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81 Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus

• 726 Ajpach’ Waa, Lakam (official), dedicates his hieroglyphic stairway in the Maya city of El Palmar, commemorating his diplomatic mission to Copán for the king of Calakmul [1]
• 786 Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother Al-Hadi
• 891 Stephen V's reign as Catholic Pope end with his death, succeeded a few weeks later by Pope Formosus
• 1163 Pastor Frederik forms a convent at Mariengaarde, Friesland
• 1180 Minamoto no Yoritomo led force of 300 defeated at Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan
• 1515 Battle at Marignano ends after two days in a French and Venetian victory over a Swiss army
• 1607 Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland

1629 Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch: Spanish garrison surrenders to Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange

• 1662 Treaty of Peace and Alliance between England and the Netherlands is signed at Whitehall, London
• 1682 Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, founded
• 1687 French officer Louis-Armand de Lom d’Arce, baron Lahontan arrives at Fort Saint-Joseph (modern Detroit) as its new commander (a year later abandons and razes to the ground) [1]
• 1716 1st lighthouse in American colonies lit at Boston Harbor

1741 George Frideric Handel finishes his "Messiah" oratorio after working on it nonstop for 24 days

1752 Britain and the British Empire, including the American colonies, adopt the Gregorian Calendar after skipping 11 days between September 3 and September 13

• 1759 Austrian troops occupy Dresden

1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of a misdemeanor charge

1812 Great Fire of Moscow begins as Napoleon approaches the city and retreating Russians burn it - fire continues to burn for five days

1814 Francis Scott Key pens the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry," later known as "The Star-Spangled Banner," while witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry from a ship in Baltimore Harbor

• 1829 Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
• 1847 US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)
• 1848 Alexander Stewart opens the 1st US department store, “The Marble Palace” in downtown New York City
• 1852 Samuel D Hubbard of Conn takes office as 18th US Postmaster General
• 1854 British and French forces land at Calamita Bay on the Crimean Peninsula, during the Crimean War
• 1856 Battle of San Jacinto at Hacienda San Jacinto, Nicaraguan forces defeat American filibusters
• 1862 Battle at Crampton's Gap: Union troops win a tactical victory over Confederate forces
• 1862 Battle at South Mountain: Union troops defeat an outnumbered Confederate force
• 1862 Battle of Munfordville, Kentucky, begins
• 1862 Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
• 1862 Skirmish at Fox's Gap, American Civil War

1867 Karl Marx publishes "Das Kapital" Volume 1, his theory of the Capitalist system and how it is doomed to destroy itself

• 1872 Britain pays US$15½m for damages during Civil War

1876 Belgian King Leopold II closes the Brussels Geographic Conference, establishes the International African Association, forerunner of Leopold's privately controlled Congo Free State

1876 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda

• 1882 British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
• 1886 George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee, patents typewriter ribbon
• 1891 "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M
• 1894 Hottentotten uprising in Southwest Africa fails
• 1899 Henry Bliss becomes 1st recorded US death from an auto accident when he dies the day after being hit by a taxicab in New York City
• 1900 There are now 62,000 foreign troops in Peking and nearby cities, still defeating Boxer Rebels.

1901 Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the youngest man to serve as US President, after William McKinley finally dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo

• 1905 Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated
• 1905 Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname
• 1905 RAC Tourist Trophy first run on Isle of Man
• 1911 Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin is assassinated in Kiev; his regime had been characterized by harsh measures to control dissidents
• 1913 MLB Chicago Cubs Larry Cheney hurls record 14-hit shutout against the visiting New York Giants, winning 7-0 at the West Side Grounds
• 1913 Route for the Lincoln Highway is announced, the first paved coast-to-coast highway across the United States, with terminal points in New York City and San Francisco
• 1914 German staff-of-chief Helmut von Moltke replaced by Erich von Falkenhayn
• 1914 German troops withdraw from Aisne

1914 Lord Kitchener: "Your Country Needs You" appears as the front cover design for London Opinion magazine

1916 Christy Mathewson pitches and wins his final game

• 1918 WWI: Austria-Hungary sends a note to the Allies requesting peace discussions, but the Allies reject the offer
• 1919 British regime forbids Sinn Féin Dáil
• 1920 The Trial of Sacco & Vanzetti: Sacco and Vanzetti indicted for murder
• 1922 Burning of Smyrna, the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks: Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor, destroying much of the port city of Smyrna (August 13 OS)

