A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on September 1 throughout history.
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Louis XIV (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand [lwi lə ɡʁɑ̃]) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil [lə ʁwa sɔlɛj]), was King of France from 1643 until his...
First female telephone operator starts work, Emma Nutt, for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston
Wilfrid Laurier oversees Alberta and Saskatchewan joining the Confederation of Canada as its 8th and 9th provinces, both separated from the Northwest Territories
This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939.
Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Star of David
The Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of the Philippines is an agreement between the two nations recognizing that an attack in the Pacific on either would endanger the...
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (1942 – 20 October 2011) was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by...
Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder".
Mozart publishes his 6th String Quartet, Opus 10 in Vienna
American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeats Russian champion Boris Spassky 12.5-8.5 in Reykjavik, Iceland, in the most publicized world title match ever played; Fischer becomes the first American to win the title
NFL San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the US national anthem before pre-season game against the Chargers at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US
Deborah Read Franklin (1708 – December 19, 1774) was the common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, until her death in 1774.
Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald (28) weds his cousin Isabella Clark
John Barrymore was an American actor on stage, screen, and radio. A member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical families, he initially tried to avoid the stage and briefly attempted a career as an...
American "Gilda" actress Rita Hayworth (42) divorces American film producer James Hill (45) after 3-1/2 years of marriage
Possible start of the first Byzantine indiction cycle
Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
Baldwin VI becomes Count of Flanders
Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III
Kaliningrad (known as Königsberg until 1946) is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, an exclave of Russia between Lithuania and Poland (663 kilometres (412 mi) west of...
Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem
Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki
Tatars plunder Kyiv, Ukraine
Pieter Both sworn in as 1st Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
-4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam
Jules Mazarin (born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino or Mazarini; 14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), from 1641 known as Cardinal Mazarin, was an Italian Catholic prelate, diplomat and politician who served as...
35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal
Dutch VOC ship Hofwegen struck by lighting and explodes off the coast of Batavia with six tons of silver aboard
San Luis Obispo is a city in and the county seat of San Luis Obispo County, California, United States.
2nd National Meeting in Hague
1st US bank robbery: the Bank of Pennsylvania at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania robbed of $162,821
Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
Juno (minor-planet designation: 3 Juno) is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt. Juno was the third asteroid discovered, in 1804, by German astronomer Karl Harding.
Santa Fe is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-most populous city in the state with a population of 87,505 as of the 2020 census, while the Santa Fe metropolitan area...
Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Oregon Country (now US state of Washington)
The California Constitutional Conventions were two separate constitutional conventions that took place in California during the nineteenth century which led to the creation of the modern Constitution...
Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications.
Carrington Event: largest geomagnetic storm in recorded history. Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson make 1st observation of a solar flare.
Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI
Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)
6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was fought on June 27, 1864, during the Atlanta campaign of the American Civil War. The most significant frontal assault launched by Union Major General William T.
Last Navaho chief Manuelito turns himself in at Fort Wingate
Cetshwayo kaMpande was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1873 to 1884 and its Commander in Chief during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. His name has been rendered as Cetywayo or Cetshwayo.
28th US Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Connecticut takes office
A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband
The Netherlands New Code of Criminal Law is enforced
Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established
Holten is a railway station located in Holten, Netherlands. The station was opened on 1 September 1888 and is located on the Deventer–Almelo railway.
Brooklyn Bridegrooms win 3 MLB games in one day‚ feasting on the Pittsburgh Alleghenys 10- 9‚ 3-2‚ and 8-4, at Washington Park in Brooklyn
Gladstones' Second Home Rule Bill for Ireland passes in the House of Commons but vetoed by The House of Lords by 419 votes to 41
Wildfire destroys 350,000 acres, including the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, killing over 418 people [1]
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) operates rapid transit (heavy rail), light rail, and bus rapid transit services in the Boston metropolitan area, collectively referred to as the...
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina.
Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange
British New Guinea (BNG) was a protectorate and later Crown colony within the British Empire from 1884 to 1902.
Adolphe Célestin Pégoud was a French aviator and flight instructor who became the first fighter ace in history during World War I.
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer and colonial administrator.
