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Sept 12

                                                          

1624 The first submarine is publicly tested in London on the Thames for King James I 

1758 French astronomer Charles Messier mistakes the Crab Nebula for a comet while searching for Halley's Comet, leading him to begin his Messier Catalogue 

1909 World's first patent for synthetic rubber is granted to German chemist Fritz Hofmann

1910 Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony "Symphony of a Thousand" premieres in Munich with 1,028 musicians

United States' first known female police officer, Alice Stebbins Wells, is appointed by the LAPD

1940 Four teenagers follow their dog down a hole near Lascaux, France, and discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as the Lascaux Cave Paintings

1958 US Supreme Court orders the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, to integrate

1959 Luna 2 is launched by the Soviet Union, becoming the first spacecraft to impact the Moon

1992 Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang 6-7, 7-5, 7-6, 5-7, 6-4 in 5 hours and 26 minutes, the longest match in US Open history at the time (eclipsed in 2024)

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                                                                                    Sept 11

1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scottish rebel William Wallace defeats the English

1609 An expulsion order is issued against the Moriscos of Valencia, beginning the expulsion of all of Spain's Moriscos (former Muslims and their descendants) 

1697 Battle of Zenta: Holy League forces led by Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat an Ottoman army under Mustafa II near Zenta in the Kingdom of Hungary, ending Ottoman control over large parts of Central Europe 

1708 Great Northern War: Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, the turning point in the war

1914 Father of the Blues, W. C. Handy, publishes "St. Louis Blues," his most famous composition

1916 First true self-service supermarket, Clarence Saunders' "Piggly Wiggly," opens in Memphis, Tennessee 

1783 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1928 First TV drama WGY's "The Queen's Messenger," starring Izetta Jewell, broadcasts in the New York area

1977 The Atari 2600, originally known as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), is released in North America, revolutionizing the video game industry

1985 Sri Lanka achieves its first Test cricket victory, defeating India by 149 runs

2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Center towers, causing the collapse of both and the deaths of 2,606 people

2001 Passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 attempt to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists, causing the plane to crash in a Pennsylvania field, killing all 44 people on board 

2001 Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon, killing 125 people

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                                                             Sept 10

422 St. Celestine I begins his reign as the Catholic Pope

506 35 bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde, shedding light on the moral conditions of the clergy and laity in southern France

918 Arnulf I the Old becomes lord of Flanders

1349 Jews who survive Black Death riots in Constance, Prince-Bishopric of Constance, Holy Roman Empire, are burned to death as part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe

1510 Bishop Frederik of Bath recaptures the Dutch city of Oldenzaal

1547 England demands that the 10-year-old Edward VI marry the 5-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, to unite the English and Scottish crowns

1547 Battle of Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots

1608 John Smith is elected president of the Jamestown Colony Council, Virginia

1776 George Washington asks for a spy, and Nathan Hale volunteers 

1813 American naval commander Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie

1846 Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine

1894 London taxi driver George Smith is the first person fined for drunk driving

1924 Leopold and Loeb are found guilty of the murder of Bobby Franks in Chicago in "the crime of the century" 

1945 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado, but survives for another 18 months before choking to death

1972 American long-distance runner Frank Shorter achieves a famous win in the men's marathon with a time of 2:12:19.8 at the Munich Olympics

1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France 

1991 Rock band Nirvana releases their single "Smells Like Teen Spirit," often dubbed the anthem of Generation X

1993 "The X-Files", created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, debuts on Fox

2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland 

2020 California's August Complex wildfire becomes the largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)

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Sept 9

1000 Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea: King Olaf on board the Long Serpent is defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age and leaps to his death overboard 

1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned Queen of Scots in the central Scottish town of Stirling 

1776 Congress officially renames the country as the ​United States of America​ (from the United Colonies)

1817 Alexander Twilight, likely the first African American to graduate from a US college, receives a BA degree from Middlebury College 

1861 Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as an officer (and its only female officer) by the Confederate States Army

