Portal:Tennessee/Selected anniversaries/September

September 1, 1812 - The Nashville Whig, a weekly newspaper to which The Tennessean traces its roots, began publication.
September 5, 1846 - Jack Daniel, founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery, was born in Lynchburg, Tennessee.
September 10, 1794 - University of Tennessee in Knoxville was chartered as Blount College. The "University of Tennessee" was adopted in 1879.
September 11, 1960 - At the Summer Olympic Games in Rome, Wilma Rudolph of Clarksville anchored the U.S. 400-m relay team to win her third gold medal in the Games, after previously winning the 100-m and 200-m races.
September 13, 1916 - A crowd of over 2,500 people watched in Erwin, Tennessee, as Mary, a five-ton circus elephant, was hanged by the neck from a railcar-mounted industrial crane for the crime of killing an itinerant trainer.
September 18, 2006 - The Music City Star a regional rail service began operation between Nashville and Lebanon, Tennessee.