Today in History

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Today is Wednesday, September 28, the 271st day of 2011. There are 94 days left in the year. 1066 ― William the Conqueror lands in England 1542 ― Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay 1858 ― Donati's comet becomes the first to be photographed 1919 ― Fastest major league game (51 minutes), Giants beat Phillies 6-1 1922 ― Mussolini marches on Rome 1939 ― Soviet-German treaty agree on fourth partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to the USSR 1968 ― Beatles' ``Hey Jude," single goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for nine weeks 1972 ― Japan and Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations 1982 ― First reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules 1986 ― Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)

Sep 27, 2011

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Today is Tuesday, September 27, the 270th day of 2011. There are 95 days left in the year. 1290 ― Earthquake in Gulf of Chili, China, reportedly kills 100,000 1540 ― The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola 1821 ― The Mexican empire declares its independence 1928 ― The U.S. recognizes the Nationalist Chinese government 1930 ― Bobby Jones completes the Grand Slam of Golf 1937 ― First Santa Claus school opens (Albion, N.Y.) 1939 ― Warsaw, Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance 1940 ― Black leaders protest discrimination in the U.S. armed forces 1953 ― Typhoon destroys 1/3 of Nagoya, Japan 1964 ― Warren Commission released, finding Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone

Sep 26, 2011

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Today is Monday, September 26, the 269th day of 2011. There are 96 days left in the year. 1687 ― Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks and Venetians 1789 ― Jefferson appointed first secretary of state, John Jay first chief justice 1907 ― New Zealand becomes a dominion 1957 ― Musical ``West Side Story," opens on Broadway 1960 ― Longest speech in U.N. history (4 hours, 29 minutes, by Fidel Castro) 1969 ― Beatles release ``Abbey Road" album 1973 ― Concorde flies from Washington, D.C. to Paris in 3 hours and 33minutes 1984 ― Britain and China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997 1984 ― U.S. President Ronal Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa 1988 ― Canada’s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-meter gold in Seoul Olympics failing drug test

Sep 25, 2011

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Today is Saturday, September 24, 267th day of 2011. There are 98 days left in the year. 312 ― Start of Imperial Indication 787 ― Second Council of Nicaea (Seventh ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor 1493 ― Columbus' second expedition to the New World 1852 ― A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated 1853 ― First round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt) 1895 ― First round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months) 1934 ― About 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium 1938 ― Don Budge becomes first tennis player to grand slam 1973 ― Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) declares independence 1976 ― Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to seven years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter

Sep 23, 2011

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Today is Friday, September 23, the 266th day of 2011. There are 99 days left in the year. 1642 ― Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., first commencement 1845 ― First baseball team, N.Y. Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code 1862 ― Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers 1938 ― Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100-inch of microfilm) 1949 ― Truman announces evidence of USSR's first nuclear device detonation 1973 ― Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power 1977 ― Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels 1978 ― 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit 1988 ― Jose Canseco becomes baseball's first to steal 40 bases & hit 40 homeruns 1990 ― Saddam says he will destroy Israel

Sep 22, 2011

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today is Thursday, September 22, the 265th day of 2011. There are 100 days left in the year. 1692 ― Last person hanged for witchcraft in U.S. 1792 ― Origin of French Republican Era 1862 ― President Lincoln says he will free slaves in all states on Jan. 1 1911 ― Cy Young at 44, wins his 511th and final game 1949 ― USSR detonates its first atomic bomb 1955 ― Commercial TV begins in England 1961 ― Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes the first ``double" crossing swim of the English Channel in 43 hours & 10 minute. 1973 ― Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's first Jewish secretary of state 1975 ― Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in S.F., Calif. 1988 ― Korean coaches attack the New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, the Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in

Sep 21, 2011

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Today is Wednesday, September 21, the 264th day of 2011. There are 101 days left in the year. 1784 ― First daily newspaper in America (Penns Packet & General Advertiser) 1792 ― First French Republic declared 1895 ― First auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company 1922 ― President Warren G. Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine 1931 ― Britain goes off the gold standard 1934 ― Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000 1949 ― Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under three-power occupation 1949 ― People's Republic of China proclaimed 1981 ― Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first female Supreme Court Justice 1981 ― Steve Carlton strikes out NL record 3,118th (Andre Dawson)

Sep 20, 2011

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Today is Tuesday, September 20, the 263rd day of 2011. There are 102 days left in the year. 622 ― Mohammad's Hegira 1519 ― Magellan starts first successful circumnavigation of the world 1859 ― Patent granted on the electric range 1951 ― First North Pole jet crossing 1954 ― First National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution 1958 ― Martin Luther King Jr. stabbed in chest by a deranged black woman in NYC 1973 ― Billy Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match 1976 ― Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion 1990 ― Both Germanys ratify reunification 1990 ― Saddam Hussein demands U.S. networks broadcast his message

Sep 19, 2011

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Today is Monday, September 19, the 262nd day of 2011. There are 103 days left in the year. 1356 ― English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers 1796 ― George Washington's farewell address as president 1846 ― Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning elopes 1849 ― First commercial laundry established, in Oakland, Calif. 1928 ― Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater, NYC) 1957 ― First underground nuclear explosion (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1959 ― Nikita Krushchev is denied access to Disneyland 1968 ― Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge (those Marin County folk!) 1981 ― Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert 1988 ― Israel launches first satellite, for secret military reconnaissance

Sep 18, 2011

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Today is Saturday, September 17, the 260th day of 2011. There are 105 days left in the year. 1939 ― Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II 1953 ― First successful separation of Siamese twins 1957 ― Two male attorneys ``stand in" as actress Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy in Juarez, Mexico 1959 ― Typhoon kills 2,000 in Korea and Japan 1964 ― Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kan.) 1976 ― NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, Calif. 1978 ― Begin, Sadat and Carter sign the Camp David accord 1980 ― Solidarity labor union in Poland forms 1983 ― Vanessa Williams of N.Y became first black Miss America 1991 ― South and North Korea join the U.N.

Sep 16, 2011

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