- 0608 - Saint Boniface IV becomes Pope.
- 0668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
- 0921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
- 0973 - Al-Biruni was born (d. 1048). Mathematician.
- 1254 - Marco Polo was born (d. 1324). Italian explorer.
- 1500 - John Morton dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1514 - Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York.
- 1580 - Charles Annibal Fabrot was born (d. 1659). French lawyer
- 1584 - San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
- 1590 - Giambattista Catagna is elected as Pope Urban VII.
- 1596 - Leonhard Rauwolf dies (b. 1535). German physician and botanist
- 1613 - Thomas Overbury dies murdered (b. 1581). English writer.
- 1613 - François de La Rochefoucauld was born (d. 1680). French writer.
- 1643 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork dies (b. 1566). Irish politician
- 1644 - Giambattista Pamfili becomes Pope Innocent X, succeeding Pope Urban VII.
- 1649 - Titus Oates was born (d. 1705). English minister and plotter.
- 1649 - John Floyd dies (b. 1572). English Jesuit preacher
- 1683 - Germantown, Pennsylvania is founded by 13 immigrant families.
- 1700 - André Le Nôtre dies (b. 1613). French landscape architect
- 1701 - Edmé Boursault dies (b. 1638). French writer
- 1707 - George Stepney dies (b. 1663). English poet and diplomat
- 1712 - Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin dies. English politician
- 1749 - According to mathematical calculations, Pluto moves outside Neptune's orbit to remain the outermost planet until 1979.
- 1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel dies (b. 1690). German composer
- 1765 - Nascia, em Setúbal, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (Elmano Sadino) (m. 21 Dez 1805). Poeta português, possivelmente, o maior representante do arcadismo lusitano
- 1789 - The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as Department of Foreign Affairs).
- 1789 - James Fenimore Cooper was born (d. 1851). American novelist
- 1793 - Nasce Marquês de Sapucaí (m. 1875)
- 1821 - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua jointly declare independence from Spain.
- 1828 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov was born (d. 1886). Russian chemist.
- 1830 - The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens (see also deaths, below).
- 1830 - Porfirio Díaz was born (d. 1915). President of Mexico.
- 1830 - William Huskisson dies. First rail fatality
- 1831 - The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
- 1842 - Francisco Morazán was born. Center American politician
- 1851 - Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1852 - Edward Bouchet was born (d. 1918). American physicist.
- 1857 - William Howard Taft was born (d. 1930). President of the United States and Supreme Court Justice
- 1857 - Timothy Alder patents the typesetting machine.
- 1858 - Jenő Hubay was born (d. 1937). Hungarian violinist.
- 1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel dies. Engineer.
- 1860 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya was born. Indian engineer
- 1864 - John Hanning Speke dies. British explorer of Africa
- 1867 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky was born (d. 1920). Russian counter-revolutionary.
- 1873 - Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
- 1876 - Argentina: inicia su publicación The Buenos Aires Herald.
- 1876 - Bruno Walter was born (d. 1962). German conductor.
- 1879 - Joseph Lyons was born (d. 1939). Tenth Prime Minister of Australia
- 1881 - Ettore Bugatti was born (d. 1947). Automobile engineer and designer
- 1883 - Esteban Terradas i Illa was born (d. 1950). Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer
- 1885 - Jumbo dies (hit by a train). P. T. Barnum's circus elephant
- 1887 - Carlos Dávila was born (d. 1955). President of Chile and Secretary General of the Organization of American States.
- 1889 - Robert Benchley was born (d. 1945). American author
- 1890 - Agatha Christie was born (d. 1976). English writer (Death on the Nile ; And Then There Were None).
- 1890 - Frank Martin was born (d. 1974). Swiss composer.
- 1892 - Silpa Bhirasri was born (d. 1962). Italian sculptor.
- 1893 - Thomas Hawksley dies. Civil engineer.
- 1894 - Jean Renoir was born (d. 1979). French film director (Grand Illusion , The Rules of the Game)
- 1894 - Oskar Klein was born (d. 1977). Swedish physicist.
