127 Fun Facts About September

September's name comes from the Latin word for which number?

It was the seventh month of the old Roman calendar, which began in March; when January and February were added it slid to ninth but kept the name.

How many days does September have?

September has 30 days; it had 29 in the Roman republican calendar until Julius Caesar's reform of 46 BC added one.

What is September's birthstone?

The name comes via Latin from a Greek word that originally referred to lapis lazuli, a different blue stone entirely.

Which of these is one of September's birth flowers?

Aster is a September birth flower, alongside the morning glory; the marigold belongs to October and the daffodil to March.

Someone born on September 25 falls under which zodiac sign?

Virgo runs to September 22, and Libra takes over on the 23rd.

In the Northern Hemisphere, meteorological autumn begins on which day of the month?

Astronomers wait for the equinox around the 22nd; meteorologists prefer whole calendar months, so their seasons start on the first.

Because the calendar year and the tropical year differ, the September equinox can fall on any date within which range?

The 21st to the 24th of September; the drift comes from the mismatch between calendar and tropical year, corrected by leap years.

The Harvest Moon is defined as the full moon that occurs when?

It can land up to two weeks either side of the equinox, so some years the Harvest Moon is actually in October, and the next full moon is the Hunter's Moon.

When Britain went Gregorian in 1752, the 2nd of the month was immediately followed by which day?

The 2nd was followed by the 14th: eleven days vanished, and the same Calendar Act moved New Year's Day from March 25 to January 1.

Per US birth statistics from 1994 to 2014, the most common birthday falls on which day of the month?

Nine of the ten most common birthdays are in September, roughly nine months after the winter holidays; September 1 is the least common date in the month.

In which year did the 'Eternal September' begin, when commercial providers flooded Usenet with new users?

1993: that September AOL gave its subscribers Usenet access and the newcomer flood never ended; before that the only yearly surge came when university students got their first accounts.

In the United States, Labor Day is celebrated on which day of the month?

The Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor organised the first parade in New York City; it became a federal holiday in 1894.

In the US, National Grandparents Day falls in September on which day?

The first Sunday after Labor Day: a 1978 law signed by President Carter fixed the date after Marian McQuade's campaign; nine-year-old Russell Capper had written to President Nixon proposing the day in 1969.

US Constitution Day falls on the 17th because of what event on that date in 1787?

Thirty-nine delegates signed at Independence Hall; Rhode Island had refused to send anyone at all.

In which year was the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American military history?

1862: Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and McClellan's Army of the Potomac met at Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, exactly 75 years after the Constitution was signed.

Francis Scott Key wrote 'The Star-Spangled Banner' after watching the British bombard which Baltimore stronghold?

Fort McHenry guarded Baltimore harbour through the British bombardment of September 13–14, 1814; the flag Key saw flying at dawn had 15 stars and 15 stripes.

Patriot Day, observed in the US on September 11, remembers the victims of which year's attacks?

President Bush first proclaimed a Day of Prayer and Remembrance for September 14, 2001; Congress then fixed the annual observance on the 11th.

Who gave the Grito de Dolores of 1810, marked by Mexico's Independence Day on September 16?

Every year the Mexican president re-enacts the cry from the National Palace balcony, ringing the same bell Hidalgo used.

Which South American country celebrates its independence day on September 7?

Brazil: Dom Pedro I declared independence from Portugal on 7 September 1822, the Sete de Setembro; Chile's Fiestas Patrias follow on the 18th.

Enkutatash, the New Year of Ethiopia and Eritrea, falls on September 11 and its name means what?

Gift of jewels: tradition says the Queen of Sheba returned from visiting Solomon on that day and her chiefs welcomed her with jewels, the enku of the name.

What instrument is sounded during Rosh Hashanah?

A shofar, made from a ram's horn, as prescribed in the Torah; apples dipped in honey are eaten to wish for a sweet year.

What did Munich's first Oktoberfest, held in 1810, celebrate?

