ICOT: seems like you got the night off! so i’ll take ya over! 😉
Sept. 10th this date in history:
1997 – Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 home runs in 2 consec yrs
1993 – 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo planes produced
1993 – Israel and PLO sign joint recognition statements
1992 – Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents charlie brown, where are you?! time to pay us a visit!
1990 – Ellis Island reopens as a museum
1990 – George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki
1990 – Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq
1990 – 1st time in New York Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A’s beat them 12 games to 0
1989 – East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary and Czechoslovakia)
1988 – Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas and Yucatan
1979 – 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed
1978 – 4th game of Boston Massacre; Yankees beat Red Sox 7-4. This ties them for 1st place. Yankees out hit ’em 67-21; score 42-9
1976 – 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, kills all 176 aboard
1976 – 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, New York
1972 – 20th Olympic games close at Munich, West Germany
1964 – Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms
1954 – 12 second shock kills 1,460 in Orleansville Algeria
1951 – British begins economic boycott of Iran
1950 – Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st to hit 3 HR in a game at Griffith Stadium
1939 – In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany
1926 – Germany joins League of Nations
1923 – Irish Free state joins League of Nations my hometown makes it into history!
1918 – Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers
1776 – George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
1349 – Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1608 – John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va