- 1898 - J. Slauerhoff was born. Dutch poet and novelist
- 1901 - Sir Donald Bailey was born (d. 1985). Civil engineer.
- 1903 - Roy Acuff was born (d. 1992). Country musician.
- 1903 - Fundação de um dos maiores clubes de futebol do Brasil: o Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense
- 1904 - King Umberto II of Italy was born (d. 1983)
- 1906 - Jacques Becker was born (d. 1960). French screewriter and director.
- 1907 - Fay Wray was born (d. 2004). Actress.
- 1908 - Penny Singleton was born (d. 2003). American actress.
- 1909 - Carlos Estrada was born. Uruguayan composer
- 1909 - C.N.Annadurai was born. Former Chief Minnister of Tamilnadu
- 1913 - John N. Mitchell was born (d. 1988). United States Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal
- 1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares was born (d. 1999). Argentine writer.
- 1914 - Creighton Abrams was born (d. 1974). American Army general.
- 1915 - Igor Cassini was born (d. 2002). Fashion designer.
- 1916 - José Echegaray dies. Spanish dramatist and scientist.
- 1916 - Margaret Lockwood was born (d. 1990). British actress.
- 1922 - Jackie Cooper was born. American actor, director.
- 1923 - Anton Heiller was born (d. 1979). Austrian organist.
- 1924 - Bobby Short was born (d. 2005). American jazz musician
- 1924 - Lucebert was born. Dutch painter and poet
- 1926 - Jean-Pierre Serre was born. French mathematician.
- 1926 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken dies (b. 1846). German writer who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1928 - Cannonball Adderley was born (d. 1975). Saxophonist and bandleader
- 1928 - Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- 1928 - Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler to take 300 wickets in an English cricket season.
- 1929 - Murray Gell-Mann was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1929 - Eva Burrows was born. Salvation Army General.
- 1929 - Varela Silva was born. Portuguese actor.
- 1933 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos was born. Spanish conductor.
- 1933 - Nasce, em Boa Esperança - MG, Rubem Alves. Educador, psicanalista, teólogo, autor de livros infantis e poeta brasileiro.
- 1933 - Henry Darrow was born. American actor
- 1933 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos was born. Spanish conductor
- 1937 - Fernando de la Rúa was born. President of Argentina.
- 1937 - Robert Lucas, Jr. was born. American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938 - Lya Luft was born. Brazilian writer
- 1938 - Gaylord Perry was born. Baseball player
- 1939 - Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva was born. Portuguese professor.
- 1940 - Merlin Olsen was born. American football player and actor.
- 1941 - The U.S. Attorney General rules that the Neutrality Act is not violated when U.S. ships carry war materiel to British territories, opening the door for the Lend-Lease Act.
- 1941 - Flórián Albert was born. Hungarian football player.
- 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
- 1944 - Francisco Lucas Pires was born. Portuguese politician and professor.
- 1945 - Carmen Maura was born. Spanish actress.
- 1945 - Anton Webern dies. Austrian composer.
- 1945 - Jessye Norman was born. American opera singer.
- 1946 - Baseball: The Brooklyn Dodgers are beating the Chicago Cubs, 2-0, in the 5th inning when a swarm of gnats causes the game to be postponed.
- 1946 - Tommy Lee Jones was born. American actor
- 1946 - Oliver Stone was born. Film director (Platoon, JFK )
- 1948 - The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 1080 km/h.
- 1949 - The radio series The Lone Ranger premieres on the ABC.
- 1949 - Joe Barton was born. American politician
- 1951 - Johan Neeskens was born. Dutch football player.
- 1951 - Pete Carroll was born. American football coach
- 1954 - The U.S. Postal Service issues its 2¢ Thomas Jefferson Liberty Series stamp.
- 1955 - The I Love Lucy episode featuring John Wayne premieres.
- 1955 - Theodore Long was born. American professional wrestling general manager.
- 1956 - Maggie Reilly was born. Scottish folk singer.
- 1957 - West Germany holds its third parliamentary election. Konrad Adenauer remains chancellor.
- 1958 - A New Jersey commuter train crashes through a drawbridge, killing 58.
