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1388 - Claudius Clavus, Danish geographer
1531 - Philipp Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German geography/cartographer
1752 - Britain (and American colonies) adopt Gregorian calendar (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (Kosmos), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1859)
1959 - Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon
1960 - Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
1974 - Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter
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1788 - NY City becomes 1st capital of US.
1846 - Richard Kiepert, German cartographer.
1906 - 1st airplane flight in Europe
1961 - Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
1979 - South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of S Afr)
1994 - Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun
2008 - Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.
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1758 - French astronomer Charles Messier mistakenly identifies the Crab Nebula so begins his Messier Catalogue
1848 - Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
1890 - Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Mashonaland and found Fort Salisbury (now Harare, Zimbabwe).
1959 - Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon
1965 - Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75
1992 - Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii
1992 - STS-47 (Endeavour 2) launches
1993 - STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit
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1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
1831 - Charles Darwin meets with capt Fitzroy at Plymouth
1909 - Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet
1910 - 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1930 - Stromboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
1954 – Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths
1961 – Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
1992 - Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die & 8,000 injured
1997 - NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
2001 - Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and death of 2,752 people
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1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Istanbul.
1857 - James E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn)
1899 - 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska
1941 - Pyotr I Klimuk, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18B, 30)
1941 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002)
1984 - Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla
1988 - -18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan