Events506 - The
bishops of
Visigothic Gaul meet in the
Council of Agde. 1419 -
John the Fearless,
Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the
Dauphin, the future
Charles VII of France.
1608 -
John Smith is elected
council president of
Jamestown, Virginia.
1776 -
American Revolutionary War:
Nathan Hale volunteers to spy.
1798 - At the
Battle of St. George's Caye,
British Honduras defeats
Spain.
1813 - The
U.S. defeats the
British Fleet at the
Battle of Lake Erie during the
War of 1812.
1823 -
Simón Bolívar is named
President of
Peru.
1846 -
Elias Howe gets a
patent for the
sewing machine.
1858 -
George Mary Searle discovers the
asteroid 55 Pandora.
1897 - In the
Lattimer Massacre, a
sheriff's posse kills more than nineteen unarmed immigrant miners in
Pennsylvania,
United States.
1898 -
Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by
Luigi Lucheni.
1919 -
Austria and the Allies sign the
Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of
Poland,
Hungary,
Czechoslovakia and
Yugoslavia.
1927 -
France had its first
Davis Cup win, though it had competed since
1905.
1932 - The
New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned
IND, is opened.
1939 -
World War II: The
submarine HMAS Oxley is sunk by mistake by the
submarine HMS Triton off the coast of
Norway and becomes the
Royal Navy's first loss.1939 -
Canada declares war on
Nazi Germany, joining
France, the
UK,
New Zealand and
Australia in the
Allies.
1942 -
World War II: The
British carry out an
amphibious landing at
Majunga, north-west
Madagascar, to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the
Madagascar Campaign.
1943 -
World War II:
German forces begin their occupation of
Rome.
1951 -
United Kingdom began an economic
boycott of
Iran.
1961 - At the
Italian Grand Prix in
Monza, a horrific crash on the 2nd lap of the race causes the death of
German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his
Ferrari.
1963 - 20
African-American students enter
public schools in
Alabama.
1967 - The people of
Gibraltar vote to remain a
British dependency rather than becoming part of
Spain.
1972 - The
United States loses its first international
basketball game in a disputed match against the
Soviet Union at
Munich,
Germany.
1974 -
Guinea-Bissau gains independence from
Portugal.
1976 - A
British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an
Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near
Zagreb,
Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1977 - Last
execution by
Guillotine in
France.
Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for
torture and
murder, was executed at Baumettes Prison in
Marseille.
1990 - The
Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in
Yamoussoukro,
Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in
Africa and perhaps the world – is consecrated by
Pope John Paul II.
2002 -
Switzerland, known for its
neutrality, joins the
United Nations.
2003 -
Anna Lindh, the
foreign minister of
Sweden, is stabbed fatally while shopping, and dies of her wounds on
September 11.
2007 - Former Pakistan Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999, in Islamabad, Pakistan.
2007 - The
Premier of the Australian state of
Queensland,
Peter Beattie, announced he would resign from the top job on
September 13.
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