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                                                                       Sept 2

31 BC Battle of Actium: Octavian's (later Augustus) naval forces defeat those under Mark Antony and Cleopatra off the western coast of Greece; naval battle leading to the end of the Roman Republic 

1192 Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign the Treaty of Jaffa ending the Third Crusade in a compromise neither is happy with; treaty leaves Jerusalem under Islamic control with Christian pilgrimage rights and restores the Kingdom of Jerusalem

1666 Great Fire of London begins at 2am at a baker's shop in Pudding Lane, destroying 80% of London

1792 September Massacres of the French Revolution: rampaging mobs in Paris slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than 200 priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers 

1864 US Civil War: Union General William T. Sherman captures and occupies Atlanta, Georgia, ending the Atlanta Campaign in the US Civil War 

1931 American crooner Bing Crosby makes his solo radio debut on his "15 Minutes with Bing Crosby" program broadcast on the CBS Network 

1949 "The Third Man," directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles, is released in the United Kingdom (Academy Awards Best Cinematography 1950)

1965 Chicago Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his MLB 400th career HR (off Curt Simmons) in a 5-3 win over St. Louis at Wrigley Field; Simmons also gave up Willie Mays' 400th HR in 1963

1969 The first automated teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York

1972 Rod Stewart's first #1 hit single in the UK, "You Wear It Well"

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                                                                                      Sept 1

1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years, the longest of any major European monarch 

1785 Mozart publishes his 6th String Quartet, Opus 10 in Vienna

1878 First female telephone operator starts work, Emma Nutt, for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston 

1905 Wilfrid Laurier oversees Alberta and Saskatchewan joining the Confederation of Canada as its 8th and 9th provinces, both separated from the Northwest Territories

1914 The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio

1939 World War II begins when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig 

1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Star of David 

1951 US, Australia, and New Zealand sign the ANZUS mutual defense treaty 

1954 "Rear Window," directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, is released by Paramount Pictures 

1962 United Nations announces Earth's population has hit 3 billion

1969 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposes King Idris in the Libyan Revolution

1972 American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeats Russian champion Boris Spassky 12.5-8.5 in Reykjavik, Iceland, in the most publicized world title match ever played; Fischer becomes the first American to win the title

2016 NFL San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the US national anthem before pre-season game against the Chargers at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US

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                                                                     AUG 31

1142 Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League [disputed date - other research places date between 1450 and 1660]        

1854 A major outbreak of cholera occurs in Soho, London; physician John Snow calls it "the most terrible outbreak of cholera which ever occurred in this kingdom"

1888 The body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, is found in Whitechapel in London's East End

1897 Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope (Kinetographic camera), a device that produces moving pictures (US patent 589168)

1909 A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball 

1917 Sun Yat-sen and his supporters' rump parliament establish a military government in Guangzhou, China, and elect him generalissimo 

1940 British "Wuthering Heights" actor Laurence Olivier (33) weds British"Gone With The Wind" actress Vivien Leigh (26), at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California; second marriage for both end in divorce in 1960

1945 The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies 

1947 NY Giants set a season record for HRs by a club with 183 and end the season with 221

1957 Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain 1994 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland 

1993 50th Venice Film Festival: "Short Cuts" directed by Robert Altman and "Three Colors: Blue" directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski are jointly awarded the Golden Lion

1994 A Pentium computer running Richard Lang's ChessGenius 2 program defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov 

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris

1999 "Fly," the 5th studio album by the Dixie Chicks is released (Grammy Award Best Country Album 2000, Billboard Album of the Year 2000)

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                                                                    Aug 30

1146 European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time 

1363 Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders, Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang, clash in one of the largest naval battles in history during the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty 

1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590) 

1682 William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World

1862 Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia, ends with a Confederate victory over Union forces 

1871 New Zealand’s Ernest Rutherford, the first man to “split” the atom, and who would become world-famous as “the Father Of Nuclear Physics” was born 

1905 Detroit Tigers future Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder Ty Cobb makes his MLB debut, doubling off Jack Chesbro in a 5-3 win over the New York Highlanders at Bennett Park in Detroit

1914 Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) in East Prussia ends in the destruction of the Russian Second Army, with 122,000-170,000 soldiers killed, injured, or captured by the German 8th Army led by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff 

1928 Jawaharlal Nehru submits the Nehru Report, officially requesting independence for India and outlining a federal constitution with reserved seats for minorities

1963 Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the Kremlin in Moscow is installed. Often known as the "red telephone," no phones are ever used, relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines, and later, secure email. 

