– The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8888_Uprising’]
17 September 1954
The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies’]
16 September 1987
The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol’]
15 September 1935
The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws’]
14 September 1982
President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachir_Gemayel’]
13 September 1985
Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.’]
12 September 1962
President Kennedy delivers his “We choose to go to the Moon” speech at Rice University. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon’]
11 September 2012
A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Pakistan_factory_fires’]
10 September 2008
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider’]
9 September 2015
Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_in_Britain_by_length_of_reign’]