0876 Louis the German dies at Frankfurt September 8 at age 72 while preparing for war with the Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Bald

1380 Russians defeat Tatars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tatars

1522 Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe, expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan

1553 City of Lichfield, England established

1565 The first permanent settlement in US forms (St Augustine, Florida)

1565 Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese &Knights of St John

1636 Harvard College is established.

1664 Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers

1664 The British receive New Amsterdam from the Dutch, and later rename it to New York.

1771 Mission San Gabriel Archangel forms in California

1796 Battle of Bassano-French beat Austrians

1863 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal invasion force at Sabine Pass, TX

1868 NY Athletic Club formed

1883 Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont

1892 The first appearance of "The Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)

1900 6,000 killed when a hurricane &tidal wave destroys Galveston, Texas, most deadly in US history

1900 A huricane strikes Galveston, TX, killing 6,000 people.

1914 SS Oceanic,a White Star Liner, built in 1899. She was the first ship to exceed the length of the Great Eastern, at 704 ft overall. After being requistioned on the outbreak of the First World War as an armed merchant cruiser, she was attached to the 10th cruiser squadron of the Royal Navy. On the 8th September, in thick fog, she ran aground on rocks on Foula Island, Shetlands where she became a total loss and was eventually broken up. She had a crew of 400 on board at the time of her accident, all of whom were resued by the Trawler Glenogil.

1920 Air mail service between New York and San Francisco begins.

1921 1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of Washington DC)

1924 Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador

1926 Germany is admitted into the League of Nations.

1930 NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew

1930 The first appearance of the comic strip "Blondie"

1934 134 die in a fire aboard the liner Morro Castle off NJ

1939 FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe

1941 Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated

1943 Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II

1944 The first V-2 rocket lands in Britain

1945 US invades Japanese-held Korea

1951 Forty-nine countries sign the Japanese Peace Treaty in San Francisco.

1952 Ernest Hemingway's "Old Man &the Sea" published

1954 SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) formed to stop communist spread in SE Asia

1956 Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 &stays #1 for 31 weeks

1957 Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV

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