Events On This Day In History September 11 1847 - Stephen Foster performed his Oh! Susanna for the very first time. The performance, for a crowd at the Eagle Saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earned Foster a bottle of whiskey. 1850 - Jenny Lind sang at the Castle Garden Theatre in New York City. It was her first performance in America. Lind’s voice was so sweet that she was nicknamed ‘The Swedish Nightingale’. 1875 - Professor Tigwissel’s Burglar Alarm appeared in the New York Daily Graphics newspaper. 17 successive pictures that filled a full page made up the first comic strip to be published in a newspaper. 1883 - The mail chute was patented by James G. Cutler, a former Mayor of Rochester, NY. The device was first used in the Elwood Building in Rochester. Mail chutes can still be seen -- and sometimes, they still work -- in many old office buildings. Did you ever wonder, as you see the mail going down the chute, whether it will get to its destination or disappear into never-never land -- never to be seen again? Maybe those wayward letters join up with the socks that escape from dryers. 1945 - Ernest Tubb recorded It Just Don’t Matter Now and When Love Turns to Hate on the Decca label. Tubb became the second recording artist to have made a commercial record in Nashville, TN. 1954 - The Miss America Pageant was televised-- live coast-to-coast -- for the first time. Bob Russell was the host. Lee Meriwether was crowned Miss America by a panel of judges that included movie queen Grace Kelly. 1959 - Elroy Face of the Pittsburgh Pirates saw his 22-game winning streak come to an end. Face lost to the LA Dodgers, 5-4. He did, however, finish the 1959 season with an impressive 18-1 record. For those of you with baseballs for heads, who can’t figure out how he ended up with 18 wins for the season instead of 22 ... Face won the other four games at the end of the 1958 season. 1962 - Ringo Starr joined John, Paul, George and Andy to record Love Me Do at Abbey Road, London, England. “Who’s Andy?” you ask. Andy White, that’s who, recruited as drummer for this session. “Then, what did Ringo do?” you ask. He handled the tambourine, that’s what. It took 17 takes to complete Love Me Do to everyone’s satisfaction. P.S. I Love You was recorded the same day, with Andy on drums again, and Ringo manning the maracas this time. 1964 - The last of the Friday Night Fights was seen on free, home TV. The Gillette Safety Razor Company, Madison Square Garden and ABC-TV televised a fight between Dick Tiger and Don Fullmer from Cleveland, OH. Tiger beat Fullmer to wrap up the 20-year TV series. Boxing soon went to closed-circuit TV in theatres and to cable and pay-per-view TV. 1974 - The St. Louis Cardinals took seven hours, four minutes and 25 innings to beat the New York Mets 4-3 at Shea Stadium in Flushing, NY. The game set a National League record for innings played in a night game. It was the second-longest game in professional baseball history. Fans went home at 3:10 a.m. 1985 - Pete Rose broke the major-league record for hits. He connected for hit #4,192 against Eric Show of San Diego. 1986 - The stock market plunged 86.61 points to 1792.89. It was the busiest day ever (to that day) for investors, brokers and traders on Wall Street as the big board tumbled. 1993 - Mariah Carey’s album Music Box reached #1 on U.K. album charts, while a single from that album, Dreamlover, was hitting #1 on U.S. singles charts. 1994 - Andre Agassi won the men’s title at the U.S. Open tennis tournament, defeating Michael Stich 6-1, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5. 1998 - Movies opening in the U.S. this day: Rounders (with Matt Damon, Edward Norton and Gretchen Mol), Without Limits (with Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland and Monica Potter), and Simon Birch (with Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello and Ashley Judd). 1999 - Serena Williams won the U.S. Open women’s title at age 17 in only her second year as a pro. Williams beat top-seeded Martina Hingis, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4).
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