Today in History - Famous Events for Tomorrow

🏰 On this day in History - September 13, 2026

1998 SAFECO Golf Classic

1988 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams

1944 US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall

1861 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla

1983 Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save

1975 -27] Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean & US

1574 Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis

1965 Willie Mays's 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win

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

1579 Breda forms Union of Utrecht

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

1989 Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner

1959 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open

1963 "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV

1922 136.4шF (58шC), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record)

1934 Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000

1988 Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere

1958 Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam

1910 Regina Rugby Club forms

1923 With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera

1663 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)

1981 101st US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bj”rn B”rg (46 62 64 63)

1984 Simon Peres forms Israeli govt with Likoed

1964 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome

1983 Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season

1948 Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress

1978 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet

1787 Prussian army moves into Netherlands

1979 China PR performs nuclear test

1943 Chiang Kai-shek became president of China

1994 Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun

1869 Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market

1925 Bkln Dodger Dazzy Vance no-hits Phillies, 10-1

1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland & Salisbury

1925 1st US University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans

1959 73rd US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64)

1991 Joe Carter is 1st to have 3 consec 100-RBI seasons with 3 differ teams

0122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall

1968 Albania leaves Warsaw pact

1942 Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning

1998 118th US Mens Tennis

1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1942 German forces attack Stalingrad

1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal

1973 Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea

1964 WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting

1988 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in NY

1987 Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours

1993 Queens NY begins required recycling

1924 19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0)

1956 Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice

1974 1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV

1909 Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park)

1961 Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo

1970 Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania

1930 50th US Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 16 64 16-14)

1977 2nd Test Cricket of Space Shuttle Enterprise

1991 Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts

1549 Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna

1960 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law

1970 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open

1927 Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees

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

1882 Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt

1964 78th US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Carole Graebner (61 60)

1977 1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap

1980 1st United Negro College Fund

1989 Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in S Africa

1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1928 KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions

1930 Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament

1963 Barbra Striesand & Elliot Gould marry

1847 American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City

1973 Congress passes & sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout

0604 Sabinian begins his reign as Pope replacing Pope Gregory the Great

1981 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic

1965 Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast

1759 British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec)

1991 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium

1959 USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body

1970 1st NYC Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38

1939 Igor Stravinsky invents 1st helicopter

1919 Guy Bolton & George Middleton's "Adam & Eve," premieres in NYC

1979 South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of S Afr)

1987 Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro

1943 German counter attack at Salerno

1953 Nikita Khrushchev appointed 1st secretary-general of USSR

1906 1st airplane flight in Europe

1990 Robert E Nederlander appointed NY Yankee managing general partner

1959 79th US Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64)

1986 Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season

1789 1st loan to US Govt (from NYC banks)

1997 Katherine Shindle (Ill), 24, crowned 71st Miss America 1998

1961 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit

1970 IBM announces System 370 computer

1954 Reds Ted Kluszewski scores a run in record 17 consecutive games

1743 England, Austria & Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms

1996 Phil Simmons scores 171 & takes 6-14 for Leics v Durham

1982 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain

1949 Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC

1969 Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player

1775 Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main

1956 Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes

1867 Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors

1971 World Hockey Association forms

1964 St Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2

1971 Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR

1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film

1953 Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Phila A's

1944 Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen

1976 2nd Enterprise, approach & lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s)

1963 Jim Bouton's 20th win clinches Yanks 28th pennant

1947 WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1981 April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yds & 13"

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

1883 Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Phila

1970 90th US Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63)

1974 -17] 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague

1992 112th US Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Pete Sampras (36 64 76 62)

1970 84th US Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61)

1987 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship

1991 Joe Coleman 3rd 100 RBI season in a row 3 teams (Cleve, SD & Toronto)

1989 "Les Miserables," opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit

1981 Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay)

1881 Lewis Latimer invents & patents electric lamp with a carbon filament

1931 Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria

1990 Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait

1936 Cleve Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (vs Phila A's)

1981 33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St Blue, Judd Hirsh & Isabel Sanford wins

1952 Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico

1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders & Montreal Foot Ball

1553 English Hugh Latimer arrested

1972 1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS

1965 Beatles release "Yesterday"

1985 John Williams introduces new Today Show theme

1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1940 Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt

1994 George Burns, undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain

1985 2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen

1986 Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987

1992 Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship

1938 Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame

1883 Cleveland Hugh Daily no-hits Phila 1-0

1849 1st US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy)

1791 France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution

1969 Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title

1993 Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11)

1990 Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter

1984 STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad

1983 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation

1998 112th US Womens Tennis

1992 NY Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28

1515 -14] Battle at Marignano: France beats Habsburgers & Pope Leo X

1971 WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting

1958 Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times

1954 WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting

1964 84th US Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Frederick S Stolle (64 62 64)

1940 Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs

1977 General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)

1898 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike

1930 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3

1800 Cura‡ao in English hands (until Jan 1803)

1927 Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 HRs (52 en route to 60)

1978 NY Yanks win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back

1964 Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open

1631 Admiral Tholen conquerors 30+ Spanish frigates

1944 30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten

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

1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III

1969 Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko & Eric Clapton) 1st live performance

1971 11 guards & 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison

1961 "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV

1788 NY City becomes 1st capital of US

1946 Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant

1932 NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant

1556 Charles V & Maria of Hungary march into Spain

1951 St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0

1992 Steffan Edberg beats Pete Sampress to win US Open

1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow

1918 Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42

1990 Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die

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

1973 ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics

1983 US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)

1966 Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa

1993 Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres & PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord

1943 Having been Generalissimo since 1928, Chiang Kai-shek elected pres

1751 England signs Austrian & Russian alliance

1997 Carolina Hurricane's 1st exhibition game beat NY Islanders 4-1

1965 Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964

1982 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game

1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

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