September 1

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on September 1. From 1900 until now. September 1 is under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Bill Kaulitz (1989), Tom Kaulitz (1989) and Zendaya (1996). Several movies were released around September 1 over the years, such as Memento in 2000 directed by Christopher Nolan and Rocco and His Brothers in 1960 directed by Luchino Visconti.
But much more happened on September 1 over the years: find out below

How many days until next September 1

likes

Like this day if it is important to you!

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released around September 1 over the years?
Watch popular movies, TV series and live events, start your 30-day free trial

Historical Events

Which were the important events of September 1?

Holidays

Start of the season when oysters are fit to eat (when month names contain an "R")
Uzbekistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the new liturgical year begins on September 1. Also see September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Church of England - Saint Giles
Cameroon - Jour d'Union Nationale Camerounaise
Libya - Revolution Day (1969)
Russia - Knowledge Day
Singapore - Teacher's Day
Start of the partridge-shooting season ("St.Partridge").
Slovakia - Constitution Day
Start of cold season.
Start of new school year in many countries.
See more

Events

2018 Dahyan air strike, Yemeni Civil War (2015–present): Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates say that the bombing of a school bus in Yemen by Saudi Arabian aircraft, which killed 51 people, was "unjustified". (Al Jazeera)
2017 2017 Atlantic hurricane season: Hurricane Irma, now a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour (175 kilometers per hour), is expected to resume strengthening this weekend increasing the danger when it nears the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean next Thursday. (Weather Channel) (CNN) (National Hurricane Center)
2016 2016 Gabonese protests: Large explosions and gunfire are reported in the Gabonese capital Libreville as security forces clash with supporters of opposition presidential candidate Jean Ping protesting the election results indicating a narrow victory by President Ali Bongo Ondimba. (Reuters)Military helicopters bomb the headquarters of Union of Forces for Change, according to opposition leader Jean Ping, killing at least two people. Internet is also cut in the capital, Libreville. (BBC)
2015 Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL: The United Nations confirms the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has completely destroyed the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria, after earlier reports that the structure was mostly intact. (BBC) (Al Jazeera English Online)
2014 Pakistan unrest: Pakistani protesters armed with sticks and stones clash with police in the centre of Islamabad after protests calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif turn violent. All schools in the capital have been closed as a result of the clashes. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)The Pakistan Television Corporation goes off air after protesters storm its headquarters. (BBC)
2013 Syrian civil war:: The Arab League discusses the ongoing crisis in Syria at a closed-door meeting in Cairo. (Al Jazeera)Secretary of State John Kerry asserts the United States now has evidence of sarin gas use in Syria from hair and blood samples. (AP via News24)
2012 Syrian civil war:
2011 At least four people, including a high-ranking security service officer, are killed in a series of bombings and shootings across Russia's North Caucasus. (''Voice of America'')
2010 The People's Liberation Army Navy commences artillery exercises in the Yellow Sea in response to those being conducted by South Korea and the United States against North Korea. (BBC)
2009 European leaders remember the victims of World War II at ceremonies marking the start of the conflict 70 years ago. (RTÉ) (BBC) (CBC) (Time) (Japan Today)
2008 September 14 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall on Texas as Category 2 and kills 27 in the United States, after killing four in Cuba, one in the Dominican Republic, and 75 in Haiti.
2007 Dave Zabriski, an American professional cyclist, defended his National Time Trial Championship by winning by 2 seconds in Greenville, SC.
2006 Luxembourg becomes the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting.
2005 A judge in Aruba orders the conditional release of Joran van der Sloot, the 18-year-old Dutch citizen being held in connection with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
2004 Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.
2003 Dutch dispensaries are to become the first in the world to offer cannabis as a prescription drug. (BBC)
2002 Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Arab League disavowed the final statement made by the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, claiming that they adhere to a policy of supporting Israel's right to exist within pre-1967 borders, and restating that the conflict in the Middle East is between Palestinians and Israelis, not all Jews.
2001 The German national football team lose a World Cup qualifier for only the second time at home in their history (including as West Germany) by a heavy 1-5 margin to an England team managed by Sven-Göran Eriksson in the Olympic Stadium in Munchen (Munich), ending a significant run of England losses to Germany.
