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• 422 Saint Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

End of the Western Roman Empire

476 Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman Emperor, abdicates after forces led by Odoacer invade Rome, the traditional date for the end of the Western Roman Empire

• 626 Shimin becomes Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China, when his father abdicates in his favour
• 925 Aethelstan crowned King of the Anglo Saxons by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Kingston upon Thames
• 1260 Battle at Montaperti, Tuscany, between rival factions the Guelphs and Ghibellines
• 1282 King of Aragon Pedro III annexes Sicily

Treaty of Alcáçovas

1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas-Toledo: King Alfonso V of Portugal recognizes Isabella I as Queen of Castile, the first treaty to recognize areas of influence outside Europe, with Portugal gaining the Atlantic [1]

• 1571 Catholic rebellion in Scotland

Hudson Discovers Manhattan

1609 Navigator Henry Hudson is the first European to discover the island of Manhattan [or September 11]

• 1618 "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs, Switzerland, and kills 1500
• 1636 The first opera staged in Vilnius and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, "The Abduction of Helen," debuts in the Lower Castle of Vilnius [1]

The Disguise of Charles II

1651 King Charles II of England, on the run from Parliamentarians at White Ladies Priory, disguises himself as a countryman by rubbing his hands and face with soot [1]

Siege of Namur

1695 French garrison of Castle Namur surrenders to the army of the Grand Alliance under the command of King William III of England

• 1778 City of Amsterdam signs a trade agreement with American rebels
• 1781 Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish-speaking mestizos in the Bahía de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes)
• 1786 William of Orange's troops overthrow the Dutch towns of Hattem and Elburg
• 1805 The first edition of the Batavian State Courier is published

North River Steamboat

1807 Robert Fulton begins operating scheduled passenger service on his steamboat between New York and Albany

• 1813 The Religious Remembrancer, the first US religious newspaper later renamed The Christian Observer, is published by the Presbyterian publishing center

Execution of José Miguel Carrera

1821 Chilean independence figure José Miguel Carrera is shot and killed after a show trial in Mendoza, Argentina

• 1833 Ten-year-old Barney Flaherty becomes the first newsboy hired by the New York Sun
• 1842 Work on Cologne Cathedral recommences after a 284-year hiatus
• 1854 English and French lay siege to the eastern Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky during the Crimean War

Volt and Ohm

1861 British Association for the Advancement of Science proposes standard units of electrical measurement (the Volt after Alessandro Volta; the Ohm after Georg Ohm) at its 31st annual meeting (Manchester, England)

Maryland Campaign

1862 General Lee begins the Maryland Campaign, invading the North with 50,000 Confederate troops (U.S. Civil War)

• 1862 North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in San Francisco
• 1864 Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama

The Third Republic

1870 The Third French Republic is proclaimed as France overthrows Emperor Napoleon III, who ironically is the elected president of the Second French Republic, after his defeat by Prussia at Sedan

Edison Lights Up Wall Street

1882 In its first large-scale test, Thomas Edison's light bulb is used to light New York's Pearl Street Station

• 1884 Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia
• 1885 The first cafeteria-style, self-service restaurant, the Exchange Buffet, opens in New York City

Geronimo Surrenders

1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders, ending the last major US-Indian war

Peter Rabbit

1893 English author Beatrix Potter writes the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5-year-old boy

• 1894 In New York City, 12,000 tailors go on strike to protest against sweatshops
• 1899 An 8.3-magnitude earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay, Alaska
• 1904 Dalai Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
• 1906 New York Highlanders beat Boston Pilgrims 7-0 and 1-0 for their MLB record fifth consecutive doubleheader sweep
• 1911 French aviator Roland Garros sets a world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
• 1912 First accident (collision) in London Underground: 22 people injured
• 1914 France, Russia, and Britain agree in the Pact of London that none will make a separate peace
• 1914 General von Moltke ceases German advance in France

Mathewson vs. Brown

1916 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown face each other for the final time; after 25 contests, Mathewson takes a 13-12 advantage with the Reds as 10-8 winners over the Cubs

• 1918 Jhr. Ch. Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes the first Dutch Catholic prime minister
• 1918 US troops land in Arkhangelsk, Russia, and stay for 10 months

