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September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). There are 121 days remaining.

Events

5509 BC - The world was created, according to the Byzantine calendar.

327 - start of first indiction cycle

1644 - Battle of Tippermuir, Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving Royalist cause

1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years — longer than any major European monarch.

1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.

1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.

1807 - Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason. He had been accused of plotting to annex parts of Louisiana and Mexico to become part of an independent republic.

1836 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.

1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly - Confederate General Robert E. Lee leads his forces in an attack on retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia, driving them away.

1864 - American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege mounted by Union General William T. Sherman.

1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.

1894 - Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 400 people.

1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.

1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.

1914 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.

1914 - The last Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.

1923 - An earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama killing about 100,000 people. See Great Kanto earthquake for details.

1928 - Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.

1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the war. (See Polish September Campaign.)

1951 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty (for "Australia, New Zealand, United States").

1960 - Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the history of the company.

1962 - Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.

1969 - A coup in Libya brings Col. Moammar Qaddafi to power, ousting King Idris I.

1970 - The last episode of the television sitcom I Dream of Jeannie airs on NBC. The show premiered on September 18, 1965.

1972 - In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.

1979 - The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.

1983 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight KAL-007 shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die.

1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.

1986 - The Soviet sea-liner Admiral Nakhimov collides with the bulk carrier Petr Vasev and sinks almost immediately, killing 448.

1991 - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is released in North America.

1991 - Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union

1999 - A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 74, including 10 on the ground.

2001 - In the largest media market change in North American television history, every single commercial television station in Vancouver, British Columbia switches network affiliations after a round of ownership changes in 2000.