Today In History: September

Nazi Germany Invades Poland

September 1st

  • 1802: James Callender Reveals Thomas Jefferson And Sally Hemings' Relationship
  • 1807: Aaron Burr Is Acquitted Of Treason
  • 1939: Germany Invades Poland, Triggering The Outbreak Of World War II In Europe
  • 1969: The Berkshire UFO Incident Occurs
  • 1972: Bobby Fischer Wins The World Chess Championship
  • 1985: The Wreckage Of The Titanic Is Discovered
  • 2004: The Beslan School Massacre Begins
  • 2009: Picher, Oklahoma Is Unincorporated And Evacuated

Battle Of Actium

September 2nd

  • 31 B.C.E.: Octavian Defeats Mark Antony
  • 1666: The Great Fire Of London Breaks Out
  • 1838: Queen Liliuokalani Is Born
  • 1944: The Chichijima Incident Takes Place
  • 1968: Divers Discover Bimini Road
  • 1969: Ho Chi Minh Dies

Frederick Douglass

September 3rd

  • 1189: Richard The Lionheart Is Crowned King
  • 1770: Captain James Cook Becomes First European To Make Contact With Remote Asmat Tribe
  • 1783: The Treaty Of Paris Is Signed
  • 1838: Frederick Douglass Escapes Slavery
  • 2012: Griselda Blanco, "Queen of Cocaine," dies
  • 2013: Ariel Castro Commits Suicide

Angry Crowd Eckford Crop

September 4th

  • 476 C.E.: The Western Roman Empire Falls
  • 925: Athelstan Is Crowned King Of England
  • 1886: Apache Leader Geronimo Surrenders
  • 1957: The Little Rock Nine Enter An Integrated School
  • 1957: Dorothy Counts Integrates Harry Harding High School
  • 1998: Google Is Founded
  • 2005: Lloyd Avery II Is Murdered By His Cellmate
  • 2006: Steve Irwin Dies
  • 2016: Mother Teresa Is Canonized

Freddie Merucry Singing

September 5th

  • 1638: King Louis XIV Is Born
  • 1869: Construction Of Neuschwanstein Castle Begins
  • 1877: Crazy Horse Dies
  • 1946: Freddie Mercury Is Born
  • 1975: Lynette Fromme Attempts To Assassinate President Gerald Ford
  • 1986: Terrorists Hijack Pam Am Flight 73

Mccandless Into The Wild Bus

September 6th

  • 1522: Ferdinand Magellan's Ship Becomes The First To Circumnavigates The Globe
  • 1901: President William McKinley Is Shot
  • 1949: Howard Unruh Commits America's First Mass Shooting
  • 1951: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer
  • 1992: Chris McCandless's Body Is Discovered

Buddy Holly Plane Crash

September 7th

  • 1191: Richard The Lionheart Breaks Through The Muslim Army On The Way To Jerusalem
  • 1533: Queen Elizabeth I Is Born
  • 1695: Henry Every Raids The Mughal Ship Ganj-i-Sawai
  • 1936: Buddy Holly Is Born
  • 1939: The Battle Of Wizna Begins
  • 1940: The Blitz Begins Over Great Britain
  • 1949: Carlos Lehder Is Born
  • 1996: Tupac Shakur Is Shot

Galveston Rubble Removal

September 8th

  • 1429: Joan Of Arc Attacks Paris
  • 1664: New Amsterdam Becomes New York
  • 1888: Jack The Ripper Kills His Second Victim
  • 1900: A Hurricane Levels Galveston, Texas
  • 1965: The Delano Grape Strike Begins

Colonel Sanders In Front Of Early Kfc

September 9th

  • 1087: William The Conqueror Dies
  • 1890: Colonel Sanders Is Born
  • 1921: Virginia Rappe Dies After Attending A Hollywood Party
  • 1930: American Gangster Frank Lucas Is Born
  • 1971: The Attica Prison Riot Begins
  • 1976: Mao Zedong Dies

Marie Laveau Og

September 10th

  • 1608: John Smith Is Elected To Lead Jamestown
  • 1801: Marie Laveau Is Born
  • 1897: The World's First Drunk Driving Arrest Takes Place
  • 1977: The Last Person Is Executed By Guillotine In France
  • 2008: The Large Hadron Collider Is Turned On

