# Today in History **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 10, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530 "2016-07-10T04:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 71
**Author:** ![CharmaChameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CharmaChameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharmaChameleon)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1404 "2018-09-15T22:39:48Z")
**September 15, 1968:** The USSR launches Zond 5, the first spaceship to orbit the moon and reenter Earth’s atmosphere. ---
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**September 16, 1966:** The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s opera _Antony and Cleopatra._ ---
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**September 17, 1849:** Abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1407 "2018-09-18T05:24:04Z")
**September 17, 1976** : The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA. **September 17, 1991** : The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1408 "2018-09-19T20:42:03Z")
**September 19, 1982** : Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons 🙂 and ☹ on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system. **September 19, 1991** : Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1409 "2018-09-21T03:30:33Z")
**September 21, 1897** : The _New York Sun_ editorial says [Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.](http://www.newseum.org/exhibits/online/yes-virginia/) ---
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**September 21, 1981:** Sandra Day O’Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1411 "2018-09-23T21:36:57Z")
**September 23, 1909:** The novel _Le Fantôme de l’Opéra_ (_The Phantom of the Opera_), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in _Le Gaulois._ ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1412 "2018-09-24T22:03:23Z")
**September 24, 1929** : Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible. **September 24, 1960** : USS _Enterprise_, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched. **September 24, 2014** : The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1413 "2018-09-25T03:08:38Z")
**September 24, 1755:** John Marshall, fourth and arguably greatest Chief Justice of the United States, is born in Germantown, Va. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1414 "2018-09-25T11:37:03Z")
**September 25, 1789** : The United States Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: The Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights. **September 25, 1974** : Orthopedic surgeon Frank Jobe, a Los Angeles Dodgers team physician, performs the first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery on a baseball player named Tommy John. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1415 "2018-09-28T16:38:34Z")
**September 28, 1787** : The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval. **September 28, 1924** : The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army. **September 28, 1928** : Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1416 "2018-09-28T17:07:17Z")
**September 28, 1912:** Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1417 "2018-09-30T01:00:10Z")
**September 29, 1789** : The 1st United States Congress adjourns. **September 29, 1940** : Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely. **September 29, 1975** : WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1418 "2018-09-30T19:37:42Z")
**September 30, 1791:** The first performance of Mozart’s opera _The Magic Flute_ takes place two months before his death. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1419 "2018-10-01T16:34:05Z")
**October 1, 1908** : Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825. **October 1, 1964** : The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. **October 1, 1971** : The first practical CT scanner is used to diagnose a patient. **October 1, 2017** : An independence referendum, declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530/1420 "2018-10-01T23:44:06Z")
**October 1, 1989:** Denmark introduces the world’s first legal same-sex registered partnerships. ---
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**October 2, 1959:** _The Twilight Zone_ premieres on CBS. The first episode is “Where Is Everybody?” ---
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**October 2, 1535:** Jacques Cartier discovers the present site of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ---
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**October 3, 1283:** Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, is the first nobleman to be executed by hanging, drawing and quartering. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=70) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-in-history/759530.md?page=72)