Setember 05 ,1943 US forces seize more of New Guinea General Douglas MacArthur's 503rd Parachute Regiment land and occupy Nazdab, just east of Lae, a port city in northeastern Papua New Guinea, situating them perfectly for future operations on the islands. New Guinea had been occupied by the Japanese since March 1942. Raids by Allied forces early on were met with tremendous ferocity, and they were often beaten back by the Japanese occupiers

Sepetember 07, 1892 John Greenleaf Whittier, born on 17 December 1807, US Quaker, poet, and abolitionist. In the latter part of his life he shared with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [27 Feb 1807 – 24 Mar 1882] the distinction of being a household name in both England and the United States, famed for poems with Christian themes, such as The Eternal Goodness and The Exile's Departure (1827).

September 10, 1964 Vietnam: LBJ orders aid to South Viet morale Following the Tonkin Gulf incidents, in which North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked US destroyers, and the subsequent passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution empowering him to react to armed attacks, President Lyndon Johnson authorizes a series of measures to assist morale in South Vietnam and show the Communists [in North Vietnam] we still mean business.

September 10, 1963 Desegregation despite Wallace At the end of a standoff between Alabama governor George C. Wallace [25 Aug 1919 – 13 Sep 1998] and federal authorities, twenty Black students enter public schools in Tuskegee, Mobile, and Birmingham, Alabama. A week earlier, Wallace had surrounded Tuskegee High School with state troopers in an attempt to block integration of the public school. US President John F. Kennedy sends federalized Alabama National Guardsmen to the area, Wallace is forced to yield.