August 23rd
 

93 ~ Death of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman governor of Britain.

1754 ~ Birthday of King Louis XVI of France.

1829 ~ Birthday of Moritz Cantor, Mathematician.

1833 ~ Slavery abolished in the British colonies.

1912 ~ Birthday of Gene Kelly, Dancer & Actor.

1942 ~ Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.

1951 ~ Birthday of Queen Noor of Jordan.

1962 ~ First live television connection between the United States and Europe, via the Telstar satellite.

1966 ~ Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

1990 ~ West Germany and East Germany announced that they would unite.

August 24th
 

79 ~ Mount Vesuvius erupted. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae were buried in volcanic ash.

79 ~ Death of Pliny the Elder, Roman polymath.

1456 ~ The printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed.

1814 ~ British troops invaded Washington, D.C. and burnt down the White House and several other buildings.

1880 ~ Birthday of Joshua Lionel Cowen, inventor of the toy electric train.

1929 ~ Birthday of Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader.

1932 ~ Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).

1951 ~ Birthday of Orson Scott Card, novelist

1960 ~ Birthday of Cal Ripken, Jr., baseball player.

1992 ~ Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida.

August 25th
 

1635 ~ Birthday of Sir Henry Morgan, Privateer.

1825 ~ Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil.

1830 ~ Belgium seceded from the Netherlands.

1867 ~ Death of Michael Faraday, Scientist.

1875 ~ Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel.

1900 ~ Birthday of Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, Scientist. Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.

1900 ~ Death of Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher.

1918 ~ Birthday of Leonard Bernstein, Conductor, Composer.

1944 ~ World War II: Paris was liberated by the Allies.

1989 ~ Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune.

August 26th
 

55 BC ~ Julius Caesar invaded Britain.

1071 ~ Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert.

1429 ~ Joan of Arc entered Paris.

1498 ~ Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pieta.

1676 ~ Birthday of Robert Walpole, British PM

1740 ~ Birthday of Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventor, worked on first hot air balloon.

1743 ~ Birthday of Antoine Lavoisier, Chemist.

1883 ~ Eruption of Mount Krakatoa.

1920 ~ The 19th amendment to U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote.

1975 ~ Death of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia.

August 27th
 

479 BC ~ Battle of Plataea concluded the Persian invasion of Greece, Mardonius routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army.

1770 ~ Birthday of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher.

1776 ~ Battle of Long Island, in present day Brooklyn, New York British forces under General William Howe defeated the Americans under General George Washington.

1813 ~ Napoleon defeated the Austrians, Russians and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.

1828 ~ The Russians defeat the Turks at Akhaltzikke.

1861 ~ Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

1899 ~ Birthday of C.S. Forester, Author.

1900 ~ British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal.

19928 ~ Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed by sixty nations.

1979 ~ An IRA bomb killed Lord Mountbatten and 3 others on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Another near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland killed 18 British soldiers.

August 28th
 

430 ~ Death of Augustine of Hippo, Philosopher, Theologian.

1749 ~ Birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Philosopher, Scientist.

1828 ~ Birthday of Leo Tolstoy, Author.

1845 ~ First issue of Scientific American magazine published.

1850 ~ Richard Wagner's opera “Lohengrin” premiered.

1897 ~ Birthday of Charles Boyer, Actor.

1917 ~ Ten suffragists were arrested when picketing the White House.

1963 ~ During a civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I have a dream” speech.

1972 ~ During the Olympic Games of Munich, Mark Spitz won his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.

1996 ~ Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales are divorced.

August 29th
 

1261 ~ Urban IV became Pope, the last man to do so without first being a Cardinal.

1632 ~ Birthday of John Locke, Philosopher.

1885 ~ Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first motorcycle.

1923 ~ Birthday of Lord Richard Attenborough, Film Director.

1936 ~ Birthday of John McCain, American politician.

1949 ~ The Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

1952 ~ Premiere of John Cage's 4'33" in Woodstock, New York.

1958 ~ Birthday of Michael Jackson, Celebrity.

1966 ~ Last Beatles concert, in San Francisco.

1991 ~ The Downfall of the Soviet Union: Supreme Soviet suspended all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.

August 30th
 

1797 ~ Birthday of Mary Shelley, Writer.

1850 ~ Honolulu, Hawaii became a city.

1871 ~ Birthday of Ernest Rutherford, Physicist.

1930 ~ Birthday of Warren Buffett, Entrepreneur.

1941 ~ Siege of Leningrad began.

1943 ~ Birthday of Jean-Claude Killy, French alpine skier.

1963 ~ Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders went into operation.

1967 ~ Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1999 ~ East Timorese voted for independence in a referendum.

2003 ~ Death of Charles Bronson, Actor.

August 31st
 

1834 ~ Birthday of Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda - It contains "The Dance of the Hours")

1888 ~ Mary Ann Nichols murdered. She was perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims.

1897 ~ Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope, the first movie camera.

1920 ~ First radio news program broadcast in Detroit, Michigan.

