# 0122 The building of Hadrian's Wall begins.
# 0509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
# 0533 General Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimium, near Carthage, North Africa.
# 0604 Pope Sabinian is consecrated.
# 1224 Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata.
# 1321 Dante Alighieri author of the Divine Comedy, dies
# 1440 Gilles de Rais is finally taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes.
# 1503 Michelangelo begins work on his David.
# 1504 Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.
# 1598 Philip II King of Spain (1556-98), dies at 71
# 1609 Henry Hudson reached the river that would later be named after him - the Hudson River.
# 1609 Henry Hudson reaches the river that will later be named after him - the Hudson River.
# 1663 The first serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)
# 1743 Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743).
# 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
# 1759 James Wolfe British general dies during the Battle of the Palins of Abraham outside Quebec city
# 1759 Wolfe defeats Montcalm on Plains of Abraham; Canada becomes English
# 1788 New York City becomes the US national capital, as authorized by the Congress of the Confederation.
# 1788 The United States' Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S..
# 1789 The first loan to US Govt (from NYC banks)
# 1803 John Barry first American commodore, dies
# 1814 Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
# 1814 The British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland. Turning point in the War of 1812.
# 1849 The first US prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy)
# 1867 Gen E R S Canby orders SC courts to impanel blacks jurors
# 1882 Britain invades Egypt
# 1882 The Battle of Tel al-Kebir is fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
# 1882 The Canada Atlantic Railway is opened between Ottawa and Coteau. This line which was built by John R. Booth was extended, within a period of 20 years, into a system stretching from Georgian Bay to the Vermont border.
# 1882 The important Battle of Tall al Kabir is fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War.
# 1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
# 1899 Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
# 1899 Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
# 1899 The first known auto-related fatality occurs when pedestrian Henry Bliss is struck by a car in New York City.
# 1900 Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
# 1906 First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe.
# 1914 During World War I, South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
# 1922 136.4øF (58ø C), El Aziziyah, Libya in shade (world record)
# 1922 The record high temperature for the planet is set in Azizia, Libya, where it reached 136 degrees Fahrenheit.
# 1922 The temperature (in the shade) at Al 'Aziziyah, Libya reaches a world record 57.7C (135.9F).
# 1923 Military coup in Spain - Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
# 1935 Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway.
# 1939 Canada enters World War II.
# 1942 German forces attack Stalingrad
# 1943 Chiang Kai-shek elected president of the Republic of China.
# 1943 Personal posting - My dad Neil was born.
# 1944 U.S. heavy bombers rain destruction on factory areas a few miles from Auschwitz, but Allies refuse to bomb railroad tracks or gas chambers at Auschwitz.
# 1948 Margaret Chase Smith is elected senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
# 1949 The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is established in New York City.
# 1950 Sara Allgood actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56
# 1953 Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
# 1956 IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.
# 1956 The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
# 1959 USSR's Luna 2 becomes first probe to contact another celestial body
# 1960 Payola where radio stations would play selected songs in exchange for gifts and/or cash is banned by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
# 1961 "Car 54 Where are You?" premiers on TV
# 1961 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
# 1962 Number one hit on UK music charts - Elvis Presley - She's Not You
# 1963 "The Outer Limits" premiers
# 1963 Yanks clinch their 28th pennant
# 1965 Baseball: Willie Mays becomes the fifth member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
# 1965 Beatles release "Yesterday"
# 1965 Today Show's first totally color broadcast
# 1965 Willie Mays hits his 500th HR
# 1968 Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
# 1969 The Plastic Ono Band, featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono, perform in concert for the first time.
# 1969 The Premiere Episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
# 1970 IBM announces System 370 computer
# 1971 9 hostages & 28 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison
# 1971 Frank Robinson hits his 500th HR
# 1971 Police storm the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, ending a four-day siege that killed 43 people.
# 1971 State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to end a prison revolt. 42 people die in the assault.
# 1971 The World Hockey Association is founded.
# 1973 ABC announces it obtained TV rights for the 1976 Olympics
# 1975 Personal posting - September 13th, 1975. CHEERS to Joshua Hein! Birth of the a great man. Honarable, intelligent, wise beyond his years.
# 1976 2nd Enterprise, approach & lands test (ALT) flight (5m28s)
# 1977 2nd test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
# 1977 Leopold Stokowski symphonic conductor, dies in England, at 95
# 1977 Symphony conductor Leopold Stokowski dies in Hampshire, England, at age 95.
# 1977 The first TV viewer discretion warning-Soap
# 1978 Personal posting - Joseph Courtney was Born to Joseph and Sandra Courtney - United Kingdom
# 1979 South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of S Afr)
# 1980 Number one hit on UK music charts - Kelly Marie - Feels Like I'm In Love
# 1981 33rd Emmy Awards (Hill Street Blues big winner)
# 1981 John McEnroe beats Bj?rn B?rg for US Open title
# 1981 William Loeb publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, dies at 75
# 1982 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain
# 1982 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game
# 1982 Philip Ober actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 80
# 1983 US mint strikes first gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
# 1984 STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad
# 1984 Personal posting - Travis Younger Dalton (Bubba) was born - USA
# 1984 Personal posting - Richard Smith was born - USA
# 1985 Japan Super Mario Bros. released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
# 1985 John Williams introduces the new Today Show theme
# 1985 Nintendo releases Super Mario Bros.
# 1986 Kellye Cash (Miss Tennessee) crowned Miss America
# 1986 Number one hit on UK music charts - Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way
# 1987 Goinia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goinia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and leading some to die from radiation poisoning.
# 1987 Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and leading some to die from radiation poisoning.
# 1987 Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours
# 1988 Hurricane Gilbert becomes strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere
# 1988 Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (based on barometric pressure).
# 1989 Fay Vincent succeeds the late A. Bartlett Giamatti as commissioner of Major League Baseball.
# 1989 Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
# 1990 Iraqi troops storm the residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
# 1990 Law and Order debuts on NBC-TV.
# 1990 Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter
# 1991 A 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium
# 1992 Personal posting - shawna marie was born - USA
# 1992 Personal posting - megan baxter born - USA
# 1993 Premiere of Late Night with Conan O'Brien on NBC
# 1993 Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway.
# 1994 Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
# 1995 Personal posting - September 13 1995 Tyler Melcher is born
# 1996 Personal posting - Pedro S. Olguin Married Mada Rangel Solis
# 1996 Rapper Tupac Shakur dies in the hospital from gunshot wounds sustained September 7.
# 1998 Former Alabama Governor George Wallace dies at age 79.
# 1999 Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.
# 2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
# 2006 At Dawson College (Montreal), Kimveer Gill kills one student and wounds 19 others before committing suicide.
# 2007 Important Islamic date - Ramadan (Islamic month of Fasting) September 13 - October 12, 2007
# 2007 The McLaren and Ferrari court case to take place
