1400 Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers 1575 King Johan Casimir of Palts promises military aid to the Huguenots 1597 Albert VII Archduke of Austria's Spanish forces lose control of the city of Amiens to French King Henry VI 1620 The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England, with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World [O.S. Sep 6] 1652 Spanish troops occupy Dunkirk 1654 Russian troops occupy Smolensk in Poland 1666 Jewish mystic and rabbi Sabbatai Zevi, the "Messiah," appears before Sultan Mehmed IV, puts on a Turkish turban and converts to Islam 1668 Polish King John II Casimir Vasa resigns and goes to France the following year 1701 James Francis Edward Stuart (13) "The Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland on the death of his father James II 1702 Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne, and Bavaria 1729 William IV Prince of Orange installed as Stadtholder of Groningen 1747 French troops occupy Bergen op Zoom in the Netherlands 1782 Great Seal of the United States of America is used for the first time 1795 British capture Cape Town, South Africa, from the Dutch 1810 Carl Maria von Weber 's opera "Silvana", starring his future wife Carone Brandt in the title role, premieres at the Nationaltheater in Frankfurt, Confederation of the Rhine 1810 Priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rings the church bells in Dolores, Mexico, issuing a call to arms known as the "Grito de Dolores" (Cry of Dolores), calling for the end of Spanish rule. Celebrated today as Mexican Independence Day. 1822 George Canning becomes British Foreign Secretary for the second time, serving until 1827 1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes writes poem "Old Ironsides" as tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution 1847 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust buys Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, preserving it as a national memorial to the Bard 1848 Slavery is abolished in all French territories 1857 Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1857 comes into force, establishing individual rights, including universal male suffrage and freedom of speech, and removes Catholicism as the official religion, thus fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX 1858 First overland mail to California 1859 British explorer David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Lake Nyasa, which now forms part of Malawi's borders with Tanzania and Mozambique 1861 British Post Office Savings Bank opens 1862 Confederate General Braxton Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, Kentucky 1863 Robert College of Istanbul, Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist 1864 US Civil War: Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid) 1867 Ottawa Rough Riders and Senators play Canadian football game 1869 Golf's first recorded hole-in-one is scored by Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole in Scotland 1873 German troops leave France 1885 5th America's Cup: Puritan (NY Yacht Club) beats Genesta (Royal Yacht Squadron, Isle of Wight, UK) by 1:38 for 2-0 series win 1892 Amsterdam swimming club renamed "The Y" 1893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma, opens white settlement homesteaders 1896 Stephen Crane is threatened with arrest after intervening when a woman he was interviewing, Dora Clark, is arrested on suspicion of prostitution 1901 Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County 1901 French painter Paul Gauguin settles in Atuona in the Marquesas Islands 1906 Kaarlo Nieminen wins first Finnish marathon 1908 Carriage maker William C. Durant founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan 1913 Thousands of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage 1915 Tsar Nicholas II prorogues the Fourth State Duma amid mounting unrest and political turmoil 1915 US takes control of the customs and finances of Haiti for ten years 1919 American Legion incorporated by an act of US Congress 1919 Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati's first National League pennant 1920 The "Wall Street bombing" occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street, New York, killing 38 and injuring 143 1924 St. Cardinals future Baseball HOF first baseman Jim Bottomley sets MLB all-time single game RBI record of 12 in a 17-3 rout of Brooklyn Robins at Ebbets Field 1926 Hurricane in Florida and Alabama kills 372 1926 Italian-Romanian peace treaty is signed 1926 Philip Dunning and George Abbott's play "Broadway" premieres in New York City 1926 St. Louis Cardinals beat the Phillies 23-3 1928 San Felipe Segundo/Okeechobee hurricane crosses through the Bahamas as a Category 4 