Event of Interest
44 BC The first of Cicero's Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.
Cicero
Mark Antony
Victory in Battle
31 BC Battle of Actium: decisive naval battle that effectively ends the Roman Republic. Octavian's forces defeat those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra">Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece.
Mark Antony
Augustus Caesar
Cleopatra
- 911 Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines
Treaty of Interest
1192 Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade
Saladin
Richard the Lionheart
- 1519 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
- 1537 King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church"
- 1644 Robert Devereux's Parliamentarian infantry surrenders to Royalist forces in Battle of Lostwithiel, Cornwall, during English Civil War
- 1649 The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
- 1666 Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed
- 1686 Habsburg armies take Buda from Turks
- 1732 Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
- 1752 Last Julian calendar day in Britain and British colonies (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
- 1789 US Treasury Department established by Congress
- 1792 September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
- 1796 Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
- 1798 First bank robbery in the US: Bank of Pennsylvania robbed of $162,821 at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia
- 1806 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switzerland, kills 500
Event of Interest
1807 The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Event of Interest
1864 Union General William T Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during Savannah Campaign (US Civil War)
William Tecumseh Sherman
- 1867 1st girls School opens in Haarlem, The Netherlands
- 1870 Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies at the Battle of Sedan
- 1882 2nd U.S. Men's National Championship: Richard Sears beats Clarence M. Clark (6-1, 6-4, 6-0)
- 1885 In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
- 1894 -3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
- 1894 Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
- 1897 "McCal" magazine first published
Battle of Interest
1898 Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
Horatio Kitchener
Event of Interest
1901 Theodore Roosevelt advises "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
Theodore Roosevelt
- 1902 "A Trip To The Moon", the first sci-fi film, released
Boxing Title Fight
1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
Tommy Burns
- 1909 King Edward VII signs South Africa Act
- 1911 Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government
- 1913 Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
- 1914 -3] Gen von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux
- 1914 The US Treasury Department establishes the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to provide up to $5 million worth of insurance for merchant ships and their crews
- 1917 Deutsche Vaterlands Partei formed by admiral Tirpitz
- 1919 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
- 1919 Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation
- 1919 National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series
- 1920 W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez" premieres in London
- 1922 President Ebert declares "Deutschland Uber Alles" the German national anthem
- 1924 Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in NYC
- 1924 44th U.S. Men's National Championship: Bill Tilden beats Bill Johnston (6-1, 9-7, 6-2)
- 1926 Italy signs treaty with Yemen
Event of Interest
1927 Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
Lou Gehrig
- 1929 Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros
- 1929 WOR (NYC) ends affiliation with CBS radio network
- 1930 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
- 1935 A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423
- 1936 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
- 1937 US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
Golf Major
1940 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa
Byron Nelson
Event of Interest
1944 Holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp
Anne Frank
- 1944 US leaders meet in Belgium
Event of Interest
1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independent from France (National Day)
Ho Chi Minh
Surrender of Japan
1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)
- 1946 Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
Event of Interest
1946 Jawaharlal Nehru forms government in India
Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1949 Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)
Film Release
1949 "The Third Man", directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli and Orson Welles, is released in the United Kingdom (Academy Awards Best Cinematography 1950)
Orson Welles
- 1951 Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact
- 1952 Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
- 1954 Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
- 1954 WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1956 Collapse of a rail bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
- 1956 Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings
- 1956 San Francisco cable line replaced by bus service
- 1956 7th Formula One WDC: Juan Manuel Fangio wins by three points
- 1957 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
- 1957 Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game
- 1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
- 1958 Hendrik Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa
- 1958 KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1958 Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium
- 1958 National Defense Education Act was signed
- 1958 U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.
Event of Interest
1959 US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Baseball Record
1962 Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place
Stan Musial
- 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Event of Interest
1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee High School
George Wallace
- 1963 CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
- 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament
- 1964 Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
- 1964 Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal
Event of Interest
1965 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons)
Ernie Banks
- 1965 Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends
- 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf
- 1967 KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1967 The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.
Event of Interest
1968 Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
Jerry Lewis
Event of Interest
1969 NY Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated
Joe Pepitone
- 1969 Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season
- 1969 The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
- 1970 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death)
- 1971 Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer
Tennis Open
1971 Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches
Chris Evert
Jimmy Connors
- 1971 NY's Electric Circus Club goes out of business
- 1971 There are further Irish Republican Army bombs set off across the region, including one in Belfast which wrecked the headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party
- 1972 Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0
- 1972 Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec)
#1 in the Charts
1972 Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well)
Rod Stewart
- 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1972 The headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in Belfast is severely damaged by an IRA bomb
- 1973 Billy Martin fired as manager of the Detroit Tigers
- 1973 Netherlands wins hockey world's championship
- 1973 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
- 1974 Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
Event of Interest
1974 US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
Gerald Ford
Event of Interest
1978 Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
Reggie Jackson
- 1979 "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 performances
- 1979 79th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara
- 1980 John Arlott commentates on his last game, England v Australia at Lord's
- 1981 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- 1981 38th Venice Film Festival: "Die bleierne Zeit" directed by Margarethe von Trotta wins Golden Lion
- 1982 Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down
- 1983 Yitzḥak Shamir (Likud party) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
- 1984 "Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances
- 1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
- 1985 Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000
- 1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
Event of Interest
1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
Donald Trump
Event of Interest
1989 Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Al Sharpton
- 1990 "Grapes of Wrath" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 188 performances
- 1990 Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, San Francisco
- 1991 Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657
- 1991 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
- 1991 US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
Album Release
1991 "Ropin' the Wind" 3rd studio album by Garth Brooks is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1992)
Garth Brooks
- 1992 Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die
- 1992 US dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record)
- 1993 10th MTV Video Music Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins
- 1993 Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed
- 1993 Day of Peace in South Africa
- 1994 Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km)
Boxing Title Fight
1995 Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
Frank Bruno
- 1995 Southern California begins using new area code 562
- 1996 Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000
- 1996 Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
- 1996 Soyuz TM-24, lands
- 1996 A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace.
- 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM and in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM
- 1998 Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
- 1998 The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide
- 2007 11th World Championships in Athletics close at Osaka, Japan
- 2008 54th National Film Awards (India): "Pulijanmam" wins the Golden Lotus
- 2009 66th Venice Film Festival: "Lebanon" directed by Samuel Maoz wins Golden Lion
- 2012 15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine
- 2012 A decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters is lifted from State television in Egypt
- 2015 Earth's trees number just over 3 trillion according to study in "Nature" by Thomas Crowther of Yale University
Event of Interest
2015 US President Barack Obama becomes the first president to visit the Arctic Circle at Kotzebue, Alaska
Barack Obama