1869 – Thousands of businessmen were financially ruined after a panic on Wall Street. The panic was caused by an attempt to corner the gold market by Jay Gould and James Fisk.
0622 – Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
1493 – Columbus’ 2nd expedition to the New World
1529 – Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman troops arrive in Vienna, beginning of the siege
1537 – Catholic uprising in the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (now Germany) fails
1625 – Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1657 – 1st autopsy and coroner’s jury verdict is recorded in Maryland
1683 – King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in the Americas
1688 – Louis-Armand de Lom d’Arce leaves Michilimackinac on a mysterious journey of exploration about which he later writes he discovered a ‘Long’ river
1706 – Treaty of Altran Stadt: Charles XII of Sweden & August II of Sasken; Augustus renounces his claims to the Polish throne and his alliance with Russia
1786 – African American slave and poet Jupiter Hammon makes his “Address to the Negroes of the State of New York” speech advocating emancipation at meeting of African Society in NY
1789 – The office of the Attorney General of the United States of America, and the United States Post Office Department are established.
1829 – Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
1838 – Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
1841 – The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain.
1862 – Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1869 – Thousands of businessmen were financially ruined after a panic on Wall Street. The panic was caused by an attempt to corner the gold market by Jay Gould and James Fisk.
1877 – Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion”
1890 – The President of the Latter-day Saints Wilford Woodruff issues a manifesto advising members that the teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned
1906 – Prince George of Greece, convinced that he can no longer serve the cause of Crete, resigns as High Commissioner
1927 – NHL’s Toronto St Patrick’s become the Maple Leafs
1929 – Lieutenant James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle pilots a biplane over Mitchel Field in New York to make the first all-instrument flight.
1934 – Babe Ruth played his last game as a New York Yankee player.
1941 – 9 Allied govts pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter
1942 – 3,000 Tuczyn Jews are killed after resisting and escaping a Nazi attack. Only 15 survive.
1947 – Majestic 12 is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman https://www.wired.com/2007/09/dayintech-0924/
1948 – Mildred Gillars, charged with treason as Nazi radio propagandist Axis Sally, pleads innocent in Washington, DC.
1950 – “Operation Magic Carpet” concludes after having transported 45,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel
1952 – Dutch Minister of Justice Donker decides war criminal Willy Lages will not be executed but sentenced to life
1955 – U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver, CO.
1957 – U.S. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, AR, to enforce school integration.
1960 – The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier was launched. The USS Enterprise set out from Newport News, VA.
1961 – “The Bullwinkle Show” premiered in prime time on NBC-TV. The show was originally on ABC in the afternoon as “Rocky and His Friends.”
1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
1963 – The U.S. Senate ratified a treaty that limited nuclear testing. The treaty was between the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union.
1968 – “60 Minutes” premiered on CBS-TV.
1971 – 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying
1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
1975 – OPEC announces a 15% increase in government per barrel revenues
1976 – Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter
1979 – CompuServe begins offering a dial-up online information service to consumers, marketed as MicroNET
1982 – US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
1988 – Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson breaks his own 100m world record with a time of 9.79 at the Seoul Olympics; disqualified 3 days later for use of drug stanozolol
1990 – Iraq invades the French and Dutch missions in Kuwait; French President François Mitterrand calls the action a violation of international law; US warship boards an Iraqi-flagged tanker bound for the port of Basrah
1991 – Rock band Nirvana release their second studio album “Nevermind”
1993 – Norodom Sihanouk again installed as King of Cambodia
1995 – Three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities ended with the signing of a pact by Israel and the PLO.
1996 – The United States, represented by President Clinton, and the world’s other major nuclear powers signed a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush froze the assets of 27 suspected terrorists and terrorist groups.
2007 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of Columbia University.
2012 – Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores
2015 – Pope Francis becomes the 1st pope to address the US Congress. Names Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day as his American heroes.
2017 – NFL players kneel, lock arms or stay in their dressing room during the anthem in protests against comments made by President Donald Trump
2018 – Ebola virus has caused 69 deaths and sickened 150 people according to Ministry of Heath in Democratic Republic of Congo
2019 – Nancy Pelosi announces formal impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump, arguing that he tried to enlist a foreign power for his own political gain
2020 – Report China is continuing to expand its Uighur detention centers, with more than 380 suspected facilities housing 1 million people in Xinjiang
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
