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- 1590 Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- 1661 Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.
- 1666 Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
- 1698 In an effort to move his people away from archaic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards.
- 1725 Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyska.
- 1781 Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis
- 1781 Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War.
- 1793 French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
- 1795 US-Algiers sign peace treaty
- 1798 Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
- 1800 Malta is conquered by Great Britain.
- 1816 Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
- 1836 Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas
- 1836 Sam Houston is elected as the second president of the Republic of Texas.
- 1839 The First Opium War begins in China.
- 1840 Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.
- 1862 Lee crosses the Potomac & enters Maryland
- 1864 Achille Franois Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
- 1877 Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
- 1877 Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
- 1882 10,000 workers participate in the first US Labor Day parade, held in New York City.
- 1885 The first gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)
- 1900 France proclaims a protectorate over Chad
- 1905 Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
- 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 Battle of Marne (WW I) begins
- 1914 HMS Pathfinder, a British Light cruiser torpedoed and sunk out from the Firth of Forth by German submarine U21.
- 1915 The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
- 1918 Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
- 1923 Flyweights Gene LaRue & Kid Pancho KO each other simultaneously
- 1925 112ø F (44ø C), Centerville, Alabama (state record)
- 1932 The colonie of Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, Mali, and Niger.
- 1937 Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
- 1938 Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the Seguro Obrero massacre.
- 1939 The US proclaims its neutrality in WWII a position that would last until 12/7/1941.
- 1940 All 355 Jewish-owned businesses in Luxembourg become "Aryan" property.
- 1943 World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near Lae in the Salamaua-Lae campaign.
- 1944 Allies liberate Brussels
- 1944 Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
- 1945 Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
- 1946 Joe Garagiola plays his 1st major league baseball game
- 1953 The first privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh NC
- 1956 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM
- 1957 Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
- 1958 "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in the US
- 1958 The first color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte NC
- 1960 Cassius Clay captures the olympic light heavyweight gold medal
- 1960 The poet Lopold Sdar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
- 1961 The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
- 1968 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan
- 1969 My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
- 1970 Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)
- 1971 Visitor posting - Karen Henderson is born - Australia
- 1972 Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium
- 1972 Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
- 1972 The Olympic Games in Munich, Germany are marred by tragedy when PLO terrorists hold the Israeli delegation hostage; 11 Israelis are killed during the ordeal.
- 1975 Sacramento, California: a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson, Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
- 1975 Wings release "Letting Go"
- 1977 Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
- 1977 Voyager 1 (US) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn
- 1977 Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
- 1978 Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
- 1978 Sadat, Begin & Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md
- 1979 Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Bruma
- 1980 The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
- 1980 World's longest auto tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
- 1981 Number one hit on UK music charts - Soft Cell - Tainted Love
- 1982 Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph
- 1984 Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
- 1986 Merv Griffin makes his final appearance as host of his own TV talk show.
- 1986 NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms
- 1986 NASA launches DOD-1
- 1986 Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
- 1988 Jerry Lewis' 23rd Labor Day telethon raises record $41,132,113
- 1989 Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of the Today Show
- 1989 Visitor posting - David Matengu of Kavimba Turns 21 years of age . - Botswana
- 1990 Iraqi Pres Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West
- 1991 Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston
- 1991 The Mall Southampton, Southampton, UK opened its doors for the first time
- 1991 Visitor posting - courtney easterling was born framingham ma - USA [email protected]
- 1991 US trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins
- 1994 Visitor posting - Juan was born on this day. More important than most. - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Robbie Klotz was born. My pet's name is Reggie - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - Justin Lee Kirkland is born in Jacksonville, Florida - USA
- 1995 France sets off an underground nuclear device in the South Pacific, ending a three-year moratorium on such tests.
- 1996 Visitor posting - markee winters is born - USA
- 1997 Digital Theater Sound (DTS) announces its intentions to enter the DVD market
- 1997 Humanitarian Mother Teresa dies of a heart attack in Calcutta, India, at age 87.
- 1999 Candid Camera star Allen Funt dies in Pebble Beach, CA, at age 84.
- 2000 The hottest day ever in Texas as most weather stations in the state topped 100 degrees and many topped 110.
- 2005 Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
- 2007 3 terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Quaeda are arrested in Germany after planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US-Military installations. See German Terror Plot 9/07
- 2008 Visitor posting - September 05 2008 Kahil's Birthday
- 2010 Visitor posting - Tipperary beat kilkenny in the All Ireland Hurling Final - Ireland
- 2010 Visitor posting - mike&jackie miller get married - USA
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