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Today in history, 20 June:
* 451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius’ battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
* 1214 – The University of Oxford receives its charter.
* 1605 – After only three months as tsar, 16-year-old Feodor II of Russia was assassinated.
* 1631 – The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
* 1652 – Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire, served until March 21, 1653.
* 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
* 1756 – A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
* 1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
* 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.

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1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
1306 – The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Bruce’s Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in North America.
1770 – Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Today in history, 23 september, the following happened.

2009 A gun battle between U.S. agents and suspected people smugglers shuts down San Ysidro U.S. Mexico border crossing
1994 Pinatubo volcano in Philippines erupts, kills at least 14
1993 “Les Miserables,” opens at Playhouse, Edinburgh
1993 Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123 degrees C (record high)
1992 Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL
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Today in history, 21 September the following happened:

1999 Earthquake kills 2,295 in central Taiwan
1997 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA PING Welch’s Championship
1997 Mike Piazza is 2nd to hit a home run out of Dodger Stadium
1997 Tim Herron wins Texas Golf Open shooting a 271
1996 Christie Brinkey gets married for 4th time, she marries Peter Cook
1996 John F. Kennedy, Jr. marries Caroline Bisset
1994 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Ft. Lauderdale / Miami, Florida on WBGG 105.9 FM
1993 Ukraine government of Kutshma resigns
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Today in history, 20 September, the following happened:

2000 Patent on RSA cryptograph algorithm ends
1995 Cincinnati Reds becomes 1st team to clinch NL Central
1994 Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands
1992 Colleen Walker wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1992 Frances votes in favor of Maastricht treaty
1992 Leanza Cornett (Florida), 21, crowned 66th Miss America 1993
1992 Phils’ Mickey Moradini makes an unassisted triple play
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Today in history, the following happened:

2008 Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy
1997 Edison International purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M
1997 Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000
1996 2nd Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 16 -15 at Robert Jones Va
1996 Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final
1996 Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1996 Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan’s #34
1995 Cards shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays
1994 “Sound of Motown,” premieres in Rotterdam
1994 Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St. Maarten
1994 Moslem fundamentalists kidnap and behead 16 citizens in Algeria
1993 Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament
1992 Ted Weiss, despite dying on 14th, wins congressional New York City seat
1991 “Party Machine with Nia Peeples” final show
1991 19th du Maurier Golf Classic: Nancy Scranton
1991 NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha “Cookie” Kelly
1991 SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets NCAA rushing record of 386 yards
1991 U.S. women’s gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver)
1990 42nd Emmy Awards – LA Law and Murphy Brown win
1990 Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves
1990 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1990 Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000
1990 France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf
1988 “Les Miserables,” opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna
1988 Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics
1988 Museum of Moving Image in London opens
1988 Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi
1986 1st broadcast of “LA Law” on NBC-TV
1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead
1985 26th Ryder Cup: Europe beat U.S., 16 -11 at The Belfry, England
1985 Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1985 Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government
1985 Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings
1985 Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid concert
1985 Yankees trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro
1984 Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985
1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1983 Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting New York City subway
1983 Israel premier Begin resigns
1982 1st issue of “USA Today” published by Gannett Co Inc
1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut
1982 Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1981 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O’Connor
1981 Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical “Laborem exercens” against capitalism/marxism
1980 Paul McCartney releases “Temporary Secretary”
1979 Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL and NL (Astros)
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978 Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans
1978 Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 Yankees beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yankees lead 2 games
1977 “Man of La Mancha” opens at Palace Theater New York City for 124 performances
1977 President Carter meets with 15 record company executives
1977 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who …,” premieres in New York City
1976 Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days
1975 Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game
1974 Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens
1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1973 “Star Trek-Animated” premieres on TV
1973 Dutch Guilder devalued 5%
1973 Ohio State’s Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing
1973 Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1 miles
1972 WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 1st broadcast of “Columbo” on NBC-TV
1970 Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million
1970 PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
1970 Rotterdam harbor strikes end
1969 Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 New York Mets in a game
1968 “Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park” Show on CBS TV
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1968 Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
1968 Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo
1967 KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched
1966 Dutch political party (D’66) forms
1966 Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth
1965 “Lost in Space” premieres
1964 Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland
1964 Final edition of socialist British newspaper “Daily Herald”
1963 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
1963 Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, and Jesus-appear in San Francisco outfield for 1 inn
1963 Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria
1963 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Eugene Ladies’ Golf Open
1963 WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 “Bravo, Giovanni” closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 76 performances
1962 Australia’s 1st entry in America’s Cup yacht race (U.S. wins)
1962 KC A’s Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1962 WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 61st U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
1961 Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph
1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in U.S. to begin a 13-day visit
1958 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ
1958 Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ)
1957 “Bachelor Father” with John Forsythe premieres
1957 Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany
1957 SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game
1955 WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, Florida (CBS) begins
1953 Boxing’s NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner)
1953 KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, Arizona (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 Braves last game in Boston’s Braves Field before move to Milwaukee
1952 European Parliament forms in Strasbourg
1952 U.N. turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia
1951 “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” closes at Ziegfeld New York City after 740 performances
1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8)
1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum
1950 During Korean conflict, United Nations forces land at Inchon in South Korea
1950 East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification
1950 For a record 6th time, New York Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 home runs in one game
1950 Longest game in Phila’s Shribe Park, Phillies beat Reds 8-7 in 19
1950 U.N. lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south
1950 U.S. troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul
1949 “Lone Ranger” premieres on ABC-TV
1949 WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting
1948 “Small Wonder” opens at Coronet Theater New York City for 134 performances
1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph
1948 WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WMGM
1947 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
1947 Yankees clinch pennant #15
1946 Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats
1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
1944 Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria
1944 U.S. 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall
1944 U.S. 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid
1944 U.S. troops lands on Palau and Morotai
1943 Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy
1943 Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens
1943 Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens
1942 U.S. aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal
1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania
1940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
1940 Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)
1940 Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company
1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group
1940 Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe
1938 British Prime Minister Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
1938 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
1938 Only time brothers hit back-to-back home runs (Lloyd and Paul Waner, Pitts)
1937 WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to San Francisco Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)
1935 Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany
1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
1931 Philadelphia A’s clinch pennant, beating Cleveland
1930 1st International bridge match is held in London. U.S. team defeats England
1928 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva
1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1928 Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6
1928 Stothard, Kalmar and Ruby’s musical “Good Boy,” premieres in New York City
1923 43rd U.S. Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64)
1923 Bill Tilden wins U.S. Lawn Tennis Open
1922 Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 home runs in a game since 1897
1921 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus
1921 WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
1917 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
1916 1st tank used in war, “Little Willies” at Battle of Flors, France
1916 Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme)
1915 Boston Braves beat St. Louis Cardinals 20-1
1914 Battle of Aisne begins between Germans and French during WW I
1914 U.S. Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico
1913 1st U.S. milch goat show held, Rochester, New York
1912 Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins
1912 War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania
1910 Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South Africa (South Africa History)
1904 Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
1903 Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers “criminals”
1899 5th U.S. Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD
1898 National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
1894 Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang
1882 British general Wolseley occupies Cairo
1879 Pim Mulier forms “Haarlem Football Club”
1873 Last German troops leave France
1870 Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18)
1862 Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV
1857 Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine
1853 1st U.S. woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell
1846 Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
1835 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reache Galapagos Islands
1830 1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
1830 Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool and Manchester Railway
1821 Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua gain independ
1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow
1795 Cape Colony surrenders to England
1789 Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State
1787 Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam
1776 British forces capture Kip’s Bay Manhattan during Revolution
1774 Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured
1733 King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons
1707 Rakoczi II and Czar Peter the Great sign social security agreement
1683 Germantown Pennsylvania founded by 13 immigrant families
1656 England and France sign peace treaty
1644 Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X
1621 Swedish troops occupy Riga
1620 Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims
1619 Prince Bethlen Gabors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary
1590 Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII
1584 San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished
1514 Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York

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Today in history the following happened:

