On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
On Sept. 1, 1907, Walter Reuther, the powerful president of the United Automobile Workers Union from 1946 to 1970, was born. Following his death on May 9, 1970, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
| 1905 | Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada. |
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| 1942 | A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals. |
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| 1951 | The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty. |
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| 1969 | A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power. |
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| 1972 | American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. |
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| 1981 | Albert Speer, a close associate of Adolf Hitler who ran the Nazi war machine, died at a London hospital at age 76. |
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| 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. |
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| 2004 | More than 1,100 people were taken hostage by heavily armed Chechen militants at a school in Beslan in southern Russia; more than 330 people, most of them children, were killed during the three-day ordeal. |
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| 2009 | A law allowing gay marriage took effect in Vermont. |
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Current Birthdays
Talk show host Phil McGraw ("Dr. Phil") turns 61 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis turns 30 years old today.
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
| 1939 | Lily Tomlin, Comedian, actress, turns 72 |
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| 1946 | Barry Gibb, Singer (The Bee Gees), turns 65 |
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| 1957 | Gloria Estefan, Singer, turns 54 |
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| 1961 | Dee Dee Myers, Former White House Press Secretary, turns 50 |
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| 1975 | Scott Speedman, Actor ("Felicity"), turns 36 |
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| 1984 | Joe Trohman, Rock musician (Fall Out Boy), turns 27 |
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Historic Birthdays
Walter Reuther9/1/1907 - 5/9/1970American labor leader; president of United Automobile Workers Union (1946-70).Go to obituary »
| 69 | Giacomo Torelli 9/1/1608 - 6/17/1678
Italian stage designer and engineer |
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| 67 | Engelbert Humperdinck 9/1/1854 - 9/27/1921
German composer |
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| 66 | James Corbett 9/1/1866 - 2/18/1933
American world heavyweight boxing champion (1892-7) |
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| 74 | Edgar Rice Burroughs 9/1/1875 - 3/19/1950
American novelist; wrote the Tarzan stories |
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| 68 | Francis Aston 9/1/1877 - 11/20/1945
English Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1922) |
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| 37 | Marilyn Miller 9/1/1898 - 4/7/1936
American musical comedy actress |
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| 74 | Carlo Gambino 9/1/1902 - 10/15/1976
Italian-born American organized crime leader |
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| 79 | Dame Peggy van Praagh 9/1/1910 - 1/15/1990
English-born ballet dancer; founder of the Australian Ballet |
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| 45 | Rocky Marciano 9/1/1923 - 8/31/1969
American world heavyweight boxing champion (1952-6 |
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