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On This Day: September 1

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On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

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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.

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On This Date

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

Current Birthdays

Talk show host Phil McGraw ("Dr. Phil") turns 61 years old today.

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Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis turns 30 years old today.

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1939	Lily Tomlin, Comedian, actress, turns 72
1946	Barry Gibb, Singer (The Bee Gees), turns 65
1957	Gloria Estefan, Singer, turns 54
1961	Dee Dee Myers, Former White House Press Secretary, turns 50
1975	Scott Speedman, Actor ("Felicity"), turns 36
1984	Joe Trohman, Rock musician (Fall Out Boy), turns 27

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