September 13
1788 - The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
1814 - During the War of 1812, British naval forces began bombarding Fort McHenry in Baltimore but were driven back by American defenders in a battle that lasted until the following morning.
1943 - Chiang Kai-Shek became president of China.
1948 - Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
1959 - Elvis Presley first met his future wife, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Army. (They married in 1967, but divorced in 1973.)
1962 - Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett rejected the U.S. Supreme Court’s order for the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a Black student, declaring in a televised address, “We will not drink from the cup of genocide.”
1971 - The four day revolt at the maximum security prison in Attica, New York came to an end when state police and National Guardsmen stormed the facility; 42 people died in the event.
1990 - "Law & Order" premiered on NBC.
1993 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat shook hands after signing an historic peace agreement.
1996 - Rapper Tupac Shakur, 25, died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting.
1998 - NBC's "Frasier" won a record fifth consecutive Emmy as TV's best comedy series.
1999 - A bomb blamed by authorities on Chechen rebels devastated an eight-story apartment building in Moscow, killing at least 124 people.
2000 - Chase Manhattan agreed to buy J.P. Morgan for more than $35 billion, creating the third largest financial company in the U.S.
2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States; limited commercial flights resumed for the first time in two days.
2011 - Teams of insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons struck at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.
2016 - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rolled out a plan aimed at making child care more affordable, guaranteeing new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave and suggesting new incentives for employees to provide their workers child care during a speech in Aston, Pennsylvania.
2016 - Former Israeli President Shimon Peres, 93, suffered a major stroke (he died 15 days later).
2020 - In open defiance of state regulations and his own administration’s pandemic health guidelines, President Donald Trump hosted his first indoor rally since June, telling a packed, nearly mask-less crowd in Henderson, Nevada, that the nation was “making the last turn” in defeating the virus.
Birthdays
21 - Meghan Roche (model)
22 - Destiny Rogers (singer)
22 - Zoey Burger (actress)
25 - Lili Reinhart (actress)
26 - Mitch Holleman (actor)
37 - Baron Corbin (professional wrestler)
41 - Ben Savage (actor)
44 - Fiona Apple (singer)
46 - Scott Vickaryous (actor)
50 - Goran Ivanisevic (tennis player)
51 - Louise Lombard (actress)
52 - Dominic Fumusa (actor)
52 - Tyler Perry (producer)
53 - Roger Howarth (actor)
54 - Michael Johnson (track & field athlete)
55 - Louis Mandylor (actor)
56 - Jeff Ross (actor/comedian)
62 - Chris Hansen (journalist)
65 - Geri Jewell (actress/comedian)
67 - Isiah Whitlock Jr. (actor)
69 - Randy Jones singer)
70 - Jean Smart (actress)
71 - Christine Estabrook (actress)
77 - Peter Cetera (singer)
77 - Jacqueline Bisset (actress)
85 - Joe E. Tata (actor)
88 - Eileen Fulton (actress)
90 - Barbara Bain (actress)
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Today in Sports History - September 13
1849 - In Hastings, New York, The first recorded death in a boxing match occurred after Chris Lilly knocked out Tom McCoy. McCoy died a short time later.
1923 - George Burns (Boston Red Sox) performed the third unassisted triple play in baseball history.
1932 - Joe McCarthy became the first manager to win pennants in both baseball leagues when his New York Yankees clinched the American League pennant.
1938 - Alexander Cartwright, the inventor of modern baseball, is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1949 - The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America was formed in New York City.
1965 - Willie Mays became the fifth player in major league history to hit 500 career home runs.
1970 - The first New York City Marathon was held; winner Gary Muhrcke finished the 26.2-mile run, which took place entirely inside Central Park, in 2:31:38.
1971 - The World Hockey Association was formed.
1971 - Frank Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run.
1975 - #6 Nebraska opens the season with a 10-7 win over LSU.
1980 - #8 Nebraska opens the season with a 55-9 win over Utah.
1981 - John McEnroe won his third consecutive U.S. Open.
1986 - Bert Blyleven (Minnesota Twins) surrendered five homes runs. The game raised Blyleven's total to 44 for the year setting an American League record.
1989 - Fay Vincent was named commissioner of Major League Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1996 - Alex Rodriguez (Seattle Mariners) set a team record when he became the first player for the Mariners to reach 200 hits in a season.
1996 - Charlie O'Brien (Toronto Blue Jays) became the first catcher in major league baseball history to wear a hockey goalie-like catcher's mask. The game was against the New York Yankees.
1997 - #6 Nebraska defeats Central Florida 38-24.
1999 - The Denver Broncos retire John Elway's #7.
2002 - Mike Vernon retired after a 19-year career as a player in the NHL.
2003 - #18 Nebraska defeats Penn State 18-10.
2003 - In Oakland, California, Frank Francisco (Texas Rangers), a relief pitcher, threw a chair into the right field box seats. Two spectators were hit in the head. The game was delayed for 19 minutes. The Athletics won the game 7-6 in the 10th inning.
2008 - Nebraska defeats New Mexico State 38-7.
2010 - Rafael Nadal of Spain won his first U.S. Open title to complete a career Grand Slam, beating Novak Djokovic 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.
2013 - Jim Furyk fires a 12-under-par 59 in the 2nd round of the BMW Championship at Conway Farms GC in Lake Forest, Illinois, becoming just the 6th player to shoot sub-60 in a PGA Tour event.
2014 - Nebraska defeats Fresno State 55-19.
2018 - Amazon live streams “Thursday Night Football” Cincinnati beats Baltimore 34-23; first all-female broadcast booth in NFL history; Andrea Kremer calls game with Hannah Storm.
