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SEPTEMBER HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES		Holiday posters index \| August \| September \| October \| search site autumn posters
September Observances:		poster links	resource links
	Classical Music Month	classical composers posters	National Assoc for Music Education
	Children's Good Manners Month		Good Manners Club
	Childhood Cancer Awareness Month	health posters	Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
	Eye Health & Safety Month	eye posters	Prevent Blindness America
	Food Education Safety Month	food safety poster	National Food Safety Education
	Healthy Aging Month	health posters	Healthy Aging Month
	School Achievement Month		Developing Strategies for Increasing Student Success
	Sickle Cell Month		Sickle Cell Disease Assoc of America
	Women's Achievement Month	womens posters	Women Equality Resource Center

	First Week of September
	National Sobriety Checkpoint Week		MADD
	National Payroll Week		National Payroll Week

	Second Week of September
	Assisted Living Week		Assisted Living Online
	Suicide Prevention Week		American Assoc of Suicidology

	Third Week of September
	Constitution Week	historic documents posters	Citizenship Day and Constitution Week Proclamation
	National Rehabilitation Awareness Celebration	health posters	N'tl Rehabilitation Awareness Found.
	Reye’s Syndrome Awareness Week	health posters	N'tl Reye’s Syndrome Foundation

	Fourth Week of September
	Banned Books Week	Banned Books posters	American Library Association
	International Deaf Awareness Week	hearing / ears posters	National Assoc of the Deaf
	National Dog Week	dog posters	• National Dog Week site

September Holidays
	Labor Day, 1st Monday in September	Images of Labor posters
	Grandparents Day, 1st Sunday after Labor Day	Grandmother & grandchildren print
	9-17 Citizenship Day - Constitution signed in 1787	historic documents posters	Citizenship Day and Constitution Week Proclamation
	9-18 through 9-20, 2009 Rosh Hashana, Jewish New Year (9-8-2010; 9-28-2011; 9-16-2012; 9-4-2013; 9-24-2014; 9-13-2015)	Judiasm posters	Jewish Holidays Calendar
	9-21-09, Tzom Gedaliah - the day after Rosh Hashana
	9-21 International Day of Peace	peace posters	United Nations
	9-21 Biosphere Day	ecology posters
	9-21 or 22 Autumnal Equinox - First Day of Fall	• astronomy posters • autumn posters
	9/27-9/28-2009, Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement (Sept 17-18, 2010; 10-7-2011)	Judaism posters	Yom Kippur Resource File

September Notable Dates

	b. 9-1-1653 - Johann Pachelbel, Baroque composer		Pachelbel Resource File
	b. 9-1-1898 - Marilyn Miller, dancer, singer, actress		Marilyn Miller Resource File
	b. 9-1-1907 - Walter Reuther, labor leader		Walter Reuther Resource File
	b. 9-1-1957 - Gloria Estefan, singer		Gloria Estefan Resource File
	9-1-1923 - Tokyo & Yokohama Earthquake, kills 100,000		1923 Tokyo Earthquake article & photos

	9-2-1666 - Great Fire of London		Great Fire article
	b. 9-2-1838 - Queen Liliuokalani		Queen Liliuokalani Resource File
	b. 9-2-1850 - Eugene Field, poet		Eugene Field Resource File
	b. 9-2-1911 - Romare Bearden, artist		Romare Bearden Resource File
	9-2-1945 - World War II ends, Japan signs formal surrender		National Archives

