Anniversaries.

[FranknStein]

September 23.

63 BC:Augustus Caesar born.

1215:Kublai Khan born.

1869:"Typhoid Mary" Mallon born in Tyrone.

1889:Nintendo was founded as a playing card
company called Nintendo Koppai.

1909:Phantom of the Opera makes its appearance as a serialisation in a French newspaper.

1930:Ray Charles born.

1932:Kingdom of Saudia Arabia founded.

1939:Sigmund Freud dies.

1942:Manhattan Project begins-it will eventually deliver the atomic bomb.

1949:Bruce Springsteen born.

1957:"That'll be the Day" by Buddy Holly and the Crickets reaches number one in America.

1962:The Jetsons first broadcast on ABC.

[FranknStein]

1493:Christopher Columbus embarks on his second voyage to the New World.

1529:Beginning of Ottoman siege of Vienna.

1776:First St.Leger race held at Doncaster.

1948:Honda Motor Company if founded.

1953:Rocky Marciano becomes world heavyweight champion.

1957:Camp Nou in Barcelona opens.

1957:"Jailhouse Rock" single released by Elvis Presley.

1960:USS Enterprise,the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier is launched.

1964:"The Munsters starts on TV.

1968:60 minutes begins on CBS.

1976:"Oh! Calcutta" opens in NY.

1976:"Stockholm syndrome" sufferer and newspaper heiress Patty Hearst sentenced.

1988:Canada's Ben Johnson runs drugged assisted 9.79 second 100 metres in Seoul.

1988:Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets world record and wins gold, in the Heptathlon, in Seoul.

1990:East Germany leaves the Warsaw Pact.

2007:"The Big Bang Theory" premieres on CBS.

[FranknStein]

September 25.

1066:Battle of Stamford Bridge. Harold Godwinson defeats a Norwegian army led by his brother and Harald Hardrada.

1492:Crewman on Columbus's ship "The Pinta" sights land.

1514:Spaniard Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama and becomes the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.

1780:American general Benedict Arnold defects to the British side.

1890:Head of the Mormons issues a manifesto renouncing the practice of polygamy.

1915:Battle of Loos begins.

1939:Luftwaffe firebombs Warsaw.

1944:Actor Michael Douglas born.

1951:Actor Mark Hamill born.

1952:Actor Christopher Reeve born.

1957:Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga in Australia.

1961:Actress Heather Locklear born.

1962:Sonny Liston wins world heavyweight title.

1968:Actor Will Smith born.

1969:Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones born.

1975:Singer Jackie Wilson collapses on stage aged 41 ,after suffering a heart attack leading to brain damage.Spends the remaining 9 years of his life in hospitals.

1976:Paul Hewson,David Evans,his brother Dik and Adam Clayton respond to a note posted on a bulletin board, in Mount Temple school,by Larry Mullen regarding the formation of a band.

1979:"Evita" opens on Broadway.

1988:Florence Griffith Joyner wins gold in Seoul ,in the 100m,in an Olympic record time.

1996:Last of the Magdalen asylums shuts in Ireland.

2002:Vitim Event in Siberia.

2015:Caitlyn Jenner officially changes her name from Bruce and her gender to female.

2017:Uber's London licence not renewed.

[FranknStein]

September 26

1580:Francis Drake completed circumnavigation of the world,sailing into Plymouth Harbour on the Golden Hinde.

1687:Parthenon in Athens damaged in a skirmish between Venetians and Turks.

1687:Amsterdam city council votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which will become known as "The Glorious Revolution".

1918:Meuse-Argonne offensive begins in WWI,with a large involvement of American troops.

1934:Liner Queen Mary is launched.

1948:Olivia Newton-John born.
1968:The musical " Oliver"premieres in London.

1969:Beatles release "Abbey Road" album.

1981:Serena Williams born.

1983 -AustraliaII becomes the first non -US winner of the America's Cup.

1983:Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an attempted American first strike.

[FranknStein]

September 27.

1066 :Norman led troops set sail for England.

1389:Cosimo de Medici,banker,patron of the arts and de facto ruler of Florence born.

1540:Society of Jesus(Jesuits ) recognised by the Pope.

1822:Frenchman Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone,which leads to an ability to understand Egyptian hieroglyphics.

1825:First passengers carried on a public railway line -The Stockton and Darlington Railway in England.

1905:The equation E=m ×c squared is published in a physics journal.

1907:New Zealand officially becomes a dominion.

1908:First Model T Ford rolls off the production line.

1968: The musical "Hair" opens in London.

1993:Crime series "Cracker" begins on ITV.

2008:Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy flies a jet powered wingpack across the English Channel.

[FranknStein]

September 28.

48 BC:Pompey the Great assassinated on arriving in Egypt ,on the orders of Cleopatra's half brother King Ptolemy.

935:"Good King" Wenceslas of Bohemia murdered by his brother Boleslaus the Cruel.

1066:William the Conqueror's invading troops land at Pevensey Bay, Sussex.

1781:The defining and decisive battle of the American War of Independence, The Siege of Yorktown,begins.

1785:Napoleon Bonaparte graduates from the military academy in Paris.

1893:FC Porto founded

1895:Louis Pasteur dies.

1912:Half a million Ulster Unionists sign the Ulster Covenant as a show of defiance to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.

1918:Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.

1928:Alexander Fleming discovers a bacteria killing mould in his laboratory discovering what would later be called penicillin.

1934:Brigitte Bardot born.

1939:Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.

1970:Egyptian president Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.

1971:The British Parliament passes The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medical use of cannabis.

1987:Hilary Duff born.

1989:Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines dies.

1994:The passenger ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea ,852 people lose their lives.

2000:Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau dies.

2000: Ariel Sharon visits the Al-Aqsa Mosque (The Temple on the Mount) triggering the second Palestinian intifada.

[slimboyfat]

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns (mostly) fell silent ,on The Western Front.

One hundred years ago yesterday.

[SteveB]

November 14th 1948 Prince charles born. Happy birthday charley.

Seventy years of age. Cannot retire. Hasn't even started his proper job yet.

[Barney Rubble]

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns (mostly) fell silent ,on The Western Front.

One hundred years ago yesterday.

100 years you had to prepare to write that post and you're still a day late!!

[SteveB]

On this day in 1963 the first episode of Dr. Who was broadcast.