September 30th in History

1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.

1744 - France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.

1882 - Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.

1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.

1938 - At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

1947 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.

1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.

1966 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.

1993 - An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.

Famous Birthdays:

1227 - Pope Nicholas IV

1732 - Jacques Necker, finance minister of Louis XVI

1811 - Queen Augusta of Saxe-Weimar of Prussia, consort of William I, German Emperor.

1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco

1917 - Park Chung-hee, former President of South Korea

1939 - Len Cariou, actor

1953 - S. M. Stirling, author

1966 - Gary Armstrong, rugby player

1981 - Cecelia Ahern, author

1985 - T-Pain, musician

1986 - Rene Ranger, rugby player

September 29th in History

1227 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.

1850 - The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.

1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

1912 - The Ulster Solemn League and Covenant is signed by half a million Protestants/Loyalists declaring allegiance to the King

1949 - The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.

1954 - The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

1963 - The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.

1971 - Oman joins the Arab League.

1979 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to set foot on Irish soil with his visit to the Republic of Ireland.

1991 - Military coup in Haiti

Famous Birthdays:

1240 - Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scotland, she was Queen consort to Alexander III "the Glorious", King of the Scots.

1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria

1766 - Charlotte, Princess Royal, later Queen Charlotte of Württemberg; eldest daughter of George III of Great Britain

1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, 1st President of Mexico

1924 - Steve Forrest, actor

1938 - Wim Kok, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands

1939 - Rhodri Morgan, 2nd First Minister of Wales

1951 - Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile

1961 - Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia

1999 - His Excellency Don Juan Valentín de Todos los Santos Urdangarín y de Borbón, 8th in line to the Spanish throne

2008 - Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian royal family  7th in line to the throne

September 28th in History

235 - Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.

365 - Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.

935 - St Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.

1066 - William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.

1448 - Christian I is crowned King of Denmark.

1791 - France becomes the first European country to emancipate its Jewish population.

1844 - Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned King of Sweden.

1912 - The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ulster Protestants in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.

1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.

1939 - Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.

1950 - Indonesia joins the United Nations.

1960 - Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.

1961 - A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.

Famous Birthdays:

551 BC - Confucius, philosopher

1725 - Arthur Guinness, brewer, founded Guinness

 1867 - Hiranuma Kiichirō, Prime Minister of Japan

1910 - Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the Philippines

1945 - Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese Red Army founder

1982 - Nolwenn Leroy, singer

September 27th in History

1066 - William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.

1529 - The Siege of Vienna begins when Suleiman I attacks the city.

1540 - The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.

1590 - Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.

1660 - St. Vincent de Paul, priest and saint dies

1777 - Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.

1821 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain.

1922 - King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.

1937 - Balinese Tiger declared extinct.

1961 - Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.

1962 - The Yemen Arab Republic is established

1988 - National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.

1998 - The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.

2002 - Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.

2005 - After 162 episodes, Tom and Jerry aired it's final episode titled, The Karate Guard.

Famous Birthdays:

1271 - Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland

1601 - King Louis XIII of France

1696 - St Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, saint

1866 - Blessed Eurosia Fabris, Catholic blessed

1894 - Olive Tell, actress

1924 - Fred Singer, scientist

1943 - HRH Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aosta

1945- Kay Ryan, poet

1946 - Nicos Anastasiades, 7th President of Cyprus

1968 - Patrick Muldoon, actor

1984 - Davide Capello, footballer

1987 - Olga Puchkova. tennis player

September 26th in History

1493 - Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera

1580 - Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.

1687 - The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.

1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.

1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.

1918 - World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.

1944 - World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.

1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.

1950 - Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.

1960 - Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the USSR.

1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.

1984 - The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong

2008 - Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.

Famous Birthdays:

1329 - Queen Anna of Bavaria of the Romans

1849 - Ivan Pavlov, scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1870 - King Christian X of Denmark

1888 - T. S. Eliot, writer and poet, Nobel laureate

1897 - Pope Paul VI

1909 - Bill France, Sr., race car driver, founded NASCAR

1922 - HH Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, pretender to the Russian throne

1944 - Anne Robinson, English journalist

1961 - Charlotte Fich, actress

1972 - Melanie Paxson, actress

1981 - Serena Williams, tennis player

2000 - HRH Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan

September 25th in History

275 - In Rome, (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor.

