September: Today in History |
1 | 1923 - Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake. 1939 - Nazi Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. |
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1666 - Start of the Great Fire in London. 1789- Establishment of the U.S. Treasury Department. 1945 - V-J (Victory in Japan) Day: Japan's formal surrender. |
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1189 - Richard I, the "Lionhearted," crowned at Westminster Abbey. 1783 - Treaty of Paris signed between Great Britain and the United States. |
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1781 - Los Angeles founded by the Spanish. 1888 - Kodak trademark patented by George Eastman. |
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1774 - Meeting of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1905 - Treaty of Portsmouth signed. |
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1901 - President William McKinley shot by an anarchist in Buffalo, New York.
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1822 - Brazil independent. 1940 - Start of the German Blitzkrieg over London. |
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1966 - Television premiere of Star Trek. 1974 - Richard Nixon pardoned by Gerald Ford. |
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1850 - California became a U.S. state. 1948 - Birth of People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea). |
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1846 - A patent was granted to Elias Howe for his sewing machine. 1963 - Twenty African-American students entered public schools in three Alabama cities under the protection of the National Guard. WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY |
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1936 - Boulder (Now "Hoover") Dam dedicated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 2001 - Terrorists hijacked four airplanes in an event that became known as "9/11." Two were used to knock down the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashed into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. |
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1609 - Henry Hudson began exploring the Hudson River. 1953 - Jacqueline Bouvier and John Fitzgerald Kennedy married. |
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1941 - Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek became China's president.
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1814 - Francis Scott Key composed "The Star Spangled Banner." 1901 - U.S. President William McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, New York. 1940 - The Selective Service Act was passed by Congress. |
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September 15-October 15 - Hispanic Heritage Month 1821 - Independence for Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. 1935 - Nuremberg Laws enacted in Germany. 1963- Bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, killed four African-American girls. |
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1630 - Shawmut, Massachusetts, changed its name to Boston. 1919 - The American Legion was incorporated by the U.S. Congress. 1944 - The first public Jewish religious service in Germany since the rise of Adolf Hitler (1933) took place, led by U.S. Army Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz. NBC in the U.S. broadcast a service led by Rabbi Lefkowitz, with Max Fuchs serving as cantor, on October 26, during which the artillery shells of advancing American troops could be heard in the background. 1975 - Independence for Papua New Guinea. |
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1787 - Completion of the U.S. Constitution. 1862 - Battle of Antietam (U.S. Civil War). 1920 - American Professional Football Association (today's NFL) organized in Canton, Ohio. 2011 - Occupy Wall Street Movement began in New York City's Zuccotti Park. |
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1810 - Chile independent. 1850 - Fugitive Slave Act passed by the U.S. Congress. 1947 - National Security Act passed. |
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2001 - Combat aircraft were ordered to the Persian Gulf by the U.S. government under President George W. Bush.
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1870 - Papal states taken from the French by Victor Emmanuel II. 2001 - Tom Ridge named as head of the Office of Homeland Security by U.S. President George W. Bush. |
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1792 - The French Republic was proclaimed.
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1779 - "I have not yet begun to fight!" was proclaimed by John Paul Jones from the warship Bonhomme Richard.
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1789 - First Judiciary Act passed by Congress. 1957 - Last game by the Brooklyn Dodgers played at Ebbets Field. |
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1775 - Capture of Ethan Allen during the American Revolutionary War. 1890 - Polygamy renounced by the Mormon Church. 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor, first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, sworn in. |
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1789 - Thomas Jefferson appointed Secretary of State by President George Washington. 1914 - Establishment of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). |
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1542 - San Diego reached by Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo. 1939 - Nazi-Soviet Pact signed. |
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1399 - Abdication of England's Richard II.
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1938 - Munich Pact signed. 1949 - End of the Berlin Airlift. 1966 - Botswana independent. |