Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
30 September 1949
The Berlin Airlift ends.
29 September 1877
Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
28 September 1919
Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska.
27 September 1998
The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.
26 September 1789
George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State
25 September 1964
The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
24 September 1911
His Majesty’s Airship No. 1, Britain’s first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
23 September 1983
Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
22 September 1934
The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.