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15th September 1830: William Huskisson killed on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

The British MP William Huskisson died as a result of a fatal accident on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester ...

14th September 1814: The poem that provides the lyrics to the United States’ national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key

The poem Defence of Fort M'Henry provides an account of the British attack on the United States during the Battle of ...

13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David

Michelangelo’s David is considered to be one of the greatest examples of Renaissance ...

12th September 1919: Adolf Hitler officially joins the German Workers’ Party (DAP)

Despite members of the army not being permitted to have membership of a political party, Hitler had been given special permission to join the DAP as a military intelligence ...

11th September 1978: Janet Parker becomes the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox

Janet Parker first became ill on 11 August, but nine days passed before she was admitted to hospital and her infection was identified as ...

10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

American rock band Nirvana released the critically acclaimed single “Smells Like Teen ...

9th September 1947: First literal computer ‘bug’ found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer

The bug in the Harvard Mark II was very literal since it was a moth trapped between the points inside an electromagnetic ...

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 ...