September 1 birthdays & history

Famous people born on September 1

• 1996Zendaya, American actress and singer
• 1940Annie Ernaux, French author, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1946Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean soldier and politician, 9th President of South Korea
• 1875Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author
• 1877Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1896A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
• 1962Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1957Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1997Jeon Jungkook, South Korean singer, songwriter and record producer
• 1939Lily Tomlin, American actress, comedian, screenwriter and producer

What happened on September 1

• 1604The Guru Granth Sahib (folio depicted), the religious text of Sikhism, was installed in the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
• 1610Claudio Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine was first printed in Venice, dedicated to Pope Paul V.
• 1804German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered one of the largest main-belt asteroids, naming it Juno after the Roman goddess.
• 18043 Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
• 1831The Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic.
• 1836Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
• 1902The 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.
• 1911Construction began on the Saline Valley salt tram, which during its operation was the steepest tram in the United States.
• 1952Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, which later won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was first published.
• 1967At 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".
• 1973A 76-hour multinational rescue effort off the coast of Ireland resulted in the deepest sub rescue in history.
• 2000Speakers' Corner, a free speech area in Hong Lim Park in Singapore, was launched.

Also observed on September 1

• Feast of Creation (Christianity)
• Knowledge Day (Former Soviet Union)
• Anniversary of Al Fateh Revolution (Gaddafists in Libya)
• Wattle Day (Australia)