TUESDAY, Sept. 10, 2024

1847-First theater opens in Hawaii

1858 John Holden hits the first recorded HR (Bkln vs NY)

1869-Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan

1882-First international conference to promote anti-semitism meets in Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)

1939-Canada declares war on Germany

1953-Swanson sells its 1st "TV dinner"

1967-Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British

1976-Two airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard

1989-East Germans begin their flight to the west (via Hungary and Czech)

1990-George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki

1990-Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas, Nevada

1990-Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq