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World Coconut Day

VJ DAY

1192 Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign Treaty of Jaffa over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade

1666 Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane and burns for three days, 80% of London, 10,000 buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral is destroyed

1752 Last Julian calendar day in Great Britain and British colonies including America. To sync to the Gregorian calendar, 11 days are skipped and the next date is Sep 14.

1792 September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

1807 The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.

1878 Surrey bowler Edward Barratt takes 10 for 43 for the Players in Australia's 1st innings in a cricket tour match on his home ground at The Oval; all ten are caught or stumped but Australia wins by 8 runs

1898 Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain

1898 Machine gun 1st used in battle

1900 A large demonstration by Nationalists in Dublin's Phoenix Park demand that Ireland be free of British rule

1905 New Zealand beats Australia 14-3 in cold, wet conditions in the first international Rugby Union match between the countries on New Zealand soil at Tahuna Park in Dunedin

1929 Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros

1930 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)

1935 Labor Day hurricane makes landfall in Florida, killing 423 people, the strongest and most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States

1939 – Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gda?sk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.

1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp

1944 Future US President George H. W. Bush bails out of a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of World War II (Local date, 1st September in US)

1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independent from France (National Day)

1949 Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)

1949 "The Third Man", directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli and Orson Welles, is released in the United Kingdom (Academy Awards Best Cinematography 1950)

1956 British Ferrari driver Peter Collins sportingly hands over his car to retired team mate Juan Manuel Fangio during season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza; Fangio finishes 2nd to win F1 World Drivers Championship by 3 points from Englishman Stirling Moss

1960 William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres

1960 Tamara & Irina Press (Soviet Union) become first sisters to win Olympic gold medals; Tamara wins Rome Olympics shot put one day after Irina takes out 80m hurdles

1977 One of the great anti-climaxes in sport; 43-year-old transsexual Rene Richards, who fought for over a year for right to play in a major event, is beaten 6-1, 6-4 by Wimbledon champion Virginia Wade at the US Open

1980 Australian cricket batsman Kim Hughes becomes 3rd player to bat on all 5 days of a Test match as the rain affected Centenary Test peters out to a draw at Lord's; BBC's John Arlott comentates his final match

1987 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.

1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan

1987 Philips introduces the CD-video

1995 British boxer Frank Bruno beats American champion Oliver McCall in a unanimous 12 round points decision in London for the WBC heavyweight title

2012 A decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters is lifted from State television in Egypt2018 Major fire at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro destroys most of its 20 million artifacts

2018 About 400 prisoners escape a jail near Tripoli in Libya during militia fighting

2018 Major fire at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro destroys most of its 20 million artifacts

2019 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatens a snap general election if rebel MPs pass bill against no-deal Brexit

2020 Press conference with body camera evidence brings to light death of African American Daniel Prude after being retrained by police back in March

Born Today ;-

1870 Marie Ault, [Mary Cragg], Actress, born Wigan

1910 – Donald Watson, English activist, founded the Vegan Society

1913 – Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager of Liverpool

1927 – Francis Matthews, actor - Paul Temple, voiced Captain Scarlet, born in York,

1937 Derek Fowlds, British actor (Yes Minister, The Basil Brush Show, Heartbeat), born in London

1938 Glyn Worsnip, radio and television presenter (That's Life!), born in Highnam, Gloucestershire

1946 – Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor

1952 – Jimmy Connors, American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster

1962 – Keir Starmer, English lawyer and politician Leader of Labour Party, former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and Head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)

1964 – Keanu Reeves, Lebanese born actor, singer, and producer

1965 Lennox Lewis, boxer (Olympic gold super-heavyweight 1988, undisputed world heavyweight champion 1999), born in London

1982 Joey Barton, England footballer (1) Everton & Liverpool Youth player

Died Today ;-

490 BC Pheidippides, Greek hero and inspiration for the modern marathon

1348 Joan, Princess of England, daughter of Edward III, dies of the plague at 15 in Bordeaux on her way to marry Prince Pedro of Spain

1645 Alice Lisle, Last woman to be executed by a judicial sentence of beheading in England for harbouring fugitives after the defeat of the Monmouth Rebellion

1834 Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (Caledonian Canal, Göta Canal, Ellesmere Canal, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Shrewsbury Canal, Menai suspension bridge, A5 road and many more.)

1896 Nat Thompson, Australian cricket batsman (2 Tests, 1st batsman dismissed in first Test match 1877)

1937 Pierre de Coubertin, French educator and historian (founder International Olympic Committee)

1969 Ho Chi Minh [Nguy?n Sinh Cung], Vietnamese communist revolutionary and 1st President of Vietnam , dies at 79 of heart failure

1973 J. R. R. Tolkien, author (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings), dies of an ulcer at 81

1994 Roy Castle, English dancer, actor and tv presenter dies of lung cancer at 62

2001 Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon (perform 1st heart transplant), dies from a severe asthma attack at 78

2005 Bob Denver, American actor (Gilligan's Island), dies of complications from treatment for cancer at 70

2006 Charlie Williams MBE, soccer defender (Doncaster Rovers 151 games) and comedian (The Comedians - He used to respond to heckling by saying: "If you don't shut up, I'll come and move in next door to you", Love Thy Neighbour), dies from Parkinson's disease at 78

2013 David Jacobs, British broadcaster (Juke Box Jury), dies at 87

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Merchant Navy Day

301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, founded by Saint Marinus

1189 Richard the Lionheart is crowned in Westminster. 30 Jews are massacred after the coronation - Richard ordered the perpetrators be executed

1650 Third English Civil War: In the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles I of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark.

1651 – Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester: Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.

1658 The death of Oliver Cromwell - Richard Cromwell ("Tumbledown Dick") succeeds his father as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth

1666 – The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London.

1752 Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives

1812 World's first cannery ( Donkin, Hall and Gamble) opens in London, England to supply food to the Royal Navy

1812 – Twenty-four settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.

1852 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Stockholm

1855 Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.

1875 – The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers.

1878 British passenger paddle steamer Princess Alice sunk in a collision on the River Thames with the collier Bywell Castle; 645 die

1881 Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony

1912 Arnold Schoenberg's "Funf Orchesterstucke" (Five Pieces for Orchestra) premieres in London at a Promenade Concert

1904 For the only time in Olympic Games history, there is a throw-off in the discus final after Americans Martin Sheridan & Ralph Rose tie with a best throw of 128' 10½" in St. Louis; Sheridan wins with 127' 10¼"

1912 Arnold Schoenberg's "Funf Orchesterstucke" (Five Pieces for Orchestra) premieres in London at a Promenade Concert

1914 French troops vacate Rheims

1914 Lemburg capital of Galicia, is taken after a three-day battle in which the Russians rout the Austrians

1914 – Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.

1916 – Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.

1916 Battle of Verdun: French counterattacks on German flanks push their frontline further from the town

1917 1st night bombing of London by German aircraft

1917 German troops overrun Riga, Latvia

1918 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot (or Camp Logan riot) by 156 soldiers of the Third Battalion of the all-black Twenty-fourth United States Infantry Regiment. The events of the riot occurred within a climate of overt hostility from members of the all-white Houston Police Department against members of the local black community and black soldiers stationed at Camp Logan; in all 19 mutineers were executed and 41 were sentenced to life imprisonment.

1918 Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line

1925 The airship USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) crashes in a storm near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14, 29 survive

1929 Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches all time high of 381.17, to be shortly followed by the Crash of 1929.

1930 Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)

1935 First automobile to exceed 300mph, Malcolm Campbell powers Bluebird to 301.129mph at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah

1938 1940 Olympic site is changed from Tokyo, Japan to Helsinki, Finland because of the Second Sino-Japanese War; WWII causes eventual cancellation

1939 German submarine U-30, commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, sinks British passenger ship SS Athenia; 117 people die, among them 28 Americans

1939 Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada

1939 Mitford sister and Nazi sympathizer Unity Mitford attempts suicide after Britain declares war on Germany, bullet lodged in her brain eventually kills her in 1948

1940 Adolf Hitler orders an invasion of Great Britain for Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion)

1940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease

1941 – Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.

1942 – In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva (present-day Belarus).

1943 British 8th Army lands in Southern Italy (Messina)

1943 General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily

1944 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) from Westerbork leaves for Auschwitz concentration camp

1944 Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France

1944 French troops liberate Lyon

1944 Tank division of British Guards free Brussels

1945 Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to the Allies

1949 Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives

1953 European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect

1956 Tanks are deployed against race demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee

1965 Rolling Stone concert at the Adelphi Theater in Dublin, Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot

1967 Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road, chaos ensues.

1972 Great Britain's Mary Peters sets a new world record of 4801 points to win the Munich Olympics pentathlon gold by just 10 points from Heide Rosendahl of West Germany

1975 England cricket batsman Bob Woolmer scores 149 on the final day to save the 4th Test v Australia at The Oval; longest first-class match ever played in England; 32 hours 17 minutes

1988 Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War

1995 eBay (Electronic Bay) founded by Pierre Omidyar

2004 The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children.

2012 New Zealand announces withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan

2013 Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion

2015 Chris the sheep breaks the world record for biggest shorn fleece 40kg (88lb) near Canberra, Australia

2017 1.4 ton WWII bomb defused in Frankfurt, Germany with 60,000 people evacuated, the largest postwar

2018 Heatwave made summer hottest ever in England, joint hottest for UK according to UK Met Office

2018 First public canning and conviction of lesbian couple attempting to have sex, by Sharia High Court in Terengganu state, Malaysia

2019 Walmart says it will stop selling handguns and some ammunition and ask customers not to openly carry firearms in response to El Paso shootings

2019 PM Boris Johnson loses significant vote in parliament as MPs gain control of the timetable, orders whip withdrawn from 21 rebel Tory MPs

2019 Hurricane Dorian finally moves off Grand Bahama after stalling for more than a day bringing catastrophic devastation, killing at least 50 with over 2,000 people missing

2020 MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist and ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, becomes world's richest woman worth $68 billion

2020 More healthcare workers have died of COVID-19 in Mexico than any other country - 1320 deaths vs 1077 (US) and 649 (UK) according to Amnesty International

Born Today ;-

1875 Ferdinand Porsche, German automotive engineer (Volkswagen Beetle, Mercedes-Benz SS) and founder of the Porsche car company, born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire

1882 – Johnny Douglas (John William Henry Tyler Douglas), England cricketer, Captain and boxer was a notable amateur boxer who won the middleweight gold medal at the 1908 Olympic Games. Known as Johnny Won't Hit Today Douglas,

