Ian Ogilvy, British Actor
1944 – Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer
1945 – Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel
1945 – Bob Lassiter, American radio personality
1946 – Paul Sheahan, Australian Test Cricketer 1967-1974
1946 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
1946 – Claude Vorilhon, founder of Raelism, a ufo religion
1947 – Marc Bolan, British musician (d. 1977)
1947 – Dave Arneson, American game designer
1947 – Rula Lenska,English Actress
1948 – Craig Kusick, former Major League Baseball Player
1950 – Renato Zero, Italian musician
1951 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1952 – Jack Wild, British actor (d. 2006)
1953 – Deborah Allen, American singer
1953 – S.M. Stirling, Canadian-born author
1954 – Basia Trzetrzelewska, Polish-born singer and songwriter
1954 – Barry Williams, American actor
1954 – Patrice Rushen, American musician
1957 – Fran Drescher, American actress
1958 – Marty Stuart, American musician
1959 – Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach
1960 – Blanche Lincoln, American politician
1961 – Eric Stoltz, American actor
1961 – Crystal Bernard, American actress
1961 – Eric van de Poele, Belgian racing driver
1961 – Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress
1962 – Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and manager
1962 – Shaan, Indian singer
1963 – David Barbe, American musician (Mercyland) / (Sugar)
1964 – Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
1964 – Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)
1964 – Robby Takac, American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
1965 – Kathleen Madigan, American comedian
1966 – Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist
1969 – Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)
1970 – Mark Smith, English body builder, former Gladiators player
1971 – Jenna Elfman, American actress
1972 – Ari Behn, Norwegian author
1972 – Jamal Anderson, American football player
1974 – Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
1975 – Marion Cotillard, French actress
1975 – Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
1977 – Maia Brewton, American actress
1977 – Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer
1977 – Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer
1978 – Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
1978 – Róbinson Zapata, Columbian footballer (goalkeeper)
1979 – Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
1979 – Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, musician and pianist
1979 – Vince Chong, Malaysian singer-songwriter
1979 – Cameron Bruce, AFL player
1980 – Camilla D’Errico, Canadian comic book artist and painter
1980 – Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
1981 – Cecilia Ahern, Irish author
1981 – Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast
1981 – Brandon Watson, American baseball
1982 – Lacey Chabert, American actress
1982 – Kieran Culkin, American actor
1982 – Tory Lane, American nude model, exotic dancer, and pornographic actress
1982 – Michelle Marsh, British model
1982 – Teal Redmann, American actress
1982 – Yan Stastny, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Ryan Stout, American comedian
1983 – Andreea Raducan, Romanian gymnast
1983 – Adam Jones, American football player
1984 – T-Pain, American rapper/singer
1985 – Adam Cooney, AFL player
1987 – Denise Laurel, Filipino actress and singer

Deaths
420 – Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
653 – Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury
1101 – Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
1246 – Yaroslav II of Russia (b. 1191)
1440 – Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician
1487 – John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1400)
1551 – Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
1560 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
1572 – St. Francis Borgia, Jesuit priest (b. 1510)
1581 – Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
1626 – Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559)
1628 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (b. 1554)
1770 – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, English politician and diplomat
1770 – George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (b. 1714)
1772 – James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)
1865 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)
1888 – Elizabeth Stride, widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1843)
1888 – Catherine Eddowes, widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1842)
1891 – Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (b. 1837)
1897 – St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)
1910 – Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (b. 1858)
1942 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
1943 – Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (b. 1864)
1955 – James Dean, American actor (automobile accident) (b. 1931)
1961 – Onésime Gagnon, French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec (b. 1888)
1973 – Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)
1974 – Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
1977 – Mary Ford, American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford) (b. 1924)
1978 – Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
1985 – Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
1985 – Charles Richter, American seismologist (b. 1900)
1988 – Al Holbert, American race car driver and team owner (b. 1946)
1989 – Virgil Thompson, American composer (b. 1896)
1990 – Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1990 – Alice Parizeau, Quebec writer and journalist (b. 1930)
1994 – Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1998 – Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953)
2002 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1913)
2002 – Göran Kropp, Swedish adventurer and mountaineer (b. 1966)
2003 – Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (b. 1944)
2003 – Yusuf Bey, Black Muslim leader (b. 1935)
2004 – Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor (b. 1936)
2004 – Michael Relph, British film producer and director (b. 1915)
2008 – Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, Singapore Opposition Leader & former Secretary-General of Singapore s Worker s Party (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances
RC Saints – Saint Jerome
Botswana – Independence Day (1966)
São Tomé and Príncipe – Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day
French Republican Calendar – Panais (Parsnip) Day, ninth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
International Translation Day, introduced in 1991 by International Federation of Translators
September 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Events
522 BC – Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
480 BC – Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to go on crusade.
1364 – Battle of Auray: English forces defeat the French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.
1567 – The second War of Religion in France breaks out.
1567 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
1650 – Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters – the first historically documented dating service – in Threadneedle Street, London.
1717 – An earthquake struck Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city s architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
1789 – The U.S. War Department first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1789 – The first U.S. Congress adjourns.
1829 – The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
1848 – Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence.
1850 – The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin s Farm is fought.
1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
1911 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1916 – John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
1918 – World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 – 30, 1941.
1943 – World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.
1949 – The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People s Republic of China.
1954 – The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
1954 – Major League Baseball: Willie Mays of the then New York Giants makes The Catch at The Polo Grounds in Game 1 of the World Series.
1957 – 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
1960 – Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
1963 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
1963 – The University of East Anglia is established in Norwich, England.
1964 – The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
1971 – Oman joins the Arab League.
1972 – Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People s Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world s first black-owned-and-operated television station.
1979 – Pope John Paul II became the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
1982 – Tylenol Crisis of 1982 begins when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Births
1990 – Washington National Cathedral is finished.
1990 – The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1991 – Military coup in Haiti.
1992 – Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
1995 – The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron 84 (VF-84), nicknamed the Jolly Rogers.
2001 – The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
2003 – Hurricane Juan makes landfall in Nova Scotia.
2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
2004 – The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.
2005 – US Senate confirms John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.
2006 – US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were revealed.
2007 – Calder Hall, the world s first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.

Deaths
106 BC – Pompey the Great, consul of Rome (d. 48 BC)
1240 – Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scotland, (d. 1275)
1321 – John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
1328 – Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (d. 1385)
1388 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
1511 – Miguel Servet, Spanish humanist (d. 1553)
1547 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
1548 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
1561 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (d. 1615)
1571 – Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
1636 – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
1639 – Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
1640 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
1678 – Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
1691 – Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)
1703 – François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
1725 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman (d. 1774)
1758 – Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
1766 – Charlotte, Princess Royal, German queen (d. 1828)
1786 – Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico (d. 1843)
1803 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (d. 1850)
1803 – Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872)
1808 – Henry Bennett, American politician (d. 1868)
1810 – Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
1842 – Louis J. Weichmann, chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1902)
1843 – Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
1853 – Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1933)
1863 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (d. 1919)
1864 – Alexandra Kitchin, British model for Lewis Carroll (d. 1925)
1864 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (d. 1936)
1881 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (d. 1973)
1895 – J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980)
1895 – Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
1897 – Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (d. 1980)
1898 – Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (d. 1976)
1900 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
1901 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)
1901 – Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
1904 – Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
1907 – Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
1907 – George W. Jenkins, American businessman (d. 1996)
1908 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
1910 – Virginia Bruce, American actress (d. 1982)
1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (d. 2007)
1913 – Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
1913 – Stanley Kramer, American film director (d. 2001)
1915 – Vincent DeDomenico, American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
1915 – Brenda Marshall, American film actress (d. 1992)
1920 – Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)
1922 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress
1923 – Stan Berenstain, American children s author (d. 2005)
1924 – Steve Forrest, American actor
1930 – Colin Dexter, British author of Inspector Morse novels
1931 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
1931 – James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate
1932 – Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director
1932 – Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
1934 – Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Psychology professor
1934 – Lance Gibbs, Guyanese West Indies cricketer
1934 – Skandor Akbar, American professional wrestler and manager
1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
1938 – Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1939 – Tommy Boyce, American songwriter
1939 – Molly Haskell, American film critic
1939 – Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
1939 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (d. 2001)
1940 – Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer
1941 – Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995)
1942 – Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
1942 – Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist
1942 – Ian McShane, British actor
1942 – Bill Nelson, American politician
1942 – Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
1942 – Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (d. 1996)
1943 – Mohammad Khatami, President of Iran
1943 – Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist
1943 – Lech Walesa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1944 – Mike Post, American composer
1945 – Kyriakos Sfetsas, Greek composer
1947 – Martin Ferrero, American actor
1948 – Bryant Gumbel, American television personality
1948 – Mark Farner, American guitarist Grand Funk
1948 – Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
1949 – George Dalaras, Greek singer
1951 – Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
1951 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
1951 – Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
1951 – Mike Enriquez, Philippine broadcaster
1952 – Gabor Csupo, Hungarian-born animator
1952 – Max Sandlin, American politician
1953 – Warren Cromartie, American baseball player
1953 – Drake Hogestyn, American actor
1953 – Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian film director (d. 1997)
1955 – Benoît Ferreux, French actor
1956 – Sebastian Coe, British athlete
1957 – Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
1957 – Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer and composer
1957 – Chris Broad, English cricketer and match referee
1957 – Mark Nicholas, English cricketer and sports presenter
1960 – Alan McGee, British music industry mogul and musician
1960 – John Paxson, American Basketball Player and GM
1960 – David Sammartino, American professional wrestler
1961 – Julia Gillard, Australian politician
1961 – Stephanie Miller, American comedian and talk radio host
1962 – Roger Bart, American actor
1962 – Al Pitrelli, American musician and guitarist
1963 – Dave Andreychuk, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)
1966 – Jill Whelan, American actress
1967 – Brett Anderson, British musician/singer (Suede, The Tears)
1968 – Patrick Burns, American television presenter
1968 – Luke Goss, English actor
1968 – Samir Soni, Indian film actor
1968 – Alex Skolnick, American thrash metal and jazz guitarist
1969 – Erika Eleniak, American actress and model
1969 – Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer
1969 – Angelo Barretto, Filipino race car driver
1970 – Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 – Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress
1970 – Emily Lloyd, British actress
1970 – Nicolás Pereira, Venezuelan tennis player
1971 – Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer
1971 – Mackenzie Crook, British actor and comedian
1972 – Oliver Gavin, British racing car driver
1972 – Togi Makabe, Japanese professional wrestler
1972 – Robert Webb, British actor, comedian, and writer
1973 – Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
1973 – Athanasios Michalopoulos, Greek volleyball player
1973 – Scout Niblett, British singer/songwriter
1974 – Brian Ash, American filmmaker
1974 – Alexis Cruz, American actor
1975 – Albert Celades, Spanish footballer
1976 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
1976 – Darren Byfield, English footballer
1976 – Oscar Sevilla, Spanish cyclist
1977 – Won Bin, South Korean actor
1977 – Wade Brookbank, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Debelah Morgan, American R&B singer
1977 – Jake Westbrook, American baseball player
1978 – Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
1978 – Mohini Bhardwaj, American gymnast
1978 – Gunner McGrath, American guitarist (Much the Same)
1979 – Shelley Duncan, American baseball player
1979 – Takumi Beppu, Japanese cyclist
1980 – Dallas Green, Canadian musician (Alexisonfire,City and Colour)
1980 – Zachary Levi, American actor
1980 – Patrick Agyemang, English footballer
1981 – Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian/Spanish handball player
1982 – Ariana Jollee, American pornographic actress
1982 – Rob Smith, Irish musician and songwriter
1984 – Per Mertesacker, German footballer
1986 – Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player.
1987 – Josh Farro, American guitarist for Paramore
1988 – Kevin Durant, American basketball player
1988 – Justin Nozuka, singer/songwriter
1999 – Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
2008 – Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian royal family

