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Sep
8
|
1977 |
The Canadian Cindy Nicholas became the first woman to swim the English
Channel both ways non-stop |
 |
|
1966 |
Star Trek was first transmitted
on US television |
|
1888 |
The first English Football
League matches were played |
|
Sep
9
|
1971 |
The Old Grey Whistle Test was first broadcast on television |
|
Sep10

|
1963 |
The
American Express credit card was launched in the UK
|
|
1960 |
Blackpool v
Bolton Wanderers was the first English Football League match to be televised |
|
Sep11
|
1960 |
The first episode of "Danger
Man" was shown on tv
|
 |
|
1709 |
The Duke of Marlborough defeated the French at the Battle of
Malplaquet
|
|
1297 |
William Wallace defeated the English at
the Battle of Stirling Bridge |
|
Sep12
|
1953 |
Jaqueline Bouvier married John F Kennedy |
|
Sep13
|
2000 |
The Lock and Barrel, the
first pub in Frinton-on-Sea, opened for business
|
|
1788 |
New York became the capital of the USA |
|
Sep14
|
1972 |
Pope
Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Mantini) abolished the tonsure for monks |
|
Sep15
|
1830 |
William
Huskisson was run down and killed by George Stephenson's Rocket at
the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, becoming the
world's first railway accident |