1788 - The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
1814 - During the War of 1812, British naval forces began bombarding Fort McHenry in Baltimore but were driven back by American defenders in a battle that lasted until the following morning.
1943 - Chiang Kai-Shek became president of China.
1948 - Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
1959 - Elvis Presley first met his future wife, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Army. (They married in 1967, but divorced in 1973.)
1962 - Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett rejected the U.S. Supreme Court’s order for the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a Black student, declaring in a televised address, “We will not drink from the cup of genocide.”
1971 - The four day revolt at the maximum security prison in Attica, New York came to an end when state police and National Guardsmen stormed the facility; 42 people died in the event.
1990 - "Law & Order" premiered on NBC.
1993 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat shook hands after signing an historic peace agreement.
1996 - Rapper Tupac Shakur, 25, died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting.
1998 - NBC's "Frasier" won a record fifth consecutive Emmy as TV's best comedy series.
1999 - A bomb blamed by authorities on Chechen rebels devastated an eight-story apartment building in Moscow, killing at least 124 people.
2000 - Chase Manhattan agreed to buy J.P. Morgan for more than $35 billion, creating the third largest financial company in the U.S.
2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States; limited commercial flights resumed for the first time in two days.
2011 - Teams of insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons struck at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.
2016 - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rolled out a plan aimed at making child care more affordable, guaranteeing new mothers six weeks of paid maternity leave and suggesting new incentives for employees to provide their workers child care during a speech in Aston, Pennsylvania.
2016 - Former Israeli President Shimon Peres, 93, suffered a major stroke (he died 15 days later).
2020 - In open defiance of state regulations and his own administration’s pandemic health guidelines, President Donald Trump hosted his first indoor rally since June, telling a packed, nearly mask-less crowd in Henderson, Nevada, that the nation was “making the last turn” in defeating the virus.
Birthdays
21 - Meghan Roche (model)
22 - Destiny Rogers (singer)
22 - Zoey Burger (actress)
25 - Lili Reinhart (actress)
26 - Mitch Holleman (actor)
37 - Baron Corbin (professional wrestler)
41 - Ben Savage (actor)
44 - Fiona Apple (singer)
46 - Scott Vickaryous (actor)
50 - Goran Ivanisevic (tennis player)
51 - Louise Lombard (actress)
52 - Dominic Fumusa (actor)
52 - Tyler Perry (producer)
53 - Roger Howarth (actor)
54 - Michael Johnson (track & field athlete)
55 - Louis Mandylor (actor)
56 - Jeff Ross (actor/comedian)
62 - Chris Hansen (journalist)
65 - Geri Jewell (actress/comedian)
67 - Isiah Whitlock Jr. (actor)
69 - Randy Jones singer)
70 - Jean Smart (actress)
71 - Christine Estabrook (actress)
77 - Peter Cetera (singer)
77 - Jacqueline Bisset (actress)
85 - Joe E. Tata (actor)
88 - Eileen Fulton (actress)
90 - Barbara Bain (actress)
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Today in Sports History - September 13
1849 - In Hastings, New York, The first recorded death in a boxing match occurred after Chris Lilly knocked out Tom McCoy. McCoy died a short time later.
1923 - George Burns (Boston Red Sox) performed the third unassisted triple play in baseball history.
1932 - Joe McCarthy became the first manager to win pennants in both baseball leagues when his New York Yankees clinched the American League pennant.
1938 - Alexander Cartwright, the inventor of modern baseball, is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1949 - The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America was formed in New York City.
1965 - Willie Mays became the fifth player in major league history to hit 500 career home runs.
1970 - The first New York City Marathon was held; winner Gary Muhrcke finished the 26.2-mile run, which took place entirely inside Central Park, in 2:31:38.
1971 - The World Hockey Association was formed.
1971 - Frank Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles hit his 500th career home run.
1975 - #6 Nebraska opens the season with a 10-7 win over LSU.
1980 - #8 Nebraska opens the season with a 55-9 win over Utah.
1981 - John McEnroe won his third consecutive U.S. Open.
1986 - Bert Blyleven (Minnesota Twins) surrendered five homes runs. The game raised Blyleven's total to 44 for the year setting an American League record.
1989 - Fay Vincent was named commissioner of Major League Baseball, succeeding the late A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1996 - Alex Rodriguez (Seattle Mariners) set a team record when he became the first player for the Mariners to reach 200 hits in a season.
1996 - Charlie O'Brien (Toronto Blue Jays) became the first catcher in major league baseball history to wear a hockey goalie-like catcher's mask. The game was against the New York Yankees.
1997 - #6 Nebraska defeats Central Florida 38-24.
1999 - The Denver Broncos retire John Elway's #7.
2002 - Mike Vernon retired after a 19-year career as a player in the NHL.
2003 - #18 Nebraska defeats Penn State 18-10.
2003 - In Oakland, California, Frank Francisco (Texas Rangers), a relief pitcher, threw a chair into the right field box seats. Two spectators were hit in the head. The game was delayed for 19 minutes. The Athletics won the game 7-6 in the 10th inning.
2008 - Nebraska defeats New Mexico State 38-7.
2010 - Rafael Nadal of Spain won his first U.S. Open title to complete a career Grand Slam, beating Novak Djokovic 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.
2013 - Jim Furyk fires a 12-under-par 59 in the 2nd round of the BMW Championship at Conway Farms GC in Lake Forest, Illinois, becoming just the 6th player to shoot sub-60 in a PGA Tour event.
2014 - Nebraska defeats Fresno State 55-19.
2018 - Amazon live streams “Thursday Night Football” Cincinnati beats Baltimore 34-23; first all-female broadcast booth in NFL history; Andrea Kremer calls game with Hannah Storm.