Holidays and observances
1364 – Charles, Duke of Brittany
1560 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
1637 – Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint
1642 – René Goupil, French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs (b. 1608)
1703 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
1800 – Michael Denis, Austrian poet (b. 1729)
1804 – Michael Hillegas, first Treasurer of the United States (b. 1728)
1833 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (b. 1784)
1887 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
1889 – Louis Faidherbe, French general (b. 1818)
1900 – Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814)
1902 – William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)
1902 – Émile Zola, French writer (b. 1840)
1908 – Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian writer (b. 1839)
1925 – Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1851)
1927 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1860)
1927 – Arthur Achleitner, German writer (b. 1858)
1930 – Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
1937 – Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)
1951 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)
1952 – John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
1967 – Carson McCullers, American author (b. 1917)
1970 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
1973 – W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
1975 – Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
1976 – Wadi Ayoub, Greco-Roman professional wrestler, (b. 1927)
1981 – Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (b. 1913)
1982 – Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
1987 – Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company (b. 1917)
1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
1989 – Gussie Busch, American brewing magnate (b. 1899)
1994 – Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer (b. 1968)
1996 – Leslie Crowther, British comedian (b. 1933)
1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
1998 – Jared High, American victim of bullying and suicide (b. 1985)
1998 – Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
2001 – Nguy?n Van Thi?u, President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)
2002 – Edmund Trebus, English compulsive hoarder (b. 1918)
2004 – Richard Sainct, French motorcycle rally rider (b. 1970)
2005 – Austin Leslie, American chef, the Godfather of Fried Chicken (b. 1934)
2006 – Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor (b. 1981)
2006 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
2006 – Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
2006 – Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
2006 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
2007 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/september-history/september-29th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 September 28th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/september-history/september-28th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/september-history/september-28th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/september-28th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today September 28th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
351 – Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.
935 – Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
995 – Members of Slavník s dynasty – Spytimír, Pobraslav, Porej and Cáslav are murdered by Boleslaus s son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
1066 – William the Conqueror invades England: the Norman Conquest begins.
1106 – The Battle of Tinchebrai – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
1448 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
1542 – Navigator João Rodrigues Cabrilho of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.
1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
1844 – Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
1867 – The United States takes control of Midway Island.
1868 – Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
1891 – Club Atletico Peñarol is founded under the name of Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club
1907 – Bhagat Singh one of the most influential revolutionaries of Indian independence movement was born in the Khatkar Kalan village near Banga in the Lyallpur district of Punjab.
1928 – UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1939 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
1941 – Major League Baseball: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox finishes the season with a batting average of .406. He is the latest major league player to have a batting average of .400 or better.
1944 – Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
1958 – France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
1962 – Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
1971 – UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
1972 – Canada defeats the USSR in the eighth and final game of the ice hockey Summit Series.
1973 – ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT s involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d état in Chile.
1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in London.
1994 – The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
2008 – SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.

Births
551 BC – Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC)
58 BC – Livia Drusilla, wife of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus (d. 29)
1330 – Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist (d. 1418)
1493 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. 1545)
1571 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
1605 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)
1667 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1681 – Johann Mattheson, German composer (d. 1764)
1705 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (d. 1774)
1746 – Sir William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
1792 – Johann Georg Hiedler, Grandfather of Adolf Hitler (d. 1857)
1803 – Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870)
1821 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874)
1823 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889)
1824 – Francis Turner Palgrave, British critic and poet (d. 1897)
1835 – Sai Baba of Shirdi (d. 1918)
1836 – Thomas Crapper, English inventor (d. 1910)
1841 – Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
1852 – Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
1856 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children s author (d. 1923)
1861 – Amélie of Orléans, queen of Portugal (d. 1951)
1867 – Hiranuma Kiichiro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
1881 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)
1887 – Avery Brundage, American athlete and sports official (d. 1975)
1889 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1891 – Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (d. 1918)
1893 – Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer and dramatist (d. 1984)
1898 – Carl Clauberg, Nazi concentration camp doctor (d. 1957)
1901 – William S. Paley, American radio and television executive (d. 1990)
1901 – Ed Sullivan, American television show host (d. 1974)
1905 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
1907 – Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast (d. 1997)
1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (d. 1931)
1909 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the Philippines (d. 1997)
1910 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (d. 1942)
1913 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (d. 2007)
1916 – Peter Finch, English-born actor (d. 1977)
1918 – Ángel Labruna, Argentinian football player and coach (d. 1983)
1923 – John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, British politician (d. 2007)
1923 – William Windom, American actor
1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist (d. 1996)
1925 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)
1925 – Arnold Stang, American actor
1926 – Jerry Clower, American comedian (d. 1998)
1929 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer
1932 – Víctor Jara, Chilean folk singer and activist (d. 1973)
1933 – Miguel Berrocal, sculptor (d. 2006)
1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress
1934 – Janet Munro, British actress (d. 1972)
1935 – Heather Sears, British actress (d. 1994)
1937 – Alice Mahon, English politician and labor leader
1937 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
1938 – Ben E. King, American r&b singer
1939 – Stuart Kauffman, American biologist
1939 – Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian-born British actor
1941 – Edmund Stoiber, German politician
1942 – Marshall Bell, American actor
1942 – Pierre Clémenti, French actor (d. 1999)
1942 – Tim Maia, Brazilian singer (d. 1998)
1943 – Joel Higgins, American actor
1943 – Nick St. Nicholas, Canadian musician (Steppenwolf)
1943 – J. T. Walsh, American actor (d. 1998)
1943 – Warren Lieberfarb, American media executive
1946 – Jeffrey Jones, American actor
1946 – Helen Shapiro, English singer
1947 – Bob Carr, Australian politician
1947 – Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician
1950 – Laurie Lewis, American musician
1950 – John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
1951 – Wei Chen, Canadian journalist
1952 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress
1954 – Steve Largent, American football player and U.S. Congressman
1954 – George Lynch, American musician (Dokken)
1955 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician
1959 – Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
1959 – Steve Hytner, American actor
1959 – Dantes Tsitsi, Nauruan politician
1960 – Jennifer Rush, American pop singer
1961 – Quentin Kawananakoa, pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii
1962 – Grant Fuhr, Canadian hockey player
1962 – Chuck Taylor, American music journalist
1963 – Steve Blackman, American professional wrestler
1964 – Claudio Borghi, Argentine football manager (Colo-Colo)
1964 – Laura Cerón, American actress
1964 – Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedian
1964 – Paul Jewell, English football manager
1965 – Ginger Fish, American drummer (Marilyn Manson)
1966 – Puri Jagannadh, Indian film director
1967 – Mira Sorvino, American actress
1967 – Moon Unit Zappa, American singer and actress
1968 – Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver
1968 – Naomi Watts, English-born Australian actress
1969 – Mark Everett, American fugitive
1969 – Ben Greenman, American author
1969 – Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer
1969 – Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
1970 – Mike DeJean, American baseball player
1970 – Gualter Salles, Brazilian racing driver
1971 – Alan Wright, English footballer
1971 – Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter
1972 – Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist
1973 – Jori Hulkkonen, Finnish electronic musician
1973 – Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
1974 – Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
1974 – Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer
1974 – Shane Webcke, Australian rugby player
1974 – John Light, English actor
1975 – Stuart Clark, Australian cricketeer
1975 – Lenny Krayzelburg, American swimmer
1976 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist
1977 – Young Jeezy, American rapper
1977 – Se Ri Pak, Korean golfer
1978 – Bushido, German rapper
1979 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder
1981 – José Calderón, Spanish basketball player
1981 – Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
1981 – Gül Gölge, Turkish model and actress
1981 – Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1982 – Ray Emery, Canadian hockey player
1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor
1982 – Nolwenn Leroy, French singer
1982 – Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
1982 – Dustin Penner, Canadian hockey player
1982 – Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player
1982 – Abhinav Bindra, Indian shooter
1983 – Stefan Moore, English footballer
1984 – Melody Thornton, American singer and dancer
1984 – Brittany Flickinger, American singer and model and winner of Paris Hilton s My New BFF
1984 – Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
1986 – Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
1987 – Hilary Duff, American actress, singer
1988 – Esmée Denters, Dutch singer
1988 – Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
1989 – Mark Randall, English footballer
1992 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
2000 – Frankie Jonas, Actor Bonus Jonas

Deaths
48 BC – Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
235 – Saint Pontianus, Pope
876 – Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804)
935 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)
1104 – Pedro I, king of Aragon and Navarre (b. 1068)
1197 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)
1429 – Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest of Austria
1582 – George Buchanan, Scottish historian (b. 1506)
1618 – Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)
1687 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623)
1694 – Gabriel Mouton, French scientist (b. 1618)
1702 – Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English statesman (b. 1640)
1742 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (b. 1663)
1781 – William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717)
1844 – Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769)
1873 – Émile Gaboriau, French writer and journalist (b. 1832)
1891 – Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819)
1895 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822)
1914 – Richard Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company) (b. 1863)
1915 – Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)
1918 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
1918 – Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
1935 – W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)
1938 – Charles Duryea, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1861)
1953 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
1956 – William Edward Boeing, American aviation pioneer (b. 1881)
1957 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician(b. 1888)
1959 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)
1964 – Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1888)
1966 – André Breton, French poet (b. 1896)
1970 – John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)
1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, the second President of Egypt (b. 1918)
1978 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912), after just 33 days in office
1979 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)
1981 – Rómulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
1982 – Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
1989 – Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (b. 1917)
1991 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
1993 – Peter De Vries, American novelist (b. 1910)
1993 – Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
1993 – Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
1994 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer and musician (b. 1953)
1994 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (assassinated) (b. 1946)
1994 – Harry Saltzman, American film producer (b. 1915)
2000 – Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
2002 – Patsy Mink, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1927)
2002 – Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman (Molson family), senator and sports executive (Montreal Canadiens) (b. 1907)
2003 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
2003 – Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film director (b. 1909)
2003 – George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician (b. 1934)
2004 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
2004 – Scott Muni, American disc jockey (b. 1930)
2005 – Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b. 1921)
2007 – Wally Parks, Founder of the NHRA (b. 1913)

Holidays and observances
Czech Republic – Czech Statehood Day.
Taiwan and The Philippines – Teacher s Day.
The Philippines – Day of Awareness and Unity Against Child Pornography
World Rabies Day
French Republican Calendar – Carotte (Carrot) Day, seventh day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
Feast day of the following RC Saints
Leoba
St. Wenceslas
Lorenzo Ruiz
Aaron of Auxerre
Also see September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).

