1 Sep 1715       King Louis XIV of France died after a 72 year reign.
1 Sep 1878       Recruited by Alexander Graham Bell, Emma Nutt became the world’s first female telephone operator.
1 Sep 1914       The last known passenger pigeon died in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1 Sep 1963       United Nations announced the Earth’s human population had passed 3 billion.
1 Sep 1974       The SR-71 Blackbird set the record for flying from New York to London in 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.

2 Sep 1666       The Great Fire of London began at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London was destroyed.
2 Sep 1752       The UK adopted the Gregorian Calendar.
2 Sep 2008       Google launched their Google Chrome web browser.

3 Sep 1658       Oliver Cromwell died.
3 Sep 1935       Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to break the land 300mph barrier.
3 Sep 1939       Britain and France declared war on Germany following the invasion of Poland.
3 Sep 1950       Giuseppe “Nino” Farina won the inaugural Formula 1 World Drivers Championship.
3 Sep 1971       Qatar became an independent state.
3 Sep 1972       Mark Spitz became the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
3 Sep 2010       Cheryl Cole divorced Ashley Cole after 3 and a half years.

4 Sep 1781       Los Angeles was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de los Angeles.
4 Sep 1888       George Eastman patented the first roll-film camera and registered the brand name Kodak.
4 Sep 1964       Scotland’s Forth Road Bridge was officially opened.
4 Sep 1972       Mark Spitz became the first to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
4 Sep 1985       The first pictures of the wreck of the Titanic were released 73 years after the ship sank.
4 Sep 1998       Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
4 Sep 1998       ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire?’ made it’s debut on UK TV.
4 Sep 2002       Kelly Clarkson won the first ‘American Idol’.
4 Sep 2006       Steve Irwin died.
4 Sep 2014       Joan Rivers died.

5 Sep 1959       Evel Knievel married Linda Joan Bork.
5 Sep 1977       NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe from Florida.
5 Sep 1997       Mother Teresa died.
5 Sep 2017       Hurricane Irma became the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region with winds of 185mph.
5 Sep 2022       Liz Truss beat Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party leadership election.

6 Sep 1666       The Great Fire of London was finally extinguished after burning for four days.
6 Sep 1880       WG Grace scored 152 in his debut Test Cricket innings against Australia at The Oval.
6 Sep 1913       Adolphe Pégoud performed the first loop the loop in an aircraft.
6 Sep 1985       Sri Lanka scored their first Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India.
6 Sep 1997       The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales took place in London.
6 Sep 2007       Luciano Pavarotti died.
6 Sep 2018       Burt Reynolds died.
6 Sep 2022       Boris Johnson resigned as Prime Minister and was replaced by Liz Truss.

7 Sep 1943       Rita Hayworth married Orson Welles.
7 Sep 1978       Keith Moon died.
7 Sep 1996       Rap artist Tupac Shakur was shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas and died 6 days later.