Today in History: September 1, World War II starts with invasion of Poland
In the modern day is Monday Sept the th day of There are days left in the year This day in history On Sept Nazi Germany invaded Poland an event regarded as the start of World War II Also on this date In following a reign of years King Louis XIV of France died four days before his th birthday he was succeeded by his five year-old great-grandson Louis XV Related Articles Executive shutdown looms as Congress returns after monthlong August recess PBS NPR stations struggle with Trump-fueled executive funding cuts Powerball jackpot soars to billion on Labor Day after no winner in Saturday s drawing How the Fed losing its independence could affect Americans everyday lives In the current era in History August Ruby Ridge standoff ends In the first section of Boston s new subway was opened creating the first underground rapid transit system in North America In the voyager pigeon once one of the most of abundant bird species on earth went extinct as the last known example named Martha died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo In the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by an earthquake that claimed specific lives In pitcher Masanori Murakami of the San Francisco Giants became the first Japanese baseball participant to play in a Major League Baseball competition In a coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power In American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik Iceland as Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union resigned before the resumption of their st and final meeting In people were killed when a Korean Air Lines Boeing was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace In a U S -French expedition located the wreckage of the Titanic on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean roughly miles off the coast of Newfoundland In Islamic terrorists took more than a thousand people hostage in a school in Beslan North Ossetia Russia the siege would end three days later in gunfire and explosions leaving people dead more than half of them children In invoking God s authority Rowan County Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis denied marriage licenses to gay couples again in direct defiance of the federal courts and vowed not to resign even under the pressure of steep fines or jail Davis would spend five days in jail as a conclusion and is at the moment appealing a ruling ordering her to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in related legal fees In the current era s Birthdays Attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz is Comedian-actor Lily Tomlin is Singer Barry Gibb is Talk show host Dr Phil McGraw is Singer Gloria Estefan is TV host-author Padma Lakshmi is Actor Ricardo Antonio Chavira is Fashion designer Rachel Zoe is Actor Scott Speedman is Composer-producer Ludwig G ransson is Actor-singer Zendaya is