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Events
489 – Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.
1331 – The Battle of Plowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
1540 – The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
1605 – The armies of Sweden are utterly defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year long Siege of Candia.
1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.
1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1825 – The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world s first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
1854 – The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein s paper Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, introducing the equation E=mc².
1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1916 – Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.
1928 – The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.
1930 – Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
1937 – Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
1940 – World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
1941 – Foundation of EAM (National Liberation Front) in Greece.
1942 – Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform for the last time before Miller enters the US Army.
1942 – Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
1949 – The first Plenary Session of the National People s Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People s Republic of China.
1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
1959 – Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshu as the result of a typhoon.
1964 – The Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
1968 – The stage musical Hair opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof s collapsing in July 1973.
1977 – The 300 metre tall CKVR-TV transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
1979 – The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
1980 – Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing s world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.
1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
1988 – The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded.
1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
1995 – The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.
1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
1996 – The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
1997 – Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
2002 – Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
2003 – Smart 1 satellite is launched.
2008 – CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7.

Births
823 – Ermentrude of Orléans, consort of Charles the Bald (d. 869)
1275 – John II of Brabant (d. 1312)
1384 – Cosimo de Medici, Italian Patron of the Arts
1601 – King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
1627 – Jacques Benigne Bossuet, French bishop (d. 1704)
1643 – Solomon Stoddard, American Puritan clergyman
1696 – St. Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (d. 1787)
1719 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)
1722 – Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (d. 1803)
1729 – Michael Denis, Austrian poet (d. 1800)
1772 – Martha Jefferson Randolph, daughter of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1836)
1803 – Samuel Francis du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
1805 – George Müller, Prussian orphanage builder (d. 1898)
1818 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)
1821 – Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss writer (d. 1881)
1824 – William Bull Nelson, American Civil War general (d. 1862)
1830 – William Babcock Hazen, American Civil War general (d. 1887)
1840 – Thomas Nast, German-born political cartoonist (d. 1902)
1842 – Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist (d. 1903)
1843 – Gaston Tarry, French mathematician (d. 1913)
1861 – Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of US President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1933)
1864 – Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and Catholic Priest (d. 1938)
1866 – Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed (d. 1932)
1871 – Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
1879 – Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician (d. 1934)
1879 – Cyril Scott, English composer (d. 1970)
1885 – Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965)
1894 – Olive Tell, American actress (d. 1951)
1894 – Lothar von Richthofen German pilot (d. 1922)
1895 – Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (d. 1948)
1896 – Sam Ervin, American politician (d. 1985)
1898 – Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (d. 1946)
1906 – William Empson, British poet (d. 1984)
1906 – Jim Thompson, American author (d. 1977)
1907 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher (d. 2003)
1911 – John Harvey, actor (d. 1982)
1913 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist (d. 2007)
1916 – Frank Handlen, American artist
1917 – Louis Auchincloss, American novelist
1917 – William T. Orr, American television producer (d. 2002)
1918 – Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
1919 – James H. Wilkinson, American mathematician (d. 1986)
1919 – Johnny Pesky, American baseball player
1919 – Charles Percy. American politician
1920 – William Conrad, American actor (d. 1994)
1920 – Jayne Meadows, American actress
1921 – Milton Subotsky, American TV and film producer (d. 1991)
1922 – Carl Ballantine, American actor
1922 – Arthur Penn, American director
1924 – Bernard Waber, American author
1924 – Fred Singer, American scientist
1924 – Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (d. 1966)
1924 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech writer and exulant publisher
1927 – Romano Scarpa, Italian comic book artist
1927 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
1931 – Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer
1932 – Roger C. Carmel, American actor (d. 1986)
1932 – Michael Colvin, Canadian singer
1932 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
1932 – Yash Chopra, Indian director
1932 – Geoff Bent, English footballer (d. 1958)
1933 – Will Sampson, American actor (d. 1987)
1933 – Greg Morris, American actor (d. 1996)
1933 – Rodney Cotterill, Danish-English physicist (d. 2007)
1934 – Wilford Brimley, American actor
1934 – Claude Jarman Jr., American actor
1934 – Dick Schaap, American sports reporter (d. 2001)
1936 – Don Cornelius, American television host
1936 – Gordon Honeycombe, British playwright
1939 – Kathy Whitworth, American golfer
1939 – Carol Lynn Pearson, American poet and writer
1940 – Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
1941 – Serge Ménard, Québécois politician
1941 – Peter Bonetti, English footballer
1941 – Gay Kayler Ashcroft, Australian country music singer
1942 – Dith Pran, Cambodian-born photojournalist (d. 2008)
1942 – Alvin Stardust, English singer
1943 – Randy Bachman, Canadian musician
1943 – Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat
1945 – Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (d. 2003)
1945 – Kay Ryan, American poet
1946 – Robin Nedwell, English comedy actor (d. 1999)
1946 – T.C. Cannon, Kiowa-Caddo-Choctaw artist (d. 1978)
1947 – Barbara Dickson, Scottish singer
1947 – Denis Lawson, Scottish actor
1947 – Meat Loaf, American singer
1947 – Liz Torres, American actress and singer
1948 – Michele Dotrice, English actress
1948 – A Martinez, American actor
1948 – Tom Braidwood, Canadian actor
1948 – John K. Reed, American coral biologist
1949 – Graham Richardson, Australian politician
1949 – Mike Schmidt, American baseball player
1949 – Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer
1950 – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese actor
1951 – Jim Shooter, American comic book writer
1951 – Paul Craig, British law professor
1951 – Michel Rivard, Québécois singer and composer (Beau Dommage)
1952 – Didier Dubois, French mathematician
1952 – Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian cosmonaut
1952 – André Viger, French Canadian marathoner
1953 – Diane Julie Abbott, British politician
1953 – Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian religious leader
1953 – Greg Ham, Australian musician (Men at Work)
1953 – Claudio Gentile, Italian footballer
1954 – Ray Hadley, Australian radio broadcaster
1958 – Shaun Cassidy, American singer
1959 – Beth Heiden, American speed skater
1960 – Barron Lerner, American physician and historian
1960 – Jean-Marc Barr, French-American actor and director
1961 – Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer
1961 – Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer
1964 – Stephan Jenkins, American singer (Third Eye Blind)
1965 – Ricky Fuji, Japanese professional wrestler
1965 – Steve Kerr, American basketball player
1965 – Peter MacKay, Canadian political leader
1965 – Alexis Stewart, American radio personality
1965 – Bernard Lord, Premier of New Brunswick
1966 – Lorenzo Cherubini, Italian singer (Jovanotti)
1967 – Uche Okechukwu, Nigerian international football player
1970 – Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese professional shogi player
1970 – Tamara Taylor, American actress(Bones)
1971 – Li Yapeng, Chinese actor
1971 – Amanda Detmer, American actress
1972 – Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player
1972 – Clara Hughes, Canadian cyclist
1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress
1972 – Craig L. Rice, American Politician
1973 – Chris Demakes, American singer/guitarist (Less Than Jake)
1975 – Thanos Petrelis, Greek singer
1976 – Dean Butterworth, English musician
1976 – Matt Harding, American video game developer
1976 – Jason Phillips, American baseball player
1976 – Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
1977 – Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower
1978 – Brad Arnold, American singer (3 Doors Down)
1978 – Jon Rauch, American baseball player
1979 – Jon Garland, American baseball player
1979 – Zita Görög, Hungarian actress and model
1979 – Christian Jones, Australian racing driver
1979 – Steve Simpson, Australian rugby league footballer
1980 – Asashoryu, Mongolian sumo wrestler
1981 – Lakshmipathy Balaji, Indian cricketer
1981 – Sophie Crumb, American comics artist
1981 – Brendon McCullum, New Zealand cricketer
1981 – Cytherea, American adult actress
1982 – Darrent Williams, American football player (d. 2007)
1982 – Lil Wayne, American rapper
1983 – Travis MacRae, Canadian singer-songwriter
1983 – Shermon Tang, Hong Kong actress
1983 – Jeon Hye Bin, Korean actress
1984 – Paul Bevan, Australian rules footballer
1984 – John Lannan, American baseball player
1984 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
1986 – Ricardo Risatti, Argentine racing driver
1989 – Park Tae-Hwan, South Korean swimmer
1990 – Kylee Lin, American beauty pageant winner
1991 – Adam Chicksen, English Football Player
1992 – Jake Burbage, American actor
1996 – Iman bint Al Abdullah II, princess of Jordan
1996 – Daeg Faerch, Danish-born Canadian actor

Deaths
1249 – Count Raymond VII of Toulouse (b. 1197)
1304 – John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English soldier
1404 – William of Wykeham, English bishop (b. 1320)
1557 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (b. 1497)
1590 – Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)
1615 – Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman (b. 1575)
1651 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1573)
1660 – Vincent de Paul, French saint (b. 1580)
1700 – Pope Innocent XII (b. 1615)
1719 – George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)
1730 – Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)
1735 – Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)
1737 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b. 1680)
1742 – Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (b. 1672)
1783 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)
1832 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (b. 1781)
1838 – Bernard Courtois, French chemist (b. 1777)
1876 – Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
1891 – Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812)
1911 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (b. 1844)
1915 – Remy de Gourmont, French poet (b. 1858)
1917 – Edgar Degas, French painter (b. 1834)
1921 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (b. 1854)
1940 – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher (b. 1892)
1940 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1944 – Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (b. 1890)
1956 – Gerald Finzi, English composer (b. 1901)
1956 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete (b. 1911)
1956 – William Edward Boeing, American aviation pioneer (b. 1881)
1960 – Sylvia Pankhurst, English suffragette (b. 1882)
1965 – Clara Bow, American actress (b. 1905)
1972 – S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1892)
1974 – Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A(b. 1907)
1975 – Jack Lang, Australian politician (b. 1876)
1979 – Dame Gracie Fields, British comedian (b. 1898)
1979 – Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish guitarist (b. 1953)
1981 – Robert Montgomery, American actor (b. 1904)
1985 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)
1986 – Cliff Burton, American bassist (Metallica) (b. 1962)
1991 – Oona O Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O Neill and 4th wife of Charlie Chaplin (b. 1926)
1993 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)
1996 – Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
1997 – Walter Trampler, American violist (b. 1915)
1998 – Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)
1998 – Doak Walker, American football player (b. 1927)
2003 – Donald O Connor, American actor (b. 1925)
2004 – John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929)
2005 – Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian (b. 1929)
2007 – Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1957)
2008 – Mahendra Kapoor, Indian singer (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances
RC Saints – Saint Vincent de Paul.
Ethiopian Orthodox Church – Meskel.
Also see September 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Bahá í Faith – Feast of Mashíyyat (Will) – First day of the eleventh month of the Bahá í calendar.
Belgium – French Community Holiday.
French Republican Calendar – Balsamine (Impatiens) Day, sixth day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
World Tourism Day.

