September 1 in History

Historical Events on September 1

1862 American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly: Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia.

1914 St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.

1939 World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.

1939 General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.

1939 Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.

1958 Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.

1983 Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.

1985 A joint American-French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.

2004 The Crisis in Beslan commences when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school staff hostage in North Ossetia (Russia); by the end of the siege three days later more than 385 people are dead (including hostages, other civilians, security personnel and terrorists).

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Famous Birthdays on September 1

1907 Walter Reuther

1938 Alan Dershowitz

1950 Phillip Fulmer

1982 Jeffrey Buttle

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Famous Deaths on September 1

1159 Pope Adrian IV

1414 William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros

1715 Louis XIV of France

1947 Frederick Russell Burnham

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