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* On Sept. 7, 1776, the American submersible craft Turtle attempted to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship, Eagle, in New York Harbor, marking the first use of a submarine in warfare.
* On Sept. 8, 1664, Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrendered New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland, to an English naval squadron under Colonel Richard Nicolls. Stuyvesant hoped to resist the English but wasn't a popular ruler, and his subjects refused their support. New Amsterdam's name was changed to New York in honor of the Duke of York, who organized its capture.
* On Sept. 9, 1939, moviegoers at the Fox Theater in Riverside, California, were treated to an unexpected screening of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind," shown by the theater manager as a second feature while producer David O. Selznick observed their reactions from the back of the theater. The movie was released a few months later.
* On Sept. 10, 1960, Hurricane Donna struck the Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm. The devastating hurricane ultimately killed more than 350 people along its full path, including more than 150 in Puerto Rico and the mainland United States, and the name "Donna" was later retired.
* On Sept. 11, 1971, teen idol Donny Osmond earned his first solo No. 1 hit with "Go Away Little Girl." For years afterward, the singer admitted he would "apologize for my career, for all of the cheesy music I was a part of," but eventually came to terms with it and said to himself that the music "was great for what it was, people loved it, it was incredibly successful -- why should I feel bad?"
* On Sept. 12, 1952, residents of Flatwoods, West Virginia, while investigating a possible UFO crash, encountered a creature they described as 10 feet tall with glowing eyes and claw-like hands. Skeptics, however, dismissed their "monster" as likely an owl.
* On Sept. 13, 2007, the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which defined the rights of Indigenous peoples to their respective ways of life and prohibited discrimination against them.
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