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8th September 1888: The very first Football League games played in England

Twelve teams from across the Midlands and the North West of England made up the very first Football ...

7th September 1940: The Nazi German Luftwaffe launches The Blitz

The Nazi German Luftwaffe launched the first of 57 consecutive days and nights of bombing raids on London in what became known as the ...

6th September 1972: Israeli Olympic athletes killed in the Munich massacre by Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group

The terrorists and their hostages were shuttled to a nearby airfield, but the captors later turned on the Israeli athletes and killed them with machine guns and a ...

5th September 1698: Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards

Peter the Great's decision to ban beards was unpopular, not only because it was a significant challenge to tradition but also because shaving a beard was interpreted by some Orthodox Christians as being ...

4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York

Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New ...

3rd September 1939: Second World War officially begins when France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany alongside Australia and New Zealand

German Nazi forces had invaded Poland two days earlier, claiming to be acting in self-defence following a ‘false flag’ ...

2nd September 1666: The Great Fire of London begins at a bakery in Pudding Lane

Beginning at a bakery in Pudding Lane, the catastrophic Great Fire of London blazed for more than three days and destroyed over 13,000 houses, churches and government ...

1st September 1604: The Sikh Adi Granth first installed at the Golden Temple

The Adi Granth, the original holy scripture of Sikhism now known as Guru Granth Sahib, was first installed at the Harmandir Sahib Golden ...

31st August 1907: The Anglo-Russian Entente is signed, forming the Triple Entente

Britain and Russia signed the Anglo-Russian Entente, which led to the formation of the Triple ...

30th August 1918: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, survives an assassination attempt

The assassination of Lenin was attempted by Fanya Kaplan, a member of the anti-Bolshevik faction of the Socialist Revolutionary ...