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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 ...

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 ...

5th September 1781: Battle of the Chesapeake sees the British Navy repelled by the French during the American War of Independence

The French victory blocked British reinforcements and resupplies for General Cornwallis at Yorktown who surrendered his forces on October ...

4th September 476: End of the Western Roman Empire when Romulus Augustulus is overthrown by the barbarian general Odoacer

Romulus’ overthrow facilitated Odoacer’s rise and the transition to the Ostrogothic ...

3rd September 301: The world’s oldest republic still in existence founded when Saint Marinus establishes San Marino

While the republic’s first government was based on a self-governed assembly known as the Arengo, the current system in San Marino has been in place since the Statutes of ...

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 ...