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September 1: Labour Day in Canada and Labor Day in the United States (2025)

Title page of the soprano part book

1610 – Claudio Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine (page pictured) was first printed in Venice, dedicated to Pope Paul V.
1804 – German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered one of the largest main-belt asteroids, naming it Juno after the Roman goddess.
1902 – The first science fiction film, titled A Trip to the Moon and based on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, was released in France.
1937 – The first group of around 172,000 Koreans were deported by Soviet authorities from the Russian Far East to the Kazakh and Uzbek SSRs; around 10 to 25 percent died.
2000 – Speakers' Corner, a free speech area in Hong Lim Park in Singapore, was launched.

Hannah Glasse (d. 1770)
Father Chrysanthus (b. 1905)
Charles Atangana (d. 1943)
Barbara Ehrenreich (d. 2022)

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September 2: National Day in Vietnam (1945)

Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Instrument of Surrender

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" at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force.
1945 – On the deck of the U.S. Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and the Allied powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender (pictured), formally ending World War II.
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

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.
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.
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)
Syed Mustafa Siraj (d. 2012)

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September 5

Sam Houston

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.
1836 – Sam Houston (pictured) became the first popularly elected president of the Republic of Texas.
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.

Kathleen O'Melia (d. 1939)
Freddie Mercury (b. 1946)
Chris Hipkins (b. 1978)
Adam Malik (d. 1984)

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September 6: Defence Day in Pakistan (1965), Ghost Festival in China (2025)

Cal Ripken Jr.

1781 – American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British forces to victory at the Battle of Groton Heights.
1863 – General John S. Marmaduke fatally wounded his Confederate Army colleague Lucius M. Walker in a formal duel in Arkansas.
1901 – William McKinley, President of the United States, was fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died eight days later.
1976 – Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, declaring his intention to defect to the West.
1995 – Cal Ripken Jr. (pictured) played his 2,131st consecutive Major League Baseball game, breaking the 56-year-old record set by Lou Gehrig.

Jessie Willcox Smith (b. 1863)
Homare Sawa (b. 1978)
Burt Reynolds (d. 2018)
Robert Mugabe (d. 2019)

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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.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army fought near the village of Borodino during the French invasion of Russia.
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.
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.

Abdurrahman Wahid (b. 1940)
Tamurbek Dawletschin (d. 1983)
Miniminter (b. 1992)
Mobutu Sese Seko (d. 1997)

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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, which was suppressed by the Order within a few hours.
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 – U.S. senator Huey Long 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.

Maria Lassnig (b. 1919)
Peter Sellers (b. 1925)
Derek Taylor (d. 1997)
Emi Shinohara (d. 2024)

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September 9

Elizabeth II on this day in 2015

1570 - Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573): Cyprian city of Nicosia falls to the Ottomans, afterwards an estimated 20,000 citizen are massacred and the rest sold into slavery.
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, destroying both aeroplanes and killing all 83 occupants of both aircraft.
2001 - Two al-Qaeda attackers assassinate Ahmad Shah Massoud, a pivotal Afghan resistance leader, two days before the September 11 attacks in the United States.
2015 – Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.

Louise Lehzen (d. 1870)
Chaim Topol (b. 1935)
Neil Davis (d. 1985)
Luka Modrić (b. 1985)

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September 10

Lightcurve-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.
1858 – George Mary Searle discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora (pictured).
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 conduct 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.
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.
1981 – Iranian politician Ayatollah Madani and three others were assassinated by an agent of the MEK who detonated a grenade during Friday prayers in Tabriz.

Jessica Mitford (b. 1917)
Jan Smuts (d. 1950)
Hiroshi Amano (b. 1960)
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, a world record scoreline in professional association football.
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 Bosanquet Fletcher (b. 1739)
Sydney Sweeney (b. 1997)
Johnny Cash (d. 2003)

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September 13

Model of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus

509 BC – According to Roman tradition, the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (depicted), the most important temple in ancient Rome, was dedicated.
1567 – The siege of Inabayama Castle, the final battle in Oda Nobunaga's campaign to conquer Mino Province, began; it culminated in a decisive victory for Nobunaga.
1919 – The Boston police strike ended after four days of rule by the state militia, the deaths of nine people, and accusations that striking officers were "agents of Lenin".
2005 – A software bug caused a simulated pandemic in the online video game World of Warcraft, serving as a model for epidemiologists to understand how human interaction influences disease outbreaks.

Kavad I (d. 531)
Laura Secord (b. 1775)
Arnold Schoenberg (b. 1874)
Louis Laybourne Smith (d. 1965)

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September 14

HMAS AE1

AD 81 – Domitian, the last Flavian emperor of Rome, was confirmed by the Senate to succeed his brother Titus.
919 – Viking activity in the British Isles: A coalition of native Irish, led by Niall Glúndub, failed in their attempt to drive the Vikings of the Uí Ímair from Ireland.
1863 – American Civil War: The Little Rock campaign ended with the Union Army capturing Little Rock, Arkansas.
1914 – HMAS AE1 (pictured), the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea; its wreck was not found until 2017.
1989 – Typhoon Sarah dissipated after causing extensive damage along an erratic path across the Western Pacific, killing 71 in Taiwan, the Philippines, and the Gotō Islands.