1923 In his 4th heavyweight boxing title defence Jack Dempsey recovers after being sent through the ropes to KO Argentine challenger Luis Firpo in the 2nd round at the Polo Grounds, NYC

• 1923 Red Sox first baseman George Burns pulls off an unassisted triple play
• 1929 A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox
• 1930 Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
• 1930 Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
• 1932 Military coup in Chile led by Arturo Alessandri
• 1933 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
• 1936 First prefrontal lobotomy in America performed by Walter Freeman and James W. Watts at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
• 1936 Pittsburgh Pirates' future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 MLB hits for 7th time

1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans US ships from trading arms with China or Japan

1938 Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes its maiden flight

• 1939 British fleet attacks German U-39 boat

1939 First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill visits British naval base Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands

1939 World's first practical helicopter, the VS-300, designed by Igor Sikorsky, takes a short tethered flight in Stratford, Connecticut [1]

• 1940 US Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill authorizing military draft
• 1940 WWII: German Blitz in England continues, bomb drops in London, Clacton, Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, Southampton, Bournemouth, Hastings, Brighton, Warrington, Chelsea, Fulham, and Lewisham, among other places, result in 94 civilian deaths and 426 injured
• 1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
• 1942 German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1
• 1942 MLB New York Yankees clinch the franchises' 13th American League pennant

1942 US Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz presents the 1st Medal of Honor of WWII, for courage and valor beyond the call of duty during the attack on Pearl Harbor, to sailor John William Finn; ceremony took place in Pearl Harbor aboard USS Enterprise

• 1943 MLB New York Yankees clinch the franchises' 14th American League pennant
• 1944 6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru
• 1944 Great Atlantic hurricane hits New England, 300-400 die along the US East Coast
• 1944 Gulpen, Meerssen & Maastricht freed
• 1944 US 28th Infantry division occupies 1.5 km of Roscheid
• 1944 US 4th Ivy League Inf division pushes through Westwall

1948 Gerald Ford upsets Representative Bartel J Jonkman in Michigan 5th Dist Republican primary

• 1948 Groundbreaking ceremony for initial buildings of United Nations Headquarters is held in New York City
• 1949 India's Constituent Assembly adopts Hindi as an official language, celebrated today as Hindi Day
• 1950 Western allies rearm West Germany
• 1951 Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats
• 1953 MLB New York Yankees clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Cleveland Indians

1953 Nikita Khrushchev appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, succeeding Malenkov

1954 Benjamin Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw" premieres in Venice, Italy

• 1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage

1954 New York Giants Willie Mays gets 82nd extra-base hit, breaks Mel Ott's record

• 1954 USSR performs nuclear test

1955 Little Richard records "Tutti Frutti" at J & M Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana, kicking off the tune with the immortal phrase "A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-bam-boom"

• 1955 MLB Cleveland Indians pitcher Herb Score sets rookie record of 235 strikeouts; finishes season with 245

1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer with a hard drive featuring magnetic disk storage, which weighs over a ton

• 1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia
• 1957 UN resolution deplores and condemns the Soviet invasion of Hungary
• 1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1958 NY Yankees win 24th pennant and 9th under Casey Stengel

• 1958 Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere
• 1958 WTAE TV channel 4 in Pittsburgh, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1959 Soviet Union's Luna 2 is the first spacecraft to impact the Moon [date noted is Moscow time]
• 1959 WQEX TV channel 16 in Pittsburgh, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1960 Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of Communist Party of USSR

• 1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela form the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

1960 Joseph-Desiré Mobutu launches a bloodless coup d'état in the Congo, declaring President Joseph Kasa-Vubu and Patrice Lumumba to be "neutralised" and establishing a new government of university graduates

• 1960 KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1963 Mary Ann Fischer of Aberdeen, South Dakota, gives birth to America's first surviving quintuplets, four girls and a boy

1964 President Lyndon Johnson presents journalist Walter Lippmann with the Presidential Medal of Freedom

1964 Walt Disney is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House by President Lyndon Johnson

• 1964 WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1965 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened
• 1965 Western sitcom "F-Troop" premieres in the US on ABC
• 1967 Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named
• 1967 Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge & Sanctuary opens in The Bronx, NYC
• 1968 Dmitri Shostakovich' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow

