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On Sept 9:

1947 - First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

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September 11 1857:

Mormon guerillas,
stoked by religious zeal and a deep resentment of decades of public abuse and federal interference,
murder 120 emigrants at Mountain Meadows, Utah.

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2001: Duncan Smith is new Tory leader
A relatively unknown former soldier and standard bearer of the Tory right has been elected the new leader of the Conservative Party.

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September 13 1847:

General Winfield Scott wins the last major battle of the Mexican-American War,
storming the ancient Chapultepec fortress at the edge of Mexico City.

The war between the U.S. and its southern neighbor began the year before
when President James Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor to advance to the disputed Rio Grande border
between the newly-minted American state of Texas and Mexico.
The Mexican government had once controlled Texas and refused to recognize the American claim on the state
or the validity of the Rio Grande as an international border.
Viewing Taylor's advance as an invasion of Mexican soil, the Mexican army crossed the Rio Grande and attacked the U.S. forces in Texas in April 1846.
By mid-May the two nations were formally at war

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On this day in 1901, U.S. President William McKinley dies after being shot by a deranged anarchist during the Pan-American Exposit

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September 14 1847

During the Mexican-American War, U.S. forces under General Winfield Scott enter Mexico City
and raise the American flag over the Hall of Montezuma,
concluding a devastating advance that began with an amphibious landing at Vera Cruz six months earlier.

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September 15 1858:

The new Overland Mail Company sends out its first two stages,
inaugurating government mail service between the eastern and western regions of the nation.

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On Sept 17:

1862 - This was the bloodiest single day of fighting in the American Civil War; more than 26,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing in action at the Battle of Antietam in western Maryland.

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1961: UN Secretary General killed in air crash

The body of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is identified among the wreckage of a plane which crashed last night outside the Northern Rhodesian town of Ndola.

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