When the Gothic campaign ended in Roman victory at the Battle of Naissus in September, Gallienus ' successor Claudius II Gothicus turned north to deal with the Alemanni, who were swarming over all Italy north of the Po River.

" When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer ," Fleming would later say, " But I suppose that was exactly what I did.

When the Cubs clinched the Eastern Division with a Sutcliffe complete-game 2-hitter at Pittsburgh on September 23, the franchise had its first title of any kind since 1945.

When they returned to San Francisco for their final series with the Giants on September 14, the Rockies had once again built a large Wild Card lead.

When Donald Campbell was buried in Coniston cemetery on 12 September 2001 she did not attend the service.

When Catherine Parr died after childbirth on 5 September 1548, he renewed his attentions towards Elizabeth, intent on marrying her.

When it was published in the United States by the University of Chicago in September of that year, it achieved greater popularity than in Britain.

When king Kavadh I of Persia died ( September 531 ), Justinian concluded an " Eternal Peace " ( which cost him 11, 000 pounds of gold ) with his successor Khosrau I ( 532 ).

When on the morning of 3 September 1939 Chamberlain followed through with his threat of a British declaration of war if Germany attacked Poland, a visibly shocked Hitler asked Ribbentrop " Now what?

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

When John's elder brother Richard became king in September 1189, he had already declared his intention of joining the Third Crusade.

" When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, contact with his Soviet controllers was lost and Philby failed to attend meetings.

When the Indian Rebellion of 1857 broke out in South Asia, the 21st Native Infantry, then stationed in Karachi, declared allegiance to rebels and joining their numbers on 10 September 1857.

When Charles landed in Dalmatia in September 1385, Mary's kingdom was already at war with both Sigismund's brother Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia and Germany, and the queen mother's cousin, King Tvrtko I of Bosnia.

When a joint German-Soviet peace initiative was rejected by Britain and France on 28 September 1939, Soviet foreign policy became critical of the Allies and more pro-German in turn.

Green Day and U2 performed " Wake Me Up When September Ends " and " The Saints Are Coming ", respectively, before the game.

When the Argentine envoy, Nicolás de Herrera, arrived in May 1813, he learned to his dismay that all decisions had to await the meeting of a Paraguayan congress in late September.

When the council ended in September 681 the decrees were sent to the Pope, but Agatho had died in January.

When Pope Benedict IX was driven from Rome in September 1044, John, bishop of Sabina, was elected after fierce and protracted infighting.

When Henry II and Louis VII made a truce on 8 September 1174, Richard was specifically excluded.

When Richard arrived he demanded that his sister be released and given her inheritance ; she was freed on 28 September, but without the inheritance.

When Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo conferred episcopal ordination on four men in Washington on September 24, 2006, the Holy See's Press Office declared that " the Church does not recognize and does not intend in the future to recognize these ordinations or any ordinations derived from them, and she holds that the canonical state of the four alleged bishops is the same as it was prior to the ordination.

When Bin Laden committed to the September 11 attacks plot idea, he assigned both Mihdhar and Hazmi to the plot.

* When Journalists Report for Duty, 20 September 2001

When Sarah was young her mother sent her to Grandchamp, an Augustine convent school near Versailles In 1860 she began attending The Conservatoire de Musique at Déclemation in Paris and eventually became a student at the Comédie Française where she would have her acting debut ( August 11, 1862 ) in the title role of Racine's Iphigénie to lackluster reviews.

When it was performed in London in 1862, it was an immediate sensation.

When the Republican Party came to power in 1860 they promoted a free land policy — notably the Homestead Act of 1862, coupled with railroad land grants that opened cheap ( but not free ) lands for settlers.

When Hope died on December 4, 1862, his wife Anne Adele inherited the gem, but feared that the profligate lifestyle of her son-in-law might cause him to sell the Hope properties.

When Grey was appointed Governor of New Zealand, he presented his collection to the South African Public Library on condition that Bleek be its curator, a position he occupied from 1862 until his death in 1875.

When Union force occupied Baton Rouge in May 1862, all rolling stock was sent to the extreme western end of the railroad for safety where it remained for the duration of the war.

When McClellan was relieved of command in November 1862, Custer reverted to the rank of first lieutenant.

When James Ross died in 1862, his wife, Annie Ross, was forced to sell a portion of James Ross ’ larger land holdings to pay each of their daughters $ 10, 000.

When Pickett returned to the Army in September 1862, he was given command of a two-brigade division in the corps commanded by his old colleague from Mexico, Maj. Gen. James Longstreet, and was promoted to major general on October 10.

When Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan entered upon his Peninsula Campaign in spring 1862, the important duty of keeping the Confederate forces of Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley from reinforcing the defenses of Richmond fell to the two divisions commanded by Banks.

When the Battle of Shiloh was fought in 1862, Union Army soldiers were camped in Adamsville.

When the railway was opened in 1862, Løten Station became the new centre of trade and management.

When he found "... two rebel steamers ... at Pass Christian ..." on 25 March 1862, New London headed straight for and and drove them off to the protection of Southern shore batteries after a two-hour engagement.

When Robert Lowe ( Lord Sherbrooke ) became, as vice-president of the council, his parliamentary chief, Lingen worked congenially with him in producing the Revised Code of 1862 which incorporated " payment by results "; but the education department encountered adverse criticism, and in 1864 the vote of censure in parliament which caused Lowe's resignation, founded ( but erroneously ) on an alleged " editing " of the school inspectors ' reports, was inspired by a certain antagonism to Lingen's as well as to Lowe's methods.

When the commander of the CSS McRae was wounded on April 24, 1862, Read took command of the ship.

When his father died in 1862, López then called a congress that unanimously chose him as president for ten years.

When she died in 1862 the barony fell into abeyance between her four daughters.

When Lady Montefiore died in 1862, Hodgkin promised her to travel with her husband on future journeys.

When John Sr .' s estate was probated in late November 1862, the family owned only two middle-age male slaves.

When Kansas was admitted to the Union in 1861, he became secretary of the first state Senate and state senator in 1862.

When Smith resigned in December 1862, Usher became Secretary effective January 1, 1863.

When Union soldiers entered Nashville on February 25, 1862, Driver removed Old Glory from its hiding place.

When it became clear that Georgia would secede, however, he acquiesced out of loyalty to his state and served as a Senator of the Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to the end of the war in 1865.

When Confederate forces abandoned Pensacola in May 1862, they burned Fort McRee and several other buildings in the area believed to be of strategic value.