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Deaths

Holidays and observances

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Events

★ 509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.

★ 122 - The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.

★ 533 - General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.

★ 604 - Pope Sabinian is consecrated.

★ 1224 - Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata.

★ 1440 - Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.

★ 1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his David.

★ 1609 - Henry Hudson reaches the river that will later be named after him - the Hudson River.

★ 1743 - Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743).

★ 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.

★ 178 - The United States' Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S..

★ 1791 - King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.

★ 1814 - The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812.

★ 1814 - Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner

★ 1847 - Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.

★ 1862 - American Civil War: Union soldiers find Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.

★ 1882 - The important Battle of Tel al-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 (5,199m - 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 fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe.

★ 1914 - During World War I, South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.

★ 1922 - The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 57.7°C (135.9°F).

★ 1923 - Military coup in Spain - Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.

★ 1935 - Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway.

★ 1939 - Canada enters World War II.

★ 1940 - World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace.

★ 1940 - World War II: Italy invades Egypt.

★ 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 - Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China.

★ 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 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.

★ 1965 - Baseball: Willie Mays becomes the fifth member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.

★ 1968 - Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.

★ 1969 - The Premiere Episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?

★ 1971 - State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault.

★ 1979 - South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognized outside South Africa).

★ 1985 - Nintendo releases Super Mario Bros.

★ 1987 - Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and leading some to die from radiation poisoning.

★ 1988 - Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (based on barometric pressure).

★ 1989 - Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.

★ 1990 - Law & Order premieres on NBC.

★ 1993 - Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway.

★ 1993 - Premiere of Late Night with Conan O'Brien on NBC

★ 1994 - Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.

★ 1996 - Rapper Tupac Shakur dies in the hospital from gunshot wounds sustained September 7.

★ 1999 - Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.

★ 2001 - Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

★ 2006 - At Dawson College (Montreal), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before committing suicide.

Births

★ 1087 - John II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1143)

★ 1475 - Cesare Borgia, Italian aristocrat (d. 1507)

★ 1502 - John Leland, English antiquarian (d. 1552)

★ 1520 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (d. 1598)

★ 1604 - William Brereton, English soldier and politician (d. 1661)

★ 1739 - Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)

★ 1766 - Samuel Wilson, possible namesake of Uncle Sam (d. 1854)

★ 1775 - Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (d. 1868)

★ 1802 - Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880)

★ 1813 - John Sedgwick, American Civil War general (d. 1864)

★ 1819 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)

★ 1830 - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (d. 1916)

★ 1842 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (d. 1920)

★ 1851 - Walter Reed, American physician and biologist (d. 1902)

★ 1857 - Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (d. 1937)

★ 1857 - Milton S. Hershey, American confectioner (d. 1945)

★ 1860 - John J. Pershing, American general (d. 1948)

★ 1863 - Arthur Henderson, British politician and union leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1935)

★ 1873 - Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (d. 1950)

★ 1874 - Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962)

★ 1874 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-born composer (d. 1951)

★ 1876 - Sherwood Anderson, American writer (d. 1941)

★ 1877 - Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (d. 1957)

★ 1877 - Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (d. 1962)

★ 1882 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (d. 1969)

★ 1885 - Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian geometer (d. 1962)

★ 1886 - Sir Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975)

★ 1886 - Amelie Beese, German aviator and sculptor. (d. 1925)

★ 1887 - Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)

★ 1893 - Larry Shields, American musician (d. 1953)

★ 1894 - J.B. Priestley, English playwright and novelist (d. 1984)

★ 1894 - Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (d. 1953)

★ 1895 - Morris Kirksey, American rugby player (d. 1981)

★ 1899 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938)

★ 1903 - Claudette Colbert, French-born actress (d. 1996)

★ 1911 - Bill Monroe, American singer (d. 1996)

★ 1916 - Roald Dahl, British writer (d. 1990)

★ 1918 - Dick Haymes, Argentine vocalist (d. 1980)

★ 1917 - Robert Ward, American composer

★ 1922 - Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (d. 1999)

★ 1923 - Edouard Boubat, French photographer (d. 1999)

★ 1924 - Scott Brady, American film actor (d. 1985)

★ 1924 - Maurice Jarre, French composer

★ 1925 - Mel Tormé, American singer (d. 1999)

★ 1926 - Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and executive

★ 1929 - Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 2004)

★ 1930 - Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, British printing millionaire

★ 1931 - Barbara Bain, American actress

★ 1934 - Eileen Fulton, American actress

★ 1936 - Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian neo-Nazi

★ 1937 - Don Bluth, American animator

★ 1938 - Judith Martin, American etiquette writer

★ 1938 - John Smith, Labour Party Leader 1992 - 1994.

★ 1939 - Richard Kiel, American actor

★ 1940 - Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

★ 1941 - Tadao Ando, Japanese architect

★ 1941 - Ahmet Necdet Sezer, 10th President of Turkey

★ 1941 - David Clayton-Thomas, Canadian singer (Blood, Sweat & Tears)

★ 1944 - Jacqueline Bisset, British actress

★ 1944 - Peter Cetera, American musician (Chicago)

★ 1945 - Noël Godin, Belgian humorist

★ 1945 - Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician, journalist (d. 2002)

★ 1946 - Frank Marshall, American film producer

★ 1948 - Nell Carter, American actress (d. 2003)

★ 1948 - Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist

★ 1949 - Fred Sonic Smith, American musician (MC5) (d. 1994)

★ 1950 - Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish politician

★ 1951 - Jean Smart, American actress

★ 1951 - Linda Wong, Asian adult actress (d. 1987)

★ 1952 - Randy Jones, American musician (The Village People)

★ 1952 - Raymond O'Connor, American actor

★ 1952 - Don Was, American singer

★ 1955 - Joe Morris, American musician

★ 1957 - John G. Trueschler, American politician.