Sivas Congress

1919 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace

• 1919 The British intervene in Petrograd
• 1920 Last day of the Julian civil calendar in parts of Bulgaria
• 1920 Man o' War wins the 1 5/8-mile Lawrence Realization Stakes at Belmont Park by 100 lengths, the largest winning margin in modern thoroughbred racing history, with a world record time of 2:40.8

World Record 2000m

1922 Finnish super athlete Paavo Nurmi runs a 2000 m world record of 5:26.3 in Tampere, Finland

Swallow Sidecar Company

1922 William Walmsley and William Lyons officially found the Swallow Sidecar Company (later Jaguar Cars) in Blackpool, England

London Calling

1923 André Charlot and Noel Coward's revue "London Calling" premieres in London

• 1923 New York Yankees pitcher "Sad" Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A's, 2-0

• 1923 The first US helium-filled dirigible, the USS Shenandoah, makes its first flightat the US NAval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey

• 1930 Cambridge Theatre opens in London

Sergeants' Revolt

1933 Coup against Cuban President Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada by Fulgencio Batista

• 1933 First airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), J.R. Wendell, Glenview, IL

• 1936 British-Kenyan aviator Beryl Markham takes off from Abingdon in England on a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean and crash-lands at Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, becoming the first woman to make the east-west trip [1]

• 1936 Largo Caballero becomes Spanish prime minister

• 1937 Fifteen-year-old cyclist Doris Kopsky becomes the first Amateur Bicycle League of America women's national champion in 4:22.4 in Buffalo, New York

• 1939 Dutch Second Chamber affirms the Netherlands is in a state of war with Germany

• 1939 German troops move into Gdańsk

• 1939 Mir, a Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland, is exterminated

• 1939 Netherlands and Belgium declare neutrality

• 1939 RAF bombs Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Pioneering Plastic Surgery

1939 Surgeon Archibald McIndoe sets up a new Centre for Plastic and Jaw Surgery at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, England, to treat injured airmen

• 1940 CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB in New York City

Mussert Collaborates

1940 Nazi collaborator Anton Mussert puts the fate of the Netherlands in Hitler's hands

• 1941 New York Yankees clinch their third straight AL pennant, beating the Red Sox 6-3; the earliest date in baseball history a team captures a pennant
• 1941 US destroyer Greer fires at German submarine U-652
• 1942 Transport #28 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
• 1943 British 8th Army lands in Taranto, South Italy
• 1944 2,087 Jews are transported from Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt
• 1944 British 11th Armoured Division liberates Antwerp, Belgium
• 1944 Finland breaks diplomatic contact with Nazi Germany
• 1944 US 1st Army liberates Namur, Belgium
• 1945 American chess grandmaster Reuben Fine wins four simultaneous rapid (10 seconds per move) games blindfolded in New York City
• 1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
• 1947 Champion Middlesex cricket batsman Denis Compton scores 101 for South of England in a tour match defeat to South Africa at Lord's, achieving his record 17th century of the English season

Wilhelmina Abdicates

1948 Queen Wilhelmina abdicates the Dutch throne in favor of her daughter Juliana due to illness after 58 years, the longest reign of any Dutch monarch

• 1949 Marie Robie sinks a 393-yard (359.36 m) hole-in-one on the first hole at Furnace Brook
• 1950 "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts in 12 newspapers
• 1950 D. McI. Hodgson of St. Ann's Bay, Nova Scotia, catches a 977 lb (428.2 kg) tuna, the heaviest tuna ever taken on a rod and reel
• 1950 First helicopter rescue of an American pilot from behind enemy lines during the Korean War
• 1950 Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, killing about 250
• 1950 NASCAR's first paved superspeedway, Darlington Raceway, hosts the Southern 500, the first 500-mile event in NASCAR history; Johnny Mantz wins in a Plymouth
• 1951 First transcontinental TV broadcast by US President Harry Truman
• 1951 NBC extends to become a 61-station coast-to-coast network

Japanese Peace Treaty Conference

1951 US President Harry Truman addresses the opening of the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference

• 1953 WATR (now WTXX) TV channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1954 Peter B. Cortese of the US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs, 22 lbs over triple his body weight, in York, Pennsylvania
• 1957 Ford Motor Co. introduces the Edsel automobile range

