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Members of the Fruit and Vegetable Workers’ Union blocked downtown Salinas, California streets to stop a convoy of trucks carrying produce harvested by strikebreakers. – 1936
1963 : The Beatles release "She Loves You" in the United States. The song went to claim the Number 1 position on the charts on March 21st 1964 and remained there for 2 weeks. "She Loves You" helped set a record in the United States by being one of the five Beatles songs which held the top five positions in the American charts simultaneously. "She Loves You" had already been released in the UK on August 23rd.
1810 : Mexico declared its independence from Spain after 300 years of Spanish Rule.
1920 : A bomb believed to be planted by radical anarchists rocked Wall Street killing 38 people and wounded over 400. It was never solved but was widely attributed to radical anarchists.
1928 : The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes Lake Okeechobee, Florida with winds of around 140 mph a major levee broke with the resulting flood covering an area of hundreds of square miles with water that in some places was over 20 ft (6 m) deep and some 2,500 people drowned.
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1931 : As the world recession continues the British economy is heading for an all time low with thousands of ships rusting in harbors because there are no goods to export, the budget deficit continues to grow and currently stands at $600 million budget deficit this year.
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1932 : Mahatma Gandhi begins his hunger strike in opposition to Britain's new Caste Separation Laws.
1940 : President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, requiring all men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register with local draft boards (later changed to between 18 and 45), becoming the first peacetime military draft in United States history.
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September 16th, 1949 : The Census Bureau has released the latest figures for the population of the United States of 149,452,000 on August 1 showing an increase of 237,000 since July 1st.
1951 : 19 people die as a stunt plane crashes into crowd at a Colorado Air show. The plane, a low wing monoplane, was performing a snap roll when the wing caught on the ground and the plane crashed into spectators.
September 16th, 1951 : King George is still very unwell and has been admitted to hospital for further special treatment for a lung disease.
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1968 : The British Post Office begins New First Class Postal Service costing 5d (equiv to 2 new pence) promising overnight delivery for first class. The new service has has met mixed reactions with about 25% of the letters posted using the new first class service.
September 16th, 1971 : Following President Nixon's tax reduction program and defense of the US dollar value to boost a flagging economy and help with the current trade deficit, plus his proposal to impose a 10% import tax on certain goods and tax reductions for US exporters. Many countries around the world are angry and insist that the US should devalue the dollar which is causing major problems to the worlds money markets, and not impose trade tariffs on importers into the US.
1974 : President Ford has announced an amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders, just in Canada during the Vietnam war there were between 30,000 – 90,000 Americans seeking asylum from fighting in the war.
September 16th, 1978 : Leon Spinks lost his WBA heavyweight title to Muhammed Ali last night to become World Champion for a record 3rd time with a 15 round unanimous decision.
1978 : A 7.7 Magnitude earthquake rocks Tabas, Iran, killing more than 20,000 people and flattening the town to the ground. Rescue operations are continuing in the hope of finding survivors who were buried but may still be alive.
September 16th, 1981 : Hundreds of anti nuclear protesters invaded the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Reactor in California again today even after the 560 arrests yesterday in their continued protest and blockade of the Reactor, When arrested they do not put up any resistance they just walk up to the waiting police and the demonstration will not allow any protesters who are violent in their ranks.
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Attica Prison Riot
1989 : Hurricane Hugo approaches the Leeward Islands and over the next 12 days, Hugo would kill 75 people from the island of Guadeloupe to South Carolina.
1922 : Following the Turkish Victory in Constantinople, crowds have taken to the streets and are attacking Greek churches and homes and destroying them . The Turkish troops have been dispatched to keep order. The spread of Typhus and the Plague are now reaching epidemic proportions but authorities are insisting they do no not wish aid in the form of medical assistance from neighboring countries.
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1926 : The Post Office Department sent a memo to it's army of 25,000 railway mail clerks an order to shoot to kill any bandits attempting to rob the mail, this follows an ever increasing number of robberies by bandits on the mail service which carries millions of dollars worth of mail every day. They also issued a statement saying that if the robberies continue the marines will be bought in again to protect the mail.
