Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 1

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 * 1774 – Under orders from Governor Thomas Gage, British soldiers removed gunpowder from a magazine in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, which caused Patriots to prepare for war.
 * 1804 – German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered one of the largest main-belt asteroids, naming it Juno after the Roman goddess.
 * 1859 – A powerful solar flare caused a coronal mass ejection that struck Earth a few hours later, generating the most intense geomagnetic storm ever recorded and causing bright aurorae visible in the middle latitudes.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces attacked retreating troops of the Union Army during a rainstorm in Chantilly, Virginia, but the battle ended inconclusively.
 * 1872 – A small British force commanded by a surgeon fought off a surprise attack by the Maya on Orange Walk Town, British Honduras.
 * 1902 – The first science fiction film, titled A Trip to the Moon and based on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, was released in France.
 * 1914 – The passenger pigeon, which once numbered in the billions, became extinct when the last individual died in captivity
 * 1937 – The first group of around 172,000 Koreans were deported by Soviet authorities from the Russian Far East to the Kazakh and Uzbek SSRs; around 10 to 25 percent died.
 * 1939 – German forces attacked multiple locations in Poland, including Wieluń and Westerplatte, starting World War II in Europe.
 * 1952 – Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, which later won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was first published.
 * 1966 – Rioting erupted in Dayton, Ohio, resulting in one death and the mobilization of the Ohio National Guard.
 * 1967 – At an Arab League summit, eight nations issued the Khartoum Resolution, declaring that there would be "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, [and] no negotiations with it".
 * 1969 – Muammar Gaddafi (pictured) led a coup d'état to overthrow King Idris of Libya.
 * 1973 – A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Irish Sea resulted in the deepest sub rescue in history (pictured).
 * 1983 – A Soviet jet interceptor shot down the civilian Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near the island of Sakhalin in the north Pacific, killing all 246 passengers and 23 crew on board.
 * 2000 – Speakers' Corner, a free speech area in Hong Lim Park in Singapore, was launched.
 * 2019 – Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record outside the tropics, made landfall in the Bahamas at Category 5 intensity.
 * Born/died: | Hannah Glasse |d|1770| Chrysanthus Janssen |b|1905| Abdur Rahman Biswas |b|1926| Charles Atangana |d|1943 | Luis Walter Alvarez |d|1988 | Zendaya |b|1996 | Margaret Mary Vojtko |d|2013