September 3rd
1709 - USA: The first major influx of Swiss and German immigrants arrive in the Carolinas. They had been encouraged by a grant of 13,500 acres by the proprietors to two sponsors representing German refugees from the Palatinate and Swiss emigrants from Berne.
1783 - USA: The Treaty of Paris is signed by representatives of the US and Great Britain, thus ending the American Revolution.
1883 - Indochina (Vietnam): Liu Yongfa's Chinese Black Flag irregulars and Vietnamese forces fight against the French in a bloody and costly battle near Hanoi.
1902 - Austria: A huge landslide in Transcaucasia kills around 700 people.
1903 - New York: US yacht "Reliance" beats the British entry "Shamrock" to win the America's Cup.
1906 - Liverpool: The Biggest ever TUC conference opens, with 490 delegates representing 1.5 million union members.
1917 - UK: 108 people are killed in German air raids on the Isle of Sheppey and Thanet.
1919 - USA: President Woodrow Wilson goes on a tour of the country to drum up support for the League of Nations.
1924 - USSR: A revolt breaks out in the southern soviet republic of Georgia.
1934 - London: Evangeline Booth becomes the Salvation Army's first woman general.
1937 - Hong Kong: 300 people are reported killed after a typhoon strikes the colony.
1939 - London/Paris: War is declared on Germany.
1945 - Prague: All Germans and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia are deprived of citizenship.
1955 - Tel Aviv: Israel accepts a UN cease-fire in Gaza.
1957 - USA: The federal district court orders Little Rock, Arkansas, to end segregation in schools with immediate effect.
1958 - USA: Martin Luther King is arrested for "loitering" in Alabama; he alleges police brutality.
1961 - USA: Britain and the US call for a ban on nuclear tests in the atmosphere.
1964 - USA: Robert Kennedy resigns as Attorney-General to run for the Senate.
1967 - Sweden: Traffic switches to driving on the right.
1968 - Lagos: General Gowon agrees to let the Red Cross fly relief supplies into Biafra for ten days commencing on September 5.
1972 - West Germany: The first air link to East Germany begins.
1974 - Northern Ireland: Enoch Powell is adopted as Official Unionist candidate for South Down.
1976 - UK: After 65 hours of rioting, protests at Hull jail come to an end, damage caused is put at around £1 million.
1983 - Washington: The US Census Bureau states the world's population stands at 4,721,887,000.
1985 - London: Jeffrey Archer becomes deputy chairman of the tory party under chairman Norman Tebbit.
1991 - UK: Police Federation leaders call for the return of the Riot Act after late-night fighting breaks out in Cardiff, Birmingham and Oxford.
1992 - Bosnia: All UN relief flights into Sarajevo are halted after an Italian cargo plane is shot down by missile fire.
1996 - Iraq: The threat of a second Gulf War moves closer as the US launch 27 cruise missile attacks against military targets.
1998 - Atlantic: A Swissair flight from New York to Geneva crashes into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 229 people on board.
2006 - Baltic Sea: Swedish adventurer Lasse Schmidt finishes the first solo crossing of the Baltic Sea in a kayak. The crossing from Sweden to Estonia took 3 days to complete without sleep.
2009: USA: Pop star Michael Jackson is scheduled to be laid to rest at a private ceremony during a sunset service in a mausoleum at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
September 4th
1881 - New York - The Edison electric lighting system for the city goes into operation.
1886 - Arizona: The Apache Leader Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson A. Miles after a decade of fighting designed to deter settlers in New Mexico and Arizona. All the Apaches were then resettled in Florida as War prisoners.
1904 - Russia: An Imperial decree defines residence rights for all Jews.
1909 - London: The first Boy Scout parade takes place at Crystal Palace.
1911 - China: Around 100,000 people are reported killed in flooding along the Yangtse-kiang River.
1912 - London: 22 people are injured in a tube collision on the Piccadilly Line, the first ever such accident on London's underground.
1916 - East Africa: British Forces occupy Dar-es-Salaam; 75% of German East Africa is controlled by the Allies.
