09-01-2005, 04:18 AM
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September 1st
1653 ~ Birthday of Johann Pachelbel, Composer. Remember the theme music of “Ordinary People”? That’s “Pachelbel’s Canon” (which is not really a Canon).
1715 ~ King Louis XIV of France ("L'État, c'est moi") died after a reign of 72 years — the longest of any major European monarch.
1875 ~ Birthday of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Writer, creator of Tarzan .
1905 ~ Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
1914 ~ The last Passenger Pigeon died in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1939 ~ World War II: Nazi Germany attacked Poland, beginning the war.
1972 ~ In Reykjavik, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beat Russian Boris Spassky and became the world chess champion.
1983 ~ Cold War: Korean Air Flight KAL-007 shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace.
1985 ~ A joint American-French expedition located the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
1991 ~ Uzbekistan declared independence from the Soviet Union.
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