Notable Historical Events on September 1st
September 1st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
462 |
Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. |
891 |
Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France |
1067 |
Baldwin VI becomes Count of Flanders |
1181 |
Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III |
1267 |
Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem |
1355 |
Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki. |
1482 |
Tatars plunder Kiev, Ukraine |
1511 |
Council of Pisa opens |
1535 |
French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal) |
1547 |
Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state) |
1598 |
Spanish king Philip II receives sacraments |
1609 |
Pieter Both sworn in as 1st governor general of Dutch East Indies |
1614 |
Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany |
1632 |
Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses |
1638 |
-4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam |
1647 |
French cardinal Mazarin & duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan |
1661 |
1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James |
1689 |
Russia began taxing men's beards |
1695 |
Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names |
1695 |
French garrison of castle Namur surrenders fto the army of the Grand Alliance under the command of King William III of England |
1715 |
King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch. |
1739 |
35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal |
1752 |
Liberty Bell arrives in Phila |
1763 |
Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow |
1772 |
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California |
1785 |
Mozart publishes 6th string quartet opus 10 in Vienna |
1797 |
2nd National Meeting in Hague |
1798 |
Britain signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India |
1799 |
Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan) |
1804 |
Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. |
1807 |
Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire |
1821 |
1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail |
1831 |
Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle |
1836 |
Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem |
1836 |
Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington. |
1849 |
California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey |
1858 |
1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month |
1859 |
1st Pullman sleeping car in service |
1859 |
R C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare |
1859 |
A solar superstorm affects electrical telegraph service. |
1861 |
Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI |
1861 |
Skirmishes at Boone Court House WV & Blue Creek WV |
1862 |
Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties) |
1862 |
Federal tax levied on tobacco |
1863 |
6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia |
1863 |
Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas |
1863 |
Rail & ferry connection between San Francisco & Oakland inaugurated |
1864 |
2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties |
1864 |
Battle of Petersburg VA |
1864 |
Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA |
1866 |
Last Navaho chief Manuelito turns himself in at Fort Wingate |
1867 |
Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School |
1870 |
Napoleon III captured at Sedan |
1873 |
Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande. |
1874 |
28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Conn takes office |
1874 |
Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia |
1875 |
A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband. |
1878 |
1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) |
1886 |
Netherland's New Code of Criminal law enforced |
1887 |
Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established |
1888 |
Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens |
1890 |
1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh |
1893 |
Gladstones' Second Home Rule Bill for Ireland passes in the House of Commons but vetoed by The House of Lords by 419 votes to 41 |
1897 |
The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America. |
1898 |
Dutch soccer team Receiver forms |
1898 |
Lord Kitchener's troops attack Omdurman, Sudan |
1900 |
Cumann na nGaedheal (Irish Council) founded by Arthur Griffith in order to promote a buy Irish campaign |
1901 |
Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange |
1902 |
Tinker, Evers, & Chance appear together for 1st time |
1905 |
Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces |
1905 |
Wilfrid Laurier oversees Alberta and Saskatchewan joining the Confederation of Canada |
1906 |
Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time |
1906 |
British New Guinea placed under Australian administration |
1906 |
Joseph Harris (Boston) & Jack Coombs (A's) pitch complete 24 inn game |
1906 |
NY Highlanders win 6th game in 3 days from Wash (3 straight DHs) |
1906 |
The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established. |
1911 |
M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km |
1913 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Androcles & the Lion" premieres in London |
1913 |
Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution" |
1914 |
34th US Men's Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (6-3 8-6 10-8) |
1914 |
Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris |
1914 |
St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd |
1914 |
Von Gluck's army meets up with British expeditionary army |
1914 |
The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. |
1915 |
The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner \'Arabic\' |
1916 |
Bulgaria declares war on Romania |
1916 |
US Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce) |
1918 |
Baseball season ends due to WW I |
1918 |
Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns |
1918 |
US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920 |
1919 |
Frank Wedekind's "Herakles" premieres in Munich |
1920 |
