What happened on September 1? There are more than 316 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 1
September 1 is the 245th day of the year 2024. There are 121 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 35th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Las Vegas, Nevada 89107 sunrise will occur at 06:11 AM and sunset will occur at 07:09 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 150 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 1
- 462Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
- 1355King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the old town of Visoki.
- 1529the Spanish fort Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
- 1532Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
- 1604Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib.
- 1644Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss’s Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
- 1715King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years – the longest of any major European monarch.
- 1763Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy’s plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
- 1772The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
- 1774Massachusetts colonists rise up in bloodless Powder Alarm.
- 1804Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
- 1836Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
- 1859Solar Superstorm
- 1862American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly – Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
- 1864American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
- 1870Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
- 1873Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
- 1878Emma Nutt becomes the world’s first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
- 1894More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
- 1897The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
- 1902A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
- 1905Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
- 1906The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
- 1910Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is created in São Paulo.
- 1911The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
- 1914St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
- 1914The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
- 1920The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
- 1923The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
- 1928Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
- 1934SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
- 1939Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
- 1939George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
- 1939Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
- 1939The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date.
- 1939World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning World War II.
- 1951The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
- 1958Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
- 1961The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
- 1969A coup in Libya brings Muammar al-Gaddafi to power.
- 1969Tran Thien Khiem became Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu.
- 1970Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.
- 1972In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
- 1974The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1435.587 mph.
- 1979The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21000 km.
- 1980Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
- 1980Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope ends near Thunder Bay, Ontario.
- 1981A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
- 1982The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
- 1983Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
- 1985A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
- 1990The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey.
- 1991Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
- 2004Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.
Who Were Born On September 1?
- 1286Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1335)
- 1453Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)
- 1566Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
- 1588Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646)
- 1651Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
- 1653Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)
- 1689Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Czech Baroque architect (d. 1751)
- 1711William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
- 1789Ferencz Gyulai Hungarian nobleman (d. 1868)
- 1795James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
- 1818José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the republic (d. 1892)
- 1848Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
- 1851John Clum, American Indian agent (d. 1932)
- 1854Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
- 1855Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
- 1856Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)
- 1866James J. Corbett, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1933)
- 1868Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)
- 1871J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)
- 1875Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)
- 1876Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)
- 1877Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
- 1878J. F. C. Fuller, British Army officer and military theorist (d. 1966)
- 1878Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)
- 1883Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice-hockey player (d. 1934)
- 1884Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (d. 1947)
- 1886Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1957)
- 1887Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
- 1888Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)
- 1892Leverett Saltonstall, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)
- 1895Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)
- 1895Engelbert Zaschka, German helicopter pioneer (d. 1955)
- 1896A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON, the Hare Krishna Movement (d. 1977)
- 1897Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)
- 1899Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
- 1902Kazimierz Dąbrowski, Polish psychiatrist, psychologist (d. 1980)
- 1904Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (d. 1974)
- 1905Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
- 1906Eleanor Burford English writer (d. 1993)
- 1906Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
- 1906Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
- 1907Miriam Seegar, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1907Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)
- 1908Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)
- 1909E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
- 1913Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
- 1913Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1979)
- 1916Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player
- 1919Ossie Dawson, South African cricketer (d. 2008)
- 1920Liz Carpenter, American feminist writer (d. 2010)
- 1920Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1921Madhav Mantri, Indian cricketer
- 1921Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d. 1995)
- 1922Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
- 1922Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (d. 2007)
- 1923Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)
- 1923Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
- 1925Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)
- 1926Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh
- 1926Gene Colan, American comic book artist (d.2011)
- 1927Wyatt Cooper, American author and screenwriter (d. 1978)
- 1928Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician
- 1928George Maharis, American actor
- 1929Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
- 1931Boxcar Willie, American country musician (d. 1999)
- 1931Cecil Parkinson, British politician
- 1932Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician
- 1932Sunny von Buelow, American socialite (d. 2008)
- 1933Ann Richards, 45th Governor of Texas (d. 2006)
- 1933Conway Twitty, American singer (d. 1993)
- 1935Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
- 1937Al Geiberger, American golfer
- 1937Ron O'Neal, American actor, film director and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1938Alan Dershowitz, American attorney and author
- 1938Per Kirkeby, Danish artist
- 1939Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedian
- 1941Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1942C. J. Cherryh, American writer
- 1943Don Stroud, American actor
- 1944Archie Bell, singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
- 1944Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
- 1945Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
- 1946Barry Gibb, English singer (Bee Gees)
- 1946Greg Errico, American drummer (Sly & the Family Stone)
- 1946Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009)
- 1947Al Green, American politician
- 1948Józef Życiński, Polish archbishop and philosopher
- 1948James Rebhorn, American actor