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/september-history/september-27th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 September 26th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/september-history/september-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/september-history/september-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/september-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today September 26th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
1212 – Golden Bull of Sicily is certified as an hereditary royal title in Bohemia for the Premyslid dynasty.
1580 – Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.
1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
1687 – The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange s invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1777 – British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
1783 – Fayette County, Pennsylvania is created.
1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
1792 – Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1872 – The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.
1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1908 – Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1914 – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
1918 – World War I: Battle of Meuse.
1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
1944 – World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
1950 – Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
1954 – Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba s support for the U.S.S.R.
1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed.
1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
1983 – Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup.
1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to handover of Hong Kong
1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
2000 – The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.

Births
1181 – Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order (d. 1226)
1329 – Anna of Bavaria, Queen of the Romans (d. 1353)
1406 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (d. 1430)
1711 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (d. 1779)
1750 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (d. 1810)
1758 – Cosme Argerich, Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires.
1767 – Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1835)
1774 – Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1847)
1791 – Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
1820 – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bengali scholar (d. 1891)
1840 – Louis-Olivier Taillon, French Canadian politician (d. 1923)
1865 – Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English pilot and ornithologist (d. 1937)
1869 – Komitas, Armenian composer (d. 1935)
1870 – King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)
1871 – Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (d. 1934)
1873 – Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist and translator (d. 1940)
1873 – Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (d. 1949)
1874 – Lewis Hine, American photographer and social activist (d. 1940)
1875 – Edmund Gwenn, Welsh actor (d. 1959)
1876 – Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (d. 1957)
1877 – Ugo Cerletti, Italian neurologist (d. 1963)
1877 – Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962)
1881 – Hiram Wesley Evans, American member of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1966)
1884 – J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (d. 1951)
1886 – Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1977)
1887 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, English writer (d. 1958)
1887 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor (d. 1967)
1887 – Sir Barnes Wallis, English scientist, engineer and inventor (d. 1979)
1888 – J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist (d. 1964)
1888 – T. S. Eliot, American-born British writer and poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1889 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
1891 – Charles Münch, French conductor and violinist (d. 1968)
1893 – Gladys Brockwell, American actress (d. 1929)
1895 – George Raft, American actor (d. 1980)
1897 – Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)
1897 – Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (d. 1917)
1898 – George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
1905 – Emilio Navarro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1907 – Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
1907 – Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)
1909 – Bill France, Sr., American car racing executive (d. 1992)
1913 – Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1914 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert
1914 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer, one of the first to reach the summit of K2
1917 – Réal Caouette, French Canadian politician (d. 1976)
1919 – Barbara Britton, American actress (d. 1980)
1919 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and researcher
1922 – Nicholas Romanov, French-born pretender to the Russian throne
1923 – Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer
1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
1925 – Norm Dussault, American ice hockey player
1925 – Marty Robbins, American singer (d. 1982)
1926 – Julie London, American singer and actress (d. 2000)
1926 – Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian Indo-European Philologist
1927 – Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (d. 1990)
1927 – Robert Cade, American physician and beverage inventor (d. 2007)
1927 – Patrick O Neal, American actor (d. 1994)
1928 – Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor
1930 – Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966)
1930 – Joe Brown (climber), English climber, made the first ascent of Kangchenjunga in 1955
1932 – Richard Herd, American actor
1932 – Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
1932 – Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident
1933 – Donna Douglas, American actress
1935 – Joe Sherlock, Irish Labour Party politician (d. 2007)
1936 – Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist
1937 – Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician (d. 2003)
1937 – Jerry Weintraub, American film producer
1939 – Ricky Tomlinson, English actor
1941 – Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor
1942 – Kent McCord, American actor
1943 – Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer and broadcaster
1943 – Tim Schenken, Australian racing driver
1944 – Anne Robinson, English television host
1945 – Louise Beaudoin, French Canadian politician
1945 – Gal Costa, Brazilian singer
1945 – Bryan Ferry, English singer (Roxy Music)
1946 – Andrea Dworkin, American feminist (d. 2005)
1946 – Christine Todd Whitman, American politician
1946 – Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician
1946 – Louise Simonson, American comic book writer and editor
1947 – Lynn Anderson, American country music singer
1948 – Olivia Newton-John, English-born Australian singer and actress
1949 – Clodoaldo, Brazilian football player
1949 – Jane Smiley, American novelist
1949 – Minette Walters, English novelist
1951 – Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician
1952 – Predrag Miletic, Serbian actor
1953 – Joe Benigno, American radio personality
1953 – Dolores Keane, Irish folk singer
1953 – Aivars Lembergs, Latvian politician
1954 – Kevin Kennedy, American baseball manager and television host
1955 – Carlene Carter, American singer
1956 – Steve Butler, American racing driver
1956 – Linda Hamilton, American actress
1958 – Richard B. Weldon, Jr., American politician
1958 – Robert Kagan, American historian
1959 – Rich Gedman, American baseball player
1959 – Darby Crash, American Singer (The Germs) (d. 1980)
1961 – Will Self, English author
1962 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
1962 – Peter Foster, Australian con-man
1963 – Lysette Anthony, English actress
1964 – Nicki French, English singer
1965 – Cindy Herron, American singer (En Vogue)
1965 – Alexandra Lencastre, Portuguese actress
1966 – Jillian Barberie, Canadian actress and television hostess
1966 – Christos Dantis, Greek composer and singer
1966 – Craig Heyward, American football player (d. 2006)
1967 – Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)
1968 – James Caviezel, American actor
1968 – Ben Shenkman, American actor
1969 – Anthony Kavanagh, French-Canadian comedian, actor and singer
1969 – Andy Petterson, Australian footballer
1969 – Paul Warhurst, English footballer
1969 – David Ferguson, British murderer
1970 – Rachel Jacobs, American actress
1970 – Sheri Moon Zombie, American actress
1972 – Ras Kass, American rapper
1972 – Melanie Paxson, American actress
1972 – Shawn Stockman, American singer (Boyz II Men)
1973 – Marty Casey, American singer (Lovehammers)
1973 – Chris Small, Scottish snooker player
1973 – Olga Vasdeki, Greek triple jumper
1974 – Boris Cepeda,German-Ecuadorian pianist and diplomat
1974 – Gary Hall, Jr., American swimmer
1974 – Martin Müürsepp, Estonian basketball player
1975 – Emma Härdelin, Swedish singer (Garmarna and Triakel)
1975 – Jake Paltrow, American film director, brother of Gwyneth Paltrow
1976 – Michael Ballack, German footballer
1976 – Tyler Denk, American model and reality show contestant
1977 – Kaylynn, American porn star
1978 – Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan long-distance runner
1979 – Jon Harley, English footballer
1979 – Fuifui Moimoi, New Zealand (Tongan) rugby league footballer
1979 – Jaycie Phelps, American gymnast
1979 – Jacob Tierney, Canadian actor
1979 – Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese professional wrestler
1980 – Jane Darling, Czech porn model/actress
1980 – Patrick Friesacher, Austrian race car driver
1980 – Brooks Orpik, American ice hockey player
1980 – Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
1980 – Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
1981 – Collien Fernandes, German TV host and actress
1981 – Christina Milian, American actress and singer
1981 – Serena Williams, American tennis player
1981 – Aras Baskauskas, Winner of Survivor: Panama
1982 – Miguel Alfredo Portillo, Argentine footballer
1982 – Rob Burrow, English rugby player
1983 – Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
1983 – Samantha Hammel, American record producer and actress
1984 – Keisha Buchanan, English singer (Sugababes)
1984 – Thore Schölermann, German actor
1985 – Lenna Kuurmaa, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
1986 – Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress
1987 – Rosie Munter, Swedish singer (Play)
1988 – Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
1988 – Mark Simpson, English clarinetist and composer
1989 – Emma Rigby, English actress
2000 – Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan

Deaths
1417 – Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (b. 1360)
1468 – Juan de Torquemada, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1388)
1501 – Džore Držic, Croatian writer (b. 1461)
1620 – Taichang Emperor of China (b. 1582)
1626 – Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)
1716 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician (b. 1666)
1763 – John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
1764 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1767)
1800 – William Billings, American choral composer (b. 1746)
1802 – Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and military officer (b. 1754)
1820 – Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)
1868 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
1877 – Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
1902 – Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829)
1904 – John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman (b. 1848)
1904 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek writer (b. 1850)
1937 – Bessie Smith, American singer (b. 1894)
1945 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (b. 1881)
1947 – Hugh Lofting, English writer (b. 1886)
1951 – Hans Cloos, German geologist (b. 1885)
1952 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (b. 1863)
1953 – Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (b. 1895)
1954 – Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)
1965 – James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (b. 1898)
1968 – Daniel Johnson, Sr., French-Canadian politician (b. 1915)
1972 – Charles Correll, American radio actor (b. 1890)
1973 – Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1923)
1973 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)
1976 – Lavoslav Ružicka, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1978 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1979 – Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (b. 1910)
1982 – Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
1983 – Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (b. 1907)
1984 – John Facenda, American sports announcer (b. 1913)
1984 – Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
1986 – Hugh Franklin, American soap opera actor (b. 1916)
1987 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer, made the first ascent of Cho Oyu in 1954
1989 – Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer and composer (b. 1920)
1990 – Alberto Moravia, Italian author (b. 1907)
1991 – Billy Vaughn, American bandleader (b. 1919)
1998 – Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
1999 – Oseola McCarty, American philanthropist (b. 1908)
2000 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
2000 – Baden Powell, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1937)
2003 – Robert Palmer, English singer (b. 1949)
2003 – Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)
2004 – Marianna Komlos, professional wrestling valet (b. 1969)
2005 – Helen Cresswell, British author (b. 1934)
2006 – Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
2006 – Iva Toguri D Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose (b. 1916)
2007 – Dorothy Schwartz, American violinist (b. 1913)
2007 – Bill Wirtz, American sports team owner (b. 1929)
2008 – Paul Newman, American actor (b. 1925)
2008 – Marc Moulin, Belgian musician and journalist (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances
St. Stephen s Day
Calendar of Saints – Sts. Cosmas and Damian.
Also see September 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Discordianism – Bureflux.
European Day of Languages.
French Republican Calendar – Cheval (Horse) Day, fifth day in the Month of Vendémiaire.

]]> http://www.historylookup.com/september-history/september-26th-2009-this-day-in-history/feed/ 0 September 25th this day in history video clips http://www.historylookup.com/september-history/september-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/ http://www.historylookup.com/september-history/september-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:01:01 +0000 admin http://www.historylookup.com/uncategorized/september-25th-2009-this-day-in-history/ Today September 25th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009

Events
303 – On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking Age in England.
1396 – Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1555 – The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
1690 – Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
1789 – The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights. Only the Bill of Rights was ratified at the time, while the other two were proposed by James Madison but not ratified. In 1992, the Congressional Compensation Amendment was ratified as the 27th amendment to the Constitution.
1804 – The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
1846 – U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.
1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
1911 – Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
1915 – World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.
1944 – World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending the Battle of Arnhem and Operation Market Garden.
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
1959 – Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
1962 – The People s Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
1970 – Cease-fire between Jordan and the fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.
1972 – In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership.
1978 – PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
1980 – The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
1981 – Sandra Day O Connor becomes the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first woman to hold the office.
1983 – Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of HMP Maze. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
1996 – The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.
2002 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaido, Japan.
2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.

