{"id":21794,"date":"2015-09-01T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=21794"},"modified":"2015-09-01T08:10:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T13:10:58","slug":"today-in-history-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=21794","title":{"rendered":"Today In History"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21796\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?attachment_id=21796\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21796\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21796\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/0901polandB-300x208.jpg?resize=300%2C208\" alt=\"Men, women and children frantically dig trenches in Warsaw only hours before German warplanes began bombing. (AP Photo\/file)\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Men, women and children frantically dig trenches in Warsaw only hours before German warplanes began bombing. (AP Photo\/file)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland.<\/p>\n<p>On this date in:<br \/>\n1905- Alberta and Saskatchewan became the eighth and ninth provinces of Canada.<br \/>\n1942- A federal judge in Sacramento, Calif., upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.<br \/>\n1951- The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS treaty.<br \/>\n1969- A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power.<br \/>\n1972- American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, defeating Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.<br \/>\n1981- Albert Speer, a close associate of Adolf Hitler who ran the Nazi war machine, died at a London hospital at age 76.<br \/>\n1983- A Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace; 269 people were killed.<br \/>\n2004- 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.<br \/>\n2009- A law allowing gay marriage took effect in Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Birthdays:<br \/>\nComedian-actress Lily Tomlin turns 76 years old today.<br \/>\nBarry Gibb, Singer (The Bee Gees), 69<br \/>\nGloria Estefan, Singer, 58<br \/>\nDee Dee Myers, Former White House Press Secretary, 54<br \/>\nScott Speedman, Actor (&#8220;Felicity&#8221;), 40<br \/>\nJoe Trohman, Rock musician (Fall Out Boy), 31<br \/>\nTalk show host Phil McGraw (&#8220;Dr. Phil&#8221;) turns 65 years old today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press On Sept. 1, 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland. 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