1918 - Washington: The War Department calls upon woman to take men's jobs in the munitions factories.
1922 - Turkey: The Greeks plead for an armistice as Turkish troops advance on Smyrna.
1929 - London: The Baird Co. agrees to make experimental television broadcasts using BBC transmitters.
1932 - Vienna: The World Peace Conference opens.
1933 - UK: A hot dry spell sees Forest fires rage through Dorset and Hampshire.
1934 - Nuremberg: 750,000 attend the opening of the Nazi Party conference.
1940 - Berlin: The Battle of Britain begins as Hitler threatens to raze British cities in reprisal for RAF bombings.
1942 - Belfast: Police clash with IRA sympathisers following the execution of a 19-year-old Republican.
1944 - Belgium: The Allies capture Brussels and Antwerp and cross into Holland.
1948 - Amsterdam: Queen Wilhelmina abdicates in favour of her daughter Juliana.
1957 - USA: The governor of Arkansas sends state troops to stop nine blacks going to a white school in Little Rock.
1961 - Portsmouth: The TUC expels the Electrical Trades Union for ballot-rigging.
1967 - London: 17 ex-pirate DJ's join the BBC; Tony Blackburn and John Peel will begin work on Radio 1.
1969 - Vietnam: The Viet-Cong call a three-day truce in memory of Ho Chi Minh.
1974 - Italy: Britons Alan Pascoe, David Jenkins, and Steve Ovett win Gold medals at the European Championships.
1984 - UK: Norman Willis is elected to succeed Len Murray as TUC general secretary.
1989 - UK: Hundreds of children across Britain are sent home from school owing to a severe lack of teachers.
1992 - Bulgaria: Former communist leader Todor Zhivkov is sentenced to 7 years in prison for crimes committed during his 35 years in power.
1997 - Israel: Eight people are killed and more than 160 are injured when three suicide bombers detonate nail-studded explosives in Ben Yehuda Street in the capital Tel Aviv.
1998 - Bangladesh: Floods submerge half of Bangladesh as its government makes an international appeal for aid.
2004 - Florida: 2.5 million residents are ordered to evacuate there homes in preparation for Hurricane Frances.
2006 - Israel: A burial cave dating back to the 1st century BC is discovered beneath a high school in Tel Aviv.
September 5th
1882 - New York: 30,000 workers join the first Labor day march.
1908 - France: Aviator Leon Delagrange sets a new record by staying aloft in his aeroplane for 29 minutes 54 seconds.
1914 - France: The Germans capture Rheims and take around 12,000 prisoners.
1915 - Petrograd: Czar Nicholas takes personal command of the Russian Army.
1918 - Moscow: A British diplomat is killed when the UK consulate is attacked by Soviet government supporters.
1925 - USA: Water is sold by the gallon as drought grips the southern and south-western states.
1926 - Irish Free State: 50 people are reported killed and 20 injured after a fire at a cinema in Drumcollegher, Limerick.
1932 - Los Angeles: Film director Paul Bern, the husband of screen goddess Jean Harlow, commits suicide.
1937 - Germany: The biggest ever Nazi rally marks the opening of the Nazi congress in Nuremberg.
1940 - Baltic Sea: 4,000 German troops are reported drowned when a Royal Navy submarine torpedoes the ship "Marion."
1944 - London: Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg sign a treaty of customs union.
1945 - Singapore: British troops land and take control without any opposition.
1947 - Washington: The US and Britain agree to having joint control of the Ruhr mines.
1953 - Washington: President Eisenhower gives Iran a $45-million grant.
1954 - Dublin: 28 people are killed when a Dutch KLM airliner crashes into the River Shannon.
1956 - Tel Aviv: Israel breaks diplomatic silence and condemns Egypt over the Suez crisis.
1958- USA: Martin Luther King is fined $14 for refusing to obey a police officer.
1963 - UK: Christine Keeler is arrested and charged with perjury regarding the Profumo Affair.
1969 - UK: ITV makes its first colour transmissions.
1970 - Italy: Austrian racing driver Jochen Rindt dies in a qualifying race crash before the Italian Grand Prix.
