| September 8 |
| 1504 |
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Michelangelo’s 13-foot marble statue of David is unveiled in Florence, Italy. |
| 1529 |
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The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman re-enters Buda and establishes John Zapolyai as the puppet king of Hungary. |
| 1565 |
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Spanish explorers found St. Augustine, Florida, the first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States. |
| 1628 |
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John Endecott arrives with colonists at Salem, Massachusetts, where he will become the governor. |
| 1644 |
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The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam surrenders to the British fleet that sails into its harbor. Five years later, the British change the name to New York. |
| 1755 |
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British forces under William Johnson defeat the French and the Indians at the Battle of Lake George. |
| 1760 |
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The French surrender the city of Montreal to the British. |
| 1845 |
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A French column surrenders at Sidi Brahim in the Algerian War. |
| 1863 |
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Confederate Lieutenant Dick Dowling thwarts a Union naval landing at Sabine Pass, northeast of Galveston, Texas. |
| 1903 |
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Between 30,000 and 50,000 Bulgarian men, women and children are massacred in Monastir by Turkish troops seeking to check a threatened Macedonian uprising. |
| 1906 |
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Robert Turner invents the automatic typewriter return carriage. |
| 1915 |
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Germany begins a new offensive in Argonne on the Western Front. |
| 1921 |
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Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., is named the first Miss America. |
| 1925 |
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Germany is admitted into the League of Nations. |
| 1935 |
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Senator Huey Long of Louisiana is shot to death in the state capitol, allegedly by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr. |
| 1944 |
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Germany’s V-2 offensive against England begins. |
| 1945 |
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Korea is partitioned by the Soviet Union and the United States. |
| 1951 |
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Japanese representatives sign a peace treaty in San Francisco. |
| 1955 |
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The United States, Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Thailand sign the mutual defense treaty that established the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). |
| 1960 |
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Penguin Books in Britain is charged with obscenity for trying to publish the D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly’s Lover. |
| 1960 |
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President Eisenhower dedicates NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. |
| 1971 |
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The Kennedy Center opens in Washington, DC with a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass. |
| 1972 |
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Arab terrorists kill 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. |
| 1974 |
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President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard M. Nixon for any crimes arising from the Watergate scandal he may have committed while in office. |
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Born on September 8 |
| 1841 |
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Antonin Dvorak, composer and violinist. |
| 1886 |
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Siegfried Sassoon, British author and poet famous for his anti-war writing about World War I. |
| 1889 |
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Robert A. Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio who unsuccessfully sought the presidential nomination from the 1940s until 1952. |
| 1900 |
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Claude Pepper, Democratic senator and congressman from Florida, champion of senior citizens rights. |
| 1922 |
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Sid Caesar, comedian and television star, best known for "Your Show of Shows," and "The Sid Caesar Show." |
| 1925 |
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Peter Sellers, English comic actor, famous for his role as Inspector Clouseau. |
| 1932 |
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Patsy Cline, country singer ("Crazy", "I Fall to Pieces"). |
| 1933 |
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Michael Frayn, playwright (A Very Private Life, Noises Off). |
| 1947 |
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Ann Beattie, writer (Chilly Scenes of Winter, Picturing Will). |
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