1998 Second Congo War:: The Democratic Republic of the Congo says that the rebels are surrounded by forces loyal to President Laurent Kabila in the west. (BBC)The rebels gain control over Goma, Kabila's home area. (BBC)
1997 Cartoon Channel premieres in Japan
1996 Baltimore Ravens (Cleveland Browns) 1st NFL game, beat Oakland Raiders, 17-14
1995 Infinity Radio agrees to voluntarily pay $1.7 million to US Treasury
1993 White Liars / Black Comedy opens at Criterion NYC for 38 performances
1992 New York City police commisioner Brown resigns
1991 Hiromi Taniguchi wins 3rd world championship marathon (2:14:57)
1990 Heidi Chronicles closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 621 performances
1989 Anything Goes closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 804 performances
1988 Nintendo releases the Super Mario Bros. 2 video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US.
1987 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match
1986 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1985 Cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes world champion
1983 Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet
1982 Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 mph
1981 Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees
1980 Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv
1979 Debbie Boone and Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
1978 #4655 Marjoriika, #4814 Casacci, #5344 Ryabov, #6262 Javid and #8064
1977 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
1976 Wayne L Hays, Democrat party Representative for Ohio, resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray).
1975 All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh
1974 Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect
1973 George Foreman knocks out Jose Roman in the first round to retain heavyweight title in Japan.
1972 Egypt and Libya form federation
1971 John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of US Open
1970 Failed assassination attempt on Jordanian King Hussain
1969 Libyan revolution, Colonel Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris.
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Willow Park Ladies Golf Invitational
1967 KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1965 The San Francisco Mint facility resumes production of circulating coins. Coins had last been struck for circulation in San Francisco in 1955.
1964 Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (NY Mets)
1963 Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot
1962 KATC TV channel 3 in Lafayette, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade
1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1958 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Opie Turner Golf Open
1957 Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400
1956 KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel
1954 Hurricane Carol strikes Long Island / New England, kills 68
1953 Fokker begins building F-27 Fokker Friendship
1952 Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney
1951 Prime Minister Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad
1950 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines
1949 1st network detective series-Private Eyes-premieres
1948 Bradman scores 143 Aust vs. South of England, 17 fours 1 six
1947 New York Giants' 183-185 home run of year breaks New York Yankees' mark of 182 in 1936.
1946 Greece votes for monarchy
1945 Japan surrenders ending WWII (US date, 9 / 2 in Japan)
1944 Bulgaria government of Bagrjanow, resigns
1942 Fed judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans
1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star
1940 Gen George Marshall sworn in as Chief of Staff of US army
1939 Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill
1938 Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews
1937 4th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 6, Green Bay 0 (84,560)
1936 Middleweight Staff Roth KOs Heinz Lazek
1934 Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced
1932 New York City Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges).
1931 Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days and his 6th HR in consecutive games
1930 New York World reports disappearance of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater
1928 Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as King
1926 British Columbia Rugby Football Union forms
1925 Pierre de Coubertin steps down as Chairman of International Olympic Committee
1924 Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake
1923 18th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1922 New York City law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billards".
1921 Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St. NYC (Billy Rose, Trafalgar)
1920 France creates Lebanon
1918 Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns
1917 The US government prohibits gold exports.
1916 Bulgaria declares war on Romania
1914 34th US Mens Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (63 86 10-8)
1913 George Bernard Shaws Androcles & the Lion, premieres in London
1911 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km.
1910 The Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination.
1906 British New Guinea becomes Australian Papua New Guinea
1904 The Denver Assay Office opens for business.
1902 Tinker, Evers, and Chance appear together for 1st time
1901 Construction begins on New York Stock Exchange
See more

