Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 1
This is a list of selected September 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Illuminated Sri Guru Granth Sahib folio
Ineligible
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| 1763 – Catherine II of Russia endorsed educator Ivan Betskoy's plans for the Moscow Orphanage (pictured), an ambitious, state-run, experimental Russian Enlightenment project to educate orphans into ideal citizens. | refimprove |
| 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces attacked retreating Union Army troops at the Battle of Chantilly during a rainstorm in Chantilly, Virginia, but the fighting ended up being tactically inconclusive. | needs more footnotes |
| 1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake, measuring 7.9 Richter scale, struck the Kantō region of Japan, devastating Tokyo and Yokohama, and killing over an estimated 100,000 people. | unreferenced section |
| 1951 – Australia, New Zealand and the United States signed a mutual defence pact known as the ANZUS Treaty in San Francisco, agreeing to cooperate on defence matters in the Pacific Ocean area. | refimprove section |
| 1983 – Soviet jet interceptors shot down the civilian airliner Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Sakhalin Island in the North Pacific, killing all 246 passengers and 23 crew on board. | article too long |
Eligible
- 1715 – Louis XIV of France, the "Sun King", died after a reign of 72 years, longer than any other French or other major European monarch at the time.
- 1804 – German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered one of the largest main belt asteroids, naming it Juno after the Roman goddess.
- 1969 – A bloodless coup d'état led by Muammar al-Gaddafi overthrew Idris I of Libya.
- 1972 – American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer became the 11th World Chess Champion when he defeated Russian Boris Spassky in a match that was widely publicized as a Cold War confrontation.
September 1: Start of the Liturgical year in the Eastern Orthodox Church; Ganesh Chaturthi (Hinduism, 2011); Constitution Day in Slovakia; Independence Day in Uzbekistan (1991)
- 1604 – Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the religious text of Sikhism, was installed at Harmandir Sahib.
- 1902 – The first science fiction film, titled A Trip to the Moon and based on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, was released in France.
- 1920 – The Fountain of Time (detail pictured) opened as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
- 1939 – Nazi Germany invaded Poland at Wieluń and Westerplatte, starting World War II in Europe.
- 1961 – The thirty-year Eritrean War of Independence began when rebels led by Hamid Idris Awate fired shots at the Ethiopian Army.