• Sep 02 2006

    4 Years ago

    2004-2006 Waziristan conflict ends. US and Pakistani Troops leave Waziristan mountain area.


  • Sep 02 2005

    5 Years ago

    The Natural Bridge, a very popular tourist attraction in Aruba, collapses after thousands of years in good condition.


  • Sep 02 1998

    12 Years ago

    Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.


  • Sep 02 1998

    12 Years ago

    The United Nations's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.


  • Sep 02 1996

    14 Years ago

    A peace agreement is signed between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front in Malacañang Palace.


  • Sep 02 1991

    19 Years ago

    The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.


  • Sep 02 1990

    20 Years ago

    Transnistria unilaterally proclaimed as Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.


  • Sep 02 1970

    40 Years ago

    NASA announces the Cancelled Apollo missions of two Project Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation was re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.


  • Sep 02 1969

    41 Years ago

    The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.


  • Sep 02 1967

    43 Years ago

    established The Principality of Sealand, ruled by Prince Paddy Roy Bates.


  • Sep 02 1963

    47 Years ago

    ''CBS Evening News'' becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.


  • Sep 02 1958

    52 Years ago

    U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.


  • Sep 02 1945

    65 Years ago

    Combat in World War II ends in the Pacific Theater: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay.


  • Sep 02 1945

    65 Years ago

    Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).


  • Sep 02 1939

    71 Years ago

    World War II: Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany.


  • Sep 02 1935

    75 Years ago

    Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.


  • Sep 02 1925

    85 Years ago

    The U.S. Zeppelin the ''USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)'' crashes, killing 14.


  • Sep 02 1901

    109 Years ago

    Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a Big Stick Diplomacy" at the Minnesota State Fair.


  • Sep 02 1898

    112 Years ago

    Battle of Omdurman - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establishing British dominance in the Sudan.


  • Sep 02 1885

    125 Years ago

    In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Overseas Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.



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