Born On This Day:

• Samuel Johnson, 1709
• Pope Gregory XVI, 1765
• John Diefenbaker, 1895
• Eddie Anderson, 1905
• Agnes de Mille, 1905
• Greta Garbo, 1905
• Kwame Nkrumah, 1909
• Rossano Brazzi, 1916
• Jack Warden, 1920
• Robert Blake, 1933
• Frankie Avalon, 1939
• James Gandolfini, 1961
• Lance Armstrong, 1971

Died On This Day:

• King Louis VII France, 1180
• Van Eyck, 1426
• William Hazlitt, 1830
• Charles M. Schwab, 1939
• Dag Hammarskjold killed, 1961
• Sean O'Casey, 1964
• Franchot Tone, 1968
• Jimi Hendrix OD, 1970
• Katherine Anne Porter, 1980
• Vitas Gerulaitis, 1994

Today's Events:

• 1769 - First piano, a spinet, produced in America by John Harris of Boston.
• 1793 - Silver cornerstone of Capitol, Washington D.C., laid by President George Washington.
• 1851 - New York Times begins publication under the slogan 'all the news that's fit to print.'
• 1891 - White woman Harriet Maxwell Converse (Gaiswahoh) becomes chief of Indian Tribe - 6 Nations in NY.
• 1914 - U.S. Army Air Service created.
• 1927 - Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System, later CBS Radio, begins broadcasting.
• 1947 - National Security Act unifies the Army, Navy and newly formed Air Force.
• 1975 - Patty Hearst arrested as fugitive by the FBI in San Francisco. To spend 22 months in jail.
• 1978 - Begin and Sadat agree plan for peace in Middle East at Camp David.
• 1980 - First black person in space: Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez of Cuba flies in Soviet Rocket Salyut6 on 8 day mission.
• 1981 - France abolishes the guillotine.
• 1988 - After bloody student riots, Burma military seize power; Gen. U. Saw Maung repels students
• 2001 - New York City reveals death and missing toll of Sept. 11 disaster at 5,422 later revised to 2,787.
• 2001 - Taliban leaders in Afghanistan confirm their declaration of a Jihad (holy war) against America.
• 2014 - Scots vote against becoming independent of the United Kingdom.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Methodius of Olympus
• Joseph of Copertino

Holiday:

• Independence Day Chile (1810),
• Korean National Festival of Chusok

Non-Specific Holiday:

• JANAM (OR JANMA) ASHTAMI, Hindu Birthday Festival of Krishna
• ANANT CHATURDASI, Hindu Eternal Anniversary of 14th day of Month Bhaedra
• LABOR DAY (U.S. and Canada) First Monday in September.
• CH'UNG YANG, Festival of High Places in China (ninth day of the ninth moon)
• BIRTHDAY OF KRSNA. (Hindu)
• CHUSOK (Korea) on day of full moon of eighth lunar month.
• ROSH HASHANA (Jewish New Year) first and second days of lunar month Tishri.
• YOM KIPPUR (Jewish Day of Atonement) tenth day of lunar month Tishri.
• SUKKOTH (Jewish Feast of Tabernacles) 15th day of lunar month Tishri - five days after Yom Kippur
• SIMCHAT TORAH (Jewish Rejoicing of the Law) 23rd day of Tishri
• DURGA-PUJA (Hindu festival of Goddess Durga)
• PITRA PASKSHA and AMAVASYA, Hindu Feast of the Dead.
• LAKSHMI PUJA, Hindu Festival of the Goddess of Fortune
• CHUNG CH'IU CHIEH (Chinese mid-autumn festival) 15th day of 8th lunar month.
• OWARA KAZE NO BON, HACHIMAN & DOBUROKU MATSURI harvest festivals in Japan
• NATIONAL GRANDPARENTS' DAY - first Sunday after Labor Day in USA
• NATIVE AMERICAN DAY - fourth Friday in September in US
• RAMADAN, Muslim Holy Month