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September On This Day In History9/331 BC - Battle of Actium - forces of Octavian defeat troops of Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
1666 - Great Fire of London begins - 80% of London is destroyed
1902 - "A Trip To The Moon", the first science fiction film, released
1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the U.S. is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1944 - Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz
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9/41972 - Mark Spitz became the first person to win 7 gold medals at a single Olympic event.
2002 - Singer Kelly Clarkson was voted the first "American Idol"
2006 - "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin died
1888 - George Eastman received a patent
1981 - Singer Beyonce Knowles was born
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9/51793 - In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins
1836 - Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas
1885 - 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)
1966 - Jerry Lewis' 1st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $15,000
1994 - San Francisco 49ers Jerry Rice catches NFL record 127th touchdown pass
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9/61901, President William B. McKinley was shot and mortally wounded
1916 – The Piggly Wiggly opened in Memphis, Tenn., by Clarence Saunders.
2007 - Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.
1997 – A funeral service for Princess Diana took place at Westminster Abbey.
1941 – Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow stars
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9/81504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.
1565 - 1st permanent settlement in US forms (St Augustine, Florida)
1882 - 1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)
In its original form it read:
"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
1966 - "Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV
1974 - President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes
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9/92009 - Rep. Joe Wilson, shouted "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's speech.
1976 - Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong died.
1776 - Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies)
1904 - Mounted police 1st used in NYC
1971 - John Lennon releases "Imagine" album
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9/101610 - John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.
1846 - Elias Howe received a patent for the sewing machine.
1924 - Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb sentenced to life in prison.
2000 - "Cats" closed. It is the longest-running show in Broadway history, 7,485 shows.
1968 – Rapper Big Daddy Kane was born
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9/112001 –The World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania.
2009 - Michael Jordan goes into the basketball Hall of Fame.
1985 - Pete Rose gets his 4,192nd hit
1997 - Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
1789 - Alexander Hamilton became the first secretary of the treasury
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9/121609 - English explorer Henry Hudson
sailed into a river.
1944 - U.S. Army troops entered
Germany for the first time during
World War II.
1953 - Sen. John F. Kennedy married
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
2003 - Country musician Johnny Cash
died at age 71.
1959 - "Bonanza" premiered on NBC.
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9/131788 - The Congress authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary national capital.
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.
1948 - Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
1949 - The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America was formed in New York City.
2001 - Osama bin Laden named as the prime suspect in the 9/11 attacks
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9/151904 - Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
2008 - Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy– the largest in U.S. history.
2004 - National Hockey League owners locked out the players.
1935 - The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany
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9/161630 - The Massachusetts’s village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.
1638 - France's King Louis XIV was born.
1940 - FDR signed into law the first peacetime military draft inU.S. history.
1908 - General Motors were formed
1810 - Mexico began a successful revolt against Spanish rule.
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9/171862 - Battle of Antietam
1787 - The U.S. Constitution was completed and signed
1972 - The comedy series "M.A.S.H." premiered on CBS.
1920 - The American Professional Football Association - a precursor of the National Football League - was formed
1976 - NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise.
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9/181947 - The National Security Act
1793 – The Capitol cornerstone is put in place substitute
1862 - Robert E. Lee’s army pulls away from Antietam Creek and heads back toVirginia. George B. McClellan does not follow.
1974 - Patricia Hearst, the 19-year-old daughter of newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped
1973 - Future President Jimmy Carter files a report claiming he had seen an UFO in October 1969.
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9/19 1881 - James A. Garfield died of wounds inflicted by an assassin.
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby.
2010 - The BP oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico was sealed
1995 - The New York Times and The Washington Post published the Unabomber's manifesto.
1930 - Adam West, Actor ("Batman"), was born.
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9/221776 - Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British
2008 - The U.S. Mint unveiled the first changes to the penny in 50 years
2004 - "Lost" premiered on ABC.
1949 - The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.
1862 - Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
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9/23 1952 - Vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on television to deliver the ``Checkers'' speech
63B.C. - Caesar Augustus was born in Rome.
1779 - John Paul Jones is said to have declared, "I have not yet begun to fight!" during a naval battle.
1806 - The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest.
1846 - Neptune was discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle
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9/241996 - The United States signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
1968 - "60 Minutes" premiered on CBS.
1789 - Congress passed the First Judiciary Act
1957 - The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field
1936 - Jim Henson was born
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9/251493 - Christopher Columbus set sail on his second voyage
1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British
1789 - The first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution
1956 - The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable went into service.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice of the Supreme Court.
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9/261960 - The first televised presidential debate
1789 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first secretary of state
1957 - The musical "West Side Story" opened on Broadway.
1969 - The album "Abbey Road" by the Beatles was released.
1914 - The Federal Trade Commission was established.
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9/271964 - The Warren Commission concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
1540 - Pope Paul III issued a papal bull establishing the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits
1825 - The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated
1928 - The United States recognized the Nationalist Chinese government.
1999 - Tiger Stadium closed after 87 years as home of baseball's Detroit Tigers.
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9/291789 - The U.S. War Department established a regular army
1954 - Willie Mays made a running catch with his back to home plate in Game 1 of the World Series.
1957 - Baseball's New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds
480BC - Battle of Salamis
1915 - Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
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9/301938 - British, French and Italian leaders agreed to let Nazi Germany annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
2007 - Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre completed his 421st career touchdown pass, breaking Dan Marino's NFL record
1982 - The situation comedy "Cheers" premiered on NBC.
1946 - An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
1955 - Actor James Dean was killed in a car accident at age 24.
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