Daily Archives: September 9, 2022

Soviets end U.S. Olympic basketball reign with disputed last-shot 51-50 victory 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 10 1972)

1970s


Video: '1972 Olympic Gold Medal Basketball Game USSR vs USA'

(Saturday, September 9, 1972 from 11:45 p.m. to Sunday, September 10, 1972, 1:14 a.m. Central European Time; during the 1972 Olympic Men’s Basketball Final, part of the 1972 Summer Olympics) — In the gold medal match at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the American men’s basketball team today lost to the Soviet Union, 51–50, on a shot at the buzzer by Alexander Belov in what is widely considered the most controversial game in international basketball history. Continue reading Soviets end U.S. Olympic basketball reign with disputed last-shot 51-50 victory 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 10 1972) →

Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon forest in first air attack on U.S. mainland during World War II 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 9 1942)

1940s, World War II


Video: 'Almanac: The day Japan bombed Oregon'

(Wednesday, September 9, 1942, lookout reported a plume of smoke at 12:20 p.m. PWT; during the Lookout Air Raids, part of the American theater and Pacific theater of World War II) — In the first air attack on the U.S. mainland during World War II, a Japanese floatplane dropped incendiary bombs today in the Siskiyou National Forest, some ten miles east of Brookings, on the southern Oregon coast. Continue reading Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon forest in first air attack on U.S. mainland during World War II 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 9 1942) →