1198 - Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany 1519 - 2nd Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernan Cortes vs Tlascala Aztecs 1548 - Catharine Parr, Queen of England/wife of King Henry VIII, dies at about 36 1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards 1774 - 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia 1781 - Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis 1793 - In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins 1795 - US-Algiers sign peace treaty 1800 - Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops 1814 - -15] Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russ out of E Prussia 1836 - Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas 1862 - Lee crosses the Potomac and enters Maryland 1863 - Bread revolt in Mobile Alabama 1864 - British, French & Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits 1877 - Crazy Horse, [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27 1877 - Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas 1882 - 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC 1885 - 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind) 1898 - Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, who, disguised as a man, fought for union, dies 1900 - France proclaims a protectorate over Chad 1901 - National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues formed 1905 - Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War 1906 - 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider) 1908 - Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 1913 - Phillies & Braves tie record of only 1 run in a double header, Phillies win 1st game 1-0, then a scoreless tie into 10th 1914 - Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins 1914 - Battle of Marne (WW I) begins 1918 - Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early 1922 - Yankees final game at the Polo Grounds, after 7 years 1923 - Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously 1925 - 112 degree F (44 degree C), Centerville, Alabama (state record) 1927 - Red Sox beat Yankees 12-11 in 18 innings 1936 - Red Sox turn a triple-play on the Yankees 1944 - Allies liberate Brussels 1944 - "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany 1946 - Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game 1953 - 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC 1956 - 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM 1958 - "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in the US 1958 - 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC 1959 - Washington Senator Jim Lemon is 7th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd) 1960 - Cassius Clay captures the olympic light heavyweight gold medal 1967 - -23] Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico & Texas 1968 - 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan 1970 - Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record) 1971 - NY Mets Don Hahn hits 1st inside the park homer at Phillies Vet 1972 - 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics 1972 - Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium 1975 - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate Ford in Sacramento 1975 - Wings release "Letting Go" 1977 - Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night" 1977 - Voyager 1 (US) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn 1978 - Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md 1979 - Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Bruma 1980 - World's longest auto tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens 1982 - Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph 1983 - 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB 1983 - Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph end of a 440 yard motorcycle run from a standing start 1984 - 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB 1986 - NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms 1986 - NASA launches DOD-1 1988 - Jerry Lewis' 23rd Labor Day telethon raises record $41,132,113 1988 - CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yyard punt return, 100-yd kickoff return and 58-yard pass reception 1989 - Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of the Today Show 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West 1991 - Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston 1991 - US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins
