| 2009 | A bomb explodes outside of Athens' stock exchange, damaging the building and a female passer-by |
| 1998 | SwissAir flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia killing all 229 onbaord, likely cause was an electrical fire |
| 1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal, Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM |
| 1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto, Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM |
| 1996 | Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000 |
| 1996 | Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
| 1996 | Soyuz TM-24, lands |
| 1995 | Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25) |
| 1995 | Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1995 | Southern California begins using new area code 562 |
| 1994 | Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km) |
| 1993 | 10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins |
| 1993 | Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed |
| 1993 | Day of Peace in South Africa |
| 1992 | Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die |
| 1992 | U.S. dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record) |
| 1991 | Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657 |
| 1991 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 1991 | U.S. officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania |
| 1990 | "Grapes of Wrath" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 188 performances |
| 1990 | Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St. Zen Center, SF |
| 1989 | Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst |
| 1988 | Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley |
| 1987 | Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times ad lambasting Japan |
| 1987 | Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit home runs in a game twice in 1 season |
| 1987 | Philips introduces CD-video |
| 1987 | West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia |
| 1986 | Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi |
| 1985 | Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| 1985 | Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000 |
| 1984 | "Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 362 performances |
| 1983 | Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM |
| 1982 | Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down |
| 1981 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1980 | John Arlott calls his last game, England vs. Australia at Lord's |
| 1979 | "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 108 performances |
| 1979 | 79th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara |
| 1978 | George Harrison marries Olivia |
| 1978 | Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine) |
| 1978 | Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man |
| 1978 | John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston |
| 1978 | Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 home run in 11 straight years |
| 1974 | Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| 1974 | Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
| 1973 | Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers |
| 1973 | Netherlands wins hockey world's championship |
| 1973 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic |
| 1972 | Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits San Diego Padres, 1-0 |
| 1972 | Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec) |
| 1972 | Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well) |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1971 | Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer |
| 1971 | Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors win their 1st U.S. Open tennis matches |
| 1971 | New York's Electric Circus Club goes out of business |
| 1970 | 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (U.S. Open) (9 pt sudden death) |
| 1969 | New York Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated |
| 1969 | Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season |
| 1968 | Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| 1967 | KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf |
| 1965 | Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th home run off Curt Simmons |
| 1965 | Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends |
| 1964 | Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia |
| 1964 | Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal |
| 1963 | Alabama Governor George C. Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS |
| 1963 | CBS and NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes |
| 1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament |
| 1962 | Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | Tamara and Irina Press (U.S.S.R.) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold |
| 1960 | William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
| 1959 | U.S. President Eisenhower arrives in Paris |
| 1958 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1958 | Henry Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa |
| 1958 | KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium |
| 1958 | National Defense Education Act was signed |
| 1957 | 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die |
| 1957 | Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game |
| 1957 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1956 | Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India) |
| 1956 | Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings |
| 1956 | Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service |
| 1955 | KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, California (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Hurricane Edna batters NE U.S., killing 20 |
| 1954 | WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Dr. Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery |
| 1951 | Australia, New Zealand and U.S. sign ANZUS-pact |
| 1949 | Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China) |
| 1946 | Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager |
| 1946 | Nehru forms government in India |
| 1945 | 59th U.S. Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64) |
| 1945 | Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day) |
| 1945 | V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends) |
| 1944 | Belgium's Emissie bank closes |
| 1944 | During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane |
| 1944 | Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz |
| 1944 | U.S. leaders meet in Belgium |
| 1942 | German troops enter Stalingrad |
| 1941 | Academy copyrights Oscar statuette |
| 1940 | 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa |
| 1940 | Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated |
| 1937 | U.S. Housing Authority created by National Housing Act |
| 1936 | 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight |
| 1935 | A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423 |
| 1930 | 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to U.S. (37 hours) |
| 1929 | Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union and Lever Bros |
| 1929 | WOR (New York City) ends affiliation with CBS radio network |
| 1927 | Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers |
| 1926 | Italy signs treaty with Yemen |
| 1924 | 44th U.S. Mens Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (61 97 62) |
| 1924 | Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in New York City |
| 1922 | President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem |
| 1920 | W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London |
| 1919 | Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago |
| 1919 | Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation |
| 1919 | National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series |
| 1917 | Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by Admiral Tirpitz) |
| 1914 | General von Hausen and countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux |
| 1913 | Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas |
| 1911 | Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government |
| 1909 | English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill |
| 1908 | Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1901 | Vice President Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" |
| 1900 | Telegraph use between Germany and U.S. begins |
| 1898 | Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain |
| 1898 | Machine gun 1st used in battle |
| 1894 | Amsterdam Municipal theater opens |
| 1894 | Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die |
| 1870 | Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies |
| 1867 | 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem, Netherlands |
| 1864 | Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta |
| 1859 | Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii |
| 1839 | Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam |
| 1806 | A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley, Switzerland, kills 500 |
| 1796 | Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated |
| 1792 | Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails and slaughter them |
| 1789 | U.S. Treasury Department established by Congress |
| 1752 | Last Julian calender day in U.S. and England (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) |
| 1752 | Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies |
| 1743 | England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms |
| 1732 | Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome |
| 1686 | Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks |
| 1666 | Great Fire in London ends, kills 8 |
| 1666 | Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses and kills 8 |
| 1644 | Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders |
| 1537 | King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church" |
| 1519 | 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico |
| 1192 | Sultan Saladin and king Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire |
| 911 | Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines |
