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
1945 Admiral Halsey received knighthood aboard the USS Missouri just days before Japa
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
1974 Gerald Ford grants a full pardon to Richard Nixon, ending the legal pursuit of t
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
1901 An assassin's bullet ends William McKinley's presidency just six days after the
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
1862 Union forces under George B. McClellan halt Robert E. Lee's northward drive at t
September 18
1970 Jimi Hendrix died in London on September 18, 1970, 27 years old, from asphyxiati
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
1780 Benedict Arnold seized command of West Point only to sell its defenses to the Br
September 22
1862 Lincoln had been trying to time this for months. He told his cabinet about the p
September 23
1846 French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier and British mathematician John Couch Adam
September 24
1869 James Fisk and Jay Gould cornered the gold market by manipulating President Gran
September 25
1789 James Madison introduced thirty-nine proposed amendments to assuage Anti-Federal
September 26
1960 Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy stepped onto a Chicago studio set for the firs
September 27
1905 Einstein published his general theory of relativity in 1916, overturning Newtoni
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,