September 1 in history

287 sourced entries recorded on September 1, from 462 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

462Possible start of the first Byzantine indiction cycle.source
717A Muslim armada, consisting of 1,800 ships commanded by Admiral Suleiman, sails into the Sea of Marmara and drops anchor below the sea walls of Constantinople, to supply their forces ashore. Leo III orders the Byzantine fleet to sally forth from their protected harbors with Greek fire, setting alight the thickly-packed Muslim ships. Many vessels burst into flames, while others collide with each other before sinking.source
1024Basil Boioannes, Byzantine general and governor of the Catapanate of Italy, sails from Bari across the Adriatic Sea to begin an invasion of Croatia, ruled by Krešimir III. He later takes Kresimir's wife as a hostage, transporting her to Bari and then to Constantinople as a hostage.source
1057A riot in favor of Isaac Komnenos breaks out in Constantinople. Patriarch Michael I convinces Michael VI to abdicate the throne, and Isaac is crowned as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.source
1077Pope Gregory VII appoints Landulf as bishop of Pisa. He makes him permanent legate of the Holy See in Corsica.source
1239Barons' Crusade: A Crusader force (some 1,500 knights) under King Theobald I of Navarre arrives at Acre. At a council of local barons – most prominently Walter IV of Brienne, Odo of Montbéliard, Balian of Beirut, John of Arsuf, and Balian of Sidon – plans are made to prepare an expedition against the Ayyubids in Egypt. Later, Theobald is joined by some Crusaders from Cyprus.source
1270King Stephen V of Hungary writes his walk to the antiquum castellum near Miholjanec, where the Sword of Attila has been recently discovered.source
1271Pope Gregory X succeeds the late Clement IV as the 184th pope of the Catholic Church, as the compromise candidate between French and Italian cardinals, ending a three-year conclave, the longest ever.source
1310John of Luxemburg, younger brother of King Henry of Bohemia, marries Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of the late King Wenceslaus II.source
1317Near Rushyford in County Durham, English knight Gilbert Middleton begins a rebellion against King Edward II. Middleton attacks and takes hostage the newly elected Bishop of Durham, Louis de Beaumont, Louis' brother Henry de Beaumont, and two cardinals, Gauscelin de Jean and Luca Fieschi. The cardinals are set free, while the Beaumonts are imprisoned at Mitford Castle for the next seven weeks.source
1347The Black Death reaches the French port city of Marseille.source
1355The old town of Visoki is first mentioned in Tvrtko I of Bosnia's charter in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum.source
1367One month before his appointment as Bishop of Winchester, William of Wykeham is confirmed as the Chancellor of England following his appointment by King Edward III.source
1399Richard II, though still nominally the King of England, is imprisoned by Henry Bolingbroke at the Tower of London.source
1422Henry VI becomes King of England, at the age of nine months, upon the death of his father, King Henry V.source
1432With the departure of Švitrigaila, Sigismund Kęstutaitis is installed as the new Grand Duke of Lithuania.source
1435In the Battle of Wiłkomierz, Grand Duke Sigismund Kęstutaitis decisively defeats his predecessor, Švitrigaila, in the decisive battle of the civil war in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.source
1436Eric of Pomerania is once again reinstated as king of Sweden. Karl Knutsson, at the same time, resigns the post of rikshövitsman.source
1449Battle of Tumu Fortress: The Oirat Mongols defeat the Ming dynasty army, and capture the Emperor Xingzong of China on September 3. The Emperor is officially deposed, while his brother Zhu Qiyu ascends as the Jingtai Emperor the next year.source
1478King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary accepts the draft of the Treaty of Brno with slight modifications regarding the division of the lands of the Bohemian crowned claimed by both Hungary and King Vladisalus II of Bohemia. Under the terms, Vladislaus II cedes Moravia, Silesia, and Lusatia to Corvinus, and both monarchs are permitted to refer to themselves as "King of Bohemia".source
1489King Ferdinand I of Naples is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church and declared deposed from office by a bull issued by Pope Innocent VIII. King Ferdinand, who had been punished for refusing to pay dues to the Pope, disregards the papal order and rules over Naples for the rest of his life.source
1512After being dispatched by Pope Julius II with command of a Spanish Army, General Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici recaptures the city of Florence (Firenze), capital of the Florentine Republic in Italy and ousts Piero Soderini as the ruling Gonfaloniere. The success at Florence spares the city of Rome from a French invasion. Within a year, Medici becomes leader of the Roman Catholic Church and the Papal States as Pope Leo X.source
1524By the Treaty of Malmö signed on Sweden withdraws from the Kalmar Union with Denmark, Norway and Sweden.source
1529Sancti Spiritu, the first European settlement in Argentina, is destroyed by local natives.source
1532Anne Boleyn is created Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.source
1536King James V becomes the first Scottish monarch since 1346 to voluntarily leave his kingdom, leaving six vice-regents— the Lord Chancellor Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop of Glasgow; James Beaton, Archbishop of St Andrews; the earls of Huntly, Montrose, and Eglinton, and Lord Maxwell— to govern the nation during his absence. King James sails from Kirkcaldy on the Royal Scots Navy flagship Mary Willoughby, along with 500 men and five other ships, to travel to France to meet his future bride, Princess Madeleine of Valois. The Scottish entourage docks in France at Dieppe one week later.source
1556After Pope Paul IV attempts to get King Henry II of France to join him in an invasion of Spanish-controlled Naples, Spain's Duke of Alba invades the Papal States in Italy.source
1556Dry summer leads to an early and poor harvest and forest fires in Normandy and the north.source
1575As a result of the Eighty Years' War, the government of the Kingdom of Spain is in bankruptcy and stops paying its troops, beginning in March.source
1576Ismail Mirza, who has proclaimed himself the Shah of Safavid Iran, marches into the capital at Qazvin and ascends the throne as Shah Ismail II.source
1588The Ganja Fortress in modern-day Azerbaijan is captured by Ottoman general Serdar Ferhad Pasha.source
1592Battle of Busan: The Korean fleet makes a surprise attack on the Japanese but fails to break their supply lines to Busan.source
1602The Mutiny of Hoogstraten, a rebellion by soldiers of the Army of Flanders, begins with the seizure by 3,000 disgruntled mercenaries of the town of Hoogstraten (now in Belgium). The mutineers hold the town for almost two years before surrendering on 18 May 1604.source
1604Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the religious text of Sikhism, whose compilation by Guru Arjan was completed on August 29, is installed at Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar.source
1610Claudio Monteverdi's musical work Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin) is first published, printed in Venice and dedicated to Pope Paul V.source
1612Battle of Moscow (1612): Led by General Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, a relief force from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, whose troops had been occupying Moscow for two years, make an unsuccessful attempt to break the Russian siege of the Kremlin, where General Mikolaj Strus and his troops are trapped. Both the Russians (led by Dmitry Pozharsky) and the Commonwealth troops suffer at least 1,000 deaths, but the Russians prevail. General Chodkiewicz tries a second attack the next day and fails.source
1614In England, lawyer Sir Julius Caesar becomes Master of the Rolls.source
1617The weighing ceremony of Jahangir is described by the first English ambassador to the Mughal court, Sir Thomas Roe.source
16311 September–10 October – National Synod of Charenton of the Protestant Reformed Church of France at Charenton-le-Pont.source
1632Battle of Castelnaudary: A rebellion against French king Louis XIII is crushed. The leader of the rebellion, Gaston, Duke of Orléans, the brother of Louis XIII, surrenders.source
1632A rebellion against French king Louis XIII is crushed at the Battle of Castelnaudary. The leader of the rebellion, Gaston, Duke of Orléans, the brother of Louis XIII, surrenders.source
1644English Civil War: Battle of Tippermuir – Montrose defeats Lord Elcho's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause in Scotland.source
1645English Civil War: Scottish Covenanters abandon the Siege of Hereford and retreat northwardssource
1651The siege of Dundee ends with the English Parliamentarian army, under General Monck, decisively defeating Covenanters in the last battle of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in Scotland.source
1660Grigore I Ghica becomes the new Prince of Wallachia (now in Romania)source
1668The ship 'Constantinople Merchant' reaches the coast of Surat with a royal charter granting the Port and Island of Bombay to the English East India Company.source
1675September 1–2 – While Wampanoags and Nipmucks attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, Captain Samuel Moseley commands Massachusetts troops in an attack on the Pennacook tribe.source
1695Nine Years' War: France surrenders Namur, Spanish Netherlands to forces of the Grand Alliance, led by King William III of England, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, following the 2-month Siege of Namur.source
1695Nine Years' War: France surrenders Namur in the Spanish Netherlands to forces of the Grand Alliance led by King William III of England following the 2-month Siege of Namur.source
1695HMS Winchester founders in the Florida Keys with the loss of 400.source
1705August 31–September 5 – War of the Spanish Succession: The Siege of Zoutleeuw is carried out by the alliance of Dutch, English, Scottish and Holy Roman Empire troops against the French-held fortress of Zoutleeuw (in modern-day Belgium).source
1713Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia, led by Colonel James Moore, returns to South Carolina, after mixed success in the campaign against the Machapunga and Coree tribes.source
1719Marriage ceremony of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart ("Old Pretender" to the Scottish throne) and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska at Montefiascone in Italy.source
1723The Treaty of Saint Petersburg is signed in Russia, ending the Russo-Persian War (1722–1723).source
1730A volcano erupts on Lanzarote, the easternmost of the Canary Islands and threatens the Spanish inhabitants. On Gran Canaria, the regent of the islands reports to Madrid that the flames are visible even from 130 mi away.source
1737The oldest existing English language newspaper in the world, The News Letter, is founded in Belfast, Ireland.source
1737The News Letter is first published in Belfast by Francis Joy, making it the world's oldest existing English language newspaper.source
1745Catherine the Great marries Peter III of Russia, in Saint Petersburg.source
1763Empress Catherine the Great of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow.source
1766The revolt in Quito (at this time part of Spain's Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada; the modern-day capital of Ecuador) is ended peacefully as royal forces enter the city under the command of Guayaquil Governor Pedro Zelaya. Rather than seeking retribution from the Quito citizens over their insurrection that has broken the monopoly over the sale of the liquor aguardiente, Zeleaya oversees a program of reconciliation.source
1772Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.source
1774Powder Alarm: Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, orders British soldiers to remove gunpowder from a magazine, causing Patriots to prepare for war.source
1775August 29 – September 12 – The Independence Hurricane from South Carolina to Nova Scotia kills 4,170, mostly fishermen and sailors.source
1776Cherokee–American wars: The invasion of the Cherokee Nation by 6,000 patriot troops from Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina begins. The troops destroy 36 Cherokee towns.source
1777John McKesson becomes the first Clerk of the New York State Assembly.source
17861 September to 30 November – at 7.50 °C, this is the equal coolest autumn in the CET series with that of 1676, and the coolest since monthly data are accurate to a tenth of a degree.source
1792August 29–September 2 – War of the First Coalition: Battle of Verdun – Prussian forces defeat French troops led by Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire.source
1804German astronomer K. L. Harding discovers the asteroid Juno.source
1804German astronomer K. L. Harding discovers the asteroid Juno.source
1807Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason. He had been accused of plotting to annex parts of Louisiana and Mexico, to become part of an independent republic.source
1808September 1–2: Battle of Ruona–Salmisource
1814War of 1812 – Sinking of HMS Avon by the USS Wasp.source
1816the Northern Lighthouse Board's new light on the Isle of May, designed by Robert Stevenson, is completed.source
1830In the 1830 United Kingdom general election, Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot is elected for Glamorganshire as a Whig; he will continue to sit for a Glamorganshire constituency until his death in 1890.source
1836Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.source
1836Rebuilding begins at the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem.source
1841Port Phillip Savings Bank was established.source
1842Queen Victoria arrives by sea at Granton, Edinburgh, to start her first visit to Scotland.source
1843First Prime Minister of Canada Sir John A. Macdonald marries Isabella Clarksource
1847Lord Elgin visits the Irish fever sheds at Windmill Point, Montreal, during the typhus epidemic of 1847.source
1849The first segment of the Pennsylvania Railroad, from Lewistown to Harrisburg, opens for service.source
1854The first Norwegian railway, Hovedbanen between Oslo and Eidsvoll, is opened. This also constitutes the establishment of the now state owned Norwegian State Railways.source
1854August 31–September 8 – An epidemic of cholera in London kills over 10,000. Dr John Snow traces the source of one outbreak (that killed 500) to a single water pump, validating his theory that cholera is water-borne, and forming the starting point for epidemiology.source
1856Seton Hall University is founded in South Orange, New Jersey, by the first bishop of the Diocese of Newark, James Roosevelt Bayley, a cousin of future U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and nephew of the first American-born Catholic saint, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. Seton Hall University is the oldest and largest Catholic diocesan university in the United States and the first institution named in honor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.source
1856Seton Hall University is founded by Archdiocese of Newark Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley, a cousin of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and nephew of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton.source
1858Local Government Act 1858 comes into force, General Board of Health abolished.source
1858September 1–2 – Staten Island Quarantine Warsource
1859August 28–September 2 – The solar storm of 1859, the largest geomagnetic solar storm on record, causes the Northern lights to be visible as far south as Montería, Colombia and knocks out telegraph communication (this is also called the Carrington event).source
1859Astronomer Richard Carrington makes the first observation of a solar flare.source
1860In Ottawa, the cornerstone of the Centre Block building is laid by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, signalling the beginning of the building of the Parliament of Canada buildings.source
1864Charlottetown Conference: Delegates from the Canadian colonies meet, to discuss Canadian Confederation.source
1864September 1 – September 9: Charlottetown Conference, noted as the first step towards Confederationsource
1872A group of Icaiche Maya under Marcos Canul attack the British garrison at Orange Walk Town in British Honduras.source
1872a group of Icaiche Maya under Marcos Canul attack Orange Walk Town in British Honduras as part of the Caste War of Yucatán. British troops are sent against them.source
1873L. C. Owen becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing James Pope.source
1875A murder conviction begins to break the power of the violent Irish-American anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", in Pennsylvania.source
1877The Battle of Lovcha, third battle in the siege of Plevna, is fought. Russian forces successfully reduce the Ottoman fortress at Lovcha.source
1879Natal – Avoca to Verulam, 12 mi 2 ch.source
1880Second Anglo-Afghan War – Battle of Kandahar: General Frederick Roberts, commanding British forces, defeats the Afghan troops of Mohammad Ayub Khan, bringing an end to the war.source
1881Rysensteen Gymnasium is established in Copenhagen.source
1883Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Supremi apostolatus officio ("On Devotion of the Rosary").source
1886Police Force Act comes into effect, splitting the New Zealand Police Force from the standing army (and militia).source
1886Grasshopper Club Zürich is founded as the first football club in the Swiss city of Zürich by English students.source
18881888 North Canterbury earthquakesource
1893William Ewart Gladstone's Government of Ireland Bill 1893, intended to give Ireland self-government, is rejected by the U.K. Parliament.source
1893Franz Ramesohl and Franz Schmidt open a milk separator-producing workshop under the name of Ramesohl & Schmidt oHG in Oelde. The workshop forms the basis of the still extant company GEA Westfalia Separator.source
1894Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 450 people.source
1897The Tremont Street subway is opened in Boston, Massachusetts.source
1900The German-American Telegraph Company opens the first direct line between Germany and the United States. At 7,917 kilometres or 4,919 miles, the line was the longest transatlantic cable to that time, running from Emden to New York City, via the Azores Islands.source
1900Number of deaths from "Plague" in Rio decreases and the outbreak is limited to the city.source
1902The first science fiction film, the silent A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans La Lune), is premièred at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, France, by actor/producer Georges Méliès, and proves an immediate success.source
1902The first science fiction film, the trick film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans La Lune), is premièred at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris by actor/producer Georges Méliès, and proves an immediate success.source
1904Griffin Park football ground, home of Brentford F.C., opens in London.source
1905The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are established from the southwestern part of the Northwest Territories.source
1905Kobe Steel has founded.source
1910Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is founded in Brazil by railwaymen; its Association football team will be the first FIFA Club World Cup champions in 2000.source
1914The province of Cotabato is founded.source
1919October 2 – Russian Civil War, Siberian Front: Admiral Alexander Kolchak launches his final offensive in the Tobolsk operation, defeating the Red Army.source