Little Rock Crisis

1957 Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Little Rock Central High School

• 1960 Hurricane Donna kills 148 in the Caribbean and US

• 1961 US authorizes Agency for International Development

• 1962 The Beatles record "How Do You Do It" at EMI Studios in London

• 1963 Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board

• 1964 Eduardo Frei Montalva is elected President of Chile

• 1964 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)

• 1964 Scottish Forth Road Bridge opens as the longest in Europe at the time

• 1965 KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting

• 1965 Rock group The Who's van is vandalized with $10,000 worth of equipment stolen while the group is inside Battersea Dogs Home buying a guard dog at the time

• 1965 The Beatles' single "Help!" goes to #1 and stays #1 for three weeks

• 1966 Australian Jack Brabham clinches his third Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship with a sixth place in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza

• 1967 Jerry Lewis's second Muscular Dystrophy telethon

• 1967 Train crash in Arnhem, Netherlands, kills 5

• 1968 Nigerian troops conquer the city of Aba, Biafra, during the Nigerian Civil War

• 1970 29.0 cm of rainfall at Workman Creek, Arizona (state record)

• 1970 An Irish Republican Army (IRA) member, Michael Kane (35), is killed in the premature explosion of the bomb he was planting at an electricity transformer in Belfast

Allende Wins Election

1970 Marxist Salvador Allende wins a narrow plurality of votes in Chile's presidential election

• 1970 Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet in London and is granted political asylum
• 1971 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, Alaska, killing 109
• 1972 "The Price is Right," the US's longest-running games show, debuts on CBS
• 1972 16-year-old Ulrike Meyfarth of West Germany, with a world record-equalling 1.92 m, wins the women's high jump gold medal at the Munich Olympics; she is the youngest winner of an individual athletics event in Olympic history
• 1972 American swimmer Melissa Belote, with a world record of 2:19.19, wins the 200 m backstroke gold medal at the Munich Olympics and wraps up the backstroke double, having won the 100 m in Olympic record time
• 1972 American swimmer Mike Burton sets a world record of 15:52.58 to win the 1500 m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 Italian diver Klaus Dibiasi wins his second of three consecutive 10 m platform gold medals at the Munich Olympics

Telethon

1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform three songs ("Imagine," "Now or Never," "Give Peace a Chance") at Jerry Lewis's 7th Muscular Dystrophy Telethon at the Americana Hotel, New York City

• 1972 Kenyan legend Kipchoge Keino follows his 1500 m gold in Mexico City with an Olympic record of 8:23.64 to win the 3000 m steeplechase at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 Soviet sprinter Valeriy Borzov runs 20.00 to win the men's 200 m gold medal at the Munich Olympics, wrapping up the 100/200 m double at the Games
• 1972 Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the largest art theft in North America at the time

Spitz's Record 7th Gold

1972 US 4 x 100 m medley relay team of Mike Stamm, Tom Bruce, Mark Spitz, and Jerry Heidenreich sets a world record of 3:48.16 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; Mark Spitz becomes the first athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals at a single Games

• 1972 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
• 1972 Willem Ruska of the Netherlands wins gold medals in both the heavyweight and open class Olympic judo competitions in Munich, becoming the first judoka to win two Olympic gold medals at one Games
• 1973 William E. Colby becomes the 10th director of the CIA
• 1975 Egypt and Israel sign the Sinai Interim Agreement (also known as the Sinai II Agreement) with the intention of peacefully resolving territorial disputes in Geneva, Switzerland
• 1976 Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus
• 1978 Jerry Lewis's 13th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $29,074,405
• 1979 India needs 438 to win against England; game ends at 8-429
• 1979 Iranian army conquers Baneh
• 1980 Progressive rock group Yes perform their last concert at Madison Square Garden, New York City
• 1981 Longest MLB game at Fenway Park ends in 20 innings as Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox 8-7
• 1981 Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC
• 1981 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1982 Arson fire engulfs an apartment-hotel in Los Angeles, killing 25
• 1982 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
• 1983 Californian skier Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed record at 119.36 mph (191.51 km/h)
• 1983 Greg LeMond wins UCI World Road Race Championship in 7h 01' 21" in Altenrhein, Switzerland; first American cyclist to take the title
• 1983 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, North Shore CC: Jay Sigel successfully defends his title 8 and 7 over Chris Perry
• 1984 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti is sentenced to 2 years on politically motivated charges of currency smuggling [1]
• 1985 New York Mets catcher Gary Carter hits two home runs in a 9-2 win in San Diego, tying the MLB record of five home runs in two games
• 1985 Russian Igor Paklin sets a new high jump world record at 2.41 m in Kobe, Japan
• 1988 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, New York
• 1988 The relocated Phoenix Cardinals play their first regular-season NFL game and lose 21-14 to the Bengals at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati
• 1989 Jerry Lewis's 24th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $42,737,219
• 1989 Monday demonstrations demanding political reforms begin at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, East Germany, and are later replicated around the country

