On this day in History - Sep 8

• 551 BC – Confucius was born (d. 479 BC). Chinese philosopher.
• c.20 BC- Virgin Mary was born. Mother of Jesus Christ.
• 0701 - Pope Sergius I (687-701) dies.
• 0780 - Leo IV dies. Byzantine Emperor
• 0828 - Ali al-Hadi was born (d. 0868). Shia Imam.
• 1157 - King Richard I of England ("The Lionheart") was born (d. 6 Apr 1199). King of England (1189-99) ; third son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
• 1207 - King Sancho II of Portugal was born (d. 1248).
• 1276 - John XXI elected Pope
• 1331 - Stefan Dusan declares himself king of Serbia
• 1380 - Battle of Kulikovo - Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
• 1429 - Paris attacked by Joan of Arc: French heroine Joan of Arc, a peasant girl who believed she was acting under divine guidance, attempted to oust the duke of Burgundy and take Paris for the newly crowned King Charles VII.
• 1449 - Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor.
• 1474 - Ludovico Ariosto was born (d. 1533). Italian poet (Orlando Furioso)
• 1504 - Michelangelo's David statue is unveiled in Florence.
• 1514 - Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century, Belarussians and Poles defeat Russian army.
• 1522 - Captain Sebastian del Cano sails into port in Spain, completing the round-the-world voyage begun by Ferdinand Magellan. With him is tourist Antonio Pigafetta, whose journals provide most of what is known about the voyage.
• 1529 - The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman re-enters Buda and establishes John Zapolyai as the puppet king of Hungary.
• 1560 - Fundação da cidade de Itaquaquecetuba
• 1565 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles settles St. Augustine, Florida.
• 1565 - The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta (siege started on May 18).
• 1588 - Marin Mersenne was born (d. 1648). French mathematician.
• 1611 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius was born (d. 1671). German classical scholar.
• 1612 - Fundação da cidade de São Luis do Maranhão (Brasil).
• 1613 - Carlo Gesualdo dies (b. 1566). Italian composer.
• 1621 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé was born (d. 1686). French general.
• 1633 - Ferdinand IV of Germany was born (d. 1654)
• 1636 - Harvard University is founded.
• 1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes New College as the first college founded in the Americas.
• 1637 - Robert Fludd dies (b. 1574). English mystic.
• 1644 - John Coke dies (b. 1563). English politician.
• 1644 - Francis Quarles dies (b. 1592). English poet.
• 1644 - Nasce Manuel Luís Maldonado (m. 1711). Historiador, sacerdote católico e militar açoriano.
• 1645 - Francisco de Quevedo dies (b. 1580). Spanish writer.
• 1656 - Joseph Hall dies (b. 1574). English bishop and writer.
• 1664 - As part of the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the duke of York (later James II) took the city of New Amsterdam, whose name was changed to New York.
• 1672 - Nicolas de Grigny was born (d. 1703). French organist and composer.
• 1682 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz dies (b. 1606). Spanish writer.
• 1721 - Michael Brokoff dies (b. 1686). Czech sculptor.
• 1739 - Yuri Troubetzkoy dies (b. 1668). Governor of Belgorod.
• 1753 - John Soane was born. English architect.
• 1760 - Capitulação da Nova França (hoje Ontário e Quebeque) aos ingleses
• 1761 - Casamento de Jorge III com a princesa alemã Sofia Carlota de Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
• 1771 - Mungo Park was born. Scottish born explorer of Africa
• 1778 - Clemens Brentano was born (d. 1842). German poet.
• 1780 - Enoch Poor dies (b. 1736). General in the American Continental Army.
• 1781 - American troops commanded by General Nathanael Greene defeated British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Stewart in the Battle of Eutaw Springs during the American Revolution.
• 1784 - Ann Lee dies. American religious leader.
• 1795 - Nasce em Santo Amaro de Jaboatão (PE), José da Natividade Saldanha (m. 30 Mar 1830). Escritor e político brasileiro.
• 1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano.
• 1804 - Eduard Mörike was born (d. 1875). German poet.
• 1810 - The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship will arrive at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men will establish fur-trading town of Astoria.
• 1811 - Peter Simon Pallas dies (b. 1741). German zoologist.
• 1814 - Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg was born (d. 1874). French writer, historian and specialist in Mesoamerican studies.
• 1819 - Nasce, em Lisboa, António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo (m. 22 Jan 1887). Estadista português.
