Unix Timestamp: 1157068800
Friday, September 1. 2006, 12:00:00 AM UTC

United States rapper T.I. and his wife singer Tameka Cottle are arrested on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles for illegal drug possession. //www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/02/rapper.arrested/?hpt=Sbin (CNN)

September 14 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall on Texas as Category 2 and kills 27 in the United States, after killing four in Cuba, one in the Dominican Republic, and 75 in Haiti.

A concrete and steel fence is built in Sydney to protect leaders attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting next week. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6973631.stm (BBC)

French and Spanish police foil an ETA car bomb plot and arrest the man who is alleged to be the organisations top bombmaker and his accomplices. //www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/02/2021589.htm (Reuters via ABC News Australia)

US financial markets opened with mixed volatility in reaction to disruptions to the nation's oil distribution system along the Gulf coast and concerns for consumer spending. By the closing bell the NASDAQ and Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped two percent. President George W. Bush and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and top economic advisers gave the markets a favorable bump after a noon meeting to consider financial impacts of Hurricane Katrina's devastation. //www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?siteid=googleguid=%7B110CA7EA%2DC83D%2D4369%2DAE3F%2DA082CE036F38%7D (MarketWatch)

Russian forces end the siege at a school in Beslan, Northern Ossetia. At least 335 people (among which are 32 of the approximately 40 hostage-takers) are killed and at least 700 people injured.

Hurricane Frances makes landfall in Florida. After killing 2 people in the Bahamas, Hurricane Frances kills 10 people in Florida, 2 in Georgia, USA and 1 in South Carolina.

Chechen terrorists take between 1,000 and 1,500 people hostage, mostly children, in a school in the Beslan school hostage crisis. The hostage-takers demand the release of Chechen rebels imprisoned in neighbouring Ingushetia and the independence of Chechnya from Russia.

Hurricane Ivan forms.

The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 1559, calling for the removal of all foreign troops from Lebanon. This measure is largely aimed at Syrian troops.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Arab League disavowed the final statement made by the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, claiming that they adhere to a policy of supporting Israel's right to exist within pre-1967 borders, and restating that the conflict in the Middle East is between Palestinians and Israelis, not all Jews.

In Beijing, police arrest Shen Tong for his role in organizing the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

Establishment of Jordan University of Science and Technology in Jordan.

Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.

Terry Fox is forced to end his Marathon of Hope run outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario, after finding that the cancer has spread to his lungs.

Cigarette and tobacco advertising banned on Australian television and radio.

An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the Black September crisis.

Ho Chi Minh, former president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam dies.

A coup in Libya ousts King Idris, and brings Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to power.

The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.

Ilse Koch, also known as the Witch of Buchenwald, commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.

H-Day in Sweden: At 5:00 a.m. local time, all traffic in the country switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.

Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam.

First meeting held of the Non-Aligned Movement. The Soviet Union resumes nuclear testing, escalating fears over the ongoing Berlin crisis.

The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.

The first Cod War begins between the United Kingdom and Iceland.

175 die in Jamaica's worst railway disaster.

The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.

"¡Hola!" magazine launched in Barcelona.

WWII: In Bulgaria, the Bagryanov government resigns.

The Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving 3 days later.

Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland declare their neutrality.

At 04.45 Central European Time, under cover of darkness, the German WW1-era battleship \\\\'\\\\'Schleswig-Holstein\\\\'\\\\' quietly slips her moorings at her wharf in Danzig harbor, drifts into the center of the channel, and commences firing on the fortress Westerplatte, a Polish army installation at the mouth of the port of Danzig, Poland. These are generally considered to be the opening shots of "'World War Two"'. Simultaneously, shock-troops of the German Wehrmachtbegin crossing the border into Poland.

At 04.45 Central European Time, under cover of darkness, the German WW1-era battleship "Schleswig-Holstein" quietly slips her moorings at her wharf in Danzig harbor, drifts into the center of the channel, and commences firing on the fortress Westerplatte, a Polish army installation at the mouth of the port of Danzig, Poland. These are generally considered to be the opening shots of "'World War Two"'. Simultaneously, shock-troops of the German Wehrmacht begin crossing the border into Poland.

Lebanon under the French Mandate gets its first constitution, thereby becoming a republic. Charles Debbas is elected president.

The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,807 people, but according to a Japanese construction research center report in 2005, 105,000 are confirmed dead.

October ndash First publication of infrared photographs, by Professor Robert Williams Wood in the Royal Photographic Society Journal

The Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination.

The Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are established from the southwestern part of the Northwest Territories.

The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.

Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 450 people.