	9-3-1783 - Revol united_states utionary War ends, Treaty of Paris signed		Paris Peace Treaty, Yale Law School
	b. 9-3-1803 - Prudence Crandall, educator & activist		Prudence Crandall Resource File
	b. 9-3-1907 - Loren Eiseley, author, anthropologist, educator		Loren Eiseley Resource File

	b. 9-4-1768 - Francois-Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand, author		Chateaubriand Resource File
	b. 9-4-1824 - Anton Bruckner, composer		Anton Bruckner Resource File
	b. 9-4-1846 - Daniel Burnham, architect		Daniel Burnham Resource File
	b. 9-4-1848 - Lewis Latimer, inventor	poster no longer available	Lewis Latimer Resource File
	b. 9-4-1856 - Louis Sullivan, architect		Louis Sullivan Resource File
	b. 9-4-1890 - Antonia Mercé y Luque, dancer		Antonia Mercé y Luque Resource File
	b. 9-4-1896 - Antonin Artaud, actor & author		Antonin Artaud Resource File
	b. 9-4-1906 - Max Delbrück, biologist		Max Delbrück Resource File
	b. 9-4-1908 - Richard Wright, author		CP Links for Learning - Wright
	b. 9-4-1931 - Mitzi Gaynor, dancer and actress		Mitzi Gaynor Resource File
	9-4-1957 - American Civil Rights Movement - Central HS in Little Rock, AR		Little Rock Central H.S. Historic Site

	b. 9-5-1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer		Giacomo Meyerbeer Resource File
	b. 9-5-1847 - Jesse James, notorious outlaw		Jesse James Resource File
	b. 9-5-1867 - Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, composer		Amy Beach Resource File
	d. 9-5-1877 - Crazy Horse, Native American warrior		Crazy Horse Resource File
	9-5-1978 - Camp David Accords - Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.		Jimmy Carter Library & Museum

	b. 9-6-1475 - Sebastiano Serlio, architect		Sebastiano Serlio Resource File
	b. 9-6-1766 - John Dalton, chemist & physicist		John Dalton Resource File
	b. 9-6-1860 - Jane Addams, social worker		Jane Addams Hull House Museum
	b. 9-6-1863 - Jessie Willcox Smith, artist		Jessie Willcox Smith Resource File

	b. 9-7-1533 - Elizabeth I of England		Elizabeth I Reosurce File
	b. 9-7-1860 - Grandma Moses, artist		Grandma Moses Resource File
	b. 9-7-1885 - Jovita Idar, activist & journalist		Jovita Idar Resource File
	b. 9-7-1887 - Dame Edith Sitwell, poet & critic		Dame Edith Sitwell Resource File
	b. 9-7-1908 - Dr. Michael DeBakey, heart surgeon		Dr. Michael DeBakey Resource File
	b. 9-7-1914 - James Van Allen, space scientist		James Van Allen Resource File
	b. 9-7-1924 - Daniel Inouye, politician		Daniel Inouye Resource File

	b. 9-8-1373 - Ludovico Ariosto, author		Ludovico Ariosto Resource File
	b. 9-8-1588 - Marin Mersenne, mathematician		Marin Mersenne Resource File
	b. 9-8-1830 - Frederic Mistral, author		Frederic Mistral Resource File
	b. 9-8-1841 - Antonín Dvorák, composer		Antonín Dvorák Resource File

	b. 9-9-1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert, explorer		Humphrey Gilbert Resource File
	b. 9-9-1828 - Leo Tolstoy, author		Leo Tolstoy Resource File
	b. 9-9-1960 - Mario Batali, chef		Mario Batali Resource File

	b. 9-10-1659 - Henry Purcell, composer		Henry Purcell Resource File
	9-10-1850 - California, 31st State		LearnCalifornia.org
	b. 9-10-1886 - Hilda Doolittle, poet & critic		Hilda Doolittle Resource File

	b. 9-11-1762 - Joanna Baillie, author		Joanna Baillie Resource File
	b. 9-11-1771 - Mungo Park, explorer & physician		Mungo Park Resource File
	b. 9-11-1853 - Mary Elizabeth Lease, lawyer & orator		Mary Elizabeth Lease Resource File
	b. 9-11-1881 - Asta Nielsen, actress		Asta Nielsen Resource File
	b. 9-11-1885 - D. H. Lawrence, author		D. H. Lawrence Collection - University of Nottingham
	b. 9-11-1942 - Lola Falana, dancer		Lola Falana Resource File
	9-11-2001 - Terrorist Attack		9-11 Commission Report

