September 1

The world is created, in 5509BC, according to the Byzantine Empire. The last passenger pigeon dies, in 1914, in Cincinnati. We make our first tentative reach out of the inner solar system: Pioneer 11 passes Saturn, in 1979.

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), composer; Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), writer; and Mohammed Atta (1968), terrorist, are born. (Not that Engelbert Humperdinck. That Engelbert Humperdinck.)

Amar Das and Ram Das, the third and fourth Sikh gurus, die (in 1479 and 1534.) So does Louis XIV, but he doesn’t get around to it until 1715. Slacker.