# 1 September-Today's Historical Events (1900-2017)

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1900 Cumann na nGaedheal (Irish Council) founded by Arthur Griffith in order to promote a buy Irish campaign

1901 Construction begins on the NY Stock Exchange

1902 Tinker, Evers, & Chance appear together for the 1st time

1905 Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces

1906 Philadelphia beats the Red Sox 4-1 in 24 innings in Boston in the longest game in AL baseball history; both starters go the distance as A's hurler Jack Coombs overcomes Boston's Joe Harris

1911 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km

1913 Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution"

1914 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Newport Casino R.I.: R. Norris Williams wins his first major title beating fellow American Maurice McLoughlin 6-3, 8-6, 10-8

1915 Jerome Travers establishes a US Amateur Golf Championship record by downing George Crump, 14 & 13, in a 1st-round match at the Country Club of Detroit in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan

1915 The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner "Arabic"

1916 US Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)

1918 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920

1919 Frank Wedekind's "Herakles" premieres in Munich

1920 France creates Greater Lebanon

1921 Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St NYC (Billy Rose, Trafalgar)

1922 NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change the name to "billiards"

1923 A magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan, killing 142,000 people

1924 Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by the earthquake

1925 Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee

1926 Turkey allows civil marriage

1928 Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king

1930 NY World reports the disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater

1932 NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)

1934 Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced

1934 SMJK Sam Tet was founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

1936 Belgian boxer Gustave Roth beats Heinz Lazek of Austria in a 15 round points decision to win the EBU and vacant IBU world light heavyweight title in Vienna

1937 4th Chicago College All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Green Bay, 6-0; 84,560 at Soldier Field

1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David

1942 US Federal judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans

1945 Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Vince DiMaggio smashes his 4th grand slam of the season, tying NL record, in an 8-3 win v Boston Braves

1946 1st US Open Women's Golf, Spokane CC: Patty Berg wins inaugural Open and only one played in match play format; takes 36-hole final 5 & 4 over Betty Jameson

1947 With a victory by Armed in the Washington Park Handicap, Calumet Farm becomes the first stable to surpass $1 million in annual earnings; leads all owners with total earnings of $1,402,436

1948 Communist form North China People's Republic

1949 Finnish long-distance runner Viljo Heino runs 10,000m world record 29:27.2 in Kouvola, Finland

1950 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines

1951 PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad

1952 Sutro Baths, San Francisco purchased by George Whitney

1953 WNOK (now WLTX) TV channel 19 in Columbia, SC (CBS) 1st broadcast

1953 WTCN (now KARE) TV channel 11 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (MET) begins

1954 Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant opens infamous 10-day football minicamp in Junction, Texas; ordeal achieves legendary status becoming subject of 2001 book 'The Junction Boys' & television movie of the same name

1957 WTLV TV channel 12 in Jacksonville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting

1958 St Louis Cardinals pitcher Vinegar Bend Mizell walks an NL record 9 batters in a 1-0 shutout of Cincinnati Reds

1960 German sprinter Armin Hary wins the coveted 100m gold medal in 10.2 at the Rome Olympics; first non-American to win the event since 1928

1961 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade

1962 Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.

1963 Walter Kennedy begins his tenure as the commissioner of the NBA, succeeding Maurice Podoloff

1964 SF Giants reliever Masanori Murakami becomes the first Japanese-born player to appear in US MLB; on debut, the Osuki native throws a scoreless inning in a 4-1 loss v New York Mets

1965 Indo-Pakistani conflict - Pakistani counter-attack (Operation Grand Slam,)

1966 KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting

1967 KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting

1967 Cincinnati reliever Bob Lee walks Dick Groat with bases loaded in the 21st inning to give SF Giants a 1-0 win at Crosley Field; 20 scoreless innings tie MLB mark set by Pirates & Braves in 1918

1968 Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed

1971 Australian John Newcombe becomes 1st male top-seed to lose in US Open 1st round when beaten by eventual finalist Jan Kodeš 6-2, 6-7, 6-7, 3,-6

1972 Australian swimmer Shane Gould wins the 200m freestyle in world record 2:03.56 at the Munich Olympics; her 3rd gold medal & 3rd world record of the Games

1973 Gloucestershire beats Sussex by 40 runs in the Gillette Cup cricket final at Lord's to win their first major trophy since the Championship in 1877; South African all-rounder Mike Proctor stars with 94 and 2 for 37

1974 The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.

1975 5 Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh

1977 Tracy Austin at age 14 years, 8 months, 20 days, becomes the youngest female to play in the US Open, beating German Heidi Eisterlehner 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 in a 1st round match

1979 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings

1980 Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv

1985 Bill Elliott claims a $1 million bonus for winning 3 of the 4 crown jewel races on the NASCAR schedule:- the Daytona 500, Winston 500 and Southern 500

1985 Dutch cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes the oldest road race elite world champion at 38 years, 8 months, 29 days; beats Greg Lamonde & Marino Argentina in Giavera del Montello

1986 Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733

1993 "White Liars/Black Comedy" opens at Criterion NYC for 38 performances

1996 Vinny Testaverde completes 19 from 33 for 254 yards as the Baltimore Ravens beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14 in their NFL debut at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore

1996 The Carolina Panthers outgun the Atlanta Falcons 29-6 in their first regular season NFL game at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina

1997 "Doll's House" closes at Belasco Theater

1997 Jerry Lewis' 32nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $50,500,000

2001 Jockey Tim Moccasin caps a streak of 14 consecutive victories, a North American record, at Marquis Downs in Saskatoon, Canada aboard Intricate Stitch in the 5th race

2007 In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans see Appalachian State's Corey Lynch block a Jason Gingell 37-yard field goal attempt with 6 seconds remaining to inspire an epic 34-32 win v Michigan at Ann Arbor

2010 67th Venice Film Festival: "Somewhere" directed by Sofia Coppola wins Golden Lion

2012 Grenade injures 41 festival celebrants in Paquibato, Philippines

2013 Gareth Bale transfers from Tottenham Hotspur FC to Real Madrid for an estimated world record fee of £85.3 million (€100 million)

2015 Google changes its logo, biggest redesign since 1999

2015 EU Migrant Crisis: Hungary closes Keleti Railway Station in Budapest to try and stop migrants travelling

2015 India scores their first Test cricket series victory in Sri Lanka since 1993 winning 3rd Test in Colombo by 117 runs; Ravichandran Ashwin (4) & Ishant Sharma (3) combine for 7 Sri Lankan 2nd innings wickets

2017 Kenyan Chief Justice David Maraga invalidates Kenyan re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta

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