SEPTEMBER 1, 1893 – Betty Blythe is born in Los Angeles, California.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1906 – The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 – Lily Tomlin is born Mary Jean Tomlin in Detroit, Michigan.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1975 – Omar Rodríguez-López is born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

SEPTEMBER 2, 1925 – Hugo Montenegro is born in New York City, New York.

SEPTEMBER 2, 1932 – Walter Davis, Jr. is born in Richmond, Virginia.

SEPTEMBER 2, 1935 – The Labor Day Hurricane devastates the Florida Keys..

SEPTEMBER 3, 1838 – Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.

SEPTEMBER 3, 1955 – Steve Jones is born in London, England.

SEPTEMBER 4, 1908 – Richard Wright is born in Roxie, Mississippi.

SEPTEMBER 4, 1930 – Robert Arneson is born in Bernicia, California.

SEPTEMBER 4, 1998 – Google is founded.

SEPTEMBER 5, 1877 – Crazy Horse dies in Fort Robinson, Nebraska.

SEPTEMBER 5, 1912 – John Cage is born in Los Angeles, California.

SEPTEMBER 5, 1959 – Freddy K is born Frederick Kussman in Boston, Massachusetts.

SEPTEMBER 5, 1991 – The Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.

SEPTEMBER 6, 1628 – Puritans settle Salem, Massachusetts.

SEPTEMBER 6, 1860 – Jane Addams is born in Cedarville, Illinois.

SEPTEMBER 7, 1860 – Grandma Moses is born Anna Mary Robertson Moses in Greenwich, New York.

SEPTEMBER 7, 1927 – Philo Farnsworth demonstrates the boob tube.

SEPTEMBER 7, 1932 – Yvonne Anderson is born in Long Beach, California.

SEPTEMBER 7, 1951 – Chrissie Hynde is born Christine Ellen Hynde in Akron, Ohio.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1504 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1873 – Alfred Jarry is born in Laval, France.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1897 – Jimmie Rodgers is born in Meridian, Mississippi.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1932 – Patsy Cline is born in Winchester, Virginia.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1941 – Bernie Sanders is born in Brooklyn, New York.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1947 – Ben Orr is born Benjamin Orzechowski in Cleveland, Ohio.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1960 – Aimee Mann is born in Richmond, Virginia.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1970 – Neko Case is born in Alexandria, Virginia.

SEPTEMBER 9, 1868 – Mary Hunter Austin is born in Carlinville, Illinois.

SEPTEMBER 9, 1873 – Max Reinhardt is born Max Goldmann in Baden bei Wien, Austria.

SEPTEMBER 9, 1890 – Harland Sanders is born in Henryville, Indiana.

SEPTEMBER 9, 1941 – Otis Redding is born in Dawson, Georgia.

SEPTEMBER 9, 1971 – The four-day Attica Prison Riot begins.

SEPTEMBER 10, 1946 – Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu hears the call of God in her first step toward becoming Mother Teresa.

SEPTEMBER 10, 1950 – Joe Perry is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

SEPTEMBER 11, 1847 – Stephen Foster's song Oh! Susanna is first performed at a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

SEPTEMBER 11, 1885 – DH Lawrence is born David Herbert Richards Lawrence in Nottinghamshire, England.

SEPTEMBER 12, 1953 – Nan Goldin is born in Washington D.C..

SEPTEMBER 12, 1977 – Steve Biko dies in police custody.

SEPTEMBER 13, 1874 – Arnold Schoenberg is born in Vienna, Austria.

SEPTEMBER 13, 1876 – Sherwood Anderson is born in Camden, Ohio.

SEPTEMBER 13, 1903 – Claudette Colbert is born in Saint-Mandé, France.

SEPTEMBER 13, 1911 – Bill Monroe is born in Rosine, Kentucky.

SEPTEMBER 13, 1916 – Roald Dahl is born in Cardiff, Wales.

SEPTEMBER 13, 1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC introduces disk storage to consumers.

SEPTEMBER 13, 1977 – Fiona Apple is born Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart in New York City, New York.

SEPTEMBER 14, 1879 – Margaret Sanger is born Margaret Louise Higgins in Corning, New York.

SEPTEMBER 14, 1901 – US President William McKinley succumbs to the September 6 assassination attempt.

SEPTEMBER 14, 1949 – Fred Sonic Smith is born in Charleston, West Virginia.

SEPTEMBER 14, 1983 – Amy Winehouse is born in London, England.

SEPTEMBER 15, 1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.

SEPTEMBER 15, 1889 – Claude McKay is born in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica.

SEPTEMBER 15, 1889 – Robert Benchley is born in Worcester, Massachusetts.

SEPTEMBER 15, 1946 – Oliver Stone is born in New York City, New York.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1887 – Nadia Boulanger is born in Paris, France.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1924 – Lauren Bacall is born Betty Joan Perske in Bronx, New York.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1925 – BB King is born Riley B. King in Berclair, Mississippi.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1959 – The Xerox 914, is introduced.

SEPTEMBER 17, 1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

SEPTEMBER 17, 1923 – Hank Williams, Sr. is born in Butler County, Alabama.

