Historical Events on September 1

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• 462 Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
• 891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
• 1067 Baldwin VI becomes Count of Flanders

• 1181 Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III
• 1255 Königsberg (modern day Kaliningrad) founded by Teutonic Knights and named in honor of the Bohemian King Ottokar II
• 1267 Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem
• 1355 Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki
• 1482 Tatars plunder Kyiv, Ukraine

• 1609 Pieter Both sworn in as 1st governor general of Dutch East Indies
• 1614 Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany

• 1638 -4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam
• 1647 French cardinal Mazarin & Duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan

• 1739 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal
• 1746 Dutch VOC ship Hofwegen struck by lighting and explodes off the coast of Batavia with six tons of silver aboard

• 1772 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California
• 1773 "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" by American slave Phillis Wheatley published in the UK - first known book of poetry published by a Black woman [1]

• 1797 2nd National Meeting in Hague
• 1798 Britain signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India
• 1799 Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
• 1804 Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.

• 1821 1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail
• 1836 Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Oregon Country (now US state of Washington)
• 1836 Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem
• 1849 California Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
• 1858 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month
• 1859 1st Pullman sleeping car in service
• 1859 R C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of a solar flare
• 1861 Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI
• 1861 Skirmishes at Boone Court House WV & Blue Creek WV
• 1862 Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)
• 1862 Federal tax levied on tobacco
• 1863 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia
• 1863 Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas
• 1863 Rail & ferry connection between San Francisco & Oakland inaugurated
• 1864 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties
• 1864 Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA
• 1866 Last Navaho chief Manuelito turns himself in at Fort Wingate

• 1873 Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
• 1874 28th US Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Connecticut takes office
• 1874 Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
• 1875 A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband
• 1878 1st female telephone operator starts work, Emma Nutt for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Despatch Company in Boston
• 1886 The Netherlands New Code of Criminal Law is enforced
• 1887 Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established
• 1888 Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens
• 1890 Brooklyn Bridegrooms win 3 MLB games in one day‚ feasting on the Pittsburgh Alleghenys 10 - 9‚ 3 - 2‚ and 8 - 4
• 1893 Gladstones' Second Home Rule Bill for Ireland passes in the House of Commons but vetoed by The House of Lords by 419 votes to 41
• 1894 A wildfire destroys the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, killing 438 people
• 1897 The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
• 1898 First forestry school in America opens at Biltmore Estate, North Carolina

• 1901 Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange

• 1906 British New Guinea placed under Australian administration
• 1906 Canadian province of Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time
• 1906 New York Highlanders win their 6th consecutive MLB game in 3 days from Washington Senators; sweep AL record 3 straight double headers
• 1906 Philadelphia beats the Red Sox 4-1 in 24 innings in Boston in the longest game in AL baseball history; both starters go the distance as A's hurler Jack Coombs overcomes Boston's Joe Harris
• 1906 The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established

• 1911 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km

• 1914 Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris
• 1914 St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd
• 1914 The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo (Cincinnati, Ohio)
• 1915 Jerome Travers establishes a US Amateur Golf Championship record by downing George Crump, 14 & 13, in a 1st-round match at the Country Club of Detroit in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
• 1915 The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner "Arabic"
• 1916 Annie Besant founds the India Home Rule League
• 1916 Bulgaria declares war on Romania
• 1916 US Keating-Owen Act bans child labor banned from interstate commerce
• 1918 Battle of Megiddo starts, the final Allied offense during Sinai and Palestine campaign won by the Allies
• 1918 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920

• 1920 France creates Greater Lebanon
• 1920 New town hall of Rotterdam opens

• 1922 NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"
• 1923 A magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan, killing 142,000 people
• 1924 Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake
• 1925 Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee; replaced by Henri de Baillet-Latour of Belgium
• 1926 Turkey allows civil marriage
• 1928 Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king
• 1930 NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater

• 1932 NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)
• 1933 US Navy renames NAS Sunnyvale, near San Francisco, California, NAS Moffett Field, in honor of Rear Admiral William A. Moffett; Moffett championed the construction of the base, but died in the crash of airship USS Akron before the base opened
• 1934 SMJK Sam Tet was founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
• 1934 Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced
• 1936 Belgian boxer Gustave Roth beats Heinz Lazek of Austria in a 15 round points decision to win the EBU and vacant IBU world light heavyweight title in Vienna
• 1937 4th Chicago College All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Green Bay, 6-0; 84,560 at Soldier Field
• 1937 Battle of Gijon in Spain begins

• 1939 General George Marshall sworn in as the United States Army Chief of Staff

• 1939 Last day of 1st-class cricket in England before the declaration of war against Germany; great slow left-armer Hedley Verity finishes with amazing figures of 7 for 9 v Sussex to give Yorkshire the County Championship
• 1939 Scientific journal "Physical Review" publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes"
• 1939 Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization)
• 1939 Switzerland proclaims neutrality at the outbreak of WWII
• 1939 The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date

• 1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David
• 1942 German troops land on Taman peninsula
• 1942 US Federal judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans

• 1944 Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns

• 1945 Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Vince DiMaggio smashes his 4th grand slam of season, tying NL record, in an 8-3 win v Boston Braves
• 1946 Greece votes for monarchy
• 1947 Infielder Jack Lohrke hits NY Giants' 183rd homer of season in 2-1 win v Boston Braves; breaks NY Yankees MLB mark of 182 set in 1936
• 1947 With a victory by Armed in the Washington Park Handicap, Calumet Farm becomes the first stable to surpass $1 million in annual earnings; leads all owners with total earnings of $1,402,436

• 1948 Communist form North China People's Republic
• 1949 1st network detective series "Martin Kane, Private Eye" debuts on NBC, airing live
• 1949 Finnish long distance runner Viljo Heino runs 10,000m world record 29:27.2 in Kouvola, Finland
• 1949 KMTV TV channel 3 in Omaha, Nebraska (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1950 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines
• 1950 West Berlin granted a constitution

• 1951 US, Australia and New Zealand sign the ANZUS mutual defense treaty
• 1952 Sutro Baths, San Francisco purchased by George Whitney
• 1952 Willem Drees forms new Dutch government
• 1953 101°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
• 1953 Buck Baker takes lead with 10 laps remaining to win the Southern 500 at Darlington in the most competitive event in NASCAR Grand National history; four drivers swap lead a record 35 times
• 1953 Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship
• 1953 WNOK (now WLTX) TV channel 19 in Columbia, SC (CBS) 1st broadcast
• 1953 WTCN (now KARE) TV channel 11 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (MET) begins
• 1954 Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island and New England, kills 68

• 1954 Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant opens infamous 10-day football mini camp in Junction, Texas; ordeal achieves legendary status becoming subject of 2001 book 'The Junction Boys' & television movie of the same name
• 1955 2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel
• 1955 KARD (now KSNW) TV channel 3 in Wichita, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1956 Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory
• 1956 KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1957 Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring over 700, in Kendal, Jamaica
• 1957 WAVY TV channel 10 in Portsmouth-Norfolk, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1957 WHC (now WPXI) TV channel 11 in Pittsburgh, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast
• 1957 WTLV TV channel 12 in Jacksonville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1958 St Louis Cardinals pitcher Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a NL record 9 batters in a 1-0 shutout of Cincinnati Reds
• 1960 German sprinter Armin Hary wins the coveted 100m gold medal in 10.2 at the Rome Olympics; first non-American to win the event since 1928
• 1960 US 4 x 100m medley relay team swims world record 4:05.4 to beat Australia and win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Frank McKinney, Paul Hait, Lance Larson & Jeff Farrell
• 1960 US 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of George Harrison, Dick Blick, Mike Troy & Jeff Farrell swim world record 8:10.2 to beat Japan by 3.3 seconds and win gold medal at the Rome Olympics
• 1961 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade
• 1961 The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate
• 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1962 12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran
• 1962 Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
• 1962 KATC TV channel 3 in Lafayette, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1962 United Nations announces Earth's population has hit 3 billion
• 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• 1963 Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot
• 1963 Walter Kennedy begins his tenure as the commissioner of the NBA, succeeding Maurice Podoloff

• 1965 Indo-Pakistani conflict - Pakistani counter-attack (Operation Grand Slam,)
• 1966 KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1967 Cincinnati Reds reliever Bob Lee walks Dick Groat with bases loaded in 21st inning to give SF Giants a 1-0 win at Crosley Field; 20 scoreless innings ties MLB mark, Pirates v Braves 1918
• 1967 KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1967 WIRT TV channel 13 in Hibbing, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1967 WJRJ (WTCG, WTBS) TV channel 17 in Atlanta, GA (IND) begins
• 1968 Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed
• 1968 Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting

• 1970 Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain
• 1970 Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador

• 1971 Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein
• 1971 The Irish Republican Army set off a series of bombs across Northern Ireland injuring a number of people

• 1972 An American sweep of the medals in the women's 200m butterfly at the Munich Olympics; Karen Moe takes gold in world record 2:15.57 ahead of teammates Lynn Colella and Ellie Daniel

• 1972 Egypt & Libya form federation
• 1972 Japanese gymnast Sawao Kato wins the parallel bars gold medal at the Munich Olympics, his 3rd gold of the Games including team & individual all-round victories
• 1972 Polish shooter Józef Zapędzki successfully defends his Olympic 25m rapid fire pistol title at the Munich Games with an Olympic record 595 points
• 1972 Valeriy Borzov of the Soviet Union runs 10.14 to beat American Robert Miller and Lennox Miller of Jamaica in the coveted men's 100m final at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 Welshman Richard Meade representing Great Britain and riding Laurieston grabs the equestrian individual and team 3-day event gold medals at the Munich Olympics
• 1973 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• 1973 Gloucestershire beats Sussex by 40 runs in the Gillette Cup cricket final at Lord's to win their first major trophy since the Championship in 1877; South African all-rounder Mike Procter stars with 94 and 2 for 37

• 1973 Libya nationalizes 51 percent of nine other oil companies' concessions
• 1974 Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect
• 1974 The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
• 1974 Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed
• 1975 5 Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh
• 1975 All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh
• 1975 Gunsmoke goes off the air
• 1975 Jerry Lewis' 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon

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