storm, killing 18, as it travels from Puerto Rico to Florida 1929 Police shoot at strikers in Maastricht, Netherlands, killing two people 1930 Phillies, trailing 10-5, score 5 in the 9th. Then Pirates score 4 in the top of the 10th, so Phillies score 5 in the bottom of the 10th to win 15-14 1931 A blimp is moored to the Empire State Building in New York City 1931 St. Louis Cardinals repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over the Phillies 1932 30.8 cm of rainfall in Westerly, Rhode Island (state record) 1932 British actress Peg Entwistle (24) commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the "Hollywoodland" (now "Hollywood") sign in Los Angeles, California [1] 1937 The Redskins NFL franchise plays its first game in Washington at Griffith Stadium and defeats the New York Giants 13-3 in the season opener 1938 British racing driver George Eyston sets a world auto speed record at 357.5 mph 1939 the New York Yankees clinch their 11th and 4th successive pennant by finishing with a 106-45 record 1940 Leo Durocher is suspended from Ebbets Field for "inciting a riot" 1940 Luftwaffe attack central London 1940 Samuel Rayburn of Texas is elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives 1940 St. Louis Browns' Johnny Lucadello is the second player to hit a home run from each side of the plate 1940 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Training and Service Act, the first US peacetime draft 1941 Adolf Hitler orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed 1941 German armoured troops surround Kyiv, Ukraine 1941 Jews of Vilna, Poland, are confined to the Ghetto 1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, repelled 1943 Montgomery's 8th army links up with invading forces in Salerno 1943 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquers Romny, Northern Ukraine 1945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low) 1947 John Cobb sets a world auto speed record at 394.2 mph 1947 Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo, and the Tone River area, killing at least 1,930 1949 KABC TV channel 7 in Los Angeles, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1950 Cleveland Browns (formerly AAFC) play their first NFL game, defeating Philadelphia 35-10 1950 Viet Minh offensive against French bases in Vietnam 1951 US National League umpire Frank Dascoli clears the Dodgers bench, ejecting 15 players 1953 AL approves St. Louis Browns' move to become Baltimore Orioles 1953 First movie in CinemaScope, "The Robe," based on the book by Lloyd C. Douglas, directed by Henry Koster, and starring Richard Burton and Jean Simmons, premieres 1954 CKLW TV channel 9 in Windsor, ON (CBC) begins broadcasting 1955 Bauer and Berra hit home runs in the 9th, beating the Red Sox 5-4 and taking over first 1955 US Auto Club forms to oversee four major auto racing categories 1955 Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle while running out a bunt 1956 Television broadcasting begins in Australia (black and white) 1957 Coup in Thailand deposes Premier Songgram 1957 Los Angeles City Council approves a 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for the Dodgers 1959 French President Charles de Gaulle recognizes Algeria's right to self-determination 1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98 years old after a 70-year career that included his final coaching role as the kicking coach at Stockton Junior College 1960 Milwaukee Braves' future Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn no-hits the Philadelphia Phillies 4-0 at County Stadium 1961 CDU loses West Germany election 1961 USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR 1961 WLKY TV channel 32 in Louisville, Kentucky (ABC) begins broadcasting 1962 Brian Kilby wins the marathon in 2:23:18.8 at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games 1962 Gerda Kroon runs a European record in the 800 m in 2:02.8 1962 Public TV channel 13 begins broadcasting in New York City 1962 USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR 1963 "The Outer Limits" premieres on ABC-TV 1963 Federation of Malaysia formed by Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak 1963 WVAN TV Channel 9 in Savannah, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1964 "Shindig" premieres on ABC-TV 1964 US Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina confirms he is leaving the Democratic Party to support Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater 1965 Boston Red Sox's Dave Morehead throw a no-hitter against Cleveland Indians, winning 2-0 1965 British singer Davie Jones changes his stage name to " David Bowie " to avoid confusion with the Monkee of similar name 1966 Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center, New York City, with