Some of the events that took place this month in history....
On This Day: 1st September 1939 German forces attack Poland across all frontiers and its planes bomb Polish cities, including Warsaw. Just before dawn, German tanks, infantry and cavalry penetrated Polish territory on several fronts with five armies, a total of 1.5 million troops. The attack came without any warning or declaration of war. Britain and France were forced to declare war after Germany ignored their separate ultimatums demanding the withdrawal of German troops from Poland. Britain then declared war on Germany on 3rd September 1939.
On This Day: 4th September 1967 Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
On This Day: 5th September 1942 Battle at Alam Halfa ends
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Photograph Courtesy of the National Archives & Records Administration
The Battle of Alam el Halfa took place between 30 August and 5 September 1942 south of El Alamein during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
On This Day: 6th September - Germany Israeli Athletes Killed
1972 : A gun battle between the Palestinian group Black September who had kidnapped nine Israeli athletes from the Olympic Village in Munich ends when the nine hostages are killed in a gun battle between German Police and the terrorists at a nearby airport, Five of the terrorists were also killed and one German Police Officer.
On This Day: 6th September 1952 Farnborough Air Show Disaster
Thousands of spectators watched as a De Havilland 110 aircraft broke the sound barrier and then disintegrated in the sky above them and fell to earth.
On This Day: 7th September 1940 London Blitz starts
Germany starts it's Blitz on London with 300 German bombers in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. The Blitz caused the deaths of over 40,000 men women and children and left a million homes destroyed in the city.
A milkman delivering milk in a London street devastated during a German bombing raid. Firemen are dampening down the ruins behind him CREDIT: FRED MORLEY/GETTY IMAGES #WW2
On This Day: 8th September 1944 - Germany launches the first V2 rocket on London
Over the next six months Germany launched 1,400 at Britain ending in March 1945. German V2 rocket being placed into position by soldiers prior to a launch. Photograph: Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images #WW2
On This Day: 9th September 1970 : Palestinian Guerrillas Hijack a BOAC British Airliner from India bound for London and forced it to land in the Jordanian Dessert. This was the 4th hijacking plot that week by the group calling themselves the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who demanded the release of 3 Arab prisoners held in West Germany. The BOAC Plane joined a Swissair DC8 and a Transworld Airlines Boeing 707 at the airstrip.
Image: Journalists film the wreckage of exploded passenger planes at Dawson's Field, Zarqa, Jordan. (Peter Davis/Getty Images)
On This Day: 11th September 2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,606 people
On This Day: 12th September 1916 Serbians on the Balkan Front, Serbian soldiers in a front line trench during the Battle of Kaymakchalan (12-30 September 1916) in Macedonia. During the latter engagement the Serbians attacked the peak of Prophet Ilia and pushed the Bulgarians back towards the town of Mariovo. Losses on both sides were high, with the Serbs sustaining around 10,000 casualties. NAM. 1999-10-8-3
On This Day: 14th September Bulgarian dissident killed by poisoned umbrella at London bus stop The Bulgarian Secret Service and the KGB were suspected to be involved in the writer's murder , although they always denied it. Police investigating the strange death of Mr Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian writer and broadcaster, found several people last night who may have seen the incident in which, they said, he was stabbed with a poisoned umbrella by a Communist agent “with a thick foreign accent.” Photo: The bus stop (right) in London's Strand where Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was murdered by a ricin spiked umbrella in 1978. Photograph: Paul Fievez / Associated Newspapers
Sunday 15th September is celebrated officially as the climax of the Battle of Britain, when London had become the Luftwaffe's main target.
On This Day: 18th September The sinking of the Junyo Maru on 18 September 1944 was one of the deadliest maritime disasters of the Second World War, killing over 5,000 POWs and romushas. Here she is pictured in 1933, courtesy of City of Vancouver archives. CVA 447-2345.
On This Day: 18th September 1972: Expelled Ugandans arrive in UK
The first Ugandan refugees fleeing the persecution of the country's military dictatorship have arrived in Britain.
The 55,000-strong Asian community were ordered in August to leave the country within 90 days by President Idi Amin.
On This Day: 21st September 1958 Britain and Iceland have called a temporary halt to the first Cod War because a British Marine was taken sick with acute appendicitis, and the British skipper of the Frigate Diana asked the Icelandic coast guard ship Aeger for permission to sail into the Icelandic port where a hospital was located inside the Icelandic 12 mile zone, The Icelandic Government gave permission and the Marine is now in hospital in Iceland receiving treatment. The Royal Navy’s 2,500 ton Leander-class frigate HMS Scylla collides with the Icelandic vessel ICGV Odinn in the third and final Cod War.
On This Day: 22nd September 1980: War breaks out between Iran and Iraq
Three weeks of border clashes between Iran and Iraq appear to have finally erupted into all-out war.
Iraq has bombed several Iranian air and military supply bases, including Tehran's international airport.
The rise in hostilities comes after Iraq tore up a 1975 border agreement with Iran over sovereignty of the Shatt al-Arab waterway.
On This Day: 27th September 1941 The destroyer HMS Lightning was one of the ships escorting WS11 from Gibraltar to Malta. Convoys on this route needed extensive protection and each one was a significant commitment for the Royal Navy – this convoy was ‘Operation Halberd’.
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