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16th September 1955: Uprising that topples Juan Perón from power in Argentina begins

The Revolución Libertadora began in Argentina, resulting in the end of Juan Perón’s second term as ...

15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’

The Nuremberg Laws enshrined anti-semitic discrimination in the legal framework of the country through two pieces of ...

14th September 1741: George Frideric Handel, a German-born composer who had settled in London, completed his oratorio Messiah

Messiah has since become one of the most frequently performed choral works in Western music with the “Hallelujah” chorus becoming a central piece in the choral ...

13th September 1985: Super Mario Bros. video game first released in Japan

Originally only available for the Japanese Family Computer, it took nearly another two years for the game to be available ...

12th September 1977: Steve Biko dies of injuries sustained in police custody

South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in Pretoria prison from injuries inflicted while in police ...

11th September 1792: Theft of the French Blue diamond, later known as the Hope Diamond, during the French Revolution

The French Blue diamond had been part of the royal collection since the seventeenth century, and was stolen by a group of thieves after King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were imprisoned in the ...

8th September 1878: “The Great Herding” of sheep to Santa Cruz departs Fortín Conesa on the southern frontier of Argentina

Contemporary accounts suggest that over 20,000 sheep were gathered near Fortín Conesa in northern Patagonia, from where they undertook a gruelling journey to the abundant grazing land of Santa Cruz ...

7th September 1497: Perkin Warbeck claims he is English King Richard IV during the Second Cornish Uprising

Warbeck had convinced his followers that he was Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the two ‘Princes in the ...

6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world

The ship Victoria returned to Spain as the only survivor of Ferdinand Magellan’s fleet that circumnavigated the ...

5th September 1945: Defection of Igor Gouzenko to Canada exposes a Soviet espionage network in the West

Gouzenko’s defection had far-reaching effects. In Canada, several people were arrested and convicted of espionage while other Western governments were alerted to the extent of Soviet intelligence ...