Births
1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1525 – Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
1599 – Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667)
1644 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764)
1694 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
1711 – Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1725 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (d. 1804)
1738 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
1764 – Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
1766 – Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French-Russian statesman (d. 1822)
1773 – Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
1780 – Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
1782 – Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
1796 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
1798 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (d. 1874)
1825 – William Pitt Ballinger, Texas lawyer and statesman (d. 1888)
1839 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (d. 1904)
1862 – Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1866 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1867 – Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
1879 – Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (d. 1963)
1881 – Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
1889 – C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
1896 – Sandro Pertini, President of the Italian Republic (d. 1990)
1897 – William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
1898 – Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
1901 – Gordon Coventry, Australian rules footballer (d. 1968)
1901 – Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
1903 – Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (d. 1970)
1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
1911 – Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist (d. 1953)
1916 – Jessica Anderson, Australian author
1917 – Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1917 – Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1920 – Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1994)
1921 – Sir Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
1922 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
1925 – Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007)
1925 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress
1926 – Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)
1926 – Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
1927 – Sir Colin Davis, English conductor
1929 – Ronnie Barker, British comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1929 – Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
1930 – Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)
1931 – Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (d. 2005)
1932 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
1932 – Terry Medwin, Welsh retired footballer
1932 – Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain (1977-1981)
1933 – Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
1933 – Erik Darling, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 2008)
1933 – Brian Murphy, British actor
1934 – Jean Sorel, French actor
1936 – Juliet Prowse, South African actress and dancer (d. 1996)
1938 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, first Prime Minister of Greenland
1939 – Feroz Khan, Indian actor
1943 – Robert Gates, American Secretary of Defense
1943 – John Locke, American musician (d. 2006)
1944 – Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
1944 – Doris Matsui, American politician
1945 – Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 – Felicity Kendal, British actress
1946 – Bryan MacLean, American musician and songwriter (Love) (d. 1998)
1946 – Jerry Penrod, American bass player
1947 – Cheryl Tiegs, American model
1951 – Mark Hamill, American actor
1952 – Jimmy Garvin, American professional wrestler
1952 – Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
1952 – Gloria Jean Watkins, American scholar
1952 – Anson Williams, American actor and director
1953 – Richard Harvey, British musician and composer (Gryphon)
1954 – Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
1954 – Juande Ramos, Spanish Football Manager
1955 – Steven Severin, British musician (Siouxsie & the Banshees)
1955 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
1955 – Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
1956 – Jamie Hyneman, American visual effects technician
1957 – Ian Reddington, English actor
1958 – Michael Madsen, American actor
1958 – Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist
1960 – Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
1960 – Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
1961 – Heather Locklear, American actress and model
1962 – Aida Turturro, American actress
1963 – Keely Shaye Smith, American journalist; wife of Pierce Brosnan
1963 – Tate Donovan, American actor
1963 – Mikael Persbrandt, Swedish actor
1964 – Anita Barone, American actress
1964 – Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice actress (seiyu)
1964 – Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman and sports executive
1964 – Gary Ayles, British racing driver
1964 – Maria Doyle Kennedy, Irish actress and singer
1965 – Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
1965 – Dave Rundle, former South African cricketer
1967 – Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Will Smith, American actor and rapper
1968 – John Worsfold, Australian rules football coach
1968 – Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau
1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
1969 – Hal Sparks, American actor
1969 – Heather Stewart-Whyte, British supermodel
1970 – Aja Kong, Japanese professional wrestler
1970 – Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)
1971 – John Lynch, American football player
1971 – Brian Dunkleman, American actor
1973 – Bridgette Wilson, American actress
1973 – Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer
1973 – Bridget Marquardt, American model
1974 – Daniel Kessler, American musician (Interpol)
1975 – Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
1975 – Daniel Hyde, British actor
1976 – Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
1977 – Clea DuVall, American actress
1977 – Mike Krahulik, Illustrator
1977 – Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican baseball player
1978 – Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
1978 – Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
1978 – Jodie Kidd, English model
1978 – Ryan Leslie, American music producer and singer
1978 – Joel Pineiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1979 – Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer
1980 – T.I., American rapper
1981 – Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
1981 – Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
1981 – Shane Tutmarc, American songwriter and musician
1981 – Van Hansis, American actor
1982 – Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
1982 – Kany García, Puerto Rican singer, songwritter
1983 – Terrance Pennington, American football player
1984 – Matt Carle, American ice hockey player
1984 – Rashad McCants, American basketball player
1985 – Calvin Johnson, American football player
1990 – Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
1994 – Jansen Panettiere, American actor

Deaths
303 – Saint Fermin of Pamplona, Roman Catholic Bishop, Martyr, and Saint
1066 – Killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge:
1066 – Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria
1066 – Harald III of Norway (b. 1015)
1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1333 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
1496 – Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
1506 – King Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
1534 – Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
1536 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (b. 1511)
1602 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1617 – Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548)
1617 – Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1572)
1626 – Lancelot Andrewes, English scholar and Bishop of the Church of England (b. 1555)
1630 – Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases, Italian general (b. 1569)
1665 – Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
1703 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (b. 1658)
1774 – John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
1777 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (b. 1728)
1791 – William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
1792 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
1794 – Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
1825 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
1849 – Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
1867 – Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
1900 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
1901 – Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
1905 – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
1917 – Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
1918 – Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
1926 – Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
1929 – Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
1933 – Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
1946 – Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and war criminal (b. 1879)
1960 – Emily Post, American etiquette expert (b. 1873)
1961 – Frank Fay American actor (b. 1897)
1968 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (b. 1891)
1970 – Erich Maria Remarque, German author (b. 1898)
1971 – Hugo Lafayette Black, American jurist (b. 1886)
1979 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete and actor (b. 1915)
1980 – John Bonham, British drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
1980 – Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
1980 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
1983 – King Léopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
1984 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
1986 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1986 – Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (b. 1909)
1986 – Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
1986 – Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian communist leader (b. 1917)
1987 – Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
1987 – Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor (b. 1905)
1988 – Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (b. 1937)
1991 – Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal (b. 1913)
1991 – Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
1995 – Dave Bowen, Welsh football manager (b. 1928)
1995 – Bessie Delany, American physician and author (b. 1891)
1996 – Nicu Ceausescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
1997 – Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
1997 – Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (b. 1916)
1999 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
2000 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
2003 – Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician (b. 1953)
2003 – Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
2003 – Franco Modigliani, Italian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2003 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor (b. 1927)
2003 – Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
2005 – Don Adams, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)
2005 – George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
2005 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)
2005 – Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist (b. 1917)
2005 – M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)
2005 – Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
2006 – Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
2006 – John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
2007 – Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian negotiator (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances
Mozambique – Armed Forces Day.
French Republican Calendar – Colchique (Crocus) Day, fourth day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
R.C. Saints – Saint Finbarr.
Abadir and Iraja and companions, in the Coptic Church
Also see September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).

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Events
622 – Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
1664 – The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
1789 – The office of the Attorney General of the United States of America, and the United States Post Office Department, are established.
1841 – The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain.
1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
1869 – Black Friday: Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
1877 – Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
1903 – Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation s first National Monument.
1928 – Major riot during a whalf strike in Port Adelaide involving up 4,000 waterside workers
1935 – Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
1946 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong
1947 – Majestic 12 is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman
1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1950 – Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A Blue moon (in the

Births
1957 – Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
1990 – Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
1994 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
2007 – Sugababes legendary single About You Now, is released on this day. About You Now peaked #1 on downloads alone in the Top 40.

Deaths
15 – Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1301 – Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)
1501 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (d. 1576)
1513 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1535)
1534 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
1564 – William Adams, British navigator (d. 1620)
1583 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
1625 – Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
1705 – Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
1717 – Horace Walpole, British novelist and politician (d. 1797)
1725 – Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1739 – Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
1755 – John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1835)
1801 – Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
1802 – Adolphe d Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
1817 – Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
1829 – Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
1858 – Eugene Foss, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)
1870 – Georges Claude, French chemist and inventor (d. 1960)
1871 – Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
1878 – C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
1884 – Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
1884 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
1890 – Mike González, baseball player (d. 1977)
1890 – A. P. Herbert, British humorist, barrister, novelist (d. 1971)
1892 – Adélard Godbout, premier of Québec (d. 1956)
1894 – Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
1895 – André Frédéric Cournand, French Nobel Laureate (d. 1988)
1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
1898 – Howard Walter Florey, Nobel Laureate (d. 1968)
1899 – Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
1900 – Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
1902 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian politician, religious figure, and political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution (d. 1989)
1905 – Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
1909 – Gerard Ciolek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
1910 – Jean Servais, Belgian actor (d. 1976)
1911 – Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d. 1985)
1912 – Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
1914 – Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
1918 – Audra Lindley, American actress (d. 1997)
1919 – Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
1920 – Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)
1921 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
1922 – Cornell MacNeil, American baritone
1923 – Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
1923 – Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
1924 – Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
1924 – Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
1924 – Sheila MacRae, singer & actress
1925 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
1927 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
1929 – Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician
1930 – Józef Krupinski, Polish poet (d. 1998)
1930 – Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
1930 – John W. Young, American astronaut
1931 – Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (d. 1999)
1931 – Mike Parkes, British Formula One driver (d. 1977)
1932 – Dominique Michel, Canadian comedian
1933 – Raffaele Cardinal Farina, Archivist of the Holy Roman Church
1934 – Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
1934 – John Brunner, British author (d. 1995)
1934 – Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (d. 1994)
1935 – Sean McCann, Canadian actor
1936 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990)
1940 – Yves Navarre, French writer (d. 1994)
1941 – Linda McCartney, American singer (d. 1998)
1941 – John Mackey, football player
1942 – Ilkka Danny Lipsanen, Finnish singer
1942 – Gerry Marsden, English singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
1944 – Diana Körner, German actress
1945 – Lou Dobbs, American journalist
1946 – Mean Joe Greene, American football player
1946 – Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
1947 – Erik Hivju, Norwegian actor
1948 – Heinz Chur, German composer
1948 – Gordon Clapp, American actor
1948 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (d. 1998)
1950 – Alan Colmes, American talk show host
1950 – Mohinder Amarnath, Indian cricketer
1950 – Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
1951 – Douglas Kmiec, American legal scholar
1952 – Mark Sandman, American musician (d. 1999)
1955 – Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
1956 – Hubie Brooks, American baseball player
1957 – Tod Howarth, American rock musician
1958 – Kevin Sorbo, American actor
1959 – Steve Whitmire, American voice actor
1961 – Allen Bestwick, Nascar broadcaster
1961 – John Logan, American screenwriter
1962 – Jack Dee, British comedian
1962 – Rosamund Kwan, Hong Kong actress
1962 – Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer
1962 – Mike Phelan, English footballer
1962 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress
1964 – Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-born baseball player
1965 – Sean McNabb, American bassist (Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords)
1966 – Stacy Galina, American actress
1966 – Bernard Gilkey, Baseball player
1966 – Michael J. Varhola, American author
1969 – Shawn Clown Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
1969 – Shamim Sarif, English novelist and filmmaker
1969 – Donald DeGrate, Jr., American music producer
1969 – Goya Toledo, Spanish actress and model
1969 – Megan Ward, American actress
1971 – Michael S. Engel, American paleontologist and entomologist
1971 – Kevin Millar, American baseball player
1971 – Peter Salisbury, English drummer (The Verve)
1973 – Eddie George, American football player
1974 – John McDonald, American baseball player
1975 – Kyle Turley, football player
1975 – Mike Gallay, Canadian comedian and filmmaker
1976 – Carlos Almeida, Angolan basketball player
1976 – Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American professional wrestler
1977 – Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer
1978 – Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
1978 – Tarek Saab, American TV show contestant
1979 – Justin Bruening, American actor
1979 – Fábio Aurélio, Brazilian footballer
1979 – Katja Kassin, German pornographic actress
1979 – Ross Mathews, American television personality and comedian
1980 – Daniele Bennati, Italian professional road racing cyclist
1980 – Dean Canto, Australian racing driver
1980 – Sabrine Maui, Filipino/American pornographic actress
1980 – Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
1980 – John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
1981 – Drew Gooden, American basketball player
1981 – Ryan Briscoe, Australian racing driver
1982 – Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
1982 – Paul Hamm, American gymnast
1982 – Jeff Karstens, American baseball player
1983 – Randy Foye, American basketball player
1984 – Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer
1986 – Leah Dizon, American model and singer
1987 – Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
1987 – Matthew Connolly, English footballer
1988 – Karl Alzner, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Kyle Sullivan, American actor
1988 – Lisa Wang, American gymnast

