1960 – Payola where radio stations would play selected songs in exchange for gifts and/or cash is banned by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
0509 BC – The temple of Jupiter on Rome’s Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
0122 – The building of Hadrian’s Wall begins.
0335 – Church of Holy Sepulchre consecrated in Jerusalem
0533 – General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa
1224 – Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata after a vision praying on Mount Verna
1440 – Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
1504 – Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand 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
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.
1814 – Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
1847 – U.S. forces took the hill Chapultepec during the Mexican-American War.
1862 – During the American Civil War General Lee’s Order No. 191 was found by federal soldiers in Maryland.
1867 – Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors
1882 – The Battle of Tel al-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
1900 – Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.”
1922 – “Straw Hat Riot” begins in New York City as youths aggressively taunt men wearing straw hats, getting an early jump on unofficial season’s end date of September 15; confrontations continue longer than usual, lasting 8 days
1923 – Military coup in Spain – Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship
1935 – Aviator Howard Hughes, Jr., of Houston, set a new airspeed record of 352 mph with his H-1 airplane (Winged Bullet).
1936 – Acting on the orders of Louis Buchalter, Murder Inc. killers gun down Joseph Rosen, a Brooklyn candy store owner
1943 – Chiang Kai-shek became the president of China.
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.
1959 – The Soviet Union’s Luna 2 became the first space probe to reach the moon. It was launched the day before.
1960 – Payola where radio stations would play selected songs in exchange for gifts and/or cash is banned by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
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.
1973 – US Congress passes & sends a bill to President Nixon to lift NFL football’s television blackout of sold out games
1974 – 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.
1977 – The first diesel automobiles were introduced by General Motors.
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 – Japan Super Mario Bros. released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
1987 – Goinia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goinia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and leading some to die from radiation poisoning
1990 – Iraqi troops storm the residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
1993 – Israel and Palestine signed their first major agreement. Palestine was granted limited self-government in the Gaza Strip and in Jericho.
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
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.
2006 – At Dawson College (Montreal), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before committing suicide
2012 – 33,000 people are evacuated after Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire erupts
2014 – 40 people are killed after T. B. Joshua’s The Synagogue Church of All Nations collapses in Nigeri
2015 – EU Migrant Crisis: Germany introduces temporary border controls to cope with huge migrant numbers
2018 – Islamic extremism by 121 groups caused 84,000 deaths in 2017 according to report by Global Extremist Monitor presented by Tony Blair
2021 – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett makes first official visit to Egypt in a decade for talks with President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in Sharm el-Sheikh
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
