Fox Nation Patriot's Almanac

On this day in 1773, a volume of poetry written by an African American poet was published.

On Sept. 2, 1944, U.S. Navy pilot George H. W. Bush, later the 41st president, is shot down and rescued in the Pacific during World War II.

In 1939, Britain declares war on Germany in response to Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland, and is soon joined by France and other Allies as World War II begins.

In 1609, Henry Hudson explores New York Harbor before sailing up the Hudson River.

New York City's first Labor Day parade is staged in 1882 for workers to call attention to problems stemming from the Industrial Revolution.

Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, is born Sept. 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Ill.

In 1927, inventor Philo T. Farnsworth and a small team of assistants in a San Francisco laboratory transmit the first image sent by electronic television.

The oldest U.S. Catholic parish in St. Augustine, Fla., traces its roots to Sept. 8, 1565, when a Spanish landing party led by Pedro Menéndez de Aviles came ashore and celebrated a Mass.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

After the War of 1812's naval Battle of Lake Erie, U.S. commander Oliver Hazard Perry sent the message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours."

Al-Qaeda terrorists hijack four commercial jetliners for suicide attacks against the United States Sept. 11, 2001.

Teenager Betty Zane runs for more gunpowder at besieged Fort Henry in 1782.

Francis Scott Key is inspired to write the national anthem by witnessing a British fleet bombarding Baltimore's Fort McHenry in 1814.

In 1901, President William McKinley dies of gangrene in Buffalo, N.Y., eight days after being shot twice by an assassin.

U.N. forces led by U.S. Marines land at Inchon in 1950 during the Korean War.

On Sept. 16, 1620, the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower in England and set sail for the New World.

Sept. 17, 1787, brought a world-changing event with the signing of the United States Constitution.

On this day in 1947, the United States Air Force was established when the National Security Act went into effect.

President George Washington's farewell address, an open letter to the American people, appeared in newspapers on Sept. 19, 1796.

On Sept. 20, 2001, President George W. Bush, in an address to a joint session of Congress, declares a war on terror.

On Sept. 21, 2008, the Bronx Bombers played their final home game in Yankee Stadium.

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in Confederate-controlled regions.

In 1806, the Lewis and Clark Expedition returns to St. Louis from the Pacific Coast.

The U.S. Department of Defense authorizes families with members serving in the armed forces during times of hostilities to display a service flag.

World War I ace Eddie Rickenbacker fibs about his age.

John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, is born Sept. 26, 1774, in Leominster, Mass.

In 1964, the Warren Commission releases their investigative report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Remembering NFL player and U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman.

In 2008, the U.S. economy is pushed to the brink of financial disaster when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges nearly 778 points, at the time the largest single-day decline in Wall Street history.

The end of World War II leaves Germany divided into two rival systems.