Born On This Day:

• Sir James Dewar, 1842
• Upton Sinclair, 1878
• Jelly Roll Morton, 1885
• Kenneth More, 1914
• 'Red' Auerbach, 1917
• Fernando Rey, 1917
• Rachel Roberts, 1927
• Dr. Joyce Brothers, 1928
• Ann Meara, 1929
• Henry Livings, 1929
• Sophia Loren, 1934
• Pia Lindstrom, 1938
• Bill Murray, 1951

Died On This Day:

• Jacob Grimm, 1863
• Fiorello La Guardia, 1947
• Jean Sibelius, 1957
• Jim Croce killed, 1973
• Roy Kinnear killed, 1988
• Jule Styne, 1994
• Raisa Gorbachev, 1999
• Simon Wiesenthal, 2005
• Polly Bergen, 2014

Today's Events:

• AD 451 - Romans under General Aetius defeat Attila the Hun at Chalons-sur-Marne.
• 1198 - Richard I beats the French at Gisors
• 1258 - Salisbury Cathedral in England is consecrated.
• 1378 - Great Schism in Catholic Church begins as French cardinals choose Clement VII Pope despite Urban VI.
• 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Portugal with five ships endeavoring to sail west to the Indies.
• 1797 - USS Constitution, known as 'Old Ironsides' launched, but gets stuck and has to be re-launched 10/21
• 1824 - Trapper Jim Bridger discovers the Great Salt Lake; thinks he's found Pacific Ocean.
• 1853 - First railroad passenger station, Union Station, opens at Indianapolis.
• 1853 - Mr. Otis demonstrates first elevator.
• 1854 - British and French defeat Russians in Battle of Alma (Crimean War).
• 1857 - Delhi re-captured by British after three month siege.
• 1859 - The electric stove patented by inventor George B. Simpson of Washington, D.C.
• 1861 - Battle of Lexington. US Civil War.
• 1870 - Italy united when Rome taken from France by forces of Victor Emannuel II, which is why many Italian cities have streets and piazzas called September XX.
• 1882 - M. Goldman & S. Sachs join to deal in securities; now Wall Street's only private partnership.
• 1906 - Passenger liner Mauretania launched.
• 1931 - British sterling taken off gold standard.
• 1946 - Columbia Pictures is first to put TV commercial for movie on the air-'The Jolson Story.'
• 1946 - Cannes Film Festival opens; postponed from 1939 because of WWII.
• 1955 - Phil Silvers Show aka. Sgt. Bilko premieres on CBS to play 138 episodes until September 11, 1959.
• 1966 - Luxury Liner QEII Launched at Clydebank.
• 1974 - Cyclone 'Fifi' hits Honduras killing 10,000.
• 1999 - 7.3 Earthquake in Taiwan kills 2,109, injures 7,824. Epicenter: Sun Moon Lake
• 2017 - Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico at 6:15 am.; island virtually destroyed - no power, 34 dead.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Candida of Carthage
• Fausta and Evilasius
• Theodore
• Philippa and their companions
• Vincent Madelgarus
• Martyrs of Korea
• Day of Romulus, founder and first King of Rome
• Eustace

Holiday:

• Respect for the Aged Day in Japan

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