September 13: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 509 BC - The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
2. 1541 - After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
3. 1609 - Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him - the Hudson River.
4. 1788 - The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
5. 1862 - American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
6. 1906 - First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
7. 1948 - Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
8. 1956 - IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
9. 1988 - Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005
10. 1994 - Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
11. Famous Birthdays: Samuel Wilson (possible namesake of Uncle Sam), Marjorie Jackson-Nelson (Australian Olympic athlete, Governor of South Australia), Anne Geddes (Australian photographer), Stella McCartney (English fashion designer), Daisuke Matsuzaka (Japanese baseball player)

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