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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Feast of the Cross (Christianity) | refimprove sections |
| Hindi Divas in India (1949) | unreferenced section |
| 786 – Harun al-Rashid became the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. | refimprove |
| 1607 – Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and their families and followers departed Ireland for Spain. | refimprove |
| 1763 – About 300 Seneca warriors during Pontiac's Rebellion attacked a British Army detachment, killing 81 soldiers. | date not cited |
| 1812 – French invasion of Russia: Following the Battle of Borodino seven days earlier, Napoleon and his Grande Armée captured Moscow, only to find the city deserted and burning (depicted). | Too much uncited |
| 1911 – Prime Minister of Russia Pyotr Stolypin was shot and mortally wounded at the Kiev Opera House. | lots of CN tags (11) |
| 1926 – The Locarno Treaties establishing post-First World War territorial settlements were formally ratified by the signatory nations and came into effect. | refimprove section |
| 1927 – In a freak automobile accident, dancer Isadora Duncan died of a broken neck in Nice, France, after her scarf was caught on the wheel of a car in which she was a passenger. | inappropriate tone |
| 1946 – Residents of the Faroe Islands narrowly approved a referendum on independence from Denmark. | refimprove section |
| 1975 – Elizabeth Ann Seton became the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized. | refimprove section |
| 1982 – President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel was assassinated when a bomb exploded in the Beirut headquarters of the Phalange. | unreferenced section |
| 2008 – All 88 people aboard Aeroflot Flight 821 died when the aircraft crashed on approach to Perm International Airport in Perm Krai, Russia. | refimprove section |
| James Fenimore Cooper |b|1851| | Several unsourced paragraphs |
| Benjamin Ingrosso |b|1997 | unreferenced section |
| * 1954 – In a secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber dropped a 40-kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout. | tagged for primary sources |
Eligible
- 1723 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, laid the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta.
- 1752 – Under the terms of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, the British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar, skipping 11 days of the month.
- 1901 – Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States at age 42, the youngest person ever to do so, eight days after William McKinley was fatally wounded in Buffalo, New York.
- 1940 – Hungarian forces massacred at least 150 ethnic Romanians in Ip, Transylvania, following rumors that Romanians were responsible for the deaths of two soldiers.
- 1943 – World War II: Nazi forces began a mass extermination campaign against the civilian residents of around 20 villages on the Greek island of Crete, eventually killing more than 500 men.
- 1960 – At a conference held in Baghdad, the governments of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela founded OPEC to help coordinate their petroleum policies and influence global oil prices.
- 1979 – Afghan president Nur Muhammad Taraki (pictured) was overthrown and later killed on the orders of Hafizullah Amin, who succeeded him.
- 1992 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be unconstitutional.
- 2003 – President Kumba Ialá of Guinea-Bissau was deposed in a bloodless military coup.
- 2007 – Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank received a liquidity support facility from the Bank of England, sparking a bank run—the United Kingdom's first in 150 years.
- 2015 – Physicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Henri Poincaré in 1905.
- 2019 – Drone attacks on major processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais forced Saudi Arabia to cut more than half of its oil production.
- Born/died this day: | Constantine V |d|775| Jeremiah Dummer |b|1645|Franz Bopp |b|1791| John Gould |b|1804| Ponnambalam Arunachalam |b|1853| Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza |d|1905| Rubby Sherr |b|1913| Paul Poberezny |b|1921| Kate Millett |b|1934| Jacob Gens |d|1943| Eduardo Castro Luque |d|2012| Faith Leech |d|2013
Notes
- Big Stick ideology appears on September 2 and Assassination of William McKinley appears on September 6, so Roosevelt should not appear in the same year.
- Battle of Borodino appears on September 7, so Fire of Moscow should not appear in the same year.
HMAS AE1
- AD 81 – Domitian, the last Flavian emperor of Rome, was confirmed by the Senate to succeed his brother Titus.
- 919 – Viking activity in the British Isles: A coalition of native Irish, led by Niall Glúndub, failed in their attempt to drive the Vikings of the Uí Ímair from Ireland.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Little Rock campaign ended with the Union Army capturing Little Rock, Arkansas.
- 1914 – HMAS AE1 (pictured), the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea; its wreck was not found until 2017.
- 1989 – Typhoon Sarah dissipated after causing extensive damage along an erratic path across the Western Pacific, killing 71 in Taiwan, the Philippines, and the Gotō Islands.
- Drusus Julius Caesar (d. AD 23)
- Luke P. Blackburn (d. 1887)
- Romola Costantino (b. 1930)
- Mamadou N'Diaye (b. 1993)
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