A royal wedding: Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on 12 October 1810, and the festival meadow was named Theresienwiese, known to locals as the Wiesn.

What did one of the Oregon founders of Talk Like a Pirate Day yell during a 1995 racquetball game?

Aaarrr!: one of the pair yelled it in pain during a June 1995 racquetball game; John Baur and Mark Summers picked September 19, Summers's ex-wife's birthday, as the date, and Pastafarians later adopted the holiday.

Hobbit Day, September 22, marks the shared birthday of which two characters?

Bilbo and Frodo Baggins share a September 22 birthday, the day of Bilbo's farewell party; the American Tolkien Society proclaimed Hobbit Day in 1978, and The Hobbit was published on September 21, 1937.

According to Maurice White, why does Earth, Wind & Fire's 'September' name the 21st night?

It simply sounded best when sung, White said; his wife later revealed it was also their son's expected due date, and comedian Demi Adejuyigbe turned the date into an annual internet event.

The United Nations International Day of Peace is observed on which day of the month?

The 21st: the UN General Assembly fixed the International Day of Peace on September 21 in 2001; it had first been observed in 1982 on the Assembly's opening day, and the Japanese Peace Bell is rung at headquarters.

Michaelmas, September 29, has traditionally been one of the four what in England and Ireland?

Quarter days: Lady Day, Midsummer, Michaelmas and Christmas were the days rents fell due and leases turned over; Oxford and Cambridge named their autumn term Michaelmas after it.

Japan's Respect for the Aged Day, once fixed on the 15th, has been held on which day since 2003?

The third Monday: the Happy Monday System moved Respect for the Aged Day from the fixed 15th to the third Monday of September in 2003 to create a long weekend.

On Prinsjesdag, the third Tuesday of September, the Dutch monarch does what?

It is the Dutch equivalent of the State of the Union or Britain's State Opening of Parliament, and it is written into the constitution.

Australians wear a sprig of which plant on September 1, the first day of their spring?

Wattle: the golden wattle is Australia's national floral emblem, but any acacia sprig will do; the first national Wattle Day was held on 1 September 1910, and the date was fixed nationwide in 1992.

San Gennaro, honoured by Little Italy's September festival, is the patron saint of which Italian city?

Naples: San Gennaro (Januarius), a bishop martyred around 305, is the city's patron, and his blood relic is kept in Naples cathedral; his feast day is September 19, when Little Italy carries his statue through the fair.

Vendémiaire, the first month of the French Republican calendar, was named after what?

The grape harvest: Vendémiaire comes from Latin vindemia, the vintage, and began in late September; the revolutionaries named every month after weather or farm work, and Brumaire, the month of mist, followed.

The Ludi Romani, Rome's chief September games, honoured which god?

Jupiter: the games centred on the feast of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Ides, September 13; they became annual from 366 BC, and Livius Andronicus staged Rome's first Greek-style drama at them in 240 BC.

World War II began on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded which country?

The Soviet Union attacked from the east on September 17, and Poland's defence collapsed by early October.

Japan's WWII surrender was signed on September 2, 1945 aboard which US battleship?

USS Missouri: the ceremony on her deck in Tokyo Bay began at about 9 a.m. on September 2, 1945, with General MacArthur presiding and some 250 Allied warships anchored around her.

Battle of Britain Day, September 15, marks the Luftwaffe's largest 1940 attack on which city?

Around 1,500 aircraft fought that day; the German failure led Hitler to shelve his invasion plan, Operation Sea Lion.

The Great Fire of 1666 began on September 2 in a bakery on which street of the English capital?

Pudding Lane: the fire started in Thomas Farriner's bakery in the early hours of September 2, 1666; Samuel Pepys climbed the Tower that morning and watched an east wind drive it through the City.

What happened to King Harold less than three weeks after crushing the Norwegians at Stamford Bridge in 1066?

