The first issue of the magazine, National Geographic is published.
Author: Staff
20 September 1066
The Viking Harald Hardrada defeats the earls, Morcar and Edwin in the Battle of Fulford.
19 September 1970
The first performing arts festival, the Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis’s farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom. Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of…
18 September 1944
Over 5000 are killes when the British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes the Jun’y? Maru.
15 September 1961
Hurricane Carla hits land in Texas with winds of 175 miles per hour. Hurricane Carla ranks as the most intense U.S. tropical cyclone landfall on…
13 September 2007
The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.