You can check here and there. This is what stood out to me:
590: St. Gregory I began his reign as Pope. Gregory the Great reigned until 604 and established the popes as the de facto rulers of central Italy, and strengthened the papal primacy over the Churches of the West.
1658: Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the New Commonwealth, i.e. ruler over England’s Puritan parliament (1653-58), died at age 59.
1783: The Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War.
1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany
1958: The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index closes above 50 for the first time, finishing the day at 50.06.
1970 Vince Lombardi (57), Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins football coach, died in Washington, D.C.
1984: Typhoon batters Philippines
What stood out to you–KSH?
That Vince Lombardi was only 57 when he died!
On September 12 1970, my father took me to a preseason game at RFK stadium between the Washington Redskins and the Baltimore Colts. This was a memorial game for Vincent Thomas Lombardi. There was a moment of silence in which they cut the stadium lights and people held up lighters and matches. I was 11 and had never seen anything like it. My father said that’s the way it was on pilgrimages to Rome or Jerusalem. I remember it well.