1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army is created, the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade 

1993 Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization exchange letters of mutual recognition 

1926 National Broadcasting Company (NBC) founded by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

1946 First "bug" in a computer program is discovered by a team of engineers, including Grace Hopper, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when a real-life moth is removed with tweezers from a relay and taped into the logbook

1956 Elvis Presley's first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"

1971 Apple Records releases John Lennon's second solo studio album, "Imagine," in the US; it tops the charts in the US, UK, Australia, and three other countries

1972 Soviet Union beats the United States 51-50 in the most controversial game in international basketball history; with the US leading 50-49, the final 3 seconds are replayed three times until the Soviets finally win

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria

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                                                                      Sept 8

70 Roman army under General Titus completes the siege of Jerusalem by destroying what remained after four months of occupation and plundering 

1024 Duke Conrad II chosen as German king and crowned at Mainz Cathedral

1276 John XXI [Peter Juliani] is elected Pope, the only Portuguese Pope

1380 Battle of Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dmitry defeats the Mongols, beginning the decline of the Tatars

1449 Battle of Tumu Fortress: Mongolians capture the Chinese Emperor Yingzong of Ming

1504 Michelangelo's statue of David is unveiled in Florence

1565 First permanent European settlement in the US is founded in St. Augustine, Florida 

1664 The Dutch surrender the colony of New Netherland, including New Amsterdam (modern-day New York), to a force of about 300 English soldiers

1894 Employed by Thomas Edison, William K.L. Dickson films the first boxing match in West Orange, New Jersey, an exhibition between world heavyweight champion James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney

1941 Siege of Leningrad by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins during World War II; battle lasts over 28 months as Soviets repel the invasion; well over a million lives are lost 

1960 Nationwide release of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh

1965 Small ads in Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter attract 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first manufactured boy band, "The Monkees." 

1965 Kansas City A's Bert Campaneris plays all nine positions in a game

1966 "Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, with the episode "The Man Trap"

1970 Black September hijackings begin as three airliners are hijacked and destroyed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 

2016 Giraffe DNA study published in "Current Biology" reveals there are four species, not just one as previously assumed

2022 Queen Elizabeth II dies at Balmoral Castle after ruling for 70 years as the UK's longest-serving monarch; her eldest son inherits the throne as King Charles III 

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                                                                  Sept 7th

1714 Treaty of Baden is signed by the Holy Roman Empire and France, ending the War of the Spanish Succession; France retains Alsace and Landau, and Austria gains the east bank of the Rhine 

1812 Battle of Borodino: Napoleon Bonaparte wins a Pyrrhic victory against Russian General Mikhail Kutuzov in the most ferocious battle of the Napoleonic era; 70,000 are killed 

1822 Pedro I, son of King John VI, declares Brazil's independence from Portugal (Independence Day)

1888 Edith Eleanor McLean is the first baby placed in an incubator at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward's Island, New York 

1892 American John L Sullivan reigned as world boxing champion for ten years – until new rules tamed the sport and put a stop to bare-knuckle fighting

1896 A. H. Whiting wins the first automobile race held on a closed-circuit track in Cranston, Rhode Island

1813 "Uncle Sam" is first used to refer to the US by Troy Post of New York

1902 In Australia, the entire nation observes a "day of humiliation" and prays for rain as a terrible drought kills livestock and threatens crops; rain begins to fall on September 10

1909 Eugene Lefebvre becomes the first pilot to die in an aircraft while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy

1940 Beginning of the Blitz as the German Luftwaffe bombs London for the first of 57 consecutive nights, losing 41 bombers as the Nazis prepare to invade Britain 

1980 32nd Emmy Awards, notable for proceeding despite 51 of the 52 nominated performers boycotting the event due to a strike by members of the Screen Actors Guild: "Taxi," "Lou Grant," Ed Asner, and Barbara Bel Geddes win

1996 Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas and dies 6 days later

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                                                                     Sept 6

