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5509 BC - Epoch of the late Byzantine calendar.

462 - possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.

1532 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancée, King Henry VIII of England.

1644 - Battle of Tippermuir, Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving Royalist cause.

1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.

1752 - The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.

1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.

1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.

1807 - Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason.

1836 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.

1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly - Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.

1864 - American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.

1873 - Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.

1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.

1894 - Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota, kills more than 400 people.

1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.

1902 - A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.

1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.

1906 - the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.

1910 - Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, from Brazil, is founded.

1914 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.

1914 - The last Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.

1917 - Russia is officially proclaimed as a republic.

1923 - The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 100,000 people.

1928 - Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.

1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the war. (See Invasion of Poland.)

1939 - George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.

1939 - The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.

1951 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.

1954 - Paul "Bear" Bryant opens his infamous 10-day football mini-camp in Junction, Texas: The Junction Boys.

1960 - Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the history of the company.

1962 - Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands.

1969 - A revolution in Libya brings Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi to power, which was later transferred to the People's Committees.

1970 - Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerillas, who attacked his motorcade.

1971 - The Senate rejects the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment, setting a deadline of December 31, 1971, for complete withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam by a vote of 55-39.

1972 - In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.

1974 - The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.

1975 - The last original episode of the American television series Gunsmoke airs on CBS after a record 20-year run.

1979 - The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.

1980 - Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

1980 - Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea after the resignation of Choi Kyu-ha.

1982 - Canada adopts a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution.

1983 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed.

1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS ''Titanic''.

1988 - YTV was launched.

1990 - The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey.

1991 - Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.

1999 - A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 74, including 10 on the ground.

2001 - Almost every single commercial television station in Vancouver, British Columbia switches network affiliations after a round of ownership changes in 2000 - the largest change in North America.

2001 - The first orca calf (later named Nakai) is born through artificial insemination, to parents Kasatka and Tillikum.

2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.

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1453 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)

1566 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)

1588 - Henry II, Prince of Condé, French nobleman (d. 1646)

1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)

1653 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)

1711 - William IV, Prince of Orange (d. 1759)

1734 - Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter (d. 1797)

1795 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)

1848 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)

1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer (d. 1921)

1855 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (d. 1909)

1856 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)

1871 - J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)

1873 - Dinko Šimunović, Croatian writer and poet (d. 1933)

1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American writer (d. 1950)

1877 - Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)

1887 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)

1888 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)

1889 - Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)

1895 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)

1896 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977)

1897 - Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)

1899 - Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (d. 1951)

1905 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)

1906 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2002)

1906 - Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)

1907 - Walter Reuther, American labor union leader (d. 1970)

1909 - E. Herbert Norman - Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)

1913 - Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)

1920 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (d. 2000)

1921 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (d. 1995)

1922 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian actress

1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (d. 2000)

1923 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)

1923 - Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman (d. 2006)

1925 - Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)

1926 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh

1926 - Gene Colan, American comic book artist

1929 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)

1933 - Ann W. Richards, American politician

1933 - Conway Twitty, American singer (d. 1993)

1935 - Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor

1939 - Lily Tomlin, American actress and comedian

1942 - C. J. Cherryh, American writer

1944 - Leonard Slatkin, American conductor

1945 - Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer

1946 - Barry Gibb, English singer (Bee Gees)

1946 - Roh Moo-Hyun, President of South Korea

1947 - Al Green, American politician

1949 - P.A. Sangma, Indian politician

1950 - Phillip Fulmer, American football coach

1950 - Dr. Phil, American talk show host

1951 - Nicu Ceauşescu, Romanian politician

1952 - Phil Hendrie, American radio personality

1955 - Billy Blanks, American martial artist

1955 - Bruce Foxton, English bassist (The Jam)

1957 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban singer

1961 - Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler

1962 - Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer

1964 - Brian Bellows, Canadian hockey player

1964 - Cécilia Rhode, Swedish model

1966 - Tim Hardaway, American basketball player

1968 - Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)

1969 - Henning Berg, Norwegian footballer

1970 - Vanna, Croatian singer

1971 - Ricardo Antonio Chavira, American actor

1971 - Jimmy Snuka, Jr., American professional wrestler

1973 - J. D. Fortune, Canadian singer (INXS)

1974 - Jhonen Vasquez, comic book artist

1975 - Scott Speedman, American actor

1975 - Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian singer (Rogue Traders)

1975 - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Puerto Rican guitarist

1976 - Jada Fire, American actress

1976 - Erik Morales, Mexican boxer

1977 - Aaron Schobel, American football player

1978 - Max Vieri, Australian footballer

1979 - James O'Connor, Irish footballer

1980 - Chris Riggott, English footballer

1981 - Clinton Portis, American football player

1983 - José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer

1984 - Joseph Trohman, American musician (Fall Out Boy)

1985 - Camile Velasco, American singer

1987 - Dann Hume New Zealand musician (Evermore)

1989 - Bill Kaulitz German singer (Tokio Hotel)

1985 - Garrett Hedlund American actor

1994 - Bianca Ryan, American singer

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921 - Richard, Duke of Burgundy

1067 - Baldwin V of Flanders

1159 - Pope Adrian IV

1256 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)

1414 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)

1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)

1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)

1581 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)

1600 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)

1615 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)

1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)

1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)

1687 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)

1715 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)

1715 - King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)

1943 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief

1957 - Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)

1967 - Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886)

1969 - Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)

1970 - Francois Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)

1977 - Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896)

1981 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)

1982 - Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)

1983 - Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)

1985 - Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)

1985 - Jay Youngblood, American wrestler

1988 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)

1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)

1989 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)

1991 - Vincent Barela, Gay Pornstar

1994 - Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)

1999 - W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)

2003 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)

2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)

2005 - R.L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)

2006 - Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)

2006 - Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)

2006 - Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)

2006 - Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)

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In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the new liturgical year begins on September 1. Also see September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).

Church of England - Saint Giles.

Cameroon - Jour d'Union Nationale Camerounaise.

Libya - Revolution Day (1969).

New Zealand - National R.A.K. (Random Act of Kindness) Day

Russia - Knowledge Day.

Singapore - Teacher's Day.

Slovakia - Constitution Day.

Uzbekistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).

Start of the season when oysters are fit to eat (when month names contain an "R").

Start of cold season.

Start of the partridge-shooting season ("St. Partridge").

Start of new school year in many countries.

First day of Spring in Australia and New Zealand.

Presidential Inform In Mexico usually in the union congress, except in 2006, when the congress was "taken" by deputies on the PRD