Date | Text | |||
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100 years anniversary | ||||
08 Sep 1924 | Wendell H Ford: (Sen-D-Kentucky, 1974- ) | |||
08 Sep 1924 | Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador | |||
08 Sep 1924 | WW2 | USS Marblehead was commissioned into service with Captain Chauncey Shackford in command. | ||
75 years anniversary | ||||
08 Sep 1949 | Richard Strauss: German Composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85 | |||
08 Sep 1949 | Richard Strauss, German composer and manager (b. 1864) | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
08 Sep 1974 | Robert Cox: Last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79 | |||
08 Sep 1974 | 88th US Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Evonne Goolagong (36 63 75) | |||
08 Sep 1974 | 94th US Mens Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ken Rosewall (61 60 61) | |||
08 Sep 1974 | Ian Thompson wins marathon (2:13:18.8) | |||
08 Sep 1974 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open | |||
08 Sep 1974 | President Gerald Ford pardons former President R Nixon of all federal crimes | |||
08 Sep 1974 | Wolfgang Windgassen, French-German tenor (b. 1914) | |||
08 Sep 1974 | Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office. | |||
08 Sep 1974 | Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Beach Boys all appeared at the New York 'Summersault '74' at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury. | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
08 Sep 1999 | Moondog, American-German singer-songwriter, drummer, and poet (b. 1916) | |||
08 Sep 1999 | Michalis Kounelis, Greek violinist (b. 1928) | |||
08 Sep 1999 | Sean Puffy Combes and his bodyguard Paul Offered both pleaded guilty to harassment in a New York Court. The pair faced charges of assaulting record company executive Steve Stoute with a champagne bottle a chair and a telephone. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
08 Sep 2004 | Lloyd Bott, Australian public servant (b. 1917) | |||
08 Sep 2004 | Frank Thomas, American animator, voice actor, and screenwriter (b. 1913) | |||
08 Sep 2004 | NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. | |||
08 Sep 2004 | Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant was guest of honour at the unveiling of a statue of 15th century rebel leader Owain Glyndwr at Pennal church, near Machynlleth in Wales. Plant, who owns a farmhouse in the area had donated money towards a bronze sculpture of the Welsh prince. | |||
08 Sep 2004 | The Honorable Oscar B. Goodman, Mayor of the City of Las Vegas proclaimed this day as Queen Day after the British group. | |||
08 Sep 2004
Genesis |
Genesis (space exploration) The Genesis spacecraft returns to Earth with captured solar wind particles, but crash-lands because of a failure to deploy any parachute. |
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15 years anniversary | ||||
08 Sep 2009 | Ray Barrett, Australian actor (b. 1927) | |||
08 Sep 2009 | Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922) | |||
08 Sep 2009 | Mike Bongiorno, American-Italian television host (b. 1924) | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
08 Sep 2014 | Marvin Barnes, American basketball player (b. 1952) | |||
08 Sep 2014 | S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A (b. 1921) | |||
08 Sep 2014 | Bobby Fong, American academic (b. 1950) | |||
08 Sep 2014 | Sean O'Haire, American wrestler, mixed martial artist, and kick-boxer (b. 1971) | |||
08 Sep 2014 | Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (b. 1910) | |||
08 Sep 2014 | Gerald Wilson, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1918) | |||
08 Sep 2014 | George Zuverink, American baseball player (b. 1924) |