1973 - Paris: Black September terrorists seize the Saudi Arabian embassy.
1979 - UK: Nationwide mourning marks the state funeral of Lord Mountbatten.
1980 - Switzerland: The world's longest road tunnel, the 10-mile Goschenen-Airolo opens.
1986 - Karachi: Over 17 people are killed when Pakistani commandos storm a hijacked US airliner; 300 passengers and crew escape unharmed.
1991 - Beijing: John Major criticises the Chinese government's record on political prisoners.
1993 - Italy: Algerian Nourredine Morceli runs a world-record mile in 3 minutes, 44.39 seconds.
1997 - Lebanon: 11 Israeli soldiers are killed in a bungled commando raid on a target north of Tyre, in southern Lebanon.
2005 - Germany: A painting discovered in the Kunsthalle museum in Breman is believed by art historians to be a prieviously unknown work by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.
2008 - Libya: Condoleeza Rice becomes the first US secretary of state to visit the country since 1953.
2010 - El Salvador: Police discover barrels containing $9 million in suspected drug money.
1620 -
Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth, England on the
Mayflower to North America to settle in the new world.
1901 - U.S. President
William McKinley is fatally wounded while at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Leon Czolgosz is the shooter.
1939 - World War II:
Battle of Barking Creek.
1943 - The
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education is founded in Mexico. It is now one of the largest universities in Latin America.
1952 - Canada's first television station,
CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal.
1972 -
Munich Massacre: 9 Israeli athletes and a German policeman are murdered by terrorist group 'Black September' during the Munich Olympic Games.
1991 - The name of
Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city. It had been known as Leningrad since 1924.
1997 -
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London.
2000 - World Leaders gather in New York City for the
Millennium Summit. The summit discusses the role of the United Nations at the turn of the 21st Century.
September 6th
1864 - USA: Fort Zarah is established on Walnut Creek near the intersection of the Santa Fe Trail and the main Indian trail in Kansas. The fort served as a base of operations against hostile Indians until December 1869.
1903 - Moscow: Russia increases import duties on Indian and Ceylon Tea, in retaliation for British import polices.
1904 - Scotland: The Salvation Army's General Booth, ends his crusading trip from Land's End to Aberdeen.
1907 - Liverpool: The "Lusitania" embarks on her official maiden voyage.
1918 - Peking: Hsu Shi-chang is elected president of the Chinese Republic.
1920 - USA: A daily east-west airmail service between San Francisco and New York begins.
1923 - London: The capital's new super cinema the "Tivoli" opens in the Strand.
1927 - India: 15 people die in Moslem-Hindu riots in Nagpur.
1939 - Poland: The Polish government flees from Warsaw to Lublin.
1941 - Germany: A published order forbids all Jews over the age of six to appear in public without a yellow Star of David.
1942 - USSR: The Germans take the major Black Sea naval base of Novorossiick.
1946 - London: Nine RAF men who escaped from Stalag Luft III in a glider receive MBE's.
1950 - New York: The USSR vetoes a Security Council motion condemning North Korea.
1951 - UK: Britain's biggest peacetime oil fire at Avonmouth docks sees 12 million gallons of petrol ablaze.
1954 - UK: Rolls Royce reveals it has developed a jet that takes off vertically, nicknamed the "Flying Bedstead."
1960 - UK: Ten skeletons are discovered in 3,800-year-old graves at Stonehenge.
1965 - India: Indian troops launch a full-scale invasion of Pakistan as the Pakistanis mount air-raids on New Delhi.
1968 - UK: GEC announces its £892 million merger with English Electric.
1974 - London: A Government white paper outlines plans to outlaw sexual discrimination.
1977 - Panama: President Carter and President Torrijos sign a treaty transferring the Panama Canal to Panama in 1999.
1981 - Gdansk: Solidarity holds its first national congress.
1982 - Berne: Gunmen seize the Polish Embassy, demanding an end to martial law.
1985 - South Africa: President P. W. Botha closes half of the Coloured Schools in the Western Cape, where 30 people have died after a week of clashes.
