TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: SEPT 1
69 Traditional date of the destruction of Jerusalem
1666 Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed
1676 Nathaniel Bacon leads an uprising against English Governor William Berkeley at Jamestown, Virginia, resulting in the settlement being burned to the ground. Bacon’s Rebellion came in response to the governor’s repeated refusal to defend the colonists against the Indians.
1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
1773 Phillis Wheatley, a slave from Boston, publishes a collection of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, in London.
1799 The Bank of Manhattan Company opened in New York City, NY. It was the forerunner of Chase Manhattan.
1807 Former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.
1836 Protestant missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman leads a party to Oregon. His wife, Narcissa, is one of the first white women to travel the Oregon Trail. The Oregon Trail emigrants who chose to follow Stephen Meek thought his shortcut would save weeks of hard travel. Instead, it brought them even greater misery.
1882 The first Labor Day is observed in New York City by the Carpenters and Joiners Union.
1887 Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone. It is a device that is better known as a record player. Thomas Edison made the idea work.
1894 By an act of Congress, Labor Day is declared a national holiday.
1914 Passenger Pigeons become extinct
1916 Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1922 NYC law requires all “pool” rooms to change name to “billards”
1939 Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II in Europe.
1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David
1942 A federal judge in Sacramento, Cal., upholds the government’s detention of Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals as a war measure.
1952 Life magazine publishes parts of the Old Man And The Sea
1969 A coup in Libya toppled the monarchy of King Idris and brought Muammar al-Qaddafi to power.
1971 Qatar declares independence from Britain
1971 Danny Murtaugh (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.
1979 US spacecraft Pioneer 11 makes the first-ever flyby of Saturn.
1983 A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter, killing all 269 people aboard.
1985 The wreck of the Titanic found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition.
2004 350 people and children are killed in a massacre in Beslan, North Ossetia. Armed Chechen rebels took over 1000 people including school children at a school.
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
