The Saimaa Canal is inaugurated The Saimaa Canal is a significant waterway located in Finland, connecting Lake Saimaa to the Gulf of Finland in the…
6 September 1962
Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of…
5 September 1666
Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul’s Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died. The…
4 September 1948
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, full name Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, reigned as the queen of…
3 September 1651
The Battle of Worcester is the last significant action in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The Battle of Worcester, which took place on September…
2 September 1998
The UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide….
1 September 1939
J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder publish the Oppenheimer–Snyder model, proving for the first time in contemporary physics how black holes could develop….
31 August 1920
Polish–Soviet War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów. The Polish-Soviet War, which took place from 1919 to 1921, resulted in a Polish…
30 August 1963
The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation. The Moscow-Washington hotline, also known as the “Red Telephone”…