1522 Ferdinand Magellan's Spanish expedition, now led by Juan Sebastián Elcano, returns to Seville without its captain after a three-year epic voyage, becoming the first to circumnavigate the globe

1651 King Charles II of England spends a day hiding in an oak tree during his escape after losing the Battle of Worcester

1666 After St. Paul's Cathedral and much of the city burned down over four days, the Great Fire of London is finally extinguished

1791 Wolfgang Mozart's dramatic opera "La Clemenza di Tito" premieres at the Estates Theatre in Prague

1880 First Test cricket game in England begins with W. G. Grace scoring 152 on debut against Australia at The Oval

1901 US President William McKinley is shot and assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York

1909 The New York Times headline announces that American explorer Robert Peary reached the North Pole five months earlier (claim now considered unlikely)

1914 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins as French and British forces prevent the German advance on Paris

1954 "La Strada," directed by Federico Fellini and starring Anthony Quinn, premieres at the Venice Film Festival

1992 Jockey Gay Kelleway is the only woman to ride a winner at England’s famous Royal Ascot. She was also the first jockey to wear a TV camera on her helmet.

2025 Red Bull's Max Verstappen sets fastest Formula One lap in history with 1:18.792, surpassing Lewis Hamilton's record of 1:18.887, at the Italian Grand Prix [1]

Lindsay Clancy mistrial declared after jury deadlocks in killings of her three children

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Clancy was charged with murdering her children in the family's Duxbury, Massachusetts, home

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Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Friday in Lindsay Clancy’s murder case after jurors said they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the killings of her three children after a week of deliberating at the Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

The mistrial followed a dramatic dispute over an alleged 11-1 divide, with Clancy’s defense arguing that the lone holdout juror had acknowledged doubt but was refusing to properly apply the court’s instructions on reasonable doubt.

The alleged holdout is believed to be one of the three male jurors on the 12-person panel after defense attorney Kevin Reddington repeatedly referred to the unnamed juror as a male inside and outside court.

"[The other jurors] know that they were robbed — by one man — for whatever his agenda was, who stole seven weeks of the life of these other jurors that were so attentive, so beautiful, so wonderful and listened to this evidence," he told reporters after leaving the courthouse. 

"And you could see how defeated they were sitting there. And I got a funny feeling they could go one for another week if they had to. So, I hope that guy can sleep well at night." 

Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy. The three children were killed at their Duxbury, Mass., home in January 2023. (Lindsay Marie Clancy/Facebook)

Also speaking outside the courthouse, Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz acknowledged the victims in this case — the Clancy children: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. 

"It is our job to make sure the victims are not invisible," Cruz said. "I am a father and a grandfather, and I cannot imagine the hell this entire family has lived through."

Clancy’s attorneys made an emergency appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in an attempt to stay the mistrial and force further inquiry into the juror. Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt denied the request Friday afternoon, clearing the way for Sullivan to formally declare the mistrial.

Clancy had been charged with first-degree murder in the January 2023 deaths of her children, each of whom had been strangled with exercise bands.

The trial centered on whether she was legally responsible for her actions at the time, and the defense argued she wasn't due to postpartum psychosis.

Her attorneys argued that severe mental illness left her unable to appreciate the wrongfulness of what she was doing or unable to conform her conduct to the requirements of the law.

Lindsay and Patrick Clancy with two of their three children in an undated photo (Lindsay Marie Clancy/ Facebook)

During the trial, Clancy's former husband, Patrick Clancy, testified about the day of the slayings, which happened while he was running errands that included picking up children's stool softener at a CVS store and takeout for dinner. They spoke on the phone while he was out.

Under Massachusetts law, once lack of criminal responsibility is properly raised, prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant was criminally responsible.

Lindsay and Patrick Clancy with two of their three children in an undated photo (Lindsay Marie Clancy/Facebook)

The mistrial means the case ended without a verdict, and Clancy was neither convicted nor acquitted. Prosecutors can seek to retry her but have not yet announced a decision.

