608 Saint Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope 668 Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy 921 Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin 1514 Thomas Wolsey appointed English Archbishop of York 1556 Charles V and Maria of Hungary return to Spain and retire to the Monastery of Yuste in Extremadura 1584 San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished 1590 Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan 1616 First non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy 1619 Prince Bethlen Gabor's troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary 1621 Swedish troops occupy Riga 1644 Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VIII as Innocent X 1655 The Peach War: Munsee attack Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, killing about 40 colonists, possibly in retaliation for the murder of a Munsee woman picking peaches 1656 England & France sign peace treaty 1683 Germantown in Pennsylvania is founded by 13 immigrant families 1707 Ferenc Rákóczi II, leader of a Hungarian uprising against Habsburg rule, and Tsar Peter the Great sign the clandestine Treaty of Warsaw, forming an alliance that offers Rákóczi Russian support and the prospect of the Polish crown 1733 King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons 1762 Battle of Signal Hill, the last battle of the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War 1774 Cossack pretender to the Russian throne Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev captured 1776 British forces capture Kip's Bay, Manhattan, during Revolution 1777 George Washington , with the authorization of Congress, appoints Casimir Pulaski as a brigadier general in the Continental Army cavalry 1787 -16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam 1789 US Department of Foreign Affairs, renamed Department of State 1795 Dutch East India controlled Cape Colony (present day South Africa) surrenders to Britain 1795 “Lyrical Ballads” is published by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge , helping to launch the English Romantic movement [probable date] 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte and his French army reach the Kremlin in Moscow, where they watch the flames of the Great Fire of Moscow spread and grow 1820 Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal 1821 Act of Independence of Central America: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua declare their independence from the Spanish Empire 1830 Duke of Wellington opens George Stephenson 's Liverpool and Manchester Railway 1830 First National Negro Convention begins in Philadelphia 1830 William Huskisson becomes the first passenger killed by a railway train while attending the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at Parkside station in England 1831 The locomotive "John Bull" operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad 1835 HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, reaches the Galápagos Islands 1846 Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal 1851 Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1853 Antoinette Blackwell is the first US woman to be ordained a minister 1857 Timothy Alder of NY patents a typesetting machine 1862 Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia 1870 Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18) 1873 Last German troops leave France 1879 Pim Mulier forms Royal Haarlemsche Football Club based in Haarlem, Netherlands; oldest existing club in Dutch football 1882 British General Wolseley occupies Cairo 1887 Philadelphia celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution 1893 "Svoboda", Ukrainian language weekly newspaper founded by Father Hryhorii Hrushka, in Jersey City, New Jersey; expands to daily in 1921, reverts to weekly in 1998 1894 Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang 1898 National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY 1900 A Boer delegation issues an appeal at the Hague, Netherlands, that the major powers intervene in the war in South Africa 1902 Chicago Cubs infielders Tinker, Evers, & Chance turn their first double play together in a 6-3 win over Cincinnati 1903 Queen Wilhelmina calls Dutch railroad strikers "criminals" 1910 Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa 1912 Boston Red Sox pitcher "Smoky" Joe Wood ties then MLB record of 16 straight wins with a 2-1 victory over St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park 1912 War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania 1913 First US milch goat show held in Rochester, New York 1914 First Battle of Aisne finishes, Germans vs. French & British during WWI 1914 US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico 1914 WWI: Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French forces in France 1916 First use of tanks in warfare, Britain's Mark I "Little Willies" at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Battle of the Somme 1917 Forbes Magazine founded by B. C. Forbes and Walter Drey in the US 1917 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky's Provisional government 1920 Pope Benedict XV publishes encyclical Spiritus Paraclitus 1921 WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions 1922 Philadelphia catcher Butch Henline becomes first NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897 during Phillies' 10-9 win over St. Louis Cardinals at the Baker Bowl 1923 Governor Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of Ku Klux Klan terror 1923 Military officer Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator and Prime Minister of Spain after launching a coup d'état 1928 400 kg of François Fournier's forged postage stamps are burned in Geneva, Switzerland, to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands 1928 St. Louis Cardinals set NL record of 18 men left-on-base; still beat Phillies, 8-6 at the Baker Bowl, Philadelphia 1928 Stothard, Kalmar & Ruby's musical "Good Boy" premieres in NYC 1930 First international bridge match is held in London; the US team defeats England 1931 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts 1931 Philadelphia A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland 1935 Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany 1937 Works Progress Administration (WPA) extends L-Taraval streetcar line to San Francisco Zoo, at Sloat Blvd (San Francisco, California) 1938 British PM Neville Chamberlain visits Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden, Germany 1938 Jazz piano prodigy Margaret Johnson (20) makes her only recording, four sides with Billie Holiday in NYC: Johnson dies of tuberculosis less than a year later 1938 John Cobb sets a world auto speed record at 350.2 mph (lasts one day) 1938 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates outfielders Lloyd Waner and Paul Waner become first and only brothers to hit back-to-back home runs 1940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2) 1940 Battle of Britain Day: Royal Air Force repulses a major Luftwaffe attack, losing 29 aircraft to the Germans' 57-61 as the tide begins to turn 1940 Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher) 1940 UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Royal Air Force 11th Fighter Group on what would be the fiercest day of the Battle of Britain 1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania 1942 US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal 1943 Benito Mussolini forms a rival anti-monarchist fascist government in Italy and soon returns to power as a German puppet state 1943 Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens 1943 Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens 1944 British bombers hit German battleship Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs 1944 Soviet troops free Sofia, Bulgaria 1944 US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall 1944 US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid 1944 US troops land on islands of Palau and Morotai, western Pacific 1945 A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond 1946 Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats 1947 First four-engined jet-propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Ohio 1947 MLB New York Yankees clinch the franchises' 15th American League pennant 1947 RCA releases the 12AX7 miniature dual triode vacuum tube; it is still in production 1947 Typhoon Kathleen hit Tone River, Saitama and Tokyo area, killing at least 1,930 and injuring 1,750 1948 F-86 Sabre sets a world aircraft speed record of 1,080 km/h 1948 WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WMGM 1949 "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV. Hi-yo, Silver! Away! 1949 WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, PA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 1949 WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting 1950 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea 1950 For a record 6th time, NY Yankees' first baseman Johnny Mize hits 3 HRs in one game 1950 In the longest game in Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Phillies beat Cincinnati Reds 8-7 in 19 innings 1950 US troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul 1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8) 1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum 1952 UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia 1953 Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner) 1953 KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, Arizona (NBC) begins broadcasting 1953 WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia (ABC) begins broadcasting 1955 WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, Florida (CBS) begins 1957 Konrad Adenauer 's CDU party wins parliamentary election in West Germany 1957 SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game 1957 US TV series "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres 1958 Commuter train crashes off an open drawbridge, killing 48 in Bayonne, New Jersey 1959 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in United States to begin a 13-day visit, the first state visit of a Soviet or Russian leader to the US 1960 Maurice Richard announces his retirement. He finishes his career with 544 goals, an NHL record at the time. 1961 Tin Pan Alley singer-songwriter Hoagy Carmichael appears as an animated pre-historic version of himself in 'The Hit Song Writers' episode of "The Flintstones" 1962 Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins) 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1962 WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting 1963 Ahmed Ben Bella is elected as first president of the newly independent Algeria 1963 Alou brothers - Felipe, Matty, & Jesús - appear in San Francisco Giants outfield for 1 inning in a 13-5 win over Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh 1963 Church bombing in Birmingham Alabama, kills 4 African-American girls 1963 The Beatles headline The Great Prop Prom at Royal Albert Hall, London; The Rolling Stones are one of the opening acts [1] 1963 WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting 1964 Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald" 1964 The Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio; police stop show during third song as some of the crowd climbed on the stage, after a 10 minute delay, and warning audience to stay seated, the concert resumed with the. 1965 US TV series "Lost in Space" premieres 1965 Volt/Stax records releases Otis Redding 's third studio album "Otis Blue - Otis Redding Sings Soul" in the US, Atlantic releases it in the UK; frequently ranked on top album lists 1966 Dutch political party (D'66) forms 1966 First British nuclear ballistic missile submarine HMS Resolution launched 1966 Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth 1966 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson , responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.