1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.

1775 - American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe. Benedict Arnold and his expeditionary company set off from Fort Western, bound for Quebec City.

1846 - US. forces led by Zachary Taylor capture the Mexican city of Monterrey.

1915 - World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.

1970 - Cease-fire between Jordan and the Fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.

1981 - Belize joins the United Nations.

1983 - Maze Prison escape: 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.

1996 - The last of the Magdalene asylums closes in Ireland.

Famous Birthdays:

1694 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1711 - Qianlong, Emperor of China

1744 - Frederick William II of Prussia

1862 - Billy Hughes, 7th Prime Minister of Australia

1921 - Sir Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand

1968 - HRH Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau

1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, actress

1979 - Jean-René Lisnard, tennis player

1991 - Alessandro Crescenzi, footballer

September 24th in History

622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra (journey) from Mecca to Medina.

768 - Charlemagne is crowned the first King of the Franks

1645 - Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles

1664 - The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.

1841 - The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.

1890 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.

1914 - World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.

1968 - Swaziland joins the United Nations.

1973 - Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.

2007 - Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.

Famous Birthdays:

15 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor

1534 - Guru Ram Das, 4th Sikh Guru

1870 - Georges Claude, chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting

1878 - Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, author

1892 - Adélard Godbout, 15th Premier of Québec

1914 - John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia

1923 - Louis Edmonds, actor

1936 - Jim Henson, puppeteer, director, and producer, founded The Jim Henson Company

1958 - Kevin Sorbo, actor

1979 - Ross Mathews, comedian

1988 - Kyle Sullivan, actor

September 23rd in History

1568 - Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.

1806 - Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

1846 - Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.

1905 - Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.

1932 - The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

1941 - World War II: The first gas chamber experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.

1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.

Famous Birthdays:

63 BC - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor

1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan

1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire

1713 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain

1914 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei

1930 - Ray Charles, musician

1972 - Shim Eun-ha, actress

1984 - Kate French, actress

September 22nd in History

It is frequently the day of the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.

1499 - Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.

1761 - Coronation of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1823 - Joseph Smith, Jr.(founder of the Church of the Latter Day Saints) states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.

1862 - Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.

1896 - Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

1908 - The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.

1941 - World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.

1957 - In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected President.

1960 - The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.

1980 - Iraq invades Iran.

1991 - The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.

Famous Birthdays

1515 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England and as such was Queen of England(not crowned) from 6th January 1540 to 9th July 1540 until the annulment of their marriage.

1829 - Tu Duc, Emperor of Vietnam

1876 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France

1908 - Esphyr Slobodkina, children's author

1920 - Eric Baker, activist, co-founded Amnesty International

1956 - Robert Bowlin, musician

1971 - HH Princess Märtha Louise of Norway

1982 - Billie Piper, singer and actress

1987 - Tom Felton, actor

1988 - Bethany Dillon, singer-songwriter and guitarist

September 21st in History

1435 - An agreement between Charles VII of France and Philip the Good (Philip III, Duke of Burgundy) ends the partnership between the English and Burgundy in Hundred Years' War.

1776 - Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.

1780 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.

1792 - The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.

1939 - Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard.

1942 - On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.

1942 - In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.

1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1965 - Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.

1971 - Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.

1976 - Seychelles joins the United Nations.

1981 - Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.

1984 - Brunei joins the United Nations.

1991 - Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.

Famous Birthdays:

1051 - Bertha of Savoy, German Queen and Holy Roman Empress

1411 - Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne, great-grandson of King Edward III, father of Edward IV and Richard III and and grandfather of Edward V and Elizabeth of York, great grandfather of Henry VIII

1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor

1706 - Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg, Queen of Sardinia

1819 - Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France

1840 - Murad V, Ottoman Sultan

1866 - Herbert George (H. G.) Wells, writer

1899 - Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army

1931 - Larry Hagman, actor

1945 - Shaw Clifton, the 18th General of The Salvation Army

1961 - Billy Collins, professional boxer

1981 - Nicole Richie, socialite

September 20th in History

1187 - Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.

