1864 – Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during Savannah Campaign (US Civil War)
1897 – “McCall” 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.
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.
1946 – American golfer Ben Hogan wins the Golden State Open at California CC in Los Angeles; his 3rd consecutive PGA event and 11th title of the season; 2nd time that year he wins 3 straight tournaments.
1954 – WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting.
1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee High School.
1969 – The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.
1974 – US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
1985 – Jerry Lewis’ 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000.
1987 – Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan.
1996 – Soyuz TM-24 lands.
2015 – US President Barack Obama becomes the first president to visit the Arctic Circle at Kotzebue, Alaska.
2019 – Diving boat catches fire at night killing 34 asleep on board off Santa Cruz Island, California.
2021 – At least 43 people die as the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the US Northeast with record rains, tornadoes and flooding with New York and New Jersey declaring state of emergency.
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