The climax of the Battle of Britain, with the UK Royal Air Force shoots down large numbers of Germany’s Luftwaffe aircraft.
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14 September 1954
A Soviet bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic bomb north of Totskoye village, exposing some 45,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians to nuclear fallout as part…
13 September 2008
Hurricane Ike makes landfall causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston.
12 September 490 BC
The Battle of Marathon where the Athenians and Plataean, defeat the Persian invasion force of Greece.
11 September 2001
Attacks take place in the United States with plane hijackings resulting in the collapse of the World Trade Center, damage to The Pentagon and the…
10 September 1961
At the 1961 Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips as well as 13 spectators who…
9 September 1990
The massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army occurred in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
7 September 1812
Battle of Borodino. Napoleon wins a victory over the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
6 September 1997
The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales occured in London. Over 1 million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on…