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September 1

Battle of Chantilly map

1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces attacked retreating troops (map shown) of the Union Army during a rainstorm in Chantilly, Virginia, but the battle ended inconclusively.
1953 – Channel 11 began television broadcasts in Minneapolis, United States.
1911 – Construction began on the Saline Valley salt tram, which during its operation was the steepest tram in the United States.
1966 – Rioting erupted in Dayton, Ohio, resulting in one death and the mobilization of the Ohio National Guard.
2019 – Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record outside the tropics, made landfall in the Bahamas at Category 5 intensity.

Abdur Rahman Biswas (b. 1926)
Barry Gibb (b. 1946)
Albert Speer (d. 1981)
Murray Hamilton (d. 1986)

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September 2: National Day in Vietnam (1945)

Editorial cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt carrying a big stick

1666 – A large fire began in London's Pudding Lane and burned for five days, destroying St Paul's Cathedral and the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants.
1885 – White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, attacked Chinese-American immigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing approximately $150,000 in property damage.
1901 – U.S. vice president Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" (cartoon pictured) at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force.
1957 – South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began an official visit to Australia, the first by a foreign incumbent head of state to the country.
2011 – Bad weather caused a Chilean Air Force aircraft to crash into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 21 people on board.

Jean Victor Marie Moreau (d. 1813)
Bhaktivinoda Thakur (b. 1838)
Roekiah (d. 1945)
Carlos Valderrama (b. 1961)

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September 3

Oliver Cromwell

863 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine Empire decisively defeated the Emirate of Melitene at the Battle of Lalakaon, beginning the era of Byzantine ascendancy.
1651 – English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell (pictured) won the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the English Civil War.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The British Army and their Hessian allies defeated an American militia at the Battle of Cooch's Bridge.
1936 – The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America was founded in Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.
2001 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalists resumed a picket outside a Catholic girls' primary school in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Archibald Bower (d. 1766)
Prudence Crandall (b. 1803)
Vince Lombardi (d. 1970)
Rich Brian (b. 1999)

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September 4

Little Rock Central High School

1839 – First Opium War: British vessels opened fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community on the Kowloon Peninsula.
1886 – After more than 25 years of fighting against the United States Army and the armed forces of Mexico, Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apache surrendered at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
1920 – Peasants in and around Križ began a rebellion to protest economic and conscription policies enacted by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1957 – Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending Little Rock Central High School (pictured).
2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be part of al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on Frankfurt Airport and Ramstein Air Base.

Stephen Whitney (b. 1776)
Beyoncé (b. 1981)
Steve Irwin (d. 2006)
Joan Rivers (d. 2014)

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September 5

El Dorado Fire

917 – Liu Yan declared himself emperor, establishing the state of Southern Han at his capital of Panyu (present-day Guangzhou) in southern China.
1774 – In response to the British Parliament's enactment of the so-called Intolerable Acts, representatives from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies convened the First Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia.
1970 – During the practice session of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza Circuit, Jochen Rindt was killed and subsequently became motor racing's only posthumous world champion.
1972 – The Palestinian militant group Black September took hostage eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany; all of the hostages were killed less than 24 hours later.
2020 – California wildfires: A pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal party ignited the El Dorado Fire (pictured), burning for 71 days and killing one firefighter.

Nap Lajoie (b. 1874)
Kathleen O'Melia (d. 1939)
Chris Hipkins (b. 1978)
Benyamin Sueb (d. 1995)

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September 6: Defence Day in Pakistan (1965)

Liz Truss

1634 – Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeated Swedish and German Protestant forces.
1863 – General John S. Marmaduke fatally wounded his Confederate Army colleague Lucius M. Walker in a formal duel in Arkansas.
1916 – The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
1976 – Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, declaring his intention to defect to the West.
2022 – Liz Truss (pictured) succeeded Boris Johnson as prime minister following the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.

Pope John XIII (d. 972)
Chris Christie (b. 1962)
Dolores O'Riordan (b. 1971)
Akira Kurosawa (d. 1998)

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September 7

Battle of Arsuf by French painter Éloi Firmin Féron

1191 – Third Crusade: Crusaders under Richard I of England defeated Ayyubid troops under Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf (depicted) in present-day Israel.
1916 – World War I: The Supreme War Command was established to oversee the armed forces of all the Central Powers.
1984 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat that was disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo killed seven soldiers and policemen.
1999 – Three weeks after an earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, a second earthquake struck Athens, causing Greece and Turkey to initiate "earthquake diplomacy".
2011 – Yak-Service Flight 9633, carrying the players and coaching staff of the ice hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, crashed on take-off near Yaroslavl, Russia, resulting in the deaths of 44 of the 45 people on board.

