This Day In History
1990 Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada
1989 Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the US Open championship
1987 Pope John Paul II arrives in Miami to begin a 10 day tour of the US.
1984 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
1984 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla
1983 John Vorster, former prime minister of South Africa, dies in Cape Town at age 67.
1976 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard
1974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal
1972 US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed)
1972 Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship
1967 Residents of Gibraltar vote to remain British and not return to Spain.
1963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
1956 Louisville Ky public schools integrate
1939 HMS OXLEY, sunk by "friendly fire " off Norwegian coast, south of Stavanger in North Sea torpedoed in error by RN submarine 'Triton'.
1930 Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
1927 France wins its 1st Davis Cup
1919 NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing &25,000 WW I soldiers
1916 The suspension span ofQuebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence which was being lifted, buckled and fell into the river killing 10 - 12 workmen.
1913 Cleveland Call &Post established
1869 Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
1849 Edwin Booth, later to assassinate president Abraham Lincoln, makes his acting debut.
1847 The first theater opens in Hawaii
1846 Elias Howe receives a US patent for his hand-crank sewing machine.
1813 The Americans defeat the British naval forces in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1813 Comm Oliver H Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie
1810 The British secretary of state for foreign affairs George Canning, 40, resigns September 9, saying that the War Office is hampering progress in the Peninsular War
1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
1543 DeSoto's expedition returns to Mexico.
0954 France's Louis IV dies September 10 at age 33 and is succeeded by his son Lothair, 13, who will reign until 986