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• German troops invaded Poland, starting World War II in Europe on September 1, 1939.
• U.S. Department of the Treasury established on September 2, 1789.
• Transcontinental television service began with a telecast of the Japanese peace conference on September 4, 1951.
• U.S. President William McKinley shot by an assassin on September 6, 1901.
• Swaziland received full independence on September 6, 1968.
• Blitz of London in World War II began on September 7, 1940.
• California became the 31st U.S. state on September 9, 1850.
• Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813 on September 10 during the War of 1812.
• Chile's military leaders overthrew elected government of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.
• Terrorists crashed jetliners into the World Trade Center in New York City and into the Pentagon Building near Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001.
• Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia overthrown after 44 years as that country's rule on September 12, 1974.
• Japanese forces invaded Manchuria, 1931.
• Edward, the "Black Prince" of England, won the Battle of Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War on September 18, 1356.
• U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.
• Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet neptune on September 23, 1846.
• Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa sighted the Pacific Ocean, 1513.
• Germany, Italy, and Japan signed a mutual military aid pact on September 27, 1940.
• William the Conqueror landed in England on September 28, 1066.
• Bechuanaland Protectorate gained independence as the Republic of Botswana on September 30, 1966.
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