| On this date in: |
| 1905 |
Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada. |
| 1942 |
A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals. |
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| 1951 |
The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty. |
| 1969 |
A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power. |
| 1972 |
American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. |
| 1981 |
Albert Speer, a close associate of Adolf Hitler who ran the Nazi war machine, died at a London hospital at age 76. |
| 1983 |
A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace; 269 people were killed. |
| 2004 |
More than 1,100 people were taken hostage by heavily armed Chechen militants at a school in Beslan in southern Russia; more than 330 people, most of them children, were killed during the three-day ordeal. |
| 2009 |
A law allowing gay marriage took effect in Vermont. |
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| Today’s Birthdays: |
| Comedian-actress Lily Tomlin turns 77 years old today. |
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| AP Photo/Dan Steinberg |
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| Name |
Profession |
Age |
| Barry Gibb |
Singer (The Bee Gees) |
70 |
| Gloria Estefan |
Singer |
59 |
| Dee Dee Myers |
Former White House Press Secretary |
55 |
| Scott Speedman |
Actor (“Felicity”) |
41 |
| Joe Trohman |
Rock musician (Fall Out Boy) |
32 |
| Talk show host Phil McGraw (“Dr. Phil”) turns 66 years old today. |
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| AP Photo/Evan Agostini |
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