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 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
- 1878 Surrey bowler Edward Barratt takes 10 for 43 for the Players in Australia's 1st innings in a cricket tour match on his home ground at The Oval; all ten are caught or stumped; Australia wins by 8 runs
- 1882 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Newport R.I.: 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
- 1905 New Zealand beats Australia 14-3 in cold, wet conditions in the first international Rugby Union match between the countries on New Zealand soil at Tahuna Park in Dunedin
- 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
- 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 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Forest Hills NY: Bill Tilden wins 5th straight US title; beats Bill Johnston for 3rd straight year 6-1, 9-7, 6-2
- 1926 Italy signs treaty with Yemen
- 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)
Event of Interest
1931 Bing Crosby makes his solo radio debut
Bing Crosby
Event of Interest
1940 PGA Championship, Hershey CC: Byron Nelson wins his first PGA C'ship, beating Sam Snead 1 up in the Monday 36-hole final
Byron Nelson
Sam Snead
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)
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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 San Francisco cable line replaced by bus service
- 1956 Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina finishes 2nd in Italian GP at Monza to win his 3rd straight F1 World Drivers Championship by 3 points from Englishman Stirling Moss
- 1956 British Ferrari driver Peter Collins sportingly hands over his car to retired team mate Juan Manuel Fangio during season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza; Fangio finishes 2nd to win F1 World Drivers Championship
- 1957 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
- 1957 Milwaukee 1st baseman Frank Torre scores 6 runs to tie the MLB record; Braves rout Chicago Cubs 23-10
- 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
- 1960 New Zealand middle distance runner Peter Snell wins the first of 3 career Olympic gold medals when he wins the 800m in Rome
- 1960 Tamara & Irina Press (Soviet Union) become first sisters to win Olympic gold medals; Tamara wins Rome Olympics shot put one day after Irina takes out 80m hurdles
- 1960 William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres
- 1960 The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
- 1960 American sprinter Wilma Rudolph wins the coveted 100m gold medal at the Rome Olympics in 11.0; beats Britain's Dorothy Hyman by 0.3; 1st of 3 gold medals for Rudolph
- 1960 American Mike Troy swims 200m butterfly world record 2:12.8 to win the gold medal from Australian Neville Hayes at the Rome Olympics
Baseball Record
1962 St. Louis 1st baseman Stan Musial's records his 3,516th hit in Cards' 4-3 loss v NY Mets; jumps him over Tris Speaker into 2nd place behind Ty Cobb on the MLB all-time list
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
Event of Interest
1965 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his MLB 400th career HR (off Curt Simmons) in Chicago's 5-3 win v St. Louis at Wrigley Field; Simmons also gave up Willie Mays' 400th HR in 1963
Ernie Banks
- 1965 Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends
Event of Interest
1966 Joe Auer returns the opening kickoff 95 yards for a Miami touchdown in the Dolphins' first ever NFL regular-season game; Oakland Raiders go on to win 23-14 at the Orange Bowl before 26,776 fans
John Madden
Event of Interest
1968 Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
Jerry Lewis
- 1969 Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage New York Yankees at $65,000 a season, then the biggest salary in MLB
- 1969 The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
- 1970 US Open first Grand Slam tournament tiebreak is used to decide a set at 6-6; first player to reach 5 points with sudden death at 4-4
Tennis Open
1971 Teenage debutants Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their first matches at the US Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills
Chris Evert
Jimmy Connors
#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
- 1972 East German swimmer Roland Matthes wraps up the Olympic backstroke double with a world record 2:02.82 in the 200m in Munich, having already won the 100m in Olympic record time
- 1972 American breaststroker John Hencken beats David Wilkie of Great Britain to win the 200m gold medal in world record 2:21.55 at the Munich Olympic Games
- 1972 American breaststroker Cathy Carr swims a world record 1:13.58 to win the 100m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 John Akii-Bua of Uganda with a world record 47.82 wins the 400m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 East German sprinter Renate Stecher sets world record 11.07 to beat Raelene Boyle of Australia for the women's 100m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 French track cyclist Daniel Morelon successfully defends his Olympic sprint title beating Australian John Nicholson for the gold medal in Munich
- 1972 For the first time since the advent of the Modern Olympics in 1896, a non-American wins the pole vault gold medal; East German Wolfgang Nordwig clears 5.5m at the Munich Games
- 1973 Billy Martin is fired as Detroit Tigers manager due to continual differences with the front office; goes on to manage Texas, Oakland and NY Yankees (in 5 separate stints)
- 1973 Netherlands win their first men’s hockey World Cup, 4-2 on penalties over India in Amstelveen, Netherlands
- 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
1977 One of the great anti-climaxes in sport; 43-year-old transsexual Rene Richards, who fought for over a year for right to play in a major event, is beaten 6-1, 6-4 by Wimbledon champion Virginia Wade at the US Open
Virginia Wade
- 1978 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
Baseball Record
1978 Yankees right fielder Reggie Jackson hits his 20th HR of the season in a 6-2 home win over Seattle; 19th MLB player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
Reggie Jackson
- 1979 "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 performances
- 1979 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, Canterbury GC: Mark O'Meara wins 8 & 7 over John Cook
- 1980 Australian cricket batsman Kim Hughes becomes 3rd player to bat on all 5 days of a Test match as the rain affected Centenary Test peters out to a draw at Lord's; BBC's John Arlott calls his final match
- 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 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
- 1987 Houston outfielder Kevin Bass becomes 1st NL player to switch hit HRs in a game twice in one season in Astros 10-1 win v Cubs
- 1987 Philips introduces CD-video
- 1987 Trial begins in Moscow for West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Finland to Moscow, USSR
- 1988 Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley
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
- 1990 Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dave Stieb throws MLB record 9th no-hitter of the season; beats Cleveland, 3-0
- 1991 Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657
- 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
Dictator Bokassa I
1993 Central African Republic ex-emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa freed
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Boxing Title Fight
1995 British boxer Frank Bruno beats American champion Oliver McCall in a unanimous 12 round points decision in London for the WBC heavyweight title
Frank Bruno
- 1995 Southern California begins using new area code 562
- 1996 Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000
- 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
Film Premier
1999 "Being John Malkovich" premieres directed by Spike Jonze, starring John Cusack and Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz
Event of Interest
2001 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins the Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps for his record 52nd F1 Grand Prix victory
Michael Schumacher
- 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
- 2018 About 400 prisoners escape a jail near Tripoli in Libya during militia fighting
- 2018 Major fire at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro destroys most of its 20 million artifacts
September in History
The Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London began on this day when sparks from a baker’s oven ignited his home. Fanned by strong winds, the blaze consumed 80 per cent of the city.
September 2, 1666
Tragedy of Macbeth Brings Fits of Laughter
Lawrence of Arabia star Peter O’Toole returned to the stage on this day playing Shakespeare’s Macbeth in London. Critics savaged the production but the fans?
September 3, 1980
Jesse James – Hero or Cold Killer?
Hailed by some as a folk hero and by others as a cold-bloodied killer, Jesse James, one of America’s most infamous outlaws, was born on this day.
September 5, 1847
Woman Jockey Rides Into Record Books
Jockey Gay Kelleway is the only woman to ride a winner at England’s famous Royal Ascot. She was also the first jockey to wear a TV camera on her helmet.
September 6, 1992