Historical Events on September 8

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• 1024 Duke Conrad II chosen as German king and crowned at Mainz Cathedral
• 1141 Battle of Qatwan [Samarkand]: Seljuqs defeated by a Kara-Khitan army - beginning of the end of the Great Seljuk Empire
• 1156 Henry II, Duke of Austria leaves Bavaria

• 1264 The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland.
• 1276 John XXI [Peter Juliani] elected Pope, only Portuguese Pope

• 1331 Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia
• 1380 Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri defeats the Mongols beginning the decline of the Tatars
• 1449 Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese Emperor Yingzong of Ming

• 1514 Battle of Orsha: Polish Lithuania army defeats the Russian army
• 1536 Charles V abandons his siege of Peronne in northern France
• 1545 English Earl of Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland
• 1563 Maximilian chosen king of Hungary
• 1565 1st permanent European settlement in the US founded at St. Augustine, Florida
• 1565 Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St John

• 1664 Dutch surrender colony of New Netherlands (including New York) to 300 English soldiers
• 1689 China & Russia sign Treaty of Nertsjinsk (Nierchul), checked Russian expansion but opened trade further between the two countries
• 1713 Pope Clemens XI publishes decree "Unigenitus" against Jansenism
• 1727 A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
• 1755 Battle of Lake George in the Province of New York: British army beats French
• 1756 Kittanning Expedition:s 30-40 Lenape Indians killed by Pennsylvania Provincial troops during French and Indian War
• 1760 French army surrenders Montreal to British Commander General Jeffrey Amherst
• 1771 Mission San Gabriel Arcángel founded in California (just east of modern downtown LA) [1]

• 1831 William IV is crowned King of Great Britain, then aged 64 the oldest person to assume the British throne
• 1847 US under General Scott defeat Mexicans at Battle of Molino del Rey
• 1855 British and French troops capture Sevastopol from the Russians, effectively ending the Crimean War
• 1855 French forces successfully assault the Malakoff Line during the Crimean War

• 1860 Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" sinks after being rammed in a storm on Lake Michigan drowning about 300. Largest loss of life on the Great Lakes.
• 1863 -10] Federal troops reconquer the Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
• 1863 Battle of Sabine Pass Texas: 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces
• 1863 Battle of Telford's Depot, Tennessee
• 1868 New York Athletic Club forms
• 1870 Netherlands and Britain sign "Koelietraktaat" an agreement to allow Indian contract workers from Calcutta to work in sugar plantations in Suriname
• 1883 New York Gothams score 13 runs in an inning in a 16-6 win over Philadelphia Quakers at Recreation Park, Philadelphia; MLB record (18) set 2 days earlier
• 1883 Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Montana
• 1888 In England the first six Football League matches ever are played
• 1892 1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)

• 1899 British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal, South Africa
• 1900 6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas
• 1905 Pittsburgh Pirates strand NL record 18 men on base in 8-3 defeat to Cincinnati Reds at Exposition Park, Pittsburgh
• 1907 Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism)
• 1914 HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, two weeks into its service with the Royal Navy, runs aground off, Foula, Shetland, Scotland in good weather and eventually sinks
• 1914 Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during WW1
• 1915 Association of Negro Life & History founded in the US (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History)

• 1920 US Air Mail service begins (NYC to San Francisco)
• 1923 Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.
• 1924 Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador
• 1926 League of Nations Assembly votex unanimously to admit Germany
• 1930 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"
• 1930 American inventor Richard Gurley Drew creates Scotch tape
• 1930 NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew

• 1934 Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle bound for New Jersey catches fire, 133 die
• 1935 Willy de Supervise swims runs world record 200 m freestyle (2:25.2)

• 1937 Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens

• 1939 General Von Reichenau's panzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw
• 1939 Yanks beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called because of lightning
• 1941 Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by German forces begins
• 1941 Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated

• 1943 NY Giants' pitcher Ace Adams sets record by working in his 62nd game

• 1944 1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp
• 1944 Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany
• 1945 US invades Japanese-held Korea
• 1946 Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (CPL) strikes out minors record 456
• 1946 Bulgaria ends its monarchy
• 1946 San Francisco 49ers play 1st AAFC game, lose to NY Yankees 21-7
• 1948 British De Havilland DH108-fighter flies faster than sound
• 1951 Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries in San Francisco

• 1953 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgeno corona
• 1954 SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communist spread in SE Asia
• 1954 WINS radio station in NYC begins playing rock and roll music with Alan Freed's "Rock-n-Roll Party" program

• 1955 Earliest clinching of an NL pennant (Brooklyn Dodgers)

• 1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical on motion pictures, radio and television
• 1958 Oman turns over Gwadur (on Baluchistan coast) to Pakistan

• 1959 The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.