Holidays and observances
366 – Pope Liberius
768 – Pippin the Short, King of the Franks (b. 714)
1054 – Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)
1118 – Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
1120 – Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
1143 – Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072)
1143 – Pope Innocent II
1180 – Manuel I Comnenus, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
1213 – Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)
1275 – Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b. 1208)
1435 – Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of Charles VI of France (b. c.1370)
1494 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
1541 – Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (b. 1493)
1545 – Albert of Mainz, archbishop and elector of Mainz (b. 1490)
1605 – Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (b. c.1547)
1621 – Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
1646 – Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (b. c.1565)
1707 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
1732 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
1742 – Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)
1802 – Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749)
1834 – Pedro I of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil (b. 1798)
1896 – Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)
1904 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
1930 – William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
1933 – Mike Donlin, American baseball player (b. 1878)
1933 – Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)
1938 – Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
1939 – Carl Laemmle, German-born American film producer (b. 1867)
1945 – Hans Geiger, German physicist (b. 1882)
1948 – Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
1954 – Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)
1962 – Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (b. 1887)
1975 – Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
1978 – Hasso von Manteuffel, German army general and politician (b. 1897)
1981 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910)
1982 – Sarah Churchill, British actress (b. 1914)
1984 – Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
1991 – Dr. Seuss, American children s writer (b. 1904)
1991 – Peter Bellamy, British folk singer (b. 1944)
1993 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
1993 – Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
1996 – Zeki Müren, Turkish musician (b. 1931)
2002 – Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
2002 – Mike Webster, American football player (b. 1952)
2003 – Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
2003 – Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 – Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
2005 – Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)
2006 – Michael Ferguson, Irish politician (b. 1953)
2008 – Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (b. 1918)

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Events
1122 – Concordat of Worms.
1459 – Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses, is fought at Blore Heath in Staffordshire.
1529 – The Siege of Vienna begins as Suleiman I begins his attack on the city.
1642 – First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
1779 – American Revolution: a squadron commanded by John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head, off the coast of England, against two British warships.
1780 – American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold s treason.
1803 – Second Anglo-Maratha War: Battle of Assaye.
1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis, after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
1818 – Border demarcation markers for Neutral Moresnet are formally installed.
1821 – Tripolitsa, Greece, falls and 30,000 Turks are massacred.
1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
1846 – Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; the discovery is verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
1868 – Grito de Lares (Lares Revolt) occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
1884 – Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
1889 – Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the Karlstad treaty, peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
1908 – University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.
1922 – Gdynia Seaport Construction Act is passed by the Polish parliament.
1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1938 – Mobilization of the Czechoslovak army in response to the Munich Crisis.
1941 – World War II: The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
1942 – World War II: First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
1952 – Richard Nixon makes his Checkers speech.
1959 – The M/S Princess of Tasmania Australia’s first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City opens with the completion of the first building, the Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall) home of the New York Philharmonic.
1969 – The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos announces over television and radio the implementation of martial law and signs General Order No. 1 ordering the arrest of opposition leaders, media censorship, banning travel to other countries except for diplomatic missions, abolishing the Philippine Congress, establishing dictatorial government, take-over or sequestering of public and private corporations and suspension of classes for one week.
1973 – Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
1983 – Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
1983 – Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
1988 – José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40-40 club.
1992 – A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in Belfast.
1992 – Scientists discover normal body temperature is not always 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
1999 – NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
1999 – Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. While some passengers only receive minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas s history since 1960.
2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (Phoenix 0.1) is released.
2004 – At least 1,070 in Haiti are reported killed by floods due to Hurricane Jeanne
2005 – FBI killing of Filiberto Ojeda on Plan Bonito Hormigueros, Puerto Rico.

Births
480 BC – Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
63 BC – Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
1158 – Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
1161 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
1215 – Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)
1434 – Yolande of Valois, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1478)
1598 – Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
1647 – Joseph Dudley, American statesman (d. 1720)
1650 – Jeremy Collier, English bishop (d. 1726)
1713 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759)
1740 – Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
1759 – Clothilde of France, queen of piedmont-Sardinia (d. 1802)
1771 – Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
1781 – Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)
1791 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
1819 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
1838 – Victoria Woodhull, American suffragist (d. 1927)
1852 – William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon (d. 1922)
1861 – Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
1863 – Mary Eliza Church Terrell, American writer (d. 1954)
1864 – Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903)
1865 – Emmuska Orczy, British novelist (d. 1947)
1869 – Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, first carrier of typhoid (d. 1938)
1880 – John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Laureate (d. 1971)
1889 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist (d. 1974)
1890 – Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957)
1895 – Miron Merzhanov, Soviet architect (d. 1975)
1895 – Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1897 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
1899 – Tom C. Clark, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1977)
1900 – Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988)
1900 – Bill Stone, British serviceman; one of the last surviving veterans of World War I
1901 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1986)
1902 – Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (d. 2003)
1907 – Dominique Aury, French novelist (d. 1998)
1907 – Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)
1911 – Frank Moss, United States Senator from Utah (d. 2003)
1912 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist (d. 2005)
1912 – Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)
1913 – Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (d. 2007)
1914 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
1915 – Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Laureate (d. 2001)
1916 – Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)
1920 – Mickey Rooney, American actor
1924 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan newspaper editor (d. 1978)
1925 – Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
1925 – Eleonora Rossi Drago, Italian actress
1926 – John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967)
1929 – Wally Whyton, English musician (d. 1997)
1930 – Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
1930 – Sehba Akhtar, Pakistani poet (d. 1996)
1930 – Colin Blakely, British actor (d. 1987)
1931 – Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator (d. 2004)
1934 – Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
1936 – Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician
1938 – Tom Lester, American actor
1938 – Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (d. 1982)
1939 – Henry Blofeld, English cricket commentator
1939 – Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)
1939 – Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
1939 – Sonny Vaccaro, American former sports executive
1941 – Simon Nolet, Canadian ice hockey player
1941 – George Jackson, American civil-rights activist
1942 – Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican politician
1943 – Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer
1943 – Marty Schottenheimer, American football coach
1943 – Tanuja, Indian actress
1944 – Eric Bogle, British/Australian singer and songwriter
1945 – Paul Petersen, American actor
1945 – Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
1946 – Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
1947 – Mary Kay Place, American actress
1947 – Jerry Corbetta, American singer and musician (Sugarloaf)
1947 – Neal Smith, American musician (Alice Cooper)
1949 – Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
1954 – Charlie Barnett, American actor (d. 1996)
1954 – Cherie Blair, lawyer and politician, wife of ex-British PM
1956 – Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer
1956 – Peter David, American writer
1957 – Rosalind Chao, American actress
1957 – Tony Fossas, Cuban baseball player
1957 – Kumar Sanu, Indian playback singer
1958 – Danielle Dax, British musician
1958 – Marvin Lewis, American football coach
1958 – Larry Mize, American golfer
1959 – Jason Alexander, American actor
1959 – Martin Page, English singer and songwriter
1959 – Elizabeth Peña, American actress
1960 – Jason Carter, British actor
1961 – Chi McBride, American actor
1961 – Willie McCool, American astronaut (d. 2003)
1964 – Clayton Blackmore, Welsh footballer
1964 – Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B z)
1964 – Larry Krystkowiak, American basketball player and head coach
1966 – Pete Harnisch, American baseball player
1966 – LisaRaye, American actress
1968 – Yvette Fielding, English television presenter
1969 – Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998)
1969 – Patrick Fiori, French singer
1969 – Tapio Laukkanen, Finnish rally driver
1969 – Donald Audette, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Ani DiFranco, American musician
1970 – Georgios Koltsidas, Greek footballer
1971 – Moin Khan, Pakistani cricketer
1971 – Lee Mi-yeon, South Korean actress
1971 – Eric Montross, American basketball player
1972 – Jermaine Dupri, American music producer and rapper
1972 – Karl Pilkington, British radio personality
1973 – Ingrid Fliter, Argentinian pianist
1974 – Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
1974 – Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model
1975 – Jaime Bergman, American model and actress
1975 – Layzie Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1975 – Chris Hawkins, British radio personality
1975 – Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player
1976 – Faune A. Chambers, American actress
1976 – Kip Pardue, American actor and model
1976 – Wladimir Sidorenko, Ukrainian boxer
1977 – Rachael Yamagata, American singer and songwriter
1977 – Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2008)
1978 – Worm Miller, American filmmaker
1978 – Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress
1979 – Ricky Davis, American basketball player
1980 – Cameron Litvack, American television producer
1980 – Matt White, American singer
1981 – Robert Doornbos, Dutch race car driver
1981 – Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)
1981 – Misti Traya, American actress
1982 – Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornstar
1984 – Anneliese van der Pol, American actress
1984 – Nathan Jendrick, American author
1984 – Matt Kemp, American baseball player
1984 – Alan Keane, Irish footballer
1985 – Maki Goto, Japanese pop singer
1985 – Jared High, American victim of bullying (d. 1998)
1985 – Brian Brohm, American football player
1985 – Lukáš Kašpar, Czech ice hockey player
1985 – Hossein Ka abi, Iranian footballer
1985 – Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
1986 – Martin Cranie, English footballer
1989 – Brandon Jennings, American basketball player

