1789 – US Treasury Department established by Congress.
1897 – “McCal” magazine first published.
1901 – Theodore Roosevelt advises “Speak softly & carry a big stick”
1914 – The US Treasury Department establishes the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to provide up to $5 million worth of insurance for merchant ships and their crews.
1929 – Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros.
1931 – Bing Crosby makes his solo radio debut.
1935 – Labor Day hurricane makes landfall in Florida, killing 423 people, the strongest and most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States.
1940 – Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated.
1944 – Future US President George H. W. Bush bails from a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific.
1945 – V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri, marks the end of World War II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)
1954 – WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting.
1962 – St. Louis 1st baseman Stan Musial’s records his 3,516th hit in Cards’ 4-3 loss v NY Mets; overtakes Tris Speaker into 2nd place behind Ty Cobb on the MLB all-time list.
1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee High School.
1974 – US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
1987 – Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan.
1990 – “Grapes of Wrath” closes at Cort Theater NYC after 188 performances.
1996 – Jerry Lewis’ 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000.
1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
2015 – Earth’s trees number just over 3 trillion according to study in “Nature” by Thomas Crowther of Yale University.
2019 – Diving boat catches fire at night killing 34 asleep on board of Santa Cruz Island, California.