1919In a three-way splintering of the Socialist Party of America, the leadership of the 60,000 alien members of the Left Wing form the Communist Party of America at a separate convention in Chicago on September 1, 1919.source
1919Forestry Commission set up.source
1920August 28–September 2 – Bukhara operation: The Russian Red Army and Young Bukharians overthrow the Emirate of Bukhara, leading to the establishment of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic.source
1921Poplar Rates Rebellion: Nine members of the borough council of Poplar, London, are arrested.source
1923The Kantō Massacre begins and continues for several weeks. Ethnic Koreans are killed by lynch mobs based on rumors that Koreans are committing crimes and plotting to overthrow the government. The death toll (and even the occurrence of) the massacre is disputed, with figures ranging from a few dozen to over 6,000 deaths. Most of the deaths are of Korean people, although it is said that other ethnic minorities and even Japanese people with unusual dialects are also killed.source
1923The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing more than 100,000 people.source
1923The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,807 people, but according to a Japanese construction research center report in 2005, 105,000 are confirmed dead. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes.source
1925Thomas Blamey becomes Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police.source
1925September 1–30 – In the first year for which statewide data are reliable, this month with a statewide average water equivalent of 7.54 in remains Alaska's wettest calendar month on record.source
1926Lebanon under the French Mandate gets its first constitution, thereby becoming a republic, with Charles Debbas as its president.source
1928Ahmet Zogu, President of the Albanian Republic, declares the country to be a constitutional monarchy, the Albanian Kingdom, with himself as King Zog I.source
1934Body of the "Pyjama Girl" found in Albury, New South Wales.source
1939Opening shots of World War II and invasion of Poland: At 4:45 Central European Time, under cover of darkness, the German WWI-era battleship Schleswig-Holstein quietly slips her moorings at her wharf in Danzig Harbor, drifts into the center of the channel, and commences firing on a Polish military installation on Westerplatte at the northeastern mouth of the port of the internationalized Free City of Danzig, beginning the Battle of Westerplatte and Battle of Danzig Bay. Polish soldiers defend there for 7 days. Five minutes previously, the bombing of Wieluń in the western part of Poland had commenced, beginning the Battle of the Border. Shock-troops of the German Wehrmacht begin crossing the border into Poland.source
1939Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. France and Britain deliver ultimatums to Germany and France declares full mobilization.source
1939The Reichstag passes a statement, stating that Adolf Hitler's second-in-command Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring should be appointed as Hitler's successor as Führer, should Hitler die during the war. Rudolf Hess is to be appointed in Göring's place, should anything befall Göring.source
19461946 Turin Grand Prix, the first official Formula One Grand Prix, is held in Italy.source
1947Two Canadian National Railways (CNR) passenger trains collide head-on at Dugald, Manitoba, resulting in 31 people dead and 85 people injured. The disaster is exacerbated by the CNR's use of wooden passenger coaches, as strict rationing of steel during the Second World War impeded the shift to steel coaches.source
1951The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS Treaty.source
1957Tuanku Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan was installed as the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong.source
1958August 30–September 1 – Notting Hill race riots: Riots occur between blacks and whites in Notting Hill, London.source
1958The first Cod War begins between the United Kingdom and Iceland.source
1960Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the United States, marking the first shutdown in the company's history (the event lasts two days).source
1961The first meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement is held in Belgrade. The Soviet Union resumes nuclear testing, escalating fears over the ongoing Berlin Crisis.source
1961The Eritrean War of Independence begins with the Battle of Adal in which Hamid Idris Awate and his companions shoot at Ethiopian police and military. The war will continue until 1991.source
1962A referendum in Singapore supports the Malayan Federation.source
1962Typhoon Wanda strikes Hong Kong, killing at least 130 and injuring more than 600.source
1962the 7.1 Ml Buin Zahra earthquake shook northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing at least 12,225 and injuring 2,776.source
1963Establishment of language areas and facilities in Belgium comes into effect. This will become the foundation for further state reform in Belgium.source
1963The declaration of Port of Hualien to be an international port.source
196698 British tourists die when Britannia Airways Flight 105 crashes in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.source
1967Bahasa Malaysia (Malay Language) became the National Language of Malaysia. The National Language Act 1967 was gazetted.source
1967The Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia.source
1968The Singapore Air Defence Command is formed.source
19691969 Libyan coup d'état: A bloodless coup in Libya ousts King Idris and brings Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to power.source
1969For Brazil, the Jornal Nacional was created on Monday, 1 September 1969.source
1970An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the country's Black September crisis.source
1970Merger of two German transportation/maritime companies, Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) and Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) or North German Lloyd (NGL) to new company Hapag Lloydsource
1970August 31 – September 5: Tropical Storm Norma.source
19711971 Syrian Federation of Arab Republics referendumsource
1971Operation Sourisak Montry VIII opens when forces of the Royal Thai Army recapture several positions in the territory of Laos on the south bank of the Mekong in response to an encroaching Chinese presence to the north.source
1972The Second Cod War begins between the United Kingdom and Iceland.source
1972Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match in Reykjavík, Iceland, becoming the first American world chess champion.source
1973The establishment of Criminal Investigation Bureau.source
197416: Afghanistan participated in at the 1974 Asian Games; the country won only one bronze medal, placing it dead last out of all 19 competitor states.source
1976Cigarette and tobacco advertising is banned on Australian television and radio.source
1976The state of emergency in the Republic of Ireland legally still in force since 1939 is lifted.source
1977August 29 – September 4:Hurricane Anitasource
1979Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps is formed.source
1979Biju Patnaik mediates for an unsuccessful merger attempt between Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.source
1979The U.S. Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.source
1980Terry Fox is forced to end his Marathon of Hope run outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, after finding out that the cancer has spread to his lungs.source
1981Gregorio Conrado Álvarez is inaugurated as a military de facto President of Uruguay.source
1981The Spanish writer Corín Tellado visits the country.source
1982Vypeen alcohol poisonings.source
1983Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet Union Air Force Su-15 Flagon pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed, including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.source
1983A Malaysian named Siow Woon Kwang was among the victims in Korean Air Lines Flight 007 that was shot down by a Soviet interceptor jet and crashed near Moneron Island, Soviet Union, killing all 269 passengers.source
1983Korean Air Flight 007 was shot down by a Soviet SU-15 Interceptor.source
198323 Taiwanese citizens were among the victims in Korean Air Lines Flight 007 that was shot down by a Soviet interceptor jet and crashed near Moneron Island, Soviet Union, killing all 269 passengers and crew.source
1984Typhoon Nitang strikes the Philippines. It kills 1,492 people and 1,856 more are injured. Roughly 1.6 million people are affected in the country. A total of 108,219 homes are destroyed and 142,653 more are damaged. However, President Ferdinand Marcos declared a state of calamity only after Nitang's onslaught.source
1985The wreck of the RMS Titanic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Robert Ballard (WHOI) and Jean-Louis Michel (IFREMER) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.source
1986Jordan University of Science and Technology is established in Jordan.source
1987Honda announces plans to build a second U.S. assembly plant, the East Liberty Auto Plant.source
1987Royal order prohibiting smoking in roofed public spaces comes into force.source
1990September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.source
1990The Lembaga Letrik Negara (National Electricity Board) (LLN) was incorporated as Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB).source
1992In Beijing, police arrest Shen Tong for his role in organizing the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.source
1993The government separated the commercial functions from the (central) Bank of Cape Verde, establishing Banco Comercial do Atlânticosource
1995Gaddafi orders the expulsion of 30,000 Palestinians living in Libya, as a gesture of his opposition to the Oslo II Accord process between the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel. The expulsion process went badly, with many Palestinians sent to poorly-equipped refugee camps on the Egyptian border or stranded in Cyprus, and the process was temporarily halted in late October 1995. It resumed in 1996, halving the number of Palestinians living in Libya.source
1997Dublin Regulation on treatment of applications for right of asylum under European Union law first comes into force.source
1999Afghan Health Minister Mulla Mohammad Abbas Akhund met with Pakistani Health Minister Javed Hashmi and Pakistani Director of General Health Ghayur Ayub to discuss the lack of medical facilities in Afghanistan.source
2000The Nokia 3310 mobile phone is released.source
2001About two dozen foreign aid workers were expelled from Afghanistan by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan for allegedly preaching Christianity. The workers were from the international aid organization SERVE and the International Assistance Mission.source
2002August 26–September 4 – Earth Summit 2002 takes places in Johannesburg, South Africa, aimed at discussing sustainable development by the United Nations.source
2002August 22–September 4 – Typhoon Rusa, the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, makes landfall, killing at least 236 people.source
2004Chechen rebels take 1,128 hostages, mostly children, at a school in Beslan, Russia. Russian security forces eventually storm the building, resulting in more than 330 people being killed.source
2005August 29 – September 4 – 2005 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Ho Chi Minh City.source
2006Analog terrestrial television is switched off in Luxembourg, being the first country to do so.source
2007International aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières has accused Ethiopia of denying it access to the country's eastern Ogaden region.source
2016An annular solar eclipse was visible from Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar.source
2017Russian President Vladimir Putin expels 755 diplomats in response to United States sanctions.source
2019Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on The Bahamas as the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph. 43 deaths are reported.source
2020U.S. President Donald Trump orders Marriott Hotels & Resorts to close its operations in Cuba.source
2021August 24–September 5 – The 2020 Summer Paralympics were held in Tokyo, Japan. They were originally scheduled for 25 August–6 September 2020, but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.source
2022The UN releases a report stating that the Chinese government's Xinjiang internment camps and treatment of Uyghurs may constitute crimes against humanity.source
20232023 Singaporean presidential election: Economist and former deputy prime minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is elected president with a vote share of over 70%.source
2024August 28 – September 8 – The 2024 Summer Paralympics are held in Paris, France.source
2025Former prime minister and ANO leader Andrej Babiš is hospitalized after being attacked by a man with a walking stick at a rally in Dobra.source

Births

948Jing Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (died 982)source
1341Frederick the Simple, King of Sicily (died 1377)source
1403Louis VIII, Duke of Bavaria, German noble (died 1445)source
1453Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesmansource
1477Bartolomeo Fanfulla, Italian mercenary (died 1525)source
1525Christoffer Valkendorff, Danish politician (died 1601)source
1529Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter (died 1566)source
1544John Gordon, Scottish bishop (died 1619)source
1544John Gordon (bishop, born 1544)source
1561Gervase Helwys, English murderer (died 1615)source
1566Edward Alleyn, English actor (died 1626)source
1577Scipione Borghese, Italian Catholic cardinal and art collector (died 1633)source
1579John Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince-Bishop, German Catholic archbishop (died 1634)source
1588Henri, Prince of Condé (died 1646)source
1606Nicholas Slanning, English politician (died 1643)source
1608Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer, engineer, and architect (died 1678)source
1641Jean Barbier d'Aucour, lawyer and satirist (died 1694)source
1642Angelo Paoli, Italian beatified (died 1720)source
1647Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark (died 1717)source
1647Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, princess (died 1717)source
1653Johann Pachelbel, German organist and composer (died 1706)source
1726François-André Danican Philidor, French composer, chess player (died 1795)source
1748Thomas Johnes, landowner (died 1816)source
1751Emanuel Schikaneder, German dramatist, actor and singer (died 1812)source
1853Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (died 1926)source
1873João Ferreira Sardo, Portuguese presbyter and founder of Gafanha da Nazaré (died 1925)source