Robert Estienne (d. 1559)
Sir John Perceval, 1st Baronet (b. 1629)
Peggy Noonan (b. 1950)
Tamurbek Dawletschin (d. 1983)

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September 8: Victory Day in Malta

PS Lady Elgin

1755 – French and Indian War: Despite being ambushed at the start of the Battle of Lake George, British colonial troops and their Mohawk allies were able to defeat French and Canadien troops and their Indian allies.
1775 – Maltese priests discontented with the Order of Saint John led an uprising that was quickly suppressed by the Order.
1860 – The paddle steamer Lady Elgin (pictured) was rammed by a schooner on Lake Michigan and sank, resulting in the loss of about 300 lives.
1935 – Huey Long, a U.S. senator, was shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dying two days later.
1995 – Construction began on the Dhammakaya Cetiya, a giant stupa at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya, a Buddhist temple in Pathum Thani, Thailand.

Leo IV the Khazar (d. 780)
Maria Lassnig (b. 1919)
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (b. 1945)
Emi Shinohara (d. 2024)

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September 9

Elizabeth II on September 9, 2015

1570 – Ottoman–Venetian War: After a 40-day siege, the Cypriot city of Nicosia fell to the Ottomans, leading to a massacre of more than 20,000 citizens.
1739 – The Stono Rebellion, at the time the largest slave rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies of British America, erupted near Charleston, South Carolina.
1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee flown by a student pilot near Fairland, Indiana, killing all 83 occupants of and destroying both aircraft.
2001 – Two al-Qaeda attackers assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, a pivotal Afghan resistance leader, two days before the September 11 attacks in the United States.
2015 – Elizabeth II (pictured) became the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria.

Louise Lehzen (d. 1870)
Colonel Sanders (b. 1890)
Chaim Topol (b. 1935)
Neil Davis (d. 1985)

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September 10

Light curve–based 3D model of Pandora

1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hit Constantinople.
1622 – Fifty-five Christians were executed in Nagasaki during the Great Genna Martyrdom, part of persecution towards Christians in Japan by the Tokugawa shogunate.
1858 – George Mary Searle discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora (pictured) from the Dudley Observatory near Albany, New York; it was his only asteroid discovery.
1945 – Mike the Headless Chicken was decapitated on a farm in Colorado; he survived another 18 months as part of sideshows before choking to death.
2009 – Members of the Atlanta Police Department conducted a raid on a gay bar, with patrons later alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated and the city agreeing to pay over $1 million in settlements.

William Morgan (d. 1604)
Giovanni Antonio Grassi (b. 1775)
Adele Astaire (b. 1896)
Chandra Khonnokyoong (d. 2000)

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September 11: National Day of Catalonia

The Burlington Daily Hawk Eye Gazette reporting on the speech

1649 – Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army ended the Siege of Drogheda, took over the town and massacred its garrison.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition departed from Cambridge, Massachusetts, as part of the invasion of Quebec.
1897 – Gaki Sherocho was captured by the forces of Ethiopian emperor Menelik II, bringing an end to the Kingdom of Kaffa.
1914 – First World War: The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force invaded German New Guinea, winning the Battle of Bita Paka.
1941 – In Des Moines, Iowa, American aviator Charles Lindbergh delivered an antisemitic speech (reporting pictured) accusing Jews of controlling the media and manipulating the United States into joining World War II.

Rosika Schwimmer (b. 1877)
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Jan Smuts (d. 1950)
B. J. Habibie (d. 2019)

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September 12

President Kennedy's speech

1309 – Reconquista: Castilian forces captured Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada.
1885 – The Scottish Cup match between Arbroath and Bon Accord ended 36–0, which is still a world record for an unrigged professional association football match.
1962 – In a speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, U.S. president John F. Kennedy reiterated an aspiration to land a man on the Moon before 1970 (video featured).
2003 – The first public release of Steam, a distribution service for computer games, was made available for download.
2008 – A Metrolink train collided head-on with a freight train in Los Angeles, California, resulting in 25 deaths and 135 injuries; the Metrolink driver had passed through a red signal, having likely been distracted by text messaging.

