Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal. Attempt fails, later he is hanged

September 9th 1965

Tibet is made an autonomous region of China

September 10th 1926

Germany joins League of Nations

September 11th 1895

FA Cup stolen in Birmingham

September 12th 1940

4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings

September 13th 2007

Burj Dubai becomes the world’s largest structure

September 14th 1979 Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to New York City and back to Yates Center, Ks

September 15th 1982

Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat

September 16th 1979

Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin

September 17th 1953

1st successful separation of Siamese twins

September 18th 1977

U.S. Voyager I takes 1st space photograph of Earth and Moon together

September 19th 1888

World’s 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium)

September 20th 1932

Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables

September 21st 1936

Spanish fascist junta names Franco to generalissimo/supreme commander

September 22nd 1991

California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public which raise speculations on Christianity

September 23rd 1938

Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World’s Fair in New York City (capsule contained a woman’s hat, man’s pipe and 1,100' of microfilm)

September 24th 1850

Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England

September 25th 1493

Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to America

September 26th 1988 Canada’s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test

September 27th 1988

Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ’s burial cloth

September 28th 1995

Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat, sign accord to transfer West Bank

September 29th 1976

Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest

September 30th 1954

Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (sub), commissioned by the Navy