- 1251 BC A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.
- 1159 Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope
The Richest Pirate Raid
1695 English pirate Henry Every and his crew aboard the Fancy capture the armed Mughal trading ship Ganj-i-Sawai in the Arabian Sea, in one of the most profitable raids in history with loot of between £325,000 and £600,000. The East India Company later compensates for the loss after Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb closed five ports to English trade.
Northfield Raid
1876 Frank James and his gang are involved in a disastrous raid in Northfield, Minnesota, results in the death or capture of multiple gang members (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)
- 1880 Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters
Baby Incubator
1888 Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby to be placed in an incubator at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York
- 1891 Forces of British administrator Captain Frederick Lugard reache Kavalli, Equatoria
Corbett KOs Sullivan
1892 James Corbett KOs 4 to 1 favourite and defending champion John L. Sullivan in 21 rounds at the Olympic Club, New Orleans for world heavyweight boxing title; Sullivan's only defeat and his last fight
- 1896 A. H. Whiting wins the 1st automobile race held on a closed-circuit track in Cranston, Rhode Island
- 1897 George Davis (Giants) HR off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH
- 1901 The Peace of Peking puts an end to the Boxer Rebellion in China
- 1902 In Australia, the whole nation observes a 'day of humiliation' and prays for rain, as a terrible drought kills livestock and threatens crops; rain begins to appear on 10 September
- 1903 Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY
- 1904 British forces in Tibet force the 13th Dalai Lama to sign a treaty granting Britain trading posts in Tibet and a guarantee that Tibet will not concede territory to foreign powers
- 1907 Adolph Sutro's ornate Cliff House in San Francisco destroyed by fire
- 1907 Ocean liner RMS Lusitania begins her maiden voyage sailing from Liverpool to New York City
- 1909 Eugene Lefebvre becomes first pilot to die in an airplane craft, while test piloting new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy
- 1910 In the Hague, the International Court arbitrates a fishing-rights dispute between the US and Newfoundland (still separate from Canada)
- 1914 NY Post Office Building opens to public
- 1915 Johnny Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll (US Patent D47789)
- 1915 St Louis Terriers' Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago Whales (Federal League), 3-0
- 1916 Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch NY's record 26-game winning streak
- 1916 Workmen's Compensation Act passed by US Congress
- 1922 In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation
- 1923 Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Philadelphia A's, 4-0
- 1923 Interpol forms in Vienna
- 1927 Philo Farnsworth demonstrates the first use of his electronic television in San Francisco
- 1927 University of Minas Gerais founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by Governor Antônio Carlos
- 1928 Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal" premieres in NYC
- 1932 Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games
- 1935 Romantic comedy film "Page Miss Glory" starring Marion Davies premieres in the USA
- 1936 The last surviving member of the marsupial thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in his/her cage at the Hobart Zoo (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)
- 1939 Radio NY Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission
'Hitler Will Have to Break Us or Lose the War'
1940 Beginning of the Blitz as the German Luftwaffe bomb London for the 1st of 57 consecutive nights losing 41 bombers as the Nazis prepare to invade Britain
- 1940 Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria
- 1942 First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator
- 1942 German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle
- 1942 Transport #29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
- 1943 Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston, Texas)
- 1944 SS-general Kurt Meyer takes Durnal, Belgium
- 1944 Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12)
- 1945 Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park HR, only HR hit by a Senator all season at Washington's Griffith Stadium
- 1947 Battles between Hindus & Muslims in New Delhi, India
- 1948 1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh
- 1950 Monasteries shut down in Hungary
Ascari Formula 1 Champion
1952 Alberto Ascari of Italy in a Ferrari wins Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with victory in season ending Italian Grand Prix at Monza; wins title by 12 points from countryman Giuseppe Farina
- 1952 General Naguib forms Egyptian government and becomes Premier
- 1952 NY Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington, giving him a HR in all 15 major league parks
- 1952 Outfielder Don Grate throws a baseball a record 434'1" (Tenn)
Baseball Record
1953 Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs
Journey to Italy
1954 "Journey to Italy", directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders, is released
- 1954 Integration begins in Washington, D.C. & Baltimore, Maryland public schools
Baseball History
1955 New York Yankee Whitey Ford becomes 5th MLB pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters
- 1956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+
- 1957 WWL TV channel 4 in New Orleans, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1960 American weightlifter Charles Vinci wins 2nd consecutive bantamweight gold medal at the Rome Olympics with world-record equalling 3-lift (snatch, clean & jerk, overhead press) total of 345.0 kilograms
- 1960 Danish yachtsman Paul Elvstrøm wins the Finn class at the Rome Olympics; his 4th straight Olympic gold medal in the category
- 1960 Future Constantine II, last King of Greece, wins Dragon class sailing gold medal at the Rome Olympics
- 1960 Japan wins the men's gymnastics teams combined exercises gold for the first of 5 consecutive Olympics at the Rome Games; beats Soviet Union by just 2.5 points
- 1960 Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)
- 1963 American Bandstand moves to California, & airs once a week on Saturday
- 1963 Two-building Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio is officially opened
