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The rescue of crew of Pisces III in the Irish Sea -
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HL7442, the Boeing 747 traveling as Korean Airlines Flight 007 -
Martha, the last passenger pigeon -
The "Man in the Moon" from A Trip to the Moon -
Hurricane Dorian
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Constitution Day in Slovakia (1992) | refimprove |
| ; Independence Day in Uzbekistan (1991) | confusing section, refimprove section |
| Start of the liturgical year (Eastern Orthodox Church); | unreferenced section |
| 1529 – Sancti Spiritu, the first European settlement in Argentina, was destroyed by Amerindians. | single source |
| 1715 – Louis XIV, the "Sun King", died after a reign of 72 years, longer than any other French monarch. | refimprove section |
| 1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorsed educator Ivan Betskoy's plans for the Moscow Orphanage, an ambitious, state-run, experimental Russian Enlightenment project to educate orphans into ideal citizens. | refimprove |
| 1831 – Pope Gregory XVI established the Order of St. Gregory the Great to recognize high support for the Holy See or for the Pope. | lots of CN tags (19) |
| 1878 – Hired by Alexander Graham Bell, Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator. | uses unreliable sources, could be cleaned up with some research |
| 1880 – The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan was routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War. | unreferenced section |
| 1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, struck the Kantō region of Japan, devastating Tokyo and Yokohama, and killing over an estimated 100,000 people. | popular culture |
| 1928 – Ahmet Zogu, President of the Albanian Republic, declared the country was now a constitutional monarchy and himself king with the regnal name Zog I. | unreferenced section |
| 1951 – Australia, New Zealand and the United States signed a mutual defence pact known as the ANZUS Treaty in San Francisco, agreeing to cooperate on defence matters in the Pacific Ocean area. | refimprove section |
| 1961 – The thirty-year Eritrean War of Independence began when rebels led by Hamid Idris Awate fired shots at the Ethiopian Army. | refimprove |
| José B. Nísperos |d|1922 | stub |
| Edward Alleyn |b|1556| | multiple cn tags |
| Ferenc Gyulay |bd|1799; 1868| | deathdate not cited |
| Walter Reuther |b|1907| | Overreliance on quotes |
| Harriet Shaw Weaver |b|1876| | Birthdate not cited |
| Yvonne De Carlo |b|1922| | Multiple cn tags |
| Othmar Schoeck |b|1886| | Birthday not cited |
| Giacomo Torelli |b|1608| | Birthday not cited |
Eligible
- 1774 – Under orders from Governor Thomas Gage, British soldiers removed gunpowder from a magazine in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, which caused Patriots to prepare for war.
- 1804 – German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered one of the largest main-belt asteroids, naming it Juno after the Roman goddess.
- 1859 – A powerful solar flare caused a coronal mass ejection that struck Earth a few hours later, generating the most intense geomagnetic storm ever recorded and causing bright aurorae visible in the middle latitudes.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces attacked retreating troops of the Union Army during a rainstorm in Chantilly, Virginia, but the battle ended inconclusively.
- 1872 – A small British force commanded by a surgeon fought off a surprise attack by the Maya on Orange Walk Town, British Honduras.
- 1902 – The first science fiction film, titled A Trip to the Moon and based on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, was released in France.
- 1914 – The passenger pigeon, which once numbered in the billions, became extinct when the last individual died in captivity
- 1937 – The first group of around 172,000 Koreans were deported by Soviet authorities from the Russian Far East to the Kazakh and Uzbek SSRs; around 10 to 25 percent died.
- 1939 – German forces attacked multiple locations in Poland, including Wieluń and Westerplatte, starting World War II in Europe.
- 1952 – Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, which later won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was first published.
- 1953 – Channel 11 began television broadcasts in Minneapolis, United States.
- 1966 – Rioting erupted in Dayton, Ohio, resulting in one death and the mobilization of the Ohio National Guard.
- 1967 – At an Arab League summit, eight nations issued the Khartoum Resolution, declaring that there would be "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, [and] no negotiations with it".
- 1969 – Muammar Gaddafi (pictured) led a coup d'état to overthrow King Idris of Libya.
- 1973 – A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Irish Sea resulted in the deepest sub rescue in history (pictured).
- 1983 – A Soviet jet interceptor shot down the civilian Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near the island of Sakhalin in the north Pacific, killing all 246 passengers and 23 crew on board.
- 2000 – Speakers' Corner, a free speech area in Hong Lim Park in Singapore, was launched.
- 2019 – Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record outside the tropics, made landfall in the Bahamas at Category 5 intensity.
- Born/died: | Hannah Glasse |d|1770| Chrysanthus Janssen |b|1905| Abdur Rahman Biswas |b|1926| Charles Atangana |d|1943 | Luis Walter Alvarez |d|1988 | Zendaya |b|1996 | Margaret Mary Vojtko |d|2013
Notes
- Gleiwitz incident appears on August 31, so Invasion of Poland should not appear in the same year
September 1: Labour Day in Canada and Labor Day in the United States (2025)
Illuminated Guru Granth Sahib folio
- 1145 – The main altar of Lund Cathedral, then the Catholic cathedral of all the Nordic countries, was dedicated to Saint Lawrence and the Virgin Mary.
- 1604 – The Guru Granth Sahib (folio depicted), the religious text of Sikhism, was installed in the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
- 1859 – A powerful solar flare caused a coronal mass ejection that struck Earth a few hours later, generating the most intense geomagnetic storm ever recorded and causing bright aurorae visible in the middle latitudes.
- 1911 – Construction began on the Saline Valley salt tram, which during its operation was the steepest tram in the United States.
- 1972 – In a match widely publicized as a Cold War confrontation, American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer became the 11th World Chess Champion with his victory over Soviet Boris Spassky.
- Yasuo Kuniyoshi (b. 1889)
- Alan Dershowitz (b. 1938)
- Doreen Valiente (d. 1999)
- Jang Jin-young (d. 2009)
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