Welcome to Today In History for Friday, September 3, 2010.

On this day in history ..

0590 - St Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1189 - 30 Jews are mnassacred at King Richard I (lion hearted) coronation 1189 - England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster 1260 - Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army 1483 - Utrecht surrenders to Habsburgs army 1543 - Cardinal Beaton replaces earl Arran as regent for Mary of Scotland 1632 - Battle at Nrnberg: Duke wallenstein beats Sweden 1650 - Battle at Dunbar: England vs Scotland 1651 - Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists 1658 - Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector 1683 - Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna 1697 - King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick 1709 - 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC 1725 - England, France, Hannover & Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover 1731 - Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland 1752 - This day never happened nor next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the govt stole 11 days of their lives 1752 - US adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Sept 14) 1779 - Earl d'orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest 1783 - Treaty of Paris signed (ending US Revolutionary War) 1791 - French Constitution passed by French National Assembly 1826 - USS Vincennes leaves NY to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe 1832 - Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname 1833 - NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) 1838 - Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor 1849 - Calif State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey 1852 - Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm 1861 - Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality 1864 - Battle of Berryville, VA 1864 - US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki 1865 - Army commander in SC orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land 1878 - England's Princess Alice sinks; 645 die 1881 - 1st US Mens Tennis: Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (60 63 62) 1881 - Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony 1882 - French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die 1888 - East Africa Company political & commercial rights 1888 - Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British 1890 - Oliver S Campbell wins US Tennis Open 1891 - 11th US Mens Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (26 75 79 61 62) 1891 - Cotton pickers organize union & staged strike in Texas 1891 - John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti 1895 - 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn) 1900 - British annex Natal (South Africa) 1901 - Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony 1902 - Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season) 1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Illustrious Client" 1903 - Resolute beats Shamrock III (England) in 13th America's Cup 1904 - St Louis Olympics closes 1906 - Phila Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Phila before 10,000 fans 1906 - Yanks win 2nd game on a forfeit over A's; 2nd forfeit win 1908 - James Barries "What Every Woman Knows," premieres in London 1911 - 31st US Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62) 1912 - Arnold Schoenberg's "Fnf Orchesterstcke," premieres 1912 - World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy 1914 - British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne 1914 - Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV 1914 - French troops vacate Reims 1914 - Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania 1916 - Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun 1917 - 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes 1917 - German troops over run Riga Latvia 1917 - Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader 1917 - Utrecht soccer team Holland forms 1918 - 38th US Mens Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (63 61 75) 1918 - 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917 1918 - Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line 1921 - 16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0) 1921 - KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms 1923 - Dorothys Donelly's "Poppy," premieres in NYC 1924 - Civil war breaks out in China (Gen Tsi moves to Shanghai) 1924 - L Stallings & M Anderson's "What Price Glory?," premieres in NYC 1925 - 1st international handball match held 1925 - Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die 1928 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th & final career hit 1929 - Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17 1930 - Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic) 1932 - Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for US Tennis title 1932 - Jimmie Foxx of A's hits 50th & 51st HRs to become 3rd to hit 50 1934 - Tunisia began its move for independence 1935 - 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph) 1935 - Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games 1936 - 3rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit 7 (76,000) 1938 - 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland 1939 - German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia 1939 - Great Britain & France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland 1939 - Yanks beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th forfeit win 1939 - Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, NZ, South Africa & Canada 1940 - 1st showing of high definition color TV 1940 - 39.4 CM rainfall at Sapulpa Oklahoma (state record) 1940 - Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation-Seel”we) 1940 - Neth govt in exile of Gerbrandy forms London 1940 - Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary & Red Cross 1940 - US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease 1941 - 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war) 1941 - KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting 1943 - British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina) 1943 - General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily 1944 - 58th US Womens Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (63 86) 1944 - 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz 1944 - Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France 1944 - Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for US Tennis title 1944 - French troops liberate Lyon 1944 - Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz 1944 - Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Neth Domestic Arm Force 1944 - Tank division of British Guards free Brussels 1945 - 65th US Mens Tennis: Sgt Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert (14-12 61 62) 1945 - Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies 1947 - Phila A's Bill McCahan no-hits Wash Senators, 3-0 1947 - Yanks get 18 singles to beat Red Soxs 11-2 1948 - W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party 1949 - Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives 1951 - TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS 1953 - French minister Fran‡ois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy 1954 - China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy & Amoy 1954 - Espionage & Sabotage Act of 1954 signed 1954 - Pope Pius X canonized a saint 1955 - KTBS TV channel 3 in Shreveport, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting 1956 - Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee 1957 - Dodgers play last game in Jersey City (11-4 in NJ) 1957 - KTCA TV channel 2 in St Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting 1957 - Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out 1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open 1964 - US attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns 1964 - Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson 1965 - Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins 1965 - Garcia Godoy forms govt in Dominican Republic 1965 - Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit 3 HRs in a game 1965 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei 1965 - Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to Calif 1966 - 24th World SF Convention honors Gene Roddenberry 1966 - Donovan hits #1 with "Sunshine Superman" 1967 - Final episode of "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly 1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf 1967 - Last broadcast of "What's My Line" on CBS TV 1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu elected pres of S Vietnam under a new constitution 1967 - Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road 1967 - WJPM TV channel 33 in Florence, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting 1968 - Chicago White Sox set AL record of 39 loses by 1 run 1970 - After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out 1970 - Bill Halley & Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia 1970 - Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands 1971 - John Lennon leaves UK for NYC, never to return 1971 - Manlio Brosio resigns as sect-gen of NATO 1971 - Qatar regains complete independence from Britain 1971 - Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office 1973 - General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA 1973 - Jerry Lewis' 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon 1974 - Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut 1974 - NBA guard Oscar Robinson retires 1974 - US & German DR establish diplomatic relations 1975 - Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die 1975 - Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak 1976 - Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos 1977 - Japan's Sadaharu Oh hits 756th HR to surpass Hank Aaron's total 1977 - Last broadcast of "Mary Tyler Moore Show" on NBC-TV 1978 - Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29 1978 - Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5) 1978 - Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff 1979 - Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000 1979 - Iran army conquerors Mahabad 1979 - Jerry Lewis' 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000 1979 - Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 1981 - Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game 1981 - Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7 1982 - J”rgensen govt in Denmark resigns 1984 - 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery 1984 - Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th 1984 - Cindy Hill wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 1984 - Jerry Lewis' 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566 1984 - South Africa adopts constitution 1985 - 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth 1985 - England regain Cricket Ashes by beating Australia at The Oval 1985 - NY Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive HRs in a game 1986 - Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind," premieres in London 1986 - Astros & Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game 1987 - Coup in Burundi suspends constitution 1988 - Dennis Eckersley sets A's record with his 37th save en route to 45 1989 - "Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 764 perfs 1989 - Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die 1989 - Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st & last US Tennis Open singles victory 1990 - 9th no-hitter of 1990: Blue Jay Dave Steib beats Cleve 3-0 1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic 1990 - Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego) 1990 - Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186 1990 - White Sox reliever Bobby Thigpen sets save record at 47 en route to 57 1992 - Jerry Lewis' 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368 1994 - Circulation of Neth Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000 1995 - Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT) 1995 - Jacksonville Jaguars lose their 1st NFL game (Houston-10, Jaguars-3) 1995 - NY Yankee Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle 1995 - Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit 1996 - Slowinski & Gage discovers 2^1257787-1 (34th known Mersenne prime) Famous birthdays for this day .. 1499 - Diane De Poitiers - French mistress of Henry II 1653 - Roger North - English lawyer, historian and biographer 1811 - John Humphrey Noyes - American founder of the Oneida Community 1813 - Mark Hopkins - American capitalist; helped build Central Pacific Railroad 1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett - American writer whose writings focused on life in Maine 1856 - Louis Sullivan - American architect 1860 - Edward Filene - American department-store entrepreneur and philanthropist 1875 - Ferdinand Porsche - Austrian automotive engineer 1888 - Thomas Milton Rivers - American virologist; helped develop the polio vaccine 1895 - Charles Houston - American lawyer and educator 1899 - Sir Macfarlane Burnet - Australian Nobel Prize-winning physician and virologist (1960) 1907 - Loren Eiseley - American anthropologist, educator and author 1918 - Helen Wagner - Actress ("As the World Turns") 1923 - Mort Walker - Cartoonist ("Beetle Bailey") 1925 - Hank Thompson - Country singer 1926 - Anne Jackson - Actress 1933 - Tompall Glaser - Country singer 1940 - Pauline Collins - Actress ("Upstairs, Downstairs") 1942 - Al Jardine - Rock singer, musician (The Beach Boys) 1943 - Valerie Perrine - Actress 1948 - Donald Brewer - Rock musician (Grand Funk Railroad) 1955 - Steve Jones - Rock guitarist (The Sex Pistols) 1965 - Todd Lewis -Rock singer, musician 1965 - Charlie Sheen - Actor ("Two and a Half Men") 1965 - Costas Mandylor - Actor 1967 - Luis Gonzalez - Baseball player 1973 - Jennifer Paige - Singer 1978 - Nick Wechsler - Actor