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September 3rd
301 ~ San Marino, the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus.
1658 ~ Death of er Cromwell, Lord Protector of England.
1875 ~ Birthday of Ferdinand Porsche, German automotive engineer.
1893 ~ Death of James Harrison, Australian pioneer of mechanical refrigeration.
1939 ~ World War II: France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany.
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.
1976 ~ The Viking 2 spacecraft landed on Mars and took the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
1995 ~ eBay founded. (with a little help from Oldfart  )
2004 ~ More than 200 people die at the end of a three-day siege at a school in Beslan, Russia came to a bloody end.
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09-04-2008, 06:26 AM
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September 4th
476 ~ Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed.
1781 ~ Los Angeles was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula (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.
1891 ~ Birthday of Fritz Todt, developer of the German autobahn, the archtype for the limited access highway.
1907 ~ Death of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian Composer.
1957 ~ The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
1957 ~ The Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution in Great Britain came to the conclusion that outlawing homosexuality impinged upon civil liberties.
1965 ~ Death of Albert Schweitzer, Physician, J.S. Bach interpreter, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
1995 ~ Death of William Kunstler, Attorney.
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09-05-2008, 06:49 PM
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September 6th
1620 ~ The Pilgrims set sail on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England, to settle in North America.
1766 ~ Birthday of John Dalton, British chemist and physicist. He was one of the earlier proponents of the atomic theory.
1847 ~ Henry Thoreau left Walden Pond and moved in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1928 ~ Birthday of Robert Pirsig, Author (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance).
1941 ~ 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.
1965 ~ India invaded West Pakistan.
1986 ~ Birthday of Raven Riley, Porn Star.
1995 ~ Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2,131 consecutive baseball games.
1996 ~ Eddie Murray became the 15th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Oriole Park in Baltimore, Maryland.
2005 ~ The California Legislature became the first legislative body in the U.S. to approve same-sex marriages.
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September 7th
1776 ~ World's first submarine attack. American submersible craft Turtle attempted to attach a bomb to the hull of the British flagship Eagle in New York Harbor.
1908 ~ Birthday of Dr. Michael DeBakey, Heart Surgeon and inventor of the MASH.
1912 ~ Birthday of David Packard, Electrical Engineer.
1940 ~ The Blitz – Under orders from Adolf Hitler, the Luftwaffe began to bomb London. This was the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
1977 ~ The U.S. agreed to transfer control of the Panama Canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
1986 ~ Desmond Tutu becomes the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
1992 ~ Ciskei soldiers kill 24 at political rally.
1994 ~ Death of James Clavell, Author (Shogun) & Screenwriter (To Sir, with Love; The Great Escape).
1997 ~ Death of Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire.
1998 ~ Google Inc. was founded.
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September 9th
1585 ~ Birthday of Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, French statesman.
1776 ~ The Continental Congress officially named their new country the United States.
1824 ~ Birthday of Anton Bruckner, Austrian Composer.
1828 ~ Birthday of Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace).
1941 ~ Birthday of Otis Redding, Soul Singer.
1945 ~ Admiral Grace Hopper discovered the first computer bug.
1967 ~ Birthday of Anna Malle, Porn Star.
1976 ~ Death of Mao Zedong, chief architect of the Chinese Communist Revolution.
1987 ~ Extradition to Belgium of twenty-five English football fans involved in the Heysel stadium disaster.
2001 ~ The leader of the Northern Alliance, Ahmed Shah Massoud, was assassinated in Afghanistan.
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September 11th
1297 ~ William Wallace led a Scottish army to defeat the English in the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
1711 ~ Birthday of William Boyce, Composer.
1914 ~ In one of the earlier military engagements of WWI, Australian forces defeat Germans in New Britain.
1922 ~ British Mandate of Palestine began.
1948 ~ Death of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan.
1973 ~ A military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet toppled elected Marxist President Salvador Allende.
1987 ~ CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, angry over being preempted for a tennis match, marched off the set, leaving affiliates with six minutes of an empty news desk.
1987 ~ Death of Lorne Greene, Canadian actor.
2001 ~ The September 11 terrorist attacks destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City, part of The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and crashed a passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 were killed.
2002 ~ Death of Johnny Unitas, Football Hall of Famer.
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September 12th
490 B.C. ~ The Athenians defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
1683 ~ The Ottoman Empire was defeated in the Battle of Vienna.
1814 ~ War of 1812: An American detachment halted the British land advance to Baltimore in the Battle of North Point.
1880 ~ Birthday of H.L. Mencken, Journalist, Author.
1913 ~ Birthday of Jesse Owens, American track and field athlete.
1940 ~ Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France.
1959 ~ First episode of Bonanza. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
1977 ~ Death of Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist.
1992 ~ Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, was captured.
2003 ~ Death of Johnny Cash, Country Music Great.
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September 15th
1254 ~ Birthday of Marco Polo, Italian explorer.
1789 ~ Birthday of James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist.
1928 ~ Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1929 ~ Birthday of Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1969.
1935 ~ The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
1950 ~ The U.N. staged its fist offensive operation in the Korean War; an amphibious assault at Inchon.
1963 ~ The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing kills four children in Birmingham, Alabama.
1975 ~ Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia.
1977 ~ Death of Maria Callas, Opera Diva.
1981 ~ The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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