Jerome Travers establishes a US Amateur Golf Championship record by downing George Crump, 14 & 13, in a 1st-round match at the Country Club of Detroit in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
The Indian Home Rule movement was a movement in British India on the lines of the Irish Home Rule movement and other home rule movements.
Battle of Megiddo starts, the final Allied offense during Sinai and Palestine campaign won by the Allies
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA), officially the Communist Party of the United States of America, is a far-left communist party in the United States.
The State of Greater Lebanon, informally known as French Lebanon, was a state declared on 1 September 1920, which became the Lebanese Republic in May 1926, and is the predecessor of modern...
New York City law requires all "pool" rooms to change their name to "billiards", per article 31 of the state penal code approved in June
A magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan, killing 142,000 people
Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake
Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee; replaced by Henri de Baillet-Latour of Belgium
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.
The Albanian Kingdom (Gheg Albanian: Mbretnija Shqiptare; Tosk Albanian: Mbretëria Shqiptare) was the official name of Albania between 1928 and 1939.
Joseph Force Crater (January 5, 1889 – disappeared August 6, 1930; declared legally dead June 6, 1939) was an American lawyer who served as a New York State Supreme Court justice and mysteriously...
NYC Mayor James J. "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns due to graft charges
US Navy renames NAS Sunnyvale, near San Francisco, California, NAS Moffett Field, in honor of Rear Admiral William A. Moffett; Moffett championed the construction of the base, but died in the crash of airship USS Akron before the base opened
SMJK Sam Tet was founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
Belgian boxer Gustave Roth beats Heinz Lazek of Austria in a 15 round points decision to win the EBU and vacant IBU world light heavyweight title in Vienna
4th Chicago College All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Green Bay, 6-0; 84,560 at Soldier Field
The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, which commenced with the Soviet Kerch-Feodosia Landing Operation and ended with the German Operation Bustard Hunt (German: Unternehmen Trappenjagd), was a World War...
Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns
Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Vince DiMaggio smashes his 4th grand slam of season, tying NL record, in an 8-3 win v Boston Braves
Greece votes for monarchy
Infielder Jack Lohrke hits NY Giants' 183rd homer of season in 2-1 win v Boston Braves; breaks NY Yankees MLB mark of 182 set in 1936
Communist form North China People's Republic
1st network detective series "Martin Kane, Private Eye" debuts on NBC, airing live
The UN offensive into North Korea was a large-scale offensive in late 1950 by United Nations (UN) forces against North Korean forces during the Korean War. On 27 September near Osan, UN forces coming...
Sutro Baths, San Francisco purchased by George Whitney
°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
A New England hurricane is a tropical cyclone originating in the Atlantic Ocean that affects the U.S. states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and/or Maine.
2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel
Tripura () is a state in northeastern India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers 10,491 km2 (4,051 sq mi); and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 3.67 million.
Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring over 700, in Kendal, Jamaica
The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis.
German sprinter Armin Hary wins the coveted 100m gold medal in 10.2 at the Rome Olympics; first non-American to win the event since 1928
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula.
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia.
Sir Cliff Richard is a British singer and actor. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and, as of 2012, was the third-top-selling artist in UK singles chart history,...
SF Giants reliever Masanori Murakami becomes the first Japanese-born player to appear in US MLB; on debut, the Osuki native throws a scoreless inning in a 4-1 loss v New York Mets
Operation Grand Slam was a key military operation of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting
KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, Nebraska (PBS) begins broadcasting
Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed
Jerry Lewis' 4th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain
Australian swimmer Shane Gould wins the 200m freestyle in world record 2:03.56 at the Munich Olympics; her 3rd gold medal & 3rd world record of the Games
74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect
5 Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston.
A telethon (a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon") is a televised fundraising event that lasts many hours or days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political or other...
NY Mets pitcher Tom Seaver shuts out Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0; first to reach 200 strikeouts for a MLB-record 8th straight season
American politician Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns amid scandal with Elizabeth Ray
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
#4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid & #8064
Columbo is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
Jerry Lewis' 15th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,103,787
Fast bowler Terry Alderman takes his 42nd wicket of the series on the last day of the 5th cricket Test vs England at The Oval; haul remains record by an Australian bowler in England; England wins series 3-1
Caryl Lesley Churchill is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes.
