1862 – During the American Civil War General Lee’s Order No. 191 was found by federal soldiers in Maryland.
509 BC – The temple of Jupiter on Rome’s Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September
0122 – Building begins on Hadrian’s Wall, Northern England
0335 – Church of Holy Sepulchre consecrated in Jerusalem
1224 – Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata after a vision praying on Mount Ver
1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David, a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture
1504 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
1625 – 16 Rabbis (including Isiah Horowitz) are imprisoned in Jerusalem
1631 – Admiral Tholen conquers 30+ Spanish frigates
1759 – The French were defeated by the British on the Plains of Abraham in the final French and Indian War.
1788 – The Constitutional Convention decided that the first federal election was to be held on Wednesday the following February. On that day George Washington was elected as the first president of the United States. In addition, New York City was named the temporary national capital.
1789 – The United States Government took out its first loan.
1845 – English chemist Michael Faraday discovers the ‘Faraday effect’, the influence of a magnetic field on polarized light
1847 – American-Mexican war: US General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City
1862 – During the American Civil War General Lee’s Order No. 191 was found by federal soldiers in Maryland. https://www.nps.gov/mono/learn/historyculture/an-invitation-to-battle.htm
1867 – General Edward Canby orders South Carolina courts to impanel blacks jurors
1890 – Cecil Rhodes’ colonists hoist the Union Jack in Mashonaland & Salisbury (modern Zimbabwe)
1900 – Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War
1922 – The Straw Hat Riot begins in New York City as people protest the right to wear straw hats beyond the accepted end date of September 15
1922 – In El Azizia, Libya, the highest shade temperature was recorded at 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
1936 – Acting on the orders of Louis Buchalter, Murder Inc. killers gun down Joseph Rosen, a Brooklyn candy store owner
1944 – Amon Göth removed as head of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp by the SS for stealing state property
1948 – The School of Performing Arts opened in New York City. It was the first public school to specialize in performing arts.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith was elected to the U.S. Senate and became the first woman to serve in both houses of the U.S. Congress.
1949 – The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America was formed.
1955 – Swiss inventor George de Mestral is granted a patent for what would become known as Velcro
1960 – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission banned payola.
1969 – “Scooby-Doo Where are You” by Hanna-Barbera debuts on CBS in the US
1971 – In New York, National Guardsmen stormed the Attica Correctional Facility and put an end to the four-day revolt. A total of 43 people were killed in the final assault. A committee was organized to investigate the riot on September 30, 1971.
1971 – The World Hockey Association was formed.
1973 – US Congress passes & sends a bill to President Nixon to lift NFL football’s television blackout of sold out games
1974 – French Ambassador is Kidnapped in the Hague, 3 members of the Japanese Red Army (JRA), a communist militant group that was formed in Lebanon, stormed the French Embassy in the Hague and took 10 hostages, including the French Ambassador. The siege ended after the militants’ demands for a release of another JRA member, cash, and a plane was met.
1974 – OPEC instructs its Secretary General to “carry out a study of supply and demand in relation to possible production controls”
1981 – U.S. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig said the U.S. had physical evidence that Russia and its allies used poisonous biological weapons in Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan.
1985 – Super Mario Bros game first appears, created by Shigeru Miyamoto at Nintendo
1988 – Forecasters reported that Hurricane Gilbert’s barometric pressure measured 26.13. It was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere.
1990 – Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
1993 – Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway, signed by Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres and PLO official Mahmoud Abbas
1994 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a $30 billion crime bill into law.
1995 – The Kuwaiti Oil Ministry states its intention to seek a 200-million-barrels-per-day increase to its current 2-million-barrels-per-day crude oil production quota at OPEC meeting in Vienna
1998 – The New York Times closed its Web site after hackers added offensive material.
1999 – Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.
2001 – U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Limited commercial flights resumed in the U.S. for the first time in two days.
2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2001 – Relative calm returns to world oil markets as US retail gasoline prices return to normal levels; energy trading by Houston energy companies resumes and limited commercial aviation starts
2006 – At Dawson College (Montreal), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before committing suicide.
2012 – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for Russian punk band Pussy Riot to be freed
2013 – 30 people are killed by a mosque bombing attack in Baghdad, Iraq
2014 – 40 people are killed after T. B. Joshua’s The Synagogue Church of All Nations collapses in Nigeria
2015 – EU Migrant Crisis: Germany introduces temporary border controls to cope with huge migrant numbers
2017 – Martin Shkreli’s bail revoked after he judged risk to community for posting $5,000 bounty for a strand of Hillary Clinton’s hair
2018 – Islamic extremism by 121 groups caused 84,000 deaths in 2017 according to report by Global Extremist Monitor presented by Tony Blair
2018 – Pope Francis meets with leaders of the American Catholic Church in Rome to discuss sexual abuse
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