1967 KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting 1968 " Barbra Streisand : A Happening in Central Park" premieres on CBS TV 1968 Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry 1968 NY Zendo (Shoboji) was opened by S Nakagawa & D S Harada 1968 Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8) 1968 WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, Ohio (IND) begins broadcasting 1968 WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting 1969 MLB St. Louis Cardinals Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 NY Mets in a game 1970 Decca awards Bing Crosby a second platinum disc for selling 300 million records 1970 Officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland vote narrowly in favour of remaining unarmed 1970 PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan 1970 Rotterdam dock strikes end 1971 First broadcast of "Columbo" starring Peter Falk on NBC 1972 A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois. 1972 An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport. 1972 Apple Records releases John Lennon and Yoko Ono 's political album "Sometime in NYC" in UK, delayed by publishing rights dispute; includes some live tracks from 1971 concert with Frank Zappa 1972 WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting 1973 Carl XVI Gustaf ascends the throne, becoming King of Sweden (1973-present) 1973 Dutch Guilder devalued by 5% 1973 Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing 1973 OPEC supports price hikes and designates six Gulf countries to negotiate collectively with companies over prices; other members to negotiate individually 1973 Secretariat wins the Marlboro Cup in a world record time of 1:45 2/5 for 1¼ miles 1974 Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board. 1974 Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens 1975 Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game 1975 The French département of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud. 1976 Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf" premieres in NYC 1976 Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days 1977 Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when manager Earl Weaver pulls team off field in the 5th inning, citing hazardous conditions due to a small tarpaulin on the bullpen mound 1977 TV LA drama "CHiPs" debuts on NBC in US 1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1977 US President Jimmy Carter meets with 15 record company executives 1978 Dodgers become the first major league team to draw 3 million fans 1978 Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title 1979 MLB Boston Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in both AL and NL (Houston Astros) 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan 1980 Paul McCartney releases single "Temporary Secretary" 1981 Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" (through work) against capitalism and Marxism 1981 The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C. 1981 US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor for the US Supreme Court 1981 Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations. 1982 First issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc 1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut 1982 Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat 1983 Frances Schreuder is convicted for the first-degree murder of Franklin Bradshaw 1983 Israel premier Menachem Begin resigns 1983 Police officers beat Michael Stewart to death for graffiting NYC subway 1983 The first Costco store opens in Seattle, Washington 1984 Morocco Showcase opens 1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR 1985 CBS premieres its TV adaptation of Arthur Miller 's "Death of a Salesman", starring Dustin Hoffman , John Malkovich , Kate Reid, Stephen Lang, and Charles Durning 1985 MLB New York Yankees trade 25-year-old pitching prospect Jim Deshaies to Houston Astros for 40-year-old pitcher Joe Niekro 1985 Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government 1986 1st broadcast of legal drama "L.A. Law" created by Steven Bochco, with ensemble cast including Corbin Bersen, Jill Eikenberry and Harry Hamlin on NBC 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead 1987 Italy sends a naval contingent to the Persian Gulf 1987 Pope John Paul II arrives in Los Angeles for a two-day papal visit, and addresses U.S. entertainment leaders 1987 US Senate Judiciary Committee begins confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork 1988 Lillehammer, Norway, upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics 1988 Museum of Moving Image in London opens 1988 Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi 1989 The U.S. Congress recognizes American journalist Terry Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut, Lebanon 1990 Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves 1990 Florida Lottery goes over $100,000,000 1990 France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf 1991 "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show 1991 US women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver) 1992 George Soros ' Quantum Fund begins selling large amounts of pound sterling, helping force the pound out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism the next day and earning him the label "the man who broke the Bank of England" 1993 Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament 1993 Single "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" sung by Meat Loaf and composed by Jim Steinman is released. Goes on to be No. 1 in 28 countries. 1994 "Sound of Motown" premieres in Rotterdam 1994 Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St Maarten 1994 Muslim fundamentalists kidnap & behead 16 citizens in Algeria 1995 "Se7en" directed by David Fincher and starring Morgan Freeman , Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey premieres in New York 1995 Body Worlds exhibition opens in Tokyo, Japan 1995 St Louis Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays 1996 Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final 1996 Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan 's #34 1997 Edison Intl purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M 1997 Google.com is registered as a domain name 1997 Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000 1997 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania public radio station WRTI (90.1 FM) switches from all jazz to classical-by-day/jazz-by-night format in response to loss of commercial classical station WLFN (95.7 FM); WFLN's library and several DJ's made the transition 1998 With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business. 