On September 17, 1983, Vanessa Lynn Williams made history by becoming the first African-American woman in the pageant’s 63-year history to capture the Miss America title. (For the competition’s first 30 years, blacks weren’t even […]
On September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest, launches the Mexican War of Independence with the issuing of his Grito de Dolores, or “Cry of Dolores.” The revolutionary tract, so-named because it […]
On September 13, 1993, Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, have shaken hands before cheering crowds on the White House lawn in Washington. The handshake – the first-ever in public […]
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. […]
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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