France creates Greater Lebanon |
1920 |
New town hall of Rotterdam opens |
1921 |
Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St NYC (Billy Rose, Trafalgar) |
1922 |
NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards" |
1923 |
18th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1), for their 4th straight Davis Cup |
1923 |
7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 142,000 |
1924 |
Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake |
1925 |
Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of Intl Olympic Committee |
1926 |
British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms |
1926 |
Turkey allows civil marriage |
1928 |
Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king |
1930 |
NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater |
1931 |
Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days & his 6th HR in consec games |
1932 |
NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges) |
1933 |
Soccer team DVS '33 forms |
1934 |
Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced |
1934 |
SMJK Sam Tet was founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. |
1936 |
Middleweight Staff Roth KOs Heinz Lazek |
1937 |
4th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 6, Green Bay 0 (84,560) |
1937 |
Battle of Gijon in Spain begins |
1938 |
Benito Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews |
1939 |
Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill |
1939 |
Last day of 1st-class cricket in England for 6 years |
1939 |
Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes" |
1939 |
Switzerland proclaims neutrality |
1939 |
WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig |
1939 |
Gen George Marshall sworn in as the United States Army Chief of Staff |
1939 |
The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date. |
1939 |
Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization). |
1941 |
Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David |
1942 |
US Federal judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans |
1942 |
German troops land on Taman peninsula |
1944 |
Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns |
1944 |
King George VI promotes Montgomery to field marshal |
1945 |
Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan) |
1945 |
Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season |
1946 |
1st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Berg |
1946 |
Greece votes for monarchy |
1947 |
NY Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936 |
1948 |
Bradman scores 143 Aust v South of England, 17 fours 1 six |
1948 |
Communist form North China People's Republic |
1948 |
UN's World Health Organization forms |
1949 |
1st network detective series-Private Eyes-premieres |
1949 |
KMTV TV channel 3 in Omaha, NB (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
Viljo Heino runs world record 10k (29:27.2) |
1950 |
13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines |
1950 |
West Berlin granted a constitution |
1951 |
PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad |
1951 |
US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty |
1952 |
Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney |
1952 |
Willem Drees forms new Dutch government |
1953 |
101°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Sept |
1953 |
Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship |
1953 |
WNOK (now WLTX) TV channel 19 in Columbia, SC (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1953 |
WTCN (now KARE) TV channel 11 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (MET) begins |
1954 |
Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island and New England, kills 68 |
1954 |
Ted Kluszewski is 1st Cin Red to hit 40 HRs en route to 49 |
1955 |
2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel |
1955 |
KARD (now KSNW) TV channel 3 in Wichita, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory |
1956 |
KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400 |
1957 |
WAVY TV channel 10 in Portsmouth-Norfolk, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
WHC (now WPXI) TV channel 11 in Pittsburgh, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1957 |
WTLV TV channel 12 in Jacksonville, FL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open |
1958 |
St Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout |
1960 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
1961 |
1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1961 |
The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate |
1962 |
12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran |
1962 |
KATC TV channel 3 in Lafayette, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
UN announces Earth's population has hit 3 billion |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962 |
Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands. |
1963 |
Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot |
1963 |
St Louis Cards pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate |
1964 |
Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (NY Mets) |
1965 |
India & Pakistan border fights |
1966 |
KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
SF Giants beat Cincinnati Reds, 1-0, in 21 innings |
1967 |
WIRT TV channel 13 in Hibbing, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
WJRJ (WTCG, WTBS) TV channel 17 in Atlanta, GA (IND) begins |
1968 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Willow Park Ladies Golf Invitational |
1968 |
Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed |
1968 |
Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting |
1969 |
Jerry Lewis' 4th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
1969 |
Libyan revolution, Colonel Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris |
1970 |
Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian king Hussain |
1970 |
Jose Velasco Ibarra re-elected president of Ecuador |
1971 |
John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of US Open |
1971 |
Qatar declares independence from Britain |
1971 |
Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein |
1971 |
