Lily Tomlin 1939 - Actress, comedian
- 1878 - Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. The company was the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston.
- 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.
- 1905 - Saskatchewan and Alberta became the ninth and tenth provinces of Canada.
- 1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
- 1945 - The U.S. received official word of Japan's formal surrender that ended World War II. In Japan, it was actually September 2nd.
- 1998 - The movie "Titanic" went on sale across North America.
