the day in the history

8th September

1504-- Michelangelo unveils his marble statue of David in Firenze.

1565 -- The first permanent European settlement in North America established at St. Augustine by a Spanish expedition to the Florida peninsula.

9th of September

1845 on this date the beginning of the Irish potatoe famine was noted in the Dublin Evening Post.

1850 - California gets to be USA´s 31st state.

9 September

1776 -- The Second Continental Congress makes the term United States official, replacing United Colonies.

1948 -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (No. Korea) declared.

1976 -- Mao Zedong dies in Beijing at age 82.

10th September

1846 -- Elias Howe receives a patent for his sewing machine.

1912 -- Tarzan makes his debut in the first story "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs in The All-Story Magazine.

11th September

2001 -- Nearly 3,000 dead in collapse of World Trade Center towers.

13th
September

1906 – The first flight in Europa with an airvehicle using a motor.
This took place in Paris and the "pilot" was the Brasilian Alberto
Santos-Dumont.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44841559@N03/6048883316/

September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote new words for a well-known drinking song ("To Anacreon in Heaven") to celebrate America's recent victory over the British: "The Star Spangled Banner".

15th of September

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/m/manchester_liverpool_road/liverpool_road19.jpg

The first railroad station in the world opened: Liverpool Road Station,

The station is now part of the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (really worth a visit!).

15th September

Busy day in history today:

1935 -- The Nuremberg Laws, depriving German Jews of their citizenship, are adopted.

1950 -- U.N. forces land at Inchon, So. Korea, and start the drive toward Seoul, herding the No. Korean invaders toward the 38th Parallel.

1963 -- Four black girls killed when a bomb goes off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

1972 -- A Federal grand jury indicts seven men in connection with the break-in at the Democratic campaign HQ in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.

I'm sure a few other things happened, too. Fell free to add them here.

16th of September
Again about Riga

1621 – Sverige intar Riga och annekterar Livland.
Sweden occupies Riga and annex Livonia

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Svenska_flottan,_slaget_vid_Riga_1621.jpg

Yeah, but then that crazy Karl XII lost it all to Czar Peter I ("the Great") in the Great Northern War of the early 18th Century. From then on, Livonia and all the Baltic states and peoples were part of the Russian Czarist empire until 1917.

1857 -- the song "Jingle Bells" copyrighted by James Pierpont under its original title "One Horse Open Sleigh."

19. of September
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