★ 1957 - Vinny Appice, American musician (Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven and Hell)

★ 1961 - Dave Mustaine, American musician (Megadeth)

★ 1961 - KK Null, Japanese musician

★ 1962 - Tõnu Õnnepalu, Estonian poet and author

★ 1965 - Zak Starkey, British musician

★ 1965 - Annie Duke, American poker player

★ 1966 - Maria Furtwängler, German physician

★ 1967 - Michael Johnson, American athlete

★ 1967 - Tim 'Ripper' Owens, American singer (Iced Earth, ex-Judas Priest)

★ 1968 - Emma Sjöberg, Swedish model

★ 1968 - Bernie Williams, Puerto Rican baseball player

★ 1969 - Shane Warne, Australian cricketer

★ 1970 - Jason Scott Sadofsky, American programmer

★ 1971 - Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player

★ 1971 - Manabu Namiki, Japanese composer

★ 1971 - Stella McCartney, English activist

★ 1973 - Christine Arron, French runner

★ 1973 - Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer

★ 1973 - Kelly Chen, Chinese singer

★ 1973 - Marcelinho Paulista, Brazilian footballer

★ 1974 - Craig Rivet, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1974 - Keith Murray, American rapper

★ 1974 - Éric Lapointe, Canadian football player

★ 1975 - Joe Don Rooney, American musician (Rascal Flatts)

★ 1976 - Giorgos Koltzos, Greek footballer

★ 1976 - Craig McMillan, New Zealand cricketer

★ 1976 - José Théodore, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1977 - Fiona Apple, American singer

★ 1977 - Daisuke Tsuda, Japanese singer (Maximum the Hormone)

★ 1978 - Megan Henning, American actress

★ 1978 - Darren Kenton, English footballer

★ 1979 - Geike Arnaert, Belgian singer (Hooverphonic)

★ 1979 - Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player

★ 1980 - Han Chae Young, South Korean actress

★ 1980 - Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player

★ 1980 - Evangelos Nastos, Greek footballer

★ 1980 - Viren Rasquinha, Indian field hockey player

★ 1980 - Ben Savage, American actor

★ 1980 - Michelle Nolan, American musician (Straylight Run)

★ 1980 - Teppei Teranishi, American guitarist (Thrice)

★ 1981 - Koldo Fernández, Spanish cyclist

★ 1982 - Nenê, Brazilian basketball player

★ 1982 - Rickie Weeks, American baseball player

★ 1982 - Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player

★ 1983 - James Bourne, English musician

★ 1986 - Sean Williams, American basketball player

★ 1987 - Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby union International

★ 1988 - Keith Treacy, Irish footballer

Deaths

★ 81 - Titus, Roman emperor (b. 39)

★ 1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (b. 1265)

★ 1438 - Duarte, King of Portugal (b. 1391)

★ 1506 - Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter

★ 1557 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (b. 1514)

★ 1592 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer (b. 1533)

★ 1598 - Philip II, King of Spain (b. 1526)

★ 1632 - Leopold V, regent of the Tyrol (b. 1586)

★ 1759 - James Wolfe, British general (b. 1727)

★ 1766 - Benjamin Heath, English classical scholar (b. 1704)

★ 1806 - Charles James Fox, English politician (b. 1749)

★ 1808 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (b. 1718)

★ 1847 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (b. 1767)

★ 1872 - Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, German philosopher (b. 1804)

★ 1881 - Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general and politician (b. 1824)

★ 1885 - Friedrich Kiel, Austrian composer (b. 1821)

★ 1894 - Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer (b. 1841)

★ 1904 - Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine (b. 1879)

★ 1905 - René Goblet, French politician (b. 1828)

★ 1912 - Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)

★ 1915 - Andrew L. Harris, American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)

★ 1928 - Italo Svevo, Italian author (b. 1861)

★ 1946 - Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter (b. 1875)

★ 1946 - Amon Göth, commandant of Nazi concentration camp (b. 1908)

★ 1949 - August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)

★ 1965 - Jean B. Fletcher, American architect (b. 1915)

★ 1973 - Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913)

★ 1976 - Albert Tessier, French Canadian priest, historian and film maker (b. 1895)

★ 1976 - Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)

★ 1977 - Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)

★ 1987 - Mervyn LeRoy, American film director (b. 1900)

★ 1991 - Joe Pasternak, American film director (b. 1901)

★ 1996 - Tupac Shakur, aka 2Pac, American rapper and actor (b. 1971)

★ 1998 - Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)

★ 1998 - George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)

★ 1999 - Benjamin Bloom, American educational theorist (b. 1913)

★ 2001 - Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)

★ 2003 - Frank O'Bannon, Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)

★ 2004 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925)

★ 2005 - Toni Fritsch, Austrian soccer and American football player (b. 1945)

★ 2005 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916)

★ 2006 - Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

★ Roman festivals - ''epulum Iovis'' ("banquet of Jupiter"), on the ''Ides'', during the Ludi Romani.

★ RC Saints - St John Chrysostom.

★ Also see September 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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