11: 15 a.m. Britain was quickly joined by France, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada.
590: Gregory I ("the Great") is consecrated pope. Regarded as the father of the medieval papacy and last of four Latin "Doctors of the Church." He was the first pope to aspire to secular power, the man for whom Gregorian Chant is named, and one of the main organizers of Roman liturgy and its music. He was also one of the prime promoters of monasticism.
1189: England's King Richard the First (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster.
1190: Richard I and his army arrive at Messina, Sicily
1260: Mamelukes under Sultan Qutuz defeat Mongols and Crusaders at Ain Jalut.
1346: Edward III, King of England, lays siege to Calais
1390: Geoffrey Chaucer robbed of 20 pounds belonging to the King at the "foul oak" in Kent
1529: Suliman "The Lawgiver" occupies Buda, Hungary
1568: Composer Adriano Banchieri born
1592: Death of Robert Greene
1596: Nicolo Amati, violin maker born
1608: Flemish chairman of military Pieter Stockmans born
1650: Parliament defeats Scots; issuance of first campaign medals
1651: Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists
1654: First Protectorate Parliament meets
1658: Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, dies.
1683: Turkish troops break through defense of Vienna
1695: Italian violinist and composer Pietro Antonio Locatelli born
1697: King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick
1703: Johan-Theodoor van Bayern, prince-bishop of Luik and cardinal born
1719: Composer Ferdinand Zellbell born
1728: Matthew Boulton, English engineer who invented the steam engine with James Watt. born
1752: This day never happened nor next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the govt stole 11 days of their lives
1752: US adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Sept 14)
1757: Charles X, Versailles France, Duke of Prussia born
1778: Composer Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer born
1783: The Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the seven-year American Revolutionary War and recognizing U.S. independence from Britain.
1789: Composer Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy born
1803: Teacher Prudence Crandall, controversial for her efforts to educate black girls founder of school for "young ladies of colour" born
1811: John Humphrey Noyes, found Oneida Community (Perfectionists) born
1833: The first successful one-cent, or penny, newspaper was published. Benjamin H. Day issued the first copy of "The New York Sun." By 1826, the paper had the largest circulation in the country - 30,000.
1838: Frederick Douglass escapes slavery disguised as a sailor. He would later write The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, his memoirs about slave life.
1849: Author Sarah Orne Jewett "Tales of New England" born
1849: California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
1850: A German musical journal published an article that said that truly European music could never be composed by Jews because Jews, were a migrating race who would forever be aliens in their adopted country. The real author was none other than Richard Wagner.
1856: Architect Louis Sullivan, called the father of the skyscraper and father of modern US architecture. born
1860: Merchant Edward Albert Filene. He established US credit union movement born
1863: Norse author Hans Aanrud (Slve Solfeng) born
1864: Composer Hale Ascher Vander Cook born
1865: German theologist and historian Wilhelm Bousset born
1875: Auto designer Ferdinand Porsche born
1894: American neo-orthodox theologian H. Richard Niebuhr, professor at Yale University and author of Christ and Culture (1951) born
1899: Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet, Austrialian virologist who was recognised for his work on diseases such as influenza, polio, and cholera. born
1900: British annex Natal (South Africa).
1913: Actor Alan Ladd born
1914: Actress Kitty Carlisle Hart (Catherine Holzman) panelist Tell the Truth. born
1916: The Allies turned back the Germans in the World War I Battle of Verdun.
1918: Actress Helen Wagner ("As the World Turns") born
1919: Women gain the right to vote in Italy.
1923: "Beetle Bailey" cartoonist Mort Walker born
1925: Country singer Hank Thompson born
1926: Actress Anne Jackson born
1926: Actress Irene Papas born
1927: "Time" magazine contributing editor Hugh Sidey born
1933: Country singer Tompall Glaser born
1935: Actress Eileen Brennan (Emmy Award-winning actress Benjamin) born
1935: Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 miles an hour. Campbell drove his Bluebird Special on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah at a speed of 304.331 MPH
1939: England declares war on Germany.
1939: Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland. Britain's Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced the declaration of war against Germany at
1940: Actress Pauline Collins born
1942: Rock singer-musician Al Jardine (The Beach Boys) born
1943: Actress Valerie Perrine born
1943: The British Eighth Army invaded Italy during World War Two, the same day Italy signed a secret armistice with the allies.
1948: Rock musician Donald Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad) born
1955: Rock guitarist Steve Jones (The Sex Pistols) born
1965: Actor Charlie Sheen born
1965: Rock singer-musician Todd Lewis (The Toadies) born
1965: Actor Costas Mandylor born
1965: Actor Charlie Sheen born
1967: Lieutenant General Ngyuen Van Thieu is elected president of South Vietnam.