	b. 9-12-1859 - Florence Kelley, social & political reformer		Florence Kelley Resource File
	b. 9-12-1913 - H. L. Mencken, author		H. L. Mencken Resource File
	b. 9-12-1913 - Jesse Owens, athlete		Jesse Owens Resource File

	b. 9-13-1819 - Clara Wieck-Schumann, composer		Clara Schumann Resource File
	b. 9-13-1860 - Gen. John Pershing, military		Gen. John Pershing Resource File
	b. 9-13-1878 - Sherwood Anderson, author		Sherwood Anderson Resource File
	b. 9-13-1879 - Annie Kenney, suffragette		Annie Kenney Resource File
	b. 9-13-1885 - Alain LeRoy Locke, “Father of the Harlem Renaissance”		Alain Locke Resource File
	b. 9-13-1916 - Raold Dahl, author		Raold Dahl Resource File

	b. 9-14-1728 - Mercy Otis Warren, patriot & playwright		Mercy Otis Warren Resource File
	b. 9-14-1760 - Luigi Cherubini, composer		Luigi Cherubini Resource File
	b. 9-14-1769 - Friedrich von Humboldt, explorer		Friedrich von Humboldt Resource File
	9-14-1814 - Star Spangled Banner written		Fort McHenry National Park
	b. 9-14-1849 - Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, physiologist & psychologist		Ivan Pavlov Resource File
	b. 9-14-1879 - Margaret Sanger, women's health		Margaret Sanger Resource File
	b. 9-14-1934 - Kate Millett, feminist writer & activist		Kate Millett Resource File

	b. 9-15-1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, author		James Fenimore Cooper Resource File
	b. 9-15-1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th US President		William Howard Taft Resource File
	b. 9-15-1889 - Claude McKay, poet & activist		Claude McKay Taft Resource File
	b. 9-15-1890 - Agatha Christie, author		Agatha Christie Resource File
	b. 9-15-1917 - Hilde Gueden, soprana opera singer		Hilde Gueden Resource File
	9-15-1928 - Penicillin discovered, Dr. Fleming		• The Microbial World - Penicillin • Nobelprize.org
	b. 9-15-1928 - Cannonball Adderley, musician		Cannonball Adderley Resource File
	b. 9-15-1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, physicist		Murray Gell-Mann Resource File
	b. 9-15-1945 - Jessye Norman, opera singer		Jessye Norman Resource File
	b. 9-15-1984 - Prince Harry		Prince Harry Resource File

	b. 9-16-1885 - Karen Horney, psychiatrist		Karen Horney Resource File
	b. 9-16-1888 - Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, author		Frans Eemil Sillanpaa Resource File
	b. 9-16-1893 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, biologist		Albert Szent-Györgyi Resource File
	d. 9-16-1910 - Hormuzd Rassam, explorer		Hormuzd Rassam Resource File
	b. 9-16-1925 - B. B. King, musician		B. B. King Resource File

	d. 9-17-1179 - Hildegard von Bingen, polymath		Hildegard von Bingen Resource File
	b. 9-17-1730 - Baron von Steuben, military		Steuben Society of America
	d. 9-17-1858 - Dred Scott, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857		Dred Scott Resources File
	b. 9-17-1869 - Christian Louis Lange, Nobel Peace Prize 1921		Christian Louis Lange Resources File
	b. 9-17-1917 - Jacob Lawrence, artist		Jacob Lawrence CP Links for Learning
	b. 9-17-1917 - Kostantin Tsiolkovsky, space scientist		Kostantin Tsiolkovsky Resource File
	b. 9-17-1935 - Ken Kesey, author		Ken Kesey Resource File

	b. 9-18-53AD - Emperor Trajan, Hispania		Emperor Trajan Resource File
	b. 9-18-1709 - Dr. Samuel Johnson, author		Dr. Samuel Johnson Resource File
	b. 9-18-1819 - Leon Foucault, scientist		Leon Foucault Resource File
	b. 9-18-1905 - Agnes de Mille, dancer		Agnes de Mille Resource File
	b. 9-18-1905 - Greta Garbo, actress		Greta Garbo Resource File

	b. 9-19-1749 - Jean-Baptist-Joseph Delambre, astronomer		Jean-Baptist-Joseph Delambre Resource File
	b. 9-19-1836 - Fredrika Stenhammar, soprano opera singer		Fredrika Stenhammar Resources File
	b. 9-19-1911 - William Golding, author		William Golding Resources File
	b. 9-19-1913 - Frances Farmer, actress		Frances Farmer Resources File
	b. 9-19-1922 - Emil Zatopek, runner		Emil Zatopek Resources File

	b. 9-20-1878 - Upton Sinclair, author		• Upton Sinclair Biography (SSA) • Lesson Guide
	b. 9-20-1890 - “Jelly Roll” Morton, musician		Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
	b. 9-20-1934 - Sophia Loren, actress		Sophia Loren Resource File

	b. 9-21-1452 - Girolamo Savonarola		Girolamo Savonarola Resource File
	bap. 9-21-1645 - Louis Jolliet, explorer		Louis Jolliet Resource File
	b. 9-21-1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, physicist		Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Resource File
	b. 9-21-1866 - H. G. Wells, author		H. G. Wells Resource File
	b. 9-21-1947 - Stephen King, author		Stephen King Resource File

	d. 9-22-1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, explorer		Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Resource File
	9-22-1776 - Nathan Hale hung as spy by British		Library of Congress
	b. 9-22-1791 - Michael Faraday, scientist		Michael Faraday Resource File
	b. 9-22-1868 - Alexandre Yersin, MD, biologist		Alexandre Yersin Resource File
	b. 9-22-1880 - Christabel Pankhurst, suffragist		Christabel Pankhurst Resource File
	b. 9-22-1891 - Alma Woodsey Thomas, artist		Alma Woodsey Thomas Resource File
	b. 9-22-1905 - Célestine Galli-Marié, opera singer		Célestine Galli-Marié Resource File
	b. 9-22-1940 - Haing S. Ngor, physician & actor		Haing S. Ngor Resource File

	b. 9-23-1823 - Grace Greenwood, journalist (Sara Jane Clark Lippincott)		Grace Greenwood Resource File
	b. 9-23-1838 - Victoria Woodhull, feminist		Victoria Woodhull Resource File
	b. 9-23-1863 - Mary Church Terrell, activist, feminist, educator		Mary Church Terrell Resource File
	b. 9-23-1865 - Suzanne Valadon, artist		Suzanne Valadon Resource File
	b. 9-23-1889 - Walter Lippman, author		Walter Lippman Resource File
	b. 9-23-1899 - Louise Nevelson, artist		Louise Nevelson Resource File
	b. 9-23-1926 - John Coltrane, musician		John Coltrane Resource File
	b. 9-23-1930 - Ray Charles, musician		Ray Charles Resource File

	b. 9-24-1717 - Horace Walpole, writer		Horace Walpole Resource File
	b. 9-24-1755 - John Marshall, jurist		John Marshall Resource File
	b. 9-24-1825 - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, author		Frances Harper Resource File
	b. 9-24-1871 - Charlotte “Lottie” Dod, athlete		Lottie Dod Resource File
	b. 9-24-1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, author		F. Scott Fitzgerald Resource File

	b. 9-25-1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer		Jean-Philippe Rameau Resource File
	b. 9-25-1793 - Felicia Hemans, poet		Felicia Hemans Resource File
	9-25-1852 - Henri Giffard makes the first powered and controlled flight with a steam powered dirigible.		Henri Giffard Resource File
	b. 9-25-1897 - William Faulkner, author		William Faulkner CP Links for Learning
	b. 9-25-1903 - Mark Rothko, artist		Mark Rothko Resource File
	b. 9-25-1905 - Harriet Hoctor, dancer		Harriet Hoctor Resource File
	b. 9-25-1906 - Dmitry Shostakovich, pianist		Dmitry Shostakovich Resource File
	b. 9-25-1932 - Glenn Gould, pianist		Glenn Gould Resource File
	b. 9-25-1944 - Michael Douglas, actor		Michael Douglas Resource File
	b. 9-25-1952 - bell hooks, writer, activist		bell hooks Resource File

