1st October 1928: The USSR introduces the first five-year plan under Joseph Stalin

30th September 737: Umayyad Caliphate defeated in the Battle of the Baggage

29th September 1916: John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire according to newspapers in the USA

28th September 1066: William of Normandy lands in England

27th September 1908: First Model T Ford automobile rolls out of the Piquette Avenue factory in Detroit

26th September 1687: An explosion rips through the Parthenon in Athens while it’s being used as a gunpowder magazine

25th September 1513: Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa becomes the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean from the New World

24th September 1789: The Judiciary Act becomes law in the United States of America

23rd September 1862: Otto von Bismarck appointed Minister-President of Prussia by King Wilhelm I

22nd September 1888: First edition of National Geographic Magazine published

21st September 1937: J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit first published in the United Kingdom

20th September 1378: Western Schism divides the Catholic Church after the contested election of Antipope Clement VII

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

18th September 1932: Actress Peg Entwistle’s body found after jumping from the Hollywood sign

17th September 1908: Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the U.S. Army becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash

16th September 1955: Uprising that topples Juan Perón from power in Argentina begins

15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’

14th September 1741: George Frideric Handel, a German-born composer who had settled in London, completed his oratorio Messiah

13th September 1985: Super Mario Bros. video game first released in Japan

12th September 1977: Steve Biko dies of injuries sustained in police custody