Today in History for 14th September 2021

Historical Events

1862 - Battle at South Mountain: Union troops defeat an outnumbered Confederate force
1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans US ships from trading arms with China or Japan
1939 - British fleet attacks German U-39 boat
1953 - Yanks clinch 5th straight pennant with 8-5 win over Indians
1956 - IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton
2020 - Israel becomes the 1st country to announce a second national lockdown due to COVID-19, for 3 weeks

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Famous Birthdays

1656 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian, born in Lanchester, Durham (d. 1746)
1879 - Margaret Sanger, American nurse, birth control proponent and feminist, born in Corning, New York (d. 1966)
1960 - Melissa Leo, American actress (All My Children), born in Manhattan, New York
1971 - Mario Henry, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons)
1978 - Carmen Kass, Estonian model (estimated to have been the second-highest-paid model in the world in 2002), born in Talinn, Estonia
1981 - Ashley Roberts, American singer (Pussycat Dolls), born in Phoenix, Arizona

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Famous Deaths

1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, American author (Last of Mohicans), dies of dropsy at 61
1974 - Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95
1981 - Yasuji Kiyose, composer, dies at 81
1996 - Joe Elsby Martin, boxing coach, dies at 80
2003 - Yetunde Price, half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)
2008 - Ştefan Iordache, Romanian actor (b. 1941)

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