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September 7th
1776 ~ World's first submarine attack. American submersible craft Turtle attempted to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship Eagle in New York Harbor.
1822 ~ Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.
1901 ~ The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ended with the signing of the Peking Protocol.
1908 ~ Birthday of Dr. Michael DeBakey, Heart Surgeon and inventor of the MASH.
1912 ~ Birthday of David Packard, Electrical Engineer
1940 ~ World War II: The Blitz – Under orders from Adolf Hitler, the Luftwaffe began to bomb London. This was the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.
1949 ~ Birthday of Lee McGeorge Durrell author, television presenter, zookeeper.
1977 ~ Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The US agreed to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
1994 ~ Death of James Clavell, Author.
1997 ~ Death of Mobutu Sese Seko, dictator of Zaire.
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September 8th
828 ~ Birthday of Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam.
1636 ~ The Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes Harvard College as the first college founded in the Americas.
1841 ~ Birthday of Antonin Dvorak, Composer.
1886 ~ Birthday of Siegfried Sassoon, Poet.
1888 ~ The first season of The Football League began in England with 12 clubs.
1925 ~ Birthday of Peter Sellers, Actor.
1930 ~ 3M began marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1943 ~ World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announced the surrender of Italy to the Allies.
1949 ~ Death of Richard Strauss, Composer.
1966 ~ The first episode of the science fiction television series "Star Trek" aired.
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September 9th
1585 ~ Birthday of Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, French statesman.
1737 ~ Birthday of Luigi Galvani, Italian Physician and Physicist.
1754 ~ Birthday of William Bligh, British naval officer.
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).
1839 ~ John Herschel took the first astronomical glass plate photograph.
1945 ~ Admiral Grace Hopper discovered the first computer bug - a moth.
1956 ~ Elvis Presley appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” for the first time.
2001 ~ Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated in Afghanistan.
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09-10-2004, 05:53 AM
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September 10th
1913 ~ First paved coast-to-coast highway opened in the U.S.
1927 ~ France won the first Davis Cup.
1942 ~ Birthday of Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist.
1945 ~ Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany.
1960 ~ Birthday of Colin Firth, Actor (Shakespeare in Love, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually)
1967 ~ The people of Gibraltar voted to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
1971 ~ Death of Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union.
1977 ~ France's last execution is performed by guillotine.
1990 ~ The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world, consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
2002 ~ Switzerland, known for its neutrality, finally joined the United Nations.
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09-11-2004, 06:37 AM
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September 11th
1297 ~ Battle of Stirling Bridge - Scots of William Wallace defeat English.
1711 ~ Birthday of William Boyce, Composer.
1914 ~ World War I: Australian forces defeat Germans in New Britain.
1917 ~ Birthday of Ferdinand Marcos, Philippine political figure.
1922 ~ British Mandate of Palestine began.
1935 ~ Birthday of Gherman Titov, Cosmonaut.
1948 ~ Death of Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan.
1973 ~ A military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet toppled elected Marxist President Salvador Allende.
1997 ~ Scotland voted to re-establish its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England and the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
2001 ~ The September 11 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 are killed.
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September 12th
1880 ~ Birthday of H.L. Mencken, Journalist, Author.
1888 ~ Birthday of Maurice Chevalier, Singer, Actor.
1913 ~ Birthday of Jesse Owens, Athlete.
1921 ~ Birthday of Stanislaw Lem, science fiction writer.
1933 ~ Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, came up with the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1940 ~ Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France.
1947 ~ Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
1959 ~ Bonanza premiered. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.
1977 ~ Death of Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist.
2003 ~ The United Nations lifted sanctions against Libya after Libya agreed to accept responsibility and make payment of US $2.7 billion to the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
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September 13th
1321 ~ Death of Dante Alighieri, writer (La Divina Commedia)
1813 ~ The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812.
1819 ~ Birthday of Clara Schumann, Pianist, Composer.
1857 ~ Birthday of Milton S. Hershey, chocolate entrepreneur and founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company.
1874 ~ Birthday of Arnold Schoenberg, Composer.
1899 ~ Henry Bliss became the first person in the Western Hemisphere to be killed in an automobile accident.
1940 ~ German bombs damaged Buckingham Palace.
1948 ~ Margaret Chase Smith was elected senator, and became the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1977 ~ Death of Leopold Stokowski, Conductor.
1999 ~ Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.
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