He lost to the Normans at Hastings on 14 October 1066, nineteen days after Stamford Bridge, where Harald Hardrada and Harold's own brother Tostig both died; the exhausted English army had marched south to meet William.

The 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham was fought outside the walls of which settlement?

Quebec: Wolfe's army scaled the cliffs and beat Montcalm on the plateau just west of the city walls on September 13, 1759; the field was named for Abraham Martin, who had once farmed the land.

Napoleon's Grande Armée fought the Russians at Borodino on September 7 of which year?

1812: Borodino, fought on September 7 that year, drew about a quarter of a million soldiers; the road to Moscow lay open afterwards, though the city burned around the French.

Which Home Secretary founded the Metropolitan Police, whose first constables hit the streets in 1829?

Robert Peel, as Home Secretary, carried the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829; the first constables went on the beat on September 29 that year, and 'bobbies' and 'peelers' are both nicknames taken from him.

Which planet was first knowingly observed by Johann Galle in 1846, within a degree of its predicted position?

Neptune: Urbain Le Verrier had calculated its position from wobbles in the orbit of Uranus, and Galle found it from Berlin on September 23, 1846, the same evening he received Le Verrier's letter.

On September 1, 1878, Emma Nutt of Boston became the world's first what?

Female telephone operator: the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company hired Emma Nutt on September 1, 1878, after its teenage boy operators proved rude and prank-prone, and women soon took over the switchboards.

Cal Ripken Jr.'s streak, which passed Lou Gehrig's in September 1995, reached how many games?

2,632: Ripken passed Gehrig's 2,130 on September 6, 1995, and sat out for the first time on September 20, 1998; Gehrig's mark had stood for 56 years and was widely thought unbreakable.

Which television series first aired on NBC on September 8, 1966?

Star Trek: NBC had rejected the first pilot, 'The Cage', before commissioning a second with William Shatner as Kirk; the first episode broadcast, 'The Man Trap', aired on September 8, 1966.

Google was founded in September of which year by Larry Page and Sergey Brin?

An August 1998 cheque for $100,000 from Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim pushed them to incorporate so they could cash it.

Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8 of which year?

2022: she had reigned since February 1952 and was monarch of 15 realms at her death.

Which children's author, born September 13, 1916, has his birthday celebrated each year in his honour?

Roald Dahl, born in Llandaff, Cardiff, on September 13, 1916, flew as an RAF fighter pilot in the war before writing Matilda and The BFG; Roald Dahl Day falls on his birthday.

Which of these authors was born on September 21?

H. G. Wells was also born on September 21, in 1866; Christie was born on the 15th and Tolstoy on the 9th.

Which of these musicians was born on September 4, 1981?

Beyoncé was born in Houston on September 4, 1981; Freddie Mercury (September 5) and Bruce Springsteen (September 23) are September babies too, while Adele was born in May.

Which American frontier figure, born September 26, 1774, has a US day on his birthday?

Johnny Appleseed, born John Chapman in Leominster, Massachusetts, on September 26, 1774, planted seed-grown apple nurseries across Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and was famous in his own lifetime.

The Battle of Marathon, fought in September 490 BC, ended in victory for the citizens of which city?

The legend of the runner Pheidippides carrying news of the win gave the modern marathon race its name.

Which month in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of September in the Northern Hemisphere?

March is the mirror; south of the equator September 1 is the start of meteorological spring, which is why Australia celebrates Wattle Day then.

September opens the ecclesiastical year for which branch of Christianity?

Eastern Orthodoxy: the Orthodox church year begins on September 1, the Indiction, a date inherited from the Byzantine civil calendar; the Western churches begin theirs with Advent in late November or December.

Whose deification added an extra day to the Ludi Romani on 4 September?

Julius Caesar: after his assassination in 44 BC a day was added on September 4 in his honour, stretching games that had once run only from September 12 to 14 towards their later span of the 4th to 19th.

What was September called in Charlemagne's calendar?