1896A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (died 1977)source
1907Walter Reuther, American labor union leader and president of the United Auto Workers (died 1970)source
1922Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born American actress, dancer and singer (died 2007)source
1938Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and academicsource
1961Bam Bam Bigelow, American professional wrestler (died 2007)source
1984Geadis Geadi, member of the European parliamentsource
1989Mohammed Assaf, Palestinian pop singer and winner of the 2nd season of Arab idol.source

Deaths

870Muhammad al-Bukhari, Persian scholar (born 810)source
1015Gero II, margrave of the Saxon Ostmarksource
1054Fortún Sánchez, Navarrese nobleman (born c.992)source
1067Baldwin V, count of Flanderssource
1081Eusebius (or Bruno), bishop of Angerssource
1117Robert de Limesey, bishop of Coventrysource
1126Świętosława of Poland, queen of Bohemiasource
1127Prince Álmos (or Almus), duke of Hungary and Croatiasource
1159Pope Adrian IV (born c. 1100)source
1176Maurice FitzGerald, English noblemansource
1215Otto I, bishop of Utrecht (born 1194)source
1256Kujō Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (born 1218)source
1262Giuliana of Collalto, Italian Benedictine abbess and Blessedsource
1271Annibaldo degli Annibaldi, Italian theologiansource
1325John Segrave, English nobleman and seneschalsource
1327Foulques de Villaret, French Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallersource
1339Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria (born 1305)source
1375Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans (born 1336)source
1414William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (born 1369)source
1448After his betrothal to Dorothea of Brandenburg, Queen Dowager and widow of King Christoffer III (who died in January), German Count Christian of Oldenburg, is elected by the Danish nobility to become the new monarch, King Christian I of Denmark.source
1480Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg (born 1413)source
1545Francis de Bourbon, Count of St. Pol, French noble (born 1491)source
1557Jacques Cartier, French explorer (born 1491)source
1557Jacques Cartier, explorer (born 1491)source
1574Guru Amar Das, 3rd Sikh gurusource
1581Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (born 1534)source
1599Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (b.1565)source
1646Francis Windebank, English statesman (born 1582)source
1648Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (born 1588)source
1665Walter Erle, English politician (born 1586)source
1678Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (born 1601)source
1687Henry More, English philosopher (born 1614)source
1715King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years, leaving his throne to his 5 year old great-grandson Louis XV. Philippe d'Orléans, the nephew of Louis XIV, serves as Regent.source
1715King Louis XIV (born 1638)source
1729Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (born 1672)source
1738Mathias Maurice, minister and author, 54source
1752Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter (born 1675)source
1767Carl Juel, statesman, councillor, and diocesan governor (born 1706)source
1796David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield (born 1727)source
1838William Clark, American explorer (born 1770)source
1838Gabriel de Mendizábal Iraetasource
1851Narciso López is executed in Havana following the failure of his expedition in Cuba.source
1894Nathaniel P. Banks, American politician, general (born 1816)source
1906Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian poet and librettist (born 1847)source
1914The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in the Cincinnati Zoo from old age.source
1947Frederick Russell Burnham, American Scout, father of the international Scouting movement (born 1861)source
1960Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, Sultan of Selangor and 2nd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaya, dies in office. He is replaced by Tuanku Syed Putra, Raja of Perlis.source
1967Ilse Koch, known as the "Witch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.source
1981Albert Speer, 76, German architect and Nazi Party politician, he served as the Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production from 1942 until 1945, he briefly served as the Minister of Industry and Production of the Flensburg Government in May 1945,he was one of the defendants at the International Military Tribunal and was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment in 1946,he revised his prison writings into two autobiographical books, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries, he later published a biographical work about Heinrich Himmler and Himmler's Schutzstaffel (SS) under the English title The Slave State: Heinrich Himmler's Masterplan for SS Supremacy, stroke while visiting London to participate in the BBC show Newsnightsource