• 1960 German 4 x 100m relay team equal world record 39.5 to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf & Martin Lauer
• 1960 German Democratic Republic limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners

• 1960 US 4 x 400m relay team of Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis & Otis Davis run a world record 3:02.2 to win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics
• 1961 Nashville-based guitar wizard Hank Garland sustains career-ending injuries in a single vehicle accident near Springfield, Tennessee
• 1962 Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary)
• 1962 Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 'Evening Star'
• 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1963 Algerian population accepts constitution
• 1963 Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys in Venezuela

• 1965 Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana & Florida

• 1966 "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV
• 1966 Star Trek premieres on television with the episode 'The Man Trap'

• 1967 Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10
• 1967 The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.
• 1967 Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic
• 1968 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 1968 Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant
• 1969 Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya

• 1970 Black September hijackings begin, three airliners hijacked and blown up by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
• 1971 John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C.

• 1972 East German Annelie Ehrhardt with a world record 12.59 takes the 100m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics; beats Romanian Valeria Bufanu by just 0.25
• 1972 Mykola Avilov representing the Soviet Union scores a world record 8454 points to win the decathlon gold medal at the Munich Olympics; beats teammate Leonid Lytvynenko by 419 points
• 1972 Runners Jim Ryan (US) and Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide and fall in qualifying competitions for 1500m finals, ending Ryan's chances for gold
• 1973 "Star Trek - Animated Series" premieres on TV

• 1974 England's Ian Thompson wins European Championship marathon in 2:13:18.8 in Rome, Italy

• 1975 Boston begins court-ordered bussing of public schools
• 1976 Fons Rademakers' film "Max Havelaar" premieres in Amsterdam
• 1977 Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy
• 1977 Jimmy McCulloch quits Wings
• 1978 2nd game of Boston Massacre; NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 13-2

• 1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1981 British TV comedy "Only Fools and Horses" created by John Sullivan, starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Lennard Pearce premieres on BBC One
• 1982 Dutch social democratic party wins elections, fascist enters Dutch parliament
• 1983 NASA launches RCA-6
• 1984 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 41G mission
• 1985 "USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers
• 1985 7 die in a car & train crash in San Jose, California
• 1985 Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hr women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool

• 1985 Shuttle Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB

• 1986 Westinghouse sells background music company Muzak to the Fields Company of Chicago
• 1988 Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43m
• 1988 NL president A. Bartlett Giamatti is unanimously elected Major League Baseball's 7th Commissioner

• 1989 Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk, Belgium
• 1989 Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder)
• 1990 Ellis Island Historical Site opens on Ellis Island NYC
• 1991 Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia
• 1991 NFL Buffalo Bill QB Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pittsburgh Steelers (52-34)
• 1992 Danny Tartabull has 9 RBIs as Yanks beat Orioles 16-4
• 1992 Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting in Dallas (KGEL-FM 97.1)

• 1993 Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL
• 1993 Houston's Darryl Kile throws 3rd no-hitter of season in Astros' 7-1 win over NY Mets
• 1993 Wang Junxia creates a women's world record 10,000m (29:31.78) at the Chinese National Games
• 1994 Last US, British & French troops leave West Berlin
• 1994 Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station
• 1994 USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pitts Airport, killing all 132 on board
• 1995 Cleveland Indians clinch 1st AL Central Division title
• 1996 48th Emmy Awards: ER, Dennis Franz & Kathy Baker win
• 1996 American children's program "Blue's Clues" debuts on Nickelodeon cable channel

• 1999 US Attorney General Janet Reno names former Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian church near Waco, Texas in response to revelations in the film "Waco The Rules of Engagement"

• 2002 Rookie quarterback David Carr throws for 2 TDs as the Houston Texans beat Dallas Cowboys 19-10 to become only the 2nd expansion team (1961 Minnesota Vikings) to win their inaugural game
• 2002 Texas Rangers set a major league record by homering in their 26th consecutive game as Texas falls to the Tampa Bay
• 2004 The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
• 2005 Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
• 2008 Latvia joins its northern neighbor Estonia in recession as GDP falls 0.2% in the second quarter from the first quarter, when it fell 0.3%; property markets and construction have suffered in both Baltic states

• 2010 Egypt's Minister of Finance, Dr. Youssef Butros Ghali, states that Egypt is emerging from the recession as indicated by increased total revenue from sales taxes and customs revenues
• 2011 Fashion designer John Galliano is found guilty of anti-semitic remarks in a Paris court and fined €6,000
• 2012 6 people are killed by a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan
• 2012 8 people are killed after a tractor is hit by a train in Romania
• 2013 11 people are killed after a minibus collides with a train in Lasi, Romania
• 2013 11 people are killed and 18 are injured after a gunfire attack in Guatemala City
• 2013 6 people are killed and 9 are injured after a minibus collides with a car in Jakarta, Indonesia

• 2016 Giraffe DNA study published in "Current Biology" reveals there are 4 species not just 1, as previously assumed
• 2016 NASA launches Osiris-Rex probe to retrieve a rock sample from the 500m-wide Bennu asteroid
• 2018 75th Venice International Film Festival: a Netflix film wins the Golden Lion for the first time with "Roma"
• 2018 Archaeologists uncover more than 300 gold coins from late imperial period from theatre in Como, Italy
• 2018 Egypt sentences over 700 people, including 75 death sentences for 2013 pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya square
• 2019 Brazil's Supreme Court rules Marvel comic depicting two men kissing can be sold after mayor of Rio de Janeiro attempted to ban it

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