• 1828 - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born. Civil War soldier
• 1830 - Frédéric Mistral was born (d. 1914). French poet, Nobel Prize laureate in 1904.
• 1831 - William IV crowned King of Britain
• 1841 - Antonin Dvorak was born (d. 1 May 1904). Czech composer (Slavonic Dances, Fifth Symphony, The Water Nymph, Carnival, Gypsy Melodies)
• 1852 - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea was born (d. 1919).
• 1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass - On the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
• 1873 - David O. McKay was born (d. 1970). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1881 - Harry Hillman was born. American athlete.
• 1883 - A linha de caminho de ferro que atravessa os Estados Unidos da América de costa a costa - a Northern Pacific Railroad - é concluída.
• 1886 - Siegfried Sassoon was born (d. 1967). Siegfried Sassoon, British author and poet famous for his anti-war writing about World War I.
• 1886 - Joanesburg (South Africa) is founded
• 1888 - In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
• 1888 - In England the first 6 Football League matches ever are played.
• 1889 - Robert Alphonso Taft was born (d. 1953). U.S. Senator from Ohio.
• 1895 - Uma coluna militar portuguesa derrota uma força de índigenas no Combate de Magul, durante a «Campanha de 95» em Moçambique, de pacificação das revoltas de negros começadas em 1894, com um ataque a Lourenço Marques.
• 1897 - Jimmie Rodgers was born (d. 1933). American country music singer and composer.
• 1900 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
• 1901 - Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was born (d. 6 Sep 1966). Prime minister of South Africa from 1958 - 1966.
• 1903 - Between 30,000 and 50,000 Bulgarian men, women and children are massacred in Monastir by Turkish troops seeking to check a threatened Macedonian uprising.
• 1904 - Coroação da estátua de Nossa Senhora Aparecida
• 1907 - Nasce Agenor Miranda (m. 2004). Babalorixá, escritor.
• 1910 - Jean-Louis Barrault was born (d. 1994). Actor, director.
• 1914 - Sir Denys Lasdun was born (d. 2001). Architect.
• 1914 - Robert Wise, was born. American film director
• 1915 - Pinheiro Machado dies (b. 1851). Brazilian politician
• 1918 - Devido ao prolongamento da Guerra, e à guerra submarina alemã, começam a ser distribuídas, em Portugal, senhas de racionamento e cartas de consumo.
• 1921 - 16-year-old Margaret Gorman won the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
• 1922 - Sid Caesar was born. Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian: Your Show of Shows [1951], Caesar’s Hour [1956].
• 1922 - Lyndon LaRouche was born. Political leader.
• 1923 - Honda Point Disaster: Seven US Navy destroyers ran aground off the California coast.
• 1924 - Mimi Parent was born (d. 2005). Surrealist painter.
• 1925 - Germany is admitted into the League of Nations.
• 1925 - Peter Sellers was born (d. 1980). Actor, comedian. Famous for his role as Inspector Clouseau ( The Pink Panther series , What’s New Pussycat, The Mouse that Roared, The World of Henry Orient, Casino Royale, Dr. Strangelove, Being There)
• 1927 - Nasce, em Lisboa, Laura Alves (m. 6 Mai 1986). Grande actriz portuguesa. Alcançou sucesso em palco, nos diversos géneros: revista, opereta, comédia, drama, sobretudo no Monumental (1951). Também participou em cinema [ O PAI TIRANO (1941); O PÁTIO DAS CANTIGAS (1941); O LEÃO DA ESTRELA (1947); SONHAR É FÁCIL (1951); UM MARIDO SOLTEIRO (1952);O COSTA D’ÁFRICA (1954);PERDEU-SE UM MARIDO (1956);O PARQUE DAS ILUSÕES (1963)]. Retirou-se em 1982. Foi casada com o empresário de teatro Vasco Morgado.
• 1929 - Christoph von Dohnanyi was born. German conductor.
• 1930 - Nguyen Cao Ky was born. Premier of South Vietnam.
• 1930 - The comic strip "Blondie," created by Chic Young, was first published
• 1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
• 1932 - Patsy Cline was born (d. 1963). Country music singer ("Crazy", "I Fall to Pieces").
• 1933 - King Faysal I of Iraq dies
• 1933 -Michael Frayn was born. Playwright (A Very Private Life, Noises Off).
• 1934 - Peter Maxwell Davies was born. Composer.
• 1934 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
• 1935 - US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
• 1937 - Virna Lisi (Pieralisi) was born. Actress ( Assault on a Queen, Bluebeard, Christopher Columbus, Le Serpent [Night Flight from Moscow], Casanova, The Secret of Santa Vittoria).
• 1938 - Sam Nunn was born. U.S. Senator from Georgia.
• 1940 - Frankie Avalon was born. American singer.
• 1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins - German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Deutsche deported to Siberia.
• 1943 - World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.
• 1943 - World War II: Julius Fucik is executed by the Nazis.
• 1943 - Julius Fucik dies executed. Czech communist and journalist.
• 1944 - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
• 1944 - World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
• 1945 - Bess Myerson of New York was crowned "Miss America" in Atlantic City, New Jersey, becoming the first Jewish contestant to win the title.
• 1945 - Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
• 1945 - Jose Feliciano was born in Lares, Puerto Rico. Singer.
• 1945 - Ron Pigpen McKernan was born (d. 1973). Musician (the Grateful Dead).
• 1946 - The monarchy in Bulgaria is abolished in a referendum called by communists installed by the Soviet Army. Georgi Dimitrov became the 1st premier of communist Bulgaria
• 1946 - 60th U.S. Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (11-9, 6-3)
• 1946 - 66th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jack Kramer beats Tom Brown, Jr. (9-7, 6-3, 6-0)
• 1947 - Ann Beattie was born. Writer (Chilly Scenes of Winter, Picturing Will).
• 1948 - Thomas Mofolo dies (b. 1876). Lesotho writer
• 1949 - Richard Strauss dies (b. 1864). German composer (Also Sprach Zarathustra).
• 1951 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
• 1952 - 72nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (6-1, 6-2, 6-3)
• 1952 - Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man and Sea" is published
• 1954 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
• 1954 - André Derain dies. French painter.
• 1956 - Frank Tovey (aka Fad Gadget) was born (d. 2002). British singer and musician.
• 1957 - Heather Thomas was born. Actress. (Jody-Fall Guy, Coed Fever)
• 1957 - 77th U.S. Mens Tennis: M J Anderson beats Ashley J Cooper (10-8, 7-5, 6-4)
• 1960 - Jussi Bjorling dies at 49. Swedish epic tenor (Manrico, Cavaradossi, Faust, Rodolfo, Riccardo, Romeo),
• 1960 - Aimee Mann was born. Musician
• 1960 - In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
• 1961 - Fernanda Abreu was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1963 - 77th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court (7-5, 6-4)
• 1963 - 83rd U.S. Mens Tennis: R H Osuna beats Frank Froehling III (7-5, 6-4, 6-2)
• 1963 - Algerian population accepts constitution
• 1964 - Michael Johns was born. Business executive and White House speechwriter
• 1964 - Malta tornou-se independente da Grã-Bretanha. Conquistada à Ordem de Malta por Napoleão Bonaparte em 12 de Junho de 1798, quando da expedição francesa ao Egipto, tinha sido tomada por forças britânicas em 1800.
• 1965 - Dorothy Dandridge dies. Actress .
• 1965 - Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church ended
• 1966 - "The Man Trap", the first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek airs.
• 1966 - Carola was born. Swedish singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner.
• 1968 - Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant
• 1969 - Bud Collyer dies. American television game show host
• 1969 - Alexandra David-Néel dies. French explorer and writer.
• 1969 - 89th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Tony Roche (7-9, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2)
• 1970 - Percy Spencer dies (b. 1894). Microwaves inventor
• 1970 - Neko Case was born. Musician
• 1970 - Latrell Sprewell was born. Basketball player
• 1970 - Yuji Nishizawa was born. Japanese hijacker
• 1971 - David Arquette was born. Actor (The Outsiders, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Webbers, Dead Man’s Walk, Dream with the Fishes, Scream 2, WCW Monday Nitro, WCW Thunder, Scream 3, 3000 Miles to Graceland).
• 1971 - Brooke Burke was born. Model
• 1971 - In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
• 1972 - Lisa Kennedy was born. Television personality.
• 1973 - Rebecca Ann King (Colo), 23, crowned 46th Miss America 1974
• 1973 - 87th U.S. Womens Tennis: M S Court beats E Goolagong Cawley (7-6 5-7 6-2)
• 1974 - 88th U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Evonne Goolagong (3-6 6-3 7-5)
• 1974 - 94th U.S. Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ken Rosewall (6-1, 6-0, 6-1)
• 1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
• 1974 - Evel Knievel's attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls, Idaho, fails after a parachute prematurely deploys on his "sky cycle."
• 1975 - Guinee-Bissau declares independence from Portugal
• 1977 - Zero Mostel dies. Actor.
• 1978 - Martial Law declared in Tehran and other cities, Iran, as riots take place
• 1979 - Jean Seberg dies. Actress.
• 1979 - Pink was born. Singer
• 1979 - Péter Lékó was born. Hungary chess player.
• 1979 - Jean Seberg dies (suiced) at 40. Actress (Breathless, Airport)
• 1980 - Willard Frank Libby dies (b. 1908). American chemist
• 1981 - Hideki Yukawa dies (b. 1907). Japanese physicist.
• 1981 - Bill Shankly dies. Football manager
• 1981 - Roy Wilkins dies. American civil rights activist
• 1981 - Hideki Yukawa dies (b. 1907). Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas was born. Actor
• 1982 - Leandra Leal was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1982 - Em Portugal é legalizado o Movimento Ecologista Os Verdes.
• 1984 - 98th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris E L Mills (4-6, 6-4, 6-4)
• 1985 - 105th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (7-6, 6-3, 6-4)
• 1989 - Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder)
• 1990 - 104th U.S. Womens Tennis: Gabriela Sabatini beats Steffi Graf (6-2, 7-6). It was her first grand slam title.
• 1991 - 111th U.S. Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Jim Courier (6-2, 6-4, 6-0)
• 1991 - Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
• 1993 - Hall Bartlett dies at 70. US director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull).
• 1994 - A Boeing 737 operating USAir Flight 427 carrying 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport. There are no survivors.
• 1995 - Bosnia's warring sides reached a compromise in Geneva, agreeing to divide the nation into two states: one for the rebel Serbs and another for the Muslims and Croats.
• 1996 - 110th U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Monica Seles (7-5, 6-4)
• 1996 - 116th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Michael Chang (6-1, 6-4, 7-6)
• 1997 - Raul Roulien was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1997 - A Haitian ferry, the Pride of Gonave, capsized, killing about three-quarters of the 200 people aboard.
• 1998 - At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, Mark McGwire breaks Roger Maris' 1961 record of 61 home runs hit in a single season.
• 1999 - US Attorney General Janet Reno names former US Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. The event actually occured in the rural small community of Elk, Texas some several miles outside the Waco city limits.
• 1999 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published in the United States.
• 2000 - The Republic of Albania officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Albania. World leaders ended the United Nations Millennium Summit with a pledge to solve humankind's problems, including poverty, war, AIDS, pollution and human rights abuses.
• 2001 - Venus Williams won her second consecutive U.S. Open title by beating her sister Serena 6-2, 6-4 in the first prime-time women's Grand Slam final.
• 2002 - Pete Sampras beat Andre Agassi ( 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4) to win his 14th Grand Slam title and the U.S. Open for the fifth time.
• 2002 - Laurie Williams dies. West Indian cricketer
• 2002 - Georges-Andre Chevallaz dies in Lausanne (87). Former Swiss president (1980) and member of the ruling cabinet for 10 years.
• 2002 - Morre Lucas Moreira Neves (n. 1925). Cardeal brasileiro.
• 2003 - Jaclyn Linetsky dies (b. 1896). Canadian voice actress.
• 2003 - Leni Riefenstahl dies (b. 1902). German film director. Her depiction of Hitler's Nuremberg rally, "Triumph of the Will," was renowned and despised as the best propaganda film ever made.
• 2003 - Brianna LaHara, a 12-year-old, is sued by the RIAA for downloading music illegally.
• 2004 - The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
• 2004 - Frank Thomas dies (b. 1913). American animator.
• 2005 - Noel Cantwell dies (b. 1932). Irish cricket and football player
• Mare de Deu de Meritxell - National day of Andorra
• Bahá'í Faith - Feast of 'Izzat (Might) - First day of the tenth month of the Bahá'í calendar
• Eastern Orthodoxy - Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos
• Roman Catholicism - Feast of the Birth of Mary
• Dia Internacional da Alfabetização
• Portugal : Feriado municipal na Cidade de Lamego e na Vila de Nazaré.
• Guinea-Bissau : Independence Day (1974)