Sunday, September 01, 2024

History for September 1

History for September 1 - On-This-Day.com
Ann Richards 1933 - Texas Governor
  • 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.
  • 1922 - The first daily news program on radio was "The Radio Digest," on WBAY radio in New York City, NY.
  • 1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
  • 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.
  • 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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