1994 - Moscow: A government commission reports that the grand Duchess Anastasia was indeed murdered with the rest of the Russian royal family by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
2008 - Cairo: 18 people are killed and 22 are injured when dozens of homes in the northern area of Cairo collapse due to a massive rockslide.
2010 - USA: 1,000 homes have to be evacuated as a wind-driven wildfire breaks out in Colorado.
September 7th
1901 - China: China signs the peace protocol drawn up by foreign powers, that officially ends the Boxer uprising.
1904 - Tibet: An Anglo-Tibetan Treaty gives the UK trading posts, and forbids the Dalai Lama making cessions to foreign powers.
1905 - Japan: Martial law is declared as riots against the peace treaty with Russia continue.
1909 - London: Lord Northcliffe, the owner of "The Times" claims Germany is rapidly preparing for war with the UK.
1911 - Paris: Poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested, and later released for the theft of the Mona Lisa.
1914 - Ulster: Sir Edward Carson urges Ulster Volunteers to join the army.
1920 - Norwich: The Library Association outlines its plans to create a travelling library service.
1933 - Warsaw: Poland holds talks with the USSR and Rumania on the possibility of a united front against Germany.
1934 - USA: Senator Huey Long orders 2,000 troops into Louisiana to back his month old "Dictatorship"
1936 - UK: The new King Edward VIII stamps sees 130,000 000 sold in the first five days of issue.
1940 - London: Over 300 German bombers escorted by huge numbers of fighter aircraft begin the bombing of the capital, hitting Woolwich Arsenal, a power station and the docks.
1947 - Sheffield: A strike by around 45,000 South Yorkshire miners sees Steelworks close due to the shortage of coal.
1957 - USA: The Federal Court announces that desegregation in schools will not be postponed.
1961 - Portsmouth: The TUC votes against unilateral nuclear disarmament.
1963 - UK: Sussex win the first one-day cricket final.
1969 - Italy: Jackie Stewart wins the Italian Grand Prix to secure the World F1 Championship.
1979 - Mozambique: Over 300 people are reported killed in raids by Zimbabwe-Rhodesian troops.
1983 - Blackpool: Arthur Scargill attacks Solidarity as an "anti-Socialist organ who desire the overthrow of a Socialist state."
1984 - UK: A total of 22 people die from salmonella-type poisoning at a hospital in Wakefield in the space of ten days.
1986 - Cape Town: Desmond Tutu is enthroned as Archbishop of Cape Town, becoming the first black to head the African Anglicans.
1987 - UK: Ford announces it has bought luxury car company Aston Martin.
1989 - West Germany: Heidi Hazell, the wife of a British soldier, is shot dead in Dortmund in an IRA "mistake."
1990 - Kent: A French lorry driver is savagely assaulted by three men who dragged him from his cab and beat him with wooden staves, in response to France's hostility over British Lamb imports.
1996 - USA: Hurricane Fern rips through the Carolinas leaving 12 people dead and causing millions of dollars of destruction.
2009 - Papua New Guinea: Scientists in the region discover over 40 new species, including a giant rat, weighing around 1.5kg.
2011 - Scotland: Scottish first minister Alex Salmond reveals a legislative programme which includes plans to create a single police force and fire service for Scotland.
September 8th
1755 - North America: British forces under William Johnson defeat the French and the Indians at the battle of Lake George.
1847 - Mexico City: At the battle of Molino del Rey, US forces under General Winfield Scott defeat an Mexican army of around 12,000.
1900 - Texas: A hurricane with winds of up to 120mph tears through Galveston killing 6,000 people, with property damage amounting to $20,000,000.
1905 - UK: The TUC state that 1.5 million Britons are in unions, and call for free trade and eight-hour working days.
1906 - London: Cambridge defeat Harvard by two lengths in the international university boat race.
1916 - USA: President Woodrow Wilson pledges to give women the vote at a suffrage convention.
1924 - China: 360 British Troops land in Shanghai as Civil War rages.
1926 - China: The "Red" army of General Chiang Kai-shek's Koumintang capture the city and treaty port of Hankow.
