Source: almanac.com

September 12.

Born

• Richard Jordan Gatling (inventor) – 1818

• Charles Dudley Warner (editor) – 1829

• The Viscount Willingdon (Canadian Governor General 1926-1931) – 1866

• H.L. Mencken (journalist) – 1880

• Alfred A. Knopf (publisher) – 1892

• Ben Shahn (painter) – 1898

• Jesse Owens (Olympic track and field athlete) – 1913

• Barry White (singer) – 1944

• Amy Yasbeck (actress) – 1963

• Paul Walker (actor) – 1973

• Benjamin McKenzie (actor) – 1978

• Yao Ming (basketball player) – 1980

• Jennifer Hudson (actress and singer) – 1981

• Emmy Rossum (actress) – 1986

• Freddie Freeman (baseball player) – 1989

Died

• William Boyd (actor) – 1972

• Anthony Perkins (actor) – 1992

• Raymond Burr (actor) – 1993

• John Hollman (CNN newscaster) – 1998

• Johnny Cash (singer) – 2003

Events

• Henry Hudson began exploration of what is later to be named the Hudson River – 1609

• Astronomer Charles Messier cataloged the Crab Nebula – 1758

• A whale followed a boat to the Montreal harbor – 1823

• Elizabeth Barrett eloped with Robert Browning – 1846

• Art believed to date to the Upper Paleolithic era was discovered in Lascaux cave, near Montignac, France. – 1940

• John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island – 1953

• Lassie made its television debut – 1954

• Bonanza made its television debut – 1959

• Luna 2 spacecraft launched – 1959

• U.S. President Kennedy delivered Moon speech, Rice University, Houston, Texas – 1962

• The Monkees debuted on television – 1966

• Astronauts Jan Davis and Mark Lee became the first married couple in space during a shuttle mission – 1992

• Hong Kong Disneyland opened – 2005

Weather

• Hot, dry winds caused tree foliage to crumble in east Kansas – 1882

• Hurricane Donna made landfall on central Long Island, then tracked across New England, with winds reaching 140 mph at the Blue Hills Observatory in Milton, Massachusetts, and 130 mph on Block Island, Rhode Island – 1960

September 13

Born

Oliver Evans (inventor) – 1755

Clara Schumann (pianist & composer) – 1819

Milton Hershey (Chocolatier and founder of The Hershey Company; born in Derry Township, Pennsylvania) – 1857

Adolf Meyer (psychiatrist) – 1866

Sherwood Anderson (writer) – 1876

Leland Hayward (producer) – 1902

Claudette Colbert (actress) – 1903

Horace Babcock (astronomer) – 1912

Roald Dahl (author) – 1916

Else Holmelund Minarik (children’s author; Little Bear” series”) – 1920

Mel Torme (singer) – 1925

Peter Cetera (musician) – 1944

Jacqueline Bisset (actress) – 1944

Nell Carter (actress & singer) – 1948

Anne Geddes (photographer) – 1956

Michael Johnson (Olympic athlete) – 1967

Tyler Perry (actor and screenwriter) – 1969

Stella McCartney (fashion designer) – 1971

Fiona Apple (singer) – 1977

Ben Savage (actor) – 1980

Died

John Barry (commodore, father of the American navy) – 1803

Richard Merrell (television writer & actor) – 1998

George Wallace (politician) – 1998

Dorothy McGuire (actress) – 2001

Dilhan Eryurt (Turkish astrophysicist) – 2012

Frank Vincent (actor) – 2017

Eddie Money (singer) – 2019

Events

Halford Mackinder’s team became the first Europeans to summit Mount Kenya – 1899

Henry Bliss walked off a trolley and was hit by a speeding driver. The following day when he died from his injuries, he became the first pedestrian to be killed by an automobile – 1899

The Chocolate Soldier opened in N.Y.C. – 1909

Chiang Kai-shek became president of China – 1943

Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress – 1948

IBM introduced the first computer with a disk storage system – 1956

A protester dressed as Batman scaled the front wall of Buckingham Palace – 2004

Weather

Frost hit Albany, New York, ending the shortest growing season ever – 1963

September 17

Died

Tobias George Smollett (Scottish satirical novelist) – 1771

Spiro T. Agnew (served as vice president under Richard Nixon) – 1996

Red Skelton (comedian) – 1997

Robert Truax (rocket scientist) – 2010

Born

David Dunbar Buick (automobile manufacturer) – 1854

William Carlos Williams (writer & doctor) – 1883

Hank Williams (musician) – 1923

Anne Bancroft (actress) – 1931

David Souter (U.S. Supreme Court justice) – 1939

Phil Jackson (basketball coach) – 1945

John Ritter (actor) – 1948

Kyle Chandler (actor) – 1965

Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR driver) – 1975

Patrick Mahomes (football player) – 1995

Auston Matthews (hockey player) – 1997

India Amarteifio (actress) – 2001

Events

City of Boston founded – 1630

The U.S. Constitution signed – 1787

Harriet Tubman and her two brothers temporarily escaped slavery in Maryland. – 1849

Battle of Antietam in Maryland occurred; known as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War – 1862

