22nd September 1977 - Steve Biko, the leader of the black consciousness movement in South Africa, died in police custody.  

18th September 1970 - Music Legend Jimi Hendrix died after collapsing at a party in London.

16th September  1968 - Royal Mail, in the UK, began the two-tier postal system of first and second class stamps.

11th September 1944 - An allied bombing raid on the German city of Darmstadt killed an estimated 12,300 inhabitants and made 70,000 people homeless. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and […]

3rd September 2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis ended with the overall loss of 344 civilians, at least 172 of whom were children. "For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down […]

2nd September 1666 - The Great Fire of London began. It destroyed 13,000 houses in four days.