Template:On this day/1 September

1 September:

• 1804 – Juno, ane o the lairgest asteroids in the Main Belt, is diskivert bi the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
• 1939 – Warld War II: Nazi Germany an Slovakia invade Poland (picturt), beginnin the European phase o Warld War II.
• 1983 – Cauld War: Korean Air Lines Flicht 007 is shot doun bi a Soviet Union jet fechter whan the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killin aw 269 on buird, includin Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
• 1985 – A jynt American–French expedeetion locates the wrack o the RMS Titanic.
• 2004 – The Creesis in Beslan commences whan airmed terrorists take schuilchilder an schuil staff hostage in North Ossetie (Roushie); bi the end o the siege three days later mair than 385 fowk are deid (includin hostages, ither ceevilians, siccarity personnel an terrorists).

Jacques Cartier (d. 1557) · Louis XIV o Fraunce (d. 1715) · Albert Speer (d. 1981)