19th September 1970: First Glastonbury Festival took place at Worthy Farm in Somerset, known at the time as the Pilton Festival of Pop, Folk, and Blues
Organised by dairy farmer Michael Eavis, the event was billed as the Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival and attracted 1,500 people who paid a pound each to see a number of bands on a single stage and drink unlimited quantities of ...
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18th September 1932: Actress Peg Entwistle’s body found after jumping from the Hollywood sign
The body of actress Peg Entwistle was found in a ravine below the Hollywoodland sign in Los ...
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17th September 1908: Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the U.S. Army becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash
Whilst circling the parade ground of Fort Myer, a propeller blade split and broke apart. This struck one of the wires that controlled the rudder, pitching the aircraft forward sharply after which it crashed nose-first into the ...
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16th September 1955: Uprising that topples Juan Perón from power in Argentina begins
The Revolución Libertadora began in Argentina, resulting in the end of Juan Perón’s second term as ...
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15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
The Nuremberg Laws enshrined anti-semitic discrimination in the legal framework of the country through two pieces of ...
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14th September 1741: George Frideric Handel, a German-born composer who had settled in London, completed his oratorio Messiah
Messiah has since become one of the most frequently performed choral works in Western music with the “Hallelujah” chorus becoming a central piece in the choral ...
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13th September 1985: Super Mario Bros. video game first released in Japan
Originally only available for the Japanese Family Computer, it took nearly another two years for the game to be available ...
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12th September 1977: Steve Biko dies of injuries sustained in police custody
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in Pretoria prison from injuries inflicted while in police ...
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