Notable Historical Events on September 13th
September 13th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
509 |
The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September. |
BC AD | |
122 |
Building begins on Hadrian's Wall |
533 |
General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa. |
604 |
Sabinian begins his reign as Pope replacing Pope Gregory the Great |
1125 |
Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III |
1224 |
Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata. |
1440 |
Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes. |
1503 |
Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David. |
1504 |
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built. |
1515 |
-14] Battle at Marignano: France beats Habsburgers & Pope Leo X |
1549 |
Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna |
1553 |
English bishop Hugh Latimer arrested |
1556 |
Charles V & Maria of Hungary march into Spain |
1574 |
Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis |
1579 |
Breda forms Union of Utrecht |
1625 |
16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem |
1631 |
Admiral Tholen conquerors 30+ Spanish frigates |
1663 |
1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia) |
1743 |
Britain, Austria & Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms |
1751 |
Britain signs Austrian & Russian alliance |
1759 |
British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec) |
1775 |
Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main |
1787 |
Prussian army moves into Netherlands |
1788 |
NY City becomes 1st capital of US |
1789 |
1st loan to US government (from NYC banks) |
1791 |
France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution |
1800 |
Curacao in British hands (until Jan 1803) |
1808 |
Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero. |
1847 |
American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City |
1849 |
1st US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy) |
1858 |
Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die |
1861 |
1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla |
1867 |
Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors |
1869 |
Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market |
1881 |
Lewis Latimer invents & patents electric lamp with a carbon filament |
1882 |
Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt |
1883 |
Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia |
1890 |
Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland & Salisbury |
1898 |
20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike |
1898 |
Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film |
1899 |
Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya. |
1900 |
Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War. |
1906 |
1st airplane flight in Europe |
1907 |
Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders & Montreal Foot Ball |
1909 |
Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park) |
1910 |
Regina Rugby Club forms |
1918 |
Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42 |
1919 |
Guy Bolton & George Middleton's "Adam & Eve," premieres in NYC |
1922 |
136.4°F (58°C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record) |
1923 |
With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera |
1924 |
19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0) |
1925 |
1st US University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans |
1925 |
Bkln Dodger Dazzy Vance no-hits Phillies, 10-1 |
1927 |
Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 HRs (52 en route to 60) |
1927 |
Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees |
1928 |
KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions |
1930 |
50th US Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 1-6 6-4 16-14) |
1930 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4) |
1930 |
Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament |
1930 |
Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3 |
1931 |
Capt G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph) |
1931 |
Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria |
1932 |
NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant |
1933 |
Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first New Zealand woman Member of Parliament |
1934 |
Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000 |
1935 |
Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway. |
1936 |
Cleve Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (vs Phila A's) |
1936 |
Acting on the orders of Louis Buchalter, Murder Inc. killers gun down Joseph Rosen, a Brooklyn candy store owner |
1938 |
Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
1939 |
First (tethered) flight of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, one of the first viable American helicopters, flown by Igor Sikorsky |
1940 |
Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs |
1940 |
Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt |
1942 |
Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal |
1942 |
Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning |
1942 |
German forces attack Stalingrad |
1943 |
Chiang Kai-shek became president of China |
1943 |
German counter attack at Salerno |
1943 |
Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres |
1943 |
The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe. |
1944 |
30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten |
1944 |
Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen |
1944 |
US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall |
1946 |
Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant |
1947 |
WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1948 |
Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress |
1949 |
Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC |
1951 |
St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0 |
1952 |
Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico |
1953 |
Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Phila A's |
1954 |
Reds Ted Kluszewski scores a run in record 17 consecutive games |
1954 |
WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes |
1956 |
Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice |
1956 |
IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305. |
1958 |
Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times |
1958 |
Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam |
1959 |
73rd US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64) |
1959 |
79th US Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64) |
1959 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open |
1959 |
USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body |
1960 |
Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law |
1961 |
"Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV |
1961 |
Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961 |
Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit |
1963 |
"Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV |
1963 |
Jim Bouton's 20th win clinches Yanks 28th pennant |
1963 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1964 |
3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome |
1964 |
78th US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Carole Graebner (61 60) |
1964 |
84th US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Frederick S Stolle (64 62 64) |
1964 |
Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open |
1964 |
St Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2 |
1964 |
WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1965 |
Beatles release "Yesterday" |
1965 |
Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964 |
1965 |
Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast |
1965 |
Willie Mays's 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win |
1966 |
Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa |
1968 |
Albania leaves Warsaw pact |
1969 |
Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title |
1969 |
Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player |
1969 |
Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko & Eric Clapton) 1st live performance |
1970 |
1st NYC Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38 |
1970 |
84th US Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61) |
1970 |
90th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63) |
1970 |
IBM announces System 370 computer |
1970 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open |
1970 |
Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania |
1971 |
11 guards & 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison |
1971 |
Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR |
1971 |
Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow |
1971 |
WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
World Hockey Association forms |
1971 |
Two North Ireland Loyalists are mortally injured when the bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely in a house in Bann Street, Belfast |
1972 |
1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS |
1973 |
ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics |
1973 |
Congress passes & sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout |
1973 |
Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea |
1974 |
-17] 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague |
1974 |
1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV |
1974 |
Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17 |
1974 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1974 |
OPEC instructs its Secretary General to "carry out a study of supply and demand in relation to possible production controls" |
1975 |
-27] Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean & US |
1976 |
2nd Enterprise, approach & lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s) |
1977 |
1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap |
1977 |
2nd Test Cricket of Space Shuttle Enterprise |
1977 |
General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88) |
1978 |
1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet |
1978 |
NY Yanks win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back |
1979 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1979 |
South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of S Afr) |
1980 |
1st United Negro College Fund |
1981 |
101st US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (4-6 6-2 6-4 6-3) |
1981 |
33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St Blue, Judd Hirsh & Isabel Sanford win |
1981 |
April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yds & 13" |
1981 |
Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay) |
1981 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
1981 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1982 |
50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain |
1982 |
Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game |
1983 |
Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save |
1983 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
1983 |
Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season |
1983 |
Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 mins, Lancs v Leics |
1983 |
US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle) |
1984 |
STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad |
1984 |
Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed |
1985 |
2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen |
1985 |
John Williams introduces new Today Show theme |
1986 |
Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season |
1986 |
Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987 |
1987 |
Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro |
1987 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
1987 |
Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours |
1988 |
10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams |
1988 |
9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in NY |
1988 |
Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere |
1989 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit |
1989 |
Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa |
1989 |
Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner |
1990 |
Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die |
1990 |
Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait |
1990 |
Robert E Nederlander appointed NY Yankee managing general partner |
1990 |
Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter |
1991 |
55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium |
1991 |
Joe Carter 1st baseball player with 3 consecutive 100 RBI seasons with 3 different teams (Indians, Padres, Blue Jays) |
1991 |
Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts |
1992 |
112th US Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Pete Sampras (36 64 76 62) |
1992 |
NY Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28 |
1992 |
Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
1992 |
Steffan Edberg beats Pete Sampress to win US Open |
1993 |
Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres & PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord |
1993 |
Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11) |
1993 |
Queens NY begins required recycling |
1993 |
Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway. |
1994 |
George Burns, undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain |
1994 |
Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun |
1995 |
The Kuwaiti Oil Ministry states its intention to seek a 200-million-barrels-per-day increase to its current 2-million-barrels-per-day crude oil production quota at OPEC meeting in Vienna |
1996 |
Phil Simmons scores 171 & takes 6-14 for Leics v Durham |
1997 |
Carolina Hurricane's 1st exhibition game beat NY Islanders 4-1 |
1997 |
Katherine Shindle (Ill), 24, crowned 71st Miss America 1998 |
1997 |
Mother Teresa's State Funeral held in India |
1998 |
112th US Womens Tennis |
1998 |
118th US Mens Tennis |
1998 |
SAFECO Golf Classic |
1998 |
50th Emmy Awards: The Practice, Frasier, Andre Braugher & Christine Lahti win |
1999 |
Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed. |
1999 |
John Elway's #7 jersey is retired by the Denver Broncos |
2001 |
Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks. |
2001 |
Relative calm returns to world oil markets as US retail gasoline prices return to normal levels; energy trading by Houston energy companies resumes and limited commercial aviation starts |
2006 |
At Dawson College (Montreal), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before committing suicide. |
2008 |
Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas. |
2009 |
26th MTV Awards: Beyoncé, Taylor Swift & T.I. f/ Rihanna wins |
2012 |
19 people are killed after a freight elevator crashes from 100 meters in Wuhan, China |
2012 |
33,000 people are evacuated after Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts |
2012 |
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for Russian punk band Pussy Riot to be freed |
2012 |
Dr Mustafa Abushagur is elected as Prime Minister of Libya |
2013 |
30 people are killed by a mosque bombing attack in Baghdad, Iraq |
2013 |
9 people are killed after massive floods in Galati County, Romania |
2014 |
At least 8 people are killed after the ferry MV Maharlika II sinks off the Philippines coast |
2014 |
40 people are killed after T. B. Joshua's The Synagogue Church of All Nations collapses in Nigeria |
2016 |
US flexes muscle at North Korea, flying bombers over South Korea: reports |
2016 |
Ortiz hits 536th HR, ties Mantle for 17th on career list |
2017 |
Apple officially opens Steve Jobs Theater with unveiling of iPhone 8, iPhone X |
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