Deaths
79 – Pope Linus
1241 – Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (b. 1178)
1390 – John I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1346)
1535 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1513)
1571 – John Jewel, English bishop (b. 1522)
1573 – Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)
1605 – Pontus de Tyard, French poet
1675 – Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française (b. 1603)
1728 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655)
1738 – Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (b. 1668)
1764 – Robert Dodsley, English writer (b. 1703)
1773 – Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist (b. 1718)
1789 – John Rogers, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1835 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (b. 1801)
1844 – Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman (b. 1783)
1846 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (b. 1818)
1850 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan hero (b. 1764)
1870 – Prosper Mérimée, French author (b. 1803)
1871 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, French Canadian politician (b. 1786)
1873 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (b. 1823)
1877 – Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician (b. 1811)
1889 – Wilkie Collins, British author (b. 1824)
1900 – William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)
1917 – Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (b. 1897)
1929 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)
1939 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (b. 1856)
1943 – Elinor Glyn, English author (b. 1864)
1944 – Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist (b. 1875)
1950 – Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
1968 – Francesco Forgione, Padre Pio, Catholic saint (b. 1887)
1970 – Bourvil, French actor and singer (b. 1917)
1971 – J. W. Alexander, American mathematician (b. 1888)
1971 – Billy Gilbert, American actor (b. 1894)
1973 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1974 – Cliff Arquette, American comedian and actor (b. 1905)
1978 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (murdered) (b. 1950)
1981 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (b. 1899)
1987 – Bob Fosse, American dancer, choreographer, and actor (b. 1927)
1988 – Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (b. 1912)
1992 – James Van Fleet, U.S. Army general (b. 1892)
1994 – Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)
1994 – Robert Bloch, American author (b. 1917)
1994 – Madeleine Renaud, French theater and film actress (b. 1900)
1996 – Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
1998 – Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
1999 – Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)
2000 – Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)
2000 – Carl Rowan, American journalist (b. 1925)
2001 – Ron Hewitt, Welsh footballer (b. 1928)
2002 – Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster (b. 1927)
2003 – Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly musician (b. 1939)
2003 – Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman (b. 1937)
2004 – André Hazes, Dutch singer (b. 1951)
2004 – Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1918)
2005 – Filiberto Ojeda, Puerto Rican revolutionary (b. 1933)
2005 – Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)
2006 – Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter (b. 1921)
2006 – Etta Baker, American blues guitarist (b. 1913)
2008 – Peter Leonard, Australian journalist (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances
Astrology: Usually the first day of sun sign Libra in the tropical zodiac.
In ancient Latvia, the second day of Mikeli.
Roman Catholic Saints – Feast day of Saint Adomnan of Iona, Saint Thecla, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
Also see September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Traditional New Year s Day in Constantinople and Eastern Orthodox Churches — because of the birthday of Augustus, not because of the equinox.
Japanese Autumnal equinox Day (????/Shubun no hi).
Saudi Arabia – National Day (unification 1932).
French Republican Calendar – Safran (Saffron) Day, second day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
Celebrate Bisexuality Day first recognized in 1999, it now is observed annually in Australia, Asia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, and the United States of America.
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Events
66 – Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of Šiauliai.
1499 – Treaty of Basel; Switzerland becomes an independent state.
1586 – The Battle of Zutphen is fought.
1598 – Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.
1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.
1761 – Coronation of George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte.
1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
1784 – Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
1789 – The position of United States Postmaster General is established.
1792 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar.
1823 – Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that he was directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where the Golden plates were stored.
1851 – The city of Des Moines, Iowa is incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
1862 – Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
1866 – Battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
1869 – Richard Wagner s opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule e.g. Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right.
1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published
1893 – The first American-made automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.
1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1908 – The independence of Bulgaria is proclaimed.
1910 – The Duke of York s Cinema opens in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the Long Count boxing match to Gene Tunney.
1934 – An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those were the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
1944 – World War II: the Red Army enters Tallinn.
1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1955 – In Britain, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965/Second Kashmir War between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
1970 – Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.
1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
1979 – The South Atlantic Flash or Vela Incident is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
1980 – Iraq invades Iran.
1985 – The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
1993 A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed.
1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
1995 – Nagerkovil school bombing, was carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which 34 (at least) people died, most of them were ethnic Tamil school children.
1997 – Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers are killed.
2003 – David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
2006 – The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.

Births
1515 – Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557)
1547 – Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
1593 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (d. 1650)
1601 – Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France (d. 1666)
1606 – Li Zicheng, emperor of China (d. 1645)
1680 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
1694 – Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman (d. 1773)
1715 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)
1717 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783)
1722 – John Home, Scottish writer (d. 1808)
1741 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
1743 – Quintin Craufurd, British author (d. 1819)
1765 – Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician (d. 1822)
1788 – Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
1791 – Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
1819 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
1829 – T? Ð?c, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1883)
1869 – Adrien-Maurice-Victurnien-Mathieu, 8th duc de Noailles (d. 1953)
1875 – Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911)
1876 – André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1878 – Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
1880 – Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragist (d. 1958)
1882 – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)
1885 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (d. 1940)
1885 – Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
1885 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-born actor (d. 1957)
1889 – Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1891 – Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960)
1895 – Paul Muni, Polish-born actor (d. 1967)
1896 – Henry Segrave, British racing driver (d. 1930)
1898 – Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
1900 – William Spratling, American silversmith (d. 1967)
1900 – Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
1901 – Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1902 – John Houseman, Romanian-born actor (d. 1988)
1903 – Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d. 1971)
1904 – Ellen Church, American stewardess (d. 1965)
1905 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
1907 – Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (d. 1981)
1912 – Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
1912 – Herbert Mataré, German physicist and European co-inventor of the transistor
1915 – Arthur Lowe, British actor (d. 1982)
1918 – Hans Scholl, member of The White Rose (d. 1943)
1918 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988)
1920 – Eric Baker, British human rights activist (d. 1976)
1920 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1920 – William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993)
1920 – Anders Lassen, Danish military officer (d. 1945)
1922 – Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1923 – Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and writer
1924 – Charles Keeping, British illustrator (d. 1988)
1924 – Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
1925 – Virginia Capers, American actress (d. 2004)
1927 – Gordon Astall, English footballer
1927 – Tommy Lasorda, American baseball manager
1928 – Eric Broadley, MBE, British automotive engineer (Lola Cars)
1928 – James Lawson, American minister and civil rights activist
1928 – Eugene Roche, American actor (d. 2004)
1929 – Serge Garant, French Canadian conductor (d. 1986)
1931 – Fay Weldon, British feminist
1931 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)
1931 – Manzoor Ahmad, Pakistani philosopher
1932 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer
1933 – T. Cullen Davis, American oil heir and accused murderer
1934 – Lute Olson, American basketball coach
1936 – Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
1938 – Gene Mingo, American football player
1939 – Gilbert Earl Patterson, American minister (d. 2007)
1940 – Anna Karina, Danish born actress
1941 – Jeremiah Wright, American pastor
1942 – David Stern, American basketball commissioner
1943 – Toni Basil, American singer
1946 – King Sunny Ade, Nigerian singer
1946 – Dan Baker, American public address announcer
1946 – Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager
1947 – Robert Morace, American writer
1948 – Denis Burke, Australian politician
1948 – Jim Byrnes, American actor and musician
1949 – Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 1999)
1949 – Jim McGinty, Australian politician
1950 – Kirka, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
1951 – David Coverdale, English singer
1952 – Bob Goodlatte, American politician
1952 – Paul Le Mat, American actor
1952 – Gary Holton, English actor and musician (d. 1985)
1953 – Ségolène Royal, French politician
1954 – Shari Belafonte, American singer, actor, model
1954 – Randy Lanier, American racing driver
1955 – Jeffrey Leonard, Major League baseball player
1956 – Debby Boone, American singer
1956 – Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (Rats & Star)
1957 – Nick Cave, Australian musician
1957 – Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist
1958 – Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
1958 – Neil Cavuto, American television commentator
1958 – Joan Jett, American musician
1959 – Tai Babilonia, American figure skater
1959 – Pope Michael, American anti-pope
1961 – Scott Baio, American actor
1961 – Vince Coleman, American baseball player
1961 – Dr. Liam Fox, British Conservative politician
1961 – Bonnie Hunt, American actress
1961 – Catherine Oxenberg, British actress
1961 – Michael Torke, American composer
1962 – Diogo Mainardi, Brazilian writer
1964 – Randy Lanier, American car racer and convicted felon
1965 – Andy Cairns, Irish musician
1965 – Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player
1965 – Mark Guthrie, American baseball player
1966 – Moustafa Amar, Egyptian singer
1966 – Stefan Rehn, Swedish footballer
1966 – Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
1967 – Matt Besser, American comedian
1967 – Rickard Rydell, Swedish racing driver
1967 – Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
1967 – Kim Watkins, Australian television presenter
1969 – Chris Powell, English footballer
1969 – Matt Sharp, American musician (Weezer, The Rentals)
1970 – Mike Matheny, American baseball player
1970 – Mystikal, American rapper
1970 – Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor
1970 – Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
1971 – Chesney Hawkes, English singer
1971 – Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
1972 – Dana Vespoli, American porn actress
1974 – Bob Sapp, American boxer and kickboxer
1974 – Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer and actress
1975 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
1977 – Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby league footballer
1978 – Ed Joyce, Irish-English cricketer
1978 – Harry Kewell, Australian soccer player
1979 – Emilie Autumn, American singer and musician
1979 – Swin Cash, American basketball player
1979 – Michael Graziadei, American actor
1980 – Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian model
1981 – Ashley Drane, American actress
1981 – Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer (Kanjani8)
1982 – Mandy Chiang, Hong Kong singer and actress
1982 – Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer
1982 – Billie Piper, English singer and actress
1984 – Theresa Fu, Hong Kong singer and actress
1984 – Ross Jarman, English drummer (The Cribs)
1984 – Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
1984 – Eduardo Rubio, Chilean footballer
1985 – Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
1987 – Tom Felton, English actor
1988 – Bethany Dillon, American musician
1993 – Chase Ellison, American actor
1995 – Juliette Goglia, American actress

Deaths
1072 – Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and scholar-official (b. 1007)
1253 – Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist (b. 1200)
1345 – Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)
1399 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1366)
1520 – Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
1539 – Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)
1554 – Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer
1566 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (b. 1494)
1607 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)
1658 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)
1662 – John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
1692 – Martha Corey, hanged as a result of the Salem witch trials
1703 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)
1774 – Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
1776 – Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary War captain, hanged by the British as a spy (b. 1755)
1777 – John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)
1828 – Shaka, Accredited as being the most influential leader of the Zulu Empire (b. 1787)
1852 – William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (b. 1783)
1872 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)
1873 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1801)
1881 – Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)
1914 – Alain-Fournier, French writer (b. 1886)
1952 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first President of Finland (b. 1865)
1956 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1957 – Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
1961 – Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)
1969 – Adolfo López Mateos, president of Mexico (b. 1909)
1981 – Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)
1987 – Dan Rowan, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)
1988 – Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)
1989 – Irving Berlin, American songwriter (b. 1888)
1992 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
1993 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
1996 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer and director (b. 1924)
1996 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
1999 – George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
2000 – Rodney Anoa i (Yokozuna), American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2000 – Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator, (b. 1916)
2001 – Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
2002 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch-born writer (b. 1914)
2003 – Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)
2003 – Hugo Young, British journalist (b. 1938)
2004 – Ray Traylor (The Big Boss Man), American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2006 – Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
2006 – Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
2007 – Bodinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)
2007 – Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances
Annually on September 22 OneWebDay is celebrated.
In ancient Greece, the ninth and final day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the initiates made offerings to the dead.
Some Latter-Day Saints recognise it as Trumpet Day, or the day that Joseph Smith received the golden plates, which later became The Book of Mormon, from the angel Moroni.
RC Saints – It has been or still is the feast day of the following saints:
Saint Candidus
Saints Saint Digna & Saint Emerita
Saint Emmeramus
Saint Maurice
Saint Phocas
Saint Salaberga
Theban Legion
Saint Thomas of Villanueva
French Republican Calendar – Raisin (Grape) Day, first day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
Bulgaria – Independence Day (from The Ottoman Empire) 1908.
Mali – Independence Day (from France, 1960).
United States – American Business Women s Day
In Europe and in cities throughout the world, Car Free Day.

