On This Day In History
12 September 1885. Arbroath beat Bon Accord 36-0 in a Scottish Cup match. It’s a record score for any senior male football match in Britain. The 18-year-old John Petrie scored 13 goals, which is still the record for most goals scored in a senior male British tournament. pic.twitter.com/7saho3dTl5
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 12, 2022
12 September 1913. Olympic legend, Jesse Owens, was born in Oakville, Alabama, USA. He won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics: 100 metres, long jump, 200 metres and the 4 × 100 metres relay. He was credited with “single-handedly crushing Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy”. pic.twitter.com/o0Dhg2qcpe
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 12, 2022
12 September 1942. RMS Laconia, carrying 2,732 crew, passengers, soldiers and prisoners of war, was torpedoed and sunk by U-156, a German U-boat, off the West African coast. It’s estimated up to 1,649 people died. pic.twitter.com/UfqAAJxbXj
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 12, 2022
Luna 2 was the second of the Soviet Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon. It was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon, and the first man-made object to land on another celestial body. On September 13, 1959, it hit the Moon's surface. #OTD pic.twitter.com/tvpFRXH4nv
— ᵀᵒᵈᵃʸ ᴵⁿ ᴴⁱˢᵗᵒʳʸ (@changnoi2018) September 12, 2022
12 September 1962. US President, John F. Kennedy delivered his “We choose to go to the Moon” speech at Rice University, which promised to land American astronauts on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. pic.twitter.com/igHoVKT5DJ
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 12, 2022
12 September 1977. South African anti-apartheid activist, Steve Biko (aged 30), died while in police custody. Biko has been called the “anti-apartheid movement’s first icon”. Nelson Mandela described him as “the spark that lit a veld fire across South Africa”. pic.twitter.com/kgr5qDVV9E
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 12, 2022
12 September 1990. The two German states, The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG or BDR) and the East German Democratic Republic (GDR or DDR) and the four Allied Powers (UK, USA, USSR and France) signed the Treaty on the Final Settlement, paving the way to German reunification. pic.twitter.com/xwBQakPb9K
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 12, 2022
12 September 2012. The Hillsborough Independent Panel concluded that the 1989 football stadium disaster was due primarily to “a lack of police control”. The Report also revealed that 41 of the original 96 victims “had the potential to survive”. pic.twitter.com/edHenfSjnU
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 12, 2022
PHOTO OF THE DAY. Johnny Cash just before going on stage for his live concert at Folsom Prison (1968) 📷 Dan Poush pic.twitter.com/G6sRdK9DN2
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 12, 2022
This day 51 years ago – 12 September 1969 – the Cameron Report ('Disturbances in Northern Ireland') was published.
John Hume said it “proves the injustices that we have complained of.”
Ulster Unionist member Brian Faulkner described it as “very sober and reasonable.” pic.twitter.com/cAxgWZGQOD
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) September 12, 2020
#OTD in 1895, Annie 'Londonderry' (actually Kopchovsky) seemingly completed her round-the-world bicycle trip. She first rode a bike a few days before setting off, and had three children under six. An astute marketer, much of her backstory was fictional. https://t.co/ILuQklZbhi pic.twitter.com/ETPuwxPPaV
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) September 11, 2022
On this day in 1966, a white mob attacked 250 Black students trying to integrate Grenada, Mississippi, schools—12 years after Brown v. Board, the city maintained fully segregated schools. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/uckl9dkxfk
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) September 12, 2022
September 13th
509 BC The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September
335 Church of Holy Sepulchre consecrated in Jerusalem
1224 Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata after a vision praying on Mount Verna
1501 Michelangelo begins work on his Statue of David, a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture
1845 English chemist Michael Faraday discovers the 'Faraday effect', the influence of a magnetic field on polarized light
1847 American-Mexican war: US General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
1993 Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway, signed by Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres and PLO official Mahmoud Abbas
Did You Know?
Building begins on Hadrian's Wall, Northern England
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Would You Believe?
The Straw Hat Riot begins in New York City as people protest the right to wear straw hats beyond the accepted end date of September 15
Today in History in 1922
This day 215 years ago – 13 September – John Barry, often described as “the father of the American Navy”, died, aged 58.
Barry was born in Tacumshame, Co. Wexford. He was the first commissioned naval officer of the US, and every subsequent naval officer took a number after him. pic.twitter.com/i4M2xMansj
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) September 13, 2018
#otd in 1995, South African activist Beverley Palesa Ditsie was the first 'out' lesbian to address the UN about LGBT+ rights, at the Beijing Women’s Conference. She was also amongst the organisers of the first Pride march in Africa, in 1990. https://t.co/eTGGtYvs2t pic.twitter.com/F1tqX0tSbL
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) September 13, 2022
On this day in 1907, white Methodist ministers in Michigan voted to exclude Black clergy from leadership positions, grounding this vote in white supremacist views and fears of Black advancement. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/rJt3HnQF9y
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) September 13, 2022
13 September 1899. Henry Bliss died, after stepping off a trolley-tram, and being hit by an electric-powered taxi cab on West 74th Street, New York City. He’s the first American pedestrian killed in a car accident. A plaque now marks of the spot where he was killed. pic.twitter.com/6Qr8i75Ouo
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 13, 2022
13 September 1902. Harry Jackson became the first person in the UK convicted using finger-prints as evidence. He had broken into a house in Denmark Hill, London and stole some billiard balls. Fingerprints were taken at the scene and matched with those of Jackson. pic.twitter.com/i9rNGC6Ei9
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 13, 2022
13 September 1967. US Olympic legend, Michael Johnson, was born in Dallas, Texas, USA. He won 4 Olympic golds and 8 World Championships gold medals. He also held the World and Olympic records in the 200 metre and 400 metres which were his specialist events. pic.twitter.com/UCnJhKXWgy
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 13, 2022