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September 8
September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). There are 114 days remaining.
Events
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1331 - Stefan Dusan declares himself king of Serbia
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1380 - Battle of Kulikovo - Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitrii Ivanovich defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
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1449 - Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor.
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1514 - Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century Belarusians and Poles defeat Russian army.
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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.
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1565 - The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta (siege started on May 18).
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1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes Harvard College as the first college founded in the Americas.
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1771 - In California, Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera found Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in what is now San Gabriel, California.
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1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano.
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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.
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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.
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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 were played.
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1900 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
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1923 - Honda Point Disaster: Seven US Navy destroyers ran aground off the California coast.
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1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
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1934 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS_Morro_Castle kills 135 people.
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1935 - US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
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1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins - German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad.
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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 was executed by the Nazis.
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1944 - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
- 1944 - World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
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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.
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1951 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign Sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
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1954 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
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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).
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1966 - The first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek airs.
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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.
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1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
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1986 - General Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
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1991 - Independency of Republic of Macedonia.
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1994 - A Boeing 737 operating USAir Flight 427 carrying 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport. There are no survivors.
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1995 - Timon and Pumbaa launches on all major television networks
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1998 - At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, Mark McGwire breaks Roger Maris' 1961 record of 61 home runs hit in a single season.
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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 in Waco, Texas.
- 1999 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, was published.
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2004 - The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands as its parachute fails to open.
Births
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551 BC – Confucius, Chinese Philosopher (d.479 BC)
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828 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
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1157 - King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
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1207 - King Sancho II of Portugal
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1474 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533)
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1621 - Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French general (d. 1686)
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1778 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
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1804 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875)
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1828 - Margaret Slocum Sage , philanthropist
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1841 - Antonin Dvorak, composer (d. 1904)
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1857 - Ida Henrietta Hyde , physiologist
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1859 - Mary Morton Kimball Kehew , reformer
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1863 - Jessie Willcox Smith , painter, illustrator
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1873 - David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1970)
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1881 - Harry Hillman, American athlete
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1886 - Siegfried Sassoon, poet (d. 1967)
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1889 - Robert Alphonso Taft, Senator from Ohio (d. 1953)
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1897 - Jimmie Rodgers, country music singer, composer (d. 1933)
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1910 - Jean-Louis Barrault, actor, director (d. 1994)
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1914 - Sir Denys Lasdun, architect (d. 2001)
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1922 - Sid Caesar, comedian
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1925 - Peter Sellers, actor (d. 1980)
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1929 - Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor
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1930 - Nguyen Cao Ky, Premier of South Vietnam
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1932 - Patsy Cline, country music singer
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1934 - Peter Maxwell Davies, composer
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1937 - Virna Lisi , actress (d. 1963)
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1938 - Sam Nunn, Senator from Georgia
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1945 - Jose Feliciano, singer
- 1945 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, musician (the Grateful Dead)
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1947 - Ann Beattie, writer
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1960 - Aimee Mann, musician
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1964 - Michael Johns, business executive and former White House speechwriter to President of the United States George H.W. Bush
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1970 - Neko Case, musician
- 1970 - Latrell Sprewell, NBA basketball player
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1971 - Brooke Burke, model
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1972 - Lisa Kennedy, MTV VJ
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1979 - Pink (Alecia Moore), singer
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1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor
Deaths
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701 - Pope Sergius I
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780 - Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor
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1613 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer.
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1637 - Robert Fludd
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1780 - Enoch Poor, Brigadier General in the Continental Army (b. 1736)
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1784 - Ann Lee, Shaker leader
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1811 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
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1933 - Faysal I, king of Iraq
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1943 - Julius Fucik, Czech communist and journalist, executed by Nazis.
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1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
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1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, actress
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1969 - Bud Collyer, television game show host
- 1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, buddhist and writer
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1977 - Zero Mostel, actor
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1979 - Jean Seberg, actress
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1981 - Bill Shankly, football manager
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1981 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights activist
- 1981 - Hideki Yukawa, physicist
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2003 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress
- 2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, movie maker
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2004 - Frank Thomas, Disney animator (b. 1913)
Holidays
- Mare de Deu de Meritxell - National day of Andorra
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Bahá'í Faith - Feast of 'Izzat (Might) - First day of the tenth month of the Bahá'í Calendar
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Catholicism - Feast of the Birth of Mary
External links
September 7 - September 9 - August 8 - October 8 - more historical anniversaries
Last updated: 09-12-2005 02:39:13
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