1998 SAFECO Golf Classic
1997 Katherine Shindle (Ill), 24, crowned 71st Miss America 1998
1996 Phil Simmons scores 171 and takes 6-14 for Leics vs. Durham
1994 George Burns, undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain
1994 Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun
1993 Israeli Minister of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord
1993 Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11)
1993 Queens New York begins required recycling
1992 112th U.S. Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Pete Sampras (36 64 76 62)
1992 New York Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28
1992 Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
1992 Steffan Edberg beats Pete Sampress to win U.S. Open
1991 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium
1991 Joe Carter is 1st to have 3 consec 100-RBI seasons with 3 differ teams
1991 Joe Coleman 3rd 100 RBI season in a row 3 teams (Cleveland, San Diego and Toronto)
1991 Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts
1990 Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die
1990 Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
1990 Robert E. Nederlander appointed New York Yankee managing general partner
1990 Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter
1989 “Les Miserables,” opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit
1989 Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
1989 Fay Vincent elected baseball’s 8th commissioner
1988 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams
1988 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York
1988 Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere
1987 Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro
1987 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1987 Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours
1986 Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 home runs in a season
1985 2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen
1985 John Williams introduces new Today Show theme
1984 STS-41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed
1983 Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save
1983 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1983 Oakland’s Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season
1983 Steve O’Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 minutes, Lancs vs. Leics
1983 U.S. Mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
1982 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain
1982 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game
1981 101st U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (46 62 64 63)
1981 33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St. Blue, Judd Hirsh and Isabel Sanford wins
1981 April Moon sets women’s handbow distance record of 1,039 yards and 13″
1981 Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay)
1981 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1981 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1980 1st United Negro College Fund
1979 China performs nuclear test
1979 South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of South Africa) (South African History)
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1923 Mary Katherine Campbell (Ohio), 16, crowned 2nd Miss America 1922-23
1922 South Africa concludes an agreement with the Marconi Company for a high-powered radio station (South African History)
1916 Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch New York’s record 26-game winning streak
1916 Workmen’s Compensation Act passed by Congress
1915 35th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm Johnston beats M E McLoughlin (16 60 75 108)
1915 John Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll
1915 St. Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0
1914 New York Post Office Building opens to public
1912 Eddie Collins steals record 6 bases in 9-7 Athletics win over Detroit
1907 Sutro’s ornate Cliff House in San Francisco destroyed by fire
1903 Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY
1901 Peace of Peking – Ends Boxer Rebellion in China
1897 George Davis (Giants) home run off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH
1896 1st closed-circuit auto race, at Cranston, RI
1896 A. H. Whiting wins 1st automobile race held on a track in Cranston, Rhode Island
1892 James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title
1891 Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Engineer’s Thumb”
1888 Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby place in an incubator
1880 Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters
1876 Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)
1863 Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass
1860 Excursion steamer “Lady Elgin” drowns 340 in Lake Michigan
1822 Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day)
1822 Pedro I, son of king Joao VI, declares Brazil independence
1813 “Uncle Sam” was 1st used to refer to U.S. (Troy Post of New York)
1812 Battle at Borodino: Napoleon-Kutuzov
1800 Zion AME Church dedicated (New York City)
1714 Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine
1701 Germany, England and Netherlands sign anti-French covenant
1652 Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English
1599 Earl van Essex and Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty
1596 Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java
1543 Duke Willem of Gulik surrenders to emperor Charles V
1525 Trial against “heretic” John Pistorius ends in the Hague
1497 Sailor Perkin Warbeck becomes English King Richard IV
1159 Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope
70 Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem

