September 30: On This Progressive Day
The Hoover Dam is dedicated (1935)
Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany, under National Socialist Workers Party (Nazi) rule, to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia (1938)
Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers (1962)
Six generals of Indonesian National Army assassinated by counter-coup action known as 30 September Movement (1965)
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office (1991)
Drawings of Muhammad, found offensive by Islamofascists, are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (2005)
President B. Hussein Obama stages a photo-op at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, alongside his controversial Obamacare pitch woman, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius (2009)
President B. Hussein Obama has a furious meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2013)
b: Bernhard Rust (1883), Truman Capote (1924), Blanche Lincoln (1960); d: Franz Oppenheimer (1943), James Dean (1955)
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September 29: On This Progressive Day
At least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar (1941)
The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China (1949)
Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disorders a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts (1960)
President B. Hussein Obama holds a tête-à-tête with the NATO Secretary General in the Oval Office (2009)
At U.S. Army Garrison Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 146th round of golf as POTUS (2013)
More than 42 people are killed by members of the progressive Islamist group Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Nigeria (2013)
b: Ludwig von Mises (1881), Bill Nelson (1942); d: Léon Bourgeois (1925), Tom Bradley (1998), Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (2001), Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (2012)
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September 28: On This Progressive Day
The International Workingmen's Association was founded in London (1864)
Out-of-state community organizers ignite race riots in Omaha, Nebraska (1919)
UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis (1928)
As Warsaw surrenders to National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi) officials, Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II (1939)
Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Islamist Taliban (1996)
b: Johann Georg Hiedler (1792), Thomas Crapper (1836), Carl Clauberg (1898); d: Richard Sears (1914), Gamal Abdel Nasser (1970), Mohammad Najibullah (1996), Pierre Trudeau (2000)
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September 27: On This Progressive Day
The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy (1940)
The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China (1949)
The Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy (1964)
The U. S. Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th U.S. Cabinet agency (1979)
In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah (1996)
At U.S. Army Garrison Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 21st round of golf as POTUS (2009)
President B. Hussein Obama signs into law a corporate welfare subsidy bill called the "Small Business Jobs and Credit Act" (2010)
b: Daniel Keefe (1852), Anna Burger (1950); d: Walter Benjamin (1940)
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September 26: On This Progressive Day
Under the Progressive Era's most progressive President, Woodrow Wilson, the Federal Trade Commission is established (1914)
Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R. (1960)
Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike (1983)
About 20,000 anti-globalization protesters turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits in Prague (2000)
b: Leo Deutsch (1855), Émile Henry (1872), Martin Heidegger (1889), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), Valentin Pavlov (1937), Andrea Dworkin (1946), Christine Todd Whitman (1946); d: Nicu Ceaușescu (1996), Iva Toguri D'Aquino (2006)
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September 25: On This Progressive Day
The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights (1789)
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, NY (1912)
The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed; Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government (1962)
The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed (1969)
President B. Hussein Obama and the leaders of France and the UK promote Iran's construction of a secret nuclear weapons facility near Qom (2009)
At Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County, Maryland, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 51st round of golf as POTUS (2010)
President B. Hussein Obama reads unremarkable, teleprompted speeches, once again, to the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative (2012)
b: Ethel Rosenberg (1915), Shel Silverstein (1930); d: Mikhail Alekseev (1918), Klaus Barbie (1991), Edward Said (2003)
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September 24: On This Progressive Day
'Black Friday': Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold (1869)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, AR to enforce desegregation (1957)
President B. Hussein Obama chairs a U.N. Security Council summit giving lip service to nuclear disarmament and proliferation (2009)
At Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County, Maryland, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 82nd round of golf as POTUS (2011)
President B. Hussein Obama reads an unremarkable, teleprompted speech at the United Nations General Assembly again (2013)
b: John Marshall (1755), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Ruhollah Khomeini (1902), Konstantin Chernenko (1911); d: Gottfried Feder (1941), Theodor Seuss Geisel (1991)
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September 23: On This Progressive Day
Fall of Tripolitsa, Greece, and massacre of 30,000 Turks (1821)
The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz (1941)
Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech" (1952)
The Nazi (National German Socialist Workers Party) puppet state the Italian Social Republic is founded (1943)
Celebrate Bisexuality Day is first observed in the United States (1999)
President B. Hussein Obama gives his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly, and speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City (2009)
President B. Hussein Obama travels to New York City and gives another teleprompted speech at the United Nations General Assembly (2010)
President B. Hussein Obama holds a tête-à-tête with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan at The White House (2013)
b: Walter Lippmann (1889), George Jackson (1941), Angela Maria DiFranco; d: Sigmund Freud (1939), Carl Rowan (2000)
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Obama-Jarrett Admin wants us to just fuhgeddaboudit
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September 22: On This Progressive Day
Joseph Smith, Jr. stated he was directed by the Angel Moroni to the place where the Golden plates were stored (1823)
A steel strike led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins in PA before spreading across the U.S. (1919)
The National German Socialist Workers Party's SS murder 6,000 Jews - the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed - in Vinnytsya, Ukraine (1941)
President B. Hussein Obama addresses the Climate Change Summit at the United Nations General Assembly in New York (2009)
The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan-linked Islamist group Jundallah conducts a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing at least 75 people (2013)
b: Tự Đức (1829), Wilhelm Keitel (1882), Rev. Jeremiah Wright (1941); d: Nathan Hale (1776)
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September 21: On This Progressive Day
Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point (1780)
On Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, in Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, National Socialist German Workers Party operatives murder 2,588 Jews (1942)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist) (2004)
President B. Hussein Obama appears on The Late Show with David Letterman, his second late night talk show photo-op since becoming president (2009)
al-Shabaab Islamists attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 67 people (2013)
At U.S. Army Garrison Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 145th round of golf as POTUS (2013)
b: H. G. Wells (1866), Cass Sunstein (1954); d: Annie Besant (1933), Artur Phleps (1944), Orlando Letelier (1976)
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September 20: On This Progressive Day
Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President following the assassination of James Garfield (1881)
German SS murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv, Ukraine (1942)
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations (1977)
National Football League players begin a 57-day strike (1982)
An Islamist suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people (1984)
Fedayeen Islam detonates a dump truck full of explosives in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others (2008)
At Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County, Maryland, President B. Hussein Obama plays his 20th round of golf as POTUS (2009)
President B. Hussein Obama orders an end to the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing openly gay men and women in the workplace for the first time (2011)
b: Upton Sinclair (1878), Sam Church (1936), Anthony 'Van' Jones (1968); d: Eduard Wirths (1945)
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September 30: On This Progressive Day
