|
|
United Nations: World Post Day
(Commemorates the founding of the Universal Postal Union in Bern, Switzerland: 10/09/1874)
|
|
Uganda: Independence Day
(Commemorates independence from Great Britain: 10/09/1962)
|
|
United States: Leif Erikson Day
(Observed per 1964 resolution celebrating the arrival of the first Norwegian immigrants 10/09/1825)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1909 |
Elton C. Fax (Maryland-born African-American Children's Author, Illustrator) |
|
|
1937 |
Johanna Hurwitz (New York City-born Children's Author) |
|
|
1941 |
Dina Anastasio (Iowa-born Children's Author) |
|
|
|
1899 |
Bruce Catton (Michigan-born Historian) |
|
|
1923 |
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (Delaware-born African-American Educator, Journalist, Abolitionist) |
|
|
1934 |
Jill Ker Conway (Australian Memoirist) |
|
|
|
1848 |
Frank Duveneck (Kentucky-born Artist) |
|
|
|
1835 |
Charles-Camille Saint-Saens (Paris-born Composer) |
|
|
1914 |
Roger Goeb (Iowa-born Composer) |
|
|
|
1895 |
Eugene Bullard (Georgia-born Aviator: First African-American Combat Pilot) |
|
|
|
1852 |
Hermann Emil Fischer (German-born 1902 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry) |
|
|
1879 |
Max von Laue (German-born 1914 Nobel Laureate for Physics) |
|
|
|
1873 |
Charles Walgreen (Illinois-born Founder of the Walgreen Drug Store Chain) |
|
|
|
1860 |
Leonard Wood (New Hampshire-born Medical Officer and Governor General of the Philippines: 1921-7) |
|
|
|
1201 |
Robert de Sorbon (French Theologian and Founder of the Sorbonne) |
|
|
1837 |
Francis Wayland Parker (New Hampshire-born Educator) |
|
|
1890 |
Aimee Semple McPherson (Canadian-born American Religious Evangelist) |
|
|
1909 |
Donald Coggan (English Archbishop of Canterbury) |
|
|
|
1757 |
Charles X (King of France: 10/9/1757 - 11/6/1836) |
|
|
1782 |
Lewis Cass (New Hampshire-born Michigan Governor and U.S. Senator) |
|
|
1845 |
John Henry Rogers (North Carolina-born Member of the U.S. Congress from Arkansas) |
|
|
1906 |
Léopold (Sédar) Senghor (President of Senegal) |
|
|
1909 |
Frederick Donald Coggan (Archbishop of Canterbury) |
|
|
1915 |
James "Big Jim" Folsom (Two-term Alabama Governor: 1947-1951 and 1955-1959) |
|
|
1929 |
Ernest "Dutch" Morial (Louisiana-born Attorney, Politician, Elected Official) |
|
|
|
1859 |
Alfred Dreyfus (Jewish Soldier Falsely Accused of Treason in Historic French Trial)
|
|
|
|
1920 |
Yusef Lateef (Tennessee-born African-American Saxophonist) |
|
|
1940 |
John Lennon (English Popular Musician, Songwriter: A Member of the Beatles) |
|
|
1955 |
Scott Bakula (Missouri-born Actor) |
|
|
|
1903 |
Walter O'Malley (New York City-born Attorney; Owner of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers) |
|
|
1889 |
Rube Marquard (Ohio-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) |
|
|
1955 |
Mike Singletary (Texas-born African-American Member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame) |
|
|
1970 |
Annika Sorenstam (Swedish Golfer) |
|
|
|
|
1047 |
Pope Clement II (German-born Roman Catholic Pope) |
|
|
1806 |
Benjamin Banneker (Maryland-born African-American Mathematician) |
|
|
1868 |
Howell Cobb (Georgia-born Politician and Confederate General) |
|
|
1954 |
Robert Jackson (Pennsylvania-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) |
|
|
1958 |
Pope Pius XII (Italian-born Roman Catholic Pope) |
|
|
1967 |
