September 1
1159 - Pope Adrian IV, the only English pope, died.
1807 - Former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason. (Burr was then tried on a misdemeanor charge, and was acquitted on that as well.)
1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.
1923 - A devastating earthquake struck the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 150,000 people and leaving another 2 million homeless.
1939 - World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
1942 - U.S. District Court Judge Martin I. Welsh, ruling from Sacramento, Calif., on a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Fred Korematsu, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
1969 - A coup in Libya toppled the monarchy of King Idris and brought Muammar al-Qaddafi 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 fighter jet after it entered Soviet air space, killing all 269 people on board.
1985 - A joint U.S.-French expedition located the wreck of the Titanic 560 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
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.
2005 - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued a “desperate SOS” as his city descended into anarchy amid the flooding left by Hurricane Katrina.
2009 - Vermont legalized same-sex marriage.
2015 - Invoking “God’s authority,” Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk Kim Davis denied marriage licenses to gay couples again in direct defiance of the federal courts, and vowed not to resign, even under the pressure of steep fines or jail. (Davis would spend five days in jail; she was released only after her staff issued the licenses on her behalf but removed her name from the form.)
2016 - A massive fireball and explosion erupted at SpaceX’s main launch pad at Cape Canaveral, destroying a rocket as well as a satellite that Facebook was counting on to spread internet service in Africa.
2020 - Visiting Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he toured the charred remains of a city block, President Donald Trump blamed “domestic terror” for the violence that had followed the shooting of Jacob Blake, who’d been left paralyzed when he was shot in the back seven times by a police officer.
2020 - U.S. Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts defeated U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III in a hard-fought Democratic Senate primary; it was the first time a Kennedy had lost a race for Congress in Massachusetts.
Birthdays
21 - Cassady McClincy (actress)
25 - Zendaya (actress)
33 - Chanel West Coast (reality star)
36 - Lilan Bowden (actress)
39 - Zoe Lister-Jones (actress)
40 - Boyd Holbrook (actor)
45 - Angaleena Presley (country singer)
46 - Scott Speedman (actor)
50 - Maury Sterling (actor)
50 - Ricardo Antonio Chavira (actor)
55 - Tim Hardaway (basketball player)
57 - Charlie Robison (country singer)
64 - Gloria Estefan (singer)
71 - Dr. Phil McGraw (TV personality)
75 - Barry Gibb (singer)
77 - Archie Bell (singer)
78 - Don Stroud (actor)
82 - Lily Tomlin (actress/comedian)
93 - George Maharis (actor)
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Today in Sports History - September 1
1906 - Jack Coombs of the Philadelphia Athletics and Joe Harris of the Boston Red Sox both pitched all 24 innings of a game against one another.
1971 - Danny Murtaugh of the Pittsburgh Pirates gave his lineup card to the umpire with the names of nine black baseball players on it. This was a first for Major League Baseball.
1975 - Tom Seaver of the New York Mets becomes the first pitcher in MLB history to record 200 strikeouts in eight straight seasons.
1977 - Tracy Austin, at age 14 years, 8 months and 20 days old, becomes the youngest female to play in the U.S. Open, beating German Heidi Eisterlehner in a first-round match.
1982 - J.R. Richard returned to major league baseball after a two year absence following a near-fatal stroke.
1984 - Willie Totten of Mississippi Valley State sets an NCAA Division I-AA record with 536 passing yards and 9 TDs in an 86-0 win over Kentucky State. His teammate, receiver Jerry Rice had 17 receptions for 294 yards and 5 TDs, breaking his own I-AA record for total yardage and pass receptions.
1985 - Bill Elliott claims a $1 million bonus for winning three of the four crown jewel races on the NASCAR schedule: the Daytona 500, Winston 500 and Southern 500.
1987 - 15-year-old American Michael Chang becomes the youngest male to win a match at the U.S. Open when he defeated Australian Paul McNamee in the first round.
1990 - The Toronto Argonauts defeat the British Columbia Lions 68-43 for the highest combined score (111) in CFL history.
1990 - #7 Nebraska opens the season with a 13-0 win over Baylor.
1996 - The Baltimore Ravens defeat the Oakland Raiders 17-14 in their NFL debut in Baltimore.
1996 - The Carolina Panthers defeat the Atlanta Falcons 29-6 in the first NFL regular season game at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte.
1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 57th home run of the season to set a new National League record.
1999 - Twenty-two of major league baseball's 68 permanent umpires were replaced. The problem arose from their union's failed attempt to force an early start to negotiations for a new labor contract.
1999 - Ex-Pittsburgh Penguins star Mario Lemieux is approved as the new owner of the struggling franchise as the Penguins become the first club in modern pro-sports history to be owned by a former member of the team.
2001 - #5 Nebraska defeats Troy State 42-14.
2004 - In Colorado, the sexual assault charge against Kobe Bryant was dropped after the victim decided not to participate.
2006 - The U.S. men's national basketball team is upset at the World Basketball Championships by Greece 101-95 in the semifinals.
2006 - Roger Goodell begins his tenure as NFL commissioner.
2007 - #20 Nebraska opens the season with a 52-10 win over Nevada.
2007 - In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans were on hand to see Appalachian State's Corey Lynch block a Jason Gingell 37-yard field goal with six seconds remaining to secure a 34-32 win over Michigan in Ann Arbor.
2012 - #17 Nebraska opens the season with a 49-20 win over Southern Mississippi.
2018 - Nebraska's scheduled home opener against Akron, and debut of head coach Scott Frost, is canceled due to severe weather.
2019 - Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander throws his third career no-hitter in a 2-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.
