Anthony Newley (English actor, singer and songwriter and collaborator with Leslie Bricusse) is born (1931) - Sep. 24
Sir Arthur Guinness (an Irish brewer and founder of the Guinness Brewery business) is born (1725) - Sep. 24
Black Friday (aka the Fitz-Gould scandal) was a financial panic caused by two speculators out to corner the gold market on the NY Exchange (1869) - 9/24
Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (first consort of Gustav of Sweden and Queen from 1531 until her death in 1535) is born (1513) - Sep. 24
Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin (Russian general-field marshall and favorite of Catherine II the Great) is born (1739) - Sep. 24
Hurricane Rita (made landfall in Texas and Louisiana as a category 3) completely destroyed some coastal communities (2005) - Sep. 24
Gold Star Mother's Day (held the last Sunday in September) honors those mothers who have lost sons or daughters in a war (2017) - Sep. 24
Pepin the Short (King of the Franks and father of Charlemagne) died (768) - Sep. 24
Saturn's Great White Spot (formed by periodic storms large enough to be visible by telescop from Earth) is observed (1990) - 9/24
September 25, 2017
Alexander Neuski (a frigate of the Russian Imperial Navy) was shipwrecked with the Grand Duke Alexei (son of Czar Alexander II) aboard (1868) - Sep. 25
Battle of Stamford Bridge (Battle between the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in England) marks the end of the Anglo-Saxon era (1066) - 9/25
Christopher Reeve (American screen actor best known for playing Superman) is born (1952) - Sep. 25
Emily Post (US author who promoted "proper etiquette") died (1960) - Sep. 25
The Vitim Event is believed to be an impact by a comet nucleus in the Vitim River Basin (Russia-2002) - Sep. 25
Marion Zimmer Bradley (American author of fantasy novels) dies in Berkeley, CA four days after suffering a debilitating heart attack (1999) - Sep. 25
Maze Prison escape occurs when 38 IRA prisoners armed with 6 handguns carry out the largest prison escape in British History (1983) - 9/25
PSA Flight 182 collides with a small Cessna while on approach to land at Lindbergh Field and crashed causing 144 deaths with 7 on the ground (1978) - 9/25
Johann Strauss, Sr. dies from scarlet fever, which he caught from one of his illegitimate children (1894) - 9/25
September 26, 2017
The Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time (1973) - Sep. 26
National Pancake Day - 9/26
Johnny Appleseed Day (commemorates the day of John Chapman's birth - 1774) - Sep. 26
Le Joola (a Senegalese government-owned ferry) capsizes off the coast of Gambia with all 1,863 people aboard perishing (2002) - 9/26
Shriners hold their first meeting in New York City (1872) - Sep. 26
Parthenon in Athens is attacked when Venetians fire a mortar from the Hill of Philopappus that turned the Parthenon into a ruin (1687) - Sep. 26
Paul Newman (American actor, film director and auto racing enthusiast) dies from lung cancer at age 83 (2008) - Sep. 26
RMS Queen Mary (an ocean liner that sailed the north Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for Cunard) is launched (1934) - Sep. 26
Thomas Jefferson (3rd President of the USA) is appointed the first US Secretary of State under George Washington (1989) - Sep. 26
Durga Puja (Hindu festival that celebrates worship of the Hindu goddess Durga) begins (2017) - Sep. 26
September 27, 2017
Ancestor Appreciation Day - Sep. 27
The Bali Tiger (a subspecies of tiger found solely on the small Indonesian island of Bali) is declared extinct (1937) 9/27
Donald O'Connor (an American dancer, singer and actor most famous for his role in the musical "Singin' in the Rain") dies from heart failure at age 78 (2003) - Sep. 27
Hair (The musical) opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London and runs until July 1973 when a roof collapse forces closure (1968) - Sep. 27
Jean-Francois Champollion (French classical scholar) announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone (1822) - Sep. 27
Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being elected pope, making his the shortest papal reign in history (1590) - Sep. 27
RMS Queen Elizabeth (a Cunard Line ocean liner) is launched (1936) - Sep. 27
The Tonight Show premieres with Steve Allen as host and Gene Rayburn as his announcer (1954) - Sep. 27
Typhoon Vera (Isewan in Japan) strikes Honshu Japan with winds of 160 mph causing widespread damage and flooding with over 5,000 dead (1959) - Sep. 27
September 28, 2017
Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory discovering what is now known as Penicillin (1928) - Sep. 28
Estonia disaster occurs on the ferry's crossing of the Baltic Sea to Stockholm when it takes on water and capsizes with 852 perisheding (1994) - 9/28
World Rabies Day - 9/28
Herman Melville (American author best known for his novel "Moby Dick") dies at his home in New York City at age 72 (1891) - 9/28
ITT Building is bombed by Chileans in protest against ITT's involvement with Savador Allende's military coup d'etat on Sep. 11 (1973) - Sep. 28