Andronikos I Komnenos (d. 1185)
Mary Jane Patterson (b. 1840)
Grahame Clark (d. 1995)
Sydney Sweeney (b. 1997)

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September 13

John Calvin

1541 – After three years of exile, French theologian John Calvin (pictured) returned to Geneva to reform the church under a system of Christian theology later known as Calvinism.
1914 – World War I: The French army repulsed a German assault against their positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
1985 – Super Mario Bros., one of the most influential and best-selling video games in history, was first released in Japan for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
1988 – Hurricane Gilbert reached a minimum pressure of 888 mb (26.22 inHg) with sustained flight-level winds of 185 mph (295 km/h), making it the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record at the time.
1993 – Nirvana released their third and final studio album, In Utero, which went on to sell more than 15 million copies.

William Birdwood (b. 1865)
Louis Laybourne Smith (d. 1965)
Thomas Müller (b. 1989)
Helen Filarski (d. 2014)

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September 14

Kumba Ialá

1752 – Under the terms of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, the British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar, skipping 11 days of the month.
1940 – Hungarian forces massacred at least 150 ethnic Romanians in Ip, Transylvania, following rumors that Romanians were responsible for the deaths of two soldiers.
1943 – World War II: Nazi forces began a mass extermination campaign against the civilian residents of around 20 villages on the Greek island of Crete, eventually killing more than 500 men.
2003 – President Kumba Ialá (pictured) of Guinea-Bissau was deposed in a bloodless military coup.
2015 – Physicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Henri Poincaré in 1905.

Constantine V (d. 775)
Jeremiah Dummer (b. 1645)
Ponnambalam Arunachalam (b. 1853)
Beah Richards (d. 2000)

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September 15: Battle of Britain Day in the United Kingdom (1940)

Title page of the German government gazette issue proclaiming the laws

1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces made an unopposed amphibious landing at Kips Bay on Manhattan, the American defenders having fled due to artillery fire.
1795 – French Revolutionary Wars: Great Britain seized the Dutch Cape Colony to use its facilities against the French Navy.
1935 – Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws (pictured), which deprived Jews of their citizenship.
1944 – World War II: American and Australian forces landed on the Japanese-occupied island of Morotai.
2017 – A homemade bomb partially exploded on an eastbound District line train at Parsons Green tube station in West London, injuring 30 passengers.

Catherine of Genoa (d. 1510)
Edmé Boursault (d. 1701)
Signe Toly Anderson (b. 1941)
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (b. 1984)

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September 16: Malaysia Day in Malaysia (1963); Independence Day in Papua New Guinea (1975)

British Five Pound gold coin

1400 – Owain Glyndŵr proclaimed himself as the Prince of Wales and stated that he could save the Welsh from English invasions.
1920 – A bomb in a horse-drawn wagon exploded in front of 23 Wall Street in New York City, killing 38 people and injuring several hundred others.
1975 – The prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31, one of the fastest combat jets in the world, made its maiden flight.
1989 – During a tour of the United States, Soviet politician Boris Yeltsin visited a grocery store in Texas that had a major impact on his views regarding the Soviet Union's economic system.
1992 – The British pound (£5 gold coin pictured) was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday, and suffered a major devaluation.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (d. 1736)
Louis XVIII (d. 1824)
Lauren Bacall (b. 1924)
B. B. King (b. 1925)

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September 17: Constitution Day in the United States

Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledges AIDS for the first time, beginning at the 7:12 mark.

1630 – Puritan settlers from England founded the city of Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, naming it after Boston, Lincolnshire, the origin of several prominent colonists.
1658 – Portuguese Restoration War: Having crossed the Minho and entered Portuguese territory, a Spanish army was victorious in the Battle of Vilanova.
1878 – A British surveyor was detained by the Zulu on the border with the Colony of Natal; a demand for reparations for the incident formed part of an ultimatum that led to the Anglo-Zulu War.
1985 – Four years after AIDS was first identified in the United States, Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledged AIDS (video featured) for the first time.
2018 – The Israeli Air Force conducted missile strikes that hit multiple targets in western Syria, including one that accidentally downed a Russian plane.

Stephen Hales (b. 1677)
Jonathan Alder (b. 1773)
Ruth Benedict (d. 1948)
Thomas J. Bata (d. 2008)

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September 18

Old Faithful erupting

324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeated Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire and ending the Tetrarchy.
1870 – Nathaniel P. Langford of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition first observed a geyser in the Wyoming Territory erupting at regular intervals, naming it Old Faithful (video featured).
1875 – The Indianola hurricane dissipated over Mississippi after killing around eight hundred people in Texas.
1895 – Daniel David Palmer performed the first chiropractic adjustment on janitor William Harvey Lillard.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the United States Senate, the first woman to be elected to the body for a six-year term.

