September 1
is the 244th day of the year (245th in
leap years). There are 121 days remaining.
*
5509 BC - The world was
created, according to the
Byzantine Empire.
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462 - possible start of first Byzantine
indiction cycle*
1532 -
Lady Anne Boleyn is created
Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancée, King
Henry VIII of
England*
1644 -
Battle of Tippermuir,
Montrose defeats
Elcho's
Covenanters, reviving Royalist cause
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1715 - King
Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years — the longest of any major European monarch.
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1752 - The
Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
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1772 -
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in
San Luis Obispo, California.
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1804 -
Juno, one of the largest
main belt asteroids, was discovered by
German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
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1807 - Former US Vice President
Aaron Burr is acquitted of
treason.
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1836 -
Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the
Rocky Mountains, arrives at
Walla Walla, Washington.
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1862 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Chantilly -
Confederate forces attack retreating
Union troops in
Chantilly, Virginia.
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1864 - American Civil War:
Confederate General
John Bell Hood evacuates
Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General
Sherman.
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1873 -
Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the
Zulu nation following the death of his father
Mpande.
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1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent
Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "
Molly Maguires", to disband.
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1894 -
Great Hinckley Fire: A
forest fire in
Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 400 people.
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1897 - The
Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground
metro in
North America.
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1905 -
Alberta and
Saskatchewan join the
Canadian confederation.
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1906 - the
International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
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1910 -
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, from
Brazil, is founded
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1914 -
St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
* 1914 - The last
Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the
Cincinnati Zoo.
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1923 - The
Great Kantō earthquake devastates
Tokyo and
Yokohama, killing about 100,000 people.
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1928 -
Ahmet Zogu declares
Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king. [[Image:Warsaw siege1.jpg|thumb|right|German bombers during {{Siege of Warsaw}}(1 September - 1 October).]]
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1939 -
World War II:
Nazi Germany attacks
Poland, beginning the war. (See
Polish September Campaign.)
* 1939 -
George C. Marshall becomes
Chief of Staff of the
United States Army.
* 1939 - The
Wound Badge for
Wehrmacht and
SS soldiers is instituted.
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1951 - The
United States,
Australia and
New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the
ANZUS Treaty.
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1954 -
Paul "Bear" Bryant opens his infamous 10-day
football mini-camp in
Junction, Texas:
The Junction Boys.
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1960 - Disgruntled
railroad workers effectively halt operations of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the history of the company.
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1962 -
Channel Television launches to 54,000
households in the
Channel Islands.
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1969 - A revolution in
Libya brings Col.
Muammar al-Gaddafi to power , which was later transferred to the People's Committees .
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1972 - In
Reykjavík,
Iceland, American
Bobby Fischer beats Russian
Boris Spassky and becomes the world
chess champion.
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1974 - The
SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from
New York to
London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds
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1975 - The last original episode of the American
television series Gunsmoke airs on
CBS after a record 20-year run.
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1979 - The American
Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit
Saturn when it passes the
planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
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1980 -
Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of
South Korea after the resignation of
Choi Kyu-ha.
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1982 -
Canada adopts a
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution.
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1983 -
Cold War:
Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a
Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed.
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1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the
RMS Titanic.
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1988 -
YTV was launched.
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1990 - The
Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the
Communist Labour Party of Turkey.
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1991 -
Uzbekistan declares independence from the
Soviet Union*
1999 - A
LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in
Buenos Aires, killing 74, including 10 on the ground.
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2001 - Almost every single commercial television station in
Vancouver, British Columbia switches network affiliations after a round of ownership changes in
2000 - the largest change in North America.
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2004 - The
Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of schoolchildren and adults hostage in the
Russian town of
Beslan in
North Ossetia.
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1453 -
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d.
1515)
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1566 -
Edward Alleyn, English actor (d.
1626)
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1588 -
Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d.
1646)
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1651 -
Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d.
1694)
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1653 -
Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d.
1706)
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1711 -
William Boyce, English composer (d.
1779)
* 1711 -
William IV, Prince of Orange (d.
1759)
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1734 -
Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter (d.
1797)
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1848 -
Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d.
1931)
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1854 -
Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d.
1921)
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1855 -
Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d.
1909)
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1856 -
Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d.
1953)
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1871 -
J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d.
1961)
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1875 -
Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d.
1950)
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1877 -
Francis William Aston, English chemist,
Nobel laureate (d.
1945)
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1887 -
Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d.
1961)
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1888 -
Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d.
1958)
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1889 -
Richard Arlen, American actor (d.
1976)
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1896 -
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Vaishnava theologian (d.
1977)
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1897 -
Andy Kennedy, Northern Irish footballer (d.