1935 ~ Birthday of Frank Robinson, Baseball Player, Manager.

1945 ~ Birthday of Itzhak Perlman, Violinist.

1980 ~ Solidarity labor union formed in Poland.

1879 ~ Birthday of Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel. This woman knew how to live!

1994 ~ Irish Republican Army declares a “complete” cease-fire.

1997 ~ Death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris.

September 1st
 

September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 30 days. The name comes from the Latin septem, for "seven" -- September was originally the seventh month of the year, before January and February were inserted.

In Canada and the United States, Labour Day (U.S. - Labor Day) is observed on the first Monday in September.


September begins on the same day of the week as December every year.
September's flower is the morning glory.
September's birthstone is the sapphire.


1653 ~ Birthday of Johann Pachelbel, Composer.

Remember the theme music of “Ordinary People”? That’s “Pachelbel’s Canon” (which is not really a Canon).

1875 ~ Birthday of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Writer, creator of Tarzan.

1905 ~ Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.

1907 ~ Birthday of Walter Reuther, Labor Union leader.

1914 ~ The last Passenger Pigeon died in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.

1935 ~ Birthday of Seiji Ozawa, Conductor.

1939 ~ World War II: Nazi Germany attacked Poland, beginning the war.

1972 ~ In Reykjavik, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beat Russian Boris Spassky and became the world chess champion.

Where are you now Bobby?

1983 ~ Cold War: Korean Air Flight KAL-007 shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace.

1985 ~ A joint American-French expedition located the wreck of the RMS Titanic.

September 2nd
 

31 BC ~ Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. This date is often used for the beginning of the Roman Empire.

1666 ~ Great Fire of London: A large fire broke out in London in the house of Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire burned for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral, but only 16 people are known to have died.

1853 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Ostwald, Chemist.

1898 ~ Battle of Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeated Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, establishing British dominance in the Sudan.

1936 ~ Birthday of Andrew Grove, co-founder and chairman of Intel.

1938 ~ Death of Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games.

1944 ~ Diarist Anne Frank and her family were placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrived three days later.


1945 ~ The final official surrender of Japan was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz from a delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, bringing World War II to an end.

1948 ~ Birthday of Christa McAuliffe, Teacher, Astronaut.

1964 ~ Death of Alvin York, Hero. He was the most decorated American soldier of World War I.

September 3rd
 

1651 ~ Battle of Worcester - Charles II of England was defeated in the last main battle of the English Civil War.

1658 ~ Death of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England.

1777 ~ The Flag of the United States flew in battle for the first time, at Cooch's Bridge in Maryland.

1838 ~ Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boarded a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.

1875 ~ Birthday of Ferdinand Porsche, German automotive engineer.

1893 ~ Death of James Harrison, Australian pioneer of mechanical refrigeration.

1935 ~ Sir Malcolm Campbell reached 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 MPH.

1954 ~ The last new episode of the “Lone Ranger was aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years.

1962 ~ Death of e. e. cummings, poet.

1969 ~ Death of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese revolutionary.

September 4th
 

476 ~ Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed.

1761 ~ Los Angeles founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula).

1824 ~ Birthday of Anton Bruckner, Composer.

1888 ~ George Eastman registered the trademark Kodak, and received a patent for his camera which uses roll film.

1891 ~ Birthday of Fritz Todt, developer of the German autobahn, the archtype for the limited access highway.

1907 ~ Death of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer.

1944 ~ World War II: The British 11th Armored Division liberated the city of Antwerp in Belgium.

1965 ~ Death of Albert Schweitzer, Physician.

1972 ~ Mark Spitz won his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, becoming the first Olympian to win seven gold medals.

1995 ~ Death of William Kunstler, Attorney.

September 5th
 

1735 ~ Birthday of Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of Johann Sebastian Bach.

1774 ~ First Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1793 ~ In France, the French National Convention voteed to implement terror measures to enforce the principles of the French Revolution. The ensuing "Reign of Terror" lasted until the spring of 1794 and killed 35,000-40,000 people.

1847 ~ Birthday of Jesse James, outlaw.

1857 ~ Birthday of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Scientist, Inventor.

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

1950 ~ Birthday of Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist.

1960 ~ Cassius Clay won the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games.

1972 ~ Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacked Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.

1997 ~ Death of Mother Teresa, Inspiration.

September 6th
 

1522 ~ The “Vittoria”, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returned to San Lucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

1620 ~ The Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.

1766 ~ Birthday of John Dalton, British chemist and physicist.

1901 ~ American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shot and fatally wounded US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

1928 ~ Birthday of Robert M. Pirsig, author, creator of the Metaphysics of Quality.

1941 ~ Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed, was extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.

1966 ~ Death of Hendrik Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister.

1986 ~ In Istanbul, two Arab terrorists from Abu Nidal's terror organization killed 22 and wounded six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Sabbath services.

1991 ~ The Soviet Union recognized the independence of the Baltic states.

1995 ~ Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2,131 consecutive baseball games.