Page 6: Historical Events In September - 08

1936  On September - 08 princess Juliana & German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld get engaged   

1937  Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens on September - 08.   

1939  On September - 08 fDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe   

1941  On September - 08 entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated   

1941  Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins on September - 08.   

1943  Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II on this day in history.   

1943  On September - 08 gen Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II   

1944  On September - 08 german V2 rockets strike London for the first time   

1944  The first V-2 rocket lands in Britain on this day in history.   

1944  1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp on September - 08.   

1944  On this day in history jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63   

1945  US invades Japanese-held Korea on this day in history.   

1946  On September - 08 60th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (119 63)   

1947  On September - 08 british govt sails "Exodus" with fugitives from Nazis   

1948  British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound on September - 08.   

1949  Richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85 on September - 08.   

1951  On September - 08 forty-nine countries sign the Japanese Peace Treaty in San Francisco.   

1951  Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF) on this day in history.   

1951  On this day in history jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed   

1952  On this day in history ernest Hemingway's "Old Man &the Sea" published   

1952  72nd US Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63) on this day in history.   

1953  On this day in history "Carnival in Flanders" opens at New Century Theater NY for 6 perfs   

1954  On this day in history sE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) formed to stop communist spread in SE Asia   

1955  John de Young, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1956  Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 &stays #1 for 31 weeks on September - 08.   

1956  On September - 08 gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-4.), dies at 84   

1957  Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV on this day in history.   

1958  On September - 08 oman turns over Gwadur (on Bal£chist n coast) to Pakistan   

1962  Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84 on September - 08.   

1963  Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys on September - 08.   

1965  Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana &Florida on September - 08.   

1965  Dorothy Danridge, actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in Hollywood on September - 08.   

1966  On September - 08 "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premiers on ABC-TV   

1966  Star Trek makes its debut on NBC-TV on September - 08.   

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0801  On September - 08 birth of ansgar, German Catholic archbishop (d. 865)   

0828  On September - 08 birth of ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)   

1157  On this day in history birth of richard I, [Richard the Lion Hearted], King of England (1189-99)   

1207  Sancho II, king of Portugal was born on this day in history.   

1271  On September - 08 birth of charles Martel d'Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295)   

1380  On September - 08 birth of bernardinus of Siena, Italian saint   

1474  On September - 08 birth of ludovico Ariosto, Italy, poet (Orlando Furioso)   

1515  On September - 08 birth of alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (d. 1585)   

0394  Death of Arbogast, French general, commits suicide on September - 08.   

0701  On September - 08 sergius I, Syrian/Italian Pope (687-701), dies   

0780  On September - 08 leo IV de Chazaar, Byzantine Emperor (775-80), dies   

0876  Lodewijk de Duitser, king of East French Republic (833-76), dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1100  Clement III, [Wibert van Ravenna], 1st anti-pope (1084-1100), dies on September - 08.   

1397  On this day in history death of thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.   

1425  Death of King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361) on this day in history.   

1539  On September - 08 death of john Stokesley, English churchman