1378 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.

1519 - Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.

1854 - Battle of Alma: British and French troops defeat Russians in the Crimea.

1860 - The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the United States.

1881 - Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.

1942 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine. In the course of two days the German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews.

1977 - The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.

1979 - A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.

1982 - The National Football League players begin a 57-day strike.

1990 - South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.

2011 - The United States ends its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

Famous Birthdays

1161 - Emperor Takakura of Japan

1486 - Prince Arthur Tudor, son of King Henry VII of England (Catherine of Aragon was married to Prince Arthur(until his death) before she married King Henry VIII)

1853 - Chulalongkorn, King of Siam, Rama V (Thailand)

1911 - Shriram Sharma Acharya, spiritual leader

1925 - Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand, Rama VIII

1928 - Donald Hall, American poet

1935 - David Pegg, footballer

1940 - Taro Aso, Prime Minister of Japan

1956 - Debbi Morgan, actress

1980 - Vladimir Karpets, cyclist

1987 - Tito Tebaldi, Italian rugby player

September 19th in History

1356 - Battle of Poitiers: an English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French King, John II.

1846 - Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.

1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.

1944 - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).

1944 - Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.

1946 - The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.

1973 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.

1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.

Famous Birthdays

86    - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor

1377 - Albert IV, Duke of Austria

1551 - King Henry III of France

1803 - Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia

1898 - Giuseppe Saragat, President of Italy

1927 - Rosemary Harris, actress

1944 - Edmund Joensen, 9th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands

1964 - Trisha Yearwood, singer

1982 - Shaun Barker, footballer

September 18th in History

1180 - Philip Augustus becomes king of France.

1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final voyage.

1635 - Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.

1714 - George I arrives in Great Britain for the first time since becoming King on August 1st.

1759 - Seven Years War: the British capture Quebec City.

1809 - The Royal Opera House in London opens.

1812 - The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire

1872 - King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.

1914 - The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.

1914 - World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.

1919 - The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.

1939 - The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.

1943 - World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.

1943 - World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.

1962 - Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.

1973 - The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.

1988 - End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) are killed by the Tatmadaw.

1990 - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.

2007 - Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.

Famous Birthdays

53 - Trajan, Roman Emperor

1434 - Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress

1733 - George Read, American Declaration of Independence signatory

1765 - Pope Gregory XVI

1876 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia

1895 - John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada

1900 - Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius

1923 - Her Majesty Queen Anne of Romania, consort of His Majesty King Michael, last monarch of Romania

1939 - Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal

1946 - Nicholas Clay, actor

1951 - Dee Dee Ramone, singer-songwriter and bass player

1970 - Mike Compton, footballer

1983 - Kevin Doyle, footballer

September 17th in History

1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.

1787 - The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1894 - The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.

1939 - World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.

1940 -World War II: Following the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely.

1957 - Malaysia joins the United Nations.

1991 - Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.

1993 - Last Russian troops leave Poland.

Famous Birthdays:

1550 - Pope Paul V

1630 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma

1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, scientist

1903 - Frank O'Connor, author

1922 - Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola

1928 - Roddy McDowall, actor

1948 - John Ritter, actor

1968 -HRH Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, Princess of Denmark

1985 - José Gonçalves, footballer

September 16th in History

1620 - The Mayflower starts her voyage to North America

1701 - James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.

1776 - American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.

1812 - The Fire of Moscow begins shortly after midnight and destroys three quarters of the city days later.

1893 - Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.

1908 - The General Motors Corporation is founded.

1943 - World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German Tenth Army, orders his troops to withdraw from Salerno.

1963 - Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country.

1975 - Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.

1975 - The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe join the United Nations.

1980 - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.

1994 - The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.