1940 – Pauline Collins, actress (Shirley Valentine) born in Exmouth married John Alderton

1947 – Gérard Houllier, French footballer and coach & Liverpool Manager

1965 – Charlie Sheen, American actor and producer

1970 – Gareth Southgate, England footballer and manager

1981 Fearne Cotton, TV presenter

Died Today ;-

1189 Jacob of Orleans, Rabbi, killed in anti Jewish riot in London

1658 Oliver Cromwell, English general (1653-58)/Lord Protector, dies at 59

1918 Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed

1981 Alec Waugh, English novelist (Island in the Sun), died after suffering a stroke at 83

1994 Billy Wright, English soccer player, born in Ironbridge was the first footballer in the world to earn 100 international caps, holds the record for longest unbroken run in competitive international football. He also made a total of 105 appearances for England, captaining them a record 90 times, including during their campaigns at the 1950, 1954 and 1958 World Cup finals.Was married to Joy Beverley of the Beverley Sisters , dies at 70

2007 Steve Fossett, American adventurer (1st person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon,) disappears while flying at 63

2010 Cyril Smith, British Liberal Member of Parliament and alleged serial sex offender, dies at 82

2015 – Adrian Cadbury, English rower and businessman, was the chairman of Cadbury and Cadbury Schweppes for 24 years, and a British Olympic rower rowed in the losing Cambridge boat in the 1952 Boat Race. He also rowed in the Great Britain coxless four in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

2015 – Judy Carne, English actress and comedian best remembered for the phrase "Sock it to me!" on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Was married to actor Burt Reynolds

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International Bacon Day

International Vulture Awareness Day

World Beard Day

925 Aethelstan crowned King of the Anglo Saxons by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Kingston upon Thames

1571 Catholic rebellion in Scotland

1618 "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs, Switzerland, 1,500 killed

1682 English astronomer Edmond Halley observes the comet named after him

1842 Work on Cologne cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus

1884 Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.

1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war

1888 George Eastman patents the first roll-film camera & registers "Kodak"

1893 English author Beatrix Potter first writes the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5 year old boy

1911 French aviator Roland Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)

1912 First accident (collision) in London Underground: 22 people injured

1914 General von Moltke ceases German advance in France

1914 France, Russia, and Britain agree in a Pact of London that none will make a separate peace

1918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months

1919 British intervene in Petrograd

1920 Man o' War wins the 1 5/8-mile Lawrence Realization Stakes at Belmont Park by 100 lengths, the largest winning margin in modern thoroughbred racing history; world record time 2.40.8

1922 Finnish super athlete Paavo Nurmi runs a 2000m world record 5:26.3 in Tampere, Finland

1922 William Walmsley and William Lyons officially found the Swallow Sidecar Company (later Jaguar Cars) in Blackpool

1939 German troops move into Danzig

1939 Netherlands & Belgium declare neutrality

1939 Mir, a Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland, is exterminated

1939 RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen

1940 Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands

1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652

1942 Transport #28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany

1943 British 8th Army lands at Taranto, South Italy

1944 2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt

1944 British 11th Armoured Division frees Antwerp

1944 Finland breaks diplomatic contact with Nazi Germany

1944 US 1st Army frees Namen

1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan

1947 Champion Middlesex cricket batsman Denis Compton scores 101 for South of England in tour match defeat to South Africa at Lord's; his record 17th century of the English season

1957 Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to prevent 9 black students from entering a Little Rock's Central High School

1964 Scottish Forth Road Bridge opens (then the longest in Europe)

1970 Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet in London and is granted political asylum

1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.

1972 Kenyan legend Kipchoge Keino follows his 1,500m gold in Mexico City with an Olympic record 8:23.64 to win the 3,000m steeplechase at the Munich Olympics

1975 The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed

1979 Sunil Gavaskar scores his third double century in Test cricket (221) , India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 429 - 8 in the 4th Test at The Oval

1986 189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange

1993 Mats Wilander beats fellow Swede Mikael Pernfors in a US Open marathon 7-6, 3-6, 1-6, 7-6, 6-4 in 4 hours, 1 minute; match ends at 2:26am

1998 Google is formally incorporated by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University

1998 1st ever "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" hosted by Chris Tarrant debuts on ITV in Britain

2000 England claim first series (3-1) over West Indies since 1969; win 5th Test by 158 runs at The Oval, London; Windies captain Courtney Walsh's 132nd and final Test

2010 Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.

2012 Carpet that can help prevent falls among the elderly by warning them of unusual footsteps is developed

2016 Mother Teresa canonized by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican

2017 Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai criticizes Suu Kyi's lack of response to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar

2017 US President Donald Trump announces Dreamers program, The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), will be stopped

2018 F.B.I. announces they have recovered Dorothy's ruby red slippers from "The Wizard of Oz", stolen 13 years ago

2018 Strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years, Jebi hits Tokushima prefecture, swamping Kansai airport and killing at least 11

2018 WHO reports more than a quarter of people worldwide (1.4 billion) don't get enough physical exercise to avoid major diseases

2018 Italian city Florence bans people eating in the street in its historic centre

2018 400-year old sunken Portuguese spice trade ship discovered near port of Cascais, Portugal

2019 Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam withdraws controversial extradition bill to China after three months of massive protests

2019 Rebel alliance of MPs vote to ban a no-deal Brexit and reject PM Boris Johnson's call for a snap election

2020 Record 52% of American 18-29-year-olds are living with their parents because of the pandemic according to Pew Research Center study

2020 – Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope, 93 years, four months, 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903

Born Today ;-

1241 Alexander III, King of Scotland, born in Roxburgh Castle

1824 Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), Wagner disciple and "monumental bore", born in Ansfelden, Austria

1901 – William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Jaguar Cars

1937 – Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer and politician, one of only three swimmers to have won the same Olympic individual event three times – in her case the women's 100-metre freestyle.

1945 – Bill Kenwright, English actor, singer, and producer, Everton owner / chairman

1949 Tom Watson, American golfer (8-time major winner; British Open 1975, 77, 80, 82, 83), born in Kansas City, Missouri

1961 Kevin Kennedy, English actor best known for playing the character Curly Watts for 20 years in ITV's long-running television soap opera Coronation Street. , born in Wythenshawe

1981 – Beyoncé, (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter) American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress, born in Houston, Texas

2179 Nyota Uhura, Fictional Star Trek communications officer, born in Nairobi, Kenya

Died Today ;-

1199 Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily, wife of William II of Sicily

1907 Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite)

1989 Georges Simenon, Belgian born writer and director (Maigret detective novels)

2006 Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and TV personality (The Crocodile Hunter), attacked and killed by a stingray at 44

2014 Joan Rivers, American comedienne (Late Show, Hollywood Sq), dies at 81 after serious complications from a procedure on her vocal cords

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World Samosa Day

International Day of Charity

1666 – Great Fire of London ends: leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead including Old St Paul's Cathedral,

1698 Russian Tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards

1750 Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods

1793 French Revolution: the "Reign of Terror" begins

1839 The First Opium War begins in China

1887 Gas lamp at Theatre Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200

1914 US President Woodrow Wilson orders US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; leads to interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping bring the US into the war

1921 – Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle party in San Francisco ends with the death of the young actress Virginia Rappe: One of the first scandals of the Hollywood community.

1923 Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously

1939 FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe

1939 New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands,we stand'

1942 Battle at Alam Halfa ends

1942 British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen

1943 US airland at Nadzab, New Guinea

1944 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany

1944 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen

1944 Allies liberate Brussels

1946 Amon Göth, former head of Kraków-P?aszów concentration camp, found guilty of imprisonment, torture, and extermination of individuals and groups of people, the first conviction of homicide at a war crimes court

1959: The UK's first trunk dialling system from a public call-box has been inaugurated in Bristol today.
The Deputy Lord Mayor phoned the Lord Mayor of London, dialling the number himself.

1960 Cassius Clay [Muhammad Ali] beats 3-time European champion Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland by unanimous points decision to win Olympic light heavyweight boxing gold medal at the Rome Games

1960 Future world middleweight boxing champion Nino Benvenuti of Italy beats Yuri Radonyak of the Soviet Union to win welterweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics

1969 – My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.

1970 – Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix.

1972 11 Israeli athletes taken hostage and later killed by Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics

1973 Conference of less developed countries approves forming "producers' associations" and calls for withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied Arab lands

1979 Earl of Mountbatten's Ceremonial Funeral held in Westminster Abbey

1979 American Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve and upsets top-seed Björn Borg 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 in the US Open Tennis quarterfinals

1980 World's longest road tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps opens, 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.

1987 John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at US Tennis Open

1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West

1991 Nelson Mandela chosen as president of African National Congress

1996 – Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115 mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.

2012 Austerity measure requires Greece to increase its maximum working days to six per week

2014 World Health Organization estimates 1,900 people have died from the Ebola virus out of 3,500 infected in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone

2015 US health officials confirm a salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers from Mexico is responsible for 1 death and for making hundreds sick

2017 Hurricane Irma becomes the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region with winds of 185mph (280km/h)

2019 Erramatti Mangamma becomes the world's oldest living mother giving birth to twins aged 74 in Hyderabad, India

2019 New theory the Loch Ness monster may be a giant eel after DNA study reveals no plesiosaur or sturgeon DNA found

Born Today ;-

1638 Louis XIV King of France (1643-1715), known as "The Sun King", had longest reign in country, born in Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

1735 Johann Christian Bach (English Bach), German composer, 11th son of Johann Sebastian Bach, born in Leipzig

1826 – John Wisden, English cricketer and businessman - Wisdens Cricketers Almanack

1847 Jesse James, American outlaw and son of a clergyman, born in Kearney, Missouri

1909 – Bernard Delfont ( born Boris (or Boruch) Winogradsky in Ukraine), talent manager, theatrical impresario. Brother of Lew & Leslie Grade, Uncle of Michael Grade, once owned all three Blackpool Piers

1935 Johnny Briggs, English actor (Mike Baldwin on Coronation Street), born in London

1939 – George Lazenby, Australian actor, James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, former spouse of Tennis player Pam Shriver, born in Goulburn, Australia

1940 Raquel Welch, American actress and singer (Myra Breckenridge, 1,000,000 BC, 100 Rifles), born in Chicago

1946 Freddie Mercury [Farrokh Bulsara], British singer-songwriter (Queen), born in Stone Town, Sultanate of Zanzibar

1950 – Rosie Cooper, English businesswoman and politician, MP West Lancs

1951 Michael Keaton, American actor (Gung Ho, Batman, Beetlejuice), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1952 Graham Salmon, British blind runner (fastest 100m by a blind man)

1957 Peter Winnen, Dutch bicycle road athlete, born in Ysselsteyn German war cemetery, Netherlands

1962 Peter Wingfield, Welsh rocker and actor well known for his television roles as Dan Clifford in Holby City, Dr. Robert Helm in Queen of Swords and Inspector Simon Ross in Cold Squad but he is internationally best known for his role as the 5000-year-old Immortal Methos in the hit syndicated series Highlander: The Series. He also portrayed Dr. James Watson in Sanctuary.
Starting in 2011, Wingfield significantly reduced his acting career responsibilities returning full circle to his earlier interest in a career in medicine, he entered the College of Medicine at the University of Vermont as part of the Class of 2015. He received his white coat as part of the UVM College of Medicine White Coat Ceremony in 2012. As of September 2020, he is an Anesthesiologist at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles CA , born in Cardiff

1962 – Tracy Edwards, English sailor and coach

1970 – Johnny Vegas, Comedian, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1971 Adam Hollioake, England cricketer, born in Melbourne, Australia is the only international cricketer to compete professionally as a Mixed Martial Artist. He has also competed as a professional boxer.

