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September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in Leap Year s). There are 121 days remaining.
Events
- 5509 BC - The world was Created , according to the Byzantine Empire .
- 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
- 1715 - King Louis XIV Of France dies after a reign of 72 years — the longest of any major European monarch.
- 1752 - The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
- 1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo De Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California .
- 1804 - Juno , one of the largest Main Belt Asteroid s, was discovered by German Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding .
- 1807 - Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of Treason .
- 1836 - Narcissa Whitman , one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains , arrives at Walla Walla, Washington .
- - Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia .
- General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman .
- 1873 - Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
- 1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the " Molly Maguires ", to disband.
- in Hinckley, Minnesota , kills more than 400 people.
- 1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground Metro in North America .
- 1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
- 1906 - the International Federation Of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
- 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 .
- 1923 - The Great Kantō Earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama , killing about 100,000 people.
- 1928 - Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
- 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.
- 1951 - The United States , Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty .
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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.
- 1962 - Channel Television launches to 54,000 Household s in the Channel Islands .
- 1969 - A coup in Libya brings Col. Moammar Qaddafi to power, ousting King Idris I .
- 1972 - In Reykjavík , Iceland , American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world Chess champion.
- 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
- 1975 - The last original episode of the American Television Series '' Gunsmoke '' airs on CBS after a record 20-year run.
- 1979 - The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the Planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
- 1980 - Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea after the resignation of Choi Kyu-ha .
- 1982 - Canada adopts a Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms as part of its Constitution.
- is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed.
- 1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS ''Titanic'' .
- 1990 - The Communist Labour Party Of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party Of Turkey .
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 - The Beslan School Hostage Crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of schoolchildren and adults hostage in the Russia n town of Beslan in North Ossetia .
Births
- 1453 - Gonzalo Fernández De Córdoba , Spanish general and statesman (d. 1515 )
- 1566 - Edward Alleyn , English actor (d. 1626 )
- 1588 - Henry II, Prince Of Condé , French nobleman (d. 1646 )
- 1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina , Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694 )
- 1653 - Johann Pachelbel , German composer (d. 1706 )
- 1711 - William Boyce , English composer (d. 1779 )
- 1711 - William IV, Prince Of Orange (d. 1759 )
- 1726 - François-André Danican Philidor , French chess player (d. 1795 )
- 1734 - Joseph Wright Of Derby , English painter (d. 1797 )
- 1848 - Auguste-Henri Forel , Swiss entomologist (d. 1931 )
- 1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck , German composer (d. 1921 )
- 1855 - Innokenty Annensky , Russian poet (d. 1909 )
- 1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs , American writer (d. 1950 )
- 1877 - Francis William Aston , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945 )
- 1887 - Blaise Cendrars , Swiss writer (d. 1961 )
- 1888 - Andrija Štampar , Croatian physician and World Health Organization diplomat (d. 1958 )
- 1889 - Richard Arlen , American actor (d. 1976 )
- 1896 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , Founder-Acarya of ISKCON (d. 1977 )
- 1897 - Andy Kennedy , Northern Irish footballer (d. 1963
- 1899 - Andrei Platonov , Russian writer (d. 1951 )
- 1905 - Elvera Sanchez , Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000 )
- 1906 - Joaquín Balaguer , President Of The Dominican Republic (d. 2002 )
- 1906 - Franz Biebl , German composer (d. 2001 )
- 1907 - Walter Reuther , American labor union leader (d. 1970 )
- 1913 - Christian Nyby , American director and film editor (d. 1993 )
- 1920 - Richard Farnsworth , American actor (d. 2000 )
- 1921 - Willem Frederik Hermans , Dutch writer (d. 1995 )
- 1922 - Yvonne De Carlo , Canadian actress
- 1922 - Vittorio Gassman , Italian actor (d. 2000 )
- 1923 - Rocky Marciano , American boxer (d. 1969 )
- 1925 - Art Pepper , musician (d. 1982 )
- 1929 - Anne Ramsey , American actress (d. 1988 )
- 1933 - Ann W. Richards , American politician
- 1933 - Conway Twitty , American country music singer (d. 1993 )
- 1935 - Seiji Ozawa , Japanese conductor
- 1939 - Lily Tomlin , American actress, comedienne
- 1942 - C. J. Cherryh , American writer
- 1944 - Leonard Slatkin , American conductor
- 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 television talk show host
- 1951 - Nicu Ceauşescu , Romanian politician
- 1952 - Phil Hendrie , American radio personality
- 1955 - Billy Blanks , American martial artist
- 1955 - Bruce Foxton , English bassist ( The Jam )
- 1957 - Gloria Estefan , Cuban singer
- 1962 - Ruud Gullit , Dutch footballer
- 1964 - Brian Bellows , Canadian Ice Hockey player
- 1964 - Cécilia Rhode , 1978 Miss Sweden; mother of Joakim Noah
- 1966 - Tim Hardaway , American basketball player
- 1968 - Mohammed Atta , 9/11 terrorist (d. 2001 )
- 1970 - Vanna , Croatian singer
- 1974 - Jhonen Vasquez , comic book artist
- 1975 - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez , guitarist for The Mars Volta
- 1976 - Erik Morales , Mexican boxer
- 1977 - Aaron Schobel , American football player
- 1978 - Max Vieri , Australian-Italian football player
- 1980 - Chris Riggott , English footballer
- 1981 - Clinton Portis , American football player
- 1983 - Jose Antonio Reyes , Spanish footballer
- 1984 - Joseph Trohman , American Guitarist for Fall Out Boy
- 1985 - Ciara-Camile Roque Velasco , American singer
- 1986 - William Bernard Seippel III , Born in Winston-Salem now in the College of Design at North Carolina State University for Landscape Architecture.
- 1987 - Dann Hume New Zealand Drummer for Evermore
Deaths
- 921 - Richard, Duke Of Burgundy
- 1067 - Baldwin V Of Flanders
- 1159 - Pope Adrian IV
- 1256 - Kujo Yoritsune , Japanese shogun (b. 1218 )
- 1414 - William De Ros, 7th Baron De Ros , Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369 )
- 1557 - Jacques Cartier , French explorer (b. 1491 )
- 1574 - Guru Amar Das , third Sikh Guru (b. 1479 )
- 1581 - Guru Ram Das , fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534 )
- 1600 - Tadeáš Hájek , Czech physician and astronomer (b. 1525 )
- 1615 - Étienne Pasquier , French lawyer and man of letters (b. 1529 )
- 1648 - Marin Mersenne , French mathematician (b. 1588 )
- 1685 - Leoline Jenkins , Welsh lawyer and diplomat (b. 1625 )
- 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 French horn player (b. 1921 )
- 1967 - Siegfried Sassoon , English poet and author (b. 1886 )
- 1969 - Drew Pearson , American newspaper columnist (b. 1897 )
- 1970 - Francois Mauriac , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885 )
- 1977 - Ethel Waters , American singer and actress (b. 1896 )
- 1981 - Albert Speer , Nazi official (b. 1905 )
- 1982 - Haskell Curry , American mathematician (b. 1900 )
- 1983 - Henry M. Jackson , U.S. Senator from Washington (b. 1912 )
- 1988 - Luis Alvarez , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911 )
- 1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti , baseball commissioner (b. 1938 )
- 1989 - Tadeusz Sendzimir , a Polish-American inventor and engineer (b. 1894 )
- 1999 - W. Richard Stevens , Author of Unix Network Programming and several books and IETF RFC documents (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 )
Holidays and observances
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External links
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