Famous Birthdays

1386 - King Henry V of England

1837 - King Pedro V of Portugal

1858 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1893 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate

1923 - Lee Kuan Yew, first Prime Minister and former Minister Mentor of Singapore

1958 - Maura O'Connell, singer and actress

1976 - Tina Barrett, singer

1982 - Michele Rizzo, rugby player

2005 - HRH Princess Jalilah bint Ali, daughter of HRH Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan the brother of His Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein of Jordan

September 15th in History

1440 - Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.

1762 - Seven Years War: Battle of Signal Hill.

1812 - The French army under Napoleon reaches the Kremlin in Moscow.

1812 - War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.

1835 - HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipielago.

1862 - American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

1916 - World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.

1935 - The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.

1935 - Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.

1940 - World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft.

1950 - Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon

1952 - United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia.

1981 - Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.

1993 - Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands Parliament

2008 - Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in US history.

Famous Birthdays

1533 - Catherine of Austria, Queen consort of Poland and Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania

1666 - Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle

1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States

1864 - Prince Sigismund of Prussia

1890 - Agatha Christie, author

1904 - King Umberto II of Italy, the last Monarch of Italy

1913 - Henry Brant, composer

1915 - Al Casey, guitarist

1921 - Norma MacMillan, actress

1929 - Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army

1937 - Fernando de la Rúa, 51st President of Argentina

1950 - Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V, the spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

1972 - HRH Letizia, Princess of Asturias, the wife of HRHFelipe, Prince of Asturias, the heir apparent to the Spanish throne.

1973 - HRH Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, the husband of HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.

1984 - HRH Prince Henry (Harry) of Wales, fourth in line to the British throne

1986 - Poppy Delevingne, model

September 14th in History

1180 - Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.

1752 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).

1901 - President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.

1917 - Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.

1923 - Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain.

1975 - The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.

1999 - Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.

Famous Birthdays

1860 - Hamlin Garland, writer

1885 - Vittorio Gui, conductor

1920 - Lawrence Klein, economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1934 - Sarah Kofman, philosopher

1963 - Robin Singh, cricketer

1965 - Dmitry Medvedev, former President of Russia

1984 - Adam Lamberg, actor

September 13th in History

335  - Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

1541 - After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.

1743 - Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.

1791 - King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.

1914 - World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.

1953 - Nikita Khrushchev is appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1968 - Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.

1989 - Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.

2007 - The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

Famous Birthdays

1676 - Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, Duchess of Lorraine

1877 - Wilhelm Filchner, explorer

1886 - Sir Robert Robinson, chemist, Nobel laureate

1927 - Tzannis Tzannetakis, former Prime Minister of Greece

1951 - Jean Smart, actress

1971 - Stella McCartney, fashion designer

1983 - James Bourne, musician

1993 - Niall Horan, singer/musician

September 12th in History

1848 - Switzerland becomes a Federal state.

1919 - Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.

1938 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

1943 - World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.

1944 - World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.

1953 - US. Representative John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.

2003 - The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Famous Birthdays

1494 - King Francis I of France

1837 - Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse

1907 - Louis MacNeice, poet

1931 - Ian Holm, actor

1944 - Fred Fay, disability rights activist

1951 - Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach (Prime Minister of Ireland )

1957 - Rachel Ward, actress

1978 - Elisabetta Canalis, model and actress

1984 - Petra Marklund "September", singer

1996 - Colin Ford, actor

September 11th in History

1226 - The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes.

1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly-led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English.

1649 - Siege of Drogheda ends: Oliver Cromwell's English Parliamentarian troops take the town and execute its garrison.

1683 - Battle of Vienna.

1697 - Battle of Zenta.

1789 - Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.

1792 - The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store them.

1813 - War of 1812: British troops arrive in Mount Vernon and prepare to march to and invade Washington DC.

1897 - After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.

1939 - World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, the country's first independent declaration of war

1961 - Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.

1971 - The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.

1988 - The St Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

1989 - Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.

2001 - Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, New York while a third smashes into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia in a series of coordinated suicide attacks. A fourth hijacked airliner crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Altogether, 2,996  people are killed.

2012 - The first day of a series of protests and attacks; in which the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths, including J. Christopher Stevens, the United States Ambassador to Libya.

