Today in History for 13th September 2015 Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 243 509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September. 122 - Building begins on Hadrian's Wall 533 - General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa. 604 - Sabinian begins his reign as Pope replacing Pope Gregory the Great 1125 - Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III 1224 - Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata. 1440 - Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes. 1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David. 1504 - Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built. 1515 - -14] Battle at Marignano: France beats Habsburgers & Pope Leo X 1549 - Pope Paul III signs Council of Bologna 1553 - English bishop Hugh Latimer arrested 1556 - Charles V & Maria of Hungary march into Spain 1574 - Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis Pope Leo X1579 - Breda forms Union of Utrecht 1625 - 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem 1631 - Admiral Tholen conquerors 30+ Spanish frigates 1663 - 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia) 1743 - Britain, Austria & Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms 1751 - Britain signs Austrian & Russian alliance 1759 - British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec) 1775 - Gotthold Lessing's "Die Juden," premieres in Frankfurt-am-Main 1787 - Prussian army moves into Netherlands 1788 - NY City becomes 1st capital of US 1789 - 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks) 1791 - France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution 1800 - Curacao in British hands (until Jan 1803) 1808 - Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Dbeln beat the Russians, making von Dbeln a Swedish war hero. 1847 - American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City 1849 - 1st US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy) 1858 - Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die 1861 - 1st naval battle of Civil War, Union frigate "Colorado" sinks privateer "Judah" off Pensacola, Fla 1866 - 7th British Golf Open: Willie Park, Sr. shoots a 169 at Prestwick Golf Club 1867 - Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors 1869 - Jay Gould & James Fisk attempt to control US gold market 1872 - 12th British Golf Open: Tom Morris, Jr. shoots a 166 at Prestwick Golf Club 1881 - Lewis Latimer invents & patents electric lamp with a carbon filament 1882 - Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt 1883 - Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia 1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies hoist Union Jack in Mashonaland & Salisbury 1898 - 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike 1898 - Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film 1899 - Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya. 1900 - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War. 1906 - 1st airplane flight in Europe 1907 - Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders & Montreal Foot Ball MLB Legend Ty Cobb1909 - Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park) 1910 - Regina Rugby Club forms 1918 - Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42 1919 - Guy Bolton & George Middleton's "Adam & Eve," premieres in NYC 1922 - 136.4F (58C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record) 1923 - With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera 1924 - 19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0) 1925 - 1st US University for Blacks, Xavier University, opens in New Orleans 1925 - Bkln Dodger Dazzy Vance no-hits Phillies, 10-1 1927 - Yanks clinch pennant, Ruth hits 2 HRs (52 en route to 60) 1927 - Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees 1928 - KOH-AM in Reno NV begins radio transmissions 1930 - 50th US Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 1-6 6-4 16-14) Runner nicknamed the "Flying Finn" Paavo Nurmi1930 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4) 1930 - Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament 1930 - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3 1930 - 50th U.S. Men's National Championship: John Doeg beats Frank Shields (10-8, 1-6, 6-4, 16- 14) 1931 - Capt G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph) 1931 - Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria 1932 - NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant 1933 - Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first New Zealand woman Member of Parliament 1934 - Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000 1935 - Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway. 1936 - Cleve Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (vs Phila A's) Mobster Louis Buchalter1936 - Acting on the orders of Louis Buchalter, Murder Inc. killers gun down Joseph Rosen, a Brooklyn candy store owner 1938 - Alexander Cartwright selects to Baseball's Hall of Fame 1940 - Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs 1940 - Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt 1942 - Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal 1942 - Cubs shortstop Leonard Merullo makes 4 errors in 1 inning 1942 - German forces attack Stalingrad 1943 - German counter attack at Salerno 1943 - The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe. 1944 - 30th Infantry division of US 1st Army frees Margraten 1944 - Last transport out camp Westerbork to Bergen Belsen 1944 - US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall 1946 - Boston Red Sox clinch AL pennant 1947 - WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1948 - Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) elected senator, 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress 1949 - Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC 1951 - St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0 1952 - Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico 1953 - Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Phila A's 1953 - 4th Formula One WDC: Alberto Ascari wins by 6.5 points 1954 - Reds Ted Kluszewski scores a run in record 17 consecutive games 1954 - WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting 1956 - Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes 1956 - Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice 1956 - IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305. 1958 - Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times 1958 - Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam 1959 - 73rd US Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64) 1959 - 79th US Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64) 1959 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 215 1087 - John II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143) 1157 - Alexander Neckum/de Sancto Albano, English theologist/encyclopedist 1475 - Cesare Borgia, Italian aristocrat (d. 1507) 1502 - John Leland, English antiquarian (d. 1552) 1520 - William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier 1551 - Pandolfo Zallamella, composer 1594 - Francesco Manelli, composer 1604 - William Brereton, English soldier and politician (d. 1661) Novelist Daniel Defoe (1660)1660 - Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), born in London, England 1673 - Hercule Brehy, composer 1676 - lisabeth Charlotte of Orlans, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1741) 1682 - Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer 1688 - Luca Antonio Praedieri, composer 1694 - Yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1776) 1739 - Giuseppe Sigismondo, composer 1751 - Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist 1755 - Oliver Evans, pioneered high-pressure steam engine 1766 - Samuel Wilson, possible namesake of Uncle Sam (d. 1854) 1775 - Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (d. 1868) 1802 - Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880) 1806 - Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), die in 1862 Canadian War Heroine Laura Secord (1775)1806 - Moritz Ganz, composer 1813 - John Sedgwick, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1864) 1814 - Nicolas Beets, [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura= 1817 - John McAuley Palmer, US Union msj-gen/(Gov-Ill, 1868-72) 1818 - Olivier Gloux, [Aimard], Fren world explorer/writer (Grande Flibuste) 1819 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896) 1830 - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916) 1831 - Andrew Noble, Greenock, Scottish Physicist who was a founder of the science of ballistics 1836 - John McCausland, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1927) 1841 - Johannes de Koo, Dutch journalist/stage writer 1842 - Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer 1842 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920) 1846 - Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa) 1847 - Charles Dupee Blake, composer 1851 - Walter Reed, US Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever Chocolate Tycoon Milton S. Hershey (1857)1857 - Milton S. Hershey, Derry Township, Pennsylvania, American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey Chocolate Company) and philanthropist, (d. 1945) 1857 - Micha Drzymaa, Polish peasant rebel (d. 1937) 1858 - Catherinus Elling, composer 1860 - John J. Pershing (Blackjack), Laclede, Missouri, US commander (WW I), (d. 1948) 1862 - Dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament 1863 - Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel 1934) 1866 - Adolf Meyer, US, psychiatrist/neurologist (pioneered mental hygiene) 1871 - Alma Kruger, actress (Made For Each Other), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1874 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (2nd Quartet) and painter associated with the expressionist movement, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1951) 1874 - Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962) Composer and Painter Arnold Schoenberg (1874)1876 - Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, author/publisher (Winesburg) 1877 - Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (d.