1973 – Rose McGowan, American actress (Charmed) and sexual harassment activist, born in Florence, Italy

Died Today ;-

1548 Catharine Parr, Queen of England (1543-47), 6th wife of Henry VIII, dies at about 36

1566 Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan and the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1530-1566), dies at 71

1877 Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 37

1931 John Thomson, Celtic(164) & Scotland(4) Goalkeeper who died in an accidental collision during an 'Old Firm' match at Ibrox aged 22, Thomson's head collided with Rangers player, Sam English's knee, fracturing his skull and rupturing an artery in his right temple. Thomson was taken off the field in a stretcher; most people assumed that he was just badly concussed, but a few people who had seen his injuries suspected worse. One source said, "There were gasps in the main stand, a single piercing scream being heard from a horrified young woman"; this was believed to be the scream of 19-year-old Margaret Finlay, who was watching with Jim Thomson (brother of John). One Rangers player, also a medical student, said later that as soon as he saw him he gave little chance for his survival. Had previously broken his jaw, fractured several ribs, damaged his collar bone, and lost two teeth when making a diving save in a match the previous season. English later played for Liverpool.

1970 Jochen Rindt, Austrian auto racer (posthumous World F1 title 1970), dies of throat injuries in practice accident at 28

1982 – Douglas Bader, Legendary pilot WWII, Prisioner at Colditz after being shot down above France possibly by 'Friendly Fire', he also played 1st class cricket for RAF, lost his legs in aircrash, the entry in his log book - 'Crashed slow-rolling near ground. Bad show.'

1997 Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], born Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet (now capital of N Macedonia), Ottoman subject (1910–1912), Serbian subject (1912–1915), Bulgarian subject (1915–1918), Yugoslavian subject (1918–1943), Yugoslavian citizen (1943–1948), Indian subject (1948–1950), Indian citizen (1950–1997), Albanian citizen (1991–1997). Nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize, 1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87

2012 – John Oaksey (John Geoffrey Tristram Lawrence, 4th Baron Trevethin and 2nd Baron Oaksey OBE) , English jockey, journalist & Commentator was twice British Champion Amateur Jump Jockey

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1522 – The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.

1620 The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World

1642 – England's Puritan Parliament bans public stage-plays closing theatres.

1651 King Charles II of England spends a day hiding in an oak tree during his escape after losing the Battle of Worcester

1666 the Great Fire of London is finally extinguished.

1690 King Wiliam III escapes back to England

1715 Pro-James III-uprising in Scotland

1791 Mozart's opera "La Clemenza di Tito" premieres in Prague

1819 Thomas Blanchard patents lathe

1839 Great fire in New York

1870 Ship sinks in Gulf of Biscay; 483 die

1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.

1880 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, v Australia at The Oval, W. G. Grace scores 152 in debut Test

1886 Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

1888 Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).

1899 Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk

1913 1st aircraft to loop the loop - Adolphe Pégoud in France

1914 : First Battle of the Marne begins, French and British forces prevent German advance on Paris (till the 12th Sept)

1916 1st true supermarket, the "Piggly Wiggly" is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee

1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft

1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight

1939 – Britain suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire Frank Rose and Pilot Officer Montague Hulton-Harrop were shot down and Hulton-Harrop was killed. Hulton-Harrop was the first British pilot killed in the war and his Hurricane was the first aircraft shot down by a Spitfire. A Spitfire was also shot down by British anti-aircraft fire. This tragic shambles, hushed up at the time, was dubbed in the RAF 'the Battle of Barking Creek' – a place several miles from the shooting-down but one which, like Wigan Pier, was a standing joke in the music halls.

1939 1st German air attack on Great Britain in WW II

1939 South Africa declares war on Nazi-Germany

1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star

1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto

1942 Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where he is gassed in March 1944

1944 – The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.

1944 – Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.

1946 Terence Rattigan's "The Winslow Boy" premieres in London

1952 – A prototype aircraft DH 110 (later Sea Vixen)crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board. Following the accident the air display programme continued once the debris was cleared from the runway, with Neville Duke exhibiting the prototype Hawker Hunter and taking it supersonic over the show later that day. There were no further spectator fatalities at UK Airshows until the 2015 Shoreham Airshow crash in which 11 people died.

1955 – Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.

1957 Elvis records "White Christmas", "Silent Night" & "Here Comes Santa Claus"

1960 Australian middle distance runner Herb Elliott breaks his own world record in winning the 1,500m at the Rome Olympics in 3:35.6

1971 William Craig and Ian Paisley speak at a rally in Belfast before a crowd of approximately 20,000 people and call for the establishment of a 'third force' to defend 'Ulster'

1972 – Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day

1975 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open

1983 Soviet Union admits that it shot down the South Korean airliner KAL 007 on September 1st

1988 Thomas Gregory (11 years and 330 days) swims English Channel, he still holds the record as the youngest person to have done so.

1989 Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records

1989 Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution

1991 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.

1992 Gay Kelleway becomes the 1st female jockey to ride a winner at England’s famous Royal Ascot

1997 – The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in Westminister Abbey. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.

2010 The former Kingsway Casino & Nightclub will burn down tonight.

2012 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey

2013 – Forty one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park

2015 German police confirm more than 13,000 refugees have arrived in Southern Germany in last 2 days fleeing conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan

2017 Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Sint Maartens and British Virgin Islands. Prime Minister Gaston Browne reports 95% of buildings in Barbuda damaged

2019 Sri Lankan cricket fast bowler Lasith Malinga takes 4 wickets in 4 balls and finishes with 5 for 6 as New Zealand all out for 88 in 37-run defeat in 3rd T-20 International in Pellekele

2020 Strain of Bacteria nicknamed "Conan the Bacterium' survives three years attached to the International Space Station in open space

2020 Premier Daniel Andrews announces roadmap out of restrictions for the Australian state of Victoria, but extends lockdown till September 28

2020 Los Angeles County reported its highest-ever temperature of 121F (49.4C)

Born Today ;-

1855 Ferdinand Hummel, German composer, born in Berlin

1888 Joseph P. Kennedy, American diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy, born in Boston, Massachusetts

1935 Jock Wallace Jr, Scottish football player and manager as was his father, born in Wallyford, Scotland has the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season; this was set during the 1966–67 season where he played in the FA Cup and Welsh Cup for Hereford United, and in the Scottish Cup when he moved to Berwick Rangers. As manager of Rangers over two spells in the 1970s and 1980s, Wallace became one of Scottish football's best-known and most successful coaches.

1940 – Jackie Trent (Yvonne Ann Burgess), singer-songwriter and actress best known for co-writing (with spouse Tony Hatch) the theme tunes to the game show Mr & Mrs for Border Television in 1975 and the Australian soap opera Neighbours born in Newcastle-under-Lyme

1942 – Richard Hutton, Yorkshire & England cricketer is the son of cricketer Sir Len Hutton his elder son, Ben Hutton, captained Middlesex in 2005 and 2006. His brothers John, also appeared in first-class cricket for MCC and Oliver played for Oxford Uni & Greece, Uncle Frank Dennis also played for Yorkshire and cousin Simon Dennis played for Yorkshire & Glamorgan.

1943 Roger Waters [George Roger Waters], rock bassist and vocalist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall), born in Cambridge

1947 Bruce Rioch, Everton & Scotland footballer and Scotland, Bolton |& Wigan Manger, born in Aldershot

1963 – Pat Nevin, Everton, Tranmere & Scotland footballer and sportscaster

1970 – Emily Maitlis, Canadian born journalist, Tv Presenter

1972 Idris Elba, English actor (The Wire, Luther), born in London

1973 – Greg Rusedski, Canadian tennis player and sportscaster born in Montreal, Quebec

1974 – Tim Henman, English tennis player and sportscaster born in Oxford

1980 – Kerry Katona, English singer and actress - Atomic Kitten born in Warrington

1983 Pippa [Philippa] Middleton, sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, born in Berkshire

Died Today ;-

1990 – Sir Len Hutton, Legendary English cricketer (79 Tests for England, 6971 runs)

2007 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor, dies at 71

2018 Burt Reynolds, American actor (Deliverance, Evening Shade, Strip Tease, Cannonball), dies of cardiac arrest at 82

2018 – Liz Fraser, English actress, many Film & Tv roles, best known for her comedy roles as a provocative "dumb blonde" in British films.

2018 Diane Leather, British athlete (first woman to run sub-5 minute mile), dies of a stroke at 85

2019 Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean revolutionary, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (1980-87) and 1st black President of Zimbabwe (1988-2017), dies at 95

2019 Abdul Qadir, Pakistan cricket spin bowler (67 Tests; 236 wickets; best 9/56 1987), dies of cardiac arrest at 63

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1497 Flemish pretender Perkin Warbeck acclaimed as English King Richard IV on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall

1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist)

1812 Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Bonapartre wins a pyrrhic victory against Russian General Mikhail Kutuzov in the most ferocious battle of the Napoleonic era, 70,000 are killed

1857 – Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter at least 120, most members of peaceful emigrant wagon train.

1871 Bay of Biscay: HMS Captain anexperimental warship capsizes, 500 killed

1880 Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters

1888 Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby to be placed in an incubator at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York

1892 James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title, Sullivan's only defeat and his last fight

1902 In Australia, the whole nation observes a 'day of humiliation' and prays for rain, as a terrible drought kills livestock and threatens crops; rain begins to appear on 10 September

1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York.

