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1522 - Juan Sebastian Del Cano completed the first circumnavigation of the world.

1666 - The Great Fire of London ended after destroying much of the city in a conflagration that began on September 2. Ninety-seven churches burned to the ground, including St Paul's Cathedral.

1706 - French troops besieging Turin under the command of the Duke of Orleans were defeated by Austrians under Prince Eugene, ending French attempts to capture northern Italy.

1714 - The Treaty of Baden was signed between the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France, ending War of Spanish Succession. Charles ceded Alsace and Strasbourg to France and got back Breisach, Kehl and Freiburg.

1812 - The Russian army under General Kutuzov was defeated at heavy cost by Napoleon at the battle of Borodino, 70 miles west of Moscow. Napoleon entered Moscow a week later.

1813 - The nickname "Uncle Sam" was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States in an editorial in the Troy Post of New York.

1813 - The French army led by Michel Ney was defeated by the Allied European armies at Dennewitz, Germany, during the Napoleonic Wars.

1819 - The lathe was patented by Thomas Blanchard of Middlebury, Connecticut. Blanchard said he invented it for manufacturing gun stocks. The lathe did the work of 13 operators.

1822 - Brazil proclaimed independence from Portugal and Pedro I became first Emperor of Brazil in December 1822.

1837 - Oberlin College, Ohio, which had been the first United States college to accept women, became also the first college to grant equal status to both sexes. Mary Hosford, Mary Fletcher Kellogg, Elizabeth Smith Prall, and Caroline Mary Rudd were accepted into regular courses with 30 men, beginning coeducation at the college level.

1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi led his "Red Shirts" in seizing Naples in the Italian war of liberation against the Austrians.

1869 - The first major coal mine disaster in the US occurred at Avondale mine, Pennsylvania, when a fire broke out in a mine shaft, cutting off the miners' escape route and their only source of air. The death toll was 110 miners, a number of them young boys. Recovery of all the bodies was possible only three days after the disaster.

1892 - In New Orleans, John L. Sullivan was knocked out by James (Gentleman Jim) Corbett in the 21st round of the first major boxing title fight to be fought under the Marquess of Queensbury rules.

1898 - Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands was inaugurated.

1901 - United States President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by Leon Czolgosz while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Czolgosz, a Polish citizen associated with the Anarchist movement, fired two shots at the president as he greeted the public. He died eight days later. McKinley was the third US president to be assassinated.

1901 - In China, the Boxer Rising, which attempted to drive out all foreigners, officially ended with the signing of the Peking Protocol.

1905 - Big Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox pitched two complete-game victories for his team, single-handedly beating Boston 10-5 and 3-1.

1914 - In World War I, the first Battle of the Marne began along a 300-mile (500-km) front when the French launched a counter-offensive against the German advance.

1916 - D.W. Griffith's epic silent film, Intolerance, premiered at the Liberty Theatre in New York City. It was the first film to cost over 1 million dollars to make, at $1.9 million, a staggering sum at the time.

1920 - Radio's first broadcast of a prizefight aired on Radio station WWJ in Detroit, Michigan. In the third round, Jack Dempsey knocked out Billy Miske in the bout at Benton Harbor, Michigan.

1930 - Thoroughbred racehorse, Gallant Fox, won the Lawrence Realization race at Belmont Park in New York, becoming the leading moneymaker in thoroughbred racing.

1937 - On Victor Records, Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded "Sugar Foot Stomp". The song was arranged by Fletcher Henderson.

1939 - South Africa declared war on Germany.

1940 - The German air force under Hermann Goering began its "blitz" bombing campaign on London. More than 300 people were killed on this day alone.

1940 - King Carol II of Romania was forced to abdicate by the Axis powers in World War II in favor of his son Michael.

1941 - Jews in German-occupied areas were ordered to were the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed on them.

1943 - The American League's youngest player was pitcher Carl Scheib of the Philadelphia Athletics. He was only 16 years, eight months and five days old.

1948 - Princess Juliana became Queen of The Netherlands following her mother's (Queen Wilhelmina) abdication.

1951 - Prince Talal was proclaimed king of Jordan after the assassination of his father King Abdullah in July.

1955 - Anti-Greek riots broke out in Istanbul and Izmir, Turkey.

1958 - Actor Steve McQueen starred in, "Wanted: Dead or Alive", the CBS television series. McQueen played Josh Randall, a bounty hunter. Randall rarely spoke, but knew how to use his .30-.40 sawed-off carbine.

1958 - On "The Ed Sullivan Show," Georgia Gibbs sang "The Hula-Hoop Song". It gave the first national exposure to the Hula-Hoop craze. Many people covered the song in recordings to capitalize on the trend, including Teresa Brewer and Betty Johnson.

1959 - The Mattel Toy Corporation sold the first Barbie Doll. The original Barbie and her friends; which were not produced in 1959, Ken and Skipper, are now collectors items.

