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jueves, 1 de septiembre de 2011

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ON THIS DAY

On This Day: September 1

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

1905Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.
1942A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
1951The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty.
1969A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.
1972American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
1981Albert Speer, a close associate of Adolf Hitler who ran the Nazi war machine, died at a London hospital at age 76.
1983A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace; 269 people were killed.
2004More 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.
2009A law allowing gay marriage took effect in Vermont.

Current Birthdays

Phil McGraw, Talk show host (“Dr. Phil”)
Talk show host Phil McGraw ("Dr. Phil") turns 61 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
Clinton Portis, Football player
Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis turns 30 years old today.
AP Photo/Alex Brandon
1939Lily Tomlin, Comedian, actress, turns 72
1946Barry Gibb, Singer (The Bee Gees), turns 65
1957Gloria Estefan, Singer, turns 54
1961Dee Dee Myers, Former White House Press Secretary, turns 50
1975Scott Speedman, Actor ("Felicity"), turns 36
1984Joe Trohman, Rock musician (Fall Out Boy), turns 27

Historic Birthdays

69Giacomo Torelli 9/1/1608 - 6/17/1678
Italian stage designer and engineer
67Engelbert Humperdinck 9/1/1854 - 9/27/1921
German composer
66James Corbett 9/1/1866 - 2/18/1933
American world heavyweight boxing champion (1892-7)
74Edgar Rice Burroughs 9/1/1875 - 3/19/1950
American novelist; wrote the Tarzan stories
68Francis Aston 9/1/1877 - 11/20/1945
English Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1922)
37Marilyn Miller 9/1/1898 - 4/7/1936
American musical comedy actress
74Carlo Gambino 9/1/1902 - 10/15/1976
Italian-born American organized crime leader
79Dame Peggy van Praagh 9/1/1910 - 1/15/1990
English-born ballet dancer; founder of the Australian Ballet
45Rocky Marciano 9/1/1923 - 8/31/1969
American world heavyweight boxing champion (1952-6

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