1909 – Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.

1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.

1923 – The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed in Vienna.

1936 The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, It was the largest known carnivorous marsupial in the world it was commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger (because of its striped lower back) or the Tasmanian wolf, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo

1940 – The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.

1940 Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England

1942 – Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay.

1942 Transport #29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany

1943 – The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.

1943 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp

1944 Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12)

1945 – Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.

1945 – The Berlin Victory Parade of 1945 is held.

1948 1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Ohio

1956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+

1968 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: England's Virginia Wade wins first Open era US singles title; beats Billie Jean King 6-4, 6-2

1969 Scottish Matra-Ford driver Jackie Stewart wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; his 6th F1 win of the season

1972 American athletes Vincent Matthews & Wayne Collett finish 1-2 in 400m at the Munich Olympics; acted casually on the medal stand, did not face the flag during anthem; banned from the Olympics for life

1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.

1999 A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.

2002 US Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams wins second US title; beats older sister Venus Williams 6-4, 6-3

2004 Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hitting Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.

2008 US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a catalyst to the Banking crash.

2012 64 people are killed and 715 injured after a series of earthquakes in south-west China

2017 – Equifax announce a cyber-crime identity theft event potentially impacting approximately 145?1?2 million U.S. consumers.

2017 8.2 earthquake hits south-west of Pijijiapan, Mexico killing at least 90, strongest Mexican quake in a century

2019 US President Donald Trump says he has cancelled a secret meeting with the Taliban for peace talks at Camp David

2020 India overtakes Brazil to record the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases with 4.2 million

2020 Wildfires have burnt a record 2 million acres in California 2020 fire season, more than the state of Delaware according to Cal Fire

Born Today ;-

1533 Elizabeth I Tudor [Virgin Queen], Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603) and daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, born in Greenwich

1777 Heinrich David Stölzel, German horn player who developed the first valve for brass instruments, born in Schneeberg, Saxony

1805 Samuel Wilberforce, Known as "Soapy Sam" English bishop and one of the greatest public speakers of his day (remembered for his opposition to Darwin's theory of evolution), born in London the third son of William Wilberforce

1893 Leslie Hore-Belisha, British politician (Minister of Transport, introduced the Belisha Beacon), born in Hampstead

1913 Anthony Quayle, British actor (Anne of 1000 Days, The Guns of Navarone, Lawrence of Arabia, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Operation Crossbow, QB VII, and The Eagle Has Landed & many more), during WWII served with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Albania, born in Ainsdale his second and widow was actress Dorothy Hyson who worked as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park.

1917 – Leonard Cheshire VC, English captain, pilot, and humanitarian, founded The Leonard Cheshire Homes. Born nr Chester, married Sue Ryder

1925 Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, businesswoman and co-founder of Laura Ashley, born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil

1927 Eric Hill, British children's books author and illustrator (Where's Spot), born in Holloway, London

1932 John Paul Getty Jr., oil magnate and billionaire (Getty Oil), born onboard ship in the waters near Genoa, Italy

1936 Buddy Holly [Charles Holley], American musician (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day), born in Lubbock, Texas

1949 Gloria Gaynor, American disco singer (I Will Survive), born in Newark, New Jersey

1984 – Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer played for Lancashire in Championship winning side 2011

Died Today ;-

1362 Joan of The Tower, known as Joan of the Tower because she was born in the Tower of London, The youngest daughter of King Edward II of England, Queen consort of David II of Scotland, dies at 41

1871 Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (revolving gun turret), drowns at 51 on HMS Captain which he designed.

1978 Keith Moon, rock drummer (Who), dies of drug overdose at 31

1990 A.J.P Taylor [Alan John Percival], English historian (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918, Origins of the Second World War), born Birkdale

2016 Ken Higgs, Lancashire & England cricket fast bowler (15 Tests, 71 wickets, 1 x 50), Played football for Port Vale as a junior dies at 79

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World Physical Therapy Day

International Literacy Day

1504 Michelangelo's statue of David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria, Florence

1522 Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completing 1st circumnavigation of the globe (expedition began under Ferdinand Magellan who died during voyage)

1727 A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire kills 78 people, many of whom are children.

1831 William IV is crowned King of Great Britain, then aged 64 the oldest person to assume the British throne

1855 British and French troops capture Sevastopol from the Russians, effectively ending the Crimean War

1858 Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time"

1860 Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" sinks after being rammed in a storm on Lake Michigan drowning about 300. Largest loss of life on the Great Lakes.

1888 In England the first six Football League matches ever are played.

1900 – Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.

1914 HMS (formerly RMS) Oceanic, sister ship of RMS Titanic, runs aground and sinks off Foula,Shetland due to a navigational error was the first Allied passenger ship to be lost in the war.

1914 Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during WW1, he was executed 45 mins after receiving sentence. He was one of 306 executed soldiers pardoned by Armed Forces Act 2006,

1916 – In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.

1916 US President Woodrow Wilson signs the Emergency Revenue Act, doubling the rate of income tax and adding inheritance and munitions profits tax

1923 – Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.

1930 Richard Drew creates Scotch tape

1939 Gen Von Reichenau's panzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw

1941 Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins, battle lasted over 28 months, as Russia repels the invasion; well over a million lives lost.

1941 Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania, is exterminated

1943 Italy surrenders to Allies

1944 1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp

1944 Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany

1945 US invades Japanese-held Korea

1948 British De Havilland DH108-fighter flies faster than sound

1952 Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Old Man & the Sea" published

1957 Juan Manuel Fangio confirms his F1 World Drivers Championship, finishing 2nd in the season ending Italian GP at Monza; takes record 5th title by 15 points from Stirling Moss

1962 Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 'Evening Star'

1963 Scottish Lotus driver Jim Clark wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch his first F1 World Drivers Championship; Clark's 5th GP win of the season

1965 Small ads in Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter attract 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first manufactured boy band, "The Monkees" - 3 are chosen with Davey Jones already having been cast

1966 The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II

1967 The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways.

1978 Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in upto 3000 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran.

1981 British TV comedy "Only Fools and Horses created by John Sullivan, starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Lennard Pearce premieres on BBC One

2001 US Open Women's Tennis: Venus Williams successfully defends title; beats younger sister Serena Williams 6-2, 6-4

2017 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announce the beginning of the Deir ez-Zor campaign, with the stated aim of eliminating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from all areas north and east of the Euphrates.

2018 Egypt sentences over 700 people, including 75 death sentences for 2013 pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya square

2020 Moria refugee camp, Europe's biggest migrant camp burns down on the Greek island of Lesbos, leaving 13,000 without shelter

Born Today ;-

1157 – Richard I [Richard the Lion Hearted] of England, born in Oxford

1841 Antonín Dvo?ák, Czech composer (New World Symphony), born in Nelahozeves, Czech Republic

1886 – Siegfried Sassoon, decorated soldier, journalist, and War Poet, allegedly (in a a book he authored) threw his Military Cross into the River Mersey at Formby beach, but it was later found amongst his possessions. born in Matfield, Kent

1921 Harry Secombe, Welsh actor, comedian, singer and goon (The Goon Show, Oliver!), born in Swansea

1923 Alan Weeks, sports commentator (BBC), born in Bristol

1925 Peter Sellers, actor and comedian (The Goon Show, Bobo, Pink Panther), (d. 1980), born in Portsmouth

1932 – Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter and pianist (Crazy), born in Winchester, Virginia

1941 – Bernie Sanders, American politician

1944 – Margaret Hodge, economist and politician, born Cairo

1969 – Gary Speed, Everton & Wales footballer and Welsh Manager born in Mancot, Flintshire

1971 Martin Freeman, actor (The Hobbit, Sherlock), born in Aldershot

1972 Markus Babbel, Liverpool & German football player and coach, born in Munich

1989 – Gylfi Sigurðsson, Everton & Iceland footballer

1990 – Jos Buttler, Lancashire & England cricketer, holds the record for the fastest ODI century by an England player

1991 – Joe Sugg, vlogger, Youtuber

Died Today ;-

1806 Patrick Cotter O'Brien, Irish showman, first known eight-foot-tall person (stood 8ft 1 inch), dies at 46

1888 Annie Chapman, English victim of the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper, murdered at about 48

1949 Richard Strauss, German composer (Sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85

1951 Jürgen Stroop, SS General during World War II and commander of Nazi forces during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, executed by hanging for crimes against humanity at 56

1970 Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven,

1994 Rex Alston, sports broadcaster and author (BBC radio), dies at 93

2005 – Noel ( Euchuria Cornelius ) Cantwell, Irish cricketer, footballer, and manager. His last cricket match for Ireland was against Lancashire in July 1959

2006 Frank Middlemass, actor (Heart Beat, As Time Goes By, Oliver Twist), dies at 87

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Wonderful Weirdos Day (US)

Emergency Services Day

International Buy a Priest a Beer Day

International Sudoku Day

1087 – William Rufus becomes King of England, taking the title William II,

1513 Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland

1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling

1675 New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag indians

1836 Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his influential essay "Nature" in the US, outlining his beliefs in transcendentalism

1839 English scientist and astronomer John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph

1913 Russian pilot Pyotr Nesterov becomes the first pilot to fly a loop, doing so in his Nieuport IV monoplane; he is arrested for ten days for endangering government property

1914 Belgian offensive from Antwerp

1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created - the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade

1914 Meeting held at Gaelic League headquarters between Irish Republican Brotherhood and other extreme republicans; initial decision made to stage an uprising while Britain is at war

1939 – The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance

1939 Nazi army reaches Warsaw

1940 28 German aircraft shot down above England

1939 Nazi army reaches Warsaw

1940 28 German aircraft shot down above England

1940 – George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.

