Thursday, September 01, 2005

Thursday, September 1

This Day In History

  • 1807   Former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.
  • 1819   The first plow with interchangeable parts was patented by Jethro Wood.
  • 1897   The first section of Boston's subway system was opened.
  • 1905   Alberta and Saskatchewan entered Confederation as the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.
  • 1923   The Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by an earthquake that claimed 150,000 lives.
  • 1932   New York City Mayor James ''Gentleman Jimmy'' Walker resigned following charges of graft and corruption in his administration.
  • 1942   A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
  • 1951   The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty.
  • 1969   A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.
  • 1972   American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
  • 1983   A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace; 269 people were killed.
  • 1989   Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti died of a heart attack at age 51.
  • 1998   Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs, breaking the single-season National League record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
Happy Birthday To
  • 1875   Edgar Rice Burroughs (writer: Tarzan of the Apes; died Mar 19, 1950)
  • 1922   Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton) (actress: The Munsters)
  • 1923   Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano) (boxer)
  • 1933   Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins) (songwriter)
  • 1939   Lily (Mary Jean) Tomlin (Emmy Award-winning comedy-writer)

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