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On September first, 1939, World War Two began as
Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
On this date:
In 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr was
found innocent of treason.
In 1897, the first
section of Boston's new subway system was opened.
In 1905, Alberta
and Saskatchewan entered Confederation as the
eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.
In 1923, the
Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama were
devastated by an earthquake that claimed some
In 1932, New York
City Mayor James J. "Gentleman Jimmy"
Walker resigned following charges of graft and
corruption in his administration.
In 1942, a federal
judge in Sacramento, California, upheld the
wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well
as Japanese nationals.
In 1969, a coup in
Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.
In 1972, American
Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown
in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of
the Soviet Union.
In 1983, 269
people were killed when a Korean Air Lines Boeing
747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after
the airliner entered Soviet airspace.
In 1989, Baseball
Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti died of a heart
attack at his summer home in Martha's Vineyard,
Massachusetts, at age 51.
Ten years ago:
President Bush announced that he and Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev would meet in
Helsinki, Finland, for a "free-flowing"
one-day summit on the Persian Gulf crisis and
Five years ago: A
ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
One year ago:
Twenty-two of baseball's 68 permanent umpires
found themselves jobless, the fallout from their
union's failed attempt to force an early start to
negotiations for a new labor contract. Ten
American tourists and two Tanzanians were killed
when their small plane crashed as they were
leaving Serengeti National Park.
"With history being
made all the time, every day now seems to be the
first anniversary of something awful."