I. Odisha

No major state anniversaries recorded for this fortnight.

II. India

• Historical Event: 2 Sep 1946 – The Interim Government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as vice president with the powers of a Prime Minister.
• Historical Event: 2 Sep 2023 – India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1 from Satish Dhawan space centre.
• Historical Event: 4 Sep 1886 – American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
• Historical Event: 4 Sep 2002 – The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record, until the Cleveland Indians surpassed it in 2017.
• Historical Event: 5 Sep 1877 – American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
• Birth Anniversary: 5 Sep 1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (died 1975)
• Death Anniversary: 5 Sep 1997 – Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
• Historical Event: 7 Sep 1695 – Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India.
• Historical Event: 8 Sep 1755 – French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
• Historical Event: 9 Sep 1499 – The citizens of Lisbon celebrate the triumphal return of the explorer Vasco de Gama, completing his two-year journey around the Cape of Good Hope to India.
• Historical Event: 9 Sep 1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 863 collides in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Moral Township, Shelby County, Indiana, killing all 83 people on board both aircraft.
• Historical Event: 9 Sep 2012 – The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PSLV launches.
• Birth Anniversary: 10 Sep 1912 – Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (died 2002)
• Historical Event: 10 Sep 1976 – An Indian Airlines flight is hijacked by six Kashmiri separatists and diverted to Lahore International Airport, where the passengers and crew are released.
• Historical Event: 11 Sep 1803 – The Battle of Delhi, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, between British troops under General Lake, and Marathas of Scindia's army under General Louis Bourquin ends in a British victory.
• Birth Anniversary: 11 Sep 1895 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (died 1982)
• Historical Event: 11 Sep 1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
• Historical Event: 13 Sep 1500 – Pedro Álvares Cabral and his Portuguese fleet arrive in Calicut, having crossed both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
• Historical Event: 13 Sep 1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
• Historical Event: 13 Sep 1948 – Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.
• Historical Event: 13 Sep 2008 – Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
• Birth Anniversary: 15 Sep 1861 – M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer, scholar, and Bharat Ratna Laureate, Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom (died 1962)

III. Asia

• Birth Anniversary: 2 Sep 1897 – Fazlollah Zahedi, Iranian general and statesman, 36th Prime Minister of Iran (died 1963)
• Birth Anniversary: 3 Sep 1938 – Ryōji Noyori, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• Death Anniversary: 3 Sep 1988 – Ferit Melen, Turkish civil servant and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1906)
• Death Anniversary: 3 Sep 2012 – Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader and businessman, founded the Unification Church (born 1920)
• Birth Anniversary: 6 Sep 1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026)
• Birth Anniversary: 7 Sep 1934 – Omar Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 58th Prime Minister of Lebanon (died 2015)
• Birth Anniversary: 8 Sep 1881 – Refik Saydam, Turkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (died 1942)
• Birth Anniversary: 8 Sep 1946 – Wong Kan Seng, Singaporean business executive, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
• Historical Event: 10 Sep 2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
• Historical Event: 13 Sep 1971 – Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
• Historical Event: 13 Sep 1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
• Death Anniversary: 14 Sep 2024 – Jaber Mubarak Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti royal and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Kuwait (born 1942)

IV. World

• Historical Event: 2 Sep 1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
• Historical Event: 3 Sep 1976 – Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
• Historical Event: 6 Sep 1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
• Historical Event: 6 Sep 1966 – Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
• Historical Event: 6 Sep 1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
• Historical Event: 6 Sep 2003 – Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
• Historical Event: 6 Sep 2022 – Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle were the Queen's final official duties before her death two days later.
• Historical Event: 8 Sep 1960 – In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
• Historical Event: 11 Sep 1829 – An expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown to retake Mexico, surrenders at the Battle of Tampico, marking the effective end of Spain's resistance to Mexico's campaign for independence.
• Historical Event: 11 Sep 1852 – Outbreak of Revolution of September 11 resulting in the State of Buenos Aires declaring independence as a Republic.
• Historical Event: 12 Sep 1959 – The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the Moon.
• Historical Event: 12 Sep 1962 – US President John F. Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
• Historical Event: 13 Sep 1979 – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
• Historical Event: 14 Sep 1992 – The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be illegal.
• Historical Event: 15 Sep 1821 – The Captaincy General of Guatemala declares independence from Spain.
• Historical Event: 15 Sep 1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.