September 3

Treaty of Paris signed, ending American Revolutionary War (1783); Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Marguerite Higgins born (1920); Author Malcolm Gladwell born (1963); Football coaching legend Vince Lombardi dies (1970).

September 2

US Treasury Department is founded (1789); Japan surrenders, ending World War II (1945); Astronaut and teacher Christa McAuliffe born (1948); Actor and musician Keanu Reeves born (1964); Vietnamese president and revolutionary Hồ Chí Minh dies (1969).

September 1

Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake kills over 140,000 (1923); Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II (1939); Masanori Murakami makes his debut as the first Japanese-born MLB player (1964); Bobby Fischer becomes the first American to win the World Chess Championship (1972); Wreck of the Titanic found (1985).

August 31

Actor Richard Gere born (1949); Boxing legend Rocky Marciano dies (1969); Princess Diana dies in car crash in Paris (1997); 953 die in bridge stampede in Iraq (2005); Baseball great Tom Seaver dies (2020).

August 30

"Frankenstein" author Mary Shelley is born (1797); Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as Supreme Court justice (1967); Actress Cameron Diaz is born (1972); John Lennon performs his last full-scale concert (1972); Guion S. Bluford becomes the first African American to travel to space (1983)

August 28

Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched (1955); Martin Luther King Jr. delivers "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, DC (1963); Shania Twain born (1965); Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce (1996); Actor Chadwick Boseman dies (2020).

August 29

 "Casablanca" actress Ingrid Bergman born, dies (1915, 1982); Sen. John McCain born (1936); Michael Jackson born (1958); Netflix is founded (1997); Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana, kills nearly 1,400 (2005).