Leontyne Price as Cleopatra in "Antony and Cleopatra" by Samuel Barber 1967 Anni Pede runs the women's world record marathon in 3:07:26 1967 KPAZ TV Channel 21 in Phoenix, AZ (IND) begins broadcasting 1967 USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan 1968 KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins broadcasting 1968 Richard Nixon appears on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" 1970 King Hussein of Jordan forms military government 1971 A number of Unionists resign over the proposed tripartite talks involving Northern Ireland, the UK, and the Republic of Ireland 1971 Six Ku Klux Klansmen are arrested in connection with the bombing of ten school buses 1971 West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev 1972 First TV series about mixed marriage, "Bridget Loves Bernie," premieres 1972 The sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show" (the Chicago one) debuts on CBS-TV; the first episode "Fly Unfriendly Skies" stars Penny Marshall as the stewardess 1973 Buffalo running back O.J. Simpson rushes for a then-NFL-record 250 yards in the Bills' 31-13 win at New England 1973 Dutch Guilder is revalued by 5% 1974 Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) begins regular rail service crossing under the San Francisco Bay, through the Transbay Tube 1974 Bob Dylan begins recording his 15th album "Blood on the Tracks" in New York City 1974 US General Alexander Haig Jr. becomes NATO's supreme commander in Europe

1974 US President Gerald Ford announces a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War draft evaders and military deserters 1975 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Rennie Stennett is second to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning MLB game in a 22-0 rout of Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field in Chicago 1975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day) 1975 The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight 1976 American Episcopal Church approves the ordination of women as priests and bishops 1976 Egyptian president Sadat re-elected 1976 Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir 1977 90-minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV 1977 Ringo Starr releases single "Drowning in Sea of Love" in the UK 1977 Seattle beats Royals 4-1 to end KC's winning streak at 16 games 1977 Sire Records releases "Talking Heads: 77," the debut studio album by the American rock band Talking Heads, featuring the single "Psycho Killer" 1978 7.4 magnitude earthquake strikes near Tabas, central Iran, killing an estimated 15,000 to 25,000 people 1978 American rockers the Grateful Dead perform last of three-night stand at the Giza Sound and Light Theater beside the Sphinx at the foot of the Great Pyramid in Egypt 1978 Filming begins for " Monty Python 's Life of Brian" on location in Monastir, Tunisia 1978 New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox 3-2 at Yankee Stadium; Blue Bombers' sixth win over arch-rivals in two weeks 1979 "Rapper's Delight," the debut single by hip-hop trio Sugar Hill Gang, is released by Sugar Hill Records 1979 Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium 1979 Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin 1979 KC's Willie Wilson hits his 5th inside-the-park home run, the most since 1925 1979 Russian Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid and Valentina Kozlov defect to the US in Los Angeles, California 1979 The families of Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel arrive in West Germany from communist East Germany in a hot air balloon 1979 USSR performs a nuclear test 1982 Massacre of over 1,000 Palestinian refugees at Sabra and Shatila begins 1983 Austrian weightlifter and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen 1984 First broadcast of " Miami Vice " on NBC-TV 1986 Fire in Kinross gold mine in Transvaal, South Africa, kills 177 1987 California's Bob Boone catches his record 1,919th major league game 1987 New York City's WNET-TV Channel 13 begins around-the-clock broadcasting 1987 Pope John Paul II 's ends his Los Angeles tour with an interfaith meeting at Dodger Stadium with leaders of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism 1987 USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan 1988 Cincinnati Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beating LA Dodgers 1-0 1988 Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 million in dispute over TV series 1988 Scottish singer Fish leaves progressive rock group Marillion 1989 14th Toronto International Film Festival: "Roger & Me" directed by Michael Moore wins the People's Choice Award 1990 42nd Emmy Awards: L.A. Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk , and Patricia Wettig win 1990 Iraq televises an eight-minute uncensored speech from George H. W. Bush 1990 Pirate Radio NY International begins transmissions on WWCR 1991 Norm Charlton is suspended for seven days for intentionally hitting Steve Scioscia with a pitch 1991 Otis Nixon of the Atlanta Braves is suspended for the rest of 1991 due to cocaine use 1991 US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins 1992 900 die in floods in Pakistan 1992 Black Wednesday: The UK government is forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism after being unable to keep it above the agreed lowest limit 1992 FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service 1993 "Frasier," starring Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce, premieres on NBC 1993 Minnesota Twins' Dave Winfield becomes the 19th player to achieve 3,000 hits 1994 Fire Department puts out smokey electrical fire in the White House 1995 Greg Maddux of the Braves sets a record with 17 consecutive road victories 1996 Courtroom reality show "Judge Judy" with Judge Judith Sheindlin premieres in the US 1996 First One-Day International in Canada, India vs. Pakistan at Toronto 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Panama City, Florida, on WTBB 97.7 FM 1996 MLB Minnesota Twins' Paul Molitor becomes the 21st player to reach 3,000 hits 1996 NASA launches Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17) 1997 American Basketball League MVP Nikki McCray signs with the WNBA 1997 Apple Computer Inc. names co-founder Steve Jobs as interim CEO 1997 Mark McGwire signs with the St. Louis Cardinals for $26 million 1999 14.8 inches (37.6 cm) of rainfall from Hurricane Floyd at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (state record) 1999 First-ever season of "Big Brother" reality show begins on the Veronica channel in the Netherlands 2000 Sammy Sosa becomes the second player to hit 50 or more home runs in three consecutive years, joining Mark McGwire 2002 Talk show " Dr. Phil " with Phil McGraw and co-created by Oprah Winfrey debuts on syndicated US TV 2005 Camorra Mafia boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples 2007 59th Emmy Awards: The Sopranos, 30 Rock, James Spader, and Sally Field win 2007 One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269, carrying 128 crew members and passengers, crashes in Phuket, Thailand, killing 89 people 2011 The critically acclaimed film "Drive," starring Ryan Gosling , is released 2012 14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, Turkey 2012 8 female civilians are killed by a NATO airstrike in Laghman, Afghanistan 2012 8 police officers are killed by a roadside bombing by Kurdistan Workers' Party militants in Turkey 2012 Anti-Japanese protesters set fire to Panasonic plant in Qingdao, China 2012 Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, seeks a court order to resolve a week-long teachers' strike 2012 NHL locks out its players after the expiry of the collective bargaining agreement 2013 12 people are killed after a gunman opens fire at a naval yard in Washington, D.C. 2013 21 people are killed by Hurricane Ingrid in Mexico 2013 Paul Kagame wins re-election to the Rwandan presidency in a landslide 2014 Barbra Streisand releases the album "Partners," featuring duets with other artists, and when it reaches No. 1, Streisand becomes the only recording artist with a top album in six decades 2015 700 million malaria cases prevented in Africa since 2000, according to a report by the University of Oxford in the "Nature" journal 2015 8.3 magnitude quake hits off coast of Illapel, Chile, killing 11 and prompting the evacuation of 1 million 2015 A report published in "Nature" journal states 3 million people die each year from air pollution, more than from malaria and HIV/AIDS combined 2015 In a military coup in Burkina Faso, President Michel Kafando and other officials are seized by presidential guards 2015 Oil tanker explosion kills 170 in Maridi, South Sudan 2015 Second Republican presidential candidates debate, hosted by CNN, features Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump facing off at the Reagan Presidential Library 2016 Chris Sharma free solos Alasha in Mallorca, Spain, the world's first 9a+ (5.15a) deep-water solo route 2017 New Zealand All Blacks rugby union team hands South Africa their biggest test match defeat in history, beating the Springboks 57-0 in Rugby Championship round in Albany, NZ 2018 Cycling land speed record is broken for men and women by Denise Mueller-Korenek, who rides at 183.932 mph (296.010 km/h) at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, making her the first and only woman to hold the overall title 2018 First-ever performance of the comedy "Love's Victory" by Lady Mary Wroth at Penshurst