September 11th Firefighter Covered In Ash

September 11th

  • 1792: The Hope Diamond Is Stolen
  • 1857: The Mountain Meadows Massacre Ends
  • 1921: Fatty Arbuckle Is Arrested
  • 1973: Pinochet Leads A Successful Coup In Chile
  • 2001: The 9/11 Attacks Take Place

Frozen Body Of John Torrington

September 12th

  • 1638: The Battle Of Vienna Ends Ottoman Domination In Eastern Europe
  • 1846: HMS Terror Gets Trapped In Ice
  • 1857: The SS Central America Sinks
  • 1913: Jesse Owens Is Born
  • 1940: The Lascaux Cave Paintings Are Discovered
  • 1953: John F. Kennedy Weds Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
  • 1959: Soviet Union Launches Luna 2, The First Space Probe To Reach The Moon
  • 2003: Johnny Cash Dies

Cheryl Bradshaw And Rodney Alcala

September 13th

  • 1501: Michelangelo Begins His 'David' Statue
  • 1848: Phineas Gage Is Impaled By A Metal Pole
  • 1857: Milton Hershey Is Born
  • 1904: Alberta King Is Born
  • 1918: Rosemary Kennedy Is Born
  • 1978: Rodney Alcala Appears On 'The Dating Game'
  • 1985: Super Mario Bros. Is Released
  • 1990: Gina Grant Is Arrested For The Murder Of Her Mother

Grace Kelly Photograph

September 14th

  • 1321: Dante Alighieri Dies
  • 1814: Francis Scott Key Writes The Star-Spangled Banner
  • 1836: Aaron Burr Dies
  • 1975: Elizabeth Ann Seton Is Canonized
  • 1977: Manacled Mormon Case Begins
  • 1982: Grace Kelly Dies
  • 1989: Gemini Twins Anthony Senter And Joey Testa Are Sentenced To Life In Prison

On This Day In History September 15

September 15th

  • 1254: Marco Polo Is Born
  • 1835: Charles Darwin Arrives In The Galapagos Islands
  • 1890: Agatha Christie Is Born
  • 1911: Lea Papin, The Youngest Papin Sister, Is Born
  • 1935: The Nuremberg Race Laws Pass In Nazi Germany
  • 1963: The Birmingham Church Bombing

1920 Wall Street Bombing

September 16th

  • 1620: The Mayflower Departs England
  • 1810: The Mexican War Of Independence Begins
  • 1920: The Wall Street Bombing
  • 1932: Peg Entwistle Dies By Suicide
  • 1970: King Of Jordan Declares Martial Law
  • 1994: The Ariel School Phenomenon Occurs

Young Tubman Portrait Featured

September 17th

  • 1787: The Constitution Is Signed
  • 1849: Harriet Tubman Escapes From Slavery
  • 1862: The Battle Of Antietam Begins
  • 1926: Frida Kahlo Is Injured In A Bus Accident
  • 1944: Operation Market Garden Begins
  • 1976: NASA Unveils The First Space Shuttle
  • 2011: Occupy Wall Street Begins

Hendrix Playing

September 18th

  • 1634: Anne Hutchinson Arrives In The New World
  • 1709: Samuel Johnson Is Born
  • 1959: "Lonely Hearts Killer" Harvey Glatman Is Executed
  • 1970: Jimi Hendrix Dies
  • 1975: Patty Hearst Is Arrested For Armed Robbery

Discovering Otzi

September 19th

  • 1692: Giles Corey Is Executed In The Salem Witch Trials
  • 1881: President James Garfield Dies
  • 1913: Frances Farmer Is Born
  • 1949: Lesley Hornby, "Twiggy," Is Born
  • 1961: Betty And Barney Hill Are Allegedly Abducted By Aliens
  • 1972: Jeannette DePalma's Body Is Found
  • 1991: Ötzi The Iceman Is Discovered

Upton Sinclair

September 20th

  • 1830: The First National Negro Convention Convenes In Philadelphia
  • 1878: Upton Sinclair Is Born
  • 1946: The First Cannes Film Festival
  • 1988: Tara Calico Disappears
  • 2011: "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Is Repealed
  • 2019: Storm Area 51: They Can't Stop Us All