Louis Pasteur (French chemist and microbiologist best known for his Pasteurization process) dies near Paris from a series of strokes (1895) - Sep. 28
Padding Tram Depot (Brisbane, Australia) is destroyed by fire along with 65 trams (1962) - Sep. 28
Pompey the Great (Roman leader) after losing his battle with Caesar, travels to Egypt where he is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy (48BC) - 9/28
Spaghetti House Seige (a police incident in London's Knightbridge area that lasted six days) ends with the hostages and the robbers emerging unharmed (1975) - Sep. 28
Saint Wenceslas (Duke of Bohemia) is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia (935) - Sep. 28
William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy) leading an army of Norman's, invades England to claim the crown he believed was rightfully his (1066) - Sep. 28
Falcon I (SpaceX designed and mfg reusable launch system) successfully launches as the first fully liquid-propelled launch vehicle developed with private funding (2008) - 9/28
September 29, 2017
Asteroid 4179 (Toutatis) makes a particularly close approach to Earth - only 4 lunar distances away (2004) - Sep. 29
Canada's first satellite (Alouette 1) is launched (1962) - Sep. 29
Miguel Cervantes (Spanish novelest best known for Don Quixote) is born (1547) - Sep. 29
Charles Addams (American cartoonist best known for his Addams Family) dies after suffering a heart attack at age 76 (1988) - Sep. 29
Chevrolet's Camaro (originally named "Panther") debuts with Chevrolet's 1967 line (1966) - Sep. 29
Hurricane Juan makes landfall in Nova Scotia as a category 2 hurricane (2003) - 9/29
John D. Rockefeller becomes the first American billionaire (1916) - Sep. 29
Michaelmas - Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels - Sep. 29
Pumpkin Day - Sep. 29
NASA STS-26 is launched as the first space mission after the Challenger incident (1988) - Sep. 29
Mary Kellerman (12-years-old) dies after taking what was discovered to be a cyanide-laced Tylenol capsule; the first of seven murders (1982) - Sep. 29
UK's first Police Force (Bobby's) is founded by Sir Robert Peel (1829) - Sep. 29
All Angels Day - 9/29
Tony Curtis (American Academy Award Winning Actor) dies at age 85 in his Henderson, NV home from cardiac arrest (2010) - Sep. 29
Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. (cathedral of the Episcopal Church) foundation stone is laid in the presence of President Theodore Roosevelt (1907) - Sep. 29
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) is one of the most solemn and important Jewish holidays (2017) - Oct. 12
September 30, 2017
Bourne End Rail Crash occurs when the conductor fails to respond to the signals in advance and takes a 15mph turnout at nearly 60mph (1945) - Sep. 30
Catherine Eddowes's body is found in Mitre Square as Jack the Ripper's fourth victim in the night of the "Double Event" - (1888) - Sep. 30
Elizabeth Stride's body is found on Berner Street as Jack the Ripper's third victim in the night of the "Double Event" - (1888) - Sep. 30
Henry IV is proclaimed King of England (1399) - Sep. 30
James Dean (two-time Oscar-nominated American film icon) dies in a car crash near Cholame, CA at age 24 (1955) - Sep. 30
A Live Giant Squid has its first pictures taken in its natural habitat 600 miles northeast of Tokyo (2004) - Sep. 30
Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run (1927) - Sep. 30
Mozart's Masonic symbol-filled opera "The Magic Flute" premiered in Vienna (1791) - 9/30
Stephen J. Cannell (American TV Producer, writer, novelist and actor) dies at age 69 in Pasadena, CA from complications of melanoma (2010) - Sep. 30
Dussehra (Hindu celebration that culminates the 10-day annual festival of Navaratri) celebrates the victory of the forces of Good over Evil (2017) - 9/30
October 1, 2017
Cyprus gains independence from Britain (1960) - Oct. 1
E.B. White (American author best known for his children's books Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web) dies in Maine at age 86 (1985) - Oct. 1
Edgar the Peaceful (younger son of Edmund I of England) begins his reign as King of England (959) - 10/1
Gerard de Ridefort (Grand Master of the Knights Templar) is killed at the battle of Acre (1189) - Oct. 1
International Day of Older Persons - Oct. 1
Julie Andrews (Multi-award-winning English actress, singer, author and icon) is born (1934) - Oct. 1
Los Angeles Times bombing was the purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building in Los Angeles, CA (1910) - Oct. 1
Mensa International is founded (1946) - Oct. 1
Abdel Nasser's (President of Egypt) funeral results in scores of mourners being crushed or battered to death in the crowd (1970) - Oct. 1
China - National Day of the People's Republic of China (1949) - Oct. 1
Nigeria - Indpendence from Britain is declared and recognized (1960)
World Vegetarian Day - Oct. 1
World Communion Day - First Sunday in October (2017) - Oct. 1
Ashura (10th day of Muharram in the Islamic Calendar commemorated as a day of mourning since 680) date varies due to Muslim Calendar (2017) - Oct. 1
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