1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

• 1968 MLB Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season
• 1968 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on its first circumlunar flight

1968 While on tour in England, a fire at singer Roy Orbison's Henderson, Tennessee home kills the two eldest of his three sons

• 1969 Male voters of Swiss Canton Schaffhausen reject female suffrage
• 1970 Economic Council for Northern Ireland holds its first meeting
• 1971 Cleveland Indians & Washington Senators, play 20 innings
• 1971 Two British soldiers are killed in separate shooting incidents in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• 1972 "The Waltons" TV program premieres on CBS starring Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, and Will Geer
• 1972 2 people are killed and 1 mortally wounded in a Ulster Volunteer Force bomb attack on the Imperial Hotel, Belfast
• 1972 Jason Miller's "That Championship Season," premieres in NYC
• 1972 West Germany & Poland establish diplomatic relations
• 1973 Indianapolis is awarded a WHA franchise
• 1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s

1973 US President Richard Nixon signs into law a measure lifting professional football's blackout

• 1974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
• 1975 Milwaulkee Brewer Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's record, playing in 242 MLB games as a teen

1975 Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton is canonized as the first US-born saint by Pope Paul VI

• 1975 Rembrandt's oil painting "The Night Watch" slashed & damaged by an unemployed school teacher, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• 1977 Christmas Tinto sentenced to 7 years in Robben Island, South Africa
• 1978 MLB Atlanta Braves' Jim Bouton (38) beats San Francisco Giants, his 1st win since 1970
• 1978 Portugal government of Da Costa falls
• 1978 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode over 50 bombs in towns across Northern Ireland over the next 5 days, injuring 37 people
• 1979 The film "Quadrophenia", loosely based on The Who's 1973 rock opera of the same name, is released
• 1979 Theodore Coombs completes a 5,193-mile roller skate journey from Los Angeles to New York City and back to Yates Center, Kansas
• 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1980 Dwight Clark begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
• 1981 Entertainment Tonight premieres on TV
• 1981 Judge Wapner & People's Court premiere on TV
• 1982 36" snow (Red Lodge, MT)
• 1982 Bomb at Lebanese Phalange party HQ kills President-elect Bachir Gemayel and 26 others
• 1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of the English Channel
• 1982 Trevor Baxter sets a skateboard high jump record of 5 ft 5.7 in (1.67 m)
• 1983 Texan San Jacinto county sheriff James "Humpy" Parker convicted of violating inmates civil rights and of torture
• 1983 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner

1985 "The Golden Girls", starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, debuts on NBC

• 1986 Bo Jackson hits his first home run, a 475-foot blast, the longest at Royals Stadium
• 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed
• 1986 Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed

1986 CBS premiere of true life "The Last Days of Patton"

• 1986 NFL Bears running back Walter Payton scores his 100th career rushing touchdown, and gains 177 yards, surpassing 15,000-yard career plateau in 13-10 overtime win over visiting Philadelphia Eagles, at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois
• 1986 Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game

1987 Cal Ripken Jr.'s record streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is finally broken

• 1987 Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles
• 1988 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1989 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
• 1989 Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons
• 1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1990 Ken Griffey, Sr & Jr, hit back-to-back HRs in 1st inning
• 1991 San Diego State freshman running back Marshall Faulk rushes for NCAA record 386 yards and scores 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific, 55-34
• 1991 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1992 First subway car is completed for export from the US to Taiwan

1993 MCA and Virgin Records release album "Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell" by singer Meat Loaf, written and produced by Jim Steinman; it arrives 16 years after the first installment of eventual trilogy, and features the hit "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"

• 1995 Body Worlds opens in Tokyo, Japan
• 1996 As' Mark McGwire is 13th player to hit 50-HRs in a season
• 1996 England Test cricket fast bowler Dean Headley equals WR by taking his 3rd hat-trick of the English County season for Kent v Hampshire at Canterbury
• 1996 NY Met Todd Huntley sets record of 41 HRs by a catcher
• 1997 49th Emmy Awards: Law & Order, Frasier, Dennis Franz & Gillian Anderson win
• 1997 Chicago Whites Sox retire Carlton Fisk's #72
• 1998 British TV show "The Royle Family" written and starring Caroline Adherne and Craig Cash, also starring Ricky Tomlinson and Sue Johnston premieres on BBC Two
• 1998 MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form the telecommunications giant MCI WorldCom
• 1999 Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations
• 2001 Australian bankruptcy administrator determines that Ansett Australia airlines is not financially viable to continue operations; stoppage strands thousands of passengers and throws more than 16,000 people out of a job

