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1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
1645 – Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles.
1664 – The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
1674 – Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
1742 – Faneuil Hall, to this day a popular destination in Boston, opens to the public.
1780 – Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
1789 – The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1830 – Belgian Revolution: A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
1841 – The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
1846 – Mexican–American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
1853 – Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
1869 – "Black Friday": The U.S. financial sector descends into chaos as Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after rebel speculators Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the nation’s gold market.
1873 – Establishment of "Satyashodhak Samaj", (Truth-seeker Movement) at Pune, Maharashtra, India by Mahatma Jyotirao Phule.
1877 – Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
1911 – His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
1914 – World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
1932 – Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
1934 – Babe Ruth makes his final appearance as a Yankee at Yankee stadium in front of 2,500 fans.
1935 – Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
1946 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
1946 – Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.
1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1950 – Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon is seen as far away as Europe.
1957 – Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
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1957 - One of the "Little Rock Nine"
endures a jeering crowd
1439 Sough Park Street,
Little Rock, Arkansas
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1960 – USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
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| Enterprise underway in the Atlantic Ocean during Summer Pulse 2004. |
1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
1968 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS.
1968 – Swaziland joins the United Nations.
1972 – Japan Airlines Flight 472, operated Douglas DC-8-53 landed at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.
1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
1975 – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on the Southwest Face expedition become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces.
1976 – Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. She is released after 22 months by President Jimmy Carter.
1979 – CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
1982 – The Wimpy Operation, first act of resistance against Israeli troops in Beirut.
1990 – Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.
1993 – The Cambodian monarchy is restored after a 23-year hiatus, with Norodom Sihanouk as king. The country elects its monarch, a rare form of government only seen in a few other countries worldwide.
1996 – Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
2007 – Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
2009 – The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of LRAD in U.S. history.
2013 – A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing more than 327 people.
2014 – The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully inserted into orbit of Mars.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
The Blessed Virgin mary, styled "of Ransom" Greater Double
Contemporary Western
Antonio Gonzalez
Gerard Sagredo
Our Lady of Mercy and its related observances:
La Mercè (Barcelona)
Pacificus of San Severino
Rupert of Salzburg
Gerard Sagredo
Our Lady of Mercy and its related observances:
La Mercè (Barcelona)
Pacificus of San Severino
Rupert of Salzburg
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Our Lady of Walsingham (Church of England)
Eastern Orthodox
Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thekla (1st century)
Venerable Nicander, hermit of Pskov (1581)
New-martyr of Alaska, Priest-monk Juvenaly
New-martyr of Alaska, Peter the Aleut,
at the hands of Roman Catholics in San Francisco (1815)
Saint Silouan, elder of Mount Athos (1938)
(celebrated Sep 11 on Old Calendar due to the year of his repose)
Venerable Dorothy of Kashin
Saint Coprius of Palestine (530)
Righteous Euphrosyne, daughter of Saint Paphnutius of Egypt
Saint Abramius, abbot of Mirozh in Pskov (1158)
Martyr Galacteon, monk of Vologda (1612)
Saints Stephen (monastic name Simon), David,
and Vladislav of Serbia (1230-1239)
Saint Ahmet the Neo-Martyr,
who'd been a Turkish convert to Orthodoxy in Ottoman Istanbul.
Repose of Schema-archimandrite Gabriel of Pskov-Eleazar Monastery (1915)
Coptic Orthodox
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