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1 September

  • 1 September, 1985 - A joint U.S. / French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic the British luxury liner that struck an iceberg and sank in 1912 with the loss of 1,513 lives.

3 September

  • 3 September 1783 - Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America.

  • 3 September 1939 - World War II: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada


The first labour day parade

5 September

  • 5 September, 1882 - 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC

6 September

  • 6 September, 1880 - Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, v Australia at The Oval

  • 6 September, 1909 - Word received that American explorer Robert Peary had discovered the North Pole, 5 months earlier

8 September

  • 8 September, 1930 - Richard Drew creates Scotch tape

  • 8 September, 1966 - "Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV

11 September

  • 11 September, 1965 - Beatles release "Yesterday"

  • 11 September, 1956 - IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton

13 September


  • 13 September, 1847 - American-Mexican war: US General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City

  • 13 September, 1993 - Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway

15 September

  • 15 September, 1928 - Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza


Steve Jobs named first interim CEO of apple

16 September

  • 16 September, 1997 - Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs interim CEO


17 September


  • 17 September, 1683 - Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is the first to report the existence of bacteria

  • 17 September, 1956 - Television is first broadcast in Australia.


18 September


  • 18 September, 1812 - Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed

  • 18 September,1931 - To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese


20 September


  • 20 September, 2001 - In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".


21 September

  • 21 September, 1937 - 'The Hobbit' is published by George Allen and Unwin in London


  • 21 September, 1949 - Chinese Communist leaders proclaim People's Republic of China


23 September


  • 23 September, 2002 - The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released

  • 23 September, 2018 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches "Modicare", free heathcare for 500 million, world's biggest healthcare program


26 September


  • 26 September, 1960 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro delivers a 4 hour and 29 minute long speech at the United Nations


27 September


  • 27 September, 1905 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².


27 September, 1908 - Henry Ford's first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan


30 September


  • 30 September, 1930 - Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany



Adib Akhtab

Staff Writer

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