1968 The Beatles release the single "Hey Jude," their first record on their Apple label in the UK

1976 Tom Brokaw starts as news anchor of NBC's "The Today Show"

1979 First recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the Sun releases energy equal to one million hydrogen bombs 

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AUG 29

1526 Battle of Mohács: In a decisive battle, the Kingdom of Hungary is conquered by the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent 

1825 Portugal recognizes the independence of its former colony Brazil 

1842 United Kingdom and China sign the Treaty of Nanking, ending the First Opium War

1862 Second Battle of Bull Run begins in Manassas, Virginia, leading to a Confederate victory in the US Civil War 

1882 Australia beats England by 7 runs in a match dubbed the "Death of English cricket" as Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth takes 14-90 (7-46 and 7-44)

1833 Britain’s first Factory Act came into law on this day. It was passed mainly to save children from the dreadful conditions that they endured in their workplace

1883 Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption cause a rise in the English Channel 32 hours after the explosion 

1949 Soviet Union secretly performs its first successful nuclear weapons test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

1958 Cliff Richard and the Drifters release their debut single "Move It," credited as the first British rock 'n' roll song

1967 Final episode of television drama series "The Fugitive" starring David Janssen is watched by 78 million people

2005 Hurricane Katrina makes its second and third landfalls as a Category 3 hurricane, devastating much of the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 people and causing over $115 billion in damage

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                                                           Aug 28

1189 Third Crusade: Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan 

1207 King John of England grants small town of Liverpool a charter (right to elect a mayor and aldermen) 

1609 English explorer Henry Hudson is the first European to sail into Delaware Bay, naming it South Bayonthisday.

1830 The first American-built locomotive, "Tom Thumb," races a horse-drawn car from the Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills; due to mechanical problems, the horse wins! 

1837 Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire sauce 

1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue

1884 1st Photograph of a Tornado One of the 1st known photographs of a tornado, taken by F.N. Robinson

1917 Ten suffragists are arrested while picketing the White House 

1956 17th Venice Film Festival opens: no Golden Lion awarded 

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom civil rights march at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. 

1965 Bob Dylan is booed for playing electric guitar during a concert at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York City 

1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut becomes a media darling at the Munich Olympics, winning gold in the team all-around, followed by two individual golds and a silver

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Aug 27

479 BC Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Mycale is won by Greek forces over Persian naval troops on the Ionian coast 

479 BC Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Plataea, Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by a Greek army under Pausanias; a double victory with the success at Mycale that ends the Persian invasion 

663 Battle of Baekgang: Tang Chinese and Silla Korean forces defeat Baekje Korean forces and their Yamato Japanese allies on the Geum River in Korea, the last Japanese invasion of Korea for 900 years 

1789 French National Assembly issues the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen"

1883 Krakatoa volcano, located west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 200 megatons of TNT, killing approximately 36,000 people 

1896 Britain defeats Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 am - 9:40 am), the shortest recorded war in history 

1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, 60 nations agree to condemn the "recourse to war for the solution of international controversies" 

1950 First transmission of a TV program from continental Europe airs on the BBC 

1955 Guinness Book of World Records is first published 

1964 Walt Disney's musical film "Mary Poppins," directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, with songs by Richard and Robert Sherman, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California, and wins five Academy Awards

1965 The Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley at his Los Angeles, California, home

1979 Lord Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and last Viceroy of India, is killed along with three companions, two of whom are children, by the IRA when his boat is blown up near Sligo, Ireland 

2004 German kayaker Birgit Fischer wins gold in K-4 500 m and silver in K-2 500 m in Athens; she is the first woman in any sport to win gold medals at six different Olympics, with golds 24 years apart, and the first person to win two or more medals in five different Games

2008 US Senator Barack Obama becomes the first African American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States, by the Democratic Party

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                                                                   AUG 26

1346 Battle of Crécy: Edward III's English longbows defeat Philip VI's army south of Calais in northern France; cannons are used for the first time in battle 

1682 English astronomer Edmond Halley first observes the comet named after him 

1873 The first free kindergarten in the United States is started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri

1907 Harry Houdini escapes from chains underwater in 57 seconds at Aquatic Park in San Francisco, California 

1937 General Franco's Nationalist troops conquer Santander during the Spanish Civil War

1951 The film "An American in Paris," with music by George Gershwin, directed by Vincente Minnelli, and starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, premieres in London (Academy Award for Best Picture, 1952)

1959 British Motor Corporation introduces the Morris Mini-Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis; it is only 10 feet long yet seats four passengers

1968 "Hey Jude" single is released by the Beatles in the US (Billboard Song of the Year 1968, Billboard 10th biggest song of all time 2013)

1971 Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million-dollar contract in NHL history

1996 US President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing a major shift in welfare policy

2013 All 25,000 applicants to the University of Liberia fail their university entrance examination