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 30, 1978 | Finnair Flight 405 is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland. |
| September 16, 1966 | The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra. |
| September 18, 1977 | Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together. |
| September 25, 1868 | The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia. |
| September 12, 1983 | The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. |
| September 29, 2005 | John Roberts is confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States. |
| September 1, 1878 | Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company. |
| September 24, 1957 | President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. |
| September 23, 1868 | The Grito de Lares occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule. |
| September 17, 2018 | A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea. |
| September 17, 1948 | The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel. |
| September 22, 1891 | The first hydropower plant of Finland was commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.[1] |
| September 5, 1991 | The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force. |
| September 21, 1933 | Salvador Lutteroth establishes Mexican professional wrestling. |
| September 8, 1831 | November uprising: The Battle of Warsaw effectively ends the Polish insurrection. |
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