More than 60 million Americans tuned in to watch the first-ever televised debate between the two candidates who ran for the White House. Republican candidate Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F Kennedy, the […]
A Pacific Southwest Airlines jet collides in mid-air with a small Cessna over San Diego, killing 153 people on September 25, 1978. David Lee Boswell and his instructor, Martin Kazy, were in the process of […]
On Septemeber 24, 1975, Dougal Haston and Doug Scott became the first Britons to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain. The men arrived at the top of Mount Everest via the previously unclimbed […]
German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovers the planet Neptune at the Berlin Observatory. Neptune, generally the eighth planet from the sun, was postulated by the French astronomer Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier, who calculated the approximate location […]
The first annual Cannes Film Festival opens at the resort city of Cannes on the French Riviera. The festival had intended to make its debut in September 1939, but the outbreak of World War II […]
A massive earthquake hit Mexico City on September 19, 1985. More than 10,000 people were killed, 30,000 were injured, and large parts of the city were destroyed. The quake hit the west coast near Acapulco […]
On September 18, 1987, cesium-137 is removed from an abandoned cancer-therapy machine in Brazil. Hundreds of people were eventually poisoned by radiation from the substance. In 1985, the Goiania Institute of Radiotherapy moved to a […]
On September 17, 1983, Vanessa Lynn Williams made history by becoming the first African-American woman in the pageant’s 63-year history to capture the Miss America title. (For the competition’s first 30 years, blacks weren’t even […]
On September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest, launches the Mexican War of Independence with the issuing of his Grito de Dolores, or “Cry of Dolores.” The revolutionary tract, so-named because it […]
On September 13, 1993, Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, have shaken hands before cheering crowds on the White House lawn in Washington. The handshake – the first-ever in public […]
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