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 invaded Poland at 4:45 a.m. on September 1, 1939, with 1.5 million troop
September 2
1945 General Douglas MacArthur accepted Japan's formal surrender aboard the battleshi
September 3
1783 John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay signed the Treaty of Paris at the Ho
September 4
1781 Forty-four settlers, recruited from the Mexican provinces of Sonora and Sinaloa,
September 5
1972 Black September terrorists seized eleven Israeli athletes and a German police of
September 6
1901 Leon Czolgosz, a 28-year-old unemployed mill worker and self-proclaimed anarchis
September 7
1940 The Luftwaffe launched its first massive daylight bombing raid on London on Sept
September 8
1974 Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon on September 8, 1974, granting "a full, free,
September 9
1776 The Continental Congress formally adopted the name "United States of America" on
September 10
1977 Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of the torture and murder of hi
September 11
2001 Nineteen hijackers from al-Qaeda seized four commercial aircraft on the morning
September 12
1974 A committee of junior military officers called the Derg (Amharic for "committee"
September 13
1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands
September 14
1901 William McKinley died at 2:15 a.m. on September 14, 1901, eight days after being
September 15
1940 September 15, 1940, was the climactic day of the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaff
September 16
1987 The Montreal Protocol, signed on September 16, 1987, committed nations to phasin
September 17
1862 The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, produced 22,717 casualties in a si
September 18
1970 Jimi Hendrix died in London on September 18, 1970, 27 years old, from asphyxiati
September 19
1991 German hikers Helmut and Erika Simon spotted a human body emerging from glacial
September 20
1973 Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in the "Battle of the Sexes"
September 21
1780 Benedict Arnold, once one of George Washington's most trusted generals, negotiat
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,