Twenty four settlers are killed during the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana. On September 3, 1812, a war party of Native Americans made a surprise…
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1 September 1905
Alberta and Saskatchewan became part of Canada. The two provinces; Alberta and Saskatchewan were originally part of Rupert’s land. On September 1st, 1905, the Saskatchewan…
30 August 1967
Thurgood Marshall become the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
29 August 1930
The remaining 36 inhabitants of the isolated archipelago, St Kilda, are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. On 29 August 1930, a ship called…
28 August 1810
The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet after the Battle of Grand Port.
27 August 2011
Hurricane Irene reaches land on the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.