Today in History

Today in History

1799 – The Bank of Manhattan Company opened in New York City, NY. It was the forerunner of Chase Manhattan.

1807 – Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.

1810 – The first plow with interchangeable parts was patented by John J. Wood.

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.

1884 – The Thomas A. Edison Construction Department and the Edison Company for Isolated Lighting merged.

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.

1897 – The first section of Boston's subway system was opened.

1905 – Saskatchewan and Alberta became the ninth and tenth provinces of Canada.

1906 – Jack Coombs of the American League’s Philadelphia Athletics pitched 24 innings against the Boston Red Sox. (MLB)

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.

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.

1949 – 'Martin Kane, Private Eye' debuted on NBCTV.

1951 – The ANZUS Treaty, a mutual defense pact, was signed by the U.S., Australia and New Zealand.

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.

1971 – Danny Murtaugh (Pittsburgh Pirates) gave his lineup card to the umpire with the names of nine black baseball players on it. This was a first for Major League Baseball.

1972 – America’s Bobby Fischer beat Russia’s Boris Spassky to become world chess champion. The chess match took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.

1979 – The U.S. Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to visit Saturn.

1982 – Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo closed all the country's private banks.

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.

1986 – Jerry Lewis raised a record $34 million for Muscular Dystrophy during his annual telethon for Jerry’s kids over the Labor Day weekend.

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