On This Day in History

September 1

Historical Events

1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years, the longest of any major European monarch

1878 First female telephone operator starts work, Emma Nutt, for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston

1905 Wilfrid Laurier oversees Alberta and Saskatchewan joining the Confederation of Canada as its 8th and 9th provinces, both separated from the Northwest Territories

Front page of the NY Times for September 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland

1939 World War II starts when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig

1951 US, Australia and New Zealand sign the ANZUS mutual defense treaty

1969 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposes King Idris in the Libyan Revolution

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Famous Birthdays

James Gordon Bennett 1795 - 1872 Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875 - 1950

Tarsila do Amaral 1886 - 1973 Barry Gibb 77th Birthday

Also Mark Hopkins Jr. and Rocky Marciano.

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Famous Deaths

Jacques Cartier 1491 - 1557 Louis XIV 1638 - 1715

Also William Clark and Jimmy Buffett.

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Bobby Fischer, The World Chess Champ

The Soviet Union saw its domination of the chess world as proof of intellectual superiority. Then, on this day, American Bobby Fischer faced the Russian champion..

America's Sole World Chess Champion