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Events
- 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Notable naval battle of the Viking Age.
- 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
- 1493 - Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion.
- 1513 - James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
- 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
- 1739 - Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britains mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States.
- 1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
- 1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- 1850 - The Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
- 1863 - American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- 1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
- 1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
- 1922 - Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
- 1923 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party (CHP).
- 1924 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- 1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
- 1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
- 1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
- 1944 - World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
- 1945 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
- 1947 - First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
- 1948 - The Republic Day of Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
- 1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
- 1965 - The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
- 1965 - Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10-12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
- 1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
- 1969 - Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collided in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashed near Fairland, Indiana.
- 1970 - A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
- 1971 - Attica Prison riots.
- 1991 - Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1993 - The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
- 1994 - Sachin Tendulkar scores his first ODI century against Australia in Sri Lanka.
- 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.
- 2004 - 2004 Jakarta embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
- 2004 - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools, and announces that Čolić will be replaced.
- *2007 - Wikipedia's 2,000,000th article in the English language version.|
Births
- 384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)
- 1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)
- 1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)
- 1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)
- 1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)
- 1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
- 1629 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)
- 1711 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (d. 1780)
- 1731 - Francisco Javier Clavijero, Mexican writer
- 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
- 1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)
- 1755 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)
- 1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)
- 1834 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)
- 1853 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (d. 1926)
- 1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)
- 1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)
- 1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)
- 1877 - Frank Chance, American baseball player (d. 1924)
- 1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)
- 1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
- 1882 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
- 1890 - Harland Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 1980)
- 1892 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
- 1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
- 1894 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
- 1898 - Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (d. 1973)
- 1899 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
- 1899 - Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984)
- 1900 - James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)
- 1899 - Bruno E. Jacob, Founder of the National Forensics League (d. 1979)
- 1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer
- 1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)
- 1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)
- 1911 - John Gorton, Australian politician (d. 2002)
- 1911 - Paul Goodman, American poet and writer (d. 1972)
- 1919 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)
- 1919 - Gottfried Dienst, German football referee
- 1920 - Aldo Parisot, American cellist and teacher
- 1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)
- 1920 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician (d. 1993)
- 1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1922 - Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and writer
- 1922 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
- 1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1924 - Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
- 1925 - Cliff Robertson, American actor
- 1926 - Yusuf al-Qaradawi, prominent Egypt Muslim cleric
- 1927 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004)
- 1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
- 1932 - Sylvia Miles, American actress
- 1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
- 1939 - Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican actor
- 1939 - Ron McDole, American football player
- 1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
- 1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist
- 1942 - Inez Foxx, American R&B singer
- 1943 - Art LaFleur, American actor
- 1945 - Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer
- 1946 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
- 1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician
- 1949 - Garry Maddox, American baseball player
- 1949 - Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator
- 1951 - Alexander Downer, Australian politician
- 1951 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
- 1952 - Angela Cartwright, actress
- 1952 - Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel)
- 1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)
- 1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor
- 1955 - John Kricfalusi, Canadian animator
- 1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
- 1957 - Gabriele Tredozi, Italian engineer
- 1959 - Eric Serra, French composer
- 1960 - Hugh Grant, English actor
- 1960 - Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur
- 1960 - Bob Stoops, American football coach
- 1965 - Dan Majerle, American basketball player
- 1965 - Constance Marie, American actress
- 1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger
- 1966 - Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
- 1967 - Akshay Kumar, Indian Actor
- 1967 - Anna Malle, American porn star (d. 2006)
- 1967 - Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer
- 1968 - Francois Botha, South African boxer
- 1968 - Jon Drummond, American former sprinter
- 1968 - Julia Sawalha, English actress
- 1969 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
- 1970 - Natalia Streignard, Venezuelan actress
- 1971 - Henry Thomas, American actor and musician
- 1972 - James Farmer, American educator and artist
- 1972 - Mike Hampton, American baseball player
- 1972 - Natasha Kaplinsky, British newsreader
- 1972 - Félix Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player
- 1972 - Goran Višnjić, Croatian actor
