September 7th in History
1943: Italy surrenders to the Allies
1986: Desmond Tutu becomes Archbishop of Capetown, the first black man to do so


September 7th birthdays
1533: Queen Elizabeth I of England
1923: Peter Lawford, English actor
1932: John Paul Getty II, American philathropist
1936: Buddy Holly, American rock and roll singer

September 8th in History
1831: William IV crowned King of Britain
1886:  Johannesburg, South Africa, founded
1944: German V2 rockets strike London for the first time
1974: Richard Nixon, ex US Presdient, pardoned for his part in the Watergate affair
1978: Martial Law declared in Tehran and other cities, Iran, as riots take place


September 8th birthdays
1753: John Soane, English architect
1771: Mungo Park, Scottish born explorer of Africa
1830: Frederic Mistral, French poet who won Nobel Prize in 1904
1914: Robert Wise, American film director

September 9th in History
1850: California becomes the 31st state of the United States
1892: Almalthea, a moon orbiting the planet Jupiter, discovered
1915: German Zepplins bomb London
1975: Czech tennis player Martina Navratilova defects to the West
1975: The United States launch the Viking 2 spacecraft to Mars


September 9th birthdays
1585: Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman
1737: Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist
1825: Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
1960: Hugh Grant, Britsh actor

September 10th in History
1919: The Austrian Empire ends with the signing of the Treaty of Saint Germain
1979: London talks on the Zimbabwe Rhodesian constitution open
1989: Hungary opens its borders to the West, allowing thousands to leave East Germany
1993: Further agreements reached between the PLO and Israel about self rule in the Gaza Strip


September 10th birthdays
1907: Fay Wray, US actress
1914: Robert Wise, American director

September 11th in History
1922: British mandate declared in Palestine
1926: Assassination attempt made on Italian leader Benito Mussolini fails
2001: Terrorists hijack four airplanes and run two of them into the World Trade Center and one of them into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashes in Pennsylvania.


September 11th birthdays
1877: James Jeans, British mathematician
1885: D.H Lawrence, English novelist
1940: Brian DePalma, American director

September 12th in History
1910: World's first police woman appointed in Los Angeles, USA
1917: In Buenos Aires, South America, German buildings are destroyed by angry mob
1919: Adolf Hitler joins the German Worker's Party
1943: Benito Mussolini, captured by the Allies, is rescued by the Germans
1959: Luna 2, of the USSR, became to first spacecraft to crash on the moon
1972: Two British trawlers sunk by Icelandic gunboats during the 'cod war'
1990: Full sovereignity handed back to the newly unified German state


September 12th birthdays
1818: Richard Gatling, US inventor of the Gatling gun
1888: Maurice Chevalier, French actor
1913: Jesse Owens, American Olympic athlete
1941: Linda Gray, American actress

September 13th in History
1759: British defeat French forces at the Battle of Quebec, Canada
1788: New York becomes the capital of the United States (later replaced by Washington)
1942: German forces begin attack on Stalingrad
1993: Israel and the PLO sign historic peace agreement at the White House, USA


September 13th birthdays
1905: Claudette Colbert, French actress
1944: Jacqueline Bisset, English actress

September 14th in History
1812: Napoleon enters Moscow, during his invasion of Russia
1886: Typewriter ribbons patented in the United States
1992: UN troops land in Somalia, Africa, to stabalise the country and provide aid


September 14th birthdays
1769: Baron von Humboldt, German naturalist
1909: Peter Scott, British naturalist and artist

September 15th in History
1915: Tanks used for the first time, by the British in the Somme
1935: The Third Reich, in Germany, adopts the 'Swastika' as the national flag
1940: Battle of Britain ends with RAF victory
1974: The civil war in Beirut, Lebanon, breaks out between Christians and Muslims


September 15th birthdays
1649: Titus Oats, English agitator against Roman Catholics
1857: William Taft, Former (27th) American President
1890: Agatha Christie, English author
1894: Jean Renoir, French film director

September 16th in History
1847: Shakespeares home in Stratford Upon Avon purchased for preservation
1963: Malaysian independence
1975: Papua New Guinea independence


September 16th birthdays
1387: King Henry V of England
1924: Lauren Bacall, American film actress
1926: B.B King, American Blues singer
1927: Peter Falk, US television and film actor (TV's 'Columbo')