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Events
1217 – The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights.
1745 – Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
1765 – Antoine de Beauterne announces he had killed the Beast of Gévaudan, but was later proved wrong by more attacks.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
1792 – The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
1827 – Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Smith has translated into The Book of Mormon.
1860 – In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Baliqiao.
1896 – British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
1897 – The Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus is published in the New York Sun.
1898 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days Reform in China.
1921 – A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500—600 people.
1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshu, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien s The Hobbit is published.
1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
1939 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Calinescu is assassinated by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard.
1942 – On Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis sent over 1.000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
1942 – On the end of Yom Kippur, the Germans ordered Konstantynów Jews (Poland) to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto – established in Biala Podlaska, meant to assemble Jews from nearby 7 towns among them: Konstantynów, Janów Podlaski, Rossosz, Terespol, and 3 more.
1942 – In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2588 Jews.
1942 – The B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
1950 – George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States.
1961 – Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
1964 – Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world s first Mach 3 bomber, made its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
1965 – Singapore admitted as a part of the United Nations.
1970 – New York Times starts first modern op-ed page.
1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law.
1976 – Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
1979 – Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over the UK. Both pilots ejected safely. One of the jets broke up in midair and fell harmlessly into a field but the other dropped onto the centre of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, destroying two houses and a bungalow. Several people were injured in the accident and three people were killed.
1980 – Kerry GAA beat Roscommon GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 1-9 to 1-6 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row.
1981 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
1981 – Sandra Day O Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female supreme court justice.
1986 – Kerry GAA beat Tyrone GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 2-15 to 1-10 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row.
1989 – Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
1991 – Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.
1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
1995 – The Hindu milk miracle occurs, in which statues of the Hindu God Ganesh began drinking milk when spoonfuls were placed near their mouths.
1999 – Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
2001 – Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
2001 – AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people
2001 – University of Roorkee, becomes India s 7th Indian Institute of Technology, rechristened as IIT Roorkee
2003 – Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter s atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
2004 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People s War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
2004 – Construction of the Burj Dubai starts.
2008 – Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.
2008 – President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa resigns from office, effective September 25.
2008 – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel formally resigns from office, effective as soon as his successor Tzipi Livni has successfully assembled a new government.

Births
1051 – Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1087)
1328 – Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
1411 – Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (d. 1460)
1415 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
1428 – Jingtai Emperor of China (d. 1457)
1452 – Girolamo Savonarola, Dominican priest and ruler of Florence (d. 1498)
1559 – Cigoli, Florentine painter, architect, and sculptor (d. 1613)
1629 – Philip Cardinal Howard, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1694)
1645 – Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
1706 – Polyxena Christina of Hesse-Rotenburg, queen of Sardinia (d. 1735)
1756 – John MacAdam, Scottish engineer and road-builder (d. 1836)
1758 – Christopher Gore, 8th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1827)
1760 – Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman (d. 1837)
1819 – Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864)
1840 – Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1904)
1842 – Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
1849 – Maurice Barrymore, Indian-born patriarch of the Barrymore family (d. 1905)
1853 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
1862 – James E. Talmage, LDS apostle and author (d. 1933)
1863 – John Bunny, American film comedian (d. 1915)
1866 – H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
1866 – Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
1873 – Papa Jack Laine, American musician (d. 1966)
1874 – Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
1895 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925)
1899 – Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)
1902 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (d. 1963)
1902 – Sir Allen Lane, British founder of Penguin Books (d. 1970)
1905 – Robert Lebel, French Canadian ice hockey executive (d. 1999)
1906 – Henry Beachell, American plant breeder (d. 2006)
1912 – Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
1912 – György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
1916 – Françoise Giroud, French journalist and politician (d. 2003)
1917 – Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (d. 1968)
1918 – John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (d. 2007)
1919 – Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher and physicist
1919 – Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar (d. 1988)
1926 – Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1926 – Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
1929 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
1929 – Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
1931 – Larry Hagman, American actor
1933 – Dick Simon, American racing driver
1934 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter
1935 – Jimmy Armfield, Former English Footballer and Manager
1935 – Henry Gibson, American actor
1936 – Diane Rehm, American radio talk show host for National Public Radio
1936 – Yuriy Luzhkov, Russian politician, mayor of Moscow
1936 – Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter
1938 – Doug Moe, American basketball player and coach
1940 – Bill Kurtis, American television journalist
1940 – Hermann Knoflacher, Austrian civil engineer
1941 – R. James Woolsey, Jr., Central Intelligence Agency director
1941 – Jack Brisco, American professional wrestler
1944 – Fannie Flagg, American actress and novelist
1944 – Hamilton Jordan, U.S. President Jimmy Carter s original chief of staff
1944 – Steve Beshear, Democratic Governor of Kentucky.
1945 – Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
1945 – Richard Childress, NASCAR team owner
1945 – Shaw Clifton, the 18th General of The Salvation Army
1946 – Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor
1947 – Stephen King, American author
1947 – Marsha Norman, American playwright
1947 – Don Felder, American guitarist (Eagles)
1949 – Artis Gilmore, American basketball player
1950 – Charles Clarke, British politician
1950 – Bill Murray, American actor
1951 – Bruce Arena, American soccer coach
1951 – Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen rebel leader (d. 2005)
1952 – Anneliese Michel, German exorcism victim (d. 1976)
1953 – Arie Luyendyk, Dutch race car driver
1954 – Shinzo Abe, Japanese politician
1954 – Phil Philthy Animal Taylor, British musician (Motörhead)
1955 – Mika Kaurismäki, Finnish director
1955 – Richard Hieb, American astronaut
1956 – Jack Givens, American basketball player
1956 – Marta Kauffman, American television producer
1956 – Ricky Morton, American professional wrestler
1957 – Ethan Coen, American film director
1957 – Sidney Moncrief, American basketball player
1957 – Kevin Rudd, Australian politician
1957 – Penny Smith, English television presenter
1958 – Bruno Fitoussi, French poker player
1959 – Dave Coulier, American actor
1959 – Danny Cox, American baseball player
1959 – Corinne Drewery, British singer (Swing Out Sister)
1960 – David James Elliott, Canadian actor
1961 – Nancy Travis, American actress
1962 – Rob Morrow, American actor
1963 – Curtly Ambrose, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
1963 – Cecil Fielder, American baseball player
1963 – Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor
1964 – Jorge Drexler, Uruguayan singer and composer
1965 – Cheryl Hines, American actress
1965 – David Wenham, Australian actor
1967 – Faith Hill, American singer
1967 – Tyler Stewart, Canadian drummer (Barenaked Ladies)
1968 – Ricki Lake, American actress and talk show hostess
1969 – Jason Christiansen, American baseball player
1970 – John Cudia, American actor
1970 – Bridget Moynahan, American model and actress
1971 – John Crawley, English cricketer
1971 – Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor
1971 – Luke Wilson, American actor
1972 – Liam Gallagher, English singer (Oasis)
1972 – Scott Spiezio, American baseball player
1972 – Jon Kitna, American football player
1972 – David Silveria, American drummer (Ko?n)
1973 – Oswaldo Sanchez, Mexican footballer
1973 – Vanessa Grigoriadis, American journalist
1974 – Taral Hicks, American musician
1974 – Jana Kandarr, German tennis player
1974 – Andy Todd, English footballer
1975 – Doug Davis, American baseball player
1976 – Jonas Bjerre, Danish singer and guitarist (Mew)
1976 – Poul Hübertz, Danish footballer
1977 – Brian Tallet, American baseball player
1978 – Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1979 – Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
1979 – Chris Gayle, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
1979 – Julian Gray, English footballer
1979 – Jaymee Ong, Chinese-Australian model
1980 – Robert Hoffman, American actor
1980 – Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
1980 – Nyree Lewis, British Paralympic swimmer
1980 – Aleksa Palladino, American actress
1980 – Autumn Reeser, American actress
1980 – Tomas Scheckter, South African racing driver
1981 – Nicole Richie, American socialite
1981 – Rimi Sen, Indian actress
1981 – Meilinda Soerjoko, Indonesian-Australian actress
1982 – Eduardo Azevedo, Brazilian racing driver
1982 – Danny Kass, American snowboarder
1982 – Marat Izmailov, Russian footballer
1982 – Rowan Vine, English footballer
1982 – Parvati Shallow, American reality-show contestant
1983 – Fernando Cavenaghi, Argentinian footballer
1983 – Maggie Grace, American actress
1983 – Joseph Mazzello, American actor
1983 – Anna Meares, Australian cyclist
1984 – Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner, American swimmer
1985 – Maryam Hassouni, Dutch actor
1986 – Faris Rotter, English vocalist (The Horrors)
1987 – Jimmy Clausen, American football player
1987 – Ashley Paris, American basketball player
1987 – Courtney Paris, American basketball player
1988 – Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistani politician
1988 – Jason Derulo, American Pop singer and actor
1989 – Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins, American skateboarder
1990 – Allison Scagliotti, American actress
1990 – Christian Serratos, American actress
1991 – Jordan Hasay, American track and field athlete
1993 – Chris Gough, Canadian genius
1998 – Brino quadruplets, American actor/actresses

Deaths
19 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
454 – Aëtius, Roman general (b. c.396)
1217 – Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian soldier
1327 – King Edward II of England (b. 1284)
1397 – Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)
1542 – Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet
1558 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
1576 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (b. 1501)
1586 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)
1626 – François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)
1719 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
1743 – Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)
1748 – John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
1796 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
1798 – George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
1832 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
1860 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
1874 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (b. 1794)
1897 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
1904 – Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)
1906 – Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838)
1926 – Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
1938 – Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874)
1939 – Armand Calinescu Romanian prime-minister (assassinated) (b. 1893)
1946 – Olga Engl, Austrian actress (b. 1871)
1954 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
1957 – King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)
1963 – Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)
1966 – Paul Reynaud, French politician (b. 1878)
1971 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1972 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer (b. 1896)
1974 – Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
1974 – Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)
1976 – Orlando Letelier, Chilean diplomat (b. 1932)
1982 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
1985 – Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
1987 – Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951)
1988 – Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)
1995 – Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
1997 – Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)
1998 – Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)
2000 – Bryan Smith, Man who ran over Stephen King (b. 1957)
2002 – Robert L. Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932)
2004 – Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)
2004 – Bob Mason, British actor (b. 1952)
2006 – Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)
2007 – Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic gold medalist (b. 1929)
2007 – Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)
2007 – Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances
International Day of Peace
Roman Catholic Saints – Matthew the Evangelist
The Nativity of the Theotokos in Russia. Also see September 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day in Malta (1964), Belize (1981) & Armenia (1991)
Mabon – Neopagan festival of Mabon
In ancient Greece, the eighth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion finish and the feast, Pannychis, begin

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