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On this day in . . .


1752, the Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia

1775, Richard Penn and Arthur Lee, representing the Continental Congress, present the so-called Olive Branch Petition to the Earl of Dartmouth. Britain’s King George III, however, refused to receive the petition, which, written by John Dickinson, appealed directly to the king and expressed hope for reconciliation between the colonies and Great Britain

1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason

1819, the first plow with interchangeable parts was patented by Jethro Wood

1897, the Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America

1902, "A Trip to the Moon", considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France

1923, the Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people

1939,World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland

1951, the United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty

1961, the Soviet Union ended a moratorium on atomic testing with an aboveground nuclear explosion in central Asia

1969, Muammar al-Qaddafi, a 27-year-old Libyan army captain, leads a successful military coup against King Idris I of Libya. Idris was deposed and Qaddafi was named chairman of Libya's new governing body, the Revolutionary Command Council

1970, attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by "Palestinian" practitioners of that "religion of peace", who attacked his motorcade. (Before there were "Palestinians", there Arabs living in the same Gaza/West Bank area under Jordanian rule)

1983, Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed, including United States Congressman Lawrence McDonald

1985, Seventy-three years after it sunk to the North Atlantic ocean floor, a joint U.S.-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. The sunken liner was about 400 miles east of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic

2000, saying he wasn't convinced the technology was at hand to build an effective anti-missile shield, President Bill Clinton said he would leave it to his successor to decide when, or if, to deploy a national missile defense prohibited by a 1972 arms control treaty

2004, yelling "Allah is great!", a group of practitioners of that "religion of peace" storms a school in southern Russia and takes more than 1,000 people hostage. The terrorists demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from the disputed nearby region of Chechnya. September 1 was the first day of a new school year for millions of students across Russia, a day of celebration in schools that both parents and students traditionally attend. Nearly 340 people, about half of them children, died in the ensuing three-day ordeal

2008, Hurricane Gustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industry with 110 mph winds, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans

2010, President Barack Obama convened a new round of ambitious Mideast peace talks at the White House as he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the first face-to-face negotiations in nearly two years.

2011, embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, believed to be holed up in a desert stronghold after his forces were beaten in Tripoli, said in a television interview he was prepared for a "long drawn-out war" and proclaimed, "Let Libya burn." He was killed seven weeks later.

2013, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said there was new evidence that the Syrian government used sarin gas in a chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people in August.

2016, a massive fireball and explosion erupted at SpaceX's main launch pad at Cape Canaveral, destroying a rocket as well as a satellite that Facebook was counting on to spread internet service in Africa


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