Willie Totten for Mississippi Valley State makes Division I-AA record 536 yards & 9 TDs in 86-0 win v Kentucky State; Jerry Rice catches 17 passes for 294 yards & 5 TDs; breaks own Division I-AA record for total yardage in pass receptions
Henri Debehogne discovers asteroid #8265 La Silla
Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733
Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium
Timberlake Westenbaker's "Our Country's Good" premieres in London
Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation
Toronto Argonauts beat BC Lions 68-43 at the Skydome in Toronto for the highest combined score (111) in Canadian Football League history
Hiromi Taniguchi (谷口 浩美, Taniguchi Hiromi; born April 5, 1960) is a former Japanese long-distance runner, best known from winning the gold medal in the marathon at the 1991 World Championships in...
American comic and folk singer Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery
The Carolina Panthers outgun the Atlanta Falcons 29-6 in their first regular season NFL game at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina
"Doll's House" closes at Belasco Theater in New York
Jerry Lewis' 32nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $50,500,000
American harness trainer and driver Dave Palone wins his 6,000th race, driving Oompa’s Terminator to victory at The Meadows Racetrack in Pennsylvania
Australian Rugby Union team gives all-conquering captain John Eales perfect send off in his final international with a famous last minute, 29-26 win over New Zealand in Sydney; Wallabies retain Tri Nations Series
Facing 4-time Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux, Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa hits the longest home run in Turner Field history as his 53rd of the season travels 471 feet to straight away center
Beslan school hostage crisis begins as armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia
Sexual assault charge against LA Lakers star Kobe Bryant is dropped by the Eagle County District Attorney's offices in Colorado after the victim decides not to participate [1]
Seven members and former members of the AFL-CIO form a new trade union organization, the Change to Win Federation
Luxembourg becomes the 1st country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting
Clay Buchholz becomes first Boston Red Sox rookie to pitch a no-hitter. In just his second MLB appearance; beats Baltimore Orioles 10-0 at Fenway Park
At least four people, including an officer from the security service, die in a series of ongoing insurgent shootings and bombings in Russia's North Caucasus
Grenade injures 41 festival celebrants in Paquibato, Philippines
Nalanda University in eastern India begins its first academic year, on the site of the world's oldest university, a Buddhist monastic institution that operated 427 to 1197 CE
The 2015 European migrant crisis was a period of significantly increased movement of refugees and migrants into Europe, mostly from the Middle East.
China locks down the economically important city of Chengdu with 21 million people, after 700 COVID-19 cases discovered in last few days [1]
US President Joe Biden warns of 'threats to democracy' from MAGA Republican extremism in prime-time address in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall [1]
First far right win in a German state parliament election since World War Two, with Alternative for Germany (AfD) party victory in Thuringia [1]
6.0 magnitude earthquake centered in mountains near Jalalabad, Afghanistan kills at least 2,200 [1]
Tarsila do Amaral is born
Phil McGraw television host and psychologist, known for american television host and psychologist, was born on 1951-09-01. Phillip Calvin McGraw, better known as Dr.
Zendaya, American actress and singer, known for american actress and singer, was born on 1997-09-01.
Conway Twitty, American musician, known for american country singer, was born on 1933-09-01.
Barry Gibb, British musician, known for british musician, was born on 1947-09-01. Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb is a British musician, singer and songwriter.
Gloria Estefan, American musician, known for cuban-american singer and songwriter, was born on 1958-09-01.
Jungkook, South Korean musician, known for south korean singer, was born on 1998-09-01. Jeon Jung-kook, known mononymously as Jung Kook, is a South Korean singer and songwriter.
James J. Corbett, American athlete, known for american boxer, was born on 1866-09-01.
Rocky Marciano, American athlete, known for american boxer, was born on 1923-09-01.
Jacques Cartier, French maritime explorer of north america, known for french maritime explorer of north america, died on 1557-09-01.