Drusus Julius Caesar (d. AD 23)
Luke P. Blackburn (d. 1887)
Romola Costantino (b. 1930)
Mamadou N'Diaye (b. 1993)

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

1831 illustration of the L&M Railway

1462 – The Ottoman conquest of Lesbos ended upon the surrender of commander Niccolò Gattilusio; the conquering Mehmed II executed 300 Italian soldiers by chopping them in half, claiming he was fulfilling a promise to "spare their heads".
1830 – The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M) (depicted), the first locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities, opened with the Duke of Wellington in attendance.
1954 – The scene in The Seven Year Itch of Marilyn Monroe standing in a white dress over a subway grate was filmed by Billy Wilder.
2013 – The Belarusian serial killer Ivan Kulesh murdered two saleswomen in Lida.

Stanisław Poniatowski (b. 1676)
Ayscoghe Boucherett (d. 1815)
Algernon Lee (b. 1873)
Linnie Marsh Wolfe (d. 1945)

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

Western terminus of the Northern Xinjiang railway

681 – At the Third Council of Constantinople, Pope Honorius I was posthumously excommunicated, with his support for monothelitism deemed to be heretical.
1844 – Felix Mendelssohn completed the score of his Violin Concerto, his final concerto.
1979 – Eight people escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a home-made hot air balloon.
1990 – Construction of the Northern Xinjiang railway (terminus pictured) was completed between Ürümqi South and Alashankou, linking the railway lines of China and Kazakhstan and adding a sizeable portion to the Eurasian Land Bridge.

Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122)
Elisabeth Bagréeff-Speransky (b. 1799)
Vesta Tilley (d. 1952)
Louis Ngwat-Mahop (b. 1987)

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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.

1176 – Byzantine–Seljuk wars: At the Battle of Myriokephalon in Phrygia, the Seljuq Turks prevented Byzantine forces from taking the interior of Anatolia.
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.
1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Nazi Germany's attack on the country from the west.
1985 – Four years after AIDS was first identified in the United States, Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledged AIDS (video featured) for the first time.
2011 – Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, organized a protest against corporate influence on democracy at Zuccotti Park in New York City that became known as Occupy Wall Street.

Li Jingsui (d. 958)
Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (d. 1721)
Hank Williams (b. 1923)
Yuji Naka (b. 1965)

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September 18

Interior of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

AD 96 – Nerva, the first of the "Five Good Emperors" of ancient Rome, came to power following the assassination of his predecessor Domitian.
1809 – The second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (interior pictured), opened in London after the original was destroyed by fire.
1875 – The Indianola hurricane dissipated over Mississippi after killing around eight hundred people in Texas.
1961 – An aircraft crashed near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, resulting in the deaths of 16 people, including United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld.
1981 – While posing as an aristocrat, Belgian serial killer Nestor Pirotte murdered an antiques dealer in Brussels, for which crime he was sentenced to death.

Trajan (b. AD 53)
Liu Sheng (d. 958)
Betty Cantor-Jackson (b. 1948)
Jimi Hendrix (d. 1970)

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September 19: International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Statue of Our Lady of La Salette

1692 – Salem witch trials: Giles Corey was crushed to death for refusing to enter a plea to charges of witchcraft, reportedly asking the sheriff for "more weight" during his execution.
1846 – Near La Salette-Fallavaux in southeastern France, shepherd children Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud reported a Marian apparition, now known as Our Lady of La Salette (statue pictured).
1940 – World War II: Polish resistance leader Witold Pilecki allowed himself to be captured by German forces and sent to Auschwitz to gather intelligence.
1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival was held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, England.
1995 – Industrial Society and Its Future, the manifesto of American domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, was published in The Washington Post almost three months after it was submitted.

Theodore of Tarsus (d. 690)
Paterson Clarence Hughes (b. 1917)
Judith Kanakuze (b. 1959)
Wu Zhonghua (d. 1992)

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September 20

Great Buddha of Kamakura

1498 – A tsunami caused by the Meiō earthquake washed away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha (pictured) at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan; the statue has since stood in the open air.
1792 – The French Army achieved its first major victory of the War of the First Coalition at the Battle of Valmy.
1967 – L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, announced the story of Xenu in a taped lecture sent to all Scientologists.
1997 – Hurricane Erika, the strongest and longest-lasting hurricane of the 1997 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated after causing flooding and power outages throughout Puerto Rico.

Susanna Rubinstein (b. 1847)
Edith Rogers (b. 1894)
Justo Gallego Martínez (b. 1925)
Davidson Nicol (d. 1994)

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September 21: International Day of Peace

The Great Fire of New York

1170 – Norman invasion of Ireland: English and Irish forces conquered Dublin, forcing Ascall mac Ragnaill, the last Norse–Gaelic king of Dublin, into exile.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Great Fire of New York (depicted) broke out during the British occupation of New York City, destroying up to 1,000 buildings.
1918 – World War I: The Battle of Nazareth ended with the British Empire victorious over the Ottomans.
1958 – The first section of Interstate 80 in Iowa opened in the Des Moines metropolitan area.
2001 – Several British Muslim youths in Peterborough, England, murdered 17-year-old Ross Parker, leading to debate over whether the British media failed to cover racially motivated crimes with white victims.

