September 13
Activity of the day
Today is . . .
- Feast Day of St John Chrysostom, patron saint of preachers
On this day . . .
- The Greeks defeat the Persians at Battle of Marathon (490BC)
- New York becomes the temporary capital of the U.S. (1788)
- First person is convicted on fingerprint evidence in the UK (1902)
- IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit (1956)
- Scooby Doo, Where Are You? is first broadcast (1969)
- First New York Marathon is run (1970)
- The Muppet Show is first broadcast (1976)
- A computer error gives British bank customers an extra £2 billion (1989)
Births
- Milton Hershey, American chocolate manufacturer (1857)
- Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (1874)
- JB Priestley, English novelist and playwright (1894)
- Roald Dahl, British author (1916)
- Ben Savage, American actor (1980)
Deaths
- Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter (1506)
- Bob Fosse, American choreographer (1987)
- Joe Pasternak, American film producer (1991)
- Tupac Shakur, American rapper (1996)