Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 1
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Images
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Tokyo 1888 -
Detail from Fountain of Time sculpture -
Moscow Orphanage -
Illuminated Sri Guru Granth Sahib folio -
HL7442, the Boeing 747 traveling as Korean Airlines Flight 007 -
Martha, the last passenger pigeon
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| ; Independence Day in Uzbekistan (1991) | neutrality issues |
| 1604 – Guru Granth Sahib, the religious text of Sikhism, was installed at Harmandir Sahib. | unreferenced section |
| 1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorsed educator Ivan Betskoy's plans for the Moscow Orphanage, an ambitious, state-run, experimental Russian Enlightenment project to educate orphans into ideal citizens. | refimprove |
| 1951 – Australia, New Zealand and the United States signed a mutual defence pact known as the ANZUS Treaty in San Francisco, agreeing to cooperate on defence matters in the Pacific Ocean area. | refimprove section |
| 1961 – The thirty-year Eritrean War of Independence began when rebels led by Hamid Idris Awate fired shots at the Ethiopian Army. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1529 – Sancti Spiritu, the first European settlement in Argentina, was destroyed by local natives.
- 1774 – Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, ordered soldiers to remove gunpowder from a magazine, causing Patriots to prepare for war.
- 1804 – German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered one of the largest main belt asteroids, naming it Juno after the Roman goddess.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces attacked retreating Union Army troops at the Battle of Chantilly during a rainstorm in Chantilly, Virginia, but the fighting ended up being tactically inconclusive.
- 1880 – The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan was routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
- 1914 – The passenger pigeon, which once had a population of at least 3 billion birds, became extinct, when the last individual died in captivity.
- 1920 – The Fountain of Time opened as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
- 1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, struck the Kantō region of Japan, devastating Tokyo and Yokohama, and killing over an estimated 100,000 people.
- 1928 – Ahmet Zogu, President of the Albanian Republic, declared the country was now a constitutional monarchy and himself king with the regnal name Zog I.
- 1952 – Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, which later won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was first published in Life magazine.
- 1972 – American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer became the 11th World Chess Champion when he defeated Russian Boris Spassky in a match that was widely publicized as a Cold War confrontation.
- 1983 – Soviet jet interceptors shot down the civilian airliner Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Sakhalin Island in the North Pacific, killing all 246 passengers and 23 crew on board.
Notes
- Gleiwitz incident appears on August 31, so Invasion of Poland should not appear in the same year
September 1: Start of the liturgical year (Eastern Orthodox Church); Constitution Day in Slovakia
- 1715 – Louis XIV of France (pictured), the "Sun King", died after a reign of 72 years, longer than any other French or other major European monarch at the time.
- 1878 – Hired by Alexander Graham Bell, Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator.
- 1902 – The first science fiction film, titled A Trip to the Moon and based on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, was released in France.
- 1939 – Nazi Germany invaded Poland at Wieluń and Westerplatte, starting World War II in Europe.
- 1969 – A bloodless coup d'état led by Muammar Gaddafi overthrew Idris I of Libya.