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- 0462 Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
- 0891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
- 1267 Ramban (Nachmanides) arrives in Jerusalem to establish Jew community
- 1355 Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.
- 1532 Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiance, King Henry VIII of England.
- 1614 Vincent Fettmich expells Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
- 1644 Battle of Tippermuir, Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving Royalist cause.
- 1661 The first Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James
- 1666 Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed upside the fire cleanns up th ecity
- 1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 yearsthe longest of any major European monarch.
- 1739 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal
- 1752 The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
- 1763 Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
- 1772 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California
- 1799 Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
- 1804 Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, 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.
- 1836 Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem
- 1849 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
- 1859 A solar superstorm effects electrical telegraph service.
- 1859 RC Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare
- 1862 Severe action at Chantilly, Virginia
- 1863 RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated
- 1865 Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery
- 1870 Napoleon III captured at Sedan
- 1873 Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
- 1874 Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
- 1875 A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
- 1878 The first female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
- 1894 Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 400 people.
- 1897 Subway service in Boston, MA begins.
- 1897 The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.
- 1902 A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
- 1905 Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
- 1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
- 1906 Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time
- 1906 Papua placed under Australian administration
- 1906 the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
- 1910 Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, from Brazil, is founded.
- 1911 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
- 1914 St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd
- 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.
- 1916 Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
- 1918 Baseball season ends due to WW I
- 1918 Prv. Claude J. P. Nunney (38th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Drocourt-Quèant, France
- 1918 SS City of Glasgow, a Ellerman Lines ship of 6457 grt and built in 1906, she was torpedoed by German submarine UB118 21 miles east of Tuskar Rock in St George's Channel whilst en-route from Manchester to Montreal in ballast. 12 of the crew were lost.
- 1918 Sgt. John Gilroy Grant, 1st Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Bancourt France
- 1918 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920
- 1922 NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billards"
- 1923 Earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 106,000
- 1923 The Great Kant earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 100,000 people.
- 1923 Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan, are rocked by an earthquake, killing over 50,000 people.
- 1923 US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup
- 1928 Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
- 1928 Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king
- 1932 NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)
- 1934 SMJK Sam Tet was founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
- 1939 George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
- 1939 German army invades Poland, marking the beginning of World War II.
- 1939 Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes"
- 1939 Switzerland mobilises its forces and parliament elects Henri Guisan as head of army (an event that can only happen during war or during mobilisation)
- 1939 The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.
- 1941 Jews in all of the Third Reich are required to wear the yellow Star of David.
- 1941 Yellow star becomes obligatory for Jews in the Reich to wear
- 1943 World War II: Italy accepts armistice terms.
- 1945 Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan)
- 1948 Communist's form the North China People's Republic
- 1948 UN's World Health Organization forms
- 1949 The first network detective series-Private Eyes-premiers
- 1950 West Berlin granted a constitution
- 1951 The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
- 1951 US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty
- 1956 Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory
- 1960 Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the history of the company.
- 1961 Visitor posting - Andrew Glenevon Homorodean was born
- 1961 USSR tests nuclear bombs in central Asia
- 1962 10,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran
- 1962 Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
- 1962 UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion
- 1964 Indian Oil Corporation formed after merging Indian Oil Refineries and Indian Oil Company.
- 1968 Visitor posting - Priya (Rajni Ramchand Lakhwani) Vijay Kateja was born - India
- 1968 Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlandsd) begins transmitting
- 1969 A revolution in Libya brings Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, which was later transferred to the People's Committees.
- 1969 Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris
- 1971 Visitor posting - September 1, 1971 Claudie Ray Phillips Jr. was born
- 1971 Qatar declares independence from Britain
- 1972 Bobby Fischer of the USA defeats Boris Spassky of the USSR at the international chess championship in Reykjavik, Iceland.
- 1972 In Reykjavk, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.
- 1972 The O'Jays receive the first of their eventual six gold records, this one for the hit Back Stabbers.
- 1973 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- 1973 George Foreman KOs Jose Roman in the 1st to retain heavyweight title
- 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 Gunsmoke goes off the air
- 1975 NBC-TV broadcasts its last Monday Night Baseball game as the Montreal Expos defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5.
- 1975 The last original episode of the American television series Gunsmoke airs on CBS after a record 20-year run.
- 1976 Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray)
- 1977 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
- 1978 Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia
- 1979 Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
- 1979 LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
- 1979 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
- 1980 Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea after the resignation of Choi Kyu-ha.
- 1980 Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
- 1981 A coup d'tat in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
- 1981 Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH)
- 1982 Canada adopts a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution.
- 1982 Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH
- 1982 Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon
- 1983 A Soviet fighter plane downs a KAL Boeing 747 jumbo jet that veered 100 miles into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 people aboard, including US Congressmen Lawrence McDonald.
- 1984 Visitor posting - KC & Rose get married...a wonderful day! - USA
- 1985 A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
- 1985 Visitor posting - September 1 1985 Brandi Clamp born
- 1985 Visitor posting - september 1 1985 ju? is born
- 1985 US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
- 1986 Visitor posting - Elizabeth Ann VanderZouwen was born! - USA
- 1988 YTV was launched.
- 1989 Visitor posting - Bill and Tom Kaulitz were born
- 1989 Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their seperation
- 1990 Visitor posting - September 1 1990 Rachael Hickton was born
- 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
- 1991 Visitor posting - Wambui Ngari was born! :) - USA
- 1991 Visitor posting - Lyndsey Swann is born in Gaithersburg, Maryland! - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Angel Lemons born at Blessing's Hospital in Quincy, IL. - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Sept 1, 1992 - Westley Decker Born at Okland Navy Hospital
- 1993 Visitor posting - September 1 1993, James Halford was born.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Kaitlyn Yates is born. Poterville, CA - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Jessica was born!!! - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - September 1, 1995 Harleigh Skye Rodriguez Conner was born in Orlando, Florida
- 1995 Visitor posting - Emily Sneddon of Maryland is born! - USA
- 2001 Visitor posting - Ryan Silverberg was born - USA
- 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.
- 2001 The first orca calf (later named Nakai) is born through artificial insemination, to parents Kasatka and Tillikum.
- 2004 Visitor posting - September 1st 2004 Miya Bond was born
- 2004 The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
- 2005 Seven members and former members of the AFL-CIO form a new trade union organization, the Change to Win Federation.
- 2005 Visitor posting - Jailyn M. Pearce Was Born At 10:57AM !! - USA
- 2006 Luxembourg became to first country to complete the move to all digital Television broadcasting.
- 2006 Visitor posting - Chris Blundell and Catherine Rimmer got married in Southport
- 2008 Important Islamic date - Ramadan: September 1 - September 29, 2008
- 5509 BC - Epoch of the late Byzantine calendar.
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