1901 – U.S. President William McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, at age 42, succeeded him.
1607 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland
1682 – Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, founded
1752 – Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar (no Sept 3 – Sept 13)
1807 – Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was acquitted of a misdemeanor charge. Two weeks earlier Burr had been found innocent of treason.
1812 – Moscow was set on fire by Russians after Napoleon Bonaparte’s troops invaded.
1814 – Francis Scott Key wrote the “Star-Spangled Banner,” a poem originally known as “Defense of Fort McHenry,” after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry, MD, during the War of 1812. The song became the official U.S. national anthem on March 3, 1931.
1848 – Alexander Stewart opens the 1st US department store, “The Marble Palace” in downtown New York City
1867 – Karl Marx publishes “Das Kapital” Volume 1, his theory of the Capitalist system and how it is doomed to destroy itself
1872 – Britain pays US$15½m for damages during Civil War
1900 – There are now 62,000 foreign troops in Peking and nearby cities, still defeating Boxer Rebels.
1901 – U.S. President William McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, at age 42, succeeded him.
1911 – Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin is assassinated in Kiev; his regime had been characterized by harsh measures to control dissidents
1936 – 1st prefrontal lobotomy in America performed by Walter Freeman and James W. Watts at George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C.
1938 – The VS-300 made its first flight. The craft was based on the helicopter technology patented by Igor Sikorsky.
1940 – The Selective Service Act was passed by the U.S. Congress providing the first peacetime draft in the United States.
1948 – In New York, a groundbreaking ceremony took place at the site of the United Nations’ world headquarters.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, succeeding Malenkov
1956 – IBM 305 RAMAC is Released, The 350 RAMAC was the first computer with a disk drive and was primarily targeted towards business that did real-time transactions. RAMAC stood for Random Access Method of Accounting and Control. The RAMAC 350, which was one of the last vacuum tube computers manufactured by IBM, was replaced by the IBM 1401 in the early 1960s.
1960 – The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded. The core members were Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
1972 – 2 people are killed and 1 mortally wounded in a Ulster Volunteer Force bomb attack on the Imperial Hotel, Belfast
1974 – Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
1975 – Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.
1979 – The Afghan President is assassinated, Nur Muhammad Taraki had taken office less than a year ago when he was killed by gunfire at the behest of Hafizullah Amin. Amin took the seat of the president after the assassination and ruled for only 3 months before he was killed by the Soviets during Operation Storm-333.
1982 – Bomb at Lebanese Phalange party HQ kills President-elect Bachir Gemayel and 26 others
1983 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted 416-0 in a resolution condemning the Soviet Union for the shooting down of a Korean jet on September 1.
1986 – Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed
1989 – Joseph T. Wesbecker shot and killed eight people and wounded twelve others at a printing plant in Louisville, KY. Wesbecker, 47 years old, was on disability for mental illness. He took his own life after the incident.
1994 – It was announced that the season was over for the National Baseball League on the 34th day of the players strike. The final days of the regular season were canceled.
1998 – Israel announced that they had successfully tested its Arrow-2 missile defense system. The system successfully destroyed a simulated target.
2001 – The FBI released the names of the 19 suspected hijackers that had taken part in the September 11 terror attacks on the U.S
2007 – Restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass are officially removed in the Roman Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum takes effect.
2015 – 14 yr old Texan Ahmed Mohamed arrested at school when home-made clock assumed to be a bomb – Mark Zuckerberg and US President Barack Obama send supportive tweets
2017 – Two Islamic State terrorist attacks in Dhiqar province, Southern Iraq, kill at least 60
2018 – Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort pleads guilty to conspiracy charges and agrees to co-operative with Government investigations
2019 – Drone attack on Abqaiq oil plant in Saudi Arabia takes out half of country’s oil production and 5% of the world’s. Yemen Houthi rebels claim responsibility.
2021 – US records lowest level of people living in poverty since records began in 1967 (9.1% vs 11.8% in 2019), due to increase in government aid
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