1931 : A major hurricane has devastated Belize in British Honduras with at least 700 dead, and they are requesting assistance in the form of medical supplies. The first ships from Great Britain and America are starting to arrive and reports are coming in that very little is left standing in the city with bodies laying in the streets.
1940 : Mussolini's forces cross the Libyan border into Egypt where British troops were waiting garrisoned to protect the Suez Canal and Royal Navy bases at Alexandria and Port Said.
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1949 : The communist government in Czechoslovakia has now arrested 15 Roman Catholic priests on charges of running a secret communications ring, the government believes the priests are planning political unrest but the priests maintain it is just a means of keeping in contact with fellow members.
1951 : Communist troops are massing in large numbers with as many as 250,000 troops plus a large number of tanks massed on the western battle front possibly for a full scale attack on Seoul later this week possibly to coincide with the next full moon.
1956 : IBM introduces the worlds first production hard disk the "IBM 305" which stored five megabytes of data. To put this in perspective a modern USB drive stores 2 gig or more (400 times more than the first hard drive just 50 years ago) and fits on a keychain , the first IBM weighed over a ton and needed a fork lift to move it.
1961 : Following more nuclear tests by the Russians the United States will resume underground testing of Nuclear weapons within the next ten days. The Soviet bomb tests showed they are currently testing in the range of superbomb status and America believes it needs to have at least equal or greater capability. A superbomb would be about 200 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki which was equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. This would make a superbomb in excess of 2,000,000 tons of TNT.
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September 13th, 1970 : The First New York Marathon is run attracting 127 competitors runners who paid $1.00 to compete and competed several loops around the Park Drive of Central Park.
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1971 : Riots in Attica Prison have finally ended after four days with the loss of life of 33 inmates and 11 prison employees, the cause of the riots by inmates is thought to have been due to 3 correction officers and a trooper committing unprovoked attacks on prisoners which were not reprimanded or punished.
September 13th, 1978 : In a crackdown on immunization policy many thousands of children have been sent home from school for failure to have proof of proper immunization, state laws require immunization for Diphtheria, Tetanus, Polio, Rubella prior to starting school, and the numbers who have not been immunized prior to starting school has been increasing each year.
1978 : In a bizarre case of back to the wild, a tame 1/2 ton grizzly bear being used in a TV commercial for Kleenex (Hercules) has been recaptured after staying free for more than 3 weeks on the Island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides. The Grizzly was spotted taking a swim and was quickly darted and captured.
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1991 : The Fed has cut the discount bank lending rate by 0.5% from 5.5% to 5.0% making the lowest level in 18 years in an effort to bolster the flagging economy. This follows the 0.7% fall in retail sales which is an indicator that the economy is flagging. This will be the forth decline in interest rates this year.
1993 : Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat sign a framework for peace on the South Lawn of the White House.
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1940 : The Lascaux prehistoric cave paintings are discovered by accident by teenagers searching for their dog in France, the paintings are believed to date back over 15,000 years and are considered to be some of the best examples of well-known Upper Paleolithic paintings dating back 16,000 years ever discovered.
1922 : Rudyard Kipling the well known British writer and poet has made a statement to the New York Times giving an answer to critics that he never stated the United States only entered World War I for the gold it could gain and that Britain and the free world would always be in debt to America for it's help and assistance in World War I.
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1930 : Buenos Aires the capitol of Argentina is still in turmoil with mobs running through the streets after the President Irigoyen was overthrown by a military coup.
1948 : The spread of Infantile Paralysis (Polio) is continuing to increase in many US States, only in the worst affected areas will schools continue to stay closed for public health reasons.
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1953 : Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.
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September 12th, 1953 : Six months after the death of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev succeeds him as first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1960 : Hurricane Donna one of the most destructive hurricanes seen for many years is pounding Eastern Long Island, New York with high winds and heavy rain causing widespread flooding and property damage and is expected to hit New England within a short time. Although schools in New York opened as usual for the first day of school many were closed early as the ferocity of the storm was realized. Many areas in Florida that were hit by Hurricane Donna have now been declared a major disaster area with an estimated 1/4 million homes still without electricity, Telephones and water. The final death toll is not known but it could well reach double figures once more of the homes that were destroyed can be checked.