1940 – Treznea Massacre in Transylvania. 93 ethnic Romanians and Jews instigated by the former landlord Francisc (or Ferenc) Bay or the 22nd Hungarian Border Guards Battalion "Debrecen"

1942 – A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs, 1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon

1943 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome

1943 Red Army occupies Bachmatsj

1943 US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche) and and Taranto (Operation Slapstick)

1944 Allied forces liberate Luxembourg

1944 Red Army supports coup in Bulgaria, instituting new Communist government (1946-1990) during the "National Uprising"

1944 Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal, Netherlands

1944 US 113th cavalry passes Belgian-Dutch borders

1945 Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies

1945 1st "bug" in a computer discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay & taped into the log

1957 "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1

1960 Pakistan ends India's run of 6 consecutive Olympic field hockey gold medals with a 1-0 win over their sub-continent rivals at the Rome Games

1978 Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an uprising in the Iranian army

1985 Race riots in Birmingham

1993 Croupier of casino in Bristol, England, shoots a 4 a record eight times

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria

2015 Apple unveils the iPad Pro and iPhone 6S in San Francisco

2015 EU Migrant Crisis: European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in his annual address proposes plan based on EU quotas

2017 Egyptian archaeologists announce the discovery of a 3,500-year-old tomb of a goldsmith and his family in Draa Abul-Naga, Egypt

2018 Russian police detain over 1000 people amide nationwide protests against pension reform

2020 Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 900,000 with the US the most deaths at 190,589

2020 San Francisco Bay area blanketed by dark orange skies and smoke due to California wildfires

Born Today ;-

1754 – William Bligh, English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales. The Mutiny on the Bounty occurred during his command in 1789; after being set adrift in Bounty's launch by the mutineers, Bligh and his loyal men all reached Timor alive, after a journey of 3,618 nautical miles (6,700 km; 4,160 mi).

1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877),[8] often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction, born in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia

1853 Fred Spofforth, Australian cricket fast bowler ("The Demon" - 18 Tests, 94 wickets @ 18.41), born in Balmain, NSW. He was the first bowler to take 50 Test wickets,[1] and the first to take a Test hat-trick, in 1879. He played in Test matches for Australia between 1877 and 1887, and then settled in England where he played for Derbyshire.

1890 – Colonel Harland Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC

1900 James Hilton, novelist (Goodbye Mr Chips)

1920 Michael Aldridge, actor (Last of the Summer Wine, Murder in Cathedral), born in Glastonbury

1941 – Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" The album The Dock of the Bay was the first posthumous album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart.

1941 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language

1949 – John Curry, figure skater He was the 1976 Olympic, European and World Champion

1952 – David A. Stewart, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer - Eurythmics,

1960 – Hugh Grant, actor and producer

1963 – Neil Fairbrother, Lancashire & England cricketer

1968 – Julia Sawalha, actress

1972 – Natasha Kaplinsky, journalist Tv Newscaster & Presenter born in Brighton

1974 Gok Wan [Kowkhyn Wan], fashion consultant, author and TV presenter (How to Look Good Naked, Gok Cooks Chinese), born in Leicester

1975 – Michael Bublé, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor born in Burnaby, Canada

1982 – Graham Onions, Lancashire & England cricketer

Died Today ;-

1000 Olaf Tryggvason, King Olaf I of Norway (995-1000), dies after leaping overboard during Battle of Svolder

1087 William the Conqueror, the first Norman king of England (1066-1087) and Duke of Normandy (1035-1087), dies at about 59

1513 James IV, King of Scots (1488-1513), dies in battle at 40
– George Douglas, Scottish nobleman
– William Douglas of Glenbervie, Scottish nobleman
– William Graham, 1st Earl of Montrose, Scottish politician
– George Hepburn, Scottish bishop
– Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell, Scottish politician, Lord High Admiral of Scotland
– Adam Hepburn of Craggis, Scottish nobleman
– David Kennedy, 1st Earl of Cassilis, Scottish soldier
– Alexander Lauder of Blyth, Scottish politician
– Alexander Stewart, Scottish archbishop
– Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox, Scottish politician

1876 American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle

1901 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36

1976 Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-76), dies of a heart attack at 82

2002 Geoffrey Dummer, British electronics engineer, built first integrated circuit and work in radar, dies at 93

2020 Shere Hite [Shirley Diana Gregory], American sex therapist (The Hite Report), renounced her United States citizenship in 1995 to become German dies at 77

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International Creepy Boston Dynamics Robotic Horse Day

International Make-Up Day

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1547 Battle of Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.

1547 English demand Edward VI (10) wed Mary Queen of Scots (5)

1573 – German North Sea pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew beheaded in Hamburg

1838 Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini" premieres in Paris

1846 Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine

1863 Georges Bizet's opera "Les Pêcheurs de Perles" premieres in Paris

1869 Baptist minister supposedly invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan

1882 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)

1894 London taxi driver George Smith is the first to be fined for drunk driving

1897 Lattimer Massacre - a sheriff's posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States

1899 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay, Alaska

1910 Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber

1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at Wembley Stadium

1939 – The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.

1939 Canada, under the leadership of Mackenzie King, declares war on Germany

1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb

1942 British troops land on Madagascar

1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf

1943 British 8th army occupies Tarente

1943 German troops occupy Rome and take took over the protection of Vatican City

1943 Italian fleet anchors at Malta

1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis

1945 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death

1948 Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England

1954 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria

1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet. An Olympic & World record (2:15:16.2)

1961 Italian Grand Prix at Monza , a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari the deadliest accident in F1 history, American Ferrari driver Phil Hill wins to clinch F1 World Drivers Championship; first American F1 world champion

1964 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms

1967 Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British & not Spanish

1972 Cuban boxer Teófilo Stevenson wins first of 3 consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medals when Munich Games opponent Ion Alexe of Romania withdraws from the final because of a broken thumb

1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France

1982 Decca releases Beatles audition on "Complete Silver Beatles" album, 20 years after label executives rejected them feeling that "guitar groups are on the way out" and "the Beatles have no future in show business"

1990 Basilica of Our Lady of Peace consecrated by Pope John Paul II in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, as the largest church in the world at 30,000 square metres (320,000 sq ft)

1995 35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10

2002 Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations

2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind is powered up in Geneva

2012 US Open Men's Tennis: Andy Murray of Scotland wins his first Grand Slam event; beats defending champion Novak ?okovi? 7-6, 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2

2017 Hurricane Irma makes landfall in the Florida Keys in the US as a category 3 hurricane

2018 South Carolina issues mandatory evacuation order affecting one million people ahead of Hurricane Florence

2019 Iranian woman Sahar Khodayari dies after setting herself on fire during her trial, for entering a stadium disguised as a man in Tehran

2019 Novelist Margaret Atwood publishes "The Testaments", her follow-up to "The Handmaid's Tale"

2019 US President Donald Trump fires his third national security adviser John Bolton

2019 Malaysia's National Disaster Management Agency deliver half a million face masks to Sarawak state, after more than 930,000 hectares (about 2.3 million acres) burnt in Indonesia cause hazardous levels of air pollution

2020 Wildfires in Oregon cause 500,000 people to evacuate, 10% of the population with unprecedented 900,000 acres burnt

2020 California's August Complex wildfire becomes largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)

Born Today ;-

1659 Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (Dido & Aeneas), born in St Ann's Lane, Old Pye Street, Westminster

1871 – Charles Collett, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway

1872 – Ranjitsinhji, Stylish Indian born England cricketer

1893 Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (world's oldest person 2008-9) who lived to be 115, born in Olival, Kingdom of Portugal

1918 Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog who was a Hollywood star (Where the North Begins) (d. 1932)

1929 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer (7 major titles; US Masters 1958, 60, 62, 64), born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania

1933 – Karl Lagerfeld, German-French fashion designer and photographer

1938 – 'Diddy David Hamilton', English radio and television host born Manchester

1939 Cynthia Lennon [nee Powell], wife of Beatle John Lennon, born in Blackpool

1948 Judy Geeson, Stage, screen & Tv actress (To Sir With Love, Berserk), born in Arundel sister of actress Sally Geeson

1957 Carol Decker, British rock singer (T'Pau - "China In Your Hand"), born in Huyton

1960 – Colin Firth, actor and producer

1964 Jack Ma, Chinese entrepreneur and founder of Alibaba Group, born in Hangzhou, China

1968 – Guy Ritchie, director, producer, and screenwriter

Died Today ;-

1167 Empress Matilda [Maud], claimant to the English throne, daughter of Henry I of England, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor

1797 Mary Wollstonecraft, English author and feminist (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), mother of Mary Shelley, dies of septicaemia at 38

1938 – Charles Cruft, businessman, founded Crufts

1961 Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver, dies at 33

1985 Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager, the first manager of a British side to win the European Cup, with Celtic in 1967. dies at 62 at Ninian Park, Cardiff, in a 1986 World Cup qualification match.

2007 Jane Wyman, American actress (The Yearling & Johnny Belinda), 1st wife of Ronald Reagan dies of natural causes at 90

2007 – Anita Roddick, businesswoman and activist, founded The Body Shop

2020 – Diana Rigg, Stage, Screen & Tv actress mother of actress Rachael Stirling. Michael Parkinson, who first interviewed Rigg in 1972, described her as the most desirable woman he ever met and who "radiated a lustrous beauty".

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International Drive Your Studebaker Day

World First Aid Day

1297 Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace defeats the English

1645 Thomas Fairfax's New Model Army occupies Bristol

1649 Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland - Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists

1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1792 The French Blue gem (later the Hope Diamond) is stolen with other French crown jewels from Royal storehouse in Paris during Reign of Terror. The stone is one from the world famous Golconda Diamonds. Earliest records show the stone was purchased in 1666 by French gem merchant Jean-Baptiste Tavernier as the Tavernier Blue.

The Tavernier Blue was cut and yielded the French Blue (Le bleu de France), which Tavernier sold to King Louis XIV in 1668. Stolen in 1791, it was recut, with the largest section acquiring its "Hope" name when it appeared in the catalogue of a gem collection owned by a London banking family called Hope in 1839. It was purchased in 1949 by New York gem merchant Harry Winston, who toured it for a number of years before giving it to the National Museum of Natural History of the United States in 1958

1826 – Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason is arrested in Batavia, New York for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that lead to his mysterious disappearance.

1830 – Anti-Masonic Party convention; one of the first American political party conventions.

1857 – The Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers and Paiutes massacre 120 pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah.

1890 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: John Ball becomes first Englishman and first amateur to win the Open

1895 FA Cup stolen in Birmingham

1916 German troops conquer Kavalla Greece

1916 The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses during reconstruction, killing 11 men, following initially total collapsed on August 29, 1907.

1930 Stromboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles

1939 Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw

1939 British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley

1939 Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on Nazi Germany

1940 Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs

1940 Hitler begins operation Seelöwe (Sealion - aborted invasion England)

1942 Transport #31 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany

1942 Enid Blyton publishes "Five on a Treasure Island" first of her "Famous Five" children's novels, start of one of the best-selling children's series ever with over 100 million sold

1943 Allied armed forces conquer Salerno, Italy

1943 Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated

1943 Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island

1943 US & Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea

1943 – German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija ending the Italian occupation of Corsica.

