Today In History - September 1

69 Accepted date of the destruction of Jerusalem
312BC Origin of Greek Era
1267 Nachmanides arrives in Jerusalem to establish the Jewish community
1661 First Yacht race, England's King Charles Vs his brother James
1666 Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane and 80% of London is destroyed
1772 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California
1799 Bank of Manhattan Company opens in New York City
1807 Aaron Burr is 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 is held in Monterey, CA
1858 First transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month of service
1859 The First Pullman sleeping car is put into railcar service
1859 R.C. Carrington & R. Hodgson make the First observation of a solar flare
1865 Joseph Lister performs the first antiseptic surgery
1870 Napoleon III is captured at Sedan
1874 The Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
1878 First female telephone operator (Emma Nutt) starts work in Boston
1890 First baseball tripleheader is played: Boston Vs Pittsburgh
1905 Alberta & Saskatchewan become the 8th & 9th Canadian provinces
1906 Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time (MST)
1906 Papua placed under Australian administration
1911 M. Fourny sets the new world aircraft distance record of 720 km
1914 St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd
1916 The Keating-Owen Act is passed: child labor is banned from interstate commerce
1918 The baseball season ends due to WW I
1918 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia where they remain until 1920
1922 A NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change their names to "billiards" rooms
1923 Earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama and kills 106,000
1923 The US beats Australia in tennis winning the 4th straight Davis Cup
1932 NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns amid graft charges
1939 Physical Review publishes First paper to deal with "black holes"
1939 WW II starts when Germany invades Poland and takes Danzig
1941 The infamous 'Yellow Star' becomes obligatory for Jews in the Third Reich to wear
1945 Japan surrenders, thereby ending WW II (The date in Japan is September 2)
1946 Batty Berg wins the US Open
1948 The Communists form North China People's Republic
1948 The UN's World Health Organization forms
1961 The USSR tests nuclear bombs in central Asia
1962 10,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran
1962 The UN announces that the Earth's population has hit 3-billion
1968 The Pirate Radio Station Marina in the Netherlands begins transmitting
1969 The Libyan revolution begins: Colonel Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris
1972 Chess Master Bobby Fischer (US) defeats Boris Spassky (USSR) for the world chess title
1973 George Foreman KOs Jose Roman in the first round to retain the heavyweight title
1975 Gunsmoke goes off the air – longest running series in history
1976 NASA launches the new space vehicle the S-197
1976 Representative Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohio, resigns amid a scandal with Elizabeth Ray
1977 First TRS-80 Model I computer sold (Radio Shack)
1979 Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer get married in LA
1979 LA Court orders actor Clayton Moore to stop wearing the Lone Ranger mask
1979 Pioneer 11 makes the first fly-by of Saturn and discovers new moon and rings
1982 In the US, the maximum speedometer reading is mandated at 85 MPH
1982 Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon
1983 Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia airspace and is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter
1985 A US/French expedition locates the wreckage of the Titanic off of the Newfoundland coast
1986 Paul McCartney releases his "Press to Play" album
1989 Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their pending separation
5492BC Origin of Ecclesiastical Era of Antioch
5508BC Origin of Civil Era of Constantinople
5598BC Origin of Grecian Mundane

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