History for September 1 - On-This-Day.com
Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875 - Writer (Tarzan of the Apes), Walter Reuther 1907 - Labor union leader, Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton) 1922 - Actress (The Munsters, Salome, McLintock!)
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)
1807 - Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.
1878 - Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. The company was the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston.
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 Democrat president Franklin Roosevelt's wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
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.
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