1399 – Henry Bolingbroke became the King of England as Henry IV.

1777 – The Congress of the United States moved to York, PA, due to advancing British forces. 

1787 – The Columbia left Boston and began the trip that would make it the first American vessel to sail around the world.

1846 – Dr. William Morton performed a painless tooth extraction after administering ether to a patient.

1861 – Chewing gum tycoon William Wrigley, Jr. was born.

1868 – Spain’s Queen Isabella was deposed and fled to France.

1882 – In Appleton, WI, the world’s first hydroelectric power plant began operating.

1927 – George Herman “Babe” Ruth hit his 60th homerun of the season. He broke his own record with the homerun. The record stood until 1961 when Roger Maris broke the record.

1930 – “Death Valley Days” was heard for the first time on the NBC Blue radio network.

1935 – “The Adventures of Dick Tracey” debuted on Mutual Radio Network.

1935 – “Porgy and Bess” premiered in Boston. 

1938 – The Munich Conference ended with a decision to appease Adolf Hitler. Britain, and France allowed Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland to be annexed by the Nazis.

1939 – “Captain Midnight” was heard for the first time on the Mutual Radio Network.

1946 – An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.

1947 – The World Series was televised for the first time. The sponsors only paid $65,000 for the entire series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees.

1949 – The Berlin Airlift came to an end. The airlift had taken 2.3 million tons of food into the western sector despite the Soviet blockade.

1951 – “The Red Skelton Show” debuted on NBC-TV.

1954 – The U.S. Navy commissioned the Nautilus submarine at Groton, CT. It was the first atomic-powered vessel. The submarine had been launched on January 21, 1954.

1954 – Julie Andrews made her first Broadway appearance in “The Boy Friend”.

1962 – James Meredith succeeded in registering at the University of Mississippi. It was his fourth attempt to register.

1963 – The Soviet Union publicly declared itself on the side of India in their dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir.

1966 – Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were released at midnight from Spandau prison after completing their 20-year sentences. Speer was the Nazi minister of armaments and von Schirach was the founder of Hitler Youth.

1971 – The Soviet Union and the United States signed pacts that were aimed at avoiding an accidental nuclear war.

1971 – A committee of nine people was organized to investigate the prison riot at Attica, NY. 10 hostages and 32 prisoners were killed when National Guardsmen stormed the prison on September 13, 1971.

1976 – California enacted the Natural Death Act of California. The law was the first example of right-to-die legislation in the U.S.

1980 – Israel issued its new currency, the shekel, to replace the pound.

1983 – The first AH-64 Apache attack helicopter was rolled out by McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company.

1982 – “Cheers” began an 11-year run on NBC-TV.

1984 – Mike Witt became only the 11th pitcher to throw a perfect game in major league baseball.

1984 – “Doonesbury” by Garry Trudeau returned. The comic strip had not been printed in nearly 20 months.

1986 – The U.S. released accused Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov, one day after the Nicholas Daniloff had been released by the Soviets.

1987 – Mikhail S. Gorbachev retired President Andrei A. Gromyko from the Politburo and fired other old-guard leaders in a shake-up at the Kremlin.

1989 – Thousands of East Germans began emigrating under an accord between the NATO nations and the Soviet Union.

1989 – Non-Communist Cambodian guerrillas claimed that they had captured 3 towns and 10 other positions from the residing government forces.

1990 – The Soviet Union and South Korea opened diplomatic relations.

1991 – Haiti’s first freely elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown by Brigadier General Raoul Cedras. Aristide was later returned to power.

1992 – George Brett of the Kansas City Royals reached his 3,000th career hit during a game against the California Angels.

1992 – Moscow banks distributed privatization vouchers aimed at turning millions of Russians into capitalists.

1993 – U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell retired.

1994 – The space shuttle Endeavor took off on an 11-day mission. Part of the mission was to use a radar instrument to map remote areas of the Earth.

1997 – France’s Roman Catholic Church apologized for its silence during the persecution and deportation of Jews the pro-Nazi Vichy regime.

1998 – Gov. Pete Wilson of California signed a bill into law that defined “invasion of privacy as trespassing with the intent to capture audio or video images of a celebrity or crime victim engaging in a personal of family activity.” The law went into effect January 1, 1999. 

1999 – The San Francisco Giants played the Los Angeles Dodgers in the last baseball game to be played at Candlestick Park (3Com Park). The Dodgers won 9-4.

1999 – In Tokaimura, Japan, radiation escaped a nuclear facility after workers accidentally set off an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction.

2014 – Amazon filed for a patent for a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) configured to autonomously deliver items to customers. The patent was related to Amazon’s plan for their Prime Air service.

1789 – A regular army was established by the U.S. War Department with several hundred men. 

1829 – The first public appearance by London’s re-organized police force was met with jeers from political opponents. The force became known as Scotland Yard.

1902 – David Belasco opened his first Broadway theater.

1930 – Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS Radio. He was in the radio business for the next 46 years.

1940 – The radio quiz show “Double or Nothing” debuted on the Mutual Radio Network.

1943 – U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marchal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson.

1946 – “The Adventures of Sam Spade” debuted on CBS Radio.

1951 – The first network football game was televised by CBS-TV in color. The game was between the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania.

1953 – “Make Room for Daddy” premiered on ABC-TV.

1955 – “A View From the Bridge,” a play by Arthur Miller, opened in New York at the Coronet Theater.

1957 – The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds. The next year the Giants were in San Francisco, CA.

1960 – “My Three Sons” debuted on ABC-TV.

1962 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy nationalized the Mississippi National guard in response to city officials defying federal court orders. The orders had been to enroll James Meredith at the University of Mississippi. 

1963 – “My Favorite Martian” premiered on CBS-TV.

1963 – “The Judy Garland Show” premiered on CBS-TV.

1967 – The International Monetary Fund reformed monetary systems around the world.

1977 – Eva Shain became the first woman to officiate a heavyweight title boxing match. About 70 million people watched Muhammad Ali defeat Ernie Shavers on NBC-TV.

1982 – In Chicago, IL, seven people died after taking capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. 264,000 bottles were recalled.

1983 – The War Powers Act was used for the first time by the U.S. Congress when they authorized President Reagan to keep U.S. Marines in Lebanon for 18 more months.

1983 – “A Chorus Line” with performance number 3,389 became the longest running show on Broadway.

1984 – Irish officials announced that they had intercepted the Marita Anne carrying seven tons of U.S.-purchased weapons. The weapons were intended for the Irish Republican Army.

1984 – Elizabeth Taylor was voted to be the world’s most beautiful woman in a Louis Harris poll. Taylor was at the time in the Betty Ford Clinic overcoming a weight problem.

1986 – Mary Lou Retton announced that she was quitting gymnastics.

1988 – The space shuttle Discovery took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It was the first manned space flight since the Challenger disaster. 

1990 – “Millie’s Book” by First Lady Barbara Bush was the best-selling non-fiction book in the U.S.

1992 – Magic Johnson announced that he was returning to professional basketball. The comeback ended the following November.

1992 – Brazilian lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to impeach President Fernando Collor de Mello.

1993 – Bosnia’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject an international peace plan unless Bosnian Serbs returned land that had been taken by force.

1994 – The U.S. House voted to end the practice of lobbyist buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress. 

1998 – Hasbro announced plans to introduce an action figure of retired U.S. General Colin Powell.

2008 – The Dow Industrial Average lost 777 points. It was the largest one-day decline to date. The drop came after the U.S. House of Representatives had voted down a $700 billion bank bailout plan.

2010 – In China, Canton Tower became operational.

September 20, 29, 30th and on and on and on

take that much-needed break, for coffee…ahhhhhh

Coffee lovers celebrate National Coffee Day on  September 29th  to celebrate their love for the country’s favorite beverage. If you are one of those people who cannot start their day without sipping on a cup of coffee, this is your reason to celebrate. 

The smell of freshly brewed coffee in the morning is irresistible to almost everyone. Whether you love the classic Americano or prefer the trendy Flat White, make sure to have the perfect cup (or cups) of coffee today!

Coffee lovers are in luck because just two days after National Coffee Day, they can celebrate International Coffee Day on October 1st.

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