September 1

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September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). There are 121 days remaining.

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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays
5 Fiction
6 External links

Events

5509 BC - The world was created, according to the Byzantine Empire.
462 - possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle
1532 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancée, King Henry VIII of England
1644 - Battle of Tippermuir, Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving Royalist cause
1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years — the longest of any major European monarch.
1752 - The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1807 - Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason.
1836 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly - Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
1864 - American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
1873 - Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
1894 - Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 400 people.
1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.
1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
1906 - the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
1914 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
1914 - The last Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1923 - The Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 100,000 people.
1928 - Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the war. (See Polish September Campaign.)
1939 - George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1939 - The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht and SS soldiers is instituted.
1951 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
1954 - Paul "Bear" Bryant opens his infamous 10-day football mini-camp in Junction, Texas: The Junction Boys.
1960 - Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the history of the company.
1962 - Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
1969 - A coup in Libya brings Col. Moammar Qaddafi to power, ousting King Idris I.
1970 - The last episode of the television sitcom I Dream of Jeannie airs on NBC. The show premiered on September 18, 1965.
1972 - In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.
1975 - The last original episode of the American television series Gunsmoke airs on CBS after a record 20-year run.
1976 - The Meadowlands racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey opens.
1979 - The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
1980 - Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea after the resignation of Choi Kyu-ha.
1983 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight KAL-007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed.
1990 - The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey.
1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
1991 - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is released in North America.
1991 - Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
1999 - A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 74, including 10 on the ground.
2001 - Almost every single commercial television station in Vancouver, British Columbia switches network affiliations after a round of ownership changes in 2000 - the largest change in North America.
2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of schoolchildren and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.

Births

1453 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (d. 1515)
1566 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
1653 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)
1711 - William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
1734 - Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter (d. 1797)
1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
1855 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)
1877 - Francis William Aston, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
1887 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
1888 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and World Health Organization diplomat (d. 1958)
1889 - Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
1899 - Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (d. 1951)
1905 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
1906 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
1907 - Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)
1913 - Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
1920 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
1921 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d. 1995)
1922 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian actress
1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
1923 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
1925 - Art Pepper, musician (d. 1982)
1929 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1933 - Ann W. Richards, American politician
1933 - Conway Twitty, American country music singer (d. 1993)
1935 - Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
1939 - Lily Tomlin, American actress, comedienne
1944 - Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
1946 - Barry Gibb, Manx-Australian singer
1947 - Al Green, American politician
1949 - P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
1950 - Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
1951 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician
1952 - Phil Hendrie, American radio personality
1955 - Billy Blanks, American martial artist
1955 - Bruce Foxton, English bassist (The Jam)
1957 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban singer
1962 - Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
1966 - Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
1970 - Vanna, Croatian singer
1977 - Aaron Schobel, American football player
1981 - Clinton Portis, American football player
1985 - Ciara-Camile Roque Velasco, American singer

Deaths

921 - Richard, Duke of Burgundy
1067 - Baldwin V of Flanders
1159 - Pope Adrian IV
1256 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
1414 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
1581 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
1600 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (b. 1525)
1615 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (b. 1529)
1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer and diplomat (b. 1625)
1687 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
1715 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
1715 - King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1943 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief
1957 - Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b. 1921)
1967 - Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and author (b. 1886)
1969 - Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
1970 - Francois Mauriac, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
1977 - Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896)
1981 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)
1983 - Henry M. Jackson, U.S. Senator from Washington (b. 1912)
1988 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
2003 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
2005 - R.L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)

Holidays

Teacher's Day in Singapore
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the new liturgical year begins on September 1. Also see September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Church of England - Saint Giles
Cameroon - Jour d'Union Nationale Camerounaise
Libya - Revolution Day (1969)
Slovakia - Constitution Day
Uzbekistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
Start of the season when oysters are fit to eat (when month names contain an "R"). Which is also the season to have a common cold.
Start of the partridge-shooting season ("St.Partridge").
Start of new school year in many countries.
Knowledge Day in Russia

Fiction

In the Harry Potter books September 1, the day on which the Hogwarts Express departs from Platform 9¾, always falls on a Sunday; this means that the first day of lessons is always a Monday.