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1963 Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records
1963 Major league baseballs 100,000th game
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar U.S.S.R.
1959 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1958 Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1957 Elvis records “White Xmas,” “Silent Night” and “Here Comes Santa Claus”
1955 “Catch a Star” opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 23 performances
1955 J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname
1954 68th U.S. Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86)
1954 74th U.S. Mens Tennis: E V Seixas, Jr. beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64)
1954 U.S. plane shot down above Siberia
1954 WINS New York City begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show
1954 Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
1953 Adenauers CDU wins elections in West Germany
1953 Roy Campanella sets record for home runs by a catcher at 38
1952 Canadian TV begins in Montreal
1949 Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes
1948 37th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (5-0)
1948 Juliana becomes queen of Netherlands
1946 All-American Football Conference plays 1st game (Clev 44, Miami 0)
1946 Terence Rattigan’s “Winslow Boy,” premieres in London
1945 Bhekisani Manyoni, artist, is born in Greytown (South African History)
1945 A’s catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended
1945 “Mr Strauss Goes to Boston” opens at Century Theater New York City for 12 performances
1944 General Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand
1943 “Congressional Limited” train derails near Frankfort Pa, kills 79
1943 63rd U.S. Mens Tennis: J R Hunt Seaman beats Jack Kramer (63 68 108 60)
1943 Carl Scheib becomes youngest pitcher in AL (16y 8 ms) of the A’s
1942 56th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats A Louise Brough (46 61 64)
1942 Czechoslovakian marathon runner Oskar Haks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
1941 55th U.S. Womens Tennis: Sarah H Cooke beats Pauline Betz Addie (75 62)
1941 61st U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)
1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto
1940 Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania
1940 Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France
1939 1st German air attack on Great Britain in WW II
1939 South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany
1938 Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch queen
1930 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
1928 U.S.S.R. signs Briand-Kellogg-pact
1927 B. G. DeSylva/Lew Brown’s musical “Good News,” premieres in New York City
1927 Red Sox beat New York Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings at Fenway Park
1924 Assassination attempt on Mussolini fails
1924 Charles Paddock captures 100 and 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track and field championships
1923 Queen Wilhelmina celebrates 25 year jubilee
1922 42nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm T Tilden beats Wm M Johnston 46 36 62 63 64
1920 40th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm Tilden beats Wm M Johnston (61 16 75 57 63)
1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight
1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
1914 Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1913 19th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jerry Travers
1913 1st aircraft to loop the loop (Adolphe Pegoud-France)
1913 Hamilton Alerts apply for ORFU reinstatement, taking the name Hamilton Rowing Club
1912 New York Giant Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia, 3-0
1910 Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed
1909 Word received, Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier
1905 Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms
1905 Chicago White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0
1905 General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)
1904 Soccer team Rheden forms
1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes “Adventure of Creeping Man”
1901 President William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later
1900 British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa
1899 Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk
1899 U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his “Open Through Note”
1898 Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi’s tomb in Omdurman
1889 King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns
1886 Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award
1883 Cub’s Burns (extra bases), Williamson and Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn
1880 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, vs. Australia at The Oval
1880 W G Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, vs. Australia The Oval
1876 Race riot in Charleston SC
1876 Southern Pacific line from LA to San Francisco completed
1873 Regular Cable Car service begins on Clay Street
1870 Ship sinks in Gulf of Biskaje; 483 die
1869 1st westbound train arrives in SF
1869 Mine fire kills 179 at Avondale Pennsylvania
1866 Frederick Douglass is 1st U.S. black delegate to a national convention
1863 Confederate troops vacate Fort Wagner South Carolina (1700 casualties)
1863 After 59 day siege, confederates evacuate Ft. Wagner, SC
1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Frederick, Maryland
1861 General Grant occupies Paducah Kentucky
1853 Women’s Right’s Convention met (New York City)
1848 National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)
1839 Cherokee Nation forms
1839 Great fire in NY
1837 Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)
1819 Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
1791 Mozarts opera “La Clemenza di Tito,” premieres in Prague
1776 Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sinks; 600 die
1776 1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell’s “Turtle” attacks British sailboat “Eagle” in Bay of New York)
1732 VOC fires Netherlands-Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare
1716 1st U.S. lighthouse built (Boston)
1715 Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland
1690 King Willem III escapes back to England
1688 Austrian armies occupy Belgrade
1683 Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance
1675 Swedish Admiral Stenbock sails out with fleet of 66 ships
1672 Willem III’s troops reconquer Naarden on France
1634 Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat
1628 Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1622 Spanish silver fleet disappears off Florida Keys; 1,000s die
1620 1st stones layed in Western Tower
1543 French and Turkish fleet occupies Nice
1522 Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip
1492 Columbus’ fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
394 Battle of Frigidus North-Italy

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Today in history on 4 September the following happened:

1906 New York Highlanders win 5th straight doubleheader
1904 Dali Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
1899 8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay, Alaska
1894 In New York City, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops
1894 Soccer team Veendam 1894 forms
1893 English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit
1888 George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera and registers “Kodak”
1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
1885 1st cafeteria opens (New York City)
1870 3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king
1866 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published
1862 General Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops
1862 North Beach and Mission Railway Company organized in SF
1854 English/French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka
1842 Work on Koln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus
1833 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)
1813 1st U.S. relig newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))
1807 Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat
1805 1st edition of Batavian State-Current published
1786 Orange troops plunder Hattem/Elburg
1781 Los Angeles founded by 44 in Bahia de las Fumas, (Valley of Smokes)
1778 City Amsterdam signs trade agreement with U.S. rebels
1695 French garrison of castle Names surrenders for Willem III
1682 English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet
1618 “Rodi” avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed
1571 Catholic coup in Scotland
1479 King Alfonso I of Portugal recognizes Isabella as queen of Castilie
1414 Peace of Atrecht: John the fearless and Armagnacs
1282 King Pedro the 3rd of Aragonorth annexes Sicily
1260 Battle at Montaperti-Guelfen vs Ghibellijnen
1024 Conrad II the Sailor chosen German king
476 Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed

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