Events
509 BC - The
temple of
Jupiter on
Rome's
Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the
ides of September.
122 - The building of
Hadrian's Wall begins.533 -
General Belisarius of the
Byzantine Empire defeats
Gelimer and the
Vandals at the
Battle of Ad Decimium, near
Carthage,
North Africa.1224 -
Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata.
1440 -
Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.1503 -
Michelangelo begins work on his statue of
David.
1609 -
Henry Hudson reached the river that would later be named after him - the
Hudson River.
1743 -
Great Britain,
Austria and
Savoy-
Sardinia sign the
Treaty of Worms (1743).
1759 -
Battle of the Plains of Abraham:
British defeat
French near
Quebec City in the
Seven Years' War, known in the
United States as the
French and Indian War.
1788 - The
United States'
Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and
New York City becomes the temporary capital of the
U.S..
1791 - King
Louis XVI of France accepts the
new constitution.
1814 - The
British fail to capture
Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the
War of 1812.
1814 -
Francis Scott Key writes
The Star-Spangled Banner1847 -
Mexican-American War: Six teenage military
cadets known as
Niños Héroes die defending
Chapultepec Castle in the
Battle of Chapultepec.
American General Winfield Scott captures
Mexico City in the
Mexican-American War.
1862 -
American Civil War:
Union soldiers find a copy of
Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside
Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the
Battle of Antietam.
1882 - The
Battle of Tel al-Kebir is fought in the
1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
1898 -
Hannibal Goodwin patents
celluloid photographic
film.
1899 -
Henry Bliss is the first person in the
United States to be killed in an
automobile accident.
1899 -
Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of
Mount Kenya.
1900 -
Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small
American column in the
Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the
Philippine-American War.
1906 - First
fixed-wing aircraft flight in
Europe.
1914 - During
World War I,
South African troops open hostilities in
German south-west
Africa (
Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift
police station.
1922 - The
temperature (in the shade) at
Al 'Aziziyah,
Libya reaches a world record 57.7°C (135.9°F).
1923 -
Military coup in
Spain -
Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a
dictatorship.
1935 -
Rockslide near
Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the
Great Gorge and International Railway.
1940 - World War II:
German bombs damage
Buckingham Palace.1940 - World War II:
Italy invades
Egypt.
1942 - World War II: Second day of the
Battle of Edson's Ridge in the
Guadalcanal campaign.
U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the
Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
1943 -
Chiang Kai-shek elected
president of the
Republic of China.
1948 -
Margaret Chase Smith is elected
senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the
U.S. House of Representatives and the
United States Senate.
1953 -
Nikita Khrushchev appointed
secretary-general of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1956 - The
dike around the
Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.1956 -
IBM introduces the first computer
disk storage unit, the
RAMAC 305.
1968 -
Albania leaves the
Warsaw Pact.
1969 - The premiere episode of
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!1971 - State police and
National Guardsmen storm
New York's
Attica Prison to end a
prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault.
1979 -
South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of
Venda (not recognised outside
South Africa).
1985 -
Super Mario Bros., the best selling video game of all time, is released.
1987 -
Goiânia accident: A
radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned
hospital in
Goiânia,
Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and leading some to die from
radiation poisoning.
1988 -
Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded
hurricane in the
Western Hemisphere (based on
barometric pressure).
1989 - Largest anti-
Apartheid march in
South Africa, led by
Desmond Tutu.
1993 - Public unveiling of the
Oslo Accords, an
Israeli-
Palestinian peace agreement initiated by
Norway.1993 - Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with
PLO chairman
Yasser Arafat at the
White House after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
1994 -
Ulysses probe passes the
Sun's south pole.
1999 - Bomb explodes in
Moscow,
Russia. At least 119 people are killed.
2001 - Civilian
aircraft traffic resumes in the
U.S. after the
September 11, 2001 attacks.
2001 - The first live event in front of a paying crowd after the September 11th attacks happens as a sold out crowd of over 12,000 people watch the live television broadcast of the WWF's Smackdown wrestlng show on the UPN network in Houston, Texas.
2006 - At
Dawson College (
Montreal),
Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before committing suicide.
2007 -
Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII for the
Playstation Portable is released in Japan and quickly becomes a best selling game.
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