Engelbert Humperdinck 1854 - German composer, his name was borrowed by singer Arnold Dorsey, Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875 - Writer (Tarzan of the Apes)
George Maharis 1928 - Actor (Route 66, Return to Fantasy Island), Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins) 1933 - Singer, songwriter
Lily Tomlin 1939 - Actress, comedian, Barry Gibb 1946 - Singer, songwriter, musician (The Bee Gees), Gloria Estefan (Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo) 1957 - Singer (Miami Sound Machine)
1799 - The Bank of Manhattan Company opened in New York City, NY. It was the forerunner of Chase Manhattan.
1859 - The Pullman sleeping car was placed into service.
1878 - Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. The company was the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston.
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.
1905 - Saskatchewan and Alberta became the ninth and tenth provinces of Canada.
1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
1942 - A federal judge in Sacramento, CA, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
1945 - The U.S. received official word of Japan's formal surrender that ended World War II. In Japan, it was actually September 2nd.
1969 - Col. Moammar Gadhafi came into power in Libya after the government was overthrown.
1970 - The last episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" aired on NBC-TV. The show premiered was on September 18, 1965.
1972 - America’s Bobby Fischer beat Russia’s Boris Spassky to become world chess champion. The chess match took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1985 - The Titanic was found by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean Louis Michel in a joint U.S. and French expedition. The wreck site is located 963 miles northeast of New York and 453 miles southeast of the Newfoundland coast.
1998 - The movie "Titanic" went on sale across North America.
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