Che Guevara (Argentine Revolutionary Executed in Bolivia) |
|
|
1974 |
Oskar Schindler (Czech-born German Businessman Who Save Jewish Lives During World War II) |
|
|
1988 |
Felix Wankel (German Automotive Pioneer) |
|
|
1995 |
J. Evetts Haley (West Texas Historian) |
|
|
|
 |
|
1604 |
"Kepler's SuperNova" First Sighted in the Constellation Ophiuchus |
|
|
1635 |
Roger Williams Is Banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for Spreading "New & Dangerous Opinions" |
|
 |
|
1701 |
Yale University Is Chartered by the Colonial Legislature of Connecticut |
|
|
1775 |
Lord Dartmouth Orders British Officers to North Carolina |
|
|
1776 |
Father Francisco Palou Founds Mission San Francisco de Asis (Mission Delores), San Francisco's Oldest Building |
|
|
1779 |
Count Casimir Pulaski Is Mortally Wounded During the Siege of Savannah |
|
|
English Luddites Riot Against the Introduction of Machinery for Spinning Cotton in Manchester, England |
|
|
1781 |
The Battle of Yorktown Begins |
|
|
1791 |
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad Is Founded in Soledad, California |
|
 |
|
1825 |
First Norwegian Immigrants Arrive in America |
|
|
1849 |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson and Party Climb Mt. Holyoke |
|
|
1854 |
U.S. President Franklin Pierce Appoints Nathaniel Hawthorne to the American Consulate at Liverpool, England |
|
|
1855 |
New York City's Isaac Singer Patents the Sewing Machine Motor |
|
|
1856 |
Iowa's First Successful Manned Balloon Ascension Takes Place in Muscatine |
|
|
1864 |
Union Troops Humiliate Confederates at Tom's Brook, Virginia |
|
|
1866 |
Platteville Normal School Opens As Wisconsin's First College Devoted Wholly to Training Teachers |
|
|
1871 |
The Great Chicago Fire Is Brought Under Control |
|
|
The Largest Earthquake in Delaware History Is Recorded |
|
|
Governor of Texas Imposes Martial Law in Freestone County for Voting Irregularities |
|
|
1875 |
Conway, Arkansas Is Incorporated |
|
|
1876 |
Alexander Graham Bell Makes the First Long-Distance Telephone Call |
|
|
In Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, a Rally Is Held to Support Greenbacks Rather Than Gold as the National Currency |
|
|
Baldwin, Florida Is Incorporated |
|
|
The Women's Club of Wisconsin Is Organized in Milwaukee |
|
|
1888 |
The Washington Monument First Opens to the Public |
|
|
1890 |
France's Clément Ader Achieves the First Sustained Motorized Flight |
|
|
1891 |
President Benjamin Harrison Visits Portland, Oregon |
|
|
1894 |
Four Miners Die in Newcastle, Washington Coal Mine Fire |
|
 |
|
1900 |
7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Does Structural Damage on Alaska's Kodiak Island |
|
|
1912 |
Speaking in Janesville, Wisconsin, Jane Addams Campaigns for Women's Right to Vote |
|
|
West Virginia Division of Confederate Veterans Hold Their Annual Reunion in Moorefield |
|
|
1914 |
Germans Take Antwerp, Belgium After 12-day Siege |
|
|
1915 |
Belgrade Falls to Austria-Hungary |
|
|
Auto Racer Gil Anderson First to Average 100+ mph in a Race |
|
|
1916 |
John H. Clarke Is Sworn in as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. |
|
|
Pitcher Babe Ruth of the Red Sox Pitches 13 Scoreless Innings to Win Game 2 of the World Series |
|
|
1921 |
Earle Dickson, a Cotton Buyer for Johnson & Johnson, Invents the Band-Aid |
|
|
1923 |
The MV Kennecott Freighter Breaks into Pieces on Queen Charlotte Islands on Her Maiden Voyage from Alaska |
