1859 – Disgruntled with the legal and political structures of the United States, Joshua Norton distributed letters to various newspapers in San Francisco, proclaiming himself Emperor Norton.
September 14
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September 14
786 – Harun al-Rashid became the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi.
1752 – In adopting the Gregorian calendar under the terms of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, the British Empire skipped eleven days (September 2 was followed directly by September 14).
1812 – The French invasion of Russia: Following the Battle of Borodino seven days ...
June 19
June 19: Juneteenth in some parts of the United States
1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, US, with the New York Nine defeating the New York Knickerbockers, 23–1.
1850 – Louise of the Netherlands married Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (pictured) were executed as spies ...
September 29
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September 29: Michaelmas
1829 – The Metropolitan Police (flag pictured) of Greater London, sometimes also referred to as "Scotland Yard" after the location of its original headquarters, was founded.
1885 – One of the first practical electric tramways in the world, the Blackpool tramway in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, opened.
1938 – At a conference in Munich, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, British Prime ...
September 3
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September 3: Ghost Festival in the Chinese calendar (2009); Independence Day in Qatar; Flag Day in Australia; Armed Forces Day in Taiwan
301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus.
590 – Gregory I became pope, the first one to come from a monastic ...
December 8
December 8: Constitution Day in Romania (1991); Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Roman Catholicism
1609 – Milan's Biblioteca Ambrosiana opened its reading room to the public, becoming the second public library in Europe.
1941 – The Holocaust: The Chelmno extermination camp in Poland, the first such Nazi camp to kill the Jews of the Ghetto Litzmannstadt and the Warthegau by poison ...
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