Events
585
BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of
Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories
over the Sabines, and the surrender of
Collatia.
509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus
Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated
on the ides of September.
122 – Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins.
335 – Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
533 – General Belisarius of the Byzantine
Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals
at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage,
North Africa.
1213 – End of Battle of Muret, during
the Albigensian Crusade to destroy the
Cathar heresy.
1229 – Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan
of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii:
Mongolia.
1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his
statue of David.
1504 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand
issue a Royal Warrant for the construction
of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be
built.
1541 – After three years of exile, John
Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the
church under a body of doctrine known
as Calvinism.
1584 – San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace
in Madrid is finished.
1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the river
that would later be named after him –
the Hudson River.
1743 – Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia
sign the Treaty of Worms.
1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham:
British defeat French near Quebec City
in the Seven Years' War, known in the
United States as the French and Indian
War.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish
troops launch the unsuccessful "grand
assault" during the Great Siege of
Gibraltar.
1788 – The Philadelphia Convention sets
the date for the first presidential election
in the United States, and New York City
becomes the country's temporary capital.
1791 – King Louis XVI of France accepts
the new constitution.
1808 – Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas,
Swedish forces under Lieutenant General
Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians,
making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
1812 – War of 1812: A supply wagon sent
to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in
the Attack at the Narrows.
1814 – In a turning point in the War of
1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore,
Maryland.
1843 – The Greek Army rebels (OS date:
September 3) against the autocratic rule
of king Otto of Greece, demanding the
granting of a constitution.
1847 – Mexican-American War: Six teenage
military cadets known as Niños Héroes
die defending Chapultepec Castle in the
Battle of Chapultepec. American troops
under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico
City in the Mexican-American War.
1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas
Gage survives a 3-foot (0.91 m)-plus iron
rod being driven through his head; the
reported effects on his behavior and personality
stimulate thinking about the nature of
the brain and its functions.
1850 – First ascent of Piz Bernina, the
highest summit of the eastern Alps.
1862 – American Civil War: Union soldiers
find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle
plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland.
It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1882 – The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought
in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid
photographic film.
1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person
in the United States to be killed in an
automobile accident.
1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel
make the first ascent of Batian (5,199
m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount
Kenya.
1900 – Filipino resistance fighters defeat
a small American column in the Battle
of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American
War.
1906 – First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft
in Europe.
1914 – World War I: South African troops
open hostilities in German south-west
Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the
Ramansdrift police station.
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Aisne
begins between Germany and France.
1922 – The temperature at 'Aziziya, Libya
reaches a world record 57.8 °C (136.0
°F).
1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish
War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
1923 – Following a military coup in Spain,
Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting
up a dictatorship.
1933 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first
woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
1935 – Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids
Bridge ends the International Railway
(New York – Ontario).
1942 – World War II: Second day of the
Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal
campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated
attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army
with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
1943 – The Municipal Theatre of Corfu
is destroyed during an aerial bombardment
by Luftwaffe.
1948 – Deputy Primer Minister of India
Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the Army to
move into the Hyderabad to integrate it
with Indian Union.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected
senator, and becomes the first woman to
serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives
and the United States Senate.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is appointed
secretary-general of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union.
1956 – The dike around the Dutch polder
East Flevoland is closed.
1956 – IBM introduces the first computer
disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
1964 – South Vietnamese Generals Lam Van
Phat and Duong Van Duc fail in a coup
attempt against General Nguyen Khanh.
1968 – Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1971 – State police and National Guardsmen
storm New York's Attica Prison to end
a prison revolt.
1971 – People's Republic of China: Chairman
Mao Zedong's second in command and successor
Marshal Lin Biao flees the country via
plane after the failure of alleged coup
against Mao. The plane crashes in Mongolia,
killing all aboard.
1979 – South Africa grants independence
to the "homeland" of Venda (not
recognised outside South Africa).
1986 – Kamui Kobayashi is born.
1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive
object is stolen from an abandoned hospital
in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many
people in the following weeks and causing
some to die from radiation poisoning.
1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest
recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere,
later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005
(based on barometric pressure).
1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in
South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser
Arafat at the White House after signing
the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian
autonomy.
1994 – Ulysses probe passes the Sun's
south pole.
2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes
in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001
attacks.
2007 – The Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United
Nations General Assembly.
2008 – Delhi, India, is hit by a series
of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths
and 130 injuries.
2008 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall on
the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States,
causing heavy damage to Galveston Island,
Houston and surrounding areas.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Aimé
Ame
John Chrysostom
September 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Día de los Niños Héroes (Mexico)
Epulum Jovis, celebrated on the Ides of
September, during the Ludi Romani. (Roman
Empire)
National Celiac Disease Awareness Day
(United States)
Programmers' Day, during a non-leap year.
(Russia and programmers around the world)
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