Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875 - Writer (Tarzan of the Apes)
- 1878 - Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. The company was the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston.
- 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.
- 1969 - Col. Moammar Gadhafi came into power in Libya after the government was overthrown.
- 1972 - America's Bobby Fischer beat Russia's Boris Spassky to become world chess champion. The chess match took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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