Famous Birthday

Bill Kaulitz: German singer, songwriter, voice actor,...
Tom Kaulitz: Guitarist in the German rock Band.
Zendaya : American actress singer and dancer.
Dr Phil
Jada Fire: American porn actress.
Barry Gibb: British-Australian pop musician, the...
Gloria Estefan: Cuban-born American singer, songwriter,...
Jeon Jungkook
Rocky Marciano: American boxer who won the heavyweight...
Jean Sarkozy: French politician, the son of the former...
Filip Nikolic
Invasion of Poland
Gaël Monfils: French athlete, a professional tennis...
World War II
Lily Tomlin: American actress and comedienne of TV,...
Ruud Gullit: Dutch TV host and sportscaster on the...
Cris Campion
Sunny von Bülow
Lââm (singer)
Jacques Toja: French comedian actor of stage, TV and...
Ahmad Shah Massoud
Padma Lakshmi: Indian-American actress and author.
Ilona Mitrecey: French singer.
Armi Aavikko: Finnish Beauty Queen, a singer and...
Scott Speedman: English-Canadian actor.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Vittorio Gassman: Italian actor, onscreen from 1946 in...
Romeo Beckham: English noted family member, child of...
Yvonne de Carlo
Michel Serres: French philosopher, naval officer and...
Sabine Paturel
Frédéric d'Allest
Annie Ernaux
Boyd Holbrook
Jean-Luc Boutté
Carmelo Bene: Italian actor, poet, film director and...
Ricardo Chavira: American actor.
Conway Twitty: American singer-songwriter with more...
Seiji Ozawa: Japanese conductor and director.
Mélanie Suchet
Tracee Talavera: American Silver Medal gymnast.
Antonio Lobo Antunes
Alan Dershowitz: American lawyer, professor and writer,...
Tatiana Yarosh
Vincent Montméat
Tim Hardaway: American basketball player: guard, Heat.
François Colcombet
Alberta (Canada)
Chanel West Coast
Cécilia Rodhe
Nils Tavernier
Ann Richards: American politician, elected Governor of...
Max Fercondini
Gilbert (secret-agent)
Donald Bootes: American engineer who tests...
André Dhôtel: French author, poet, playwright, and...
Enid Hoffman: American writer of metaphysical books...
Lara Pulver
Dan Karaty
Beau Billingslea: American voice actor.
Philippe Marchand: French politician and Minister of the...
Camille Mana
Margaret Ewing: Scottish politician, Member of...
Alain Ayache
John J Anthony
Kenneth Thomson: 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet Canadian...
Anne Ramsey: American actress (d. 1988).
Fredrick Davies: British psychic astrologer and...
Art Pepper: American musician playing a jazz alto...
Franck Lagorce
Simon Shaw
Hardy Nickerson: American football player, a line backer...
Geof Hewitt: Glen Ridge Writer.
Walter Reuther: American labor union official, President...
Dominique Dord: French politician, a member of the...
Ylonka Verheul
Utako Wakamatsu
Camile Velasco: Filipino-American singer.
Tonino Benacquista: French crime fiction author, comics...
Franco Bitossi
Jeremy Buttle
Catherine Guy-Quint: French politician, a Member of the...
Neil Payne
Vinnie Johnson: American basketball player and...
Rachid Bouchareb: French film director of Algerian...
Mohamed Atta: Egyptian terrorist hijacker of American...
Karim Wade
Justice Leak
Paul L Higgins
Roh Moo-hyun: South Korean soldier and politician 9th...
Al Geiberger: American golf pro, best known for his...
Raoul Sangla
Leonard Slatkin: American conductor who has led the...
Boxcar Willie: American country music singer, real name...
Edi Brokoli
Hakan Sükür
Zoe Lister-Jones
Natalie Bassingthwaighte: Australian singer-songwriter and actress...
Bernard Birsinger
Riccardo Ricco
See more

