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 Great Britain and British colonies including America. To sync to the Gregorian calendar, 11 days are skipped and the next date is Sep 14.
- 1789 US Treasury Department established by Congress
Event of Interest
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.
Georges Danton
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
Victory in Battle
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
- 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
- 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
- 1924 Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in NYC
- 1926 Italy signs treaty with Yemen
- 1929 Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros
- 1930 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
- 1935 Labor Day hurricane makes landfall in Florida, killing 423 people, the strongest and most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States
- 1936 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
- 1937 US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
- 1940 Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
- 1941 Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
- 1942 German troops enter Stalingrad
- 1944 Belgium's Emissie bank closes
- 1944 Future US President George H. W. Bush bails from a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific
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 World War 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)
- 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
- 1956 Collapse of a rail bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
- 1956 San Francisco cable line replaced by bus service
- 1957 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
- 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 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
Event of Interest
1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee High School
George Wallace
- 1964 Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
- 1965 Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends
- 1967 The Principality of Sealand is established, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.
- 1969 The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
- 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 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
Event of Interest
1974 US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
Gerald Ford
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
Dictator Bokassa I
1993 Central African Republic ex-emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa freed
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- 1993 Day of Peace in South Africa
- 1995 Southern California begins using new area code 562
- 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
- 2012 15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine
- 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
Election of Interest
2019 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatens a snap general election if rebel MPs pass bill against no-deal Brexit
Boris Johnson
- 2019 Diving boat catches fire at night killing 34 asleep on board off Santa Cruz Island, California
- 2019 Violence and looting directed at foreigners in Johannesburg results in five deaths and dozens arrested by South African police
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, 1666Tragedy 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, 1980Jesse 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, 1847Woman 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
