Page 5: Historical Events In September - 14

1923  Miguel Primo de Rivera is recorded as becoming dictator of Spain.   

1923  Jack Dempsey KOs Luis Firpo in 2 for heavyweight boxing title   

1924  Walter Johnson elected AL MVP.   

1924  Jerry Coleman, 2nd baseman/sportscaster (NY Yankees, SD Padres).   

1925  M L de Braauw, Dutch minister (DS'70).   

1926  Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens   

1926  Hovhannes Gorgeni Ter-T'at'evosyan, composer.   

1926  Johan LE Dreyer, Danish astronomer (Catalog of Nebulae), dies at 74   

1927  Isadora Duncan, dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel   

1928  Albert Shanker, American labor leader (Amer Fed of Teachers).   

1929  49th US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (36 63 46 62 64)   

1929  John Gutfreund.   

1930  After stormtroopers terrorize political opponents, Nazi seats in Reichstag rise from 12 to 107   

1930  Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6   

1932  Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri   

1932  Harry Sinden, NHL player/coach (Team Canada)   

1932  Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer, dies at 53   

1933  2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire   

1933  Harve Presnell, Modesto Calif, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown)   

1936  Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times.   

1936  Ossip Gabrilovich, composer, dies at 58   

1937  Tomés G Masaryk, philosopher/pres of Czech (1918-35), dies at 87).   

1938  Graf Zeppelin II, world's largest airship, makes maiden flight   

1939  British fleet attacks German U-39 boat   

1940  Congress passes inaugural peace-time conscription bill (draft law).   

1940  Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)   

1942  HMCS OTTAWA (RCN, ex 'Crusader'), sunk east of Newfoundland by 1 torpedo from German U.91   

1942  HMS COVENTRY (AA), sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean, northwest of Alexandria, Egypt by German Ju87 divebombers.   

1942  HMS SIKH, sunk off Tobruk, eastern Libya - by German shore batteries. during landings Royal Marines for British combined operations raid on Tobruk.   

1942  HMS ZULU,sunk NW of Alexandria, Egypt (c 32-00'N, 29-00'E) - by Italian/German force of Ju87 and Ju88 bombers, while returning to Alexandria after combined operations raid on Tobruk.   

1942  Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal.   

1943  Comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara marries.   

1944  United States troops arrive at the German border and proceed, with the British and Canadians, to launch an offensive to reach the Rhine.   

1944  6500 Dutch/Indonesian captives sent to Junyo Maru.   

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1169  Alexios ii komnenos: Byzantine emperor   

1388  Claudius clavus: Danish geographer   

1486  Agrippa von nettesheim: German occultist/alchemist/royal astrologer   

1531  Philipp apianus: [bennewitz/bienewitz], german geography/cartographer   

1543  Claudio aquaviva: Italian jesuit   

1547  Johan van oldenbarnevelt: Dutch grand pensionary   

1580  Francisco de quevedo: Spanish writer   

1644  Gijsbert cuper: Dutch classicist/regent   

0258  Death of Thascius c cyprian: Saint/bishop of carthage,   

0407  Death of Johannes chrysostomus: Patriarch,   

0585  Emperor bidatsu of japan: Emperor bidatsu of japan (b. 538)   

0775  Death of Constantine v: Byzantine emperor (b. 718)   

0786  Death of Al-hadi: Abbasid caliph   

0891  Death of Stephen v: [vi], italian pope (885-91),   

1146  Imad ad-din zengi: Gov of basra, murdered   

1164  Emperor sutoku of japan: Emperor sutoku of japan (b. 1119)