Andrew II of Hungary (d. 1235)
Barbara Longhi (b. 1552)
Kay Ryan (b. 1945)
Florence Griffith Joyner (d. 1998)

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September 22

François Duvalier

1236 – Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword were soundly defeated by pagan Samogitian and Semigallian troops at the Battle of Saule.
1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General was formally established.
1957 – François Duvalier (pictured), nicknamed Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life.
2003 – Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.
2013 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, was attacked by two suicide bombers who killed 127 people.

Ibn Khallikan (b. 1211)
Louise McKinney (b. 1868)
Ice Box Chamberlain (d. 1929)
Florence Merriam Bailey (d. 1948)

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September 23: Celebrate Bisexuality Day

Concordat of Worms

1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman emperor Henry V agreed the Concordat of Worms (pictured), ending the Investiture Controversy.
1642 – First English Civil War: The Battle of Powick Bridge, the first engagement between the primary field armies of the Royalists and the Parliamentarians, ended in a Royalist victory.
1884 – The French steamship Arctique ran aground on the northern coast of Cape Virgenes in Argentina; gold was discovered during the rescue effort, triggering the Tierra del Fuego gold rush.
1920 – The Louisiana hurricane dissipated over Kansas after forcing around 4,500 people to evacuate and causing $1.45 million in damages.
2010 – Teresa Lewis became the first woman to be executed by the U.S. state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed by lethal injection.

Augustus (b. 63 BC)
Sir Richard Hughes, 1st Baronet (d. 1779)
Émilie Gamelin (d. 1851)
Zdenko Blažeković (b. 1915)

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

Norodom Sihanouk

1645 – English Civil War: Royalists commanded by King Charles I suffered a significant defeat at the Battle of Rowton Heath.
1869 – Jay Gould, James Fisk, and other speculators plotted but failed to control the United States gold market, causing prices to plummet.
1890 – Wilford Woodruff, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a manifesto that officially disavowed the future practice of plural marriage.
1941 – Operation Barbarossa: A Wehrmacht training event known as the Mogilev Conference began, marking an increase in violence against Jews and other civilians in the areas under General Max von Schenckendorff's command.
1993 – Norodom Sihanouk (pictured) became King of Cambodia with the restoration of the monarchy after a 23-year interregnum.

Pope Liberius (d. 366)
Howard Florey (b. 1898)
Esther Eng (b. 1914)
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)

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September 25

Kaweah Gap, Sequoia National Park

844 – Viking expansion: A Viking fleet arrived near Seville, then part of the Emirate of Córdoba, and began a raid of the city that was eventually repelled by Muslim defenders.
1790 – Peking opera was born with the introduction of Hui opera to Beijing by the "Four Great Anhui Troupes" in honour of the Qianlong Emperor's 80th birthday.
1890 – Sequoia National Park (pictured) was established to conserve giant sequoia trees in an area affected by logging in the southern Sierra Nevada in California.
1983 – In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a meals lorry and broke out of HM Prison Maze in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Harald Hardrada (d. 1066)
John Lymburn (b. 1880)
Marian Breland Bailey (d. 2001)
Wang Bingzhang (d. 2005)

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September 26

Replica of the Golden Hind

46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicated the Temple of Venus Genetrix in Rome to Venus, the mythical ancestor of his family.
1580 – English explorer Francis Drake's galleon the Golden Hind (replica pictured) sailed into Plymouth, completing his circumnavigation of the globe.
1905 – The article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" by Albert Einstein was published, introducing his special theory of relativity.
1983 – Cold War: Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov averted a potential nuclear war by identifying as a false alarm signals that appeared to indicate an impending U.S. missile attack.
2010 – Scottish aid worker Linda Norgrove and three Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by members of the Taliban in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.

Hiram Wesley Evans (b. 1881)
Leo Martello (b. 1930)
Wendy Saddington (b. 1949)
Alicja Iwańska (d. 1996)

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September 27: Meskel (Orthodox Tewahedo)

Rosetta Stone

1822 – In a letter to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris, Jean-François Champollion announced his initial successes in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone (pictured).
1851 – The British East India Company inaugurated the Horsburgh Lighthouse on the rocky outcrop of Pedra Branca, Singapore, which later became the subject of a territorial dispute.
1917 – The Broadhurst Theatre opened in New York City with a performance of Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw.
1975 – Two members of ETA political-military and three members of the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front, sentenced to death for murder, became the last people to be executed in Spain.
1983 – American software developer Richard Stallman announced plans for the Unix-like operating system GNU, the first free software developed by the GNU Project.

Felice della Rovere (d. 1536)
Michael Huber (b. 1727)
Bud Powell (b. 1924)
Jenna Ortega (b. 2002)

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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

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)
Raël (b. 1946)
Jessye Norman (d. 2019)

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