Page 5: Historical Events In September - 11

1924  Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer, dies at 57.   

1925  Ashley Heenan, composer   

1926  Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu   

1926  Assassination attempt made on Italian leader Benito Mussolini fails.   

1926  21st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Philadelphia (4-1).   

1926  Alfred Slote, author (Love and Tennis, Omega Station)   

1927  After losing 21 in a row to NY, the Browns win their last meeting, 6-2   

1927  David Schine, businessman   

1928  1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger   

1928  Earl Holliman, Delhi La, actor (Police Woman, Tribes, Cry Panic).   

1929  SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system.   

1929  David S Broder, Chicago Hgts Ill, journalist (Pulitzer 1973)   

1930  Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles.   

1930  Cathryn Damon, Seattle Wash, actress (Mary-Soap, She's Having a Baby)   

1931  Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen   

1931  Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian   

1932  Franciszek Å»wirko and StanisÅ‚aw Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed in a plane crash when their RWD 6 crashes into the ground during a storm.   

1932  Herbert "Sonny" Leon Callahan, (Rep-R-Alabama, 1985- ).   

1932  Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilots (Å»wirko b. 1895 Wigura b. 1901).   

1933  Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at US Tennis championship   

1934  Oliver Jones, Canadian jazz pianist   

1935  49th US Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (62 64)   

1936  FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam   

1936  A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game   

1937  51st US Womens Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska (64 62)   

1939  Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw   

1940  Brian DePalma, American director is born.   

1940  -12] Buckingham Palace destroyed by German bombs.   

1941  Charles Lindbergh, charges "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into WW II   

1941  FDR orders any Axis ship are discovered in American waters be shot on sight   

1942  HMCS Charlottetown lost the Gulf of St. Lawrence   

1944  FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference   

1944  Holland is liberated by the Allies   

1946  inaugural mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation   

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1182  Minamoto no yoriie: Japanese shogun   

1458  Bernardo accolti: [unico aretino], italian writer (virginia)   

1476  Louise of savoye: French mother/regentes of king francois i   

1522  Ulisse aldrovandi: Italian biologist/medical   

1523  Pierre de ronsard: Poet   

1525  Johan georg: Elector of brandenburg (1571-91)   

1584  Thomas erpenius: [van erpe], dutch orientalist/arabist (grammar)   

1611  Henri de la tour d'auvergne: Vicomte de turenne, marshal of france   

1161  Queen melisende of jerusalem: Queen melisende of jerusalem (b. 1105)   

1185  Stephanus hagiochristophorites: Byzantine courtier   

1297  Death of Hugh de cressingham: English treasurer,   

1298  Philip of artois: French soldier (b. 1269)   

1349  Bonne of luxembourg: Wife of john ii of france (b. 1315)   

1599  Death of Cornelis de houtman: Navigator (1st dutch trip to java), murder at 35   

1630  Death of John de white: Calvinist/banker to prague, commits suicide   

1646  Johann stobaeus: Composer,