1 September
Notable Births
An Yu-jin
b. 2003
South Korean singer (born 2003)
Diane Parry
b. 2002
French tennis player (born 2002)
Mikhail Iakovlev
b. 2000
Israeli cyclist (born 2000)
Pratika Rawal
b. 2000
Indian cricketer (born 2000)
Cam Reddish
b. 1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Josh Battle
b. 1998
Australian rules footballer
Josh Okogie
b. 1998
Nigerian basketball player (born 1998)
Jung Kook
b. 1997
South Korean singer (born 1997)
Joan Mir
b. 1997
Spanish motorcycle racer (born 1997)
Zendaya
b. 1996
American actress and singer (born 1996)
Nathan MacKinnon
b. 1995
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1995)
Anna Smolina
b. 1994
Russian tennis player
Carlos Sainz Jr.
b. 1994
Spanish racing driver (born 1994)
Mario Lemina
b. 1993
Gabonese footballer (born 1993)
Cristiano Biraghi
b. 1992
Italian footballer (born 1992)
Kirani James
b. 1992
Grenadian sprinter (born 1992)
Tomáš Nosek
b. 1992
Czech ice hockey player (born 1992)
Woo Hye-rim
b. 1992
South Korean singer (born 1992)
Rhys Bennett (footballer, born 1991)
b. 1991
English footballer (born 1991)
Walter Reuther
b. 1907
American labor union leader and progressive activist (1907–1970)
Notable Deaths
Joe Bugner
d. 2025
British-Australian boxer and actor (1950–2025)
Linda Deutsch
d. 2024
American journalist (1943–2024)
Jimmy Buffett
d. 2023
American singer-songwriter (1946–2023)
Barbara Ehrenreich
d. 2022
American writer and journalist (1941–2022)
Yang Yongsong
d. 2022
Chinese military officer (1919–2022)
Erick Morillo
d. 2020
American DJ (1971–2020)
Randy Weston
d. 2018
American jazz pianist and composer (1926–2018)
Gurgen Dalibaltayan
d. 2015
Armenian military commander (1926–2015)
Dean Jones (actor)
d. 2015
American actor (1931–2015)
Richard G. Hewlett
d. 2015
American historian
Ben Kuroki
d. 2015
United States Army Air Forces soldier
Ahmed Abdi Godane
d. 2014
First leader of Al-Shabaab (2008–2014)
Roger McKee
d. 2014
American baseball player (1926-2014)
Joseph Shivers
d. 2014
American textile chemist (1920–2014)
Gordon Steege
d. 2013
Royal Australian Air Force fighter pilot
Ken Wallis
d. 2013
British aviator, inventor & engineer (1916–2013)
Sean Bergin
d. 2012
Musical artist
Hal David
d. 2012
American lyricist (1921–2012)
William Petzäll
d. 2012
Swedish politician (1988–2012)
Arnaldo Putzu
d. 2012
Italian artist (1927–2012)
On This Day in History
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2008
Iraq War: The United States Armed Forces transfers control of Anbar Province to the Iraqi Armed Forces.
Iraq War
2004
The Beslan school siege begins when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school staff hostage in North Ossetia, Russia; by the end of the siege, three days later, more than 385 people are dead (including hostages, other civilians, security personnel and terrorists).
Beslan school siege
1985
The wreck of the Titanic is discovered by an American-French expedition led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel.
Titanic
1983
Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the commercial aircraft strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
Cold War
1982
The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
United States Space Force Combat Forces Command
1981
Central African President David Dacko is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General André Kolingba.
David Dacko
1974
The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of one hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
1973
A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Celtic Sea resulted in the Rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman.
Celtic Sea
1969
A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
1969 Libyan revolution
1967
Six-Day War: The Khartoum Resolution is issued at the Arab Summit, and eight countries adopt the "three 'no's against Israel".
Six-Day War
1961
TWA Flight 529 crashed shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport in Chicago, killing all 78 people on board. At the time, it was the deadliest single plane disaster in U.S. history.
TWA Flight 529
1944
World War II: Launch of Operation Ratweek, complicating German retreat.
World War II
1939
World War II: Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
World War II
1939
J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder publish the Oppenheimer–Snyder model, proving for the first time in contemporary physics how black holes could develop.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
1923
The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
Great Kantō Earthquake
1897
The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
Tremont Street subway
1894
Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
Great Hinckley Fire
1880
The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
Mohammad Ayub Khan (Afghanistan)
1878
Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
Emma Nutt
1873
Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
Cetshwayo