Kings of The Franks
768 Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks
- 1238 James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia
- 1410 Earliest mention of Prague's astronomical clock, the world's oldest still in operation, built by Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel
- 1446 The Hangul (Korean) alphabet is first published in Korea by King Sejong the Great
- 1558 Mérida is founded in Venezuela
- 1573 Don Frederik and the Spanish disband the siege of Alkmaar
- 1595 The Spanish army captures Cambrai
- 1597 Eighty Years War: Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange with English support captures Breevoort, Netherlands from the Spanish
- 1617 Peace of Pavia between Spain and Savoye
- 1621 Turkey & Poland signs Peace of Chotin
Roger Williams Banished
1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony
Great Plague of London
1665 Due to the Great Plague of London, the British Parliament meets at the University of Oxford rather than the Palace of Westminster
- 1668 Mass society storms palace of "heretics" Spanish governor Jose de Paternina
- 1701 Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
- 1708 Great Northern War: Battle at Lesnaya (N.S): Russian army captures Swedish convoy
- 1716 Britain & France sign treaty
- 1740 Dutch governor of the East Indies Adriaan Valckenier allows the massacre of around 10,000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia
- 1760 Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian forces occupy Berlin [OS=Sep 28]
- 1771 The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
Siege of Savannah
1779 Siege of Savannah (Georgia) during American Revolutionary War: Continental Army General Casimir Pulaski is wounded by grapeshot (a type of cluster munition), dies two days later
Surrender at Yorktown
1781 Americans under George Washington and the French under Comte de Rochambeau begin bombardment of Yorktown, the last battle of American Revolutionary War
- 1794 French troops occupy Hertogenbosch
- 1799 Sinking of British frigate HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and cargo worth £1,200,000 off Dutch coast
- 1804 Hobart in Tasmania founded
- 1806 Prussia declares war on France
- 1817 University of Gent officially opens
- 1818 Congress of Aken returns to France from Libya
- 1820 Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
- 1824 Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica
- 1831 Ioannis Kapodistrias, first Head of State of modern Greece, assassinated in Nafplion
- 1835 The Royal College, Colombo, established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka
- 1837 Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
- 1837 Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke, North Carolina, killing 100
- 1845 Eminent and controversial Anglican priest John Henry Newman leaves Anglican Curch of England and is received into the Roman Catholic Church
- 1854 The siege of Sevastopol begins during the Crimean War
- 1855 American inventor Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
- 1855 Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts, patents first calliope (steam powered musical instrument)
- 1863 Battle of Brady Station, Virginia (Culpeper Court House, Bristoe Station)
Battle of Tom's Brook
1864 Battle of Tom's Brook; Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is beaten by General George A. Custer & Merrit's cavalry divisions
- 1865 First US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
- 1870 Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree
- 1874 World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland
- 1876 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
- 1877 American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland)
- 1888 Washington Monument opens for public admittance
- 1899 1st British troops reaches Durban, South Africa
- 1899 South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum
- 1900 8.3 magnitude earthquake shakes Cape Yakataga, Alaska
- 1903 11" (28.4 cm) rainfall in 24 hrs (NYC)
- 1914 German troops take Antwerp in World War I
- 1915 Belgrade, Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders
- 1915 Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York
- 1915 Louis Kaufmans comedy "Unchastened Woman" premieres in New York City
- 1919 Baseball World Series: Cincinnati Reds beat Chicago White Sox, 10-5 at Comiskey Park for a 5-3 series victory; due to 'Black Sox Scandal' last WS to take place without a Commissioner of Baseball in place
- 1924 Municipal Grant Park Stadium, in Chicago Illinois (now known as Soldier Field) is officially dedicated
Colonial Institute
1926 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution
- 1926 NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
World Series
1928 Baseball World Series: NY Yankees beat St. Louis Cardinals, 7-3 at Sportsman's Park to become first to sweep consecutive World Series; Babe Ruth hits smashes 3 HRs for Yanks
- 1928 Marcel Pagnol's play "Topaze" premieres in Paris
