| 2012 | Lebanon passes a ban prohibiting smoking in closed public places |
| 2012 | Moody's credit rating agency lowers its outlook on the European Union's AAA long-term bond rating from stable to negative |
| 2011 | The Libyan National Transitional Council will move to Tripoli from Benghazi next week |
| 2011 | In Texas, wildfires continue burning, destroying tens of thousands of acres of land |
| 2010 | The U.S. unemployment rate for August 2010 rises to 9.6% |
| 2010 | At least 40 people are killed by a bomb blast at a solidarity rally with the Palestinian people in Quetta, Pakistan |
| 2006 | Andre Agassi retires after winning 60 career titles |
| 2004 | After a 2-day standoff, Islamist terrorists murder about 340 held inside a school in Beslan, Russia |
| 1995 | Carolina Panthers lose their 1st NFL game (Atlanta-23 Carolina-20 OT) |
| 1995 | Jacksonville Jaguars lose their 1st NFL game (Houston-10, Jaguars-3) |
| 1995 | New York Yankee Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle |
| 1995 | Soyuz TM-22, launched into orbit |
| 1994 | Circulation of Netherlands Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000 |
| 1992 | Jerry Lewis' 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368 |
| 1990 | 9th no-hitter of 1990: Blue Jay Dave Steib beats Cleveland 3-0 |
| 1990 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 1990 | Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego) |
| 1990 | Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186 |
| 1990 | White Sox reliever Bobby Thigpen sets save record at 47 en route to 57 |
| 1989 | "Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 764 performances |
| 1989 | Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die |
| 1989 | Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st and last U.S. Tennis Open singles victory |
| 1988 | Dennis Eckersley sets A's record with his 37th save en route to 45 |
| 1987 | Coup in Burundi suspends constitution |
| 1986 | Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind," premieres in London |
| 1986 | Astros and Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game |
| 1985 | 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-returns to Earth |
| 1985 | England regain Cricket Ashes by beating Australia at The Oval |
| 1985 | New York Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive home runs in a game |
| 1984 | 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery |
| 1984 | Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th |
| 1984 | Cindy Hill wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 1984 | Jerry Lewis' 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566 |
| 1984 | South Africa adopts constitution |
| 1982 | Jorgensen government in Denmark resigns |
| 1981 | Gerald P Remy of Boston gets 6 hits in a baseball game |
| 1981 | Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7 |
| 1979 | Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000 |
| 1979 | Iran army conquerors Mahabad |
| 1979 | Jerry Lewis' 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000 |
| 1979 | Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 1978 | Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29 |
| 1978 | Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5) |
| 1978 | Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff |
| 1977 | Japan's Sadaharu Oh hits 756th home run to surpass Hank Aaron's total |
| 1977 | Last broadcast of "Mary Tyler Moore Show" on NBC-TV |
| 1976 | Viking 2 soft lands on Mars and returns photos |
| 1975 | Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die |
| 1975 | Steve Garvey begins his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak |
| 1974 | Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut |
| 1974 | NBA guard Oscar Robinson retires |
| 1974 | U.S. and East Germany establish diplomatic relations |
| 1973 | General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA |
| 1973 | Jerry Lewis' 8th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| 1971 | John Lennon leaves U.K. for New York City, never to return |
| 1971 | Manlio Brosio resigns as Secretary-General of NATO |
| 1971 | Qatar regains complete independence from Britain |
| 1971 | Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office |
| 1970 | After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out |
| 1970 | Bill Halley and Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia |
| 1970 | Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands |
| 1968 | Chicago White Sox set AL record of 39 loses by 1 run |
| 1967 | Final episode of "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly |
| 1967 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf |
| 1967 | Last broadcast of "What's My Line" on CBS TV |
| 1967 | Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution |
| 1967 | Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road |
| 1967 | WJPM TV channel 33 in Florence, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | 24th World San Francisco Convention honors Gene Roddenberry |
| 1966 | Donovan hits #1 with "Sunshine Superman" |
| 1965 | Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins |
| 1965 | Garcia Godoy forms government in Dominican Republic |
| 1965 | Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit 3 home runs in a game |
| 1965 | Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei |
| 1965 | Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to California |
| 1964 | U.S. attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns |
| 1964 | Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson |
| 1962 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open |
| 1957 | KTCA TV channel 2 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out |
| 1956 | Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee |
| 1955 | KTBS TV channel 3 in Shreveport, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy and Amoy |
| 1954 | Espionage and Sabotage Act of 1954 signed |
| 1954 | Pope Pius X canonized a saint |
| 1953 | French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy |
| 1951 | TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS |
| 1949 | Fire in Chiang-king, China, destroys 7,000 lives |
| 1948 | W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party |
| 1947 | Philadelphia A's Bill McCahan no-hits Washington Senators, 3-0 |
| 1947 | Yankees get 18 singles to beat Red Soxs 11-2 |
| 1945 | 65th U.S. Mens Tennis: Sergeant Frank A Parker beats Wm Talbert (14-12 61 62) |
| 1945 | Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies |
| 1944 | 58th U.S. Womens Tennis: P Betz beats Margaret Osborne duPont (63 86) |
| 1944 | 68th and last transport of Dutch Jews (Anne Frank) leaves to Auschwitz |
| 1944 | Canadian troops liberate Abbeville, France |
