Hurricane Gilbert slammed into Jamaica, killing hundreds of people, on September 12, 1988. The storm went on to cause death and destruction in Mexico and spur a batch of tornadoes in Texas. On September 10, […]
On September 11, 1973, Chilean President Salvador Allende was killed. His death marked the beginning of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, the general who opened a cycle of neoliberal reforms, authoritarianism, and violence against the […]
Spanish artist Pablo Picasso’s monumental anti-war mural Guernica is received by Spain after four decades of refugee existence on September 10, 1981. One of Picasso’s most important works, the painting was inspired by the destruction […]
Mao Zedong, one of the most significant communist figures of the Cold War, led the Chinese people through a long revolution and then ruled the nation’s communist government from its establishment in 1949. Mao believed […]
Britain and the world have said farewell to Diana, Princess of Wales, at the end of an unprecedented week of mourning. A four-mile procession brought her coffin to Westminster Abbey, where politicians and celebrities joined […]
During the 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich, in the early morning of September 5, a group of Palestinian terrorists storms the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes, killing two and taking nine others hostage. […]
Google was incorporated as a privately-held company on September 4, 1998, by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The founders met when Brin was assigned to give Page a tour of Stanford University, where they […]
The American Revolution officially comes to an end when representatives of the United States, Great Britain, Spain, and France sign the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783. The signing signified America’s status as a […]
On September 2, 2013, 64-year-old Diana Nyad becomes the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the use of a shark cage for protection. Nyad completed the 110-mile swim from Havana to Key […]
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