Famous Birthdays:

1525 - John George, Elector of Brandenburg

1862 - Dr H.H. Crippen, murderer

1884 - Sudhamoy Pramanick, Indian Independence activist

1914 - Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, spiritual leader

1930 - Renzo Montagnani, actor

1937 - Her Majesty Queen Paola of Belgium, consort of King Albert II of Belgium

1948 - John Martyn, musician

1957 - Jeff Sluman, golfer

1965 - Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria

1966 -Her Imperial Highness Princess Akishino of Japan

1979 - Éric Abidal, footballer

1981 - Andrea Dossena, footballer

1987 - Tyler Hoechlin, actor

1990 - Henry Hopper, actor

September 10th in History

1167 - Empress Matilda of England dies

1515 - Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal

1547 - The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.

1798 - At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.

1813 - The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

1898 - Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.

1918 - Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.

1939 - World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.

1943 - World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.

1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.

1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.

1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.

2002 - Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.

2008 - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

Famous Birthdays

920 - Louis IV of France

1487 - Pope Julius III

1786 - Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and 11th President of Mexico

1887 - Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of the Italian Republic

1914 - Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland

1924 - Boyd K. Packer, 26th President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

1941 - Gunpei Yokoi, video game designer, invented Game Boy

1950 - Joe Perry, singer-songwriter and guitarist

1956 - Johnnie Fingers, pianist, songwriter, and producer

1960 - Colin Firth, actor

1965 - Robin Goodridge, drummer

1985 - Laurent Koscielny, footballer

1988 - Coco Rocha, model

September 9th in History

337 - Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.

1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

1791 - Washington, D.C., the capitol of the United States, is named after President George Washington.

1850 - California is admitted as the thirty-first US state.

1942 -World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.

1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.

1948 - Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

1991 - Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.

Famous Birthdays

214 - Aurelian, Roman Emperor

384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor

1878 - Sergio Osmeña, 4th President of the Philippines

1918 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of the Italian Republic

1949 - Garry Maddox, baseball player

1966 - Adam Sandler, actor and comedian

1980 - Michelle Williams, actress

2000 - Her Excellency Doña Victoria de Todos los Santos de Marichalar y de Borbón, 6th in line to the Spanish throne

September 8th in History

70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem.

1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.

1565 - The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta that began on May 18th.

1793 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.

1831 - William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1888 - In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.

1926 - Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.

1944 - World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.

1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

1991 - The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.

Famous Birthdays

1157 - King Richard I of England

1633 - Ferdinand IV of Germany

1852 - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea

1887 - George, Crown Prince of Serbia

1914 - Demetrios I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

1934 - Peter Maxwell Davies, composer

1953 - Pascal Greggory, actor

1960 - David Steele, musician

1972 - Os du Randt, rugby player

1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor

1995 - James Gandhi, actor

September 7th in History

1191 - Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.

1571 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.

1818 - Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned King of Norway, in Trondheim.

1921 - The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland by Servant of God Frank Duff

1940 - Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.

1945 - Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to US Marines.

1988 - Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.

2005 - Egypt holds its first-ever multi-party Presidential election.

Famous Birthdays:

1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England

1817 - Queen Louise of Hesse-Kassel of Denmark

1819 - Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States

1903 - Margaret Landon, writer

1917 - Jacob Lawrence, painter

1930 - King Baudouin I of Belgium

1950 - Julie Kavner, actress

1981 - Paul McCoy, musician

1987 - Aleksandra Wozniak, tennis player

September 6th in History

3114 BC - According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.

1522 - The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

1620 - The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16)

1885 - Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria. The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.

1939 - World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.

1940 - King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael.

1944 - World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.

1948 - Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.

1965 - War of 1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which resulted in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate and follows the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.

1968 - Swaziland becomes independent.

1991 - The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

1991 - The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.

1997 - Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.

Famous Birthdays

1666 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia

1766 - John Dalton, chemist and physicist

1869 - Felix Salten, author

1913 - Julie Gibson, actress

1923 - Peter II of Yugoslavia

1937 - Jo Anne Worley, actress

1957 - José Sócrates, former Prime Minister of Portugal

1974 - Tim Henman, tennis player

1988 - Max George, singer

2006 - HIH Prince Hisahito of Akishino, third in line to become Emperor of Japan.

