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SEPTEMBER 3
Marybeth Galvin was born.
Conor Leary was born.
Matt Long was born.
Jeannine Hartman was born.
Victor Boamah was born.
1783 – The Treaty of Paris officially ended the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain.
1974 – Frank Robinson was named the first African American manager in Major League Baseball.
SEPTEMBER 4
1781 – The city of Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers.
1972 – U. S. swimmer Mark Spitz won a record seventh gold medal at the Munich Summer Olympics.
SEPTEMBER 5
Don Riepe was born.
Theresa Racine was born.
Patrice Riordan McCann was born.
Kathy Haughie Byrne was born.
Cass Boggiano was born.
1698 – Russia’s Peter the Great levied a tax on bearded men.
1836 – The Republic of Texas made military hero Sam Houston its first president.
SEPTEMBER 6
John Moroney III was born.
1995 – Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr. broke Lou Gehrig’s iron man record by playing in his 2,131st straight game.
1997 – More than 2 billion people watched Princess Diana’s funeral on TV.
SEPTEMBER 7
Brigid Bergin was born.
Josephine Platt was born
Brett Ferrentino was born
1822 – Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
1979 – The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) made its debut on cable TV.
SEPTEMBER 8
Billy Gardner was born.
Matthew Long was born.
1900 – A hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, killing about 8,000 people.
1966 – Star Trek premiered on television.
1974 – President Gerald Ford gave former President Nixon a full pardon for all federal crimes he may have committed while he was in office.
SEPTEMBER 9
Mark Boyle was born.
Joanne O’Shaughnessy was born.
Joanne Marnick was born.
1776 – The Second Continental Congress changed the name of the nation to the United States of America, from the United Colonies.
1956 – Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show.