2000 27th Olympic Games opens at Sydney, Australia 2002 NFL Oakland Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon begins NFL record-tying (Kurt Warner, Steve Young ) streak of 6 consecutive 300-yard passing games, throwing for 403 yards in 30-17 victory at Pittsburgh 2003 ISO/Columbia Records releases David Bowie 's 23rd studio album, "Reality"; he supports it with what becomes his final concert tour 2004 NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announces a lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office 2005 "Be Without You" single is released by Mary J. Blige (Billboard Song of the Year 2006, Grammy Award for Best R&B Song, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance 2007) 2005 Marc Quinn's controversial statue "Alison Lapper Pregnant" unveiled in Trafalgar Square in England [1] 2006 Trudy Pitts becomes the first jazz artist to play a concert on Philadelphia's Kimmel Center's new 7,000-pipe organ 2011 Ford Motor Company closes St. Thomas Assembly automobile plant in Southwold, Ontario, after 44 years resulting in the loss of roughly 1,400 jobs 2011 Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli performs with the NY Philharmonic and guests Celine Dion , Tony Bennett , and Pretty Yende, on the Great Lawn of New York City's Central Park; 70,000 in attendance 2012 Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s 2013 21 people are killed in a series of bombings in Baghdad and Shia provinces, Iraq 2013 27 people are killed after a coal mine collapses in Afghanistan 2013 Edi Rama is elected Prime Minister of Albania 2013 Japan switches off its last working nuclear reactor 2014 Ewa Kopacz becomes Prime Minister of Poland 2014 President Obama announces the US will send 3,000 troops to help combat spread of the Ebola virus 2015 EU Migrant Crisis: Hungary seals its border with Serbia with a razor-wire fence, stranding thousands of migrants 2017 Terrorist bomb only partially explodes in attack at Parsons Green tube station, London, injuring 29 2018 Archaeologists find the oldest-known brewery and remains of 13,000-year-old beer in a cave in Haifa, Israel, belonging to the nomadic Natufian people 2018 Russian boxer Gennady Golovkin (38-1-1, 34 KOs) loses his first pro fight in record 20th title defense as well as undisputed world middleweight crown when outpointed by Mexican Canelo Álvarez (50-1-2, 34 KOs) in Las Vegas 2018 Swimmer killed by shark at Newcomb Hollow Beach, first fatal shark attack in Massachusetts in 80 years 2018 Typhoon Mangkhut (Ompong), category 5 strength, makes landfall in Cagayan province, Philippines, killing at least 100 2019 Hong Kong police use water cannons and tear gas attempting to disperse thousands of protesters outside the British embassy, as protests continue in the city 2019 Norman Lear (97) becomes the oldest person to win an Emmy Award in the variety special category for ABC’s “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family" 2019 UK PM Boris Johnson compares himself to Marvel's Hulk character in a newspaper interview, saying, "The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets," about the UK exiting the EU 2020 Family of Breonna Taylor announce $12 million wrongful death settlement with city of Louisville, Kentucky, after her death in botched police raid March 13 2020 Scientific American issues its 1st ever presidential endorsement in 175 years, backing former vice-president Joe Biden 2021 SpaceX launches the first all-civilian spaceflight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for three-day orbit around Earth [1] 2021 US gymnasts, including Simone Biles , testify against former team doctor Larry Nassar at a Senate Committee hearing, criticizing a system that allowed it to happen 2021 US, UK and Australia announce trilateral security partnership Aukus, to counteract influence of China, including helping Australia build nuclear-powered submarines [1] 2022 Chinese leader Xi Jinping meets Russian President Vladimir Putin and other regional leaders at a summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan [1] 2022 European parliament says Hungary can no longer be considered a full democracy, saying Viktor Orbán ’s government has become a “hybrid regime of electoral autocracy” [1] 2022 Patagonia outdoor brand founder Yvon Chouinard, transfers ownership to a non-profit organization so future profits can fight climate change [1] 2022 Tennis great Roger Federer announces his retirement from professional tennis at 41 with 20 grand slam wins and 103 ATP titles [1] 2022 Ukrainian authorities reveal discovery of mass grave of 450 burials near Izyum, some showing evidence of torture, after the withdrawal of Russian forces [1] 2023 United Auto Workers union go on strike at three locations - GM factory in Wentzville, a Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan, and a Jeep plant run by Stellantis in Toledo [1] 2024 76th Emmy Awards: "Shōgun" 1st non-English winner for Best Drama, "Hacks" Best Comedy, "Baby Reindeer" Best Limited Series [1] 2024 Man arrested and charged with the attempted assassination of former US president Donald Trump , spotted while the presidential candidate was playing golf [1] 2024 Storm Boris creates "catastrophic" flooding across central and eastern Europe affecting Poland, Lower Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania [1] 2025 Armand "Mondo" Duplantis breaks his own world record with 6.30m, winning gold at the World Athletics Championships [1] 2025 Emilia D’Albero becomes the first American to ever win the Mondial du Fromage, considered the "Cheesemonger World Cup," in Tours, France [1] [2] 2025 US military carries out lethal strike in international waters of second suspected Venezuelan drug smuggling vessel, killing three people [1] Historical Events Calendar Fiery Birth for Star Spangled Banner September 13, 1814 Fiery Birth for Star Spangled Banner Fatal Legacy of a Beautiful Riviera September 14, 1982 Fatal Legacy of a Beautiful Riviera Agatha Christie, The World's Best-Selling Novelist September 15, 1890 Agatha Christie, The World's Best-Selling Novelist Mad Monk Burns 2,000 At The Stake September 16, 1498 Mad Monk Burns 2,000 At The Stake Search the largest and most accurate independent site for today in history.