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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| September 18, 2007 | Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution. |
| September 17, 1859 | Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States." |
| September 21, 1976 | Seychelles joins the United Nations. |
| September 22, 1236 | The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule. |
| September 20, 1871 | Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands. |
| September 11, 2012 | The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths. |
| September 5, 1793 | French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror. |
| September 13, 2008 | Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas. |
| September 14, 1943 | World War II: The Wehrmacht starts a three-day retaliatory operation targeting several Greek villages in the region of Viannos, whose death toll would eventually exceed 500 persons. |
| September 17, 1948 | The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel. |
| September 22, 1891 | The first hydropower plant of Finland was commissioned along the Tammerkoski rapids in Tampere, Pirkanmaa.[1] |
| September 4, 1934 | Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full. |
| September 2, 1957 | President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia. |
| September 2, 1945 | Communist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam after the end of the Nguyễn dynasty. |
| September 6, 1939 | World War II: The British Royal Air Force suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire. |
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