The dispatch must have been sent after sundown on September 1.

Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.

The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 22, 1862, and put into effect on January 1, 1863, declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions specified for areas already under Union control in two states.

The United States Naval Observatory began the A. 1 scale 13 September 1956, using an Atomichron commercial atomic clock, followed by the NBS-A scale at the National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado.

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A medal awarded to women who served in the Women Army Auxiliary Corps from 10 July 1942 to 31 August 1943, and to the Women Army Corps from 1 September 1943 to 2 September 1945 featured Athena on the front.

On July 23, 1963, Webb announced Mueller's appointment as Deputy Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, to replace then Associate Administrator D. Brainard Holmes on his retirement effective September 1.

# 1. around 1200: Gertrude of Merania ( 1185 – 8 September 1213 ), a daughter of Berthold IV, Duke of Merania and his wife, Agnes of Wettin

Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.

Arbor Day was celebrated from 1983 until 1999 in South Africa, when the national government extended it to National Arbor Week, which lasts from 1 – 7 September.

Arizona had postseason victories over the St. Louis Cardinals ( 3 – 2 in the NLDS ) and the Atlanta Braves ( 4 – 1 in the NLCS ) to advance to the World Series where, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City, they beat the three-time reigning champions, the New York Yankees, 4 to 3, to become the youngest expansion franchise to win the World Series ( in just their fourth season of play ).

On 1 September 2008, Aston Martin announced the revival of the Lagonda marque.

On 1 September 1939 this unit was one of the many that participated in the attack on Poland that started the war.

The system was formally launched on 1 September 2005, and in 2008 the Bundestag moved to a new system based on its evaluation.

This guideline was later amended to 90 at bats, 45 innings pitched, or 45 days on a Major League roster before September 1 of the previous year.

The current standard of 130 at bats, 50 innings pitched or 45 days on the active roster of a Major League club ( excluding time in military service or on the disabled list ) before September 1 was adopted in 1971.

On 1 September, the pursuing Royalists captured Castle Dore, another ruined fortification which the Parliamentarians were using to anchor their lines.

On September 1, 2006, one eastbound lane of the connector tunnel was re-opened to traffic.

At the end of September 2003, the first part of High Speed 1, a high speed link to the Channel Tunnel and on to France and Belgium, was completed, significantly adding to the rail infrastructure of the country.

Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

He is thought to have died in the Great Hinckley Fire of September 1, 1894.

As of September 2011, Canada's national unemployment rate stood at 7. 1 %, as the economy continues its recovery from the effects of the 2007-2010 global financial crisis.

The French constitutional referendum of September 1958 dissolved the AEF, and on 1 December of the same year the Assembly declared the birth of the autonomous Central African Republic with Boganda as head of government.

He was released from prison on 1 September 1993, as a result of an amnesty.

This was nearly completed May 23, 1901 with a promise of lights by June 10, but the first light did not go on until September 28.

At the end of September, Navy reconnaissance aircraft photographed the Soviet ship Kasimov with large crates on its deck the size and shape of Il-28 light bombers.

)</ ref > In a September 2009 interview with Examiner. com, Strassman described the effects on participants in the study: " Subjectively, the most interesting results were that high doses of DMT seemed to allow the consciousness of our volunteers to enter into non-corporeal, free-standing, independent realms of existence inhabited by beings of light who oftentimes were expecting the volunteers, and with whom the volunteers interacted.

* In September 2009 Ethiopian Railways Corporation signed a deal with China Railway Engineering Corporation for it to build the new Addis Ababa light railway transit.

On September 22, 2011, a paper from the OPERA Collaboration indicated detection of 17 and 28 GeV muon neutrinos, sent 730 kilometers ( 454 miles ) from CERN near Geneva, Switzerland to the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, traveling faster than light by a factor of 2. 48 × 10 < sup >− 5 </ sup > ( approximately 1 in 40, 000 ), a statistic with 6. 0-sigma significance.

He worked on it on and off for several years, but when he died in September 1891, he left the piece unfinished, and not until the literary scholar Raymond Weaver published it in 1924 did the book – which is now known as Billy Budd, Sailor – come to light.

On 17 September 1179, when Hildegard died, her sisters claimed they saw two streams of light appear in the skies and cross over the room where she was dying.

On the one-year anniversary, she encouraged parents to instead read to their children, and perhaps light a candle in memoriam, saying, " Don't let your children see the images, especially on September 11, when you know it'll probably be on television again and again — the plane hitting the building or the buildings falling.

Ole Christensen Rømer (; 25 September 1644, Århus – 19 September 1710, Copenhagen ) was a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

According to The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story by Stanley Green, " For three minutes, on the night of September first, the entire Times Square area in New York City was blacked out in honor of the man who had done so much to light up that particular part of the world.

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

* In The Terror Dream Faludi analyzes the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in light of prior American experience going back to insecurity on the historical American frontier such as in Metacom's Rebellion.

On September 7, 2004, Tokyopop began releasing the light novels in English.

In September 2010, a sculpture of three giant light bulbs was erected in Brno, in front of the theatre.

In September 2010, in the light of the failure to repeal the " Don ’ t Ask, Don ’ t Tell " policy ( which banned openly gay people from serving in the military ) during the Obama administration, the Libertarian Party urged gay voters to stop supporting the Democratic Party.

* September 26 – Godalming in England becomes the first town to have its streets illuminated by electric light ( hydroelectrically generated ).

* September 12 – Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

The Tribute in Light is an art installation of 88 searchlights placed next to the site of the World Trade Center to create two vertical columns of light in remembrance of the September 11 attacks.

Artists Julian LaVerdiere and Paul Myoda, who before September 11 were working on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center north tower on a proposed light sculpture on the giant radio antenna with Creative Time, conceived of a project called " Phantom Towers ".

On September 19, Municipal Art Society chairman Philip K. Howard wrote to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, asking him " to consider placing two large searchlights near the disaster site, projecting their light straight up into the sky.

In these papers, Bell accords the credit for the first demonstrations of the transmission of speech by light to a Mr A C Brown of London " in September or October 1878 ".

Ronald Binge ( 15 July 19106 September 1979 ) was a British composer and arranger of light music.

The Battle of Harpers Ferry started with light fighting September 13 as the Confederates tried to capture the Maryland Heights to the northeast, while John Walker moved back over the Potomac to capture Loudoun Heights south of town.

Snowfall has been observed in every month of the year, but is usually absent from May to September, and normally accumulates in only light amounts.