1962 : In response to the progress made the the Soviet Union in the space race President John F. Kennedy announced that America will place a man on the moon and safely return him before the year 1970.
1970 : Palestinian Guerrillas who have hijacked three aircraft in the desert, today blew up those aircraft at the airstrip, but stated the passengers were removed first so are still safe.
1974 : Emperor Haile Selassie who had been crowned "King of Kings of Ethiopia" in 1930 spending 5 years in exile from 1936 - 1941 is deposed by military coup.
1977 : Steve Biko, a strong anti apartheid activist, was killed in an African prison while in police custody.
September 12th, 1979 : An earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia and although little damage was felt on the mainland it triggered a tidal wave that destroyed homes and left 8,000 people homeless on the remote island of Yapen.
1980 : The latest census figures released for Detroit confirm what many have believed and confirmed the worst fears showing that the population of the city has decreased by 23% in just 10 years. Census figures are used to distribute Federal Aid and a decrease of 23% will mean a decrease in aid for the beleaguered city.
75,000 coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia ended a 10-week strike after winning an 8-hour day, semi-monthly pay and the abolition of overpriced company-owned stores where they had been forced to shop. (Remember the song, “Sixteen Tons,” by coal miner’s son Merle Travis, in which there’s this line: “I owe my soul to the company store.”). – 1897
2001 : The 911 attacks carried out on September 11, 2001 were a series of terrorist attacks upon the United States of America. Four commercial passenger jet airliners were hijacked on that morning and two of the planes were crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower, causing the collapse of both towers within two hours. The third aircraft was crashed into the Pentagon. Passengers on the fourth hijacked aircraft attempted to retake control of their plane from the hijackers, which crashed into a field in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania killing all on board but in the process saving many other lives. Approximately 3,000 people died in these attacks. including a number of fire fighters and rescue workers.
1911 : As the final part of the Quebec Bridge (the central span) was being raised into position from pontoons in the river it collapsed when it was 15 feet up in mid air it plunged back into the river killing 90 construction workers.
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1922 : A woman was in hospital following a flogging by four masked women who are members of "Ladies of The Invisible Eye " from Dallas in Texas, they administered 100 lashes for ruining her own daughter's life.
1930 : A new government report highlights the fact that the number of farms is decreasing across the states with an overall 10% reduction of farms.
1930 : A house was blown up today in Madison, Wisconsin when a still exploded in the basement. The fire which accompanied the explosion destroyed the house and a barn.
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1941 : Charles A. Lindbergh has drawn widespread criticism after his speech blaming "the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration" for trying to draw America into World War II. It is well known he a strong advocate of Hitler's Nazi Germany.
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1948 : Indian troops have attacked Hyderabad in Pakistan, they surrounded the area and attacked from all sides in a quick and decisive planned attack. Meanwhile protesters are demonstrating in the Pakistan Capitol demanding the Prime Minister declares war on India for it's attack.
September 11th, 1950 : Newspapers around the world are speculating that Russia is planning on starting World War III before October, but most informed analysts do not believe Russia wants to go to war more than anybody else and it is considered to be pure hype and speculation by the worlds press.
1960 : Politicians have asked the people and businesses in West Germany to boycott all goods from communist East Germany in protest to the communist squeeze on West Germany.
September 11th, 1969 : A new report by the housing charity "Shelter" has revealed as many as three million people in Britain are living in overcrowded slum conditions.
1970 : Calls for a significant cut in interest rates from the current 8% to 6% to boost the flagging economy appear to be losing ground to the banking sector who say any large cut would create an inflation cycle.
September 11th, 1970 : Following the success of Japanese and European Imports Ford introduces the Pinto a compact American Made car costing less than $2,000 but because of a major design flaw more people knew about the gas tank exploding if in a rear end collision of over 20 mph than about what great value the car provided.
