Birthdays
1935 D. Wayne Lukas, American thoroughbred race horse trainer
1937 Peter Ueberroth, organized of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and served as Commissioner of Baseball
1946 Billy Preston
1948 Nate Archibald
1948 Terry Bradshaw,
1952 Jimmy Connors
1960 Eric Dickerson
1964 Keanu Reeves
1965 Lennox Lewis
1966 Salma Hayek
Events
1666 Great Fire of London begins at 2am at a baker's shop in Pudding Lane, destroying 80% of London
1864 US Civil War: Union General William T. Sherman captures and occupies Atlanta, Georgia, ending the Atlanta Campaign in the US Civil War
1901 Theodore Roosevelt advises "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far" in an address to the Minnesota State Fair, entitled "National Duties"
1930 First non-stop airplane flight from Europe to the US (37 hours)
1944 Future US President George H. W. Bush bails out of a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific
1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan signed aboard the USS Missouri, marks the end of World War II
1969 The first automated teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York
1974 US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act; sets minimum standards for pension plans
1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith is sentenced to three years for the drug related death of John Belushi
1987 Philips introduces Compact Disc Video (CDV) discs
2015 US President Barack Obama becomes the first president to visit the Arctic Circle at Kotzebue, Alaska
2015 Earth's trees number just over 3 trillion according to a study in "Nature" by Thomas Crowther of Yale
University
2021 58 people die as the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the US Northeast with record rains, tornadoes, and flooding; New York and New Jersey declare states of emergency
2024 Joey Chestnut sets a new world record by eating 83 hot dogs in Netflix's "Unfinished Beef" Labor Day Showdown
