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September

30 days of history. Every date is an entry point to the events, births, and moments that shaped our world.

September 1

September 1

1939 Germany invaded Poland at 4:45 a.m. on September 1, 1939, with 1.5 million troop

September 2

September 2

1945 General Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan's formal surrender aboard the battleshi

September 3

September 3

1783 John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay signed the Treaty of Paris at the Ho

September 4

September 4

1781 Forty-four settlers, recruited from the Mexican provinces of Sonora and Sinaloa,

September 5

September 5

1972 Black September terrorists seized eleven Israeli athletes and a German police of

September 6

September 6

1901 Leon Czolgosz, a 28-year-old unemployed mill worker and self-proclaimed anarchis

September 7

September 7

1940 The Luftwaffe launched its first massive daylight bombing raid on London on Sept

September 8

September 8

1974 Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon on September 8, 1974, granting "a full, free,

September 9

September 9

1776 The Continental Congress formally adopted the name "United States of America" on

September 10

September 10

1977 Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of the torture and murder of hi

September 11

September 11

2001 Nineteen hijackers from al-Qaeda seized four commercial aircraft on the morning

September 12

September 12

1974 A committee of junior military officers called the Derg (Amharic for "committee"

September 13

September 13

1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands

September 14

September 14

1901 William McKinley died at 2:15 a.m. on September 14, 1901, eight days after being

September 15

September 15

1940 September 15, 1940, was the climactic day of the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaff

September 16

September 16

1987 The Montreal Protocol, signed on September 16, 1987, committed nations to phasin

September 17

September 17

1862 The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, produced 22,717 casualties in a si

September 18

September 18

1970 Jimi Hendrix died in London on September 18, 1970, 27 years old, from asphyxiati

September 19

September 19

1991 German hikers Helmut and Erika Simon spotted a human body emerging from glacial

September 20

September 20

1973 Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in the "Battle of the Sexes"

September 21

September 21

1780 Benedict Arnold, once one of George Washington's most trusted generals, negotiat

September 22

September 22

1862 Lincoln had been trying to time this for months. He told his cabinet about the p

September 23

September 23

1846 French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier and British mathematician John Couch Adam

September 24

September 24

1869 James Fisk and Jay Gould cornered the gold market by manipulating President Gran

September 25

September 25

1789 James Madison introduced thirty-nine proposed amendments to assuage Anti-Federal

September 26

September 26

1960 Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy stepped onto a Chicago studio set for the firs

September 27

September 27

1905 Einstein published his general theory of relativity in 1916, overturning Newtoni

September 28

September 28

1928 Alexander Fleming returned to his messy London lab to find a staphylococci cultu

September 29

September 29

1951 NBC beams the first coast-to-coast college football game between Duke and Pittsb

September 30

September 30

1938 France and Britain signed away Czechoslovakia's border defenses to Nazi Germany,