On this day

1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow

French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte
French Emperor
Napoléon Bonaparte
1820 Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century).
1821 Act of Independence of Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua declare their independence from the Spanish Empire
1830 First National Negro Convention begins in Philadelphia
1830 First passenger to be killed by a railway train (William Huskisson, England)
1830 Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool & Manchester Railway
1831 The locomotive "John Bull" operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad
Event of interest
Event of Interest
1835 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin on board reaches the Galapagos Islands

Naturalist Charles Darwin
Naturalist
Charles Darwin
1846 Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
1851 Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1853 First US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell
1857 Timothy Alder of NY patents a typesetting machine
1862 Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV
1870 Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18)
1870 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Tom Morris, Jr. wins third straight title; again beats Bob Kirk, this time by 12 strokes
1873 Last German troops leave France
1879 Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club"


1882 British General Wolseley occupies Cairo
1887 Philadelphia celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution
1894 Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang
1898 National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
1899 US Open Men's Golf, Baltimore CC: Willie Smith wins by a comfortable 11 strokes from Scotsmen George Low & Val Fitzjohn and Bert Way of England
1900 A Boer delegation issues an appeal at the Hague, Netherlands, that the major powers intervene in the war in South Africa
1903 Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals"
1910 Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa
1912 Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins
1912 War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania
1913 1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY
1914 First Battle of Aisne finishes, Germans vs. French & British during WW I
1914 US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico
Historic Invention
1st Use of Tanks in War
1916 First use of tanks in warfare, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Battle of the Somme
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Battle of Flers–Courcelette.: Mark I tanks fill with petrol on the day tanks were first used in war, September 15, 1916
Battle of Flers–Courcelette.: Mark I tanks fill with petrol on the day tanks were first used in war, September 15, 1916
1917 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky's Provisional government
1921 Pope Benedict XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus
1921 WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
1922 Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897
1923 Governor Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of Ku Klux Klan terror
1923 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Germantown CC, Philadelphia: Bill Tilden wins 4th of 6 straight US singles titles; beats Bill Johnston 6-4, 6-1, 6-4
1928 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva
Invention
Scientific Discovery
1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza

Biologist Alexander Fleming
Biologist
Alexander Fleming
1928 Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6
1928 Stothard, Kalmar & Ruby's musical "Good Boy" premieres in NYC
1928 Alfred "Tich" Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season.
1930 1st international bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
1931 Philadelphia A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland
1935 Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany
1937 WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to SF Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)

Event of interest
Event of Interest
1938 British PM Neville Chamberlain visits Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
British Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain
Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
1938 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
1938 Only time brothers hit back-to-back HRs (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pitts)
1940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
1940 Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)
Victory in battle
Victory in Battle
1940 UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Royal Air Force 11th Fighter Group on what would be the fiercest day of the Battle of Britain

Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill
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
Event of interest
Event of Interest
1943 Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy

Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
Italian Dictator
Benito Mussolini
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.
1946 Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats
1947 First four-engined jet-propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Ohio
1947 Yanks clinch pennant #15
1947 RCA releases the 12AX7 miniature dual triode vacuum tube; it is still in production
1947 Typhoon Kathleen hit Tone River, Saitama and Tokyo area, killing at least 1,930 and injuring 1,750..
1948 "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances
1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph
1948 WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WMGM
1949 "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV. Hi-yo, Silver! Away!
1949 WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, PA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea
1950 East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification
1950 For a record 6th time, NY Yankees' first baseman Johnny Mize hits 3 HRs in one game
1950 Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19
1950 US troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul
1951 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld NYC after 740 performances
1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8)
1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum
1952 Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee
1952 European Parliament forms in Strasbourg
1952 UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia

@very-rusty said
1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow

French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte
French Emperor
Napoléon Bonaparte
1820 Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century).
1821 Act of Independence of Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua declare their independence from the ...[text shortened]... e to Milwaukee
1952 European Parliament forms in Strasbourg
1952 UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia

congratulations for your skill in "copy & paste"
Now what is the meaning you wish to convey?

@ponderable said
congratulations for your skill in "copy & paste"
Now what is the meaning you wish to convey?

This Thread is "On this day", obvioulsy the aforementioned in my post were things that happened on this day in the years indicated! Was that so difficult to understand pondy?

-VR

@very-rusty said
This Thread is "On this day", obvioulsy the aforementioned in my post were things that happened on this day in the years indicated! Was that so difficult to understand pondy?

Your objective seems to be to kill the thread. Nice work.

@handyandy said
Your objective seems to be to kill the thread. Nice work.

He does overdo things sometimes. 🙂

@torunn said
He does overdo things sometimes. 🙂

Sometimes?

@very-rusty said
1950 Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19

That should be Shibe Park.

@very-rusty said
This Thread is "On this day", obvioulsy the aforementioned in my post were things that happened on this day in the years indicated! Was that so difficult to understand pondy?

-VR

Show some restraint.

@torunn said
He does overdo things sometimes. 🙂

Only Sometimes?

I'll have to work on that!!

Thanks,
-VR

@Very-Rusty

19th Septemebr 1783 the first flight of the "montgolfiere".

(Back on track)

@divegeester said
(Back on track)

Good luck! 😉

-VR

@divegeester said
Show some restraint.

Probably will not happen, good suggestion though! 😉

I'm sure you earned man brownie points for that one!

-VR

@very-rusty said
Probably will not happen, good suggestion though! 😉

I'm sure you earned man brownie points for that one!

-VR

Does your childish determination to derail and spoil every thread in this forum stem from an obvious inability to post anything of substance or a more underlying issue of a need to be noticed?