Andronikos Komnenos (b. 1091)
William Hazlitt (d. 1830)
Toni Wolff (b. 1888)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (d. 2020)

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September 19: International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Kate Sheppard

1777 – American Revolutionary War: British troops engaged American forces at the first Battle of Saratoga in New York.
1893 – New Zealand became the first country to introduce universal suffrage following the women's suffrage movement led by Kate Sheppard (pictured).
1970 – Greek student Kostas Georgakis set himself on fire in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the military junta of Georgios Papadopoulos.
1991 – Ötzi, a well-preserved natural mummy of a man dating from about 3300 BC, was discovered by two German tourists in the Alps.
2023 – Chinese authorities cancelled a run of performances of The Mongol Khan, the first Mongolian play to be performed internationally, forty minutes before its planned premiere in Hohhot.

Alfonso Litta (b. 1608)
William Kirby (b. 1759)
Alexander Tilloch Galt (d. 1893)
Jackie Collins (d. 2015)

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September 20

Margaret Thatcher

1066 – Harald III of Norway and his English ally Tostig Godwinson defeated the northern earls Edwin and Morcar at the Battle of Fulford near York.
1697 – The first of a series of treaties comprising the Peace of Ryswick was signed between France and the Grand Alliance, ending the Nine Years' War.
1870 – The Bersaglieri entered Rome through the Porta Pia, ending the temporal power of the Pope and completing the unification of Italy.
1988 – British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (pictured) gave a landmark speech at the Belfry of Bruges, Belgium, against federalism in the European Economic Community.
2022 – In the BBC series Cunk on Earth, historian Ashley Jackson comforted a distraught Philomena Cunk by talking about ABBA.

Gozbald (d. 855)
Jacob Grimm (d. 1863)
Justo Gallego Martínez (b. 1925)
Rose Francine Rogombé (b. 1942)

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September 21: International Day of Peace

Charles Edward Stuart

1675 – Led by Antonio de Vea, a Spanish naval expedition departed El Callao, Peru, for the fjords and channels of Patagonia to find whether rival colonial powers were in the region.
1745 – Jacobite risings: Jacobite troops led by Charles Edward Stuart (pictured) defeated Hanoverian forces in Prestonpans, Scotland.
1897 – In response to a letter written by eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, The New York Sun published an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church stating, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
1999 – A 7.7 M_w earthquake struck Jiji, Taiwan, killing 2,415 people, injuring more than 11,000 others and causing about NT$300 billion (US$10 billion) in damage across the island.
2004 – American rock band Green Day releases their seventh studio album, American Idiot, which would become one of their most recognizable albums.

Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (b. 1706)
Emanuel Schikaneder (d. 1812)
Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)
Trần Đại Quang (d. 2018)

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September 22

Damage from the great fire of Smyrna

1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.
1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz were crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1922 – After nine days, the great fire of Smyrna was extinguished (aftermath pictured), having caused at least ten thousand deaths.
1975 – Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford, but failed due to unfamiliarity with her weapon.
2014 – The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.

Selim I (d. 1520)
John Biddle (d. 1662)
Gladys Berejiklian (b. 1970)
Coco Yoshizawa (b. 2009)

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September 23: Celebrate Bisexuality Day

Richard Nixon delivering the Checkers speech

1780 – American Revolutionary War: British officer John André was captured by Patriot forces, thereby revealing a plot by Continental Army general Benedict Arnold to hand over West Point, New York.
1803 – Maratha troops were defeated by forces of the British East India Company at the Battle of Assaye, one of the decisive battles of the Second Anglo-Maratha War.
1913 – The United Mine Workers of America begin a strike against the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, sparking the Colorado Coalfield War.
1952 – U.S. vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon delivered the Checkers speech (pictured), one of the first political uses of television to appeal directly to the populace.
2019 – The British travel company Thomas Cook Group ceased operations with immediate effect, leaving around 600,000 tourists stranded around the world.

John Ainsworth Horrocks (d. 1846)
Ellen Hayes (b. 1851)
Sigmund Freud (d. 1939)
Sean Spicer (b. 1971)

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September 24: Heritage Day in South Africa; Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau (1973)

Battle of San Juan de Ulúa

1568 – At San Juan de Ulúa (present-day Veracruz, Mexico), a Spanish naval fleet forced English privateers to halt their trade (battle depicted).
1789 – The Judiciary Act of 1789 was signed into law, establishing the U.S. federal judiciary and setting the number of Supreme Court justices at six.
1903 – Alfred Deakin became the second Prime Minister of Australia, succeeding Edmund Barton who left office to become a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
1950 – "The Great Smoke Pall", generated by the Chinchaga fire, the largest recorded fire in North American history, was first recorded in present-day Nunavut and may eventually have circled the entire globe.
1975 – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott of the Southwest Face expedition became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by ascending one of its faces.

