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Francis Scott Key wrote the words to The Star-Spangled Banner on September 14, 1814, after watching the British bombardment of Fort McHenry. It became the American national anthem 117 years later.
Sep 14, 2026
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On September 13, 1848, an explosion drove a tamping iron through the skull of railway foreman Phineas Gage. He survived, and his case became the foundation of what we know about the frontal lobes.
Sep 13, 2026
The Lascaux cave was discovered on September 12, 1940, by four boys in occupied France. Its walls held roughly six hundred paintings made about seventeen thousand years ago.
Sep 12, 2026
On September 11, 2001, hijacked airliners were flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. Nearly three thousand people died, and the world reordered itself around that morning.
Sep 11, 2026
The Large Hadron Collider circulated its first beam on September 10, 2008. Amid absurd predictions of black holes swallowing the planet, physicists started the search that found the Higgs boson.
Sep 10, 2026
Mao Zedong died on September 9, 1976. He had led China for twenty-seven years, through revolution, famine, and the Cultural Revolution, and his death opened the way to the country's transformation.
Sep 9, 2026
Star Trek first aired on September 8, 1966. It lasted three seasons and was dropped. In reruns it became one of the most influential works of popular culture ever made.
Sep 8, 2026
Elizabeth I was born on September 7, 1533, to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Her birth was a disappointment to her father and her mother's undoing. She ruled England for forty-four years.
Sep 7, 2026
The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, on September 6, 1620. Sixty-six days later it reached Cape Cod, far from where it was meant to land, and half the passengers died that winter.
Sep 6, 2026
On September 5, 1972, Palestinian gunmen took Israeli athletes hostage at the Munich Olympics. Eleven members of the Israeli team were killed. The tragedy changed how the world secures major events.
Sep 5, 2026