1937 - Rome: Benito Mussolini rejects Britain's call for a piracy conference.
1938 - Czechoslovakia: Sudeten Germans hold mass rallies to call for union with Germany.
1941 - Indochina: Vietnamese nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh forms the Vietnam Independence League, the Viet-Minh.
1943 - USSR: The Russians take Stalino, in the River Donets basin.
1945 - Japan: The US-born propaganda broadcaster Iva Togori known as "Tokyo Rose" is arrested.
1948 - Oxford: An anonymous French shipowner offers £1.5 million to found St Anthony's college.
1951 - Japan: Japan puts an official end to World War II by signing a peace treaty with 48 other nations, and allowing the US to station its military forces in the country.
1956 - USA: Clinton, Tennessee is put under a state of emergency as violence escalates towards black pupils trying to get to school.
1957 - Italy: Sterling Moss wins the Italian Grand prix at Monza.
1959 - Rome: Opera singer Maria Callas announces she has split with her husband, but denies a liaison with Aristotle Onassis.
1964 - Berlin: East Germans visit the West for the first time since the wall was built.
1967 - UK: The families of the Aberfan tragedy victims hear they are to receive £5,000 each.
1974 - Greece: 88 people are killed in the crash of a US Boeing 707. Palestinian guerrillas claim responsibility.
1975 - UK: Scotland football skipper Billy Bremner is banned from playing for his country after an alleged brawl in Copenhagen.
1981 - London: 16 Islington Labour councillors join the SDP after the defection of Labour MP Michael O'Halloran.
1982 - Athens: Daley Thompson wins Decathlon gold at the European Games.
1988 - Rangoon: Diplomats are evacuated as rioters sack government buildings.
1994 - Germany: The last Allied soldiers march through Berlin after spending 50 years guarding the city.
1998 - Belfast: The self-styled "Real IRA", the republican splinter group responsible for the Omagh bombing, declare a total cease-fire.
2007 - USA: Belgium's Justine Henin wins the US Open Women's singles Tennis championship, defeating Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-1 6-3.
2009 - UK: Mobile network operators Orange and T-Mobile agree to merge their British businesses.
2011 - USA: Counterterrorism officials investigate reports of a potential terrorist threat against either New York City or Washington, linked to the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.
September 9th
1786 - Virginia: George Washington calls for the abolition of slavery.
1850 - USA: California is admitted to the Union as a free state, giving free states a majority in the Senate. It becomes the 31st state admitted to the Union.
1905 - Italy: Thousands are feared dead after an earthquake hits the Calabria region of the country.
1908 - Poland: Russia orders the sacking of teachers who oppose unification of the Russian and Polish school systems.
1912 - Athens: Mass demonstrations are held demanding liberation of all Greeks from Ottoman rule.
1919 - Mexico - Around 500 people are feared dead after the sinking of the Spanish liner "Valbanera" in the Gulf of Mexico.
1925 - UK: The TUC votes against the amalgamation of all British trade unions.
1929 - China: Chinese and Soviet troops engage in heavy fighting along the Manchurian border.
1934 - London: 18 people are arrested as police try to separate Fascist and anti-Fascist marchers.
1940 - Hamburg: The RAF carries out a three-hour bombing raid on the German city.
1943 - Italy: The Allies land at Salerno, near Naples, to be met by stiff German resistance.
1944 - London: The first German V-2 bomb lands on the capital.
1956 - Cairo: Egypt's General Nasser rejects the US plan for international control of the Suez Canal.
1958 - West London: Petrol bombs and milk bottles are thrown at police during Race riots, with 59 people charged with carrying offensive weapons.
1964 - Australia: US author William Willis completes his 200-day journey across the Pacific on a raft.
1971 - New York: Inmates at Attica jail revolt and hold 32 prison guards hostage.
1975 - Cambodia: Prince Sihanouk returns to the country from exile.
1983 - Buenos Aires: President Bignone issues a pardon to former President Isabel Peron.
1988 - New Delhi: Half of the English cricket team learn they will be denied visas because of their links with South Africa.
