September 1
1715 - Following a reign of 72 years, King Louis XIV of France died four days before his 77th birthday.
1807 - Former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.
1897 - Boston's new subway system was opened.
1923 - A devastating earthquake struck the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan, killing 150,000 and leaving more than 2 million homeless.
1939 - World War II began with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland.
1942 - U.S. District Court Judge Martin I. Welsh, ruling from Sacramento, California, 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.
1945 - Americans received word of Japan's formal surrender that ended World War II. (Because of the time difference, it was Sept. 2 in Tokyo Bay, where the ceremony took place.)
1969 - A coup in Libya toppled the monarchy of King Idris and brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.
1972 - American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, as Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union resigned before the resumption of Game 21.
1983 - A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet fighter jet after it entered Soviet airspace, 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 - Chechen terrorists took about 1,200 schoolchildren and others hostage in Beslan, Russia. (Commandos raided the school on Sept. 3.)
2005 - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued a “desperate SOS” as his city descended into anarchy amid the flooding left by Hurricane Katrina.
2009 - A law allowing same-sex marriage in Vermont went into effect.
2012 - President Barack Obama ridiculed the just-completed Republican National Convention as better-suited to an era of black-and-white TV and “trickle-down, you’re on your own” economics, and declared that Mitt Romney “did not offer a single new idea” for fixing the economy.
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.)
2021 - Relentless rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida sent the New York City area into a state of emergency, as water poured into homes and subway stations and left vehicles nearly submerged on major roadways, the storm would leave nearly 50 people dead in six Eastern states. Three days after Ida battered Louisiana and parts of Mississippi as the fifth-most-powerful hurricane to strike the U.S., about a million homes and businesses still had no electricity, and hundreds of thousands of people lacked running water.
Birthdays
26 - Zendaya (actress)
32 - Aisling Loftus (actress)
34 - Chanel West Coast (reality star)
37 - Lilan Bowden (actress)
40 - Zoe Lister-Jones (actress)
41 - Boyd Holbrook (actor)
46 - Angaleena Presley (singer)
47 - Scott Speedman (actor)
51 - Maury Sterling (actor)
51 - Ricardo Antonio Chavira (actor)
56 - Tim Hardaway (basketball player)
58 - Charlie Robison (singer)
65 - Gloria Estefan (singer)
72 - Phil McGraw (TV host)
76 - Barry Gibb (singer)
78 - Archie Bell (singer)
79 - Don Stroud (actor)
83 - Lily Tomlin (actress/comedian)
94 - George Maharis (actor)
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Today in Sports History - September 1
1906 - The Philadelphia Athletics beats the Boston Red Sox 4-1 in 24 innings in Boston in the longest game in American League baseball history; both starters go the distance as A's hurler Jack Coombs overcomes Boston's Joe Harris.
1963 - Walter Kennedy begins his tenure as the commissioner of the NBA, succeeding Maurice Podoloff.
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 - New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver reaches 200 strikeouts for a record eighth straight season.
1977 - Tracy Austin, at age 14 years, 8 months and 20 days old becomes the youngest female to play in the U.S. Open.
1984 - Willie Totten of Mississippi Valley State passes for an NCAA Division I-AA (now FCS) record 536 yards and 9 touchdowns in an 86-0 win over Kentucky State; Jerry Rice catches 17 passes for 294 yard and 5 touchdowns, 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 jewell races on the NASCAR schedule: the Daytona 500, Winston 500 and Southern 500.
1987 - 15-year-old American Michael Chang becomes the youngest man to win a match at the U.S. Open.
1990 - #7 Nebraska opens its season with a 13-0 win over Baylor.
1996 - The Baltimore Ravens defeat the Oakland Raiders 17-14 in their NFL debut at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.
1998 - Mark McGwire, of the St. Louis Cardinals, hit his 56th and 57th homeruns to set a new National League record. He would eventually reach a total of 70 for the season on September 27.
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 new owner of the struggling franchise, becoming the first club in 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 basketball team is upset at the World Basketball Championships in Japan by Greece 101-95 in the semifinals.
2006 - Roger Goodell becomes his tenure as commissioner of the NFL.
2007 - #20 Nebraska opens its season with a 52-10 win over Nevada.
2007 - Tyson Gay helps US win the men's 4 x 100m relay at the world track & field championships in Osaka, Japan to join Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene as the only men to win 3 gold medals at one world meet.
2007 - In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans see FCS member Appalachian State defeat Michigan 34-32 in Ann Arbor.
2012 - #17 Nebraska opens its season with a 49-20 win over Southern Mississippi.
2018 - Nebraska's season-opening game against Akron, marking the debut of head coach Scott Frost, is canceled due to weather.
2019 - Houston Astros starter Justin Verlander strikes out 14 as he throws his third career no-hitter in a 2-0 decision against the Toronto Blue Jays.
2021 - Cristiano Ronaldo breaks the world record for most goals scored in international competition with his 111th in Portugal's 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over Ireland.
