This Month In History September - From Our Bookshelf

It is time for This Month In History September edition.

September In History

September in history includes earthquakes, a fire, Google, T.V. facts, and more.

September 1^st

1923 In Japan, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake kills over 100,000 people in Yokohama and Tokyo.
1939 WWII began when Hitler invaded Poland.

September 2^nd

1666 The Great Fire of London England which spread across the city destroying much of it.
1944 Lieutenant George H.W. Bush, who became the 41^st U.S. President, was shot down during WWII.

September 3^rd

1939 Great Britain and France declared war on Germany.

September 4^th

1888 Kodak camera was patented by American inventor George Eastman
1998 Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin

September 5^th

1977 Voyager 1, a space probe was launched by NASA.
1997 Mother Teresa, a nun who devoted her life to the poor, died.

September 6^th

1901 William McKinley, the 25^th President of the United States, was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, in Buffalo, New York. President McKinley died on September 14^,1901. He became the third President to be assassinated.
1975 a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Turkey, killing over 2000 people

September 7^th

1822 Brazil declared independence from Portugal
1940 Nighttime bombing raids on London, England by Nazi Germany began. It was on the first day of 57 consecutive nights during WWII. The event would be known as the “London Blitz”
1979 ESPN began broadcasting

September 8^th

1504 Michelangelo’s David was unveiled in Florence, Italy
1966 The first episode of Star Trek aired
1976 U.S President Gerald R. Ford, the 38^th President of the U.S., pardons his predecessor, Richard M. Nixon, the 37^th President of the U.S.

September 9th

1850 California became the 31st state.
1942 The Japanese attacked the U.S. mainland, near Brookings, Oregon, with a bomber launched from a submarine.

September 10th

1608 In colonial America, John Smith was elected president of Jamestown.
1939 Canada declared war on Germany

September 11

1974 The T.V. show Little House on the Prairie debuted.
2001 Terrorists hijacked four airplanes and carried out attacks on the United States. Two planes flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington D.C. and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. About 3,000 people were killed.

September 12

1953 Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier were married.
1959 The T.V. show Bonanza debuted.

September 13th

1959 The Soviet Luna, 2 or Lunik II, became the first spacecraft to reach the moon.

September 14th

1814 Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner
1752 England switched from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. Wednesday, September 2nd, 1752 was followed by Thursday, September 14th, 1752.
1901 President McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, died from the wounds he received when shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, in Buffalo, New York. He became the third President to be assassinated.

September 15th

1890 Agatha Christie, a popular English writer of crime and mystery novels, and one of the best selling writers of all time was born.
1935 Nazi Germany announces the Nuremberg Laws that ban marriages between Jews and non-Jews and stripped German Jews of their citizenship.

September 16th

1893 The largest land run in American history began when more than 100,000 people entered Oklahoma to claim land.
1908 General Motors was founded in Flint, Michigan
2004 Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf Coast near the Alabama-Florida border

September 17th

1787 The Constitution of the United States was signed.
1920 The National Football League, originally called the American Professional Football Association, was created.

September 18th

1793 President George Washington laid the cornerstone on the U.S Capitol building.
1810 Chili declared independence from Spain

September 19th

1985 Earthquake hits Mexico City killing around 10,000 people and injuring more than 30,000.
1994 ER made its television debut

September 20th

1519 Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain to search of a western route to the Spice Islands.
1984 Suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. embassy complex in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twelve people.

September 21st

1937 The Hobbit, by J.R.R Tolkien was published.
1947 American author Stephen King was born

September 22nd

1862 President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

September 23

1806 American explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis after making the journey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast.
1948 German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.

September 24th

1834 Johann Strauss the elder, a popular Austrian composer, died at the age of 45.

September 25th

1932 Barbara Walters, a famous American T.V. broadcaster was born.
1957 U.S. Army troops escorted nine black students to school at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

September 26th

1898 George Gershwin, an American composer was born.
1902 Levi Strauss, entrepreneur and American inventor of the blue jeans, died.
1960 The first televised presidential debate was aired. It was between candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.

September 27th

1935 American actress, Judy Garland, signed her first contract with MGM. She later went on to star in The Wizard of Oz.
1939 Warsaw surrenders to the Germans during WWII. 140,00 Polish troops were taken, prisoner.

September 28th

1994 The Swedish ship Estonia, a car and passenger ferry, sank in the Baltic Sea. It was one of the worst maritime disasters of the century.

September 29th

1911 Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1935 Jerry Lee Lewis, American Rock and Roll singer of “Great Balls of Fire”, was born.
1988 American Stacy Allison, of Portland, Oregon, became the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

September 30th