- 1958 - Joel Quenneville was born. National Hockey League player
- 1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour.
- 1961 - Dan Marino was born. American football player
- 1961 - Terry Lamb was born. Australian rugby league player
- 1962 - The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1963 - The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing kills four children at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
- 1964 - The Sun newspaper launches, replacing the Daily Herald.
- 1965 - The television series Lost in Space premieres.
- 1965 - Steve Brown dies (b. 1890). Jazz musician.
- 1966 - The spaceship Gemini XI, with astronauts Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon aboard, returns to earth.
- 1966 - Fernanda Torres was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actress
- 1967 - Former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
- 1968 - The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoing the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
- 1969 - Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Steve Carlton sets a record by striking out 19 New York Mets in a single game.
- 1969 - Jim Curtiss was born. American writer .
- 1971 - Nathan Astle was born. New Zealand cricket player
- 1971 - Baseball: In a game against the Houston Astros, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 636th home run, tying Mickey Mantle for third spot on the career home runs list.
- 1972 - A magnitude 4.5 earthquake shakes Northern Illinois.
- 1972 - Nasce Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano. Esposa do Príncipe Felipe, Princesa das Asturias.
- 1972 - An SAS domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
- 1972 - Geoffrey Fisher dies (b. 1887). Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1973 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden dies.
- 1973 - Secretariat wins the Marlboro Cup in world record time.
- 1974 - Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
- 1975 - The French department of Corse (the entire island of Corsica) is divided into two: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
- 1975 - Jamie Stevens was born. German pop singer.
- 1976 - Soyuz 22 carries two cosmonauts into earth orbit for eight days.
- 1976 - Paul Thomson was born. Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
- 1977 - Sophie Dahl was born. British model
- 1978 - Eidur Gudjohnsen was born. Icelandic footballer
- 1979 - Amy Davidson was born. American actress.
- 1980 - Jolin Tsai was born. Taiwanese pop singer
- 1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary".
- 1980 - Bill Evans dies. Jazz musician
- 1981 - The United States Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to the United States Supreme Court.
- 1981 - The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, DC.
- 1983 - Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
- 1984 - Prince Harry of Wales was born.
- 1985 - Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert begins.
- 1987 - U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
- 1988 - Lillehammer, Norway, beats Anchorage, Alaska, United States, to host the 1994 Winter Olympics.
- 1989 - Robert Penn Warren dies at 84. American Pulitzer Prize winning author.
- 1989 - O cineasta português João César Monteiro conquista o Prémio Leão de Prata do Festival de Veneza, com o filme Recordações da Casa Amarela
- 1990 - France announces it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf.
- 1991 - U.S. women's gymnastics team wins its first World Championship medal (silver).
- 1993 - Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament.
- 1993 - Maurice Yaméogo dies. President of Burkina Faso (1960-1966)
- 1998 - WorldCom and MCI Communications finish their landmark merger, forming MCI WorldCom which would later be renamed WorldCom and become the largest bankruptcy in United States history.
- 2000 - Sydney 2000: In Australia the XXVII Olympic Games opened in Sidney
- 2001 - Alex Zanardi, driving in a CART race is injured in Germany, resulting in both legs being amputated below the knee.
- 2003 - Jack Brymer dies. British clarinetist
- 2003 - Josef Hirsal dies. Novelist.
- 2004 - Davíð Oddsson the longest serving Prime Minister of Iceland, steps down after serving in office from 1991, and becomes minister for foreign affairs. At the time he was the longest serving PM in Europe
- 2004 - Johnny Ramone dies (b. 1948). Guitarist (The Ramones)
- 2005 - Most of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly call for eliminating poverty
- In ancient Greece, the second day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the priests of Demeter declared the public start of the rites.
- RC Saints - Feast day of Our Lady of Sorrows.
- Britain - the British commemorate the Battle of Britain on the day of the last massive Luftwaffe attack in 1940.
- Japan - Respect for the Aged Day before 2003; beginning in 2003, Respect for the Aged Day is held on the third Monday of September.
- Feriado municipal em Setúbal
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