Page 6: Historical Events In September - 08

1936  On September - 08 princess Juliana & German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld get engaged   

1937  On this day in history pan Arab conference about Palestine opens   

1939  On September - 08 fDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe   

1941  On this day in history entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated   

1941  On September - 08 blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins   

1943  Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II on September - 08.   

1943  On September - 08 gen Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II   

1944  German V2 rockets strike London for the first time on September - 08.   

1944  On September - 08 the first V-2 rocket lands in Britain   

1944  On this day in history 1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp   

1944  On September - 08 jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63   

1945  On this day in history uS invades Japanese-held Korea   

1946  60th US Womens Tennis: Pauline Betz beats Patricia Canning (119 63) on this day in history.   

1947  On this day in history british govt sails "Exodus" with fugitives from Nazis   

1948  On this day in history british De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound   

1949  On September - 08 richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85   

1951  On this day in history forty-nine countries sign the Japanese Peace Treaty in San Francisco.   

1951  On this day in history japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF)   

1951  Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed on September - 08.   

1952  Ernest Hemingway's "Old Man &the Sea" published on September - 08.   

1952  On this day in history 72nd US Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63)   

1953  On this day in history "Carnival in Flanders" opens at New Century Theater NY for 6 perfs   

1954  On this day in history sE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) formed to stop communist spread in SE Asia   

1955  John de Young, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69 on September - 08.   

1956  Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 &stays #1 for 31 weeks on this day in history.   

1956  On September - 08 gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-4.), dies at 84   

1957  On this day in history pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV   

1958  On September - 08 oman turns over Gwadur (on Bal£chist n coast) to Pakistan   

1962  Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1963  On this day in history ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys   

1965  Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana &Florida on September - 08.   

1965  Dorothy Danridge, actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in Hollywood on September - 08.   

1966  On this day in history "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premiers on ABC-TV   

1966  On this day in history star Trek makes its debut on NBC-TV.   

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0801  On September - 08 birth of ansgar, German Catholic archbishop (d. 865)   

0828  On September - 08 birth of ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)   

1157  Richard I, [Richard the Lion Hearted], King of England (1189-99) was born on September - 08.   

1207  On September - 08 birth of sancho II, king of Portugal   

1271  On September - 08 birth of charles Martel d'Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295)   

1380  Bernardinus of Siena, Italian saint was born on September - 08.   

1474  On this day in history birth of ludovico Ariosto, Italy, poet (Orlando Furioso)   

1515  On September - 08 birth of alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (d. 1585)   

0394  On this day in history death of arbogast, French general, commits suicide   

0701  Sergius I, Syrian/Italian Pope (687-701), dies on this day in history.   

0780  On this day in history leo IV de Chazaar, Byzantine Emperor (775-80), dies   

0876  Lodewijk de Duitser, king of East French Republic (833-76), dies at 72 on September - 08.   

1100  On September - 08 clement III, [Wibert van Ravenna], 1st anti-pope (1084-1100), dies   

1397  On September - 08 death of thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.   

1425  Death of King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361) on this day in history.   

1539  On September - 08 death of john Stokesley, English churchman