SEPTEMBER 17, 1926 – Curtis Harrington is born in Los Angeles, California.

SEPTEMBER 17, 1935 – Ken Kesey is born in La Junta, Colorado.

SEPTEMBER 17, 1950 – Fee Waybill is born John Waldo Waybill in Omaha, Nebraska.

SEPTEMBER 18, 1905 – Greta Garbo is born in Stockholm, Sweden.

SEPTEMBER 18, 1955 – Keith Morris is born in Hermosa Beach, California.

SEPTEMBER 18, 1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.

SEPTEMBER 19, 1941 – Cass Elliot is born Ellen Naomi Cohen in Baltimore, Maryland.

SEPTEMBER 19, 1949 – Twiggy is born Lesley Hornby in London, England.

SEPTEMBER 19, 1973 – Gram Parsons dies in Joshua Tree, California.

SEPTEMBER 19, 1985 – Tipper Gore forms the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) to begin regulation of music content.

SEPTEMBER 20, 1878 – Upton Sinclair is born in Baltimore, Maryland.

SEPTEMBER 20, 1934 – Sophia Loren is born in Rome, Italy.

SEPTEMBER 20, 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held.

SEPTEMBER 21, 1905 – Marguerite Roberts is born in Greeley, Colorado.

SEPTEMBER 21, 1934 – Leonard Cohen is born in Westmount, Québec, Canada.

SEPTEMBER 21, 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.

SEPTEMBER 21, 1947 – Stephen King is born in Portland, Maine.

SEPTEMBER 21, 1950 – Bill Murray is born in Wilmette, Illinois.

SEPTEMBER 21, 1960 – Maurizio Cattelan is born in Padua, Italy.

SEPTEMBER 22, 1958 – Joan Jett is born Joan Marie Larkin in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.

SEPTEMBER 22, 1869 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich, Germany.

SEPTEMBER 23, 1865 – Suzanne Valadon is born Marie-Clémentine Valadon in Bessines-sur-Gartempe, France.

SEPTEMBER 23, 1867 – John Lomax is born in Goodman, Mississippi.

SEPTEMBER 23, 1889 – Walter Lippman is born in New York City, New York.

SEPTEMBER 23, 1905 – Tiny Bradshaw is born Myron Carlton Bradshaw in Youngstown, Ohio.

SEPTEMBER 23, 1926 – John Coltrane is born in Hamlet, North Carolina.

SEPTEMBER 23, 1930 – Ray Charles is born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Georgia.

SEPTEMBER 23, 1970 – Ani DiFranco is born in Buffalo, New York.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2002 – Mozilla Firefox is first publicly released.

SEPTEMBER 24, 1893 – Blind Lemon Jefferson is born Lemon Henry Jefferson in Coutchman, Texas.

SEPTEMBER 24, 1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald is born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota.

SEPTEMBER 24, 1923 – Fats Navarro is born Theodore Navarro in Key West, Florida.

SEPTEMBER 24, 1952 – Mark Sandman is born in Newton, Massachusetts.

SEPTEMBER 24, 1979 – CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service.

SEPTEMBER 25, 1860 – Charles Edward Russell is born in Davenport, Iowa.

SEPTEMBER 25, 1887 – Marguerite Zorach is born in Santa Rosa, California.

SEPTEMBER 25, 1906 – Dmitri Shostakovich is born in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

SEPTEMBER 25, 1930 – Shel Silverstein is born in Chicago, Illinois.

SEPTEMBER 25, 1970 – Dean Ween is born Michael Melchiondo, Jr. in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

SEPTEMBER 25, 1996 - The last Magdalene Asylum closes in Ireland.

SEPTEMBER 26, 1889 – Lucy L'Engle is born Lucy Brown in New York City, New York.

SEPTEMBER 26, 1948 – John Foxx is born Dennis Leigh in Lancashire, England.

SEPTEMBER 26, 1967 – Shannon Hoon is born in Lafayette, Indiana.

SEPTEMBER 26, 1786 – Protestors shut down the court in Springfield, Massachusetts in a military standoff that begins Shays' Rebellion.

SEPTEMBER 27, 1840 – Thomas Nast is born in Landau, Germany.

SEPTEMBER 27, 1936 – Don Cornelius is born in Chicago, Illinois.

SEPTEMBER 27, 1937 – The Balinese Tiger is declared extinct.

SEPTEMBER 27, 1957 – Bob Staake is born in Los Angeles, California.

SEPTEMBER 28, 935 – Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.

SEPTEMBER 28, 1934 – Brigitte Bardot is born in Paris, France.

SEPTEMBER 28, 1982 – St. Vincent is born Anne Erin Clark in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

SEPTEMBER 29, 1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni is born in Ferrara, Italy.

SEPTEMBER 29, 1923 – Tuli Kupferberg is born Naphtali Kupferberg in New York City, New York.

SEPTEMBER 29, 1931 – Anita Ekberg is born in Malmö, Sweden.

SEPTEMBER 29, 1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.

SEPTEMBER 30, 1924 – Truman Capote is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

SEPTEMBER 30, 1942 – Frankie Lymon is born in Harlem, New York.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2002 – Maddie Ziegler is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.