Beslan School hostage crisis ends in the deaths of 344 people mostly teachers and students (2004) - Sep. 3
Princess Alice (Thames pleasure paddle steamer) and the Bywell Castle (a collier) collided with a loss of 640 lives (1878) - Sep. 3
Marie Louise, princesse de Lamballe (close friend and confidente to Marie Antoinette) is murdered by the French Mob (1792) - Sep. 3
Qatar declares its independence from the UK (1971) - Sep. 3
Richard I of England is crowned King at Westminster Abbey (1189) - Sep. 3
Saint Marinus founds San Marino, the world's oldest surviving republic, in (301 AD) - Sep. 3
Viking 2 (NASA space orbiter) lands on Mars (1975) - Sep. 3
Football Day - Sep. 3
Vince Lombardi (American NFL coach for whom the NFL's trophy is named) died from intestinal cancer only 10 weeks after it was diagnosed (1970) - Sep. 3
September 4, 2017
Alaskan Airlines flight 1866 crashes into a mountain near Juneau, Alaska on approach for landing killing all 111 on board (1971) - Sep. 4
Edvard Grieg (Norwegian composer and pianist) dies at age 64 after a long period of illness (1907) - Sep. 4
Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed after being captured at the Battle of Sedan by Bismarck (1870) - 9/4
Herve Villechaize (French actor best known for playing Tattoo in the US TV series Fantasy Island) dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound (1993) - Sep. 4
Sir John Fielding (Brother of Henry Fielding novelist and co-founder of the Bow Street Runners, 1st professional police force) dies at age 59 (1780) - Sep. 4
George Eastman registers the trademark "Kodak" and receives a patent for his roll film camera (1888) - Sep. 4
Newspaper Carrier Day - 9/4
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates in favor of her daughter Juliana for health reasons (1948) - Sep. 4
Robert Dudley (1st Earl of Leicster and long-standing favorite of Queen Elizabeth I) dies most likely from stomach cancer (1588) - Sep. 4
Sarah Childress Polk (wife and 1st lady of US President James Polk) is born (1803) - Sep. 4
Steve Irwin (Australian TV Personality nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter") dies after being fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray spine (2006) - Sep. 4
Swissair Flight SR306 (Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III) crashed shortly after take-off killing all 80 people aboard (1963) - Sep. 4
Google (Internet Browser) is founded in Menlo Park, CA (1998) - Sep. 4
Labor Day - US National Holiday held first Monday in September (2017) - Sep. 4
Labour Day in Canada (2017) - Sep. 4
September 5, 2017
Benelux (an economic union between the three monarchies of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) is founded (1944) - Sep. 5
Catherine Parr (sixth and final wife of Henry VIII of England) dies five days after giving birth to her only child (1548) - Sep. 5
Crazy Horse (Ocala Indian Chief) was stabbed while attempting to escape capture and died shortly thereafter from his wounds (1877) - Sep. 5
Theatre Royal in Exeter England had a fire break out backstage when gas lighting ignighted some gauze resulting in 186 deaths (1886) - Sep. 5
Hurricane Felix strikes Central America as a category 5 resulting in over 130 deaths and 160,000 people affected (2007) - Sep. 5
Jesse James (American outlaw in Missouri) is born (1847) - Sep. 5
Johann Christian Bach (youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach) is born (1735) - Sep. 5
London Hilton becomes an IRA bomb target in an explosion that kills two and injures 63 (1975) - Sep. 5
Louis VIII of France is born (1187) - Sep. 5
Louis XIV of France is born at the chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1638) - Sep. 5
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, CA (1975) - Sep. 5
My Lai Massacre - Lt. William Calley is charged with 6 counts of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians (1969) - Sep. 5
Mandala Airlines FL 091 crashes after taking off from Polonia Int'l Airport in Indonesia 148 fatalaties (2005) - Sep. 5
Maria Leszczynska (Queen consort to Louis XV of France) married the King of France at Versailles - 1725) - 9/5
Mother Theresa (an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionairies of Charity in Calcutta India) dies (1997) - Sep. 5
PanAm Flight 73 is hijacked while preparing to depart from karachi International Airport in Pakistan (1986) - Sep. 5
Teacher's Day (India) celebrates the birthday of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan the 2nd President of India - 9/5
STS-41-D Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden mission (1984) - 9/5
September 6, 2017
Diana, Princess of Wales (killed in a car crash on 08-31) is laid to rest with a state funeral watched by millions (1997) - Sep. 6
Farnborough Air Show Disaster occurs in Hampshire, England when a DeHavilland 110 fighter breaks the sound barrier then breaks up in the air killing 31 people (1952) - Sep. 6
Princess Juliana is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands at Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam (1948) - Sep. 6
King Carol II of Romania abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son Ferdinand I (1940) - Sep. 6
Korean Air Flight KAL-007 was a civilian airliner shot down on Sept. 1, 1983, which the Soviet Union does not admit to until 5 days later (1983) - Sep. 6
Luciano Pavarotti (Italian tenor who became one of the world's most famous vocal performers) dies from pancreatic cancer (2007) - Sep. 6
President McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz in the "Temple of Music" while attending the Pan American Expo in Buffalo, NY (1901) - 9/6
Midwest Express Flight 105 crashes shortly after takeoff all 31 aboard perished (1985) - Sep. 6
Read A Book Day - Sep. 6
Rent-A-Movie Day - 9/6
Swaziland declares its independence from the UK (1968) - Sep. 6
Dawson's Field hijackings (4 jet aircraft bound for NYC were hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - 1970) - Sep. 6
Full Moon - Corn Moon
September 7, 2017
The first Miss America Pagent (though still called Atlantic City Pagent) is held in Atlantic City, NJ. Margaret Gorman won the crown (1921) - 9/7
