September 3rd 1939

Britain declares war on Germany starting the 2nd World War. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada

September 4th 1904

Dalai Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet

September 5th 1991

Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC

September 6th 1965

India invades West Pakistan

September 7th 1970

Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado

September 8th 1962

Chinese troops cross Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary)

September 9th 1971

John Lennon releases ‘Imagine’ album

September 10th 1972

20th Olympic games close at Munich, West Germany

September 11th 1951

Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes

September 12th 1908

Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier

September 13th 1943

Chiang Kai-shek became president of China

September 14th 1964

Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House

September 15th 1846

Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal

September 16th 1938

George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH

September 17th 1988

24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea

September 18th 1988

Burma suspends its constitution

September 19th 1922

Queen Wilhelmina takes Dutch throne with 119 word speech

September 20th 1970

Luna 16 lands on Moon’s Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample

September 21st 1921

Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians

September 22nd 1735

Robert Walpole is 1st British Prime Minister to live at 10 Downing Street

September 23rd 1990

Saddam Hussien says he will destroy Israel

September 24th 2008

Taro Aso becomes the Prime Minister of Japan

September 25th 1924

Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH

September 26th 1962

Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed

September 27th 1988

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

September 28th 1992

Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 die

September 29th 1984

Elizabeth Taylor, undergoing rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic

September 30th 1991

Reverend Jean Bertrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti