Five years of lobbying comes to fruition on September 1, 2001, as the U.

On September 1, 1998, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 finally goes into effect.

Seventy-three years after it sank to the North Atlantic ocean floor, a joint U.

Soviet jet fighters intercept a Korean Airlines passenger flight in Russian airspace and shoot the plane down, killing 269 passengers and crew-members.

The Soviet Union saw its domination of the chess world as proof of intellectual superiority. Then, on this day, American Bobby Fischer faced the Russian champion

On September 1, 1971, the Pittsburgh Pirates field the first all-Black lineup in Major League Baseball history in the team’s 10-7 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.

Muammar al-Qaddafi, a 27-year-old Libyan army captain, leads a successful military coup against King Idris I of Libya.

In a speech before 100,000 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, President Charles de Gaulle of France denounces U.

On September 1, 1917, American soldier Stull Holt writes a letter home recounting some of his battlefield experiences on the Western Front at Verdun, France.

On September 1, 1859, Jenny Lind, the greatest opera performer in the world, arrives from Europe to the United States for a triumphant national tour that set astonishing box-office records and fanned the flames of a widespread opera craze in 1850s America.