DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Monday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2021. There are 109 days left in the year.
On this date:
1788: The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election, and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
1814: During the War of 1812, British naval forces began bombarding Fort Mchenry in Baltimore but were driven back by American defenders in a battle that lasted until the following morning.
1959: Elvis Presley first met his future wife, 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Army. (They married in 1967, but divorced in 1973.)
1962: Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett rejected the U.S. Supreme Court’s order for the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, a Black student, declaring in a televised address, “We will not drink from the cup of genocide.”
1970: The first New York City Marathon was held; winner Gary Muhrcke finished the 26.2-mile run, which took place entirely inside Central Park, in 2:31:38.
1971: A four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed the lives of 32 inmates and 11 hostages.
1990: The combination police-courtroom drama “Law & Order” premiered on NBC.
1993: At the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
1996: Rapper Tupac Shakur died at a
Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting; he was 25.
1997: Funeral services were held in Calcutta, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa.
1998: Former Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace died in Montgomery at age 79.
2001: Two days after the 9/11 terror attacks, the first few jetliners returned to the nation’s skies, but several major airports remained closed and others opened only briefly. President George W. Bush visited injured Pentagon workers and said he would carry the nation’s prayers to New York.
2010: Rafael Nadal won his first U.S. Open title to complete a career Grand Slam, beating Novak Djokovic 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.
Actor Barbara Bain (TV’S “Mission: Impossible”) is 90. Actor Eileen Fulton
(“As The World Turns”) is 88. Singer David Clayton-thomas of Blood, Sweat and Tears is 80. Singer Peter Cetera of Chicago is 77. Actor Jacqueline Bisset is 77. Actor Jean Smart is 70. Singer Randy Jones of the Village People is 69. Record producer-musician Don Was is 69. Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. (“The Wire”) is 67. Singer-guitarist Dave Mustaine of Megadeth is 60. Radio and TV personality Tavis Smiley is 57. Actor Louise Lombard
(“CSI”) is 51. Guitarist Joe Don Rooney
of Rascal Flatts is 46. Singer Fiona Apple is 44. Actor Ben Savage (“Boy Meets World”) is 41. Singer Niall Horan of One Direction is 28.