The Irish Republican Army set off a series of bombs across Northern Ireland injuring a number of people |
1972 |
Bobby Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title |
1972 |
Egypt & Libya form federation |
1973 |
74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
1973 |
George Foreman KOs Jose "King" Roman in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
1973 |
Libya nationalizes 51 percent of nine other oil companies' concessions |
1974 |
Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect |
1974 |
Jane Blalock/Sue Roberts wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
1974 |
Train accident at Zagreb Yugoslavia, 121 killed |
1974 |
The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds. |
1975 |
All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh |
1975 |
Gunsmoke goes off the the air |
1975 |
Jerry Lewis' 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
1975 |
KOL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KMPS |
1975 |
NY Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons |
1975 |
NYC transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents |
1975 |
5 Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh |
1975 |
US stripper well oil prices decontrolled |
1976 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-197 |
1976 |
New Jersey's Meadowlands racetrack opens |
1976 |
Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray) |
1977 |
1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold |
1977 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1978 |
Indians' Sammy Stewart tosses 7 consecutive strikeouts (vs Balt) |
1978 |
Last broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC TV |
1978 |
Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia |
1978 |
#4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid & #8064 |
1979 |
Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA |
1979 |
LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask |
1979 |
Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings |
1980 |
Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv |
1980 |
Jerry Lewis' 15th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,103,787 |
1980 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
1980 |
Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario. |
1981 |
Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH) |
1981 |
Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees |
1981 |
RKO radio network premieres America Overnight talk show |
1981 |
Northern Ireland's first religiously integrated secondary school opens |
1982 |
Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls" premieres in London |
1982 |
Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH |
1982 |
Mexico President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks |
1982 |
Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon |
1982 |
The United States Air Force Space Command is founded. |
1983 |
Korean Boeing 747, flight 007, strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet |
1983 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1983 |
WGH-AM in Newport News VA changes call letters to WNSY |
1985 |
Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion |
1985 |
US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland |
1986 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
1986 |
Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733 |
1986 |
Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album |
1986 |
Texas Rangers O McDowell & Porter are 7th to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
1987 |
15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match |
1987 |
Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium |
1988 |
Timberlake Westenbaker's "Our Country's Good" premieres in London |
1989 |
"Anything Goes" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 804 performances |
1989 |
Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation |
1990 |
"Heidi Chronicles" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 621 perfs |
1990 |
"Jerome Robbins' Broadway" closes at Imperial NYC after 634 perfs |
1990 |
Gelindo Bordin sets European marathon record (2:14:02) |
1990 |
Highest combined CFL score (111), Toronto Argonauts beat BC 68-43 |
1991 |
Hiromi Taniguchi wins 3rd world championship marathon (2:14:57) |
1991 |
Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA |
1992 |
NYC police commisioner Brown resigns |
1992 |
Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery |
1993 |
"White Liars/Black Comedy" opens at Criterion NYC for 38 perfs |
1993 |
Goran Ivanisevic & Daniel Nestor play longest tie-break in US Tennis |
1995 |
Infinity Radio agrees to voluntarily pay $1.7 million to US Treasury |
1995 |
NYC reinstates the death penalty |
1995 |
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland Ohio |
1996 |
Balt Ravens (Cleveland Browns) 1st NFL game, beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14 |
1997 |
"Doll's House" closes at Belasco Theater |
1997 |
Cartoon Channel premieres in Japan |
1997 |
Cindy Figg-Currier wins LPGA State Farm Rail Classic |
1997 |
Jerry Lewis' 32nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $50,500,000 |
2004 |
The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia. |
2005 |
Seven members and former members of the AFL-CIO form a new trade union organization, the Change to Win Federation. |
2005 |
22nd MTV Awards: Green Day, Kelly Clarkson & Kanye West wins |
2006 |
Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting. |
2006 |
Roger Goodell begins his tenure as NFL Commissioner |
2012 |
Islamist rebels seize Douentza, Mali |
2012 |
Grenade injures 41 festival celebrants in Paquibato, Philippines |
2012 |
Two suicide bombings kill 12 people and wound 50 in a NATO base in Afghanistan's Sayed Abad district |
2012 |
US drone strike kills 5 people in North Waristan, Pakistan |
2016 |
Mexico president says Trump policies pose threats to Mexico |
2016 |
US, Russia fight over who killed ISIL leader |
2016 |
Apple chief Tim Cook says tax ruling 'maddening' |
2017 |
White House says Trump will donate $1 million to hurricane aid |
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