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    This Day in History on September 1st

    History and Headlines contributorsBy History and Headlines contributorsSeptember 1, 2023No Comments3 Mins Read
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    September 1st

    A Brief History

    This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on September 1st.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event.

    Digging Deeper

    On September 1, 1715, King Louis XIV of France died after having ruled for 72 years, the longest reign of a king or queen of any major European country.

    On September 1st, 1914, Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, was found dead in her cage by her keepers at the Cincinnati Zoo.

    On September 1, 1914, the last known living Passenger Pigeon died in the Cincinnati Zoo.

    On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland under false pretenses, staging a phony border “incident” that gave them a claim of legitimacy.

    On September 1, 1939, US Army General George C. Marshall, Jr. was appointed as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army.

    On September 1, 1952, The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ernest Hemmingway novel, was first published.

    On September 1, 1983, a Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 scrambled to intercept an airplane that had violated Soviet airspace over the Kamchatka Peninsula.

    On September 1, 1983, a fighter plane of the Air Force of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union) shot down an unarmed civilian passenger plane that had accidentally entered Soviet air space, killing all 269 people aboard.

    On September 1, 1985, after 73 years sleeping on the deep dark ocean floor, the wreck of the fabled ocean liner, RMS Titanic, was discovered by a joint American-French salvage team led by Robert Ballard, sponsored by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

    On September 1, 2004, terrorists seeking the independence of Chechnya from Russia invaded School Number One in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, taking 1100 hostages, of which well over 700 were school children.

    On September 1, 2018, Dr. Zar welcomed his students to the Fall 2018 semester!

    Question for students (and subscribers): Which event that occurred on today’s date would you like to learn more about?  Please let us know in the comments section below this article.

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    Historical Evidence

    For more information, please see…

    Andrews, John and Matt Baker.  Timeline of World History.  Thunder Bay Press, 2020.

    You can also watch video versions of this article on YouTube.

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