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Year 379

Yax Nuun Ahiin I is crowned as 15th Ajaw of Tikal

Year 533

Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.

Year 1229

Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.

Year 1437

Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier.

Year 1501

Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.

Year 1504

Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real) to be built.

Year 1541

After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.

Year 1584

San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.

Year 1609

Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him - the Hudson River.

Year 1645

Battle of Philiphaugh Covenanters win the day over the royalists.

Year 1743

Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.

Year 1759

Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.

Year 1782

American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

Year 1788

The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.

Year 1791

King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.

Year 1808

Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.

Year 1812

War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.

Year 1814

In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.

Year 1843

The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.

Year 1847

Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.

Year 1848

Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1 1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.

Year 1862

American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.

Year 1882

Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.

Year 1898

Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

Year 1899

Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.

Year 1899

Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.

Year 1900

Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.

Year 1906

First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.

Year 1914

World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.

Year 1914

World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.

Year 1922

The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.

Year 1923

Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.

Year 1933

Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.

Year 1935

Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York-Ontario).

Year 1942

World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.

Year 1948

Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.

Year 1948

Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

Year 1953

Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Year 1956

The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.

Year 1956

The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.

Year 1962

An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi,

Year 1964

South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.

Year 1968

Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.

Year 1971

State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt.

Year 1971

Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the People's Republic of China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.

Year 1979

South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).

Year 1985

Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.

Year 1987

Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.

Year 1988

Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).

Year 1989

Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.

Year 1993

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

Year 2001

Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.

Year 2007

The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

Year 2008

Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.

Year 2008

Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.

Year 2013

Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.

Year ?

Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.

Year ?

The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.

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