Wood month: Einhard's Life of Charlemagne lists the emperor's month names, with September as Witumanoth, 'wood month', between Aranmanoth (August) and Windumemanoth, the vintage month of October.

Which US state was the first to make Labor Day an official public holiday, in 1887?

Oregon made Labor Day a state holiday on February 21, 1887, ahead of Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York that same year; by 1894, when it became federal, thirty states already celebrated it.

Which president signed the bill making Labor Day a federal holiday in 1894?

Grover Cleveland signed the act on June 28, 1894, in the middle of the Pullman Strike, days before he sent federal troops to Chicago to break it.

Which country besides the US celebrates its Labour Day on the first Monday of September?

Canada's Labour Day matches the US one; more than 150 other countries mark International Workers' Day on May 1.

Chuseok, Korea's autumn harvest festival, falls on the 15th day of which lunisolar month?

The 8th month: Chuseok falls on its 15th day, the full moon; in South Korea the holiday runs three days, the day before and after included.

Which rice cakes are a traditional Chuseok food?

Songpyeon: half-moon rice cakes filled with sesame, beans or chestnut and steamed over pine needles, shaped by families on Chuseok eve; they also perform charye, ancestor memorial rites at home.

Which Moon goddess is the Mid-Autumn Festival based on?

Chang'e: in the legend she swallowed an elixir of immortality and floated up to the Moon, where she is honoured at the festival; mooncakes filled with sweet-bean or lotus-seed paste are eaten.

Yom Kippur falls on the 10th day of which Hebrew month?

Tishrei: Yom Kippur falls on its 10th day, the last of the Ten Days of Repentance that begin with Rosh Hashanah on 1 Tishrei.

On which 1972 date did Black September seize Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics?

September 5: eight Black September gunmen broke into the Olympic Village before dawn on September 5, 1972, killing two Israeli team members; the nine hostages died that night in a failed rescue at a nearby airbase.

At which airbase did the failed rescue of the Munich hostages take place?

The plan was to pretend to fly the terrorists and hostages to Cairo.

Which two leaders signed the Camp David Accords on 17 September 1978?

Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin signed the accords at the White House on September 17, 1978, after thirteen days of talks hosted by Jimmy Carter at Camp David, and shared that year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Roughly how many prisoners were killed in the Paris September Massacres of 1792?

Between 1,100 and 1,700: from September 2 to 6, 1792, crowds stormed the Paris prisons and killed somewhere between 1,100 and 1,400 by most estimates, starting with priests at the Abbaye prison at Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Which French emperor was captured at the Battle of Sedan on 2 September 1870?

Napoleon III surrendered in person to Wilhelm I on September 2, 1870, the day after the battle; some 104,000 French troops passed into German captivity, and Paris proclaimed the Third Republic on the 4th.

Which anarchist assassinated William McKinley?

Leon Czolgosz shot McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on September 6, 1901; he had lost his job in the Panic of 1893 and turned to anarchism, and was executed that October.

Which Arkansas governor blocked the Little Rock Nine from Central High in 1957?

Orval Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to bar the nine Black students on September 4, 1957; President Eisenhower federalised the Guard and sent the 101st Airborne to escort them in on the 25th.

How many passengers were aboard the Mayflower when it left Plymouth on 16 September 1620?

102 passengers sailed; the crew numbered 25 to 30, bringing the total to about 130 for the crossing to Cape Cod, reached in November.

Which US oceanographer co-led the team that found the Titanic wreck on 1 September 1985?

Robert Ballard, with France's Jean-Louis Michel, led the joint expedition aboard the research vessel Knorr; the camera sled Argo picked up debris at 12:48 a.m. on September 1, 1985, then a boiler.

On what date in 2008 did Lehman Brothers file for bankruptcy?

September 15, 2008: Lehman filed for Chapter 11 early that Monday morning with some $600 billion in assets, the largest bankruptcy filing in US history up to that point.

Which Soviet probe became the first spacecraft to hit the Moon, on 13 September 1959?

