Welcome to Today In History for Thursday, September 2, 2010.
On this day in history...
- 0911 - Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines
- 1192 - Sultan Saladin & king Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire
- 1519 - 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
- 1537 - King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church"
- 1644 - Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders
- 1666 - -06] Great Fire in London ends, kills 8 [NS=Sept 12]
- 1666 - Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses & kills 8
- 1686 - Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks
- 1732 - Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
- 1743 - England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
- 1752 - Last Julian calender day in US & England (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
- 1752 - Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies
- 1789 - US Treasury Department established by Congress
- 1792 - Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails & slaughter them
- 1796 - Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
- 1806 - A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500
- 1839 - Salon of Varits opens in Amsterdam
- 1859 - Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
- 1864 - Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
- 1867 - 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Neth
- 1870 - Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies
- 1894 - -3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
- 1894 - Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
- 1897 - "McCall-magazine 1st published
- 1898 - Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
- 1898 - Machine gun 1st used in battle
- 1900 - Telegraph use between Germany & US begins
- 1901 - VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
- 1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1909 - English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill
- 1911 - Joao Chagas forms Portuguese govt
- 1913 - Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
- 1914 - -3] Gen von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux
- 1917 - Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz)
- 1919 - Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
- 1919 - Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation
- 1919 - National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series
- 1920 - W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London
- 1922 - Pres Ebert declares "Deutschland ber alas" as German national anthem
- 1924 - 44th US Mens Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (61 97 62)
- 1924 - Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in NYC
- 1926 - Italy signs treaty with Yemen
- 1927 - Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
- 1929 - Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros
- 1929 - WOR (NYC) ends affiliation with CBS radio network
- 1930 - 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
- 1935 - A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423
- 1936 - 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
- 1937 - US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
- 1940 - 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa
- 1940 - Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
- 1941 - Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
- 1942 - German troops enter Stalingrad
- 1944 - Belgium's Emissie bank closes
- 1944 - During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
- 1944 - Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz
- 1944 - US leaders meet in Belgium
- 1945 - 59th US Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64)
- 1945 - Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)
- 1945 - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends)
- 1946 - Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
- 1946 - Nehru forms govt in India
- 1949 - Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)
- 1951 - Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact
- 1952 - Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
- 1954 - Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
- 1954 - WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 - KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1956 - Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
- 1956 - Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings
- 1956 - Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
- 1957 - 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
- 1957 - Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game
- 1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
- 1958 - Henry Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa
- 1958 - KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1958 - Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium
- 1958 - National Defense Education Act was signed
- 1959 - US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
- 1960 - Tamara & Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold
- 1960 - William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres
- 1962 - Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place
- 1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1963 - Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
- 1963 - CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
- 1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament
- 1964 - Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
- 1964 - Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal
- 1965 - Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons)
- 1965 - Treblinka trial in Dsseldorf ends
- 1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf
- 1967 - KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1968 - Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
- 1969 - NY Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated
- 1969 - Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season
- 1970 - 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death)
- 1971 - Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer
- 1971 - Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches
- 1971 - NY's Electric Circus Club goes out of business
- 1972 - Chic White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0
- 1972 - Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec)
- 1972 - Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well)
- 1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1973 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers
- 1973 - Netherlands wins hockey world's championship
- 1973 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
- 1974 - Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
- 1974 - Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
- 1978 - George Harrison marries Olivia
- 1978 - Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)
- 1978 - Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
- 1978 - John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
- 1978 - Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
- 1979 - "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 perfs
- 1979 - 79th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara
- 1980 - John Arlott calls his last game, England v Australia at Lord's
- 1981 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
- 1982 - Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down
- 1983 - Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
- 1984 - "Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances
- 1985 - Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
- 1985 - Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000
- 1986 - Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
- 1987 - Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
- 1987 - Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season
- 1987 - Philips introduces CD-video
- 1987 - West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia
- 1988 - Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley
- 1989 - Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
- 1990 - "Grapes of Wrath" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 188 performances
- 1990 - Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, SF
- 1991 - Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657
- 1991 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
- 1991 - US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
- 1992 - Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die
- 1992 - US dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record)
- 1993 - 10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins
- 1993 - Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed
- 1993 - Day of Peace in South Africa
- 1994 - Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km)
- 1995 - Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25)
- 1995 - Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1995 - Southern California begins using new area code 562
- 1996 - Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000
- 1996 - Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
- 1996 - Soyuz TM-24, lands
- 1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM
- 1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM