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On This Day In History
Displayed is Friday, September 10
In 1930:
Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
In 1929:
Arnold Palmer was born
In 1927:
22nd Davis Cup
In 1926:
Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawnGermany joins League of Nations
In 1924:
Giants rip Braves 22-1, Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding outLeopold and Loeb found guilty of murder
In 1923:
Irish Free state joins League of Nations
In 1922:
Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive HRs
In 1919:
Indians Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiersTreaty of St Germain
In 1918:
Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers
In 1913:
1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opensCleveland Call and Post formsGeorge W Buckner, named minister to LiberiaLincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
In 1910:
Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
In 1905:
Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes
In 1902:
Utrecht soccer team UVV forms
In 1900:
20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record)
In 1899:
2nd quake in 7 days -8.6 hits Yakutat Bay Alaska
In 1898:
Lord Kitcheners ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda
In 1897:
Police shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20
In 1894:
Londens taxi driver George Smith is 1st fined for drunk driving (œ1)
In 1884:
Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention
In 1882:
1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)
In 1880:
Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo
In 1872:
Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam
In 1870:
Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms
In 1869:
Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
In 1863:
George Bizets opera Les Pˆcheurs de Perles, premieres in Paris
In 1861:
-15] Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West VirginiaBattle of Carnifex Ferry VA, 170 casualities
In 1858:
John Holden hits 1st recorded HR (Bkln vs NY)
In 1849:
1st performance by US actor Edwin Booth (Richard III)
In 1847:
1st theater opens in Hawaii
In 1846:
Elias Howe patents sewing machineJapan invents the rickshaw
In 1845:
King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange
In 1839:
Charles Sanders Peirce, US mathematician who worked on the four colour problem, was bornCharles Sanders Peirce, US mathematician who worked on the four colour problem, was born
In 1838:
Hector Berlioz opera Benvenuto Cellini, premieres in Paris
In 1823:
Simon Bolivar named president of Peru
In 1813:
Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie
In 1798:
British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St George
In 1785:
Prussia signs trade agreement with US
In 1776:
George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
In 1608:
John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
In 1547:
Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian
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