September 1st 1962

U.N. announces Earth population has hit 3 billion

September 2nd 1898

Machine gun 1st used in battle

September 3rd 2006

Andre Agassi retires after winning 60 career titles

September 4th 1888

George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera and registers ?Kodak?

September 5th 1698

Russia?s Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards

September 6th 1965

India invades West Pakistan

September 7th 1888

Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby placed in an incubator

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.

September 12th 1994

Cessna crashes in White House front yard

September 13th 1989

Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa

September 14th 1964

Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House

September 15th 1970

PLO leader Arafat threatens to make Jordan a cemetery

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 1954

1st National People?s Congress adopts Chinese constitution

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 1879

Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone

September 24th 2008

Taro Aso becomes the new 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 2010

In one of Spain?s biggest corruption trials, 95 people, including two former mayors and a planning chief, appear in court in Malaga

September 28th 1992

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

September 29th 1971

Cyclone and tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000

September 30th 2010

American Actor Tony Curtis dies in Las Vegas, Nevada;