- 1963 WCTI TV channel 12 in New Bern, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1965 -10] Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Mississippi & Louisiana
- 1965 China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border
- 1966 KTNE TV channel 13 in Alliance, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1966 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Music History
1968 Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham make live debut as Led Zeppelin (but billed as The New Yardbirds), before about 1,200 students at Egegard School 'Teen Club' in Gladsaxe, Denmark
F1 World Champion
1969 Scottish Matra-Ford driver Jackie Stewart wins the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; his 6th F1 win of the season
- 1970 Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado
- 1970 Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan
Telethon
1970 Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
- 1970 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks 4 planes and forces them to land at Dawson's Field, Jordan
- 1970 White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader & lose both games
- 1972 American athletes Vincent Matthews & Wayne Collett finish 1-2 in 400m at the Munich Olympics; acted casually on the medal stand, did not face the flag during anthem; banned from the Olympics for life
- 1972 American Rod Milburn with a world record 13.24 wins the 110m hurdles gold medal at the Munich Olympics; just 0.10 seconds ahead of Frenchman Guy Drut
- 1972 East German sprinter Renate Stecher runs a world record equalling 22.40 in the 200m final to repeat her 100m win over Australia's Raelene Boyle at the Munich Olympics
- 1972 Future world professional cycling road race champion Hennie Kuiper of the Netherlands wins the road race gold medal at the Munich Olympics in 4:14:37
- 1972 Nadezhda Chizhova of the Soviet Union throws a world record 21.03m to win the women's shot put at the Munich Olympics
- 1973 Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Association's 4th commissioner
- 1975 Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title
Cricket History
1975 Pakistani all-time great batsman Hanif Mohammad plays final day of 1st-class cricket for Pakistan International Airlines v Hyderabad at Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad
Music History
1976 US courts find George Harrison guilty of 'subconsciously' plagiarizing "He's So Fine" for his song "My Sweet Lord"
- 1977 Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia
Event of Interest
1977 US President Jimmy Carter and Panama's General Omar Torrijos sign the Panama Canal treaties, guaranteeing Panama control of the Panama Canal after 1999
- 1977 Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy is released from prison after serving 4 years and 4 1/2 months
- 1978 1st game of Boston Massacre, NY Yankees beat Red Sox, 15-3
- 1979 The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
- 1980 32nd Emmy Awards: "Taxi"; "Lou Grant"; Ed Asner & Barbara Bel Geddes win. Notable for going ahead despite 51 of the 52 nominated performers boycotting the event due to a strike by members of the Screen Actors Guild.
- 1980 Cape Verde adopts its constitution
- 1980 Earnest Gray becomes 2nd NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St Louis)
- 1980 Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season
- 1980 Turkish coup d'état - armed forces led by Kenan Evren announce they are dissolving the government [1]
- 1981 Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 57 pass attempts
- 1981 Jerry Lewis' 16th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,500,000
- 1983 Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)
Baseball Record
1984 Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236
Sports History
1986 Dan Marino throws his 100th career touchdown pass, the fastest QB in NFL history to do so
Event of Interest
1986 Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican Archbishop of Capetown
Assassination Attempt
1986 Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, kills 5 people
- 1986 NBC premiere of "The French Connection" film based TV sequel "Popeye Doyle"
- 1987 "I Want Her" single released by Keith Sweat (Billboard Song of the Year, 1988)
- 1987 Jerry Lewis' 22nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $39,021,723
- 1987 Netherlands sends 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf
- 1987 South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young
Hockey Hall of Fame
1988 Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito & Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame
Sports History
1988 NY Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist
- 1988 Security & Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws
- 1991 "The New WKRP in Cincinnati", an ensemble TV sitcom sequel created by Hugh Wilson and set in a struggling radio station debuts in syndication; 3 members of the original series cast reprise their roles
- 1991 1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics
- 1991 Brigham Young University quarterback Ty Detmer passes NCAA record 11,606 yards
- 1991 Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes
- 1992 Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators
- 1992 Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns
- 1992 Former owner and team president of the Milwaukee Brewers Bud Selig is appointed interim Commissioner of Major League Baseball; holds office until becoming official Commissioner in 1998
- 1993 Brazil votes over importing monarchy
- 1993 Late night talk show "The Chevy Chase Show" debuts on FOX tv; cancelled after 6 weeks
- 1993 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Mark Whiten hits 4 HRs & 12 RBIs in 15-2 win at Cincinnati Reds
- 1994 Jingyi Le, Ying Shan, Ying Le and Bin Lu swimming 4x100 freestyle (3:37.91)
- 1995 Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion
- 1995 STS 69 (Endeavour 9), launches into orbit
Music History
1996 Rap artist Tupac Shakur shot multiple times in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas, dies 6 days later
Music History
2001 30th Anniversary Celebration of singer Michael Jackson's solo career held at NYC's Madison Square Garden features an all-star line-up. including a reunion with his brothers for a medley of their hits
- 2001 The US Federal Trade Commission approves Chevron's bid to buy Texaco
- 2004 Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hitting Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.
