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1. 28th September 1924: First aerial circumnavigation of the globe completed by a team from the United States Army Air Service

   Publié: 28/09/2024
2. 27th September 1590: Pope Urban VII dies, ending the the shortest papal reign in history

   Publié: 27/09/2024
3. 26th September 1923: Gustav Stresemann of Germany ends passive resistance in the Ruhr

   Publié: 26/09/2024
4. 25th September 1956: Inauguration TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable

   Publié: 25/09/2024
5. 24th September 1946: ‘Containment’ first suggested to President Truman in a report by Clark Clifford and George Elsey

   Publié: 24/09/2024
6. 23rd September 1889: Nintendo founded in Kyoto, Japan, to produce playing cards

   Publié: 23/09/2024
7. 22nd September 1980: Start of the Iran-Iraq War that lasted on for nearly eight years

   Publié: 22/09/2024
8. 21st September 1915: Cecil Chubb, Stonehenge’s last private owner, wins it at auction

   Publié: 21/09/2024
9. 20th September 1946: First Cannes International Film Festival begins at the former Casino

   Publié: 20/09/2024
10. 19th September 1879: The Blackpool Illuminations turned on for the first time

    Publié: 19/09/2024
11. 18th September 1931: The Manchurian Crisis begins after Japanese forces bomb the South Manchuria Railway

    Publié: 18/09/2024
12. 17th September 1859: Joshua Norton declares himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States

    Publié: 17/09/2024
13. 16th September 1979: Two families escape from East Germany in a homemade hot air balloon

    Publié: 16/09/2024
14. 15th September 1440: Gilles de Rais is arrested and later convicted as one of the world’s earliest serial killers

    Publié: 15/09/2024
15. 14th September 1959: The USSR sends the first man-made object to the Moon’s surface

    Publié: 14/09/2024
16. 13th September 1848: Phineas Gage survives an accident in which an explosion propels a large iron bar completely through his head

    Publié: 13/09/2024
17. 12th September 490 BCE: Battle of Marathon is fought during the Greco-Persian Wars (accepted date)

    Publié: 12/09/2024
18. 11th September 1789: Alexander Hamilton appointed US Secretary of the Treasury

    Publié: 11/09/2024
19. 10th September 1989: Hungary allows East Germans to cross the border into Austria

    Publié: 10/09/2024
20. 9th September 1956: Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show

    Publié: 09/09/2024