Page 6: Historical Events In September - 15

1941  Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania   

1942  US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal   

1942  Jack Singer, US war reporter (Wasp), dies   

1943  Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy.   

1943  Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer, dies at 2.   

1944  British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs   

1945  A hurricane in southern Florida and the Bahamas destroys 366 planes and 25 blimps at NAS Richmond   

1945  Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Austrian composer, dies at 61.   

1946  Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats.   

1947  inaugural 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh.   

1947  1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh.   

1948  F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph.   

1948  "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances   

1949  The Lone Ranger premiers on ABC-TV.   

1950  During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in the south   

1950  Vojtech Rihovsky, composer, dies at 79   

1951  Jacinto Guerrero, composer, dies at 56   

1952  UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia.   

1953  Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, dies   

1956  Henry Clough-Leiter, composer, dies at 82   

1958  48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ.   

1958  Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ).   

1959  Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit.   

1961  Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph.   

1962  Australia's inaugural entry in America's Cup yacht race (US claims)   

1963  4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham   

1963  Fred Hillebrand, actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69   

1964  Robert Dower, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies   

1965  "Lost in Space" premiers.   

1966  Gemini XI returns to Earth   

1967  Eva McKenzie, sister of Ida Mae/actress (Virtuous Husband), dies at 78   

1968  Launch of Zond 5, the inaugural lunar fly around with Earth reentry   

1972  Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer, dies at 66.   

1974  The civil war in Beirut, Lebanon, breaks out between Christians and Muslims   

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0973  Al-biruni: Mathematician   

1254  Marco polo: Italian explorer   

1505  Maria: Queen of hungary/wife of louis ii/governess of neth (1531-55)   

1533  Catherine of austria: Queen consort of poland and lithuania   

1572  Erasmus widmann: Composer   

1580  Charles annibal fabrot: French lawyer   

1586  Cristobal de isla diego: Composer   

1613  François de la rochefoucauld: French writer   

0009  Death of Publius quinctilius varus: Roman viceroy of syria, suicide at 59   

0668  Constans ii: Byzantine emperor (b. 630)   

0866  Death of Robert the strong: Margrave of neustria   

0921  Death of Ludmilla: Wife of 1st christian bohemian king borijov i/saint,   

0928  Death of Louis iii: The blind proveneaals king of lombardije/germany,   

1231  Death of Louis i: Duke of wittelsbach,   

1352  Ewostatewos: Ethiopian monk and religious leader (b. 1273)   

1500  John morton: Archbishop of canterbury