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The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, on September 6, 1620. Sixty-six days later it reached Cape Cod, far from where it was meant to land, and half the passengers died that winter.
Sep 6, 2026
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On September 5, 1972, Palestinian gunmen took Israeli athletes hostage at the Munich Olympics. Eleven members of the Israeli team were killed. The tragedy changed how the world secures major events.
Sep 5, 2026
Google was incorporated on September 4, 1998, in a garage in Menlo Park. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had built a better way to rank web pages, and it turned into one of the largest companies on Earth.
Sep 4, 2026
The Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783, ending the American Revolutionary War. Britain recognized the independence of the thirteen colonies and gave up territory stretching to the Mississippi.
Sep 3, 2026
The Great Fire of London began in the early hours of September 2, 1666. Over four days it destroyed thirteen thousand houses and old St Paul's Cathedral, and remade the city that rose from the ashes.
Sep 2, 2026
Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Two days later Britain and France declared war. The conflict that followed killed more people than any other event in human history.
Sep 1, 2026
On August 31, 1888, the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found in Whitechapel, the first of the murders attributed to Jack the Ripper. The killer was never identified, and the case still haunts London.
Aug 31, 2026
Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797. At eighteen she conceived Frankenstein, a novel that created a genre, gave the world its most enduring monster, and asked questions we are still asking.
Aug 30, 2026
The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb on August 29, 1949, years before the West expected. The American nuclear monopoly ended, and the arms race that would define the Cold War began.
Aug 29, 2026
On August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech that defined the civil rights movement, before a crowd of a quarter million at the Lincoln Memorial.
Aug 28, 2026