'Adud al-Dawla (b. 936)
Robert of Knaresborough (d. 1218)
Pia Wurtzbach (b. 1989)
Gennady Yanayev (d. 2010)

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September 25

Keke Rosberg

275 – After the assassination of Aurelian, Tacitus was chosen by the Senate to succeed him as Roman emperor.
1066 – Harold Godwinson defeated King Harald III of Norway and his English ally Tostig Godwinson at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, ending the last Norse invasion of the British Isles.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen and a small force of American and Quebec militia failed to capture the city of Montreal from British forces.
1959 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, was shot by a Buddhist monk, dying the following day.
1982 – Keke Rosberg (pictured) won his only Formula One championship with a fifth-place finish at the Caesars Palace Grand Prix.

Oliver Loving (d. 1867)
Silvana Pampanini (b. 1925)
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (b. 1955)
José Fernández (d. 2016)

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September 26

Albert Einstein

1087 – William II, son of William the Conqueror, was crowned king of England.
1905 – The article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" by Albert Einstein (pictured) was published, introducing his special theory of relativity.
1944 – World War II: The Soviet Army completed the Tallinn Offensive, driving German forces out of Estonia.
1983 – The racing yacht Australia II, captained by John Bertrand, won the America's Cup and ended the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the trophy.
2008 – Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy flew a wingpack powered by jet engines across the English Channel.

Francis Daniel Pastorius (b. 1651)
Bertha De Vriese (b. 1877)
Ramang (d. 1987)
Gloria Stuart (d. 2010)

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September 27: Meskel (Orthodox Tewahedo)

Flag of China

1422 – The Treaty of Melno was signed, establishing the Prussian–Lithuanian border, which afterwards remained unchanged for about 500 years.
1825 – Locomotion No. 1 hauled the train on the opening day of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public railway in the world to use steam locomotives.
1875 – The Ellen Southard was wrecked in a storm at Liverpool, England; the U.S. Congress subsequently awarded 27 Gold Lifesaving Medals to the men who rescued her crew.
1949 – Members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference unanimously selected Zeng Liansong's design for the flag of China (pictured).
2014 – Mount Ontake in central Japan unexpectedly erupted, killing 63 people in the nation's deadliest eruption in more than 100 years.

Guillaume Rondelet (b. 1507)
Ivan Goncharov (d. 1891)
Gwyneth Paltrow (b. 1972)
Madeleine Tchicaya (d. 2021)

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September 28

Alexander Fleming

48 BC – Pompey was killed by Lucius Septimius at Pelusium in Egypt.
1066 – William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships landed at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
1901 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas killed more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack on the town of Balangiga on the island of Samar.
1928 – Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming (pictured) discovered penicillin when he noticed a bacteria-killing mould growing in his laboratory.
1975 – An attempted robbery of Spaghetti House, a restaurant in Knightsbridge, London, turned into a six-day hostage situation.

Rabbi Akiva (d. 135)
Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale (b. 1626)
Florence Violet McKenzie (b. 1890)
Guillermo Endara (d. 2009)

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September 29: Michaelmas (Western Christianity)

Willie Mays

1724 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas, for the feast of archangel Michael.
1918 – World War I: The Battle of St Quentin Canal took place, which led to the British Fourth Army making the first breach of the German defensive Hindenburg Line.
1954 – Willie Mays (pictured) of the New York Giants made The Catch, one of the most famous defensive plays in the history of Major League Baseball.
1964 – Mafalda, a popular comic strip by Quino, was first published in newspapers in Argentina.
2004 – Archaeologists and volunteers began excavation of the remains of Fort Tanjong Katong in Singapore.

Karl Freiherr Haus von Hausen (b. 1823)
Edward Pulsford (b. 1844; d. 1919)
Annie Dove Denmark (b. 1887)
Valston Hancock (d. 1998)

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September 30: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada; Martyrs' Day in China

Times Square Theater

1139 – A violent earthquake struck the Caucasus near Ganja, killing up to an estimated 300,000 people.
1791 – Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in Vienna.
1920 – Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn.
1939 – NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
2000 – Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead in the Gaza Strip; the Israel Defense Forces initially accepted responsibility but retracted it five years later.

Adelaide of Vianden (d. 1376)
Doris Mackinnon (b. 1883)
Marion Cotillard (b. 1975)
Jessye Norman (d. 2019)

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