2001 Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

• 2003 Baltimore running back Jamal Lewis sets the NFL single-game rushing record when he runs for 295 yards and 2 touchdowns on 30 carries in the Ravens 33-13 victory over Cleveland
• 2003 Estonia votes to join the European Union in a referendum
• 2003 Sweden rejects adopting the Euro in a referendum

2007 Restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass are officially removed in the Roman Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum takes effect

2009 David Attenborough and Prince William officially open the Darwin Centre at the National History Museum London, in what is the Museum's most significant expansion since 1881

2011 Elizabeth Warren announces she intends to run for the Democratic nomination for the 2012 Massachusetts Senatorial election

• 2012 Ferry sinks amid 10 foot waves off Indonesia's Sumatra Island, killing 21 people
• 2014 The United States defeats Serbia 129-92 to win the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup

2015 14-year-old Texan Ahmed Mohamed is arrested at school when a homemade clock is assumed to be a bomb; the boy receives an outpouring of support, and US President Barack Obama invites him to the White House

2015 Malcolm Turnbull ousts Tony Abbott as Australian Prime Minister and leader of the ruling Liberal Party

• 2017 19 people die when a boat capsizes on Yamun River in Uttar Pradesh, India
• 2017 Bodleian Library reveals the earliest evidence of the zero symbol in a 3rd- or 4th-century Bakhshali (Pakistan) manuscript through carbon dating
• 2017 Fire at a religious school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, kills 23

2017 Selena Gomez reveals she had a kidney transplant, because of lupus, donated by her friend Francia Rais

• 2017 Two Islamic State terrorist attacks in Dhiqar province, Southern Iraq, kill at least 60
• 2018 Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort pleads guilty to conspiracy charges and agrees to co-operative with Government investigations
• 2018 Hurricane Florence makes landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, as a category 1 hurricane
• 2019 Drone attack on Abqaiq oil plant in Saudi Arabia takes out half of country's oil production and 5% of the world's. Yemen Houthi rebels claim responsibility.
• 2019 Former Welsh rugby union and league player Gareth Thomas reveals he is HIV positive
• 2020 Astronomers report a possible sign of life on Venus after detecting phosphine in the planet's atmosphere through a telescope [1]
• 2020 Israel becomes the 1st country to announce a second national lockdown due to COVID-19, for 3 weeks
• 2020 Jakarta, Indonesia's biggest city of 10 million, imposes widespread restrictions again, amid warnings the healthcare system is on the verge of collapse
• 2020 WHO reports largest-ever one-day COVID-19 case rise of 307,930, daily death toll of 5,500, overall death total is 917,417

2021 California Governor Gavin Newsom defeats a state vote to recall him from office

• 2021 One in 500 Americans has died of COVID-19 as the nation's known death toll reaches 663,913 (Johns Hopkins) [1]
• 2021 US records lowest level of people living in poverty since records began in 1967 (9.1% vs 11.8% in 2019), due to increase in government aid [1]

2022 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis send two planes of Venezuelan immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, as a political ploy [1]

2022 Musician R. Kelly found convicted of further sex crimes in Chicago, including producing child sexual abuse imagery [1]

2022 Procession of Queen Elizabeth II's coffin from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster to lie in state, with queues of people paying their respects forming 2.4 miles (3.8km) [1]

• 2023 Huge loss of life in Libyan floods could have been avoided with functioning weather service, according to World Meteorological Organization, amid reports death toll could reach 20,000 [1]
• 2023 Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, indicted on charges tied to the possession of a gun while using narcotics [1]
• 2023 NASA's probe into UFO sightings is inconclusive, largely due to a lack of good data, finds no evidence of aliens but does not rule out the possibility [1]
• 2024 US Navy commissions its first mixed-gender submarine the USS New Jersey at Naval Weapons Station Earle, Middletown, New Jersey [1]
• 2025 77th Emmy Awards: "The Studio" becomes the most-nominated first-year comedy series, "The Pitt" wins Best Drama, "Adolescence" wins Best Limited Series [1]

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