- 1973 - Mark Parry, Welsh guitarist (The Manvils)
- 1973 - Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
- 1974 - Shane Crawford, Australian rules footballer
- 1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
- 1974 - Vikram Batra, Officer of the Indian Army
- 1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian singer and actor
- 1976 - Chace Ambrose, American actor and writer
- 1976 - Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, ex-Borknagar)
- 1976 - Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor
- 1976 - Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
- 1977 - Chae Jung-an, South Korean actress and singer
- 1977 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
- 1977 - Kyle Snyder, American baseball player
- 1978 - Kurt Ainsworth, American baseball player
- 1978 - Shane Battier, American basketball player
- 1978 - Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player
- 1979 - Nikki DeLoach, American actress and singer
- 1980 - Michelle Williams, American actress
- 1980 - Todd Coffey, American baseball player
- 1981 - Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress
- 1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
- 1983 - Edwin Jackson, German baseball player
- 1983 - Cleveland Taylor, International footballer
- 1984 - Delta Goodrem, Australian singer, actress
- 1985 - J.R. Smith, American basketball player
- 1986 - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1987 - Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer
- 1987 - Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, Child Prodigy in Physics
- 1990 - Melody Klaver, Dutch actress
- 2000 - Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón, granddaughter of king Juan Carlos I of Spain
Deaths
- c.546 - St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Irish bishop
- 701 - Pope Sergius I
- 1000 - Olaf I of Norway
- 1087 - King William I of England
- 1398 - King James I of Cyprus (b. 1334)
- 1487 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (b. 1447)
- 1488 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (fell from a horse) (b. 1433)
- 1513 - King James IV of Scotland (b. 1473)
- 1569 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter
- 1596 - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
- 1612 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
- 1676 - Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French army officer and founder of Montreal (b. 1612)
- 1680 - Henry Marten, English regicide (b. 1602)
- 1755 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
- 1806 - William Paterson, Signer of the U.S. Constitution, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1745)
- 1815 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
- 1841 - A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (b. 1778)
- 1891 - Jules Grévy, President of France (b. 1813)
- 1898 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
- 1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (b. 1864)
- 1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
- 1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
- 1941 - Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
- 1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
- 1969 - Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
- 1976 - Mao Zedong, Leader of China (b. 1893)
- 1978 - Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
- 1978 - Jack Warner, Canadian-born film studio founder (b. 1892)
- 1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
- 1981 - Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)
- 1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
- 1990 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (b. 1905)
- 1990 - Samuel Doe, President of Liberia (b. 1951)
- 1993 - Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)
- 1994 - Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1996 - Bill Monroe, American bluegrass singer and composer (b. 1911)
- 1997 - Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (b. 1927)
- 1997 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1999 - Jim "Catfish" Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
- 1999 - Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2001 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military leader (b. 1953)
- 2003 - Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
- 2003 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (b. 1908)
- 2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
- 2005 - John Wayne Glover, English serial killer (b. 1932)
- 2006 - Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
- 2006 - Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer and electronic musician (b. 1955)
- 2006 - Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
- 2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances
- Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku).
- North Korea - Republic Day (1948).
- Tajikistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
- California - Admission Day (to commemorate the state's admission to the USA).
Liturgical feasts
- Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise
- Eastern Orthodoxy - Synaxis of the Theopatores Joachim and Anna.
External links
Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church, the new Liturgical Year (Indiction) also begins. Church of England - Saint Giles. Cameroon - Jour d'Union Nationale Camerounaise. Libya - Revolution Day (1969). New Zealand - National R.A.K.
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- 1590 - Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
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- 70 - Titus, General of Rome, sacks Jerusalem. See also: Destruction of Jerusalem.
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- 506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
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September 11th, 11th September, and 9/11 (pronounced "Nine-eleven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in the United States of America.
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Events
- 786 - Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi.
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- 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
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- 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
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- 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
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September 18 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
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September 19 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.
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September 20 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 451 - The Battle of Chalons, in North Eastern France.
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International Day of Peace International Day against Alzheimer's disease International Banana Festival Day of the trees in Brazil RC Saints - Matthew the Evangelist The Nativity of the Theotokos in Russia.
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- 622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
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- 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.
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- 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
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September 9, 2004
- United States Secretary of State Colin Powell declares that the actions of the Janjaweed Arab militia in Darfur constitute genocide. Powell holds the government of Sudan responsible. Up to 50,000 ethnic Africans have been killed and 2.
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