On This Day In History
8 September 1975. In a landmark moment in LGBTQ+ history, the US Air Force veteran, Leonard Matlovich, declared on the cover of US Time magazine: “I Am A Homosexual”. pic.twitter.com/MLBIYr2wQa
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 8, 2022
President Michael D Higgins praised the "remarkable generosity of spirit" the queen demonstrated in responding to "a complex, and often difficult, history" https://t.co/HWzf4XOYYH
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) September 8, 2022
September 9th
1000 Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea: King Olaf on board the Long Serpent defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age. He leaps to his death overboard.
1776 Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from the United Colonies)
1817 Alexander Twilight, probably first African American to graduate from a US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army created - the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade (WWI)
1993 Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization exchange letters of mutual recognition
2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria
Did You Know?
Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling
Today in History in 1543
Would You Believe?
Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as an officer (and its only woman officer) by the Confederate US Army
Today in History in 1861
This day 38 years ago – 9 September 1982 – gay man Declan Flynn was beaten to death by five youths, all given suspended sentences.
Activist Tonie Walsh:
“Pride grew directly out of the killing. There was such a sense of anger the thugs who killed him would get off scot-free.“ pic.twitter.com/dMkwet55BM
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) September 9, 2020
#OTD in 2015, Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch in British history. On 6 February 2022 she became the first British Monarch to reign for 70 years, as head of state of the UK and 14 other countries, incl Australia, Canada and Jamaica. https://t.co/mbTP8grynn pic.twitter.com/Gy0k9IaRaH
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) September 9, 2022
On this day in 1957, white church members and a minister preaching against the sinfulness of racial integration staged a protest outside of desegregating Nashville schools. https://t.co/lem2h0tI0B
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) September 9, 2022
9 September 1791. The capital of the USA was named in honour of President George Washington and became Washington DC. pic.twitter.com/sMtSQoOxpz
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 9, 2022
9 September 1958. A race riot occured in London’s Notting Hill Gate, after a murder and a series of assaults on local black people. pic.twitter.com/TO38DHu93c
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 9, 2022
9 September 1976. Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao), died (aged 82). He founded the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1949 until his death. pic.twitter.com/keuBrfQHP6
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 9, 2022
9 September 1979. Tracy Austin (aged 16), defeated Chris Evert, 6-3, 6-4, to become the youngest player to win the US Open Women’s Singles Final. It was a surprise result as Evert had been attempting to win the US title for the 5th year in succession. pic.twitter.com/fYsV8lB2as
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 9, 2022
September 10th
1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
1813 American Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in Battle of Lake Erie
1846 Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine
1924 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of the murder of Robert Franks in Chicago in the "the crime of the century"
1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by Guillotine in France
2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland
2020 California's August Complex wildfire becomes largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)
Did You Know?
London taxi driver George Smith is the first to be fined for drunk driving
Today in History in 1894
Would You Believe?
Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.
Today in History in 1945
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This day 157 years ago – 10 September 1862 – Eliza Lynch became the de facto First Lady of Paraguay when her partner, Francisco Solano López, became President of the country.
Lynch was born in Chareville, Co. Cork. She moved to Paraguay after meeting López in Paris in 1854. pic.twitter.com/bp1R2BH9vc
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) September 10, 2019
This day 53 years ago - 10 September 1966 - Minister for Education Donogh O'Malley announced that “free post-primary education will be available to all families.”
In 1999, former Taoiseach John Bruton attributed Ireland's economic success ('Celtic Tiger') to O'Malley's decision. pic.twitter.com/aqVlLwoKG0
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) September 10, 2019
#OTD in 1943 professor Elżbieta Zawacka—codename 'Zo'—was dropped into Nazi-occupied Poland: one of the Cichociemni ('silent unseen'), special operations paratroopers trained in Britain. She couriered documents to & from the Polish govt in exile in London. https://t.co/ECzbUKygTt pic.twitter.com/HB32LAoRgn
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) September 10, 2022
On this day in 1963, white students withdrew from Tuskegee High School in Alabama to avoid attending school with Black students. Within a week, all 275 white students had stopped attending. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/Jofvuq2qjD
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) September 10, 2022
10 September 1797. Mary Wollstonecraft died (aged 38). Her best known work is the feminist classic, A Vindication of The Rights of Woman (1792). She’s now regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers. pic.twitter.com/6WpTV1en2i
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 10, 2022
10 September 1846. Elias Howe, an American inventor, was granted a patent for the modern lockstitch Sewing Machine. His machine won a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1867 and in that same year he was awarded the Légion d’honneur by Napoleon III for his invention. pic.twitter.com/r5XTkzVG0j
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 10, 2022
10 September 1898. Elisabeth, the Empress of Austria (aged 60), was assassinated by the Italian anarchist, Luigi Lucheni, while walking along a promenade in Geneva, Switzerland. Lucheni was given a life sentence for the crime. He hanged himself in his cell on 16 October 1910. pic.twitter.com/myPj88UY2l
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 10, 2022