- 1929 George Kaufman & Ring Lardner's musical "June Moon" premieres in NYC
- 1930 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
Stalin Expels Kamenev and Zinoviev
1932 Soviet leader Joseph Stalin expels Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev from the Communist Party after a power struggle
Manhattan Project
1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project
- 1942 Statute of Westminster 1931 passed by the Australian parliament, formalises Australian autonomy
Churchill Visits Russia
1944 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Joseph Stalin
- 1944 Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders
- 1944 German occupiers turn off electricity in Amsterdam
- 1945 British troops occupy Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
The Iceman Cometh
1946 Eugene O'Neill's play "The Iceman Cometh" premieres in NYC
- 1946 First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
- 1947 First telephone conversation between occupants of a moving car and an airplane
- 1947 Julie Styne and Sammy Cahn's musical "High Button Shoes" premieres at the New Century Theatre, NYC (later transferred to the Shubert, then to The Broadway Theatre, NYC; runs for 727 performances
- 1948 WXYZ TV channel 7 in Detroit, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1949 English ballerina Margot Fonteyn debuts in America with her performance in Tchaikovsky's "The Sleeping Beauty" at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York
- 1952 United Nations Headquarters construction is completed, in New York City
- 1953 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution
Konrad Adenauer Reelected
1953 Konrad Adenauer elected Chancellor of West Germany
- 1954 KTIV TV channel 4 in Sioux City, IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Hemingway Visits Baroja
1956 Ernest Hemingway visits fellow writer Pío Baroja at his hospital bed shortly before the Spaniard's death
Event of Interest
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England
- 1960 Cowboy QB Eddie LeBaron throws shortest touchdown pass (2")
- 1961 Tanganyika, in east Africa, becomes independent within British Commonwealth
- 1961 US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police
- 1961 Volcanic eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
- 1962 Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130
- 1962 NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m
- 1962 Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom
Appointment of Interest
1963 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan resigns and is replaced by Alec Douglas-Home
- 1963 French air force gets first nuclear weapons
- 1963 Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000
- 1963 Vajont Dam disaster, landslide creates 50 million cubic metre wave killing around 2,000 in the Piave Valley in Northern Italy
- 1965 Beatles' "Yesterday" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
Belfast Students March
1968 2,000 students from Queen's University Belfast try to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against 'police brutality', but blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley; leads for formation of student civil rights group People's Democracy
- 1968 Government seizes oil fields in Peru
- 1968 WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
Someday We'll Be Together
1969 The Supremes release single "Someday We'll Be Together", Diana Ross' last recording with the group
- 1970 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
Event of Interest
1971 Japanese Emperor Hirohito visits the Netherlands
- 1971 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1973 1st general striking in Luxembourg since 1942
- 1973 Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal
- 1973 Warriors-Cavalier game in Cleveland postponed because of wet floors
- 1974 Race riot in Boston due to "bussing"
- 1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to NY Rangers at Madison Square Garden; start of a 37 game road losing streak for Washington
- 1975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco
Nobel Peace Prize
1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
- 1976 Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on cricket debut New Zealand v Pakistan Javed 1st wkt
- 1976 Test Cricket debut of Javed Miandad (Pakistan), scores 163 on 1st day
- 1976 Yanks 1st AL Championship game, beat Royals 4-1
- 1977 Soyuz 25 launched to Saluyt 6, but returned after failing to dock
- 1977 Yanks rally for 3 in 9th & beat Royals 5-3 for pennant #31
Music History
1978 John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical "Ballroom" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
1978 P.W. Botha succeeds John Vorster as Prime Minister of South Africa
- 1979 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut
- 1980 1st consumer use of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville, Tennessee
- 1980 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czesław Miłosz
- 1981 Abolition of capital punishment in France.
- 1982 Attack on synagogue in Rome leaves 1 dead
- 1983 NFL Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes for 419 yards with 5 TDs, winning 38-35, in overtime, over Dolphins, in Miami
- 1983 Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) bombing: North Korean agents attempt to assassinate South Korean President results in 21 deaths, including 9 South Korean government officials; presidential advisors and security team members; and 3 reporters
- 1984 Astronaut Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space during a Space Shuttle Challenger mission (STS-41-G)
Music History
1985 "Strawberry Fields" memorial to John Lennon in Central Park, NYC is dedicated by mayor Ed Koch
- 1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
The Late Show with Joan Rivers
1986 "The Late Show with Joan Rivers" premieres on Fox, first woman to host a US late-night TV talk show' she is fired in May of 1987
Phantom of the Opera
1986 Stage musical "Phantom of the Opera" premieres in London, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman; runs for 13,629 performances
- 1986 US Senate convicts US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment; he had previously been criminally convicted of tax evasion
Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
1987 "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll" documentary film directed by Taylor Hackford of 1986 concerts celebrating rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry is released
- 1987 Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000
- 1988 17% vote for extreme-right Flemish Block in Belgium
- 1988 Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
- 1989 First NFL game coached by an African American (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
- 1989 Penthouse Magazine's Hebrew edition hits newsstands
- 1990 David Souter, sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
- 1990 Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon on what would have been his 50th birthday
Event of Interest
1990 Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
Event of Interest
1991 Bush declares "total confidence" in nominee Clarence Thomas
- 1991 Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
- 1991 San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win, 4-3
- 1992 A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of Knapp residence, Peekskill, New York, destroying family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
Under Siege
1992 Action thriller film "Under Siege" directed by Andrew Davis starring Steven Seagal in his most famous role is released
- 1992 Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to New York
- 1994 Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)
- 1997 ABL players allowed to own stock in the league
- 1997 Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico
- 1997 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Italian playwright Dario Fo
- 1997 North Carolina's record winning college basketball coach Dean Smith retires
- 1997 NY Rangers are 1st NHL team to open with 4 straight ties
- 1999 The last flight of the US aircraft Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird"
- 2001 Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack
- 2006 North Korea conducts its first nuclear test, with an estimated yield of between 0.4-2 kilotons
- 2007 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high of 14,164.53
- 2007 “Low” single released by Flo Rida (Billboard Song of the Year 2008)
- 2009 First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program
F1 World Champion
2011 German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel finishes 3rd in the Japanese F1 Grand Prix to clinch his second consecutive World Drivers Championship
Event of Interest
2012 25,000 people in Athens protest against German Chancellor Angela Merkel
- 2012 Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics
Event of Interest
2012 Women's rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she tried to board her school bus in Swat district of northwest Pakistan
- 2013 60 people are killed in clashes between militias and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic
- 2013 Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel win the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on multiscale models for complex chemical systems
- 2014 Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus
- 2014 Patrick Modiano wins the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
Revival
2015 Selena Gomez releases her studio album "Revival", goes to #1 on Billboard 200
- 2015 The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Event of Interest
2016 Second US Presidential debate: Hostile confrontation between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at Washington University, St. Louis
- 2017 American economist Richard Thaler is awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics
Film & TV History
2017 Producer Harvey Weinstein is fired from The Weinstein Company after allegations of sexual abuse
Event of Interest
2018 President Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley says she is resigning at the end of the year
- 2019 Nearly 1 million people in northern California have their power cut by Pacific Gas and Electric to prevent wildfires amid high winds
- 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for development of lithium-ion batteries, Goodenough oldest-ever winner at 97
Event of Interest
2019 Turkey launches airstrikes on Kurdish forces in Northern Syria after US President Donald Trump announces decision to pull back US forces
- 2020 The UN's World Food Programme is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Election of Interest
2021 Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis narrowly defeated in nation elections by a coalition of opposition parties
- 2022 American runner Emily Sisson runs US record 2:18:29 in Chicago Marathon, finishing 2nd by 4:11 to repeat winner Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya
- 2022 Brightest cosmic explosion ever seen - a gamma ray burst 2.4 billion light years away, thought to be a massive star collapsing to form a black hole in a 1 in 10,000 year event [1]
- 2022 Brock Purdy makes his regular-season debut in the NFL
Sports History
2022 Dutch Red Bull driver Max Verstappen secures his second consecutive World F1 Drivers C'ship after finishing in front of Sergio Pérez and Charles Leclerc in the Japanese GP at Suzuka
- 2023 Claudia Goldin awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes” [1]
- 2023 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launches an independent bid for the US Presidency at Philadelphia’s Independence Mall [1]
- 2023 World record set for heaviest pumpkin, a jack-o’-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds, grown by Travis Gienger from Anoka, Minnesota - enough for 687 pies [1]
- 2023 World's largest offshore windfarm, Dogger Bank off the coast of Yorkshire, starts generating power for the UK electricity grid [1]
