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On this day in September

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September 1:

1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.

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September 2:

1649 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.

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September 3:

590 - St. Gregory I becomes Pope.

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September 4:

1970 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha receives the "Robe of Faghr" (prophet Muhammad's cloak) and is officially appointed as the 42nd master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi order by his father, Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha.

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September 5:

1666 - Great Fire of London ends: A large fire in London burns out after three days. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral were destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
1698 - In an effort to move his people away from archaic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards; All men, except priests and peasants, are required to pay the tax of one hundred rubles a year for those above the lowest class, one kopeck each for commoners.

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September 12:

1948 – Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death to limit damage control. It led to genocide of nearly 40,000 Hyderabadi Muslims by the Indian Army and Hindu mobs.

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September 13:

509 BC - The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
604 - Pope Sabinian is consecrated.

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September 14:

1964 - The opening of the third period of the Second Vatican Council.
1965 - The opening of the fourth and final period of Second Vatican Council.

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September 15:

608 - Saint Boniface IV becomes Pope.
921 - Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin.
1514 - Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York.
1590 - Giambattista Catagna is elected as Pope Urban VII.
1644 - Giambattista Pamphilj becomes Pope Innocent X, succeeding Pope Urban VIII.

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September 16:

1087 - Pope Victor III born.

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September 17:

1394 - King Charles VI of France orders all Jews expelled from France.

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September 18:

1630 - Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal and statesman, dies. (b. 1552)
1663 - St Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint, dies. (b. 1603)

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September 19:

1811 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader, born. (d. 1881).

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September 20:

1378 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the Butcher of Cesena, is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.

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September 21:

1827 - According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, one-third of which Joseph translated into The Book of Mormon.

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