September 1: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). There are 121 days remaining.

Events

• 5509 BC - The world was created, according to the Byzantine Empire.
• 462 - possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle
• 1532 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancée, King Henry VIII of England
• 1644 - Battle of Tippermuir, Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving Royalist cause
• 1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years — the longest of any major European monarch.
• 1752 - The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
• 1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
• 1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
• 1807 - Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason.
• 1836 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly - Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
• 1873 - Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
• 1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
• 1894 - Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 400 people.
• 1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.
• 1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
• 1906 - the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
• 1914 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
• 1914 - The last Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
• 1923 - The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 100,000 people.
• 1928 - Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
• 1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the war. (See Polish September Campaign.)
• 1939 - George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
• 1939 - The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht and SS soldiers is instituted.
• 1951 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
• 1954 - Paul "Bear" Bryant opens his infamous 10-day football mini-camp in Junction, Texas: The Junction Boys.
• 1960 - Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the history of the company.
• 1962 - Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.
• 1969 - A coup in Libya brings Col. Moammar Qaddafi to power, ousting King Idris I.
• 1970 - The last episode of the television sitcom I Dream of Jeannie airs on NBC. The show premiered on September 18, 1965.
• 1972 - In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.
• 1975 - The last original episode of the American television series Gunsmoke airs on CBS after a record 20-year run.
• 1979 - The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
• 1980 - Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea after the resignation of Choi Kyu-ha.
• 1983 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight KAL-007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed.
• 1990 - The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey.
• 1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
• 1991 - Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
• 1999 - A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 74, including 10 on the ground.
• 2001 - Almost every single commercial television station in Vancouver, British Columbia switches network affiliations after a round of ownership changes in 2000 - the largest change in North America.
• 2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of schoolchildren and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.

• 1453 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and statesman (d. 1515)
• 1566 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)
• 1588 - Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646)
• 1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)
• 1653 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)
• 1711 - William Boyce, English composer (d. 1779)
• 1711 - William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)
• 1726 - François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (d. 1795)
• 1734 - Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter (d. 1797)
• 1848 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)
• 1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)
• 1855 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)
• 1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)
• 1877 - Francis William Aston, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
• 1887 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
• 1888 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and World Health Organization diplomat (d. 1958)
• 1889 - Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)
• 1899 - Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (d. 1951)
• 1905 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)
• 1906 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)
• 1906 - Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)
• 1907 - Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)
• 1913 - Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
• 1920 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1921 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d. 1995)
• 1922 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian actress
• 1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)
• 1923 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
• 1925 - Art Pepper, musician (d. 1982)
• 1929 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
• 1933 - Ann W. Richards, American politician
• 1933 - Conway Twitty, American country music singer (d. 1993)
• 1935 - Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
• 1939 - Lily Tomlin, American actress, comedienne
• 1944 - Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
• 1946 - Barry Gibb, Manx-Australian singer
• 1946 - Roh Moo-Hyun, President of Korea
• 1947 - Al Green, American politician
• 1947 - Stephen King, American author
• 1949 - P.A. Sangma, Indian politician
• 1950 - Phillip Fulmer, American football coach
• 1950 - Dr. Phil, American television talk show host
• 1951 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician
• 1952 - Phil Hendrie, American radio personality
• 1955 - Billy Blanks, American martial artist
• 1955 - Bruce Foxton, English bassist (The Jam)
• 1957 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban singer
• 1962 - Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
• 1966 - Tim Hardaway, American basketball player
• 1970 - Vanna, Croatian singer
• 1974 - Jhonen Vasquez, comic book artist
• 1975 - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, guitarist for The Mars Volta
• 1977 - Aaron Schobel, American football player
• 1981 - Clinton Portis, American football player
• 1983 - Jose Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer
• 1984 - Joseph Trohman, American Guitarist for Fall Out Boy
• 1985 - Ciara-Camile Roque Velasco, American singer

• 921 - Richard, Duke of Burgundy
• 1067 - Baldwin V of Flanders
• 1159 - Pope Adrian IV
• 1256 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
• 1414 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
• 1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
• 1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
• 1581 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
• 1600 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (b. 1525)
• 1615 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (b. 1529)
• 1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
• 1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer and diplomat (b. 1625)
• 1687 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
• 1715 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
• 1715 - King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
• 1943 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief
• 1957 - Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b. 1921)
• 1967 - Siegfried Sassoon, English poet and author (b. 1886)
• 1969 - Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
• 1970 - Francois Mauriac, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1977 - Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896)
• 1981 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)
• 1981 - Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1983 - Henry M. Jackson, U.S. Senator from Washington (b. 1912)
• 1988 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
• 1999 - W. Richard Stevens, Author of Unix Network Programming and several books and IETF RFC documents (b. 1951)
• 2003 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
• 2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
• 2005 - R.L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)

• In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the new liturgical year begins on September 1. Also see September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
• Church of England - Saint Giles
• Cameroon - Jour d'Union Nationale Camerounaise
• Libya - Revolution Day (1969)
• Russia - Knowledge Day
• Singapore - Teacher's Day
• Slovakia - Constitution Day
• Uzbekistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
• Start of the season when oysters are fit to eat (when month names contain an "R"). Which is also the season to have a common cold.
• Start of the partridge-shooting season ("St.Partridge").
• Start of new school year in many countries.

• W.H. Auden wrote the poem September 1, 1939 upon hearing the news of the German Nazis invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939.
• In the Harry Potter books September 1, the day on which the Hogwarts Express departs from Platform 9¾, always falls on a Sunday; this means that the first day of lessons is always a Monday.

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