Famous Deaths

Jerry Reed: American country western singer,...
Hew Lorimer: Scottish sculptor and noted family, the...
Cary Middlecoff: American golfer and sportscaster (d....
Ilse Koch: German wife of Karl-Otto Koch (d. 1967).
Ethel Waters: American singer who, on her 14th...
Frederick Russell Burnham: father of the international Scouting...
Jozef Krupinski: Polish poet (Born 1930).
Boris Malenko: American professional wrestler (Born...
Thanos Leivaditis: Greek actor (Born 1934).
R L Burnside: American musician (Born 1926).
Kyffin Williams: Welsh landscape painter (Born 1918).
Warren Mitofsky: American pollster (Born 1934).
Wakanohana Kanji I: Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th...
Wladyslaw Gomulka: Polish communist leader.
George Levy: American astrologer.
Charles Renouvier: French philosopher, a leading exponent...
Murray Hamilton: Actor (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 63.
Mark Robinson: British actor (The Girl), dies at 30.
Ann Harding: American actress and singer (d. 1981).
Märtha: Last known passenger pigeon, dies at...
Albert Speer in London (born in Mannheim: Germany); Adolf Hitler's chief architect...
Helen Haye: Actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in...
Vagn Holmboe: Danish composer (born 1909).
Sir Terry Frost: British artist (Born 1915).
Peeter Pold: Estonian pedagogic scientist and...
Samuel Coleridge Taylor: African-British composer, dies at 37.
Benjamin Dwight: US tennis championship umpire.
Jacobus W G Balfoort: Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On), dies at...
Wolfgang Schulze [Wols]: German drawer / painter, dies at 38.
Philip Loeb: Actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 61.
William S Foster: Chairman (US Communist Party, 1945-57),...
Jean Canneel: Flemish sculptor, dies at 73.
George Georgescu: Composer, dies at 76.
Ilja Ehrenburg: Writer, dies at 76.
Siegfried L Sassoon: English Poet / writer (Counterattack),...
Granville English: Composer, dies at 69.
William Flanagan: Composer, dies at 46.
May Aufderheide: Composer, dies at 84.
Olga de Haas: Dutch ballerina, dies at 33.
Doris Kenyon: Silent screen actress (Alexander...
Bui Thanh Liem: Vietnam -- Cosmonaut, dies in Mig-21...
Clifford M Curzon: England, pianist, dies at 75.
Wladislaw Gomulka: Polish partisan / party leader, dies at...
Howland Chamberlin: Actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at...
Jacqueline Wijchers: Film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant),...
Clifford Leofric Purdy: Bishop, dies at 88.
Pieter C "Piet" Author: Sailor / corrector, dies at 71.
Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke: Club Owner, dies at 93.
Brother Adam Kehrle: Benedictine Monk / beekeeper, dies at...
Charles Daniels: Archaeologist, dies at 63.
Charles Atangana: Cameroonian chief (Born 1880).
Henry "Scoop" Jackson: American politician...
Leonor Sullivan: American politician...
Nellie Connally: American newsmaker, the First Lady of...
Elizabeth Brown: American astrologer who joined AFA in...
Francois Mauriac: French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b.
Bernard O'Dowd: Australian journalist author and poet...
Guy Burgess: English-Russian spy (d. 1963).
Otl Aicher: German graphic designer and typographer...
Jang Jin-young: South Korean actress (Born 1974).
Eero Saarinen: Finnish-American architect and furniture...
Brian Moore: Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter...
Morris Carnovsky: US actor (Dead Reckoning), dies at 94.
Sam[uel E] van Beem: Actor (Dollar Princess), dies at 62.
Bob O'Connor: American businessman and politician 57th...
Oded Schramm: Israel-American mathematician and...
Steve Kemp: British musician (Hard-Fi).
Seub Nakhasathien: Thai conservationist (Born 1949).
Haskell Curry: American mathematician logician and...
See more