And the next date in the calendar is....

[Pickwick]

September 7 1191 Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.

 

[unloadonme]

8 September 1925 – Birth of Peter Sellers, CBE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sellers

 

[Pickwick]

September 9 1087 William II becomes King of England, taking the title King William II, (reigned until 1100).

 

[unloadonme]

10 September 1889 – Death of Charles III, Prince of Monaco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_III,_Prince_of_Monaco

 

[Pickwick]

September 11 2001 Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of Al-Qaeda. Altogether, 2,996 people are killed.

 

[unloadonme]

12 September 1866 – Birth of Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, PC, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, 13th Governor General of Canada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Freeman-Thomas,_1st_Marquess_of_Willingdon

 

[MassRuss]

September 13, 1501 - Michaelangelo begins work on David

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)

 

[unloadonme]

14 September 1864 – Birth of Lord Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, CH, PC, QC, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cecil,_1st_Viscount_Cecil_of_Chelwood

 

[unloadonme]

15 September 1904 – Birth of King Umberto II of Italy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_II_of_Italy

 

[MassRuss]

September 16, 1386 - Birth of Henry V

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_of_England

 

[Pickwick]

September 17 1879 Death of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect and theorist. He has worked on many monuments in Paris and in France, like Notre-Dame de Paris or the Sainte Chapelle.

 

[unloadonme]

18 September 1786 – Birth of King Christian VIII of Denmark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_VIII_of_Denmark

 

[Pickwick]

September 19 1799 French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.

 

[unloadonme]

20 September 1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_South_Africa

 

[MassRuss]

September 21, 1411 - Birth of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York. Father of Edward IV & Richard III

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_of_York,_3rd_Duke_of_York

 

[Pickwick]

September 22 1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

 

[unloadonme]

23 September 1713 – Birth of King Ferdinand VI of Spain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_VI_of_Spain

 

[MassRuss]

September 24, 1960 - USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear powered carrier, is launched.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)

 

[unloadonme]

25 September 1703 – Death of Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Campbell,_1st_Duke_of_Argyll

 

[MassRuss]

September 26, 1087 - William II (aka William Rufus) is crowned King of England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_II_of_England