Birthdays: Hawaiian Queen Lydia Liliuokalani, Yang Tsu Ching leader of the Taiping Rebellion, Cleveland Amory, Alfred Spaulding 1850, founder of Spaulding sports equipment, Martha Mitchell, Mark Harmon is 72, Marge Champion, Terry Bradshaw, Chrysta McAuliffe, Jimmy Connors, Norm Ferguson, Selma Hayek is 56, Keanu Reeves is 59
1752 - Last day of the Julian or Old-Style calendar in Britain and her colonies, including the
US and Canada. You went to sleep the evening of Sept. 2nd and awoke on the morning of Sept. 14th. The Gregorian Calendar had been promulgated in Rome in 1582, but it took this long for the Protestant countries to get on board with the new system.
1897 – McCalls magazine first published.
1917- Baron von Richtofen the Red Baron first took to the sky with his new all red Fokker triplane. In it, he forced down an English Sopwith Camel fighter plane intact. The rotary engine Fokker had a design flaw that made it buck sharply to the right whenever you let up on the rudder bar. Richtofen would let an enemy get behind him, then he would lift his foot from the bar. The plane would jerk quickly to the right and he would zip behind his opponent. Then with a cheerful wave he'd shoot them down.
1924- Harold Lloyd’s comedy short "Why Worry?" released.
1931-Young new singer Bing Crosby sang for the first time on CBS radio.
1935- A huge hurricane submerged the Florida Keys, killing 443. They did not give them names yet. The storm was the inspiration for Maxwell Anderson to write the play Key Largo in 1939, which became a famous Humphrey Bogart-Lauren Bacall movie in 1948.
1946- "The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O’Neill premiered at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway.
1963 - CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes. CBS named a reporter to star in their broadcast with the new title of "news anchor"- Walter Cronkite.
1969- The first ATM opened at a branch of Chemical Bank at Rockville Center, NY.
1973- J.R.R. Tolkein died at age 81. He once said of his trilogy The Lord of the Rings- “I should have written more.”
1985- A team of French and American oceanographers led by Dr. Robert Ballard discovered the final resting place of the HMS Titanic, which sank in 1912.
Ballard would go on to discover the German battleship Bismarck, the WWII carrier Yorktown and JFK’s torpedo boat, the P.T. 109.
2001- At 10PM EST Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim started.
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