General events not linked to a date:
National Chicken Month
National Honey Month
National Mushroom Month
National Papaya Month
National Potato Month
National Rice Month
1719 184 female French convicts were forced to take husbands from their fellow convict males
1 September
National Gyro Day
Spring has sprung in the Southern Hemisphere!
1914 St. Petersburg changes name to Petrograd
1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and Great Tokyo Fire Japan
1939 Germany Invades Poland
1954 Hurricane Carol Strikes Long Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island
2004 Chechen Rebels Take 1,000 Children Hostage
2 September
1666 Great Fire of London
1935 Labor Day Hurricane strikes the Florida Keys
1945 Japan formally surrenders to the Allies
3 September
1929 Dow Reaches Peak of 381.17 Before Stock Market Crash
1939 Britain and France Declare War On Germany
1984 Typhoon Ike Strikes Philippines
4 September
National Macadamia Nut Day
1959 Labor Reform Act Passed US
1972 Mark Spitz wins a record seventh gold medal
5 September
National Cheese Pizza Day
U.S. Labour Day
1972 Black September attack Israel Athletes During Olympics
2007 Apple Launches Itouch
6 September
National Coffee Ice Cream Day
Read a Book Day
1901 President McKinley assassinated
1941 Jews Ordered To Wear Yellow Star Of David Germany
7 September
National Beer Lover’s Day
1533 Queen Elizabeth 1 (1533 – 1603)
1940 Battle Of Britain To Protect British Cities
1979 ESPN Debuts On Cable
2008 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into government control
8 September
National Date-Nut Bread Day
International Literacy Day
Calendar Labs have recorded information since 2014 about International Literacy Day
1519 Magellan Set Sail For First Voyage Round the World
1944 First V2 rocket Lands on London
9 September
National “I Love Food” Day
Teddy Bear Day
Chrysanthemum Day (Japan)
1950 Truman Fireside Chat To Explain new Controls
1956 Elvis Presley appears on Ed Sullivan’s show
1965 Hurricane Betsy Makes Landfall
1971 Attica Prison Riot New York
10 September
National Hot Dog Day
1846 Elias Howe Patented the Sewing Machine
1942 Gas Rationing US
1973 King’s Cross and Euston station Bombings
11 September
National Hot Cross Bun Day
Patriot Day (U.S.A.)
1978 Georgi Markov Killed Using Poison Umbrella
2001 9/11 Attacks On World Trade Center and Pentagon
2004 Hurricane Ivan Causes Massive Destruction
12 September
National Chocolate Milkshake Day
1940 Lascaux Prehistoric Cave Paintings Discovered In France
1953 John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
1953 Nikita Khrushchev Takes Over In Soviet Union
1960 Hurricane Donna Strikes Long Island
1977 Steve Biko Killed In South Africa
1988 Hurricane Gilbert Strikes Jamaica
13 September
National Peanut Day
National GrandParents Day (U.S.A.)