Louis XIV dies
Albert Speer, German architect, known for german architect, died on 1981-09-01. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was a German architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production in…
Possible start of the first Byzantine indiction cycle
Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
Baldwin VI becomes Count of Flanders
Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III
Kaliningrad (known as Königsberg until 1946) is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, an exclave of Russia between Lithuania and Poland (663 kilometres (412 mi) west of...
Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem
Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki
Tatars plunder Kyiv, Ukraine
Jacques Cartier, French maritime explorer of north america, known for french maritime explorer of north america, died on 1557-09-01.
Pieter Both sworn in as 1st Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
-4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam
Jules Mazarin (born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino or Mazarini; 14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), from 1641 known as Cardinal Mazarin, was an Italian Catholic prelate, diplomat and politician who served as...
Louis XIV (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand [lwi lə ɡʁɑ̃]) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil [lə ʁwa sɔlɛj]), was King of France from 1643 until his...
Louis XIV dies
Deborah Read Franklin (1708 – December 19, 1774) was the common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, until her death in 1774.
35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal
Dutch VOC ship Hofwegen struck by lighting and explodes off the coast of Batavia with six tons of silver aboard
San Luis Obispo is a city in and the county seat of San Luis Obispo County, California, United States.
Mozart publishes his 6th String Quartet, Opus 10 in Vienna
2nd National Meeting in Hague
1st US bank robbery: the Bank of Pennsylvania at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania robbed of $162,821
Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
Juno (minor-planet designation: 3 Juno) is a large asteroid in the asteroid belt. Juno was the third asteroid discovered, in 1804, by German astronomer Karl Harding.
Santa Fe is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-most populous city in the state with a population of 87,505 as of the 2020 census, while the Santa Fe metropolitan area...
Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Oregon Country (now US state of Washington)
Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald (28) weds his cousin Isabella Clark
The California Constitutional Conventions were two separate constitutional conventions that took place in California during the nineteenth century which led to the creation of the modern Constitution...
Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications.
Carrington Event: largest geomagnetic storm in recorded history. Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson make 1st observation of a solar flare.
Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI
Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)
6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was fought on June 27, 1864, during the Atlanta campaign of the American Civil War. The most significant frontal assault launched by Union Major General William T.
Last Navaho chief Manuelito turns himself in at Fort Wingate
James J. Corbett, American athlete, known for american boxer, was born on 1866-09-01.
Cetshwayo kaMpande was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1873 to 1884 and its Commander in Chief during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. His name has been rendered as Cetywayo or Cetshwayo.
28th US Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Connecticut takes office
A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband
First female telephone operator starts work, Emma Nutt, for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston
The Netherlands New Code of Criminal Law is enforced
Tarsila do Amaral is born
Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established
Holten is a railway station located in Holten, Netherlands. The station was opened on 1 September 1888 and is located on the Deventer–Almelo railway.
Brooklyn Bridegrooms win 3 MLB games in one day‚ feasting on the Pittsburgh Alleghenys 10- 9‚ 3-2‚ and 8-4, at Washington Park in Brooklyn
Gladstones' Second Home Rule Bill for Ireland passes in the House of Commons but vetoed by The House of Lords by 419 votes to 41
Wildfire destroys 350,000 acres, including the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, killing over 418 people [1]
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) operates rapid transit (heavy rail), light rail, and bus rapid transit services in the Boston metropolitan area, collectively referred to as the...
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina.
Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange
Wilfrid Laurier oversees Alberta and Saskatchewan joining the Confederation of Canada as its 8th and 9th provinces, both separated from the Northwest Territories
British New Guinea (BNG) was a protectorate and later Crown colony within the British Empire from 1884 to 1902.
John Barrymore was an American actor on stage, screen, and radio. A member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical families, he initially tried to avoid the stage and briefly attempted a career as an...
Adolphe Célestin Pégoud was a French aviator and flight instructor who became the first fighter ace in history during World War I.
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer and colonial administrator.
Jerome Travers establishes a US Amateur Golf Championship record by downing George Crump, 14 & 13, in a 1st-round match at the Country Club of Detroit in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
The Indian Home Rule movement was a movement in British India on the lines of the Irish Home Rule movement and other home rule movements.
Battle of Megiddo starts, the final Allied offense during Sinai and Palestine campaign won by the Allies
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA), officially the Communist Party of the United States of America, is a far-left communist party in the United States.
The State of Greater Lebanon, informally known as French Lebanon, was a state declared on 1 September 1920, which became the Lebanese Republic in May 1926, and is the predecessor of modern...
New York City law requires all "pool" rooms to change their name to "billiards", per article 31 of the state penal code approved in June
A magnitude 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan, killing 142,000 people
Rocky Marciano, American athlete, known for american boxer, was born on 1923-09-01.
Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake
Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee; replaced by Henri de Baillet-Latour of Belgium
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.
The Albanian Kingdom (Gheg Albanian: Mbretnija Shqiptare; Tosk Albanian: Mbretëria Shqiptare) was the official name of Albania between 1928 and 1939.
Joseph Force Crater (January 5, 1889 – disappeared August 6, 1930; declared legally dead June 6, 1939) was an American lawyer who served as a New York State Supreme Court justice and mysteriously...
NYC Mayor James J. "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns due to graft charges
US Navy renames NAS Sunnyvale, near San Francisco, California, NAS Moffett Field, in honor of Rear Admiral William A. Moffett; Moffett championed the construction of the base, but died in the crash of airship USS Akron before the base opened
Conway Twitty, American musician, known for american country singer, was born on 1933-09-01.
SMJK Sam Tet was founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
Belgian boxer Gustave Roth beats Heinz Lazek of Austria in a 15 round points decision to win the EBU and vacant IBU world light heavyweight title in Vienna
4th Chicago College All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Green Bay, 6-0; 84,560 at Soldier Field
This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939.
Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Star of David
The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, which commenced with the Soviet Kerch-Feodosia Landing Operation and ended with the German Operation Bustard Hunt (German: Unternehmen Trappenjagd), was a World War...
Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns
Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Vince DiMaggio smashes his 4th grand slam of season, tying NL record, in an 8-3 win v Boston Braves
Greece votes for monarchy
Infielder Jack Lohrke hits NY Giants' 183rd homer of season in 2-1 win v Boston Braves; breaks NY Yankees MLB mark of 182 set in 1936
Barry Gibb, British musician, known for british musician, was born on 1947-09-01. Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb is a British musician, singer and songwriter.
Communist form North China People's Republic
1st network detective series "Martin Kane, Private Eye" debuts on NBC, airing live
The UN offensive into North Korea was a large-scale offensive in late 1950 by United Nations (UN) forces against North Korean forces during the Korean War. On 27 September near Osan, UN forces coming...
The Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of the Philippines is an agreement between the two nations recognizing that an attack in the Pacific on either would endanger the...
Phil McGraw television host and psychologist, known for american television host and psychologist, was born on 1951-09-01. Phillip Calvin McGraw, better known as Dr.
Sutro Baths, San Francisco purchased by George Whitney
°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept
Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder".
A New England hurricane is a tropical cyclone originating in the Atlantic Ocean that affects the U.S. states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and/or Maine.
2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel
Tripura () is a state in northeastern India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers 10,491 km2 (4,051 sq mi); and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 3.67 million.
Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring over 700, in Kendal, Jamaica
The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis.
Gloria Estefan, American musician, known for cuban-american singer and songwriter, was born on 1958-09-01.
German sprinter Armin Hary wins the coveted 100m gold medal in 10.2 at the Rome Olympics; first non-American to win the event since 1928
American "Gilda" actress Rita Hayworth (42) divorces American film producer James Hill (45) after 3-1/2 years of marriage
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula.
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia.
Sir Cliff Richard is a British singer and actor. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and, as of 2012, was the third-top-selling artist in UK singles chart history,...
SF Giants reliever Masanori Murakami becomes the first Japanese-born player to appear in US MLB; on debut, the Osuki native throws a scoreless inning in a 4-1 loss v New York Mets
Operation Grand Slam was a key military operation of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting
KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, Nebraska (PBS) begins broadcasting
Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (1942 – 20 October 2011) was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his overthrow by...
