On This Day And In Previous Years (Brief Events In History)

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27th August 1776 - British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island

27th August 1789 - French National Assembly issues "Declaration of Rights of Man & Citizen"

27th August 1799 - British invasion army lands in North Holland

27th august 1883 - Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people

27th August 1950 - the first transmission of a TV programme from continental Europe shown on BBC

Also on the 27th August 1979 was the deadliest attack on the British army by the IRA during the troubles which happened in the Warrenpoint Narrow Water area. Also Lord Mountbatten was murdered by the IRA on the same day in Southern Ireland.

 

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8th Septmeber 1504 - Michelangelo's statue of David is unveiled in Florence

8th September 1522 - Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completing first circumnavigation of the globe (expedition began under Ferdinand Magellan)

8th September 1565 - the first permanent European settlement in America founded at St. Augustine, Florida

8th September 1831 - William IV is crowned King of Great Britain.

8th September 1888 - In England the first six Football League matches ever are played.

8th September 1948 - British De Havilland DH108 fighter flies faster than sound

8th September 1960 - Nationwide release in America of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh

8th September 1966 - "Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV

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9th September 1513 - Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland

9th September 1776 - Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from the United Colonies)

9th September 1839 - English scientist and astronomer John Herschel takes first glass plate photograph

9th September 1914 - First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created - the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (World War I)

9th September 1940 - 28 German aircraft shot down above England

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10th September 1813 - American Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in Battle of Lake Erie

10th September 1846 - Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine

10th September 1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia

10th September 1965 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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11th September 1297 - Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace defeats the English

11th September 1758 - Battle of Saint Cast France repels British invasion during the Seven Year's War.

11th September 1922 - British mandate of Palestine begins

11th September 1939 - British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley

11th September 1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

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12th September 1217 - French prince Louis & English King Henry III sign peace treaty

12th September 1874 - The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.

12th September 1909 - World's first patent for synthetic rubber granted to German chemist Fritz Hofmann

12th September 1933 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives idea of a nuclear chain reaction

12th September 1958 - the US Supreme Court orders the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate

12th September 1959 - Luna 2 launched by USSR; first spacecraft to impact on the Moon

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13th September 1847 - the American Mexican war - US General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City

13th September 1956 - IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, first commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton

13th September 1993 - Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway

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14th September 1752 - Britain and the British Empire (including American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar

14th September 1905 - the RAC Tourist Trophy first run on the Isle of Man

14th September 1939 - the World’s first practical helicopter, the VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky takes (tethered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut

14th September 1939 - the British fleet attacks German U-39 boat

14th September 1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia

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15th Setember 1514 - Thomas Wolsey appointed English Archbishop of York

15th September 1656 - England & France sign peace treaty

15th September 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

15th Setember 1966 - First British nuclear ballistic missile submarine HMS Resolution launched

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16th September 1795 - British capture Capetown, South Africa, from the Dutch

16th September 1848 - Slavery abolished in all French territories

16th September 1861 - British Post Office Savings Banks opens

16th September 1908 - Carriage-maker, William C. Durant, founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan

16th September 1919 - American Legion incorporated by an act of US Congress

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17th September 1683 - Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is the first to report the existence of bacteria

17th September 1862 - Battle of Antietam, Battle of Sharpsburg, bloodiest day in the American Civil War: 22,000 dead, wounded or missing in first battle on Union soil

17th September 1900 - Commonwealth of Australia proclaimed

17th September 1916 - The Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, WWI flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France

17th September 1939 - German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die

17th September 1944 - Operation Market Garden: In the largest airborne operation of WWII, Allied paratroopers land in the Netherlands in a failed attempt to capture the Arnhem bridge over the Rhine

17th September 1978 - Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David Accords, frameworks for peace in the Middle East and between Egypt and Israel

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18th September 1759 - Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British who capture Quebec City

18th September 1873 - Government bond agent Jay Cooke & Co collapses, causing panic on Wall Street, the start of the panic of 1873 and the Long depression

18th September 1911 - Britain's first twin-engine airplane test flown

18th September 1931 - to create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese

18th September 1944 - British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed, including 1,377 allied POWs and 4,200 Javanese slave labourers.

18th September 1947 - the Central Intelligence Agency officially comes into existence after being established by President Truman in July

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19th September 1755 - Great Britain & Russia sign military agreement

19th September 1848 - Hyperion, moon of Saturn, discovered by Bond & Lassell

19th september 1893 - New Zealand becomes the first country to grant all women the right to vote

19th September 1939 - British Expeditionary Force reaches France

19th September 1984 - Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997

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21st September 1621 - King James I of England gives Sir William Alexander a royal charter for colonisation of Nova Scotia

21st September 1776 - 5 days after British take New York, a quarter of the city burns down

21st September 1792 - French Revolution: The National Convention passes a proclamation announcing the formal abolition of the French monarchy

21st September 1915 - Cecil Chubb buys English prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600

21st September 1944 - Operation Market Garden: Last British paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge surrender after several days of fighting

21st September 1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom

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22nd September 1529 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey stripped of office as Lord Chancellor of England

22nd September 1792 - French First Republic formed by the National Convention, stripping the French king of his powers

22nd September 1862 - US President Abraham Lincoln says he will free slaves in all states

22nd September 1943 - British dwarf submarines attack Tirpitz

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23rd September 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses

23rd September 1884 - American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine, the beginning of data processing

23rd September 1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower orders US troops to support integration of nine black students at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas

23rd September 1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

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24th September 1789 - US Federal Judiciary Act passes, creating a six-person Supreme Court

24th September 1850 - Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England

24th September 1869 - Black Friday; Wall Street panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold

24th September 1962 - US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Mississippi

24th September 1963 - US Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limiting nuclear testing

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25th September 1789 - US Congress proposes the Bill of Rights

25th September 1944 - Operation Market Garden ends in Allied failure as the last British and Polish paratroopers are evacuated from Oosterbeek, near the town of Arnhem

25th September 1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia

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26th September 1580 - Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind

26th September 1687 - City council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution

26th September 1949 - Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign torn down, reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood

26th September 1918 - Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI

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27th September 1779 - John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain

27th September 1905 - the physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².

27th September 1908 - Henry Ford's first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan

27th September 1916 - the first Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians

27th September 1940 - 55 German aircrafts shot down above England

27th September 1964 - findings of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone

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