1967: Motorists in Sweden began driving on the right-hand side of the road, instead of the left.
1967: The original version of the television game show "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly, broadcast its final episode after more than 17 years on CBS. Panelists on the first show were: Dorothy Kilgallen, Louis Untermeyer, Dr. Richard Hoffman and NJ Governor Harold Hoffman. Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf joined the show a short time later. Kilgallen, Cerf and Francis were the continuing regulars for fifteen years. Fred Allen, Hal Block and Steve Allen served as panelists for short stints at different times.
1970: Football coach Vince Lombardi died in Washington DC.
1973: Singer Jennifer Paige born
1976: The unmanned US spacecraft "Viking Two" landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.
1978: Pope John Paul the First was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1979: Hurricane "David" struck along the central Florida coast, leaving several people dead and millions of dollars in damage.
1981: David Brinkley ended an illustrious 38-year career with NBC News. He then moved to ABC News.
1985: The space shuttle Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, ending a seven-day mission that included the retrieval, repair and redeployment of a malfunctioning satellite.
1985: President Reagan ranked as "best-mannered person" in the country, in a list compiled by etiquette expert Marjabelle Stewart.
1985: Arson experts in Passaic, New Jersey, believed that children may have started a trash bin fire that spread and destroyed dozens of houses and factories, causing $400 million in damage.
1986: American officials said the United States had approached the Soviet Union with a proposal to free American journalist Nicholas Daniloff in exchange for granting pretrial release to accused Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov.
1987: A Soviet prosecutor accused West German pilot Mathias Rust of seeking "cheap popularity" by landing a private plane in Moscow's Red Square, and demanded that Rust be sentenced to eight years at hard labor. (Rust was convicted, but freed the following August.)
1988: On the presidential campaign trail, Democrat Michael Dukakis paid a visit to Ellis Island in New York, while Republican George Bush met reporters at his official Washington residence.
1989: The United States began shipping a $65 million package of military aircraft and weapons to help Columbia fight its war against drug lords.
1989: A Cubana de Aviacion jetliner crashed after takeoff in Havana, killing all 126 aboard and 26 people on the ground.
1990: Dr. David Acer, a Florida dentist, died of AIDS after apparently infecting five of his patients with the HIV virus.
1990: President Bush returned to Washington from his Maine vacation home to prepare for his summit in Finland with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1990: Jerry Lewis dedicated his 25th Labor Day telethon to raise funds for the fight against muscular dystrophy to the late Sammy Davis.
1991: Twenty-five people were killed when fire broke out at the Imperial Food Products chicken-processing plant in Hamlet, N.C.
1991: Academy Award-winning director Frank Capra, whose films included ''It Happened One Night,'' ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' and ''It's a Wonderful Life,'' died in La Quinta, Calif., at age 94.
1992: An Italian relief plane was shot down by ground-to-air missiles outside of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1992: Baseball owners voted 18-to-9-to-one to ask commissioner Fay Vincent to resign.
1992: Nobel laureate geneticist Barbara McClintock died at 90.
1993: Placido Domingo recorded, for Deutsche Grammophon, with Cheryl Studer singing Desdemona and Sergei Leiferkus playing Iago. Myung-Whun Chung conducted the orchestra of the Paris Opera-Bastille.
1993: The Labor Department reported the nation's unemployment rate edged down to a two-year low of six-point-seven percent the previous month.
1994: China and Russia proclaimed an end to any lingering hostilities, pledging they would no longer target nuclear missiles or use force against each other.
1994: An American Indian Tribal panel in Alaska exiled two teenagers, who beat and robbed a pizza delivery man, to an uninhabited, offshore island for a year.
1995: Testing Serb will, the United Nations reopened a route to Sarajevo and threatened more air attacks if the rebel stranglehold of the Bosnian capital didn't end.
1996: The United States launched 27 cruise missiles at "selected air defense targets" in Iraq as punishment for Iraq's invasion of Kurdish safe havens.
1997: Arizona Governor Fife Symington was convicted of lying to get millions in loans to shore up his collapsing real estate empire. (Symington, who resigned as governor, is appealing his convictions on six counts after one count was later thrown out.)
1997: The US Senate voted to ban most federal financing for abortions provided by the managed-care industry.
1998: President Clinton visited Omagh, Northern Ireland, walking down the street where a car bomb had killed 29, and offered his condolences to the families of the victims.
1999: NASA temporarily grounded its space shuttle fleet after inspections had uncovered damaged wires that could endanger a mission.
1999: A French judge closed a two-year inquiry into the car crash that killed Princess Diana, dismissing all charges against nine photographers and a press motorcyclist, and concluding the accident was caused by an inebriated driver.
