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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 ...

14th September 1607: ‘Flight of the Earls’ sees Gaelic nobility, led by Hugh O’Neill and Rory O’Donnell, leave Ulster in Ireland for mainland Europe

In the wake of the flight of the Earls, the lands and titles left behind were confiscated by the English crown, which accelerated the process of English colonisation over the next ...

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 ...

11th September 1973: General Augusto Pinochet seizes power in Chile after launching a coup against President Salvador Allende

General Pinochet soon emerged as the permanent head of the ruling junta and set about imposing a new era of authoritarianism and political repression. He ruled Chile until ...

10th September 1919: Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain at the end of the First World War

The Austrian delegation to Paris was led by the Social Democrat minister Karl Renner who had little choice but to agree to the redrawing of national borders that saw the emergence of several independent nations and the reduction of Austrian ...

9th September 1776: The name ‘United States’ of America adopted by the Second Continental Congress

The new name for the former Thirteen Colonies represented a cohesive identity that united them under a common ...

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 ...