Topic: Today in World History

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Aug 28

1963, 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

1968    Police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.

1981    John W. Hinckley Jr. pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.

1996    Democrats nominated President Bill Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago.

1996    Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana were divorced after 15 years of marriage.

2005    New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina.


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Aug 30

1963, the hot-line communications link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into operation.

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Aug 31

1888    Mary Ann Nichols, a prostitute, was found murdered in London's East End. She is generally regarded as the first victim of Jack the Ripper.

1935    President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act prohibiting the export of U.S. arms to belligerents.

1954    Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern United States, resulting in nearly 70 deaths and millions of dollars in damage.

1962    The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent within the British Commonwealth.

1994    Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after half a century.

1997, Britain's Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris at age 36.


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Sept 1

1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

1942    A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.

1951    The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty.

1969    A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.

1972    American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.

1983    A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace; 269 people were killed.

1998    Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs of the season, breaking the National League record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.

2004    More than 1,100 people were taken hostage by heavily armed Chechen militants at a school in Beslan in southern Russia; more than 330 people, most of them children, were killed during the three-day ordeal.


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Sept 3

1783    The Treaty of Paris officially ended America's Revolutionary War.

1939    Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland.

1976, the unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.

2007    Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, 63, vanished after taking off in a single-engine plane in western Nevada. (His remains were discovered in October 2008 in California's Sierra Nevada mountains.)

2009    A private funeral service was held in Glendale, Calif. for singer Michael Jackson, whose body was entombed in a mausoleum.


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Sept 5


1698    Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards.

1774    The first Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia.

1793    The Reign of Terror began during the French Revolution as the National Convention instituted harsh measures to repress counterrevolutionary activities.

1836    Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas.

1882    The nation's first Labor Day parade was held in New York City.

1905    The Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War, was signed in New Hampshire.

1914    The First Battle of the Marne began during World War I.

1939    The United States proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.

1972, Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli Olympic team at the summer games in Munich; 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, five terrorists and a police officer were killed.

1975    President Gerald R. Ford escaped an attempt on his life in Sacramento, Calif., by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson.

2005    President George W. Bush nominated John Roberts for chief justice.


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Sept 8

1565    A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, Fla.

1664    The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York.

1900    Galveston, Texas, was struck by a hurricane that killed about 6,000 people.

1921    Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, N.J.

1930    The comic strip "Blondie" by Chic Young was first published.

1935    Sen. Huey P. Long, the "Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot at the state capital building in Baton Rouge; he died two days later.

1941    A 900-day siege of Leningrad by German forces began during World War II.

1966    The TV series "Star Trek" premiered on NBC.

1974, President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon.

1975    Boston's public schools began a court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of violence.

1998    Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals broke Roger Maris' record for home runs in a single season, hitting No. 62 off Chicago Cubs pitcher Steve Trachsel.

2002    Pete Sampras won a record 14th grand slam tennis title at the U.S. Open in New York.

2004    "60 Minutes Wednesday" aired a report questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service. CBS News later apologized for a "mistake in judgment" after memos featured in the report were challenged as forgeries.



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Sept 9

1850    California became the 31st state of the union.

1926    The National Broadcasting Co. was created as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America.

1948    The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.

1956    Elvis Presley made the first of three appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

1957    President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.

1965    Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs.

1971    Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives.

1976, Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung died in Beijing at age 82.

1993    The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.

1997    Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.

2003    The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.

2005    Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command.

2009    Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shouted "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on health care.


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Sept 10

1608    John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.

1813    Oliver H. Perry sent the message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours," after an American naval force defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.

1846    Elias Howe of Spencer, Mass., received a patent for the sewing machine.


1919, New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the United States 1st Division during World War I.

1955    "Gunsmoke" premiered on CBS. (It ran for 20 years, longer than any other network prime-time series.)

1963    Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Ala., following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace.

1989    Hungary stopped enforcing East German visa restrictions and opened its borders, beginning a flood of emigration that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall two months later.

2002    Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.


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Sept 13

1788    The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary national capital.

1943    Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.

1948    Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

1949    The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America was formed in New York City.

1971    A four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives.

1990    "Law & Order" premiered on NBC.

1996    Rapper Tupac Shakur, 25, died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting.

1998    NBC's "Frasier" won a record fifth consecutive Emmy as TV's best comedy series.

1999    A bomb blamed by authorities on Chechen rebels devastated an eight-story apartment building in Moscow, killing at least 124 people.

2000    Former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee pleaded guilty in Albuquerque, N.M., to one count of mishandling nuclear secrets. Lee, who had been held in solitary confinement for nine months, was set free with an apology from U.S. District Judge James Parker.

2000    Chase Manhattan agreed to buy J.P. Morgan for more than $35 billion, creating the third largest financial company in the U.S.

2001    Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States; limited commercial flights resumed for the first time in two days.

2007    The NFL fined New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick $500,000 and the team $250,000 for spying on the New York Jets during a game.


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Sept 14

1814    Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812.

1847    U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott took control of Mexico City.

1901    President William B. McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, 42, was sworn in, becoming the youngest president in U.S. history.

1940    Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.


1959, the Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.

2005    A federal judge in San Francisco declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional.


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Sept 17

1862, Union forces hurled back a Confederate invasion of Maryland in the Civil War battle of Antietam. With 23,100 killed, wounded or captured, it remains the bloodiest day in U.S. military history.

1972    The comedy series "M.A.S.H." premiered on CBS.

1976    NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise.

2001    Wall Street trading resumed for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - its longest shutdown since the Depression; the Dow lost 684.81 points, its worst one-day point drop to date.

2001    Pro sporting events resumed after a six-day hiatus following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.


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Sept 18

1759    The French surrendered Quebec to the British.

1793    President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.

1810    Chile declared its independence from Spain.

1850    Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed slaveowners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states.

1970     Rock musician Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose at age 27.


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Sept 20

Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a $100,000 winner-take-all tennis match.

1873    Panic swept the New York Stock Exchange in the wake of railroad bond defaults and bank failures.

1973    Singer-songwriter Jim Croce, 30, died in a plane crash in Louisiana.



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