September 1
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September 1 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 120 days remaining after September 1 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1651 – Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
- 1653 – Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)
- 1711 – William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
- 1818 – Jose Maria Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica (d. 1892)
- 1854 – Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
- 1861 – Lazar Edeleanu, Romanian chemist (d. 1941)
- 1862 – Inazo Nitobe, Japanese diplomat (d. 1933)
- 1864 – Roger Casement, Irish diplomat (d. 1916)
- 1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)
- 1877 – Francis William Aston, British chemist (d. 1945)
- 1878 – Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg Gotha (d. 1942)
- 1906 – Joaquin Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
- 1907 – Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)
- 1915 – Ken Aston, English football referee (d. 2001)
- 1923 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
- 1926 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, former President of Bangladesh
- 1926 – Gene Colan, American comic book artist (d. 2011)
- 1928 – George Maharis, American actor
- 1931 – Boxcar Willie, American musician (d. 1999)
- 1931 – Javier Solis, Mexican singer (d. 1966)
- 1932 – Sunny von Buelow, American socialite (d. 2008)
- 1933 – Ann Richards, American politician (d. 2006)
- 1933 – Conway Twitty, American musician (d. 1993)
- 1935 – Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
- 1938 – Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and author
- 1939 – Lily Tomlin, American actress
- 1942 – Antonio Lobo Antunes, Portuguese writer
- 1946 – Barry Gibb, singer (the Bee Gees)
- 1946 – Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009)
- 1950 – Phil McGraw, American talk show host (Dr. Phil)
- 1956 – Kim Jong-Hun, North Korean football coach
- 1957 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer
- 1961 – Scott Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
- 1962 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
- 1966 – Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
- 1968 – Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
- 1969 – Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
- 1971 – Hakan Sukur, Turkish footballer
- 1971 – Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
- 1973 – Savo Milosevic, Serbian footballer
- 1975 – Scott Speedman, English-born actor
- 1977 – David Albelda, Spanish footballer
- 1980 – Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
- 1981 – Clinton Portis, American baseball player
- 1983 – Jose Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
- 1984 – Joe Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
- 1986 – Gael Monfils, French tennis player
- 1986 – Stella Mwangi, Norwegian singer
- 1989 – Bill & Tom Kaulitz, German singers
- 1989 – Daniel Sturridge, English footballer
- 1993 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
- 1994 – Bianca Ryan, American singer
[change] Deaths
- 1159 – Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)
- 1574 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
- 1581 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
- 1648 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
- 1678 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1601)
- 1715 – King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
- 1838 – William Clark, American explorer (b. 1770)
- 1914 – Martha, last passenger pigeon
- 1957 – Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b. 1921)
- 1961 – Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1910)
- 1967 – Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald (b. 1906)
- 1967 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and author (b. 1886)
- 1969 – Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
- 1970 – Francois Mauriac, French author (b. 1885)
- 1977 – Ethel Waters, American singer, actress (b. 1896)
- 1981 – Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)
- 1983 – Larry McDonald, United States Congressman (b. 1935)
- 1983 – Henry M. Jackson, Senator from Washington (b. 1912)
- 1988 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist (b. 1911)
- 1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
- 1990 – Geir Hallgrimsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1925)
- 2003 – Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Jerry Reed, American actor and musician (b. 1937)
- 2008 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
[change] Events
- 5509 BC – The world was created, according to the Byzantine Empire.
- 327 – start of first indiction cycle
- 1644 – Battle of Tippermuir, Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving Royalist cause
- 1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years — longer than any major European monarch.
- 1772 – Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
- 1804 – Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
- 1807 – Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason. He had been accused of plotting to annex parts of Louisiana and Mexico to become part of an independent republic.
- 1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly – Confederate General Robert E. Lee leads his forces in an attack on retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia, driving them away.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege mounted by Union General William T. Sherman.
- 1875 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
- 1894 – Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 400 people.
- 1897 – The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.
- 1905 – Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
- 1906 – the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
- 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.
- 1923 – An earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama killing about 100,000 people. See Great Kanto earthquake for details.
- 1928 – Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
- 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the war. (See Polish September Campaign.)
- 1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty (for "Australia, New Zealand, United States").
- 1954 – Paul "Bear" Bryant opens his infamous 10 day football mini-camp in Junction, Texas. The "survivors" of the ordeal will go down in football lore as The Junction Boys.
- 1960 – Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the history of the company.
- 1962 – Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
- 1962 – An earthquake in Qazvin, Iran, kills more than 12,000 people.
- 1969 – A coup in Libya brings Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, ousting King Idris I.
- 1970 – The last episode of the television sitcom I Dream of Jeannie airs on NBC. The show premiered on September 18, 1965.
- 1972 – In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.
- 1979 – The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
- 1980 – Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea after the resignation of Choi Kyu-ha.
- 1981 – In the Central African Republic, David Dacko is removed in a military coup.
- 1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Flight KAL-007 shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die.
- 1985 – A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
- 1991 – The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is released in North America.
- 1991 – Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 – Slovakia's Constitution is ratified.
- 1995 – The PlayStation videogame system is released in North America.
- 1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 74, including 10 on the ground.
- 2001 – In the largest media market change in North American television history, every single commercial television station in Vancouver, British Columbia switches network affiliations after a round of ownership changes in 2000.
- 2004 – The Beslan school siege begins, when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, southern Russia. The siege ends in a massacre two days later.
- 2006 – Luxembourg completes the move to all-digital broadcasting.
[change] Observances
- Constitution Day in Slovakia
- Independence Day in Uzbekistan
- Knowlegde Day (Russia)
- Disaster Prevention Day (Japan)
- Revolution Day in Libya (1969 – 2010)
