Today in History
September 1 - Today in History
By Staff
Sep 1, 2008 - 12:00:00 AM

5598 BC - Origin of Grecian Mundane Era
5508 BC - Origin of Civil Era of Constantinople
5492 BC - Origin of Ecclesiastical Era of Antioch
0312 BC - Origin of Greek Era-Start of Indiction of
0069 - Traditional date of the destruction of Jerusalem
0891 - Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France
1267 - Ramban (Nachmanides) arrives in Jerusalem to establish Jewish community
1614 - Vincent Fettmich expells Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
1661 - 1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James
1666 - Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed
1739 - 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal
1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California
1799 - Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
1807 - Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire
1836 - Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem
1849 - California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey
1858 - 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month
1859 - 1st pullman sleeping car in service
1859 - RC Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare
1862 - Severe action at Chantilly, Virginia
1863 - RR & ferry connection between SF & Oakland inaugurated
1865 - Joseph Lister performs 1st antiseptic surgery
1870 - Napoleon III captured at Sedan
1874 - Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
1878 - 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)
1890 - 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh
1905 - Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
1906 - Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time
1906 - Joseph Harris (Boston) & Jack Coombs (A's) pitch complete 24 inn game
1906 - Papua placed under Australian administration
1911 - M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km
1914 - St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd
1916 - Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1918 - Baseball season ends due to WW I
1918 - US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920
1922 - NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"
1923 - Earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 106,000
1923 - US beats Australia in tennis, for their 4th straight Davis Cup
1928 - Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king
1932 - NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)
1939 - Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes"
1939 - WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig
1941 - Yellow star becomes obligatory for Jews in the Reich to wear
1945 - Japan surrenders ending WW II (US date, 9/2 in Japan)
1945 - Phillies Vince DiMaggio ties NL record with 4th grand slam of season
1946 - Batty Berg wins the US Open
1947 - NY Giants 183-185 HR of year breaks Yankee mark of 182 in 1936
1948 - Communist form North China People's Republic
1948 - UN's World Health Organization forms
1949 - 1st network detective series-Private Eyes-premiers
1950 - West Berlin granted a constitution
1951 - US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty
1952 - Sutro Baths, SF purchased by George Whitney
1956 - Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory
1957 - Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400
1958 - St Louis Card Vinegar Bend Mizell walks a record 9 men in a shutout
1961 - USSR tests nuclear bombs in central Asia
1962 - 10,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran
1962 - UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion
1963 - St Louis Cards pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate
1967 - SF Giants beat Cincinatti Reds, 1-0, in 21 innings
1968 - Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlandsd) begins transmitting
1969 - Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris
1971 - Qatar declares independence from Britain
1972 - Bobby Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for world chess title
1973 - 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
1973 - George Foreman KOs Jose Roman in the 1st to retain heavyweight title
1975 - Gunsmoke goes off the air
1975 - NY Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons
1975 - NYC transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents
1976 - NASA launches space vehicle S-197
1976 - NJ Meadowlands racetrack opens
1976 - Wayne L Hays, (Rep-D-Oh), resigns (scandal with Elizabeth Ray)
1977 - 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
1978 - Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia
1979 - Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
1979 - LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
1979 - Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
1981 - Fiona Brothers sets women's propeller boat speed record (116.279 MPH)
1982 - Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH
1982 - Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon
1983 - Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet
1985 - US-French expedition locates wreckage of Titanic off Newfoundland
1986 - Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album
1989 - Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation
1990 - The Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist is founded, following a split from the Communist Labour Party of Turkey
1991 - Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
2001 - England beat Germany 5-1 in Munich in qualifying for the 2002 World Cup
2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia
2005 - Seven members and former members of the AFL-CIO form a new trade union organization, the Change to Win Federation
2006 - Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all digital television broadcasting

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