Grasshopper Club Zurich is founded as first football club in the City of Zurich.

The Battle of Lovcha, third battle in the Siege of Plevna, is fought.

A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the Molly Maguires, to disband.

A group of Icaiche Maya under Marcos Canul attack Orange Walk Town in British Honduras the British send troops against them.

American Civil War: Confederate General Hood evacuates Atlanta after a 4-month siege mounted by Union General Sherman.

American Civil War ndash Battle of Chantilly: Confederate General Robert E. Lee leads his forces in an attack on retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia, driving them away.

Seton Hall University is founded by Archdiocese of Newark Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley, a cousin of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and nephew of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton.

The first segment of the Pennsylvania Railroad, from Lewiston, Pennsylvania to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, opens for service.

Rebuilding begins at the Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem.

Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason. He had been accused of plotting to annex parts of Louisiana and Mexico to become part of an independent republic.

German astronomer K. L. Harding discovers the asteroid Juno.

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.

Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow.

The Treaty of St. Petersburg is signed.

King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years, leaving his throne to his great-grandson Louis XV, who will reign for 58 years. Regent for the new, 5-year-old monarch is Philippe d'Orléans, nephew of Louis XIV.

Tuscarora War: The Carolina militia led by Colonel James Moore returns to South Carolina after mixed success in the caign against the Machapunga and Coree.

September 2 ndash While Wanoags and Nipmucks attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, Captain Samuel Moseley commands Massachusetts troops in an attack on the Pennacook tribe.

September 5 ndash William Penn and William Mead are tried in London for preaching a Quaker sermon.

English Civil War ndash Battle of Tippermuir: Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause in Scotland.

A rebellion against French king Louis XIII is crushed at the Battle of Castelnaudary. The leader of the rebellion, Gaston, Duke of Orléans, the brother of Louis XIII, surrenders.

Weighing ceremony of Jahangir. Described by the first English ambassador to the Mughal court Sir Thomas Roe.

In England, Sir Julius Caesar becomes Master of the Rolls.

HMS "Revenge" captured by the Spanish following battle near the Azores.

HMS \'\'Revenge\'\' captured by the Spanish following battle near the Azores.

Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.

Battle of Pabaiskas ends a civil war between Grand Dukes Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Tvrtko I writes "in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum" from old town Visoki.

Ottoman Turks defeat Bulgarian Empire in the Battle of Ihtiman.

A small Scottish and French force invades Northumberland, loots the city of Berwick-upon-Tweed and defeats a small English force at the Battle of Nesbit Moor (1355).

King Phillip of France meets with the Estates General to ask for funds to further the war effort against the English

The Black Death reaches the French city of Marseilles

October ndash Ships arrive in southern Italy with the Black Plague

Pope Clement VI unites several of Rome's upper-class nobility, who drive Cola di Rienzo out of the city

The construction of Caerphilly Castle, the largest in Wales, is completed.

The County of Toulouse is returned to the crown of France.

Construction of the Belaya Vezha in Belarus is begun.

Marco Polo departs from Venice with his father and uncle on his famous journey to Kublai Khan's China.

Pope Gregory X succeeds Pope Clement IV as the 184th pope, as the compromise candidate between French and Italiancardinals, ending a 3-year conclave, the longest ever.

The "Summa Theologica", a work by Thomas Aquinas that is considered within the Roman Catholic Church to be the paramount expression of its theology, is completed (year uncertain).

December ndash Crucial aspects of the philosophy of Averroism (itself based on Aristotle's works) are banned by the Roman Catholic church in a condemnation enacted by papal authority at the University of Paris.

Witelo translates Alhazen's 200-year-old treatise on optics, "Kitab al-Manazir", from Arabic into Latin, bringing the work to European academic circles for the first time.

King Stephen V of Hungary writes his walk to the "antiquum castellum" near Miholjanec, where the Sword of Attila was recently discovered.

Construction of the Old New Synagogue in Prague is completed.

The cathedral on the Rock of Cashel in Ireland is completed.

The Sanskrit fables known as the "Panchatantra", dating from as early as 200 BCE, are translated into Latin from a Hebrew version by John of Capua.

Pope Lucius III succeeds Pope Alexander III as the 171st pope.

Possible start of the first Byzantineindiction cycle.

The Statue of Zeus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is destroyed by fire after being moved to Constantinople.

The "Daming" calendar is introduced in China by mathematician Zu Chongzhi (approximate date).

Emperor Leo I pays a large ransom for Licinia Eudoxia and Placidia. They return after seven years of captivity in Carthage.

The Monastery of Stoudios is founded near the Propontis (Turkey).