Today in history: (9/4)
1886: Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona
1956: IBM RAMAC 305, first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage, introduced
1957: Ford introduces the Edsel
Today in history: (9/5)
1698: Russia imposes a tax on beards
1774: First Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia
1961: President John F Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear testing
Today in history: (9/6)
3114BC Mayan Calendar begins
1620: Mayflower sails from England for the New World with 102 passengers
1766: Pioneer of modern atomic theory, physicist John Dalton born in Manchester, England
1901: President McKinley shot by Leon Czolgosz
1947: Golden Globe Award winning actress Jane Curtin born in Wellesley, Massachusetts
1958: Comedian Jeff Foxworthy born in Atlanta, Georgia
1968: Independence Day in Swaziland
Today in history: (9/7)
1822: Independence Day in Brasil
1934: WC Handy Award winning guitarist and singer, Milton âLittle Miltonâ Campbell, Jr born in Inverness, Mississippi
1940: Nazi Germany begins first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing London
1942: 8,700 Ukrainian Jews sent by Gestapo to death camp in Belzec
1949: Grammy Award winning singer Gloria Gaynor born in Newark, New Jersey
Today in history: (9/8)
1504: Michelangeloâs David unveiled in Florence
1922: Emmy Award winning actor and comedian, Sid Caesar born in Yonkers, New York
1925: RAF airman, radio performer and comedic actor, Peter Sellers born in Portsmouth, England
1932: Country Music Hall of Fame singer, Patsy Cline born in Winchester, Virginia
1944: London hit by German V2 rocket
1957: Actress and screenwriter, Heather Thomas born in Greenwich, Connecticut
1960: Marshall Space Flight Center dedicated
1966: Star Trek debuts on NBC
1974: Gerald R. Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon
Today in history: (9/9)
1776: Colonies renamed the United States
1850: California becomes the 31st state
1922: Award winning stage and screen actress, Ruth Roman born in Lynn, Massachusetts
1941: Turing Award winning computer scientist and developer of the C language, Dennis Ritchie born in Bronxville, New York
1942: Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bomb on Oregon
1945: Grace Murray Hopper finds first computer bug
1951: Actor Michael Keaton born in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania
1955: Obie Award winning actor, Edward Hibbert born in Long Island, New York
1966: Singer, musician, actor and comedian, Adam Sandler born in Brooklyn, New York
1969: Swimsuit model and reality TV show host, Rachel Hunter born in Auckland, New Zealand
Today in history: (9/10)
1846: Elias Howe patents the sewing machine
1897: Lattimer Massacre in Pennsylvania
1934: Right fielder Roger Maris .260BA 275HR 851RBI] born in Hibbing, Minnesota
1943: Nazi forces occupy Rome
1945: Grammy Award winning guitarist and singer, José Feliciano born in Lares, Puerto Rico
1949: Author, columnist and televison journalist, Bill OâReilly born in New York City
1957: Emmy Award winning actress, Kate Burton born in Geneva, Switzerland
1963: School desegregation begins in Alabama
Today in history: (9/12)
1818: Inventor Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling born in Hertford County, North Carolina
1913: Olympic Gold Medalist Jesse Owens born in Lawrence County, Alabama
1943: German paratroopers rescue Mussolini from captivity in Rome
1947: US Screen Actors Guild implements anti-Communist loyalty oath
1957: Actress Rachel Ward born in Oxfordshire, England
1962: Actress Amy Marie Yasbeck born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1966: The Monkees premiers
Today in history: (9/13)
122: Building of Hadrianâs Wall begun
1759: British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City
1831: Physician and yellow fever researcher, Major Walter Reed, MD born in Belroi, Virginia
1911: Singer, musician, composer and developer of bluegrass music, Bill Monroe born in Rosine, Kentucky
1922: 136.4 degrees F at el Azizia, Libya
1925: Drummer, songwriter, actor and Grammy Award winning jazz singer, Mel Tormé born in Chicago, Illinois
1928: Artist Robert Indiana born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana
1931: Emmy Award winning actress Barbara Bain born in Chicago, Illinois
1943: Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China
1951: Emmy Award winning actress, Jean Smart born in Seattle, Washington
Today in history: (9/15)
1890: Author Agatha Christie born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Oxfordshire, England
1928: Jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley born Julian Edwin Adderley in Gary, Indiana
1929: Nobel Prize winning physicist and elementary particle theoretician, Murray Gell-Mann born in Manhattan, New York
1946: Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award winning actor, Tommy Lee Jones born in San Saba, Texas
1947: ACM founded
1959: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begins his 13 day tour of the US
1973: Actress Julie Cox born in Ely, England
1982: First issue of USA Today published
1997: google.com domain name registered
Today in history: (9/16)
1630: The village of Shawmut, Massachusetts, becomes the city of Boston
1810: Independence Day in Mexico
1893: Cherokee Strip Day in Oklahoma
1914: Producer, director and creator of Candid Camera, Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, New York
1924: Golden Globe and Tony Award winning actress, Lauren Bacall born Betty Joan Perske in New York City
1925: Legendary blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, B.B. King born in Itta Bena, Mississippi
1930: Golden Globe Award winning actress, Anne Francis born in Ossining, New York
Today in history: (9/17)