1990 - Liberia: President Samuel Doe is killed by rebels.
1998 - London: The Royal Opera House curtails its programmes for a year in an effort to resolve it's financial difficulties.
2004 - UK: Margaret Thatcher posts a 2 million rand (USD 300,000) bond for her son Mark who is under arrest in Cape town, South Africa for allegedly funding a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
2006 - USA: 19 year-old Maria Sharapova wins her second Grand Slam tennis title, winning the US Open women's singles title defeating Belgium's Justin Henin-Hardenne 6-4 6-4.
2007 - Italy: Jamaican Asafa Powell sets a new men's world record for the 100 metres of 9.74 seconds at the IAAF Grand Prix in Rieti.
2010 - Scotland: Archaeologist's date the Mound of Moot Hill in Scone Palace back to at least 1,000 years.
September 10th
1898 - Switzerland: Elizabeth, the empress of Austria, is assassinated by the Italian anarchist Luigi Luccheni in Geneva.
1901 - USA: Anarchist Emma Goldman is arrested for her part in a plot to kill President William McKinley.
1907 - London: New Zealand gains autonomy from the UK as a Dominion within the British Empire.
1913 - Mexico: 350 US citizens are reported to being held captive since President Woodrow Wilson announced a Mexican boycott.
1919 - UK: The TUC congress votes in favour of nationalisation of the mines.
1923 - Geneva: The Irish Free State is admitted to the League of Nations.
1933 - USA: Britain's Fred Perry wins the US Open men's singles final beating Australia's Jack Crawford in five sets.
1935 - Athens: Fierce street fighting takes place as the Greek parliament debates the restoration of the monarchy.
1941 - Oslo: The German commissioner for Norway declares martial law in the city.
1942 - Germany: The RAF drop 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf in under an hour.
1944 - Belgium: Canadian troops capture Zeebrugge.
1948 - UK: Australian Cricket legend Don Bradman winds up his cricket career, having made centuries in his last three innings.
1951 - Venice: Vivien Leigh wins the best actress award at the Venice Film Festival for her role in "A Streetcar Named Desire."
1952 - Bonn: West Germany agrees to pay Israel £293 million in restitution for Nazi atrocities.
1953: Cyprus: Around 40 people lose their lives after the island suffers it's worst recorded earthquake.
1956 - USA: Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show, watched by 82% of a potential audience of 54 million.
1961 - Italy: 13 spectators at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza are killed when two cars collide and veer off the track.
1965 - USA: Yale University state a map dating from 1440 appears to prove that the Vikings discovered North America.
1966 - London: The West End's longest-running musical "Oliver" ends its run of six years and three months.
1970 - UK: An organisation called the Cyrenians is formed to provide shelter for the homeless and alcoholics.
1974 - China: Chou En-Lai resigns as Prime Minister.
1976 - Yugoslavia: 176 people are killed in the world's worst mid-air plane disaster after two planes collide.
1979 - UK: British Leyland announces it is to end production of all MG car models.
1981 - Spain: Picasso's painting "Guernica" returns to the country after spending 40 years on show in New York.
1984 - London: Douglas Hurd becomes Ulster Secretary.
1989 - Hong Kong: Cholera causes around 4,400 Vietnamese boat people to be moved from Tai Ah Chau Island.
1993 - Paris: The Folies Bergeres reopens after a year of closure.
1995 - Moscow: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a far-right nationalist assaults a female MP by pulling her hair during a disturbance in the Russian Parliament.
1996 -USA: Susan McDougal, former business partner of President Bill Clinton, is imprisoned for refusing to testify before a grand jury, investigating the Whitewater affair.
2004 - Chile: An astronomy team working on the Yepon telescope are believed to have made the first direct image of a planetary system beyond the Solar System. The star, 230 light years away is called 2M1207 and is much smaller than the sun.
2006 - USA: Roger Federer wins the US open men's singles final defeating Andy Roddick 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1.
2010: USA: Barack Obama urges Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a partial construction freeze on the West Bank.
Hope we all take a moment to remember 9/11 victims today