Sullivan said he wants the case retried "sooner rather than later," suggesting a new trial could potentially take place later this fall. Clancy is due back in court Sept. 29 for a status hearing, trial assignment and a defense Rule 25 motion.

All previous bail orders remain in effect.

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Lindsay Clancy listens to testimony Aug. 10, 2026. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

The mistrial followed a trial that focused extensively on Clancy's psychiatric condition in the months and weeks before the children died.

Lindsay Clancy holding her youngest child, Callan, who was only 7 months old when he died.  (Lindsay Marie Clancy Facebook)

Jurors heard testimony about her treatment by mental health professionals, psychiatric medications, anxiety, depression, insomnia and other symptoms documented before the killings.

Attorney Kevin Reddington holds up a display board of a text message Lindsay Clancy sent her mother Paula during her murder trial in Plymouth Superior Court Aug. 26, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger/Pool via AP)

On Jan. 24, 2023, authorities responded to the Clancy family's Duxbury home after Patrick Clancy returned and found his wife seriously injured outside the house.

The couple's three children were found inside.

Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague rested her case as defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked rebuttal witness Dr. Gregory Saathoff one last question during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 26, 2026. (Greg Derr/Pool The Patriot Ledger via AP)

Cora and Dawson died that night. Callan was taken to a hospital and died several days later.

Lindsay Clancy survived after jumping from a second-story window and suffered injuries that left her paralyzed in a wheelchair.

The prosecution and defense offered sharply different explanations for what happened before the children were killed.

Patrick Clancy and Rachel Danis hold hands as they walk through East Midtown in New York City, N.Y. Sept. 2, 2026.  (Elder Ordonez/InStar for Fox News Digital)

The defense had argued that the deaths occurred after months of worsening psychiatric symptoms and treatment and that Clancy's mental condition had deteriorated to the point she could not legally be held criminally responsible.

Specifically, the defense contended that Clancy heard a male voice that commanded her to kill her three children. Dr. Phillip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist, said it was almost as if she was a "puppet."

"Not only did she hear a command, but she felt that her body was taken over by an external force where she was in a dream state and did not have control of her own body. It was almost like she was a puppet, and someone else was pulling the strings," Resnick said.

However, prosecutors rejected that claim, and their experts argued Clancy deliberately created an opportunity to be alone with the children and intentionally killed them.

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Lindsay Clancy listens to the testimony of Dr. Gregory Saathoff during her murder trial in Plymouth Superior Court Aug. 26, 2026 in Plymouth, Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Virginia who consults the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, told jurors Clancy's self-described auditory hallucinations were "very unusual."

"What was significant to me is that she had not spoken about hearing voices before to any of the mental health professionals, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, physicians and staff in the emergency department or at McLean," Saathoff said.

"This was the first time she reported that, and that she experienced an auditory hallucination, according to what she told me. So, that was unusual. And then what was very unusual was the fact that the voice stopped with the strangling of her youngest son."

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During the trial, members of Clancy's family revealed they were "very concerned" about her mental health in the months before she killed her three kids.

Susan Clancy, Lindsay's mother-in-law, told jurors she was concerned about Lindsay's mental health during the holiday season in 2022 but said she was a caring mother.

"Lindsay was struggling. We were all very concerned," Susan Clancy said. "She was very nurturing, very loving. She was a wonderful mother. Wonderful.

"She was begging for help."

Susan Clancy, the former mother-in-law of Lindsay Clancy, testifies during Lindsay Clancy's murder trial in Plymouth Mass., Aug. 18, 2026 in Plymouth, Mass. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

Paula Musgrove, Lindsay Clancy's mother, also told jurors about the mental health problems. In an Oct. 20, 2022 text message, Lindsay Clancy asked her mother for help.

"Mom, will you please come up and stay with me for a bit? I'm really sick. Something is wrong. I had horrible insomnia all night, and I just don’t know how I am going to get through the day. ... It’s just really scary, and I don’t want to be alone," the text read.