September 1 is the 244th day of the year(245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 121 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).
NATIONAL CHICKEN BOY DAY
NATIONAL CHICKEN BOY DAY
717 – The Siege of Constantinople: The Muslim armada with 1,800 ships, is defeated by the Byzantine navy through the use of Greek fire.
1270 – King Stephen V of Hungary writes his walk to the antiquum castellum near Miholjanec, where the Sword of Attila was recently discovered.
1604 – Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib.
1715 – King Louis XIV of France (Louis the Great or The Sun King) dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
1804 – Juno (3 Juno), one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1864 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1880 – The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
1914 – St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd (under Lenin). Later it is changed to Leningrad (three days after Lenin's death in 1924), then back to St. Petersburg (as part of the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991).
1920 – The Fountain of Time opens in Chicago as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
1974 – The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane 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 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).
1979 – The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometers (13,000 mi).
1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (a Boeing 747-230B) 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.
1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1795 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American publisher, founded the New York Herald (d. 1872)
1866 – James J. Corbett, American boxer (d. 1933)
1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author ― Tarzan and John Carter (d. 1950)
1931 – Boxcar Willie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
1944 – Leonard Slatkin, American conductor and composer
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
2004 – The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed Islamic Ingush and Chechen terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia. The seige would last 1000 days with a total of 385 people dying, including 186 children.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1795 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American publisher, founded the New York Herald (d. 1872)
1866 – James J. Corbett, American boxer (d. 1933)
1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author ― Tarzan and John Carter (d. 1950)
1931 – Boxcar Willie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
1944 – Leonard Slatkin, American conductor and composer
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
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