Place, England, 400 years after it is written 2018 Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes sets an NFL record of 10 touchdowns in first 2 weeks of a season, torching Pittsburgh’s secondary with 6 TD passes; leads Chiefs to 42-37 victory on the road 2018 Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and wife Lynne Benioff announce purchase of Time magazine for $190 million 2018 Scott Dixon of New Zealand finishes second in the IndyCar Grand Prix of Sonoma to wrap up his 5th IndyCar Drivers' title for Chip Ganassi Racing; Honda wins Manufacturers' Cup; Canadian Robert Wickens is Rookie of the Year 2018 Typhoon Mangkhut makes landfall near Jiangmen City, China, with winds of 120 miles per hour causing tower blocks in nearby Hong Kong to sway 2018 US Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accused of sexual assault in the 1980s in "The Washington Post" 2019 50,000 workers at General Motors go on strike in the US over pay and factory closings 2019 Guantánamo Bay is the world's most expensive prison at US$13 million per prisoner, according to investigation by "The New York Times" 2019 Marvel actor Mark Ruffalo rebuffs UK PM Boris Johnson , who compared himself to Hulk, "Boris Johnson forgets that the Hulk only fights for the good of the whole" 2019 Personal data on every Ecuadorian citizen is discovered online on an unsecured cloud server 2019 Study puts prices on the value of "thoughts and prayers", average Christian willing to pay US$4 for a prayer, average atheist would pay US$3 not to receive one, published in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" 2020 Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Mottley announces the country's intention to remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and become a republic 2020 Hurricane Sally makes landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, causing serious flooding 2020 Yoshihide Suga confirmed as Prime Minister by the Japanese government after Shinzo Abe stood down due to ill health 2021 Britain's Kew Gardens sets a world record for the largest living plant collection (16,900) on a single site, according to Guinness World Records 2021 French President Emmanuel Macron says France has killed leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi 2021 Idaho Department of Health and Welfare says the whole state is now in a hospital resource crisis and will ration healthcare due to the COVID-19 surge [1] 2021 Paris's Arc de Triomphe is covered in fabric as a tribute to the late artist Christo and his unfulfilled project, "L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped" [1] 2021 Researchers announce the discovery of bone tools at Contrebandiers Cave in Morocco, dating between 120,000 and 90,000 years ago, as the earliest evidence of humans making clothes [1] 2022 Singing drummer Ringo Starr releases his creatively titled third EP, "EP3" 2022 South Korean girl group Blackpink releases their second studio album "Born Pink," becoming the first K-pop girl group to top the US Billboard chart 2023 A massive rockslide in Greenland creates a tsunami wave in the Dickson Fjord that shakes the earth for nine days [1] 2023 New economic corridor to rival Chinese Belt and Road Initiative - the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor announced at G20 summit in New Delhi [1] 2023 Rolling Stone magazine co-founder Jann Wenner removed from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame board of directors after disparaging remarks about female and Black musicians [1] 2024 Alternative rock band "Jane’s Addiction" cancels final month of concert tour, citing a need to take some time away from each other three days after singer Perry Farrell's on stage altercation with guitarist Dave Navarro [1] 2024 American music mogul Sean Combs is arrested and charged the next day with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution [1] 2024 Typhoon Bebinca is the strongest storm to hit Shanghai in 75 years with winds of 151km/h (94 mph), bringing the city to a standstill, with 400,000 people evacuated [1] 2025 Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s resigns from the ice cream maker he co-founded in 1978, citing corporate parent company Unilever's curbing of the brand's activism [1] Historical Events Calendar Agatha Christie, The World's Best-Selling Novelist September 15, 1890 Agatha Christie, The World's Best-Selling Novelist Mad Monk Burns 2,000 At The Stake September 16, 1498 Mad Monk Burns 2,000 At The Stake The Diary of a Dead Officer September 17, 1916 The Diary of a Dead Officer Arc Lamps Light the Way to World-Beating Display September 18, 1879 Arc Lamps Light the Way to World-Beating Display Search the largest and most accurate independent site for today in history.