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August 30  Arnold Mühren celebrating Ipswich's UEFA Cup win In their 1980–81 season, the English football club Ipswich Town F.C. finished as runners-up in the championship of the Football League First Division, were semi-finalists in the FA Cup, and won the UEFA Cup. Ipswich played 66 competitive games during the season, winning 37, drawing 13 and losing 16. The season began with an unbeaten run in the club's opening 15 league matches. By the middle of March, they were strong title contenders with only two defeats in thirty-two, but a 2–1 defeat at Manchester United triggered a slump which handed the initiative to eventual league champions Aston Villa. This result was the second-best finish Ipswich had achieved in their history, bettered only by their 1961–62 championship-winning season. The club reached the semi-final of the FA Cup, losing in extra time to Manchester City. They won the final of the 1981 UEFA Cup, where a 5–4 aggregate victory over the Dutch team AZ Alkmaar clinched the club's first and only European trophy (celebration pictured). (Full article...)
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August 31  Mariah Carey Music Box is the third studio album by Mariah Carey (pictured), released on August 31, 1993, by Columbia Records. She adopted a radio-friendly approach for the album to appeal to a wider audience. Carey wrote and produced most of its tracks with Walter Afanasieff, though other songwriters and producers were involved. Music Box is a pop and R&B album consisting of sentimental ballads and uptempo dance tracks. Its five singles include the US Billboard Hot 100 number-ones "Dreamlover" and "Hero", as well as "Without You"—her most successful song worldwide at the time. On release, Music Box received mixed reviews from music critics, who praised her vocals but criticized the album's mellow, formulaic, and subdued lyricism. Retrospective reviews have been more positive, underscoring its significance in Carey's career. The album topped the charts in 15 countries and became Carey's bestseller and one of the best-selling albums in history, with over 30 million copies sold worldwide. (Full article...)
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August 31: Independence Day in Malaysia (1957); Romanian Language Day  Interior view of Kinetoscope with peephole viewer
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August 31  Dafne Schippers, seven-time Dutch Athlete of the Year The Dutch Athlete of the Year is an annual award given to the most distinguished competitor in the sport of athletics from the Netherlands by the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation (KNAU). A shortlist is drawn up by a group of federation officials and sports journalists and then goes to a vote by the public. The award is presented at the KNAU's annual end-of-year gala. The award was inaugurated in 1936 as the Sauer Cup, and was renamed the KNAU Cup in 1947. Initially a mixed-gender award, the best Dutch male and female athletes were recognised separately from 1959 onwards. The men's award was called the Herman van Leeuwen Cup during this period, while the women's award continued as the KNAU Cup. Since 2005, the awards have been known as the Dutch Athlete of the Year, and since 2018 it has again been a mixed-gender award. (Full list...) | |||
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September 1 .jpg) Anfield is a football stadium in Anfield, Liverpool, which has been the home of Liverpool F.C. since its formation in 1892. The stadium has a seating capacity of 61,276, making it the fifth-largest football stadium in England. It was originally the home of Everton from 1884 to 1891 before they moved to Goodison Park. The stadium has four stands: the Spion Kop, the Main Stand, the Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand, and the Anfield Road End. The record attendance of 61,905 was set at a match between Liverpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1952. Anfield was converted to an all-seater stadium in 1994 as a result of the Taylor Report, which reduced its capacity. Two gates at the stadium are named after former Liverpool managers Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley, both of whom have also been honoured with statues outside the stadium. Redevelopments were made to the Anfield Road Stand in 2024, which increased the stadium's capacity to more than 61,000. (This article is part of a featured topic: Liverpool F.C.)
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September 2 _03.jpg) Laguna Miscanti is a brackish lake in the Altiplano of the Antofagasta Region in northern Chile. It has an area of about 13 km2 (5 sq mi) and the shape of an arrowhead. The lake has no permanent surface inflows or outflows apart from several springs, and is primarily fed and drained by groundwater. Laguna Miscanti is located among the volcanoes of the Central Andes, and formed through tectonic processes about 22,000 years ago. It was once larger, but the climate became drier again during the Holocene, and the lake shrank and may have dried out completely, leaving wetlands behind. The lake reformed 3,400 years ago and has persisted since. Laguna Miscanti is an important breeding site for birds and a major tourist destination within the Los Flamencos National Reserve. Prehistoric peoples used the area as a hunting ground, and several archaeological sites have been identified nearby. The smaller Laguna Miñiques lies immediately south, separated from Miscanti by a lava flow. (Full article...)