- 1949P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
- 1950Phil McGraw, American talk show host
- 1950Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
- 1951David Bairstow, England cricketer (d. 1998)
- 1951Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (d. 1996)
- 1952Phil Hendrie, American radio personality
- 1953Beau Billingslea, American voice actor
- 1953Ted Petty, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
- 1954Dave Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1955Billy Blanks, American martial artist
- 1955Bruce Foxton, English bassist (The Jam)
- 1956Bernie Wagenblast, American broadcaster and editor
- 1956Philece Sampler, American voice artist
- 1956Vinnie Johnson, American basketball player
- 1957Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball coach
- 1957Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer
- 1958Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (d. 2002)
- 1959Kenny Mayne, American sports journalist
- 1960Joseph Williams, American singer and film score composer
- 1961Christopher Ferguson, American astronaut
- 1961Scott “Bam Bam” Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
- 1962Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
- 1962Tony Cascarino, Irish footballer
- 1963Carola Smit, Dutch singer
- 1963Stephen Kernahan, Australian rules footballer
- 1964Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1964Cécilia Rhode, Swedish model
- 1964Holly Golightly, American cartoonist
- 1964Ray D'Arcy, Irish DJ and TV presenter
- 1965Ľudovít Kaník, Slovak politician
- 1965Tibor Simon, Hungarian football player
- 1966Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
- 1967David Whissell, Quebec politician
- 1967Sparky Marcus, American actor
- 1968Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
- 1969Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer
- 1970Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
- 1970Mitsou, Canadian singer, television and radio host, actress
- 1970Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress
- 1970Vanna, Croatian singer
- 1971DJ Cocoa Chanelle, djer
- 1971Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer
- 1971Jimmy Reiher, Jr., American professional wrestler
- 1971Joe Enochs, American soccer player
- 1971Lââm, French singer
- 1971Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor
- 1971Yoshitaka Hirota, Japanese composer
- 1972Doug Williams, British professional wrestler
- 1973J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)
- 1973Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
- 1973Zach Thomas, American football player
- 1974Burn Gorman, American-born British actor
- 1974Jason Taylor, American football player
- 1974Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
- 1974Yutaka Yamamoto, Japanese anime director
- 1975Cuttino Mobley, American basketball player
- 1975Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian actress and singer
- 1975Nomy Lamm, American singer-songwriter
- 1975Omar Rodríguez-López, Puerto Rican musician
- 1975R. Kan Albay, Flemish film director
- 1975Scott Speedman, English-born actor
- 1976Clare Connor, England Woman cricketer
- 1976Erik Morales, Mexican boxer
- 1976Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver
- 1976Polly Shannon, Canadian actress
- 1976Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
- 1977Aamir Ali, Indian television actor
- 1977Aaron Schobel, American football player
- 1977Arsalan Iftikhar, American attorney and Muslim advocate
- 1977David Albelda, Spanish footballer
- 1977Raffaele Giammaria, Italian racing driver
- 1977Shoshana Bean, American stage actress
- 1978Adam Yahiye Gadahn, American-born al-Qaeda operative
- 1978Max Vieri, Australian soccer player
- 1979James O'Connor, Irish footballer
- 1979Neg Dupree, British comedian and actor
- 1980Chris Riggott, English footballer
- 1980Nigar Jamal, Azerbaijani singer
- 1980Sammy Adjei, Ghanaian footballer
- 1980Sean Stewart, American songwriter, musician, model and the son of Rod Stewart
- 1981Adam Quick, Australian basketball player
- 1981Clinton Portis, American football player
- 1981Matthew McGuire, Australian Rower
- 1981Michael Adamthwaite, Canadian voice actor
- 1982Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
- 1982Paul Dumbrell, Australian racing driver
- 1982Ryan Gomes, American basketball player
- 1983Jeff Woywitka, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
- 1984Joe Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
- 1984László Köteles, Hungarian football player
- 1984Nick Noble, American football player
- 1984Rod Pelley, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985Camile Velasco, Filipino-American singer
- 1985Larsen Jensen, American swimmer
- 1986Anthony Allen, English rugby union player
- 1986Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
- 1987Dann Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore)
- 1988Gabriel Ferrari, American footballer
- 1988Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1988Simona de Silvestro, Swiss racing driver
- 1989Bill Kaulitz, German singer
- 1989Daniel Sturridge, English footballer
- 1992Cristiano Biraghi, Italian footballer
- 1992Kirani James, Grenadian sprinter
- 1993Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
- 1994Bianca Ryan, American singer
- 1996Zendaya, American actress
Who Died On September 1?
- 1067Baldwin V of Flanders
- 1126Prince Álmos, Hungarian prince
- 1159Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)
- 1256Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
- 1414William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
- 1557Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
- 1581Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
- 1600Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
- 1615Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)
- 1648Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
- 1678Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish Baroque painter (b. 1601)
- 1685Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)
- 1687Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
- 1715François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
- 1715King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
- 1818Robert Calder, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1745)
- 1838William Clark, American explorer, part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (b. 1770)
- 1839Izidor Guzmics, Hungarian theologian (b. 1786)
- 1868Ferencz Gyulai, Hungarian nobleman (b. 1798)
- 1922Samu Pecz, Hungarian architect and academic (b. 1854)
- 1928Elemér Bokor, Hungarian entomologist (b. 1887)
- 1930Peeter Põld, Estonian pedagogic scientist and politician (b. 1878)
- 1943Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
- 1947Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
- 1953Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
- 1957Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
- 1964Ferenc Joachim, Hungarian painter (b. 1882)
- 1967Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)
- 1967Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886)
- 1969Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
- 1970François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
- 1977Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896)
- 1981Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)
- 1981Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)
- 1982Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
- 1982Władysław Gomułka, Polish communist leader (b. 1905)
- 1983Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)
- 1983Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)
- 1985Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
- 1986Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
- 1988Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
- 1989A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
- 1989Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish inventor (b. 1894)
- 1990Seub Nakhasathien, Thai conservationist (b. 1949)
- 1991Otl Aicher, German graphic designer (b. 1922)
- 1994Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
- 1997Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian football player (b. 1929)
- 1998Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
- 1998Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (b. 1930)
- 1999W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
- 2001Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
- 2003Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
- 2004Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
- 2005R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)
- 2005Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
- 2006Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)
- 2006György Faludy, Hungarian-Jewish author and translator (b. 1910)
- 2006Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
- 2006Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
- 2006Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
- 2007Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
- 2008Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
- 2008Jerry Reed, American musician and actor (b. 1937)
- 2008Oded Schramm, Israeli-American mathematician (b. 1961)
- 2009Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress (b. 1974)
- 2010Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (b. 1928)
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