Page 6: Historical Events In September - 02

1957  William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer, dies at 90   

1958  Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island   

1959  US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris   

1960  Tamara and Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold   

1961  Greet Koeman, Dutch singer, dies at 54.   

1962  Stan Musial's 3516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place   

1963  Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS   

1963  CBS and NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes   

1964  Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal   

1964  Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese gen/pres (1951-58), dies at 70.   

1965  The Beatles receive a gold record for the 45-rpm release of Help! (For our younger readers, 45-rpm is the speed that a hit single record revolves on the turntable of a record player.)   

1965  Johannes Bobrowski, writer, dies at 48   

1968  Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82   

1969  North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh dies   

1969  Harry Williams Millard, producer, dies of cancer at 41.   

1970  Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show), dies at 64.   

1973  John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbit), dies of ulcer at 81   

1978  George Harrison marries Olivia.   

1978  Graham Salmon set the worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man.   

1978  John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston   

1979  Felix Aylmer, actor (Quartet, Hamlet, Dreaming Lips), dies at 90.   

1980  William Douglas Denny, composer, dies at 70.   

1982  Jay Novello, actor (Harum Scarum, Rebel Breed), dies of cancer at 78.   

1983  Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israelli PM   

1985  A joint US-French expedition locates the wreckage of the ill-fated HMS Titanic.   

1985  Abe Lenstra, Dutch soccer star, dies at 64.   

1986  Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi   

1987  Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan.   

1987  West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, goes on trial in Russia.   

1988  Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley   

1989  Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst.   

1989  A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commisioner, dies at 51.   

1991  Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies.   

1992  Barbara McClintock, US, geneticist (Nobel 1983), dies at 90   

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1243  Gilbert de clare: 7th earl of hertford, english politician   

1548  Vincenzo scamozzi: Italian architect   

1661  Georg bohm: German organist/composer   

1675  William somervile: English poet   

1716  Johann trier: Composer   

1731  Johann f von cronegk: German playwright (olint und sophronia)   

1750  Pehr frigel: Composer   

1753  Marie josephine louise of savoy: Queen of france   

0421  Flavius constantine iii: Emperor of westromeinse,   

0490  Death of Pheidippides: Greek hero   

1031  Death of Saint emeric of hungary: Saint emeric of hungary   

1274  Prince munetaka: Japanese shogun (b. 1242)   

1384  Death of Louis i: Duke of anjou/king of naples (battle of poitiers),   

1397  Francesco landini: Italian composer   

1418  Death of Jan iii chalon: Prince of orange/gov of burgundy,   

1540  Lebna dengel: Emperor of ethiopia (b. 1501)