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The Lattimer massacre was the violent deaths of at least 19 unarmed
striking immigrant anthracite miners
Polish, Lithuanian, German and Slovak miners were gunned down by the Latimer Mine’s sheriff deputies during a peaceful march from Hazelton to Latimer, leaving 19 dead and more than 50 wounded. Some 3,000 were marching for collective bargaining and civil liberty. The shooters were tried for murder but the jury failed to convict. – 1897
The Chicago Teachers Union began a strike after CTU President Lewis declared that negotiations with the city were not succeeding. Regulations required that contract negotiations had to be an issue in the strike, and the teachers were seeking better pay, better benefits, and protections for teachers who lose their jobs due to school closures. On September 14th, the teachers reached a tentative agreement with the city, which included preferences for teachers who have been laid off due to a school closing to be hired in another school, and student test scores having less of a role in teacher evaluations than the city had originally planned. This TA agreement did not hold, and the strike continued, at which point Mayor Emanuel announced his intention to seek a legal injunction, forcing teachers back to work On September 17th, the Mayor’s efforts to end the strike stalled as the walkout went into the second week. Delegates from the CTU voted to end the strike on September 18th and students began their return to the schools on the 19th. – 2012
1961 : 14 spectators are killed during the Italian Grand Prix when Baron Wolfgang von Trips driving a Ferrari goes off the track onto a grass-covered embankment filled with spectators.
1922 : The Treasury in Washington has released new figures the per capita circulation of money is now $39.93 per person down from $42.99 one year ago.
The total money in circulation is $4,393,506,927 and the total number of people in the US is 110,017,000.
The total US dollars believed to be in circulation today is $1.52 billion and the current US Population 325,365,189. (Sept. 2017)
10th September 1927 : As the number of Trans Atlantic stunt fliers increases with a larger number lost each month , currently the odds of completing the trip are about 1 in 2 but as more fliers with less experience attempting to cross the Atlantic the number of casualties will continue to grow. It is believed the Governments around the world including the US will put laws in place to stop this foolhardiness. Maybe they will include a pilots license needed to fly a plane.
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1930 : "Scarface" Al Capone has taken former rivals into partnership with him to form a giant Co-Operative organization to control the Beer, Vice and Gambling Industries in Chicago. The Syndicate will be run by a cabinet with each member controlling different areas of the business.
Beer Sales
Beer Running
War on those outside the Cabinet
Gambling
Vice
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1939 : Canada joins England and France by declaring war on Germany.
1942 : Following similar moves in Europe and the rest of the world President Franklin D. Roosevelt starts gasoline rationing in the U.S. as part of the country's wartime efforts.
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1948 : Although the war has ended there are still Gasoline shortages being reported throughout the country , and it is thought that in the next 12 months these shortages will be over allowing the public to use cars more and the auto industry to provide the pent up demand caused by production stopped during war time to concentrate on the munitions needed to win the war.
1954 : French Rescuers starting the task of checking homes in Orleansville have estimated the death toll from yesterdays earthquake at over 1000, but believe it could well be many more as they have not yet managed to reach the nearby village of Vauban 15 miles away due to the roads being unpassable which is completely wiped out with no homes left standing, and three other villages are also believed to be completely destroyed. Most homes in the area are now considered unsafe and large temp camps are being set up.
September 10th, 1963 : American Express one of the worlds largest banking companies is following Diners Club and introducing credit cards in Britain, American Express Card holders can buy purchases through the month and they are billed at the end of each month when all outstanding balances must be settled. Visa cards were not introduced in the UK until the Eighties.
1967 : Gibraltar votes in favor of staying British by 12,138 to 44 against becoming part of Spain.
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September 10th, 1970 : The Nixon administration is to enforce a 49 year old import duty law to stop the dumping of foreign goods on American Soil by increasing the import tax paid on those goods to enter the United States. The 1921 Anti-Dumping Act provides for penalty duties on foreign goods found to be damaging American Industry.
1973 : Two British Mainline Stations Bombed at King's Cross and Euston station injuring 13. The IRA has claimed responsibility and this is part of the current bombing campaign in the last few weeks which have included the Manchester city center bombing and Victoria station in London.
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September 10th, 1976 : Two passenger jets collide over Zagreb due to errors by air traffic controllers, British Airways Flight 476 and an Inex charter airline flight causing the loss of 176.
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The first strike by African-American plantation workers
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