1859: Joshua A. Norton declares himself Emperor Norton I of the United States
1862: Battle of Antietam
1928: Emmy and Tony Award winning actor, Roddy MacDowall born in London, England
1931: Academy, Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award winning actress, Anne Bancroft born in Bronx, New York
1948: Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning actor and comedian, John Ritter born in Burbank, California
1951: Vegas showgirl, singer and actress, Elvira born Cassandra Peterson in Manhattan, Kansas
1963: Author, molecular biologist, and creator of the Darwin Awards, Wendy Northcutt born
1976: NASA unveils first Space Shuttle Enterprise
1978: Israel and Egypt sign Camp David Accords
Today in history: (9/18)
1905: Oscar winning film actress Greta Garbo born in Stockholm, Sweden
1939: Actor and singer, Frankie Avalon born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1971: Olympic Gold Medal cycling champion, Lance Armstrong born in Plano, Texas
1954: Shuttle astronaut Takao Doi born in Tokyo, Japan
1987: Reagan announces joint destruction of nuclear warheads by USA and USSR
1997: Ted Turner donates $1 billion to the United Nations
Today in history: (9/19)
1928: Actor Adam West born in Walla Walla, Washington
1933: Musician and actor. David McCallum born in Glasgow, Scotland
1934: Manager for The Beatles, Brian Epstein born in Liverpool, England
1942: Actress and singer Freda Payne born in Detroit, Michigan
1949: Actress, singer and supermodel, Twiggy born Lesley Hornby in London, England
1958: Musician and singer, Lita Ford born Carmelita Rosanna Ford in London, England
1959: Nikita Khrushchev barred from entering Disneyland during 13 day visit to US
1994: OJ Simpson criminal trial for murder begins
1996: Hackers vandalize CIA web site
Today in history: (9/21)
1645: Musician, cartographer, and explorer, Louis Jolliet born in Québec, Canada
1866: Author HG Wells born in London, England
1946: Musician. singer and songwriter, Barry Gibb born in the Isle of Man
1960: First televised presidential election debates take place in Chicago between candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy
1966: Chevrolet Camaro debuts
1968: Talk show host Ricki Lake born in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
1981: Independence Day in Belize
Today in history: (9/22)
1776: Nathan Hale hanged for spying on the British
1862: Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
1920: Political scientist William H Riker born in Des Moines, Iowa
1941: German troops kill 6,000 Jews in Ukraine
1949: First Soviet atomic bomb explodes
1953: Allied forces form West Germany
1956: Grammy Award winning singer, Debby Boone born in Hackensack, New Jersey
1958: Singer, songwriter and rock guitarist, Joan Jett born in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
1981: Voice actress Maria Ashley Eckstein, born in Louisville, Kentucky
Today in history: (9/23) âą Autumnal Equinox
63BC: Emperor Augustus Caesar born in Rome. The month of August was named in his honor
480BC: Tragedian Euripides born in Salamis, Greece. "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad"
1845: NY Knickerbockers become first baseball club
1920: Academy, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning actor, Mickey Rooney born in Brooklyn, New York
1947: Emmy and Grammy Award winning actress and singer, Mary Kay Place born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1949: Grammy and Oscar winning guitarist, songwriter and singer, Bruce Springsteen born in Freehold, New Jersey
1952: V.P. Nixon denies campaign fund fraud with his âCheckersâ speech
1959: Movie and television actress, Rosalind Chao born in Anaheim, California
1969: âPaul is deadâ rumors sweep the country
Today in history: (9/27)
1825: First passenger locomotive in England
1840: Caricaturist and editorial cartoonist, Thomas Nast born in Landau, Germany
1920: Actor, director and narrator, William Conrad born in Louisville, Kentucky
1936: Producer and television host, Don Cornelius born in Chicago, Illinois
1947: Grammy Award winning singer, Meat Loaf born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Texas
1954: Author and creator of the Perl programming language, Larry Wall born in Los Angeles, California
1958: Actor, singer and musician, Shaun Cassidy born in Los Angeles, California
1964: Warren Commission concludes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F Kennedy
1972: Singer and Academy Award winning actress, Gwyneth Paltrow born in Los Angeles, California
1987: First NFL playerâs strike
Today in history: (9/28)
490BC Greek soldier Pheidippides runs 26+ miles to Athens after the Persian defeat at Marathon
1678: Pilgrimâs Progress Published
1925: Electrical engineer and supercomputer architect, Seymour Cray born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
1934: Actress Brigitte Bardot born Camille Javal in Paris, France
1939: Germany and Soviet Union divide Poland
1968: Actress Naomi Watts born in Kent, England
1972: Burlesque artist, model and actress, Dita Von Teese born Heather Renée Sweet in Rochester, Michigan
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Today in history (9/30)
1846: The first tooth extraction under anesthesia - Charlestown, Massachusetts
1882: Physicist Hans Geiger born in Neustadt-an-der-Haardt, Germany
1901: Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
1917: Drummer Buddy Rich born in Brooklyn, New York
1924: Author Truman Capote born in New Orleans, Lousiana
1931: Golden Globe Award winning actress, Angie Dickinson born in Kulm, North Dakota
1935: Grammy Award winning singer Johnny Mathis born in Gilmer, Texas
1946: Nuremberg trials verdicts announced
1957: Actress Fran Drescher born in Queens, New York
1960: The Flintstones premiere