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01
The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
02
Helen Herron Taft, First Lady
03
Ransom E. Olds, American automobile pioneer
04
Christ the Redeemer - Int'l Landmarks Theme
05
Richard Scarry, American children's author
06
The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
07
Richard Henry Lee presents Lee's Resolution to Congress.
08
Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States
09
Alice Huyler Ramsey drives across the United States.
10
First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.
11
Spanish-American War: U.S. war ships start to sail for Cuba.
12
President Reagan challenges Gorbachev to tear down Berlin Wall.
13
Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system.
14
Flag Day (United States)
15
Rachel Donelson Jackson, First Lady of the United States
16
The first roller coaster in the U.S. begins operation.
17
Mumtaz Mahal died. Her tomb is the Taj Mahal.
18
Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor
19
First baseball game under recognizable modern rules in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
20
Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts.
21
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer
22
Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States
23
Henry Hudson's fourth voyage mutiny
24
First performance of 'O Canada'
25
Thomas Eakins, American artist
26
John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
27
The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
28
A 450 metric ton meteorite struck the earth in Pennsylvania
29
President George W. Bush invokes the 25th amendment.
30
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, First Lady
        

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Some Historical Events
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September 8th

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated. (1971)
Arthur Ashe wins U.S. Open. (1968)
Galveston Hurricane of 1900 (1900)
First transcontinental bus service in the U.S. (1953)
Natural Disaster: Heatwave (2003)
The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men e (1810)




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