First powered flight of X-15 rocket plane – 1959

First public display of a lunar rock, at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. – 1969

M*A*S*H made its television debut – 1972

Royal Canadian Mounted Police began accepting women as uniformed members – 1974

NASA unveiled the first space shuttle, Enterprise, to the public – 1976

Vanessa Williams became the first African American woman to be crowned Miss America – 1983

William Rehnquist is confirmed as chief justice of the US Supreme Court – 1986

Heather Whitestone of Alabama became the first deaf woman to be crowned Miss America – 1994

The Late Show with David Letterman was the first TV talk show to return to the airways six days after terrorists attacked the United States in New York City – 2001

Barry Bonds hit his 700th home run – 2004

A 17-pound 4-ounce white catfish was caught in the Humboldt River of Nevada – 2005

A bottled message tossed from an April Caribbean cruise was found in Sunset Beach, North Carolina – 2018

Weather

2.42” rain fell in 3 hours in Yuma, Arizona – 1963

Lander, in the Wyoming Rockies, had 23.6 inches of snow – 1965

September 18

Almanac.com.

Born

Samuel Johnson (author) – 1709

Elmer Henry Maytag (manufacturer) – 1883

Archie "Grey Owl" Belaney (conservationist) – 1888

Harold Clurman (director) – 1901

Greta Garbo (actress) – 1905

Jack Warden (actor) – 1920

Frankie Avalon (singer & actor) – 1939

Fred Willard (actor) – 1939

Darryl Sittler (hockey player) – 1950

Jada Pinkett Smith (actress) – 1971

James Marsden (actor) – 1973

Alison Lohman (actress) – 1979

Died

Jimi Hendrix (musician) – 1970

Katherine Anne Porter (author) – 1980

Vitas Gerulaitis (tennis player) – 1994

Ernie Coombs (children’s entertainer, Mr. Dressup) – 2001

Bullet Bob Hayes (Olympic gold medalist and football player) – 2002

Events

Christopher Columbus landed in what is now Costa Rica – 1502

New Hampshire territory separated from Massachusetts – 1679

The cornerstone for the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., was laid – 1793

The first edition of “The New York Daily Times” went on sale. The paper later dropped “Daily” from its title – 1851

Shirley Temple made her film debut, at the age of 3, in War Babies – 1932

First nighttime skywriting in the U.S. – 1937

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) founded – 1947

What had previously been The Toast of the Town on CBS TV since 1948 became The Ed Sullivan Show – 1955

Final day of streetcar service in Winnipeg, Manitoba – 1955

The UN accepts East Germany, West Germany and the Bahamas as members – 1973

Fugitive Patty Hearst was arrested in San Francisco after spending more than six months with the Symbionese Liberation Army – 1975

Cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez first Latin American in space – 1980

George Meegan finished an almost seven-year long walk, from the tip of South America to the Arctic Ocean at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska – 1983

Aquarium of the Bay in California reported that an angel shark had been born – 2007

Weather

The Great Miami Hurricane brought 27.61 inches of rain and winds over 135 mph to Miami, Florida – 1926

Hurricane Hugo hit Puerto Rico – 1989

Hurricane Isabel made landfall on the East Coast of the United States – 2003

September 19

Born

Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (astronomer) – 1749

George Cadbury (chocolate manufacturer) – 1839

Arthur Rackham (artist) – 1867

Rachel Field (children’s author) – 1894

JB Rhine (psychologist) – 1895

Leon Jaworski (lawyer) – 1905

Ferdinand Porsche (Austrian auto-manufacturer) – 1909

William Golding (author) – 1911

Emil Zatopek (distance runner) – 1922

Adam West (actor) – 1928

Mike Royko (journalist) – 1932

Brian Epstein (manager of The Beatles) – 1934

Joe Morgan (baseball player) – 1943

Jeremy Irons (actor) – 1948

Leslie "Twiggy" Lawson (model) – 1949

Ernie Sabella (actor) – 1949

Joan Lunden (journalist) – 1950

Trisha Yearwood (singer) – 1964

Jimmy Fallon (actor) – 1974

Hermione Granger (character in Harry Potter series) – 1979

Danielle Panabaker (actress) – 1987

Died

James Garfield (20th U.S. president) – 1881

Jackie Collins (author) – 2015

Events

Bissell carpet sweeper patented – 1876

Bruno R. Hauptmann charged with kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby – 1934

On a return trip from Canada, while in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Betty and Barney Hill claimed to have been abducted for two hours by a UFO. After going public with their story, the two gained worldwide notoriety. The incident is the first fully documented case of alien abduction. – 1961

Anti-AIDS drug AZT first became available, on a compassionate use basis – 1986

7.1 earthquake occurred in Ayutla, Puebla, Mexico – 2017

Weather

New York City had a record high temperature of 92 degrees F, while snow fell in the West – 1983

92 degrees Fahrenheit, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – 1983

The mummified remains of Ötzi, a Copper Age “iceman” were discovered in the Ötztal Alps, near the Italian/Austrian border. – 1991

Frogs’ eggs fell from the sky in Berlin, Connecticut – 2003