Luna 2 struck the Moon near Mare Imbrium on September 13, 1959, the first human-made object to reach another celestial body; Luna 1 had missed in January and Luna 3 photographed the far side that October.

Which 18-year-old discovered the Lascaux cave entrance on 12 September 1940?

Marcel Ravidat: his dog Robot had nosed into a hole left by an uprooted tree; on September 12, 1940, he returned with Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel and Simon Coencas and crawled down into the painted cave.

Freddie Mercury, born on 5 September 1946, was born on which island?

His family fled the Zanzibar Revolution to England in 1964.

Agatha Christie, born 15 September 1890, was born in which English town?

Torquay: Christie was born at Ashfield, the family villa in the Devon resort, on September 15, 1890; she wrote 66 detective novels and has sold more than two billion books.

Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Ends is about whose death in September 1982?

Billie Joe Armstrong's father died of cancer in September 1982, when Billie was ten; the song, the fourth single from American Idiot, was released in 2005.

September's birthstone, sapphire, is a variety of which mineral?

Red corundum is called ruby rather than sapphire.

Chile's 18 September holiday commemorates the first governing junta of which year?

1810: the first governing junta met in Santiago on September 18, 1810, the start of Chile's road to independence, which was only declared in 1818; Chileans simply call the celebration the Dieciocho.

Which Indian state officially declared Onam its national festival in 1961?

Kerala: the state government declared Onam its official festival in 1961; it celebrates the annual homecoming of the mythical King Mahabali and falls in the Malayalam month of Chingam, usually August or September.

Who turned Ganesh Chaturthi into a public festival in Maharashtra in 1893?

Bal Gangadhar Tilak turned the household rite into public sarvajanik celebrations in Pune in 1893 to rally Indians under British rule; in Mumbai the ten-day festival ends with mass immersions of idols in the sea.

Where was the US Open tennis tournament held from its 1881 inception until 1914?

Newport, Rhode Island: the championship was played on the grass of the Newport Casino from 1881 to 1914 before moving to Forest Hills; it reached the Flushing Meadows hardcourts in 1978.

The first official Ryder Cup was held in 1927 at a country club in which US city?

Worcester, Massachusetts: the Worcester Country Club hosted the inaugural match in 1927, which the United States won 9½–2½; Samuel Ryder, an English seed merchant, donated the gold trophy.

Which year saw the Treaty of Paris end the American Revolutionary War on September 3?

1783: Britain's David Hartley and the American commissioners Franklin, Adams and Jay signed the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783, recognising US independence; Yorktown had fallen in 1781.

Saudi National Day, 23 September, marks the 1932 renaming of which state?

The Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz: King Abdulaziz ibn Saud's royal decree of September 23, 1932, united his two realms under the single name Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Which Reykjavík hall hosted the 1972 Fischer–Spassky chess match that ended in September?

Laugardalshöll, the city's sports hall, staged the 'Match of the Century' from July 11 to September 1, 1972, when Spassky resigned the 21st game by telephone and Fischer became world champion.

Near which Pennsylvania town did United Airlines Flight 93 crash on September 11, 2001?

Shanksville: the hijacked Boeing 757 came down in a field in Stonycreek Township, about two miles from the Somerset County village, at 10:03 a.m. after passengers revolted on learning of the earlier attacks.

How many people were killed in the September 11 attacks?

2,977 victims died: 2,753 in New York, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 aboard Flight 93, not counting the nineteen hijackers who seized the four airliners.

Where was Diana, Princess of Wales, buried after her 6 September 1997 funeral?

Althorp: Diana was buried privately on an island in the Round Oval lake at the Spencer family's Northamptonshire estate, after the Westminster Abbey service and a cortège north along the M1 watched by huge crowds.

Mother Teresa, who died on 5 September 1997, was born in which city?

Skopje: she was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu to an Albanian family in the city, then in the Ottoman Empire and now North Macedonia's capital, on 26 August 1910; she won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premiered on September 13, 1969, on which network?