	b. 9-26-1181 - St. Francis of Assisi		St. Francis of Assisi Resource File
	b. 9-26-1754 - Joseph Proust, physicist		Joseph Proust Resource File
	b. 9-26-1776 (or '74) - Jonathan “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman		Johnny Appleseed Festival
	b. 9-26-1848 - Helen Allingham, artist		Helen Allingham Resource File
	b. 9-26-1877 - Alfred Cortot, pianist		Alfred Cortot Resource File
	b. 9-26-1888 - T. S. Eliot, poet		T. S. Eliot Resource File
	b. 9-26-1930 - Fritz Wunderlich, opera tenor		Fritz Wunderlich Resource File
	b. 9-26-1981 - Serena Williams, tennis player		Serena Williams Resource File

	b. 9-27-1722 - Samuel Adams, patriot		Samuel Adams Resource File
	b. 9-27-1871 - Grazia Deledda, author		Grazia Deledda Resource File
	9-27-1957 - integration at Little Rock, AR Central HS

	b. 9-28-551 BC - Confucius, philosopher		Confucius Resource File
	b. 9-28-1789 - Richard Bright, physician		Richard Bright Resource File
	b. 9-28-1839 - Frances Willard, activist, feminist		Frances Willard Resource File
	b. 9-28-1841 - Georges Clemenceau, physician & statesman		Georges Clemenceau Resource File

	b. 9-29-1547 - Cervantes, author		Cervantes Resource File
	b. 9-29-1808 - Andrew Johnson, 17th US President		White House Bio - Andrew Johnson
	b. 9-29-1810 - Mrs. Glaskell, author		Mrs. Glaskell Resource File
	b. 9-29-1864 - Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo, philosopher		Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo Resource File
	b. 9-29-1901 - Enrico Fermi, physicist		Enrico Fermi Resource File
	b. 9-29-1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, musician		Jerry Lee Lewis Resource File
	b. 9-29-1943 - Lech Walesa, labor leader		Lech Walesa Resource File

	d. 9-30-420 - St. Jerome (Hieronymus Stridonensis), theologian		Saint Jerome Resource File
	b. 9-30-1852 - Charles Villiers Stanford, composer		Charles Villiers Stanford Resource File
	b. 9-30-1924 - Truman Capote, author		• In Cold Blood • Truman Capote Resource File
	b. 9-30-1928 - Elie Wiesel, author		CP Links for Learning - Wiesel
	d. 9-30-1955 - James Dean, actor		The Complete James Dean Collection

September Facts & Tidbits
	September, 9th month of the year, name comes from the Latin septem, for seven, as September was the seventh month in the Roman calendar until 153 BCE. Other names for September: Boedromion (Greek) Meàn Fòmhair (middle of Autumn in Irish), and Japanese “Nagatsuki”.
	Astrological Signs		Astrology
	• Virgo: August 23 - September 22	• Virgo poster • Virgo, the Virgin Ecard	mutable, air, social; "I serve," practical, work and service oriented, critical, common sense, intelligent, health conscious, fussy, intestines/ digestion; practical, efficient, critical.
	• Libra: September 23 - October 22	• Libra poster • Libra, the Scales Ecard	cardinal, air, social; "We are," partnerships, balance, grace, charm, cooperative, social, ideas, lazy, kidneys/lumbar; co-operative, fair, lazy.
	Birthstones
	• Sapphire • Lapis		• Birthstones: Univ of Washington • Sapphire Resource File • Lapis Resource File
	Flowers
	• asters: strength of character & splendid beauty • morning glory	• flower posters	• Aster Resource File • Morning Glory Resource File
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