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 At 4:45 a.m. on September 1, 1939, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein open
September 2
1945 Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, in top hat and morning coat, limped across t
September 3
1783 Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay sat across from British diplomat Dav
September 4
1781 Forty-four settlers walked north from the San Gabriel Mission on September 4, 17
September 5
1972 Eight men in tracksuits scaled the fence of the Olympic Village in Munich at 4:3
September 6
1901 Leon Czolgosz waited in the receiving line at the Temple of Music at the Pan-Ame
September 7
1940 Three hundred German bombers, escorted by 600 fighters, appeared over the docks
September 8
1974 President Gerald Ford stood before a small group of reporters and television cam
September 9
1776 The Continental Congress passed a resolution on September 9, 1776, officially re
September 10
1977 Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of the torture and murder of hi
September 11
2001 Nearly three thousand people perished in under two hours on a clear September mo
September 12
1974 The last emperor of a dynasty claiming descent from King Solomon and the Queen o
September 13
1993 Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat reached across decades of bloodshed to shake han
September 14
1901 Theodore Roosevelt was hiking in the Adirondack Mountains when a ranger arrived
September 15
1940 The Luftwaffe threw everything it had at London and southern England on Septembe
September 16
1987 Representatives from forty-six nations signed a treaty on September 16, 1987, th
September 17
1862 More Americans died on September 17, 1862, than on any other single day in the n
September 18
1970 Jimi Hendrix was found unresponsive in a basement flat at the Samarkand Hotel in
September 19
1991 Two German hikers descending from the Fineilspitze peak in the Otztal Alps on Se
September 20
1973 Billie Jean King walked onto the court at the Houston Astrodome on September 20,
September 21
1780 Few names in American history carry the weight of betrayal quite like Benedict A
September 22
1862 Abraham Lincoln had been waiting for a Union victory to play his strongest card.
September 23
1846 Mathematics found a planet before any telescope could see it. On September 23, 1
September 24
1869 Jay Gould and Jim Fisk tried to buy all the gold in America. On September 24, 18
September 25
1789 James Madison had promised, and now he had to deliver. On September 25, 1789, th
September 26
1960 Richard Nixon looked terrible, and seventy million Americans saw it. On Septembe
September 27
1905 A twenty-six-year-old patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland, had already turned phys
September 28
1928 Alexander Fleming returned from a summer holiday to find a mess in his laborator
September 29
1951 For the first time, Americans from coast to coast watched the same sporting even
September 30
1938 Neville Chamberlain stepped off the plane at Heston Aerodrome waving a piece of