CBS: Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the series for Hanna-Barbera, and it opened CBS's Saturday-morning line-up on September 13, 1969; it moved to ABC only in 1976.

Bruce Springsteen, born September 23, 1949, was born in which New Jersey town?

Long Branch: Springsteen was born at Monmouth Medical Center there on September 23, 1949, and grew up in nearby Freehold, the town his songs keep returning to.

Sophia Loren, born 20 September 1934, won a Best Actress Oscar for which film?

Two Women (La ciociara): Loren's 1961 performance as a mother in wartime Italy won the first acting Oscar ever given for a non-English-language role; Marriage Italian Style earned her only a nomination.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born September 24, 1896, was named after a cousin who wrote what?

The Star-Spangled Banner: Francis Scott Key, a distant cousin on his father's side, wrote the anthem's lyrics in 1814; Fitzgerald was born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Michael Faraday, born 22 September 1791, apprenticed at 14 in what trade?

Bookbinding: at 14 Faraday was apprenticed to the bookbinder George Riebau in London and read the scientific books that passed through the shop; he was born in Newington Butts, now part of Southwark.

Leo Tolstoy, born 9 September 1828, was born on which family estate?

Yasnaya Polyana: the Tolstoy family estate lies about 12 kilometres southwest of Tula; he was born there on 9 September 1828, wrote War and Peace there and is buried in its woods.

Which album did Nirvana's Nevermind, released September 24, 1991, replace at No. 1?

Michael Jackson's Dangerous: Nevermind knocked it off the top of the Billboard 200 on January 11, 1992, some fifteen weeks after release, the moment often taken as grunge's arrival in the mainstream.

Which sprinter won the 100 m at the September 1988 Seoul Olympics only to be disqualified?

Ben Johnson clocked 9.79 seconds on September 24, 1988, then tested positive for the steroid stanozolol; the gold passed to Carl Lewis.

On which date did the Sydney 2000 Olympics open?

15 September 2000: Cathy Freeman lit the cauldron at Stadium Australia that night; the Games ran until 1 October and were billed as the Millennium Games.

How many ships left Spain with Magellan on 20 September 1519?

Five ships: Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepción, Victoria and Santiago left Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 20, 1519, with about 270 men as the Armada del Maluco; only Victoria completed the circumnavigation.

Which king of Scotland was killed at Flodden on 9 September 1513?

James IV died at Flodden in Northumberland on 9 September 1513, having invaded England in support of France; the Earl of Surrey's army made him the last monarch from the British Isles killed in battle.

The Nativity of Mary is celebrated on 8 September, nine months after which feast?

The Immaculate Conception, kept on 8 December, falls exactly nine months before the Nativity of Mary on 8 September; the Annunciation, 25 March, likewise precedes Christmas by nine months.

Which Christian feast is celebrated on 14 September?

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross, also called Roodmas, recalls Saint Helena's finding of the True Cross in Jerusalem around 326 and the dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 335.

Which treaty to protect the ozone layer was agreed on 16 September 1987?

The Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer was agreed on 16 September 1987 and entered into force on 1 January 1989; it sits under the 1985 Vienna Convention.

International Translation Day, 30 September, is the feast day of which saint?

Jerome, the Bible translator, is the patron saint of translators.

Operation Market Garden in September 1944 failed to take the bridge in which Dutch city?

Arnhem: the 1st Airborne Division held the north end of the Rhine bridge for almost four days, but XXX Corps, expected to cover the 100 km from the Belgian border in about 48 hours, never reached it.

The first production Ford Model T left which Detroit factory on September 27, 1908?

The Piquette Avenue Plant: the first production Model T rolled out there on September 27, 1908, and only 11 cars followed in the first full month; volume production moved to Highland Park in 1910.

Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on which 1862 date?

It followed the Battle of Antietam five days earlier.

Which war began with a full-scale invasion on 22 September 1980?