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September 2: National Day in Vietnam (1945)  Editorial cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt carrying a big stick
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September 2 _(2).jpg) 2025 winner Lalo Schifrin The Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame (Spanish: El Pabellón de la Fama de los Compositores Latinos), also known as La Musa Awards, was established on October 18, 2012, by Desmond Child and Rudy Pérez, and is located in Miami, Florida, United States. The hall of fame is dedicated to "educating, honoring and celebrating the lives and music of the world's greatest Latin songwriters and composers". The hall of fame was conceived by Child after he realized that he was only the third Latino to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Nominations for the inductions are selected by its committee of music professionals, which consists of producers, composers, musicians, and performers, with the winners being voted by the general public. To be eligible for a nomination, the songwriter, composer, or lyricist is required to have their first published work released at least 20 years prior to the year of induction. The accolades are divided into three groups: inductees, posthumous inductees, and additional honorees. (Full list...) | |||
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September 3  The huhu beetle (Prionoplus reticularis) is a longhorn beetle endemic to New Zealand. It is a large, visually distinctive species whose adults reach up to 5 cm (2 in) in length. It is widespread throughout New Zealand, occurring up to 1,400 m (4,600 ft) in altitude. Although it is unable to eat as an adult, the larva feeds and burrows in the dead wood of trees, almost entirely feeding on gymnosperms such as rimu and Monterey pine. As a larva, it can grow to sizes of 50 to 70 mm (2.0 to 2.8 in) and has a cylindrical appearance with a creamy colour. During this stage, which is high in protein and fat, it is edible and has been described as tasting similar to peanut butter. It has a history of consumption by the Māori, with the larva being consumed either raw or traditionally cooked in a hāngī. The adult lives for roughly two weeks. It is nocturnal and is strongly attracted to light, such as that produced by human habitation. (Full article...)
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September 4 .jpg) Heard Island Heard Island and McDonald Islands is an external territory of Australia in the southern Indian Ocean. It is a group of sub-Antarctic volcanic islands that lie on the Kerguelen Plateau. It is about 4000 km (2500 mi) south-west of the Australian mainland and 1700 km (1100 mi) north of Antarctica. The territory contains Australia's only active volcanoes, including Mawson Peak, a volcanic cone that is the country's highest point outside the Australian Antarctic Territory. Uninhabited and remote, the islands are a nature reserve and a World Heritage Site. Heavily glaciated, Heard Island (pictured) is dominated by Big Ben, a stratovolcano that is topped by Mawson Peak. Heard Island and the McDonald Islands are home to many eastern rockhopper, gentoo, macaroni, and king penguins. With more than one million breeding pairs, Heard Island contains about 20 per cent of the world's macaroni penguins. The islands also contain substantial populations of elephant seals and Antarctic fur seals. (Full article...)
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September 4 .png) Georges Méliès The French filmmaker and magician Georges Méliès is the subject of various written works, including biographies, essays, and monographs. The literature about him is abundant and spans many decades and languages, including English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German. Frank Kessler, a professor of media history, believes Méliès is arguably the most written about early filmmaker. French film historians wrote pioneering, if constrained, works about Méliès between the 1940s and 1960s. Later, descendants of his and Anglosphere film historians wrote authoritative monographs and specialist works began to appear about his writings, magic, theater, film studios, film colorization, editing, and international reception. Conferences about Méliès held at the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle suggest three phases in his scholarship. (Full list...)
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September 5 _cropped.png) Helen Mirren The second and final season of 1923, an American neo-Western television series, was announced in February 2023. As a limited-run series, 1923 was not originally intended to extend beyond its initial eight-episode order. The second season was developed after Taylor Sheridan, its creator and showrunner, decided that more episodes were needed to tell the story. A part of the Yellowstone franchise, 1923 is a sequel to 1883 and a prequel to Yellowstone. The series stars Helen Mirren (pictured), Harrison Ford, Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Isabel May, Michelle Randolph, and Timothy Dalton. Sheridan wrote all eight of the second season's episodes. The series revolves around a generation of the Dutton family, and is set in the U.S. state of Montana between 1923 and 1924. The Duttons face the struggles of winter and attempt to protect their ranch against developers. The season was released on the streaming platform Paramount+ from February 23 to April 6, 2025. (Full article...)
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September 6  Czolgosz shooting McKinley with a revolver President William McKinley was shot and fatally wounded on September 6, 1901, while shaking hands with the public in the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, U.S. McKinley died on September 14 from gangrene caused by the bullet wounds. President McKinley enjoyed meeting the public, and was reluctant to take security precautions. George B. Cortelyou, the secretary to the president, feared an assassination attempt, but McKinley kept the visit in the schedule. The assassin, Leon Czolgosz, regarded McKinley as a symbol of oppression, and felt it was his duty as an anarchist to kill him. Unable to get near McKinley earlier in the visit, Czolgosz shot him twice (pictured) as McKinley reached to shake his hand in the reception line. McKinley initially appeared to be recovering, but took a turn for the worse on September 13 and died the next morning; Theodore Roosevelt, the vice president, succeeded him. Czolgosz was executed for murder in late October. (Full article...)
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