September On This Day In History9/331 BC - Battle of Actium - forces of Octavian defeat troops of Mark Antony and Cleopatra.

1666 - Great Fire of London begins - 80% of London is destroyed

1902 - "A Trip To The Moon", the first science fiction film, released

1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the U.S. is installed in Rockville Center, New York.

1944 - Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz

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9/41972 - Mark Spitz became the first person to win 7 gold medals at a single Olympic event.

2002 - Singer Kelly Clarkson was voted the first "American Idol"

2006 - "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin died

1888 - George Eastman received a patent

1981 - Singer Beyonce Knowles was born

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9/51793 - In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins

1836 - Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas

1885 - 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)

1966 - Jerry Lewis' 1st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $15,000

1994 - San Francisco 49ers Jerry Rice catches NFL record 127th touchdown pass

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9/61901, President William B. McKinley was shot and mortally wounded

1916 – The Piggly Wiggly opened in Memphis, Tenn., by Clarence Saunders.

2007 - Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.

1997 – A funeral service for Princess Diana took place at Westminster Abbey.

1941 – Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear yellow stars

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9/81504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.

1565 - 1st permanent settlement in US forms (St Augustine, Florida)

1882 - 1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)

In its original form it read:

"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

1966 - "Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV

1974 - President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes

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9/92009 - Rep. Joe Wilson, shouted "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's speech.

1976 - Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong died.

1776 - Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies)

1904 - Mounted police 1st used in NYC

1971 - John Lennon releases "Imagine" album

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9/101610 - John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.

1846 - Elias Howe received a patent for the sewing machine.

1924 - Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb sentenced to life in prison.

2000 - "Cats" closed. It is the longest-running show in Broadway history, 7,485 shows.

1968 – Rapper Big Daddy Kane was born

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9/112001 –The World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania.

2009 - Michael Jordan goes into the basketball Hall of Fame.

1985 - Pete Rose gets his 4,192nd hit

1997 - Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.

1789 - Alexander Hamilton became the first secretary of the treasury

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9/121609 - English explorer Henry Hudson

sailed into a river.

1944 - U.S. Army troops entered

Germany for the first time during

World War II.

1953 - Sen. John F. Kennedy married

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier

2003 - Country musician Johnny Cash

died at age 71.

1959 - "Bonanza" premiered on NBC.

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9/131788 - The Congress authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary national capital.

1943 - Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.

1948 - Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

1949 - The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America was formed in New York City.

2001 - Osama bin Laden named as the prime suspect in the 9/11 attacks

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9/151904 - Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight

1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

2008 - Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy– the largest in U.S. history.

2004 - National Hockey League owners locked out the players.

1935 - The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany

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9/161630 - The Massachusetts’s village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.

1638 - France's King Louis XIV was born.

1940 - FDR signed into law the first peacetime military draft inU.S. history.

1908 - General Motors were formed

1810 - Mexico began a successful revolt against Spanish rule.

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9/171862 - Battle of Antietam

1787 - The U.S. Constitution was completed and signed

1972 - The comedy series "M.A.S.H." premiered on CBS.

1920 - The American Professional Football Association - a precursor of the National Football League - was formed

1976 - NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise.

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9/181947 - The National Security Act

1793 – The Capitol cornerstone is put in place substitute

1862 - Robert E. Lee’s army pulls away from Antietam Creek and heads back toVirginia. George B. McClellan does not follow.

1974 - Patricia Hearst, the 19-year-old daughter of newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped

1973 - Future President Jimmy Carter files a report claiming he had seen an UFO in October 1969.

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9/19 1881 - James A. Garfield died of wounds inflicted by an assassin.

1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh baby.

2010 - The BP oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico was sealed

1995 - The New York Times and The Washington Post published the Unabomber's manifesto.

1930 - Adam West, Actor ("Batman"), was born.

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9/221776 - Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British

2008 - The U.S. Mint unveiled the first changes to the penny in 50 years

2004 - "Lost" premiered on ABC.

1949 - The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.

1862 - Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

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9/23 1952 - Vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on television to deliver the ``Checkers'' speech

63B.C. - Caesar Augustus was born in Rome.

1779 - John Paul Jones is said to have declared, "I have not yet begun to fight!" during a naval battle.

1806 - The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest.

1846 - Neptune was discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle

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9/241996 - The United States signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.

1968 - "60 Minutes" premiered on CBS.

1789 - Congress passed the First Judiciary Act

1957 - The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field

1936 - Jim Henson was born

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9/251493 - Christopher Columbus set sail on his second voyage

1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British

1789 - The first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution

1956 - The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable went into service.

1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice of the Supreme Court.

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9/261960 - The first televised presidential debate

1789 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first secretary of state

1957 - The musical "West Side Story" opened on Broadway.

1969 - The album "Abbey Road" by the Beatles was released.

1914 - The Federal Trade Commission was established.

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9/271964 - The Warren Commission concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

1540 - Pope Paul III issued a papal bull establishing the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits

1825 - The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated

1928 - The United States recognized the Nationalist Chinese government.

1999 - Tiger Stadium closed after 87 years as home of baseball's Detroit Tigers.

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9/291789 - The U.S. War Department established a regular army

1954 - Willie Mays made a running catch with his back to home plate in Game 1 of the World Series.

1957 - Baseball's New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds

480BC - Battle of Salamis

1915 - Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant

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9/301938 - British, French and Italian leaders agreed to let Nazi Germany annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.

2007 - Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre completed his 421st career touchdown pass, breaking Dan Marino's NFL record

1982 - The situation comedy "Cheers" premiered on NBC.

1946 - An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.

1955 - Actor James Dean was killed in a car accident at age 24.

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