Born On This Day:

• Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), 1774
• Ivan Pavlov, 1849
• T. S. Eliot, 1888
• Pope Paul VI, 1897
• George Gershwin, 1898
• Jack LaLanne, 1914
• Marty Robbins, 1925
• Julie London, 1926
• Patrick O'Neal, 1927
• Bryan Ferry, 1945
• Olivia Newton-John, 1948
• Serena Williams, 1981

Died On This Day:

• Daniel Boone, 1820
• Levi Strauss, 1902
• Bessie Smith killed, 1937
• Bela Bartok, 1945
• Hugh Lofting, 1947
• George Santayana, 1952
• Helen Kane, 1966
• Anna Magnani, 1973
• Alberto Moravia, 1990
• Richard Mulligan, 2000
• Robert Palmer, 2003
• Paul Newman, 2008
• Arthur Penn, 2010

Today's Events:

• 1580 - Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hind returns to England after circumnavigating globe.
• 1777 - British capture Philadelphia.
• 1789 - George Washington appoints first U.S. Attorney General-Edmund Jennings Randolph.
• 1815 - Emperors of Prussia and Austria form Holy Alliance.
• 1871 - Process for making cement patented by inventor David Oliver Saylor of Allentown, PA.
• 1887 - Gramophone patented by Emile Berliner in Washington D.C.
• 1934 - Cunard Line's luxury liner Queen Mary launched.
• 1955 - Extinction of Euler's Flycatcher; last two surviving birds killed in hurricane in Jamaica.
• 1957 - 'West Side Story' premieres in New York.
• 1959 - Typhoon Vera hits Japan near Honshu; 4,466 die.
• 1960 - First presidential candidate television debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
• 1968 - Theatre censorship ends in Britain; the US musical Hair opens tomorrow with nude characters.
• 1971 - Hirohito becomes first Japanese emperor to travel outside own country; meets President Nixon in Alaska.
• 1983 - Longest winning streak in sports history broken; America's Cup lost to Australian yachtsmen.
• 1985 - Shamu, first killer whale born in captivity to survive, born at Sea World, Orlando Florida.
• 2008 - Washington Mutual files for bankruptcy.
• 2008 - Swiss pilot Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly solo across English Channel strapped to a single jet-propelled wing.

Feast Day of Saint:

• Cornelius
• Cyprian and Justina
• the Martyrs of North America
• Colman
• Nilus of Rossano

Holiday:

• Dominion Day New Zealand (1907)
• Independence Day in Yemen Arab Republic

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