Historical Events on September 1.

1. 1830 – The poem ‘Mary had a little lamb’ was published by Sarah J. Hales in Boston.

2. 1906 – Establishment of the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys.

3. 1923 – A massive earthquake in Japan Killed more than 300,000, Devastating Tokyo, and Yokohama.

4. 1939 – Germany Invaded Poland. Adolf Hitler hurled more than a million German troops into Poland today, smashing the Polish defenses in a move that has committed the allies to war.  

5. 1956 – Life Insurance Policy (LIC) established.

6. 1956 – Tripura became a union territory after reorganization of states.

7. 1964 – Indian Oil Corporation established by merging Indian Oil Refinery and Indian Oil Company.

8. 1969 – Libyan Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi seized power after the monarchy was overthrown.

9. 1972 – Bobby Fischer became the first American world chess champion.

10. 1991 – Uzbekistan declared its independence from the Soviet Union.

11. 1997 – Ramon Magsaysay Award was given to the literary writer Mahashweta Devi and environmentalist MC Mehta.

12. 2008 – D. Subbarao appointed as the 22nd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

13. 2009– Vice Admiral Nirmal Kumar Verma appointed as the Chief of the Indian Navy

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on September 1.

1. 1795 – James Gordon Bennett Sr., an American publisher. He was the founder, publisher, and editor of the New York Herald and a major figure in the history of the American newspaper.

2. 1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American novelist who created the fictional character Tarzan in Tarzan of the Apes and many sequels, but who never visited Tarzan’s native Africa.

3. 1895 – Engelbert Zaschka, German chief engineer, chief designer, and inventor. He invented the Human-powered aircraft.

4. 1896 – A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian Guru. He was the founder-preceptor of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the “Hare Krishna Movement”.

5. 1908 – K. A. Singh, Indian actor. He was famous for his villainy role in Hindi films.

6. 1923 – Rocky Marciano, American heavyweight boxer who became world champion in 1952 and remained undefeated in 49 professional fights.

7. 1933 – Dushyant Kumar, a poet of modern Hindi literature. 

8. 1936 – Valery Legasov, Soviet nuclear chemist. Chief of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disease.

9. 1944 – Rabindra Mohapatra, an Indian physicist. He is an Indian American theoretical physicist, known for his work on the seesaw mechanism in neutrino physics.

10. 1957 – Anjali Gopalan, LGBT rights activist. She is an Indian human rights and animal rights activist, founder, and executive director of The Naz Foundation (India) Trust, an NGO dedicated to the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India mainly focused on women and children.

11. 1966 – Sonam Wngchuk, Indian engineer, education reformer, and inventor. He is the founding director of the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL).

Death Anniversaries of famous people on September 1.

1. 1574 – Guru Amar Das, 10th Sikh Guru of India.

2. 1557 – Jacques Cartier, French explorer of North America.

3. 1581 – Guru Ram Das, 4th Sikh Guru from India.

4. 1713 – Louis XIV, Sun King Of France. He succeeded to the throne at the age of four and ruled France for 73 years, longer than any other monarch.

5. 1838 – William Clarke, American Explorer. He explored the American northwest with Meriwether Lewis and served as the Governor of the Missouri Territory.

6. 1967 – Siegfried Sassoon, English poet. He is famous for his brutally realistic war poems.

7. 1988 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist. A revered physicist who received the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for his hand in designing a liquid hydrogen bubble chamber.

8. 2008 – Thomas J. Bata, an Indian businessman. He is the founder of Bata Shoe.