Historical Events on September 13

Events 1 - 200 of 235

• 509 BC The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September

• 335 Church of Holy Sepulchre consecrated in Jerusalem
• 533 General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa
• 604 Sabinian begins his reign as Pope replacing Pope Gregory the Great
• 1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III

• 1440 Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
• 1500 Predro Álvares Cabral and his Portuguese expedition arrive in Calicut, India

• 1504 Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.

• 1549 Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna
• 1553 English bishop Hugh Latimer arrested
• 1574 Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis
• 1579 Breda forms Union of Utrecht
• 1625 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem
• 1631 Admiral Tholen conquers 30+ Spanish frigates
• 1663 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)
• 1743 Great Britain, Austria and Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
• 1751 Britain signs Austrian & Russian alliance
• 1759 British beat French forces at the battle of Plains of Abrahams near Quebec - kills both leading generals Wolfe and Montcalm
• 1775 Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main

• 1787 Prussian army moves into Netherlands
• 1789 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks)

• 1800 Curacao in British hands (until Jan 1803)
• 1808 Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.

• 1847 Battle of Chapultepec: American forces capture Chapultepec Castle during the Mexican–American War allowing US General Winfield Scott to go on to take Mexico City
• 1849 1st US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy)
• 1850 The main-belt asteroid "12 Victoria" is discovered by J R Hind
• 1858 Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die
• 1861 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla
• 1867 General Edward Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors
• 1869 Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market
• 1881 America Lewis Howard Latimer invents and patents electric lamp with a carbon filament
• 1882 Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops defeat Egyptian force in the decisive battle of the Anglo-Egytian War
• 1883 Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia

• 1898 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
• 1899 Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya
• 1900 Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War

• 1906 1st airplane flight in Europe, Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont test flies his hybrid 14-bis plane (attached to a hydrogen balloon for take-off), at Bagatelle, France
• 1907 Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) forms with merge of Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) and Ottawa Rough Riders, Montreal FC (QRFU)
• 1907 Lusitania arrives in New York City after record 5 day crossing of Atlantic

• 1910 Regina Rugby Club forms
• 1918 Train accident at Weesp Netherlands, kills 42
• 1919 Guy Bolton & George Middleton's "Adam & Eve," premieres in NYC
• 1922 "Straw Hat Riot" begins in New York City as youths aggressively taunt men wearing straw hats, getting an early jump on unofficial season's end date of September 15; confrontations continue longer than usual, lasting 8 days
• 1922 Alleged world record temperature of 136.4°F (58°C) in El Aziziyah, Libya, in the shade (invalidated 2012 by the World Meteorological Organization)

• 1925 1st US University for African Americans, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans
• 1925 MLB Brooklyn Robins pitcher Dazzy Vance no-hits the visiting Philadelphia Phillies, 10-1 at Ebbets Field

• 1928 KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions
• 1928 San Felipe Segundo/Okeechobee hurricane makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a category 5 storm, killing over 300, leaving 500,000 homeless, and causing $50M in damages (about $790M in 2020 dollars)

• 1930 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
• 1931 British RAF pilot George Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph)
• 1931 Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria
• 1932 NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant
• 1933 Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first New Zealand female Member of Parliament
• 1935 Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway

• 1940 Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs
• 1940 Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt
• 1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
• 1942 Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning
• 1942 German forces attack Stalingrad
• 1943 German counterattack 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 Great Atlantic hurricane reaches peak intensity as a Category 4 storm, goes on to kill 300-400 along the US East Coast
• 1944 Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen
• 1944 US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall
• 1946 Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant

• 1947 WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1948 Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of US Congress
• 1949 Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC
• 1951 St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0
• 1952 Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico

• 1953 KGTV TV channel 10 in San Diego, CA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 Pitcher Bob Trice becomes the first black player for Philadelphia Athletics
• 1954 Cincinnati first baseman Ted Kluszewski scores a run in his record 17th consecutive game as Reds lose 5-4 to Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field
• 1954 WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1955 Swiss inventor George de Mestral is granted a patent for what would become known as Velcro
• 1956 Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes
• 1956 Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice

• 1959 USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body
• 1960 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
• 1961 Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo
• 1961 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
• 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1964 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome
• 1964 St Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2
• 1964 WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting

• 1965 Beatles win their 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964
• 1965 Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast

• 1966 Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa
• 1968 Albania leaves Warsaw pact

• 1969 Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title

• 1970 Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania
• 1971 11 guards & 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison

• 1971 Two North Ireland Loyalists are mortally injured when the bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely in a house in Bann Street, Belfast
• 1971 WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1971 World Hockey Association forms
• 1973 ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics
• 1973 Syrian-Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea
• 1973 US Congress passes & sends a bill to President Nixon to lift NFL football's television blackout of sold out games
• 1974 -17] 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague
• 1974 1st broadcast of "The Rockford Files" on NBC-TV
• 1974 OPEC instructs its Secretary General to "carry out a study of supply and demand in relation to possible production controls"
• 1974 Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17
• 1974 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1975 -27] Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in the Caribbean & US
• 1976 2nd Enterprise, approach & lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s)
• 1977 1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap
• 1977 2nd Test flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise
• 1977 General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)
• 1978 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
• 1978 New York Yankees recover from 14 games behind to gain sole possession of AL East 1st place with 7-3 win over the Tigers in Detroit
• 1979 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• 1979 South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of South Africa)
• 1980 1st United Negro College Fund

• 1981 April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yds & 13"
• 1981 Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay)
• 1981 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1982 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain
• 1982 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game

• 1983 Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 mins, Lancs v Leics
• 1983 US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)

• 1984 Shimon Peres forms Israeli government with Likud
• 1984 STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad
• 1985 John Williams introduces new Today Show theme

• 1986 Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season
• 1987 Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro
• 1987 Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours
• 1987 Tampa Bay quarterback Steve DeBerg establishes a franchise record with 5 touchdown passes in the Buccaneers 48-10 win over the Atlanta Falcons
• 1988 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams
• 1988 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in NY
• 1988 Gilbert is measured the strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane ever in the Western Hemisphere

• 1989 Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner

• 1990 Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die
• 1990 Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
• 1990 Robert E Nederlander appointed NY Yankee managing general partner
• 1990 Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter
• 1991 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium

• 1991 Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts
• 1992 NY Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28

• 1993 Queens, NYC begins required recycling
• 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

• 1994 George Burns undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain
• 1994 Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun
• 1995 The Kuwaiti Oil Ministry states its intention to seek a 200-million-barrels-per-day increase to its current 2-million-barrels-per-day crude oil production quota at OPEC meeting in Vienna
• 1996 Phil Simmons scores 171 & takes 6-14 for Leics v Durham
• 1997 Carolina Hurricane's 1st exhibition game beat NY Islanders 4-1

• 1997 Elton John releases single "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" in the UK

• 1998 50th Emmy Awards: The Practice, Frasier, Andre Braugher & Christine Lahti win
• 1999 Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.

• 2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• 2001 Relative calm returns to world oil markets as US retail gasoline prices return to normal levels; energy trading by Houston energy companies resumes and limited commercial aviation starts
• 2003 Anna Stöhr wins a gold medal in lead climbing at the European Youth Cup in Niederwangen, Switzerland
• 2003 British rock singer Mike Smith (Dave Clark Five) fractures spine falling while trying to enter his home after locking himself out, becomes permanently paralyzed from the waist down

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