1961 - Afghanistan broke off diplomatic relations with Pakistan.

1962 - Taiwan broke off diplomatic relations with Laos, a few hours after Laos had established diplomatic relations with China and North Vietnam.

1965 - India invaded West Pakistan in an attack aimed at Lahore and intended to prevent further Pakistani offensives against India in Kashmir.

1966 - Henrik Frensch Verwoerd, South African prime minister and staunch supporter of apartheid, was killed in parliament by Dimtric Tsafondas, a parliamentary messenger.

1968 - Swaziland became independent within the Commonwealth.

1970 - Palestinian guerrillas hijacked four airliners travelling to New York from Europe. One Pan Am Jumbo was blown up the next day in Cairo and two Boeing 707s which landed at Dawson's field in Jordan were blown up on September 12. The fourth plane landed in London and hijacker Leila Khaled was arrested.

1972 - When a banned drug was found in Rick DeMont's system in a routine drug test, he lost the gold medal he received in a 400-meter swimming event.

1973 - After lossing his gold medal one year earlier, swimmer Rick DeMont won the 400-meter freestyle event setting a world record with a time of 3:58.18.

1975 - Glen Campbell hit #1 "Billboard's" pop music chart with the song "Rhinestone Cowboy".

1976 - Frank Sinatra reunited Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis after 20 years. The former comedy team gladly met each other during a surprise visit by Martin to Lewis’s annual "Labor Day Telethon" for Muscular Dystrophy.

1980 - Susan Powell, Miss Oklahoma, was crowned Miss America in Atlantic City, New Jersey. For the first time in 25 years Bert Parks was not the show's master of ceremonies. The pageant committee fired him, saying he was too old. Ron Ely, television's former "Tarzan", was chosen to host the festivities.

1982 - Pittsburgh Pirate Willie Stargell saw his uniform, number 8, retired. It was the fourth time a Pirate player’s uniform was retired. The other three uniforms belonged to Roberto Clemente #21, Honus Wagner #33 and Pie Traynor #20.

1983 - The Soviet Union admitted shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007. The Soviets said their pilots were not aware that their target was a civilian aircraft.

1984 - Ernest Tubb, country music star, died at age 70. Tubb was from Crisp, Texas and was called the "Texas Troubadour". He styled his technique after Jimmie Rodgers. Tubb recorded "I’m Walking the Floor Over You" of which he sold over three million copies. "Blue Christmas", "I Love You Because", "Missing In Action" and "Thanks a Lot" were also made famous by Tubb. He recorded with artists as diverse as The Andrews Sisters, Loretta Lynn and Red Foley recorded with Tubb. "The Legend and the Legacy", his 1979 album, was a top-ten hit. Since 1943, Tubb was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and in 1965, was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame.

1984 - Ginger Rogers was at Buffalo, New York's Shea's Theatre for a homecoming performance. The star of many motion pictures, Rogers played the Shea 55 years earlier.

1986 - 22 worshipers were killed in an attack with machine guns and grenades in a synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey.

1986 - Bananarama's "Venus" hit the top spot on the pop music charts. The song was a previous #1 hit for the Dutch group, The Shocking Blue om February 7, 1970.

1986 - Armed left-wing opponents ambushed former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet's motorcade with bazookas and automatic gunfire in a failed assassination attempt.

1986 - Bishop Desmond Tutu was enthroned as Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. He was the first black head of South Africa's Anglicans.

1987 - West German engineer Alfred Schmidt was released eight months after being abducted in Beirut.

1990 - The United States won Saudi and Kuwaiti pledges to help pay for forces in the Gulf during "Operation Desert Shield".

1991 - Soviet Union recognized the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as independent.

1991 - An early photograph of Hollywood movie sex symbol Marilyn Monroe appeared in Britain's tabloid Daily Mirror on this date, showing that Monroe was born with six toes on her left foot. The extra toe was later removed by surgery, and was kept a secret until this British publication ran the story.

1993 - Six former Soviet republics -- Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia and Tajikistan -- signed framework agreements to keep the Russian ruble as their common currency.

1994 - The Stars and Stripes flag was lowered for the last time over U.S. Army headquarters in Berlin, formally ending the American presence in the once-divided city after nearly half a century.

1994 - Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds held his government's first talks with Gerry Adams, head of the IRA's political wing Sinn Fein.

1995 - When the Angels-Orioles game reached the middle of the fifth inning at Camden Yards, it became official: Cal Ripken, Jr. had broken the "unbreakable" record of 2,130 consecutive major league games set by Lou Gehrig. It was exhilarating because of an impromptu moment at a time when a labor-gutted sport needed it most: Urged by teammates, Ripken proceeded to take a victory lap around the wet-eyed ballpark, "high-fiving" fans along the way, running into immortality.