1963*
1899 -
Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (d.
1951)
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1905 -
Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d.
2000)
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1906 -
Joaquín Balaguer,
President of the Dominican Republic (d.
2002)
* 1906 -
Franz Biebl, German composer (d.
2001)
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1907 -
Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d.
1970)
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1913 -
Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d.
1993)
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1920 -
Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d.
2000)
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1921 -
Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d.
1995)
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1922 -
Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian actress
* 1922 -
Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d.
2000)
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1923 -
Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d.
1969)
*1923 -
Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman (d.
2006)
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1925 -
Art Pepper, American musician (d.
1982)
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1926 -
Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
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1929 -
Anne Ramsey, American actress (d.
1988)
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1933 -
Ann W. Richards, American politician
* 1933 -
Conway Twitty, American singer (d.
1993)
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1935 -
Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
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1939 -
Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedian
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1942 -
C. J. Cherryh, American writer
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1944 -
Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
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1946 -
Barry Gibb, English singer (
Bee Gees)
* 1946 -
Roh Moo-Hyun, President of
Korea*
1947 -
Al Green, American politician
*
1949 -
P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
*
1950 -
Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
* 1950 -
Dr. Phil, American talk show host
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1951 -
Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician
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1952 -
Phil Hendrie, American radio personality
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1955 -
Billy Blanks, American martial artist
* 1955 -
Bruce Foxton, English bassist (
The Jam)
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1957 -
Gloria Estefan, Cuban singer
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1961 -
Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler
*
1962 -
Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
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1964 -
Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1964 -
Cécilia Rhode, Swedish model
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1966 -
Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
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1968 -
Mohammed Atta,
9/11 terrorist (d.
2001)
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1969 -
Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
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1970 -
Vanna, Croatian singer
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1973 -
J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (
INXS)
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1974 -
Jhonen Vasquez, comic book artist
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1975 -
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, guitarist for The Mars Volta
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1976 -
Jada Fire, American pornographic actress
* 1976 -
Erik Morales, Mexican boxer
*
1977 -
Aaron Schobel, American football player
*
1978 -
Max Vieri, Australian-Italian football player
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1980 -
Chris Riggott, English footballer
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1981 -
Clinton Portis, American football player
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1983 -
Jose Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
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1984 -
Joseph Trohman, American musician (
Fall Out Boy)
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1985 -
Camile Velasco, American singer
*
1987 -
Dann Hume New Zealand musician (
Evermore)
*
1989 -
Bill Kaulitz German singer (
Tokio Hotel)
*
921 -
Richard, Duke of Burgundy*
1067 -
Baldwin V of Flanders*
1159 -
Pope Adrian IV*
1256 -
Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b.
1218)
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1414 -
William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b.
1369)
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1557 -
Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b.
1491)
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1574 -
Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b.
1479)
*
1581 -
Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b.
1534)
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1600 -
Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b.
1525)
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1615 -
Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b.
1529)
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1648 -
Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b.
1588)
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1685 -
Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b.
1625)
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1687 -
Henry More, English philosopher (b.
1614)
*
1715 -
François Girardon, French sculptor (b.
1628)
* 1715 - King
Louis XIV of France (b.
1638)
*
1943 -
Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief
*
1957 -
Dennis Brain, English musician (b.
1921)
*
1967 -
Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b.
1886)
*
1969 -
Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b.
1897)
*
1970 -
Francois Mauriac, French writer,
Nobel laureate (b.
1885)
*
1977 -
Ethel Waters, American singer (b.
1896)
*
1981 -
Albert Speer, Nazi official (b.
1905)
*
1982 -
Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b.
1900)
*
1983 -
Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b.
1912)
*
1985 -
Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
* 1985 -
Jay Youngblood, American wrestler
*
1988 -
Luis Alvarez, American physicist,
Nobel laureate (b.
1911)
*
1989 -
A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b.
1938)
* 1989 -
Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b.
1894)
*
1999 -
W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b.
1951)
*
2003 - Sir
Terry Frost, British artist (b.
1915)
*
2004 -
Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b.
1915)
*
2005 -
R.L. Burnside, American musician (b.
1926)
*In the
Eastern Orthodox Church, the new
liturgical year begins on September 1. Also see
September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
*
Church of England -
Saint Giles*
Cameroon - Jour d'Union Nationale Camerounaise
*
Libya - Revolution Day (
1969)
*
Russia -
Knowledge Day*
Singapore -
Teacher's Day*
Slovakia -
Constitution Day*
Uzbekistan -
Independence Day (from USSR,
1991)
*Start of the season when oysters are fit to eat (when month names contain an "R")
*Start of
cold season.
*Start of the partridge-shooting season ("St.Partridge").
*Start of new school year in many countries.
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