Athens 5.9 earthquake ruptures a previously unknown fault killing 143, injuring more than 500 and leaving 50,000 homeless (1999) - Sep. 7
Brazil declares its independence from Portugal (1822) - Sep. 7
ESPN (Entertainment Sports Programming Network) is first launched (1979) - 9/7
Google, Inc. is formally incorporated by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, CA (1998) - Sep. 7
Hurricane Ivan (category 5) passed directly over Grenada killing 39 people and damaging 90% of the buildings (2004) - 9/7
Lady Elgin (steamship) wrecks in Lake Michigan off Chicago, IL with a loss of 400 lives (1860) - 9/7
Nazi Germany blitzes London for 57 continuous nights, killing over 43,000 civilians, destroying countless buildings, yet St. Paul's remained (1940) - 9/7
Elizabeth I (last monarch of the Tudor dynasty) is born to Anne Boleyn, Queen consort to Henry VIII of England, (1533) - 9/7
Grandma Moses (renowned American fold artist) is born in Greenwich, CT (1860) - Sep. 7
Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen author of "Out of Africa" dies in Denmark of malnutrition due to undiagnosed abdominal ailment (1962) - Sep. 7
A private Mass is held for Rudolph Valentino at the Good Shepherd Catholic Church in CA before he was carried into the Cathedral Mausoleum (1926) - Sep. 7
September 8, 2017
Annie Chapman (Jack the Ripper's 2nd Murder Victim) is discovered on the ground in Hanbury Street, Spitalfields London (1888) - Sep. 8
Dorothy Dandridge (American actress and popular singer) died from an accidental overdose of an antidepressant (1965) - Sep. 8
Galveston, TX hurricane (Category 4) has an estimated death toll between 6 and 12 thousand individuals (1900) - Sep. 8
Honda Point Disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy Ships when 7 destroyers ran aground just off the CA coast (1923) - 9/8
International Angel Day - Sep. 8
International Literacy Day - Sep. 8
International Physical Therapy Day - Sep. 8
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is officially opened with a formal gala and permiere performance of Bernstein's "Mass" (1971) - 9/8
Michelangelo's sculpture "David" is unveiled outside the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence (1504) - Sep. 8
Marie Louise, princesse de Lamballe (close friend and confidente to Marie Antoinette) is born (1749) - Sep. 8
George III of England marries Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the St. James Palace Chapel Royal (1761) - Sep. 8
Severn Bridge (a suspension bridge crossing the River Severn that connects England and Wales) is opened by Queen Elizabeth II (1966) - Sep. 8
Siege of Jerusalem occurred when the Roman army, led by the future Emperor Titus, besieged and conquered the city of Jerusalem (70AD) - Sep. 8
USAir Flight 427 crashed on its approach to the Pittsburgh International Airport killing all 132 individuals aboard (1994) - Sep. 8
William IV of England is crowned King at Westminster Abbey (1831) - Sep. 8
Pardon Me Day - Sep. 8
Zero Mostel (Tony and Obie award winning American actor of stage and screen) died from a suspected aortic aneuryism (1977) - Sep. 8
September 9, 2017
First documented "computer bug" case occurs involving a moth getting trapped between relays in the Harvard University Mark II Computer (1947) - Sep. 9
Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collided in mid-air with a student piloted Piper PA-28 near Fairland, IN with no survivors (1969) - Sep. 9
The Australian Embassy in Jakarta Indonesia is bombed killing 9 and wounding over 150 others (2004) - Sep. 9
California is admitted to the Union as the 31st state (1850) - Sep. 9
Cardinal Richelieu (Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, a French clergyman, noble and statesman) is born (1585) - Sep.9
Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan show for the first time (1956) - Sep. 9
Hot Dog Day - Sep. 9
Hurricane Betsy (one of the most intense, deadly and costly storms to make landfall in the US) slams into New Orleans (1965) - Sep. 9
James Hilton (Oscar-winning English novelist best known for his novels Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr. Chips) is born (1900) - Sep. 9
Leo Tolstoy (Russian novelist best know for War and Peace and Anna Karenina) is born (1828) - Sep. 9
NBC (National Broadcasting Company) is formed (1926) - 9/9
North Korea Republic Day (Date of formal declaration of Independence from Japan-1948) - Sep. 9
Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union (1991) - Sep. 9
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French painter, printmaker, draftsman and illustratior) dies (1901) - Sep. 9
William Bligh (officer of the British Royal Navy and best known as "Captain Bligh" for Mutiny on the Bounty) is born (1754) - Sep. 9
September 10, 2017
Anna Lindh (Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs) is knifed by Mijailo Mijailovic while she was shopping in Stockholm (2003) - 9/10
Cats (award-winning musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber) closes on Broadway (2000) - Sep. 10
Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria was stabbed in the heart with a sharpened file by Luigi Lucheni (1898) - 9/10
Hamida Djandoubi was the last person executed by guillotine in France (1977) - Sep. 10
Jane Wyman (Oscar-winning American Actress and Ronald Regan's 1st wife) died (2007) - Sep. 10
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind, is powered up in Geneva (2008) - Sep. 10
Maria Theresa (daughter of Philip IV of Spain and consort to Louise XIV of France) is born (1638) - Sep. 10
Mary Wollstonecraft (18th Century British writer, philosopher and feminist and mother of Mary Shelley) dies during the birth of her second daughter (1797) - Sep. 10
Sewing Machine Day - 9/10
World Suicide Prevention Day - 9/10
Sobriety Day - Sep. 10
Zagreb collision between British Airways Flight 476 and Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550 - no survivors (1976) - Sep. 10
Grandparents Day is observed on the 2nd Sunday in September (2016) - Sep 11
Pet Memorial Day is observed on the 2nd Sunday in September (2016) - 9/11
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