September 5th in History

1666 - Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.

1725 - Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.

1800 - Napoleon surrenders Malta to Great Britain.

1836 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas

1839 - United Kingdom declared First Opium War on the Qing Dynasty of China.

1882 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

1937 - Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.

1941 - Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.

1960 - The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

1972 - Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.

1990 - Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 158 civilians.

Famous Birthdays

1187 - Louis VIII of France

1638 - Louis XIV of France

1771 - Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen

1817 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, poet, author, and playwright

1888 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 2nd President of India

1929 - Bob Newhart, actor and comedian

1942 - Eduardo Mata, conductor and composer

1965 - Chris Morris, comedian and actor

1978 - Yu Nan, actress

1987 - Pierre Casiraghi, son of HRH Caroline, Princess of Hanover

1990 - Franco Zuculini, Italian footballer

September 4th in History

476 - Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy, thus ending the Western Roman Empire.

1666 - In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.

1781 - Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers.

1812 - War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.

1870 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.

1888 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.

1972 - Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at the Munich, West Germany Olympic Games.

1998 - Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.

Famous Birthdays

1241 - Alexander III of Scotland

1563 - Emperor Wanli of China

1803 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States, wife of the 11th President of the United States, James Polk

1901 - William Lyons, industrialist and businessman, co-founded Jaguar cars

1902 - Thomas Mitchell, cricketer

1928 - Dick York, actor

1945 - Danny Gatton, musician

1951 - Martin Chambers, English drummer and singer

1971 - Ione Skye, actress

1981 - Beyoncé Knowles, singer and actress

1991 - Carter Jenkins, actor

September 3rd in History

301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by St. Marinus.

590 - Consecration of Pope Gregory I

1189 - Richard I of England (Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster Abbey.

1651 - Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester – Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.

1658 - Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England

1783 - American Revolutionary War: the war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1870 - Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23rd

1914 - William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.

1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph

1939 - World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.

1943 - World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins.

1944 - Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.

1945 - Three-day celebration was held in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2nd.

1971 - Qatar becomes an independent state

2001 - In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. For the next 11 weeks, riot police escort the schoolchildren and their parents through hundreds of protesters, some of whom hurl missiles and abuse. The protest sparks fierce rioting and grabs world headlines.

Famous Birthdays

1034 - Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan

1724 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, soldier and Governor of Quebec

1851 - Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, Queen of Greece

1899 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, biologist, Nobel laureate

1925 - Bengt Lindström, artist

1943 - Valerie Perrine, actress

1949 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria, 129th Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa

1964 - Nigel Rhodes, actor

1976 - Ashley Jones, actress

1981 - Fearne Cotton, television presenter

September 2nd in History

44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.

1666 - The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings.

1752 - Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar

1807 - The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.

1864 - American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign.

1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan – Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.

1939 - World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.

1945 - Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

1960 - The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.

Famous Birthdays

1838 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen regnant of Hawaii, last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii

1883 - Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria

1931 - Clifford Jordan, saxophonist

1946 - Luis Avalos, actor

1960 - Rex Hudler, baseball player

1971 - Pawan Kalyan, actor

1988 - Ishant Sharma, cricketer

September 1st in History

1532 - Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.

1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years - the longest of any major European monarch.

1763 - Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow

1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.

1914 - St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.

1914 - The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.

1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia and Russia Soviet Union invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.

1939 - Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.

1958 - Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.

1961 - The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.

1969 - A coup in Libya brings Muammar al-Gaddafi to power.

1981 - A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.

1991 - Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union

Famous Birthdays
1588 - Henry II, Prince of Condé

1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia, consort of Tsar Alexei I of Russia

1711 - William IV, Prince of Orange

1818 - José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the Republic

1908 - Amir Elahi, cricketer

1926 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, former President of Bangladesh

1946 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea

1962 - Tony Cascarino, footballer

1966 - Tim Hardaway, basketball player

1982 - Jeffrey Buttle, figure skater