Jerry Lewis' 4th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain
American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeats Russian champion Boris Spassky 12.5-8.5 in Reykjavik, Iceland, in the most publicized world title match ever played; Fischer becomes the first American to win the title
Australian swimmer Shane Gould wins the 200m freestyle in world record 2:03.56 at the Munich Olympics; her 3rd gold medal & 3rd world record of the Games
74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect
5 Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston.
A telethon (a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon") is a televised fundraising event that lasts many hours or days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political or other...
NY Mets pitcher Tom Seaver shuts out Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0; first to reach 200 strikeouts for a MLB-record 8th straight season
American politician Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns amid scandal with Elizabeth Ray
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
#4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid & #8064
Columbo is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
Jerry Lewis' 15th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,103,787
Fast bowler Terry Alderman takes his 42nd wicket of the series on the last day of the 5th cricket Test vs England at The Oval; haul remains record by an Australian bowler in England; England wins series 3-1
Albert Speer, German architect, known for german architect, died on 1981-09-01. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was a German architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production in…
Caryl Lesley Churchill is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes.
Willie Totten for Mississippi Valley State makes Division I-AA record 536 yards & 9 TDs in 86-0 win v Kentucky State; Jerry Rice catches 17 passes for 294 yards & 5 TDs; breaks own Division I-AA record for total yardage in pass receptions
Henri Debehogne discovers asteroid #8265 La Silla
Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733
Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium
Timberlake Westenbaker's "Our Country's Good" premieres in London
Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation
Toronto Argonauts beat BC Lions 68-43 at the Skydome in Toronto for the highest combined score (111) in Canadian Football League history
Hiromi Taniguchi (谷口 浩美, Taniguchi Hiromi; born April 5, 1960) is a former Japanese long-distance runner, best known from winning the gold medal in the marathon at the 1991 World Championships in...
American comic and folk singer Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery
The Carolina Panthers outgun the Atlanta Falcons 29-6 in their first regular season NFL game at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina
"Doll's House" closes at Belasco Theater in New York
Jerry Lewis' 32nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $50,500,000
Zendaya, American actress and singer, known for american actress and singer, was born on 1997-09-01.
American harness trainer and driver Dave Palone wins his 6,000th race, driving Oompa’s Terminator to victory at The Meadows Racetrack in Pennsylvania
Jungkook, South Korean musician, known for south korean singer, was born on 1998-09-01. Jeon Jung-kook, known mononymously as Jung Kook, is a South Korean singer and songwriter.
Australian Rugby Union team gives all-conquering captain John Eales perfect send off in his final international with a famous last minute, 29-26 win over New Zealand in Sydney; Wallabies retain Tri Nations Series
Facing 4-time Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux, Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa hits the longest home run in Turner Field history as his 53rd of the season travels 471 feet to straight away center
Beslan school hostage crisis begins as armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia
Sexual assault charge against LA Lakers star Kobe Bryant is dropped by the Eagle County District Attorney's offices in Colorado after the victim decides not to participate [1]
Seven members and former members of the AFL-CIO form a new trade union organization, the Change to Win Federation
Luxembourg becomes the 1st country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting
Clay Buchholz becomes first Boston Red Sox rookie to pitch a no-hitter. In just his second MLB appearance; beats Baltimore Orioles 10-0 at Fenway Park
At least four people, including an officer from the security service, die in a series of ongoing insurgent shootings and bombings in Russia's North Caucasus
Grenade injures 41 festival celebrants in Paquibato, Philippines
Nalanda University in eastern India begins its first academic year, on the site of the world's oldest university, a Buddhist monastic institution that operated 427 to 1197 CE
The 2015 European migrant crisis was a period of significantly increased movement of refugees and migrants into Europe, mostly from the Middle East.
NFL San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the US national anthem before pre-season game against the Chargers at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US
China locks down the economically important city of Chengdu with 21 million people, after 700 COVID-19 cases discovered in last few days [1]
US President Joe Biden warns of 'threats to democracy' from MAGA Republican extremism in prime-time address in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall [1]
First far right win in a German state parliament election since World War Two, with Alternative for Germany (AfD) party victory in Thuringia [1]
6.0 magnitude earthquake centered in mountains near Jalalabad, Afghanistan kills at least 2,200 [1]