Born On This Day:

• Tintoretto, 1518
• Miguel de Cervantes, 1547
• Clive of India (Robert), 1725
• Horatio, Lord Nelson, 1758
• Enrico Fermi, 1901
• Gene Autry, 1907
• Greer Garson, 1908
• Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1912
• Trevor Howard, 1913
• Stanley Kramer, 1913
• Lizabeth Scott, 1922
• Anita Ekberg, 1931
• Jerry Lee Lewis, 1933
• Silvio Berlusconi, 1936
• Madeline Kahn, 1942
• Jean-Luc Ponty, 1942
• Lech Walesa, 1943
• Bryant Gumbel, 1948

Died On This Day:

• King Ferdinand VII Spain, 1833
• Émile Zola, 1902
• Winslow Homer, 1910
• Rudolf Diesel, 1913
• Carson McCullers, 1967
• Edward Everett Horton , 1970
• Casey Stengel, 1975
• Pope John Paul I, 1978
• Henry Ford II, 1987
• Charles Addams, 1988
• Roy Lichtenstein, 1997
• Tony Curtis, 2010

Today's Events:

• 1399 - Richard II deposed by cousin King Henry IV (Henry Bolingbroke).
• 1789 - U.S. Army created by order of George Washington. 1,000 troops go on duty.
• 1793 - Sporting Magazine in England first mentions new outdoor game- 'field tennis.'
• 1829 - First police dept. formed in London-Scotland Yard; first 'bobbies,' named for Robert Peel, hit streets.
• 1833 - Queen Isabella II succeeds King Ferdinand VII in Spain.
• 1927 - Telephone service between U.S. and Mexico inaugurated.
• 1941 - Nazis slaughter 33,771 Jews in two days, in the massacre at Babi Yar near Kiev. WWII
• 1950 - First automatic telephone answering machine tested by Bell Labs.
• 1955 - Arthur Miller's 'A View from the Bridge' opens at Coronet Theatre, N.Y.
• 1957 - NY Giants play last football game at Polo Grounds losing 9-1 to Pittsburgh Pirates. Giants move to San Francisco next year.
• 1961 - Bob Dylan signed to CBS recording contract by legendary Columbia Records exec. John Hammond.
• 1976 - Armand Hammer acquires 'Juno' by Rembrandt for record $3.25 million.
• 1979 - One third of the population of Ireland gather in Dublin to attend Papal mass by Pope John Paul II - 1.25 million people.
• 1988 - Stacy Marie Allison becomes first U.S. woman to scale Mt. Everest.
• 2008 - Economic rescue plan defeated in US by House of Representatives; Dow Jones plummets 778 points, largest market drop in US history - 7%; Depression begins?

Feast Day of Saint:

• Michael the Archangel
• Rhipsime and Gaiana
• Cyriacus the Recluse

Holiday:

• Michaelmas Day

Non-Specific Holiday:

• JANAM (OR JANMA) ASHTAMI, Hindu Birthday Festival of Krishna
• ANANT CHATURDASI, Hindu Eternal Anniversary of 14th day of Month Bhaedra
• LABOR DAY (U.S. and Canada) First Monday in September.
• CH'UNG YANG, Festival of High Places in China (ninth day of the ninth moon)
• BIRTHDAY OF KRSNA. (Hindu)
• CHUSOK (Korea) on day of full moon of eighth lunar month.
• ROSH HASHANA (Jewish New Year) first and second days of lunar month Tishri.
• YOM KIPPUR (Jewish Day of Atonement) tenth day of lunar month Tishri.
• SUKKOTH (Jewish Feast of Tabernacles) 15th day of lunar month Tishri - five days after Yom Kippur
• SIMCHAT TORAH (Jewish Rejoicing of the Law) 23rd day of Tishri
• DURGA-PUJA (Hindu festival of Goddess Durga)
• PITRA PASKSHA and AMAVASYA, Hindu Feast of the Dead.
• LAKSHMI PUJA, Hindu Festival of the Goddess of Fortune
• CHUNG CH'IU CHIEH (Chinese mid-autumn festival) 15th day of 8th lunar month.
• OWARA KAZE NO BON, HACHIMAN & DOBUROKU MATSURI harvest festivals in Japan
• NATIONAL GRANDPARENTS' DAY - first Sunday after Labor Day in USA
• NATIVE AMERICAN DAY - fourth Friday in September in US
• RAMADAN, Muslim Holy Month