My Own Private Idaho

1991 Gus Van Sant's film "My Own Private Idaho," starring Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix, premieres at the 48th Venice International Film Festival

• 1991 MLB Statistical Accuracy Committee votes to drop the asterisk next to Roger Maris' 1961 home run record of 61, passing Babe Ruth's 60, and determines an official no-hitter must go at least 9 innings

The Most Happy Fella

1991 Revival of Frank Loesser's 1956 musical "The Most Happy Fella" opens at the NY State Theater in New York City for a limited run by the New York City Opera

• 1991 Route 35 Theater in Hazlet closes its doors, the last drive-in in New Jersey
• 1992 "Scared Silent" about child abuse and hosted by Oprah is the first non-news program to air on three networks simultaneously (CBS, NBC, and PBS)

Nilsson's Final Concert

1992 Singer Harry Nilsson makes a rare and final concert appearance, joining Ringo and His All-Starr Band for a version of his "Without You" at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

• 1993 MLB New York Yankees one-handed pitcher Jim Abbott no-hits Cleveland Indians 4-0 at Yankee Stadium

• 1993 Penn State University plays its first football game in the Big Ten, beating Minnesota 38-20; quarterback John Sacca throws four touchdown passes to Bobby Engram

• 1994 Bulgarian government of Lyuben Berov falls

• 1994 Chinese diver Fu Mingxia wins the 10 m platform gold medal at the World Swimming Championships in Rome, Italy, becoming the first female to win back-to-back world titles in the event

• 1994 Kansai International airport officially opens near Osaka, Japan

• 1994 Miami quarterback Dan Marino throws five touchdown passes in Dolphins' 39-35 win over New England; sets NFL record with his 18th game of four or more touchdown passes

• 1994 Tom Tupa scores the first two-point conversion in NFL history, running a fake extra point attempt for the Cleveland Browns in a 28-20 win at Cincinnati

• 1995 Chicago White Sox third baseman Robin Ventura hits grand slams in consecutive innings, the fourth and fifth, of a 14-3 rout of the Texas Rangers

• 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance

• 1995 Jerry Lewis's 30th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,800,000

• 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Louisville, Kentucky, on WTFX 100.5 FM

• 1998 First "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" hosted by Chris Tarrant debuts on ITV in Britain

• 1998 NY Yankees beat Chicago White Sox, 11-6, to win their 100th game on the earliest date in MLB history besting the 1906 Chicago Cubs and 1954 Cleveland Indians by 5 days

• 1999 MLB's Cincinnati Reds set a National League record with nine home runs as they rout the Philadelphia Phillies 22-3

Event of Interest

2001 Robert Mueller assumes office as the sixth US Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

• 2002 After blowing an 11-run lead to Kansas City, Scott Hatteberg's bottom of the 9th walk-off home run gives Oakland a historic MLB victory, 12-11; A's set an AL record 20-game winning streak
• 2002 Argentina pulls off one of the biggest upsets in basketball history, beating the US 87-80 in the second round of the World Championships; first US loss in 59 games since sending NBA players to international competition in 1992

Hollywood Age Discriminaton

2002 Before a U.S. Congressional panel, Doris Roberts testifies that age discrimination is prevalent in Hollywood

Clarkson Wins American Idol

2002 Kelly Clarkson is crowned the winner of the first season of the "American Idol" TV singing competition series

Busch Youngest NASCAR Winner

2005 20-year-old Kyle Busch becomes the youngest driver to win a NASCAR Cup Series race when he outduels Greg Biffle in the Sony HD 500 at California Speedway

• 2006 Damon Allen moves past former CFL and NFL star Warren Moon as professional football's all-time leading passer, throwing for 207 yards and two scores as Toronto routs Hamilton 40-6 to achieve 70,596 career passing yards
• 2010 A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am, causing widespread damage and several power outages in the Canterbury region
• 2012 25 people are killed in a funeral suicide bombing in Nangarhar, Pakistan
• 2012 42 people are killed and 25 injured as a passenger bus falls into a ravine in Morocco
• 2012 A "magic carpet" that can help prevent falls among the elderly by warning them of unusual footsteps is developed by researchers at the University of Manchester
• 2012 Pauline Marois becomes the first female premier of Quebec
• 2014 Archaeological remains of a Viking fortress from the 900s CE, Vallø Borgring, are discovered in Denmark
• 2014 Monsoon rains begin and cause flooding over a sustained period, killing over 400 people in India and Pakistan

Dreamers Program Stopped

2017 US President Donald Trump announces the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will be stopped

• 2018 400-year-old sunken Portuguese spice trade ship discovered near the port of Cascais, Portugal
• 2018 Amazon becomes America's second trillion-dollar company

The Wizard of Oz

2018 FBI announces it has recovered a pair of Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz," stolen 13 years earlier

• 2018 Italian city Florence bans people from eating on the street in its historic center
• 2018 NFL player Colin Kaepernick, who kneeled during the US national anthem, is the new face of Nike's 30th anniversary advertising campaign
• 2018 Strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years, Jebi hits Tokushima Prefecture, swamping Kansai Airport and killing at least 11
• 2018 WHO reports that more than a quarter of people worldwide (1.4 billion) do not get enough physical exercise to avoid major diseases

No-deal Brexit Banned

2019 British rebel alliance of MPs votes to ban a no-deal Brexit and rejects PM Boris Johnson's call for a snap election

• 2019 Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam withdraws the controversial extradition bill to China after three months of massive protests

YouTube Fined $170m

2019 YouTube is fined $170 million for illegally collecting data on children's viewing habits by the US Federal Trade Commission

• 2020 A record 52% of American 18-29-year-olds live with their parents due to the pandemic, according to a Pew Research Center study [1]

Nigeria Suspends Twitter

2021 Nigerian government announces it is suspending Twitter indefinitely after removing a post by President Muhammadu Buhari

• 2022 Mass stabbing leaves 10 people dead and 19 injured with two suspects on the run in James Smith Cree Nation in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan [1]

Hugo Award

2022 N. K. Jemisin wins her fifth Hugo Award for her graphic novel Far Sector (Best Graphic Story or Comic), making her one of the few authors to achieve this [1]

• 2023 Lagos' first-ever metro rail service, the Blue Line, begins operation in Nigeria, reducing a 2-hour journey to 15 minutes [1]
• 2023 Military head General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is sworn in as Gabon's Head of State a week after ousting President Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose family has ruled for more than 50 years [1]
• 2023 Novo Nordisk, Danish manufacturer of weight-loss drug Wegovy, becomes Europe's most valuable company at $428 billion (£339 billion), overtaking France's LVMH [1]
• 2023 Storm Daniel begins across Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria, killing more than a dozen people as some regions receive 800 mm (31.5 inches) of rain, more than a year's worth of precipitation [1]
• 2024 14-year-old US student kills two teachers and two students, hospitalizing nine, at Apalachee High School, Winder, Georgia [1]
• 2025 "The Office" spinoff mockumentary sitcom "The Paper," created by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, starring Domhnall Gleeson and Chelsea Frei, premieres on Peacock
• 2025 6.2 magnitude earthquake centered in mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the third sizeable seismic event of the month
• 2025 Long-lost painting, 'Portrait of a Lady' by Giuseppe Ghislandi, is handed over to the Argentine justice system after being discovered in an estate that belonged to the daughter of a Nazi fugitive; the painting was looted in Nazi-occupied Europe, missing for 80 years [1]