International Chocolate Day
1916 Roald Dahl’s Birthday (1916-1990)
14 September
National Cream-Filled Doughnut Day
1814 Star Spangled Banner Composed
1959 First Man Made Object ( Luna 2 )Reaches The Moon
1960 OPEC Created
1966 Minimum Wage Raised To $1.40 in the US
1982 Princess Grace of Monaco Dies
2001 Osama bin Laden Named As Prime Suspect
2006 E. Coli Breakout U.S.
15 September
National Double Cheeseburger Day
National Creme de Menthe Day
National Linguini Day
Make a Hat Day
Choose Your Favorite Color Day
1890 Agatha Christies Birthday
1928 Alexander Fleming Discovered Penicillin
16 September
National Cinnamon-Raisin Bread Day
Collect Rocks Day
International Day of the Preservation of The Ozone Layer
1920 Wall Street Bombing
1928 Okeechobee Hurricane Strikes Florida
1932 Mahatma Gandhi begins his hunger strike
1997 Steve Jobs Returns to Apple
17 September
1975 Inflation Hits 26% in the UK
18 September
National Play-Dough Day
National Cheeseburger Day
1851 First Edition of the NY Times Published
1970 Jimi Hendrix Dies From Overdose
1971 Lance Armstrong’s Birthday
19 September
National Butterscotch Pudding Day
Talk Like a Pirate Day
1960 Chubby Checker has a number 1 record with The Twist
1978 Carl Bridgewater Murder UK
1995 Unabombers 35,000 word manifesto New York Times
20 September
National Punch Day / Rum Punch Day
1861 Henry Francis Fynn, Natal pioneer and settler, dies in Durban
1886 First mines are proclaimed in Johannesburg
1914 General Koos de la Rey, buried in Lichtenburg amid a very tense atmosphere
1915 WWI: battalion consisting of ‘Cape Coloured men’, called the Cape Corps, is established
1946 First Cannes Film Festival
1960 ‘ Unknown’ white man is hanged in Pretoria
1973 Battle of the sexes in Tennis Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs
1978 South African Prime Minister, John Vorster resigns
1989 F.W. de Klerk is inaugurated
1990 ANC and IFP to meet over violence
2002 Boeremag members Dirk Hanekom and Henk van Zyl are arrested in Memel.
2004 SA sprinter Oscar Pistorius reaches the final
21 September
National Pecan Cookie Day
International Day of Peace
1937 J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” published
1989 Colin Powell appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
22 September
National Ice Cream Cone Day
Elephant Appreciation Day
1920 Band Aid Invented
1938 New England hurricane
1961 Peace Corps Established
2010 World Car-Free Day
23 September
1760 Hokusai, Japanese Artist (1760 – 1849)
1843 Emily Warren Roebling (1843 – 28 February 1903) completed the construction of Brooklyn Bridge
1952 Rocky Marciano Becomes world heavyweight champion
1957 Little Rock Nine School Children Issue Arkansas
2004 Hurricane Jeanne slams into Haiti
24 September
National Cherries Jubilee Day
National Punctuation Day (U.S.A.)
Heritage Day South Africa/National Braai Day
1908 First factory-built Ford Model T completed
1936 Jim Henson’s Birthday (1936 – 1990)
1952 Christopher Reeves Birthday (1952 – 2004)
1988 Ben Johnson wins the 100m gold at the Seoul Olympics and then fails drug test
25 September
National Lobster Day
National Food Service Workers Day
Native American Day
1930 Shel Silverstein born
26 September
National Key Lime Pie Day
1774 Johnny Appleseed’s Birthday (1774 – 1845)
1962 “Beverly Hillbillies” HIT TV Show Starts
1969 “Chicago Seven” Trial Begins
1969 The Beatles release the “Abbey Road Album ” in the UK
2002 The ferry Joola from Senegal capsizes off the coast of Gambia
2007 “Saffron Revolution” Burma / Union of Myanmar
2009 Roman Polanski Detained In Switzerland
27 September
National Chocolate Milk Day
Crush a Can Day
1822 Rosetta Stone Deciphered
1959 Typhoon Vera Strikes Honshu , Japan
1964 The Warren commission publishes official verdict for assassination of President John F. Kennedy
28 September
1573 Caravaggio born (1573 – 1610)
1820 Tomato Proven Safe
1928 Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin
1975 Spaghetti House Siege In London
1994 Car and Passenger Ferry the Estonia sinks
29 September
National Coffee Day
National Mocha Day
1066 William the Conqueror invaded England
1829 Scotland Yard formed
1982 Tylenol Capsule Laced with Cyanide poison Chicago, Illinois
30 September
National Mulled Cider Day
1949 Berlin Airlift Ends After agreement reached
1955 James Dean Dies In Car Crash
1981 Sandra Day O’Connor becomes first female U.S. Supreme Court justice in history
2009 Earthquake Sumatra
2009 International Translation Day
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