On this day: 1 September

Years ago today

Events · 28

• 1449(Julian date)
  Tumu Crisis — 1449 conflict between the Oirats and the Chinese Ming dynasty
• 1532(Julian date)
  Marquess of Pembroke — a title in the Peerage of England created by King Henry VIII for his future spouse Anne Boleyn
• 1644
  Battle of Tippermuir — 1644 battle of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
• 1774
  Powder Alarm — major popular reaction to the removal of gunpowder from a magazine by British soldiers under orders from General Thomas Gage, royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, on September 1, 1774
• 1831
  Order of St. Gregory the Great — honorary order of knighthood of the Holy See
• 1859
  solar storm of 1859 — geomagnetic solar storm
• 1862
  Northern Virginia Campaign — 1862 series of battles fought in Virginia during the American Civil War
• 1862
  Battle of Chantilly — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
• 1870
  Battle of Sedan — 1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
• 1880
  Battle of Kandahar — 1880 battle
• 1894
  Great Hinckley Fire — 1894 forest fire in Minnesota, U.S.
• 1905
  Alberta — province of Canada
• 1923
  1923 Great Kantō Earthquake — earthquake
• 1939
  World War II — 1939–1945 global conflict
• 1939
  1939 Invasion of Poland — German, Soviet, and Slovak attack on and takeover of Poland that marked the start of World War II
• 1939
  Iron Cross — military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1870–1918) and Nazi Germany
• 1939
  Battle of Westerplatte — first battle in the invasion of Poland, the beginning of the Second World War
• 1939
  European Theater of World War II — huge area of heavy fighting across Europe
• 1951
  ANZUS — collective security agreement between Australia, New Zealand and the United States
• 1961
  TWA Flight 529 — 1961 aviation accident in Willowbrook, Illinois
• 1969
  Libya — sovereign state in North Africa
• 1969
  1969 Libyan coup d'état — also known as the 'al-Fateh Revolution' or the '1 September Revolution'
• 1973
  rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman — rescue of the two crew of the submersible Pisces III
• 1981
  1981 Central African Republic coup d'état — Deposition of David Dacko by André Kolingba
• 1982
  Air Force Space Command — former United States Air Force major command responsible for spacecraft, space surveillance, and strategic missiles
• 1983
  Korean Air Lines Flight 007 crash — 1983 shoot-down of a civilian airliner over the then–Soviet Union
• 2004
  Beslan school siege — 2004 terrorist attack in North Ossetia, Russian Federation
• 2022
  attempted assassination of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner — September 2022 shooting attempt in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Births · 60

• 1145(Julian date)
  Ibn Jubayr — Arab traveller and geographer
• 1453
  Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba — Spanish general (1453-1515)
• 1653
  Johann Pachelbel — German composer, organist and teacher
• 1711
  William IV, Prince of Orange — hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands (1711-1751)
• 1751
  Emanuel Schikaneder — German actor and singer
• 1848
  Auguste Forel — Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (1848-1931)
• 1854
  Engelbert Humperdinck — German composer (1854–1921)
• 1856(Julian date)
  Sergei Winogradsky — Ukrainian microbiologist (1856-1953)
• 1862
  Nitobe Inazō — Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
• 1874
  Talaat Paşa — Turkish Ottoman politician (1874–1921)
• 1875
  Edgar Rice Burroughs — American writer (1875–1950)
• 1877
  Francis William Aston — British chemist (1877-1945)
• 1887
  Blaise Cendrars — Swiss writer (1887-1961)
• 1896
  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada — Indian spiritual teacher and founder of the ISKCON
• 1906
  Joaquín Balaguer — President of the Dominican Republic (1906-2002)
• 1920
  Richard Farnsworth — American actor (1920–2000)
• 1921
  Willem Frederik Hermans — Dutch writer (1921–1995)
• 1922
  Vittorio Gassman — Italian actor (1922–2000)
• 1922
  Yvonne De Carlo — Canadian-born American actress, dancer and singer (1922–2007)
• 1923
  Rocky Marciano — American heavyweight boxing champion (1923-1969)
• 1925
  Roy J. Glauber — American theoretical physicist (1925–2018)
• 1931
  Michael O. Rabin — Israeli computer scientist
• 1933
  Ann Richards — American politician (1933–2006)
• 1935
  Seiji Ozawa — Japanese orchestra conductor (1935–2024)
• 1936
  Valery Legasov — Soviet nuclear chemist, chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster (1936-1988)

Deaths · 60

• 1159(Julian date)
  Adrian IV — Pope from 1154 to 1159
• 1198
  Dulce of Aragon — Portuguese queen consort
• 1256(Julian date)
  Kujō Yoritsune — 4th shogun of the Kamakura shogunate
• 1327
  Foulques de Villaret — nobleman from Gevaudan, having belonged to the order of the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem of which he was Grand Master from 1306 to 1319 ; took Rhodes in 1310, the siege of which was initiated by his uncle Guilhèm
• 1339(Julian date)
  Henry XIV, Duke of Bavaria — Duke of Lower Bavaria
• 1375(Julian date)
  Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans — son of King Philipp VI of France
• 1443(Julian date)
  Zeami Motokiyo — Japanese aesthetician and playwright
• 1480
  Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg — Count of Württemberg-Stuttgart
• 1581(Julian date)
  Guru Ram Das — guru of Sikhism
• 1599
  Cornelis de Houtman — Dutch explorer
• 1615
  Étienne Pasquier — French lawyer (1529-1615)
• 1648
  Marin Mersenne — French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (1588-1648)
• 1678
  Jan Brueghel the Younger — Flemish painter (1601–1678)
• 1687
  — English philosopher (1614–1687)
• 1715
  Louis XIV of France — King of France and Navarre from 1643 to 1715 (1638-1715)
• 1715
  François Girardon — sculptor from France (1628–1715)
• 1838
  William Clark — American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor (1770-1838)
• 1934
  Yumeji Takehisa — Japanese artist (1884-1934)
• 1944
  Liviu Rebreanu — Romanian writer (1885-1944)
• 1948
  Feng Yuxiang — Chinese general and politician, took part in overthrowing Qing Empire, a warlord during the Republican era (1882-1948)
• 1951
  Nellie McClung — Canadian author, social activist, suffragette & politician (1873-1951)
• 1953
  Jacques Thibaud — French violinist
• 1967
  Siegfried Sassoon — English war poet and writer (1886-1967)
• 1970
  François Mauriac — French writer (1885-1970)
• 1972
  He Xiangning — Chinese politician and artist (1878-1972)