1715 - Following a reign of 72 years, King Louis XIV of France died four days before his 77th birthday.
1807 - Former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.
1897 - Boston's new subway system was opened.
1923 - A devastating earthquake struck the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan, killing 150,000 and leaving more than 2 million homeless.
1939 - World War II began with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland.
1942 - U.S. District Court Judge Martin I. Welsh, ruling from Sacramento, California, 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.
1945 - Americans received word of Japan's formal surrender that ended World War II. (Because of the time difference, it was Sept. 2 in Tokyo Bay, where the ceremony took place.)
1969 - A coup in Libya toppled the monarchy of King Idris and brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.
1972 - American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, as Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union resigned before the resumption of Game 21.
1983 - A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet fighter jet after it entered Soviet airspace, 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 - Chechen terrorists took about 1,200 schoolchildren and others hostage in Beslan, Russia. (Commandos raided the school on Sept. 3.)
2005 - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued a “desperate SOS” as his city descended into anarchy amid the flooding left by Hurricane Katrina.
2009 - A law allowing same-sex marriage in Vermont went into effect.
2012 - President Barack Obama ridiculed the just-completed Republican National Convention as better-suited to an era of black-and-white TV and “trickle-down, you’re on your own” economics, and declared that Mitt Romney “did not offer a single new idea” for fixing the economy.
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.)
2021 - Relentless rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida sent the New York City area into a state of emergency, as water poured into homes and subway stations and left vehicles nearly submerged on major roadways, the storm would leave nearly 50 people dead in six Eastern states. Three days after Ida battered Louisiana and parts of Mississippi as the fifth-most-powerful hurricane to strike the U.S., about a million homes and businesses still had no electricity, and hundreds of thousands of people lacked running water.
Birthdays
26 - Zendaya (actress)
32 - Aisling Loftus (actress)
34 - Chanel West Coast (reality star)
37 - Lilan Bowden (actress)
40 - Zoe Lister-Jones (actress)
41 - Boyd Holbrook (actor)
46 - Angaleena Presley (singer)
47 - Scott Speedman (actor)
51 - Maury Sterling (actor)
51 - Ricardo Antonio Chavira (actor)
56 - Tim Hardaway (basketball player)
58 - Charlie Robison (singer)
65 - Gloria Estefan (singer)
72 - Phil McGraw (TV host)
76 - Barry Gibb (singer)
78 - Archie Bell (singer)
79 - Don Stroud (actor)
83 - Lily Tomlin (actress/comedian)
94 - George Maharis (actor)
=====================================
Today in Sports History - September 1
1906 - The Philadelphia Athletics beats the Boston Red Sox 4-1 in 24 innings in Boston in the longest game in American League baseball history; both starters go the distance as A's hurler Jack Coombs overcomes Boston's Joe Harris.
1963 - Walter Kennedy begins his tenure as the commissioner of the NBA, succeeding Maurice Podoloff.
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 - New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver reaches 200 strikeouts for a record eighth straight season.
1977 - Tracy Austin, at age 14 years, 8 months and 20 days old becomes the youngest female to play in the U.S. Open.
1984 - Willie Totten of Mississippi Valley State passes for an NCAA Division I-AA (now FCS) record 536 yards and 9 touchdowns in an 86-0 win over Kentucky State; Jerry Rice catches 17 passes for 294 yard and 5 touchdowns, 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 jewell races on the NASCAR schedule: the Daytona 500, Winston 500 and Southern 500.
1987 - 15-year-old American Michael Chang becomes the youngest man to win a match at the U.S. Open.
1990 - #7 Nebraska opens its season with a 13-0 win over Baylor.
1996 - The Baltimore Ravens defeat the Oakland Raiders 17-14 in their NFL debut at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.
1998 - Mark McGwire, of the St. Louis Cardinals, hit his 56th and 57th homeruns to set a new National League record. He would eventually reach a total of 70 for the season on September 27.
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 new owner of the struggling franchise, becoming the first club in 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 basketball team is upset at the World Basketball Championships in Japan by Greece 101-95 in the semifinals.
2006 - Roger Goodell becomes his tenure as commissioner of the NFL.
2007 - #20 Nebraska opens its season with a 52-10 win over Nevada.
2007 - Tyson Gay helps US win the men's 4 x 100m relay at the world track & field championships in Osaka, Japan to join Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene as the only men to win 3 gold medals at one world meet.
2007 - In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans see FCS member Appalachian State defeat Michigan 34-32 in Ann Arbor.
2012 - #17 Nebraska opens its season with a 49-20 win over Southern Mississippi.
2018 - Nebraska's season-opening game against Akron, marking the debut of head coach Scott Frost, is canceled due to weather.
2019 - Houston Astros starter Justin Verlander strikes out 14 as he throws his third career no-hitter in a 2-0 decision against the Toronto Blue Jays.
2021 - Cristiano Ronaldo breaks the world record for most goals scored in international competition with his 111th in Portugal's 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over Ireland.
