On This Day - 11th September

1862 - O. Henry born
1885 - D.H. Lawrence born
1940 - Brian DePalma born
1942 - Tom Dreesen born
1943 - Lola Falana born
1960 - The American runner Wilma Rudolph confirms her place in sporting history with a third Olympic gold medal in Rome
1962 - Kristy McNichol born
1965 - Moby born
1967 - Harry Connick born
1973 - President Salvador Allende of Chile - the world's first democratically-elected Marxist head of state - dies in a revolt led by the armed forces and backed by the CIA.
1975 - Brad Fischetti born
1977 - Ludacris born
1978 - Writer and broadcaster Georgi Markov dies of blood poisoning, four days after he said he was stabbed with an umbrella at a London bus stop.
1979 - Ariana Richards born
1980 - The Marlborough diamond is stolen from a London jewellers in a bold £1m robbery.
2001 - The United States and the rest of the world left in a state of shock after a day of terrorist attacks which left thousands dead and the World Trade Center destroyed.
2003 - The Swedish Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh, dies of her injuries after she is stabbed in a Stockholm department store.
2005 - Thirty-eight years of military rule come to an end as Israeli soldiers lower the flag and pull out of Gaza.

On This Day - 10th September

1929 - Arnold Palmer born
1934 - Roger Maris born
1934 - Charles Kuralt born
1945 - José Feliciano born
1950 - Joe Perry born
1953 - Amy Irving born
1963 - American Express, one of the world's largest banking houses, opens a credit card service in Britain and Randy Johnson born
1973 - Scotland Yard hunts a teenage suspect after two bombs at mainline stations injure 13 people and bring chaos to central London. Fashionable Biba opens a huge department store in London's Kensington High Street offering everything from trendy clothes to designer furniture and a food hall.
1974 - Ryan Phillippe born
1988 - The television presenters Mike Smith and Sarah Greene are seriously injured in a helicopter crash in Gloucestershire.
2000 - One British paratrooper is killed and 11 injured during a bold mission to rescue six hostages being held in the Sierra Leonean jungle.

On This Day - 9th September

1850 - California becomes the 31st state of the US
1901 - Artist Toulouse-Lautrec dies
1925 - Cliff Robertson born
1941 - Otis Redding born
1943 - Roger Waters born
1946 - Billy Preston born
1951 - Michael Keaton born
1952 - Angela Cartwright born
1960 - Hugh Grant born
1966 - Adam Sandler born
1971 - The British Ambassador, Geoffrey Jackson, is released eight months after being captured by extreme left-wing guerrillas in Uruguay.
1976 - The leader of the Chinese revolution Chairman Mao Zedong dies at the age of 82.
1987 - Twenty-five English football fans involved in the Heysel stadium disaster are extradited to Belgium.
1988 - English cricket captain Graham Gooch and seven other members of his squad are refused visas to travel to India.
1999 - The Royal Ulster Constabulary should undergo wholesale reform, a Police Review Commission report recommends.

On This Day - 8th September

1900 - Claude Pepper born
1922 - Sid Caesar born
1925 - Peter Sellers born
1932 - Patsy Cline born
1943 - General Dwight D Eisenhower tells the world of the secret capitulation five days ago by the Italian Government.
1950 - Rescuers say 116 miners trapped in Knockshinnoch Castle colliery in Scotland following a landslide are safe.
1971 - Henry Thomas born
1979 - Pink born
1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas born
1986 - The president of Chile escapes an attempt on his life in a fierce attack killing five of his bodyguards and wounding 11 more.
1998 - The dissident republican group behind Northern Ireland's worst atrocity 'The Real IRA' declares its violence at an end.
2000 - The fuel protests which have been crippling France for the past week reach Britain with a series of actions across the country.

On This Day - 7th September

1533 - Queen Elizabeth I born
1860 - Grandma Moses born
1901 - The Boxer revolution ends
1909 - Elia Kazan born
1936 - Buddy Holly born
1940 - The German airforce unleashes a wave of heavy bombing raids on London, killing hundreds of civilians and injuring many more.
1942 - Richard Roundtree born
1949 - Gloria Gaynor born
1951 - Julie Kavner born
1952 - Following the recent coup in Egypt, General Mohammed Neguib forces Aly Maher out of office and assumes control himself.
1954 - Corbin Bernsen born
1978 - The UK Prime Minister announces he will not call an election this autumn, prompting criticism from the opposition and Devon Sawa born
1984 - Three more people die in the food poisoning epidemic at hospitals in Yorkshire, bringing the total number of deaths to 22.
1992 - At least 24 people are killed and 150 injured when soldiers fire on an African National Congress demonstration in South Africa.

On This Day - 6th September

1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy born
1937 - Jo Anne Worley born
1944 - Swoosie Kurtz born
1947 - Jane Curtin born
1952 - At least 27 people, mostly spectators, are killed as a jet fighter breaks up over the crowd at an air show in Hampshire, England.
1964 - Rosie Perez born
1965 - Indian troops have invaded West Pakistan, crossing the border at three points in an attack which appears to be aimed mainly at the city of Lahore.
1970 - Four New York-bound airliners are hijacked over western Europe in an operation carried out by a militant Palestinian group.
1972 - All nine of the Israeli athletes kidnapped on Tuesday from the Olympic Village in Munich are killed in a gun battle at a nearby airport.
1973 - Greg Rusedski born
1997 - Funeral of Princess Diana is watched by an estimated T.V. audience of 2.5 billion people.
2012 - English Naturalist and TV Presenter Terry Nutkins dies of leukaemia aged 66.

On This Day - 5th September

1847 - The infamous bank robber and gun slinger Jesse James born
1912 - John Cage born
1929 - Bob Newhart born
1934 - Carol Lawrence born
1940 - Raquel Welch born
1946 - Freddie Mercury and Loudon Wainwright III born
1950 - Cathy Guisewite born
1959 - The first trunk dialling system from a public call-box is launched during a ceremonial phone call from Bristol to London.
1969 - Dweezil Zappa born
1973 - Rose McGowan born
1975 - Two people are killed and 63 injured as a suspected IRA bomb explodes in the lobby of the Hilton hotel in central London.
1979 - The Queen leads the nation in mourning as the body of her husband's uncle, Lord Mountbatten is buried after a day of pageantry in London.
1986 - The 16-hour siege on a Pan Am jet in Pakistan comes to a bloody end, with at least 17 people dead.
1997 - Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, dies at the age of 87.