Historical Events in September, Month of September Events
Here is a list of some historical events in September. You can learn What major event happened in September?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| September 22, 1892 | Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost. |
| September 3, 1933 | Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m). |
| September 25, 1804 | The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver. |
| September 17, 1908 | The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality. |
| September 14, 1782 | American Revolutionary War: Review of the French troops under General Rochambeau by General George Washington at Verplanck's Point, New York. |
| September 9, 1922 | The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna. |
| September 24, 2014 | The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt. |
| September 26, 1799 | War of the 2nd Coalition: French troops defeat Austro-Russian forces, leading to the collapse of Suvorov's campaign. |
| September 8, 1923 | Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. |
| September 17, 1941 | World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense restores compulsory military training. |
| September 17, 1111 | Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia". |
| September 9, 1972 | In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world. |
| September 4, 1941 | World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack of the war against a United States warship, the USS Greer. |
| September 22, 1914 | A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors. |
| September 29, 1864 | The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought in the American Civil War. |
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