| 1944 | Frank Parker beats Bill Talbert for U.S. Tennis title |
| 1944 | French troops liberate Lyon |
| 1944 | Last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz |
| 1944 | Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Netherlands Domestic Arm Force |
| 1944 | Tank division of British Guards free Brussels |
| 1943 | British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina) |
| 1943 | General Castellano signs cease fire treaty in Sicily |
| 1941 | 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war) |
| 1941 | KYW TV channel 3 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1940 | 1st showing of color TV |
| 1940 | 39.4 CM rainfall at Sapulpa Oklahoma (state record) |
| 1940 | Hitler orders invasion in England on Sept 21 (Operation-Seelowe) |
| 1940 | Netherlands government in exile of Gerbrandy forms London |
| 1940 | Sicherheits police bans Free masons, Rotary and Red Cross |
| 1940 | U.S. gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease |
| 1939 | German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia |
| 1939 | Great Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland |
| 1939 | Yankees beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th forfeit win |
| 1939 | Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada |
| 1938 | 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland |
| 1936 | 3rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit 7 (76,000) |
| 1935 | 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph) |
| 1935 | Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games |
| 1934 | Tunisia began its move for independence |
| 1932 | Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for U.S. Tennis title |
| 1932 | Jimmie Foxx of A's hits 50th and 51st home runs to become 3rd to hit 50 |
| 1930 | Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic) |
| 1929 | Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17 |
| 1928 | Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb got his 4,191th and final career hit |
| 1925 | 1st international handball match held |
| 1925 | Dirigible "Shenandoah" crashed near Caldwell Ohio, 13 die |
| 1924 | Civil war breaks out in China, General Tsi moves to Shanghai |
| 1924 | L Stallings and M Anderson's "What Price Glory?," premieres in New York City |
| 1923 | Dorothys Donelly's "Poppy," premieres in New York City |
| 1921 | 16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0) |
| 1921 | KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms |
| 1918 | 38th U.S. Mens Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (63 61 75) |
| 1918 | 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917 |
| 1918 | Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line |
| 1917 | 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes |
| 1917 | German troops over run Riga Latvia |
| 1917 | Grover Cleveland Alexander pitches complete wins in a doubleheader |
| 1917 | Utrecht soccer team Holland forms |
| 1916 | Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun |
| 1914 | British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne |
| 1914 | Cardinal Giacome della Chiesa becomes Pope Benedict XV |
| 1914 | French troops vacate Reims |
| 1914 | Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania |
| 1912 | Arnold Schoenberg's "Funf Orchesterstucke," premieres |
| 1912 | World's 1st cannery opens in England to supply food to the navy |
| 1911 | 31st U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62) |
| 1908 | James Barries "What Every Woman Knows," premieres in London |
| 1906 | Yankees win 2nd game on a forfeit over A's; 2nd forfeit win |
| 1904 | St. Louis Olympics closes |
| 1902 | Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season) |
| 1902 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Illustrious Client" |
| 1901 | Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony |
| 1900 | British annex Natal (South Africa) |
| 1895 | 1st pro football game played, Latrobe beats Jeanette 12-0 (Penn) |
| 1891 | 11th U.S. Mens Tennis: Oliver S Campbell beats C Hobart (26 75 79 61 62) |
| 1891 | Cotton pickers organize union and staged strike in Texas |
| 1891 | John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti |
| 1890 | Oliver S. Campbell wins U.S. Tennis Open |
| 1888 | East Africa Company political and commercial rights |
| 1888 | Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British |
| 1882 | French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die |
| 1881 | 1st U.S. Mens Tennis: Richard D Sears beats William E Glyn (60 63 62) |
| 1881 | Anton Bruckner completes his 6th Symphony |
| 1878 | England's Princess Alice sinks; 645 die |
| 1865 | Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land |
| 1864 | U.S., British, French and Dutch naval officer sails Staits of Simonoseki |
| 1861 | Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality |
| 1852 | Anti Jewish riots break out in Stockholm |
| 1849 | California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey |
| 1838 | Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor |
| 1833 | NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) |
| 1832 | Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname |
| 1826 | USS Vincennes leaves New York to become 1st warship to circumnavigate globe |
| 1791 | French Constitution passed by French National Assembly |
| 1783 | Treaty of Paris signed (ending U.S. Revolutionary War) |
| 1779 | Earl d'orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest |
| 1752 | This day never happened nor next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives |
| 1752 | U.S. adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Sept 14) |
| 1731 | Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Friesland |
| 1725 | England, France, Hannover and Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover |
| 1709 | 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC |
| 1697 | King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick |
| 1683 | Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna |
| 1658 | Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector |
| 1651 | Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists |
| 1650 | Battle at Dunbar: England vs Scotland |
| 1632 | Battle at Nurnberg: Duke wallenstein beats Sweden |
| 1543 | Cardinal Beaton replaces earl Arran as regent for Mary of Scotland |
| 1483 | Utrecht surrenders to Habsburgs army |
| 1260 | Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army |
| 1189 | 30 Jews are mnassacred at King Richard I (lion hearted) coronation |
| 1189 | England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) crowned in Westminster |
| 590 | St. Gregory I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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