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19th September 1970: The First Glastonbury Festival takes place in Somerset

On the 19th September 1970 the first Glastonbury Festival took place at Worthy Farm in ...

16th September 1920: 38 people died in the Wall Street bombing in New York

38 people died and hundreds more were wounded in the Wall Street bombing in New ...

15th September 1831: The First National Negro Convention was held in Philadelphia

The Negro Convention Movement, sometimes referred to as the Colored Conventions Movement, developed during the antebellum period in the north American ...

13th September 1899: Henry H. Bliss, the first person to be killed by an automobile in America

Henry Hale Bliss, a Manhattan real estate salesman, was helping a female companion name as Miss Lee disembark a southbound 8th Avenue trolley car at West 74th Street and Central Park West in New York ...

12th September 1958: The world’s first integrated circuit demonstrated by Jack Kilby

American electrical engineer Jack Kilby demonstrated the world’s first integrated circuit while working at Texas ...

8th September 1966: Star Trek makes its television debut with “The Man Trap”

The first episode of American science fiction television series Star Trek was broadcast at 8.30pm on ...

7th September 1813: According to tradition, the United States gained its nickname, ‘Uncle Sam’

The United States apparently gained the nickname ‘Uncle Sam’ when it was featured in a local newspaper ...

6th September 1901: President William McKinley shot at the Pan-American Exposition by Leon Czolgosz

President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist during a ...

2nd September 1935: The Labor Day hurricane, the most intense hurricane to ever make landfall

The most intense hurricane to ever make landfall struck the United ...

1st September 1985: Wreck of the Titanic discovered by a team led by Robert Ballard

The wreck of the Titanic was discovered by a joint American-French expedition led by oceanographer Robert ...