Events in History
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Sep 1 Chiang Kai-shek again becomes Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China
- Sep 7 Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston, Texas)
- Sep 8 Italy surrenders to Allies in WWII
Event of Interest
Sep 8 Lieutenant-General Omar Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers from Sicily
- Sep 9 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome
- Sep 9 Lieutenant-General Omar Bradley flies from Algiers to Marrakech/Prestwick
- Sep 9 Red Army occupies Bachmatsj
- Sep 9 US, British & French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)
- Sep 10 British 8th army occupies Tarento, Italy
- Sep 10 German troops occupy Rome and take took over the protection of Vatican City
- Sep 10 Italian fleet anchors at Malta
- Sep 10 Lieutenant-General Omar Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London
- Sep 11 Allied armed forces conquer Salerno, Italy
- Sep 11 Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated
- Sep 11 Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island / Rapa Nui
- Sep 11 US & Australian troops join in Salamaua, New Guinea
- Sep 12 Free French lands on Corsica
Event of Interest
Sep 12 Waffen-SS (Skorzeny) frees Benito Mussolini at Gran Sasso
- Sep 13 German counter attack at Salerno
- Sep 13 The Municipal Theatre of Corfu is destroyed during an aerial bombardment by Luftwaffe
- Sep 15 Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy
- Sep 15 Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens
- Sep 15 Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens
- Sep 16 Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno
- Sep 16 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny
- Sep 17 Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
- Sep 17 World War II: Soviet city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazi control
Event of Interest
Sep 18 Adolf Hitler orders deportation of Danish Jews (unsuccessful)
- Sep 18 Cardinals clinch NL pennant
- Sep 19 Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record
- Sep 19 Liberator bombers sinks U-341
- Sep 20 Liberator bomber sinks U-338
- Sep 21 Arundel (Solomon Island) in US hands
- Sep 21 Lynch Triangle (Square) in Bronx named
- Sep 21 Soviet 13th/61st Army reconquer Chyernigov
- Sep 21 Soviet forces reach Dnjepr
- Sep 22 British dwarf submarines attack German battleship Tirpitz
- Sep 22 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed and sinks
- Sep 22 Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229
- Sep 24 Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk
- Sep 25 Soviet troops liberate Smolensk
- Sep 27 Anti-fascism opposition begins in Naples
- Sep 27 Dutch opposition newspaper "The Slogan" publishes KZ-Lower letter
- Sep 29 1st Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel
Event of Interest
Sep 29 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice
- Sep 29 Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger/Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchuk (Ukraine)
Birthdays in History
- Sep 3 Michael D. Barnes, American politician (U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland), born in Washington, D.C.
- Sep 3 Mick Farren, English sci-fi author (Synaptic Manhunt, Citizen Phaid), born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
- Sep 5 Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary (d. 2007)
- Sep 6 Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, born in Derby, England
- Sep 7 Beverley McLachlin, Canadian jurist (17th Chief Justice of Canada), born in Pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada
- Sep 8 Adelaide C. Eckardt, American politician, born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
- Sep 10 Neale Donald Walsch, American author (Conversations with God), born in Milwaulkee, Wisconsin
- Sep 11 Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist (founding member of the Front de libération du Québec)
- Sep 12 Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-Canadian poet and writer, born in Colombo, Ceylon
- Sep 16 David Wilshire, British MP (C) (Section 28, Parliamentary expenses scandal), born in Bristol, England
- Sep 16 James Alan MacPherson, American writer, 1st black writer to win Pulitzer Prize, born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 2016)
- Sep 17 Samuel T. Durrance, American scientist and astronaut (STS 35, STS 67), born in Tallahassee, Florida
- Sep 19 Christopher Joyce, British photographer, born in Turnbridge Wells, England (d. 1994)
Sani Abacha (1943-1998)
Sep 20 de facto President of Nigeria (1993-98), born in Kano, Nigeria
- Sep 23 Bob Clement, American politician (Rep-D-Tennessee), born in Nashville, Tennessee
- Sep 25 Robert Gates, American statesman (22nd U.S. Secretary of Defense), born in Wichita, Kansas
- Sep 27 Anna Gael [Gyarmarthy], Lady Weymouth, born in Budapest, Hungary
- Sep 28 Mike Kreidler, American physician and politician (Rep-D-Washington 1993-95), born in Tacoma, Washington
- Sep 28 Warren Lieberfarb, American media executive
- Sep 29 Gary Boyd Roberts, American genealogist
Lech Wałęsa (79 years old)
Sep 29 Polish Solidarity movement leader (Nobel Peace Prize 1983) and President of Poland (1990-95), born in Popowo, Poland
- Sep 29 Mohammad Khatami, Iranian politician, President of Iran (1997-2005), born in Ardakan, Iran
- Sep 29 Peter Rigby, British businessman and one of UK richest (Specialist Computer Holdings)
- Sep 30 Jody Powell, American White House press secretary for Jimmy Carter, born in Cordele, Georgia (d. 2009)
- Sep 30 Johann Deisenhofer, German biochemist (1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for determining structure of proteins essential to photosynthesis), born in Zusamaltheim, Germany
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