1st September
1785 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart publishes 6th string quartet opus 10 in Vienna
1878 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston).
1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan)
2nd September
1792 September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1919 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago.
1930 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs).
3rd September
1891 Cotton pickers organize union & stage strike in Texas
1940 Adolf Hitler orders an invasion of Great Britain for Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion)
1967 Sweden begins driving on the right-hand side of the road (Dagen H)
4th September
1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
1934 Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman scores 149 not out in just 104 minutes (17 fours, 4 sixes) in drawn tour match v England XI at Folkestone
2016 Mother Teresa canonized by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican.
5th September
1957 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista bombs an uprising in Cienfuegos
1979 Viceroy of India Earl of Mountbatten’s Ceremonial Funeral held in Westminster Abbey
6th September
1492 Christopher Columbus’ fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
2007 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor, dies at 71
7th September
1904 British forces in Tibet forced the 13th Dalai Lama to sign a treaty granting Britain trading posts in Tibet and a guarantee that Tibet will not concede territory to foreign powers
1977 US President Jimmy Carter and Panama’s General Omar Torrijos signed the Panama Canal treaties, guaranteeing Panama control of the Panama Canal after 1999
8th September
1504 Michelangelo’s statue of David is unveiled in Florence
1921 1st Miss America crowned in Atlantic City – Margaret Gorman (16) of Washington, D.C.
1952 Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Old Man & the Sea” published