1944 – The Western Allied invasion of Germany begins near the city of Aachen.

1944 – RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.

1944 A reconnaissance squadron of the US 5th Armored Division "Victory Division" is 1st allied force to enter Nazi-Germany

1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of World War II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal but fails - later he is hanged

1945 – Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo.

1945 Physician Willem J Kolff performs the first successful kidney dialysis using his artificial kidney machine, in the Netherlands

1946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation

1951 Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice

1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes

1955 Juan Manuel Fango in a Mercedes wins season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza to take his third Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 17 points from Englishman Stirling Moss

1956 Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8)

1961 Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.

1977 The Atari 2600, originally known as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS) is released in North America, revolutionizing the video game industry

1978 The last known person dies of smallpox - medical photographer Janet Parker through infection in a laboratory, in Birmingham

1985 Sri Lanka score their 1st ever Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India

1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded

1997 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.

2001 – The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania

2008 – A major Channel Tunnel fire breaks out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for six months.

2012 – A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.

2014 South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide)

2015 – A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others.

2017 Hurricane Irma leaves 7 million US homes without power in Florida and Georgia

2018 Lancashires James Anderson takes his 564th Test wicket to become the most prolific fast bowler in cricket history as England beats India by 118 runs in the 5th Test at The Oval for a 4-1 series victory; Alistair Cook's final Test

2018 Russia launches its largest military exercise since 1981 involving 300,000 personal with Chinese troops participating

2019 Water detected for first time on planet outside out solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b 110 light-years away, in findings published in "Nature Astronomy"

Born Today ;-

1816 Carl Zeiss, German scientific instrument and lens maker (Carl Zeiss AG), born in Weimar, German Confederation

1862 O. Henry [William Sydney Porter], American short story writer (Cabbages and Kings), born in Greensboro, North Carolina

1862 Hawley Harvey Crippen [Dr Crippen], American homeopath and first killer to be caught with the aid of wireless telegraphy, born in Coldwater, Michigan

1877 James Hopwood Jeans, physicist, mathematician and astronomer (The Mysterious Universe), born in Southport or Ormskirk

1885 D. H. Lawrence, English poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire

1917 Jessica "Decca" Mitford, English author (American Way of Death), activist and one of the Mitford sisters, born in Gloucestershire

1945 Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer (Bayern Munich), born in Munich

1949 Roger Uttley, Fylde, Gosforth & England rugby union player, born in Blackpool

1950 – Barry Sheene, Champion motorcycle racer and sportscaster

1965 – Bashar al-Assad, Syrian politician, 21st President of Syria

Died Today ;-

1948 Muhammad Ali Jinnah [Mahomedali Jinnahbhai], Founder of Pakistan who led the All-India Muslim League (1913-47) until he achieved his dream of Pakistan and became its 1st Governor-General (1947-48), dies of tuberculous at 71

1956 Billy Bishop, Canadian First World War flying ace- 72 victories (disputerd), awarded VC, Distinguished Service Order & Bar, Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross, légion d'honneur and the Croix de Guerre with palm. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the King's Birthday Honours List of 1 June 1944. At the age of 15, Bishop built an aircraft out of cardboard, wooden crates and string, and made an attempt to fly off the roof of his three-story house. He was dug, unharmed, out of the wreckage by his sister, dies at 62

1971 Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet premier, dies of a heart attack at 77

1973 Salvador Allende, President of Chile (1970-73) and the 1st Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through an open election, commits suspected suicide by shooting himself during a military coup at 65

1978 Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident, assassinated in London

1978 Janet Parker, English medical photographer, the last person to die of smallpox, dies at 40

1987 – Lorne Greene, Canadian actor, Father of the Cartwrights - Bonanza.

1988 Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator of children's books (Mr. Men and Little Miss), dies of a stroke at 53

1994 Jessica Tandy, actress (Driving Miss Daisy), dies of cancer at 85 was married to Jack Hawkins

2014 – Donald Sinden, Stage, screen & TV / radio actor father of actors Jeremy & Marc

2017 Peter Hall, English stage, film and opera director (Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre director), dies at 86

2018 Fenella Fielding, actress (Carry On films), dies at 90

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United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation

490 BC Traditional date of the Battle of Marathon, where a small Athenian force defeats the Persian Empire

1624 1st submarine publicly tested in London on the Thames for King James I

1634 – A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings.

1755 Giacomo Casanova is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in Venice without trial for affront to religion and common decency

1792 Court martial begins for instigators of the mutiny on the Bounty on board HMS Duke in Portsmouth harbour, presided over by Vice-Admiral Samuel Hood

1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13–15 tons of gold from the California Gold Rush

1885 Highest score recorded in any 1st-class soccer match is set, Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord stood until AS Adema won a match 149-0 against Stade Olymique L'Emyrne who scored 149 own goals in protest over a refereeing decision.

1895 Annie Londonderry [Annie Kopchovsky] completes the first round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle in 15 months and collects her $10,000 prize

1909 World's first patent for synthetic rubber granted to German chemist Fritz Hofmann

1910 Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians & singers

1919 Adolf Hitler joins the obscure German Worker's Party as its seventh member, agreeing not with worker's rights, but with its German Nationalism and antisemitism

1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:35.4)

1928 Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000

1933 Leó Szilárd, waiting at a red traffic light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives idea of a nuclear chain reaction

1935 Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph

1936 US National Championship Men's Tennis: Englishman Fred Perry wins his 8th and final Grand Slam event before turning pro; beats American Don Budge 2-6, 6-2, 8-6, 1-6, 10-8

1938 Adolf Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech

1940 Italian troops enter Egypt

1940 Four teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux, France discover 17,000 year old drawings now known as the Lascaux Cave Paintings

1941 1st German ship in WW II captured by US ship (Busko)

1942 RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed by U156off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life over 1,000 were saved by Vichy French ships but between 1,000 and 2,000 perished, only 400 Italian PoWs survived out of nearly 2,000 on board. The Captain was Capt Rudolph Sharp who had commanded RMS Lancastria when that was sunk in 1940. The ship had been built as a replacement for the RMS Laconia sunk by U-50 in 1916 during WWI

1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge begins at Guadalcanal

1943 Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Benito Mussolini from house arrest at Gran Sasso

1944 US Army troops entered Germany for 1st time

1956 Black students enter & are barred from Clay Ky elementary school

1958 US Supreme Court orders the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate

1958 – Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.

1962 – President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University

1970 Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for the 1st time at Heathrow airport

1977 Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody from his injuries after being beaten and tortured by police

1979 Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die & $23 million damage

1981 US Open Women's Tennis: Tracy Austin wins her second US title; beats Martina Navratilova 1-6, 7-6, 7-6 she had been and still is the youngest ever winner at 16yrs 9 mths.

1988 Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.

1992 Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang 6-7, 7-5, 7-6, 5-7, 6-4 in the longest match in US Open history (5 hours, 26 minutes)

2005 Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip leaving some 2,530 homes demolished.[

2005 The bodies of more than 40 patients discovered in a flooded hospital in New Orleans

2009 US Open Women's Tennis: Belgian Kim Clijsters becomes first unseeded player and wildcard to win the tournament; beats Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 7-5, 6-3

2012 Excavators announce that they may have found the remains of King Richard III of England under a carpark in Leicester

2012 Apple unveils its iPhone 5 and iOS 6

2015 Jeremy Corbyn is elected leader of the UK Labour party

2017 Monster fatburg 250m long, 130 tons, size of 11 buses found in sewers under East London

2017 Apple unveils premium iPhone X costing $999, along with iPhone 8

2018 Oldest known human drawing discovered, 73,000 years old, in Blombos Cave, South Africa published in "Nature"

2018 More than 3,600 children reported abused by Catholic priests in Germany (1946-2014) in leaked report

Born Today ;-

1818 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun, (hand-cranked machine gun),

1852 – H. H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom born in Morley

1888 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor, singer, and dancer (Thank heaven for little girls), born in Paris

1897 Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935), born in Paris, France (d. 1956), daughter of Marie Curie

1913 Jesse Owens, American athlete (4 Olympic gold 1936), born in Oakville, Alabama

1913 Kenneth Lo, cookery writer and restaurateur, born in Foochow, China

1931 Sir Ian Holm, eminent English actor (The Lord of the Rings, Alien, King Lear), born in Goodmayes, Essex

1933 Stafford Heginbotham, British toymaker (Tebro Toys) and Bradford City Football Club Chairman, serial fire insurance claimant

1937 Wes Hall, Barbadian former cricketer and politician, born in Glebe Land, Station Hill, Barbados

1940 – Linda Gray, American model and actress - Dallas

1940 Wayne McLaren, American stuntman, rodeo performer, model and actor best known for playing the Marlboro Man and for dying of lung cancer, born in Lake Charles, Louisiana

1944 Barry White [Carter], American singer ("Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe"; "You're The First, The Last, My Everything"), born in Galveston, Texas

1945 Maria Aitken, Irish-English actress (Fish Called Wanda), born in Dublin

1945 David Garrick [Philip Darryl Core], British singer ("Dear Mrs Applebee"), born in Liverpool

1951 Berty Ahern, Prime Minister of Ireland (1997-2008), born in Drumcondra, Dublin

1973 Darren Campbell, sprint , born in Moss Side, Manchester was a promising junior athlete and won a number of medals at the World and European Junior Championships. He spent two years away from athletics, playing professional football but returned in 1995, attending his first Olympics shortly afterwards. He began to compete as part of the British 4 × 100 m relay team and between 1997 and 2000 he won two World Championship medals, a gold medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, and set the European record in the event. Success also came in the individual events: he became the 1998 European Champion in the 100 m and won his first Olympic medal, a silver in the 200 m at the 2000 Sydney Games. In the 100 m he won silver at the 2002 European Championships and was the 2003 World Championships bronze medallist. Campbell formed part of perhaps Britain's most successful relay team – they won in the European Cup in 1999 and 2000, at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and took the gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics (the first time a British team had done so since 1912). Campbell had also won a gold medal at the 2002 European Championships and a 2003 World Championship silver medal but had to return them when his running-mate, Dwain Chambers, tested positive for banned substances, sparking much animosity between the two. He won his last medal in 2006, again taking the relay gold at the European Championships, and he retired shortly afterwards.