Chief Joseph Headdress

September 21st

  • 19 B.C.E.: Virgil Dies
  • 1780: Benedict Arnold Commits Treason
  • 1823: Joseph Smith Claims To Receive A Visit From The Angel Moroni
  • 1904: Nez Perce Chief Joseph Dies Of A "Broken Heart"
  • 1938: The Great New England Hurricane Makes Landfall
  • 1996: John F. Kennedy Jr. Weds Carolyn Bessette

Sara Jane Moore

September 22nd

  • 1828: Shaka Zulu Is Assassinated
  • 1906: Ilse Koch Is Born
  • 1975: Sara Jane Moore Attempts To Assassinate President Gerald Ford
  • 1980: Polish Solidarity Movement Begins
  • 2006: Cassie Jo Stoddart Is Killed In The "Scream Murder"

Kublai Khan Portrait

September 23rd

  • 1215: Kublai Khan Is Born
  • 1641: The Merchant Royal Sinks Into The Atlantic
  • 1843: Emily Roebling Is Born
  • 1846: Planet Neptune Is Observed For The First Time
  • 1919: Seth Bullock Dies
  • 1920: Mickey Rooney Is Born
  • 1954: First Victim Of The Hydrogen Bomb Dies
  • 1988: Mel Ignatow Kills His Girlfriend Brenda Schaefer

Little Rock Integration

September 24th

  • 1789: The U.S. Supreme Court Is Established
  • 1877: Saigō Takamori Dies
  • 1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald Is Born
  • 1957: President Eisenhower Uses Federal Troops To Enforce Integration In Arkansas
  • 1991: Nirvana Releases Nevermind, One Of The Most Popular Grunge Albums Of All Time

Joe Valachi Raising His Hand

September 25th

  • 1513: Vasco Núñez De Balboa Spots The Pacific Ocean
  • 1777: British Forces Occupy Philadelphia
  • 1897: William Faulkner Is Born
  • 1960: Emily Post Dies
  • 1963: Joe Valachi Becomes The First Mobster To Publicly Acknowledge The Mafia's Existence
  • 1980: John Bonham Dies

Francis Drake

September 26th

  • 1580: Sir Francis Drake Completes His Trip Around The World
  • 1774: Johnny Appleseed Is Born
  • 1898: George Gershwin Is Born
  • 1969: The Brady Bunch Premieres On Television
  • 1983: Stanislav Petrov Prevents The Outbreak Of Nuclear War
  • 2012: Actor Johnny Lewis Falls To His Death After Killing His Landlady

Sylvia Pankhurst Speaking

September 27th

  • 1590: Urban VII Dies 12 Days After Becoming Pope
  • 1722: Samuel Adams Is Born
  • 1869: Wild Bill Hickok Kills Samuel Strawhun
  • 1888: 'Dear Boss' Letter Received
  • 1960: Sylvia Pankhurst Dies
  • 1962: Silent Spring Is Published By Rachel Carson
  • 1969: The Zodiac Killer Murders Calvin Hartnell And Cecelia Ann Shepard

Brigitte Bardot

September 28th

  • 48 B.C.E.: Pompey The Great Is Assassinated
  • 1066: William The Conqueror's Norman Conquest Begins
  • 1542: Spanish Explorer Cabrillo Becomes First European To Set Foot In The U.S. East Coast
  • 1920: White Sox Players Are Indicted For The "Black Sox Scandal"
  • 1934: Brigitte Bardot Is Born
  • 2000: David Camm's Family Is Murdered

The Tylenol Murders

September 29th

  • 1571: Caravaggio Is Born
  • 1829: Scotland Yard Is Established
  • 1982: The Chicago Tylenol Murders Begin
  • 1988: NASA Launches Its First Mission Since The Challenger Disaster
  • 1990: Police Find The Body Of Regina Walters, Victim Of Serial Killer Robert Rhoades

James Dean

September 30th

  • 1630: John Billington Is Hanged
  • 1888: Jack The Ripper Murders His Third And Fourth Victims
  • 1928: Elie Wiesel Is Born
  • 1955: James Dean Dies
  • 1974: Stephen King Checks In At The Stanley Hotel
  • 1999: The Tokaimura Nuclear Incident