SomeFacts | September 1

On this day - September 1

The Temple of Juno Regina (Aventine) is dedicated in Rome by Marcus ...

1145 — The main altar of Lund Cathedral, at the time the seat of the ...

1173 — The widow Stamira sacrifices herself in order to raise the ...

1355 — King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum ...

1449 — Tumu Crisis: The Mongols capture the Emperor of China.

1529 — The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in ...

1532 — Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, ...

1604 — Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture ...

1610 — Claudio Monteverdi's musical work Vespro della Beata ...

1644 — Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose ...

1645 — English Civil War. Scottish Covenanter forces abandon their ...

1715 — At the age of five, Louis XV becomes king of France in ...

1763 — Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, endorses Ivan ...

1772 — The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis ...

1774 — Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder ...

1804 — 3 Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is ...

1831 — The Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope ...

1836 — Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white ...

1838 — Saint Andrew's Scots School, the oldest school of British ...

1859 — Carrington Event started - the most intense geomagnetic storm ...

1862 — American Civil War: Confederate forces under General Stonewall ...

1864 — American Civil War: The Battle of Jonesborough, alongside the ...

1870 — Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting ...

1873 — Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation ...

1878 — Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone ...

1880 — The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the ...

1894 — Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire ...

1897 — The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first ...

1923 — The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, ...

1939 — J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder publish ...

1939 — World War II: Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning ...

1944 — World War II: Launch of Operation Ratweek, complicating German ...

1961 — TWA Flight 529 crashed shortly after takeoff from Midway ...

1967 — Six-Day War: The Khartoum Resolution is issued at the Arab ...

1969 — A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.

1973 — A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Celtic Sea ...

1974 — The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying ...

1981 — Central African President David Dacko is ousted from power in ...

1982 — The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.

1983 — Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet ...

1985 — The wreck of the Titanic is discovered by an American-French ...

2004 — The Beslan school siege begins when armed terrorists take ...

2008 — Iraq War: The United States Armed Forces transfers control of ...