1977 David Thompson, Liverpool & English U21 footballer, born in Birkenhead

Died Today ;-

1369 Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt dies possibly of the plague at 24 (age disputed)

1869 Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (Roget's Thesaurus) and inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard), dies at 90

1977 Steven Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist, dies in police custody at 30

1993 Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla), dies of liver cancer at 76

1995 – Jeremy Brett, English actor - Sherlock Holmes

2003 Johnny Cash, American country singer (I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, A Boy Named Sue), dies at 71

2013 Ray Dolby, sound expert/inventor (Dolby noise limiting system), dies of leukemia at 80

2014 Ian Paisley, First Minister of Northern Ireland (Democratic Unionist Party: 2007-08), loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader, dies at 88

2020 Terence Conran, English designer and restaurateur (Habitat), dies at 88

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Roald Dahl Day

Day of the Programmer, during a non-leap year.

International Chocolate Day

Bald is Beautiful Day

122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall

335 Church of Holy Sepulchre consecrated in Jerusalem

1224 Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata after a vision praying on Mount Verna

1501 Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.

1625 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem

1858 Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die

1866 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Sr. wins his 3rd title; beats his brother Davie Park by 2 strokes

1906 – The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.

1907 Lusitania arrives in New York City after record 5 day crossing of Atlantic

1914 – The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.

1922 World record temperature of 136.4°F (58°C) in El Aziziyah, Libya, in the shade (invalidated 2012 by the World Meteorological Organization)

1930 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)

1931 Capt G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph)

1933 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.

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 German forces attack Stalingrad

1943 German counter attack at Salerno

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

1944 Amon Göth removed as head of Kraków-P?aszów concentration camp by the SS for stealing state property was known for his extreme violence and sadistic methods of running the camp, which infamously included the shooting of Jewish prisoners from his villa balcony with a sniper rifle. After the war he was arrested and tried as a war criminal. He was found guilty of homicide - the first such conviction in a war crimes trial - for "personally killing, maiming and torturing a substantial, albeit unidentified number of people."

1944 – Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions.

1955 Swiss inventor George de Mestral is granted a patent for what would become known as Velcro

1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage

1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne

1970 IBM announces System 370 computer

1971 Two North Ireland Loyalists are mortally injured when the bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely in a house in Bann Street, Belfast

1983 Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 mins, Lancs v Leics

1985 – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.

1993 Wang Junxia runs a new women's 3000m world record (8:06.11) 1 day after setting previous record at the Chinese National Games

1997 Mother Teresa's State Funeral held in India

2012 19 people are killed after a freight elevator crashes from 100 meters in Wuhan, China

2015 EU Migrant Crisis: Germany introduces border controls to cope with huge migrant numbers

2018 Nearly 40% (36.6%) of all female suicides occur in India according to report published in "The Lancet"

Born Today ;-

1660 Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), born in London

1813 John Sedgwick, American Major General (Union Army), who is best remembered for his famous last words "they couldn't hit an elephant at this distance" before being shot in battle, born in Cornwall, Connecticut

1819 – Clara Schumann (Clara Josephine Wieck), German pianist and composer

1857 Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey Chocolate Company) and philanthropist, born in Derry Township, Pennsylvania

1877 Stanley Lord, Captain of the SS Californian the only ship that could have gone to assist the Titanic before it sank but didn't, born in Bolton, died in Wallasey

1894 – J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright - The Good Companions, An Inspector Calls, born in Bradford

1916 – Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG), born in Cardiff,

1944 – Carol Barnes, English journalist , TV Newscaster

1944 – Jacqueline Bisset, English actress and producer (Class, Deep, Secrets), born in Weybridge

1958 – Bobby Davro, English comedian and actor

1965 Zak Starkey, rock drummer (Oasis; The Who), son of Beatle Ringo, born in London

1969 – Shane Warne, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (145 Tests, 708 wickets; 194 ODIs), born in Melbourne

1971 – Stella McCartney, fashion designer daughter of Paul & Linda McCartney, born in Lambeth

Died Today ;-

1409 – Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England the second spouse of Richard II. She married the king at the age of six and was widowed three years later. She later married Charles, Duke of Orléans, dying in childbirth at the age of nineteen.

1759 James Wolfe, British Army officer who defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec, dies in battle at 32

1931 Lili Elbe [born Einar Wegener], Danish transgender woman, former painter, and 1st identifiable recipient of sex reassignment surgery (autobiography: Man into Woman), dies from complications involving a uterus transplant at 48

1944 Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and Special Operations Executive agent in WWII posthumously awarded the George Cross, executed at Dachau at 30

1944 W. Heath Robinson, English illustrator (as were his father and 2 brothers) and cartoonist (Don Quixote), dies at 72

1946 Amon Göth, Austrian SS commandant of the P?aszów concentration camp, executed by hanging at 37

1977 Arthur Fagg, English cricket batsman 5 Tests; dual double-centuries for Kent v Essex 1938, the first man to do so a record which stood until equalled by Sri Lankan Angelo Pereraand, also umpired 18 Tests, 7 ODIs, dies at 62

1995 Harold Sheperdson, soccer Trainer England 1966, dies at 76

2015 Brian Close, Legendary Yorkshire, Somerset & England cricketer (played for England between 1949 & 1976), Close was also proficient at football, and at the age of fourteen, he was signed as an amateur by Leeds United. A natural inside forward, he became the first Leeds player to feature as a youth international, when in October 1948 he played with England against Scotland at Pittodrie Park in Aberdeen. After National Service he chose to try a career as a professional sportsman; he signed a professional contract with Leeds United and having already played for the Yorkshire Colts in second eleven cricket, he joined them for winter coaching. The coaches encouraged Close to switch from bowling seam to being an off spinner.Close became, and to date remains, England's youngest-ever Test player, aged 18 years and 149 days, also he became the youngest player to achieve the double, of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in a single first-class season, he also played football for Arsenal but failed to break into the first team & Bradford City, dies at 84

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National Quiet Day (UK)

1741 George Frideric Handel finishes his "Messiah" oratorio after working on it non-stop for 23 days

1752 Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar (no Sept 3 - Sept 13)

1812 Great Fire of Moscow begins as Napoleon approaches the city and retreating Russians burn it - fire continues to burn for five days

1814 Francis Scott Key pens the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", later known as "The Star-Spangled Banner" while witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry from a ship in Baltimore harbor

1868 Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole)

1901 Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the youngest man to serve as US President, after William McKinley finally dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo

1905 RAC Tourist Trophy first run on Isle of Man

1914 – HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

1914 Lord Kitchener: "Your country needs you" appears as front cover design for the London Opinion magazine

1923 In his 4th heavyweight boxing title defence Jack Dempsey recovers after being sent through the ropes to KO Argentine challenger Luis Firpo in the 2nd round

1933 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire

1939 Royal Navy attacks German U-39 boat

1939 – The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORP Orze? in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.

1939 World’s 1st practical helicopter, the VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky takes (tethered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut

1940 – The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, S?laj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.

1940 German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; hundreds die

1942 German troops occupy railway station Stalingrad-1

1943 – The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons.

1944 6,500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru

1944 Gulpen, Meerssen & Maastricht freed

1944 Great Atlantic hurricane hits New England, 300-400 die along the US East Coast

1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage

1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton

1959 Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon

1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

1968 Dmitri Shostakovich' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow

1972 2 people are killed and 1 mortally wounded in a Ulster Volunteer Force bomb attack on the Imperial Hotel, Belfast

1978 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode over 50 bombs in towns across Northern Ireland over the next 5 days, injuring 37 people

1982 Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel

1998 TV show "The Royle Family" written and starring Caroline Adherne and Craig Cash, also starring Ricky Tomlinson and Sue Johnston premieres on BBC Two

2000 – Microsoft releases Windows ME.

2007 – Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.

2018 Hurricane Florence makes landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, as a category 1 hurricane

2019 Drone attack on Abqaiq oil plant in Saudi Arabia takes out half of country's oil production and 5% of the world's. Yemen Houthi rebels claim responsibility.

2020 Israel becomes the 1st country to announce a second national lockdown due to COVID-19, for 3 weeks

2020 WHO reports largest-ever one-day COVID-19 case rise of 307,930, daily death toll of 5,500, overall death total is 917,417

Born Today ;-

1909 – Peter Scott, ornithologist, painter, and sailor, son of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, He established the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge & Martin Mere , he was also part of the UK team for the 1936 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the sailing event.

1910 Jack Hawkins, actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story), born in London

1928 Sir Angus Ogilvy, British businessman and husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent, born in London

1945 – Martin Tyler, sportscaster born in Chester

1947 Joan Thirkettle, journalist & broadcaster, born in Kent

1950 – Paul Kossoff, guitarist and songwriter - Free, son of actor David Kossoff

1956 – Paul Allott, Lancs & England cricketer and sportscaster

1968 – Grant Shapps, politician

1983 Amy Winehouse, singer (Stronger Than Me, Rehab), born in London

1986 – Steven Naismith, Everton & Scotland footballer

Died Today ;-

1495 Elizabeth Tudor, English princess, the second daughter and fourth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, dies at 3

1715 Dom Pérignon, French-Benedictine monk who invented a method to improve the quality of champagne

1836 Aaron Burr, 3rd US Vice President (D-R: 1801-05) who killed one of the founding fathers Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel, dies at 80

1852 Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and British Prime Minister (Tory) (1828-30) dies at 83

1852 – Augustus Pugin, English architect and critic, designed Scarisbrick Hall (School) and interior of the Palace of Westminster

1898 William Seward Burroughs, American inventor of the adding machine, dies at 43

1899 Henry Bliss, 1st recorded death from an auto accident when he is hit by a taxicab in New York City

1901 Pres William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, after being shot 8 days earlier by anarchist, Leon Czolgosz

1927 Isadora Duncan, American free form/interpretative dancer, dies at 50 due to her scarf becoming entangled in her car's wheel

1982 Grace Kelly, princess of Monaco, dies in a car crash at 52

2009 Patrick Swayze, American actor, dancer, and songwriter (Dirty Dancing), dies of cancer at 57

2009 Keith Floyd, celebrity cook and restaurateur (Floyd on Fish), dies of a heart attack at 65

2017 Basi, world's oldest giant panda in captivity, dies in Fuzhou, China, at 37

[Alikado]

Google.com Day

Greenpeace Day

International Day of Democracy

International Dot Day

World Afro Day

Battle for Britain Day

World Lymphoma Awareness Day

1795 "Lyrical Ballads" published by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth - 1st work of English Romantic movement

1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow

1830 First passenger to be killed by a railway train (William Huskisson MP) at the opening by the Duke of Wellington of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket

1831 The locomotive "John Bull" operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad

1835 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin on board reaches the Galapagos Islands

1857 Timothy Alder of NY patents a typesetting machine

1916 First use of tanks in warfare, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Somme

1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza

1928 Alfred "Tich" Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season.

1918 – Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.

1931 Royal Navy fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts

1935 Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany

1938 - PM Neville Chamberlain visits Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden

1938 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)

1940 Battle of Britain Day: climax of the Battle of Britain, tide begins to turn as the Royal Air Force repulses a major Luftwaffe attack, losing 29 aircraft to the Germans' 57-61

1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania

1942 US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal

1943 Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens

1943 Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens

1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs

1944 Soviet troops free Sofia, Bulgaria

1944 US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall

1944 US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid

1944 US troops land on Palau & Morotai

1945 A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond.

1947 Typhoon Kathleen hit Tone River, Saitama and Tokyo area, killing at least 1,930 and injuring 1,750

1947 First four-engined jet-propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Ohio

1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph - 671 miles per hour

1950 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea

1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8)

1952 European Parliament forms in Strasbourg

1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1964 Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald" it is replaced by 'The Sun'

1966 First British nuclear ballistic missile submarine HMS Resolution launched

1970 Officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland vote narrowly in favour of remaining unarmed

1978 – Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.

1981 The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.

1983 Police officers beat Michael Stewart to death for graffiting NYC subway

1985 Ryder Cup Golf, The Belfry: Europe beats US, 16½-11½; sole US loss in 50 years; Sam Torrance clinches for Europe beating Andy North, 1 up

1992 George Soros' Quantum Fund begins selling large amounts of pound sterling, labelled "the man who broke the Bank of England" when pound crashes out of the ERM next day

1997 Google.com is registered as a domain name

2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.

2012 Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s

2013 Japan switches off its last working nuclear reactor

2013 27 people are killed after a coal mine collapses in Afghanistan

2014 President Obama announces the US will send 3,000 troops to help combat spread of the Ebola virus

2015 EU Migrant Crisis: Hungary seals its border with Serbia with a razor-wire fence, stranding thousands of migrants

2017 Terrorist bomb only partially explodes in attack at Parsons Green tube station, London, injuring 29

2018 Archaeologists find the oldest-known brewery and remains of 13,000-year-old beer in Haifa cave, Israel, belonging to nomadic Natufian people

2019 Hong Kong police fire water cannons and tear gas at thousands of protesters outside the British embassy, as protests continue in the city

2019 UK PM Boris Johnson compares himself to Marvel Hulk character in newspaper interview "The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets" about UK exiting the EU

2020 Family of Breonna Taylor announce $12 million wrongful death settlement with city of Louisville, Kentucky, after her death in botched police raid March 13

Born Today ;-

1254 Marco Polo, Italian explorer (Il Milione), born in Venice

1649 Titus Oates, English minister and plotter who fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II., born in Oakham, Rutland

1890 – Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (Murder on the Orient Express & Miss Marple) born in Torquay

1901 Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer, Bailey Bridges

1909 Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator (first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936), born in Rotorua, New Zealand

1915 Helmut Schoen, football coach (manager of West Germany (1964-1978, 1974 World Cup), born in Dresden

1916 Margaret Lockwood, British actress (Cast a Dark Shadow, The Lady Vanishes), born in Karachi

1941 Flórián Albert 'the Emperor', great Hungarian footballer, born in Hercegszántó, Hungary

1972 – Jimmy Carr, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter

1977 – Sophie Dahl, English model and author Grandfathers were Roald Dahl & Stanley Holloway

1977 Tom Hardy, British actor (The Revenant, Mad Max: Fury Road), born in London

1981 Mark Duggan, whose shooting death sparked widespread riots in England

1984 – Prince Harry [Henry Charles Albert David Windsor], Duke of Sussex

Died Today ;-

1830 William Huskisson, MP, the first rail fatality

1859 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer (SS Great Britain, Great Western Railway), dies of a stroke at 53

1885 Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant, dies after being hit by a train

1978 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80

1984 Jack Ikin, Lancashire & England cricketer

1995 Sam McCluskie, trade unionist NUS / RMT,Treasurer of the Labour Party , dies at 63

2006 Raymond Baxter, WWII pilot, British television presenter - Tomorrows World

2007 Colin Steele McRae, British rally driver, dies following a helicopter crash at 39

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World Play-Doh Day


International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

1400 Owain Glynd?r is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.

1620 – Pilgrims set sail from England on the Mayflower, with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World

1701 James Francis Edward Stuart "The Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland on the death of his father James II

1847 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust buys bard's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon

1861 Post Office Savings Banks opens

1869 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: At just 18 years of age, Tom Morris Jr. retains his title; beats fellow Scot Bob Kirk by 11 strokes

1906 Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David and Alistair Mackay claim to have discovered the Magnetic South Pole in Antarctica

1908 Carriage-maker, William C. Durant, founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan

1920 The "Wall Street bombing" occurs at 12:01 when a horse-drawn wagon explodes on Wall Street in front of the J. P. Morgan building, killing 38 and injuring 143

1940 Luftwaffe attacks central London

1940 – Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.

1941 German armoured troops surround Kiev, Ukraine

1941 Adolf Hitler orders that for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavs should be killed

1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto

1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled

1943 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny

1943 – The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.

1945 – The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.

1945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)

1947 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH

1947 Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, killing at least 1,930

1950 Viet Minh offensive against French bases in Vietnam

1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.

1971 6 Ku Klux Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses

1978 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar, Iran

1979 – Eight people escaped from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.

1982 Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins, it was the killing of between 460 and 3,500 civilians, mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites, by a militia close to the Kataeb Party (also called Phalange), a predominantly Christian Lebanese right-wing party, in the Sabra neighborhood and the adjacent Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. From approximately 18:00 on 16 September to 08:00 on 18 September 1982, a widespread massacre was carried out by the militia in plain sight of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), its ally.[6][7][8][9] The Phalanges were ordered by the IDF to clear Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) fighters out of Sabra and Shatila, as part of the IDF maneuvering into West Beirut. The IDF received reports of some of the Phalange atrocities in Sabra and Shatila but did not take any action to prevent or stop the massacre. The Israeli Army surrounded Sabra and Shatila and stationed troops at the exits of the area to prevent camp residents from leaving and, at the Phalangists' request, fired illuminating flares at night.
In 1983, a commission chaired by Seán MacBride, the assistant to the UN Secretary General and President of United Nations General Assembly at the time, concluded that Israel, as the camp's occupying power, bore responsibility for the violence.[22] The commission also concluded that the massacre was a form of genocide.
In 1983, the Israeli Kahan Commission, appointed to investigate the incident, found that Israeli military personnel, aware that a massacre was in progress, had failed to take serious steps to stop it. The commission deemed Israel indirectly responsible, and Ariel Sharon, then Defense Minister, bore personal responsibility "for ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge", forcing him to resign.

1988 Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double centuary.

1992 "Black Wednesday" UK government is forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism after unable keep it above agreed lowest limit

1994 – The British Government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.

1996 1st one-day cricket international in Canada, India v Pakistan at Toronto

2012 British Open Women's Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: Jiyai Shin wins her second Open title, 9 strokes ahead of fellow South Korean Inbee Park

2014 Barbra Streisand releases album "Partners" features duets with other artists, when reaches No 1, makes Streisand only recording-artist with top album in six decades

2015 700 million malaria cases prevented in Africa since 2000 in report by University of Oxford in "Nature" journal

2015 Report 3 million people die each year of air pollution, more than malaria and HIV/Aids combined published in "Nature" journal

2015 8.3 magnitude quake hits off coast of Illapel, Chile killing 11 and prompting evacuation of 1 million

2018 Cycling land speed record broken for men and women by Denise Mueller-Korenek riding 183.932 mph (296.010 km/h) Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah

2018 Typhoon Mangkhut makes landfall near Jiangmen City, China, winds 120 miles an hour cause tower blocks in Hong Kong to sway

2019 Marvel actor Mark Ruffalo rebuffs UK PM Boris Johnson, who compared himself to Hulk ,"Boris Johnson forgets that the Hulk only fights for the good of the whole" on Twitter

2019 – Five months before the COVID-19 stock market crash, an overnight spike in lending rates in the United States prompts the Federal Reserve to conduct operations in the repo market.

Born Today ;-

1387 Henry V, King of England (1413-22) and France (1416-19), born in Monmouth Castle, Monmouth

1858 Andrew Bonar Law, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1922-23), born in Kingston, Colony of New Brunswick

1891 Karl Dönitz, German naval leader, born in Grünau, German Empire, President of Germany

1893 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian born director, producer, and screenwriter - (3rd man)

1924 – Lauren Bacall, American actress

1925 [Riley B.] B.B. King, American blues guitarist and singer (The Thrill is Gone), born in Itta Bena, Mississippi

1925 Charles Haughey, Irish Taoiseach (1979-81, 82, 87-92), born in Castlebar, County Mayo

1927 – Peter Falk, American actor - Columbo

1941 Tommy Carberry, Irish jockey won the Grand National as a jockey on L'Escargot in 1975 beating Red Rum who going for a third successive win, also as a trainer with Bobbyjo ridden by son Paul in 1999, Daughter Nina has also ridden several times the Grand National

1947 Russ Abbot [Russell A Roberts], TV comedian (The Russ Abbot Show, September Song), born in Cheshire

1948 – Julia Donaldson, author and playwright - The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Stick Man. and many more

1950 – Loyd Grossman, American-English singer, guitarist, and television host

1956 – David Copperfield, American magician and actor

1958 – Neville Southall, Everton & Wales footballer and manager born Llandudno

Died Today ;-

1498 Tomas de Torquemada, Spanish Monk inquisitor who burned 10,000 people

1607 – Mary Stuart, English-Scottish princess

1701 James II of England and James VII of Scotland [Stuart], King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1685-88),

1736 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor and scientific instrument maker, who invented the thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale,

1890 Louis Le Prince, French artist and original inventor of the motion picture camera sometimes called "the father of cinematography," vanishes under suspicious circumstances at 49

1911 Edward Whymper, English mountaineer 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865)

1977 Marc Bolan, rock vocalist/guitarist (T Rex), dies in a car crash at 29

1977 Maria Callas, American soprano (Carmen), dies in Paris at 53

1991 Carol White, actress (Prehistoric Women, Dulcima), dies at 47 - Cathy Come Home, Poor Cow