Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 1

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This is a list of selected September 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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Blurb Reason
Constitution Day in Slovakia (1992) refimprove
; Independence Day in Uzbekistan (1991) confusing section, refimprove section
Start of the liturgical year (Eastern Orthodox Church); unreferenced section
1529Sancti Spiritu, the first European settlement in Argentina, was destroyed by Amerindians. single source
1715Louis XIV, the "Sun King", died after a reign of 72 years, longer than any other French monarch. refimprove section
1763Catherine II of Russia endorsed educator Ivan Betskoy's plans for the Moscow Orphanage, an ambitious, state-run, experimental Russian Enlightenment project to educate orphans into ideal citizens. refimprove
1831Pope Gregory XVI established the Order of St. Gregory the Great to recognize high support for the Holy See or for the Pope. lots of CN tags (19)
1878 – Hired by Alexander Graham Bell, Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator. uses unreliable sources, could be cleaned up with some research
1880 – The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan was routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War. unreferenced section
1923 – The Great Kantō earthquake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, struck the Kantō region of Japan, devastating Tokyo and Yokohama, and killing over an estimated 100,000 people. popular culture
1928 – Ahmet Zogu, President of the Albanian Republic, declared the country was now a constitutional monarchy and himself king with the regnal name Zog I. unreferenced section
1951Australia, New Zealand and the United States signed a mutual defence pact known as the ANZUS Treaty in San Francisco, agreeing to cooperate on defence matters in the Pacific Ocean area. refimprove section
1961 – The thirty-year Eritrean War of Independence began when rebels led by Hamid Idris Awate fired shots at the Ethiopian Army. refimprove
José B. Nísperos |d|1922 stub
Edward Alleyn |b|1556| multiple cn tags
Ferenc Gyulay |bd|1799; 1868| deathdate not cited
Walter Reuther |b|1907| Overreliance on quotes
Harriet Shaw Weaver |b|1876| Birthdate not cited
Yvonne De Carlo |b|1922| Multiple cn tags
Othmar Schoeck |b|1886| Birthday not cited
Giacomo Torelli |b|1608| Birthday not cited

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September 1: Labour Day in Canada and Labor Day in the United States (2025)

Illuminated Guru Granth Sahib folio
Illuminated Guru Granth Sahib folio
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