History by month
September
30 days of history. Every date is an entry point to the events, births, and moments that shaped our world.
September 1
1939 Germany and the Soviet Union carved up Poland by October 1939, shattering the Se
September 2
September 3
1783 Adams, Franklin, Jay, and Hartley signed the Treaty of Paris at the Hotel d'York
September 4
1781 Forty-four Spanish settlers established El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de
September 5
1972 Black September terrorists seized eleven Israeli athletes and a German police of
September 6
1901 Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, fires two shots into President William M
September 7
1940 Luftwaffe bombers unleashed over 100 tons of explosives on sixteen British citie
September 8
1504 Michelangelo seized a neglected marble block known as "The Giant" and carved it
September 9
1776 Delegates from twelve colonies united in Philadelphia to organize an economic bo
September 10
1977 Hamida Djandoubi's execution by guillotine on September 10, 1977, ended a thousa
September 11
2001 Five hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower at 8:46
September 12
1974 A military coup by the Derg topples Emperor Haile Selassie after his 58-year rei
September 13
1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat sealed a his
September 14
1959 Soviet engineers smashed Luna 2 into the lunar surface east of Mare Imbrium, bec
September 15
1940 The Royal Air Force shoots down massive numbers of Luftwaffe aircraft during the
September 16
1987 World leaders signed the Montreal Protocol to phase out ozone-depleting substanc
September 17
1787 Delegates in Philadelphia ink their names to a document that replaced a failing
September 18
1975 FBI agents captured Patty Hearst in a San Francisco apartment after nineteen mon
September 19
1991 German hikers stumble upon a perfectly preserved 5,300-year-old body in the Ötzt
September 20
1973 Billie Jean King dismantles Bobby Riggs's claim that women are inferior athletes
September 21
1972 Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law across the Philippines, instantly suspendi
September 22
904 Zhu Quanzhong murders Emperor Zhaozong to eliminate the last obstacle to his rul
September 23
1846 French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier and British mathematician John Couch Adam
September 24
1789 The United States Congress passed the Judiciary Act to establish the federal jud
September 25
1957 United States Army troops escorted nine Black students into Central High School
September 26
1960 Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy stepped onto a Chicago studio set for the firs
September 27
1066 William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme to
September 28
1928 Alexander Fleming returned to his messy London lab to find a staphylococci cultu
September 29
1951 NBC beams the first coast-to-coast college football game between Duke and Pittsb
September 30
1938 France and Britain signed away Czechoslovakia's border defenses to Nazi Germany,