1159 - Pope Adrian IV, the only English pope, died.
1807 - Former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason. (Burr was then tried on a misdemeanor charge, and was acquitted on that as well.)
1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.
1923 - A devastating earthquake struck the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 150,000 people and leaving another 2 million homeless.
1939 - World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
1942 - U.S. District Court Judge Martin I. Welsh, ruling from Sacramento, Calif., on a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Fred Korematsu, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
1969 - A coup in Libya toppled the monarchy of King Idris and brought Muammar al-Qaddafi 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 fighter jet after it entered Soviet air space, killing all 269 people on board.
1985 - A joint U.S.-French expedition located the wreck of the Titanic 560 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
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.
2005 - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued a “desperate SOS” as his city descended into anarchy amid the flooding left by Hurricane Katrina.
2009 - Vermont legalized same-sex marriage.
2015 - Invoking “God’s authority,” Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk Kim Davis denied marriage licenses to gay couples again in direct defiance of the federal courts, and vowed not to resign, even under the pressure of steep fines or jail. (Davis would spend five days in jail; she was released only after her staff issued the licenses on her behalf but removed her name from the form.)
2016 - A massive fireball and explosion erupted at SpaceX’s main launch pad at Cape Canaveral, destroying a rocket as well as a satellite that Facebook was counting on to spread internet service in Africa.
2020 - Visiting Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he toured the charred remains of a city block, President Donald Trump blamed “domestic terror” for the violence that had followed the shooting of Jacob Blake, who’d been left paralyzed when he was shot in the back seven times by a police officer.
2020 - U.S. Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts defeated U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III in a hard-fought Democratic Senate primary; it was the first time a Kennedy had lost a race for Congress in Massachusetts.
Birthdays
21 - Cassady McClincy (actress)
25 - Zendaya (actress)
33 - Chanel West Coast (reality star)
36 - Lilan Bowden (actress)
39 - Zoe Lister-Jones (actress)
40 - Boyd Holbrook (actor)
45 - Angaleena Presley (country singer)
46 - Scott Speedman (actor)
50 - Maury Sterling (actor)
50 - Ricardo Antonio Chavira (actor)
55 - Tim Hardaway (basketball player)
57 - Charlie Robison (country singer)
64 - Gloria Estefan (singer)
71 - Dr. Phil McGraw (TV personality)
75 - Barry Gibb (singer)
77 - Archie Bell (singer)
78 - Don Stroud (actor)
82 - Lily Tomlin (actress/comedian)
93 - George Maharis (actor)
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Today in Sports History - September 1
1906 - Jack Coombs of the Philadelphia Athletics and Joe Harris of the Boston Red Sox both pitched all 24 innings of a game against one another.
1971 - Danny Murtaugh of the Pittsburgh Pirates gave his lineup card to the umpire with the names of nine black baseball players on it. This was a first for Major League Baseball.
1975 - Tom Seaver of the New York Mets becomes the first pitcher in MLB history to record 200 strikeouts in eight straight seasons.
1977 - Tracy Austin, at age 14 years, 8 months and 20 days old, becomes the youngest female to play in the U.S. Open, beating German Heidi Eisterlehner in a first-round match.
1982 - J.R. Richard returned to major league baseball after a two year absence following a near-fatal stroke.
1984 - Willie Totten of Mississippi Valley State sets an NCAA Division I-AA record with 536 passing yards and 9 TDs in an 86-0 win over Kentucky State. His teammate, receiver Jerry Rice had 17 receptions for 294 yards and 5 TDs, breaking his own I-AA record for total yardage and pass receptions.
1985 - Bill Elliott claims a $1 million bonus for winning three of the four crown jewel races on the NASCAR schedule: the Daytona 500, Winston 500 and Southern 500.
1987 - 15-year-old American Michael Chang becomes the youngest male to win a match at the U.S. Open when he defeated Australian Paul McNamee in the first round.
1990 - The Toronto Argonauts defeat the British Columbia Lions 68-43 for the highest combined score (111) in CFL history.
1990 - #7 Nebraska opens the season with a 13-0 win over Baylor.
1996 - The Baltimore Ravens defeat the Oakland Raiders 17-14 in their NFL debut in Baltimore.
1996 - The Carolina Panthers defeat the Atlanta Falcons 29-6 in the first NFL regular season game at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte.
1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 57th home run of the season to set a new National League record.
1999 - Twenty-two of major league baseball's 68 permanent umpires were replaced. The problem arose from their union's failed attempt to force an early start to negotiations for a new labor contract.
1999 - Ex-Pittsburgh Penguins star Mario Lemieux is approved as the new owner of the struggling franchise as the Penguins become the first club in modern pro-sports history to be owned by a former member of the team.
2001 - #5 Nebraska defeats Troy State 42-14.
2004 - In Colorado, the sexual assault charge against Kobe Bryant was dropped after the victim decided not to participate.
2006 - The U.S. men's national basketball team is upset at the World Basketball Championships by Greece 101-95 in the semifinals.
2006 - Roger Goodell begins his tenure as NFL commissioner.
2007 - #20 Nebraska opens the season with a 52-10 win over Nevada.
2007 - In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans were on hand to see Appalachian State's Corey Lynch block a Jason Gingell 37-yard field goal with six seconds remaining to secure a 34-32 win over Michigan in Ann Arbor.
2012 - #17 Nebraska opens the season with a 49-20 win over Southern Mississippi.
2018 - Nebraska's scheduled home opener against Akron, and debut of head coach Scott Frost, is canceled due to severe weather.
2019 - Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander throws his third career no-hitter in a 2-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.
