Portal:Military of the United States/Selected anniversaries/September

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Selected anniversaries in September

September 1

• 1862 - Civil War: Battle of Chantilly - Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
• 1864 - Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
• 1939 - George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
• 1951 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
• 1971 - The Senate rejects the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment, setting a deadline for withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam.
• 1974 - The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.

September 2

• 1862 - Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.
• 1864 - Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city.
• 1925 - The U.S. Zeppelin the USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14.
• 1945 - World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
• 1958 - USAF C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace.

September 3

• 1777 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
• 1783 - Revolution: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1826 - The USS Vincennes commanded by William Finch, leaves New York City to become first United States warship to circumnavigate the globe.
• 1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village.
• 1861 - Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
• 1943 - World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time in the war.

September 4

• 1886 - Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
• 1923 - In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the first time.
• 1940 - World War II: The USS Greer becomes the first United States ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power.
• 1944 - World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberate the Belgian city of Antwerp.
• 1945 - World War II: Japanese forces surrender on Wake Island after hearing word of their nation's surrender.
• 1967 - Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines launch a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces.

September 5

• 1862 - Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River, into Maryland.
• 1877 - Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
• 1939 - World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
• 1943 - World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment under U.S.. General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nazdab in Papua New Guinea.
• 1945 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
• 1970 - Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division participate.

September 6

• 1861 - Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control of the mouth of the Tennessee River.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
• 1976 - Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.

September 7

• 1776 - World's first submarine attack: the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British HMS Eagle in New York Harbor.
• 1864 - Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
• 1901 - The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Pirahna.

September 8

• 1863 - Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass - At the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
• 1923 - Honda Point Disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost.
• 1943 - World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati was bombed by USAAF.
• 1943 - World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
• 1945 - Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
• 1951 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.

September 9

• 1776 - The Continental Congress officially names their new union of sovereign states the United States.
• 1863 - Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 1942 - World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on Oregon.
• 1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.

September 10

• 1776 - Revolution: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy.
• 1813 - The U.S. defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

September 11

• 1776 - British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails to stop budding American Revolution.
• 1777 - Battle of Brandywine - Victory for British in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
• 1814 - The climax of the Battle of Plattsburgh, which ended the War of 1812.
• 1919 - US Marines invade Honduras.
• 1941 - Ground broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
• 1941 - World War II: US Navy ordered to attack German U-boats.
• 1944 - World War II: the first allied troops of the US Army cross the western border of Nazi Germany. The RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
• 1965 - The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.
• 2001 - The September 11 attacks destroy the World Trade Center in New York City, part of The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and crash a passenger airliner in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 are killed.

September 12

• 1814 - Battle of North Point: An American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
• 1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Chapultepec begins. U.S. Army deserters in the Saint Patrick's Battalion who fought alongside the Mexican army are hanged en masse for treason by the order of General Winfield Scott.
• 1957 - NORAD begins operations.

September 13

• 1847 - Mexican-American War: American General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
• 1862 - Union soldiers find Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. Prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
• 1900 - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa.

September 14

• 1847 - Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.
• 1969 - On December 1, 1969 September 14th is drawn as the first birthdate in the U.S. draft during the Vietnam War.
• 1944 - United States Marines land on the island of Peleliu.

September 15

• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: British land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
• 1942 - World War II: The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Wasp is torpedoed at Guadalcanal.
• 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.
• 1950 - Korean War: United States forces land at Incheon, Korea.

September 16

• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.

September 17

• 1778 - Treaty of Fort Pitt signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe.
• 1862 - American Civil War: George McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the Battle of Antietam.
• 1894 - Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
• 1900 - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
• 1944 - Allied Airborne troops parachute into Holland as half of Operation Market Garden.
• 1947 - James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States.

September 18

• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga
• 1945 - Gen. Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
• 1947 - The United States Air Force is created separate from the United States Army.

September 19

• 1777 - First Battle of Saratoga/Battle of Freeman's Farm/Battle of Bemis Heights.
• 1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
• 1796 - George Washington makes his farewell address.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Iuka - Union General William Rosecrans defeat Confederate General Sterling Price force at Iuka, Mississippi.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga.
• 1957 - First U.S. underground nuclear bomb test.
• 2001 - Commencement of combatant activities in Afghanistan.

September 20

• 1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga ends.

September 21

• 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
• 1942 - The B-29 Superfortress makes its debut.
• 1950 - George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd Secretary of Defense of United States.

September 22

• 1776 - Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
• 2006 - The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.

September 23

• 1779 - American Revolution; USS Bonhomme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, wins a fight against the British ships of war Serapis and Countess of Scarborough off the coast of England.
• 1780 - American Revolution; British Major John André arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's treason.

September 24

• 1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends United States National Guard troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.

September 25

• 1846 - U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.

September 26

• 1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
• 1944 - World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
• 1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.

September 27

• 1941 - The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
• 1942 - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform for the last time before Miller enters the US Army.
• 1956 - USAF Captain Milburn Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.

September 28

• 1779 - American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
• 1781 - American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.

September 29

• 1789 - The U.S. War Department first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
• 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
• 1918 - The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.
• 1943 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta.

September 30

• 1954 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
• 1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
• 2004 - AIM-54 Phoenix which became the primary missile for the Northrop Grumman F-14 Tomcat retired from U.S. Navy.