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September 17th
1862 ~ Union forces repelled a Confederate invasion of Maryland in the Civil War Battle of Antietam.
1908 ~ Death of Lt. Thomas Selfridge, first to die in an airplane crash.
1929 ~ Birthday of Sir Stirling Moss, Formula One racer.
1939 ~ The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland.
1970 ~ Civil war broke out in Jordan.
1972 ~ "M.A.S.H." premiered on CBS.
1976 ~ Birthday of Daniella Rush, Czech Pornographic Star.
1978 ~ The Camp David Accords were signed by Israeli and Egyptian representatives.
1980 ~ The first independent Polish trade union, Solidarity, was established after weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk.
1994 ~ Death of Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher.
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September 20th
1519 ~ Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia.
1934 ~ Birthday of Sophia Loren, Italian actress.
1948 ~ Birthday of George R. R. Martin, Science Fiction Writer.
1970 ~ The Soviet probe Luna 16 collected moon soil samples for return to earth.
1973 ~ Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a $100,000 winner-take-all “Battle of the Sexes“ tennis match.
1984 ~ A suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy annex in north Beirut, killing 20 people.
2000 ~ After playing 2,632 consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Jr took a day off.
2000 ~ Death of Gherman Titov, cosmonaut.
2004 ~ CBS News apologized for a "mistake in judgment" in its story questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service, saying it could not vouch for the authenticity of documents featured in the report.
2005 ~ Death of Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter.
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September 21st
19 BC ~ Death of Virgil, Roman poet. (Aeneid, etc.)
1756 ~ Birthday of John MacAdam, road builder.
1780 ~ Benedict Arnold gave the British the plans to West Point.
1866 ~ Birthday of H. G. Wells, science fiction author.
1874 ~ Birthday of Gustav Holst, Composer.
1897 ~ The Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus letter was published in the New York Sun.
1937 ~ The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien first published.
1947 ~ Birthday of Stephen King, Author.
2003 ~ The Galileo mission was terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere.
2008 ~ And then there were none: The last two independent Wall Street investment banks, Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis.
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September 23rd
63 B.C. ~ Birthday of Caesar Augustus, 1st Roman Emperor.
1642 ~ First commencement at Harvard College.
1806 ~ Discovery of Neptune by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier.
1884 ~ Herman Hollerith applied for a patent on his mechanical adding machine.
1920 ~ Birthday of Mickey Rooney, actor.
1930 ~ Birthday of Ray Charles, U.S. R&B and jazz musician, singer.
1952 ~ Richard Nixon made his “Checkers speech".
1972 ~ Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos introduced a dictatorial government.
1982 ~ Birthday of Shyla Stylez, Porn Actress.
2002 ~ The first public version of the Firefox web browser was released.
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September 24th
622 ~ Muhammad completed his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
1755 ~ Birthday of John Marshall, the fourth and longest-serving Chief Justice of the American Supreme Court.
1890 ~ As a pre-condition to Utah being admitted to the U.S., the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) officially renounced polygamy.
1957 ~ President Eisenhower sent Army troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1976 ~ The Rhodesian Government agreed to introduce black majority rule to the country within two years.
1979 ~ Birthday of Sabrine Maui, Filipina Porn Actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Katja Kassin, German Porn Actress.
1988 ~ Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson beat Carl Lewis in the 100 Meters sprint at the Seoul Olympics. Mr. Johnson was later disqualified for using performance enhancing drugs.
1991 ~ Death of Dr. Seuss, Writer.
1996 ~ President Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
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September 29th
1547 ~ Birthday of Miguel de Cervantes, Author (Don Quixote).
1714 ~ George, Elector of Hanover, arrived in Greenwich to assume the British throne as King George I. (Thanks dm383!)
1758 ~ Birthday of Horatio Nelson, English icon.
1901 ~ Birthday of Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist. Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1916 ~ John D. Rockefeller became the first billionaire.
1957 ~ The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds.
1960 ~ Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a meeting of the UN General Assembly.
1962 ~ Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite was launched.
1978 ~ Death of Pope John Paul, who reigned just 33 days.
2004 ~ The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passed within 964,000 miles of Earth.
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September 30th
1791 ~ Mozart's opera “The Magic Flute” premiered in Vienna, Austria.
1913 ~ Death of Rudolf Diesel, German inventor.
1924 ~ Birthday of Truman Capote, Author (In Cold Blood).
1927 ~ Babe Ruth became the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1938 ~ British, French, German and Italian leaders agreed that Nazi Germany would be allowed to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1954 ~ The submarine USS Nautilus was commissioned as the first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 ~ Death of James Dean, American actor.
1982 ~ Birthday of Tory Lane, Porn Actress.
1991 ~ President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was forced from office.
1999 ~ Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
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