What Happened on September 1
Historical Events
- 1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
- 1878 1st female telephone operator starts work, Emma Nutt for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Despatch Company in Boston
- 1905 Wilfrid Laurier oversees Alberta and Saskatchewan joining the Confederation of Canada as its 8th and 9th Canadian provinces
- 1939 World War II starts when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig
- 1941 Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow star of David
- 1951 US, Australia and New Zealand sign the ANZUS mutual defense treaty
- 1969 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposes King Idris in the Libyan revolution
- More Historical Events
Sep 1 in Film & TV
- 1954 "Rear Window", directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, is released
Sep 1 in Music
Sep 1 in Sport
- 1972 American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer beats Russian champion Boris Spassky 12.5-8.5 in Reykjavik, Iceland; most publicised world title match ever played; Fischer 1st American to win title
Did You Know?
Johann Pachelbel
James Gordon Bennett
Tarsila do Amaral
Rocky Marciano
Barry Gibb
Gloria Estefan
Would You Believe?
The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo (Cincinnati, Ohio)
On September 1, 1914
Famous Weddings
- 1730 US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin establishes a common-law marriage with Deborah Read
- 1843 Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald (28) weds his cousin Isabella Clark
- 1910 Actor John Barrymore (28) marries first wife actress Katherine Corri Harris (19) (divorced 1917)
Famous Divorces
- 1961 American "Gilda" actress Rita Hayworth (42) divorces American film producer James Hill (45) after 3-1/2 years of marriage
More Weddings & Divorces
Jacques Cartier
Louis XIV
William Clark
Lillian Wald
Albert Speer
Tommy Morrison