|
|
1925 |
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton is Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York |
|
|
In Madison, Indiana, the Lanier Mansion Is Dedicated as a State Memorial |
|
|
1930 |
Laura Ingalls First Women to Complete Solo Transcontinental Flight (4d NY-CA) |
|
|
1933 |
Bones of Browns Valley Man Found in Traverse County, Minnesota Are Likely From a Paleo-Indian Between 8,000 and 12,000 Years Ago |
|
|
1934 |
King Alexander of Yugoslavia Is Assassinated in France |
|
|
1936 |
First Generator at the Hoover Dam Becomes Fully Operational |
|
|
1938 |
The First Radio Altimeter is Demonstrated by Bell Labs in New York |
|
|
1940 |
London's St. Paul's Cathedral Is Bombed During the Battle of Britain |
|
|
Carol Frost, the Son of Robert Frost, Commits Suicide |
|
|
1942 |
Jubilee Is the First Radio Broadcast to Showcase African-American Talent |
|
|
1944 |
Churchill & Stalin Begin 9-day Conference in Moscow |
|
|
1945 |
Shidehara Kijuro Becomes Prime Minister of Japan |
|
|
1946 |
The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O'Neill, Opens on Broadway |
|
|
1947 |
High Button Shoes Opens on Broadway |
|
|
1949 |
A Statue of Leif Erikson Is Dedicated on the Capitol Grounds in St. Paul, Minnesota |
|
 |
|
1959 |
Conservative Tories Win Third Consecutive General Election in England |
|
|
1961 |
Ray Charles' Recording of "Hit The Road Jack" Reaches #1 on the Pop Singles Chart |
|
|
1962 |
Uganda Gains Its Independence from Great Britain |
|
|
1963 |
Mud Slide at Italy's Vajont Dam Kills 3,000+ |
|
|
Nelson Mandela and 8 Others Charged with Sabotage and Attempted Overthrow of the State |
|
|
1965 |
"Mr. Acarius," a Story Originally Written by William Faulkner in 1953, Is Published in the Saturday Evening Post |
|
|
1967 |
Argentinean Revolutionary, Che Guevara, Is Executed in Bolivia) |
|
|
Indonesia Breaks Off Diplomatic Relations with China |
|
|
1968 |
Delaware Governor Charles Terry Suffers a Debilitating Heart Attack While Campaigning for Re-Election |
|
|
1969 |
National Guard Controls Protesters at Chicago 7 Trial |
|
|
1970 |
Khmer Republic Is Proclaimed in Cambodia |
|
|
1975 |
Andrei Sakharov Is Chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize |
|
|
1979 |
Minnesota's Rose Totino Patents Her "Crisp Crust" Frozen Pizza Crust |
|
|
1980 |
Jimmy Carter Is the First U.S. President to Visit Florida's Capitol in Tallahassee |
|
|
1983 |
North Korean Bomb Kills 21 Burmese and Korean Officials in Rangoon |
|
|
1985
|
New York City Dedicates Part of Central Park As "Strawberry Fields" |
|
|
1986
|
Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Musical "Phantom of the Opera" Premieres at Her Majesty's Theatre in London |
|
|
1988 |
Latvians Begin Mass Movement for Independence from the Soviet Union |
|
|
1990 |
David Souter Is Sworn in as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. |
|
|
1992 |
30 lb. Meteorite Lands on an '80 Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, New York |
|
|
1995 |
8.0 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 49, Injures 100, Leaves 1,000 Homeless Along Mexico's Jalisco Coast |
|
|
Arizona Amtrak Train Derailment Kills One and Injures 100 |
|
|
1997 |
North Carolina Basketball Coach, Dean Smith, Retires with 879 Wins in 36 Years As Coach |
|
 |
|
2000 |
International Consortium Launches HETE-2 Satellite to Detect Gamma Ray Bursts |
|