The Iran–Iraq War: Saddam Hussein's forces crossed the border on 22 September 1980 after a dispute over the Shatt al-Arab waterway; the war lasted until August 1988.

James Dean died on September 30, 1955, driving which car?

A Porsche 550 Spyder, nicknamed Little Bastard: Dean collided with a Ford at a junction near Cholame, California, on his way to a race in Salinas.

Which Chinese leader died on 9 September 1976?

Mao Zedong died in Beijing on 9 September 1976, aged 82; Zhou Enlai and Zhu De had both died earlier that same year.

Off which Cubs pitcher did Mark McGwire hit his 62nd home run on September 8, 1998?

Sammy Sosa was chasing the same record that summer.

Alexander Fleming returned to his lab on 3 September 1928 after a holiday where?

Suffolk: Fleming had spent August at The Dhoon, his country house at Barton Mills, and returned to St Mary's Hospital on 3 September 1928 to find a mould killing staphylococci on a neglected culture plate.

M*A*S*H premiered on CBS on September 17 of which year?

1972: the series ran eleven seasons from September 17, 1972, to February 28, 1983, when the finale drew over 100 million viewers, the most for any scripted episode in US television history up to that point.

How many viewers watched The X-Files pilot when it premiered on September 10, 1993?

12 million viewers saw the pilot on Fox on September 10, 1993; the series ran nine seasons in its original run to 2002 and was revived for two more in 2016 and 2018.

On which 1994 date did Friends premiere on NBC?

It ran ten seasons until May 2004.

Which Vietnamese leader died on 2 September 1969?

Ho Chi Minh died in Hanoi on 2 September 1969, the anniversary of the day in 1945 on which he had proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam; his death was officially announced a day late to avoid the national day.

Which Egyptian president died on 28 September 1970?

Gamal Abdel Nasser died of a heart attack in Cairo on 28 September 1970, hours after closing an Arab League summit; he had led Egypt since ousting Naguib in 1954 and was succeeded by Anwar Sadat.

Off which pitcher did Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run on September 30, 1927?

Tom Zachary of the Washington Senators gave up the 60th in the eighth inning at Yankee Stadium on September 30, 1927, breaking a 2–2 tie; the mark stood until Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961.

In which year did the UN designate 15 September the International Day of Democracy?

The date marks the Universal Declaration on Democracy.

Which Athenian general ordered the attack at Marathon in September 490 BC?

Miltiades persuaded the polemarch Callimachus to fight and led the Athenian line, thinned at the centre and strengthened on the wings; the Persian force was commanded by Datis and Artaphernes.

Which general led the coup that overthrew Chile's Salvador Allende on 11 September 1973?

Augusto Pinochet, army commander-in-chief for less than three weeks, led the junta that bombed La Moneda palace on 11 September 1973; Allende died inside, and Pinochet ruled until 1990.

On 26 September 1983, Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov judged what to be a false alarm?

The Oko satellite system showed one missile then four more; Petrov waited for confirmation that never came, three weeks after the KAL 007 shootdown.

The Munich Agreement of 30 September 1938 let Germany annex which region of Czechoslovakia?

The Sudetenland: Germany, Britain, France and Italy signed without Czechoslovakia at the table, ceding the borderlands where some three million ethnic Germans lived; Chamberlain flew home promising 'peace for our time'.

Which railway, the world's first public line to use steam locomotives, opened on 27 September 1825?

The Stockton and Darlington: Locomotion No. 1 hauled the opening train on 27 September 1825; coal was steam-hauled from the start, but passengers rode horse-drawn coaches until 1833, and the line reached Middlesbrough in 1830.

What was the moment magnitude of the earthquake that devastated Mexico City on 19 September 1985?

Magnitude 8.0: the quake struck at 7:17 a.m. local time from the subduction zone off Michoacán, hundreds of kilometres away, and killed at least 5,000 people; a magnitude 7.5 aftershock followed the very next day.