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| Birthday September 01, 1791 Lydia Sigourney, American religious author (How to Be Happy) |
| Birthday September 01, 1854 Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer |
| Birthday September 01, 1866 James 'Gentleman Jim' Corbett, Prize fighter |
| Birthday September 01, 1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist (Tarzan) |
| Birthday September 01, 1904 Ray Flaherty, AFL, NFL, AAFC coach |
| Birthday September 01, 1907 Walter Reuther, labor leader, president of UAW & CIO |
| Birthday September 01, 1922 Vittorio Gassman, Actor |
| Birthday September 01, 1922 Melvin Laird, (R-Rep), sec of defense |
| Birthday September 01, 1922 Yvonne De Carlo, (Ten Commandments) in Vancouver BC |
| Birthday September 01, 1923 Rocky Marciano, Boxer |
| Birthday September 01, 1928 Robert Pirsig is born |
| Birthday September 01, 1933 Conway Twitty, country singer |
| Birthday September 01, 1935 Seiji Ozawa, Japanese orchestra conductor |
| Birthday September 01, 1939 Lily Tomlin, Detroit (9 to 5, All of Me) |
| Birthday September 01, 1946 Barry Gibb, singer |
| History September 01, 1159 Adrian IV only English pope (1154-59) dies (birth date unknown) |
| History September 01, 1557 Jacques Cartier French explorer dies (birth date unknown) |
| History September 01, 1772 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in California |
| History September 01, 1775 King George refuses Olive Branch Petition |
| History September 01, 1802 Richmond Recorder publishes report of presidential concubine |
| History September 01, 1807 Aaron Burr acquitted |
| History September 01, 1807 Aaron Burr aquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire |
| History September 01, 1836 First Anglo women settle west of the Rockies |
| History September 01, 1849 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey |
| History September 01, 1850 P.T. Barnum brings Jenny Lind to New York |
| History September 01, 1859 R.C.Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare |
| History September 01, 1859 1st pullman sleeping car in service |
| History September 01, 1862 North and South clash at the Battle of Chantilly |
| History September 01, 1863 RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated |
| History September 01, 1864 Sherman's march through Georgia |
| History September 01, 1870 Napoleon III captured at Sedan |
| History September 01, 1878 1st woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston) |
| History September 01, 1890 1st baseball tripleheader - Boston vs Pittsburgh |
| History September 01, 1894 Minnesota town burns |
| History September 01, 1905 Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces |
| History September 01, 1906 Jack Combs pitches 24 inninings beating Red Sox |
| History September 01, 1911 M. Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km |
| History September 01, 1914 Martha last known passenger pigeon dies at Cincinnati Zoo |
| History September 01, 1917 Soldier recounts brush with poison gas |
| History September 01, 1918 US troops land in Vladivostok Siberia stay until 1920 |
| History September 01, 1923 Earthquake struck Tokyo estimated 74 000 people died |
| History September 01, 1939 Germany invades Poland |
| History September 01, 1939 Germans invade Poland |
| History September 01, 1939 PHYSICAL REVIEW publishes paper 1st to deal with "black holes." |
| History September 01, 1939 Germany invades Poland starting WW II |
| History September 01, 1949 1st network dective series - Private Eyes premeirs |
| History September 01, 1952 Sutro Baths SF purchased by George Whitney |
| History September 01, 1964 First Japanese player makes MLB debut |
| History September 01, 1966 De Gaulle urges the United States to get out of Vietnam |
| History September 01, 1968 Fighter pilot nominated for Medal of Honor |
| History September 01, 1969 Col Moammar Gadhafi rose to power deposed Libya's King Idris |
| History September 01, 1969 Libyan revolution (National Day) |
| History September 01, 1969 Qaddafi leads coup in Libya |
| History September 01, 1970 McGovern-Hatfield amendment defeated in the Senate |
| History September 01, 1976 NJ Meadowlands racetrack opens |
| History September 01, 1977 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold |
| History September 01, 1979 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn discovers new moon rings |
| History September 01, 1981 A teenage boy murders his father |
| History September 01, 1983 Korean Airlines flight shot down by Soviet Union |
| History September 01, 1983 Korean Boeing 747 strayed into Soviet air space & was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter. All 269 people aboard died |
| History September 01, 1985 Titanic sunk in 1912 found by French & American scientists |
| History September 01, 1985 Wreck of the Titanic found |
| History September 01, 1998 Federal legislation makes airbags mandatory |
| History September 01, 2004 Chechen separatists storm Russian school |
| History September 01, 2007 Penn’s Into the Wild premieres |