Cricket History
2004 Indian cricketer Rahul Dravid is named Player of the Year by the International Cricket Council
- 2005 First presidential election was held in Egypt.
- 2008 US Government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
- 2011 Plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team
- 2012 64 people are killed and 715 injured after a series of earthquakes in south-west China
- 2012 Canada closes its Iranian embassy and expels Iranian diplomatic staff out of Canada
- 2012 US drone attack kills 8 people in Kismayo, south Somalia
- 2013 14 Syrian rebels and 2 civilians are killed by heavy government shelling of Damascus
- 2013 15 people are killed by a restaurant car bombing by Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu, Somalia
Event of Interest
2013 Chinese President Xi Jinping announces plans to develop a new 'Silk Road Economic Belt' (part of Belt and Road Initiative) during visit to Kazakhstan
- 2013 Tony Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Australia after a Liberal-National Coalitions wins the election
- 2014 Asteroid 2014 RC makes a close approach to Earth (39,900 km; 24,800 mi)
- 2015 British archaeologists announce the discovery of a Neolithic "superhenge" under 3ft of earth at Durrington Walls
- 2016 15th Summer Paralympics opens in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Music History
2016 Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band perform their longest show in America, at Citizen Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - clocking in at 4 hours and 4 minutes
- 2017 8.2 earthquake hits south-west of Pijijiapan, Mexico killing at least 90, strongest Mexican quake in a century
- 2017 Consumer credit reporting agency Equifax reports earlier cyberattack could affects 143 million Americans
- 2017 Rashid Khan takes the first hat-trick in the history of the Caribbean Premier League
In the Blue Light
2018 Legacy Recordings releases "In the Blue Light", the fourteenth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon; album consists of new recordings, with altered arrangements, of lesser-known songs from his catalog
Music History
2018 Rappers Cardi B and Nicki Minaj come to physical blows at a New York Fashion event
- 2019 Indian Space Agency loses contact with its Chandrayaan-2 moon lander just 2 km from landing on the Moon's surface
Event of Interest
2019 US President Donald Trump says he has cancelled a secret meeting with the Taliban for peace talks at Camp David
- 2020 India overtakes Brazil to record the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases with 4.2 million
- 2020 Tour Championship, Men's Golf, East Lake GC: Dustin Johnson wins by 3 strokes from Xander Schauffele & Justin Thomas; claims FedEx Cup, equal biggest winner's prize in golf, US$15m
- 2020 Wildfires have burnt a record 2 million acres in California 2020 fire season, more than the state of Delaware according to Cal Fire
- 2021 El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
- 2021 Mexican Supreme Court rules making abortion a crime is unconstitutional, setting an important precedent [1]
- 2021 Taliban announce their interim government in Afghanistan with Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund in the most senior role
- 2021 Texas Governor Greg Abbott signs law restricting voting rights in the state, including limiting use of drop boxes and empowering partisan observers [1]
- 2021 US records more than 40 million cases of COVID-1, daily cases at 161,000 (5 September), daily deaths at 1,560 with hospitalizations averaging 102,000 per day (NY Times figures)
- 2022 Discovery of the earliest evidence of surgery from 31,000 year old skeleton with amputated lower leg in a cave in East Kalimantan, Borneo published in "Nature" [1]
