Historic Event
44 BC The first of Cicero's Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.
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.
- 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
- 1519 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
Historic Publication
1537 Danish King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church" establishing Lutheranism as the state religion within his realms
- 1644 Robert Devereux's Parliamentarian infantry surrenders to Royalist forces in Battle of Lostwithiel, Cornwall, during English Civil War
Historic Event
1649 The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
The Great Fire of London
1666 Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed
Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar
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
French Revolution
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.
Victory in Battle
1864 Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during Savannah Campaign (US Civil War)
- 1867 1st girls School opens in Haarlem, The Netherlands
Victory in Battle
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
- 1898 Machine gun 1st used in battle
- 1900 A large demonstration by Nationalists in Dublin's Phoenix Park demand that Ireland be free of British rule
- 1900 Telegraph use between Germany & US begins
Historic Event
1901 Theodore Roosevelt advises "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
Historic Event
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 Pan-Germanic and nationalist Fatherland Party (Deutsche Vaterlands Partei) formed by former Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz
- 1919 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
- 1919 Italy agrees to general voting rights and proportional representation
- 1920 W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez" premieres in London
- 1924 Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart'soperetta "Rose-Marie" opens to rave reviews at the Imperial Theatre, NYC; runs for 577 performances
- 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 "ping-pong'' round-trip air flight from NY to England an back begins, piloted by Dick Merrill with Harry Richman
- 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
- 1944 US leaders meet in Belgium
Historic Event
1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independent from France (National Day)
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)
- 1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan signed aboard USS Missouri marks the end of World War II (US date, 3rd September in Japan)
Historic Event
1946 Jawaharlal Nehru forms government in India
- 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 Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
- 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.
Historic Event
1959 US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
Historic Event
1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee High School
- 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 The headquarters of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in Belfast is severely damaged by an IRA bomb
- 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Historic Event
1974 US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
Historic Event
1983 Yitzḥak Shamir (Likud party) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli Prime Minister
Historic Event
1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
- 1987 Trial begins in Moscow for West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Finland to Moscow, USSR
Historic Event
1989 Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Dictator Bokassa I
1993 Central African Republic ex-emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa freed
Historic Event
1996 Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói (MAC) designed by Oscar Niemeyer inaugurated in Niterói, Brazil
- 1996 Soyuz TM-24, lands
- 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
Historic Event
2015 US President Barack Obama becomes the first president to visit the Arctic Circle at Kotzebue, Alaska
- 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
Election of Interest
2019 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatens a snap general election if rebel MPs pass bill against no-deal Brexit
- 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
- 2020 Australia officially enters recession for the first time in almost 3 decades with GDP falling 7% (April-June)
- 2020 British architect Richard Rogers designer of the Pompidou Centre and the Millennial Dome retires
COVID-19 Pandemic
2020 Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi tests positive for COVID-19 and is later hospitalized
- 2020 Press conference with body camera evidence brings to light death of African American Daniel Prude after being retrained by police back in March
- 2021 At least 43 people die as the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the US Northeast with record rains, tornadoes and flooding with New York and New Jersey declaring state of emergency
- 2022 Attempted assassination of Argentina's vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner fails when the gun jams outside her home in Buenos Aires [1]
- 2022 Russian state-controlled energy firm Gazprom indefinitely suspends supplies of natural gas to Germany and Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, amid accusations of weaponizing its energy supplies [1]